August 21, 2022 • 48 mins
Ben Maller is in the podcast studio with Danny G. and they're having fun inside the mail bag for your Sunday! All questions sent in by P1's of the #MallerMilitia! Download, subscribe, and remember that sharing is caring (unless it's an STD.) Follow Danny G. @DannyGradio and Ben on Twitter @BenMaller and listen to the original terrestrial radio edition of "Ben Maller Show," Monday-Friday on Fox Sports Radio, 2a-6a ET, 11p-3a PT!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the Clearinghouse of hot
takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
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Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. That's right,
you've stumbled upon the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
Danny g Radio. Because let's face, four hours a night,
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five days a week, clearly on enough bonus coverage here
on the fifth Hour. Very exciting, I know it's true.
Calm down, Calm down, and Danny. This is one of
my favorite shows of the week. It's the mail Bag,
mail Bag Bag. It's been a beautiful weekend already, Sports
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with Coleman uh Saturday shows a lot of fun, there's
NFL preseason in action, and then you got the Fifth
Hour on Sunday for the mail Bag. Mail Bag, mother sucker.
That's right, it's all you need and the proper way
to start the mail Bag. There's only one way to
do it, and we have to strike up the band, Ohio,
al it's mail bag, alright, good job. I love that
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right to the point that allows us to get to
the many many, many questions. Right, come back touching, it's
time for mail call. That is right. This is what
we call the mail bag. We do it every week.
If you'd like to contribute, you don't have to wait
five days to send a question. You can do it
right now now. We're not gonna read your question right now,
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because we're not actually live right now is a podcast.
We will read it on the next show, if you know,
assuming we get it in time and all. But you
can email at any point. You can email right now,
five minutes from now, ten minutes from now, tomorrow, the
next day. But my experiences, if you don't do it
right now, you're gonna forget to do it. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail
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dot com. Or you can wait until Monday or Tuesday.
On the Facebook page which is Ben Maller's show, I'm
told no teenagers, no one under the age of seventy
is on Facebook, but I'm still on there to see
family and whatnot. But Facebook Ben Mallers Show on there.
You can check it out are we on TikTok? No,
we're not on TikTok? Are we on h There was
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another one my nieces told me about just take a
photo of what you're doing at that moment, a snapshot,
And they're like, all your friends are supposed to take
a photo of what you're doing at that time. Have
you ever heard of this? Maybe you listening can help
us out on that. I just googled new social media discord.
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We know about Twitch, Instagram reels, No, we know about Patreon. Yeah,
I don't know Twitter, Space. Let me see Spotify, green Room, Caffeine, No,
super Nova na clubhouse not clubhouse now, I don't know.
Maybe it's been around for a while and I don't know.
(03:31):
I just don't remember the name, but it's Yeah. My
my niece is in high school, so she's much cooler
than I am, quite far. She's got all the answers
to lights fine, and she shops at thrift stories. My
other niece is in college, so she's come on. Al Right,
the first too cool for you with all those holes
in their jeans. Damn right? All right, we start with
(03:52):
this one. Mike from Fullerton rights in and he says, hey, Ben,
you asked how I became a rabid fan of your show,
So I will say, oh, this is the big reveal
from Mike from Fullerton. Uh, he says, I've just been
an occasional sports radio listener until last summer when I
was looking for more things to listen to in the background,
(04:12):
I found a show I liked, but it was not yours,
he points out. It was Fox Sports Radio alumnus Steve
Mason and John Ireland Mason and Ireland show. Both of
them worked at Fox Sports Radio back in the day.
In fact, John Ireland, before he became the Laker broadcaster,
did a Saturday morning show with Steven A. Smith at
(04:32):
Fox Sports Radio. Steven had not done much radio, they
worked together. I did updates on that show from time
to time. I do recall trying to touch up Stephen
as work. He did not appreciate that, but Steve Mason
also a Fox Sports Radio guy. Anyway, Mike says, I
mainly podcasted them at night, and I enjoyed it until
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the NBA season started and all their whining and illusions
over the West Brick Lakers disaster got very annoying, so
I dropped him. How about that? He got rid of
Mason in Ireland. They've been on the radio and in in
l A for like three decades. He says, I put
Fox Sports Radio on one night because I needed a
new show, and Yours was on. Brian Finley was filling in,
(05:20):
and Tennis arguments took over. It was great. Wow. I
became a fan of the show right away. You can
either thank or blame Brian Finley for that. I'm gonna
blame him. Uh And Mike says, I listened for a
few months without contributing anything until the Rams won the
Super Bowl. I was pumped up, so I called the
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Instant Advice Line for the first time and started tweeting
the show that night. The reason I've been tweeting more
the last few months, he says, is just that I've
been around longer and I started talking to the other
super fans of the show. He says also enjoyed bugging
my friends with clips from the show. He also says,
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if you're wondering how I am able to listen to
the show every night, it's pretty simple. I'm not very
outgoing and I work from home. That's like the perfect combination, right,
introvert work from home, check mate. He says, that's my story.
Keep up the great work man and YouTube Danny Gee. Well,
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thank you, Mike. I am flattered. And I do like
Mike's sense of humor. He's got a very sarcastic, dry
sense of humor, which I enjoy very much. Are we
going to eat him at the Mallard Meat and Greece?
He said, he's not very outgoing and he's an introvert,
so probably not. Now. I I will say these things
(06:45):
I've done in the past. Usually what happens, and I
know this because I'm an introvert too, but I I
usually take some caffeine, so I'm bouncing off the walls
at these things. Normally there'll be a few fellow introverts
that will go to these things and sit by themselves,
kind of in the back act, because that's what we
do as introverts. Yeah, and so I'll try to as
much as I can go up and say hello if possible,
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because I have that bond with the introvert, and so
there's a connection that we have and I understand the
language or the introvert. So anyway, I thank you Mike
for that. Keep it going on really quick, Ben, your niece,
is it be Real. Yes, there it is be Real.
You ever heard before? Yeah, I found this New York
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Times article. It says this new social app is boring
in a good way. Once a day, at an unpredictable time,
be Real notifies its users that they have exactly two
minutes to post a pair of pictures. The feed is
mundane but also fun for now at least. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,
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because we were at the beach and Uncle Benny, that's me,
I'm Uncle Benny. So we I had to be in
the photo with my niece. You know, she got the
notification while Yeah, we were hanging out in the the
beach cabana, which is just a tent, but we were
hanging out there and she's all, I gotta gotta post this,
And so we get to the bottom of everything on
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this damn podcast. You want to answers, We gotta answers
Chris and Marrit Coca to Iowa writes in he says,
if you could choose where and how you will die,
what would it be? That's a very morbid question. On
the beach, watching the sunrise or in a warm bed? Uh?
Can I take none of the above? I don't know.
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I mean, you know, you don't. You don't know how.
It's the surprise of life, the mystery of life. You
don't know how you're gonna die? Um, and do you
want to die suddenly? I have. It's a weird thing
because I have both experiences. My mom had breast cancer.
She was sick for many years, the last probably ten
years of her life. Most of it she was sick,
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and then my dad was mostly healthy up until like
just a couple of days before he checked out. And
so I don't I don't know what's better. I I
felt like more with my mom. I got to say
goodbye to her, and we knew the end was coming.
My dad, I didn't really expect that he was not
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going to make it. So that's a that's a tough
one to people say die in their sleep. But the
moment you die, don't you go like ah like that? Yeah,
I mean I guess if you Yeah, it's hard to
answer that question. But you would love to be surrounded
by your loved ones. Yes, And my mom got that,
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which is great because we knew what was going to happen.
When my dad did not because of we had a
heart attack, but it was also because of COVID and
all that stuff. That's unfortunate. Chris also says when you
get mail delivered, changing the topic from from the mail delivery,
when you get mail delivered to your house and it
isn't yours, you a throw it away, be put it
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in the correct mailbox, or see right, return to center
on it and put it back in your mailbox. Ps
go raiders. So the answer to that for me, Chris
is I will I don't throw it away unless let
me let me check that unless it's like junk mail. Yeah, like,
well this person, Why am I going to track down
(10:19):
this person? They're not gonna want this. But assuming it's
it doesn't look like junk mail, I will try to
put it in the correct box. But if it's somewhere
I don't realize where it is and all that, I'll
just you know, do the return to center thing. But
I don't throw it away unless it's junk. Yeah, if
it's somebody you know in your neighborhood and they just
got a couple of the house or apartment numbers backwards,
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then you walk it down and set it on their doorstep.
But if you could tell it's junk, you're right, you
throw that in the trash can. Yeah. The last thing
you want is a neighbor to bring you junk mail
and be like yeah, yeah, you didn't get this, but
here it is. I was like, no, no, no, no, no,
I don't need that exactly. Thanks for my phone bill.
I don't want that. It's junk mail. Yeah, I know
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you pay it, Okay, I don't. I don't need that
at all. All right, what what the heck is wrong
with you? All right? What is next year? We do? Uh?
Next one, says dear Menace of night radio and die
no my Danny g. Oh, this is Neil from the
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real Miami. He says. It has come to my attention
that you two utes are in a career surrounded by sausages.
You know what I mean. I've been there. I spent
five years in the Marines. Fun real, not real, fun.
Question for you two utes? What other career do you
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or did you dream of? For a taco party? Danny?
