November 6, 2022 • 35 mins
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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
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break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
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Maller starts right now in the air every you Where.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallord and Danny g Radio
on a Sunday, Sunday Sunday, because listen, five nights a week,
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clearly not and off. As we are hanging out in
the podcast, do Joe and Danny, I am looking forward
to the mail bag. We had an interesting weekend so far.
We had Benny versus the Penny on Friday, which we
always do, and gave all my NFL picks, and then
we had a dueling Banjo's thing with spilled drinks and
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driving long distances and other random things that popped up
on the podcast on Saturday. Yeah, man, you're officially a
Phoenix sun right now. Man, oh man, what a what
a drive? What a long drive? Well we'll be making
that drive, Danny. Yeah, super Bowl, super Bowl Baby, Maybe
we can stay at Turk's house. We'll we'll, we'll harass
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Turk and make him put us up in his house
for a night or something like that. We'll see. Or
we can just drive back. Who knows, we go for
a day and drive outs a long long way to haul.
But why not with that? Oh yeah, yeah, that's diarrhea?
All right. These are actual questions by actual listeners on
the mailback. Before we get started, we must queue up
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the band and our man, Ohio, al it's all right,
great job as always, Ohio all what a smart man
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he knew by making that little ditty that that thing
would get airplay every weekend on this podcast. Genius genius
move by Ohio. A good job by him, and we
start out. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah,
start out with Mike from Fullerton. These these messages sent
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either via email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
no numbers, all letters, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
or the Facebook page which is Ben Mallard's show, our
show Facebook page. So Mike from Fullerton rights and he says, Hey, Ben,
I have a hard old radio question for you this week.
Generally our national sports radio guys supposed to be welcoming
the fans of every franchise, even if it's the cheating
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as rows. The fact that you actually give strong opinions,
including the negative ones, on My Angels, is a big
reason why I'm a fan of the show. But I'm
curious if trashing a franchise, no matter how well deserved,
breaks some kind of national radio handbook or something. All right,
So so, Mike, there there's really no handbook that I
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know of. Maybe I didn't get the talking points from
from management, but it's really how I got into to radio,
and it has changed. I will agree with you, Mike,
that the business has changed. It's a lot more cheerleaders
and there's people that are in the tank for the
hometown team and all that, and that wasn't how it
was when I got in to radio. And I guess
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I'm becoming one of the last and the Mohicans these days.
But there are a bunch of people in certain cities
that do it. It really goes by market, and I
was lucky enough to work in the Boston market a
little bit remotely, and that's a town where they trash
the Red Sox if they play poorly. The patriots of
the Celtics. Philadelphia is a town like that New York,
although even that's changed a little bit. But as far
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as the national stuff now, all we get told by
management unless I miss something here, Danny is do a
good show, do an engaging show, doing entertaining show, keep
people listening as long as you can possibly keep people listening.
And however you do that, whatever you do to create
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an audience and to captivate an audience is what you
have to do. And just don't get us in trouble.
Am I correct? Danny? Isn't that pretty much the mantra
from from management? Well, Hollywood, my man, that radio handbook
you spoke of is in your company email, in your inbox. Well, man,
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let me tell you about man. We're gonna make you famous. Yeah,
there's no there's no hand book. It's just supposed to
be glued to your radio type programming. In other words,
if I'm driving home Ben late at night and you're
on the radio and I pull into my driveway, you're
so compelling that I don't want to get out of
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my car. Yeah, or whoever the guy is on the radio,
whether it's me or Danny g or whoever, Like, if
something happens and your thought is, I wonder what numb
nuts thinks about this, you know, And I happen to
be the numb nuts. Like that's a good thing, right
if you're And unfortunately, we do have a number of
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people that do look forward to it. And and and
in the same people Danny like to bust my balls
when I when I give something out and give an
opinion out and all that stuff. And but that's fine
as long as you're as long as you're listening. But
I do think the business has shifted, the pendulum has
shifted away from being critical. And there's a lot a
lot more people that are doing this now that are
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not not holding people accountable, and they're they're making excuses,
and I find that as dull as dishwater. Other people,
I guess like it. I don't know, to each their own.
It's an acquired taste. I didn't grow up listening to
sports radio like that, so I'm not used to it,
and I don't really enjoy it, but there's clearly an
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audience for it. But I like throwing haymakers. Well, the
great Petros and money say that there's only one thing
that gets more ratings than sports. And that's fun. So
when you have shows that have a lot of fun
games and content and fun callers and things like that,
to me, that's the best radio that's on the radio. Yeah,
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it's like making uh, spaghetti or something. There's different spices
you can put in there, and different seasoning you can
add and changes the taste and the flavor of the
the meal. And so that's how that goes. But thank you, Mike.
Next up Hill Billy, Mike writes in and he says,
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you know, Benjamin Danny Gee, I've been hearing about raising
canes off and on. You've talked about it over the years,
and your go to for substituting one thing for something else.
I never paid much attention to it, he'll bully, Mike says,
because we didn't have them here, but they're building one
right down the road from him in Chester, Virginia. And
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I wanted your go to, all right, So so he'll
be with Mike. My go to it raising canes. I
go Keniak combo, no cole Slaw, no veggies, no cole Slaw,
extra fries. There's also if you like the bread they
toasted on one side. But if you ask for it
toasted on both sides. They'll give you a fresh piece
of bread, get it toasted on both sides, and then
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I normally get lemonade easy ice, and then when I
drink the lemonade, I then fill it up with one
of the uh, the regular beverages that they have there.
So that's that's my go to. I love raising cane
better than any other chicken joint that's out there, including
the big one that doesn't open on Sundays there, so
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Chick fil A I like raising canes more. But that's
my my go to. I'm all about it. But like
everything else, the price has gone up up in a way,
Danny right. It used to be fast food with cheap food.
Now not so much. Yeah, And unfortunately where I live now,
there's no raising canes in my backyard, but if there was,
I would have to go on a solo mission there.
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I have to deduct points from Mike Cleopatra because I
took her to raising keynes when we were visiting San
Diego or Temecula. Rather we were in Temecula. I took
her to a raising canes ben. She turned her nose up.
She thought it was overfried. She didn't like it. She's like, well,
I don't understand what all the hype in the fuss
was about. And right then I had to really do
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some deep introspection. Yes, that's the exact word I was
looking for, because at that point I just wasn't sure
if I was with the right woman. Yeah, that can
that can end a relationship. You know, people think we're
kidding here, but no, I mean that's a that's a
deal breaker for a lot of people. You gotta think
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how many meals you eat today, how many times you
would like to go get that nice fried chicken from
Raising Kines. They had to buy a commercial on this
show we're giving away. But it's you're right, and I
mean I have similar issues with my my bride. She
she has like a gluten free diet that she's on
most of the time, so she doesn't need a lot
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of a lot of bread. I like bread, but I
only eat once a day. So when I eat, I
go big. I go big and I go home is
what I do. And so we go back and forth.
