December 18, 2022 • 44 mins
Ben Maller is in the studio with Danny G., having some mail bag fun for your Sunday! All questions sent in by P1's of the #MallerMilitia! Download, subscribe, and remember that sharing is caring (unless it's an STD.) Follow Danny G. @DannyGradio and Ben on Twitter @BenMaller and listen to the original terrestrial radio edition of "Ben Maller Show," Monday-Friday on Fox Sports Radio, 2a-6a ET, 11p-3a PT!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Boom. 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 gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of
hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere,
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio
No days off and we thank you for being part
of us. I know the holiday spirit is in the
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air everywhere and making us a part of holidays. Nanny,
we're audio friends, right, isn't that we're audio friends. I
think that's how that works. Yeah, that's right. You are
the Jewish Santa. So you've got all bases covered. Yeah,
I got recred, Come on pimping, get your tims off.
I gotta I gotta cross over in some more like
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different different sects. I don't know what else I can
do for the holidays. Is there is there something else
I can Maybe Hanaka Harry, that's the Jewish Shire Santa.
Hanaka Harry could do that. Um, I don't know much
about Kuanza. Is there anything in Quanza that I need
to know about or any other holidays this time, at
the time of the year. I don't know. We'll have
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our research department work on that. Yes, we we will
effort that. But this is the mail bag, Danny. I'm
so excited. We got football all day. We had football yesterday.
Don't forget Benny versus the Penny. If you missed it,
just fast forward through those Saturday games and get to
the games that are being played here on Sunday. If
you're listening to us early in the morning, yeah, go
pound sand What do you want from me? And in
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real time? Guess where I'm at right now? You are
in h Let me let me guess you are your Bally's.
Are you know? I know you're not. You're at the bellagio?
Are you the ball ding ding ding? Look at that
the bellagio? Yeah, because Ben Sunday night can't find a
better rate. Of course, after they ding you with tax
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and all those stupid resort fees. Yeah, yeah, the dumb
resort fees. It adds up. But the base rate of
the room was so low that it was still worth
it to do the booking. What if you said, hey,
I will not use the WiFi. I will not use
the pool because you can't use the pool this time
of the year anyway, they closed the pool. So what's
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the way, what's the point. That's a good point, and
you're right, and thank god we don't have a car
to park, because then what is that. That's another fifty
bucks they ding you on. It's ridiculous. And you gotta
get their their gambling club. And they used to give
the parking, well always was free, and then they changed
you gotta have a credit card. You got free parking,
but then you awards car and all that dumb ship.
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But yeah, hopefully the raiders are making Raider Nations smile
right now. Check baby Sunday, that's where I'll be. Yeah,
that's a long well, what's not a long trip. But
you're traveling, you want to you want to go there
and watch the Patriots win this game by three touchdowns?
God forbid. All right, let's get to the mail back.
These are actual messages sent by actual listeners. Danny. The
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way this works. Every Tuesday, I post on the show
Facebook page, which is Ben Maller Show a link. You
can post your comment on that link or you can
send it in private. You can send it anytime. You
send it right now if you want. I don't care.
We won't use it till next week's show. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com, all letters, no numbers. Spell
out the word fifth real fifth hour at gmail dot com,
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and put your name in there and where you're listening
to us from, and we may use your question in
a future edition of the mail Bag. Oh my god,
that is so exciting, Dan, isn't that exciting? What we'll
We'll remember you and we'll say your name. What a
great mix for that is, what an amazing thing that is.
Absolutely remember it for the rest of the year. Yeah, exactly.
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All right, what do we got here? Let's see you've
got mail. Yes, we'll start out with Terry in England,
Jolly old England, he says. Can you give some insight
into how FSR comes up with ratings? Ben, I get
podcast downloads, IP addresses, uh in the full minutia statistics
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or minute stats or whatever, he says. But how do
they know how many listen live? Do they count social
media interactions like tweets, like retweets, etcetera. They must have
a way of judging value that's from Terry in England. Yeah,
so there is no specific way to know how many
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people are listing. All of this is a guestimation based
on a survey, a sampling without getting too specific, Danny,
because I don't think we're allowed to, but there's a
sampling of the population, and it is it is pretty
much based on that, the sampling of population. And you know,
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even during the day it's no different. But for our
our purposes on the Overnight show, uh, we actually have
more people listening the last hour of the show than
earlier in the show because, uh, fortunately we're on in
the five am hour on the East Coast, and with
traffic being absolute manure just about every major metropolis in
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the United States, people are getting up earlier and earlier,
so traffic starts earlier and earlier, and so we actually
have people who are stuck in their cars trying to
beat the traffic in mild traffic that listen in Boston,
in Philadelphia, a d C in Atlanta and Miami and
those big East Coast the cities, Danny, we call him
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the corridor up and down the East Coast. So we
have more people that listen to the last hour, but
there's no specific way. We have guestimations on how many
people are listening, and they fluctuate. That's one of the
reasons that the game has changed a lot for guys
like me because of the pod podcast downloads and they
have an exact number of people that download the podcast,
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and how many people are listening on the live stream,
and we know, Danny that live stream. I heart media,
this major global conglomerate of media. Box Sports Radio has
consistently been a top five stream out of thousands and
thousands of available audio streams. Fox Sports Radio is always
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in the top five. There are tons of people listening
to us online at any given moment. Yeah, before I
was gonna say, can we forward this question to the
sales department. Yeah, you did a pretty good job explaining,
and I was going to mention that of how we
are always in the top five, that is pretty awesome
And that's just of course because of you and you're
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listening habits, So we thank you for that. Yeah, the loyalty.
It's like people that like Starbucks only will drink Starbucks,
and hopefully, hopefully people that look like this this content
will only drink our content. Right, So you're right, I
went to coffee being last week because it was right
where I was running my errands. Took a drink and
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I spit it out. It was like, where's the Starbucks? That?
That's funny, all right? Next up on the mail bag,
these are actual letters by actual people. Just played that one.
I will play it again. Uh. Pierre from the Procrastinator's
Checklist line at the Ball says Ben, last week the
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Great Danny g Radio, and you spoke of the downside
of getting older and how minor aches and pains seemed
to linger. Pierre's message continues, I had a friend once
tell me that he thought he would die sneezing someday
because of the violent nature of the sneezes as he aged.
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So get to the point, please, what is the craziest
or most embarrassing way to check out? And he says, example,
slipping on some almond butter at work and hitting your
head on the console and the last thought in your
head being that gosh darn numbnuts and his effing almond butter.
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I'll see what he did there. He took a shot
at a goldilocks, is what he did there. I see
what you did here. Very funny I mean, there's a
lot of embarrassing ways to die, and it's it's just
so depressing. I feel so bad for people when they
get old enough. We're just getting out of the fucking bathtub.
Can be your demise. You break your hip and that
leads you down the hill into the you know, the
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devil's playground. It's so disgusting to me that you get
to a point where you can't even get have a
goddamn bathtub. Um, But it's fine, Like, what what I mean,
is anything come to mind here, Danny? We're like, no, no, Yeah.
Actually I was thinking of a famous rapper. His name
was Prodigy, and he was of the group Mob Deep
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East Coast Rap Group, and he had some other off
issues going on that he was dealing with. But that's
not what killed him because I think he was battling
sickle cell. That's not what killed him, though, Ben he
choked on a hard boiled egg. Yeah, that's gotta be
the shittiest way to die. Yeah, and did this day
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I look at hard boiled eggs and I do that
devil cross with my finger. It's like bastards who killed
a famous rapper? Yeah, I would say for me that
I'm thinking about it. The people that have died, they
win the Darwin Award where they like, they're at the
Grand Canyon. They want to take a selfie, so they
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climb up to the edge of the Grand Canyon. They
stand up, and then they blast off because they fall
into the Grand Canyon. You know, like the there's there's people,
everyone's a while to and so died trying to get
the perfect photo for for Instagram or the video for TikTok,
and you're like, what the funk are you doing? You know,
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I mean, come on, but there you go. All right,
thank you for that, Pierre. Next up on the mail bag, Gussie,
I got mail, yea, I got mail. Yeah, within Nashville, right,
since his Ben Ben and Danny g Since Baker Mayfield
the Ben is your quarterback for the rest of the season,
are you concerned with his headbutting of teammates with helmets
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while he's not wearing one. Yeah, I'm not worried about that.
The rams are done, they're cooked. It doesn't that, it
doesn't matter the thing that I'm excited about. I'm not
a Baker Mayfield fan, but this is a great test
for Sean McVeigh to see if he really is the
quarterback whisper, if he can squeeze out good play out
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of Baker Mayfield, who's turned into a hurly burly, big
dummy at the quarterback position. If this guy McVeigh can
find the magic bubbles and get Baker Mayfield going that
that that excites. But watching the Rams play their bad team,
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they've earned every one of the losses there, there's no
bad beats there. They've been bad all the way through
the seasons. Been good for Baker Mayfield. But how many
fucking times was Max Crosby held in that game, including
on the winning touchdown throw? Well, like the club around
his throat, it looked like he's being choked out. Listen.
