February 13, 2022 • 38 mins
Best Super Bowl pregame you're gonna hear all day...because it's not about the game! Ben hit the podcast studio with Danny G. this morning to have some fun with the mail bag, answering select P1 questions from the amazing #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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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 clearing house of hot takes,
break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
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Maller starts right now in the air everywhere a happy
super Ball Sunday. It is finally on, Like Donkey Kong,
the game we have been waiting for, hyping up for
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several weeks and some of us who might have an
affiliation or an a fiction affliction of ram fever, Danny
extra excited for Super Bowl fifty six Rams and Bengals.
And if you missed it before the game, you can
listen to this podcast. But we have the prop Bet
podcast from DraftKings on Friday. And Jackie Slater a Hall
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of Famer and is he the first Hall of Famer
that we've we've had on the Fifth Hour. I try
to forget every weekend once it moves. I don't know
it's but he's He's definitely one of the few Hall
of famers we've had on but it is the Fifth
Hour with myself, Ben Maller and the one and only
Danny G Radio back again to save you on a
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Sunday from marginal crappy audio content. And so that is
why we were here and hopefully you will not tell
us the fuck that. But it's exciting. Danny and I
don't want to waste any time here. We have so
many had more people email this week than I think
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we've gotten in two years the mail bag and I
was complaining a couple of weeks ago and we needed
alfa animal piner to rally the troops, and ever since
that happened, we've had plenty of mail. So let's get
right to it. I don't want to short change anyone.
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Thanks for our buddy ohio Al who sent that in,
so we'll go right to it. These are actual questions
send in. If you want to send your own question
in and a future edition of the Fifth Hour podcast,
you are more than welcome to do that. We'd love
to have you do it and join the masses Real
Fifth Hour at gmail dot com as the email address,
but you can send a question in on Facebook. I
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post every Tuesday, usually early in the day on Tuesday
Facebook page Ben Maller Show. We have a mail bag
post you can send questions and you can also send
questions to Danny G on Twitter, Danny G Radio on Twitter.
You can send it with me. Well, you know how
to send it to me. Are you ready? Are you
buckled up? Danny? You're prepared here. That's pregame you're gonna
hear all day because it's not about the game, that's right.
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This is just about us answering random question and you go, oh.
When you hear the answers, you're like, it's not We're
not gonna have the evil people. They're not coming in. No, no, no,
We're gonna keep the stormtroopers away. They will not here.
They will not be here. Danny. By the way, the
last two episodes of Bubba Fett where outstanding. I can't
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hear the music, won't stop. I can't stop it, Danny Jake,
all right, there it is, finally it's over all right.
First email from Chris in Marra, Cocona, Iowa. He says uh,
he says that. He says, now that your radio show
is doing well and you have record podcast numbers as well,
is it time to ask Fox to give back that
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salary cut they gave you during the pandemic. Uh, tell
them pats on the back, don't pay the rent, he says,
and go Raiders. Yeah that's from Chris. Uh sure, yeah,
I'm sure. I'm sure management Danny is the checks in
the mail, right. I think that for both of us,
they'll take care of us. Yes, yeah, you're like Jim
Harbaugh and you am. They're gonna give you that money back. Yeah,
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I just you know, I just ask. I'll send him
a text or something like that. Yeah, my man, I
got your cover, mom May and nothing to worry about,
all right. Next up is from Blake in Arkansas. He says, Ben,
did you ask or push for you and the crew
to do the show, the radio show from Radio Row?
Don't tell me. No one is going. Every other show
I listened to is going. So if you guys are not,
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you either have zero balls, Blake and Arkansas says, or
if asked and told no, then you have zero respect
with management. Which is it? That is from Blake? Well,
we depending on how things went, and you know, it's
up to your interpretation. Uh, we either had a very
successful trip to Radio Row on Friday or we did not.
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And you'll have to wait till next weekend to find out.
But I did have conversations. I don't get into all
of it now because we'll probably talk about it next
weekend on the podcast Behind the Scenes how we make
the hot dogs, and most people don't care about how
we make the hot dogs, But there were conversations that
took place. There were debating whether or not to do
the terrestrial radio show, and I'll get more into it
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at a later day. Wide decisions were made. Who made
those decisions, and that will be that. So generally speaking, Ben,
what some people don't realize is it's not like Radio
Row is open twenty four hours, like you got to
be there when the guests or potential guests are there.
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So normally it's the midday show through the beginning of
a night show. Possibly well, I mean there it's possible
to do it. I mean JT back in the day
used to do his show and he was doing the overnight.
So I guess if if you found a sponsor and
you could broadcast from somewhere nearby the Super Bowl, right, yeah, yeah,
And there are there are working Resibent Plus listen. We're
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in California, and I know there are a number of
East Coast morning shows, a few of them anyway, that
are doing the show from Los Angeles, and so they're
starting at three in the morning, is the middle of
the night in California, and they are They're doing their show,
and they're all excited about it and all that and
doing the show and going out golfing and having a
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great time and all that and so, and we'll get
more into that, and I'll have a look back at
everything that took place. That'll be coming up most likely
next weekend on the Saturday. And I was told I
went on the radio with a buddy of mine, a
couple of friends of mine, to do radio in Florida,
and they pointed out, I didn't realize this. The next
two super Bowls are all Western super Bowls, Phoenix and Vegas, Glendale,
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Arizona and then onto Vegas. Baby. So I'm thinking, Danny,
depending on how this whole radio role appearance goes, I think,
how about a road trip Benny and Danny g go
across the you know, California Arizona border for a quick
visit next year, and then Vegas is even closer than
Phoenix or Glenna. Ill I think we might be onto something,
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your dame. Yeah, I'm down and I thought it went well,
but we'll expand next weekend. We'll tell you exactly how
it went on Radio Row this past Friday afternoon. All right,
the next question on the mailback Christie listening. Christie is
in Salt Lake City, and she says, Ben, what is
your beverage of choice and your favorite snacks on the
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big day? That's says go rams from Christie. So so
the problem is, Christie, I have to do a radio
show a few hours after the game ends. The game
will end approximately what you think, ten thirty eleven o'clock
on the East coast, seven thirty eight o'clock on the
West coast, and then I've got to be on a
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few hours after that, so I can't get completely snockered
like I might if I didn't have to do that.
So I will probably be very boring and drink like
I might go hard and drink lemonade. Uh. And then
as far as food is concerned, my wife will be working,
so I'll be on my own on that, so I
might I might make a pizza. That's usually what I
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do for a big game, like the Mallard pizza, a
lot of snacks. Uh, depending on either way, either he
goes well the Rams win, so I have celebratory snacks
or the Rams don't do well, and then I have uh,
you know, kind of feel good snacks to to cheer
me up a little bit pasta like comfort food. Well, no,
I got like you know, we have like a little
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part of the kitchen that has all the the snacks,
like the chocolate almonds. There's these Macadaemian nut cluster things
that are pretty good. Uh, there's like a whole mix
of other random candy. So but I'm still only gonna
I'm only gonna do it for a few hours during
the game, and then I'm gonna go back too fasting.
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So I'm gonna it's Super Bowl son rare and appropriate,
Danny and Christie, right, super Bowl Sunday, rare and appropriate.
So I'll enjoy for a few hours, I'll live my
old life again, and then I will go back and
uh and not eat for like three days to try
to make up for it. That's the plan, she says,
Go Rams. Absolutely, We've been saying it for years. It
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should be a national holiday the day after the Super Bowl.
There's always that and they're like, let's just move to
Saturday and then you don't have to take the holiday
or whatever. Right, uh, Tammy, And Montana writes and says, guys,
always a great podcast with her David or Danny mixed
in with Ben as she says, so she's a she's
a fan of whoever he's on the podcast. Well, were
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the good thing with Danny here is that we've not
had as many fisticuffs like before, you know, every every
UH show was fighting, but we have not had to
do that come back. It's yes, right, Tammy? Right? Since
she says, to get those five star reviews, how about
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the chance to name the future Danny Gee's baby. She says,
great advice from Danny for Ozzy Momentum about a goal
for family fund so the whole family can enjoy something expensive.
