January 29, 2023 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the air everywhere on a
championship Sunday in the National Football League. Think of this
as your pregame show without the x former NFL guys
and without the chuckles. Well we'll laugh, ha ha ha.
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We're gonna laugh a little bit. But it is the
mail bag The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny
g Radio. You've got your formal raider gear on today.
You're all dressed up without the unnecessary field reports on
dumb ship that we already know. Is that the most
annoying thing when the announcers are like, yeah, it's a
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right ankle injury. So let's go down to the sideline
with so and so and then go down. Yes, it's
a right ankle injury. He's in the tent. Yeah, we
know it's a right ankle injury. Don't go to the
sideline reporters, Ben, unless it's some ship we have not
heard yet. Now I love the sideline. I got a
buddy of mine that is a news, old newspaper guy
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like journalists, like real journalism, back in the old days
before newspapers became you know, ghost ships, and he will
text me after the NFL game. Because almost every these
NFL games, almost every one of the first recorders, first
question from the reporters how does it feel? How does
it feel? That's like the number one questioned it. It
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drives him, It drives him insane. What was going through
your mind on that final drive? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. It's like, well, I was trying to score.
We were trying to score because we were down and
we had to score or else we were lost the game.
So I was trying to score. But it's like, you
don't have to go to some high falutin journalism school
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if your first question is going to be how did
it feel? You know, you don't know, I could get
any schmow out of the crowd asked that question. And
the most fascinating thing is a lot of these sideline
reporters think that they're gonna win the Pulitzer Prize for
Journalism with this line of questioning. It's fascinating to me.
They've convinced themselves that their job is essential and these
questions are very important and we as football fans would
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not be able to survive without them. And I'm like, wow,
whatever floats your boat. But I hate to hate to
be the bear of bad news. But spoiler alert, yeah,
we were the first fifth hour interview after the football
is on hiatus, Shannon Spake, that'll be you, Danny. I'll
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be taking that weekend off. You'll have to handle that. No, no, no,
I know some of these people and they're fine, but
it's just you're not You're not moving mountains here, neither
or I'm gonna do a sports radio show in the
middle of the night. I'm not moving mountains. But at
least I don't. I don't pretend, Danny. I don't pretend
like I am moving mountains. I don't sit there and
think somehow that these are amazing questions. And a lot
of these sideline reporters they're like they're like hugging the
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players and stuff. They're like, buddy, buddy, it's like the
it's like the the w w ET or something. It's crazy.
I'm friends with Shannon. I'd like to say she does
a fine job, but there's just sometimes where the reporting
is just brainless to me. Yeah, well the thing that
me and when I when I used to get up
early on Sunday with Looney and we did the Football
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Show for years. It's like seven or eight years we
did that show. But with Looney we would watch the
pregame shows and they actually on Fox Sports Radio. They
carry the Fox Pregame Show. And the amount of laughter,
like and I don't mind a good belly laugh, but
on everything's funny, you don't have to laugh at everything.
And these guys would laugh at everything. It was like chuckles.
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Its wild, It's like can studio laughter. It was insane. Anyway,
we've got mail enough of that. Now that we've bashed
the NFL television, I think we can move on. Yes, yes, yes, yes, indeed,
we'll change it up a little bit. We'll get right
to the mail bag. These are actual listener questions from
actual listeners like yourself, and we love when we get
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questions from people that aren't regulars. We like, we enjoy
our regulars, but it's always nice to hear some new
names pop up on our radar or some people that
only email occasionally from time to time. Life keeps you
busy and you can't send questions in all the time.
So the way you can contact us very simple. It's
Ben Mallard Show at Gmail. I don't know that's not
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It's Ben mallow Show on Facebook. I was screwed it
up so easy. I screwed it up. It's Ben Mallard
Show on the Facebook page and then real fifth we're
at gmail dot com. I wanted to mention we didn't
get to this. We ran out of time yesterday on
the Saturday podcast. But we did actually get a great
review from on Backscratcher. We got one review on the
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Apple podcast page, which is what we're really gunning for
and a couple of weeks would be great, and this
one said it gave us five stars, a must listen
on the weekends. It says the Ben Mallard Podcast. Though
we misspelled my name, but that's auto correctly when you
when you put my name in it auto corrects the
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Ben Mallett. I don't know why, but the they my name.
According to the algorithm is mallet anyway, so he says.
Ben Mallett podcast is a great podcast listen to. Danny
G is the perfect co host with great relatable stories
as well as old school radio DJ stories. I really
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enjoy the stories about when Ben started as a radio
stringer and his eventual rise. I like what he says
in quotes rise to now hosting a nationally syndicated overnight
radio show. Danny G brings his own sauce with awesome
stories about his daily life, his other career, and awesome
stories about the beginnings as a radio DJ. Love the
mail bag and the new pop goes the culture segment.
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Highly recommend this podcast. Dominican Mike, our guy, Dominican Mike.
That's one of the nicest reviews we've gotten. It's very kind.
Dominican Mike is one of the great characters, and I'm
bummed out he has a day job. But I love
that guy, and I love when he was in our
rotation of callers because he lived in Arizona part of
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the time, lived in Tampa, Florida. I think he's in
Florida now full time, but he's working the dreaded day
shift and we had a great time. I remember when
Dominican Mike tried to take the oath, but he was
either tired or in debriated, or maybe a little bit
of both, and he really struggled. He was bouncing off
the walls there. Did not go well, but it made
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for hilarious audio that we still play to this day.
And it's been several years and we still play that
audio from Dominican Mike. It's tremendous. When some listeners asked
the question what happened to this regular or that regular.
A lot of the times, day jobs get in the way,
but the beauty of podcasting is they're still listening, just
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at a different time. Yeah, it is really cool because
very rarely will someone listen to like Cowherd and be
loyal to him and then go to the overnight shift.
Normally that doesn't happen. It's it's usually the other way.
People work overnight for a little bit, then they'll go
to the day shift, and so it's it's cool. We've
got a lot I got people have emailed me Danny
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that listen ten twelve years ago, I guess longer now.
Years keep adding up, and but they're still that they've
worked during the day. They got normally, got married and
had kids. Used to they were in their twenties working overnight,
trying to make money at the grocery store. And then
now they're they're all grown up and they got there
their families, but they still listen. That's kind of cool.
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I liked it. I love that. So alright, what do
we have in the mail bag? First up on the mailbag?
Oh wait, Ohio? Aw'm so Ohio. All hit that button there? Ohio, Aw,
it's all right, thank you, Ohio. All. First one is
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from Pierre down the road from minute Chog Regional High School.
Where As Tombodett would say, we'll leave the light on
for you. Just a couple of fun facts before my question. Uh.
He says that Wilbraham, Massachusetts, is the former home of
the Friendly's ice Cream corporate headquarters. Ooh, that's a fun fact.
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Most notable sports related to alumni the minute Chog Regional
High School for our our former MLB picture Mike Trombley.
I remember him. He was like the middle of the
rotation starting pitcher if I remember correctly. Yeah, I remember
that guy. Yeah. ESPN, Mike Trombley, do you play for
the Twins Orioles? Something along those lines. I for some reason,
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I'm thinking Twins and Orioles. He probably played for somebody else,
but those are the teams that I associate in my
head with. Mike Trombley. Whoa when I typed in Trombley,
uh said, Trombley sausage. Oh well, I don't need to
see the man sausage. I'm good on that. I don't
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need to let me put in Trombley baseball. Okay, Mike
Trombiley t R O m L. First picture that pops
up as him and the Twins. Yeah, I still got it, Danny,
I still got it. I still got it Danny. Probably
Orioles and the Dodgers. Oh there, I must if I
forgot to dot years. When did he pitched for the Dodgers.
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What year? Let's take a look, and yeah, that's that's
why I know his name is because of the Dodgers.
Two thousand one. Okay, so that was a little I
was here. I was working in Fox Sports Radio two
thousand one. Um. I still went to the to the
Dodging games all the time. But I remember my favorite
X Minnesota twinter I became really good friends with when
he pitched for the Dodgers. There was a relief pitcher
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named Mark Guthrie. Oh yeah, pretty had a couple of
good years in the big least. Wonderful dude, one of
the nicest people. And I became I was a young guy,
he was a young guy, and we were you know,
you know, buddy buddy a little bit. That was cool. Uh.
There was a picture for the Twins named Kevin Tappani,
who was a pretty good starting pitcher in the nineties
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and he got he ended up on the Dodgers, and uh,
you know, he didn't do nearly as good as with
the Dodgers as I remember as he did with the Twins.
But uh, some random names. But Mike Trombley says, from
this high school, Uh, this is a Pierre, He says
in minnocha got really quick. I was gonna tell you.
