December 19, 2021 • 47 mins
For the last Fifth Hour podcast of 2021! Ben is in the 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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Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, the final
edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller in Danny
g Radio. Here to close out this weekend of podcast.
But I will be back on the radio a good
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chunk of this week, so I'm not taking my extended
vacation as I normally do. More on that later. Yes,
I know this podcast eight days a week. The radio
show with the podcast four hours a night, clearly not
enough on the overnight. Before we get into the mail bag, though,
Danny G. I mentioned on the Saturday podcast that I
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watched an old Yankee game with the Red Sox and
George Steinbrenner, the old owner of the Yankees, who has
been dead for a long time, was interviewed and he
was asked about all the controversy in the Bronx. This
is a probably how old is this thirty five year old,
thirty six year old interview? This goes way back right
way Wait wait, wait back. So I was watching it
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and I just loved what he said because it really
resonates to this day considering how much more money is
involved now. So I wanted to play that and then
we'll get into the mail bag. So this is again,
this is on an NBC broadcast from nineteen eight six.
So we're going in the hot tub time machine, and
this is the old, grumpy owner of the Yankees, George Steinbrenner,
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and he's asked a question by Joe Garagiola and listened
to Steinbrenner's response, what about the turmoil it always seems
to surround the club? Well, you know turmoil. Well, no,
turmoil is with every baseball team. They haven't the San Diego,
they have it in the Middle West, they have it everywhere.
That's part of the game. And you know, I have
to laugh when guys say, well, it's a strain and
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it's turmoil to play baseball in the Yankees, or for
four thousand dollar a year average salary, or for a
million six like our top player makes, they can take
a little turmoil. Let them go out and drive a
cab in New York if they want some real turmoil.
Imagine if an owner said that today, Danny. I mean,
what a good point he makes to shut up and
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play and stop crying. Yeah. So when people and I
have a similar outlook, I mean, people say I I
bust a lot of balls and all that with athletes,
but I do think, listen, these there are a lot
more difficult jobs. I think working at a fast food
restaurant at rush hour, at in and out. We talked
about that, that is a much harder job to me
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than playing for the Lakers or the Clippers or whoever,
whatever team you happen to like. Uh, and and there
are there's so many other things. We had a listener
on Facebook the other day who posted a list of
his deliveries as he delivers packages for Amazon. It's insane,
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these guys going all over God's Green Earth to deliver packages.
And it's like, that's a much more difficult job then
it is playing in the NFL. And I have respect
with the NFL players and the baseball players, the basketball
players do, but let's let's have some perspective. There are
other people that have much more difficult jobs that are
getting paid peanuts for those jobs. I don't understand why
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nobody's watching the guy deliver packages at Amazon and all that.
I get it, but still, yeah, I would never call
their jobs easy. But how coming all other walks of
life when you're well compensated, you're not allowed to complain
because you're told, hey, shut up, you're well compensated. Yeah. No, absolutely,
So that was the Steinbranner thing. That was great. Oh thay,
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I'm glad. I'm glad you enjoyed that. I went back
and I dugged through us. I I gotta find the
exact moment I wanted to remember exactly where it was.
I was able to track down. Let's get to the
mail back here we go. Yes, it is in the bag.
Thanks to ohio Al for sending in that little ditty
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way back in the day. And we played every week
to kick off the mail Bag. And this week's mailbag,
Danny g. We start off with an email from Pierre
in Springfield. I know this is very exciting. Here we
have our first email from Pierre. He's a friend of
Alf the Alien Opie. Yes we do. We have a
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lot of mail this week, and uh, here. It is
so Pierre in Springfield, says Ben. Danny g uh Ben,
it seems like everything you do everything possible to keep
your loyal minions on the edge of our collective seats.
He says, whether it is posting the YouTube broadcast time
of Benny versus the penny five minutes in advance, or
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being vague about your sabbatical. He says that being said,
some of us are only in He says the Benny business,
UH is talking about when I guess when I'm on
and don't listen when you're not on the live air.
Can you just ask a Roberto or anyone at fs
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ARE with computer access to hit the record button and
play all of the show's drops for about six episodes
worth of the podcast content while you're enjoying you're well
deserved time off asking for a friend. Uh, That would
be great, but I'm pretty sure management would not sign
off on that, Danny. I don't think that management would
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think that was such a great idea, and if we
brought that up to management, management would come by shoot
that down. So your show does have a lot of
fun drops, half of which I personally reported in to
the computer system that it is true. Many of the
drops that we play today are all from that is
not fake news news. I spent a lot of hours, Mr.
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Former President putting those in the next gen computer system,
and I would like a show like that. If you
recall when Roberto first took over for my old spot,
I helped him do a weekly segment you voted on
the best drop out of the three yes Yes, Battle
of the Drop, and that's because there were so many
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good drops on your show. That is a good idea.
But I will say this, even the most loyal Ben
mallor fan who doesn't like it when you're actually taking
a vacation day, you know, give the programming a chance still,
because that is a fill in hosts opportunity to shine.
And I have produced many fill in hosts over the years,
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and there's actually some fun times during those shifts because
those guys get a chance to be on the big
network and have a shift. Yeah, and that's what I
did when I was starting out. I was the filling
guy and then got more opportunity on the weekend and
then you know, it's still a filling guy for a while.
So yeah, I mean, you got to give people a chance.
But you know, how people are, Danny. A lot of
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people creatures a habit, and you just get used to
something and then you're used to that and you don't
want to get used to something else. But I give
it a try, give it a sample. You might as
well listen. And I think I get credit for that.
If you stop downloading the podcast, I think that hurts me.
So keep downloading the podcasting. Yeah, Kevin in Kansas writes,
and he says, dear Ben Danny, g uh. He says,
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but now that life in the north Woods is normalizing,
do you have any marathon walks? Plan? Is your new
neighborhood conductive to your long walks where maybe you can
find laundry hampers and such. That's the famous story at
the old place, I was walking and somebody had left
a professional industry grade undry cart on the side of
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the road, and I walked by, and I walked for
like another hour, and then I came home and I said,
if that thing is still there, I'm getting it's just
thrown on the side of the road, like in a
pile of trash. So I went. I put the the Mallamobile,
the SUV version of the Mountain Momobile, and I went
down there and I picked that piece of trash up
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off the side of the road and I put it
in my car and I cleaned it up, and right
now is sitting Kevin in a storage shed. I do
have a bunch of areas I can walk in the
north Woods, but I haven't been able to do much
of that because of the schedule and everything. And I'm
really excited. I'm hoping by the time I go on
my end of year sabbatica, when I come back, I
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will have access to my treadmill and that will be
That will be the big thing, because I need I
can go in after the show. It's a little awkward
to walk around in the middle of the night. People
think you're up to no good and I'd rather avoid
having to deal with that. So and also with the
low being thirty thirty nine degrees here in California, we
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curl up in the fetal position. Yes, when the temperature
gets to the thirties. Yes, we are warm blooded and
do not do well. We don't have thick blood and
that is a problem. Right, who is next year come back?
It's the little car that's right. R J in the
sane Antnio rights, and he says, hey, guys, did you
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ever watch late night talk shows and which ones were
your favorites? Yeah? I did, I loved I was a
huge David Letterman fan when I was growing up, when
he was on the late Late after the Tonight Show
on NBC. But everyone and we're of the age day
we were kids, that's what people watched was late night,
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like the late night talk shows that they got massive ratings,
I mean unbelievably massive, huge amounts to people that used
to watch those late night shows. And it's really segmented now,
and they've really become more I feel like, more politicized
definitely than they used to be. And so it's in
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terms of the audience now compared to what it used
to be. It's yeah, like if I was a Letterman guy,
my mom used to watch the Johnny Carson Show, so
we watched that. I was just gonna say that my
mom was a Carson fan. My aunt, her sister was
a big Letterman fan. So when I would visit my cousin,
they'd always have Letterman on. So I got to watch
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both shows depending on where I was, either in l
A or the Bay Area. Both really great shows and
of course, all of the beef that Letterman had with
NBC would spill over onto the airwaves, and it was
pretty fun to watch him slam his employer all the time. Yeah. Yeah,
you felt like you were watching something you weren't supposed
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to be watching. There was a special there's a uniqueness
that nobody else was doing at that time that led
Himan didn't. I used to love it because he dropped,
like he'd go do a recorded segment where he'd go
to a parking garage in New Jersey and dropped ten
pounds a large just to see what it looked like
when it hit the ground, and it was just hilarious.
Or you drop a bowling ball or a couple of
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bowling balls off. So yeah, are you I have fond
memories of that back in the day. Let's see who
is next on the mail bag page down page, Yes
we do. Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, right. Since she says,
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Ben and Danny g Hello, Ben, you make me laugh
with all the sound effects. Well, I'm glad somebody likes
the sound effects. It's my opportunity to play goofy soundways. Uh,
and she says, anyway, you played Ralphie from the Simpsons
last week already forgot what he said, But do you
also have him saying I sleep in a drawer? If not,
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is there any way you can get that. I looked
for that, I did not find that. The only other
Ralph drop I could find was this one. Yeah, I
don't know. I've got a good one. I don't know.
I don't know if that's it, uh Ralph approved. But
you and your drops man, we were just talking about that.
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How Roberto has those buttons in front of him nowadays,
and before that, I had all those buttons in front
of me on the podcast set up here. Used to
see Ben with his buttons and you get a big
smile on your face buttons pop up on the screen. Oh,
it's so much fun. I love it. And I've got
a lot, but they're all they're not in order, and
I can't really on this thing that I'm using, I
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can't really put them in order like I have. This
is my coop drop smoke. Yeah, but that's up at
the top and I need that at the lower level.