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It's a physical game. You can't call holding on every play.
And maybe maybe the Raiders should have been holding more.
Maybe they weren't, I agree, but I think they would
get called for that. Unfortunately, had enough to eat nails
over there, Danny g All, these days later, you're still
upset about an officiat. I'm only upset about the non
holding calls that were obvious on Max Crosby. I do
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feel bad for my friends. I got a lot of
friends like you, Danny, who are Raider fans? You guys
were so ready to do a victory walk like a
pimplock after that. You can't know. I wasn't Ben when
they were up by thirteen points. I saw what was
coming from a mile away. There was no way I
had victory in mind, even Nah. But being a RAM fans,
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if the Raiders had won that game, my phone would
have I would have gotten message. How's it going on
about that? Momslls not the real fans? Alright, what is
next year? Let's see any meany miney? Okay? Mo and
Benn and Danny G. This is the lovely Angelina rights in.
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Since it's been a while since writing. Angelina sent me
a a cookie recipe a while back. She says, first
need to send congrats. She gives us congratulations Danny me
on the contract I agreed to at the end of
last year, Danny G on the new time slot producing
in the marriage, and I guess I'll throw in for Angelina.
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If you listen to Saturday's podcast, Danny G has a um, um,
let's see what's the phrase here? You've got a problem
child ready to tear up a kindergarten classroom in a
few years, the next generation writer fans right there, the
next broadcast, the next podcaster warming up right now, growing
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as we speak. So congratulations from Angelina. She says she
still loves all the podcast She listens to the terrestrial
radio show, and she does like the pop culture segment,
the new pop Culture sec pop goes the culture big
fan there and she hasn't formed me Danny. She says
she is making plans to be at the Minnesota Mallard
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Meet and greet when it is officially locked in. She
says she lives just across the border. She's in Wisconsin,
but not too far away and h She says, she
was too far away to get to Appleton. I remember
that when I had a meet and greet with my my,
my Green Bay contingent of the Mallard Militias. So let's go.
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We'll be there now, Angelina. We don't have a firm
date yet, but I'm looking at my calendar. Likely sometime
in April or May. Likely sometime in April and May.
I went last week on my great sojourn two Wisconsin, Illinois,
North Carolina, Virginia. We did that in I think it
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was late April, early May. So probably around that time,
and I would love to meet you Angelina, and I
cannot wait. I I'm so excited to get to Minnesota, Dan,
this thing is gonna be a man often. There are
super fans there, so I feel like there'll be lots
of alcohol, drugs, orgies, and and there's no possibility of
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her accidentally getting pregnant. So we're gonna party. Party Hardy.
You gotta party Hardy, that's what you gotta do there.
Ah solutely, solutely, and uh yeah. So the Minister you got,
the Minnesota. Nice thing, you got, Juicy Lucy's You've got
if I if I time it right, I'll be going
there when it starts to thaw out a little bit
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in Minnesota, although it could still snow in April. So anyway,
I'm looking forward to I cannot wait. We've had so
many great fans of the show that have been very
loyal and supported us, who listened to us on cafan,
and I I'm really fired up to meet you and
everyone else. So it's it's gonna be a lot of fun,
all right. Next up on the mail bag, we've got
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the dear Big Ben and Danny G. I think I
have a new nickname for you, the rabbi of sports radio.
That's Neil from the real Miami. He says, First, I
support your stance on fruit frugility. Is that the word
for galic frugality, for gality, gality, frugality, frugality. If I
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could talk, that would help bat job by me. Ne
you Uh, you're talking about hotel rooms. I live in
luxury here in Miami, but I hate to spend on
fancy hotels where I am just sleeping in it. I mean,
the whole point is location, So here is another perspective. Secondly,
I am wondering what is the most extreme or silly
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activity you do to save money? The highway laundry cart
story was a good one, But is there something else
you're hiding from us? Uh? He says, well, you know,
my my wife would be a better person to answer this,
because there's a lot of odd, quirky things that I
do that I don't even realize I'm doing that the
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famous ones before COVID, I would eat lunch by going
to two different costcos and eating samples. My wife would
drop me off and she would stay in the car
and I'd go to the first costco. I'd ease many
samples until they started getting onto me and telling me
I got to kind of get out of here. They
gave me the evil eye. So then we go to
a different costco and and then I do the whole process.
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Old he Meal get back to me after you have
some bedbug bites from your motel stays. I'm telling you,
then hotels are not something to pinch pennies on. I disagree.
I I'm with Neil. Neil's with me on this. If
you're not you're not going to stay. Just it's not
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an all inclusive resort, is what I'm trying to point out. Like,
you're you're in Vegas, right, Danny. You're at the Blagi,
and the Blagi is a fine hotel. I walked through
the Blaggio many times. But you can get a you
can get the many of the amenities of the Blagio
by staying at the Motel six or the Easy eight
hotel and just walking to the Bellagio and walking around
and gambling. And you can get murdered at the Motel six,
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get murdered anywhere. It's like, come on, he's out there,
you are right. Thirdly, Neil says a note to Lea Kline.
How about that who clowns the Mallard Militia. You were
the pioneer, Neil says, in diversity and inclusion of radio
with such a wide ranging audience from the homeless to
the elite rocket scientists. And he says, lastly, are you
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still doing cameo? Yes, yes, Neil, I am still doing cameo.
In fact, that just got a cameo the other day.
I gotta get on that because I have not done
that bad job by me. I've had some other assignments
I cannot talk about that have kept me busy. But
that's like five thou extra Christmas dollars in your pocket
after they take the cut Cameo gets and Apple gets
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it's about a dollar. It's about a dollar, but they
get all the money I get. I getting out of it. Um.
But but thank you, Neil, And that is true. We
have homeless dudes, and we've I've had email from from legitimate,
really smart professors and scientists and scholars. It blows me away,
fascinates me that that we have the same exact show
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that from all worlds, all the from spectrums. They they
seem to like the show. Kevin in Kansas writes in
as we continue chopping down the mail bag the mail tree,
and Kevin says, dear Ben and Danny g He says, Ben,
the other night the Gremlins struck your show. That is true.
How you and the crew worked through the issue was
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not only amazing but entertaining. Well thanks. My question for
both of you, how do you make such a technical
snaffoos seem like no big deal when you're on the
live air with the millions of people listening. It was amazing, Kevin.
Kevin points out, So, yeah, Danny, forget what night it was,
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but I was an hour two I was. I was
doing this heartfelt monologue, my my eulogy to Mike Leached. Yeah,
and I'm I'm and I'm really laying and and I
usually do negative radio. I'm trying to I really loved
Mike Leach. I was a huge fan of it is
And yeah, I was really sappy, but no, I mean,
I'm a fan and the guy that I was around
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a little bit when his coach at Washington State at
Pack twelve events packed ten events back then. Oh, I
love Mike Leach. We had him on out kick all
the time, and Clay would always say, would you mind
staying for another segment, and of course he said yeah
because he loved to talk. Oh yeah, he left an
impression on me. And so I was doing this big
tribute and then right around the end of it, I
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was I was putting the bow on it, dotting the
eye like I was in the Ohio State Band, and
I heard this noise and it sounded really bad, you know,
it sounded bad, but I kept going. I actually finished
the monologue because usually what happens is sometimes in my
head I think something went sideways and it didn't, so
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I just kind of keep going, and then I finished
the monologue. I did the commercial reads I had to do.
I'm doing the commercial read for for tire rack dot
com and for the credit card and all that discover
and then I look over at my equipment. All these
red lights are flashing and they're like, oh ship ye.
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Then my phone starts blowing up, you know. It's it's Roberto,
it's Coop. They're calling me, Hey, you're down, your lines down,
you know, and I'm like, how many minutes were you
talking to yourself? Um? Then it was the end. It
was so it's maybe like five minutes, but I did
a commercial to myself. I read the copy to myself.
I I did two commercials. I did a tease for myself.
Nobody else heard it. Maybe Bella, my dog, Bella heard it.
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But that was how was about it. But but I
mean to answer you a question, Kevin, it's has a
ratings diary. I know, I know, right drop that in
Bella helped me out. You since you're you're dropped ship
and piss all over the house, you can help me out.
But to answer your question, Kevin, here's my philosophy. This
is my philosophy. I'm broadcasting. I overprepare. I do everything
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in my power to get ready to do a good show,
a professional show, and it is as put all of
my effort in every single show. I don't want to
be let go. I will be I've said this many times.
I will be let go. At some point the company
will get rid of me. But they will not get
rid of me because of my performance. They'll get rid
of me because either I make too much money or
I'm too old or whatever. But it's not because the
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show is bad. So that's always been when you accidentally
say on the air, oh my god, jeez, I didn't
even know what that word was, Daddy, I had looked
that up. I didn't. I had never heard that word before,
and uh, oh my god when I looked it up. Geez. Anyway, man,
we used to say that word on the radio when
I was a kid. Because there's a rap song with
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that word in the title. I've I don't maybe I
heard it. I don't remember ever hearing that word. I mean,
I've heard words that sound like that, but never that.