But the cool thing is she doesn't really care. I
can eat, we can eat separate things as long as
we're kind of in the same area. So it's all
it's all good there, all right. Next up on the
mail bag, Berry from Music City USA, right saying yo
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yo mob Benny. He says, uh, the sound bite of
no Barrowe is awesome, and I know it took Jake
Warner a long time to find that sound bite and
you loved it. Was there ever sound bites for number
two through number nine by the same artist? Would you
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take a new drop of number one to ten? But
a talented artist, I would love to have drops for
number two through nine. Alex Tisher actually knows one of
our engineers. He he knew where some of those bites were,
but they're not the same voice. Guy, He says, I
think you should send out a call to the Mallam
Militia to make those for you. Well, that's a great idea.
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That's a great idea, Barry, if somebody wants to send
in now. They gotta sound good though, right there, and
they can't be cheesy. You know the nineties band you
had it, You had one on KRT as well, your
name Jingle. Yes, I still have a cart somewhere. I
still have the cart. I love that, by all. I
have that cart some where in my collection here as
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well for my name, And there used to be donuts
that we played on the radio station. And then right
in the middle of that quote unquote donut, you would
play your name jingle, so it would be like back
to back fresh jams. Danny G. Yeah, I love it.
I love it. I have a nerd when it comes
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to jingles. There's a great jingle place in Dallas that
makes most of those professional radio jingles. And the famous
story is that Clayton Kershaw's father worked at that place
in the in Dallas. So yeah, dad was a radio
helped make radio jingles. Do you know if that place
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is still around? Uh, yeah it is. For some reason,
I'm having a mental block, but yeah, they'll make you
jingle for They have singers that go in and sing
the jingles and stuff. That's awesome. I want one for
the fifth hour. I know. I would love to get
one for the fifth I don't know how much they
would charge us, probably a lot because we're associated with
the big corporation. They don't realize that this is mostly
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a mom and pop shop. But it's uh big time.
Uh what is it? It's I'm trying to thank you.
Let me see if I can I know the gist
of it. Let me see. It's in Dallas, and let
me see. I give them a plug here because they're
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really they're really good here. Jam Yeah, Jam Creative Productions,
Jam Create. It's called it jingles dot com. What a
perfect website. What a perfect website, jingles dot com. And
they make radio jingle station I d s like Danny
was referencing and all that, and they also do it
for I guess they'll do it for anybody. So if
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you have your podcast like this, they'll they'll do it.
And it's pretty cool, pretty cool. It was called JAM.
It was called JAM Productions before, but now it's called
just al right, it's just still called Jam Production. It's
called JAM. I thought it was called something else before.
But anyway, jingles dot com is the website. So I'm
gonna send an email to Scott to see if he'll
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allocate some budget for some jingles. That would be awesome. Yeah,
I would love that. I would love a new fresh
Ben Mallard jingle and uh, and then one for this
show for you, and then you could do it for
for for your other show, right for for Cavino and
Rich you could have a jingle made for them. I'm
sure they would love jingles. Oh they're radio guys, they
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would love that. Come on, it would be all about it.
They'd be like, yeah, it's so exciting. Oh, it's so good. Alright,
Next up, Pierre. Let's see we have Pierre from sixth
place in the Mallard Militia Fantasy football contest on DraftKings.
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He says, Man, I believe that you sleep less than
I do. That is, unless you are not, in fact,
actually posting on so social media and are allowing your
vast social media team to handle such petty duties. I
guess my question is how many people does Fox Sports
Radio employed to maintain the social media empire of the
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media giants such as yourself. Well, Pierre, we're never supposed
to talk about how we make the hot dogs, isn't
that what we say? Danny, You can't talk about how
you make the hot dogs and ruin the magic of
how this is all made. But there is an army
of people behind the scenes. It's a small army. It's
the size of the Vatican's army. But it's a small,
small group that defends the social media channels. And if
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you only take turns, if you only knew who was
in the watch tower. It would amaze you if you
had that kind of intel. Are you gonna pay the
eight dollars a month for Twitter or are you gonna
build that to the company? Oh I am not. I
am not paying. If the company wants me to be verified,
they have I hear they have the money to afford that. Um,
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but are you gonna pay eight dollars a month to
get verified? Any Are you gonna go down that road?
It doesn't affect me, so I don't care. Now it's
it's gonna be a badge of honor now to not
have the blue check mark. Yeah, I see. Like the
whole point of it was it was special because you
had to earn it. You didn't pay for it something,
they had to give it to you. But now it's
if you just buy it, it's not really that special
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because anyone can get it. You know, a couple of
years ago, when I looked into getting my my page verified,
they got back to me and they said, cool, you're
in line to get the check mark. All you need
to do is have a website now so we can
verify you. I did the website and then I heard
back saying we're pausing all verifications at the moment, so
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it was just for me. It was a black hole
and not at the Oakland Coliseum. Well that sucks. I
had to jump through a bunch of hoops. I've told
the story before. I just send my driver's license in
and they had to get all my personal information. They own.
Twitter has all my information. You see all the athletes
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and celebrities that have been tweeting saying if you don't
know who I am, if I haven't earned this, screw you.
I'm not gonna pay. Yeah, well, we'll see how this
plays out. And people are upset because you know, when
something's free and then you charge for it, Why would
you pay for something you were getting for free? You
know what I mean? Like it's like the old line
about the why buy the cow if you're getting the
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milk for free? You know, the the dating line we
heard back in the day with me you get me
that good stuff got mail. Next up is Adrian in
the Mile High City. He says, Ben and Danny g
are buddy, Adrian. I've been singing the Dodger blues the
last couple of weeks. The Dodgers always have great regular
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seasons and then suck at a time they cannot suck
during the playoffs. I don't know why I thought this
season would be different. The Big Blue Choking Crew cost
me my Dodger World Series Championship wager. Sorry about that, Adrian,
He says, go Phillies, and then he points out he's
who's writing this and who knows. Now it's Sunday. Maybe
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the World Series is over by now, but things were
looking good for the Phillies at the time he sent
this in. He says, speaking of the cheaters, Big Ben
had me. You had me laughing my ass off and
the meter reader car when you were saying that you
would no longer be a Dodger fan if they signed
Carlos Correa this offseason. F albub. Now, I was not kidding, Adrian.
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A lot of people thought I was exaggerating. No, no
I am. I am so far on the side of
the aisle, which is anti assholes that if the Dodgers
signed an asshole Carlos Correa, I'm out. I'm out. I'll
still watch baseball, I'll bet on baseball like Pete Rose,
but I am not going to invest myself in a
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franchise that law lost a World Series to a team cheating,
and he was one of the key cheaters, and then
you sign that guy down the line. I don't want
to be a party of that. And if they signed
Korey and I don't believe they will, But if the
Dodgers do, I'm out. I'm out. As long as he's
wearing Dodger blue, I'm not. And so that's the way
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it is. That's how strongly I feel. And that is
a That is a deal breaker for me. That is
a deal breaker. And I don't think they'll do it.