And then we ever talked about the Minnesota vikings, and
now you have more of an appreciation for the timing
skill and technique it takes to place a proper drop. Yeah, No,
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there's always felt like you don't You don't want to
put the drop in at the wrong time because that
becomes a big problem. You know, that's not you don't
want that you needed at the right time. Yeah, you
have to wait for a breath, and you know with
you breaths don't come often. Dead air is the death
of radio, you know, correct on that? Alright, Moving on, Jennifer,
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she did have a question. I think that was our
only question about Rob. So I don't have the drop.
Do you have any Ralphie drops over there? Danny old?
Any from the Simpsons? I can find one and all
inserted into the podcast here, she's touching my special area.
I won't win in my mouth and then I ate it.
Can I have a new one? Ralphie? All right? Chris
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in Marraccona, Iowa, says, Ben, does your wife or wives
get upset with you watching so much sports in your
free time? How often does it's my job work on them? Well, Danny,
this is the same thing for you now that you
are in a a long term relationship. So I try
to be very polite, uh A. During the week. The
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way I get ready for the show is I usually
have a game or two on at night kind of
in the background. I'm watching it with half an eye,
and I'm trying to get notes together for the monologue.
So and then when the game. Usually the cool thing
about a lot of these games, like in the n
b A, I don't really have to pay attention to
the end because most of these games are decided in
the final three minutes of the game, so I can
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kind of look with half an I Football is much
harder because I try to really pay attention to it,
and that becomes more problematic on Thursday and Monday and
Sunday night. Um, so those are the nights. But like
on UH, the shows off for us on Friday night
and Saturday, and I try to be really good about
not not forcing it. I'm able to watch a lot
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of stuff on my phone, so I will sometimes will
be out if we're out at the all or something
like that, I'll pop on the phone I fing like
WiFi or something like that, and I'll watch watch some
college football or something like that. But I'm pretty pretty
good about it. But during the week I have to
do it for work, and She's pretty good, but she's
working too, so snow, big deal. What about you, Dannie,
Are you able to get away and watch the Raiders
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or whoever you want to watch on the weekend? Yeah,
my chick fil a. She's really good about sports being
on TV A because she knows how much I love sports.
She also has a couple of boys who love sports
and their Raider fans. Her family are Raider fans and
big Dodger fans. Basketball is really the only thing that's
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been hard to watch with her because, like you just said,
the biggest action happens at the end of the basketball games.
So if I'm watching an NBA game in the first quarter,
she thinks I'm wasting my time because she's like, why
don't you just turn it on at the very end.
She's not wrong, but she's not the only way you're
not wasting your time is if there's a massive fight
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or an injury. Other than that, you're you're absolutely wasting
your time. As far as NFL Sunday goes, I got
the ticket before the season began, and she's a really
good host, cooks up really good football food. I give
her a lot of props for that, So no no issues.
Where I'm at Bend. I could not get along with
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somebody who didn't let me watch sports. Yeah, my wife's
not really into the but she's allows me to do
she knows I have to do it, and and she
likes to go to games. She loves to go to
games that you never liked to watch the games on TV.
She loves going to Dodger Stadium or whatever and seen
a game. And I haven't really been able to do
that much recently, but hopefully sooner than later we'll get
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back out going to games and you're busy in the
press box. She's not allowed up there. Although I don't
even go to I don't even I've really been doing
that much. I've been to a few NFL games, and
I got my routine everything set up. I've settled into
my habit of where I do the show. I have
my own studio set up up, the home studio, and
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so I'm kind of in here most of the time.
And someday we'll have to retell the story about how
much food used to steal out of the press box.
Oh my god, let me tell you back in the day,
that was Big Benny days. The reason they had to
change the name of Staples Center is because I ate
so much food back in the day, they needed more money.
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Real sad story, Danny. That was pretty what happened there anyway.
Next up on the mail bag, that's right all right, uh,
Valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee. He writes in, Uh says,
no question. Just want to thank you for making the
third shift. He's the last eight years looking forward to
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have a safe holiday. You and Danny g so thank you.
Valls Fan, Jimmy, thank you. And Jimmy is authentic Tennessee.
He's not. He's called the show a few times. Oh yeah,
and I've I've talked with him on Twitter. Yeah, he's
got but calling the short you can tell he's not
a faith he's not. He's not somebody that like moved
to Tennessee when he was thirty. No, No, he's living
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the life. He's living the life there, absolutely all right.
Next up, Tammy in Montana rights in. She says, yes, yes,
Danny has a sexy voice too. She says, yeah, we
talked last week, but gascon and she says, of all
the people that could have replaced David, Danny Gee is
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the one that will do a great job keeping up
the friendly banter. Tammy says, keep working hard on the
podcast content and keeping you in line, just as David
did not. David did not keep me in line. That's
bull crap. How dare you? And she says, have you
heard of Helen has choked on her arrogance? Yet? She says, well,
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this is continuing here the I know. Calm down, She says,
have you heard of Helen has choked down her arrogance? Yet?
Let Helen know that the cockroaches and rats that live
in her house do not count as knowing people. Well,
this is vicious. That's a Tammy and Montana the back
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and forth, and right from that we have Helen and
Stu from palmetto Bay. They wrote back. They have their
reply in the Octagon on the fifth hour, and this
one says to Mallard Claus, North Pole, California, a last
minute present request. Turns out that all Tammy and Montana
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wants for Christmas are her two front false teeth. The
great news is that after watching the latest Benny versus
the Petty video, Stu and I noticed that her boyfriend
David Gascon has plenty of uh moose sized and bright
Hollywood cap teeth to spare. Wow, I don't think those
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are those fake. I don't think those are fake. I
don't know, and they maybe they maybe even years then then,
but they really don't like they said at last count,
Gascon has three extra sets of incisors, canines, and Moehler's
of course no wisdom teeth. If he did, he'd still
be on the fifth hour. Wow. Shots fired. Well, they
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were demanding the departure of David. Uh. The message continues
from Helen and Stu. The angry Well, I don't think
they're angry, just having fun. Uh, couple, they're they're very,
very divisive here, the Mallew Militia. You are under attack here,
Helen and Stu, It says Benny in all seriousness during
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these ongoing challenging social times. Happy mench holiday to you, Aaron,
now Danny Chocolate. That's right. We learned on the original
episode that you were on. You are part of the
Great Gara Deli Chocolate family. Uh, says the entire Ben
Mallory Show crew and the Mallard Militia, including Yes, Tammy
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and Montana. For another outstanding year of not so serious
sports talk entertainment like Mallard claws on a fire truck.
Our support for you will remain in the air everywhere.
That's from Helen and still all people very nicely. A
nice way to end the Tupac Biggie beef there or
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the beef. The beef is still going, but it was
just a holiday truth for a moment. Yeah, that the
beef was not ended, Danny. It's it will continue for
for a long time, but they'll pick it up after
the new year. Uh. Let's see John in Dallas right
since his last week, I adopted a rescue dog and
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unlike all the other dogs and cats that I have had,
this one is a female. And then John and Dallas says,
can you and Danny g give me some fatherly advice
on what it is like to live with a bit? Okay, well, yeah,
your Bella is a female dog, so I do have
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she is that that is the technical term. We're not
being offensive at all. A female dog is a bitch.
And I moved in with a bit recently. You have
a female at Daisy, little Daisy the dog. She fits
in the palm of your hands. Man. She's a small dog,
but she also thinks that she is a guard dog.
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So she's one of those where in her mind she's
protecting the entire house, but in actuality, your big toe
could move her away. Yeah. And and Bella's got a
it must be the little Napoleon complex in the dog community.
I don't know what the dogs uses the Napoleon complex,
but yeah, Bella is like the Bella. She's a boss
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dog and she's she's the boss bitch. And uh, if
I don't give her a treat, she'll like pot me.
If I don't scratch her back before I go to bed,
she gets very upset and starts out, and then she'll
wake me up sometimes in the middle of the night.
And I didn't have I never had a male dog
do this like and I'm actually happy about it. When
she's got to go to the bathroom, she'll like stand
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on my head and forced me to wake up to
take her out to go to the bathroom. So that's
not a bad thing. Yeah, And I mean for advice
getting a rescue, obviously, you just want to make them
feel as loved as possible because it's something that has
been inconsistent in their lives up to this point. Uh,
take them on lots of walks and get them lots
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of toys and treats. Get a toy box, fill it
with tons of toys. Usually they'll only use one toy,
even though they have twelve toys in the box. Yeah,
and that's always the You think you found the perfect toy.
You you know your dog very much, and this is
the toy the dog will love, and then you pull
the wrapping off it. You excitedly give the dog the toy,
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and the dog wants to run and play with the old,
disgusting toy. And what's nothing to do with the new
toy exactly. Daisy has a toy called Piggy, and Piggy
is really the only toy Daisy is interested. And even
though she has a toy box that has more toys
in it that I had when I was a kid. Yeah.
And the other thing, too, is then you'll inevitably try
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to find an exact replica of the Piggy toy. And
that becomes a pain in the ass because these dog toys,
I have noticed a high turnover and dog toys where
and if I made dog toys too, every year I
would come out with new toys because you don't want
what's what's the point of doing the same thing, so
I have noticed that, but good luck, good luck, good
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luck with your rescue. Yeah, I am a fan of
the bitches. Absolutely. Barry in Music City says Yo Yo Mo,
Benny and Danny G. I love the Mallard Christmas songs.
Well good I hope you enjoyed the podcast. If you
guys have not heard the podcast on Friday, we played
as all the holiday songs that were submitted before Friday
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and it made the air. We played one song that
hasn't made the air yet and so check that out
on Friday. It's perfect for Christmas parties. You really want
to annoy your loved ones on Christmas play that would
be like, what the what the bleep and he bleep
is going on here? What happened? We're? We're are our
favorite Christmas songs? What happened here? Shocked the fuck? That's
(25:14):
probably what they'll tell you there. But anyway, uh Yo Yoma,
he says Barry, he says, uh, I'll have to check
out the Friday podcast again, Yes you will. And Benny,
what were your expectations when you put out the bat
signal for the maliss to come up with the Mallar
themed Christmas songs. Well, sure, Barry. At first, I was like, okay,
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so maybe we'll get a couple of songs. I thought
if we got three songs, I'd be happy. Serious, I
didn't think we'd get more than maybe five at the most.