But but anyway, Kevin, so I here's my get my flags.
I were prepare. I'm always ready. So things happen that
are out of my control. I don't really worry about it,
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like I'm ready to go. That's that's not my snaff Foo,
what happened? I mean, it's not that you know, I'm
obviously responsible for what happens on the show. But that's
a technical gliph that said, I put that in the
act of God category, Danny, that's what I put it in. Well,
God has struck you down several times. Then active WiFi.
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Al right. Next up on the mailbag, we've got Noah
from Austin. He says, what's cooking? My guys? Question to
both Danny G and you Big Ben, what activities usually
take place on your off days? I wants to know?
And he also would like to alert everyone in the
mallamis you know Noah from Austin is signing up? He will,
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he'll be one of our paid callers. In says he'll
be calling the show once we get past New Year's
so we will have a new caller, Noah from Austin. Well, no,
if you become a regular, we're gonna have to give
you a nickname. Pushing the boundaries, So what do we
do on our office? We do stuff that we should
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be doing during the week, but we focus on our jobs. Danny.
I do a lot of shopping, cooking, that kind of stuff.
Take it easy, things that need to be done around
the house that I don't do during the week. So
that's that's a lot of it. I say, I'm going
to do that stuff on Sunday, which is my only
day off. In reality, I watched football and take a
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nap and I don't get anything done. But but then again,
we have to watch football for what we do for
a living, so it is productive. Say, double edged Sword,
we have the ultimate excuse. So many guys wish they
could have when they talked to their wives. Ah, yeah, sorry,
I gotta watch the game. My wife's figures, Well, you
can just watch on your phone. We can go do
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something watching. Yeah, it's not the same, No, it's not.
But and I also have to spend time with her
because during the week working overnight. Says, you know, you
don't spend a lot of time with your significant other,
which is a good thing and a bad thing anyway,
depending on how you look at it. Pete from Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
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right so, and he says, what was your best president
you ever received? What was your worst time? We've gotten
this before. Best president he ever gave, worst president? Blah
blah blah, he says, excluding sex toys and dolls because
he's in Iowa. And Pete does not want us to
talk about all the sex toys we purchased. But um,
and I don't. I don't remember specific and there's nothing
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at this point. I'm sure I've given some examples in
the past, but off the top of my head right now,
I kind of block everything out and move on. I
think the greatest gift I've ever gotten recently as an
adult is that ice machine that my there was a
hunting honeymoon gift my wife got for us and I
love that thing. I used that thing all the time.
That ice machine is is amazing. How boring is that?
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My My favorite gift in life is an ice machine?
My God, do I suck? What about you, Danny answer
the p uh? Well, let's see was it? Two birthdays
ago my tender Ronie got me a nice iPad that
I needed, and then for Valentine's Day she got me
the magnetic keyboard case that goes with it, and that
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helps me out at work every day. So that was
a really nice gift. And the last gift I gave
a couple of months ago it was Rich's birthday from
Covino and Rich and before the show, I found a
card shop on my ways app went in there and
got him a graded Jacob deGrom rookie card. Oh that's cool,
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and and he loved it because obviously a huge Mets fan,
but of course de Grom is a trader and not
on the Mets anymore. That's cool. You know I did get,
now that I'm thinking about it, I got you, brought
you sparked my mind. Here a member of the Malamusha
I will not say who a very prominent member of
the Malamusha blessed me with a Sandy Kofax autograph like
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it was really cool like this. It was a couple
of years ago, and that is a very valuable piece
of sports memobilia that that I got. I am very
grateful for that. Next up on the mailback Mike from
Sacramento Rights and it says I called a couple of
years back and shared my full name. I remember this guy.
We I think you might have been on the show, Danny.
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This guy claimed his name was Michael Troy Emmett Smith.
This guy, how awesome is that? You know you were
born in the nineties and your parents were big cowboy fans. Uh?
He says. Anyway, Mike's how did the hatred of Finley start?
I need to know the origins of this gargantuan beat,
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so I don't know if I would classify it as hatred.
It's more of a rivalry. And Brian started out. We
got along really well when Brian started. At some point
Brian went rogue and tried to gain attention by pressing
my buttons and it worked, and he did some things
that got under my skin and I felt they were
(28:09):
bad for the show, and so we started getting back
and forth and all that, and it's kind of how
that went down, and we've we've been at logger heads
ever since. But maybe we'll patch things up. You never know, Yo,
yo mob Benny. The next email says, since you're always
making the Baba ga noos, it's our friend from Nashville.
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By the way, on the radio. Have you ever made
this dish in real life? The answer is no. Uh.
Can we get you to make this on your new
griddle and post the results on Facebook? Mm hmm. I
don't think you can make Babba ganosh on the griddle,
can you? I don't think so. Covino and Rich a
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few days ago, I want to say it was Tuesday
when the show was ending. They were actually talking about
you and Bobba gan News. They were asking if you
could make something for the holidays and leave it in
the Blue kitchen. Oh, well, if you want, I mean, yeah,
I could. I could get some egg plant and make
some Babba gnoos. Absolutely yeah. They want to taste it,
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little taste. Oh you know what I should do? How
about this? I gotta get somebody who's in the food
distribution business. Benny's Baba ganos boom right, how great would
that be? Oh? A little cartoon drawing of me and
the Baba gauche being wonderful, and we already have all
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the drops for your commercial that would run on I art. Well,
the reason you cannot actually put Baba gush on the
griddle is because it's a sauce. It's like a dip.
Oh I didn't know that it's a Middle Eastern origin.
It's eggplant, garlic, lemon, lemon, red pepper and olive oil
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and some other crap. So it's it's a dip. It's
your dip chips or or bread. I think most people
in Middle Eastern culture. Do you wonder what the hell
we're talking about right now? There is a famous promo
that runs on FSR, especially on the app, and it's
been screaming about his Babba ganos. Make the baba gans
(30:20):
He will make the baba ganosh is what we're gonna make.
Calm down, keep your pants on? What do we have?
Your nick and Wisconsin, says Ben and Danny Gee. When
I was sixteen, I was able to travel to Russia
for two weeks. It was a blast. Sadly can't ever
see myself going back because about fucked up the world is.
(30:42):
Nick says that being said, is there anywhere domestically or
internationally that you don't think you'll ever be back to
and or don't want to go to? M Yeah, so
I haven't traveled internationally, Nick, I havent like you. I
You've been places I've I've pretty much been around the
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United States. So anywhere I've been I can go back to.
There's no where I can't go that I've been to.
I would like to to go out when I get
a little older and make some real money and become
an adult and travel. I know my wife wants to
see the Northern Lights and go to where her family
is from and some of the Norwegian countries, and she's
(31:24):
got family from Italy, and I'd love to see. I
was a big fan of my late grandfather in law, Luigi,
so I'd like to see where he grew up and
kind of where he started his life and and we
know the town and all that and so so that
kind of stuff would be cool. But no, but I
know I'm not banned from going anywhere, although I don't
really have, you know, I actually have family. It's weird
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because my family origins, got some Russian blood in me,
but that became the Ukraine, which is now at war
as Russia is trying to retake the land that they
used to have, which is now known as the Ukraine.
So you know, I don't know anything on your plate, Danny,
as far as travel and where you could go. Can't
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go that kind of thing. Not gonna be traveling anywhere
very far in the next nine months. But well, the
first couple of months you probably fine. It's really the back,
the back side of that that's the problem. Dating. It's
like a midway point it becomes problematic. You're right. It's
like a very mini Carlos corea contract, but in months,
(32:27):
not years, and so the front side of the contract
we could still enjoy ourselves. The back end of it
is gonna be a ship show. Uh yeah, that Core,
He'll be fine for four years. The other nine years,
you know, don't ask um. Yeah. I mean, if you've
seen the show The White Lotus on HBO, and I
(32:49):
highly recommend it, you go back, watch, go back and
watch season one. But even better is season two, which
just concluded. Season two is in Sicily and we're like, man,
we gotta go to that resort because while we were
in Whilea, we went to the Four Seasons, as you know,
and that's where they filmed the first season. So we're like, ah,
(33:13):
we went to where they shot the first season. Now
we got to go to where they shot the second season.
And I have family there in Sicily, which would be
very cool. It would be cool to visit them. And
I guess the one place where I don't give a
crap if I ever go back, would be the Central
Valley of California. Yeah, sorry, Central Valley. I go there
(33:35):
to visit family, but it smells like cowshit and the
weather is horrible and the whole time I want to
get in my car and drive to see the rest
of my family in the Bay Area. Love the people there,
Hate the actual geographical location. Yeah, it's hard working people there,
but they do live in the armpit of California. Unfortunately,
(33:58):
it's not not good all right. Next up Mike from
Fullerton Rights, and he says, have either of you ever
said something offensive or embarrassing? Not knowing there was a
hot Mike now you might be thinking. Mike says that
this exact same question was asked last week because it
was he says. He says, I got Rex Hudther's stories
instead of an answer. If neither of you had a
(34:21):
hot Mike moment, feel free to tell another Rex Hether
story or tell me if you plan to watch more
football or basketball on Christmas. Yeah, so, Mike, you're an
a hole for sending the same question again. Now, I'll
be watching the football on the Christmas That's my thing.
