August 27, 2022 • 32 mins
Ben Maller and his 5th Hour home-slice Danny G. have a fun Saturday in the podcast dojo for you! They talk Crossing the T's and Dotting the I's, the Midnight Marauder, breaking point, LRC, back scratcher and more!
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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
(00:23):
Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, back
in the podcast dojo. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard
and Danny G Radio Because four hours a night, five
days a week not enough on the overnight show, and
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we are back at it again, Danny G. And normally
we'd come in here and we watch poetic about what
an amazing time we had at the Mallard meet and
read last night. But we haven't actually had the mall
Their meet and greet as we are doing this, But
I anticipate that we do the full recap Danny next weekend.
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It will be an amazing, life changing experience that we
will have many stories to tell about meeting so many
different people. I'm glad you're gonna be able to make it, Danny.
It's going to be an amazing event. Yeah, it's the
magic of podcasting. Heard this question more than once. When
do you and Ben record that? What time do you
do it? And the answer is it varies from week
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to week, but the one common denominator early early in
the morning. Yes, most people are fast asleep. Sometimes it's
right after the radio show. Sometimes it's in the afternoon.
Occasionally at very odd times. A lot of the Friday
podcast that we do interviews and WHATNOTU conversations. Those happen
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at any time because we are at the mercy of
whoever we're having on and so we have to coordinate
the schedules and make that work. And oftentimes when these
people are available, Uh, it's not the most convenient time.
But the cool thing is having the studio set up here,
I can record it anytime at a moment's notice. I
can stroll down the hall, turn on the equipment, and
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good to go. So I'm happy about that, and for me,
it kind of is a live show. This is something
the p Ones would love to know. My alarm is
set on Saturday and Sunday early in the morning, I
get up, I do the post production, I loaded to
the platform for I Heart and it shoots out. So
for me a two part thing. We do it now
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and then I do it then. So it kind of
is a live show for me. It's like a boomerang,
it comes back. It really is. Yeah, I'm like we
talked about that yesterday. Oh ship. So on this podcast
we have Crossing the Tease, Dotting the Eyes, the Midnight Marauder,
Breaking Point, and l r C. That's a lot of content.
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Plus we have Backscratcher. Assuming we have time to get
to all this. We'll make it snappy. Yeah, we'll make
it snappy exactly. All right. So some some news here
on this the Saturday podcast, The Life of Mallard, Life
of Danny g some career news to talk about here.
As you might know, Danny, if you're mentioning on a podcast,
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it's not gonna be bad news, right, It's not gonna
be bad news. It's gonna be good news. And it
is good news. I am happy to report. And I
mentioned this briefly on social media the other day on Thursday.
But over the last month I have given hints on
the radio show that I have had meetings with management
at Fox Sports Radio. I had to go over to
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the the big bosses in Burbank, bur bank and meet
with them, and we've had a few phone meetings. And
the reason we were doing that is because my contract
with I Heart and Fox Sports Radio had run out
and we were trying to figure out whether or not
we could work out another agreement to continue doing the
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show and all that, and so for a while, I
don't want to say how long, Danny, but I did
not have a contract. I was on a day to
day situation, which meant I was a free agent in
many ways. I could go somewhere else if somebody wanted
to pay me a lot of money. And you gambled
on yourself, what if you had broke your vocal cords.
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I know, I know, I know it wasn't intentional. I
I am the worst at this. Like I don't even
think about my contract most of the time because I
get depressed when I think about it, and so then
when it runs out, I'm like, wait a minute, and
then I'm I'm scrambling, phone calls are made and all
that stuff. So the deal I had, which was for
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multiple years, ran out. But I am happy to report
I want to thank Don Martin, Scott Shapiro and all
the people do Elie Talbot from the premier networks at
I Heart and everyone else that people I don't even
know who they are, Danny in San Antonio, who all
gave the seal of approval. So I was able to
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work out a new contract, a multi year contract extension.
So I am very happy that we can continue this.
I've crossed the tease, I've dotted the eyes and which
is really a lie, that's a data reference, Danny. I
signed the contract like I signed my real estate papers. Yes,
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DOCU signed, I builed out the DOCU signed, and my
signature is much better on DOCU signed than it really
is in person. There's a lot of legal ease in
these things, if you've ever gotten a contract, whatever it is,
where it's a broadcasting or not. And so I had
to read through it. There was actually some things I
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needed to get changed. There are a few surprises that
we will have based on this new deal. I can't
get into all of that right now, but there'll be
more content. I can't talk about that, Danny, as as always,
the company wants more content. I don't know how much
more content I can provide based on my current schedule,
and I do have to somewhat keep my marriage going.
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Otherwise that will be I'll have to be like Tom
Brady and go to the Bahamas on vacation during training camp.
But anyway, listen, So I'm happy about that. I don't
usually talk about that stuff, but I wanted to pass
that on. Can you imagine, Ben, if you missed the
first eleven days of football season? Oh god, no, starting September.
I don't know what is it, September six. September eleven
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is the first Sunday, so a few days before that,
that first Tursday, but that week. But yeah, yeah, that
that's that's stuff where you get court martialed. In sports rading,
you get court martial You can't miss you can you
cannot miss the first part of the football season. Although
even that I feel like that's changed. There used to
be a hard line and rule. Danny, and you've been
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at the company a long time. You take your vacation,
but you don't do it during football season unless it's
Christmas to New Year's that's the only acceptable time to
take vacation. But this is the time we make our money,
This is the time we pay our bills, This is
the time we have more listeners than any other time
of the year. In sports radio, NFL season, the National
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Sports Operation, and so you gotta be there. You gotta
be there during football seam. There are people that say
screw it and take vacation in I'm not one of
them anyway. So that's the that's the news. But we
move on from that. Can you say how many years
or just keep it generic multi year? I'm just wondering
how many years more we're gonna be doing this podcast
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that that depends on how many people download the podcast.
We would love for this podcast to uh be two
percent of what Joe Rogan does. We would love that.
Let's go. But the way you know this is, I'm
not gonna lie these contracts. It is multi year. There
are some loops out, there's some outs and things in
the contract, so you know, it's not guaranteed that's gonna
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be X number of years. But assuming the show continues
to do well. They're very happy with the Overnight show.
It's done tremendously well and the podcast with You Danny
has been great, So they're very happy about that. Um,
did they want to pay me like Calhart? No, they're
not that happy, but but they're happy enough to keep me,
and I'm happy enough. The company has been very good
to me and pretty much my entire adult life. I
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can't believe it. Other than a few radio stops early on,
I have worked for Fox Sports Radio. It is insane.