Also an allowance each week at least for the kid,
and then they can save for something more expensive to
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spend each week. Yeah, you want to try to avoid
the rotten spoiled child syndrome as much as possible. You
just don't need that. You don't want that because then
the kid turns out to be an asshole. And we
can say that on the podcast, and you just you
just want to avoid. It's common for kids to not
understand the value of money and how much hard work
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it takes to get said money, And so you got
to teach them that it doesn't come easy. You know,
when they have to spend their own bucks on something,
they really think long and hard about how they spend
their their little money that they have saved up. Yeah,
because you grow up in this bubble and you're like, well,
I don't what is money? You know, it's just whatever
I need it my parents will give to me, and
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all that I think I grew up like. Tammy says, uh, yeah, Ben,
When when are you singing for Bentley? She says, when
are you singing for Bentley? We all want to hear
that rendition? Uh, Tammy, you wait for that. I'll be
in the sixth Hour podcast. You can hear that in
the sixth Hour. Murray in Saskatoon. I'm glad Murray's still listening.
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Can you pick out Saskatoon on a map? Danny, Absolutely not, Yeah, exactly.
But it's a fun it's a fun place to say Saskatoon.
That's a fun name for a city. I like fun words.
Horn Swoggle is cool, But Saskatoon. It's got a nice
ring to it in Saskatoon, all right, Murray says, what
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do you and the guys on the overnight show, Dude,
during the commercial breaks usually, do you talk about things
that you can't discuss on the radio? Are you silent
as to save your voice? Discuss how to attack the
next segment, etcetera, etcetera. That's from Murray in Saskatoon. Murray,
there's not a lot of conversation that goes on. I
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normally I talk a lot, and during the breaks, I
try to shut up as much as I can. But
we do gossip. I mean we everywhere at any job
I've ever worked at. I worked at radio most of
my life. But we we all gossip about other people
at work and what's going on in the business. Right.
I think it's fair to say, Danny, that's just the
natural natural thing if you hear something, And since we've
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all kind of been spread out in different places, that's
a that's a chance but to kind of learn stuff
that we didn't know. Yeah, and it depends on what
happened with the segment that just ended. Sometimes we're still
laughing about what happened at the end of a segment. Uh.
Usually though, we have our head down at first, because
we have some things we gotta do, like save the
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segment into the computer system and get sound or something
ready for the next segment. Once that's done, and say
Roberto has his new is it picked out for the rejoin?
Then yeah, you're right. We'll listen to a promo from
another show and maybe react to that and give our
own spin on what we heard, and only in a
positive way. We would never react in a negative way
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because that would be born, That would be inappropriate. We
never said, boy, that guy's a knucklehead. I can't believe
he said that. We never do that because that would
be inappropriate. Murdh, that would be absolutely wrong. So I
hope that answers your question. Next up, we have Ausi momentum,
the aforementioned Ozzy momentum. He says, do either of you
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own an umbrella? And if so, how do you use
it and not look like a complete pansy? He says,
what would you do to use one like a boss? Well,
this is really your question, Danny. I have certainly lean
more to a pansy than you. Than you, Danny, you
just reek of masculinity. You ah, you know tough Danny
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G Radio. So how does Danny G Radio a radio
a raider fan and a radio man? And how does
one carry an umbrella and not look like gay Woods?
Very simple. I do not carry an umbrella. Instead, I
have the water protected spray on my Jordan's and I
try to wear the slick material that the water will
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slide off of. I have a radar pull over that
is like that vinyl material. The last time we had
a big rainstorm here where I live, I had to
go to my day job and I wore that my
shoes were protected with that spray and I stood there
in this torrential downpour. Ben I was helping in the
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morning routine there at the school, and I was the
only one without an umbrella. He's right. The ladies that
were walking around at the school, they looked like Mary Poppins.
The wind was making them blow away with their umbrella.
The dudes look like dorks trying to open and keep
opening the umbrella. It's just not even worth it. So
I would rather stand in the rain and take it
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like a man. Yeah, I've lost many an umbrella. It's
so embarrassing. You're walking down the street and there's a
big gusta waited play. Yeah, what kind of like if
you see a guy drinking an alcoholic beverage through a straw.
It's awkward, It's it's awkward. One more from Ozzy Momentum.
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He says, ps Ben, just how horrified were you when
you heard the drop of you saying? But all those
blank look the same. He's talking about Joe and Phil
Niekro That's what he's talking about there. We all know
that it wasn't racist, and it's damn unfortunate that you
can't play it anymore. But is that the worst thing
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that came back to bite you? I'm devastated. Osim Windham
said that the drop of you saying I love the
blank one one thousand two, one thousand three, Taliban. I'm
see I know what he's trying to do here, Dan,
He's trying to get me to repeat this. Yeah, he
says it wasn't a better quality. He says, uh, you're
not allowed to play the necro drop anymore. No, we're not,
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because what happened was people, as you know Danny from
working in radio, do not listen to everything that we say,
and they hear these things out of context, and they
thought I was saying something that was definitely not Nekrou
the Joe and Phil it was, it was something else,
and yeah, I we would get I get email, angry emails,
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calls from people and they'd all be like, I, I've
listened to you for fifteen years. I can't believe you
would say such a thing on the radio. And I'm like, well,
I know I didn't actually say that. You you heard
something that I didn't say, But it's hard to explain
that to them because it sounds similar. And it's really
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it was a case where we out of an abundance
of not wanting to deal with the people, contacting management
is then management, as you know, is like what are
you doing? What is this all about? And so it
was just a case, yeah we could you're just being
proactive to a complaint. Yeah, but it is. It's pretty, uh,
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pretty wild how many people emailed me and called the
show or contacted management and said, hey, this is I'm
offended by. Can I use that drop on the podcast? Uh? Yeah,
I think I have a podcast. Like in the middle
of the podcast, you could prob all right, I'll be
dropping in. I guess I guess I'll have to find
out if it's still in the computer system. Yeah, well, knowing,
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knowing the way we work, it will be in there
and you will be dead and we'll still be in there.
All right, what is next year? I didn't want to
mention now she did. Angelina did not want me to
mention her name on the podcast. She sent a nice email,
and I'm apologizing. I just wanted to give her It's
not really a shout out, because we don't do shoutouts,
but she said a very nice email. She's a big
fan of the show on the podcast, and she loves
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Danny Ge and she loves you and me and everybody.
And I'm so I'm gonna honor her wishes. I'm not
gonna read her message on the on the podcast, but
I didn't want to say that I got it, Angeline.
I think I wrote back. I hope I did. Angelina
Angelina Angelina, and she lives on the Wisconsin Minnesota border
and she's a big fan and one of our k
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fan listeners in the Twin Cities. And I think I
wrote back and told her I have to get to Wisconsin,
and I think I'm gonna probably get there sometime in
early May. I think to try to visit my brother,
I have to take some time off. I you know
how I hate taking time off, but I've got to
take like eight days off to go to this freaking
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wedding that we're they're going to. So but I don't
feel bad about it, Danny, because I got screwed out
of my vacation because I had COVID the entire time
I was away on my year end hiatus. So I'm like, yea,
I what the hell? Yeah, You're right, you were the Transformer.