Close to our heart is the town he was born in,
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because we both have relatives born there, Springfield, Massachusetts. Oh
that's right, Yeah, there you go, beautiful all right, And
that's where this right next to Springfield and this high
school is. Uh. And Pierre also says that the ESPN
co founder Scott Rasmussen from that high school and current
Red Sox hitting coach Peter Fatsy is awesome from that
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high school, says. My question to you is do you
feel ripped off by SNL for stealing the minute chog
light story for their weekend update segment or flattered that
the writers are fans of The Fifth Hour with Ben
Mallory and Danny g. I'll take my answer off the year,
So I didn't see Saturday Night Lavel last week. I
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love the fact that they they had that story. That's
a great story that the high school had the lights
on for years and these these idiots could not in academia,
could not figure out how to turn the lights off.
And I mean, that's just wonderful. It's a ten out
of ten. But I didn't you watch Saturday Night Live.
I don't usually. I don't know anybody that watches that
program any longer. Last time I watched it, I watched
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it because I'm a big Larry David fan and he
was hosting, and so I checked it out to see him.
But that was about it. Next up on the mail bag,
Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia rights in the Lovely Jennifer says, Hey,
Benn and Danny Ge. Last week, my oldest son and
I drove from Richmond, Virginia to Minneapolis, and while passing
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through Wisconsin, I remember your trip last year to see
your relatives in Appleton. Did you know that the highway
rest stops have vending machines with cheese kurds. We got
a bag, of course, since it is the cheese state. Yummy.
In Marcel's voice, she says, that's some. Jennifer, Now, Jennifer,
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the big the big question is did you take your
son to Kenosha where the cheese Castle is? Because that's
that's next level. That's ultimate Wisconsin, which is just across
it's not far from the Illinois border. When you make
the trip from Chicago up the road there into Castle.
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Well it it is actually a castle, but it's not
made out of cheese. But you've never heard of the
chee Castle. No. I got excited. I thought like the
moat was gonna be melted nacho cheese. No, dude, this
is like the first spot I've not been to Wisconsin.
I had not been to Wisconsin since I was doing
stuff with the Dodgers like twenty years ago, and I
you know, then you're with the team and you don't
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really go out exploring. You kind of go to the
hotel and you go to the stadium and all that ship.
But this thing is insane. I'm gonna send you a
link right now, let's sake you. I want you to
check this out. Um, and I do recommend it. It It
was really cool. Becuse the ultimate like Wisconsin kind of
touristy trap thing. When you're you're driving through on your
way to Milwaukee or Chicago and you stop by the
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Mars Cheese Castle, which is I just sent you a
link there, and they've got all kinds of Wisconsin products.
They've got a gift shop. You can get your packer,
your your Buccaneers stuff, you're not your stuff, any kind
of cheese you could possibly want. Yeah, it is pretty neat.
They got a restaurant there, they got old They got
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cheese curds up the wazoo. Um, so yeah, it's pretty
pretty neat. But those cheese curds are man man solid.
I gotta every couple of years, I gotta visit my brothers,
so I get my my cheese fixed when I'm in Wisconsin.
But I hope you had safe shovel's. Jennifer, is your
son going to school in Minneapolis. Is that what that's
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all about? All right? Next up, Barry in Nashville rights
and he says, yo yo mo, Benny, you talk a
lot about in a minute fasting. Have you hit your
weight goal or are you still trying to lose more weight? Yeah,
so I don't really wit myself. I I know when
my clothes get a little tight that I've gained too
much weight. Um. Pretty happy with where I am right now.
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I probably like to lose a little more weight, and
doctors will tell you to lose weight. But I did
have a bunch of blood tests done about a year
and a half ago, and surprisingly I was doing pretty
well for my age and all that. Um, so it's
it's more about my michigasp berry where I'm afraid if
I eat three meals in a day that I'm gonna
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gain all the weight back in like two days, you know,
and all that. So it's really more about my neurosis
than anything else. And on the weekends, I'll eat a
couple of meals, but during the week I'm pretty religious.
Like at the time we're doing this podcast, I have
not eaten in over forty hours, so you know, what
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the hell? Next up, Fred from Spring Texas Rights, and
he says, hey, there, guys, how has the rise of
advertising revenue through sports gambling businesses affected the radio business?
Has it changed the way you cover sports? So that's
a that's a pretty good question from our guy, Fred.
It's been wonderful for for what we do, it's been great.
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It's influx of cash and these gambling companies like we're
associated on on our show with DraftKings and they're a
big sponsor and they spend a lot of a lot
of advertising dollars on Fox Sports Radio. We're very grateful
that for that. And yeah, I heard Coop do a
live read for them on your show. Well, Koop knows
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how to make the advertiser very happy. As you know, Danny,
I wish I could pull off those suits. Uh but
but no, And in all in all seriousness, it's been wonderful.
It's I'm trying to think, what's the comparison, and we've
both been in the business a long time, Danny, is
there's something else that can match what we've got right
now because it's just this big influx of cash. Yeah,
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I guess some money here. I would think maybe when
the dot com things started and people were advertising, was
it pets dot com and some of those early websites
where they were trying to get people to go to
them and they'd buy radio spots. The other one, Ben,
and you can attest to this because I'm sure you
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did your share of live remotes at cell phone stores. Yes, yes,
oh my god. Yeah, when the smartphone face came around. Yes,
all these little cell phone stores were battling with each other,
all had their run times on radio stations. I remember
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there would be certain saturdays where we would be at
two different cell phone stores broadcasting live. Yeah. I totally
forgot about you. That's a great call by you. Yeah,
I remember we were. We used to go when I
was doing local radio because it was the nineties when
these things kind of came on the scene, and we
we were like a T and T store in Santa
Monica on his Saturday morning. But then we do a
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remote from uh what was the other I'm trying to
I'm having a blank on the other phone. But it
was another one of the big phone companies, and we would,
uh yeah, just show up, get people to come down
and buy a phone. And it was brilliant because once
you get locked in with a type of phone. It's
very difficult to cross old like on the smartphone thing.
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If you're an iPhone person, you're an iPhone person, and
if you're an Android person, they're an Android person. And
those were back in the days when people had blackberries,
remember the black thing. That was big for business people.
And there were still mon pop shops at the time
who carried all the different kinds of phones. Obviously they
just had agreements and licensing with all the different carriers.
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So we had big stores, little ones, mob pop, corporate.
It didn't matter. They were all trying to sling these phones.
So I remember hot dogs, three hot dogs for an
hour with with the DJ table out right in front
of the cell phone store, and of course they were
giving away a free phone by the end of the
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broadcast and big sale that day on on service and
you know you can trade your phone in or whatever.
Do we spend hours and hours at those dumb stores,
Yeah I did. I totally forgot about that, But that
was a huge thing for radio, and the phone thing
came around, and um, you know, the sports radio business model.
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As far as covering sports, I've always been into gambling,
but there is a fine line it's really like threatened
a needle, because if you do too much gambling, it's
a nightmare. Nobody wants to listen to it, so you
really have to. And people tune in for the sports
that that you know Dud's been on games I get
I do we do this podcast. We have Benny Versus
the Penny. But the way I've always approached it, even
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on Benny Versus the Penny, it's more about the matchup
and the you know, the mental part of it. When
you some of these gambling shows and I have friends
of mine to do these things, Danny, it's like you
do a hard oh sports gambling show. To me, that's
a heartless. To me, that's a tough list. So you
got you gotta balance it. It is. There's those paid
one phone number shows we've all heard on local radio
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stations screaming about do you like boats, because I'm gonna
put a boat in the driveway? Yeah? Are you tired
a bit a loser? Do you want your wife to
leave you alone? I'll get you a boat. You'll be
listening to this on a boat. The first five picks
are free, and their locks let me tell you their locks,
And there for free the first five are free, call
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my number right now, operatives are standing by absolutely free.
And then you call up, it's like twenty seven minutes
of commercials to buy their product. And then at the
very end, by the way, I like the Chiefs minus two,
you know, and then and then they call you back
and they get your number, and it's a whole ship show.
So that's crazy. That's how it used to be. Now
it's an app in your phone and you can bet
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on whatever your heart desires, unless you're in a state
like ours. Yeah, well another is it two more years?
We have to wait for one more year and then
the Native American groups, the the Indian casinos will control
the gambling market. I don't want to mess with those people. Man,
they got they I'll tell you what they own the
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gambling market in California. They are all they beat big gambling.
That's insane that they were able to push out these
huge gambling companies all hailed at That tells you how
much money those gambling operations, these casinos around California make
on Native American land. Uh. Next up on the mail
bag we go to Drew, who says, Big Ben love
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the show. Keep up the arguing, Uh, yeah, we did
a little back and Eddie annoys me sometimes and I
have to sell at him. And then then usually what
happens is Coop will then take eighties side and then
Roberto will chime in, and so then I have to
I have to talk these guys away. And he says
it reminds me of Howard Stern, what he would do
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with the stuttering John or Bob a booie. Uh. He
enjoyed that play the Mona song Blair, he says, in Maine,
reminds me of Jeff the drunk from the Howard Stern Show.
He says, Mr Jed who fled cost you the game,
Yes he did. Jed was completely inebriated the other night.