I'm I'm amazed that I've been. I was convinced when
I got into radio, I was gonna work at like
twenty five different radio stations, and I was gonna bounce
all over the place. And here I am. I I
got hired at Fox Sports Radio in the year two thousand,
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end of two thousand and uh, and here we are.
It was early two thousand one I kind of really
got going, but it was the end of two thousand
they hired me, and here we are. Then you're the
Tim Duncan of Fox Sports Radio. No, I'm the Donna's Haslam.
I'm useless around a long time anyway. But I want
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to thank you the listener, because with it, seriously, I mean,
no one's listening. They, as our boss likes to say,
Don Martin, Uh, you know, one of the boss's statements
is he doesn't get rid of anybody. The audience gets
rid of people. When people stop listening and they stopped
being part of the show. That's when you lose these jobs.
And so I've been very very blessed and very lucky
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that we have a group of crazy people that love
overnight radio and there with me all night and listen
to the podcast. Dude, that's that's the cool thing, Danny's
We've talked about doing this for so long. Like working overnights,
most people graduate to a day shift. They don't do
anything that long. Maybe they're in their twenties or early thirties,
but then they get married, they get all grown up,
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they have families, and they don't do the overnight show,
do the overnight shift, and so but a lot of
them have listened to the podcast, and so that's been cool.
And yeah, and bed, not to make you feel aged,
but a lot of us grew up with your voice,
Like that's not in a bad way. You started as
a kid, so you're still young enough to do this
the right way. But what I mean is even the
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rare times you take days off, you can hear a
podcast and still hear what you're doing. And I think
that that's really the power of how new media has
changed the landscape for all of us. Yeah, I recall
when I was working local radio in l A our
boss came in and said, hey, I have this idea
because we got covered up a lot by sporting events.
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He says, when the games are going on, why don't
we just have you do a show on the internet.
And you would have thought this guy was speaking Russian.
You know, it's like, what are you a comrade? But
but here we are, all these years later, and it's
just standard operating procedure. It's just what you do, and
it's it's great. So and we'll turn the page on
that and I look forward to many many more podcasts
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and shows and fun and good times and crazy callers
and all of that. But we have the midnight Marauder
Danny g to get to at this point. Yeah, well,
that kind of falls right in line with your first topic. There.
There is a COVID nineteen situation. It seems like every
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producer at our network has come down with COVID nineteen.
And it's weird because the first two go arounds our
country had with it, we were pretty lucky at the network. Yeah.
I don't know what it is with the past few months.
Thank god, knock on fakewood here. I haven't come down
with it. I haven't had any symptoms. And even though
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I've been pulling these crazy hours, I've been one of
the guys filling in for the people who get COVID
or go on vacation. So Coop was on vacation. I
got to do your radio show, which was a lot
of fun. Monday into Tuesday. Well, you witnessed one of
the greatest procities in overnight radio that Eddie Garcia conspired
with Anthony and Anaheim to throw a game show. It's embarrassed.
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Then it looked like you were gonna throw your microphone
in the studio. It was like old times. I could
see you through the glass. If you would have had
a voodoo doll of Eddie in there with you, it
would have been crumpled and crunched. After that segment, Oh listen,
and and Danny full disclosure, I mean we we take
these game shows very seriously. Oh yeah, you keep record.
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We take pride in this. And for Eddie to step
in there and conspire with Justin and Cincinnati, and Justin
sent out the dog whistle. Then Anthony and Anaheim played
along there and so and you know Eddie's and he's, oh,
I would never do something. It calls me a cheater.
So when he says that, and I'm looking at what's
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going on, and Anthony confirmed it, then I'm like, okay,
you know, all right, come on your prediction right now, Ben,
Uh is kind of in the future, but we gotta
look in the past. Do you think last night Anthony
and Anaheim came up to you and made up with
you and apologized. I will, I will bet you that
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there was a mia copa that Anthony and Anaim was
a good guy. I know Anthony. I've watched him, you know,
over the as a listener. He's come in studio a
few times over the years, and I knew him before
he got married and all that. Now he's got kids
and so all that, I say, he's a mench. I say,
Anthony and Anaheim is a mench. We'll say, bad job
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by me, Ben, Let's shake it out by gones, be
by gones, and we're good. That's what I predicted, because
I bust your balls a lot, Ben. But I'll say
this about that game that night, just a few nights back,
the Raiders current tight end. How are you gonna say,
Khalil Mack? And then you gave the clue. What was it? Oh?
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It was a snake. It was Kenny Stabler. Oh yeah,
he said, ja yeah, come on. Teams I liked, and
players I liked. It was my category. How the hell's
a Bronco gonna be in my category? So I know
what they're doing, like the whole bit with Justin and
Anthony and whoever is next. I think about a band,
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the Regulars and playing the game shows. But the bid
is the way they do it is they just they
slowed down. Take that, they slow walk. They pull a
page from your book. But but Anthony and Anaheim I
did notice here, and I learned this from what Justin did.
So they they'll get a they'll get them right, but
they'll take a long time to get them right because
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it's a quick game. You gotta go fast. You can't
win if you take twenty seconds her answer. So I
realized that they would eventually get it right. So what
I did is I jumped to the hundred point question.
But I did it early, and so Anthony actually answered
the Jackie Slater answer. But he I guarantee you he
would not have one that if he had known it
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was the hundred point question. Well, I can't wait until
next Saturday's podcast, so we could find out what Anthony
actually did at the Meat and Greed, you know, because
of that shift, and it was a lot of fun.
But I stayed and did the post production afterwards, got
on the road, got home, slept for forty five minutes,
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went to the school, did a whole day there. When
I and I felt fine, no coffee, I pulled a
bed mallard. No coffee. I just drank a ton of
cold water. But then at the end of the shift,
when it ended, ben I was like, oh damn, how
am I going to get home? Like I hit a wall?
That's bad. Yeah, when you get and you're tired, and
there's nothing you can do, Like you can turn on
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the radio, you can roll down the window. I have
found nothing that will work to keep you awake when
you're tired. It is to me, and I don't I
say drunk driving is good, but it's as bad as
drunk driving, you know. To me, it's very And I
think police will say that and experts will say that
when you're really tired driving, it's the same as being
drunk because you completely go off the road if you
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doze off. And I think we've all done that thing
where we catch ourselves slipping, and then we slap ourselves
in the face and like, I'm never gonna do that again.
Ten minutes later, you're doing it again. And I've unfortunately
done that multiple times. The most famous story I've told
a few times over the years is on my way
to Vegas, I went by myself. You know, I was
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having kind of a bad time in my career. My
mom's like, go to Vegas, get out of l a,
go to Vegas. Gamble. My mom's telling me. So I
left in the middle of the night and I get
to like barstow out in that area, and I I
fell asleep and I was in the fast land. I
remember being in the fast lane, and I woke up
in the slow lane. And I don't know how I
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didn't hit a truck or hit a wall or anything.