(34:41):
Although I will I will flip over to the NBA.
That's the start of the NBA. Christmas Days, opening day
of the NBA. All these are practice games, and so
the stars will be out on Christmas Day in the NBA.
That'll be exciting. But I'll be watching more football. And
you have any other Rex other stories about the sexy
rexy the baseball legend from back in the day. No,
(35:02):
I'll tell you a quick open mic story though we had.
It involves Roberto. Uh. Yeah. We had to cut a
Clay Travis commercial and so we go to commercial break
and Clay says, all right, let me knock this spot out.
Let me let me get this commercial done. So Roberto
thinks that he puts him in audition, which is how
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we recorded off the air when we're actually on the air.
Roberto did not hit the button all the way for
programming though, so Clay was still on the air and
Ben it was so looking back now, it's hilarious. It
wasn't a Clay at the time. But you could hear
Clay ranting and raving about whoever wrote this. He didn't swear,
(35:45):
thank god, he didn't cuss, but he was like, who
the hell wrote this crap? This is the worst written
for my wife. This is Fox, this is garbage. Who
wrote this? He was going on and on about how horrible,
how horribly written the commercial was, and didn't I already
record something similar to this a week ago. We go back,
(36:10):
we go back to the live show and he starts
getting tweets about how that stuff got on the air,
and oh boy, uh, that is uh what you just told.
Not on the air, but every single talk show host
who has had to do and I have recording sessions
every couple of weeks where I have to do voiceovers
(36:31):
for commercial and they said, whoever writes the copy? Now
they've occasionally they get it right, but usually it's about
nineties seconds a copy for sixty seconds of time, and
I like to let it breathe. Anny my style. I
like to let things breathe. I don't like the speed
read and oh it is such a debacle, a boone
(36:53):
doggle trying to knock those commercials out when they give
you way too much copy and they say we gotta
read verbatim, and well, what you can't read verbatim? God,
he didn't cuss, and thank good, he didn't say anything
bad about the client, like, he didn't say anything bad
specifically about the sponsor. He was just mad at whoever
wrote it. The funniest outtakes we ever got was Tony
(37:17):
Bruno in the early days of Fox Sports Radio, and
Tony would have to do a lot of commercials and
he would do random things. I remember every year for
Valentine's Day there would be a flower commercial, you know,
one of those hey use my name good flowers. It
was the worst copy in the world, and Tony would
inevitably screw it up and then go on about a
seven minute rant with F this, F that, screw You're
(37:39):
always hilarious. It was the funniest, funniest stuff I've ever heard,
and it was all that was all off the air,
but it was it was great, just ripping the sponsor
and flowers and this, that and the other that it
was great. Next up on the map, back into a
few more we getting late. Here we have Will in
Cansah Cities has been working at a jazz club for
a few months. It's been pretty wild. Did you think
(38:03):
they'll ever make booze that makes people smarter? Sincerely, the
very tired service industry. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Boy.
That's gotta be tough, man. People are barf in people
are a holes. You got the the angry drunks that
are people that that they drink. There's upheaval, there's a
disruption to life. Liquid courage. You got the whimps who
(38:25):
turned into bullies when they drink. You got the people
that are introverts that become extroverts and and want to,
you know, make out with everyone, you know that thing.
They get all lovey dovey. It's quite the group, all
right about that? Will? Sorry, I have nothing I can
do for you. Fred in Spring, Texas says, Hey, guys,
have either of you may had a manicure or a pedicure?
(38:48):
Did you think what do you think of it? I
had never done this fread until I got with my
wife and she dragged me to the day spa. Which
one's the feet is that? The manicure is that the
feet pedicure is your pedicure? Okay, I know I always confusing.
So I've had the pedicure and it's very awkward for me.
I don't like people touching my feet. Yeah, and it's
(39:10):
I'm self conscious. My feet are ugly. My toes are
all messed up because I had I've worn shoes that
are too small, so my toes are My toenails have
fallen off a couple of them. Then they grow back
all weird and they they're black and blue. It's disgusting.
So what about your danny anny? Same thing? I had
a former girlfriend dragged me one time to get a pedicure,
(39:33):
and I about just from the reaction the knee bone
to the footbone to the toe bone to the lady's
face bone about kicked her in the face, just out
of reaction because my feet are sensitive, and like you,
I am not comfortable with having a stranger touched my
feet and then she's poking around in there and I'm
(39:53):
not having anybody touched my nails at all. No, It's
it's it's tough, man. My loves it and I could
get it. You know, they take good care of you,
but it's just yeah, I'll go every once in a
while because it's like a couple's thing. You know, we
don't do a lot of couple of things. But well,
they up sell. My girl told me this is her
theory on it. If you dare say no to one
(40:14):
of their up cells, then they start jagging at you
to make it hurt. They're like, oh, yeah, you don't
want the hot rocks or the extra massage, here you go,
and then they jab it at your the corner of
your your toe. Yeah, I think she's onto that too.
I mean, these upset it's like you go to get
your car service and they're like, well, you know you
have this problem, but I look, it looks like your
(40:36):
brakes are a little thin, or your your tires. Maybe
they always try to upset you on something, spark plugs, whatever.
It might be our last one. Then here it is
last one. We have time for Ozzy Wise from Western Australia,
and Ozzy was and his lady friend quite the couple.
And Ozzy was right, since this is how the bloody
(40:57):
hell are you? Big Bend and Danny g Rady. Don't
know if this has been asked before, but here we go.
What is the stadium or arena that you have watched
sports from? I have been to several around Australia. From
Old Trafford in England where Manchester United plays, but person
(41:19):
owned stadium is right up there. They're having watched rugby
league and union as well as cricket and our version
of football. And you can't see this dandy, but Ozzywats
sent some photos here which are pretty cool. So I've
been lucky. Years ago, I had a gig with the
Dodgers and I got to travel around the circuit in
the National League in baseball, and I saw most all
(41:42):
of the stadiums then, and I've been able to hit
many of the stadiums that I in the American League
over the years from baseball. So the coolest stadiums I've
been to well, the historic ones Finway Park, which is
not designed for people my size, Wrigley Old Chicago, amazing experience.
(42:03):
I didn't see a game at lambeau Field, but being
in Green Bay and seeing this little small Wisconsin town
and this monstrosity of lambeau Field was really cool. Visually,
the coolest stadiums I've seen are in Pittsburgh the Pirates
Stadium with the skyline, Danny of the bridges in the
background and all that. Um, that's that's awesome. And then
(42:26):
I hate to say it, but in San Francisco at
whatever they're calling the Giants Ballpark, now it's a beautiful ballpark.
And Seattle. Seattle's got a nice stadium. But the two
most visually stunning stadiums among newer stadiums in America, asiwas,
are Pittsburgh and San Francisco. I say that, and both
(42:47):
those stadiums are probably twenty plus years old at this point.
But the beautiful Colorado, Yeah, I mean, I mean Colorado's
the well you talked me, where did you sit when
you were at the at the Rockies game? Where were you?
I've been to their stadium a couple of times. One
time I sat up high and there's a beautiful view
(43:08):
of the Rocky Mountains past the outfield. And then I've
also sat down low, but really great view from anywhere
you're at in there. And the food ben is delicious
eight dollar beef nachos and I mean fully loaded sour
cream waka moley, two kinds of melted cheese on there.
(43:32):
I mean, I'm still blown away by its still eight dollars.
It might be Mourner. Well this was last season. Yes,
because of inflation the last year, it could have gone up.
I guess. Yeah, all right, we'll get out on that.
So thank you Azzi waz as always for your loyalty.
God bless you. Thank you to Christie and salt Lake.
We did not have time unfortunately, Christie for your question. Also, uh, Matt, Mike, uh,
(43:59):
And I think I see a message here from Steve,
So thank you guys. Try again next week and we
will have a show. I know it's the big, the
big Christmas weekend and all that, right, Danny, is that
next week? And am I correcting that? I think that's
right ahead. I believe you're right. Next Saturday. Yeah, so
we will have podcasting. That's the ultimate test, Danny, if
(44:19):
we can get people to listen on Christmas weekend and
Hottka and all that going on. So we'll see what happens.
Anything to promote here. Day off today, Danny, any day
off today, But tomorrow I will be in for Covino
and Rich in the afternoon. That should be a lot
of fun. Starting at two pm on the West Coast
outstanding I'll be back. I will be back tonight live
(44:41):
radio show as we continue on here breaking down all
the NFL storylines of the weekend. Have a great day today,
Thank you for supporting this podcast, and we will catch
you next time. Later skater got a murder. Gotta go.
