August 20, 2023 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Everywhere, back at it and a happy, glorious Sunday to you.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You have stumbled on the.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Daddy G Radio formerly
known as Danny G Radio. And of course you can't
stumble on a podcast, I say stumble on, but it's
very hard to stumble on a podcast. You can stumble
on a radio show, almost impossible, almost impossible, Danny, to
stumble on a podcast. But you found us, and we
(00:59):
are grateful that I realized on the Saturday podcast Danny,
we failed to promote our fledgling effort to get reviews
on the Apple podcast page, so we do need that.
We haven't had one this month. We have pitched a
shutout all month. Of course, I was away last weekend
and you were you've been away. See when you're here, Danny.
(01:20):
We're able to get people to go over there and
write nice reviews. But you've been away. I've been away.
You know these you know we did some interviews and whatnot,
had some bank shows that we put on. And so anyway,
we are available if you want to help us out,
give us a little review. It's all available on the
podcast page at Apple dot com. Right, Dan, it's all available.
(01:43):
You can put a thing in there. Well, you scratch
our back, we'll scratch your back.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Make it even easier than that. The description of this
very podcast. Click on it and you'll see where the
overall score is of the podcast, and right next to that,
it says write a review. Click on that. How's you
make a handle? Give us five stars if you think
we're worthy, and then write your review.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Boom done, boom boom baby. And let's start out. We'll
get to the mail bag. We have some great questions
on the mail bag, at least we hope they're great.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You'll have to be the judge of that.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But we start with our friend ohio Al and we
need some culture on this podcast, Danny job John.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
First story up Pop goes to culture.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
These thanks to Ohio. These are stories we found that
we thought were stunning, amazing and all that, and things
that I didn't say on my show. Danny's been busy
with Covino and Rich but he's been doing the kid thing.
So story out of England recently, a woman from England
(02:58):
has gotten on anulan of her marriage. She said it
is a weightlifted. She married a man who she had
never met. She married some guy on zoom, a guy
from Utah. Yeah, this is a product of the pandemic.
(03:21):
This twenty seven year old woman had met a guy
on Facebook in a group chat on like a lockdown chat,
and they became friends. This happened in the summer of
twenty twenty when everything was wonky and all that, and
they never actually met and they were allowed to get married.
(03:43):
This guy proposed to her in May of twenty twenty
one via FaceTime, so they looked at each other. But
they married in August of twenty twenty one via a
zoom call in a legal bounding, legal binding ceremony officiated
in Utah.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Why not just meet in person at that point?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Look, I don't think they could still.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I think because the travel was still messed up, you
know that travel, But I didn't know you could get
married via zoom.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I didn't know that either, So you can was.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That just a twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, you
know that? Maybe twenty twenty twenty one. Anyway, the young
lady there realized, well, this is probably not a good idea, and.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
She was able to go to court and get that annull.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah, like, what are you doing? Talk about taking a
leap of faith?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, that's next level stuff. Well, here's one from the
cosmos A renowned cosmolologist. Is how you say the word,
I don't think as you say it cos m O
l O G I s t it's early cosmoogists.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No, I said it twice. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Anyway, this person, whoever that person is, I've got an
important title. They say that our entire universe could just
be a hologram, could just be a hologram. Uhh yeah,
apparently this person is someone who studies the nature and
origin of the universe. The title I've never heard of,
(05:26):
but it sounds important, sounds very important.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Paul M.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Suitor a science educator, theoretical person in that world and
also at the Institute of Advanced Computational Science at Stonybrook University. Okay,
he sure, why not just put a bunch of words together?
Wrote an article for Popular Mechanics recently, and that's one
(05:55):
of his theories. My personal favorite is that we're just
living in a simulation. That it's like that Jim Carrey
movie from years ago, where we're just there's a camera
on us at all times, and we're just living in
this weird simulation.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
The Truman Show. Yeah, the Truman Show exactly. It's like
the Truman Show. So, but yeah, you can.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Throw anything out there and maybe we'll find out someday.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Maybe we won't turn the lights out on us. Maybe
we'll get all the answers, or maybe we'll get none
of the answers. But either way we'll find out. Either
it goes blank or you find something else out. Who
the hell knows? All right, Margot Robbie, that's Barbie? Is
she called Barbie?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Now?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Is that.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
The Australian Barbie?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So Margot Robbie has been offered hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
To show her feet.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
There's a website that claims I don't need to give
them a plug here, but they're into.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
The feet, Nanny. They like the feet.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
There's a foot foot themed website and they want to
collaborate some Barbie inspired content, and they're offering to pay
a starting bonus of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Yeah,
that's three three, one hundred and eighteen thousand US dollars.
(07:27):
But here's the problem, Nanny, this young lady has. She's
gonna end up clearing fifty million dollars in box office
bonuses from the Barbie movies. So I'm thinking she's probably
probably not, probably not gonna take the money. You know,
what do I know?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Easy to pass on little money when you got big money.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Now, I would like to tell you right now I
have the ugliest feet. My toes are black and blue
from the treadmill. But I am willing for that price
to be a foot model ian on the before and
then you.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Can do somebody else for the after, So I'm cool
with that.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Next up on pop Go's the Culture, we head to
the first of its kind, and I think we mentioned
this the other day, but it bears repeating here on
the podcast. For the first time ever, a member of
the band has gotten an NIL deal name image likeness.
(08:38):
The first college student to partner with a company under
the NIL partnership.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Like a nerd getting paid or is this like.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
A yeah from the University of Wisconsin Madison. The Badger's
a mellaphone player. The hell is that should know that
Dick and Dayton is going to be upset. But he
doesn't listen to the podcast. He only listens to the radio.
You see here a phone.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
It sounds like a disease, and it sounds like you
don't want that, and you have it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Go to the doctor immediately, get checked out. It might
be a rash Oh, a mellophone. It's yeah, you know,
it's a brass instrument. It kind of looks.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Got a french horn slash trumpet. Look to it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's call it French horn man. They call him mellophone. Anyway,
this guy has gotten a partnership deal with Quick Trip,
which is like a convenience store place in the Midwest.
So congratulations the king of all band people.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Slap me around a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
The band Oh, we played football back in the day,
Danny we goofed on the band people back in the day.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But anyway, well.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Here's a fun story out of Ireland on pop Goo's
the culture A. The bank, the Bank of Ireland, actually
had a technical snaffoo and customers realized that on the
mobile app they were being allowed to withdraw or transfer
funds above what they had in their accounts. For example,
(10:19):
some people who had no money in their accounts were
still able to transfer up to one thousand euros. Hell yeah, yeah,
free money. And so of course this spread like wildfire
on social media, which is a blessing and a curse.
It's a blessing because the people that were trying to
take advantage of this glitch were able to do it.