It was the grace of God or whoever. Was just
going to say that, for people who do not believe
in a higher power, you have never had God take
the wheel for them up the car truck. Oh, it's crazy,
man's It is scary when you wake up snoozing and
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you realize you're in a weapon, you're in a torpedoing,
whatever it is. It's like, oh man, So I called
it midnight Marauder because it's been a hundred degrees outside.
I'm gonna wash the car. There is a drive through
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car wash down the street by the freeway here. It's
open twenty four hours. Take it through there like a crackhead.
Nobody around. It's beautiful. Then I get it home, I
dry it, use the wind X. I'm cleaning the mats inside.
This was like a full blown fancy car wash. And
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then my car, which is still parked because I haven't
found the right part yet, clean that and finally put
the car cover on it. And the security I drove
past me looked at what I was doing, kind of
shook his head and then kept driving. The look of shame,
the look at shot. Oh yeah, they these hours are
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crackhead hours. I mean we are. We are set up
for that lifestyle, clearly. Man. All right, we've got a
few more things. I want to get the breaking point
thing I actually mentioned. I mentioned this on the show,
and I wanted to get into a little bit more.
We'll spend a few good minutes on this. The last weekend,
I was lounging his life of Mallarin Danergy. So I'm
lounging on my laptop. It's Saturday night late, and I'm
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doing a little prep work on the weekend. So sometimes
I'll unplug a little bit on Friday night and part
of Saturday, just you know, spend time with the wife
and family members and whatnot. So what I do is
on Saturday night, I catch up on things I missed,
and I try to catch up on everything, so I'm
I'm somewhat fluent in what's going on. And and while
this is going on, my wife usually watches TV, and
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so it's it's just background noise. I normally ignore it,
and this weekend, for some reason, it was different, like
I let my guard down. I listened and uh, and
holy cannoli, was it terrible. I don't know what my
wife was watching. I don't know if it was on Netflix.
I think it was on Netflix, but I don't know
which streaming service, and I don't know the name of
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the show. It was some reality show and it was
just a bunch of people with weird hair colors, which
I'm fine with, right, if you're that's your thing. I'm
a traditional I like black, brown, blonde, red, That's usually
what I go with with the hair. But they had
like neon, pink, green, purple, you know, but you live
and let live. But then they started asking each other
their pronouns. And at that point I let my guard down.
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I reached critical mass and boom goes to dynamite boom.
I I snapped right and and and then I went
on this rain. I did a monologue to my wife
about how terrible this is, right, and I She's like,
what do you know? She's like, what do you do?
You never really pay attention on him watching and uh,
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and so you know, I did the whole rand about
you know, a few years ago, these varmints decided to
invent uh their own pronouns and change everything. And it
was like and I was like, well, no grown ups,
you know this in my head, this is my you know,
no grown ups. Put a stop to it, right, Amy said,
you'll come up. But what do you what are you doing? Okay?
I mean, you know, life's hard enough. What do you do?
Who implemented this in corporate handbooks? That's the disease of
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social media. It's the matrix of social media. It's a
very small group of people on social media, but they
were able to use bots and algorithms to convince very smart,
educated people that this is what society wants. We were
always told, though, Ben, that it didn't matter. I know,
I know. I don't ask people, and you don't put
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it out there, no matter what side you're on or
what you do, that's supposed to be private. So I
don't understand when that changed into this where we're all
supposed to advertise something on a name tag. Doesn't even
make sense. It's narcissism, right, It's the same reason we
live in an age where everyone wants to be a victim.
You know, you get you get cloud if you're a victim.
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I think, and maybe I'm crazy, I'm completely wrong about this,
and I'll be proven wrong. I think this is batshit crazy.
That's what I think. Okay, uh, And every time I
see this, I just I can't wrap my head around it.
I guess it. I'm this. I'm showing my age. I
was raised where the pronouns were hear him or shear her,
period something. That's all I knew. That's all I've known.
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And I don't really care what you know. If you're
you do whatever you want to get you through life,
whatever floats your boat. But you don't shove it down
my throat. Okay, you know what I'm saying. I think
it makes you logical. Okay, so you're not crazy. Then
it's not just people in our age group that notice this.
It's not And I realized that we all think when
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when we were young, we all think that was the
greatest time. And I'm I'm sure that the cycle of
life will just repeat itself. Well it really was, though,
Ben Well, I agree with you. I'm like you were
around the same. But I would just say, like thirty
years from now, when the new generations around and all that,
they'll be longing for the days where they had the
they pronounced because imagine what's coming down the pike next. Danny,
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I mean, she's Louise. I mean man, old man, old man.
But anyway, that was my my way. So my wife,
uh we didn't never argue about anything, but she had
to turn the TV off and go to the other room.
So I was like, was so worked up into a lather.
I just can't, I can't. I'm sorry again. Uh you know,
I'm I'm a purist. I'm gonna he him. She her,
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I've known you for a long time. I think We're
good people and we really don't care people do privately.
So for somebody to try to interpret this as oh
my god, sexy store homophobic or that doesn't make any
sense because it doesn't have anything to do with that. No,
not at all. I noticed I've worked over the years
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of people on radio who were into different things or whatever,
and uh, you know, yeah, you worked with some freaks.
I know I did. But but some of those people
who are you know, doing some you know, freaky stuff,
even they think this is ridiculous. I got that conversation
with them, and even they think this is stupid. But
but it's probably because they're around our age. I think
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that might be. Alexis said that this is bullshit. Yeah,
I've been taking for Alexis calls for years and America's
favorite drag queen caller. Come on, l r C. Now,
this is real quickly all a lot of time. So
my wife had a work party last weekend. It was
not in the city she works, and they met her
and her co workers met in Pomona. So I spent
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some time in beautiful Pomona in southern California. I would
say it's one of the great vacation destinations in the
Greater l A area. I think you'd agreed, Danny. People travel.
My grandmother used to take us to the swap meet
there when I was a little bit. Yes, that that's
one of the highlights. But there are hard working people
and promoted. There's some great restaurants and breweries and whatnot.
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So we went to a brewery and it was really cool.
They had live music. It was a big crowd. But
I'm an introvert. I'm not an extrovert, so it's very
hard for me to go to parties. And you'll learn
that for those of you, and we're doing this after
the fact, but for those of you that met met
me at the party on Friday night, that that that's
a lot of work for me to go and be social.
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So anyway, I went out and my wife's co workers
very nice people, very good people, hard working people, and
they do a great job. They save lives and all that.
