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and Danny you're on all those fine things, not on TikTok.
We're not on TikTok. Yeah. I got the same handle
on all those socials at Danny G Radio. And I
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heard mail mother Sucker that we got a lot of
questions this weekend. You got a good amount, So let's
get right to it. Strike up my man, o hi
o Wow. It's first up on the mail bag. We
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go to Kevin in Kansas, a big supporter of this podcast.
Kevin says, Dear Ben and Danny Gee in western Kansas,
we are no stranger to weird, wacky winter weather. With
your recent bout of winter weather there, it doesn't usually happen.
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I've been eager to hear both of your takes on
how things went. Did people rush to buy bread and milk?
Did people drive more crazily? How has work? How was
work impacted? Inquiring minds would like to know, thank you.
That's from Kevin. Well, you told a great story yesterday
about your your your dad Danny, right and then the nonsense.
And he's a little north of where we are. Yeah,
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but yeah, people drive crazy. There's a lot of people.
There's a lot of people that slow down, but there's
always that one asshole that still thinks he's on the
Autobahn and and doesn't mind the snow and just drives crazy.
I haven't noticed people around where I am rushing to
buy supplies. I guess out in the mountain communities where
they really got hit though it's nasty, like in Big Bear,
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which is a big mountain snow resort in the in
the LA area, they got it really bad and like
people were stuck up there also for a long time
with no supplies. So did you notice anything, Danny specifically
to answer Kevin's question, No, I guess if we would
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have had our power out. Our power flickered a few
times when the rain was coming down really bad, when
it was hailing outside, and at that point my wife
you said, oh, maybe we should go get some supplies. Yeah,
which I think is a little too late. When it
starts to flicker. I'm not an expert. But I think
once it starts to flicker, that's usually not a good sign.
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That's usually not something's going well there. But what do
I know? Well, I know all right, Thank you Kevin.
We have Ozzy Wise from Western Australia. Next up on
the mailback. He says, Hey, my mates Benny and Benny
the Bopper and Daddy G Radio straight to the point
this week, I am doing service on my car this
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week when the gear finally arrives, as it will be
less than half price to do it myself than to
take it to the mechanic. Have either of you thought
about doing it yourself to save costs or as you
both have newish cars, do you have to take it
to a certified mechanic? Looking at you, Ben, and it's
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a lot simpler than people think. And he says also,
let's have a roll call on daddy nicknames. So Ozzy
was how many nicknames do you have? Daddy G? Daddy?
We know the daddy G, Dandy G, Danny Garrettelli, the
microphone throttler, oh, the microphone throwther Le's correct. So to answer,
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ozzywas question in my head? I fix everything via YouTube.
I go on and you know, you go on YouTube
and within three and a half five minutes, any problem
is fixed. But I recall when I was getting the
new mallarable bile the guy at the dealership, and maybe
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he was full of shit, and we have people that
work in the car business that can help us out,
but this guy was. He was telling us. He's like, well,
you know, need to get the warranty because the way
they designed these new cars, with all the technology, it's
very tough for someone who's not a trained, certified mechanic
to actually fix these cars. And they do that intentionally.
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It's great for the car business because this stuff doesn't
last that long because it's technology and you have to
use one of their mechanics to fix the stuff. And
I looked at that, and then I got in the
car and I looked at all the cameras that pop
up when you turn right or turn left, and I
looked at this, that and the other thing. I said,
you know what, that's probably right, Like it's one thing
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to fix a nineteen fifty seven Chevy or something along
those lines, but these new cars. Danny, Yeah, I don't
know how on a YouTube video you can figure out
like what connects to the camera, which goes to the battery.
But you've got to have a certain chip to make
it all work. But I've thought about doing it. But
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what about you, Danny. Now you have to worry about
the electronics nowadays just as much as the actual motor.
And to your point, when you go nowadays to Costco
or best Buy a place like that, and you buy
a seventy inch television, well they don't may come the
way they used to. That's why you can get a
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TV now. Remember those TVs when they first came out,
how much were they thousands of dollars? For sure? They
were saying, yeah, now they're hundreds of dollars, but they're flimsier.