(10:39):
The bad thing is the people from the bank saw it,
so they realized wait a minute, and then they immediately
shut it down. But police said that they were aware
of an unusual large volume of activity at certain ATMs
across the country. So we're going for it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Now. How does that work?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
They if you put your ATM information and they know
you took the money out right, so you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You got to give it back.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
There's a paper trail. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
The only money you can keep if environ this I
mean you can correct me, Danny, is if you're driving
along the highway and it's just you and you're like
on a deserted country road and there's a Brinks truck
in front of you, and the door opens up to
the Brinks truck and bags of money fall out, just
(11:33):
a couple. The door then closes, the truck keeps going on,
not realizing what had happened. You then, because there's no
one around, there's no Wi Fi, there's no cameras, you
then take the money. That's the only money you can
get and keep am I wrong on?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
That sounds like you have experience with this.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I've thought about it a few times. I thought about it,
like how would that work?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeahs where we live in a least state and there's
cameras everywhere and all that, but there's gotta be a way,
there's gotta be a path. But yeah, fun fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
We have a few.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Safari related stories. So let's go back to Ohio.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Al, it's time for Ben Mallards. It's a fire Kingdom
with Danny g Radio.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
All right, my guy, Ohio Al, there is blah blah blah.
Al right, thank you, Al. So, I might have to
get San Diego this coming week. You might want to
bring the family down there. Danny g thousands of tarantulas
set to be roaming across rural San Diego.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh, hell yeah, on the boondocks, you know, on the
way to what is the town they run on the border.
The padres used to train there. I forget. It's on
the way to Arizona, right on the border. I forget
the name of.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Anyway, there's a thousands of tarantulas all over the suburban
communities at alcohol Pow way out that way, and could
see tarantulas, thousands of them as they scuttle across that
wide region of San Diego.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It's their mating season. Forget a stupid butterfly forest. This
sounds way better.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, so thousands of these tarantulas. The male tarantula only
lives five to seven years. The female tarantula, though, can
live for twenty five years. And isn't the famous story
the female, after making love to the male tarantula, will
just eat the male tarantula.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We'll kill it.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
She's hungry afterwards, so you.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Know, keeping up to the female, you know the stereotype. Anyway,
moving on, what do we have here? Drunk raccoons terrorizing
a town in Germany.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Sounds like a fun story. Right.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yes, raccoons technically native to North America, but they have
a people travel around the world.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
They travel.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Around nineteen thirties, raccoons became an established species in Germany,
invasive but still and there's been a population boom in
According to the Telegraph, in Germany.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
They have had a war.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Against what they're calling the plague of raccoons that has
made life miserable for resonans that have become increasingly frustrated
worried about the damage they're causing. And apparently the drunk
raccoons have been really going for it here that they're
just causing all kinds.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Kinds of problems.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
So I mean, what do they get into people's trash
and things like that? Because how much damage can raccoon cause? Well,
I guess this is many raccoons.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, yeah, they're they're killing pet, rabbits, fish, ah, and
they've developed a taste for beer.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
They sound like they're cool to hang out with.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
It's want to have a good time, you know, come on,
life short, why not have a couple of beers?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Knock yourself out.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
For timing reasons? Dad, I think we should move on
to the mailbag. What do you say you want to
get to the mailbag. It is Sunday. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's bag all Ohio.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You give us thirty minutes, we'll give you Ohio al
first on the mailbag. These are actual questions sent by
actual listeners. You do not have to wait for me
to post something. You can send a question in right
now for a future edition of the mailbag. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com. That's all letters, no numbers,
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and we will
(16:11):
possibly use a question first. One is Chris and Marricoco
to Iowa, says Been and Danny G. A while back,
I sent you pictures from my hometown radio station KMAQ. Well,
it's now for sale for a million dollars. So this
is your chance, guys, the chance you've been waiting for.
(16:32):
You buy it and I'll be your local guy to
run it.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
We can run whatever format you want, but it has
to have raider talk, Raider Talk segment by Danny G.
And we can also have a nightly advice show hosted
by Marcel What and sing alongs with Blair. That's a
great idea, Chris, you really are on the pulse. Are
people of Maricoco to Iowa. So I looked it up. Danny,
(17:02):
it's an AMFM combo. You're really paying for the FM station.
The AM station. Remember when we started radio and there
were stations, we call them like I think we call
my home depot stations because you could get more power
at a home depot. Yeah, the light bulbs. So the
AM station is five hundred watts during the day. At
(17:25):
night it's one hundred and thirty five watts.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Oh, I have more power than that in my garage.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yes, when I go to the bathroom, there's more power.
There's more watts that are being used than that. But
and then Hello, and then the FM is six thousand watts,
So that reaches down to Davenport.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So that's a fringe station in the Davenport area.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's what a million dollars will get you.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
We'll make our million dollars back in say nineteen twenty years.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Oh sure, no problem, Yeah, why not?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
What Beck?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And thank you? I think we'll pass on that. But
you never know.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You never know, Chris, or you want to go in
on that, We'll give you advice. Gary in Pittsburgh writes,
and he says, hey, Ben and Danny g After having
my right hip replaced a few weeks back, I'm stuck
in the house and confined to the first floor while
on the man.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Why that sucks.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
With all my new free time, I have been listening
to a lot more Fox Sports podcast and live audio.
My gripe is the copy for a certain credit card
that advertises all over Fox. Are the hosts allowed any
artistic license during the read? I know you don't like
to tell how the sausage is made, but some hosts,
(18:45):
not you or Harmon start with the read the same
way every time.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You know what I just learned?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, if you start the read the same way three
times in an hour and a half, you are either
very forgetful or didn't really learn anything, or did they
read the copy as written because the audience is constantly changing.
I know it's a petty gripe, but it kind of
grates on me. Your thoughts, Yeah, so, Gary, It's a
(19:17):
combination of things. There's a lot of I don't disparage anyone,
but there's a lot of people that just they're just.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Trained seals.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I guess that whatever you put in front of them,
they'll just read verbatim. But we are allowed the bosses
are very cool with us. There's certain parts of the
copy that we have to read, but they give at
least with me, they allow me to I've done some
really ridiculous stuff and commercials and I've only gotten in
trouble like once, well maybe twice, but for the most
(19:49):
part they don't really do know.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Have problem is as long as you get the key parts.
But you are correct, right, Danny.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The consultants claim the audience is always turning over every
few minutes, and so it's a new audience.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
And every fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
My man, Yeah, I mean I think late night that's
not not necessarily true. And the podcast stuff, I think
people listen to a podcast, they're gonna listen for a
good amount of time to the podcast, you know.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
True.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, it's called time spent listening in radio TSL. And
you're right, the nighttime listeners listen for longer stretches.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
So that said, it would make sense for you to say,
you know what I just learned fifteen minutes ago the
last time I read this, Oh yeah, yeah, blah blah blah. Oops,
I mean the credit card blah blah blah blah. It's
like kind of like how you really can't stumble upon
this podcast.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Well yeah, and so I'll do the copy and sometimes
I'll have to do like two or three of the
same commercial within an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
So I'll be like, oh, you know, you're not gonna
believe what this is. You know, it's like, yeah, I'm
going to be shocked by this commercial.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
And yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But in the other thing that pisses me off. But
I don't run Fox Sports Radio or any sports radio station.