And there was a big crowd. It was a good vibe.
But we played this game that I'd never played before.
I call it l RC's Left Right Center. You ever
played Left Right Center? No? Oh, it's a great game.
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And I'm gonna tell you when you when we have
the one of the parties. If you get down here
with your your tinderoni there, we will play the game.
It is awesome, it's really cool. It's it's three dice
and three dollars. So you start out with three dollars
and you take turns rolling the dice. Everyone puts three
dollars on the table and there's three dice and the
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dice have left right center and like a blank spot,
you roll all three dice and if it comes up
left right center, you're out of money. You give one
dollar to the person on the left of you. You
put a dollar in the middle, which is the center,
which is the community chest, and then you give one
person the right uh, and then you're out. But you
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can still get back in the game because you keep playing,
and then the person next to you can give you
a dollar, and so it keeps going. Yeah, and uh,
it's a lot. It's very easy to play. It's great
when you're consuming copious amounts of alcohol. I was gonna say,
we should do it at the restaurant with seventy people.
Oh that's a good that's a good idea. I wish
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I had thought of dollar Militia to bring your dollar
bills being Benn are gonna take them. I don't know
how old this game is. I don't know much about it.
I'd never heard it before last Friday, but I love it.
It's like, so it's so easy. I'm not that intelligent,
and it's fun and you can drink and it's you know,
everyone it's only three dollars. How hard is that? You
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know everyone can afford three bucks? So anyway, there's that
all right now the Backscratcher, Danny. This is where if
you give us a nice word on the Apple podcast page,
we will help you out. You scratch you our back,
We'll scratch your back. And we've had a tremendous infusion
of reviews since Danny g explained how to actually do
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this easily enough in the in the body of the
podcast description, and so let's get to those right now.
First one is from Turbo and says, awesome, great job,
fellas have been hearing both of you for a long time.
Danny has to get the Animal Thunderdome going ask about
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Tiger Hunter from India. I believe keep up the great work.
So uh, Danny, I I want that too. The Animal Thunderdome,
which you teased as a possible podcast, a standalone podcast.
I think that would be awesome and do very well.
And any update on that, any traction anything at all?
Know nothing. No. I actually did get an email from
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our boss and he is working on it with the
president of the company. They have to copyrighted and get
the logo and all that, and so they are efforting it. Well,
you know what you could do is you cannot you
do the animal Thunderdome, but you can have on like
those those this guy in Miami, the crazy zoo guy
that oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you could have great. Remember
(27:47):
Clay used to tell me, oh my god, that person
who saved his dog from the alligator. I want him
on the show tomorrow. And I'd have to call the
paper that put out the story and track the guy's
self number down and then convince them to come on
some radio show and talk about it. Yeah. I'm used
to tracking those kind of people down that are in
(28:08):
the stories with animals. It's gonna be crazy when it
gets all set and it's in stone and you know
how slow some of this stuff works been because it's
like you and the penny and you and your contract.
There's stuff going on behind the scenes, and it's out
of our control. We can't speed it up. Yeah, no,
for sure, it's uh it's and I just went through
it with my as you said, my contract and negotiations,
(28:32):
and it probably took two months to get that deal
done because of the back and forth people on vacation.
Lawyers are involved. They gotta they gotta write everything up.
Contracts all right, no deals here, writes in He says,
great podcast, five stars, great podcast, very entertaining. I would
crawl across broken glass to listen to this podcast. I
(28:53):
don't advise that. I don't advise that, alright. Last while
from Jay Scoop, he says, the fifth hour saved my life.
I purchased a thousand dollar paperweight called an iPhone thirteen
Promax just so I could write this review. But before
I sat down to write this, I decided to go
(29:14):
for a walk. When beginning to cross the road, jaywalking
without looking both ways, I fumbled my phone to the
ground and had to stop to pick it up. Just then,
a garbage truck came barreling through, barely missing me and
honking at me in shame as they went by. Guys,
it scared the crap out of me so much so
(29:36):
that it woke me up from that dream. After all,
I realized it's August and I've had my phone since February,
so I'd better jump to it with this review, uh
says love the show. By the time this is read
on the podcast The Drunken Shenanigans from the Meat and
Greet in Lamorada, we'll have already taken place. So I
(29:57):
plead the fifth Danny G I eat some TINDERRWNI tips. Heyes,
pte Ben can fill you in. Keep up the great
work from Jay School. All right, Jay Scoop, that's a tease.
We'll do this on the Mailback podcast. Is that good?
That's yeah? Yeah, Well, I'll have some Tinderoni tips for
Jay Scoop from Uh Danny G Radio. We'll get out
(30:18):
of here. Anything to promote Danny on a Saturday, anything
at all here going in to produce Hartman and oh
Schwartz is out. Oh yes, and mystery host No I
know who it is because he's been texting me in
this entire party. Uh. My friend Bernie Frado, Bernie, Bernie.
(30:40):
I love Bernie to death. Bernie is like Arnie. They
prepare their show Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and they
text the producer every day with notes and this and
that and this and that and that. We're like fellas.
The show is not for five days. Yeah, that's that's hard.
I give him credit. I did weekends, and I did
(31:00):
the same thing when I did a weekend show. You
think you want everything, you want to save everything up,
and you only get a couple of days a week
to be a gas bag. You want to get everything
in and I respect that, but now I wait until
late afternoon and then I just go game busters to
get ready for the show that night. But Bernie, actually
he sent me a message. He was at the Grand
Rapids Airport listening to us. He was waiting for a
(31:22):
flight in Grand Rapids, Michigan. So he's night. Yeah, he's
got tons of great stories and he's a real nice guy.
In fact, the next time I go to Vegas, I'm
gonna cut a steak in half. Nice. I gotta hang
out with Bernie in UAE in the Vegas. So yeah,
I was there earlier this year, but I've been in
a while and football season is the best time to
go to lost wages and about we'll get out here
(31:44):
on that, Thank you for listening, and thanks for those
of you that are able to attend last night the
meet and greet, And we'll have plenty of stories next
weekend from that, but week of the mail back tomorrow
and we'll talk to you that. Yeah. I hope the
Future US had some good drinks. I hope. So. I
hope nobody got arrested. At least I didn't get arrested.
I hope. Hey, you didn't say you're lying? Oh yeah,
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asta pasta, there you go. Yeah, bopholiction
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
(00:23):
Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, back
in the podcast dojo. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard
and Danny G Radio Because four hours a night, five
days a week not enough on the overnight show, and
(00:45):
we are back at it again, Danny G. And normally
we'd come in here and we watch poetic about what
an amazing time we had at the Mallard meet and
read last night. But we haven't actually had the mall
Their meet and greet as we are doing this, But
I anticipate that we do the full recap Danny next weekend.