And I remember the guy at best Buy telling me, hey,
with electronics nowadays, everything's cheaper, but make sure you get
the warranty. Imagine those selling a product and saying, well,
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as we understand it, you should enjoy the product, but
it's not gonna last you got it. And I always
thought that was just bullshit. And when they try to
sell you the warranty or the extended care package, I've
I've always been of the mind that's just the way
they make a lot of money because most people don't
actually use those warranties. It's kind of like, I read
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a book about infomercials because I'm a loser, and I
used to love late night infomercials when I was growing up,
and they talked about the lifetime warranty that a lot
of these products would would put on. You'd watch a
late night infomercial. It's like, you don't buy this workout
equipment lifetime warranty, if anything breaks, send it back. We'll
send you another one. And they said the reason they
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did that is because they looked at the percentage of
people that would be more willing to buy because they thought, well,
this is pretty cool. I'm getting a lifetime warranty and
if anything breaks, I'll send it back. And then they
looked at the percentage of people that would actually keep
the receipt, keep all the paperwork that you need to
have to actually get the warranty to use to be used,
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and people just they aren't. They don't do it. They're
not motivated to follow through with all that. So it's
great because you sell more products. Number one, and number two,
you almost never you almost never have to actually use
the warranty when you have a lifetime warranty because they
always put like small print that minute should nanny where
they're like, Okay, you can use the warranty, but you
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have to keep the receipt and every time you get
work done on the product, you have to have a
receipt of that. And if you don't have all of
the above, you're fucked. Get out of here. Like how
a lot of cars use the flimsy Uh what is it?
It's almost like it's like a yeah, you push them in,
you know, what's that musical? That's the what am I
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thinking of the music instrument? You know? Or you go
like accordion? Accordion? Yes, the cars are like accordions and
yeah and that that Yeah, that pisses me off too
because you get an a fender bender, it's like, oh,
that's a well, you can't really see the damage. But underneath,
how do we five thousand dollars We're gonna have to
replace that entire panel? Yeah, where you're going to need
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every piece of currency, every coin you've ever made in
your life. Uh, and you must secure a bag just
to pay for the repairs. That's it, as Marshawn Lynch
said years ago. Uh, take take care of y'all chicken. Right.
That's uh, that's it. Wow. Anyway, thank you, thank you,
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Ozzy Wise. Barry in nash Vegas writes in says yo
yo mob Benny, and Danny Gee says Ben, So you
bought a new to you car? Is this a color
that Steve Harvey would marvel over? Well? As you know?
And Barry of course referencing for those that are new
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to the podcast, the Great Steve Harvey, the modern day entertainer,
the greatest entertainer of our lives right now. Steve Harvey
man can host award shows, can host game shows, radio programs.
He does it all. He's a one man band, a
great Steve Harvey. And he briefly worked at the iHeart
Building in LA and he was doing his morning show
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when I was getting off the air. And so for
a couple of months, Steve Harvey, television and Radio's most
famous man, would park in our building and walk in
in a jumpsuit with a security guard armed with a
gun and would walk in and do his show and
all that stuff. And at one point I was walking out,
he was walking in. It was like ships passing in
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the night. A couple of radio legends, well one radio
legend and some fat guy. And he walked by and
he looked at the Harvey's fat Now, dare you So
he looked at the Malamobile. No, that means you're the legend, dick. No,
I'm not a legend. So he looked. He looked at
the Malamobile, as I liked it, and he was talking
to his guy with the security guy, And that was
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right there. That was the moment that the Malamobile. It
wasn't chump change, it wasn't. I didn't even know he
was talking about your car, though he was. There was
no other car. You know, you've been in that parking
lot at three in the morning. There's no other car
in that parking lot three thirty in the morning. Maybe
the security guard said, look, they make the losers park
way far away from you, and he said, I like that. No,
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he liked the color. Hey liked the blue in the Malamobile.
He loved the bull bullshit. There's no bullshit. I would
not lie about something involving the great Steve Harvey, the
great entertainer of our time. But no, there's no you know,
there's no color. It's just a generic it's a generic color,
and he says, care to share the name plate of
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the car that you purchased? Yeah, I think I'm good
on that. Very Unfortunately, some some certain certain people that
love the show. I think I'll hold off on that
because they sometimes kind of mess around with my business.
You know what I'm saying. Danny occasionally car panel with
a key I'm your number one fan. Yeah, yeah, I
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think I'm okay. I think I think I'm all right
on that. But I appreciate it, and I wish it
wasn't like that. But I've created a good little cultivated here.
We both have cultivated a good little following, and a
certain percentage of those people take things a little bit
too far. Next up, Kyrie in Okac writes in he says,
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dearest Ben and Danny, g how's it going. My real
question is about logos. I would love for you to
have your own official Ben mallor logo or mallor militia
to put on merchandise or tattoos. How about that, Danny? Yeah,
I think it's some tattoos here, that's next level. I
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remember the day there was this guy called Main Main
Event mister. You know, he's mister the main event was
the guy's name. I think he was called that, and
he called Fox Sports Radio for years. He passed away
a few years ago. He loved Tony Bruno. He got
a Tony Bruno tattoo and I thought, Wow, that's wild man,
That's like the next level. I'm still blown away by that.
