December 12, 2021 • 49 mins
Ben is in the podcast studio with Danny G. to have some fun with the mail bag, answering select P1 questions from the #MallerMilitia on this edition! Download, subscribe, and remember that sharing is caring (unless it's an STD.) Follow Ben on Twitter @BenMaller and listen to the original terrestrial radio edition of "Ben Maller Show," Monday-Friday on Fox Sports Radio, 2a-6a ET, 11p-3a PT!
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break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
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Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. Back at
it again on a another edition of The Fifth Hour
Sunday Sunday Sunday. Because hey, four hours a night during
the week enough, eight days a week, we do this
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podcast with me, Ben Maller and Danny G. Radio back
for the very popular mail back. Do you have your
battle armor ready to go? Danny G? I'm ready man
mail bag time. I looked like one of the lacrosse
players I saw in a field here in Ventura County
last week. Big shoulder pads on and nowhere to go. Yeah, well,
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I listen, this is a very this is a dangerous territory.
We are trained professional broadcasters. Do not attempt answering listener
questions unless you have years and years of training. It
is a bad idea. You're risking your life don't do it.
Do not do it. With that being said, here we
go all right, come back, it's sign from mail call. Well,
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thank you, Ohio, I appreciate that. And into the mail
bag we go, and we start out with all right,
telling in Stu in Palmetto Bay, Florida, and they write
and they say, Ben Danny Gira Deli Deli. Yeah, you
reveal the big reveal last week that Danny may Or
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may not be part of the famous Giadelli chocolate family. Yeah.
And last week I checked in on one of our locations,
which is inside California Adventure Park. Did you get what
I say is the greatest dessert ever? The Sunday Cookie
Sunday amazing, amazing, amazing, but really more for like two
or three people than one person. But I thought of
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you when I saw Disneyland goers enjoining those. But um,
I didn't part take. I was just saying hi to
the employees. They're doing a nice job there for the
garat Delli Empire. Yeah, and they they love that, you know,
as it says here in the email Helen and Stu.
They say, Danny Chocolate. Uh, that's your one of your nicknames.
They're good early morning to both of you, Stu and
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I the email rights are far more experts in real
estate as we then we are as technology and all that.
But we saw this week an interesting article titled that
radio dj a you here may already be a robot?
About that for a plot twist surprise, motherfucker, Yes, very
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big surprise there. And I saw this story also anyway,
says from music to now sports artificial intelligence is already
being used to create andy artificial neutral disc jockeys using
real radio voices like yours. In a deeper dive by
partnering with a Los Angeles based company, Fox Sports, and
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I heart will be using super WiFi in all new
studios like your future Burbank location to create evil automated
programming drama on this is through the roof, Danny, I mean,
my god, and will be real. Ben Mallard Please stand up, Ben?
Are you real? Or are you just a robot? The
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question asked. And let's see that's a beauty right there, Helen.
And still you never really know, you never really know. Yeah,
Now I feel bad for my DJ friends because they
are getting rid of the DJs. Well, there's already that
format that hasn't really done that well, in most cities,
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Odyssey has it. That's Jack FM and l A Well.
This is something band that they tested way back in
the nineties nineties. A friend of mine was part of
the founding radio station in Mantica, California. They had the
idea to put on a jockless radio station. Let's just
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play all music and see how it does in the ratings.
It bombed big time because part of the comfortability of
the radio and part of the enjoyment of listening to
the radio is you feel like the DJ's talking to you,
and that's your friend at two in the morning, you know,
And so if it's missing at all parts of the day,
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it's just super generic. It was like an iPod back
then before there were iPods. Yeah, I agree, of course
we are both biased because we make our living talking
into microphones. But I I would absolutely agree with you
that part of the charm to me, the magic of
radio is I was a lonely, fat kid. I didn't
have any friends, but the radio guy, the guy on
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the radio my friend. The guy in the radio talk
to me and and I love that, and so I
had to lose that. I know, people change and stuff,
but I think human beings that It's just it takes
away life when you don't have somebody who's real there,
and if you don't know what's real and fake, that's
also a problem. And well also the entertainment in between
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the songs. I loved guys like Rick Chase from one
oh six, K M E Out. He was amazing in
between songs. His content was absolutely some of the best
radio I heard as a kid. Umber six point one,
j M, E M. This is Rick Chase four oh nine.
I got the solid jams, zero commercials. Don't know if
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this our controversy with right Chase pimony contest. Just have
to judge for yourself sexist or is it fun? You know,
I having a lovely birthday. Nobody remembers helly birthday. Damn it,
thank you baby making Hey, this is getting not in
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California is not one music station. It drew me in
as much as the music did. I mean, they were
playing really good hip hop and R and B in
the late eighties throughout the nineties, but I wanted to
hear the DJs just as much as the music, and
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also the callers and all the different things going on
in the city. When you listen to that station. In
those voices, you felt like you were tapped in. Yeah,
you know, just to follow up on that. As a kid,
you know, I love sports, but I remember it's just
the way they talk though it was more than And
we've talked about this before on the Overnight Show. Like I,
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I spend a lot of time with these monologues and
I'll go on and on about whatever, and when I
meet listeners when I'm able to do that, they never
want to talk about the monologue. They just want to
talk about you know, I had a bad I dropped
Karayaki sauce at the store or whatever. That knows. That's
what people want to talk about. They don't care about
the sports. They listen. I guess for the sports stuff,
but I just think of a world where all radio
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guys go away and it's just but hopefully that does
not happen. But if it does, I'll be long gone
by then. And they have done studies though that have indicated,
as you referenced, Danny, that it hasn't gone well. When
they've tried to have faceless radio stations. It just doesn't work.
And people can get that content. There's a lot of
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streaming places. Even I the I Heart app which is
carries this podcast. If you want just music without DJs,
you can get it. But if you know, if you're
by yourself working late at night, or you can't sleep,
you want to hear a voice on the radio, you
should be able to hear that. Or if you're driving,
you're stuck in traffic, you want somebody to talk to
you so you don't have a nervous breakdown. It's the
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magic of all right. Next email from Tammy in Montana,
and she's an enemy combatant of Helen and Stu. There's
been great rivalry the Mallar militia. They were very happy
Helen and Stu left and now that they're back, there's anger.
There's there's rage. There's a primal instinct, primal scream that
takes off anyway, Uh, Tammy and Montana right, since she
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says classy Danny g Radio giving props to Gascon unlike
that classless crocodile Helen, who is completely unaware of how
many militia wish she would get ragged into a pond
by a gator. Wow, that is vicious. God. Tammy is
very feisty. She's a very feisty woman. Uh. Stu is
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probably an alcoholic and heavily medicated to stay married to
that nasty smelling old crow. Wow vicious. Uh, he keeps
the paper sack company in business, buying so many to
keep her ugly face covered. Wild Timmy, how do you
really feel? Thanks for doing that, Stu, the world appreciates.
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Go go drink some prune juice, Medusa. Wow, try to.
She says, you're trying to shift out some of your nastiness.
You your poor family. Wow, dammy, man, man, I'm so
happy I came into this beef late so that I
could just be the ultimate politician and say I love everybody. Yeah,
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you're much better off on that, because this is a
you know what this is? This is like back and forth,
is like flatulence. They're they're farting at each other. It's
just terrible. It's torrible. J M writes in he says,
what was the other name you said you used when
you had a daytime local show. I never heard about
that before. And he says, ps, I think that beer
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drinking Brian is giving you a story about his power
and heating being shut off. He talked about that on
the show this week. JM Jam says, I am about
nine percent sure that Missouri has a cold weather law
that you are not allowed to shut off utilities in
the winter months. Was he talking about when you were
little Ben Mallett. No, No, that's how you've typed my
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name into Google. It comes up Ben Mallett. But no, uh,
this actually was pretty funny. So I was doing the
show at eleven fifty, a young guy, and we got
some positive pulp. And back in those days, it was
very important to be on in the l a Times
radio TV critic Larry Stewart, and that was the big deal.
Like you knew you were of every one in the
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industry read that column. That was that was a sign
you've made it. And Larry didn't write a lot about radio.
He seemed to enjoy television more than radio, and so
he didn't write about radio much. But a few times
a year he read right and maybe more than that,
I'm exactly ate. Usually at the end of his column
he'd have a little bit of radio news. So he
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wrote a really nice thing about me when I was
a young guy. I was in my early twenties and
he wrote a really nice thing. I thought, why this
is I've arrived. My mom was impressed. My dad was impressed.
You know people, I used to work with this like
a big deal, right the l a times, back when
everyone read newspaper and uh, except he wrote my name,
Ben Waller. How my name was in the so I
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on the air at that time, much like these days.
They made it. I had to do the show, and
I had to do updates, and I hated doing the updates.
I just wanted to do the show. I didn't want
to worry about the updates, and they made me do
the updates and so on the updates, I was Ben Waller,
and I'd said I. I was like Phil Henry, like
a mental patient. I was throwing to myself, all right,
(12:05):
let's go to the news desk. Here's Ben Waller, you know.
And then I, uh so, do you think about that
anytime you watch a Las Vegas Raiders game? No Waller Jersey,
oh oh the wall Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're
right the tight end there. Yeah, that's right. Uh. Do
you do you ever use Danny any kind of fake
radio names when you're a DJ back in the day,
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any kind of No? No, But you know, when I
was at NBC Sports Radio, I would do updates half
of the week for my salary. There. Part of doing
the national updates at NBC Sports Radio was you had
to do the sixty second sports updates live on Bloomberg News,
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which was really cool because you were live in New
York and San Francisco. But they would not let me
say Danny g. For a news organization like Bloomberg, you
can't use hip hop names. They told me that's a
hip hop name, so according to them, So I had
to come up with something. I didn't know what to do.