Should stay off the drugs. Can't stand that, guy says. Anyway,
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cheers brother. And to the cry babies that can't handle
the arguing, he says, they can go listen to Dan Patrick,
he says, and then he says some rather unflattering things
about Dan, so I probably will leave those out. Um,
but thank you Drew in southern California. I appreciate that
great kind of you. It is a tremendous compliment because
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you didn't say, I sound like Howard Stern, now the
woke Coward Stern. He said, I sound like the old
Howard Stern, which, when you know he dominated. He was
the king of all radio, king of all media in
his day for real, And so that is a tremendous compliment.
Next up Mike from Fullerton Rights, and he says, so
Ben and Danny g since since Ben went Benny the
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bulldozer in the studio, Mike says, he says, guys, have
people at fs R started treating you better? Or something like?
He's asking me and what would explain? Maybe that would explain.
He says, why Steve Disager broke his mike so soon after?
At least did you hear about that? No? I didn't
hear about that. Yeah. Yeah, So I had my mike
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issue where I tried to help out Jonas Knox by
putting the mic back where it needed to be, and
then somehow my superhuman strength like thor or he Man
or whoever, I ripped the mic, ripped the mike off,
Peppermint Patty ripped the mic off, and Steve Disager in
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the update studio the mike came tumbling off also, and
Eddie came in on a Sunday night and the mic
was like laying on the board in the update studio.
So he says, Mike says, do either of you plan
to steal something from the studio? He's talking to me
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and you Danny to smash office space style before moving
into the new one. Good question, what is gonna happen
to our current studio? Are they gonna is it gonna
be condemned, there's gonna be red tagged. They're gonna turn
that part of the building back into a Denny's. Back
into it Danny's. It would be great. Uh full circle, Ben, No,
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I heard that they're gonna leave it the way it
is and use it as a backup production studio. Okay, yeah, No,
I like that. There's this big sign they put up
on Fox Sports Radio launched this big It looks like
the kind of sign you'd see at a gas station,
you know, it's kind of plastic or Auto Zone. No, no,
I don't want that. It used to be the Auto
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Zone studios. Yeah, that was they put a sign up
and then auto Zone they were a sponsor for a
number of years early on and then they bailed. But
they still feel like the American pickers would want that
auto zone sign though, Oh yeah, they would totally love that.
So it's a great sign. No, I want the big
Fox sign that's above it. That's the one I would
I want to rip that off the wall. Yeah, I
think they're keeping that. They're they're keeping that, all right.
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If we could take anything we wanted, I would rip that.
Casey Cason signed down. Oh that's now that that's worth
a million bucks. You know how many hours of rady
millions and millions of people listen to Casey Cayson do
the countdown? Yeah, right, staple with our grandparents and our parents.
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Oh man, and you do you remember his his famous catchphrase?
Remember what he would say on about a star? Yes,
keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for
the star. I'm Casey case almost killed him, almost killed
him famous a famous store in the hallways of Fox
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Sports Radio, and Mr Kayson was doing his countdown show.
He's in a recording session. Some bad timing on that
the case. Well that's his doctor worked there soon after. Yeah,
she was working their lovely lady whatever. What's she doing that?
Probably a podcast, right, Probably a podcast. Next up, Chris
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and Marrit Cocada, Iowa writes in on the mail bag.
He says, Ben and Danny g I highly recommend on
the line starring Mel Gibson. For a minute, I thought
it was based on on your overnight show it. I'll
check this out. This is unflattering, so I thought it
was flattering when I first saw this. To anybody, says
an aging overnight talk show host who pisces off all
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his coworkers. He says, have you ever heard that on
the line with Mel Gibson? Never heard of that? Let
me hold on, I say, let me see here. How
old do you think this is? Wait a minute, I
don't think it's at old. I'd want to say, how
did we never hear about this? Um? It says it's
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a film? What they made a film about radio? And
we didn't even know about it? What is? I feel
like this is sane to me? Thriller. Well, this is
probably why it got on Rotten Tomatoes pretty low. Then
(27:41):
the Well, but it's about radio, you think we still
would have heard about it. Let's see, it's on Prime video.
I'm not paying five bucks for it free anywhere, So
I mean, I'm thinking it was one of those movies
that went directly to one of those dreaming services. I
see the trailer. I should we play the trailer. We're
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gonna get in trouble if we play that. I don't
know know if we credit them? It's okay, all right,
let me see if I can get this to work here?
This is uh honestly, let me pause this. All right?
So this is the trailer for a movie I've never
heard of and and you, Danny have never heard of it.
But christ and Merri Cocoa I alway says it's a
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on the Line starring Mel Gibson. We're a couple of
radio dudes, So why not here we go. Let's hit
the button here and let's see see how this goes.
What are the odds this actually works here? This is
the official trailer. That's I'm gonna turned that. That's a
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commercial for a car company. But well I don't need
to play that. Oh I can skip it. Here we go,
all right, here, settle and relax. Give me a call.
This is one you really we're expecting your calls. Talk
to Elvis live on air and tell him about all
(29:07):
of your issues and problems driving rates radio host. Okay,
we got Gary on the line. Let's say you Gary,
there are you just really tonight? You at home? No?
Does the home belong to someone you know? No, it
belongs to somebody not very nice. And I'm I'm going
(29:29):
to take out his whole family. I'm bringing Gary. Stop
what you come on? Why I heard his family smell
and get their innocent? You're better than Garry. Tell me
common where exactly are you? I'm at your house? Oh
my god, Daddy, make sure and the worst night of
(29:53):
your line, see your creatody, and I think you're gonna
love it. The clock, there's clock with a countdown. It
can still end will it's grabbing the bike. I don't
want it to end well and change everything. We don't
want to telling a baseball bag and I don't want
(30:16):
you to show up. So how about you tell us
the truth? We're all listening. You know yourself? Joct slip
Oh scary on the line, Provocative and edgy radio host
must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with
a mysterious caller who's kidnapped his family and he's threatening
(30:40):
to blow up the whole station. Wow, okay, uh that
did kind of remind me though, of this guy that
calls the overnight show from Minnesota. The guy's voice sounded
and kind of like the man that cleans the bodies
in Minnesota. There, I'm at your house. Wow, all right,
(31:04):
thank you Chris Man. He says. Did you did you
find mel believable? He? He says, Uh, have you seen
the show? No? I haven't. We just heard the trailer.
Did you find mel believable as a radio guy? If
you haven't seen it? Would you cast who you cast
to play you? Um? I don't know. I mean, jeez,
that's I don't know that I love radio, Dan, I
(31:26):
don't know. I'm gonna watch that movie though, I don't know. Man,
do you think that's worth a watch? It's free? He
had kind of a Larry King vibe to him there
when he was trying to be on the air. Um,
you know, I think I think John c Riley would
do a good job playing you. Uh, screw you? All right?
(31:51):
Who would play you? Daniel? Who Who would playing Tone Loco?
What do we? What do we done? Look? Yeah, John
c Riley and Tone Loke would be doing our See
the thing about that movie, though, that's a dead giveaway.
HOWAI radio is better than a podcast? You kid? And
I listen, I know that we're on a podcast now,
But you can't have that kind of drama on a
(32:12):
podcast because a podcast is typically recorded and all that.
But like that's I mean, there are people to this
day and and and a radio is an it's an
interesting media. And people listen online a lot, not so
much on traditional radio. But we still get people that
scan the dial that call up at three in the
(32:33):
morning that are like, hey, you want to talk and
I you know, it's it's like it's really wild. Um,
but thank you for that. Chris from Parts Unknown rights
in he says, guys, have you ever been selected for
the Nielsen's I was this fall and made twenty five
dollars off of them. As far as they know, I
(32:54):
only consume the Ben Maller Show content, so technically it
does pay to listen to the show. Well, thank you, Chris.
I don't know that you're allowed to say that, but
I guess it's after the fact. Yeah, I mean afterwards,
if a listener says something about it, we can't do
anything about that. If a listener says something to us
while they have what's called a diary, then we're supposed
(33:16):
to immediately put our fingers into our ears or AirPod
tips and say la la la la la la la.
I can hear you la la la la. Yeah, that
is we boting. You're not supposed to deal with people
like that, but thank you for that. You you have
anything to do with ratings and radio, you're not allowed
(33:38):
to talk to radio people about it. Yeah, that's not
that's not something that's supposed to happen there for sure. Uh,
let's see what else we have. We can't be selected
to answer his question. Yes, yes, no, we work for
a radio station. You can't do the ratings. Yeah, out
(34:00):
your wish. You would write Ben Mallard, Ben Mallard, Ben Maller,
you would write Danny G, Danny G, Danny G. And uh,
I remember back in the nineties, there was a guy
that got caught like his family got a ratings diary
and they filled it out and he got a lot
(34:21):
of a lot of trouble, a lot of hiri in. Okay,
see write since this dear Ben and Danny G. I
write this with a heavy heart due to the fact
that I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan. So how do you
guys remain fans of the Clippers and Raiders? He says
with utter disappointment, looming around the corner. Remember I'm a
(34:43):
Cowboy fan, he says. I'm thirty two years old. I
was born in so I witnessed their greatness, but have
no memory as I was like five years old. I
respect real die hard fans, same as Danny g I
have my team's tattooed on me for life, just asking
as a real heartbroken fan. That's from Kyrie and okay,
(35:08):
see well, Kyrie, I feel your pain. Although as the Cowboys,
it's a little different, Like the Clippers are never supposed
to win, what is still wrong with the Clippers? The
Cowboys are always supposed to win, So it's a different
situation between those two teams. But you have to go
through as a fan. You have to go through the
(35:29):
stages of of grief, right, denial, anger, depression, bargaining, all
that stuff, and then you finally accept it and then
you forget about it for a while, and then the
next season comes around you're like, well, this is gonna
be our year, al right, is gonna be our year?