He says, Look at that? Is that the reason Danny
g got a gig at the school? Wow warm regard
from the other Sunshine state. Here Neil in Miami. So yeah,
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how do you answer that when I what other career
would you do like a strip club. DJ. Well, I
was gonna say, and hopefully when you're thinking about work,
you're thinking with your big head, because I never thought about, well,
let me think about this career because there's gonna be
girls there. That's not how that works. Um. You know,
I was at FM radio stations, so that had a
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combination of female and male DJs. But obviously he's right
about sports radio, it's predominantly male. But we don't go
to work to mac on anybody were we both have
significant others. First of all, I guess that hasn't stopped
some other dirt bags, but we're not. Neither of us
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are like that. And No, to answer his question about
going to a school and working there or teaching at
a school, my experience with female teachers has not been
so amazing. I mean, I don't want to stereotype female teachers,
but uh, they're either granola cruncher's or they're very strict,
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or they're very old or but I but I've never
gone to a campus thinking about, oh man, what teachers
are gonna be here. I'm thinking about, oh ship, what's
my lesson plan for this morning? How many kids are
going to be in this class. Yeah. Yeah, well he's
probably thinking like as when you're younger, you know, you
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imagine okay, okay, the hot teacher or something like that.
Or uh, maybe I've been too serious with work then,
because I didn't think about that when I was a
kid either. Yeah. No, I had very old, cremudgeney teachers.
I did not have anyone mildly attractive who was a
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teacher of mine, as I recall. Maybe I had a
substitute one time that was kind of cute, but other
than that, it was and you know, even if she
was cute, I mean I was. I was the bowling ball,
I was the beach ball. I mean, no, there's nothing
going on there at all. I got mail, yea, I
got mail Ya Berry from Music City, USA. He says,
(14:21):
yah yama, Man, Benny, yah yama, Benny. I am really
hoping that today, on this episode The Real Fifth Hour,
you will give us an update on Benny versus the Penny.
Come on, man, I also have you mentioned you have
mentioned rather Barry says, you have mentioned many times that
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you like to bet on the NFL. Do you bet
on any other sports, either professional or college? I'll hang
up and listen Hello, l all right, so Barry, the
first thing is the Benny Versus the Penny thing is
all over the map. There's a possibility that will be
on this podcast. There's a chance it'll be on different platform. UM.
(15:09):
I am talking to a number of people about this,
and it's a very fluid situation. And I realized the
NFL season is less than a month away now, and uh,
I don't have anything locked down. I'm really at the
mercy of some very powerful people that I am caught
up as you as you know Danny, in the bureaucracy
(15:33):
of corporations, and you know, it's just the part of
the the way this stuff works. So there's also a
chance that Benny Versus the Penny might start out on
the podcast, and then at some point, since I own
that proper, I guess it could move to another platform
later on. Um. That's also on the table. Uh, And
(15:56):
so there's different possibilities. I was I was actually playing
around Dan. I don't know if we should tal about
this on the podcast, but if you do end up
being the Penny, at least at the beginning of the year,
I was thinking maybe there'd be a way we could
do this on a Twitch Feed recorded because a lot
of the fans of the show loved the live interaction
and that's a a big part of it. So I
(16:16):
thought maybe we could do something on Twitch and then
recorded off there and use it for the fifth hour
on the weekends, like, don't do it on a oneever time.
We'll just It's like I remember when Adam Corolla started
doing his podcast stuff. He just like tweet out, hey,
we're doing a live show called now ye that, like
we could do something like that. And then I'm pretty
sure I don't know about Barry's schedule, but I bet
(16:38):
you Alf the Adental Pineer would show up no matter when,
and and Justin and Cincinnati and just Josh and your
lover Rachel Brohlalla A right of course. So wow, she's
a wonderfully talented music shouldn't werelucky to have her? All Right,
(17:02):
come back pay Attuching, It's time for little speak of
the Devil, and he shall appear. Pierre from far far
away says, I will not be attending the Mallard meet
and greet in the o C Huh, how dare him? Pierre?
If you had started walking but have maybe made it
to Pennsylvania by the time the thing starts anyway, uh,
(17:23):
he says, ben I feel the need to clear the air.
Pierre writes, there's a lot of fake news surrounding me,
the Muppet militia and the Mallard militia. Here says, first off,
my burner account was inspired by the feud between Ernie
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and the rest of the Muppet militia. I enjoyed the
playful attacks and am very sad that Ernie and the
rest of the Muppet parody accounts are gone. He says.
I was Switzerland in the skirmish and did not take sense.
For those of you the new to the show, I
had this guy, Ernie, the Great Opiner, who lived in
(18:04):
Michigan and was a super fan of the show and
contributed a lot of content, and he had Ernie from
Bergen Ernie as his avatar. And what happened on the
show was a number of other listeners got jealous that
this guy was getting all the attention, and they were
very annoyed, and so they started attacking him by coming
(18:29):
up with other Muppet accounts. Came out of nowhere, and
we thought it was funny, and then it just kept
happening one after another. It wasn't random after a while.
And I don't know if it was just one person
or if it was like fifty people, but it seemed
like a lot of people had Muppet account and so anyway, Ernie,
it was all fun and games at first, and Ernie
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was cool and all that, and then at some point
things went terribly wrong. And I'm not really sure what happened,
but some of these uninvited guests who became Muppet accounts
said they did something. Ernie claims he changed shifts, but
I think there's more to it. I think it goes
(19:10):
deeper than that. Danny, Yeah, I think it had something
to do with a certain snuffle up against Avatar. Well
maybe Oscar the Grouch came over and started ship talking
from his can food and then Ernie gotta you gotta
have thicker skin than that. Though there's a lot of
Oscar the Grouches in this world. Yeah. Yeah, and social
media is a cess pool anyway, We've known that since
(19:32):
that one. And you know, people do stuff just to
get attended. Do you see the video that went viral
this week of the guy that went up to uh,
this NBA player in the candy shop and he's like
Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook, I love you, Russell Westbrook. And
it was Ben Simmons. Yeah, yeah, And so I think
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I was just being a dick. And there was the
other one, Chris Paul. Chris Paul. Yeah, it was the
same thing. And so you know there's some guys asked
not you got the wrong NBA player or whatever, but
it was like just doing it. Get social media cloud. Yeah,
they're being funny. All right. Back to the message from Pierre,
he says, as far as me bullying members of the
Malla misia, that is also fake news. I have been
(20:17):
very supportive to others new and old, to the Malley Militia.
As far as my question, this is probably aimed towards
the great Danny J. Pierre says, as he once sat
in Roberto's chair as well as Coops. Every day I
listened too much to the live show and then I
download and listened all four hours at work. How about this? Yeah,
(20:38):
dream listenership for us right there? God bless you, Pierre.
What do you think Pierre does for work? What kind
of work do you think Pierre listens to the radio? Yeah, yeah,
you monetize that. I'm a pro radio listener. Yeah, my
question is why does some audio get dropped from the pod?
I e. Certain sound effects, music, or even crew members audio.
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Sometimes I'll hear you Ben conversing, but not the other
crew member. Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't happen a lot, because
when it does happen, it's a mistake. Usually, Yeah, unless
it's some copy written material that we know can't be
included in the podcast. But because of that, sometimes on
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the board we call them pots pot not because we
smoke them smoke weed. It's an abbreviation. And that's the
line on the board that you turn up and down.
They're settings above that, each line on the control board,
and you can either feed it to the live air
and the podcast, or you could press that button to
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not feed it to the podcast. So, for instance, when
we play rejoined music, that's not fed to the podcast.
And sometimes you'll play a sound effect or something like that,
or you'll accidentally have that button off on a microphone
up at top and so that's not fed to the podcast.
We look back later and we see a gap in
(22:07):
the podcast, We're like, oh, ship, what was supposed to
be right there? And then I'll say, hey, Roberto, you're
not feeding X or Y to the podcast and he's like,
oh ship and he presses the button and gets it
back to the podcast. So no bumper music. What about
the Mallard music? We can put that on the podcast. Yeah,
if a listener sends us something that they personally created,
(22:30):
we can play that. If it's something that you or
I personally created, we can play that. But if it's
something that's copy written, we can't play that music on
a podcast. Yeah. And the company we work for, I heart,
they have to write a giant check to the record companies. Right,
is that it's as cap I think? Is that still
the outfit that controls the music the money. Every time
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we play anything, we have to send money. And if
we were only allowed to a certain amount of music,
not to get two inside radio. But there's lots of
different rules. For instance, if we were like, hey, let's
have a Bob Marley Friday, we actually couldn't sit there
and play Bob Marley three or four times an hour
(23:15):
for an entire show. And also you're not allowed on
a network like us. We're not allowed to promote music
that's coming up because we're not a music station, So
we are actually not allowed to say oh, coming up next,
I'm gonna play this song. We can't do that. So
there's lots of little strange copyright rules. Yeah, and so
(23:38):
the company rights a giant check, one of those huge checks,
and then they as cap Well, it's great. Imagine if
you're a musician and you write a hit song that
gets a lot of radio play, even like you can
do it when you're nineteen years old, eighteen, whatever it
might be, and you're getting you get a little bit
of money for the rest of your the rest of
(23:58):
your time. You're getting a litt chet Yeah. It's exactly
like how Coop still gets small checks from whenever they
play his movie. How messed up are we though? Is
that the people in radio? Why didn't they do that
in radio? Like you play an old radio show, you
get a little check. I agree with you. Every time
an old show gets downloaded, you and I get eight cents.