I said, if the show is doing really well, we'll
get five. And we ended up getting almost twenty five
songs with with the songs that have been submitted, and
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these are people that wrote lyrics, they obviously changed the
lyrics around and spend time. Some of these guys Mr
PC went into a recording studio. I mean, these are
not like boring boring, They're not I mean, they're good songs.
And so I was blown away by it. And it's
one of those things Danny too. When they kept coming in,
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I was like, wait, we got another one. I'd wake
I'd wake up, and it's like there'd be one or
two songs like pretty much every day. And Coop was
getting some of the songs. I wasn't even seeing them
and then he would play them on the show and
I was like, whoa, that's I mean, that's crazy. So yeah,
the creativity that went into a lot of the songs
was just tremendous. Yeah, it was. It was a good job,
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and I don't know that we can recreate that like
next year. That just kind of happened. Plus, we have
all the songs. As long as no one leaves the show,
we can still play the songs. Now, if somebody leaves
the show, then we're gonna have to have the lyrics
re written and all that stuff, and then that becomes problematic. Well,
you're in one of the you were in a couple
of songs. It's the old songs that listeners submitted. You
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were in several of them back in the day, So
that was pretty cool. You alright, your show opens too.
And then when I wasn't on the show anymore, they
cut my voice out. Yeah, it's like Russia, you know,
Joseph Stalin just make you vanish. They make Lenin or
whoever back in the day, just in the uber driver
(27:22):
listening in New Jersey or just Jersey as they call. Uh.
Since does everyone on Fox Sports Radio really hate Brian
Findley and particularly do you really hate having him on
the show or is it all in good fun? No,
I hate and Brian Finley some of the earth. Uh No,
I mean he annoys me. But clearly if we if
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we really had a nasty relationship, he would not be
on the show. And but but he does get under
my skill because usually what happens. And I love Brian,
but he does occasionally try to do open mic night
at Chuckles Comedy Club and it doesn't always go well.
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It does not always go well. So yeah, it's a
ton of pun And he is the Rolph speaking of Ralphie.
He is the Ralphie of fs are Yeah, speaking of
our Ralph Ralph Irvin. Oh yeah, another another one. I
talked to Ralph the other night. He was filling in
on the Jason Smith Show with Harmon and I told him,
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I said, I still get emails from when Ralph was
so upset Ralph the Rhino wreck at Ralph he ran
into the other studio to hang up on Justin in Cincinnati. There. Yeah,
it was insane, and that's that's been he said. It's
been three years since that. I guess so. And you know,
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that's one of the reasons I like Ralph. I think
was just that experience. To have the balls to run
into the control room and hang up on a caller,
you gotta respect that well. And then a guy that
has worked in radio and had no idea at that moment.
He was so flustered. He was so flummixed and like
what am I don't know what to do? He had
a brain fart. He didn't know what button to press.
(29:11):
He starts hanging up on everybody. I had a full
bank of calls on hold. He starts hanging about all
of them. It's another reason I love Justin and Cincinnati
so much, to the fact that he could get a
reaction out of somebody that would make him run into
a control room and hang up on everybody. Yeah, that
was hilarious. I still have the image of Ralph rumbling
(29:32):
turning the corner to get into the control room and
the look on his face and how everyone got out
of his way. You know, it was all those deals,
all right, Ralph's this is not fake and all the
phones are ringing. But Ralph, Ralph is gonna do is? Uh? Uh?
Yeah it was Ralph. You gotta say, Ralph, the phone
(29:54):
is ringing anyway? Uh. Next up Carlos in Houston, Texas.
He says, the Mallard Militia are absolutely clutch with the
Christmas music. I know this will be the last podcast
for a while, so I had a couple of questions.
Should Major League Baseball sell Rawlings Back after that story
came out about them using two different types of baseballs?
(30:17):
He says, that's number one, and what will happen if
Carlo's career signs with the Dodgers, And he also says,
fuck that couple in Florida. I want the couple in
Kentucky back. Well, I missed the couple in Kentucky. I
know what happened to him, hope though, Okay. They sent
me a Western Kentucky Hilltoppers hat and sent Danny some alcohol,
(30:37):
and they were big fans of the podcast and we
still love getting updates on them. And then they just
randomly stopped, you know, emailing in, so I don't know
what happened. Hopefully they're okay. But as far as the
first question, no, Major League Baseball should absolutely not sell
Rawlings Back because even when Rawlings was an independent company,
they were still overseeing the baseballs anyway, so it doesn't
(30:58):
really matter, you know, they own it. And then I
want no part of Carlos Correa. There's the Dodgers are
not going to sign that guy. No, they don't need him.
They have trade Turner to play shortstop. Don't. If they
were going to spend that kind of money, they should
have just kept Corey Seeger, thank you. Yeah, I don't.
(31:18):
I don't think that. And the rawlings baseball thing, they're
gonna they make a big deal about it, And the
problem is not the baseball, even if the baseball flies
a little further. The problem is everyone is just swinging
from their heels trying to hit home rusts. No one's
trying to just get base hits. That's the issue because
they don't pay for base hits. They don't pay you
to bat three fifty with a bunch of singles in baseball.
(31:42):
In professional baseball, they pay you to hit forty home
runs and back to eighteen with a hundred walks and
two hundred fifty strikeouts. That's what they pay you for.
And as a Dodgers fan, I could never get comfortable
seeing that cheating bachch Correa stepping up to the plate
wearing a Dodger uniform. And I think the Dodgers front
(32:04):
office knows that band that the fans would just not
get behind it at all. Yeah, I would be very
surprised if he ends up with the Dodgers or the Yankees.
I could see him going somewhere like Toronto. They've already
got a cheating astro on then old cheating astro where
the Tigers or somewhere along those lines, although I think
the chroits less likely now. But talking baseball, thanks Charlos Man,
(32:33):
Come on here we go. I can't wait for baseball
season to start. Well, you're gonna have to wait. There's
gonna be a work stopper. There's a work stoppice right now.
Did you see that story that they're they're not even
gonna really meet about the finances until January. January is
not that far away. But shouldn't you take advantage of
the time right now? Why waste the time? Now? Get
(32:56):
those all the No one accepts the first offers anyway.
So go in and you're you're gonna have to stay
in a room and just don't leave the room until
you see white smoke like the Vatican. And you've named
the Pope, You've named the new deal in baseball. Why
is this so hard? Datty, I don't understand. I don't
get money is the root of all evil? Well, yeah,
(33:20):
I'd like to have a lot of it, but you'd
like to You're like I'd like to be more evil. Yeah, evil, Yeah,
it depends on evil. Like like Urban Meyer got fired
the other night, right for the show, and depending on
what happens, and there's lawyers involved. He's got in the
ballpark of fifty million dollars left on his country. So
(33:42):
Urban is public any number one. People love to just
trash him, and I maybe he's a horrible Maybe he's
the devil incarnate. I don't know, you know, he's a
spawn of Satan. But he's fifty million dollars. People are
trashing him online right and left. And there was this
sound that came out of Jackson when Urban was like
oh and it's like yeah, okay, So Urban lasted less
(34:04):
than a year, gets fifty million, assuming he gets that money,
and now it goes back to television, so he's he
won the lottery. I said, amazing. I mean she and
when that girl grinded on him at the bar, what
was he supposed to do? Well, he might not have
needed to put the hands where he put the hand
he used to make sure she didn't she didn't have
(34:25):
any kind of uh you know, she was well. He
was checking for cancer. I think Chris in America coulda
I think he sent another one in, Uh, let's see,
or maybe I put that on. Yeah, I think I
already did that one. Uh down, down, No, No, this
is a new one. This is different. I think he
(34:45):
said he posted one on Facebook and sent this one in. Oh,
here it is, he says. Last season, the big Penny
I sent you for Betty versus the penny was prominently
featured despite gascon I haven't noticed it yet this season.
Question is did it survive your recent move? Is it
buried somewhere? Will it be found a hundred years from
now at the bottom of some dusty box? Please Ben,
(35:09):
give it one more chance to see the sun. Well, Chris,
that's a great point, and it is in a storage facility.
I have no idea where in the storage facility is.
So I don't think it'll be a hundred years, because
I won't live a hundred years, but it'll be a
while before that season. A lot I'm opening. We can
(35:30):
maybe over these holidays I'll be able to find it. Uh,
he says. Also ps Danny g rocks. Uh. He says, However,
sometimes I missed cursing at the heel guest gunt. You
even curse it? Danny if you want, Danny, you don't
mind that. I'm used to taking abuse from people on
the other side of the microphones trapnel. You're used to
(35:50):
take a trap ya Trey writes in from Parts of Known.
He says, since Danny g has returned, can tinder on
e Tips return sponsored by sleep Number? Perhaps well reference
to back in the day whenever advertising. I still have
a sleep Number bed. I still sleep on it. Well,
it's great bed. You know they're pricey, but you got
(36:11):
a good product and it's it's wonder once you go.
Once you go down that rabbit hole, though, you don't
go back. So I don't think I'll ever have a
different bed, but you never know what advertisers who comes
along might change my tune on that. Uh Tinderroni tips.
Now you are engaged, Danny. You've announced that the big
announcement here. We did meet on one of the dating sites.
(36:33):
Anything online dating related. I can help you. Yeah, if
we get maybe we can do it on the Saturday podcast.