And then that's how you do it when you haven't
(35:50):
made the playoffs in a long time, or you went
like the Raiders did and they were one and done.
Against the Bengals. You're you're happy that your team's moving
in the right direction. And unless you work for the team,
unless you're a part owner of the team, you can't
let it run your life. You can't let it ruin
your life. So as passionate as we are about sports
(36:13):
and our favorite teams, I think there's a certain maturity
and thick skin. Ben. Part of it is working for
a sports radio network. I could have never did this
in my early twenties. In my early twenties, if the
Raiders lost on Sunday, I mourned for three days. I
(36:34):
want to talk about it for three days. Now. I've
learned in the past ten years how to talk about
the losing while the losing is happening, because I've been
in there on a Sunday while they're puking on TV
and I'm part of the crew that's on the air.
So you quickly have to learn how to deal with
it and and learn to laugh about it. And it's
(36:56):
just part of life. Yeah, Like you know, as you said,
you don't work for the team, and you know you
you learn, like the Dodgers won the World Series, the
Rams have won the Super Bowl, like you know, as
great as that is and as happy as you are, like,
it doesn't necessarily change your life. You still have the
same things you had. You just you know, you're a
little happier because your team won. But it's not like
(37:18):
you don't get a ring. You don't get the bonus
when they didn't. It actually cost you money because you
gotta go by this the Super Bowl champion had or
the World Series championship or whatever. It's a good problem
to have. But that's funny you say that, because what
would be awesome? What if it was like this with sports?
If we're die hard fans and we signed up, filled
(37:40):
out some sort of application and we've had a proven
track record. When our team won the Super Bowl, not
only did we go to the parade, but we got
a year paid for our job and we just got
a year off to celebrate. Oh yeah, now that would
be that would be outstanding. You have that. That would
crank things up a couple of notch is there. Can
(38:01):
you imagine what that parade would be like with the
p Ones. Yeah, I'll be awesome. Tear that city apart. Uh.
Next up, Genie writes in she says, why does Roberto
say a hundred times, Okay, a hundred times, just to annoy.
Eugenie Corey writes in from Minnesota and says, hey, guys,
what are your top three fast food Mexican spots? Well,
(38:24):
that's an important question. Uh. Let's see. I don't know
Elpoil Loco, which I don't think is national. Uh. Yeah,
I used to eat a lot when I did in
the evening show at Baja Fresh. I think that's a
national chain. Isn't a Fresh national chain? I think so?
You seet a lot of the taco back in the day.
(38:45):
I don't know what are your go to Mexican chain
fast food type places. Uh, definitely Elpoyo Loco and uh
and then Taco Bell has always been a fan favorite
to this day. I will go get a bean and
cheese burrito with no onions, one crunchy taco boom. It's
(39:07):
a small snack and a good one, and it's roughly
four dollars in seventy cents. And how much was it
when you first started buying it? Uh? Dollar twenty nine
for the burrito and probably a dollar for the taco. Yeah.
I went from two fifty to four fifty. Yeah, wonderful.
(39:27):
Uh No, Chipotle for you, you know, not not a big
Chippotle person. I like it while I'm eating it, but
I've always felt kind of weird after eating their food,
like it sits in my stomach like a rock. When
I did the Night Show back in my big eating days,
we used to eat Baja Fresh at night. We'd have
the intern go out and get it. And those days
(39:48):
you didn't have food delivery, so the intern had to
give the intern the order. They go to the Baja Fresh,
they'd order the food and all that, and this this
one intern would always funk up my order. It was
so annoying. Man. It was I like, no vegetables and
they put extra vegetables. And I'm convinced he didn't just
a mess with me. I pity the fool. It doesn't
give me my burrito. I'm convinced of it. Uh. Let's
(40:13):
hear John and Colorado says, have you have you ever
pre arranged for someone to call into you during a
business meeting, a family function, or a first date so
you could gracefully exit if needed? I think, didn't you
talk about this something like this? I did? Yes? I
uh oh man um, I would like to apologize to
(40:35):
my wife he first, she probably won't download this anyways.
So I had a girl over we um we danced
all night. It was a fun night and then UM.
I get a call from another girl that was in
the mix, and she was like, I need you over
here right now. And because She's like, because I just
(40:58):
want to dance, so get over here now. And I
was like can I I don't. I wasn't sure if
I had any dancing left in me. But what I
did was I took a call from a friend who
I texted, and I had him saying that, oh, you
need to get down to the radio station right now. Uh.
(41:22):
And I think I was at NBC Sports Network at
the time, and I told the girl. I was like,
I gotta go. I got called into work and she
heard me talking to my friend and my friend was
conversing with me as if he was my boss, and
I'm like, yes, I'll be right there, because it was real.
It was a real conversation. It just wasn't my boss, man.
(41:45):
She lab. I walked her to her car and gave
her a hug and it was a nice goodbye, and
then I ran upstairs, showered, got ready, and drove to
the to the next dance partner. Um, yeah, that's the
only time I've ever had to fake a shift. You're fired.
I don't my move. I don't recall doing that, like
(42:08):
I probably did at some point, John, But I would
be like, oh, like, you know, if something wasn't going right,
which very usually it was them that we're trying to
get out of it, you know me, But if it
was me the rare occasion, I'd be like, oh, yeah,
you know, I forgot I had to do work. I'm sorry,
you know. Uh. Like I wouldn't even have I wouldn't
even go to the level of having somebody say, hey,
(42:30):
call me at this time. All right, we gotta get
out of here, Danny. Anything to promote Sunday. We've got
championships Sunday, got two games today. We'll know who's going
to be in the super Bowl by the time. By
the time I get back on the Overnight Show tonight,
we will have an idea, a great idea of whether
we're gonna have a good super Bowl crappy super Bowl.
We've got the final four of the NFL today and
(42:54):
can't wait to watch it all day long and then
yap about it all night. It's gonna be fun. It
gonna be a great time to and you know, because
the penny is always right, it's gonna be a Philly Bengals. No, no, no,
it's gonna be the forty Niners and they will play
the Bengals, which is also a rematch of a long
ago Super Bowl A right, forty Niners and Bengals back
(43:16):
in the eighties, late eighties, standing pat with the Eagles.
They were my pick before the season started, saw me personally,
not penny related. I gotta stick with the Eagles to
win it all. Are you gonna do it? Eat? G
ll eat Eagles chant like that, eat Eat Eat. All right, yeah,
(43:40):
all right, thanks for this morning the podcast. We appreciate
it and all that rigamaroor and all that nonsense. So
I have a great rest of your day today. Thank you.
Tell a friend, Tell a friend, and if you got
older parents or grandparents or cousins and uncles and they're
not really that tech savvy, just you know, grab their phone.
So you want to help him out, give him a podcast,
(44:02):
Subscribe to the podcast, have it automatically download, and maybe
by chance they might listen. We'll get a little credit
for that, so that'll help us out. A few days ago,
I talked to my friend Tim from Northern California guided
him on how to download the Fifth Hour. So he's
now been listening to all the podcasts as he drives
(44:22):
to see his girlfriend, who lives an hour away. Outstanding,
I love that. It's great to hear. Yeah, listen. I
used to do that on the Overnight Show, and I
still it's still works. Listen. You know, it's not really illegal.
If you're helping them out, maybe they would like to show.
You don't know that they're not gonna like the show.
You know, just because they haven't watched the sporting events
since the sixties does not mean they're not gonna like
the show. Maybe maybe they'll be into it. You know,
(44:45):
it's not We're not really doing a sport oh show
here anyway. I was just gonna say, yeah, we're not
sitting here breaking down games. Aside from the Penny, all
the other podcasts are mostly about life exactly, and life
is for the living, and we'll catch you neck. So
I'm gonna go live our lives right now. Have a
great rest of your day. We'll talk to you next time.
Let's go Eagles, Yeah, Eagles, forty Niners forty niners later,
(45:13):
skater Eagles Gotta murder, Gotta go
Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the air everywhere on a
championship Sunday in the National Football League. Think of this
as your pregame show without the x former NFL guys
and without the chuckles. Well we'll laugh, ha ha ha.
(00:50):
We're gonna laugh a little bit. But it is the
mail bag The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny
g Radio. You've got your formal raider gear on today.