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Come on, let's go, I'll take five cents. I don't
even need eight cents, you know, I'll take five. It
all adds up every download, five cents. All right? Moving
on on the mail back come back at it's signed
for mail call. Ozzy was from South cross Western Australia.
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The man that got attacked by the kangaroo. He told
us that story in the previous episode of the show,
he says, Big Man and Danny G. As I was
listening to the podcast last week, DANNYG was talking about
twirling a snake over his head after he ran that
sucker over, which reminded me about being out in the woods,
(25:02):
he says, Woodwood with the brother in law on one
of the one of his paddocks that we were cleaning
up and Ozzy was goes on to say here that
he was in a loader and was outside the tip truck.
He u. He motioned to me a snake was close
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and now he killed that sucker, which is illegal in
Australia as they are a protected species. You're not, Oh
how about that, dude? Can't Did you know that? I
didn't know that. You can't kill us? Man? Uh, he says,
But cut the story short, I asked him, He says,
short story. I asked him if it was poisonous and
he picked up the dead carcass and said yes, as
(25:48):
the scales on its belly goes a certain way. And
my reply was high snaky, don't bother me? Can I
pick your tail up to see if you're poisonous. He says, here,
so there's azziwas tail from Western Australia. They're protected. But
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what if it's self defense? Well that's a good point.
If a snake comes after you, if it's poisonous, what
are you supposed to get bitten and die? Yeah? And
then do you need to hire a snake lawyer? You
think you'll ever go to Australia, Danny, think your travels
will ever take you to Australia. I haven't had the
chance to go to Europe yet. I think that will
be next on the tinderonis list for the upcoming years
(26:31):
ahead of us. So I don't. I don't see Australia.
I wish, but I don't think so in my lifetime. Yeah,
I used to do radio in New Zealand. I would
love to go. I have a couple of friends in
New Zealand from the radio stuff that I did back
in the day. I'd love to go to New Zealand.
But I feel like if you go to New Zealand,
you kind of got to go to Australia too, don't
(26:52):
you there They're they're not that far. It's a couple
hour flight. But they're close to each other, so you
gotta do it, don't you think? All right, we'll keep
it going. It is the mail bag here, and let's
see any meaning Manti, Yes, we do have, man, we
have a lot of mail. Kevin in Kansas rights and
(27:13):
he says, dear Ben and Danny g I have discovered
a common word that nobody can say with any authority.
The word is latte. Can either of you say the
word with any kind of toughness behind? Kevin says, I,
I don't think even Chuck Norris or John Wayne could
(27:35):
say latte without losing their credibility as real men. Any thoughts, yo, Man,
I put some poison in that motherfucking latte. There, you
guys here, there, you go right there. And he's got
the pipes, Kevin, he could do it. I can't do it.
I say latte, Latte, Latte, latte. There are some words
(27:57):
like that, but there's other words I don't. I I
butcher like free throws. I I I say foul shots.
I usually say foul shots. A lot of broadcasters have
problems saying Russell Westbrook. They'll say Russell rest Brook, Russell Russell. Yeah, Well,
(28:17):
I like when it's football and basketball season and I'm
talking about Russell Wilson and then about Russell Westbrook, and
that inevitably I will confuse the my Russell's. I'll mix
up my Russell's bad job by me. I do not
believe there's any antidote to that. I think I might
need to take some penicillin, all right. Next up on
(28:42):
the mail back, thank you Kevin. Kevin has been a
great mail bag contributors. He's there for us pretty much
every week, and and good questions from Kevin, So thank
you for that and keep it moving here alright. Next
up is Greg from West St. Paul, Minnesota. He says,
Ben and Danny, g when you were kids in grade school,
(29:05):
what was your favorite subject? In your least favorite? So
the least favorite is easy, that's math. I hated math
my my favorite except when grade school. I loved speech class,
but that was in high school. Like grade school. I'm
trying to remember. Like I liked history a little bit,
(29:26):
like learning American history. I thought that was cool. I'm
telling what else there was. I was not a good student,
so there wasn't a lot that I loved in school.
What about you, Danny? Anything you love, you hate? Greg
wants to know He's dying to know. In West St. Paul. Yeah,
by far, my favorite was Miss Martinez, my third grade teacher,
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And once a week she would put a really cool
poster up on the board in front of the room
and she would say, Okay, here's the assignment. You all
take out a blank sheet of paper. See what's going
on in the poster. And it would usually be like
a Transformers poster or a Winnie the Pooh poster or
something like that, and whatever the scene was, she'd say,
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how did they get to that point right there? What
led up to this scene? You need to write that
and the best ones I'm gonna read out loud to
the class. The best one out of all of them
wins that poster and a prize pack. And so it's
kind of cool, right. So I loved creative writing even
(30:33):
back then. So what I did. I look at this
Winnie the Pooh poster and I incorporated all of the
kids in class, the class clown, the girl everyone had
a crush on. I inserted them into the funny story
and then got to that point of the poster. So
she reads my paper and the classes busting up laughing
(30:54):
because I was writing jokes about all the kids in
the class, and I remember winning the poster and the
prize pack. But the problem been after that, everybody started
copying that idea. So whatever posters she would put up,
all the kids had knockoff versions of what I did
to start the school year. Oh yeah, so I had
(31:18):
to fight with the copycatters after that. Um, But still
it was a great way to start the year. I
loved any writing. Whenever the teachers had anything going on
like that, I paid close attention. And then when it
was math time, I was like, can I go outside
for some extra recess? Not interested in the numbers? Oh
for sure, for sure, I I recall. I wish I
(31:41):
could track down some of my old elementary school teachers.
They would laugh their ass off at how much time
I spend putting notes together for the show and different
bullshit that I do as an adult. They would because
I was such a disheveled child, right, and you know,
a typical loner dude, you know, in overt and all
that stuff. But if they could see me now, if
(32:03):
only they could see me now and say and they
laugh and say, yeah, you should have paid more attention
you know. It's funny because a lot of broadcasters look
back at being told to shut up in class. You
talk way too much. You're never gonna come out to anything. Yeah,
oh sure, and we goofed right now. I was, you know, spitballs.
I've told the story before. I had a buddy of
(32:25):
mine who had never seen a naked woman, and they
had National Geographic magazine, and he could not stop looking,
and of course was passing it around. And I was like, Oh,
this is the most amazing thing he'd ever seen in
his life. I got mail. Yeah, I got mail. The
(32:46):
next one from Walt. He says, three hundred sixty four
miles east of the four oh five. So what is
that in the Phoenix area? Am I right on that?
Somewhere in Arizona. I've think Phoenix is like three seventy
five from l A. I think, but I don't know.
I haven't driven there in a long time. I used
(33:07):
to go to spring training in Arizona back in the day.
Walt says, you mentioned that your father was an amateur
radio operator. Yes, he was. My father was a prolific
amateur radio operator, and he was convinced until his last
day on the planet because I know I talked to
him a few hours before he passed away. We didn't
realize he was gonna pass away from heart of that.
(33:28):
But my dad was convinced that there would be a
bigger earthquake in l A and Ham radio Ham operators
were gonna save the day. And he taught actually Ham
radio at some of the local colleges near where he lived.
So he was all in, and he was fully invested
in amateur radio. Uh and Walt says, did you ever
(33:49):
think about taking the FCC test to get a license
and then get his old call sign? I did not.
I did not realize that I was even an option
to get his old call signed. I don't think you can. Yeah,
I don't know how that works. But my my father,
he tried. God bless arrest his soul. Also, my dad
tried to get me to become a Ham radio guy.
And I was into it, like the talking part of it.
(34:11):
But up until not that long ago, you had to
know Morse code, and I I, for the life of me,
I could not figure out Morse fucking code. And I tried.
My dad got me all these books. He tried. My
dad was very good with numbers. He was a math
major at U C l A. So he was very
good with math. But I was I was completely lost.
(34:31):
If it had just been the speaking part, I couldn't nailed.
That was probably the toughest test I took in all
of high school. The electronics teacher, Mr Haskins, he would
set it all up. He was all official. He wasn't
an advanced technician for Ham radio, and he would set
(34:52):
up the test and he was super serious about it.
And I remember Ben falling behind a couple of steps
listening to that damn Morse code. And once you get behind,
you're screwed. You're screwed because it leaves you in the dust. Um.
So it took me three tries, and on my third
and final try passed it to get a technician's license.
(35:12):
The final attempt. Yeah, that's press er when you know
you don't even get another chance. Yeah. And my my
dad he also there was a Ham radio magazine, if
if anyway is listening q s R. I think it
was called I think he had every single addition of
that of that magazine. He was just he was a
(35:34):
huge fan of that magazine. So I know we have
a few Ham radio people that are fans I think
are our buddy Terry in England is a Ham radio
operator also, So what became of your dad's Ham radio equipment. Well, yeah,
obviously I'm not a Ham guy, so we we actually
we were able to give it to He was part
(35:55):
of a local community club. You know. They they're an
emergency response team if there's a disaster in the city
he was living in, and so we were able to
donate that to the people who are in the Ham clubs,
so they were able to use his equipment. And you know,
he had he had tons and tons of of really
(36:15):
old stuff. He didn't have a lot of new stuff.
My dad liked the old stuff. And I used to
bust my dad's balls because he he was so into
Morse code because that's what he learned as a kid,
and he'd get on the Ham radio bands at night
and he'd be very frustrated there weren't a lot of
people doing the Morse code. But and I was like, well,
(36:37):
just do the vocal stuff because there's more people doing that.