I think they'll sign Dan's by Swanson or bring back
Trade Turner, or signs Andrew Bogart's, any of those guys,
not Carlos Carey, Dan's by route, that's better. And you
know what, man, it would be like if Machado returned
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to the Dodgers. He has such a punchable face, so
does Correa. I can't imagine those guys wearing Dodger blue
right now. You'd want to punch your TV screen. Yeah,
Krea is just a dick. I don't want the guy
on the team, and they shouldn't want him either. He's
bad news. He's bed news Bears is what he is,
just like Eddie's Halloween costume. Bad news Bears all right,
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next up? Actually, well there's more from Adrian. But wait,
there's more. He says, As you fellas know, I listened
to podcast while driving around and reading water meters. Well,
of course I have to make pitch stops here and
there to use the restroom, which means I stop at
a lot of porta potties or outhouses. Oh boy along
the way. Why is it that some of the most
foul things someone can think to say are written in
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black sharpie on the walls of the outhouse or the
porta pisser? Also, whose idea was it to start that?
Most of the time those things are disgusting, and I'm
trying to piss and get the hell out of there
as quickly as possible, not stick around in there and
scribble out a nasty racist message your thoughts get Yeah,
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it's it's always been that way every in the old
bathroom writing. So I guess the because the theory would
be that assholes are attracted to ship, and so there's
shipped in there, and so the assholes that they get
excited by that, the schmucks and the mama Lukes, so like, hey,
I can they can write nasty stuff and nobody will
know it's me, and I'll get away with it because
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there's no cameras in here. And why are there so
many accidents inside there? Though? People suddenly lose their aim
as soon as they step into a border potty. Yeah,
and also there's a lot of weird things that people
put in the bowl, which is actually a bowl that
you would never put in your toilet at home. They
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use it as a trash can. Oh, it's so disgusting, nasty.
He gives gives me the willie's just even hearing his
email about those things. I mean, that's last resort town
right there. Man. I was at a high school football
game a couple of Fridays ago, and of course when
I went to look for the restroom, they had porta
potties lined up, and I was like, oh God, I
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gotta piss so bad though, So I went in there,
Ben and I did the old T shirt over the nose. Yeah,
still didn't help. Now, well, we have a competitive advanch
over the women, but it's still still not great. I
was using hand sanitizer for ten fifteen minutes NonStop after
that you'd rather go out in the woods and go
behind a tree or something like that. The lastly, Adrian
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says that Phil in cat Brandon from a couple of
weeks ago, he says he sounds like Pinocchio from the
Shrek movies. If he ever fills in again, you should
have him say I'm a real boy like Pinocchio did
in the movie. He goes, wow. All right. Anyway, says
the Broncos get the w against the Jags in London.
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Those high knees on the plane paid off. He says,
Broncos country, Let's ride. Quoting Russell Wilson. He says, I'll
be listening to the Friday Penny podcast to see who
Ben takes in the Denver UH and Tennessee a game.
He points out here. So anyway, Adrian, that's Adrian of
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the Mile said he sent in some photos of Halloween,
and I gotta tell you doing some good costumes here.
But the one that I was most impressed with your
son dressed up as an in and out employee. That's
really good. That is a So I don't think you
bought all that. I think some of that you just made.
And that's that's really cool. They're so good job. I
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saw it in and out costume in my neighborhood on Halloween.
It made me so hungry. That's good look, man, I
gotta tell you that's a good look, so solid job.
And I love that you and your wife at the
Bronco game. They lost the game, but you both had
the nice You had the old school Bronco logo, which
I love. I love that old Bronco logo because it
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makes me flashback to when I was a kid and
I used to the Broncos would always be in prime
time because Pat Bowl and the old owner right didn't
he he was on the television committee. So the Broncos always,
even when they weren't that good, would always end up
on a lot of Monday night football games. Cool by
Loo Broncos. Last, we'll keep it going here. Who is
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who is next? On the old the mail bag? I
got mail? Yea, I got mail ya all right? Kevin
and Kansas says, do either of you have a fond
memory of some earlier sitcoms? I'm thinking the Turkeys Can't
Fly episode of w k RP and sent to Nati
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or the finale of mash You both see him up
on pop culture, so I figured i'd I tap your
your memories. Oh yeah, I loved sitcoms back in the day,
and when I was a kid, there wasn't the Internet,
so we watched a lot of TV at the house.
I mean I watched everything from uh the what was
the the Well? The Jefferson's, watched that moving on up
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to a was a penthouse on the west side or
something like that. Whatever it was, Three's coming up, Yeah,
Three's coming to the east side. There there there, Uh
Bosom Buddies, we went with Tom Hanks that was on.
Of course, Uh Mork and Mindy you go down the list, man.
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We were big TV people. We were big TV people
in the day, and we loved being offs of spinoffs
of spinoffs. Yeah, watch Cheers, Mash, all those, all those.
You didn't watch Mash. When that would come on, that
would be a signal to turn the TV channel or
turn it off. Remember my older brother getting up when
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the old Master reruns would come on, and he always grumbled,
this show sucks. We were too young. We didn't understand
anything going on in that show. So yeah, I we
had it on. I didn't like the bloody stuff either,
but I loved Hawkeye and I actually or or Clinger
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believe we'll see what had? You see what had? I'm wearing, Danny,
this was this is an homage. A listener sent me this,
but in a homage to mash it looks kind of blurry.
I thought it was a death row hat. No, I'm
wearing a Toledo mud Hans hat. I have a Toledo
mud hands hat which was warm dog sent you that. No, No,
he sent me some weed, not that, not this smoke weed.
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But on any specific moments, I mean I watched tons
of stuff. I don't know if any anything. I remember
the last episode of Cheers when everyone went on Jay
Leno and they were all hammered. Oh, speaking of that,
how about Johnny Carson's very last show. That was big
tonight we had that on. It was always I hated
the music acts. I wanted more comedy. I hated the interviews.
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I loved the monologue of Carson. I love that. I
love when they did some funny bits, stick his bits.
Those were good. The headlines thing you know here. I
remember everybody gathering around the TV the night of his
final show. It was a big deal. Yeah, David Letterman
was was big also Letterman early days before he became
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the main eleven o'clock where he talked about his NBC
bosses all the jib. Yeah, he talked NBC and ge
Right was in the Electric that owned owned the company,
and he'd mocked them and he just do crazy stuff
that It was wonderful because we didn't have the inn.
Now people do that crap all the time on TikTok,
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but in our day back in the Stone Age, Danny,
that's that was amazing. That was like, this is the
greatest thing ever. Yeah, and he actually had good music acts. Yeah,
him and well Paul Schaeffer and they brought they brought
random people, but he I loved the Biff Biff Henderson
actually met him. It was the funniest thing. When I
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covered the NBA Finals in two thousand, Biff Henderson was
at the finals there and it was not an act.