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I went Batman Ben Danny Grayson. Really you said, you went,
you were full of Batman? Here we come. Yeah, batman sidekick,
of course, but that's because the newsman would throw to
me and then I'd be a sports sidekick. I didn't
know what else to do. I just came up with that,
you know, the day before I had to be on Bloomberg.
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That's the only other alias I've ever had on the radio. Yeah,
I've only done the Ben Waller thing I remember they had.
You know, Fox Sports Radio has a news thing that
they have for Fox News Radio. I don't know if
they still do that or not, but they used to,
and they had to come up with different different names.
Uh and Uh, I forget Looney had a funny one.
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I forget what it was, but he had he was
obsessed with that. You want to come up with the
perfect fake name, and uh, I don't remember. I wish
I did, but I don't know. You we do have more,
let's see. John in Colorado writes into the fifth Hour podcast.
By the way, if you want to send us a question,
I think next week Danny will be our last podcast
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of the year. They we're gonna will be dark on
Christmas weekend and then the first weekend of the new year,
and so that we'll be back. I think January tent
ish something like that with new podcast. Anyway, John in
Colorado says, in the process of renovating the new Mallard mansion,
where you tempted to add a hidden door or secret passage, Yes, John,
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I would have. I love the idea of a hidden room.
As a kid watching those old shows from when I
was a child, they always had like the bookcase, you
pull out the book and the the thing open to speaking
of Batman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, So I thought more
that would be outstanding right to pull that went off? Uh,
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and we we may still do it. But the the
cause there's a problem. It is a problem. And so
there's a staircase in the Mallard mansion here, and so
there's a little storage room underneath the staircase. And so
the plan was my wife's idea. She thought it would
be great to kind of go Harry Potter and put
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a fake dummy bookcase where the storage room opens up,
and then how you can pull a book out and
it opens up. And really, because you know, we have
nieces and nephews and little kids, and like, how cool
would that be if you're a little kid and you
come over and you you have your own like private
hideaway and you can open it up and then bam,
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you can put all kinds of stuff in there and
knock yourself. I think that would be awesome. So and
if any of her family members go missing, we know
where to look first. Yeah, yeah, right, that's that's that
would be the spot. Uh, definitely, that would be the spot.
But yeah, we we are thinking about that, John, But
that's you know, shut up and eat your man a sandwich.
Yeah exactly, you evil kids? How dare you sound proof
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the room? Chef Scott from New Orleans, right, So, and
he says, holy crap, a podcast featuring all of the
Christmas songs from the Mallets next Friday. No guest, I've
decided these listeners keep sending these holiday songs in Mr
PC Jeopardy ah and Jack called Jeopardy Jeopardy out. That's
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a name from the past. Ohio. All I got my
Al's mixed Ohio. All our our guy in Maine, Harry
and Maine are buddy in Richmond. There's so many talented people,
So I thought, since this is a very unique thing
that we have, we have so many songs, we have
enough songs to fill a whole hour that I can
be like DJ Benny, I like you nothing but those
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songs for the full hour on Friday. And because that's
the week before Christmas, and I can't think of a
better way to annoy your relatives at holiday parties by
playing Mallard theme songs and and how wrong that would
be and how annoying that would be. So I think
we should do it so next Friday. Uh Chef's Guy
talked about it on the show a little bit. So
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these songs are so well done too. I was listening
to you live on the radio when I was coming
back from Anaheim on Wednesday night and one of the
rejoined songs, I turned the volume up because I thought
maybe it would be one of the p ones, and
I was like, oh, no, this is a classic Christmas song.
But then I heard the word Mallard being song and
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I was like, holy shit, no it's not. It's one
of the Mallard songs. Man, these parody songs are legit. Yeah,
they're nuts. And this guy, Mr PC, I don't know
a lot about him, but he even added this week
his latest songs. He added a female lead, so it's
a duet. It's a male female duet, which is unbelievable.
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And he's in a recording studio in Michigan. And so
Coop told the story on the air that apparently what's
on on is that the guy at the recording studios like,
you shouldn't be doing this. You should you know. They
got into a back and forth like a war, like
you shouldn't be doing this. These are professional songs, you
should not do. Were doing this for free, And so
that Mr PC is like, oh, I'll do what I
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want or whatever, and so he's like I like doing this,
and it's you know, it's gotta be cool if you
have an opportunity. We have a one good thing about
The Overnight. We have a very big reach on that
show because of the time we're on, we're cleared on
over four hundred stations, and it's a pretty cool way
to kind of cheat to the top and say you've
had your music played on all these radio stations. So
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America's most talented listeners for sure. Yeah. I mean it's
crazy because we've done this in the past and we've
had some good songs, but like one or two, not
a whole c D s or not that they use
CDs anymore any anyway, says that'll be podcast gold. Chef
Scott says from the Bayou, absolute gold. The songs this
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year are epic. Uh, he says, thanks Ben and the
talent did Milicia songwriters. Happy birthday, Danny, g It says,
But happy birthday, Danny, as you know that means we
love you. Bro It says, here, welcome back to Mallard Town.
So a big fan of yours there are, Buddy. I
appreciate that. Yeah, and actually I will be celebrating a
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birthday during the break. Okay, well there you go, Altough,
Happy birthday day after Christmas, which means package them all together. Unfortunately,
if somebody gives you, I don't know, say they give
you a book for Christmas, that's a bad gift, right,
But as a kid, you'd hear Merry Christmas and happy Birthday.
Yeah that sucks. And Roberto's birthday actually just happened this
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week day. You know, guys in December, with the birthdays,
you should pick a day where there's not much going on,
like a June. Yeah, that's the day I'm going to
celebrate the birthday. I agree, because my chick's been trying
to plan somewhere to take me and the rates are
all jacked up because it's Christmas week. Yeah, I just wait.
Told her, I'm like, let's postpone it. Yeah, because you
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can have the same experience and with half the price.
Why would you you know, I'm a cheap I'm a
cheap guy. So that's what I I would do. You know,
you know what I want for for Christmas, Danny? You
know what I want? A spider pig, right, pig spider
pinkus whatever spider pig. Guys, can you thwing from a web?
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You know we can't. He's a pig look he is.
I really have no reason that. I just wanted to
hear that. I thought that was funny. I don't really
want a spider pig, but I just love that. So
just like playing drops. Yeah, oh you know it's a toy.
You know I like toys. Well, you know what I'll do.
I'll play a couple of Genie drops right here, all right,
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I'll match your spider pig with a Genie. I have
a statin night Joune on my peach cobbler list. Oh Genie,
Oh god, I miss her, Genie, I miss you. They've
to play like four or five of her drops on
last week's podcast, and the response was amazing. I I
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miss hearing her drops. Genie was great, man, she had
so much fun with her on the show. Yeah. Remember
the story she told us about how she was a
stripper in Compton. Yes, really, and we looked it up
and it check it out through. Yeah, we looked it
up and we yeah, with some joint in Compton that
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she really stripped at. Yeah, it's nuts. Were you were
you with me the night this is not a Genie story,
but the night that that mob guy knocked on the door.
Were you were you working that night. I was working
that night. Yes, yeah, that guy's from Good Fellows. Yeah,
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well he was the real guy from good Yeah he's
dead now was the guy's name. We had so many
crazy visitors bet and remember when Helmet Man would show up. Yeah,
we we don't. We haven't heard from helmet Man. We
don't know if he's alive or not. He disappeared. We
haven't since COVID started. Helmet Man went away. I it
spawned that famous drop where Helmet Man said, I'm actually
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on the live air. Yes, you're on Yes, which was
one of the great jobs of all time. Sitting in
a radio station within on air, light pulsing on air,
on air, on air, and me talking to him into
a microphone in a different studio, and he had no
idea that he was on the air. My on the
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live air, Oh my, yes, exactly in our swamp, helmet Man,
what's wrong with you out there? We'll have to do
in the future podcast will go over in great detail
the night one of the great mob guys of all time.
That happens to be my favorite movie, Good Fellas. I
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love good my favorite mob movie, good Fellas. By the way,
Henry Hill was like, yes, that's right, Henry Hill. Henry
Hill drunk as could possibly be drunk, banging on the door,
you know, I we'll get tobies. And we wanted to
get in the radio studio, and I of course walked
out past the mob guy because I had to call
the late great Joe McDonald, l a radio legend, did
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cross talk with him, and I was embarrassed because people
would look at me when I talked. So I got
outside and I'd walk around the streets of Sherman Oaks anyway,
Vahed writes in from Sant's Country. He says, Danny g
a great hire for the part. Well, you know higher, uh, Danny,
I think we're giving you a chicken feed for this.
I think maybe, but the big money will come then,
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as you know, but you were already part of the company,
so we didn't hire d money. Yes, yes, uh question.
Could Danny G book William Shatner? We have heard about
his booking skills, big names, former presidents and many more
great people keep doing great big bend and Danny G
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from he there in New Orleans where that would be
the big get. I doubt Shatner would do it, but
it you know, you could harass him. And it's always
when he does a media thing. And I say that
in the kindest way. When I say harass, I don't
mean in like actually, I just mean a friendly message.
He hates you with a passion. So the angle I
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would have to come at would be some sort of
contribution towards his favorite charity or something like that. Because
back in the day, Clay Travis got into it with
Peter King and the who hated each other, and we're
sparring on Twitter, and I was able to book Peter
King and get him on the air, which was a
classic interview on OutKick the Coverage. Clay agreed to pay
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I think it was five thousand bucks or something to
Peter's favorite charity and maybe maybe a thousand dollars, but
it was a pretty decent sum of money to convince
Peter to come on, even though he hated Clay's guts.
That's really the only workaround, I think when it's a
guy that hates the guy you're trying to connect them with,
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so it has to be financial. There has to be
a financial stake, and that's how Shatner ended up unblocking me.
Is that a Trekky a star trek NERD was so
bothered by the warring Mallard militia and all that that
this guy Shatner had on his one of his charity things.