I just hate when people just repeat the same thing verbatim,
like the updates and stuff like that. I just think
you got to keep it fresh. And just when when
I back in my day, Danny and I did updates
for a long time, and I always tried to rephrase things, rewrite.
(21:21):
I did mostly ad libbing stuff, but I would always
try to change up the order, mix up some things
to make it sound fresh.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Different sound bites, lead with different stories exactly, different stories. Yeah,
that way, you make it new every time if somebody listens.
And when when I was programming big hip hop stations,
I wanted it to be a different Picasso every day
of the week exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And I feel that way if I was in management,
that's what I would want my people to do. That's
what I'm paying you for. Obviously, that doesn't happen at
every shop.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
People.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
A lot of people get lazy and just do one
update and news update, and it does piss me off
because I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
This stuff always happening in the world. It's one thing.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Back when I started and you actually had the AP
Sports Wire and they.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Had two sports wires. He had Sports Ticker.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And the AP News Wire, and that was it and
if nothing came up, that's the only place you got
your news until the newspaper would come out the next day,
and then you go, okay, well this there's an AP
breaking news bulletin. You don't really have any breaking news.
But now there's always new things popping up on social
media and whatnot that lead you down the garden path
(22:34):
to a news related story. Next up, Tom from Denver writes,
and he says, hey, Ben and Dandy g Ben, what's
the origin story of the Mallard chicken sandwich at the
Sportsbook Bar and Grill. I've had it, and as Marcel
would say, yummy, well, thank you, Tom. I actually have
to get to Denver to have the Mallard chicken sandwich,
(22:56):
but the one of the owners, I'll tell you the story.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
So years ago I.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Had the first item I read named food. Item I
had named after him was his place in Syracuse mom
and pop shop, the Mauzone, and they actually put it
on the menu, and then they changed ownerships, and I
don't remember the exact timeline, but we were talking about this.
We made a bid on it on the show. And
one of the guys that was in charge of the
(23:23):
sports book when the sports Book Bar and Grill in Denver,
in that area, they had one location, and he was
a big fan of the show. And you know, you
work in the restaurant business, a lot of people listen
after he closed the restaurant in a normal hour. But
then you gotta do the inventory for the food, and
you gotta do the finances, do the books and all that,
find out how much money you made or how much
(23:43):
money you lost in all that crap. And so this
guy was a fan and he would listen after work
or while he was doing all that stuff, and he
wanted to honor the show, and so he named the.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Sandwich after me, which was great. It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I mean, I'm so happy that I have the chicken
fingers in Kansas City. I also have the famous sandwich
at the Bird in Lawrence, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Which is great. No burger, by the way, Danny, no burger.
But that's so.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I've had your Denver sandwich and you'd like to know,
probably I dipped it in Ranch.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, nothing's perfect there, and you have the option of
rejecting the blue cheese dressing and all that stuff. Certainly
no Ranch for me. But the cool thing about that,
Tom is the nice people there at the sportsbook bar
and grill, and I do recommend if you're within reasonable
driving distance at Denver. I have a cousin that lives
in Denver, so that's going to be my excuse to
(24:40):
go to Denver.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But one of the cool.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Things about it is they opened a couple of more locations,
I believe, and they kept the menu and they kept
my name on the chicken sandwich, so it's available at
multiple locations in Denver, which is a very nice tribute.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I do thank them very much.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
And at one point I had a pizza named after
me in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but they got rid of that. Unfortunately.
That's Floyd Mayweather's hometown. So I am open if you
own a mom and pop sportsbook, restaurant, the you know
type deal, a restaurant, bar, whatever, I'm I'm I don't
(25:19):
have a burger or a pizza at this moment. I'm
very big in the chicken sector, Danny. Yeah, yeah, back
back chicken yeah, back back.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah, that's me. Yeah. That wasn't a drop. That was
bat drop.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
No, I would never say that, Danny. I'm a professional broadcaster.
I'm very important. I could never never say that. Next up,
Mike and Fullerton writes and says, hey, Ben and Daddy
g Daddy Ben. You nailed it last mail bag when
(25:54):
you said chicken fingers are a delivery vehicle for songs.
There's no better way, in my opinion, to eat delicious
ranch dressing then dipping chicken fingers in it.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well, this is a smart man, Mike. You're a moron,
is what you are.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Mike, and I hope you eat bad ranch dressing and
you have a case of dysentery.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That's what I hope. Yeah. Anyway, unless I'm not hoping that.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Do you guys think newborn babies are cute or kind
of funky looking? I feel like this is more of
a question for you, Danny so well. You obviously love
your your newborn. Don't Most newborns kind of look the
same when they pop out, though, don't they kind of?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
No, not necessarily, Okay, if you have a vaginal berth,
your head is squeezed, your body is twisted and turned,
and you come out looking like an alien with a
cone head. But the C section you come out with
less stress normally, and there's the swelling and all that
(27:07):
stuff is not there, so the head looks normal, less
alien like.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
So that's I think a big difference there. You know, however,
you're born.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
My baby boy came out looking like Ashton Kutcher where
he does the thing around his face like this is.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
The moneymaker right here.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yeah, I'm so happy to see that we made a
really handsome boy. And it wasn't just us saying that.
The nurses were fawning all over him. He was the
most special kid there in the NIEK you the few
days he was in there, and boy, he got a
lot of attention for his looks. I hope it stays
that way for him, because you know what they say
(27:48):
happens to cute babies.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Well, what's that.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
If you're an ugly adult you started as a cute
baby and vice versa.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Oh yeah, the opposite, right.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I was like, you don't want to be the most
popular person in high school because the rest of your
life will suck that kind of thing, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Or yeah, you peak too soon, Like you start out
as a cute kid and then you get ugly or
you're the I don't know, what is that?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
What is that story that the I was gonna say, flamingo,
No the.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Oh well, it's the cap or the caterpillar that some
become butterflies, some become moss.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You know that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
There you go that there's there's a fucking bird though
in one of those stories.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Anyways, Yeah, you get I usually know most of them
because I use those analogies and monologues all the time.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
So I've there's that story. I've learned them. I've learned
most of them. I mean, I'm trying to think, what
are their animals.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
There's there's a few animals that have the metamorphosis that
turn into beautiful feathers.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Remember, and you, oh, it's the maybe you are talking
about the flamingo.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Doesn't the flamingos start out It starts out kind of ugly,
and then it eats, uh, it eats the shrimp. And
that's why it's turns turns pink, right, isn't that?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I think? I think you just made that up.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
No, I don't, I don't, I don't think. I don't
think I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I mean, damn almost shrimp now, I'm but shrimp when
they're they're not even pink when they start.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
The star is not adding up.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
But no, here we go, here we go. I gotta
I gotta hear, he, I gotta here.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Flamingo chicks have gray or white feathers. At first, they
often perceived to be ugly, but they acquire the same
pink color as their parents as they get older.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, why because you are what you eat. Flamingos consume
shrimp and algae bang bang chicken and shrimp that turns
them pink.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Those are some stinky gas birds. Though, when you go
to the zoo.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Oh yeah, the front like the front of the San
Diego Zoo. Do they still have?