He really did not want to be there. It was
so funny because you think of that as kind of
a stick and all that he did not want to
be there. We saw him at the hotel in Indianapolis
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and he was really bummed out that he was. It
was hilarious. I thought that was an act. But there
were no cameras. He was just like literally depressed. Maybe
that's just how we always looked. I don't know, I
have no idea, but it was. I have fun memories
of the Letterman show. Moving on, we got time for
a couple more quick ones here as we blast off
and says greetings Bob, Ross, Benny and King Danny. G
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cool recap of the house party on the show, and
happy halfway on Benny versus the Penny. Neil, This is
from Neil from the Real Miami. But this week I
have downloaded your podcast from pick the Picturesque West Coast
of Ireland. And interestingly the commercials actually have Irish advertisements
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along with some promos for other I Heart shows. So
Mallard Militia members. Neil rights in don't blame Ben for
commercial you get. Apparently they are custom made by location.
Had a chance to hear your show in rainy Galway, Ireland,
and this is pretty neat Dan. He sent a photo
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here and in the photo he's on a boat and
he's holding up he's got his phone, he's holding it
up and you can see the the logo for the
podcast right there and then behind him to paint the
picture because it's it's an audio thing here it's not.
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But the faint picture he's on it appears to be
on a boat, and or maybe he's just on land,
but he's he's near a body of water, and then
behind him is a row of houses. So is this pretty? Uh,
it's pretty neat. It's one place that's on my list
too to travel to someday. Yeah. I actually wrote back
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to Neil and I said, my my wife's the same way.
She wants to go to take me to Ireland and
in that part of the world. And so I wrote
back and said, Hey, you gotta let me know the
good places to go and and all that. He says.
For the question, Neil rights and he says, it's clear
you are traumatized by calls email from the Fox Sports
radio bosses. That is true. But have you ever avoided
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a call from the boss and only found out that
he wanted to give you a huge compliments about your
monologue that day or any others? It's that like your
talent or shows. If so. No, I've worked at this
company for twenty years. I don't think I've ever gotten
a you're really good call? Uh? And no, no disrespect
(29:39):
to management or anything like that. I just don't think
i've maybe have you gotten it, Danny, I've never gotten
that phone call. I've never got you know, I just
want to say how good you are. I've never gotten that.
I mean, I've gotten calls where there was a compliment
to start the call, but that's not why the call
was going on. Well, it's the compliments, sand which all
bosses do. You are with a compliment, you then get
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to the point you actually want to make, which is
the person's socks and they're terrible at their job, and
then you finish with a compliment. Yeah, your show yesterday.
I was laughing my ass off. And by the way,
I need you to work on extra seven hours this Saturday. Yes,
exactly exactly. It's And when I get a call from
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management and it starts with a compliment, I am then
waiting for the other shooter drop. I'm like, Okay, they
don't really believe that. What are they really getting at?
What what is the gist of this phone call here?
And so I'm waiting for it. I'm waiting for it.
I'm waiting for it. And the suspense of what they're
gonna say, Ben sucks. How dare you so? But I'd
(30:44):
love for them to check in every once in a
while and say, hey, this is I have heard from
some people in sales that have had like clients that
are fans of the show, and they're the funniest thing
about that, though, Danny is they're always surprised. They're always surprised,
like you're doing the Overnight Show. I don't understand this.
I don't understand why the clarent likes you, but whatever,
you know, it's like kind of like that backhanded compliment thing.
(31:06):
But I digress. A couple of quick ones, Nick and
Wisconsin says banning Danny g I enjoyed the would you
rather questions, so I'm going to going back to the well,
would you rather give up your favorite food forever? Or
give up sex? That is from from Nick and So.
(31:26):
So I do love chicken fingers my favorite food, but
guess what, I also loved Philly cheese steak, and I
love Chinese food, and I love Mexican food. I love
crunchy tacos. So I am gonna I'll give up the
chicken fingers. What about you, Danny g Oh, I'm a
smoothie drinking pool. At that point, I'll just live on smoothies.
If you're taking all my favorite foot away. No, no,
he said, just one. He said your favorite dish. That's it.
(31:50):
Whatever your favorite. He needs to come correct with those.
Would you rather that's an easy answer. Yeah, that's a
no brainer. Come on, you gotta do better, Nick, I
know you've got more talent in there. Calm down on
that Sunday morning. All liquid diet or you know, lose
sex forever. I had a buddy of mine, a radio friend,
(32:11):
who did a liquid diet years ago, and he lost
a lot of weight and then he started eating food
again and gained it all back. So what's the point?
You know, what's the point? You know, it's because it
to to maintain you have to continue on the liquid diet.
I that's what I've heard my friend. That was his experience.
Daniel Daniel in Ohio. Last one, he says sports are
never going to go away because I guess the sporting question.
(32:34):
They're never gonna go away because sports are just games,
competition and distractions. Well, really, a lot of things in
life are just distractions. Right. There's a lot of important
stuff and then everything else is a distraction. But he says,
but what do you think would need to happen to
bring our interest or the salaries of players, coaches, et
cetera back down to reality. That is from Daniel in Ohio. Well,
(32:57):
I would have said a global pandemic would have on that,
but we just had one and it didn't do ship
to the amount of money that people in sports are making.
So the thing that will kill the golden goose is
if television no longer pays the bills. Television is the
sugar daddy. I know it's moving to the Internet. And
(33:18):
if we get to the point where TV no longer
can draw the numbers to it's all. It all trickles
down from television. These sports leagues are just TV networks there.
They just provide programming to TV networks. So if the
audience isn't there and they can't monetize it and then
give the money to the sports leagues, they don't make
(33:39):
enough to maintain the books, right Danny, with it just
ticket sales is not enough to pay forty five billion
dollars to your quarterback or your left field or you're
starting pitchers. So that's the thing. Outside of that, it's
essentially bulletproof. But television that's the thing or whatever television
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becomes TV meals yeah, for sure, for sure, all right,
we'll get out on that. Anything to promote here, Danny,
anything at all. It is Sunday. I will be back.
I can tell you. I'll be back in the Magic
Radio Box God Willing tonight at eleven PM in the
West after the NFL hopefully after Game seven of the
World Series. And I'll be on until three am Pacific
(34:26):
six am, so that's two am to six am Eastern
time where most people live. So I'll be that and
it's my one day off of the week. So hopefully
the Raiders can bounce back against the Jags. Maybe their
offense will show up this week they get off the
bus and uh. And then tomorrow in the afternoon from
two to four pm Pacific time, I'll be on with
(34:48):
Covino and Rich. I'll give you a high fives, alright,
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(00:45):
clearly not and off. As we are hanging out in
the podcast, do Joe and Danny, I am looking forward
to the mail bag. We had an interesting weekend so far.