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He had the whole to do about how you know,
you wanna you don't want to end this and I'll
follow ben I don't think followed me. He doesn't follow me,
but donated dollars and some dude did. I don't even
know the guy. And then the guy just he was
tired of the whole thing and he's like, hey, let's
let me settle this right now, and he did. And
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Shatner followed through and saved a horse's ass or something like.
Now you guys are best friends on Twitter. I didn't matter.
He didn't check in on me before he went to
outer space. We did have a brief interaction on on
the Twitter machine, but it's it's been a while. So
I love how the militias celebrates his birthday every year. Yeah, yeah, Well,
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there's so many good Foot soldiers that met their demise
at the hands, you know, the Twitter demise at the
hands of William Shatner. It was it was interesting. That
was a fun time though that that night, when spats
with shots originated, and that there was that one night
he was flying to Germany, and because he was up
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the whole night on a plane, and I guess they
had WiFi because he's William Shatner, so he's not sitting
in the cheap seats, and he kept replying, and he
was trying to block everybody, and he was in such
a hurry, and he was so flustered. He started following
security guards and guys cleaning toilets. And you know, the
the hardcore me of the Mallard Show, the people that
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are working busting their ass all night and they're getting
a follow from William Shatter. Joe Blow, who's got three followers,
has William Shatner clicking follow trying to block him? Insane?
Absolutely insane. But Shatter still doing pretty since ninety or
something wrong that none William Shatter and he's still he's
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still going. He hasn't had the old Donkey coom anyway. Uh,
let's see what is next here. Kevin and Kansas rights
in on the mail back, says, dear Ben and Danny
g Or, both of you have seen and visited a
lot of stadiums over the years, which ones were so
horribly awful that everyone was glad when they got a
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new place. Well, the first one I will bring up
is the l A Memorial Sports Arena, which I spent
a lot of my life at. The Clippers played there
in the nineties and late eighties, and that place was
a total, uh, tear down, destroy what ever you want
to say. And I the last time I ever went
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in the l A Sports Arena was at a USC
Notre Dame game and they put the overflow parking on
the floor of the sportsmen So I parked at a
big four f one fifty truck and I parked my
truck on the floor of the l A Sports Arena
and somewhere I took pictures of it. I haven't been
able to find the photo, but it was crazy. That's
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a place that it had NBA All Star Games, NBA Finals,
That's where the Lakers had played when they moved to
l A, you know, in the early days, and I
saw the Candy Man play there. Yeah, I mean it
was that was amazing hockey that all kinds big events.
They had political uh what do you call it conferences
or whatever? The conventions conventions were held there, lots of
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rap concerts. I saw West Side Connection performed there. Yeah,
but by the time that place was you know, the
Clippers had moved out of there. The USC was kind
of planning there. Then they got a new arena. That
place was a dump. And how did they fill the
seats for Clipper games back then, Ben, Well, Yeah, at
halftime they would open up the doors and they were
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there would be more people in the second half in
the first half and they were actually just a lot
of homeless people or people down on their luck trying
to get out of the cold. Yeah, and den you know,
not that it gets that cold in l A. But
December and January and they'd come in there and it
was Boy, the stuff I saw at the sports are
holy moly. That is it will be in your book, Yeah,
it'll be in my tell Bucking. I'd say. Shay Stadium
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is another one. I don't know if you ever went there,
but I was with the Dodgers and we went to
Shaye Stadium and that place was a complete rat hole. Uh,
just horrible at And I know what you're thinking. The
Oakland Alameda Coliseum, which is still there, hasn't They have
not torn that that things that dump too. I have
been there but some historic NFL and Major League Baseball
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games took place on that field. Unfortunately, the building around
the field was crumbling or is crumbling still. A few
years ago, I think it was ten season, I got
to go in the bowels of that stadium as a
stringer to get the star of the game to call
into fs R. There were hanging live wires like you
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could see sparks from, you know, these electrical wires that
were hanging down almost touching people's heads. The popcorn machine
up in the media area where the broadcasters were that
wasn't working. The soda machine wasn't working. That Mackenzie d
that used to be the general manager was mumbling and
grumbling as he walked over the stained carpet. He was
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bitching about how stuff wasn't working. And that's pretty much
in a nutshell that place. Obviously, all the stories about
the urinals not working and floods with what I guess,
muddy water. Just take a guess what's in the water.
It's what can brown do for you? I mean, the
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stench coming out of those bathrooms. But and the home
field advantage at that place was insane. Now you look
at Vegas, it's obviously a great destination if you want
to see your favorite NFL team. So you just don't
have that same home field advantage anymore as a Raider.
So that's the bad part. But that building, oh my god, Ben,
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they need to honor it and show all those great
memories there and then bulldoze the place and give the
Oakland A's a brand new stadium. It's like the area
around Chernobyl there's that zone you can't enter in and
just get rid of that thing. And have you ever
seen that creek water around the coliseum there. I mean,
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it's toxic. If you overthrow a NERF football and it
goes down there, you're not getting a whole NERF back.
And I remember watching games when I was a kid
on TV when the A's when the Raiders were in
l A And that place looked for baseball, was beautiful
with the backdrop and all that. And then they built
Mountain they us and that was a disaster. I was
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also I'm trying to think some other stadiums. A county
stadium in Milwaukee, qualcom alcome yeah, Jack Murphy Stadium. Yeah,
that's that's gone now right. They got rid of that
for they're building the San Diego State Stadium. There I
was told, yeah, they blew that building up. Yeah, I
spent a lot of time there. And that's another one.
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But that that one never, to me was really that beautiful.
You know. It was like I go to Padre games
and I went a few Charger games and the people
were cool. The tailgating and Charger games is kind of
eating the parking lot, but the stadium was was brutel,
brutel and similar qualities to Oakland. Yeah, thank you, Kevin.
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That inspired some hot talk. Hot talk. We do have
more mail. Terry from New Franklin, Ohio. Right since says
choose one A. You can keep your Holiday Derek decorations
up all year long. Be you never decorate for the
holidays again and see to me, the outcome would be
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the same. And I'll tell you why. Because if you
keep the holiday day decorations up year round, it loses
its wild fact. You become used to it. It's like
my theory. Now. Mr West of the four oh five,
who was on the podcast before you, I used to
fight with him by like everyone talks about, you want
to live near the ocean, you wanna have ocean front views.
(33:28):
You wanna have skyline views of Miami or New York
or Chicago. But once you live there after a while,
it just becomes normal. It's not like you sit there
and stare out the window, you know what I'm saying.
And so that's always been my theory, Like you want
to live in a good part of town, but you
don't know, you don't necessarily need to have great views
because you're just not You're not gonna look after a while.
(33:52):
It's maybe your friends will be impressed when they come over,
but you're like, let's just that's home, you know. It's
like that's the way it is. So I actually I
called the Queen tender owning a mini Mallard last week
because she had lights go out on the top half
of her fake Christmas tree that she's had for years,
and then she found this thing eight years ago on
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sale for thirty five bucks. It's a good move. I
told her, you'd be proud of her. Do you think
a she threw the tree away and finally bought a
new one or be she bought thirty five dollars in
lights and strong new lights on the top half of it.
That's a solid move, Listen, that's a good job by you,
and that's the way to do it. Listen, things are expensive,
(34:38):
everything is more expensive these days. Why not? And he's
saving the environment at the same time, right, saving the environments.
I like that. That's good. Yeah, we haven't done any
holiday decorations because the house is a absolute mess. But
my answer, I think the answer, Terry to answer your
question is it wouldn't really matter because if you keep
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them up all year, they come used to him, and
I think it would be no fun never to decorate.
So is that the worst most political answer of all time? Danny?
Is that Bella has been leaving some holiday treats around. Yes,
shell over your floor, by the way, it's hit and miss.
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You know, someday she's good. The other day she decided
to hellttle rain in l A so that she did
not enjoy that. We need update she's yeah, well, yeah,
she leaves. We don't call him poop Danny. We call
him little cups of clumps of coal is what we
called him. There And alright, Pierre from Springfield, mass home
(35:38):
of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where Muffett McGraw
is Enshrine, says Ben and Danny Gee have either of
you performed the Costco food court Marcel food Pick de Luxe.
What is that you ask? It is rolling up a
slice of pizza around a Costco hot dog And he
(36:00):
sent some video here Danny of someone on TikTok doing this. Wow,
that's a veteran, veteran move. Also, I I have never
done that. I usually what I'll do is I will
get the hot dog and the pizza. I get the
I eat the hot dog first because I feel like
once that gets colder, it's not as enjoyable to eat pizza.
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You can eat when it's a little cool. That's a
good move, yeah, but I've never done them. At the
same time. I separate them because I'd rather have two
big slices of pizza and maybe two hot dogs, but
in separate sittings. I don't like the pizza and the
hot dog together. One of my goals is to go
to Canada to not only eat the poutine. But we
(36:43):
had a listener in Vancouver that used to send me
screenshots every time you go to Costco because at the
Costco in Vancouver at least a few years ago, they
had chicken fingers and fries on the menu, And I'm like, Wow,
that's like next level. Yeah, they streamlined the menu during COVID.
They got rid of a lot of stuff at Costco
for a while. They got rid of the Barry Sunday.
(37:05):
That's blasphem. You can't give rid of the Barry So, like,
what the hell is that getting rid of the Barrys sign?
They brought it back. People complained they brought back the
Barry Sunday. James in Greensboro writes, and he says, why
is Muffett McGraw always mentioned when you mentioned the Hall
of Fame? Uh, there's two reasons for that, James A.
It's a funny name to say, Uh, and that's the
main thing. And Muffett McGraw, that's just kind of it
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sounds like it sounds like a mistake or something like that. Uh,
there's that. And then also the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.