But he he loved the Morse code and that's what
he wanted to do. And he got frustrated because a
lot of the time, Uh, there wouldn't There wouldn't be
people on there doing the Morse code. So, by the
way I googled the amateur radio magazine q ST, QST
knew he was a cue all right, Johnny writes in
(36:59):
from fishing Texas waters. I guess that's what he's doing
right now. He's fishing the waters of Texas. Uh, he says,
how is it that FSR does not recognize you as
the most influential people in the world. There you go, Uh,
why is that, Danny? G Why didn't we not get
recognized as the most influential people in the world because
(37:22):
we're the most interesting people in the world. So we
can't hold two title belts at the same time. Yes,
and as much as they want to overpay us, Danny,
we both we want to keep our blue collar outlook
we do. We don't want to become white collar. It
would ruin the whole bit that we have. It's much
(37:43):
better to carry the rock thirty five times in a game,
to ground and pound and help the team win the division.
We're not the prissy prima donna quarterback who doesn't want
to get sacked. Yeah, there's some people that order an omelet,
but there's other pool that have to break the eggs
to make them, and that's what we do, right, I think,
(38:05):
I don't know if you believe any of that. That
is a load of bull puck. Alright, Croy in Minnesota,
Right so, and he says, what is the best firing
story you've had? You are a co worker? Well, that's
that's appropriate because we had our Buddy Sports with coleman
on who was let go I lost. I've told the
(38:28):
story a few times over the years. I haven't told
him a while. I was hosting Dodger Talk and I
lost the gig at a pay phone on outside a
cat walk from the press box at County Stadium in Milwaukee.
It's the end of a road trip the Dodgers where
they went to Chicago Milwaukee, and I got a call
(38:50):
from the programming guy saying, hey, you gotta, you know,
give me a buzz when you get back to l A.
And of course I was like, I want to find
out right now what's going on. And the guy's like, hey,
we decided to make a change. And there's this other guy.
He's a bigger name, and uh, he's going to replace
you starting tomorrow. And I was like what And Uh, yeah,
(39:14):
so I lost. I lost the gig there that I
got replaced though by a legend in l a television Oh,
David vasse No uh Silver Tips stew the great student
aahan Oh, a long time television personality was in movies.
Why did Stu need that gig at the time? He
(39:35):
didn't need the gig, but he was. He was actually
retired and he loved the Dodgers, and so he thought
it would be a fun gig to travel around and
come on, Stu, he should have let a young Benny
continue that job. I often wonder what would have happened
if I had continued that job, Like, how would my
life have turned out? If I would I still be
doing that job. You might be sitting in the booth
(39:55):
decks to Charlie Steiner. I gotta tell you, though, Dan Danny,
it was not the easiest thing, because even though I
love the Dodgers, when they played like shit, I wanted
to say, hey, they they You know that guy's a
bomber and you can't really do that in that job.
You have to be a houseman. It's you can't give
anytime you say there was a day I did that job.
(40:16):
The Dodgers. It was like a Sunday I think they
were playing the Montreal Expos how long ago that was,
and they had a terrible They made like six errors
in the game or something like that, and I was
like ripping the defense, and some somebody got offended that
I was being too critical. I was like, what am
I supposed to say? You have like six errors in
a game. What do you want me to do? Praise
(40:37):
you for your gold glove defense? Hm. But anyway, any
firing stories you want to share with Croy. So when
I was programming a hip hop radio station here in
southern California, I actually inherited a staff, which, as you know,
that's hard because at the time the station sucked pretty bad.
They were in seventh place. There's that weird transition period
(41:01):
where you got to figure out who you're gonna keep,
who you're gonna acts. Uh, And it's the hardest with
the weekend staff, because that's hard to fill those jobs. Anyways,
I'm looking at this weekend staff. I need to fill
out the roster. There was this one guy named Timothy James,
fake radio name and a fake voice. Ben He'd be like, oh, yeah,
(41:22):
it's Saturday. Yeah, oh yeah. He was horrible what he
did the early Saturday shift in an early Sunday shift,
and I thought, well, let me just leave him alone.
Except he was an asshole in the hallways. He created
lots of drama with the staff. So I kept talking
to my general manager like, can I just get rid
of this guy please? He's just a troublemaker and he's
(41:44):
bad on the air. And my GM was like, wow,
you know, just bear with it. Just just you're gonna
have to, you know, control the guy. And I'm like
all right. So every weekend was something new. Every weekend
was a new problem with this guy Ben. So finally
I I wake up one Saturday, a I turn on.
You know, when you program the station, a big part
of your life is listening to your damn radio station.
(42:07):
If you're not there, you are because you're listening in
your car, on your phone at your house. To make
sure everything is going smooth. In the old days, you
had to listen line. Before all the apps where you
could listen anywhere you want, it is yes number to
call up to listen in on the station. Yeah, it
was my responsibility. My general manager said, you have a
(42:27):
big contract, because you have big responsibilities. Then it bugged
the ship out of my girlfriend at the time. So
I wake up early on Saturday morning and I tuned
my station in and there's dead air. What the what's
going on? And then like a song comes on, but
there was no imaging nothing before the song. All right, well,
(42:49):
maybe Timothy is just tired starting off his shift. And
then the next song ends, Ben, and there's more dead air,
and I'm like, what the funk man? So I call
of a hot line. At this point, I'm like, all right,
two incidents of dead air. I need to call and
see if this is this guy hung over. Nobody answers
the hotline the red phone in the studio with the
(43:12):
blinky flashy light that means those ships the boss is calling.
No one answers it the bat phone. And now I'm
like really pissed, Like okay, so we sound like ship
on the air right now, and nobody's answering the bat phone.
So another song gets played and then imaging comes on,
but it's train wrecking with a song. So Ben, I
(43:34):
throw my clothes on, I speed down to the radio station.
I stomp into the studio and I expect, you know,
I don't know what I'm gonna see, but I'm thinking
Timothy James is gonna be laid out, you know, on
the floor, drunk or something like that. I don't know
what to think. There was no Timothy James. It was
a bright eyed intern, a scared look on his face,
(43:58):
and I'm like, where the fuck is Timothy at I
don't know. He just asked me to cover for him
for an hour. This is Ashole Benefit fIF fifty radio station.
This guy had an intern cover for him for an hour.
So I stay there and I like where did he go?
(44:19):
And he's like, I'm not sure. He didn't tell me.
He just asked me to cover the control board for
an hour. And I'm like, you don't know how to
do the control board. Nobody trained you on this. And
he's like, oh, I'm just trying to figure it out.
He showed me really quick, and I'm sorry if it
sounds bad on the air, and I'm like, get the
funk out of here right now. So I send the
intern home, I get my headphones out of my programming office,
(44:44):
and I jump on the air and I do the
next break live, introduced the next song. He's driving back
to the studios. Yeah, he hears the program director on
the air ben he walked in. Forty five minutes later.
He had an interview somewhere for like a daytime job
(45:06):
Monday through Friday. He tried to have this guy cover
while he went to the job interview. Yeah, I said,
get your ship and get out of here. He was
trying to argue with me, and I was like bye bye,
and yeah, that was the best firing we ever had there.
I've never heard of anything like that in raiding. We've
(45:27):
heard a lot of crazy stories. No, that's that's quite
the quite all right. Well, that's a perfect way to
put the bow on this. And so for John in
Northern Colorado, Luna, Mike, Steve, all you guys, I'm sorry,
we just ran out of time here, but we will
next week. We'll have a new mailback, so if you
want to submit your question for next week, John in
(45:49):
Colorado and all you other guys there, and Gal, I
don't see any gals. I lied. There's no women. Uh.
And what happened to Helen and stew by the way,
they they vanished. I hope they're okay. Helen and Stu.
They they told this tale. They said they were gonna
pay off the Great Tale and then they vanished. I
only we've heard from them in like a month. So
hopefully Helen and stew and Palmetto Bay, Florida there are Okay, Danny,
(46:13):
what do you have coming up? You're also you're gonna
be on the radio show, The Librado Show tomorrow. And
don't forget. The Mallard meet and greet is this week.
Hopefully Danny can make it. We'll find out. I will
will obviously talk about it on the overnight show, but
that'll be this Friday in southern California. Uh. Contact Eddie
(46:36):
Garcia Eddie on Fox at gmail dot com if you're
interested in attending in La Maratta. I believe it is
La Maratta there. But Danny, what are you got going on? Yeah,
it's gonna be a fun week besides the meet and
great you're right Monday into Tuesday. I get to fill
in for Coop today. This afternoon, I'm gonna be having
(46:57):
fun with Covino and Rich and then the show, right
but for yours Arnie Spaniard with Chris Plank Blaker Feds.
And then it'll be Mallard time. Yeah, alright, well, listen,
we'll have we'll have a great time this week, and
who knows, you never know. It's gonna on the place.
If you want to recommend a guest. That's some people
emailing me different names for future guests. Now that we
(47:19):
got Musburger Danny, I know. I think the world is
our oyster. I think we can get anybody there. Set
the bar high. I got some emails out to your
boy George Norri. I would love to talk to George Nory,
that would I would love to hear you and him
having a conversation. So I'm efforting that at the moment,
all right, So we'll see what happens with that. But
have a great week, great rest of the day, obviously today,
(47:41):
and I'll be back in the radio studio, the terrestrial
radio studio, the brick and mortar studio, literally and figuratively
there tonight, eleven pm in the west, three A. What
is that to two am? I keep my math. They
said there would be no math two am in the east,
in the middle of the night there on a Monday.