We had Benny versus the Penny on Friday, which we
always do, and gave all my NFL picks, and then
we had a dueling Banjo's thing with spilled drinks and
(01:07):
driving long distances and other random things that popped up
on the podcast on Saturday. Yeah, man, you're officially a
Phoenix sun right now. Man, oh man, what a what
a drive? What a long drive? Well we'll be making
that drive, Danny. Yeah, super Bowl, super Bowl Baby, Maybe
we can stay at Turk's house. We'll we'll, we'll harass
(01:30):
Turk and make him put us up in his house
for a night or something like that. We'll see. Or
we can just drive back. Who knows, we go for
a day and drive outs a long long way to haul.
But why not with that? Oh yeah, yeah, that's diarrhea?
All right. These are actual questions by actual listeners on
the mailback. Before we get started, we must queue up
(01:50):
the band and our man, Ohio, al it's all right,
great job as always, Ohio all what a smart man
(02:13):
he knew by making that little ditty that that thing
would get airplay every weekend on this podcast. Genius genius
move by Ohio. A good job by him, and we
start out. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah,
start out with Mike from Fullerton. These these messages sent
(02:36):
either via email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
no numbers, all letters, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
or the Facebook page which is Ben Mallard's show, our
show Facebook page. So Mike from Fullerton rights and he says, Hey, Ben,
I have a hard old radio question for you this week.
Generally our national sports radio guys supposed to be welcoming
the fans of every franchise, even if it's the cheating
(03:01):
as rows. The fact that you actually give strong opinions,
including the negative ones, on My Angels, is a big
reason why I'm a fan of the show. But I'm
curious if trashing a franchise, no matter how well deserved,
breaks some kind of national radio handbook or something. All right,
So so, Mike, there there's really no handbook that I
(03:24):
know of. Maybe I didn't get the talking points from
from management, but it's really how I got into to radio,
and it has changed. I will agree with you, Mike,
that the business has changed. It's a lot more cheerleaders
and there's people that are in the tank for the
hometown team and all that, and that wasn't how it
was when I got in to radio. And I guess
(03:46):
I'm becoming one of the last and the Mohicans these days.
But there are a bunch of people in certain cities
that do it. It really goes by market, and I
was lucky enough to work in the Boston market a
little bit remotely, and that's a town where they trash
the Red Sox if they play poorly. The patriots of
the Celtics. Philadelphia is a town like that New York,
although even that's changed a little bit. But as far
(04:09):
as the national stuff now, all we get told by
management unless I miss something here, Danny is do a
good show, do an engaging show, doing entertaining show, keep
people listening as long as you can possibly keep people listening.
And however you do that, whatever you do to create
(04:31):
an audience and to captivate an audience is what you
have to do. And just don't get us in trouble.
Am I correct? Danny? Isn't that pretty much the mantra
from from management? Well, Hollywood, my man, that radio handbook
you spoke of is in your company email, in your inbox. Well, man,
(04:53):
let me tell you about man. We're gonna make you famous. Yeah,
there's no there's no hand book. It's just supposed to
be glued to your radio type programming. In other words,
if I'm driving home Ben late at night and you're
on the radio and I pull into my driveway, you're
so compelling that I don't want to get out of
(05:14):
my car. Yeah, or whoever the guy is on the radio,
whether it's me or Danny g or whoever, Like, if
something happens and your thought is, I wonder what numb
nuts thinks about this, you know, And I happen to
be the numb nuts. Like that's a good thing, right
if you're And unfortunately, we do have a number of
(05:36):
people that do look forward to it. And and and
in the same people Danny like to bust my balls
when I when I give something out and give an
opinion out and all that stuff. And but that's fine
as long as you're as long as you're listening. But
I do think the business has shifted, the pendulum has
shifted away from being critical. And there's a lot a
lot more people that are doing this now that are
(05:56):
not not holding people accountable, and they're they're making excuses,
and I find that as dull as dishwater. Other people,
I guess like it. I don't know, to each their own.
It's an acquired taste. I didn't grow up listening to
sports radio like that, so I'm not used to it,
and I don't really enjoy it, but there's clearly an
(06:17):
audience for it. But I like throwing haymakers. Well, the
great Petros and money say that there's only one thing
that gets more ratings than sports. And that's fun. So
when you have shows that have a lot of fun
games and content and fun callers and things like that,
to me, that's the best radio that's on the radio. Yeah,
(06:41):
it's like making uh, spaghetti or something. There's different spices
you can put in there, and different seasoning you can
add and changes the taste and the flavor of the
the meal. And so that's how that goes. But thank you, Mike.
Next up Hill Billy, Mike writes in and he says,
(07:02):
you know, Benjamin Danny Gee, I've been hearing about raising
canes off and on. You've talked about it over the years,
and your go to for substituting one thing for something else.
I never paid much attention to it, he'll bully, Mike says,
because we didn't have them here, but they're building one
right down the road from him in Chester, Virginia. And
(07:26):
I wanted your go to, all right, So so he'll
be with Mike. My go to it raising canes. I
go Keniak combo, no cole Slaw, no veggies, no cole Slaw,
extra fries. There's also if you like the bread they
toasted on one side. But if you ask for it
toasted on both sides. They'll give you a fresh piece
of bread, get it toasted on both sides, and then
(07:48):
I normally get lemonade easy ice, and then when I
drink the lemonade, I then fill it up with one
of the uh, the regular beverages that they have there.
So that's that's my go to. I love raising cane
better than any other chicken joint that's out there, including
the big one that doesn't open on Sundays there, so
(08:08):
Chick fil A I like raising canes more. But that's
my my go to. I'm all about it. But like
everything else, the price has gone up up in a way,
Danny right. It used to be fast food with cheap food.
Now not so much. Yeah, And unfortunately where I live now,
there's no raising canes in my backyard, but if there was,
I would have to go on a solo mission there.
(08:29):
I have to deduct points from Mike Cleopatra because I
took her to raising keynes when we were visiting San
Diego or Temecula. Rather we were in Temecula. I took
her to a raising canes ben. She turned her nose up.
She thought it was overfried. She didn't like it. She's like, well,
I don't understand what all the hype in the fuss
was about. And right then I had to really do
(08:52):
some deep introspection. Yes, that's the exact word I was
looking for, because at that point I just wasn't sure
if I was with the right woman. Yeah, that can
that can end a relationship. You know, people think we're
kidding here, but no, I mean that's a that's a
deal breaker for a lot of people. You gotta think
(09:13):
how many meals you eat today, how many times you
would like to go get that nice fried chicken from
Raising Kines. They had to buy a commercial on this
show we're giving away. But it's you're right, and I
mean I have similar issues with my my bride. She
she has like a gluten free diet that she's on
most of the time, so she doesn't need a lot
(09:33):
of a lot of bread. I like bread, but I
only eat once a day. So when I eat, I
go big. I go big and I go home is
what I do. And so we go back and forth.
But the cool thing is she doesn't really care. I
can eat, we can eat separate things as long as
we're kind of in the same area. So it's all
it's all good there, all right. Next up on the
mail bag, Berry from Music City USA, right saying yo
(09:55):
yo mob Benny. He says, uh, the sound bite of
no Barrowe is awesome, and I know it took Jake
Warner a long time to find that sound bite and
you loved it. Was there ever sound bites for number
two through number nine by the same artist? Would you
(10:18):
take a new drop of number one to ten? But
a talented artist, I would love to have drops for
number two through nine. Alex Tisher actually knows one of
our engineers. He he knew where some of those bites were,
but they're not the same voice. Guy, He says, I
think you should send out a call to the Mallam
Militia to make those for you. Well, that's a great idea.