You're all dressed up without the unnecessary field reports on
dumb ship that we already know. Is that the most
annoying thing when the announcers are like, yeah, it's a
(01:11):
right ankle injury. So let's go down to the sideline
with so and so and then go down. Yes, it's
a right ankle injury. He's in the tent. Yeah, we
know it's a right ankle injury. Don't go to the
sideline reporters, Ben, unless it's some ship we have not
heard yet. Now I love the sideline. I got a
buddy of mine that is a news, old newspaper guy
(01:32):
like journalists, like real journalism, back in the old days
before newspapers became you know, ghost ships, and he will
text me after the NFL game. Because almost every these
NFL games, almost every one of the first recorders, first
question from the reporters how does it feel? How does
it feel? That's like the number one questioned it. It
(01:54):
drives him, It drives him insane. What was going through
your mind on that final drive? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. It's like, well, I was trying to score.
We were trying to score because we were down and
we had to score or else we were lost the game.
So I was trying to score. But it's like, you
don't have to go to some high falutin journalism school
(02:14):
if your first question is going to be how did
it feel? You know, you don't know, I could get
any schmow out of the crowd asked that question. And
the most fascinating thing is a lot of these sideline
reporters think that they're gonna win the Pulitzer Prize for
Journalism with this line of questioning. It's fascinating to me.
They've convinced themselves that their job is essential and these
questions are very important and we as football fans would
(02:36):
not be able to survive without them. And I'm like, wow,
whatever floats your boat. But I hate to hate to
be the bear of bad news. But spoiler alert, yeah,
we were the first fifth hour interview after the football
is on hiatus, Shannon Spake, that'll be you, Danny. I'll
(02:59):
be taking that weekend off. You'll have to handle that. No, no, no,
I know some of these people and they're fine, but
it's just you're not You're not moving mountains here, neither
or I'm gonna do a sports radio show in the
middle of the night. I'm not moving mountains. But at
least I don't. I don't pretend, Danny. I don't pretend
like I am moving mountains. I don't sit there and
think somehow that these are amazing questions. And a lot
of these sideline reporters they're like they're like hugging the
(03:22):
players and stuff. They're like, buddy, buddy, it's like the
it's like the the w w ET or something. It's crazy.
I'm friends with Shannon. I'd like to say she does
a fine job, but there's just sometimes where the reporting
is just brainless to me. Yeah, well the thing that
me and when I when I used to get up
early on Sunday with Looney and we did the Football
(03:44):
Show for years. It's like seven or eight years we
did that show. But with Looney we would watch the
pregame shows and they actually on Fox Sports Radio. They
carry the Fox Pregame Show. And the amount of laughter,
like and I don't mind a good belly laugh, but
on everything's funny, you don't have to laugh at everything.
And these guys would laugh at everything. It was like chuckles.
(04:07):
Its wild, It's like can studio laughter. It was insane. Anyway,
we've got mail enough of that. Now that we've bashed
the NFL television, I think we can move on. Yes, yes, yes, yes, indeed,
we'll change it up a little bit. We'll get right
to the mail bag. These are actual listener questions from
actual listeners like yourself, and we love when we get
(04:27):
questions from people that aren't regulars. We like, we enjoy
our regulars, but it's always nice to hear some new
names pop up on our radar or some people that
only email occasionally from time to time. Life keeps you
busy and you can't send questions in all the time.
So the way you can contact us very simple. It's
Ben Mallard Show at Gmail. I don't know that's not
(04:51):
It's Ben mallow Show on Facebook. I was screwed it
up so easy. I screwed it up. It's Ben Mallard
Show on the Facebook page and then real fifth we're
at gmail dot com. I wanted to mention we didn't
get to this. We ran out of time yesterday on
the Saturday podcast. But we did actually get a great
review from on Backscratcher. We got one review on the
(05:13):
Apple podcast page, which is what we're really gunning for
and a couple of weeks would be great, and this
one said it gave us five stars, a must listen
on the weekends. It says the Ben Mallard Podcast. Though
we misspelled my name, but that's auto correctly when you
when you put my name in it auto corrects the
(05:34):
Ben Mallett. I don't know why, but the they my name.
According to the algorithm is mallet anyway, so he says.
Ben Mallett podcast is a great podcast listen to. Danny
G is the perfect co host with great relatable stories
as well as old school radio DJ stories. I really
(05:57):
enjoy the stories about when Ben started as a radio
stringer and his eventual rise. I like what he says
in quotes rise to now hosting a nationally syndicated overnight
radio show. Danny G brings his own sauce with awesome
stories about his daily life, his other career, and awesome
stories about the beginnings as a radio DJ. Love the
mail bag and the new pop goes the culture segment.
(06:20):
Highly recommend this podcast. Dominican Mike, our guy, Dominican Mike.
That's one of the nicest reviews we've gotten. It's very kind.
Dominican Mike is one of the great characters, and I'm
bummed out he has a day job. But I love
that guy, and I love when he was in our
rotation of callers because he lived in Arizona part of
(06:40):
the time, lived in Tampa, Florida. I think he's in
Florida now full time, but he's working the dreaded day
shift and we had a great time. I remember when
Dominican Mike tried to take the oath, but he was
either tired or in debriated, or maybe a little bit
of both, and he really struggled. He was bouncing off
the walls there. Did not go well, but it made
(07:01):
for hilarious audio that we still play to this day.
And it's been several years and we still play that
audio from Dominican Mike. It's tremendous. When some listeners asked
the question what happened to this regular or that regular.
A lot of the times, day jobs get in the way,
but the beauty of podcasting is they're still listening, just
(07:22):
at a different time. Yeah, it is really cool because
very rarely will someone listen to like Cowherd and be
loyal to him and then go to the overnight shift.
Normally that doesn't happen. It's it's usually the other way.
People work overnight for a little bit, then they'll go
to the day shift, and so it's it's cool. We've
got a lot I got people have emailed me Danny
(07:42):
that listen ten twelve years ago, I guess longer now.
Years keep adding up, and but they're still that they've
worked during the day. They got normally, got married and
had kids. Used to they were in their twenties working overnight,
trying to make money at the grocery store. And then
now they're they're all grown up and they got there
their families, but they still listen. That's kind of cool.
(08:02):
I liked it. I love that. So alright, what do
we have in the mail bag? First up on the mailbag?
Oh wait, Ohio? Aw'm so Ohio. All hit that button there? Ohio, Aw,
it's all right, thank you, Ohio. All. First one is
(08:29):
from Pierre down the road from minute Chog Regional High School.
Where As Tombodett would say, we'll leave the light on
for you. Just a couple of fun facts before my question. Uh.
He says that Wilbraham, Massachusetts, is the former home of
the Friendly's ice Cream corporate headquarters. Ooh, that's a fun fact.
(08:53):
Most notable sports related to alumni the minute Chog Regional
High School for our our former MLB picture Mike Trombley.
I remember him. He was like the middle of the
rotation starting pitcher if I remember correctly. Yeah, I remember
that guy. Yeah. ESPN, Mike Trombley, do you play for
the Twins Orioles? Something along those lines. I for some reason,
(09:18):
I'm thinking Twins and Orioles. He probably played for somebody else,
but those are the teams that I associate in my
head with. Mike Trombley. Whoa when I typed in Trombley,
uh said, Trombley sausage. Oh well, I don't need to
see the man sausage. I'm good on that. I don't
(09:39):
need to let me put in Trombley baseball. Okay, Mike
Trombiley t R O m L. First picture that pops
up as him and the Twins. Yeah, I still got it, Danny,
I still got it. I still got it Danny. Probably
Orioles and the Dodgers. Oh there, I must if I
forgot to dot years. When did he pitched for the Dodgers.
(10:01):
What year? Let's take a look, and yeah, that's that's
why I know his name is because of the Dodgers.
Two thousand one. Okay, so that was a little I
was here. I was working in Fox Sports Radio two
thousand one. Um. I still went to the to the
Dodging games all the time. But I remember my favorite
X Minnesota twinter I became really good friends with when
he pitched for the Dodgers. There was a relief pitcher
(10:22):
named Mark Guthrie. Oh yeah, pretty had a couple of
good years in the big least. Wonderful dude, one of
the nicest people. And I became I was a young guy,
he was a young guy, and we were you know,
you know, buddy buddy a little bit. That was cool. Uh.
There was a picture for the Twins named Kevin Tappani,
who was a pretty good starting pitcher in the nineties
(10:45):
and he got he ended up on the Dodgers, and uh,
you know, he didn't do nearly as good as with
the Dodgers as I remember as he did with the Twins.
But uh, some random names. But Mike Trombley says, from
this high school, Uh, this is a Pierre, He says
in minnocha got really quick. I was gonna tell you.