(01:08):
It will be an amazing, life changing experience that we
will have many stories to tell about meeting so many
different people. I'm glad you're gonna be able to make it, Danny.
It's going to be an amazing event. Yeah, it's the
magic of podcasting. Heard this question more than once. When
do you and Ben record that? What time do you
do it? And the answer is it varies from week
(01:31):
to week, but the one common denominator early early in
the morning. Yes, most people are fast asleep. Sometimes it's
right after the radio show. Sometimes it's in the afternoon.
Occasionally at very odd times. A lot of the Friday
podcast that we do interviews and WHATNOTU conversations. Those happen
(01:55):
at any time because we are at the mercy of
whoever we're having on and so we have to coordinate
the schedules and make that work. And oftentimes when these
people are available, Uh, it's not the most convenient time.
But the cool thing is having the studio set up here,
I can record it anytime at a moment's notice. I
can stroll down the hall, turn on the equipment, and
(02:18):
good to go. So I'm happy about that, and for me,
it kind of is a live show. This is something
the p Ones would love to know. My alarm is
set on Saturday and Sunday early in the morning, I
get up, I do the post production, I loaded to
the platform for I Heart and it shoots out. So
for me a two part thing. We do it now
(02:39):
and then I do it then. So it kind of
is a live show for me. It's like a boomerang,
it comes back. It really is. Yeah, I'm like we
talked about that yesterday. Oh ship. So on this podcast
we have Crossing the Tease, Dotting the Eyes, the Midnight Marauder,
Breaking Point, and l r C. That's a lot of content.
(03:01):
Plus we have Backscratcher. Assuming we have time to get
to all this. We'll make it snappy. Yeah, we'll make
it snappy exactly. All right. So some some news here
on this the Saturday podcast, The Life of Mallard, Life
of Danny g some career news to talk about here.
As you might know, Danny, if you're mentioning on a podcast,
(03:23):
it's not gonna be bad news, right, It's not gonna
be bad news. It's gonna be good news. And it
is good news. I am happy to report. And I
mentioned this briefly on social media the other day on Thursday.
But over the last month I have given hints on
the radio show that I have had meetings with management
at Fox Sports Radio. I had to go over to
(03:46):
the the big bosses in Burbank, bur bank and meet
with them, and we've had a few phone meetings. And
the reason we were doing that is because my contract
with I Heart and Fox Sports Radio had run out
and we were trying to figure out whether or not
we could work out another agreement to continue doing the
(04:07):
show and all that, and so for a while, I
don't want to say how long, Danny, but I did
not have a contract. I was on a day to
day situation, which meant I was a free agent in
many ways. I could go somewhere else if somebody wanted
to pay me a lot of money. And you gambled
on yourself, what if you had broke your vocal cords.
(04:30):
I know, I know, I know it wasn't intentional. I
I am the worst at this. Like I don't even
think about my contract most of the time because I
get depressed when I think about it, and so then
when it runs out, I'm like, wait a minute, and
then I'm I'm scrambling, phone calls are made and all
that stuff. So the deal I had, which was for
(04:50):
multiple years, ran out. But I am happy to report
I want to thank Don Martin, Scott Shapiro and all
the people do Elie Talbot from the premier networks at
I Heart and everyone else that people I don't even
know who they are, Danny in San Antonio, who all
gave the seal of approval. So I was able to
(05:13):
work out a new contract, a multi year contract extension.
So I am very happy that we can continue this.
I've crossed the tease, I've dotted the eyes and which
is really a lie, that's a data reference, Danny. I
signed the contract like I signed my real estate papers. Yes,
(05:33):
DOCU signed, I builed out the DOCU signed, and my
signature is much better on DOCU signed than it really
is in person. There's a lot of legal ease in
these things, if you've ever gotten a contract, whatever it is,
where it's a broadcasting or not. And so I had
to read through it. There was actually some things I
(05:54):
needed to get changed. There are a few surprises that
we will have based on this new deal. I can't
get into all of that right now, but there'll be
more content. I can't talk about that, Danny, as as always,
the company wants more content. I don't know how much
more content I can provide based on my current schedule,
and I do have to somewhat keep my marriage going.
(06:16):
Otherwise that will be I'll have to be like Tom
Brady and go to the Bahamas on vacation during training camp.
But anyway, listen, So I'm happy about that. I don't
usually talk about that stuff, but I wanted to pass
that on. Can you imagine, Ben, if you missed the
first eleven days of football season? Oh god, no, starting September.
I don't know what is it, September six. September eleven
(06:40):
is the first Sunday, so a few days before that,
that first Tursday, but that week. But yeah, yeah, that
that's that's stuff where you get court martialed. In sports rading,
you get court martial You can't miss you can you
cannot miss the first part of the football season. Although
even that I feel like that's changed. There used to
be a hard line and rule. Danny, and you've been
(07:01):
at the company a long time. You take your vacation,
but you don't do it during football season unless it's
Christmas to New Year's that's the only acceptable time to
take vacation. But this is the time we make our money,
This is the time we pay our bills, This is
the time we have more listeners than any other time
of the year. In sports radio, NFL season, the National
(07:22):
Sports Operation, and so you gotta be there. You gotta
be there during football seam. There are people that say
screw it and take vacation in I'm not one of
them anyway. So that's the that's the news. But we
move on from that. Can you say how many years
or just keep it generic multi year? I'm just wondering
how many years more we're gonna be doing this podcast
(07:45):
that that depends on how many people download the podcast.
We would love for this podcast to uh be two
percent of what Joe Rogan does. We would love that.
Let's go. But the way you know this is, I'm
not gonna lie these contracts. It is multi year. There
are some loops out, there's some outs and things in
the contract, so you know, it's not guaranteed that's gonna
(08:06):
be X number of years. But assuming the show continues
to do well. They're very happy with the Overnight show.
It's done tremendously well and the podcast with You Danny
has been great, So they're very happy about that. Um,
did they want to pay me like Calhart? No, they're
not that happy, but but they're happy enough to keep me,
and I'm happy enough. The company has been very good
to me and pretty much my entire adult life. I
(08:29):
can't believe it. Other than a few radio stops early on,
I have worked for Fox Sports Radio. It is insane.
I'm I'm amazed that I've been. I was convinced when
I got into radio, I was gonna work at like
twenty five different radio stations, and I was gonna bounce
all over the place. And here I am. I I
got hired at Fox Sports Radio in the year two thousand,
(08:53):
end of two thousand and uh, and here we are.
It was early two thousand one I kind of really
got going, but it was the end of two thousand
they hired me, and here we are. Then you're the
Tim Duncan of Fox Sports Radio. No, I'm the Donna's Haslam.