(10:41):
That's a great idea, Barry, if somebody wants to send
in now. They gotta sound good though, right there, and
they can't be cheesy. You know the nineties band you
had it, You had one on KRT as well, your
name Jingle. Yes, I still have a cart somewhere. I
still have the cart. I love that, by all. I
have that cart some where in my collection here as
(11:01):
well for my name, And there used to be donuts
that we played on the radio station. And then right
in the middle of that quote unquote donut, you would
play your name jingle, so it would be like back
to back fresh jams. Danny G. Yeah, I love it.
I love it. I have a nerd when it comes
(11:22):
to jingles. There's a great jingle place in Dallas that
makes most of those professional radio jingles. And the famous
story is that Clayton Kershaw's father worked at that place
in the in Dallas. So yeah, dad was a radio
helped make radio jingles. Do you know if that place
(11:44):
is still around? Uh, yeah it is. For some reason,
I'm having a mental block, but yeah, they'll make you
jingle for They have singers that go in and sing
the jingles and stuff. That's awesome. I want one for
the fifth hour. I know. I would love to get
one for the fifth I don't know how much they
would charge us, probably a lot because we're associated with
the big corporation. They don't realize that this is mostly
(12:06):
a mom and pop shop. But it's uh big time.
Uh what is it? It's I'm trying to thank you.
Let me see if I can I know the gist
of it. Let me see. It's in Dallas, and let
me see. I give them a plug here because they're
(12:27):
really they're really good here. Jam Yeah, Jam Creative Productions,
Jam Create. It's called it jingles dot com. What a
perfect website. What a perfect website, jingles dot com. And
they make radio jingle station I d s like Danny
was referencing and all that, and they also do it
for I guess they'll do it for anybody. So if
(12:48):
you have your podcast like this, they'll they'll do it.
And it's pretty cool, pretty cool. It was called JAM.
It was called JAM Productions before, but now it's called
just al right, it's just still called Jam Production. It's
called JAM. I thought it was called something else before.
But anyway, jingles dot com is the website. So I'm
gonna send an email to Scott to see if he'll
(13:09):
allocate some budget for some jingles. That would be awesome. Yeah,
I would love that. I would love a new fresh
Ben Mallard jingle and uh, and then one for this
show for you, and then you could do it for
for for your other show, right for for Cavino and
Rich you could have a jingle made for them. I'm
sure they would love jingles. Oh they're radio guys, they
(13:29):
would love that. Come on, it would be all about it.
They'd be like, yeah, it's so exciting. Oh, it's so good. Alright,
Next up, Pierre. Let's see we have Pierre from sixth
place in the Mallard Militia Fantasy football contest on DraftKings.
(13:51):
He says, Man, I believe that you sleep less than
I do. That is, unless you are not, in fact,
actually posting on so social media and are allowing your
vast social media team to handle such petty duties. I
guess my question is how many people does Fox Sports
Radio employed to maintain the social media empire of the
(14:15):
media giants such as yourself. Well, Pierre, we're never supposed
to talk about how we make the hot dogs, isn't
that what we say? Danny, You can't talk about how
you make the hot dogs and ruin the magic of
how this is all made. But there is an army
of people behind the scenes. It's a small army. It's
the size of the Vatican's army. But it's a small,
small group that defends the social media channels. And if
(14:38):
you only take turns, if you only knew who was
in the watch tower. It would amaze you if you
had that kind of intel. Are you gonna pay the
eight dollars a month for Twitter or are you gonna
build that to the company? Oh I am not. I
am not paying. If the company wants me to be verified,
they have I hear they have the money to afford that. Um,
(15:02):
but are you gonna pay eight dollars a month to
get verified? Any Are you gonna go down that road?
It doesn't affect me, so I don't care. Now it's
it's gonna be a badge of honor now to not
have the blue check mark. Yeah, I see. Like the
whole point of it was it was special because you
had to earn it. You didn't pay for it something,
they had to give it to you. But now it's
if you just buy it, it's not really that special
(15:24):
because anyone can get it. You know, a couple of
years ago, when I looked into getting my my page verified,
they got back to me and they said, cool, you're
in line to get the check mark. All you need
to do is have a website now so we can
verify you. I did the website and then I heard
back saying we're pausing all verifications at the moment, so
(15:47):
it was just for me. It was a black hole
and not at the Oakland Coliseum. Well that sucks. I
had to jump through a bunch of hoops. I've told
the story before. I just send my driver's license in
and they had to get all my personal information. They own.
Twitter has all my information. You see all the athletes
(16:08):
and celebrities that have been tweeting saying if you don't
know who I am, if I haven't earned this, screw you.
I'm not gonna pay. Yeah, well, we'll see how this
plays out. And people are upset because you know, when
something's free and then you charge for it, Why would
you pay for something you were getting for free? You
know what I mean? Like it's like the old line
about the why buy the cow if you're getting the
(16:31):
milk for free? You know, the the dating line we
heard back in the day with me you get me
that good stuff got mail. Next up is Adrian in
the Mile High City. He says, Ben and Danny g
are buddy, Adrian. I've been singing the Dodger blues the
last couple of weeks. The Dodgers always have great regular
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seasons and then suck at a time they cannot suck
during the playoffs. I don't know why I thought this
season would be different. The Big Blue Choking Crew cost
me my Dodger World Series Championship wager. Sorry about that, Adrian,
He says, go Phillies, and then he points out he's
who's writing this and who knows. Now it's Sunday. Maybe
(17:13):
the World Series is over by now, but things were
looking good for the Phillies at the time he sent
this in. He says, speaking of the cheaters, Big Ben
had me. You had me laughing my ass off and
the meter reader car when you were saying that you
would no longer be a Dodger fan if they signed
Carlos Correa this offseason. F albub. Now, I was not kidding, Adrian.
(17:37):
A lot of people thought I was exaggerating. No, no
I am. I am so far on the side of
the aisle, which is anti assholes that if the Dodgers
signed an asshole Carlos Correa, I'm out. I'm out. I'll
still watch baseball, I'll bet on baseball like Pete Rose,
but I am not going to invest myself in a
(17:58):
franchise that law lost a World Series to a team cheating,
and he was one of the key cheaters, and then
you sign that guy down the line. I don't want
to be a party of that. And if they signed
Korey and I don't believe they will, But if the
Dodgers do, I'm out. I'm out. As long as he's
wearing Dodger blue, I'm not. And so that's the way
(18:20):
it is. That's how strongly I feel. And that is
a That is a deal breaker for me. That is
a deal breaker. And I don't think they'll do it.