We can get relationship questions for the Saturday podcast if
anybody has I'll put that up only dating relationship questions
and we can bring back Tenderoni tips. We could do
that from time to time if you'd like, yeah, yeah,
(36:53):
we'll do it. Well, maybe once a month or maybe
once every other month. Let's see who is next. Colie
in Round Rock, Texas listens to the fifth Hour podcast
he Write City says, the other day, I was watching
a fantasy football show on TV and I couldn't get
the closed caption turned off. Every time they would say
Kyler Murray, the closed caption showed Calamari, what is the
(37:19):
funniest closed captioning that you have seen? Why? I usually
don't pay attention to the closed captioning. My wife loves
closed captioning. She watches a lot of foreign movies, which
I hate, and she loves the close captioning. But with me,
I don't really have a closed captioning story Coldie, but
I do have my name. When I speak it into
my phone, I'll do voice to text, and it's almost
(37:41):
always Mallet, Ben Mallett. It always comes up. Never Mallard,
it's always Mallet. Screw you, Bill Miller, And that's a
pain in the ass that always gets me. Any any
of those type of things with you, Danny, anything pop
up there, you know. I've learned as far as subtitles, go.
I've learned a lot of my Spanish from watch in
the Narco series on Netflix. Thank you Netflix. Well that's great.
(38:04):
That's like the story of people coming to America learning
English from the Three Stooges or really TV shows, and
that that's how they learned. It's been great because my
neighbors speaks Spanish, so I've been, you know, going back
and forth when I see him in the morning and
he just wonders why I'm always talking about drugs. That's great.
(38:28):
I have not checked that show out, but thank you Coley.
You've gotta watch Narco span I'm the only show I
really watched, like Curb your Enthusiasm these days. That's about it.
Come on, brought in your horizons. I know Craig in
the Camel City formerly of St. Louis, writes in he says,
I have a question for you, but not for the
(38:48):
fifth hour. Too late, Craig, Too late, Craig, it's on
the fifth hour. I won't read the whole thing, he says.
The last podcast, the fifth hour I listened to, you
mentioned that you're coming to North Carolina. Of course, Craig
lives in North Carolina, says, I know you mentioned that
it is for a wedding, but is it possible to
try to do a Mallard meet and Greek. Well, it
(39:10):
is absolutely possible, Craig. I have to get the green
light from the Ball and Chain on that. And I'm
not really sure how long I'm gonna be in North Carolina.
I figured that's a long way to go from California,
so I should probably maximize my time on the East Coast.
I might go up and see my brother who lives
in New York, for example, but I'd like to I
(39:32):
would like to do a Mallard meet and greet. And
so we're way off on that this is gonna happen.
I think the weddings in your March or April. So
I will keep you posted, Craig. I'm sure I'll give
updates on the podcast, but I would need to know.
I don't know any locations in North Carolina to have
a Mallard meetread so if you know anybody, Craig, start
(39:53):
looking around at like a sports bar, a restaurant somewhere
that might want to host the event. That would help
us out a lot. And also, uh, just thinking down
the line, Danny, I need to get to Minnesota. Mine.
One of my goals is to do a meet in greet, Minnesota.
In all things being equal, so we need a good location,
(40:16):
my guys in Minnesota, if you can find a good
location in the Twin Cities that would be open to
having an event. And I always say, I don't know
how many people are gonna show up to these things, Danny.
Sometimes there's like five people, sometimes there's twenty people, sometimes
there thirty people. Uh, you never know who's gonna show.
A lot of people make plans to show up, you know,
like when you were doing DJ stuff and you'd go
to vote and people it's, oh yeah, I go there,
(40:37):
and sometimes it would be awesome and be huge, and
other times there'll be nobody there and it's really sporadic.
You don't really know. You always tell you Ben when
you're coming up. You have fun whether there's five people
or five thousand people. You enjoy your night. Yeah. And
the cool thing is often when there's less people, it's
I get more one on one time with people because
I always feel like a beat. I feel like, well,
(40:59):
you know, it's ninety six point seven percent men the audience,
but we have a few women and few women have
risen the prominence that are fans of the show. Uh.
I know on this podcast, Jennifer and Richmond's rising up
the level of a podcast contributor, Tammy and Montana for
the show as well. And I love the women's sports
fans and the women who rock fs are constantly. But
(41:22):
like you said, Ben, it's funny because you know, if
you're like a DJ for a hip hop station or
a rock station, you got all the girls calling the
phone and listening. But it's not the same with sports
talk radio because it's mainly guys that listen to sports talk.
Oh yeah, yeah. When I was at Kiss AM, which
was Extra Sports eleven fifty, right down the hall was
(41:42):
a legendary l a radio station, Kiss FM. What oh
two point seven Kiss FM, And at that time it
was Rick D's in the morning. But I was friends
with the nighttime guys, oh boy, and we would because
I did the night show, we'd hang out with the
night guys. And I remember the difference just by walking
down the hall. It was all dudes on one side,
and then it was all like teenage girls, teeny boppers
(42:05):
that would call in to Kiss FM. And this is
so long ago, I'm dating myself here. There was a
band called Hanson. Remember the band, Yeah, unfortunately I do
remember that. Yeah, that was terrible. But this is back
in the nineties and they Hansen came in to Kiss
FM at night and there were teenage girls wrapped around
(42:26):
the building. I don't even know how. I guess they
just listened to the radio. But that was before the way,
before social media, and they came down to the radio stations.
They didn't know where Hanson was going to come out
of the building, but they were. They were wrapping around
the buildings so they could get photo op with Hanson.
But anyway, I used to hang out with those guys
and it was crazy. And there are two of the
(42:46):
two of the guys I was buddies with are still
in l A radio. Valentine who does a morning show
in law C in the l A market on one
of three Valentine in the morning, and I'd hang out
with him all the time. And then Jojo on the
raid EO, who is still I think I think he's
still at Kiss FM. I have to double check, but
I last I heard he was still at Kiss FM
(43:08):
doing like afternoon Drive or something like that. So so
you saw what it was like to be an FM DJ.
I lived through them. I lived through their lives and
I did get to go in there. But it was
pretty cool, Like sometimes we would play Madden. I'd get
done with the overnight show at approximately one in the morning,
(43:29):
and I'm a single guy. No woman will get near me,
so living the radio life, living the apartment in Hollywood
by myself. So I just hang out with the guys
that Kiss FM and we'd play Madden. We played Madden
in the studio, all the music played, and I had
had very fun memories of that, and then we had
to get out of there before Rick D showed up.
(43:51):
But these usually taped the first hour of the show,
so we had extra time. Dan. Yeah, he mastered it
these the night you hear me. Ricky's nicest guy I've
ever met. I have nothing bad to say about Rick D's.
He could not have been nicer. He was at the
very top of radio when I met him, and I
was at the very bottom of radio, and he was
(44:13):
as nice as he could be. It's like that old saying,
it'll be nice to the people on the way up,
because the same people you're gonna see on the way down.
And that was Rick D's man he was. And then
I remember I saw d S after his career. He
had a TV show, a network TV show at one point,
like Late Night with Rick Ds. What was that song
that he did? Duck Duck some Ducks songs Duck just
(44:35):
go Duck, Yes, Disco Duck, that's it. Yeah, legend man.
And of course remember Jay Thomas, Oh j Thomas another
another school DJ radio legend. Yes, l a legends, that's right.
And but D's when I ran into the last time
I ran into Rick's, he introduced himself and I says, I, Hi,
(44:58):
I am, I'm trying to pay I'll pare a phrase
he said, Hi, I'm Rick. I used to be Rick Dy's.
I used to be famous. That was like that was
and uh it was. It was very cool. So I'm
happy to hear stories like that about guys like that. Yeah,
and he always spoiled everyone. The only quirk I remember
about d S is that he loved the nineteen seventies
(45:21):
equipment because that's when he became prominent in radio. So
Kiss FM had all the newest equipment, but in the
Rick D's studio, they had this old nineteen seventies board
with the twisty knobs, and that's that's what D's learned
how to do, and he didn't want to switch over,
and so they kept having to fix that up and all.
(45:43):
And so I've heard those stories. While the world was digital,
he wanted analog. He was the analog man in the
digital world, right, He's the guy using the typewriter instead
of the computer. And that anyway, we gotta get out
of here. Just a programming note for me. I will
be on ray d Oh tonight and I'll be on
most of the week. I will not be on Thursday
(46:05):
into Friday, so I'll be off that night leading into
Christmas Eve, and then i'll be off until the New
Year after that. But I'm not doing a few extra shows.
And but you'll you'll be in a lot, Danny, as
you told us, you're you're into yeah, and I'm sure
you'll be in a lot over the next couple of weeks. Yeah,
inside the Fox Sports Radio studio from five to eleven
(46:27):
PM on Sunday and throughout the holiday here and there.
I'll be filling specific right that specific time, yes, and
throughout the holiday I'll be filling in on the network.
So you'll hear me pop up on the microphone from
time to time. All right, and before I forget, I will,
I do want to thank the Arizona Republic every time
I mentioned Kyler Murray. Danny g Hey column is written
(46:50):
in the local newspaper, the Paper Record in Phoenix. There
they're not happy with me because I ripped Kyler after
the game against the Rams the other night. I guess
it's a delayed reaction. And but anyway, have a great holiday.
If you don't listen to the radio show this week,
if you're part of the show, and mallem militia and
all that, we thank you. Be safe, drive all that stuff,
(47:11):
you know, be nice to people. Try to find somebody
in your life you love, even if it's an animal,
and spend time with them. And if you don't have
any of any loved ones or anything, you know, just
you gotta find something to hang out with another creature,
whether it's a human being or a pet, that you
can hang out with over the holidays. We will, we'll
be back and thank you to any good job. Take
(47:33):
care of your ho ho ho, and and have a
great holiday, all right, take care of everybody. Boli
Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, the final
edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller in Danny
g Radio. Here to close out this weekend of podcast.