Oh my crown, Jennifer, how about it? We have a
lot of women, is it you, Danny that the even
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a listener? Here's those those pipes of yours, Jennifer and
Richmond Virginia says Been, and Danny, g I first want
to say, arrest in peace, beer drinking Brian absolutely, prayers
of comfort for his family and friends and for Sandy
a k a half pint, and she says Been. This
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super Bowl here falls on his special days, my youngest
kid's birthday. And so Gabe, he's nineteen, you know, as
you know, Jennifer, and I'm I hopefully gave her he
probably he's a like still a punk teenager. So Gabe
probably don't care, but we don't do shoutouts game. And
I know, Jennifer, you're probably hoping we would do a
shout out the game, but this is not a a
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morning show, so we cannot, absolutely cannot do that. Shut
the funk up, Okay, shut the fuck rop. But that's
a great age, she says. She has three awesome kids.
Are ages are nineteen twenty? How about that, man, Jennifer, Bam, bam, bam,
back to back to back to back, hold ones in
a row, get it all out, boom. That's what it is.
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I get get it done in three years and you
move on. Uh, she says, I don't feel much older
than them. As she says, the math does work. My
question for both of you is what's one of your
best birthday memories? Uh? So, I've I've had some some
good Obviously everyone's had great birthdays. But I I fondly
remember time with my mom when I was a kid
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and just like spoiling me with food, being a fat kid,
that meant a lot birthday cake and you know, just
making you feel like you were the most important person
in the world, and how great moms are and all
that so I have fond memories of that, and I've
had I've worked a lot on my birthday, usually work
during my radio career, so I've I've been on and
the listeners have been very kind. And there was a
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stretch and were you I think you were part of
the show. Remember the birthday the cake thing? Of course,
that was insane, dude, I have pictures from I don't know.
It must have been a three year span where any
birthday or anniversary or anything special. Tammy and Montana really
hooked us up with cakes. And we're not just cakes.
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These were pieces of art. Oh yeah, this was an
artisan that made these cakes unbelievable. These are these are
multiple hundred dollar cakes. Yeah, like if it was Banning's birthday,
then there would be the Clipper Condor. Yeah, ridiculous, Chuck
the Condor. It was like cake Wars. He was made
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to look exactly like the real Chuck the Condor on
top of your cake. It was so good, it was awesome.
I have pictures still from all those birthdays, so those
are really good memories. And then Ben, I would say
two birthdays ago for me, it was still somewhat fresh
with my tender RONI I was meeting her fan lean
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some of her family for the first time. I want
to say, maybe one day before Christmas, something came up
about my birthday. One of her family members asked me
about my birthday and I was like, oh, yeah, it's
in a couple of days. And my Tendernie laughed. She
was like, yeah, right, and I'm like, no, I'm serious,
my birthday is in a couple of days. She forgot
because we only talked about it when we first met,
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and she didn't make a note or market on her
calendar or anything. And we're guys been so we don't
have a birthday week or a birthday month, right, we
don't promote our birthdays. So she didn't know. Her family
looked at her, like, you don't know when his birthday is.
We got a good laugh about it because she had
to like really scramble and get something together. I thought
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she was just being low key, which I didn't mind.
I didn't want a big deal about it now, Like
when my birthday came up in December, I told her,
I'm like, you're gonna forget again. Um. So that was
a very good first birthday with her. She had no
idea it's nice. I like it. Uh yeah, it's it's
weird what you remember because when you're a kid. When
I was a kid, Danny, I was like, I remember
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the presents. But as I've gotten older, I've forgotten about
the presidents, and I've remembered like the time, and obviously
i still remember the food. It all over me. And
I've had some wonderful birthday trips while my wife we've
gone and done some really cool things as a married
man here and I've found memories of that. Valls fan
Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee. Right, since there's no question but
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a request, since Danny g wasn't there, will you tell
him about your stroll in the park when the panic
attack happened. Well, it wasn't a panic attack. I had
the ships with no hose and I'm not telling that
story again, Jimmy. There's a podcast which I'm sure is
still up, and if you want to hear me on
my worst day when I was walking early on in
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the COVID and I thought I could make it home
and I didn't, and my gall bladder attacked and it
was it was it act. It was a crime scene
at the bathroom park near my house. I feel so
terrible to whoever had to clean that up. My god,
what a what a horrible thing that to leave behind.
And I did try to clean it up, but it
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was so far gone, Danny that there was it was.
It was a lost cause, it was a it was
a recogniances mission, it was a recovery mission. There was
nothing to be saved. H Yeah, somehow I feel like
I've heard this whole explosive story and you shouldn't tell
it around kids. What about a nine year old girl?
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They kept saying that anytime McDaniels used the word explosive
for the offense, Mark Davis was smiling. Explosive was also
the right word to describe that story, you know, definitely,
I got mail, yea, I got mail. Yeah, Kevin in
Kansas right since its dear Ben. I enjoyed last week
the clips of Danny g from his earlier days in radio.
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Do you have any clips of you from the earlier
days of Ben Haler? Thanks for all you guys. There
you go, Kevin, Well, yeah, I have, And I've actually
gone through the garage and I have boxes of cassette
tapes and old technology. I don't know what to do
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with this, Danny, I have you digitized any of it? No,
I have not. I don't know that. The stuff I
have on the carts, which is the old technology, I
would like to get my hands on that because I
had a professional radio jingle when I did a midday
show in l A. They had it done and I
use from the jingle place out of doubt, but it's
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only on a cart machine. I don't I don't know
how to transfer. I have the same thing and they
have what they called donuts. So the station had a
jingle and in the middle of the jingle was a donut,
and during that donut you played your cart which was
a jingle of your name. Yeah, it's really cool jingles.
We love I love goals. If anybody knows how to
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get that any reasonable price off a cart machine onto
a digital format, that would be tremendous. And as far
as the old air checks man, that's where you could
do it yourself, because I found online a cassette, a
little cassette deck that hooks into your laptop and then
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it turns your cassette into digital wave files. Okay, yeah,
so I should transfer some of that stuff. Boy, But
there there is an archive I started at Fox Sports
Radio when I was young enough. Whereas you know Danny
from some of those drops my like my voice changed
and the famous one with the updates, when it was
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Royals are having their problems on the road, and I
was having my problems. I'm gonna I'm gonna find that
so I could insert that right here, Royals having their
problems on the road. I'm ben Mala, Kansas City fighting
for the American makes Central with the White Sox. They're
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in Texas on this Labor Day and the Rangers bombing away,
who looked so refreshing. I decided to put on my
twim trunks and dive right in. How is this? If
you should see me now, you wouldn't know clearly not
the highlight that I don't know what that was mark
the chair to home runs and the Rangers on top
six to two. Yeah, that was quite the embarrassing I
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still remember. That was quite the embarrassing moment. I still
remember Art Martinez, the great engineer, one of the great
radio engineers of all time, Art Martinez, he had played
the sound bite and then turned his back and walked
away from the board, and I knew right away it
was the wrong sound bite and I could not get
I was like waving my arms. I was like and
then I started banging the table and it didn't matter
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because I was in a different a studio and it
was soundproof. And those national updates, when you and I
both heart took in that they were so serious. Back then,
we were had to be like like news guys. It
was so serious to death. The Huskies waited and watched
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to see who they'd be playing on Monday night, and
then the back and forth thriller between Wisconsin and UK.
With five point seven seconds left, Aaron Harrison received a
pass from his twin brother Andrew, and for the third
straight game, he did this as he again. Now fast
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forward and it's Brian Finley and everyone when they hear that,
they're like, oh, like using all these adjectives that you know,
and and just it's kind of just it's so lighthearted. Now.
I like it, but it's so different from when we
(28:54):
were doing updates. Oh yeah. Back back in those days,
it was it was serious and if you didn't follow
the instructions, that's that's how that goes. Uh see, where
do we have Terry in England? Real quick? Says uh
Man when you moved to the new Mallord mansion. What
were the main criteria that you needed to choose the
(29:16):
right house? Uh? He says, how many properties did you view? Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Uh So I can't really get it all that right now, Terry.