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He liked tattoos, so tattoos. But that means the coroner
was like, who the hell is Tony Bruno? Yeah, because
they had to write down all the tattoos anyway, um,
he says. The other real question is what are you guys?
What are your guys favorite logos and all of sports
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besides your favorite teams, which is obviously a given obviously
ha ha. As always, you guys are the absolute best
podcast in all of the land. Much love from the
real Kyrie. He don't playing Dallas, He's an okse and
Kyrie that Oklahoma City Thunder team. I watched some of
that Laker Thunder game the other night. Holy crap, there
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is not one player worth their assault right now for
the Thunder as Shane Gilgas Alexander was out with an injury,
and that is a nameless, faceless group of flotsam and Jetsam.
I love that game. Great job, Okac. Greatest logo though,
I you know, I love and it's part of it's
When I was a kid, I was on this team
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in Little League. The Milwaukee Brewers logo with the M
and the B. Love it. The Glove logo, you know,
the glove logo. Love that one. Also, the Montreal Expo's logo.
Same thing. It's got the M and the E in
the logo. I love that. I just love the way
it is. I like some of the old school logos,
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the old Toronto Blue Jays. When I was a kid,
I always thought that was kind of cool. Um, China,
these are all baseball. There's a bunch. I love the
old Broncos logo and football. The horse, the original you know,
the one on the helmet and all that. I thought
that was cool. You don't because you're a Raider fan.
Um yeah, I mean there's there's a few few others.
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I get a kick out of a LEPrecon, the Celtics LEPrecon.
I think that's just kind of hockey. A guy a
LEPrecon with a basketball and like a cigar or not
a cigar, a pipe. I think that's that's pretty funny.
What about you, Danny, anything pop up here? Any logos
that you Oh? Yeah, when I was a teenager, I
had a Georgetown hat where the g was like made
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out of felt and was three D It's stuck out
of the hat a little bit. Yeah that was cool.
So I would always rock some Georgetown for the gum
and followed Patrick Ewing because of that. As a little kid,
Patrick Ewing, the man could work up a sweat just
by thinking about stepping onto the court. Unfortunately, he doesn't
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work up a sweat coaching Georgetown right now? Dare you? Um?
You know? Also, my very first baseball glove was a
Joe Morgan signature glove passed down to me by my uncle. Yeah,
I don't I remember him. I don't even remember him
with the phillies. I don't. Well, at least that's when
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the baseball glove was made because it said Joe Morgan Phillies. Okay,
And I love that powder blue with the with the
maroon red philly. Oh yeah, that is a good looking uniform. Yeah,
those uniforms. Ever since I was a little kid, I
thought those uniforms were nice next to the Raiders uniform
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of course, with our Dodger Blue. We're not allowed to
say our favorite teams, but I've always thought those uniforms
were the best in sports. Not a Phillies fan by
any means, but I really like their uniforms. Yeah, the
whole era of powder Blues. The Blue Jays had some
cool I mentioned the Brewers already. The you know, the
Mariner's early logo was pretty cool. They had the trident,
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the old Seattle Mary. Yeah, that's right. That was kind
of a cool thing that they they got rid of.
Let's move on. Thank you, Kyrie, though you're the man
I appreciate Kyrie. And Pierre from Springfield Mass writes in
on the mail bag, friend of Alf the alien O Pinter,
who has been shunned by the Great Eddie Judas Garcia. Yeah,
we learned that Eddie Garcia muted Alf the alien O Piner.
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What oh no, that is an act of war, Danny
g That isn't You cannot do that. Listen, Alf the
alien O Piner is a samurai in the Mallard Militia.
You do not mess with a samurai because you end
up with a sword. You do not do that. That's
a bad job by you. Well, what happened after Eddie
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did that, he broke his toe. That is correct, you think,
guys Karma, I think so yeah. And we learned, and
this is some advanced calculus here little geometry, that the
toe does impact the vocal cords. So I didn't know that.
I had no idea. I learned that from doctor Eddie Garcia.
This week. I'm a doctrue, Pierre says Ben. We have
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all enjoyed your tales of Bella the Wonder Dog, but
have there been any internal discussions at the Maller Mansion
to add another pet to form voltron? Also, does Daddy
g have any pets, so we have discussed getting another dog.
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Bella is in the doggy retirement home at this point.