It's to make a point, the NBA doesn't actually have
a Hall of Fame. Technically Baseball, Major League Baseball doesn't.
It's a National Baseball Hall of Fame. But I just
point out that it's people go to Basketball of Fame
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and you think like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan's you know,
and then you see Muffett McGraw and the Russian coach
from nine two or something like that, and you're like,
what is it. That's just just having some fun, Jane,
just having some fun. Calm down. I love filling in
(38:08):
for Coop on the Ben Mallard Show, on the Live
Radio show, because when you do the NBA Pick them,
I go back and I find the best nineteen eighties
NBA player names, and those are the picks I give
for Coop. Board has Hell, Danny g for Cooper. I'm
gonna go with a dark Alley guy, Charles Oakley, solid
(38:29):
good pick, eighties Nicks bowls good pick. Yeah. And that's
the proper way to do it. And sometimes there are
people that sit in there and they actually try to
They get competitive and they try to win, and that's
that's when it becomes a problem. And we say, listen, pal,
don't be rude. Knock that off. Okay, knock that off.
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Terry in England listening and uh, well he's listening to this.
Eventually when we put it up, he says, when you
started listening to a m radio, Ben, did you do
it to be a d xer or just for sports?
You know what d xer means danny. That that jargon,
that lingo, that means d xer as I understand, it
(39:12):
means to try to listen to far away like a
Ham radio nerd. Almost yeah, exactly that Terry's a Ham
radio guy like my old man may rest in peace,
and so I Terry did. That's part of the magic.
That to me, that's part of the magic. But living
in the West, I did not Western part of the
United States. We did not have as many far away
(39:32):
stations to get. But I've told the story before. I
as a kid, my mom listened to Art Bell, who
was on Forever. Actually it was even I think it
was even Art Bell, but somebody else. And they had
a commercial for this antenna that would get far away
AM radio stations at night. And I begged my mom
(39:57):
for this. What a nerd? What a loser? And my
mom it was pretty expensive at the time. I don't
remember how much. It was pretty pricey. My mom kept
reminding me about how expensive it was, but she finally
got it. I remember you talking about this gadget before.
What did it look like? It was brown? It was.
It was pretty big. It was like the size of
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it was the size of a laptop. But it was round.
It was round, you know, like those look like a
little satellite almost kind of, but it had a knob
in the middle, some more like rabbit airs. Yeah, I
mean it was shape. It was round, kind of like
you know those ring lights, kind of like that. And
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it really worked. Yeah, it actually did work. I was.
I thought when I first got all this ain't gonna work.
This is just a cheap plastic thing, and it actually did.
I don't know the technology behind it, but I got stations,
you know, living in l A. I got stations in St. George, Utah.
I got a station from Portland, Oregon. San Francisco comes in.
There's several stations in San Francisco to come in the
(41:00):
l A market. Suddenly you were probably listening to Suns
basketball games. I was. I listened. In fact, I've told
the story about Al McCoy, the voice of the Suns,
who was still alive. I had the chance to meet
him and I told him, I said, beside family in Arizona.
And when I was a kid, I told al McCoy
of this story. When we went to Arizona, I told
my mom, I said, we got to eat at what
(41:20):
a burke and she said, we didn't have how why
would you want to eat? What? Do you don't even
know what that is? I said, well no, But I
listened to the Son's game on the radio and they
when the Suns would make a three point shot, Al
McCoy's call would be what a shot? What a burger?
That was his his tag, And he told me All
McCoy told me that that was one of the first
product placements in the NBA broadcast that hit that kind
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of thing, that they were the first ones to kind
of do it, and so he got a kick out
of that story on their jerseys. Yeah, now it's all
it's ridiculous. H And then I got Utah Jazz Games
hot Rod Huntley out of St. George, Utah. It was
a station I got that was a lot of Vegas.
I listened to the Stardust line that I got my
(42:06):
gambling fixed, Lee Pete. This old radio legend in Vegas.
Every Sunday night, kind I think it was tend to
midnight was the Stardust Line, and they'd give out the
latest lines for the next week. That was like a
big deal. You got the lines for the next week
in the NFL, so I could go on and on.
But did you do any of that, Danny when you
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were literally you were too cool for that. You didn't.
You weren't doing that. Maybe it was too cool supposedly
because I was at the hip hop slash Rap and
we didn't even call it R and B. We call
it soul. At the time. It was the best in
hip hop and soul for the nineties, and that station
was cool. But that same instructor, he was the electronics
teacher at my high school. Man he would tell the
(42:49):
class at the beginning of the semester, he would say,
you could either do the book work and bore yourself
to death, or you could get a Ham radio license
and get an automatic A and A class. I'm not
doing bookwork. Screw that. So I actually got a technicians
license and I passed the Advanced Morse Code test to
(43:10):
get an A. Wow. That was always my hang up.
My dad wanted me to become a Ham radio operator,
but that damn Morse Code thing, I just was. It
was hard. I had to take that test three times.
I had to pass the last time I took it,
and I did. The pressure was on. The trick was
just staying ahead of yourself because if you fell behind
(43:32):
a couple of letters, you were screwed. It's like, what
is it, wheel of fortune. You kind of put things
together if you just stay on track. So I would
miss a letter here and there, but you could make
out what the word is do that Morse code would
go so fast. Now, I never used this radio license.
There was no reason or nothing to use it for
(43:53):
except for that guy's class. He had a set up
huge radio setups with the antenna on his roof there
at the school. Yeah, and you know, it was more
of like the find of Oh my god, I'm talking
to somebody in Canada. So they would mark the map
and it was I guess it was cool. It was
better than doing the bookwork. But yeah, man, that Morse code. Ben.
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I had nightmares about that because it was really hard
to pass. And they told us that if there was
ever an emergency, it would become useful to us. Even today.
My dad, you know, just passed away at the beginning
of this year. He was a Ham radio He was
in the city he lived in. They had an emergency
communications team in the Ham Radio group. My dad we
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used to buy. I used to bust my dad's balls
because he always said, it's could be a big earthquake,
and you know, and you know, he loved Ham radio.
It was his passion. It was his hobby. And he
always told me, said, been someday there's gonna be a
big disaster and everyone's gonna love this hammer. We're gonna
be the heroes, you know, and then we're gonna say,
everyone's gonna turn to Ham radio. And then because he
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used to teach Ham radio, and I was very upsetting
because you know, it would be there'd only be a
couple of people that would sign up for his class,
and then you know, sometimes they had to cancel the class,
and so it was very upsetting to him because he
loved the hobby. But he said he always said, if
something bad happened, the Ham radio operator is gonna save
the day. And that was his big shoutouts to Mr
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Hoskins was his name, and my stepdad, we have this
in common. He was a Ham radio dude, and he
used to on his hand set, used to do repeater sites.
Before everybody carried cell phones around, he would make phone
calls off his little Ham radio. Wow that's pretty cool. Yeah,
pretty neat. That's pretty neat. Um anyway, thank you, Terry.
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Let's see here, Matt, moving man, Matt says, why did
Danny g abandoned the coveted overnight slot? He says, it's
moving man, Matt. However, when Danny was on, I was
still known as Matt from the Cape. So he said, well,
you got promoted, Danny. That's happened on that right, Yeah,
for sure. At the time, Jason Martin was given his
(46:05):
own radio show in Nashville, doing Morning Drive locally, and
so I got to step into his spot because I
was already co producing the show and engineering it, but
I got to take over the executive producer role, which
was a promotion, and the hours were a little bit better,
but I was still waking up at one thirty am
every day. Yeah. That's uh, that's a no go h
(46:28):
the one thirty wake up call. Yeah that is I'm good.
I am. I'm good on that, all right. Valls Fan
Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes in that's right, this is
the last piece of mail we will use it. This
is it. This is the final one. That's it was
the last one. This is no more after all right,
(46:51):
Valls Fan Jimmy says, I'm glad to hear Danny J
back on the airwaves. Best choice you could make, could
have made well. Best means as good as all the rest. Anyway,
for both of you. Have you ever taken a girl
out on a date and the service was so bad
you got up and left? M h uh, so I'll
(47:12):
go first. I don't recall that happening. I have gone
on dates. I was meeting a date and then she
bailed out early and I was left. That one sucks.
I have left a movie early because my now wife
hated the movie so we had to walk out. But
I don't think I've ever left. I've had really bad service. Um,
(47:32):
but I don't leave. I won't leave a tip, or
I'll leave a two dollar tip or something like that
if your services. What about you, Danny, anything at a
restaurant on a date where you just bailed out and said,
let me get the heck out of here. This is
this is not good. Yeah. Just a few months ago,
I was with my tender Roni at a diner in
downtown Burbank. In Burbank, the table was sticky, I'm hoping
(47:55):
from syrup, and uh, service was bad, the water cups
were dirty. It just didn't feel right from the start,
and I looked at her and I was like, we
need to leave before we order anything. The waiter, though,
you could tell he was maybe part owner. The way
he wasn't yelling at the staff. It was like he
(48:15):
knew we wanted to leave. He could sense it. And
so that made the dash hard because he already had
his radar on. So I told her, I said, I'm
gonna pretend like I take a call, pretended like I
was talking to the radio station. And she then she
followed me and she was laughing, and I'm like, what's
so funny, And She's like, oh my god. He totally
(48:37):
knew what we were doing. He told me, if you
want to leave, just tell me you're leaving. Oh man. Yeah,
So he took it very personal surprise. All Right, it's
been fun, Danny, but we've got to run, right. We've
got places to go, things to do, people to see.
That kind of thing on a Sunday, and I'll be
(48:59):
back on the radio tonight. Good luck to your favorite
NFL team, thank you? Yes, yes, that's right. Well, my
my favorite NFL team is not playing until tomorrow. Yeah,
we're not yours. I was talking to the listener yours.
You finally got better because you played Jacksonville last week.