But they were not It was not a lot of
viewing that took place with where I'm at in a
better part of town. And uh, there were some sentimental
reasons and whatnot. So we'll leave it at that. Pierre
(29:36):
from Springfield rights in as the mail bag continues, that's
right hold on, Pierre says, it's one of the card
carrying paid contributors of the Ben Mallows Show in the
fifth hour podcast, I would like to extend my condolences
to half point left Wing and the members of Beard
Drinking Brant's family. Brian's juovial spirit will be missed and
(29:57):
he leaves a void in the Malamusha. That is true.
So instead of a question, I have more of a plea,
much like hollering James, I would like you to reach
out to the patron saint of the Mallams, to the
Great Tammy and Montana and ask her to use her
superpowers to find the likes of Randy formerly in formally
(30:20):
in Norman. Yeah, Randy's the guy that got so upset
he stopped listening to the show Danny because of a
commercial member when I said pro bouncy ball, but I
was reading the commercial. He didn't like the way the
commercial right anyway, so uh. And then he also says,
you're Montana Bear, wants to add them to the payroll,
wants Tammy to find them. He says, I would also
(30:40):
like to ask all members of the Malams to please
take care of themselves. Life is short. The number eighteen
sports talk show in the country cannot afford to lose
any listeners. Ps A shout out to Danny G for
keeping Genie alive through all of his glorious drops. And
you have kept Genie alive and I'm a doctor. I'm
(31:00):
so happy we can play some of those on this podcast,
because I know Roberto kind of came in after Genie
and and so you experienced the full amazement of Genie
and Medford and it's It's one of the cool things
about doing this is that we've lost, unfortunately a fair
amount of listeners. I I've had many people pass away
and it's it's part of the gig doing a late
night show. People are listing, some of them very sick,
(31:22):
some of them older, and it's just the birds in
the beest circle of life. But it is cool that
we can continue to play those drops. I also missed
the Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay drops. I love that guy,
Jimmy Ray. I felt like he was the male version
of Tammy in Montana. And then you also add Moonshine
Mark you remember him from from Florida and I when
(31:45):
I was moving, I still have a little bench thing
that he made in like a wood shop thing, which
was really neat, really nice man and kind of similar
to beer drinking Brian, you know, a lot of alcohol
and finally caught up to him. But those are some
great names. Pierre A. K. A Alfe and O Piner,
(32:05):
Randy from Norman who did call in. He had moved
from Norman to like Orlando or something like that. And
then Montana Bear affects us deeply. I was there finishing
up my Sunday shift when Roberto came in to start
your show and he had just found out about bear
drinking Brian and he was visibly upset. The way I
(32:27):
was when Jeannie passed away. And you know he'll keep
uh those drops alive the same way I've kept the
Genie drops alive. We Uh So I went out, but
I better put you off the air because if I
keep you on any longer, I'm gonna getting trouble. Someone's
(32:47):
gonna demand a wellness check. Thank you. Yeah. And the
thing too about this is like I remember when Jeannie
was on her deathbed and she couldn't call the show.
She had lost her voice, and I remember, you know,
I was able to talk to her. She couldn't talk
back because she was really in bad shape. And but
she remember, she like she it really stuck with me. Uh.
(33:11):
And I said, Genie, we were all pulling for you,
everyone on the show and callers and all that. And
she with with little voice, she said had she said,
I love you guys like that and that was that
just broke my heart. And uh and I am you know,
and these people we don't really it's weird because it's
read we don't really know them in real life. But
yet here I am late at night talking to beer
(33:33):
drinking Brian. For many years, calling in a couple of
times a week, Genie and Medford would call every night.
We thought she was fake when she first started calling
because she was so out there and my Peach Cobbler
lives and Uh, anyway, the only time we've met a
lot of these people are during production meetings and when
we signed their paychecks. Well, that is true, although I
(33:55):
will tell you I did the one of the last
I didn't want to see, which was a lot of
fun meeting the listeners there and in Boston back in
was back there. One of the great appearances we had
at the Casking Flagging across from Finway, when David from
Winter Park, Florida drove all the way from Florida to
(34:15):
Boston to hang out with me for like ninety minutes
at a bar on a chilly night in April in Boston. Uh,
it was that was wild. That is some dedication, man,
That was really cool. I I wish you had girlfriends
that didn't even like you that much. No, No, I
I had women I was interested in who if I
(34:37):
was across the room, would not walk across the room,
giving me the time of day, so I could even
smell with perfume. They were wearing whatever they get out
of here. Uh, and it speaking of getting out of here,
I think, uh, we have time for maybe one more.
Let's one more. I want to make it a good
one here. And there's so many people that have sent
emails in and I unfortunately, let's see here what show
(35:00):
we wish? I'd go to Jason and Derby Wichita in
the Wichita Kansas series? Is what is the oldest drop
still in rotation on the Ben Mallor Show? And when
is the BM of the PM going to be added
to your list of nicknames? The I see what you
did there? How dare you, Jason? The oldest job? I?
(35:20):
I would say the oldest drop is probably the pay
me five hundred thousand dollars all Endorset gay magazine. I
think that's the oldest one. You pay me five hund
thousand dollars all Endorse a game magazine, that's all? What?
How about the go to Hell Bill Miller? Bill Miller?
How old is that one? Oh? That's pretty old too,
But I think the original because Jake Warner put that
(35:44):
in at the original run Jake the Game magazine. You
could hear the edit on that, unless you can't. I
was ahead of my time on on that gay magazines.
You were ahead of your time. Who knew that twenty
years later that would be main stare. Back then, it
was like jockey, Oh my god, I can't believe ma'm
I've said that, But now now I would get applause.
Everyone would be like, yes, you're talking about negros, so
(36:08):
you're cutting out have come full full circle listen. So
many people said email and I apologize. We had limited
amount of time in the studio to get all of
these on the here. I did want to say to
everyone who we didn't get to, Thank you Cliff from Nashville,
John the Jailer. These are big names the show contributors. Here,
(36:30):
Kent from Colorado, who's upset because I say spit a
lugie instead of hawka lugie. So we took time out
to right thank you Kent. My life is better because
I read that. Alan and Akron I wrote in John
and Northern Colorado as well, telling you ask me a
question about feeding Bella or feeding different animals now and
so if I didn't get to your question and you
(36:52):
want to send it again. Blind Scott who asked if
everyone in l A has a podcast, which I think
is true Danny. At this point, everyone in Los Angeles
as a podcast, Jason and Rocky, Mount Virginia, Big Greg
and Iowa Hill, Billy Mike. These are big names and
so many others I didn't get to thank you. Hopefully
we'll have more time next week and we can just
do a longer mail bag and get to it to
(37:13):
all these questions. I don't want to discourage you from
sending them in, but we have a finite amount of time,
and so that's the that's the way we do it.
Good luck to the super Bowl today. I hope it's
a good game and the Rams win and I'll be
in a great mood. And if the Rams lose, won't
be in a great mood. But I'll still be on
the radio tonight either way, Brian, no filling in for
(37:35):
you tonight. Well, if I get COVID again or something
like that, or maybe I have a stomach ache from
eating all that food I'm not used to eating, So
it's it's all possible. It's all will be the RAMS variant, Yeah,
say exactly, the Matthew Stafford variant. But no, no, no,
the Rams will be Victorio's Odell Beckham My pick the
Click in the super Bowl and all those new York
(37:55):
scribes will be pulling their hair out saying, how did
that happen? How did that at s O B O
b J come back and be a super Bowl champion. Anyway,
thank you and we'll talk to you next time. I
appreciate it. I hope you're ramming it all afternoon. You
can ram it all night, and ram it all night.
He's got a murder, gotta go.
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 clearing house of hot takes,
break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
(00:24):
Maller starts right now in the air everywhere a happy
super Ball Sunday. It is finally on, Like Donkey Kong,
the game we have been waiting for, hyping up for
(00:44):
several weeks and some of us who might have an
affiliation or an a fiction affliction of ram fever, Danny
extra excited for Super Bowl fifty six Rams and Bengals.