She's still here, but she's at the age now where
she cannot go downstairs. She can go upstairs, but she
can't go downstairs, which presents a problem because we have
a fair amount of stairs at the Mallard Mansion. So
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she's pretty much locked in her retirement home and it's
it's one room. She's got access to the outside, she's
got food, water and all that, but she can't roam freely.
That and the fact that she has no control over
her bowels or urinating, so that's also a problem. But
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we have decided also that Bella we want her to
enjoy the final years of her life, however long she
has left. And so we've determined we're gonna wait and
then once Bella goes to the kennel in the sky,
and at that point we'll probably get another another dog.
But Danny, any pets for you, Yeah, we have two.
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We have Daisy the dog. She has a chalky half Chihuahua,
half Yorky. She's going on six years old. Her brain
is the size of a pee, which means she's a
really good guard dog because any little noise down by
the front door and she goes berserk, a little door alarm.
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And she could be sweet at times, but she also
can be a snapper dog at night, especially if I
reach too suddenly to touch my significant other. She snaps
at my hand. She thinks she's a guard dog, a
protector for my wife. Eat get away from me. That's
not annoying at all. That is not at all, but
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I'm used to it now. And at least her teeth
hurt for a second, but they don't break the skin,
which is good. Then my boy Mac. If you followed
me on social media, you've probably seen pictures from time
to time. He is a very cool silver and black
American short hair and he looks like a panther. He
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is a badass. He's also going on six years old.
And the two of them they do nap next to
each other. But again at night, if he jumps up
on the bed, she snaps at him and bites his ass.
Don't do a lost cap magnet pencil. Next, any plans
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to add more pets? Any plan? Well, you're adding a child. Yeah,
as everybody knows, it's not good timing to add a
new pet with a new baby. Yeah, probably don't need that.
Next up, Chris in Maraccaa, Iowa rights, and he says, Ben,
I just learned of the near fatal Steve Yeager accident
in nineteen seventy six when a shattered bat shard struck
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him in the neck. I haven't been able to find
video of it. Do you know where to find it
or have you heard any stories about it? He says,
ps Go Raiders and good Ritten's car. So to lead
off here, Chris, Yes, I have heard about the Steve
Yeager bat It was before my time. I was a
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little kid when that happened. And the reason I know
about it is when I covered the Dodgers, and this
is in the early nineties. Steve Yeager would pop up
every once in a while and show up for batting
practice or some kind of an event, and occasionally the
story would be brought up about you remember what happened
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to Yeager? He almost died and all this crazy, crazy
stuff back in the nineteen seventies. And I have not
seen any video. I'm sure there's probably video that exists,
but I don't know for sure. I mean not every
game was on television in nineteen seventy six, so it
is possible there is no video. But this was back
when Walter Alston was the manager of the Dodgers, and
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the legend is that he got hit Steve Garvey. It
was Bill Russell was the one that it was his
bat and Yeager was in the on deck circle and
Bill Russell, the great Dodger shortstop, He had a grounder
to third base. The bat broke and flew back and
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Yeager had no chance. The sharp edge impales this guy
right in the in the side of his neck. He's
been stabbed with a with a flying knife and everyone
starts freaking out, and Bill Bueller, the Dodger trainer, has
been credited with saving the life much like the Buffalo
Bill's guy that almost died Tomorrow Hamlin. And so the
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Dodger trainer came out and Steve Garvey. The legend is
he had a towel he covered up the blood for
because he didn't want the people in stadium to see it.
And obviously you don't want the guy to bleed to death.
And anyway, but I have not seen the most important part.
The Dodgers beat the Padres that day four to one.
There you go, that's all. Yeah, you go. The Dodgers
won the game September six, nineteen seventy six. Look at you,
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look at you. So But to answer your question, I've
not seen video. I hadn't really thought about it, Chris,
until you brought it up. It is one of those
stories that's kind of gotten lost. Yeah, time and that happens.
And a quick Google search doesn't show any video, but
he shows still photos. Yeah, and am I the only one.
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When I was younger, when I heard the name Steve Yeager,
I thought of the pilot, you know, the pilot Yeager.
I think you're the only one. Really. Some alcoholics might
think of the drink Yeager, mister, No, wasn't there there
was a Oh, Chuck Yeager. That was the guy. I
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was just figured Chuck. Yeah, you know I remember Chuck Yeager. Yeah, yeah,
I think he just passed away a couple of years ago.
He lived to be almost a hundred. But Mike from
Fullerton writes in on the mail bag. He says, hey, Ben,
before buying another boring card to replace the malon will Be, Oh,
why didn't you go with the scooter instead? He says.