Whatever it takes, and uh, we'll see the Rams will
(49:22):
be ramming it all day and ramming it all nights
and the value of the sun. Have a wonderful rest
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bag we go, and we start out with all right,
telling in Stu in Palmetto Bay, Florida, and they write
and they say, Ben Danny Gira Deli Deli. Yeah, you
reveal the big reveal last week that Danny may Or
(02:01):
may not be part of the famous Giadelli chocolate family. Yeah.
And last week I checked in on one of our locations,
which is inside California Adventure Park. Did you get what
I say is the greatest dessert ever? The Sunday Cookie
Sunday amazing, amazing, amazing, but really more for like two
or three people than one person. But I thought of
(02:23):
you when I saw Disneyland goers enjoining those. But um,
I didn't part take. I was just saying hi to
the employees. They're doing a nice job there for the
garat Delli Empire. Yeah, and they they love that, you know,
as it says here in the email Helen and Stu.
They say, Danny Chocolate. Uh, that's your one of your nicknames.
They're good early morning to both of you, Stu and
(02:46):
I the email rights are far more experts in real
estate as we then we are as technology and all that.
But we saw this week an interesting article titled that
radio dj a you here may already be a robot?
About that for a plot twist surprise, motherfucker, Yes, very
(03:09):
big surprise there. And I saw this story also anyway,
says from music to now sports artificial intelligence is already
being used to create andy artificial neutral disc jockeys using
real radio voices like yours. In a deeper dive by
partnering with a Los Angeles based company, Fox Sports, and
(03:32):
I heart will be using super WiFi in all new
studios like your future Burbank location to create evil automated
programming drama on this is through the roof, Danny, I mean,
my god, and will be real. Ben Mallard Please stand up, Ben?
Are you real? Or are you just a robot? The
(03:58):
question asked. And let's see that's a beauty right there, Helen.
And still you never really know, you never really know. Yeah,
Now I feel bad for my DJ friends because they
are getting rid of the DJs. Well, there's already that
format that hasn't really done that well, in most cities,
(04:18):
Odyssey has it. That's Jack FM and l A Well.
This is something band that they tested way back in
the nineties nineties. A friend of mine was part of
the founding radio station in Mantica, California. They had the
idea to put on a jockless radio station. Let's just
(04:40):
play all music and see how it does in the ratings.
It bombed big time because part of the comfortability of
the radio and part of the enjoyment of listening to
the radio is you feel like the DJ's talking to you,
and that's your friend at two in the morning, you know,
And so if it's missing at all parts of the day,
(05:02):
it's just super generic. It was like an iPod back
then before there were iPods. Yeah, I agree, of course
we are both biased because we make our living talking
into microphones. But I I would absolutely agree with you
that part of the charm to me, the magic of
radio is I was a lonely, fat kid. I didn't
have any friends, but the radio guy, the guy on
(05:24):
the radio my friend. The guy in the radio talk
to me and and I love that, and so I
had to lose that. I know, people change and stuff,
but I think human beings that It's just it takes
away life when you don't have somebody who's real there,
and if you don't know what's real and fake, that's
also a problem. And well also the entertainment in between
(05:47):
the songs. I loved guys like Rick Chase from one
oh six, K M E Out. He was amazing in
between songs. His content was absolutely some of the best
radio I heard as a kid. Umber six point one,
j M, E M. This is Rick Chase four oh nine.
I got the solid jams, zero commercials. Don't know if
(06:10):
this our controversy with right Chase pimony contest. Just have
to judge for yourself sexist or is it fun? You know,
I having a lovely birthday. Nobody remembers helly birthday. Damn it,
thank you baby making Hey, this is getting not in
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California is not one music station. It drew me in
as much as the music did. I mean, they were
playing really good hip hop and R and B in
the late eighties throughout the nineties, but I wanted to
hear the DJs just as much as the music, and
(06:56):
also the callers and all the different things going on
in the city. When you listen to that station. In
those voices, you felt like you were tapped in. Yeah,
you know, just to follow up on that. As a kid,
you know, I love sports, but I remember it's just
the way they talk though it was more than And
we've talked about this before on the Overnight Show. Like I,
(07:19):
I spend a lot of time with these monologues and
I'll go on and on about whatever, and when I
meet listeners when I'm able to do that, they never
want to talk about the monologue. They just want to
talk about you know, I had a bad I dropped
Karayaki sauce at the store or whatever. That knows. That's
what people want to talk about. They don't care about
the sports. They listen. I guess for the sports stuff,
but I just think of a world where all radio
(07:40):
guys go away and it's just but hopefully that does
not happen. But if it does, I'll be long gone
by then. And they have done studies though that have indicated,
as you referenced, Danny, that it hasn't gone well. When
they've tried to have faceless radio stations. It just doesn't work.
And people can get that content. There's a lot of
(08:04):
streaming places. Even I the I Heart app which is
carries this podcast. If you want just music without DJs,
you can get it. But if you know, if you're
by yourself working late at night, or you can't sleep,
you want to hear a voice on the radio, you
should be able to hear that. Or if you're driving,
you're stuck in traffic, you want somebody to talk to
you so you don't have a nervous breakdown. It's the
(08:24):
magic of all right. Next email from Tammy in Montana,
and she's an enemy combatant of Helen and Stu. There's
been great rivalry the Mallar militia. They were very happy
Helen and Stu left and now that they're back, there's anger.
There's there's rage. There's a primal instinct, primal scream that
takes off anyway, Uh, Tammy and Montana right, since she
(08:46):
says classy Danny g Radio giving props to Gascon unlike
that classless crocodile Helen, who is completely unaware of how
many militia wish she would get ragged into a pond
by a gator. Wow, that is vicious. God. Tammy is
very feisty. She's a very feisty woman. Uh. Stu is
(09:09):
probably an alcoholic and heavily medicated to stay married to
that nasty smelling old crow. Wow vicious. Uh, he keeps
the paper sack company in business, buying so many to
keep her ugly face covered. Wild Timmy, how do you
really feel? Thanks for doing that, Stu, the world appreciates.
(09:30):
Go go drink some prune juice, Medusa. Wow, try to.
She says, you're trying to shift out some of your nastiness.
You your poor family. Wow, dammy, man, man, I'm so
happy I came into this beef late so that I
could just be the ultimate politician and say I love everybody. Yeah,
(09:51):
you're much better off on that, because this is a
you know what this is? This is like back and forth,
is like flatulence. They're they're farting at each other. It's
just terrible. It's torrible. J M writes in he says,
what was the other name you said you used when
you had a daytime local show. I never heard about
that before. And he says, ps, I think that beer
(10:15):
drinking Brian is giving you a story about his power
and heating being shut off. He talked about that on
the show this week. JM Jam says, I am about
nine percent sure that Missouri has a cold weather law
that you are not allowed to shut off utilities in
the winter months. Was he talking about when you were
little Ben Mallett. No, No, that's how you've typed my
(10:38):
name into Google. It comes up Ben Mallett. But no, uh,
this actually was pretty funny. So I was doing the
show at eleven fifty, a young guy, and we got
some positive pulp. And back in those days, it was
very important to be on in the l a Times
radio TV critic Larry Stewart, and that was the big deal.
Like you knew you were of every one in the
(11:00):
industry read that column. That was that was a sign
you've made it. And Larry didn't write a lot about radio.
He seemed to enjoy television more than radio, and so
he didn't write about radio much. But a few times
a year he read right and maybe more than that,
I'm exactly ate. Usually at the end of his column
he'd have a little bit of radio news. So he
(11:21):
wrote a really nice thing about me when I was
a young guy. I was in my early twenties and
he wrote a really nice thing. I thought, why this
is I've arrived. My mom was impressed. My dad was impressed.
You know people, I used to work with this like
a big deal, right the l a times, back when
everyone read newspaper and uh, except he wrote my name,
Ben Waller. How my name was in the so I
(11:44):
on the air at that time, much like these days.
They made it. I had to do the show, and
I had to do updates, and I hated doing the updates.
I just wanted to do the show. I didn't want
to worry about the updates, and they made me do
the updates and so on the updates, I was Ben Waller,
and I'd said I. I was like Phil Henry, like
a mental patient. I was throwing to myself, all right,
(12:05):
let's go to the news desk. Here's Ben Waller, you know.
And then I, uh so, do you think about that
anytime you watch a Las Vegas Raiders game? No Waller Jersey,
oh oh the wall Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're
right the tight end there. Yeah, that's right. Uh. Do
you do you ever use Danny any kind of fake
radio names when you're a DJ back in the day,
(12:28):
any kind of No? No, But you know, when I
was at NBC Sports Radio, I would do updates half
of the week for my salary. There. Part of doing
the national updates at NBC Sports Radio was you had
to do the sixty second sports updates live on Bloomberg News,
(12:49):
which was really cool because you were live in New
York and San Francisco. But they would not let me
say Danny g. For a news organization like Bloomberg, you
can't use hip hop names. They told me that's a
hip hop name, so according to them, So I had
to come up with something. I didn't know what to do.
(13:11):
I went Batman Ben Danny Grayson. Really you said, you went,
you were full of Batman? Here we come. Yeah, batman sidekick,
of course, but that's because the newsman would throw to
me and then I'd be a sports sidekick. I didn't
know what else to do. I just came up with that,
you know, the day before I had to be on Bloomberg.
(13:32):
That's the only other alias I've ever had on the radio. Yeah,
I've only done the Ben Waller thing I remember they had.
You know, Fox Sports Radio has a news thing that
they have for Fox News Radio. I don't know if
they still do that or not, but they used to,
and they had to come up with different different names.
Uh and Uh, I forget Looney had a funny one.
(13:52):
I forget what it was, but he had he was
obsessed with that. You want to come up with the
perfect fake name, and uh, I don't remember. I wish
I did, but I don't know. You we do have more,
let's see. John in Colorado writes into the fifth Hour podcast.