Speaker 6 (29:53):
They look beautiful, but they smell like bird ship. Yeah,
I hate that fishy, fishy smell. Giant pandas here's another one.
Giant pans start out as tiny, blind, hairless babies when
they're born.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
And then they turn out to be these beautiful creatures.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
So you learned so much from this podcast.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
This is not just your normal sporty podcast. In fact,
I don't think we even talk about sports at all
on this podcast anymore unless somebody sends a question in.
Mike also says, as either of you seen eighty for
Brady the picture? If you haven't, I recommend you do.
It is a sensational film. Okay, Kevin and Kansas right
since says dear been and Danny g After thirty seven
(30:39):
years of teaching, I finally retired in May. Congratulations, Kevin,
good job are you. I'm just as busy in my
summer as I always have been. But I'll be able
to respond to How's retirement in about two weeks when
everyone else goes back to school and I won't be
going back when you get to retire. What LANs have
(31:00):
you envisioned for using your newfound free time? That's from Kevin. Yeah,
so we've talked about this a few times over the years. Danny,
I think neither one of us is planning to retire.
Is that would that be an accurate at least from
broadcasting stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
That would be accurate.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I think we're always going to be doing a podcast,
even from our retirement home, and.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I would I'm so paranoid anyway, Like when I retire,
I'll be like, oh, I'm not going to open enough money.
I could win the lottery, right, I could go out
and win the lottery, and I'd be like, oh no,
I'm screwed.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I'm not going to have any money. So that's just
how I'm wired.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Terry from England says you got to get Tony Bruno
back on the podcast again. Wants to hear some early
radio pioneer stories. I love Tony. Tony's one of my mentors.
I'll see if he can do it. Maybe we can
record something with Tony for a future We'll do someonet
in the future, obviously, let's see.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Can't read that on the air.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Alf the infrequent flyer says, do either of you have
ear issues after flying? As someone who doesn't fly often,
I have issues sometimes for days. Even though I try
all the tricks, they continue to crackle and pop and
they stay block though. Uh yeah, so alf, I My
big issue is not the ear thing is the problem.
(32:16):
I have bad ears. My right ear is really messed up.
So I don't have great ears anyway from doing radio
stuff with headphones. But my big issue alf And if
anyone listening, I mentioned this on the air the other night,
maybe Salsa who's he works in the airline business. He
travels all the time. Is it possible. I'm just saying,
is it possible someone knows the trick? Because when I fly,
(32:39):
I get all clogged up there and.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Are noise canceling headphones.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay, and you need to chew on a lot of
gum on the way up and the way down, and
if you do not do that, you will have some
issues with your air canals.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So the hearing thing is not too bad.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
It's more everything gets kind of blocked up and my
intestines get all blocked up.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
That's a oh that kind of blockage.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, yeah, that's a that's an issue.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Oh that kind of blockage I'm not familiar with.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, some reason when I fly and I'm sitting in
a little tube for a long time, and we had
stopovers because the local airport we try to avoid lax
so we were flying back to Boston.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
We stopped in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
It sounds like a big goal bladder issue.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Yeah, I don't know. I think I had it before
my gallbladder went out, but went stopped in Austin on
the way. On the way back, we stopped in Dallas
and headed back to La. Secondly, alf also says it's
obvious to the mal d militia that eight days is
not enough for you to squeeze in all the content
that you have on a weekly basis. Now that Daddy
(33:51):
G has another set of hands with the birth of
assistant producer Baby G already listening to.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You nine days a week.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Well, that will be coming for Danny as soon as
that animal Thunderdome gets launched.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Oh hell yeah, it's gonna be Klay Travis's son along
with my son hosting it.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Actually their grandkid, your kid's grandkid will see.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I guess that would be your your grandkid. I'm sure
that'll solve it. Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Let's see here a wild man in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Good college football town, Morgantown. Question, do you guys like
to chill with a beer every once in a while?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
If so, what is your beer of truth?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Is that not the most perfect question from a guy
named wild man in Morgantown, West Virginia, just wants to
know what kind of.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Beer we want to chill out with. That's perfect.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
That is a masterpiece question right there. And he loves
the podcast, Danny, he loves it. What's your beer of choice, Danny,
to go out and hang out, have a good time.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Good man.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
And by the way, I forgot to congrat Kevin on
that retirement from teaching. That is so awesome. So I'm
going to pop open a beer right now, one for you.
It's gonna be Stella for me.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Stella Stella.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yes, I don't I'm not a huge beery. I like Heineken.
I know that you can make fun of me and
all that.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
And my thing is, you know, Danny, from the holiday parties.
I hope you'll still be able to attend. I know,
you know, have the greatest excuse to get out of
going to any of those things.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
But I'm bringing my little kid. He's gonna help us drink.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Good Okay, I get him started early. So I love
the root beer beer.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
It tastes like root beer, but it's beer get hammered,
high alcohol content. I do that like maybe twice a year.
That's my Big, my Big celebration.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Also really quick to Japanese beer. I like sapporo.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Oh, I don't think that's aporo Oh.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
It's really good, especially for soake bombs. And I like
dark beer once in a while too, like a good Guinness,
really nice puzz.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Nick in Wisconsin says Ben and Danny g Radio. If
Jesus was in the NFL, which position do you think
he would play?
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
That's quite the question from Nick.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
What do you think Nick was doing drinking ayahuasca tea
when he came up with that question.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
I mean, Jesus drew a crowd, so he'd definitely be
a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Oh, it could be a kick returner, right, everyone's chasing
after the kick returner, the punt returner. I think he'd
play whatever position he wants.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
How about that? Heik you Jesus and that would.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Be the way it goes.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Thanks to Garland the Burrow, Guido, Alex Steve. I mean,
there are a lot of people we didn't have time
to get to, but we do. Thank you guys for
listening to the podcast. Give it another shot next week.
We'll have a new mail bag next weekend, and there
might or might not be some something coming down the
(37:04):
pike there, Danny, that you might want to keep an
eye for. But who knows. Maybe it'll maybe it'll happen,
maybe it won't happen. You never know, Danny, right, You
never know.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Maybe Ben is going to be the next dad a
big announcement.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Now, that would be a surprise. That would be a
that would be a surprise. I think we can eliminate
that from the list, but you never know.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You never know. Anything you want to promote, Danny.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I'll be back on the radio tonight from you know
u usual time eleven o'clock in the West till three
in the morning. On the East Coast. We'll be on
there from the usual two am to six am. And
I did switch my schedule around on the East coast.
It's been just an absolute nightmare trying to get my
schedule back to West Coast time. Anyway, Well, what are
(37:47):
you got going on, Danny? Are you back on Monday?