I'm useless around a long time anyway. But I want
(09:14):
to thank you the listener, because with it, seriously, I mean,
no one's listening. They, as our boss likes to say,
Don Martin, Uh, you know, one of the boss's statements
is he doesn't get rid of anybody. The audience gets
rid of people. When people stop listening and they stopped
being part of the show. That's when you lose these jobs.
And so I've been very very blessed and very lucky
(09:34):
that we have a group of crazy people that love
overnight radio and there with me all night and listen
to the podcast. Dude, that's that's the cool thing, Danny's
We've talked about doing this for so long. Like working overnights,
most people graduate to a day shift. They don't do
anything that long. Maybe they're in their twenties or early thirties,
but then they get married, they get all grown up,
(09:56):
they have families, and they don't do the overnight show,
do the overnight shift, and so but a lot of
them have listened to the podcast, and so that's been cool.
And yeah, and bed, not to make you feel aged,
but a lot of us grew up with your voice,
Like that's not in a bad way. You started as
a kid, so you're still young enough to do this
the right way. But what I mean is even the
(10:18):
rare times you take days off, you can hear a
podcast and still hear what you're doing. And I think
that that's really the power of how new media has
changed the landscape for all of us. Yeah, I recall
when I was working local radio in l A our
boss came in and said, hey, I have this idea
because we got covered up a lot by sporting events.
(10:39):
He says, when the games are going on, why don't
we just have you do a show on the internet.
And you would have thought this guy was speaking Russian.
You know, it's like, what are you a comrade? But
but here we are, all these years later, and it's
just standard operating procedure. It's just what you do, and
it's it's great. So and we'll turn the page on
that and I look forward to many many more podcasts
(11:00):
and shows and fun and good times and crazy callers
and all of that. But we have the midnight Marauder
Danny g to get to at this point. Yeah, well,
that kind of falls right in line with your first topic. There.
There is a COVID nineteen situation. It seems like every
(11:21):
producer at our network has come down with COVID nineteen.
And it's weird because the first two go arounds our
country had with it, we were pretty lucky at the network. Yeah.
I don't know what it is with the past few months.
Thank god, knock on fakewood here. I haven't come down
with it. I haven't had any symptoms. And even though
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I've been pulling these crazy hours, I've been one of
the guys filling in for the people who get COVID
or go on vacation. So Coop was on vacation. I
got to do your radio show, which was a lot
of fun. Monday into Tuesday. Well, you witnessed one of
the greatest procities in overnight radio that Eddie Garcia conspired
with Anthony and Anaheim to throw a game show. It's embarrassed.
(12:06):
Then it looked like you were gonna throw your microphone
in the studio. It was like old times. I could
see you through the glass. If you would have had
a voodoo doll of Eddie in there with you, it
would have been crumpled and crunched. After that segment, Oh listen,
and and Danny full disclosure, I mean we we take
these game shows very seriously. Oh yeah, you keep record.
(12:30):
We take pride in this. And for Eddie to step
in there and conspire with Justin and Cincinnati, and Justin
sent out the dog whistle. Then Anthony and Anaheim played
along there and so and you know Eddie's and he's, oh,
I would never do something. It calls me a cheater.
So when he says that, and I'm looking at what's
(12:51):
going on, and Anthony confirmed it, then I'm like, okay,
you know, all right, come on your prediction right now, Ben,
Uh is kind of in the future, but we gotta
look in the past. Do you think last night Anthony
and Anaheim came up to you and made up with
you and apologized. I will, I will bet you that
(13:13):
there was a mia copa that Anthony and Anaim was
a good guy. I know Anthony. I've watched him, you know,
over the as a listener. He's come in studio a
few times over the years, and I knew him before
he got married and all that. Now he's got kids
and so all that, I say, he's a mench. I say,
Anthony and Anaheim is a mench. We'll say, bad job
(13:36):
by me, Ben, Let's shake it out by gones, be
by gones, and we're good. That's what I predicted, because
I bust your balls a lot, Ben. But I'll say
this about that game that night, just a few nights back,
the Raiders current tight end. How are you gonna say,
Khalil Mack? And then you gave the clue. What was it? Oh?
(13:57):
It was a snake. It was Kenny Stabler. Oh yeah,
he said, ja yeah, come on. Teams I liked, and
players I liked. It was my category. How the hell's
a Bronco gonna be in my category? So I know
what they're doing, like the whole bit with Justin and
Anthony and whoever is next. I think about a band,
(14:18):
the Regulars and playing the game shows. But the bid
is the way they do it is they just they
slowed down. Take that, they slow walk. They pull a
page from your book. But but Anthony and Anaheim I
did notice here, and I learned this from what Justin did.
So they they'll get a they'll get them right, but
they'll take a long time to get them right because
(14:39):
it's a quick game. You gotta go fast. You can't
win if you take twenty seconds her answer. So I
realized that they would eventually get it right. So what
I did is I jumped to the hundred point question.
But I did it early, and so Anthony actually answered
the Jackie Slater answer. But he I guarantee you he
would not have one that if he had known it
(15:01):
was the hundred point question. Well, I can't wait until
next Saturday's podcast, so we could find out what Anthony
actually did at the Meat and Greed, you know, because
of that shift, and it was a lot of fun.
But I stayed and did the post production afterwards, got
on the road, got home, slept for forty five minutes,
(15:21):
went to the school, did a whole day there. When
I and I felt fine, no coffee, I pulled a
bed mallard. No coffee. I just drank a ton of
cold water. But then at the end of the shift,
when it ended, ben I was like, oh damn, how
am I going to get home? Like I hit a wall?
That's bad. Yeah, when you get and you're tired, and
there's nothing you can do, Like you can turn on
(15:43):
the radio, you can roll down the window. I have
found nothing that will work to keep you awake when
you're tired. It is to me, and I don't I
say drunk driving is good, but it's as bad as
drunk driving, you know. To me, it's very And I
think police will say that and experts will say that
when you're really tired driving, it's the same as being
drunk because you completely go off the road if you
(16:05):
doze off. And I think we've all done that thing
where we catch ourselves slipping, and then we slap ourselves
in the face and like, I'm never gonna do that again.
Ten minutes later, you're doing it again. And I've unfortunately
done that multiple times. The most famous story I've told
a few times over the years is on my way
to Vegas, I went by myself. You know, I was
(16:25):
having kind of a bad time in my career. My
mom's like, go to Vegas, get out of l a,
go to Vegas. Gamble. My mom's telling me. So I
left in the middle of the night and I get
to like barstow out in that area, and I I
fell asleep and I was in the fast land. I
remember being in the fast lane, and I woke up
in the slow lane. And I don't know how I
(16:46):
didn't hit a truck or hit a wall or anything.