But I will be back on the radio a good
(00:46):
chunk of this week, so I'm not taking my extended
vacation as I normally do. More on that later. Yes,
I know this podcast eight days a week. The radio
show with the podcast four hours a night, clearly not
enough on the overnight. Before we get into the mail bag, though,
Danny G. I mentioned on the Saturday podcast that I
(01:09):
watched an old Yankee game with the Red Sox and
George Steinbrenner, the old owner of the Yankees, who has
been dead for a long time, was interviewed and he
was asked about all the controversy in the Bronx. This
is a probably how old is this thirty five year old,
thirty six year old interview? This goes way back right
way Wait wait, wait back. So I was watching it
(01:30):
and I just loved what he said because it really
resonates to this day considering how much more money is
involved now. So I wanted to play that and then
we'll get into the mail bag. So this is again,
this is on an NBC broadcast from nineteen eight six.
So we're going in the hot tub time machine, and
this is the old, grumpy owner of the Yankees, George Steinbrenner,
(01:54):
and he's asked a question by Joe Garagiola and listened
to Steinbrenner's response, what about the turmoil it always seems
to surround the club? Well, you know turmoil. Well, no,
turmoil is with every baseball team. They haven't the San Diego,
they have it in the Middle West, they have it everywhere.
That's part of the game. And you know, I have
to laugh when guys say, well, it's a strain and
(02:15):
it's turmoil to play baseball in the Yankees, or for
four thousand dollar a year average salary, or for a
million six like our top player makes, they can take
a little turmoil. Let them go out and drive a
cab in New York if they want some real turmoil.
Imagine if an owner said that today, Danny. I mean,
what a good point he makes to shut up and
(02:37):
play and stop crying. Yeah. So when people and I
have a similar outlook, I mean, people say I I
bust a lot of balls and all that with athletes,
but I do think, listen, these there are a lot
more difficult jobs. I think working at a fast food
restaurant at rush hour, at in and out. We talked
about that, that is a much harder job to me
(02:57):
than playing for the Lakers or the Clippers or whoever,
whatever team you happen to like. Uh, and and there
are there's so many other things. We had a listener
on Facebook the other day who posted a list of
his deliveries as he delivers packages for Amazon. It's insane,
(03:18):
these guys going all over God's Green Earth to deliver packages.
And it's like, that's a much more difficult job then
it is playing in the NFL. And I have respect
with the NFL players and the baseball players, the basketball
players do, but let's let's have some perspective. There are
other people that have much more difficult jobs that are
getting paid peanuts for those jobs. I don't understand why
(03:38):
nobody's watching the guy deliver packages at Amazon and all that.
I get it, but still, yeah, I would never call
their jobs easy. But how coming all other walks of
life when you're well compensated, you're not allowed to complain
because you're told, hey, shut up, you're well compensated. Yeah. No, absolutely,
So that was the Steinbranner thing. That was great. Oh thay,
(04:00):
I'm glad. I'm glad you enjoyed that. I went back
and I dugged through us. I I gotta find the
exact moment I wanted to remember exactly where it was.
I was able to track down. Let's get to the
mail back here we go. Yes, it is in the bag.
Thanks to ohio Al for sending in that little ditty
(04:21):
way back in the day. And we played every week
to kick off the mail Bag. And this week's mailbag,
Danny g. We start off with an email from Pierre
in Springfield. I know this is very exciting. Here we
have our first email from Pierre. He's a friend of
Alf the Alien Opie. Yes we do. We have a
(04:42):
lot of mail this week, and uh, here. It is
so Pierre in Springfield, says Ben. Danny g uh Ben,
it seems like everything you do everything possible to keep
your loyal minions on the edge of our collective seats.
He says, whether it is posting the YouTube broadcast time
of Benny versus the penny five minutes in advance, or
(05:04):
being vague about your sabbatical. He says that being said,
some of us are only in He says the Benny business,
UH is talking about when I guess when I'm on
and don't listen when you're not on the live air.
Can you just ask a Roberto or anyone at fs
(05:24):
ARE with computer access to hit the record button and
play all of the show's drops for about six episodes
worth of the podcast content while you're enjoying you're well
deserved time off asking for a friend. Uh, That would
be great, but I'm pretty sure management would not sign
off on that, Danny. I don't think that management would
(05:46):
think that was such a great idea, and if we
brought that up to management, management would come by shoot
that down. So your show does have a lot of
fun drops, half of which I personally reported in to
the computer system that it is true. Many of the
drops that we play today are all from that is
not fake news news. I spent a lot of hours, Mr.
(06:12):
Former President putting those in the next gen computer system,
and I would like a show like that. If you
recall when Roberto first took over for my old spot,
I helped him do a weekly segment you voted on
the best drop out of the three yes Yes, Battle
of the Drop, and that's because there were so many
(06:33):
good drops on your show. That is a good idea.
But I will say this, even the most loyal Ben
mallor fan who doesn't like it when you're actually taking
a vacation day, you know, give the programming a chance still,
because that is a fill in hosts opportunity to shine.
And I have produced many fill in hosts over the years,
(06:53):
and there's actually some fun times during those shifts because
those guys get a chance to be on the big
network and have a shift. Yeah, and that's what I
did when I was starting out. I was the filling
guy and then got more opportunity on the weekend and
then you know, it's still a filling guy for a while.
So yeah, I mean, you got to give people a chance.
But you know, how people are, Danny. A lot of
(07:15):
people creatures a habit, and you just get used to
something and then you're used to that and you don't
want to get used to something else. But I give
it a try, give it a sample. You might as
well listen. And I think I get credit for that.
If you stop downloading the podcast, I think that hurts me.
So keep downloading the podcasting. Yeah, Kevin in Kansas writes,
and he says, dear Ben Danny, g uh. He says,
(07:36):
but now that life in the north Woods is normalizing,
do you have any marathon walks? Plan? Is your new
neighborhood conductive to your long walks where maybe you can
find laundry hampers and such. That's the famous story at
the old place, I was walking and somebody had left
a professional industry grade undry cart on the side of
(08:01):
the road, and I walked by, and I walked for
like another hour, and then I came home and I said,
if that thing is still there, I'm getting it's just
thrown on the side of the road, like in a
pile of trash. So I went. I put the the Mallamobile,
the SUV version of the Mountain Momobile, and I went
down there and I picked that piece of trash up
(08:23):
off the side of the road and I put it
in my car and I cleaned it up, and right
now is sitting Kevin in a storage shed. I do
have a bunch of areas I can walk in the
north Woods, but I haven't been able to do much
of that because of the schedule and everything. And I'm
really excited. I'm hoping by the time I go on
my end of year sabbatica, when I come back, I
(08:46):
will have access to my treadmill and that will be
That will be the big thing, because I need I
can go in after the show. It's a little awkward
to walk around in the middle of the night. People
think you're up to no good and I'd rather avoid
having to deal with that. So and also with the
low being thirty thirty nine degrees here in California, we
(09:09):
curl up in the fetal position. Yes, when the temperature
gets to the thirties. Yes, we are warm blooded and
do not do well. We don't have thick blood and
that is a problem. Right, who is next year come back?
It's the little car that's right. R J in the
sane Antnio rights, and he says, hey, guys, did you
(09:32):
ever watch late night talk shows and which ones were
your favorites? Yeah? I did, I loved I was a
huge David Letterman fan when I was growing up, when
he was on the late Late after the Tonight Show
on NBC. But everyone and we're of the age day
we were kids, that's what people watched was late night,
(09:53):
like the late night talk shows that they got massive ratings,
I mean unbelievably massive, huge amounts to people that used
to watch those late night shows. And it's really segmented now,
and they've really become more I feel like, more politicized
definitely than they used to be. And so it's in
(10:14):
terms of the audience now compared to what it used
to be. It's yeah, like if I was a Letterman guy,
my mom used to watch the Johnny Carson Show, so
we watched that. I was just gonna say that my
mom was a Carson fan. My aunt, her sister was
a big Letterman fan. So when I would visit my cousin,
they'd always have Letterman on. So I got to watch
(10:35):
both shows depending on where I was, either in l
A or the Bay Area. Both really great shows and
of course, all of the beef that Letterman had with
NBC would spill over onto the airwaves, and it was
pretty fun to watch him slam his employer all the time. Yeah. Yeah,
you felt like you were watching something you weren't supposed
(10:56):
to be watching. There was a special there's a uniqueness
that nobody else was doing at that time that led
Himan didn't. I used to love it because he dropped,
like he'd go do a recorded segment where he'd go
to a parking garage in New Jersey and dropped ten
pounds a large just to see what it looked like
when it hit the ground, and it was just hilarious.
Or you drop a bowling ball or a couple of
(11:16):
bowling balls off. So yeah, are you I have fond
memories of that back in the day. Let's see who
is next on the mail bag page down page, Yes
we do. Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, right. Since she says,
(11:38):
Ben and Danny g Hello, Ben, you make me laugh
with all the sound effects. Well, I'm glad somebody likes
the sound effects. It's my opportunity to play goofy soundways. Uh,
and she says, anyway, you played Ralphie from the Simpsons
last week already forgot what he said, But do you
also have him saying I sleep in a drawer? If not,
(11:59):
is there any way you can get that. I looked
for that, I did not find that. The only other
Ralph drop I could find was this one. Yeah, I
don't know. I've got a good one. I don't know.
I don't know if that's it, uh Ralph approved. But
you and your drops man, we were just talking about that.
(12:19):
How Roberto has those buttons in front of him nowadays,
and before that, I had all those buttons in front
of me on the podcast set up here. Used to
see Ben with his buttons and you get a big
smile on your face buttons pop up on the screen. Oh,
it's so much fun. I love it. And I've got
a lot, but they're all they're not in order, and
I can't really on this thing that I'm using, I
(12:39):
can't really put them in order like I have. This
is my coop drop smoke. Yeah, but that's up at
the top and I need that at the lower level.
And then we ever talked about the Minnesota vikings, and
now you have more of an appreciation for the timing
skill and technique it takes to place a proper drop. Yeah, No,
(13:00):
there's always felt like you don't You don't want to
put the drop in at the wrong time because that
becomes a big problem. You know, that's not you don't
want that you needed at the right time. Yeah, you
have to wait for a breath, and you know with
you breaths don't come often. Dead air is the death
of radio, you know, correct on that? Alright, Moving on, Jennifer,
(13:22):
she did have a question. I think that was our
only question about Rob. So I don't have the drop.