By the way, if you want to send us a question,
I think next week Danny will be our last podcast
(14:16):
of the year. They we're gonna will be dark on
Christmas weekend and then the first weekend of the new year,
and so that we'll be back. I think January tent
ish something like that with new podcast. Anyway, John in
Colorado says, in the process of renovating the new Mallard mansion,
where you tempted to add a hidden door or secret passage, Yes, John,
(14:41):
I would have. I love the idea of a hidden room.
As a kid watching those old shows from when I
was a child, they always had like the bookcase, you
pull out the book and the the thing open to speaking
of Batman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, So I thought more
that would be outstanding right to pull that went off? Uh,
(15:01):
and we we may still do it. But the the
cause there's a problem. It is a problem. And so
there's a staircase in the Mallard mansion here, and so
there's a little storage room underneath the staircase. And so
the plan was my wife's idea. She thought it would
be great to kind of go Harry Potter and put
(15:24):
a fake dummy bookcase where the storage room opens up,
and then how you can pull a book out and
it opens up. And really, because you know, we have
nieces and nephews and little kids, and like, how cool
would that be if you're a little kid and you
come over and you you have your own like private
hideaway and you can open it up and then bam,
(15:45):
you can put all kinds of stuff in there and
knock yourself. I think that would be awesome. So and
if any of her family members go missing, we know
where to look first. Yeah, yeah, right, that's that's that
would be the spot. Uh, definitely, that would be the spot.
But yeah, we we are thinking about that, John, But
that's you know, shut up and eat your man a sandwich.
Yeah exactly, you evil kids? How dare you sound proof
(16:07):
the room? Chef Scott from New Orleans, right, So, and
he says, holy crap, a podcast featuring all of the
Christmas songs from the Mallets next Friday. No guest, I've
decided these listeners keep sending these holiday songs in Mr
PC Jeopardy ah and Jack called Jeopardy Jeopardy out. That's
(16:28):
a name from the past. Ohio. All I got my
Al's mixed Ohio. All our our guy in Maine, Harry
and Maine are buddy in Richmond. There's so many talented people,
So I thought, since this is a very unique thing
that we have, we have so many songs, we have
enough songs to fill a whole hour that I can
be like DJ Benny, I like you nothing but those
(16:49):
songs for the full hour on Friday. And because that's
the week before Christmas, and I can't think of a
better way to annoy your relatives at holiday parties by
playing Mallard theme songs and and how wrong that would
be and how annoying that would be. So I think
we should do it so next Friday. Uh Chef's Guy
talked about it on the show a little bit. So
(17:09):
these songs are so well done too. I was listening
to you live on the radio when I was coming
back from Anaheim on Wednesday night and one of the
rejoined songs, I turned the volume up because I thought
maybe it would be one of the p ones, and
I was like, oh, no, this is a classic Christmas song.
But then I heard the word Mallard being song and
(17:31):
I was like, holy shit, no it's not. It's one
of the Mallard songs. Man, these parody songs are legit. Yeah,
they're nuts. And this guy, Mr PC, I don't know
a lot about him, but he even added this week
his latest songs. He added a female lead, so it's
a duet. It's a male female duet, which is unbelievable.
(17:53):
And he's in a recording studio in Michigan. And so
Coop told the story on the air that apparently what's
on on is that the guy at the recording studios like,
you shouldn't be doing this. You should you know. They
got into a back and forth like a war, like
you shouldn't be doing this. These are professional songs, you
should not do. Were doing this for free, And so
that Mr PC is like, oh, I'll do what I
(18:14):
want or whatever, and so he's like I like doing this,
and it's you know, it's gotta be cool if you
have an opportunity. We have a one good thing about
The Overnight. We have a very big reach on that
show because of the time we're on, we're cleared on
over four hundred stations, and it's a pretty cool way
to kind of cheat to the top and say you've
had your music played on all these radio stations. So
(18:34):
America's most talented listeners for sure. Yeah. I mean it's
crazy because we've done this in the past and we've
had some good songs, but like one or two, not
a whole c D s or not that they use
CDs anymore any anyway, says that'll be podcast gold. Chef
Scott says from the Bayou, absolute gold. The songs this
(18:55):
year are epic. Uh, he says, thanks Ben and the
talent did Milicia songwriters. Happy birthday, Danny, g It says,
But happy birthday, Danny, as you know that means we
love you. Bro It says, here, welcome back to Mallard Town.
So a big fan of yours there are, Buddy. I
appreciate that. Yeah, and actually I will be celebrating a
(19:16):
birthday during the break. Okay, well there you go, Altough,
Happy birthday day after Christmas, which means package them all together. Unfortunately,
if somebody gives you, I don't know, say they give
you a book for Christmas, that's a bad gift, right,
But as a kid, you'd hear Merry Christmas and happy Birthday.
Yeah that sucks. And Roberto's birthday actually just happened this
(19:40):
week day. You know, guys in December, with the birthdays,
you should pick a day where there's not much going on,
like a June. Yeah, that's the day I'm going to
celebrate the birthday. I agree, because my chick's been trying
to plan somewhere to take me and the rates are
all jacked up because it's Christmas week. Yeah, I just wait.
Told her, I'm like, let's postpone it. Yeah, because you
(20:02):
can have the same experience and with half the price.
Why would you you know, I'm a cheap I'm a
cheap guy. So that's what I I would do. You know,
you know what I want for for Christmas, Danny? You
know what I want? A spider pig, right, pig spider
pinkus whatever spider pig. Guys, can you thwing from a web?
(20:24):
You know we can't. He's a pig look he is.
I really have no reason that. I just wanted to
hear that. I thought that was funny. I don't really
want a spider pig, but I just love that. So
just like playing drops. Yeah, oh you know it's a toy.
You know I like toys. Well, you know what I'll do.
I'll play a couple of Genie drops right here, all right,
(20:46):
I'll match your spider pig with a Genie. I have
a statin night Joune on my peach cobbler list. Oh Genie,
Oh god, I miss her, Genie, I miss you. They've
to play like four or five of her drops on
last week's podcast, and the response was amazing. I I
(21:06):
miss hearing her drops. Genie was great, man, she had
so much fun with her on the show. Yeah. Remember
the story she told us about how she was a
stripper in Compton. Yes, really, and we looked it up
and it check it out through. Yeah, we looked it
up and we yeah, with some joint in Compton that
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she really stripped at. Yeah, it's nuts. Were you were
you with me the night this is not a Genie story,
but the night that that mob guy knocked on the door.
Were you were you working that night. I was working
that night. Yes, yeah, that guy's from Good Fellows. Yeah,
(21:48):
well he was the real guy from good Yeah he's
dead now was the guy's name. We had so many
crazy visitors bet and remember when Helmet Man would show up. Yeah,
we we don't. We haven't heard from helmet Man. We
don't know if he's alive or not. He disappeared. We
haven't since COVID started. Helmet Man went away. I it
spawned that famous drop where Helmet Man said, I'm actually
(22:10):
on the live air. Yes, you're on Yes, which was
one of the great jobs of all time. Sitting in
a radio station within on air, light pulsing on air,
on air, on air, and me talking to him into
a microphone in a different studio, and he had no
idea that he was on the air. My on the
(22:31):
live air, Oh my, yes, exactly in our swamp, helmet Man,
what's wrong with you out there? We'll have to do
in the future podcast will go over in great detail
the night one of the great mob guys of all time.
That happens to be my favorite movie, Good Fellas. I
(22:54):
love good my favorite mob movie, good Fellas. By the way,
Henry Hill was like, yes, that's right, Henry Hill. Henry
Hill drunk as could possibly be drunk, banging on the door,
you know, I we'll get tobies. And we wanted to
get in the radio studio, and I of course walked
out past the mob guy because I had to call
the late great Joe McDonald, l a radio legend, did
(23:17):
cross talk with him, and I was embarrassed because people
would look at me when I talked. So I got
outside and I'd walk around the streets of Sherman Oaks anyway,
Vahed writes in from Sant's Country. He says, Danny g
a great hire for the part. Well, you know higher, uh, Danny,
I think we're giving you a chicken feed for this.
I think maybe, but the big money will come then,
(23:39):
as you know, but you were already part of the company,
so we didn't hire d money. Yes, yes, uh question.
Could Danny G book William Shatner? We have heard about
his booking skills, big names, former presidents and many more
great people keep doing great big bend and Danny G
(24:02):
from he there in New Orleans where that would be
the big get. I doubt Shatner would do it, but
it you know, you could harass him. And it's always
when he does a media thing. And I say that
in the kindest way. When I say harass, I don't
mean in like actually, I just mean a friendly message.
He hates you with a passion. So the angle I
(24:24):
would have to come at would be some sort of
contribution towards his favorite charity or something like that. Because
back in the day, Clay Travis got into it with
Peter King and the who hated each other, and we're
sparring on Twitter, and I was able to book Peter
King and get him on the air, which was a
classic interview on OutKick the Coverage. Clay agreed to pay
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I think it was five thousand bucks or something to
Peter's favorite charity and maybe maybe a thousand dollars, but
it was a pretty decent sum of money to convince
Peter to come on, even though he hated Clay's guts.
That's really the only workaround, I think when it's a
guy that hates the guy you're trying to connect them with,
(25:08):
so it has to be financial. There has to be
a financial stake, and that's how Shatner ended up unblocking me.
Is that a Trekky a star trek NERD was so
bothered by the warring Mallard militia and all that that
this guy Shatner had on his one of his charity things.
(25:30):
He had the whole to do about how you know,
you wanna you don't want to end this and I'll
follow ben I don't think followed me. He doesn't follow me,
but donated dollars and some dude did. I don't even
know the guy. And then the guy just he was
tired of the whole thing and he's like, hey, let's
let me settle this right now, and he did. And
(25:54):
Shatner followed through and saved a horse's ass or something like.