It was the grace of God or whoever. Was just
going to say that, for people who do not believe
in a higher power, you have never had God take
the wheel for them up the car truck. Oh, it's crazy,
man's It is scary when you wake up snoozing and
(17:07):
you realize you're in a weapon, you're in a torpedoing,
whatever it is. It's like, oh man, So I called
it midnight Marauder because it's been a hundred degrees outside.
I'm gonna wash the car. There is a drive through
(17:27):
car wash down the street by the freeway here. It's
open twenty four hours. Take it through there like a crackhead.
Nobody around. It's beautiful. Then I get it home, I
dry it, use the wind X. I'm cleaning the mats inside.
This was like a full blown fancy car wash. And
(17:49):
then my car, which is still parked because I haven't
found the right part yet, clean that and finally put
the car cover on it. And the security I drove
past me looked at what I was doing, kind of
shook his head and then kept driving. The look of shame,
the look at shot. Oh yeah, they these hours are
(18:13):
crackhead hours. I mean we are. We are set up
for that lifestyle, clearly. Man. All right, we've got a
few more things. I want to get the breaking point
thing I actually mentioned. I mentioned this on the show,
and I wanted to get into a little bit more.
We'll spend a few good minutes on this. The last weekend,
I was lounging his life of Mallarin Danergy. So I'm
lounging on my laptop. It's Saturday night late, and I'm
(18:39):
doing a little prep work on the weekend. So sometimes
I'll unplug a little bit on Friday night and part
of Saturday, just you know, spend time with the wife
and family members and whatnot. So what I do is
on Saturday night, I catch up on things I missed,
and I try to catch up on everything, so I'm
I'm somewhat fluent in what's going on. And and while
this is going on, my wife usually watches TV, and
(19:03):
so it's it's just background noise. I normally ignore it,
and this weekend, for some reason, it was different, like
I let my guard down. I listened and uh, and
holy cannoli, was it terrible. I don't know what my
wife was watching. I don't know if it was on Netflix.
I think it was on Netflix, but I don't know
which streaming service, and I don't know the name of
(19:25):
the show. It was some reality show and it was
just a bunch of people with weird hair colors, which
I'm fine with, right, if you're that's your thing. I'm
a traditional I like black, brown, blonde, red, That's usually
what I go with with the hair. But they had
like neon, pink, green, purple, you know, but you live
and let live. But then they started asking each other
their pronouns. And at that point I let my guard down.
(19:50):
I reached critical mass and boom goes to dynamite boom.
I I snapped right and and and then I went
on this rain. I did a monologue to my wife
about how terrible this is, right, and I She's like,
what do you know? She's like, what do you do?
You never really pay attention on him watching and uh,
(20:11):
and so you know, I did the whole rand about
you know, a few years ago, these varmints decided to
invent uh their own pronouns and change everything. And it
was like and I was like, well, no grown ups,
you know this in my head, this is my you know,
no grown ups. Put a stop to it, right, Amy said,
you'll come up. But what do you what are you doing? Okay?
I mean, you know, life's hard enough. What do you do?
Who implemented this in corporate handbooks? That's the disease of
(20:35):
social media. It's the matrix of social media. It's a
very small group of people on social media, but they
were able to use bots and algorithms to convince very smart,
educated people that this is what society wants. We were
always told, though, Ben, that it didn't matter. I know,
I know. I don't ask people, and you don't put
(20:57):
it out there, no matter what side you're on or
what you do, that's supposed to be private. So I
don't understand when that changed into this where we're all
supposed to advertise something on a name tag. Doesn't even
make sense. It's narcissism, right, It's the same reason we
live in an age where everyone wants to be a victim.
You know, you get you get cloud if you're a victim.
(21:18):
I think, and maybe I'm crazy, I'm completely wrong about this,
and I'll be proven wrong. I think this is batshit crazy.
That's what I think. Okay, uh, And every time I
see this, I just I can't wrap my head around it.
I guess it. I'm this. I'm showing my age. I
was raised where the pronouns were hear him or shear her,
period something. That's all I knew. That's all I've known.
(21:40):
And I don't really care what you know. If you're
you do whatever you want to get you through life,
whatever floats your boat. But you don't shove it down
my throat. Okay, you know what I'm saying. I think
it makes you logical. Okay, so you're not crazy. Then
it's not just people in our age group that notice this.
It's not And I realized that we all think when
(22:03):
when we were young, we all think that was the
greatest time. And I'm I'm sure that the cycle of
life will just repeat itself. Well it really was, though,
Ben Well, I agree with you. I'm like you were
around the same. But I would just say, like thirty
years from now, when the new generations around and all that,
they'll be longing for the days where they had the
they pronounced because imagine what's coming down the pike next. Danny,
(22:26):
I mean, she's Louise. I mean man, old man, old man.
But anyway, that was my my way. So my wife,
uh we didn't never argue about anything, but she had
to turn the TV off and go to the other room.
So I was like, was so worked up into a lather.
I just can't, I can't. I'm sorry again. Uh you know,
I'm I'm a purist. I'm gonna he him. She her,
(22:48):
I've known you for a long time. I think We're
good people and we really don't care people do privately.
So for somebody to try to interpret this as oh
my god, sexy store homophobic or that doesn't make any
sense because it doesn't have anything to do with that. No,
not at all. I noticed I've worked over the years
(23:10):
of people on radio who were into different things or whatever,
and uh, you know, yeah, you worked with some freaks.
I know I did. But but some of those people
who are you know, doing some you know, freaky stuff,
even they think this is ridiculous. I got that conversation
with them, and even they think this is stupid. But
but it's probably because they're around our age. I think
(23:31):
that might be. Alexis said that this is bullshit. Yeah,
I've been taking for Alexis calls for years and America's
favorite drag queen caller. Come on, l r C. Now,
this is real quickly all a lot of time. So
my wife had a work party last weekend. It was
not in the city she works, and they met her
and her co workers met in Pomona. So I spent
(23:54):
some time in beautiful Pomona in southern California. I would
say it's one of the great vacation destinations in the
Greater l A area. I think you'd agreed, Danny. People travel.
My grandmother used to take us to the swap meet
there when I was a little bit. Yes, that that's
one of the highlights. But there are hard working people
and promoted. There's some great restaurants and breweries and whatnot.
(24:15):
So we went to a brewery and it was really cool.
They had live music. It was a big crowd. But
I'm an introvert. I'm not an extrovert, so it's very
hard for me to go to parties. And you'll learn
that for those of you, and we're doing this after
the fact, but for those of you that met met
me at the party on Friday night, that that that's
a lot of work for me to go and be social.