And we'll catch you then later. Skater gotta murder, gotta
(48:04):
go
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(01:04):
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NFL preseason in action, and then you got the Fifth
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That's right, it's all you need and the proper way
to start the mail Bag. There's only one way to
do it, and we have to strike up the band, Ohio,
al it's mail bag, alright, good job. I love that
(01:43):
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we call the mail bag. We do it every week.
If you'd like to contribute, you don't have to wait
five days to send a question. You can do it
right now now. We're not gonna read your question right now,
(02:04):
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We will read it on the next show, if you know,
assuming we get it in time and all. But you
can email at any point. You can email right now,
five minutes from now, ten minutes from now, tomorrow, the
next day. But my experiences, if you don't do it
right now, you're gonna forget to do it. Real fifth
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(02:26):
dot com. Or you can wait until Monday or Tuesday.
On the Facebook page which is Ben Maller's show, I'm
told no teenagers, no one under the age of seventy
is on Facebook, but I'm still on there to see
family and whatnot. But Facebook Ben Mallers Show on there.
You can check it out are we on TikTok? No,
we're not on TikTok? Are we on h There was
(02:47):
another one my nieces told me about just take a
photo of what you're doing at that moment, a snapshot,
And they're like, all your friends are supposed to take
a photo of what you're doing at that time. Have
you ever heard of this? Maybe you listening can help
us out on that. I just googled new social media discord.
(03:10):
We know about Twitch, Instagram reels, No, we know about Patreon. Yeah,
I don't know Twitter, Space. Let me see Spotify, green Room, Caffeine, No,
super Nova na clubhouse not clubhouse now, I don't know.
Maybe it's been around for a while and I don't know.
(03:31):
I just don't remember the name, but it's Yeah. My
my niece is in high school, so she's much cooler
than I am, quite far. She's got all the answers
to lights fine, and she shops at thrift stories. My
other niece is in college, so she's come on. Al Right,
the first too cool for you with all those holes
in their jeans. Damn right? All right, we start with
(03:52):
this one. Mike from Fullerton rights in and he says, hey, Ben,
you asked how I became a rabid fan of your show,
So I will say, oh, this is the big reveal
from Mike from Fullerton. Uh, he says, I've just been
an occasional sports radio listener until last summer when I
was looking for more things to listen to in the background,
(04:12):
I found a show I liked, but it was not yours,
he points out. It was Fox Sports Radio alumnus Steve
Mason and John Ireland Mason and Ireland show. Both of
them worked at Fox Sports Radio back in the day.
In fact, John Ireland, before he became the Laker broadcaster,
did a Saturday morning show with Steven A. Smith at
(04:32):
Fox Sports Radio. Steven had not done much radio, they
worked together. I did updates on that show from time
to time. I do recall trying to touch up Stephen
as work. He did not appreciate that, but Steve Mason
also a Fox Sports Radio guy. Anyway, Mike says, I
mainly podcasted them at night, and I enjoyed it until
(04:56):
the NBA season started and all their whining and illusions
over the West Brick Lakers disaster got very annoying, so
I dropped him. How about that? He got rid of
Mason in Ireland. They've been on the radio and in in
l A for like three decades. He says, I put
Fox Sports Radio on one night because I needed a
new show, and Yours was on. Brian Finley was filling in,
(05:20):
and Tennis arguments took over. It was great. Wow. I
became a fan of the show right away. You can
either thank or blame Brian Finley for that. I'm gonna
blame him. Uh And Mike says, I listened for a
few months without contributing anything until the Rams won the
Super Bowl. I was pumped up, so I called the
(05:42):
Instant Advice Line for the first time and started tweeting
the show that night. The reason I've been tweeting more
the last few months, he says, is just that I've
been around longer and I started talking to the other
super fans of the show. He says also enjoyed bugging
my friends with clips from the show. He also says,
(06:03):
if you're wondering how I am able to listen to
the show every night, it's pretty simple. I'm not very
outgoing and I work from home. That's like the perfect combination, right,
introvert work from home, check mate. He says, that's my story.
Keep up the great work man and YouTube Danny Gee. Well,
(06:24):
thank you, Mike. I am flattered. And I do like
Mike's sense of humor. He's got a very sarcastic, dry
sense of humor, which I enjoy very much. Are we
going to eat him at the Mallard Meat and Greece?
He said, he's not very outgoing and he's an introvert,
so probably not. Now. I I will say these things
(06:45):
I've done in the past. Usually what happens, and I
know this because I'm an introvert too, but I I
usually take some caffeine, so I'm bouncing off the walls
at these things. Normally there'll be a few fellow introverts
that will go to these things and sit by themselves,
kind of in the back act, because that's what we
do as introverts. Yeah, and so I'll try to as
much as I can go up and say hello if possible,
(07:07):
because I have that bond with the introvert, and so
there's a connection that we have and I understand the
language or the introvert. So anyway, I thank you Mike
for that. Keep it going on really quick, Ben, your niece,
is it be Real. Yes, there it is be Real.
You ever heard before? Yeah, I found this New York
(07:30):
Times article. It says this new social app is boring
in a good way. Once a day, at an unpredictable time,
be Real notifies its users that they have exactly two
minutes to post a pair of pictures. The feed is
mundane but also fun for now at least. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,
(07:50):
because we were at the beach and Uncle Benny, that's me,
I'm Uncle Benny. So we I had to be in
the photo with my niece. You know, she got the
notification while Yeah, we were hanging out in the the
beach cabana, which is just a tent, but we were
hanging out there and she's all, I gotta gotta post this,
And so we get to the bottom of everything on
(08:10):
this damn podcast. You want to answers, We gotta answers
Chris and Marrit Coca to Iowa writes in he says,
if you could choose where and how you will die,
what would it be? That's a very morbid question. On
the beach, watching the sunrise or in a warm bed? Uh?
Can I take none of the above? I don't know.
(08:32):
I mean, you know, you don't. You don't know how.
It's the surprise of life, the mystery of life. You
don't know how you're gonna die? Um, and do you
want to die suddenly? I have. It's a weird thing
because I have both experiences. My mom had breast cancer.
She was sick for many years, the last probably ten
years of her life. Most of it she was sick,
(08:52):
and then my dad was mostly healthy up until like
just a couple of days before he checked out. And
so I don't I don't know what's better. I I
felt like more with my mom. I got to say
goodbye to her, and we knew the end was coming.
My dad, I didn't really expect that he was not
(09:13):
going to make it. So that's a that's a tough
one to people say die in their sleep. But the
moment you die, don't you go like ah like that? Yeah,
I mean I guess if you Yeah, it's hard to
answer that question. But you would love to be surrounded
by your loved ones. Yes, And my mom got that,
(09:35):
which is great because we knew what was going to happen.
When my dad did not because of we had a
heart attack, but it was also because of COVID and
all that stuff. That's unfortunate. Chris also says when you
get mail delivered, changing the topic from from the mail delivery,
when you get mail delivered to your house and it
isn't yours, you a throw it away, be put it
(09:58):
in the correct mailbox, or see right, return to center
on it and put it back in your mailbox. Ps
go raiders. So the answer to that for me, Chris
is I will I don't throw it away unless let
me let me check that unless it's like junk mail. Yeah, like,
well this person, Why am I going to track down
(10:19):
this person? They're not gonna want this. But assuming it's
it doesn't look like junk mail, I will try to
put it in the correct box. But if it's somewhere
I don't realize where it is and all that, I'll
just you know, do the return to center thing. But
I don't throw it away unless it's junk. Yeah, if
it's somebody you know in your neighborhood and they just
got a couple of the house or apartment numbers backwards,
(10:42):
then you walk it down and set it on their doorstep.
But if you could tell it's junk, you're right, you
throw that in the trash can. Yeah. The last thing
you want is a neighbor to bring you junk mail
and be like yeah, yeah, you didn't get this, but
here it is. I was like, no, no, no, no, no,
I don't need that exactly. Thanks for my phone bill.
I don't want that. It's junk mail. Yeah, I know
(11:02):
you pay it, Okay, I don't. I don't need that
at all. All right, what what the heck is wrong
with you? All right? What is next year? We do? Uh?
Next one, says dear Menace of night radio and die
no my Danny g. Oh, this is Neil from the
(11:22):
real Miami. He says. It has come to my attention
that you two utes are in a career surrounded by sausages.
You know what I mean. I've been there. I spent
five years in the Marines. Fun real, not real, fun.
Question for you two utes? What other career do you
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or did you dream of? For a taco party? Danny?