Now you guys are best friends on Twitter. I didn't matter.
He didn't check in on me before he went to
outer space. We did have a brief interaction on on
the Twitter machine, but it's it's been a while. So
I love how the militias celebrates his birthday every year. Yeah, yeah, Well,
(26:17):
there's so many good Foot soldiers that met their demise
at the hands, you know, the Twitter demise at the
hands of William Shatner. It was it was interesting. That
was a fun time though that that night, when spats
with shots originated, and that there was that one night
he was flying to Germany, and because he was up
(26:39):
the whole night on a plane, and I guess they
had WiFi because he's William Shatner, so he's not sitting
in the cheap seats, and he kept replying, and he
was trying to block everybody, and he was in such
a hurry, and he was so flustered. He started following
security guards and guys cleaning toilets. And you know, the
the hardcore me of the Mallard Show, the people that
(27:00):
are working busting their ass all night and they're getting
a follow from William Shatter. Joe Blow, who's got three followers,
has William Shatner clicking follow trying to block him? Insane?
Absolutely insane. But Shatter still doing pretty since ninety or
something wrong that none William Shatter and he's still he's
(27:21):
still going. He hasn't had the old Donkey coom anyway. Uh,
let's see what is next here. Kevin and Kansas rights
in on the mail back, says, dear Ben and Danny
g Or, both of you have seen and visited a
lot of stadiums over the years, which ones were so
horribly awful that everyone was glad when they got a
(27:42):
new place. Well, the first one I will bring up
is the l A Memorial Sports Arena, which I spent
a lot of my life at. The Clippers played there
in the nineties and late eighties, and that place was
a total, uh, tear down, destroy what ever you want
to say. And I the last time I ever went
(28:03):
in the l A Sports Arena was at a USC
Notre Dame game and they put the overflow parking on
the floor of the sportsmen So I parked at a
big four f one fifty truck and I parked my
truck on the floor of the l A Sports Arena
and somewhere I took pictures of it. I haven't been
able to find the photo, but it was crazy. That's
(28:23):
a place that it had NBA All Star Games, NBA Finals,
That's where the Lakers had played when they moved to
l A, you know, in the early days, and I
saw the Candy Man play there. Yeah, I mean it
was that was amazing hockey that all kinds big events.
They had political uh what do you call it conferences
or whatever? The conventions conventions were held there, lots of
(28:46):
rap concerts. I saw West Side Connection performed there. Yeah,
but by the time that place was you know, the
Clippers had moved out of there. The USC was kind
of planning there. Then they got a new arena. That
place was a dump. And how did they fill the
seats for Clipper games back then, Ben, Well, Yeah, at
halftime they would open up the doors and they were
(29:07):
there would be more people in the second half in
the first half and they were actually just a lot
of homeless people or people down on their luck trying
to get out of the cold. Yeah, and den you know,
not that it gets that cold in l A. But
December and January and they'd come in there and it
was Boy, the stuff I saw at the sports are
holy moly. That is it will be in your book, Yeah,
it'll be in my tell Bucking. I'd say. Shay Stadium
(29:30):
is another one. I don't know if you ever went there,
but I was with the Dodgers and we went to
Shaye Stadium and that place was a complete rat hole. Uh,
just horrible at And I know what you're thinking. The
Oakland Alameda Coliseum, which is still there, hasn't They have
not torn that that things that dump too. I have
been there but some historic NFL and Major League Baseball
(29:51):
games took place on that field. Unfortunately, the building around
the field was crumbling or is crumbling still. A few
years ago, I think it was ten season, I got
to go in the bowels of that stadium as a
stringer to get the star of the game to call
into fs R. There were hanging live wires like you
(30:13):
could see sparks from, you know, these electrical wires that
were hanging down almost touching people's heads. The popcorn machine
up in the media area where the broadcasters were that
wasn't working. The soda machine wasn't working. That Mackenzie d
that used to be the general manager was mumbling and
grumbling as he walked over the stained carpet. He was
(30:36):
bitching about how stuff wasn't working. And that's pretty much
in a nutshell that place. Obviously, all the stories about
the urinals not working and floods with what I guess,
muddy water. Just take a guess what's in the water.
It's what can brown do for you? I mean, the
(30:57):
stench coming out of those bathrooms. But and the home
field advantage at that place was insane. Now you look
at Vegas, it's obviously a great destination if you want
to see your favorite NFL team. So you just don't
have that same home field advantage anymore as a Raider.
So that's the bad part. But that building, oh my god, Ben,
(31:20):
they need to honor it and show all those great
memories there and then bulldoze the place and give the
Oakland A's a brand new stadium. It's like the area
around Chernobyl there's that zone you can't enter in and
just get rid of that thing. And have you ever
seen that creek water around the coliseum there. I mean,
(31:40):
it's toxic. If you overthrow a NERF football and it
goes down there, you're not getting a whole NERF back.
And I remember watching games when I was a kid
on TV when the A's when the Raiders were in
l A And that place looked for baseball, was beautiful
with the backdrop and all that. And then they built
Mountain they us and that was a disaster. I was
(32:04):
also I'm trying to think some other stadiums. A county
stadium in Milwaukee, qualcom alcome yeah, Jack Murphy Stadium. Yeah,
that's that's gone now right. They got rid of that
for they're building the San Diego State Stadium. There I
was told, yeah, they blew that building up. Yeah, I
spent a lot of time there. And that's another one.
(32:24):
But that that one never, to me was really that beautiful.
You know. It was like I go to Padre games
and I went a few Charger games and the people
were cool. The tailgating and Charger games is kind of
eating the parking lot, but the stadium was was brutel,
brutel and similar qualities to Oakland. Yeah, thank you, Kevin.
(32:46):
That inspired some hot talk. Hot talk. We do have
more mail. Terry from New Franklin, Ohio. Right since says
choose one A. You can keep your Holiday Derek decorations
up all year long. Be you never decorate for the
holidays again and see to me, the outcome would be
(33:08):
the same. And I'll tell you why. Because if you
keep the holiday day decorations up year round, it loses
its wild fact. You become used to it. It's like
my theory. Now. Mr West of the four oh five,
who was on the podcast before you, I used to
fight with him by like everyone talks about, you want
to live near the ocean, you wanna have ocean front views.
(33:28):
You wanna have skyline views of Miami or New York
or Chicago. But once you live there after a while,
it just becomes normal. It's not like you sit there
and stare out the window, you know what I'm saying.
And so that's always been my theory, Like you want
to live in a good part of town, but you
don't know, you don't necessarily need to have great views
because you're just not You're not gonna look after a while.
(33:52):
It's maybe your friends will be impressed when they come over,
but you're like, let's just that's home, you know. It's
like that's the way it is. So I actually I
called the Queen tender owning a mini Mallard last week
because she had lights go out on the top half
of her fake Christmas tree that she's had for years,
and then she found this thing eight years ago on
(34:15):
sale for thirty five bucks. It's a good move. I
told her, you'd be proud of her. Do you think
a she threw the tree away and finally bought a
new one or be she bought thirty five dollars in
lights and strong new lights on the top half of it.
That's a solid move, Listen, that's a good job by you,
and that's the way to do it. Listen, things are expensive,
(34:38):
everything is more expensive these days. Why not? And he's
saving the environment at the same time, right, saving the environments.
I like that. That's good. Yeah, we haven't done any
holiday decorations because the house is a absolute mess. But
my answer, I think the answer, Terry to answer your
question is it wouldn't really matter because if you keep
(34:58):
them up all year, they come used to him, and
I think it would be no fun never to decorate.
So is that the worst most political answer of all time? Danny?
Is that Bella has been leaving some holiday treats around. Yes,
shell over your floor, by the way, it's hit and miss.
(35:18):
You know, someday she's good. The other day she decided
to hellttle rain in l A so that she did
not enjoy that. We need update she's yeah, well, yeah,
she leaves. We don't call him poop Danny. We call
him little cups of clumps of coal is what we
called him. There And alright, Pierre from Springfield, mass home
(35:38):
of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where Muffett McGraw
is Enshrine, says Ben and Danny Gee have either of
you performed the Costco food court Marcel food Pick de Luxe.
What is that you ask? It is rolling up a
slice of pizza around a Costco hot dog And he
(36:00):
sent some video here Danny of someone on TikTok doing this. Wow,
that's a veteran, veteran move. Also, I I have never
done that. I usually what I'll do is I will
get the hot dog and the pizza. I get the
I eat the hot dog first because I feel like
once that gets colder, it's not as enjoyable to eat pizza.
(36:21):
You can eat when it's a little cool. That's a
good move, yeah, but I've never done them. At the
same time. I separate them because I'd rather have two
big slices of pizza and maybe two hot dogs, but
in separate sittings. I don't like the pizza and the
hot dog together. One of my goals is to go
to Canada to not only eat the poutine. But we
(36:43):
had a listener in Vancouver that used to send me
screenshots every time you go to Costco because at the
Costco in Vancouver at least a few years ago, they
had chicken fingers and fries on the menu, And I'm like, Wow,
that's like next level. Yeah, they streamlined the menu during COVID.
They got rid of a lot of stuff at Costco
for a while. They got rid of the Barry Sunday.
(37:05):
That's blasphem. You can't give rid of the Barry So, like,
what the hell is that getting rid of the Barrys sign?
They brought it back. People complained they brought back the
Barry Sunday. James in Greensboro writes, and he says, why
is Muffett McGraw always mentioned when you mentioned the Hall
of Fame? Uh, there's two reasons for that, James A.
It's a funny name to say, Uh, and that's the
main thing. And Muffett McGraw, that's just kind of it
(37:26):
sounds like it sounds like a mistake or something like that. Uh,
there's that. And then also the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.