What's going on with you?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Yes, Sir Covino and Rich we're going to be having
a lot of fun Monday afternoon two to four pm
on the West Side, and that is five to seven
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Well, thank you for listening and downloading all that and
have a wonderful week. Hopefully we'll hear you, and you
can hear our shows and have that Eureka moment and say, Okay,
that's great, wonderful. I'll keep listening and I'll download those
podcasts as well, and we will catch you next time.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Austa Pasta by Felation
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Everywhere, back at it and a happy, glorious Sunday to you.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You have stumbled on the.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Daddy G Radio formerly
known as Danny G Radio. And of course you can't
stumble on a podcast, I say stumble on, but it's
very hard to stumble on a podcast. You can stumble
on a radio show, almost impossible, almost impossible, Danny, to
stumble on a podcast. But you found us, and we
(00:59):
are grateful that I realized on the Saturday podcast Danny,
we failed to promote our fledgling effort to get reviews
on the Apple podcast page, so we do need that.
We haven't had one this month. We have pitched a
shutout all month. Of course, I was away last weekend
and you were you've been away. See when you're here, Danny.
(01:20):
We're able to get people to go over there and
write nice reviews. But you've been away. I've been away.
You know these you know we did some interviews and whatnot,
had some bank shows that we put on. And so anyway,
we are available if you want to help us out,
give us a little review. It's all available on the
podcast page at Apple dot com. Right, Dan, it's all available.
(01:43):
You can put a thing in there. Well, you scratch
our back, we'll scratch your back.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Make it even easier than that. The description of this
very podcast. Click on it and you'll see where the
overall score is of the podcast, and right next to that,
it says write a review. Click on that. How's you
make a handle? Give us five stars if you think
we're worthy, and then write your review.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Boom done, boom boom baby. And let's start out. We'll
get to the mail bag. We have some great questions
on the mail bag, at least we hope they're great.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You'll have to be the judge of that.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But we start with our friend ohio Al and we
need some culture on this podcast, Danny job John.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
First story up Pop goes to culture.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
These thanks to Ohio. These are stories we found that
we thought were stunning, amazing and all that, and things
that I didn't say on my show. Danny's been busy
with Covino and Rich but he's been doing the kid thing.
So story out of England recently, a woman from England
(02:58):
has gotten on anulan of her marriage. She said it
is a weightlifted. She married a man who she had
never met. She married some guy on zoom, a guy
from Utah. Yeah, this is a product of the pandemic.
(03:21):
This twenty seven year old woman had met a guy
on Facebook in a group chat on like a lockdown chat,
and they became friends. This happened in the summer of
twenty twenty when everything was wonky and all that, and
they never actually met and they were allowed to get married.
(03:43):
This guy proposed to her in May of twenty twenty
one via FaceTime, so they looked at each other. But
they married in August of twenty twenty one via a
zoom call in a legal bounding, legal binding ceremony officiated
in Utah.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Why not just meet in person at that point?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Look, I don't think they could still.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I think because the travel was still messed up, you
know that travel, But I didn't know you could get
married via zoom.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I didn't know that either, So you can was.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That just a twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, you
know that? Maybe twenty twenty twenty one. Anyway, the young
lady there realized, well, this is probably not a good idea, and.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
She was able to go to court and get that annull.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Yeah, like, what are you doing? Talk about taking a
leap of faith?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, that's next level stuff. Well, here's one from the
cosmos A renowned cosmolologist. Is how you say the word,
I don't think as you say it cos m O
l O G I s t it's early cosmoogists.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No, I said it twice. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Anyway, this person, whoever that person is, I've got an
important title. They say that our entire universe could just
be a hologram, could just be a hologram. Uhh yeah,
apparently this person is someone who studies the nature and
origin of the universe. The title I've never heard of,
(05:26):
but it sounds important, sounds very important.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Paul M.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Suitor a science educator, theoretical person in that world and
also at the Institute of Advanced Computational Science at Stonybrook University. Okay,
he sure, why not just put a bunch of words together?
Wrote an article for Popular Mechanics recently, and that's one
(05:55):
of his theories. My personal favorite is that we're just
living in a simulation. That it's like that Jim Carrey
movie from years ago, where we're just there's a camera
on us at all times, and we're just living in
this weird simulation.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
The Truman Show. Yeah, the Truman Show exactly. It's like
the Truman Show. So, but yeah, you can.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Throw anything out there and maybe we'll find out someday.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Maybe we won't turn the lights out on us. Maybe
we'll get all the answers, or maybe we'll get none
of the answers. But either way we'll find out. Either
it goes blank or you find something else out. Who
the hell knows? All right, Margot Robbie, that's Barbie? Is
she called Barbie?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Now?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Is that.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
The Australian Barbie?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So Margot Robbie has been offered hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
To show her feet.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
There's a website that claims I don't need to give
them a plug here, but they're into.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
The feet, Nanny. They like the feet.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
There's a foot foot themed website and they want to
collaborate some Barbie inspired content, and they're offering to pay
a starting bonus of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Yeah,
that's three three, one hundred and eighteen thousand US dollars.
(07:27):
But here's the problem, Nanny, this young lady has. She's
gonna end up clearing fifty million dollars in box office
bonuses from the Barbie movies. So I'm thinking she's probably
probably not, probably not gonna take the money. You know,
what do I know?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Easy to pass on little money when you got big money.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Now, I would like to tell you right now I
have the ugliest feet. My toes are black and blue
from the treadmill. But I am willing for that price
to be a foot model ian on the before and
then you.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Can do somebody else for the after, So I'm cool
with that.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Next up on pop Go's the Culture, we head to
the first of its kind, and I think we mentioned
this the other day, but it bears repeating here on
the podcast. For the first time ever, a member of
the band has gotten an NIL deal name image likeness.
(08:38):
The first college student to partner with a company under
the NIL partnership.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Like a nerd getting paid or is this like.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
A yeah from the University of Wisconsin Madison. The Badger's
a mellaphone player. The hell is that should know that
Dick and Dayton is going to be upset. But he
doesn't listen to the podcast. He only listens to the radio.
You see here a phone.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
It sounds like a disease, and it sounds like you
don't want that, and you have it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Go to the doctor immediately, get checked out. It might
be a rash Oh, a mellophone. It's yeah, you know,
it's a brass instrument. It kind of looks.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Got a french horn slash trumpet. Look to it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's call it French horn man. They call him mellophone. Anyway,
this guy has gotten a partnership deal with Quick Trip,
which is like a convenience store place in the Midwest.
So congratulations the king of all band people.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Slap me around a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
The band Oh, we played football back in the day,
Danny we goofed on the band people back in the day.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But anyway, well.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Here's a fun story out of Ireland on pop Goo's
the culture A. The bank, the Bank of Ireland, actually
had a technical snaffoo and customers realized that on the
mobile app they were being allowed to withdraw or transfer
funds above what they had in their accounts. For example,
(10:19):
some people who had no money in their accounts were
still able to transfer up to one thousand euros. Hell yeah, yeah,
free money. And so of course this spread like wildfire
on social media, which is a blessing and a curse.
It's a blessing because the people that were trying to
take advantage of this glitch were able to do it.