And if you missed it before the game, you can
listen to this podcast. But we have the prop Bet
podcast from DraftKings on Friday. And Jackie Slater a Hall
(01:06):
of Famer and is he the first Hall of Famer
that we've we've had on the Fifth Hour. I try
to forget every weekend once it moves. I don't know
it's but he's He's definitely one of the few Hall
of famers we've had on but it is the Fifth
Hour with myself, Ben Maller and the one and only
Danny G Radio back again to save you on a
(01:28):
Sunday from marginal crappy audio content. And so that is
why we were here and hopefully you will not tell
us the fuck that. But it's exciting. Danny and I
don't want to waste any time here. We have so
many had more people email this week than I think
(01:51):
we've gotten in two years the mail bag and I
was complaining a couple of weeks ago and we needed
alfa animal piner to rally the troops, and ever since
that happened, we've had plenty of mail. So let's get
right to it. I don't want to short change anyone.
(02:13):
Thanks for our buddy ohio Al who sent that in,
so we'll go right to it. These are actual questions
send in. If you want to send your own question
in and a future edition of the Fifth Hour podcast,
you are more than welcome to do that. We'd love
to have you do it and join the masses Real
Fifth Hour at gmail dot com as the email address,
but you can send a question in on Facebook. I
(02:34):
post every Tuesday, usually early in the day on Tuesday
Facebook page Ben Maller Show. We have a mail bag
post you can send questions and you can also send
questions to Danny G on Twitter, Danny G Radio on Twitter.
You can send it with me. Well, you know how
to send it to me. Are you ready? Are you
buckled up? Danny? You're prepared here. That's pregame you're gonna
hear all day because it's not about the game, that's right.
(02:57):
This is just about us answering random question and you go, oh.
When you hear the answers, you're like, it's not We're
not gonna have the evil people. They're not coming in. No, no, no,
We're gonna keep the stormtroopers away. They will not here.
They will not be here. Danny. By the way, the
last two episodes of Bubba Fett where outstanding. I can't
(03:20):
hear the music, won't stop. I can't stop it, Danny Jake,
all right, there it is, finally it's over all right.
First email from Chris in Marra, Cocona, Iowa. He says uh,
he says that. He says, now that your radio show
is doing well and you have record podcast numbers as well,
is it time to ask Fox to give back that
(03:40):
salary cut they gave you during the pandemic. Uh, tell
them pats on the back, don't pay the rent, he says,
and go Raiders. Yeah that's from Chris. Uh sure, yeah,
I'm sure. I'm sure management Danny is the checks in
the mail, right. I think that for both of us,
they'll take care of us. Yes, yeah, you're like Jim
Harbaugh and you am. They're gonna give you that money back. Yeah,
(04:02):
I just you know, I just ask. I'll send him
a text or something like that. Yeah, my man, I
got your cover, mom May and nothing to worry about,
all right. Next up is from Blake in Arkansas. He says, Ben,
did you ask or push for you and the crew
to do the show, the radio show from Radio Row?
Don't tell me. No one is going. Every other show
I listened to is going. So if you guys are not,
(04:25):
you either have zero balls, Blake and Arkansas says, or
if asked and told no, then you have zero respect
with management. Which is it? That is from Blake? Well,
we depending on how things went, and you know, it's
up to your interpretation. Uh, we either had a very
successful trip to Radio Row on Friday or we did not.
(04:50):
And you'll have to wait till next weekend to find out.
But I did have conversations. I don't get into all
of it now because we'll probably talk about it next
weekend on the podcast Behind the Scenes how we make
the hot dogs, and most people don't care about how
we make the hot dogs, But there were conversations that
took place. There were debating whether or not to do
the terrestrial radio show, and I'll get more into it
(05:13):
at a later day. Wide decisions were made. Who made
those decisions, and that will be that. So generally speaking, Ben,
what some people don't realize is it's not like Radio
Row is open twenty four hours, like you got to
be there when the guests or potential guests are there.
(05:33):
So normally it's the midday show through the beginning of
a night show. Possibly well, I mean there it's possible
to do it. I mean JT back in the day
used to do his show and he was doing the overnight.
So I guess if if you found a sponsor and
you could broadcast from somewhere nearby the Super Bowl, right, yeah, yeah,
And there are there are working Resibent Plus listen. We're
(05:57):
in California, and I know there are a number of
East Coast morning shows, a few of them anyway, that
are doing the show from Los Angeles, and so they're
starting at three in the morning, is the middle of
the night in California, and they are They're doing their show,
and they're all excited about it and all that and
doing the show and going out golfing and having a
(06:19):
great time and all that and so, and we'll get
more into that, and I'll have a look back at
everything that took place. That'll be coming up most likely
next weekend on the Saturday. And I was told I
went on the radio with a buddy of mine, a
couple of friends of mine, to do radio in Florida,
and they pointed out, I didn't realize this. The next
two super Bowls are all Western super Bowls, Phoenix and Vegas, Glendale,
(06:41):
Arizona and then onto Vegas. Baby. So I'm thinking, Danny,
depending on how this whole radio role appearance goes, I think,
how about a road trip Benny and Danny g go
across the you know, California Arizona border for a quick
visit next year, and then Vegas is even closer than
Phoenix or Glenna. Ill I think we might be onto something,
(07:02):
your dame. Yeah, I'm down and I thought it went well,
but we'll expand next weekend. We'll tell you exactly how
it went on Radio Row this past Friday afternoon. All right,
the next question on the mailback Christie listening. Christie is
in Salt Lake City, and she says, Ben, what is
your beverage of choice and your favorite snacks on the
(07:23):
big day? That's says go rams from Christie. So so
the problem is, Christie, I have to do a radio
show a few hours after the game ends. The game
will end approximately what you think, ten thirty eleven o'clock
on the East coast, seven thirty eight o'clock on the
West coast, and then I've got to be on a
(07:43):
few hours after that, so I can't get completely snockered
like I might if I didn't have to do that.
So I will probably be very boring and drink like
I might go hard and drink lemonade. Uh. And then
as far as food is concerned, my wife will be working,
so I'll be on my own on that, so I
might I might make a pizza. That's usually what I
(08:06):
do for a big game, like the Mallard pizza, a
lot of snacks. Uh, depending on either way, either he
goes well the Rams win, so I have celebratory snacks
or the Rams don't do well, and then I have uh,
you know, kind of feel good snacks to to cheer
me up a little bit pasta like comfort food. Well, no,
I got like you know, we have like a little
(08:29):
part of the kitchen that has all the the snacks,
like the chocolate almonds. There's these Macadaemian nut cluster things
that are pretty good. Uh, there's like a whole mix
of other random candy. So but I'm still only gonna
I'm only gonna do it for a few hours during
the game, and then I'm gonna go back too fasting.
(08:49):
So I'm gonna it's Super Bowl son rare and appropriate,
Danny and Christie, right, super Bowl Sunday, rare and appropriate.
So I'll enjoy for a few hours, I'll live my
old life again, and then I will go back and
uh and not eat for like three days to try
to make up for it. That's the plan, she says,
Go Rams. Absolutely, We've been saying it for years. It
(09:11):
should be a national holiday the day after the Super Bowl.
There's always that and they're like, let's just move to
Saturday and then you don't have to take the holiday
or whatever. Right, uh, Tammy, And Montana writes and says, guys,
always a great podcast with her David or Danny mixed
in with Ben as she says, so she's a she's
a fan of whoever he's on the podcast. Well, were
(09:33):
the good thing with Danny here is that we've not
had as many fisticuffs like before, you know, every every
UH show was fighting, but we have not had to
do that come back. It's yes, right, Tammy? Right? Since
she says, to get those five star reviews, how about
(09:55):
the chance to name the future Danny Gee's baby. She says,
great advice from Danny for Ozzy Momentum about a goal
for family fund so the whole family can enjoy something expensive.