Boom. 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 gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of
hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:24):
with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere,
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio
No days off and we thank you for being part
of us. I know the holiday spirit is in the
(00:44):
air everywhere and making us a part of holidays. Nanny,
we're audio friends, right, isn't that we're audio friends. I
think that's how that works. Yeah, that's right. You are
the Jewish Santa. So you've got all bases covered. Yeah,
I got recred, Come on pimping, get your tims off.
I gotta I gotta cross over in some more like
(01:07):
different different sects. I don't know what else I can
do for the holidays. Is there is there something else
I can Maybe Hanaka Harry, that's the Jewish Shire Santa.
Hanaka Harry could do that. Um, I don't know much
about Kuanza. Is there anything in Quanza that I need
to know about or any other holidays this time, at
the time of the year. I don't know. We'll have
(01:28):
our research department work on that. Yes, we we will
effort that. But this is the mail bag, Danny. I'm
so excited. We got football all day. We had football yesterday.
Don't forget Benny versus the Penny. If you missed it,
just fast forward through those Saturday games and get to
the games that are being played here on Sunday. If
you're listening to us early in the morning, yeah, go
pound sand What do you want from me? And in
(01:50):
real time? Guess where I'm at right now? You are
in h Let me let me guess you are your Bally's.
Are you know? I know you're not. You're at the bellagio?
Are you the ball ding ding ding? Look at that
the bellagio? Yeah, because Ben Sunday night can't find a
better rate. Of course, after they ding you with tax
(02:11):
and all those stupid resort fees. Yeah, yeah, the dumb
resort fees. It adds up. But the base rate of
the room was so low that it was still worth
it to do the booking. What if you said, hey,
I will not use the WiFi. I will not use
the pool because you can't use the pool this time
of the year anyway, they closed the pool. So what's
(02:32):
the way, what's the point. That's a good point, and
you're right, and thank god we don't have a car
to park, because then what is that. That's another fifty
bucks they ding you on. It's ridiculous. And you gotta
get their their gambling club. And they used to give
the parking, well always was free, and then they changed
you gotta have a credit card. You got free parking,
but then you awards car and all that dumb ship.
(02:55):
But yeah, hopefully the raiders are making Raider Nations smile
right now. Check baby Sunday, that's where I'll be. Yeah,
that's a long well, what's not a long trip. But
you're traveling, you want to you want to go there
and watch the Patriots win this game by three touchdowns?
God forbid. All right, let's get to the mail back.
These are actual messages sent by actual listeners. Danny. The
(03:16):
way this works. Every Tuesday, I post on the show
Facebook page, which is Ben Maller Show a link. You
can post your comment on that link or you can
send it in private. You can send it anytime. You
send it right now if you want. I don't care.
We won't use it till next week's show. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com, all letters, no numbers. Spell
out the word fifth real fifth hour at gmail dot com,
(03:40):
and put your name in there and where you're listening
to us from, and we may use your question in
a future edition of the mail Bag. Oh my god,
that is so exciting, Dan, isn't that exciting? What we'll
We'll remember you and we'll say your name. What a
great mix for that is, what an amazing thing that is.
Absolutely remember it for the rest of the year. Yeah, exactly.
(04:02):
All right, what do we got here? Let's see you've
got mail. Yes, we'll start out with Terry in England,
Jolly old England, he says. Can you give some insight
into how FSR comes up with ratings? Ben, I get
podcast downloads, IP addresses, uh in the full minutia statistics
(04:22):
or minute stats or whatever, he says. But how do
they know how many listen live? Do they count social
media interactions like tweets, like retweets, etcetera. They must have
a way of judging value that's from Terry in England. Yeah,
so there is no specific way to know how many
(04:44):
people are listing. All of this is a guestimation based
on a survey, a sampling without getting too specific, Danny,
because I don't think we're allowed to, but there's a
sampling of the population, and it is it is pretty
much based on that, the sampling of population. And you know,
(05:04):
even during the day it's no different. But for our
our purposes on the Overnight show, uh, we actually have
more people listening the last hour of the show than
earlier in the show because, uh, fortunately we're on in
the five am hour on the East Coast, and with
traffic being absolute manure just about every major metropolis in
(05:25):
the United States, people are getting up earlier and earlier,
so traffic starts earlier and earlier, and so we actually
have people who are stuck in their cars trying to
beat the traffic in mild traffic that listen in Boston,
in Philadelphia, a d C in Atlanta and Miami and
those big East Coast the cities, Danny, we call him
(05:46):
the corridor up and down the East Coast. So we
have more people that listen to the last hour, but
there's no specific way. We have guestimations on how many
people are listening, and they fluctuate. That's one of the
reasons that the game has changed a lot for guys
like me because of the pod podcast downloads and they
have an exact number of people that download the podcast,
(06:08):
and how many people are listening on the live stream,
and we know, Danny that live stream. I heart media,
this major global conglomerate of media. Box Sports Radio has
consistently been a top five stream out of thousands and
thousands of available audio streams. Fox Sports Radio is always
(06:28):
in the top five. There are tons of people listening
to us online at any given moment. Yeah, before I
was gonna say, can we forward this question to the
sales department. Yeah, you did a pretty good job explaining,
and I was going to mention that of how we
are always in the top five, that is pretty awesome
And that's just of course because of you and you're
(06:51):
listening habits, So we thank you for that. Yeah, the loyalty.
It's like people that like Starbucks only will drink Starbucks,
and hopefully, hopefully people that look like this this content
will only drink our content. Right, So you're right, I
went to coffee being last week because it was right
where I was running my errands. Took a drink and
(07:12):
I spit it out. It was like, where's the Starbucks? That?
That's funny, all right? Next up on the mail bag,
these are actual letters by actual people. Just played that one.
I will play it again. Uh. Pierre from the Procrastinator's
Checklist line at the Ball says Ben, last week the
(07:32):
Great Danny g Radio, and you spoke of the downside
of getting older and how minor aches and pains seemed
to linger. Pierre's message continues, I had a friend once
tell me that he thought he would die sneezing someday
because of the violent nature of the sneezes as he aged.
(07:54):
So get to the point, please, what is the craziest
or most embarrassing way to check out? And he says, example,
slipping on some almond butter at work and hitting your
head on the console and the last thought in your
head being that gosh darn numbnuts and his effing almond butter.
(08:16):
I'll see what he did there. He took a shot
at a goldilocks, is what he did there. I see
what you did here. Very funny I mean, there's a
lot of embarrassing ways to die, and it's it's just
so depressing. I feel so bad for people when they
get old enough. We're just getting out of the fucking bathtub.
Can be your demise. You break your hip and that
leads you down the hill into the you know, the
(08:36):
devil's playground. It's so disgusting to me that you get
to a point where you can't even get have a
goddamn bathtub. Um, But it's fine, Like, what what I mean,
is anything come to mind here, Danny? We're like, no, no, Yeah.
Actually I was thinking of a famous rapper. His name
was Prodigy, and he was of the group Mob Deep
(08:57):
East Coast Rap Group, and he had some other off
issues going on that he was dealing with. But that's
not what killed him because I think he was battling
sickle cell. That's not what killed him, though, Ben he
choked on a hard boiled egg. Yeah, that's gotta be
the shittiest way to die. Yeah, and did this day
(09:19):
I look at hard boiled eggs and I do that
devil cross with my finger. It's like bastards who killed
a famous rapper? Yeah, I would say for me that
I'm thinking about it. The people that have died, they
win the Darwin Award where they like, they're at the
Grand Canyon. They want to take a selfie, so they
(09:39):
climb up to the edge of the Grand Canyon. They
stand up, and then they blast off because they fall
into the Grand Canyon. You know, like the there's there's people,
everyone's a while to and so died trying to get
the perfect photo for for Instagram or the video for TikTok,
and you're like, what the funk are you doing? You know,
(10:00):
I mean, come on, but there you go. All right,
thank you for that, Pierre. Next up on the mail bag, Gussie,
I got mail, yea, I got mail. Yeah, within Nashville, right,
since his Ben Ben and Danny g Since Baker Mayfield
the Ben is your quarterback for the rest of the season,
are you concerned with his headbutting of teammates with helmets
(10:23):
while he's not wearing one. Yeah, I'm not worried about that.
The rams are done, they're cooked. It doesn't that, it
doesn't matter the thing that I'm excited about. I'm not
a Baker Mayfield fan, but this is a great test
for Sean McVeigh to see if he really is the
quarterback whisper, if he can squeeze out good play out
(10:44):
of Baker Mayfield, who's turned into a hurly burly, big
dummy at the quarterback position. If this guy McVeigh can
find the magic bubbles and get Baker Mayfield going that
that that excites. But watching the Rams play their bad team,
(11:04):
they've earned every one of the losses there, there's no
bad beats there. They've been bad all the way through
the seasons. Been good for Baker Mayfield. But how many
fucking times was Max Crosby held in that game, including
on the winning touchdown throw? Well, like the club around
his throat, it looked like he's being choked out. Listen.