Do you have any Ralphie drops over there? Danny old?
Any from the Simpsons? I can find one and all
inserted into the podcast here, she's touching my special area.
I won't win in my mouth and then I ate it.
Can I have a new one? Ralphie? All right? Chris
(13:48):
in Marraccona, Iowa, says, Ben, does your wife or wives
get upset with you watching so much sports in your
free time? How often does it's my job work on them? Well, Danny,
this is the same thing for you now that you
are in a a long term relationship. So I try
to be very polite, uh A. During the week. The
(14:13):
way I get ready for the show is I usually
have a game or two on at night kind of
in the background. I'm watching it with half an eye,
and I'm trying to get notes together for the monologue.
So and then when the game. Usually the cool thing
about a lot of these games, like in the n
b A, I don't really have to pay attention to
the end because most of these games are decided in
the final three minutes of the game, so I can
(14:34):
kind of look with half an I Football is much
harder because I try to really pay attention to it,
and that becomes more problematic on Thursday and Monday and
Sunday night. Um, so those are the nights. But like
on UH, the shows off for us on Friday night
and Saturday, and I try to be really good about
not not forcing it. I'm able to watch a lot
(14:56):
of stuff on my phone, so I will sometimes will
be out if we're out at the all or something
like that, I'll pop on the phone I fing like
WiFi or something like that, and I'll watch watch some
college football or something like that. But I'm pretty pretty
good about it. But during the week I have to
do it for work, and She's pretty good, but she's
working too, so snow, big deal. What about you, Dannie,
Are you able to get away and watch the Raiders
(15:16):
or whoever you want to watch on the weekend? Yeah,
my chick fil a. She's really good about sports being
on TV A because she knows how much I love sports.
She also has a couple of boys who love sports
and their Raider fans. Her family are Raider fans and
big Dodger fans. Basketball is really the only thing that's
(15:37):
been hard to watch with her because, like you just said,
the biggest action happens at the end of the basketball games.
So if I'm watching an NBA game in the first quarter,
she thinks I'm wasting my time because she's like, why
don't you just turn it on at the very end.
She's not wrong, but she's not the only way you're
not wasting your time is if there's a massive fight
(15:58):
or an injury. Other than that, you're you're absolutely wasting
your time. As far as NFL Sunday goes, I got
the ticket before the season began, and she's a really
good host, cooks up really good football food. I give
her a lot of props for that, So no no issues.
Where I'm at Bend. I could not get along with
(16:18):
somebody who didn't let me watch sports. Yeah, my wife's
not really into the but she's allows me to do
she knows I have to do it, and and she
likes to go to games. She loves to go to
games that you never liked to watch the games on TV.
She loves going to Dodger Stadium or whatever and seen
a game. And I haven't really been able to do
that much recently, but hopefully sooner than later we'll get
(16:41):
back out going to games and you're busy in the
press box. She's not allowed up there. Although I don't
even go to I don't even I've really been doing
that much. I've been to a few NFL games, and
I got my routine everything set up. I've settled into
my habit of where I do the show. I have
my own studio set up up, the home studio, and
(17:01):
so I'm kind of in here most of the time.
And someday we'll have to retell the story about how
much food used to steal out of the press box.
Oh my god, let me tell you back in the day,
that was Big Benny days. The reason they had to
change the name of Staples Center is because I ate
so much food back in the day, they needed more money.
(17:22):
Real sad story, Danny. That was pretty what happened there anyway.
Next up on the mail bag, that's right all right, uh,
Valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee. He writes in, Uh says,
no question. Just want to thank you for making the
third shift. He's the last eight years looking forward to
(17:45):
have a safe holiday. You and Danny g so thank you.
Valls Fan, Jimmy, thank you. And Jimmy is authentic Tennessee.
He's not. He's called the show a few times. Oh yeah,
and I've I've talked with him on Twitter. Yeah, he's
got but calling the short you can tell he's not
a faith he's not. He's not somebody that like moved
to Tennessee when he was thirty. No, No, he's living
(18:06):
the life. He's living the life there, absolutely all right.
Next up, Tammy in Montana rights in. She says, yes, yes,
Danny has a sexy voice too. She says, yeah, we
talked last week, but gascon and she says, of all
the people that could have replaced David, Danny Gee is
(18:28):
the one that will do a great job keeping up
the friendly banter. Tammy says, keep working hard on the
podcast content and keeping you in line, just as David
did not. David did not keep me in line. That's
bull crap. How dare you? And she says, have you
heard of Helen has choked on her arrogance? Yet? She says, well,
(18:50):
this is continuing here the I know. Calm down, She says,
have you heard of Helen has choked down her arrogance? Yet?
Let Helen know that the cockroaches and rats that live
in her house do not count as knowing people. Well,
this is vicious. That's a Tammy and Montana the back
(19:11):
and forth, and right from that we have Helen and
Stu from palmetto Bay. They wrote back. They have their
reply in the Octagon on the fifth hour, and this
one says to Mallard Claus, North Pole, California, a last
minute present request. Turns out that all Tammy and Montana
(19:33):
wants for Christmas are her two front false teeth. The
great news is that after watching the latest Benny versus
the Petty video, Stu and I noticed that her boyfriend
David Gascon has plenty of uh moose sized and bright
Hollywood cap teeth to spare. Wow, I don't think those
(19:55):
are those fake. I don't think those are fake. I
don't know, and they maybe they maybe even years then then,
but they really don't like they said at last count,
Gascon has three extra sets of incisors, canines, and Moehler's
of course no wisdom teeth. If he did, he'd still
be on the fifth hour. Wow. Shots fired. Well, they
(20:16):
were demanding the departure of David. Uh. The message continues
from Helen and Stu. The angry Well, I don't think
they're angry, just having fun. Uh, couple, they're they're very,
very divisive here, the Mallew Militia. You are under attack here,
Helen and Stu, It says Benny in all seriousness during
(20:37):
these ongoing challenging social times. Happy mench holiday to you, Aaron,
now Danny Chocolate. That's right. We learned on the original
episode that you were on. You are part of the
Great Gara Deli Chocolate family. Uh, says the entire Ben
Mallory Show crew and the Mallard Militia, including Yes, Tammy
(20:57):
and Montana. For another outstanding year of not so serious
sports talk entertainment like Mallard claws on a fire truck.
Our support for you will remain in the air everywhere.
That's from Helen and still all people very nicely. A
nice way to end the Tupac Biggie beef there or
(21:19):
the beef. The beef is still going, but it was
just a holiday truth for a moment. Yeah, that the
beef was not ended, Danny. It's it will continue for
for a long time, but they'll pick it up after
the new year. Uh. Let's see John in Dallas right
since his last week, I adopted a rescue dog and
(21:39):
unlike all the other dogs and cats that I have had,
this one is a female. And then John and Dallas says,
can you and Danny g give me some fatherly advice
on what it is like to live with a bit? Okay, well, yeah,
your Bella is a female dog, so I do have
(22:01):
she is that that is the technical term. We're not
being offensive at all. A female dog is a bitch.
And I moved in with a bit recently. You have
a female at Daisy, little Daisy the dog. She fits
in the palm of your hands. Man. She's a small dog,
but she also thinks that she is a guard dog.
(22:24):
So she's one of those where in her mind she's
protecting the entire house, but in actuality, your big toe
could move her away. Yeah. And and Bella's got a
it must be the little Napoleon complex in the dog community.
I don't know what the dogs uses the Napoleon complex,
but yeah, Bella is like the Bella. She's a boss
(22:44):
dog and she's she's the boss bitch. And uh, if
I don't give her a treat, she'll like pot me.
If I don't scratch her back before I go to bed,
she gets very upset and starts out, and then she'll
wake me up sometimes in the middle of the night.
And I didn't have I never had a male dog
do this like and I'm actually happy about it. When
she's got to go to the bathroom, she'll like stand
(23:05):
on my head and forced me to wake up to
take her out to go to the bathroom. So that's
not a bad thing. Yeah, And I mean for advice
getting a rescue, obviously, you just want to make them
feel as loved as possible because it's something that has
been inconsistent in their lives up to this point. Uh,
take them on lots of walks and get them lots
(23:27):
of toys and treats. Get a toy box, fill it
with tons of toys. Usually they'll only use one toy,
even though they have twelve toys in the box. Yeah,
and that's always the You think you found the perfect toy.
You you know your dog very much, and this is
the toy the dog will love, and then you pull
the wrapping off it. You excitedly give the dog the toy,
(23:48):
and the dog wants to run and play with the old,
disgusting toy. And what's nothing to do with the new
toy exactly. Daisy has a toy called Piggy, and Piggy
is really the only toy Daisy is interested. And even
though she has a toy box that has more toys
in it that I had when I was a kid. Yeah.
And the other thing, too, is then you'll inevitably try
(24:08):
to find an exact replica of the Piggy toy. And
that becomes a pain in the ass because these dog toys,
I have noticed a high turnover and dog toys where
and if I made dog toys too, every year I
would come out with new toys because you don't want
what's what's the point of doing the same thing, so
I have noticed that, but good luck, good luck, good
(24:29):
luck with your rescue. Yeah, I am a fan of
the bitches. Absolutely. Barry in Music City says Yo Yo Mo,
Benny and Danny G. I love the Mallard Christmas songs.