Also an allowance each week at least for the kid,
and then they can save for something more expensive to
(10:17):
spend each week. Yeah, you want to try to avoid
the rotten spoiled child syndrome as much as possible. You
just don't need that. You don't want that because then
the kid turns out to be an asshole. And we
can say that on the podcast, and you just you
just want to avoid. It's common for kids to not
understand the value of money and how much hard work
(10:39):
it takes to get said money, And so you got
to teach them that it doesn't come easy. You know,
when they have to spend their own bucks on something,
they really think long and hard about how they spend
their their little money that they have saved up. Yeah,
because you grow up in this bubble and you're like, well,
I don't what is money? You know, it's just whatever
I need it my parents will give to me, and
(11:00):
all that I think I grew up like. Tammy says, uh, yeah, Ben,
When when are you singing for Bentley? She says, when
are you singing for Bentley? We all want to hear
that rendition? Uh, Tammy, you wait for that. I'll be
in the sixth Hour podcast. You can hear that in
the sixth Hour. Murray in Saskatoon. I'm glad Murray's still listening.
(11:21):
Can you pick out Saskatoon on a map? Danny, Absolutely not, Yeah, exactly.
But it's a fun it's a fun place to say Saskatoon.
That's a fun name for a city. I like fun words.
Horn Swoggle is cool, But Saskatoon. It's got a nice
ring to it in Saskatoon, all right, Murray says, what
(11:44):
do you and the guys on the overnight show, Dude,
during the commercial breaks usually, do you talk about things
that you can't discuss on the radio? Are you silent
as to save your voice? Discuss how to attack the
next segment, etcetera, etcetera. That's from Murray in Saskatoon. Murray,
there's not a lot of conversation that goes on. I
(12:08):
normally I talk a lot, and during the breaks, I
try to shut up as much as I can. But
we do gossip. I mean we everywhere at any job
I've ever worked at. I worked at radio most of
my life. But we we all gossip about other people
at work and what's going on in the business. Right.
I think it's fair to say, Danny, that's just the
natural natural thing if you hear something, And since we've
(12:30):
all kind of been spread out in different places, that's
a that's a chance but to kind of learn stuff
that we didn't know. Yeah, and it depends on what
happened with the segment that just ended. Sometimes we're still
laughing about what happened at the end of a segment. Uh.
Usually though, we have our head down at first, because
we have some things we gotta do, like save the
(12:51):
segment into the computer system and get sound or something
ready for the next segment. Once that's done, and say
Roberto has his new is it picked out for the rejoin?
Then yeah, you're right. We'll listen to a promo from
another show and maybe react to that and give our
own spin on what we heard, and only in a
positive way. We would never react in a negative way
(13:12):
because that would be born, That would be inappropriate. We
never said, boy, that guy's a knucklehead. I can't believe
he said that. We never do that because that would
be inappropriate. Murdh, that would be absolutely wrong. So I
hope that answers your question. Next up, we have Ausi momentum,
the aforementioned Ozzy momentum. He says, do either of you
(13:33):
own an umbrella? And if so, how do you use
it and not look like a complete pansy? He says,
what would you do to use one like a boss? Well,
this is really your question, Danny. I have certainly lean
more to a pansy than you. Than you, Danny, you
just reek of masculinity. You ah, you know tough Danny
(13:54):
G Radio. So how does Danny G Radio a radio
a raider fan and a radio man? And how does
one carry an umbrella and not look like gay Woods?
Very simple. I do not carry an umbrella. Instead, I
have the water protected spray on my Jordan's and I
try to wear the slick material that the water will
(14:17):
slide off of. I have a radar pull over that
is like that vinyl material. The last time we had
a big rainstorm here where I live, I had to
go to my day job and I wore that my
shoes were protected with that spray and I stood there
in this torrential downpour. Ben I was helping in the
(14:40):
morning routine there at the school, and I was the
only one without an umbrella. He's right. The ladies that
were walking around at the school, they looked like Mary Poppins.
The wind was making them blow away with their umbrella.
The dudes look like dorks trying to open and keep
opening the umbrella. It's just not even worth it. So
I would rather stand in the rain and take it
(15:02):
like a man. Yeah, I've lost many an umbrella. It's
so embarrassing. You're walking down the street and there's a
big gusta waited play. Yeah, what kind of like if
you see a guy drinking an alcoholic beverage through a straw.
It's awkward, It's it's awkward. One more from Ozzy Momentum.
(15:23):
He says, ps Ben, just how horrified were you when
you heard the drop of you saying? But all those
blank look the same. He's talking about Joe and Phil
Niekro That's what he's talking about there. We all know
that it wasn't racist, and it's damn unfortunate that you
can't play it anymore. But is that the worst thing
(15:45):
that came back to bite you? I'm devastated. Osim Windham
said that the drop of you saying I love the
blank one one thousand two, one thousand three, Taliban. I'm
see I know what he's trying to do here, Dan,
He's trying to get me to repeat this. Yeah, he
says it wasn't a better quality. He says, uh, you're
not allowed to play the necro drop anymore. No, we're not,
(16:08):
because what happened was people, as you know Danny from
working in radio, do not listen to everything that we say,
and they hear these things out of context, and they
thought I was saying something that was definitely not Nekrou
the Joe and Phil it was, it was something else,
and yeah, I we would get I get email, angry emails,
(16:32):
calls from people and they'd all be like, I, I've
listened to you for fifteen years. I can't believe you
would say such a thing on the radio. And I'm like, well,
I know I didn't actually say that. You you heard
something that I didn't say, But it's hard to explain
that to them because it sounds similar. And it's really
(16:53):
it was a case where we out of an abundance
of not wanting to deal with the people, contacting management
is then management, as you know, is like what are
you doing? What is this all about? And so it
was just a case, yeah we could you're just being
proactive to a complaint. Yeah, but it is. It's pretty, uh,
(17:13):
pretty wild how many people emailed me and called the
show or contacted management and said, hey, this is I'm
offended by. Can I use that drop on the podcast? Uh? Yeah,
I think I have a podcast. Like in the middle
of the podcast, you could prob all right, I'll be
dropping in. I guess I guess I'll have to find
out if it's still in the computer system. Yeah, well, knowing,
(17:36):
knowing the way we work, it will be in there
and you will be dead and we'll still be in there.
All right, what is next year? I didn't want to
mention now she did. Angelina did not want me to
mention her name on the podcast. She sent a nice email,
and I'm apologizing. I just wanted to give her It's
not really a shout out, because we don't do shoutouts,
but she said a very nice email. She's a big
fan of the show on the podcast, and she loves
(17:56):
Danny Ge and she loves you and me and everybody.
And I'm so I'm gonna honor her wishes. I'm not
gonna read her message on the on the podcast, but
I didn't want to say that I got it, Angeline.
I think I wrote back. I hope I did. Angelina
Angelina Angelina, and she lives on the Wisconsin Minnesota border
and she's a big fan and one of our k
(18:17):
fan listeners in the Twin Cities. And I think I
wrote back and told her I have to get to Wisconsin,
and I think I'm gonna probably get there sometime in
early May. I think to try to visit my brother,
I have to take some time off. I you know
how I hate taking time off, but I've got to
take like eight days off to go to this freaking
(18:38):
wedding that we're they're going to. So but I don't
feel bad about it, Danny, because I got screwed out
of my vacation because I had COVID the entire time
I was away on my year end hiatus. So I'm like, yea,
I what the hell? Yeah, You're right, you were the Transformer.