It's to make a point, the NBA doesn't actually have
a Hall of Fame. Technically Baseball, Major League Baseball doesn't.
It's a National Baseball Hall of Fame. But I just
point out that it's people go to Basketball of Fame
(37:47):
and you think like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan's you know,
and then you see Muffett McGraw and the Russian coach
from nine two or something like that, and you're like,
what is it. That's just just having some fun, Jane,
just having some fun. Calm down. I love filling in
(38:08):
for Coop on the Ben Mallard Show, on the Live
Radio show, because when you do the NBA Pick them,
I go back and I find the best nineteen eighties
NBA player names, and those are the picks I give
for Coop. Board has Hell, Danny g for Cooper. I'm
gonna go with a dark Alley guy, Charles Oakley, solid
(38:29):
good pick, eighties Nicks bowls good pick. Yeah. And that's
the proper way to do it. And sometimes there are
people that sit in there and they actually try to
They get competitive and they try to win, and that's
that's when it becomes a problem. And we say, listen, pal,
don't be rude. Knock that off. Okay, knock that off.
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Terry in England listening and uh, well he's listening to this.
Eventually when we put it up, he says, when you
started listening to a m radio, Ben, did you do
it to be a d xer or just for sports?
You know what d xer means danny. That that jargon,
that lingo, that means d xer as I understand, it
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means to try to listen to far away like a
Ham radio nerd. Almost yeah, exactly that Terry's a Ham
radio guy like my old man may rest in peace,
and so I Terry did. That's part of the magic.
That to me, that's part of the magic. But living
in the West, I did not Western part of the
United States. We did not have as many far away
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stations to get. But I've told the story before. I
as a kid, my mom listened to Art Bell, who
was on Forever. Actually it was even I think it
was even Art Bell, but somebody else. And they had
a commercial for this antenna that would get far away
AM radio stations at night. And I begged my mom
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for this. What a nerd? What a loser? And my
mom it was pretty expensive at the time. I don't
remember how much. It was pretty pricey. My mom kept
reminding me about how expensive it was, but she finally
got it. I remember you talking about this gadget before.
What did it look like? It was brown? It was.
It was pretty big. It was like the size of
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it was the size of a laptop. But it was round.
It was round, you know, like those look like a
little satellite almost kind of, but it had a knob
in the middle, some more like rabbit airs. Yeah, I
mean it was shape. It was round, kind of like
you know those ring lights, kind of like that. And
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it really worked. Yeah, it actually did work. I was.
I thought when I first got all this ain't gonna work.
This is just a cheap plastic thing, and it actually did.
I don't know the technology behind it, but I got stations,
you know, living in l A. I got stations in St. George, Utah.
I got a station from Portland, Oregon. San Francisco comes in.
There's several stations in San Francisco to come in the
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l A market. Suddenly you were probably listening to Suns
basketball games. I was. I listened. In fact, I've told
the story about Al McCoy, the voice of the Suns,
who was still alive. I had the chance to meet
him and I told him, I said, beside family in Arizona.
And when I was a kid, I told al McCoy
of this story. When we went to Arizona, I told
my mom, I said, we got to eat at what
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a burke and she said, we didn't have how why
would you want to eat? What? Do you don't even
know what that is? I said, well no, But I
listened to the Son's game on the radio and they
when the Suns would make a three point shot, Al
McCoy's call would be what a shot? What a burger?
That was his his tag, And he told me All
McCoy told me that that was one of the first
product placements in the NBA broadcast that hit that kind
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of thing, that they were the first ones to kind
of do it, and so he got a kick out
of that story on their jerseys. Yeah, now it's all
it's ridiculous. H And then I got Utah Jazz Games
hot Rod Huntley out of St. George, Utah. It was
a station I got that was a lot of Vegas.
I listened to the Stardust line that I got my
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gambling fixed, Lee Pete. This old radio legend in Vegas.
Every Sunday night, kind I think it was tend to
midnight was the Stardust Line, and they'd give out the
latest lines for the next week. That was like a
big deal. You got the lines for the next week
in the NFL, so I could go on and on.
But did you do any of that, Danny when you
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were literally you were too cool for that. You didn't.
You weren't doing that. Maybe it was too cool supposedly
because I was at the hip hop slash Rap and
we didn't even call it R and B. We call
it soul. At the time. It was the best in
hip hop and soul for the nineties, and that station
was cool. But that same instructor, he was the electronics
teacher at my high school. Man he would tell the
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class at the beginning of the semester, he would say,
you could either do the book work and bore yourself
to death, or you could get a Ham radio license
and get an automatic A and A class. I'm not
doing bookwork. Screw that. So I actually got a technicians
license and I passed the Advanced Morse Code test to
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get an A. Wow. That was always my hang up.
My dad wanted me to become a Ham radio operator,
but that damn Morse Code thing, I just was. It
was hard. I had to take that test three times.
I had to pass the last time I took it,
and I did. The pressure was on. The trick was
just staying ahead of yourself because if you fell behind
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a couple of letters, you were screwed. It's like, what
is it, wheel of fortune. You kind of put things
together if you just stay on track. So I would
miss a letter here and there, but you could make
out what the word is do that Morse code would
go so fast. Now, I never used this radio license.
There was no reason or nothing to use it for
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except for that guy's class. He had a set up
huge radio setups with the antenna on his roof there
at the school. Yeah, and you know, it was more
of like the find of Oh my god, I'm talking
to somebody in Canada. So they would mark the map
and it was I guess it was cool. It was
better than doing the bookwork. But yeah, man, that Morse code. Ben.
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I had nightmares about that because it was really hard
to pass. And they told us that if there was
ever an emergency, it would become useful to us. Even today.
My dad, you know, just passed away at the beginning
of this year. He was a Ham radio He was
in the city he lived in. They had an emergency
communications team in the Ham Radio group. My dad we
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used to buy. I used to bust my dad's balls
because he always said, it's could be a big earthquake,
and you know, and you know, he loved Ham radio.
It was his passion. It was his hobby. And he
always told me, said, been someday there's gonna be a
big disaster and everyone's gonna love this hammer. We're gonna
be the heroes, you know, and then we're gonna say,
everyone's gonna turn to Ham radio. And then because he
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used to teach Ham radio, and I was very upsetting
because you know, it would be there'd only be a
couple of people that would sign up for his class,
and then you know, sometimes they had to cancel the class,
and so it was very upsetting to him because he
loved the hobby. But he said he always said, if
something bad happened, the Ham radio operator is gonna save
the day. And that was his big shoutouts to Mr
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Hoskins was his name, and my stepdad, we have this
in common. He was a Ham radio dude, and he
used to on his hand set, used to do repeater sites.
Before everybody carried cell phones around, he would make phone
calls off his little Ham radio. Wow that's pretty cool. Yeah,
pretty neat. That's pretty neat. Um anyway, thank you, Terry.
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Let's see here, Matt, moving man, Matt says, why did
Danny g abandoned the coveted overnight slot? He says, it's
moving man, Matt. However, when Danny was on, I was
still known as Matt from the Cape. So he said, well,
you got promoted, Danny. That's happened on that right, Yeah,
for sure. At the time, Jason Martin was given his
(46:05):
own radio show in Nashville, doing Morning Drive locally, and
so I got to step into his spot because I
was already co producing the show and engineering it, but
I got to take over the executive producer role, which
was a promotion, and the hours were a little bit better,
but I was still waking up at one thirty am
every day. Yeah. That's uh, that's a no go h
(46:28):
the one thirty wake up call. Yeah that is I'm good.
I am. I'm good on that, all right. Valls Fan
Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes in that's right, this is
the last piece of mail we will use it. This
is it. This is the final one. That's it was
the last one. This is no more after all right,
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Valls Fan Jimmy says, I'm glad to hear Danny J
back on the airwaves. Best choice you could make, could
have made well. Best means as good as all the rest. Anyway,
for both of you. Have you ever taken a girl
out on a date and the service was so bad
you got up and left? M h uh, so I'll
(47:12):
go first. I don't recall that happening. I have gone
on dates. I was meeting a date and then she
bailed out early and I was left. That one sucks.
I have left a movie early because my now wife
hated the movie so we had to walk out. But
I don't think I've ever left. I've had really bad service. Um,
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but I don't leave. I won't leave a tip, or
I'll leave a two dollar tip or something like that
if your services. What about you, Danny, anything at a
restaurant on a date where you just bailed out and said,
let me get the heck out of here. This is
this is not good. Yeah. Just a few months ago,
I was with my tender Roni at a diner in
downtown Burbank. In Burbank, the table was sticky, I'm hoping
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from syrup, and uh, service was bad, the water cups
were dirty. It just didn't feel right from the start,
and I looked at her and I was like, we
need to leave before we order anything. The waiter, though,
you could tell he was maybe part owner. The way
he wasn't yelling at the staff. It was like he
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knew we wanted to leave. He could sense it. And
so that made the dash hard because he already had
his radar on. So I told her, I said, I'm
gonna pretend like I take a call, pretended like I
was talking to the radio station. And she then she
followed me and she was laughing, and I'm like, what's
so funny, And She's like, oh my god. He totally
(48:37):
knew what we were doing. He told me, if you
want to leave, just tell me you're leaving. Oh man. Yeah,
So he took it very personal surprise. All Right, it's
been fun, Danny, but we've got to run, right. We've
got places to go, things to do, people to see.
That kind of thing on a Sunday, and I'll be
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back on the radio tonight. Good luck to your favorite
NFL team, thank you? Yes, yes, that's right. Well, my
my favorite NFL team is not playing until tomorrow. Yeah,
we're not yours. I was talking to the listener yours.
You finally got better because you played Jacksonville last week.
Whatever it takes, and uh, we'll see the Rams will
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be ramming it all day and ramming it all nights
and the value of the sun. Have a wonderful rest
of your Sunday, and don't forget send messages. The last
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