He says, Look at that? Is that the reason Danny
g got a gig at the school? Wow warm regard
from the other Sunshine state. Here Neil in Miami. So yeah,
(12:09):
how do you answer that when I what other career
would you do like a strip club. DJ. Well, I
was gonna say, and hopefully when you're thinking about work,
you're thinking with your big head, because I never thought about, well,
let me think about this career because there's gonna be
girls there. That's not how that works. Um. You know,
I was at FM radio stations, so that had a
(12:31):
combination of female and male DJs. But obviously he's right
about sports radio, it's predominantly male. But we don't go
to work to mac on anybody were we both have
significant others. First of all, I guess that hasn't stopped
some other dirt bags, but we're not. Neither of us
(12:53):
are like that. And No, to answer his question about
going to a school and working there or teaching at
a school, my experience with female teachers has not been
so amazing. I mean, I don't want to stereotype female teachers,
but uh, they're either granola cruncher's or they're very strict,
(13:14):
or they're very old or but I but I've never
gone to a campus thinking about, oh man, what teachers
are gonna be here. I'm thinking about, oh ship, what's
my lesson plan for this morning? How many kids are
going to be in this class. Yeah. Yeah, well he's
probably thinking like as when you're younger, you know, you
(13:35):
imagine okay, okay, the hot teacher or something like that.
Or uh, maybe I've been too serious with work then,
because I didn't think about that when I was a
kid either. Yeah. No, I had very old, cremudgeney teachers.
I did not have anyone mildly attractive who was a
(13:55):
teacher of mine, as I recall. Maybe I had a
substitute one time that was kind of cute, but other
than that, it was and you know, even if she
was cute, I mean I was. I was the bowling ball,
I was the beach ball. I mean, no, there's nothing
going on there at all. I got mail, yea, I
got mail Ya Berry from Music City, USA. He says,
(14:21):
yah yama, Man, Benny, yah yama, Benny. I am really
hoping that today, on this episode The Real Fifth Hour,
you will give us an update on Benny versus the Penny.
Come on, man, I also have you mentioned you have
mentioned rather Barry says, you have mentioned many times that
(14:42):
you like to bet on the NFL. Do you bet
on any other sports, either professional or college? I'll hang
up and listen Hello, l all right, so Barry, the
first thing is the Benny Versus the Penny thing is
all over the map. There's a possibility that will be
on this podcast. There's a chance it'll be on different platform. UM.
(15:09):
I am talking to a number of people about this,
and it's a very fluid situation. And I realized the
NFL season is less than a month away now, and uh,
I don't have anything locked down. I'm really at the
mercy of some very powerful people that I am caught
up as you as you know Danny, in the bureaucracy
(15:33):
of corporations, and you know, it's just the part of
the the way this stuff works. So there's also a
chance that Benny Versus the Penny might start out on
the podcast, and then at some point, since I own
that proper, I guess it could move to another platform
later on. Um. That's also on the table. Uh, And
(15:56):
so there's different possibilities. I was I was actually playing
around Dan. I don't know if we should tal about
this on the podcast, but if you do end up
being the Penny, at least at the beginning of the year,
I was thinking maybe there'd be a way we could
do this on a Twitch Feed recorded because a lot
of the fans of the show loved the live interaction
and that's a a big part of it. So I
(16:16):
thought maybe we could do something on Twitch and then
recorded off there and use it for the fifth hour
on the weekends, like, don't do it on a oneever time.
We'll just It's like I remember when Adam Corolla started
doing his podcast stuff. He just like tweet out, hey,
we're doing a live show called now ye that, like
we could do something like that. And then I'm pretty
sure I don't know about Barry's schedule, but I bet
(16:38):
you Alf the Adental Pineer would show up no matter when,
and and Justin and Cincinnati and just Josh and your
lover Rachel Brohlalla A right of course. So wow, she's
a wonderfully talented music shouldn't werelucky to have her? All Right,
(17:02):
come back pay Attuching, It's time for little speak of
the Devil, and he shall appear. Pierre from far far
away says, I will not be attending the Mallard meet
and greet in the o C Huh, how dare him? Pierre?
If you had started walking but have maybe made it
to Pennsylvania by the time the thing starts anyway, uh,
(17:23):
he says, ben I feel the need to clear the air.
Pierre writes, there's a lot of fake news surrounding me,
the Muppet militia and the Mallard militia. Here says, first off,
my burner account was inspired by the feud between Ernie
(17:44):
and the rest of the Muppet militia. I enjoyed the
playful attacks and am very sad that Ernie and the
rest of the Muppet parody accounts are gone. He says.
I was Switzerland in the skirmish and did not take sense.
For those of you the new to the show, I
had this guy, Ernie, the Great Opiner, who lived in
(18:04):
Michigan and was a super fan of the show and
contributed a lot of content, and he had Ernie from
Bergen Ernie as his avatar. And what happened on the
show was a number of other listeners got jealous that
this guy was getting all the attention, and they were
very annoyed, and so they started attacking him by coming
(18:29):
up with other Muppet accounts. Came out of nowhere, and
we thought it was funny, and then it just kept
happening one after another. It wasn't random after a while.
And I don't know if it was just one person
or if it was like fifty people, but it seemed
like a lot of people had Muppet account and so anyway, Ernie,
it was all fun and games at first, and Ernie
(18:50):
was cool and all that, and then at some point
things went terribly wrong. And I'm not really sure what happened,
but some of these uninvited guests who became Muppet accounts
said they did something. Ernie claims he changed shifts, but
I think there's more to it. I think it goes
(19:10):
deeper than that. Danny, Yeah, I think it had something
to do with a certain snuffle up against Avatar. Well
maybe Oscar the Grouch came over and started ship talking
from his can food and then Ernie gotta you gotta
have thicker skin than that. Though there's a lot of
Oscar the Grouches in this world. Yeah. Yeah, and social
media is a cess pool anyway, We've known that since
(19:32):
that one. And you know, people do stuff just to
get attended. Do you see the video that went viral
this week of the guy that went up to uh,
this NBA player in the candy shop and he's like
Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook, I love you, Russell Westbrook. And
it was Ben Simmons. Yeah, yeah, And so I think
(19:54):
I was just being a dick. And there was the
other one, Chris Paul. Chris Paul. Yeah, it was the
same thing. And so you know there's some guys asked
not you got the wrong NBA player or whatever, but
it was like just doing it. Get social media cloud. Yeah,
they're being funny. All right. Back to the message from Pierre,
he says, as far as me bullying members of the
Malla misia, that is also fake news. I have been
(20:17):
very supportive to others new and old, to the Malley Militia.
As far as my question, this is probably aimed towards
the great Danny J. Pierre says, as he once sat
in Roberto's chair as well as Coops. Every day I
listened too much to the live show and then I
download and listened all four hours at work. How about this? Yeah,
(20:38):
dream listenership for us right there? God bless you, Pierre.
What do you think Pierre does for work? What kind
of work do you think Pierre listens to the radio? Yeah, yeah,
you monetize that. I'm a pro radio listener. Yeah, my
question is why does some audio get dropped from the pod?
I e. Certain sound effects, music, or even crew members audio.
(21:02):
Sometimes I'll hear you Ben conversing, but not the other
crew member. Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't happen a lot, because
when it does happen, it's a mistake. Usually, Yeah, unless
it's some copy written material that we know can't be
included in the podcast. But because of that, sometimes on
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the board we call them pots pot not because we
smoke them smoke weed. It's an abbreviation. And that's the
line on the board that you turn up and down.
They're settings above that, each line on the control board,
and you can either feed it to the live air
and the podcast, or you could press that button to
(21:47):
not feed it to the podcast. So, for instance, when
we play rejoined music, that's not fed to the podcast.
And sometimes you'll play a sound effect or something like that,
or you'll accidentally have that button off on a microphone
up at top and so that's not fed to the podcast.
We look back later and we see a gap in
(22:07):
the podcast, We're like, oh, ship, what was supposed to
be right there? And then I'll say, hey, Roberto, you're
not feeding X or Y to the podcast and he's like,
oh ship and he presses the button and gets it
back to the podcast. So no bumper music. What about
the Mallard music? We can put that on the podcast. Yeah,
if a listener sends us something that they personally created,
(22:30):
we can play that. If it's something that you or
I personally created, we can play that. But if it's
something that's copy written, we can't play that music on
a podcast. Yeah. And the company we work for, I heart,
they have to write a giant check to the record companies. Right,
is that it's as cap I think? Is that still
the outfit that controls the music the money. Every time
(22:54):
we play anything, we have to send money. And if
we were only allowed to a certain amount of music,
not to get two inside radio. But there's lots of
different rules. For instance, if we were like, hey, let's
have a Bob Marley Friday, we actually couldn't sit there
and play Bob Marley three or four times an hour
(23:15):
for an entire show. And also you're not allowed on
a network like us. We're not allowed to promote music
that's coming up because we're not a music station, So
we are actually not allowed to say oh, coming up next,
I'm gonna play this song. We can't do that. So
there's lots of little strange copyright rules. Yeah, and so
(23:38):
the company rights a giant check, one of those huge checks,
and then they as cap Well, it's great. Imagine if
you're a musician and you write a hit song that
gets a lot of radio play, even like you can
do it when you're nineteen years old, eighteen, whatever it
might be, and you're getting you get a little bit
of money for the rest of your the rest of
(23:58):
your time. You're getting a litt chet Yeah. It's exactly
like how Coop still gets small checks from whenever they
play his movie. How messed up are we though? Is
that the people in radio? Why didn't they do that
in radio? Like you play an old radio show, you
get a little check. I agree with you. Every time
an old show gets downloaded, you and I get eight cents.
(24:19):
Come on, let's go, I'll take five cents. I don't
even need eight cents, you know, I'll take five. It
all adds up every download, five cents. All right? Moving
on on the mail back come back at it's signed
for mail call. Ozzy was from South cross Western Australia.