(10:39):
The bad thing is the people from the bank saw it,
so they realized wait a minute, and then they immediately
shut it down. But police said that they were aware
of an unusual large volume of activity at certain ATMs
across the country. So we're going for it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Now. How does that work?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
They if you put your ATM information and they know
you took the money out right, so you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You got to give it back.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
There's a paper trail. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
The only money you can keep if environ this I
mean you can correct me, Danny, is if you're driving
along the highway and it's just you and you're like
on a deserted country road and there's a Brinks truck
in front of you, and the door opens up to
the Brinks truck and bags of money fall out, just
(11:33):
a couple. The door then closes, the truck keeps going on,
not realizing what had happened. You then, because there's no
one around, there's no Wi Fi, there's no cameras, you
then take the money. That's the only money you can
get and keep am I wrong on?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
That sounds like you have experience with this.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I've thought about it a few times. I thought about it,
like how would that work?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeahs where we live in a least state and there's
cameras everywhere and all that, but there's gotta be a way,
there's gotta be a path. But yeah, fun fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
We have a few.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Safari related stories. So let's go back to Ohio.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Al, it's time for Ben Mallards. It's a fire Kingdom
with Danny g Radio.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
All right, my guy, Ohio Al, there is blah blah blah.
Al right, thank you, Al. So, I might have to
get San Diego this coming week. You might want to
bring the family down there. Danny g thousands of tarantulas
set to be roaming across rural San Diego.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh, hell yeah, on the boondocks, you know, on the
way to what is the town they run on the border.
The padres used to train there. I forget. It's on
the way to Arizona, right on the border. I forget
the name of.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Anyway, there's a thousands of tarantulas all over the suburban
communities at alcohol Pow way out that way, and could
see tarantulas, thousands of them as they scuttle across that
wide region of San Diego.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It's their mating season. Forget a stupid butterfly forest. This
sounds way better.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, so thousands of these tarantulas. The male tarantula only
lives five to seven years. The female tarantula, though, can
live for twenty five years. And isn't the famous story
the female, after making love to the male tarantula, will
just eat the male tarantula.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
We'll kill it.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
She's hungry afterwards, so you.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Know, keeping up to the female, you know the stereotype. Anyway,
moving on, what do we have here? Drunk raccoons terrorizing
a town in Germany.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Sounds like a fun story. Right.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yes, raccoons technically native to North America, but they have
a people travel around the world.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
They travel.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Around nineteen thirties, raccoons became an established species in Germany,
invasive but still and there's been a population boom in
According to the Telegraph, in Germany.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
They have had a war.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Against what they're calling the plague of raccoons that has
made life miserable for resonans that have become increasingly frustrated
worried about the damage they're causing. And apparently the drunk
raccoons have been really going for it here that they're
just causing all kinds.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Kinds of problems.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
So I mean, what do they get into people's trash
and things like that? Because how much damage can raccoon cause? Well,
I guess this is many raccoons.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, yeah, they're they're killing pet, rabbits, fish, ah, and
they've developed a taste for beer.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
They sound like they're cool to hang out with.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
It's want to have a good time, you know, come on,
life short, why not have a couple of beers?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Knock yourself out.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
For timing reasons? Dad, I think we should move on
to the mailbag. What do you say you want to
get to the mailbag. It is Sunday. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's bag all Ohio.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You give us thirty minutes, we'll give you Ohio al
first on the mailbag. These are actual questions sent by
actual listeners. You do not have to wait for me
to post something. You can send a question in right
now for a future edition of the mailbag. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com. That's all letters, no numbers,
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and we will
(16:11):
possibly use a question first. One is Chris and Marricoco
to Iowa, says Been and Danny G. A while back,
I sent you pictures from my hometown radio station KMAQ. Well,
it's now for sale for a million dollars. So this
is your chance, guys, the chance you've been waiting for.
(16:32):
You buy it and I'll be your local guy to
run it.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
We can run whatever format you want, but it has
to have raider talk, Raider Talk segment by Danny G.
And we can also have a nightly advice show hosted
by Marcel What and sing alongs with Blair. That's a
great idea, Chris, you really are on the pulse. Are
people of Maricoco to Iowa. So I looked it up. Danny,
(17:02):
it's an AMFM combo. You're really paying for the FM station.
The AM station. Remember when we started radio and there
were stations, we call them like I think we call
my home depot stations because you could get more power
at a home depot. Yeah, the light bulbs. So the
AM station is five hundred watts during the day. At
(17:25):
night it's one hundred and thirty five watts.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Oh, I have more power than that in my garage.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yes, when I go to the bathroom, there's more power.
There's more watts that are being used than that. But
and then Hello, and then the FM is six thousand watts,
So that reaches down to Davenport.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
So that's a fringe station in the Davenport area.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's what a million dollars will get you.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
We'll make our million dollars back in say nineteen twenty years.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Oh sure, no problem, Yeah, why not?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
What Beck?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And thank you? I think we'll pass on that. But
you never know.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You never know, Chris, or you want to go in
on that, We'll give you advice. Gary in Pittsburgh writes,
and he says, hey, Ben and Danny g After having
my right hip replaced a few weeks back, I'm stuck
in the house and confined to the first floor while
on the man.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Why that sucks.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
With all my new free time, I have been listening
to a lot more Fox Sports podcast and live audio.
My gripe is the copy for a certain credit card
that advertises all over Fox. Are the hosts allowed any
artistic license during the read? I know you don't like
to tell how the sausage is made, but some hosts,
(18:45):
not you or Harmon start with the read the same
way every time.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You know what I just learned?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, if you start the read the same way three
times in an hour and a half, you are either
very forgetful or didn't really learn anything, or did they
read the copy as written because the audience is constantly changing.
I know it's a petty gripe, but it kind of
grates on me. Your thoughts, Yeah, so, Gary, It's a
(19:17):
combination of things. There's a lot of I don't disparage anyone,
but there's a lot of people that just they're just.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Trained seals.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I guess that whatever you put in front of them,
they'll just read verbatim. But we are allowed the bosses
are very cool with us. There's certain parts of the
copy that we have to read, but they give at
least with me, they allow me to I've done some
really ridiculous stuff and commercials and I've only gotten in
trouble like once, well maybe twice, but for the most
(19:49):
part they don't really do know.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Have problem is as long as you get the key parts.
But you are correct, right, Danny.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The consultants claim the audience is always turning over every
few minutes, and so it's a new audience.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
And every fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
My man, Yeah, I mean I think late night that's
not not necessarily true. And the podcast stuff, I think
people listen to a podcast, they're gonna listen for a
good amount of time to the podcast, you know.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
True.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, it's called time spent listening in radio TSL. And
you're right, the nighttime listeners listen for longer stretches.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
So that said, it would make sense for you to say,
you know what I just learned fifteen minutes ago the
last time I read this, Oh yeah, yeah, blah blah blah. Oops,
I mean the credit card blah blah blah blah. It's
like kind of like how you really can't stumble upon
this podcast.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Well yeah, and so I'll do the copy and sometimes
I'll have to do like two or three of the
same commercial within an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
So I'll be like, oh, you know, you're not gonna
believe what this is. You know, it's like, yeah, I'm
going to be shocked by this commercial.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
And yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
But in the other thing that pisses me off. But
I don't run Fox Sports Radio or any sports radio station.