(11:24):
It's a physical game. You can't call holding on every play.
And maybe maybe the Raiders should have been holding more.
Maybe they weren't, I agree, but I think they would
get called for that. Unfortunately, had enough to eat nails
over there, Danny g All, these days later, you're still
upset about an officiat. I'm only upset about the non
holding calls that were obvious on Max Crosby. I do
(11:47):
feel bad for my friends. I got a lot of
friends like you, Danny, who are Raider fans? You guys
were so ready to do a victory walk like a
pimplock after that. You can't know. I wasn't Ben when
they were up by thirteen points. I saw what was
coming from a mile away. There was no way I
had victory in mind, even Nah. But being a RAM fans,
(12:08):
if the Raiders had won that game, my phone would
have I would have gotten message. How's it going on
about that? Momslls not the real fans? Alright, what is
next year? Let's see any meany miney? Okay? Mo and
Benn and Danny G. This is the lovely Angelina rights in.
(12:30):
Since it's been a while since writing. Angelina sent me
a a cookie recipe a while back. She says, first
need to send congrats. She gives us congratulations Danny me
on the contract I agreed to at the end of
last year, Danny G on the new time slot producing
in the marriage, and I guess I'll throw in for Angelina.
(12:52):
If you listen to Saturday's podcast, Danny G has a um, um,
let's see what's the phrase here? You've got a problem
child ready to tear up a kindergarten classroom in a
few years, the next generation writer fans right there, the
next broadcast, the next podcaster warming up right now, growing
(13:14):
as we speak. So congratulations from Angelina. She says she
still loves all the podcast She listens to the terrestrial
radio show, and she does like the pop culture segment,
the new pop Culture sec pop goes the culture big
fan there and she hasn't formed me Danny. She says
she is making plans to be at the Minnesota Mallard
(13:36):
Meet and greet when it is officially locked in. She
says she lives just across the border. She's in Wisconsin,
but not too far away and h She says, she
was too far away to get to Appleton. I remember
that when I had a meet and greet with my my,
my Green Bay contingent of the Mallard Militias. So let's go.
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We'll be there now, Angelina. We don't have a firm
date yet, but I'm looking at my calendar. Likely sometime
in April or May. Likely sometime in April and May.
I went last week on my great sojourn two Wisconsin, Illinois,
North Carolina, Virginia. We did that in I think it
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was late April, early May. So probably around that time,
and I would love to meet you Angelina, and I
cannot wait. I I'm so excited to get to Minnesota, Dan,
this thing is gonna be a man often. There are
super fans there, so I feel like there'll be lots
of alcohol, drugs, orgies, and and there's no possibility of
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her accidentally getting pregnant. So we're gonna party. Party Hardy.
You gotta party Hardy, that's what you gotta do there.
Ah solutely, solutely, and uh yeah. So the Minister you got,
the Minnesota. Nice thing, you got, Juicy Lucy's You've got
if I if I time it right, I'll be going
there when it starts to thaw out a little bit
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in Minnesota, although it could still snow in April. So anyway,
I'm looking forward to I cannot wait. We've had so
many great fans of the show that have been very
loyal and supported us, who listened to us on cafan,
and I I'm really fired up to meet you and
everyone else. So it's it's gonna be a lot of fun,
all right. Next up on the mail bag, we've got
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the dear Big Ben and Danny G. I think I
have a new nickname for you, the rabbi of sports radio.
That's Neil from the real Miami. He says, First, I
support your stance on fruit frugility. Is that the word
for galic frugality, for gality, gality, frugality, frugality. If I
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could talk, that would help bat job by me. Ne
you Uh, you're talking about hotel rooms. I live in
luxury here in Miami, but I hate to spend on
fancy hotels where I am just sleeping in it. I mean,
the whole point is location, So here is another perspective. Secondly,
I am wondering what is the most extreme or silly
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activity you do to save money? The highway laundry cart
story was a good one, But is there something else
you're hiding from us? Uh? He says, well, you know,
my my wife would be a better person to answer this,
because there's a lot of odd, quirky things that I
do that I don't even realize I'm doing that the
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famous ones before COVID, I would eat lunch by going
to two different costcos and eating samples. My wife would
drop me off and she would stay in the car
and I'd go to the first costco. I'd ease many
samples until they started getting onto me and telling me
I got to kind of get out of here. They
gave me the evil eye. So then we go to
a different costco and and then I do the whole process.
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Old he Meal get back to me after you have
some bedbug bites from your motel stays. I'm telling you,
then hotels are not something to pinch pennies on. I disagree.
I I'm with Neil. Neil's with me on this. If
you're not you're not going to stay. Just it's not
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an all inclusive resort, is what I'm trying to point out. Like,
you're you're in Vegas, right, Danny. You're at the Blagi,
and the Blagi is a fine hotel. I walked through
the Blaggio many times. But you can get a you
can get the many of the amenities of the Blagio
by staying at the Motel six or the Easy eight
hotel and just walking to the Bellagio and walking around
and gambling. And you can get murdered at the Motel six,
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get murdered anywhere. It's like, come on, he's out there,
you are right. Thirdly, Neil says a note to Lea Kline.
How about that who clowns the Mallard Militia. You were
the pioneer, Neil says, in diversity and inclusion of radio
with such a wide ranging audience from the homeless to
the elite rocket scientists. And he says, lastly, are you
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still doing cameo? Yes, yes, Neil, I am still doing cameo.
In fact, that just got a cameo the other day.
I gotta get on that because I have not done
that bad job by me. I've had some other assignments
I cannot talk about that have kept me busy. But
that's like five thou extra Christmas dollars in your pocket
after they take the cut Cameo gets and Apple gets
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it's about a dollar. It's about a dollar, but they
get all the money I get. I getting out of it. Um.
But but thank you, Neil, And that is true. We
have homeless dudes, and we've I've had email from from legitimate,
really smart professors and scientists and scholars. It blows me away,
fascinates me that that we have the same exact show
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that from all worlds, all the from spectrums. They they
seem to like the show. Kevin in Kansas writes in
as we continue chopping down the mail bag the mail tree,
and Kevin says, dear Ben and Danny g He says, Ben,
the other night the Gremlins struck your show. That is true.
How you and the crew worked through the issue was
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not only amazing but entertaining. Well thanks. My question for
both of you, how do you make such a technical
snaffoos seem like no big deal when you're on the
live air with the millions of people listening. It was amazing, Kevin.
Kevin points out, So, yeah, Danny, forget what night it was,
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but I was an hour two I was. I was
doing this heartfelt monologue, my my eulogy to Mike Leached. Yeah,
and I'm I'm and I'm really laying and and I
usually do negative radio. I'm trying to I really loved
Mike Leach. I was a huge fan of it is
And yeah, I was really sappy, but no, I mean,
I'm a fan and the guy that I was around
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a little bit when his coach at Washington State at
Pack twelve events packed ten events back then. Oh, I
love Mike Leach. We had him on out kick all
the time, and Clay would always say, would you mind
staying for another segment, and of course he said yeah
because he loved to talk. Oh yeah, he left an
impression on me. And so I was doing this big
tribute and then right around the end of it, I
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was I was putting the bow on it, dotting the
eye like I was in the Ohio State Band, and
I heard this noise and it sounded really bad, you know,
it sounded bad, but I kept going. I actually finished
the monologue because usually what happens is sometimes in my
head I think something went sideways and it didn't, so
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I just kind of keep going, and then I finished
the monologue. I did the commercial reads I had to do.
I'm doing the commercial read for for tire rack dot
com and for the credit card and all that discover
and then I look over at my equipment. All these
red lights are flashing and they're like, oh ship ye.
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Then my phone starts blowing up, you know. It's it's Roberto,
it's Coop. They're calling me, Hey, you're down, your lines down,
you know, and I'm like, how many minutes were you
talking to yourself? Um? Then it was the end. It
was so it's maybe like five minutes, but I did
a commercial to myself. I read the copy to myself.
I I did two commercials. I did a tease for myself.
Nobody else heard it. Maybe Bella, my dog, Bella heard it.
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But that was how was about it. But but I
mean to answer you a question, Kevin, it's has a
ratings diary. I know, I know, right drop that in
Bella helped me out. You since you're you're dropped ship
and piss all over the house, you can help me out.
But to answer your question, Kevin, here's my philosophy. This
is my philosophy. I'm broadcasting. I overprepare. I do everything
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in my power to get ready to do a good show,
a professional show, and it is as put all of
my effort in every single show. I don't want to
be let go. I will be I've said this many times.