Close to our heart is the town he was born in,
(11:05):
because we both have relatives born there, Springfield, Massachusetts. Oh
that's right, Yeah, there you go, beautiful all right, And
that's where this right next to Springfield and this high
school is. Uh. And Pierre also says that the ESPN
co founder Scott Rasmussen from that high school and current
Red Sox hitting coach Peter Fatsy is awesome from that
(11:28):
high school, says. My question to you is do you
feel ripped off by SNL for stealing the minute chog
light story for their weekend update segment or flattered that
the writers are fans of The Fifth Hour with Ben
Mallory and Danny g. I'll take my answer off the year,
So I didn't see Saturday Night Lavel last week. I
(11:51):
love the fact that they they had that story. That's
a great story that the high school had the lights
on for years and these these idiots could not in academia,
could not figure out how to turn the lights off.
And I mean, that's just wonderful. It's a ten out
of ten. But I didn't you watch Saturday Night Live.
I don't usually. I don't know anybody that watches that
program any longer. Last time I watched it, I watched
(12:12):
it because I'm a big Larry David fan and he
was hosting, and so I checked it out to see him.
But that was about it. Next up on the mail bag,
Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia rights in the Lovely Jennifer says, Hey,
Benn and Danny Ge. Last week, my oldest son and
I drove from Richmond, Virginia to Minneapolis, and while passing
(12:33):
through Wisconsin, I remember your trip last year to see
your relatives in Appleton. Did you know that the highway
rest stops have vending machines with cheese kurds. We got
a bag, of course, since it is the cheese state. Yummy.
In Marcel's voice, she says, that's some. Jennifer, Now, Jennifer,
(12:54):
the big the big question is did you take your
son to Kenosha where the cheese Castle is? Because that's
that's next level. That's ultimate Wisconsin, which is just across
it's not far from the Illinois border. When you make
the trip from Chicago up the road there into Castle.
(13:16):
Well it it is actually a castle, but it's not
made out of cheese. But you've never heard of the
chee Castle. No. I got excited. I thought like the
moat was gonna be melted nacho cheese. No, dude, this
is like the first spot I've not been to Wisconsin.
I had not been to Wisconsin since I was doing
stuff with the Dodgers like twenty years ago, and I
you know, then you're with the team and you don't
(13:38):
really go out exploring. You kind of go to the
hotel and you go to the stadium and all that ship.
But this thing is insane. I'm gonna send you a
link right now, let's sake you. I want you to
check this out. Um, and I do recommend it. It It
was really cool. Becuse the ultimate like Wisconsin kind of
touristy trap thing. When you're you're driving through on your
way to Milwaukee or Chicago and you stop by the
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Mars Cheese Castle, which is I just sent you a
link there, and they've got all kinds of Wisconsin products.
They've got a gift shop. You can get your packer,
your your Buccaneers stuff, you're not your stuff, any kind
of cheese you could possibly want. Yeah, it is pretty neat.
They got a restaurant there, they got old They got
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cheese curds up the wazoo. Um, so yeah, it's pretty
pretty neat. But those cheese curds are man man solid.
I gotta every couple of years, I gotta visit my brothers,
so I get my my cheese fixed when I'm in Wisconsin.
But I hope you had safe shovel's. Jennifer, is your
son going to school in Minneapolis. Is that what that's
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all about? All right? Next up, Barry in Nashville rights
and he says, yo yo mo, Benny, you talk a
lot about in a minute fasting. Have you hit your
weight goal or are you still trying to lose more weight? Yeah,
so I don't really wit myself. I I know when
my clothes get a little tight that I've gained too
much weight. Um. Pretty happy with where I am right now.
(15:03):
I probably like to lose a little more weight, and
doctors will tell you to lose weight. But I did
have a bunch of blood tests done about a year
and a half ago, and surprisingly I was doing pretty
well for my age and all that. Um, so it's
it's more about my michigasp berry where I'm afraid if
I eat three meals in a day that I'm gonna
(15:25):
gain all the weight back in like two days, you know,
and all that. So it's really more about my neurosis
than anything else. And on the weekends, I'll eat a
couple of meals, but during the week I'm pretty religious.
Like at the time we're doing this podcast, I have
not eaten in over forty hours, so you know, what
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the hell? Next up, Fred from Spring Texas Rights, and
he says, hey, there, guys, how has the rise of
advertising revenue through sports gambling businesses affected the radio business?
Has it changed the way you cover sports? So that's
a that's a pretty good question from our guy, Fred.
It's been wonderful for for what we do, it's been great.
(16:12):
It's influx of cash and these gambling companies like we're
associated on on our show with DraftKings and they're a
big sponsor and they spend a lot of a lot
of advertising dollars on Fox Sports Radio. We're very grateful
that for that. And yeah, I heard Coop do a
live read for them on your show. Well, Koop knows
(16:35):
how to make the advertiser very happy. As you know, Danny,
I wish I could pull off those suits. Uh but
but no, And in all in all seriousness, it's been wonderful.
It's I'm trying to think, what's the comparison, and we've
both been in the business a long time, Danny, is
there's something else that can match what we've got right
now because it's just this big influx of cash. Yeah,
(16:58):
I guess some money here. I would think maybe when
the dot com things started and people were advertising, was
it pets dot com and some of those early websites
where they were trying to get people to go to
them and they'd buy radio spots. The other one, Ben,
and you can attest to this because I'm sure you
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did your share of live remotes at cell phone stores. Yes, yes,
oh my god. Yeah, when the smartphone face came around. Yes,
all these little cell phone stores were battling with each other,
all had their run times on radio stations. I remember
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there would be certain saturdays where we would be at
two different cell phone stores broadcasting live. Yeah. I totally
forgot about you. That's a great call by you. Yeah,
I remember we were. We used to go when I
was doing local radio because it was the nineties when
these things kind of came on the scene, and we
we were like a T and T store in Santa
Monica on his Saturday morning. But then we do a
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remote from uh what was the other I'm trying to
I'm having a blank on the other phone. But it
was another one of the big phone companies, and we would,
uh yeah, just show up, get people to come down
and buy a phone. And it was brilliant because once
you get locked in with a type of phone. It's
very difficult to cross old like on the smartphone thing.
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If you're an iPhone person, you're an iPhone person, and
if you're an Android person, they're an Android person. And
those were back in the days when people had blackberries,
remember the black thing. That was big for business people.
And there were still mon pop shops at the time
who carried all the different kinds of phones. Obviously they
just had agreements and licensing with all the different carriers.
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So we had big stores, little ones, mob pop, corporate.
It didn't matter. They were all trying to sling these phones.
So I remember hot dogs, three hot dogs for an
hour with with the DJ table out right in front
of the cell phone store, and of course they were
giving away a free phone by the end of the
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broadcast and big sale that day on on service and
you know you can trade your phone in or whatever.
Do we spend hours and hours at those dumb stores,
Yeah I did. I totally forgot about that, But that
was a huge thing for radio, and the phone thing
came around, and um, you know, the sports radio business model.
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As far as covering sports, I've always been into gambling,
but there is a fine line it's really like threatened
a needle, because if you do too much gambling, it's
a nightmare. Nobody wants to listen to it, so you
really have to. And people tune in for the sports
that that you know Dud's been on games I get
I do we do this podcast. We have Benny Versus
the Penny. But the way I've always approached it, even
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on Benny Versus the Penny, it's more about the matchup
and the you know, the mental part of it. When
you some of these gambling shows and I have friends
of mine to do these things, Danny, it's like you
do a hard oh sports gambling show. To me, that's
a heartless. To me, that's a tough list. So you
got you gotta balance it. It is. There's those paid
one phone number shows we've all heard on local radio
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stations screaming about do you like boats, because I'm gonna
put a boat in the driveway? Yeah? Are you tired
a bit a loser? Do you want your wife to
leave you alone? I'll get you a boat. You'll be
listening to this on a boat. The first five picks
are free, and their locks let me tell you their locks,
And there for free the first five are free, call
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my number right now, operatives are standing by absolutely free.
And then you call up, it's like twenty seven minutes
of commercials to buy their product. And then at the
very end, by the way, I like the Chiefs minus two,
you know, and then and then they call you back
and they get your number, and it's a whole ship show.
So that's crazy. That's how it used to be. Now
it's an app in your phone and you can bet
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on whatever your heart desires, unless you're in a state
like ours. Yeah, well another is it two more years?
We have to wait for one more year and then
the Native American groups, the the Indian casinos will control
the gambling market. I don't want to mess with those people. Man,
they got they I'll tell you what they own the
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gambling market in California. They are all they beat big gambling.
That's insane that they were able to push out these
huge gambling companies all hailed at That tells you how
much money those gambling operations, these casinos around California make
on Native American land. Uh. Next up on the mail
bag we go to Drew, who says, Big Ben love
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the show. Keep up the arguing, Uh, yeah, we did
a little back and Eddie annoys me sometimes and I
have to sell at him. And then then usually what
happens is Coop will then take eighties side and then
Roberto will chime in, and so then I have to
I have to talk these guys away. And he says
it reminds me of Howard Stern, what he would do
(22:06):
with the stuttering John or Bob a booie. Uh. He
enjoyed that play the Mona song Blair, he says, in Maine,
reminds me of Jeff the drunk from the Howard Stern Show.