I just hate when people just repeat the same thing verbatim,
like the updates and stuff like that. I just think
you got to keep it fresh. And just when when
I back in my day, Danny and I did updates
for a long time, and I always tried to rephrase things, rewrite.
(21:21):
I did mostly ad libbing stuff, but I would always
try to change up the order, mix up some things
to make it sound fresh.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Different sound bites, lead with different stories exactly, different stories. Yeah,
that way, you make it new every time if somebody listens.
And when when I was programming big hip hop stations,
I wanted it to be a different Picasso every day
of the week exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
And I feel that way if I was in management,
that's what I would want my people to do. That's
what I'm paying you for. Obviously, that doesn't happen at
every shop.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
People.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
A lot of people get lazy and just do one
update and news update, and it does piss me off
because I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
This stuff always happening in the world. It's one thing.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Back when I started and you actually had the AP
Sports Wire and they.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Had two sports wires. He had Sports Ticker.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
And the AP News Wire, and that was it and
if nothing came up, that's the only place you got
your news until the newspaper would come out the next day,
and then you go, okay, well this there's an AP
breaking news bulletin. You don't really have any breaking news.
But now there's always new things popping up on social
media and whatnot that lead you down the garden path
(22:34):
to a news related story. Next up, Tom from Denver writes,
and he says, hey, Ben and Dandy g Ben, what's
the origin story of the Mallard chicken sandwich at the
Sportsbook Bar and Grill. I've had it, and as Marcel
would say, yummy, well, thank you, Tom. I actually have
to get to Denver to have the Mallard chicken sandwich,
(22:56):
but the one of the owners, I'll tell you the story.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
So years ago I.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Had the first item I read named food. Item I
had named after him was his place in Syracuse mom
and pop shop, the Mauzone, and they actually put it
on the menu, and then they changed ownerships, and I
don't remember the exact timeline, but we were talking about this.
We made a bid on it on the show. And
one of the guys that was in charge of the
(23:23):
sports book when the sports Book Bar and Grill in Denver,
in that area, they had one location, and he was
a big fan of the show. And you know, you
work in the restaurant business, a lot of people listen
after he closed the restaurant in a normal hour. But
then you gotta do the inventory for the food, and
you gotta do the finances, do the books and all that,
find out how much money you made or how much
(23:43):
money you lost in all that crap. And so this
guy was a fan and he would listen after work
or while he was doing all that stuff, and he
wanted to honor the show, and so he named the.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Sandwich after me, which was great. It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I mean, I'm so happy that I have the chicken
fingers in Kansas City. I also have the famous sandwich
at the Bird in Lawrence, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Which is great. No burger, by the way, Danny, no burger.
But that's so.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I've had your Denver sandwich and you'd like to know,
probably I dipped it in Ranch.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, nothing's perfect there, and you have the option of
rejecting the blue cheese dressing and all that stuff. Certainly
no Ranch for me. But the cool thing about that,
Tom is the nice people there at the sportsbook bar
and grill, and I do recommend if you're within reasonable
driving distance at Denver. I have a cousin that lives
in Denver, so that's going to be my excuse to
(24:40):
go to Denver.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But one of the cool.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Things about it is they opened a couple of more locations,
I believe, and they kept the menu and they kept
my name on the chicken sandwich, so it's available at
multiple locations in Denver, which is a very nice tribute.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I do thank them very much.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
And at one point I had a pizza named after
me in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but they got rid of that. Unfortunately.
That's Floyd Mayweather's hometown. So I am open if you
own a mom and pop sportsbook, restaurant, the you know
type deal, a restaurant, bar, whatever, I'm I'm I don't
(25:19):
have a burger or a pizza at this moment. I'm
very big in the chicken sector, Danny. Yeah, yeah, back
back chicken yeah, back back.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah, that's me. Yeah. That wasn't a drop. That was
bat drop.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
No, I would never say that, Danny. I'm a professional broadcaster.
I'm very important. I could never never say that. Next up,
Mike and Fullerton writes and says, hey, Ben and Daddy
g Daddy Ben. You nailed it last mail bag when
(25:54):
you said chicken fingers are a delivery vehicle for songs.
There's no better way, in my opinion, to eat delicious
ranch dressing then dipping chicken fingers in it.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well, this is a smart man, Mike. You're a moron,
is what you are.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Mike, and I hope you eat bad ranch dressing and
you have a case of dysentery.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That's what I hope. Yeah. Anyway, unless I'm not hoping that.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Do you guys think newborn babies are cute or kind
of funky looking? I feel like this is more of
a question for you, Danny so well. You obviously love
your your newborn. Don't Most newborns kind of look the
same when they pop out, though, don't they kind of?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
No, not necessarily, Okay, if you have a vaginal berth,
your head is squeezed, your body is twisted and turned,
and you come out looking like an alien with a
cone head. But the C section you come out with
less stress normally, and there's the swelling and all that
(27:07):
stuff is not there, so the head looks normal, less
alien like.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
So that's I think a big difference there. You know, however,
you're born.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
My baby boy came out looking like Ashton Kutcher where
he does the thing around his face like this is.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
The moneymaker right here.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yeah, I'm so happy to see that we made a
really handsome boy. And it wasn't just us saying that.
The nurses were fawning all over him. He was the
most special kid there in the NIEK you the few
days he was in there, and boy, he got a
lot of attention for his looks. I hope it stays
that way for him, because you know what they say
(27:48):
happens to cute babies.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Well, what's that.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
If you're an ugly adult you started as a cute
baby and vice versa.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Oh yeah, the opposite, right.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I was like, you don't want to be the most
popular person in high school because the rest of your
life will suck that kind of thing, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Or yeah, you peak too soon, Like you start out
as a cute kid and then you get ugly or
you're the I don't know, what is that?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
What is that story that the I was gonna say, flamingo,
No the.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Oh well, it's the cap or the caterpillar that some
become butterflies, some become moss.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You know that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
There you go that there's there's a fucking bird though
in one of those stories.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Anyways, Yeah, you get I usually know most of them
because I use those analogies and monologues all the time.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
So I've there's that story. I've learned them. I've learned
most of them. I mean, I'm trying to think, what
are their animals.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
There's there's a few animals that have the metamorphosis that
turn into beautiful feathers.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Remember, and you, oh, it's the maybe you are talking
about the flamingo.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Doesn't the flamingos start out It starts out kind of ugly,
and then it eats, uh, it eats the shrimp. And
that's why it's turns turns pink, right, isn't that?
Speaker 5 (29:04):
I think? I think you just made that up.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
No, I don't, I don't, I don't think. I don't
think I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I mean, damn almost shrimp now, I'm but shrimp when
they're they're not even pink when they start.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
The star is not adding up.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
But no, here we go, here we go. I gotta
I gotta hear, he, I gotta here.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Flamingo chicks have gray or white feathers. At first, they
often perceived to be ugly, but they acquire the same
pink color as their parents as they get older.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, why because you are what you eat. Flamingos consume
shrimp and algae bang bang chicken and shrimp that turns
them pink.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Those are some stinky gas birds. Though, when you go
to the zoo.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Oh yeah, the front like the front of the San
Diego Zoo. Do they still have?