Well good I hope you enjoyed the podcast. If you
guys have not heard the podcast on Friday, we played
as all the holiday songs that were submitted before Friday
(24:50):
and it made the air. We played one song that
hasn't made the air yet and so check that out
on Friday. It's perfect for Christmas parties. You really want
to annoy your loved ones on Christmas play that would
be like, what the what the bleep and he bleep
is going on here? What happened? We're? We're are our
favorite Christmas songs? What happened here? Shocked the fuck? That's
(25:14):
probably what they'll tell you there. But anyway, uh Yo Yoma,
he says Barry, he says, uh, I'll have to check
out the Friday podcast again, Yes you will. And Benny,
what were your expectations when you put out the bat
signal for the maliss to come up with the Mallar
themed Christmas songs. Well, sure, Barry. At first, I was like, okay,
(25:37):
so maybe we'll get a couple of songs. I thought
if we got three songs, I'd be happy. Serious, I
didn't think we'd get more than maybe five at the most.
I said, if the show is doing really well, we'll
get five. And we ended up getting almost twenty five
songs with with the songs that have been submitted, and
(25:58):
these are people that wrote lyrics, they obviously changed the
lyrics around and spend time. Some of these guys Mr
PC went into a recording studio. I mean, these are
not like boring boring, They're not I mean, they're good songs.
And so I was blown away by it. And it's
one of those things Danny too. When they kept coming in,
(26:20):
I was like, wait, we got another one. I'd wake
I'd wake up, and it's like there'd be one or
two songs like pretty much every day. And Coop was
getting some of the songs. I wasn't even seeing them
and then he would play them on the show and
I was like, whoa, that's I mean, that's crazy. So yeah,
the creativity that went into a lot of the songs
was just tremendous. Yeah, it was. It was a good job,
(26:42):
and I don't know that we can recreate that like
next year. That just kind of happened. Plus, we have
all the songs. As long as no one leaves the show,
we can still play the songs. Now, if somebody leaves
the show, then we're gonna have to have the lyrics
re written and all that stuff, and then that becomes problematic. Well,
you're in one of the you were in a couple
of songs. It's the old songs that listeners submitted. You
(27:02):
were in several of them back in the day, So
that was pretty cool. You alright, your show opens too.
And then when I wasn't on the show anymore, they
cut my voice out. Yeah, it's like Russia, you know,
Joseph Stalin just make you vanish. They make Lenin or
whoever back in the day, just in the uber driver
(27:22):
listening in New Jersey or just Jersey as they call. Uh.
Since does everyone on Fox Sports Radio really hate Brian
Findley and particularly do you really hate having him on
the show or is it all in good fun? No,
I hate and Brian Finley some of the earth. Uh No,
I mean he annoys me. But clearly if we if
(27:44):
we really had a nasty relationship, he would not be
on the show. And but but he does get under
my skill because usually what happens. And I love Brian,
but he does occasionally try to do open mic night
at Chuckles Comedy Club and it doesn't always go well.
(28:05):
It does not always go well. So yeah, it's a
ton of pun And he is the Rolph speaking of Ralphie.
He is the Ralphie of fs are Yeah, speaking of
our Ralph Ralph Irvin. Oh yeah, another another one. I
talked to Ralph the other night. He was filling in
on the Jason Smith Show with Harmon and I told him,
(28:28):
I said, I still get emails from when Ralph was
so upset Ralph the Rhino wreck at Ralph he ran
into the other studio to hang up on Justin in Cincinnati. There. Yeah,
it was insane, and that's that's been he said. It's
been three years since that. I guess so. And you know,
(28:48):
that's one of the reasons I like Ralph. I think
was just that experience. To have the balls to run
into the control room and hang up on a caller,
you gotta respect that well. And then a guy that
has worked in radio and had no idea at that moment.
He was so flustered. He was so flummixed and like
what am I don't know what to do? He had
a brain fart. He didn't know what button to press.
(29:11):
He starts hanging up on everybody. I had a full
bank of calls on hold. He starts hanging about all
of them. It's another reason I love Justin and Cincinnati
so much, to the fact that he could get a
reaction out of somebody that would make him run into
a control room and hang up on everybody. Yeah, that
was hilarious. I still have the image of Ralph rumbling
(29:32):
turning the corner to get into the control room and
the look on his face and how everyone got out
of his way. You know, it was all those deals,
all right, Ralph's this is not fake and all the
phones are ringing. But Ralph, Ralph is gonna do is? Uh? Uh?
Yeah it was Ralph. You gotta say, Ralph, the phone
(29:54):
is ringing anyway? Uh. Next up Carlos in Houston, Texas.
He says, the Mallard Militia are absolutely clutch with the
Christmas music. I know this will be the last podcast
for a while, so I had a couple of questions.
Should Major League Baseball sell Rawlings Back after that story
came out about them using two different types of baseballs?
(30:17):
He says, that's number one, and what will happen if
Carlo's career signs with the Dodgers, And he also says,
fuck that couple in Florida. I want the couple in
Kentucky back. Well, I missed the couple in Kentucky. I
know what happened to him, hope though, Okay. They sent
me a Western Kentucky Hilltoppers hat and sent Danny some alcohol,
(30:37):
and they were big fans of the podcast and we
still love getting updates on them. And then they just
randomly stopped, you know, emailing in, so I don't know
what happened. Hopefully they're okay. But as far as the
first question, no, Major League Baseball should absolutely not sell
Rawlings Back because even when Rawlings was an independent company,
they were still overseeing the baseballs anyway, so it doesn't
(30:58):
really matter, you know, they own it. And then I
want no part of Carlos Correa. There's the Dodgers are
not going to sign that guy. No, they don't need him.
They have trade Turner to play shortstop. Don't. If they
were going to spend that kind of money, they should
have just kept Corey Seeger, thank you. Yeah, I don't.
(31:18):
I don't think that. And the rawlings baseball thing, they're
gonna they make a big deal about it, And the
problem is not the baseball, even if the baseball flies
a little further. The problem is everyone is just swinging
from their heels trying to hit home rusts. No one's
trying to just get base hits. That's the issue because
they don't pay for base hits. They don't pay you
to bat three fifty with a bunch of singles in baseball.
(31:42):
In professional baseball, they pay you to hit forty home
runs and back to eighteen with a hundred walks and
two hundred fifty strikeouts. That's what they pay you for.
And as a Dodgers fan, I could never get comfortable
seeing that cheating bachch Correa stepping up to the plate
wearing a Dodger uniform. And I think the Dodgers front
(32:04):
office knows that band that the fans would just not
get behind it at all. Yeah, I would be very
surprised if he ends up with the Dodgers or the Yankees.
I could see him going somewhere like Toronto. They've already
got a cheating astro on then old cheating astro where
the Tigers or somewhere along those lines, although I think
the chroits less likely now. But talking baseball, thanks Charlos Man,
(32:33):
Come on here we go. I can't wait for baseball
season to start. Well, you're gonna have to wait. There's
gonna be a work stopper. There's a work stoppice right now.
Did you see that story that they're they're not even
gonna really meet about the finances until January. January is
not that far away. But shouldn't you take advantage of
the time right now? Why waste the time? Now? Get
(32:56):
those all the No one accepts the first offers anyway.
So go in and you're you're gonna have to stay
in a room and just don't leave the room until
you see white smoke like the Vatican. And you've named
the Pope, You've named the new deal in baseball. Why
is this so hard? Datty, I don't understand. I don't
get money is the root of all evil? Well, yeah,
(33:20):
I'd like to have a lot of it, but you'd
like to You're like I'd like to be more evil. Yeah, evil, Yeah,
it depends on evil. Like like Urban Meyer got fired
the other night, right for the show, and depending on
what happens, and there's lawyers involved. He's got in the
ballpark of fifty million dollars left on his country. So
(33:42):
Urban is public any number one. People love to just
trash him, and I maybe he's a horrible Maybe he's
the devil incarnate. I don't know, you know, he's a
spawn of Satan. But he's fifty million dollars. People are
trashing him online right and left. And there was this
sound that came out of Jackson when Urban was like
oh and it's like yeah, okay, So Urban lasted less
(34:04):
than a year, gets fifty million, assuming he gets that money,
and now it goes back to television, so he's he
won the lottery. I said, amazing. I mean she and
when that girl grinded on him at the bar, what
was he supposed to do? Well, he might not have
needed to put the hands where he put the hand
he used to make sure she didn't she didn't have
(34:25):
any kind of uh you know, she was well. He
was checking for cancer. I think Chris in America coulda
I think he sent another one in, Uh, let's see,
or maybe I put that on. Yeah, I think I
already did that one. Uh down, down, No, No, this
is a new one. This is different. I think he
(34:45):
said he posted one on Facebook and sent this one in. Oh,
here it is, he says. Last season, the big Penny
I sent you for Betty versus the penny was prominently
featured despite gascon I haven't noticed it yet this season.
Question is did it survive your recent move? Is it
buried somewhere? Will it be found a hundred years from
now at the bottom of some dusty box? Please Ben,
(35:09):
give it one more chance to see the sun. Well, Chris,
that's a great point, and it is in a storage facility.
I have no idea where in the storage facility is.
So I don't think it'll be a hundred years, because
I won't live a hundred years, but it'll be a
while before that season. A lot I'm opening. We can
(35:30):
maybe over these holidays I'll be able to find it. Uh,
he says. Also ps Danny g rocks. Uh. He says, However,
sometimes I missed cursing at the heel guest gunt. You
even curse it? Danny if you want, Danny, you don't
mind that. I'm used to taking abuse from people on
the other side of the microphones trapnel. You're used to
(35:50):
take a trap ya Trey writes in from Parts of Known.
He says, since Danny g has returned, can tinder on
e Tips return sponsored by sleep Number? Perhaps well reference
to back in the day whenever advertising. I still have
a sleep Number bed. I still sleep on it. Well,
it's great bed. You know they're pricey, but you got
(36:11):
a good product and it's it's wonder once you go.
Once you go down that rabbit hole, though, you don't
go back. So I don't think I'll ever have a
different bed, but you never know what advertisers who comes
along might change my tune on that. Uh Tinderroni tips.
Now you are engaged, Danny. You've announced that the big
announcement here. We did meet on one of the dating sites.
(36:33):
Anything online dating related. I can help you. Yeah, if
we get maybe we can do it on the Saturday podcast.