Oh my crown, Jennifer, how about it? We have a
lot of women, is it you, Danny that the even
(19:00):
a listener? Here's those those pipes of yours, Jennifer and
Richmond Virginia says Been, and Danny, g I first want
to say, arrest in peace, beer drinking Brian absolutely, prayers
of comfort for his family and friends and for Sandy
a k a half pint, and she says Been. This
(19:24):
super Bowl here falls on his special days, my youngest
kid's birthday. And so Gabe, he's nineteen, you know, as
you know, Jennifer, and I'm I hopefully gave her he
probably he's a like still a punk teenager. So Gabe
probably don't care, but we don't do shoutouts game. And
I know, Jennifer, you're probably hoping we would do a
shout out the game, but this is not a a
(19:47):
morning show, so we cannot, absolutely cannot do that. Shut
the funk up, Okay, shut the fuck rop. But that's
a great age, she says. She has three awesome kids.
Are ages are nineteen twenty? How about that, man, Jennifer, Bam, bam, bam,
back to back to back to back, hold ones in
a row, get it all out, boom. That's what it is.
(20:08):
I get get it done in three years and you
move on. Uh, she says, I don't feel much older
than them. As she says, the math does work. My
question for both of you is what's one of your
best birthday memories? Uh? So, I've I've had some some
good Obviously everyone's had great birthdays. But I I fondly
remember time with my mom when I was a kid
(20:30):
and just like spoiling me with food, being a fat kid,
that meant a lot birthday cake and you know, just
making you feel like you were the most important person
in the world, and how great moms are and all
that so I have fond memories of that, and I've
had I've worked a lot on my birthday, usually work
during my radio career, so I've I've been on and
the listeners have been very kind. And there was a
(20:52):
stretch and were you I think you were part of
the show. Remember the birthday the cake thing? Of course,
that was insane, dude, I have pictures from I don't know.
It must have been a three year span where any
birthday or anniversary or anything special. Tammy and Montana really
hooked us up with cakes. And we're not just cakes.
(21:13):
These were pieces of art. Oh yeah, this was an
artisan that made these cakes unbelievable. These are these are
multiple hundred dollar cakes. Yeah, like if it was Banning's birthday,
then there would be the Clipper Condor. Yeah, ridiculous, Chuck
the Condor. It was like cake Wars. He was made
(21:37):
to look exactly like the real Chuck the Condor on
top of your cake. It was so good, it was awesome.
I have pictures still from all those birthdays, so those
are really good memories. And then Ben, I would say
two birthdays ago for me, it was still somewhat fresh
with my tender RONI I was meeting her fan lean
(22:00):
some of her family for the first time. I want
to say, maybe one day before Christmas, something came up
about my birthday. One of her family members asked me
about my birthday and I was like, oh, yeah, it's
in a couple of days. And my Tendernie laughed. She
was like, yeah, right, and I'm like, no, I'm serious,
my birthday is in a couple of days. She forgot
because we only talked about it when we first met,
(22:23):
and she didn't make a note or market on her
calendar or anything. And we're guys been so we don't
have a birthday week or a birthday month, right, we
don't promote our birthdays. So she didn't know. Her family
looked at her, like, you don't know when his birthday is.
We got a good laugh about it because she had
to like really scramble and get something together. I thought
(22:45):
she was just being low key, which I didn't mind.
I didn't want a big deal about it now, Like
when my birthday came up in December, I told her,
I'm like, you're gonna forget again. Um. So that was
a very good first birthday with her. She had no
idea it's nice. I like it. Uh yeah, it's it's
weird what you remember because when you're a kid. When
I was a kid, Danny, I was like, I remember
(23:06):
the presents. But as I've gotten older, I've forgotten about
the presidents, and I've remembered like the time, and obviously
i still remember the food. It all over me. And
I've had some wonderful birthday trips while my wife we've
gone and done some really cool things as a married
man here and I've found memories of that. Valls fan
Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee. Right, since there's no question but
(23:28):
a request, since Danny g wasn't there, will you tell
him about your stroll in the park when the panic
attack happened. Well, it wasn't a panic attack. I had
the ships with no hose and I'm not telling that
story again, Jimmy. There's a podcast which I'm sure is
still up, and if you want to hear me on
my worst day when I was walking early on in
(23:51):
the COVID and I thought I could make it home
and I didn't, and my gall bladder attacked and it
was it was it act. It was a crime scene
at the bathroom park near my house. I feel so
terrible to whoever had to clean that up. My god,
what a what a horrible thing that to leave behind.
And I did try to clean it up, but it
(24:11):
was so far gone, Danny that there was it was.
It was a lost cause, it was a it was
a recogniances mission, it was a recovery mission. There was
nothing to be saved. H Yeah, somehow I feel like
I've heard this whole explosive story and you shouldn't tell
it around kids. What about a nine year old girl?
(24:31):
They kept saying that anytime McDaniels used the word explosive
for the offense, Mark Davis was smiling. Explosive was also
the right word to describe that story, you know, definitely,
I got mail, yea, I got mail. Yeah, Kevin in
Kansas right since its dear Ben. I enjoyed last week
the clips of Danny g from his earlier days in radio.
(24:55):
Do you have any clips of you from the earlier
days of Ben Haler? Thanks for all you guys. There
you go, Kevin, Well, yeah, I have, And I've actually
gone through the garage and I have boxes of cassette
tapes and old technology. I don't know what to do
(25:18):
with this, Danny, I have you digitized any of it? No,
I have not. I don't know that. The stuff I
have on the carts, which is the old technology, I
would like to get my hands on that because I
had a professional radio jingle when I did a midday
show in l A. They had it done and I
use from the jingle place out of doubt, but it's
(25:39):
only on a cart machine. I don't I don't know
how to transfer. I have the same thing and they
have what they called donuts. So the station had a
jingle and in the middle of the jingle was a donut,
and during that donut you played your cart which was
a jingle of your name. Yeah, it's really cool jingles.
We love I love goals. If anybody knows how to
(26:02):
get that any reasonable price off a cart machine onto
a digital format, that would be tremendous. And as far
as the old air checks man, that's where you could
do it yourself, because I found online a cassette, a
little cassette deck that hooks into your laptop and then
(26:23):
it turns your cassette into digital wave files. Okay, yeah,
so I should transfer some of that stuff. Boy, But
there there is an archive I started at Fox Sports
Radio when I was young enough. Whereas you know Danny
from some of those drops my like my voice changed
and the famous one with the updates, when it was
(26:44):
Royals are having their problems on the road, and I
was having my problems. I'm gonna I'm gonna find that
so I could insert that right here, Royals having their
problems on the road. I'm ben Mala, Kansas City fighting
for the American makes Central with the White Sox. They're
(27:05):
in Texas on this Labor Day and the Rangers bombing away,
who looked so refreshing. I decided to put on my
twim trunks and dive right in. How is this? If
you should see me now, you wouldn't know clearly not
the highlight that I don't know what that was mark
the chair to home runs and the Rangers on top
six to two. Yeah, that was quite the embarrassing I
(27:28):
still remember. That was quite the embarrassing moment. I still
remember Art Martinez, the great engineer, one of the great
radio engineers of all time, Art Martinez, he had played
the sound bite and then turned his back and walked
away from the board, and I knew right away it
was the wrong sound bite and I could not get
I was like waving my arms. I was like and
then I started banging the table and it didn't matter
(27:50):
because I was in a different a studio and it
was soundproof. And those national updates, when you and I
both heart took in that they were so serious. Back then,
we were had to be like like news guys. It
was so serious to death. The Huskies waited and watched
(28:12):
to see who they'd be playing on Monday night, and
then the back and forth thriller between Wisconsin and UK.
With five point seven seconds left, Aaron Harrison received a
pass from his twin brother Andrew, and for the third
straight game, he did this as he again. Now fast
(28:33):
forward and it's Brian Finley and everyone when they hear that,
they're like, oh, like using all these adjectives that you know,
and and just it's kind of just it's so lighthearted. Now.
I like it, but it's so different from when we
(28:54):
were doing updates. Oh yeah. Back back in those days,
it was it was serious and if you didn't follow
the instructions, that's that's how that goes. Uh see, where
do we have Terry in England? Real quick? Says uh
Man when you moved to the new Mallord mansion. What
were the main criteria that you needed to choose the
(29:16):
right house? Uh? He says, how many properties did you view? Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Uh So I can't really get it all that right now, Terry.