I think they'll sign Dan's by Swanson or bring back
Trade Turner, or signs Andrew Bogart's, any of those guys,
not Carlos Carey, Dan's by route, that's better. And you
know what, man, it would be like if Machado returned
(18:42):
to the Dodgers. He has such a punchable face, so
does Correa. I can't imagine those guys wearing Dodger blue
right now. You'd want to punch your TV screen. Yeah,
Krea is just a dick. I don't want the guy
on the team, and they shouldn't want him either. He's
bad news. He's bed news Bears is what he is,
just like Eddie's Halloween costume. Bad news Bears all right,
(19:06):
next up? Actually, well there's more from Adrian. But wait,
there's more. He says, As you fellas know, I listened
to podcast while driving around and reading water meters. Well,
of course I have to make pitch stops here and
there to use the restroom, which means I stop at
a lot of porta potties or outhouses. Oh boy along
the way. Why is it that some of the most
foul things someone can think to say are written in
(19:30):
black sharpie on the walls of the outhouse or the
porta pisser? Also, whose idea was it to start that?
Most of the time those things are disgusting, and I'm
trying to piss and get the hell out of there
as quickly as possible, not stick around in there and
scribble out a nasty racist message your thoughts get Yeah,
(19:53):
it's it's always been that way every in the old
bathroom writing. So I guess the because the theory would
be that assholes are attracted to ship, and so there's
shipped in there, and so the assholes that they get
excited by that, the schmucks and the mama Lukes, so like, hey,
I can they can write nasty stuff and nobody will
know it's me, and I'll get away with it because
(20:15):
there's no cameras in here. And why are there so
many accidents inside there? Though? People suddenly lose their aim
as soon as they step into a border potty. Yeah,
and also there's a lot of weird things that people
put in the bowl, which is actually a bowl that
you would never put in your toilet at home. They
(20:36):
use it as a trash can. Oh, it's so disgusting, nasty.
He gives gives me the willie's just even hearing his
email about those things. I mean, that's last resort town
right there. Man. I was at a high school football
game a couple of Fridays ago, and of course when
I went to look for the restroom, they had porta
potties lined up, and I was like, oh God, I
(20:57):
gotta piss so bad though, So I went in there,
Ben and I did the old T shirt over the nose. Yeah,
still didn't help. Now, well, we have a competitive advanch
over the women, but it's still still not great. I
was using hand sanitizer for ten fifteen minutes NonStop after
that you'd rather go out in the woods and go
behind a tree or something like that. The lastly, Adrian
(21:20):
says that Phil in cat Brandon from a couple of
weeks ago, he says he sounds like Pinocchio from the
Shrek movies. If he ever fills in again, you should
have him say I'm a real boy like Pinocchio did
in the movie. He goes, wow. All right. Anyway, says
the Broncos get the w against the Jags in London.
(21:44):
Those high knees on the plane paid off. He says,
Broncos country, Let's ride. Quoting Russell Wilson. He says, I'll
be listening to the Friday Penny podcast to see who
Ben takes in the Denver UH and Tennessee a game.
He points out here. So anyway, Adrian, that's Adrian of
(22:06):
the Mile said he sent in some photos of Halloween,
and I gotta tell you doing some good costumes here.
But the one that I was most impressed with your
son dressed up as an in and out employee. That's
really good. That is a So I don't think you
bought all that. I think some of that you just made.
And that's that's really cool. They're so good job. I
(22:30):
saw it in and out costume in my neighborhood on Halloween.
It made me so hungry. That's good look, man, I
gotta tell you that's a good look, so solid job.
And I love that you and your wife at the
Bronco game. They lost the game, but you both had
the nice You had the old school Bronco logo, which
I love. I love that old Bronco logo because it
(22:52):
makes me flashback to when I was a kid and
I used to the Broncos would always be in prime
time because Pat Bowl and the old owner right didn't
he he was on the television committee. So the Broncos always,
even when they weren't that good, would always end up
on a lot of Monday night football games. Cool by
Loo Broncos. Last, we'll keep it going here. Who is
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who is next? On the old the mail bag? I
got mail? Yea, I got mail ya all right? Kevin
and Kansas says, do either of you have a fond
memory of some earlier sitcoms? I'm thinking the Turkeys Can't
Fly episode of w k RP and sent to Nati
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or the finale of mash You both see him up
on pop culture, so I figured i'd I tap your
your memories. Oh yeah, I loved sitcoms back in the day,
and when I was a kid, there wasn't the Internet,
so we watched a lot of TV at the house.
I mean I watched everything from uh the what was
the the Well? The Jefferson's, watched that moving on up
(23:58):
to a was a penthouse on the west side or
something like that. Whatever it was, Three's coming up, Yeah,
Three's coming to the east side. There there there, Uh
Bosom Buddies, we went with Tom Hanks that was on.
Of course, Uh Mork and Mindy you go down the list, man.
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We were big TV people. We were big TV people
in the day, and we loved being offs of spinoffs
of spinoffs. Yeah, watch Cheers, Mash, all those, all those.
You didn't watch Mash. When that would come on, that
would be a signal to turn the TV channel or
turn it off. Remember my older brother getting up when
(24:41):
the old Master reruns would come on, and he always grumbled,
this show sucks. We were too young. We didn't understand
anything going on in that show. So yeah, I we
had it on. I didn't like the bloody stuff either,
but I loved Hawkeye and I actually or or Clinger
(25:01):
believe we'll see what had? You see what had? I'm wearing, Danny,
this was this is an homage. A listener sent me this,
but in a homage to mash it looks kind of blurry.
I thought it was a death row hat. No, I'm
wearing a Toledo mud Hans hat. I have a Toledo
mud hands hat which was warm dog sent you that. No, No,
he sent me some weed, not that, not this smoke weed.
(25:25):
But on any specific moments, I mean I watched tons
of stuff. I don't know if any anything. I remember
the last episode of Cheers when everyone went on Jay
Leno and they were all hammered. Oh, speaking of that,
how about Johnny Carson's very last show. That was big
tonight we had that on. It was always I hated
the music acts. I wanted more comedy. I hated the interviews.
(25:45):
I loved the monologue of Carson. I love that. I
love when they did some funny bits, stick his bits.
Those were good. The headlines thing you know here. I
remember everybody gathering around the TV the night of his
final show. It was a big deal. Yeah, David Letterman
was was big also Letterman early days before he became
(26:07):
the main eleven o'clock where he talked about his NBC
bosses all the jib. Yeah, he talked NBC and ge
Right was in the Electric that owned owned the company,
and he'd mocked them and he just do crazy stuff
that It was wonderful because we didn't have the inn.
Now people do that crap all the time on TikTok,
(26:28):
but in our day back in the Stone Age, Danny,
that's that was amazing. That was like, this is the
greatest thing ever. Yeah, and he actually had good music acts. Yeah,
him and well Paul Schaeffer and they brought they brought
random people, but he I loved the Biff Biff Henderson
actually met him. It was the funniest thing. When I
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covered the NBA Finals in two thousand, Biff Henderson was
at the finals there and it was not an act.