(24:40):
The man that got attacked by the kangaroo. He told
us that story in the previous episode of the show,
he says, Big Man and Danny G. As I was
listening to the podcast last week, DANNYG was talking about
twirling a snake over his head after he ran that
sucker over, which reminded me about being out in the woods,
(25:02):
he says, Woodwood with the brother in law on one
of the one of his paddocks that we were cleaning
up and Ozzy was goes on to say here that
he was in a loader and was outside the tip truck.
He u. He motioned to me a snake was close
(25:25):
and now he killed that sucker, which is illegal in
Australia as they are a protected species. You're not, Oh
how about that, dude? Can't Did you know that? I
didn't know that. You can't kill us? Man? Uh, he says,
But cut the story short, I asked him, He says,
short story. I asked him if it was poisonous and
he picked up the dead carcass and said yes, as
(25:48):
the scales on its belly goes a certain way. And
my reply was high snaky, don't bother me? Can I
pick your tail up to see if you're poisonous. He says, here,
so there's azziwas tail from Western Australia. They're protected. But
(26:08):
what if it's self defense? Well that's a good point.
If a snake comes after you, if it's poisonous, what
are you supposed to get bitten and die? Yeah? And
then do you need to hire a snake lawyer? You
think you'll ever go to Australia, Danny, think your travels
will ever take you to Australia. I haven't had the
chance to go to Europe yet. I think that will
be next on the tinderonis list for the upcoming years
(26:31):
ahead of us. So I don't. I don't see Australia.
I wish, but I don't think so in my lifetime. Yeah,
I used to do radio in New Zealand. I would
love to go. I have a couple of friends in
New Zealand from the radio stuff that I did back
in the day. I'd love to go to New Zealand.
But I feel like if you go to New Zealand,
you kind of got to go to Australia too, don't
(26:52):
you there They're they're not that far. It's a couple
hour flight. But they're close to each other, so you
gotta do it, don't you think? All right, we'll keep
it going. It is the mail bag here, and let's
see any meaning Manti, Yes, we do have, man, we
have a lot of mail. Kevin in Kansas rights and
(27:13):
he says, dear Ben and Danny g I have discovered
a common word that nobody can say with any authority.
The word is latte. Can either of you say the
word with any kind of toughness behind? Kevin says, I,
I don't think even Chuck Norris or John Wayne could
(27:35):
say latte without losing their credibility as real men. Any thoughts, yo, Man,
I put some poison in that motherfucking latte. There, you
guys here, there, you go right there. And he's got
the pipes, Kevin, he could do it. I can't do it.
I say latte, Latte, Latte, latte. There are some words
(27:57):
like that, but there's other words I don't. I I
butcher like free throws. I I I say foul shots.
I usually say foul shots. A lot of broadcasters have
problems saying Russell Westbrook. They'll say Russell rest Brook, Russell Russell. Yeah, Well,
(28:17):
I like when it's football and basketball season and I'm
talking about Russell Wilson and then about Russell Westbrook, and
that inevitably I will confuse the my Russell's. I'll mix
up my Russell's bad job by me. I do not
believe there's any antidote to that. I think I might
need to take some penicillin, all right. Next up on
(28:42):
the mail back, thank you Kevin. Kevin has been a
great mail bag contributors. He's there for us pretty much
every week, and and good questions from Kevin, So thank
you for that and keep it moving here alright. Next
up is Greg from West St. Paul, Minnesota. He says,
Ben and Danny, g when you were kids in grade school,
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what was your favorite subject? In your least favorite? So
the least favorite is easy, that's math. I hated math
my my favorite except when grade school. I loved speech class,
but that was in high school. Like grade school. I'm
trying to remember. Like I liked history a little bit,
(29:26):
like learning American history. I thought that was cool. I'm
telling what else there was. I was not a good student,
so there wasn't a lot that I loved in school.
What about you, Danny? Anything you love, you hate? Greg
wants to know He's dying to know. In West St. Paul. Yeah,
by far, my favorite was Miss Martinez, my third grade teacher,
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And once a week she would put a really cool
poster up on the board in front of the room
and she would say, Okay, here's the assignment. You all
take out a blank sheet of paper. See what's going
on in the poster. And it would usually be like
a Transformers poster or a Winnie the Pooh poster or
something like that, and whatever the scene was, she'd say,
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how did they get to that point right there? What
led up to this scene? You need to write that
and the best ones I'm gonna read out loud to
the class. The best one out of all of them
wins that poster and a prize pack. And so it's
kind of cool, right. So I loved creative writing even
(30:33):
back then. So what I did. I look at this
Winnie the Pooh poster and I incorporated all of the
kids in class, the class clown, the girl everyone had
a crush on. I inserted them into the funny story
and then got to that point of the poster. So
she reads my paper and the classes busting up laughing
(30:54):
because I was writing jokes about all the kids in
the class, and I remember winning the poster and the
prize pack. But the problem been after that, everybody started
copying that idea. So whatever posters she would put up,
all the kids had knockoff versions of what I did
to start the school year. Oh yeah, so I had
(31:18):
to fight with the copycatters after that. Um, But still
it was a great way to start the year. I
loved any writing. Whenever the teachers had anything going on
like that, I paid close attention. And then when it
was math time, I was like, can I go outside
for some extra recess? Not interested in the numbers? Oh
for sure, for sure, I I recall. I wish I
(31:41):
could track down some of my old elementary school teachers.
They would laugh their ass off at how much time
I spend putting notes together for the show and different
bullshit that I do as an adult. They would because
I was such a disheveled child, right, and you know,
a typical loner dude, you know, in overt and all
that stuff. But if they could see me now, if
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only they could see me now and say and they
laugh and say, yeah, you should have paid more attention
you know. It's funny because a lot of broadcasters look
back at being told to shut up in class. You
talk way too much. You're never gonna come out to anything. Yeah,
oh sure, and we goofed right now. I was, you know, spitballs.
I've told the story before. I had a buddy of
(32:25):
mine who had never seen a naked woman, and they
had National Geographic magazine, and he could not stop looking,
and of course was passing it around. And I was like, Oh,
this is the most amazing thing he'd ever seen in
his life. I got mail. Yeah, I got mail. The
(32:46):
next one from Walt. He says, three hundred sixty four
miles east of the four oh five. So what is
that in the Phoenix area? Am I right on that?
Somewhere in Arizona. I've think Phoenix is like three seventy
five from l A. I think, but I don't know.
I haven't driven there in a long time. I used
(33:07):
to go to spring training in Arizona back in the day.
Walt says, you mentioned that your father was an amateur
radio operator. Yes, he was. My father was a prolific
amateur radio operator, and he was convinced until his last
day on the planet because I know I talked to
him a few hours before he passed away. We didn't
realize he was gonna pass away from heart of that.
(33:28):
But my dad was convinced that there would be a
bigger earthquake in l A and Ham radio Ham operators
were gonna save the day. And he taught actually Ham
radio at some of the local colleges near where he lived.
So he was all in, and he was fully invested
in amateur radio. Uh and Walt says, did you ever
(33:49):
think about taking the FCC test to get a license
and then get his old call sign? I did not.
I did not realize that I was even an option
to get his old call signed. I don't think you can. Yeah,
I don't know how that works. But my my father,
he tried. God bless arrest his soul. Also, my dad
tried to get me to become a Ham radio guy.
And I was into it, like the talking part of it.
(34:11):
But up until not that long ago, you had to
know Morse code, and I I, for the life of me,
I could not figure out Morse fucking code. And I tried.
My dad got me all these books. He tried. My
dad was very good with numbers. He was a math
major at U C l A. So he was very
good with math. But I was I was completely lost.
(34:31):
If it had just been the speaking part, I couldn't nailed.
That was probably the toughest test I took in all
of high school. The electronics teacher, Mr Haskins, he would
set it all up. He was all official. He wasn't
an advanced technician for Ham radio, and he would set
(34:52):
up the test and he was super serious about it.
And I remember Ben falling behind a couple of steps
listening to that damn Morse code. And once you get behind,
you're screwed. You're screwed because it leaves you in the dust. Um.
So it took me three tries, and on my third
and final try passed it to get a technician's license.
(35:12):
The final attempt. Yeah, that's press er when you know
you don't even get another chance. Yeah. And my my
dad he also there was a Ham radio magazine, if
if anyway is listening q s R. I think it
was called I think he had every single addition of
that of that magazine. He was just he was a
(35:34):
huge fan of that magazine. So I know we have
a few Ham radio people that are fans I think
are our buddy Terry in England is a Ham radio
operator also, So what became of your dad's Ham radio equipment. Well, yeah,
obviously I'm not a Ham guy, so we we actually
we were able to give it to He was part
(35:55):
of a local community club. You know. They they're an
emergency response team if there's a disaster in the city
he was living in, and so we were able to
donate that to the people who are in the Ham clubs,
so they were able to use his equipment. And you know,
he had he had tons and tons of of really
(36:15):
old stuff. He didn't have a lot of new stuff.
My dad liked the old stuff. And I used to
bust my dad's balls because he he was so into
Morse code because that's what he learned as a kid,
and he'd get on the Ham radio bands at night
and he'd be very frustrated there weren't a lot of
people doing the Morse code. But and I was like, well,
(36:37):
just do the vocal stuff because there's more people doing that.