I will be let go. At some point the company
will get rid of me. But they will not get
rid of me because of my performance. They'll get rid
of me because either I make too much money or
I'm too old or whatever. But it's not because the
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show is bad. So that's always been when you accidentally
say on the air, oh my god, jeez, I didn't
even know what that word was, Daddy, I had looked
that up. I didn't. I had never heard that word before,
and uh, oh my god when I looked it up. Geez. Anyway, man,
we used to say that word on the radio when
I was a kid. Because there's a rap song with
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that word in the title. I've I don't maybe I
heard it. I don't remember ever hearing that word. I mean,
I've heard words that sound like that, but never that.
But but anyway, Kevin, so I here's my get my flags.
I were prepare. I'm always ready. So things happen that
are out of my control. I don't really worry about it,
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like I'm ready to go. That's that's not my snaff Foo,
what happened? I mean, it's not that you know, I'm
obviously responsible for what happens on the show. But that's
a technical gliph that said, I put that in the
act of God category, Danny, that's what I put it in. Well,
God has struck you down several times. Then active WiFi.
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Al right. Next up on the mailbag, we've got Noah
from Austin. He says, what's cooking? My guys? Question to
both Danny G and you Big Ben, what activities usually
take place on your off days? I wants to know?
And he also would like to alert everyone in the
mallamis you know Noah from Austin is signing up? He will,
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he'll be one of our paid callers. In says he'll
be calling the show once we get past New Year's
so we will have a new caller, Noah from Austin. Well, no,
if you become a regular, we're gonna have to give
you a nickname. Pushing the boundaries, So what do we
do on our office? We do stuff that we should
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be doing during the week, but we focus on our jobs. Danny.
I do a lot of shopping, cooking, that kind of stuff.
Take it easy, things that need to be done around
the house that I don't do during the week. So
that's that's a lot of it. I say, I'm going
to do that stuff on Sunday, which is my only
day off. In reality, I watched football and take a
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nap and I don't get anything done. But but then again,
we have to watch football for what we do for
a living, so it is productive. Say, double edged Sword,
we have the ultimate excuse. So many guys wish they
could have when they talked to their wives. Ah, yeah, sorry,
I gotta watch the game. My wife's figures, Well, you
can just watch on your phone. We can go do
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something watching. Yeah, it's not the same, No, it's not.
But and I also have to spend time with her
because during the week working overnight. Says, you know, you
don't spend a lot of time with your significant other,
which is a good thing and a bad thing anyway,
depending on how you look at it. Pete from Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
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right so, and he says, what was your best president
you ever received? What was your worst time? We've gotten
this before. Best president he ever gave, worst president? Blah
blah blah, he says, excluding sex toys and dolls because
he's in Iowa. And Pete does not want us to
talk about all the sex toys we purchased. But um,
and I don't. I don't remember specific and there's nothing
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at this point. I'm sure I've given some examples in
the past, but off the top of my head right now,
I kind of block everything out and move on. I
think the greatest gift I've ever gotten recently as an
adult is that ice machine that my there was a
hunting honeymoon gift my wife got for us and I
love that thing. I used that thing all the time.
That ice machine is is amazing. How boring is that?
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My My favorite gift in life is an ice machine?
My God, do I suck? What about you, Danny answer
the p uh? Well, let's see was it? Two birthdays
ago my tender Ronie got me a nice iPad that
I needed, and then for Valentine's Day she got me
the magnetic keyboard case that goes with it, and that
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helps me out at work every day. So that was
a really nice gift. And the last gift I gave
a couple of months ago it was Rich's birthday from
Covino and Rich and before the show, I found a
card shop on my ways app went in there and
got him a graded Jacob deGrom rookie card. Oh that's cool,
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and and he loved it because obviously a huge Mets fan,
but of course de Grom is a trader and not
on the Mets anymore. That's cool. You know I did get,
now that I'm thinking about it, I got you, brought
you sparked my mind. Here a member of the Malamusha
I will not say who a very prominent member of
the Malamusha blessed me with a Sandy Kofax autograph like
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it was really cool like this. It was a couple
of years ago, and that is a very valuable piece
of sports memobilia that that I got. I am very
grateful for that. Next up on the mailback Mike from
Sacramento Rights and it says I called a couple of
years back and shared my full name. I remember this guy.
We I think you might have been on the show, Danny.
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This guy claimed his name was Michael Troy Emmett Smith.
This guy, how awesome is that? You know you were
born in the nineties and your parents were big cowboy fans. Uh?
He says. Anyway, Mike's how did the hatred of Finley start?
I need to know the origins of this gargantuan beat,
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so I don't know if I would classify it as hatred.
It's more of a rivalry. And Brian started out. We
got along really well when Brian started. At some point
Brian went rogue and tried to gain attention by pressing
my buttons and it worked, and he did some things
that got under my skin and I felt they were
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bad for the show, and so we started getting back
and forth and all that, and it's kind of how
that went down, and we've we've been at logger heads
ever since. But maybe we'll patch things up. You never know, Yo,
yo mob Benny. The next email says, since you're always
making the Baba ga noos, it's our friend from Nashville.
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By the way, on the radio. Have you ever made
this dish in real life? The answer is no. Uh.
Can we get you to make this on your new
griddle and post the results on Facebook? Mm hmm. I
don't think you can make Babba ganosh on the griddle,
can you? I don't think so. Covino and Rich a
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few days ago, I want to say it was Tuesday
when the show was ending. They were actually talking about
you and Bobba gan News. They were asking if you
could make something for the holidays and leave it in
the Blue kitchen. Oh, well, if you want, I mean, yeah,
I could. I could get some egg plant and make
some Babba gnoos. Absolutely yeah. They want to taste it,
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little taste. Oh you know what I should do? How
about this? I gotta get somebody who's in the food
distribution business. Benny's Baba ganos boom right, how great would
that be? Oh? A little cartoon drawing of me and
the Baba gauche being wonderful, and we already have all
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the drops for your commercial that would run on I art. Well,
the reason you cannot actually put Baba gush on the
griddle is because it's a sauce. It's like a dip.
Oh I didn't know that it's a Middle Eastern origin.
It's eggplant, garlic, lemon, lemon, red pepper and olive oil
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and some other crap. So it's it's a dip. It's
your dip chips or or bread. I think most people
in Middle Eastern culture. Do you wonder what the hell
we're talking about right now? There is a famous promo
that runs on FSR, especially on the app, and it's
been screaming about his Babba ganos. Make the baba gans
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He will make the baba ganosh is what we're gonna make.
Calm down, keep your pants on? What do we have?
Your nick and Wisconsin, says Ben and Danny Gee. When
I was sixteen, I was able to travel to Russia
for two weeks. It was a blast. Sadly can't ever
see myself going back because about fucked up the world is.
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Nick says that being said, is there anywhere domestically or
internationally that you don't think you'll ever be back to
and or don't want to go to? M Yeah, so
I haven't traveled internationally, Nick, I havent like you. I
You've been places I've I've pretty much been around the
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United States. So anywhere I've been I can go back to.
There's no where I can't go that I've been to.
I would like to to go out when I get
a little older and make some real money and become
an adult and travel. I know my wife wants to
see the Northern Lights and go to where her family
is from and some of the Norwegian countries, and she's
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got family from Italy, and I'd love to see. I
was a big fan of my late grandfather in law, Luigi,
so I'd like to see where he grew up and
kind of where he started his life and and we
know the town and all that and so so that
kind of stuff would be cool. But no, but I
know I'm not banned from going anywhere, although I don't
really have, you know, I actually have family. It's weird
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because my family origins, got some Russian blood in me,
but that became the Ukraine, which is now at war
as Russia is trying to retake the land that they
used to have, which is now known as the Ukraine.
So you know, I don't know anything on your plate, Danny,
as far as travel and where you could go. Can't
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go that kind of thing. Not gonna be traveling anywhere
very far in the next nine months. But well, the
first couple of months you probably fine. It's really the back,
the back side of that that's the problem. Dating. It's
like a midway point it becomes problematic. You're right. It's
like a very mini Carlos corea contract, but in months,
(32:27):
not years, and so the front side of the contract
we could still enjoy ourselves. The back end of it
is gonna be a ship show. Uh yeah, that Core,
He'll be fine for four years. The other nine years,
you know, don't ask um. Yeah. I mean, if you've
seen the show The White Lotus on HBO, and I
(32:49):
highly recommend it, you go back, watch, go back and
watch season one. But even better is season two, which
just concluded. Season two is in Sicily and we're like, man,
we gotta go to that resort because while we were
in Whilea, we went to the Four Seasons, as you know,
and that's where they filmed the first season. So we're like, ah,
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we went to where they shot the first season. Now
we got to go to where they shot the second season.