He says, Mr Jed who fled cost you the game,
Yes he did. Jed was completely inebriated the other night.
Should stay off the drugs. Can't stand that, guy says. Anyway,
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cheers brother. And to the cry babies that can't handle
the arguing, he says, they can go listen to Dan Patrick,
he says, and then he says some rather unflattering things
about Dan, so I probably will leave those out. Um,
but thank you Drew in southern California. I appreciate that
great kind of you. It is a tremendous compliment because
(22:50):
you didn't say, I sound like Howard Stern, now the
woke Coward Stern. He said, I sound like the old
Howard Stern, which, when you know he dominated. He was
the king of all radio, king of all media in
his day for real, And so that is a tremendous compliment.
Next up Mike from Fullerton Rights, and he says, so
Ben and Danny g since since Ben went Benny the
(23:11):
bulldozer in the studio, Mike says, he says, guys, have
people at fs R started treating you better? Or something like?
He's asking me and what would explain? Maybe that would explain.
He says, why Steve Disager broke his mike so soon after?
At least did you hear about that? No? I didn't
hear about that. Yeah. Yeah, So I had my mike
(23:33):
issue where I tried to help out Jonas Knox by
putting the mic back where it needed to be, and
then somehow my superhuman strength like thor or he Man
or whoever, I ripped the mic, ripped the mike off,
Peppermint Patty ripped the mic off, and Steve Disager in
(23:54):
the update studio the mike came tumbling off also, and
Eddie came in on a Sunday night and the mic
was like laying on the board in the update studio.
So he says, Mike says, do either of you plan
to steal something from the studio? He's talking to me
(24:14):
and you Danny to smash office space style before moving
into the new one. Good question, what is gonna happen
to our current studio? Are they gonna is it gonna
be condemned, there's gonna be red tagged. They're gonna turn
that part of the building back into a Denny's. Back
into it Danny's. It would be great. Uh full circle, Ben, No,
(24:38):
I heard that they're gonna leave it the way it
is and use it as a backup production studio. Okay, yeah, No,
I like that. There's this big sign they put up
on Fox Sports Radio launched this big It looks like
the kind of sign you'd see at a gas station,
you know, it's kind of plastic or Auto Zone. No, no,
I don't want that. It used to be the Auto
(25:01):
Zone studios. Yeah, that was they put a sign up
and then auto Zone they were a sponsor for a
number of years early on and then they bailed. But
they still feel like the American pickers would want that
auto zone sign though, Oh yeah, they would totally love that.
So it's a great sign. No, I want the big
Fox sign that's above it. That's the one I would
I want to rip that off the wall. Yeah, I
think they're keeping that. They're they're keeping that, all right.
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If we could take anything we wanted, I would rip that.
Casey Cason signed down. Oh that's now that that's worth
a million bucks. You know how many hours of rady
millions and millions of people listen to Casey Cayson do
the countdown? Yeah, right, staple with our grandparents and our parents.
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Oh man, and you do you remember his his famous catchphrase?
Remember what he would say on about a star? Yes,
keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for
the star. I'm Casey case almost killed him, almost killed
him famous a famous store in the hallways of Fox
(26:08):
Sports Radio, and Mr Kayson was doing his countdown show.
He's in a recording session. Some bad timing on that
the case. Well that's his doctor worked there soon after. Yeah,
she was working their lovely lady whatever. What's she doing that?
Probably a podcast, right, Probably a podcast. Next up, Chris
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and Marrit Cocada, Iowa writes in on the mail bag.
He says, Ben and Danny g I highly recommend on
the line starring Mel Gibson. For a minute, I thought
it was based on on your overnight show it. I'll
check this out. This is unflattering, so I thought it
was flattering when I first saw this. To anybody, says
an aging overnight talk show host who pisces off all
(26:53):
his coworkers. He says, have you ever heard that on
the line with Mel Gibson? Never heard of that? Let
me hold on, I say, let me see here. How
old do you think this is? Wait a minute, I
don't think it's at old. I'd want to say, how
did we never hear about this? Um? It says it's
(27:18):
a film? What they made a film about radio? And
we didn't even know about it? What is? I feel
like this is sane to me? Thriller. Well, this is
probably why it got on Rotten Tomatoes pretty low. Then
(27:41):
the Well, but it's about radio, you think we still
would have heard about it. Let's see, it's on Prime video.
I'm not paying five bucks for it free anywhere, So
I mean, I'm thinking it was one of those movies
that went directly to one of those dreaming services. I
see the trailer. I should we play the trailer. We're
(28:03):
gonna get in trouble if we play that. I don't
know know if we credit them? It's okay, all right,
let me see if I can get this to work here?
This is uh honestly, let me pause this. All right?
So this is the trailer for a movie I've never
heard of and and you, Danny have never heard of it.
But christ and Merri Cocoa I alway says it's a
(28:26):
on the Line starring Mel Gibson. We're a couple of
radio dudes, So why not here we go. Let's hit
the button here and let's see see how this goes.
What are the odds this actually works here? This is
the official trailer. That's I'm gonna turned that. That's a
(28:47):
commercial for a car company. But well I don't need
to play that. Oh I can skip it. Here we go,
all right, here, settle and relax. Give me a call.
This is one you really we're expecting your calls. Talk
to Elvis live on air and tell him about all
(29:07):
of your issues and problems driving rates radio host. Okay,
we got Gary on the line. Let's say you Gary,
there are you just really tonight? You at home? No?
Does the home belong to someone you know? No, it
belongs to somebody not very nice. And I'm I'm going
(29:29):
to take out his whole family. I'm bringing Gary. Stop
what you come on? Why I heard his family smell
and get their innocent? You're better than Garry. Tell me
common where exactly are you? I'm at your house? Oh
my god, Daddy, make sure and the worst night of
(29:53):
your line, see your creatody, and I think you're gonna
love it. The clock, there's clock with a countdown. It
can still end will it's grabbing the bike. I don't
want it to end well and change everything. We don't
want to telling a baseball bag and I don't want
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you to show up. So how about you tell us
the truth? We're all listening. You know yourself? Joct slip
Oh scary on the line, Provocative and edgy radio host
must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with
a mysterious caller who's kidnapped his family and he's threatening
(30:40):
to blow up the whole station. Wow, okay, uh that
did kind of remind me though, of this guy that
calls the overnight show from Minnesota. The guy's voice sounded
and kind of like the man that cleans the bodies
in Minnesota. There, I'm at your house. Wow, all right,
(31:04):
thank you Chris Man. He says. Did you did you
find mel believable? He? He says, Uh, have you seen
the show? No? I haven't. We just heard the trailer.
Did you find mel believable as a radio guy? If
you haven't seen it? Would you cast who you cast
to play you? Um? I don't know. I mean, jeez,
that's I don't know that I love radio, Dan, I
(31:26):
don't know. I'm gonna watch that movie though, I don't know. Man,
do you think that's worth a watch? It's free? He
had kind of a Larry King vibe to him there
when he was trying to be on the air. Um,
you know, I think I think John c Riley would
do a good job playing you. Uh, screw you? All right?
(31:51):
Who would play you? Daniel? Who Who would playing Tone Loco?
What do we? What do we done? Look? Yeah, John
c Riley and Tone Loke would be doing our See
the thing about that movie, though, that's a dead giveaway.
HOWAI radio is better than a podcast? You kid? And
I listen, I know that we're on a podcast now,
But you can't have that kind of drama on a
(32:12):
podcast because a podcast is typically recorded and all that.
But like that's I mean, there are people to this
day and and and a radio is an it's an
interesting media. And people listen online a lot, not so
much on traditional radio. But we still get people that
scan the dial that call up at three in the
(32:33):
morning that are like, hey, you want to talk and
I you know, it's it's like it's really wild. Um,
but thank you for that. Chris from Parts Unknown rights
in he says, guys, have you ever been selected for
the Nielsen's I was this fall and made twenty five
dollars off of them. As far as they know, I
(32:54):
only consume the Ben Maller Show content, so technically it
does pay to listen to the show. Well, thank you, Chris.
I don't know that you're allowed to say that, but
I guess it's after the fact. Yeah, I mean afterwards,
if a listener says something about it, we can't do
anything about that. If a listener says something to us
while they have what's called a diary, then we're supposed
(33:16):
to immediately put our fingers into our ears or AirPod
tips and say la la la la la la la.