But they were not It was not a lot of
viewing that took place with where I'm at in a
better part of town. And uh, there were some sentimental
reasons and whatnot. So we'll leave it at that. Pierre
(29:36):
from Springfield rights in as the mail bag continues, that's
right hold on, Pierre says, it's one of the card
carrying paid contributors of the Ben Mallows Show in the
fifth hour podcast, I would like to extend my condolences
to half point left Wing and the members of Beard
Drinking Brant's family. Brian's juovial spirit will be missed and
(29:57):
he leaves a void in the Malamusha. That is true.
So instead of a question, I have more of a plea,
much like hollering James, I would like you to reach
out to the patron saint of the Mallams, to the
Great Tammy and Montana and ask her to use her
superpowers to find the likes of Randy formerly in formally
(30:20):
in Norman. Yeah, Randy's the guy that got so upset
he stopped listening to the show Danny because of a
commercial member when I said pro bouncy ball, but I
was reading the commercial. He didn't like the way the
commercial right anyway, so uh. And then he also says,
you're Montana Bear, wants to add them to the payroll,
wants Tammy to find them. He says, I would also
(30:40):
like to ask all members of the Malams to please
take care of themselves. Life is short. The number eighteen
sports talk show in the country cannot afford to lose
any listeners. Ps A shout out to Danny G for
keeping Genie alive through all of his glorious drops. And
you have kept Genie alive and I'm a doctor. I'm
(31:00):
so happy we can play some of those on this podcast,
because I know Roberto kind of came in after Genie
and and so you experienced the full amazement of Genie
and Medford and it's It's one of the cool things
about doing this is that we've lost, unfortunately a fair
amount of listeners. I I've had many people pass away
and it's it's part of the gig doing a late
night show. People are listing, some of them very sick,
(31:22):
some of them older, and it's just the birds in
the beest circle of life. But it is cool that
we can continue to play those drops. I also missed
the Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay drops. I love that guy,
Jimmy Ray. I felt like he was the male version
of Tammy in Montana. And then you also add Moonshine
Mark you remember him from from Florida and I when
(31:45):
I was moving, I still have a little bench thing
that he made in like a wood shop thing, which
was really neat, really nice man and kind of similar
to beer drinking Brian, you know, a lot of alcohol
and finally caught up to him. But those are some
great names. Pierre A. K. A Alfe and O Piner,
(32:05):
Randy from Norman who did call in. He had moved
from Norman to like Orlando or something like that. And
then Montana Bear affects us deeply. I was there finishing
up my Sunday shift when Roberto came in to start
your show and he had just found out about bear
drinking Brian and he was visibly upset. The way I
(32:27):
was when Jeannie passed away. And you know he'll keep
uh those drops alive the same way I've kept the
Genie drops alive. We Uh So I went out, but
I better put you off the air because if I
keep you on any longer, I'm gonna getting trouble. Someone's
(32:47):
gonna demand a wellness check. Thank you. Yeah. And the
thing too about this is like I remember when Jeannie
was on her deathbed and she couldn't call the show.
She had lost her voice, and I remember, you know,
I was able to talk to her. She couldn't talk
back because she was really in bad shape. And but
she remember, she like she it really stuck with me. Uh.
(33:11):
And I said, Genie, we were all pulling for you,
everyone on the show and callers and all that. And
she with with little voice, she said had she said,
I love you guys like that and that was that
just broke my heart. And uh and I am you know,
and these people we don't really it's weird because it's
read we don't really know them in real life. But
yet here I am late at night talking to beer
(33:33):
drinking Brian. For many years, calling in a couple of
times a week, Genie and Medford would call every night.
We thought she was fake when she first started calling
because she was so out there and my Peach Cobbler
lives and Uh, anyway, the only time we've met a
lot of these people are during production meetings and when
we signed their paychecks. Well, that is true, although I
(33:55):
will tell you I did the one of the last
I didn't want to see, which was a lot of
fun meeting the listeners there and in Boston back in
was back there. One of the great appearances we had
at the Casking Flagging across from Finway, when David from
Winter Park, Florida drove all the way from Florida to
(34:15):
Boston to hang out with me for like ninety minutes
at a bar on a chilly night in April in Boston. Uh,
it was that was wild. That is some dedication, man,
That was really cool. I I wish you had girlfriends
that didn't even like you that much. No, No, I
I had women I was interested in who if I
(34:37):
was across the room, would not walk across the room,
giving me the time of day, so I could even
smell with perfume. They were wearing whatever they get out
of here. Uh, and it speaking of getting out of here,
I think, uh, we have time for maybe one more.
Let's one more. I want to make it a good
one here. And there's so many people that have sent
emails in and I unfortunately, let's see here what show
(35:00):
we wish? I'd go to Jason and Derby Wichita in
the Wichita Kansas series? Is what is the oldest drop
still in rotation on the Ben Mallor Show? And when
is the BM of the PM going to be added
to your list of nicknames? The I see what you
did there? How dare you, Jason? The oldest job? I?
(35:20):
I would say the oldest drop is probably the pay
me five hundred thousand dollars all Endorset gay magazine. I
think that's the oldest one. You pay me five hund
thousand dollars all Endorse a game magazine, that's all? What?
How about the go to Hell Bill Miller? Bill Miller?
How old is that one? Oh? That's pretty old too,
But I think the original because Jake Warner put that
(35:44):
in at the original run Jake the Game magazine. You
could hear the edit on that, unless you can't. I
was ahead of my time on on that gay magazines.
You were ahead of your time. Who knew that twenty
years later that would be main stare. Back then, it
was like jockey, Oh my god, I can't believe ma'm
I've said that, But now now I would get applause.
Everyone would be like, yes, you're talking about negros, so
(36:08):
you're cutting out have come full full circle listen. So
many people said email and I apologize. We had limited
amount of time in the studio to get all of
these on the here. I did want to say to
everyone who we didn't get to, Thank you Cliff from Nashville,
John the Jailer. These are big names the show contributors. Here,
(36:30):
Kent from Colorado, who's upset because I say spit a
lugie instead of hawka lugie. So we took time out
to right thank you Kent. My life is better because
I read that. Alan and Akron I wrote in John
and Northern Colorado as well, telling you ask me a
question about feeding Bella or feeding different animals now and
so if I didn't get to your question and you
(36:52):
want to send it again. Blind Scott who asked if
everyone in l A has a podcast, which I think
is true Danny. At this point, everyone in Los Angeles
as a podcast, Jason and Rocky, Mount Virginia, Big Greg
and Iowa Hill, Billy Mike. These are big names and
so many others I didn't get to thank you. Hopefully
we'll have more time next week and we can just
do a longer mail bag and get to it to
(37:13):
all these questions. I don't want to discourage you from
sending them in, but we have a finite amount of time,
and so that's the that's the way we do it.
Good luck to the super Bowl today. I hope it's
a good game and the Rams win and I'll be
in a great mood. And if the Rams lose, won't
be in a great mood. But I'll still be on
the radio tonight either way, Brian, no filling in for
(37:35):
you tonight. Well, if I get COVID again or something
like that, or maybe I have a stomach ache from
eating all that food I'm not used to eating, So
it's it's all possible. It's all will be the RAMS variant, Yeah,
say exactly, the Matthew Stafford variant. But no, no, no,
the Rams will be Victorio's Odell Beckham My pick the
Click in the super Bowl and all those new York
(37:55):
scribes will be pulling their hair out saying, how did
that happen? How did that at s O B O
b J come back and be a super Bowl champion. Anyway,
thank you and we'll talk to you next time. I
appreciate it. I hope you're ramming it all afternoon. You
can ram it all night, and ram it all night.
He's got a murder, gotta go.
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