And I have family there in Sicily, which would be
very cool. It would be cool to visit them. And
I guess the one place where I don't give a
crap if I ever go back, would be the Central
Valley of California. Yeah, sorry, Central Valley. I go there
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to visit family, but it smells like cowshit and the
weather is horrible and the whole time I want to
get in my car and drive to see the rest
of my family in the Bay Area. Love the people there,
Hate the actual geographical location. Yeah, it's hard working people there,
but they do live in the armpit of California. Unfortunately,
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it's not not good all right. Next up Mike from
Fullerton Rights, and he says, have either of you ever
said something offensive or embarrassing? Not knowing there was a
hot Mike now you might be thinking. Mike says that
this exact same question was asked last week because it
was he says. He says, I got Rex Hudther's stories
instead of an answer. If neither of you had a
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hot Mike moment, feel free to tell another Rex Hether
story or tell me if you plan to watch more
football or basketball on Christmas. Yeah, so, Mike, you're an
a hole for sending the same question again. Now, I'll
be watching the football on the Christmas That's my thing.
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Although I will I will flip over to the NBA.
That's the start of the NBA. Christmas Days, opening day
of the NBA. All these are practice games, and so
the stars will be out on Christmas Day in the NBA.
That'll be exciting. But I'll be watching more football. And
you have any other Rex other stories about the sexy
rexy the baseball legend from back in the day. No,
(35:02):
I'll tell you a quick open mic story though we had.
It involves Roberto. Uh. Yeah. We had to cut a
Clay Travis commercial and so we go to commercial break
and Clay says, all right, let me knock this spot out.
Let me let me get this commercial done. So Roberto
thinks that he puts him in audition, which is how
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we recorded off the air when we're actually on the air.
Roberto did not hit the button all the way for
programming though, so Clay was still on the air and
Ben it was so looking back now, it's hilarious. It
wasn't a Clay at the time. But you could hear
Clay ranting and raving about whoever wrote this. He didn't swear,
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thank god, he didn't cuss, but he was like, who
the hell wrote this crap? This is the worst written
for my wife. This is Fox, this is garbage. Who
wrote this? He was going on and on about how horrible,
how horribly written the commercial was, and didn't I already
record something similar to this a week ago. We go back,
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we go back to the live show and he starts
getting tweets about how that stuff got on the air,
and oh boy, uh, that is uh what you just told.
Not on the air, but every single talk show host
who has had to do and I have recording sessions
every couple of weeks where I have to do voiceovers
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for commercial and they said, whoever writes the copy? Now
they've occasionally they get it right, but usually it's about
nineties seconds a copy for sixty seconds of time, and
I like to let it breathe. Anny my style. I
like to let things breathe. I don't like the speed
read and oh it is such a debacle, a boone
(36:53):
doggle trying to knock those commercials out when they give
you way too much copy and they say we gotta
read verbatim, and well, what you can't read verbatim? God,
he didn't cuss, and thank good, he didn't say anything
bad about the client, like, he didn't say anything bad
specifically about the sponsor. He was just mad at whoever
wrote it. The funniest outtakes we ever got was Tony
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Bruno in the early days of Fox Sports Radio, and
Tony would have to do a lot of commercials and
he would do random things. I remember every year for
Valentine's Day there would be a flower commercial, you know,
one of those hey use my name good flowers. It
was the worst copy in the world, and Tony would
inevitably screw it up and then go on about a
seven minute rant with F this, F that, screw You're
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always hilarious. It was the funniest, funniest stuff I've ever heard,
and it was all that was all off the air,
but it was it was great, just ripping the sponsor
and flowers and this, that and the other that it
was great. Next up on the map, back into a
few more we getting late. Here we have Will in
Cansah Cities has been working at a jazz club for
a few months. It's been pretty wild. Did you think
(38:03):
they'll ever make booze that makes people smarter? Sincerely, the
very tired service industry. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Boy.
That's gotta be tough, man. People are barf in people
are a holes. You got the the angry drunks that
are people that that they drink. There's upheaval, there's a
disruption to life. Liquid courage. You got the whimps who
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turned into bullies when they drink. You got the people
that are introverts that become extroverts and and want to,
you know, make out with everyone, you know that thing.
They get all lovey dovey. It's quite the group, all
right about that? Will? Sorry, I have nothing I can
do for you. Fred in Spring, Texas says, Hey, guys,
have either of you may had a manicure or a pedicure?
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Did you think what do you think of it? I
had never done this fread until I got with my
wife and she dragged me to the day spa. Which
one's the feet is that? The manicure is that the
feet pedicure is your pedicure? Okay, I know I always confusing.
So I've had the pedicure and it's very awkward for me.
I don't like people touching my feet. Yeah, and it's
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I'm self conscious. My feet are ugly. My toes are
all messed up because I had I've worn shoes that
are too small, so my toes are My toenails have
fallen off a couple of them. Then they grow back
all weird and they they're black and blue. It's disgusting.
So what about your danny anny? Same thing? I had
a former girlfriend dragged me one time to get a pedicure,
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and I about just from the reaction the knee bone
to the footbone to the toe bone to the lady's
face bone about kicked her in the face, just out
of reaction because my feet are sensitive, and like you,
I am not comfortable with having a stranger touched my
feet and then she's poking around in there and I'm
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not having anybody touched my nails at all. No, It's
it's it's tough, man. My loves it and I could
get it. You know, they take good care of you,
but it's just yeah, I'll go every once in a
while because it's like a couple's thing. You know, we
don't do a lot of couple of things. But well,
they up sell. My girl told me this is her
theory on it. If you dare say no to one
(40:14):
of their up cells, then they start jagging at you
to make it hurt. They're like, oh, yeah, you don't
want the hot rocks or the extra massage, here you go,
and then they jab it at your the corner of
your your toe. Yeah, I think she's onto that too.
I mean, these upset it's like you go to get
your car service and they're like, well, you know you
have this problem, but I look, it looks like your
(40:36):
brakes are a little thin, or your your tires. Maybe
they always try to upset you on something, spark plugs, whatever.
It might be our last one. Then here it is
last one. We have time for Ozzy Wise from Western Australia,
and Ozzy was and his lady friend quite the couple.
And Ozzy was right, since this is how the bloody
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hell are you? Big Bend and Danny g Rady. Don't
know if this has been asked before, but here we go.
What is the stadium or arena that you have watched
sports from? I have been to several around Australia. From
Old Trafford in England where Manchester United plays, but person
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owned stadium is right up there. They're having watched rugby
league and union as well as cricket and our version
of football. And you can't see this dandy, but Ozzywats
sent some photos here which are pretty cool. So I've
been lucky. Years ago, I had a gig with the
Dodgers and I got to travel around the circuit in
the National League in baseball, and I saw most all
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of the stadiums then, and I've been able to hit
many of the stadiums that I in the American League
over the years from baseball. So the coolest stadiums I've
been to well, the historic ones Finway Park, which is
not designed for people my size, Wrigley Old Chicago, amazing experience.
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I didn't see a game at lambeau Field, but being
in Green Bay and seeing this little small Wisconsin town
and this monstrosity of lambeau Field was really cool. Visually,
the coolest stadiums I've seen are in Pittsburgh the Pirates
Stadium with the skyline, Danny of the bridges in the
background and all that. Um, that's that's awesome. And then
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I hate to say it, but in San Francisco at
whatever they're calling the Giants Ballpark, now it's a beautiful ballpark.
And Seattle. Seattle's got a nice stadium. But the two
most visually stunning stadiums among newer stadiums in America, asiwas,
are Pittsburgh and San Francisco. I say that, and both
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those stadiums are probably twenty plus years old at this point.
But the beautiful Colorado, Yeah, I mean, I mean Colorado's
the well you talked me, where did you sit when
you were at the at the Rockies game? Where were you?
I've been to their stadium a couple of times. One
time I sat up high and there's a beautiful view
(43:08):
of the Rocky Mountains past the outfield. And then I've
also sat down low, but really great view from anywhere
you're at in there. And the food ben is delicious
eight dollar beef nachos and I mean fully loaded sour
cream waka moley, two kinds of melted cheese on there.
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I mean, I'm still blown away by its still eight dollars.
It might be Mourner. Well this was last season. Yes,
because of inflation the last year, it could have gone up.
I guess. Yeah, all right, we'll get out on that.
So thank you Azzi waz as always for your loyalty.
God bless you. Thank you to Christie and salt Lake.
We did not have time unfortunately, Christie for your question. Also, uh, Matt, Mike, uh,
(43:59):
And I think I see a message here from Steve,
So thank you guys. Try again next week and we
will have a show. I know it's the big, the
big Christmas weekend and all that, right, Danny, is that
next week? And am I correcting that? I think that's
right ahead. I believe you're right. Next Saturday. Yeah, so
we will have podcasting. That's the ultimate test, Danny, if
(44:19):
we can get people to listen on Christmas weekend and
Hottka and all that going on. So we'll see what happens.
Anything to promote here. Day off today, Danny, any day
off today, But tomorrow I will be in for Covino
and Rich in the afternoon. That should be a lot
of fun. Starting at two pm on the West Coast
outstanding I'll be back. I will be back tonight live
(44:41):
radio show as we continue on here breaking down all
the NFL storylines of the weekend. Have a great day today,
Thank you for supporting this podcast, and we will catch
you next time. Later skater got a murder. Gotta go.
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