(24:35):
So anyway, I went out and my wife's co workers
very nice people, very good people, hard working people, and
they do a great job. They save lives and all that.
And there was a big crowd. It was a good vibe.
But we played this game that I'd never played before.
I call it l RC's Left Right Center. You ever
played Left Right Center? No? Oh, it's a great game.
(24:57):
And I'm gonna tell you when you when we have
the one of the parties. If you get down here
with your your tinderoni there, we will play the game.
It is awesome, it's really cool. It's it's three dice
and three dollars. So you start out with three dollars
and you take turns rolling the dice. Everyone puts three
dollars on the table and there's three dice and the
(25:17):
dice have left right center and like a blank spot,
you roll all three dice and if it comes up
left right center, you're out of money. You give one
dollar to the person on the left of you. You
put a dollar in the middle, which is the center,
which is the community chest, and then you give one
person the right uh, and then you're out. But you
(25:38):
can still get back in the game because you keep playing,
and then the person next to you can give you
a dollar, and so it keeps going. Yeah, and uh,
it's a lot. It's very easy to play. It's great
when you're consuming copious amounts of alcohol. I was gonna say,
we should do it at the restaurant with seventy people.
Oh that's a good that's a good idea. I wish
(25:58):
I had thought of dollar Militia to bring your dollar
bills being Benn are gonna take them. I don't know
how old this game is. I don't know much about it.
I'd never heard it before last Friday, but I love it.
It's like, so it's so easy. I'm not that intelligent,
and it's fun and you can drink and it's you know,
everyone it's only three dollars. How hard is that? You
(26:20):
know everyone can afford three bucks? So anyway, there's that
all right now the Backscratcher, Danny. This is where if
you give us a nice word on the Apple podcast page,
we will help you out. You scratch you our back,
We'll scratch your back. And we've had a tremendous infusion
of reviews since Danny g explained how to actually do
(26:41):
this easily enough in the in the body of the
podcast description, and so let's get to those right now.
First one is from Turbo and says, awesome, great job,
fellas have been hearing both of you for a long time.
Danny has to get the Animal Thunderdome going ask about
(27:03):
Tiger Hunter from India. I believe keep up the great work.
So uh, Danny, I I want that too. The Animal Thunderdome,
which you teased as a possible podcast, a standalone podcast.
I think that would be awesome and do very well.
And any update on that, any traction anything at all?
Know nothing. No. I actually did get an email from
(27:26):
our boss and he is working on it with the
president of the company. They have to copyrighted and get
the logo and all that, and so they are efforting it. Well,
you know what you could do is you cannot you
do the animal Thunderdome, but you can have on like
those those this guy in Miami, the crazy zoo guy
that oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you could have great. Remember
(27:47):
Clay used to tell me, oh my god, that person
who saved his dog from the alligator. I want him
on the show tomorrow. And I'd have to call the
paper that put out the story and track the guy's
self number down and then convince them to come on
some radio show and talk about it. Yeah. I'm used
to tracking those kind of people down that are in
(28:08):
the stories with animals. It's gonna be crazy when it
gets all set and it's in stone and you know
how slow some of this stuff works been because it's
like you and the penny and you and your contract.
There's stuff going on behind the scenes, and it's out
of our control. We can't speed it up. Yeah, no,
for sure, it's uh it's and I just went through
it with my as you said, my contract and negotiations,
(28:32):
and it probably took two months to get that deal
done because of the back and forth people on vacation.
Lawyers are involved. They gotta they gotta write everything up.
Contracts all right, no deals here, writes in He says,
great podcast, five stars, great podcast, very entertaining. I would
crawl across broken glass to listen to this podcast. I
(28:53):
don't advise that. I don't advise that, alright. Last while
from Jay Scoop, he says, the fifth hour saved my life.
I purchased a thousand dollar paperweight called an iPhone thirteen
Promax just so I could write this review. But before
I sat down to write this, I decided to go
(29:14):
for a walk. When beginning to cross the road, jaywalking
without looking both ways, I fumbled my phone to the
ground and had to stop to pick it up. Just then,
a garbage truck came barreling through, barely missing me and
honking at me in shame as they went by. Guys,
it scared the crap out of me so much so
(29:36):
that it woke me up from that dream. After all,
I realized it's August and I've had my phone since February,
so I'd better jump to it with this review, uh
says love the show. By the time this is read
on the podcast The Drunken Shenanigans from the Meat and
Greet in Lamorada, we'll have already taken place. So I
(29:57):
plead the fifth Danny G I eat some TINDERRWNI tips. Heyes,
pte Ben can fill you in. Keep up the great
work from Jay School. All right, Jay Scoop, that's a tease.
We'll do this on the Mailback podcast. Is that good?
That's yeah? Yeah, Well, I'll have some Tinderoni tips for
Jay Scoop from Uh Danny G Radio. We'll get out
(30:18):
of here. Anything to promote Danny on a Saturday, anything
at all here going in to produce Hartman and oh
Schwartz is out. Oh yes, and mystery host No I
know who it is because he's been texting me in
this entire party. Uh. My friend Bernie Frado, Bernie, Bernie.
(30:40):
I love Bernie to death. Bernie is like Arnie. They
prepare their show Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and they
text the producer every day with notes and this and
that and this and that and that. We're like fellas.
The show is not for five days. Yeah, that's that's hard.
I give him credit. I did weekends, and I did
(31:00):
the same thing when I did a weekend show. You
think you want everything, you want to save everything up,
and you only get a couple of days a week
to be a gas bag. You want to get everything
in and I respect that, but now I wait until
late afternoon and then I just go game busters to
get ready for the show that night. But Bernie, actually
he sent me a message. He was at the Grand
Rapids Airport listening to us. He was waiting for a
(31:22):
flight in Grand Rapids, Michigan. So he's night. Yeah, he's
got tons of great stories and he's a real nice guy.
In fact, the next time I go to Vegas, I'm
gonna cut a steak in half. Nice. I gotta hang
out with Bernie in UAE in the Vegas. So yeah,
I was there earlier this year, but I've been in
a while and football season is the best time to
go to lost wages and about we'll get out here
(31:44):
on that, Thank you for listening, and thanks for those
of you that are able to attend last night the
meet and greet, And we'll have plenty of stories next
weekend from that, but week of the mail back tomorrow
and we'll talk to you that. Yeah. I hope the
Future US had some good drinks. I hope. So. I
hope nobody got arrested. At least I didn't get arrested.
I hope. Hey, you didn't say you're lying? Oh yeah,
(32:09):
asta pasta, there you go. Yeah, bopholiction
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