We can get relationship questions for the Saturday podcast if
anybody has I'll put that up only dating relationship questions
and we can bring back Tenderoni tips. We could do
that from time to time if you'd like, yeah, yeah,
(36:53):
we'll do it. Well, maybe once a month or maybe
once every other month. Let's see who is next. Colie
in Round Rock, Texas listens to the fifth Hour podcast
he Write City says, the other day, I was watching
a fantasy football show on TV and I couldn't get
the closed caption turned off. Every time they would say
Kyler Murray, the closed caption showed Calamari, what is the
(37:19):
funniest closed captioning that you have seen? Why? I usually
don't pay attention to the closed captioning. My wife loves
closed captioning. She watches a lot of foreign movies, which
I hate, and she loves the close captioning. But with me,
I don't really have a closed captioning story Coldie, but
I do have my name. When I speak it into
my phone, I'll do voice to text, and it's almost
(37:41):
always Mallet, Ben Mallett. It always comes up. Never Mallard,
it's always Mallet. Screw you, Bill Miller, And that's a
pain in the ass that always gets me. Any any
of those type of things with you, Danny, anything pop
up there, you know. I've learned as far as subtitles, go.
I've learned a lot of my Spanish from watch in
the Narco series on Netflix. Thank you Netflix. Well that's great.
(38:04):
That's like the story of people coming to America learning
English from the Three Stooges or really TV shows, and
that that's how they learned. It's been great because my
neighbors speaks Spanish, so I've been, you know, going back
and forth when I see him in the morning and
he just wonders why I'm always talking about drugs. That's great.
(38:28):
I have not checked that show out, but thank you Coley.
You've gotta watch Narco span I'm the only show I
really watched, like Curb your Enthusiasm these days. That's about it.
Come on, brought in your horizons. I know Craig in
the Camel City formerly of St. Louis, writes in he says,
I have a question for you, but not for the
(38:48):
fifth hour. Too late, Craig, Too late, Craig, it's on
the fifth hour. I won't read the whole thing, he says.
The last podcast, the fifth hour I listened to, you
mentioned that you're coming to North Carolina. Of course, Craig
lives in North Carolina, says, I know you mentioned that
it is for a wedding, but is it possible to
try to do a Mallard meet and Greek. Well, it
(39:10):
is absolutely possible, Craig. I have to get the green
light from the Ball and Chain on that. And I'm
not really sure how long I'm gonna be in North Carolina.
I figured that's a long way to go from California,
so I should probably maximize my time on the East Coast.
I might go up and see my brother who lives
in New York, for example, but I'd like to I
(39:32):
would like to do a Mallard meet and greet. And
so we're way off on that this is gonna happen.
I think the weddings in your March or April. So
I will keep you posted, Craig. I'm sure I'll give
updates on the podcast, but I would need to know.
I don't know any locations in North Carolina to have
a Mallard meetread so if you know anybody, Craig, start
(39:53):
looking around at like a sports bar, a restaurant somewhere
that might want to host the event. That would help
us out a lot. And also, uh, just thinking down
the line, Danny, I need to get to Minnesota. Mine.
One of my goals is to do a meet in greet, Minnesota.
In all things being equal, so we need a good location,
(40:16):
my guys in Minnesota, if you can find a good
location in the Twin Cities that would be open to
having an event. And I always say, I don't know
how many people are gonna show up to these things, Danny.
Sometimes there's like five people, sometimes there's twenty people, sometimes
there thirty people. Uh, you never know who's gonna show.
A lot of people make plans to show up, you know,
like when you were doing DJ stuff and you'd go
to vote and people it's, oh yeah, I go there,
(40:37):
and sometimes it would be awesome and be huge, and
other times there'll be nobody there and it's really sporadic.
You don't really know. You always tell you Ben when
you're coming up. You have fun whether there's five people
or five thousand people. You enjoy your night. Yeah. And
the cool thing is often when there's less people, it's
I get more one on one time with people because
I always feel like a beat. I feel like, well,
(40:59):
you know, it's ninety six point seven percent men the audience,
but we have a few women and few women have
risen the prominence that are fans of the show. Uh.
I know on this podcast, Jennifer and Richmond's rising up
the level of a podcast contributor, Tammy and Montana for
the show as well. And I love the women's sports
fans and the women who rock fs are constantly. But
(41:22):
like you said, Ben, it's funny because you know, if
you're like a DJ for a hip hop station or
a rock station, you got all the girls calling the
phone and listening. But it's not the same with sports
talk radio because it's mainly guys that listen to sports talk.
Oh yeah, yeah. When I was at Kiss AM, which
was Extra Sports eleven fifty, right down the hall was
(41:42):
a legendary l a radio station, Kiss FM. What oh
two point seven Kiss FM, And at that time it
was Rick D's in the morning. But I was friends
with the nighttime guys, oh boy, and we would because
I did the night show, we'd hang out with the
night guys. And I remember the difference just by walking
down the hall. It was all dudes on one side,
and then it was all like teenage girls, teeny boppers
(42:05):
that would call in to Kiss FM. And this is
so long ago, I'm dating myself here. There was a
band called Hanson. Remember the band, Yeah, unfortunately I do
remember that. Yeah, that was terrible. But this is back
in the nineties and they Hansen came in to Kiss
FM at night and there were teenage girls wrapped around
(42:26):
the building. I don't even know how. I guess they
just listened to the radio. But that was before the way,
before social media, and they came down to the radio stations.
They didn't know where Hanson was going to come out
of the building, but they were. They were wrapping around
the buildings so they could get photo op with Hanson.
But anyway, I used to hang out with those guys
and it was crazy. And there are two of the
(42:46):
two of the guys I was buddies with are still
in l A radio. Valentine who does a morning show
in law C in the l A market on one
of three Valentine in the morning, and I'd hang out
with him all the time. And then Jojo on the
raid EO, who is still I think I think he's
still at Kiss FM. I have to double check, but
I last I heard he was still at Kiss FM
(43:08):
doing like afternoon Drive or something like that. So so
you saw what it was like to be an FM DJ.
I lived through them. I lived through their lives and
I did get to go in there. But it was
pretty cool, Like sometimes we would play Madden. I'd get
done with the overnight show at approximately one in the morning,
(43:29):
and I'm a single guy. No woman will get near me,
so living the radio life, living the apartment in Hollywood
by myself. So I just hang out with the guys
that Kiss FM and we'd play Madden. We played Madden
in the studio, all the music played, and I had
had very fun memories of that, and then we had
to get out of there before Rick D showed up.
(43:51):
But these usually taped the first hour of the show,
so we had extra time. Dan. Yeah, he mastered it
these the night you hear me. Ricky's nicest guy I've
ever met. I have nothing bad to say about Rick D's.
He could not have been nicer. He was at the
very top of radio when I met him, and I
was at the very bottom of radio, and he was
(44:13):
as nice as he could be. It's like that old saying,
it'll be nice to the people on the way up,
because the same people you're gonna see on the way down.
And that was Rick D's man he was. And then
I remember I saw d S after his career. He
had a TV show, a network TV show at one point,
like Late Night with Rick Ds. What was that song
that he did? Duck Duck some Ducks songs Duck just
(44:35):
go Duck, Yes, Disco Duck, that's it. Yeah, legend man.
And of course remember Jay Thomas, Oh j Thomas another
another school DJ radio legend. Yes, l a legends, that's right.
And but D's when I ran into the last time
I ran into Rick's, he introduced himself and I says, I, Hi,
(44:58):
I am, I'm trying to pay I'll pare a phrase
he said, Hi, I'm Rick. I used to be Rick Dy's.
I used to be famous. That was like that was
and uh it was. It was very cool. So I'm
happy to hear stories like that about guys like that. Yeah,
and he always spoiled everyone. The only quirk I remember
about d S is that he loved the nineteen seventies
(45:21):
equipment because that's when he became prominent in radio. So
Kiss FM had all the newest equipment, but in the
Rick D's studio, they had this old nineteen seventies board
with the twisty knobs, and that's that's what D's learned
how to do, and he didn't want to switch over,
and so they kept having to fix that up and all.
(45:43):
And so I've heard those stories. While the world was digital,
he wanted analog. He was the analog man in the
digital world, right, He's the guy using the typewriter instead
of the computer. And that anyway, we gotta get out
of here. Just a programming note for me. I will
be on ray d Oh tonight and I'll be on
most of the week. I will not be on Thursday
(46:05):
into Friday, so I'll be off that night leading into
Christmas Eve, and then i'll be off until the New
Year after that. But I'm not doing a few extra shows.
And but you'll you'll be in a lot, Danny, as
you told us, you're you're into yeah, and I'm sure
you'll be in a lot over the next couple of weeks. Yeah,
inside the Fox Sports Radio studio from five to eleven
(46:27):
PM on Sunday and throughout the holiday here and there.
I'll be filling specific right that specific time, yes, and
throughout the holiday I'll be filling in on the network.
So you'll hear me pop up on the microphone from
time to time. All right, and before I forget, I will,
I do want to thank the Arizona Republic every time
I mentioned Kyler Murray. Danny g Hey column is written
(46:50):
in the local newspaper, the Paper Record in Phoenix. There
they're not happy with me because I ripped Kyler after
the game against the Rams the other night. I guess
it's a delayed reaction. And but anyway, have a great holiday.
If you don't listen to the radio show this week,
if you're part of the show, and mallem militia and
all that, we thank you. Be safe, drive all that stuff,
(47:11):
you know, be nice to people. Try to find somebody
in your life you love, even if it's an animal,
and spend time with them. And if you don't have
any of any loved ones or anything, you know, just
you gotta find something to hang out with another creature,
whether it's a human being or a pet, that you
can hang out with over the holidays. We will, we'll
be back and thank you to any good job. Take
(47:33):
care of your ho ho ho, and and have a
great holiday, all right, take care of everybody. Boli
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