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He says they get better mileage and will make the
long trip from the north Woods to the studio a
lot more fun. I know Danny ge will Be will
back me up on this after the great experience he
had with that one at the Super Bowl. Also, how
much are both of you looking forward to the World
Baseball Classic? He says? Will your shows be covering it?
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Or will I have to look elsewhere to hear how
Mike Trout and the rest of Team USA are doing?
God that America? Yeah, very funny, very funny, Mike. This
is as an Angel fan, this is all you have
is the world baseball classy, he says. Also an update
on deep fake porno, a Twitch streamer is already suing
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a website for hosting deep fake naked videos for her.
Will you guys be upset or flattered if someone made
a deep fake video of you naked? Yeah? So, first
of all, I would be flattered because it would look
better than I look, I would assume, so that would
be flattering. I can't imagine it would be uglier than
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I look, so I think I would be happy with that,
So I would be okay, Well, what about your Danny
ge It would be fine. So this would be the
first time I get a full frontal with no blur.
You go down some of those websites, it's like the
Wild Wild West on there. Man, it is wacky and
wild and gig giggy. Noah from Austin writes, and he says,
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salutations Big Ben and Danny Gee. If you could compete
in two Olympic events, which would you choose? Winter or summer?
Doesn't matter, So this is kind of a generic, off
brand question for this time of the year. Noah, I
don't think the Olympics are going on right now, are they? Danny?
I don't think they're coming up anytimes. No, Yeah, so
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I haven't really thought about Olympic events. But if I
could win some track and field event would be a
lot of fun. Doing the loop where they go down
the track there that looks like it's pretty wild. I
don't know that i'd look good in that that cat
suit that these people have to wear. I don't think
I want to do that. You can win in gold
as a speed walker, the way you used to walk
around the studios outside at night. Yeah, I could do that.
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I still want to do the marathon. I want to
do a marathon before I get too old. And I
won't run it, but I'll do like speedwalk. I try
to convince my My wife's been doing some more like
walking and running and stuff like that, and so she's
she's coming around to it, but she's like, I do
like four or five miles. I'm gonna I'm not gonna
twenty six miles. It's one day, you know, just go
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for it. One day. You can knock yourself out. Just
promise me, when you finally do it, that you wear
a Lebron James headband, because you cannot speed walk without
a headband. Has to be a white Headband too racist. Well,
you gotta do the whole like arm the old women
their arms up and down. You know that whole looks
like you're doing the robot. Yeah, yeah, like that kind
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of deal. All. I think we'll get out of that.
We did get a couple of other ones. Hutch sent
a nice man a letter in he says he was
He says he doesn't have any questions, but he loves
the podcast. He says he was a little cross player
in Baltimore and he was friends with Johnny Unitis. How
about that and Mike Curtis a couple of legends. He says,
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So he's from the old school, and he points out
that he keeps up with the show. He loves the
radio show, the podcast, he says. He says, I listened
all the time on the podcast. My son has a
sports podcast in Richmond, Virginia, and after five months he
has seventy five thousand followers. Wow, nice, hey, Hutch, can
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you tell your son to help hook us up him?
And then man, my god, it's a lot good for him.
And then John wrote in He's says a long time
podcast listener from Omaha. And here's this question, Danny. He
said quote, I liked the Chiefs, that was his question.
So I like the Saints, Hi, I'd like the Saints. Yeah,
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thank you for that. All right, thank you all weekend.
These have been great podcasts. We thank you for supporting
the podcast. And tell a friend and all that anything
you would like to sell, promote, yell, shout, scream, any
of that, Danny, we want to do right now. Well,
tonight you're back on the radio. Packaging, packaging. I don't
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think so, Ben, And that means as I listened to
you on the radio, I'm like, oh shit, I gotta
get to bed because I got to wake up and
start my Monday prepare. So Vino and Rich's afternoon show
we'll be on the airwaves at two to four pm
on the West Coast. And rumor is rumor has it,
I should say, rumor has it? Is it true that
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a senior member of the Malla militia will be making
a rare and appropriate in studio visit on Sunday night
in the Monday morning. So tonight, in the Monday morning,
stay tuned. This person says they're gonna show up. They
have a high possibility of flaking though, Danny, So we'll
see if fat cells a part of this equation. Man,
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from your lips to my stomach. Anyway, have a great
rest of your day and we will hitch you up
on the podcast next weekend. We got radio all week though,
between myself and Danny Gee, so we'll have a wonderful
rest of your day later, Skater, gotta murder, Gotta go.