He really did not want to be there. It was
so funny because you think of that as kind of
a stick and all that he did not want to
be there. We saw him at the hotel in Indianapolis
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and he was really bummed out that he was. It
was hilarious. I thought that was an act. But there
were no cameras. He was just like literally depressed. Maybe
that's just how we always looked. I don't know, I
have no idea, but it was. I have fun memories
of the Letterman show. Moving on, we got time for
a couple more quick ones here as we blast off
and says greetings Bob, Ross, Benny and King Danny. G
(27:29):
cool recap of the house party on the show, and
happy halfway on Benny versus the Penny. Neil, This is
from Neil from the Real Miami. But this week I
have downloaded your podcast from pick the Picturesque West Coast
of Ireland. And interestingly the commercials actually have Irish advertisements
(27:51):
along with some promos for other I Heart shows. So
Mallard Militia members. Neil rights in don't blame Ben for
commercial you get. Apparently they are custom made by location.
Had a chance to hear your show in rainy Galway, Ireland,
and this is pretty neat Dan. He sent a photo
(28:13):
here and in the photo he's on a boat and
he's holding up he's got his phone, he's holding it
up and you can see the the logo for the
podcast right there and then behind him to paint the
picture because it's it's an audio thing here it's not.
(28:35):
But the faint picture he's on it appears to be
on a boat, and or maybe he's just on land,
but he's he's near a body of water, and then
behind him is a row of houses. So is this pretty? Uh,
it's pretty neat. It's one place that's on my list
too to travel to someday. Yeah. I actually wrote back
(28:56):
to Neil and I said, my my wife's the same way.
She wants to go to take me to Ireland and
in that part of the world. And so I wrote
back and said, Hey, you gotta let me know the
good places to go and and all that. He says.
For the question, Neil rights and he says, it's clear
you are traumatized by calls email from the Fox Sports
radio bosses. That is true. But have you ever avoided
(29:17):
a call from the boss and only found out that
he wanted to give you a huge compliments about your
monologue that day or any others? It's that like your
talent or shows. If so. No, I've worked at this
company for twenty years. I don't think I've ever gotten
a you're really good call? Uh? And no, no disrespect
(29:39):
to management or anything like that. I just don't think
i've maybe have you gotten it, Danny, I've never gotten
that phone call. I've never got you know, I just
want to say how good you are. I've never gotten that.
I mean, I've gotten calls where there was a compliment
to start the call, but that's not why the call
was going on. Well, it's the compliments, sand which all
bosses do. You are with a compliment, you then get
(30:02):
to the point you actually want to make, which is
the person's socks and they're terrible at their job, and
then you finish with a compliment. Yeah, your show yesterday.
I was laughing my ass off. And by the way,
I need you to work on extra seven hours this Saturday. Yes,
exactly exactly. It's And when I get a call from
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management and it starts with a compliment, I am then
waiting for the other shooter drop. I'm like, Okay, they
don't really believe that. What are they really getting at?
What what is the gist of this phone call here?
And so I'm waiting for it. I'm waiting for it.
I'm waiting for it. And the suspense of what they're
gonna say, Ben sucks. How dare you so? But I'd
(30:44):
love for them to check in every once in a
while and say, hey, this is I have heard from
some people in sales that have had like clients that
are fans of the show, and they're the funniest thing
about that, though, Danny is they're always surprised. They're always surprised,
like you're doing the Overnight Show. I don't understand this.
I don't understand why the clarent likes you, but whatever,
you know, it's like kind of like that backhanded compliment thing.
(31:06):
But I digress. A couple of quick ones, Nick and
Wisconsin says banning Danny g I enjoyed the would you
rather questions, so I'm going to going back to the well,
would you rather give up your favorite food forever? Or
give up sex? That is from from Nick and So.
(31:26):
So I do love chicken fingers my favorite food, but
guess what, I also loved Philly cheese steak, and I
love Chinese food, and I love Mexican food. I love
crunchy tacos. So I am gonna I'll give up the
chicken fingers. What about you, Danny g Oh, I'm a
smoothie drinking pool. At that point, I'll just live on smoothies.
If you're taking all my favorite foot away. No, no,
he said, just one. He said your favorite dish. That's it.
(31:50):
Whatever your favorite. He needs to come correct with those.
Would you rather that's an easy answer. Yeah, that's a
no brainer. Come on, you gotta do better, Nick, I
know you've got more talent in there. Calm down on
that Sunday morning. All liquid diet or you know, lose
sex forever. I had a buddy of mine, a radio friend,
(32:11):
who did a liquid diet years ago, and he lost
a lot of weight and then he started eating food
again and gained it all back. So what's the point?
You know, what's the point? You know, it's because it
to to maintain you have to continue on the liquid diet.
I that's what I've heard my friend. That was his experience.
Daniel Daniel in Ohio. Last one, he says sports are
never going to go away because I guess the sporting question.
(32:34):
They're never gonna go away because sports are just games,
competition and distractions. Well, really, a lot of things in
life are just distractions. Right. There's a lot of important
stuff and then everything else is a distraction. But he says,
but what do you think would need to happen to
bring our interest or the salaries of players, coaches, et
cetera back down to reality. That is from Daniel in Ohio. Well,
(32:57):
I would have said a global pandemic would have on that,
but we just had one and it didn't do ship
to the amount of money that people in sports are making.
So the thing that will kill the golden goose is
if television no longer pays the bills. Television is the
sugar daddy. I know it's moving to the Internet. And
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if we get to the point where TV no longer
can draw the numbers to it's all. It all trickles
down from television. These sports leagues are just TV networks there.
They just provide programming to TV networks. So if the
audience isn't there and they can't monetize it and then
give the money to the sports leagues, they don't make
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enough to maintain the books, right Danny, with it just
ticket sales is not enough to pay forty five billion
dollars to your quarterback or your left field or you're
starting pitchers. So that's the thing. Outside of that, it's
essentially bulletproof. But television that's the thing or whatever television
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becomes TV meals yeah, for sure, for sure, all right,
we'll get out on that. Anything to promote here, Danny,
anything at all. It is Sunday. I will be back.
I can tell you. I'll be back in the Magic
Radio Box God Willing tonight at eleven PM in the
West after the NFL hopefully after Game seven of the
World Series. And I'll be on until three am Pacific
(34:26):
six am, so that's two am to six am Eastern
time where most people live. So I'll be that and
it's my one day off of the week. So hopefully
the Raiders can bounce back against the Jags. Maybe their
offense will show up this week they get off the
bus and uh. And then tomorrow in the afternoon from
two to four pm Pacific time, I'll be on with
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Covino and Rich. I'll give you a high fives, alright,
my hero outstanding. Thanks for supporting the podcast. We appreciate it.
Remember five stars, Tell a friend, Tell a friend, tell
a friend, two stars and five ten stars, because it's
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a great rest of your Sunday. Enjoy the games today
and we will chat with you in just a few hours.
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