Speaker 6 (29:53):
They look beautiful, but they smell like bird ship. Yeah,
I hate that fishy, fishy smell. Giant pandas here's another one.
Giant pans start out as tiny, blind, hairless babies when
they're born.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
And then they turn out to be these beautiful creatures.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
So you learned so much from this podcast.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
This is not just your normal sporty podcast. In fact,
I don't think we even talk about sports at all
on this podcast anymore unless somebody sends a question in.
Mike also says, as either of you seen eighty for
Brady the picture? If you haven't, I recommend you do.
It is a sensational film. Okay, Kevin and Kansas right
since says dear been and Danny g After thirty seven
(30:39):
years of teaching, I finally retired in May. Congratulations, Kevin,
good job are you. I'm just as busy in my
summer as I always have been. But I'll be able
to respond to How's retirement in about two weeks when
everyone else goes back to school and I won't be
going back when you get to retire. What LANs have
(31:00):
you envisioned for using your newfound free time? That's from Kevin. Yeah,
so we've talked about this a few times over the years. Danny,
I think neither one of us is planning to retire.
Is that would that be an accurate at least from
broadcasting stuff.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
That would be accurate.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I think we're always going to be doing a podcast,
even from our retirement home, and.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I would I'm so paranoid anyway, Like when I retire,
I'll be like, oh, I'm not going to open enough money.
I could win the lottery, right, I could go out
and win the lottery, and I'd be like, oh no,
I'm screwed.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I'm not going to have any money. So that's just
how I'm wired.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Terry from England says you got to get Tony Bruno
back on the podcast again. Wants to hear some early
radio pioneer stories. I love Tony. Tony's one of my mentors.
I'll see if he can do it. Maybe we can
record something with Tony for a future We'll do someonet
in the future, obviously, let's see.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Can't read that on the air.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Alf the infrequent flyer says, do either of you have
ear issues after flying? As someone who doesn't fly often,
I have issues sometimes for days. Even though I try
all the tricks, they continue to crackle and pop and
they stay block though. Uh yeah, so alf, I My
big issue is not the ear thing is the problem.
(32:16):
I have bad ears. My right ear is really messed up.
So I don't have great ears anyway from doing radio
stuff with headphones. But my big issue alf And if
anyone listening, I mentioned this on the air the other night,
maybe Salsa who's he works in the airline business. He
travels all the time. Is it possible. I'm just saying,
is it possible someone knows the trick? Because when I fly,
(32:39):
I get all clogged up there and.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Are noise canceling headphones.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay, and you need to chew on a lot of
gum on the way up and the way down, and
if you do not do that, you will have some
issues with your air canals.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So the hearing thing is not too bad.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
It's more everything gets kind of blocked up and my
intestines get all blocked up.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
That's a oh that kind of blockage.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, yeah, that's a that's an issue.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Oh that kind of blockage I'm not familiar with.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, some reason when I fly and I'm sitting in
a little tube for a long time, and we had
stopovers because the local airport we try to avoid lax
so we were flying back to Boston.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
We stopped in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
It sounds like a big goal bladder issue.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Yeah, I don't know. I think I had it before
my gallbladder went out, but went stopped in Austin on
the way. On the way back, we stopped in Dallas
and headed back to La. Secondly, alf also says it's
obvious to the mal d militia that eight days is
not enough for you to squeeze in all the content
that you have on a weekly basis. Now that Daddy
(33:51):
G has another set of hands with the birth of
assistant producer Baby G already listening to.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You nine days a week.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Well, that will be coming for Danny as soon as
that animal Thunderdome gets launched.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Oh hell yeah, it's gonna be Klay Travis's son along
with my son hosting it.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Actually their grandkid, your kid's grandkid will see.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I guess that would be your your grandkid. I'm sure
that'll solve it. Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Let's see here a wild man in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Good college football town, Morgantown. Question, do you guys like
to chill with a beer every once in a while?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
If so, what is your beer of truth?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Is that not the most perfect question from a guy
named wild man in Morgantown, West Virginia, just wants to
know what kind of.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Beer we want to chill out with. That's perfect.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
That is a masterpiece question right there. And he loves
the podcast, Danny, he loves it. What's your beer of choice, Danny,
to go out and hang out, have a good time.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Good man.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
And by the way, I forgot to congrat Kevin on
that retirement from teaching. That is so awesome. So I'm
going to pop open a beer right now, one for you.
It's gonna be Stella for me.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Stella Stella.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yes, I don't I'm not a huge beery. I like Heineken.
I know that you can make fun of me and
all that.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
And my thing is, you know, Danny, from the holiday parties.
I hope you'll still be able to attend. I know,
you know, have the greatest excuse to get out of
going to any of those things.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
But I'm bringing my little kid. He's gonna help us drink.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Good Okay, I get him started early. So I love
the root beer beer.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
It tastes like root beer, but it's beer get hammered,
high alcohol content. I do that like maybe twice a year.
That's my Big, my Big celebration.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Also really quick to Japanese beer. I like sapporo.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Oh, I don't think that's aporo Oh.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
It's really good, especially for soake bombs. And I like
dark beer once in a while too, like a good Guinness,
really nice puzz.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Nick in Wisconsin says Ben and Danny g Radio. If
Jesus was in the NFL, which position do you think
he would play?
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
That's quite the question from Nick.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
What do you think Nick was doing drinking ayahuasca tea
when he came up with that question.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
I mean, Jesus drew a crowd, so he'd definitely be
a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Oh, it could be a kick returner, right, everyone's chasing
after the kick returner, the punt returner. I think he'd
play whatever position he wants.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
How about that? Heik you Jesus and that would.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Be the way it goes.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Thanks to Garland the Burrow, Guido, Alex Steve. I mean,
there are a lot of people we didn't have time
to get to, but we do. Thank you guys for
listening to the podcast. Give it another shot next week.
We'll have a new mail bag next weekend, and there
might or might not be some something coming down the
(37:04):
pike there, Danny, that you might want to keep an
eye for. But who knows. Maybe it'll maybe it'll happen,
maybe it won't happen. You never know, Danny, right, You
never know.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Maybe Ben is going to be the next dad a
big announcement.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Now, that would be a surprise. That would be a
that would be a surprise. I think we can eliminate
that from the list, but you never know.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You never know. Anything you want to promote, Danny.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I'll be back on the radio tonight from you know
u usual time eleven o'clock in the West till three
in the morning. On the East Coast. We'll be on
there from the usual two am to six am. And
I did switch my schedule around on the East coast.
It's been just an absolute nightmare trying to get my
schedule back to West Coast time. Anyway, Well, what are
(37:47):
you got going on, Danny? Are you back on Monday?
What's going on with you?
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Yes, Sir Covino and Rich we're going to be having
a lot of fun Monday afternoon two to four pm
on the West Side, and that is five to seven
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Well, thank you for listening and downloading all that and
have a wonderful week. Hopefully we'll hear you, and you
can hear our shows and have that Eureka moment and say, Okay,
that's great, wonderful. I'll keep listening and I'll download those
podcasts as well, and we will catch you next time.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
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