I can hear you la la la la. Yeah, that
is we boting. You're not supposed to deal with people
like that, but thank you for that. You you have
anything to do with ratings and radio, you're not allowed
(33:38):
to talk to radio people about it. Yeah, that's not
that's not something that's supposed to happen there for sure. Uh,
let's see what else we have. We can't be selected
to answer his question. Yes, yes, no, we work for
a radio station. You can't do the ratings. Yeah, out
(34:00):
your wish. You would write Ben Mallard, Ben Mallard, Ben Maller,
you would write Danny G, Danny G, Danny G. And uh,
I remember back in the nineties, there was a guy
that got caught like his family got a ratings diary
and they filled it out and he got a lot
(34:21):
of a lot of trouble, a lot of hiri in. Okay,
see write since this dear Ben and Danny G. I
write this with a heavy heart due to the fact
that I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan. So how do you
guys remain fans of the Clippers and Raiders? He says
with utter disappointment, looming around the corner. Remember I'm a
(34:43):
Cowboy fan, he says. I'm thirty two years old. I
was born in so I witnessed their greatness, but have
no memory as I was like five years old. I
respect real die hard fans, same as Danny g I
have my team's tattooed on me for life, just asking
as a real heartbroken fan. That's from Kyrie and okay,
(35:08):
see well, Kyrie, I feel your pain. Although as the Cowboys,
it's a little different, Like the Clippers are never supposed
to win, what is still wrong with the Clippers? The
Cowboys are always supposed to win, So it's a different
situation between those two teams. But you have to go
through as a fan. You have to go through the
(35:29):
stages of of grief, right, denial, anger, depression, bargaining, all
that stuff, and then you finally accept it and then
you forget about it for a while, and then the
next season comes around you're like, well, this is gonna
be our year, al right, is gonna be our year?
And then that's how you do it when you haven't
(35:50):
made the playoffs in a long time, or you went
like the Raiders did and they were one and done.
Against the Bengals. You're you're happy that your team's moving
in the right direction. And unless you work for the team,
unless you're a part owner of the team, you can't
let it run your life. You can't let it ruin
your life. So as passionate as we are about sports
(36:13):
and our favorite teams, I think there's a certain maturity
and thick skin. Ben. Part of it is working for
a sports radio network. I could have never did this
in my early twenties. In my early twenties, if the
Raiders lost on Sunday, I mourned for three days. I
(36:34):
want to talk about it for three days. Now. I've
learned in the past ten years how to talk about
the losing while the losing is happening, because I've been
in there on a Sunday while they're puking on TV
and I'm part of the crew that's on the air.
So you quickly have to learn how to deal with
it and and learn to laugh about it. And it's
(36:56):
just part of life. Yeah, Like you know, as you said,
you don't work for the team, and you know you
you learn, like the Dodgers won the World Series, the
Rams have won the Super Bowl, like you know, as
great as that is and as happy as you are, like,
it doesn't necessarily change your life. You still have the
same things you had. You just you know, you're a
little happier because your team won. But it's not like
(37:18):
you don't get a ring. You don't get the bonus
when they didn't. It actually cost you money because you
gotta go by this the Super Bowl champion had or
the World Series championship or whatever. It's a good problem
to have. But that's funny you say that, because what
would be awesome? What if it was like this with sports?
If we're die hard fans and we signed up, filled
(37:40):
out some sort of application and we've had a proven
track record. When our team won the Super Bowl, not
only did we go to the parade, but we got
a year paid for our job and we just got
a year off to celebrate. Oh yeah, now that would
be that would be outstanding. You have that. That would
crank things up a couple of notch is there. Can
(38:01):
you imagine what that parade would be like with the
p Ones. Yeah, I'll be awesome. Tear that city apart. Uh.
Next up, Genie writes in she says, why does Roberto
say a hundred times, Okay, a hundred times, just to annoy.
Eugenie Corey writes in from Minnesota and says, hey, guys,
what are your top three fast food Mexican spots? Well,
(38:24):
that's an important question. Uh. Let's see. I don't know
Elpoil Loco, which I don't think is national. Uh. Yeah,
I used to eat a lot when I did in
the evening show at Baja Fresh. I think that's a
national chain. Isn't a Fresh national chain? I think so?
You seet a lot of the taco back in the day.
(38:45):
I don't know what are your go to Mexican chain
fast food type places. Uh, definitely Elpoyo Loco and uh
and then Taco Bell has always been a fan favorite
to this day. I will go get a bean and
cheese burrito with no onions, one crunchy taco boom. It's
(39:07):
a small snack and a good one, and it's roughly
four dollars in seventy cents. And how much was it
when you first started buying it? Uh? Dollar twenty nine
for the burrito and probably a dollar for the taco. Yeah.
I went from two fifty to four fifty. Yeah, wonderful.
(39:27):
Uh No, Chipotle for you, you know, not not a big
Chippotle person. I like it while I'm eating it, but
I've always felt kind of weird after eating their food,
like it sits in my stomach like a rock. When
I did the Night Show back in my big eating days,
we used to eat Baja Fresh at night. We'd have
the intern go out and get it. And those days
(39:48):
you didn't have food delivery, so the intern had to
give the intern the order. They go to the Baja Fresh,
they'd order the food and all that, and this this
one intern would always funk up my order. It was
so annoying. Man. It was I like, no vegetables and
they put extra vegetables. And I'm convinced he didn't just
a mess with me. I pity the fool. It doesn't
give me my burrito. I'm convinced of it. Uh. Let's
(40:13):
hear John and Colorado says, have you have you ever
pre arranged for someone to call into you during a
business meeting, a family function, or a first date so
you could gracefully exit if needed? I think, didn't you
talk about this something like this? I did? Yes? I
uh oh man um, I would like to apologize to
(40:35):
my wife he first, she probably won't download this anyways.
So I had a girl over we um we danced
all night. It was a fun night and then UM.
I get a call from another girl that was in
the mix, and she was like, I need you over
here right now. And because She's like, because I just
(40:58):
want to dance, so get over here now. And I
was like can I I don't. I wasn't sure if
I had any dancing left in me. But what I
did was I took a call from a friend who
I texted, and I had him saying that, oh, you
need to get down to the radio station right now. Uh.
(41:22):
And I think I was at NBC Sports Network at
the time, and I told the girl. I was like,
I gotta go. I got called into work and she
heard me talking to my friend and my friend was
conversing with me as if he was my boss, and
I'm like, yes, I'll be right there, because it was real.
It was a real conversation. It just wasn't my boss, man.
(41:45):
She lab. I walked her to her car and gave
her a hug and it was a nice goodbye, and
then I ran upstairs, showered, got ready, and drove to
the to the next dance partner. Um, yeah, that's the
only time I've ever had to fake a shift. You're fired.
I don't my move. I don't recall doing that, like
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I probably did at some point, John, But I would
be like, oh, like, you know, if something wasn't going right,
which very usually it was them that we're trying to
get out of it, you know me, But if it
was me the rare occasion, I'd be like, oh, yeah,
you know, I forgot I had to do work. I'm sorry,
you know. Uh. Like I wouldn't even have I wouldn't
even go to the level of having somebody say, hey,
(42:30):
call me at this time. All right, we gotta get
out of here, Danny. Anything to promote Sunday. We've got
championships Sunday, got two games today. We'll know who's going
to be in the super Bowl by the time. By
the time I get back on the Overnight Show tonight,
we will have an idea, a great idea of whether
we're gonna have a good super Bowl crappy super Bowl.
We've got the final four of the NFL today and
(42:54):
can't wait to watch it all day long and then
yap about it all night. It's gonna be fun. It
gonna be a great time to and you know, because
the penny is always right, it's gonna be a Philly Bengals. No, no, no,
it's gonna be the forty Niners and they will play
the Bengals, which is also a rematch of a long
ago Super Bowl A right, forty Niners and Bengals back
(43:16):
in the eighties, late eighties, standing pat with the Eagles.
They were my pick before the season started, saw me personally,
not penny related. I gotta stick with the Eagles to
win it all. Are you gonna do it? Eat? G
ll eat Eagles chant like that, eat Eat Eat. All right, yeah,
(43:40):
all right, thanks for this morning the podcast. We appreciate
it and all that rigamaroor and all that nonsense. So
I have a great rest of your day today. Thank you.
Tell a friend, Tell a friend, and if you got
older parents or grandparents or cousins and uncles and they're
not really that tech savvy, just you know, grab their phone.
So you want to help him out, give him a podcast,
(44:02):
Subscribe to the podcast, have it automatically download, and maybe
by chance they might listen. We'll get a little credit
for that, so that'll help us out. A few days ago,
I talked to my friend Tim from Northern California guided
him on how to download the Fifth Hour. So he's
now been listening to all the podcasts as he drives
(44:22):
to see his girlfriend, who lives an hour away. Outstanding,
I love that. It's great to hear. Yeah, listen. I
used to do that on the Overnight Show, and I
still it's still works. Listen. You know, it's not really illegal.
If you're helping them out, maybe they would like to show.
You don't know that they're not gonna like the show.
You know, just because they haven't watched the sporting events
since the sixties does not mean they're not gonna like
the show. Maybe maybe they'll be into it. You know,
(44:45):
it's not We're not really doing a sport oh show
here anyway. I was just gonna say, yeah, we're not
sitting here breaking down games. Aside from the Penny, all
the other podcasts are mostly about life exactly, and life
is for the living, and we'll catch you neck. So
I'm gonna go live our lives right now. Have a
great rest of your day. We'll talk to you next time.
Let's go Eagles, Yeah, Eagles, forty Niners forty niners later,
(45:13):
skater Eagles Gotta murder, Gotta go
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