But he he loved the Morse code and that's what
he wanted to do. And he got frustrated because a
lot of the time, Uh, there wouldn't There wouldn't be
people on there doing the Morse code. So, by the
way I googled the amateur radio magazine q ST, QST
knew he was a cue all right, Johnny writes in
(36:59):
from fishing Texas waters. I guess that's what he's doing
right now. He's fishing the waters of Texas. Uh, he says,
how is it that FSR does not recognize you as
the most influential people in the world. There you go, Uh,
why is that, Danny? G Why didn't we not get
recognized as the most influential people in the world because
(37:22):
we're the most interesting people in the world. So we
can't hold two title belts at the same time. Yes,
and as much as they want to overpay us, Danny,
we both we want to keep our blue collar outlook
we do. We don't want to become white collar. It
would ruin the whole bit that we have. It's much
(37:43):
better to carry the rock thirty five times in a game,
to ground and pound and help the team win the division.
We're not the prissy prima donna quarterback who doesn't want
to get sacked. Yeah, there's some people that order an omelet,
but there's other pool that have to break the eggs
to make them, and that's what we do, right, I think,
(38:05):
I don't know if you believe any of that. That
is a load of bull puck. Alright, Croy in Minnesota,
Right so, and he says, what is the best firing
story you've had? You are a co worker? Well, that's
that's appropriate because we had our Buddy Sports with coleman
on who was let go I lost. I've told the
(38:28):
story a few times over the years. I haven't told
him a while. I was hosting Dodger Talk and I
lost the gig at a pay phone on outside a
cat walk from the press box at County Stadium in Milwaukee.
It's the end of a road trip the Dodgers where
they went to Chicago Milwaukee, and I got a call
(38:50):
from the programming guy saying, hey, you gotta, you know,
give me a buzz when you get back to l A.
And of course I was like, I want to find
out right now what's going on. And the guy's like, hey,
we decided to make a change. And there's this other guy.
He's a bigger name, and uh, he's going to replace
you starting tomorrow. And I was like what And Uh, yeah,
(39:14):
so I lost. I lost the gig there that I
got replaced though by a legend in l a television Oh,
David vasse No uh Silver Tips stew the great student
aahan Oh, a long time television personality was in movies.
Why did Stu need that gig at the time? He
(39:35):
didn't need the gig, but he was. He was actually
retired and he loved the Dodgers, and so he thought
it would be a fun gig to travel around and
come on, Stu, he should have let a young Benny
continue that job. I often wonder what would have happened
if I had continued that job, Like, how would my
life have turned out? If I would I still be
doing that job. You might be sitting in the booth
(39:55):
decks to Charlie Steiner. I gotta tell you, though, Dan Danny,
it was not the easiest thing, because even though I
love the Dodgers, when they played like shit, I wanted
to say, hey, they they You know that guy's a
bomber and you can't really do that in that job.
You have to be a houseman. It's you can't give
anytime you say there was a day I did that job.
(40:16):
The Dodgers. It was like a Sunday I think they
were playing the Montreal Expos how long ago that was,
and they had a terrible They made like six errors
in the game or something like that, and I was
like ripping the defense, and some somebody got offended that
I was being too critical. I was like, what am
I supposed to say? You have like six errors in
a game. What do you want me to do? Praise
(40:37):
you for your gold glove defense? Hm. But anyway, any
firing stories you want to share with Croy. So when
I was programming a hip hop radio station here in
southern California, I actually inherited a staff, which, as you know,
that's hard because at the time the station sucked pretty bad.
They were in seventh place. There's that weird transition period
(41:01):
where you got to figure out who you're gonna keep,
who you're gonna acts. Uh, And it's the hardest with
the weekend staff, because that's hard to fill those jobs. Anyways,
I'm looking at this weekend staff. I need to fill
out the roster. There was this one guy named Timothy James,
fake radio name and a fake voice. Ben He'd be like, oh, yeah,
(41:22):
it's Saturday. Yeah, oh yeah. He was horrible what he
did the early Saturday shift in an early Sunday shift,
and I thought, well, let me just leave him alone.
Except he was an asshole in the hallways. He created
lots of drama with the staff. So I kept talking
to my general manager like, can I just get rid
of this guy please? He's just a troublemaker and he's
(41:44):
bad on the air. And my GM was like, wow,
you know, just bear with it. Just just you're gonna
have to, you know, control the guy. And I'm like
all right. So every weekend was something new. Every weekend
was a new problem with this guy Ben. So finally
I I wake up one Saturday, a I turn on.
You know, when you program the station, a big part
of your life is listening to your damn radio station.
(42:07):
If you're not there, you are because you're listening in
your car, on your phone at your house. To make
sure everything is going smooth. In the old days, you
had to listen line. Before all the apps where you
could listen anywhere you want, it is yes number to
call up to listen in on the station. Yeah, it
was my responsibility. My general manager said, you have a
(42:27):
big contract, because you have big responsibilities. Then it bugged
the ship out of my girlfriend at the time. So
I wake up early on Saturday morning and I tuned
my station in and there's dead air. What the what's
going on? And then like a song comes on, but
there was no imaging nothing before the song. All right, well,
(42:49):
maybe Timothy is just tired starting off his shift. And
then the next song ends, Ben, and there's more dead air,
and I'm like, what the funk man? So I call
of a hot line. At this point, I'm like, all right,
two incidents of dead air. I need to call and
see if this is this guy hung over. Nobody answers
the hotline the red phone in the studio with the
(43:12):
blinky flashy light that means those ships the boss is calling.
No one answers it the bat phone. And now I'm
like really pissed, Like okay, so we sound like ship
on the air right now, and nobody's answering the bat phone.
So another song gets played and then imaging comes on,
but it's train wrecking with a song. So Ben, I
(43:34):
throw my clothes on, I speed down to the radio station.
I stomp into the studio and I expect, you know,
I don't know what I'm gonna see, but I'm thinking
Timothy James is gonna be laid out, you know, on
the floor, drunk or something like that. I don't know
what to think. There was no Timothy James. It was
a bright eyed intern, a scared look on his face,
(43:58):
and I'm like, where the fuck is Timothy at I
don't know. He just asked me to cover for him
for an hour. This is Ashole Benefit fIF fifty radio station.
This guy had an intern cover for him for an hour.
So I stay there and I like where did he go?
(44:19):
And he's like, I'm not sure. He didn't tell me.
He just asked me to cover the control board for
an hour. And I'm like, you don't know how to
do the control board. Nobody trained you on this. And
he's like, oh, I'm just trying to figure it out.
He showed me really quick, and I'm sorry if it
sounds bad on the air, and I'm like, get the
funk out of here right now. So I send the
intern home, I get my headphones out of my programming office,
(44:44):
and I jump on the air and I do the
next break live, introduced the next song. He's driving back
to the studios. Yeah, he hears the program director on
the air ben he walked in. Forty five minutes later.
He had an interview somewhere for like a daytime job
(45:06):
Monday through Friday. He tried to have this guy cover
while he went to the job interview. Yeah, I said,
get your ship and get out of here. He was
trying to argue with me, and I was like bye bye,
and yeah, that was the best firing we ever had there.
I've never heard of anything like that in raiding. We've
(45:27):
heard a lot of crazy stories. No, that's that's quite
the quite all right. Well, that's a perfect way to
put the bow on this. And so for John in
Northern Colorado, Luna, Mike, Steve, all you guys, I'm sorry,
we just ran out of time here, but we will
next week. We'll have a new mailback, so if you
want to submit your question for next week, John in
(45:49):
Colorado and all you other guys there, and Gal, I
don't see any gals. I lied. There's no women. Uh.
And what happened to Helen and stew by the way,
they they vanished. I hope they're okay. Helen and Stu.
They they told this tale. They said they were gonna
pay off the Great Tale and then they vanished. I
only we've heard from them in like a month. So
hopefully Helen and stew and Palmetto Bay, Florida there are Okay, Danny,
(46:13):
what do you have coming up? You're also you're gonna
be on the radio show, The Librado Show tomorrow. And
don't forget. The Mallard meet and greet is this week.
Hopefully Danny can make it. We'll find out. I will
will obviously talk about it on the overnight show, but
that'll be this Friday in southern California. Uh. Contact Eddie
(46:36):
Garcia Eddie on Fox at gmail dot com if you're
interested in attending in La Maratta. I believe it is
La Maratta there. But Danny, what are you got going on? Yeah,
it's gonna be a fun week besides the meet and
great you're right Monday into Tuesday. I get to fill
in for Coop today. This afternoon, I'm gonna be having
(46:57):
fun with Covino and Rich and then the show, right
but for yours Arnie Spaniard with Chris Plank Blaker Feds.
And then it'll be Mallard time. Yeah, alright, well, listen,
we'll have we'll have a great time this week, and
who knows, you never know. It's gonna on the place.
If you want to recommend a guest. That's some people
emailing me different names for future guests. Now that we
(47:19):
got Musburger Danny, I know. I think the world is
our oyster. I think we can get anybody there. Set
the bar high. I got some emails out to your
boy George Norri. I would love to talk to George Nory,
that would I would love to hear you and him
having a conversation. So I'm efforting that at the moment,
all right, So we'll see what happens with that. But
have a great week, great rest of the day, obviously today,
(47:41):
and I'll be back in the radio studio, the terrestrial
radio studio, the brick and mortar studio, literally and figuratively
there tonight, eleven pm in the west, three A. What
is that to two am? I keep my math. They
said there would be no math two am in the east,
in the middle of the night there on a Monday.
And we'll catch you then later. Skater gotta murder, gotta
(48:04):
go
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Ben Maller
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