March 19, 2022 • 36 mins
Ben and his 5th Hour home-slice Danny G. take you behind the scenes, with a fun conversation about wizard, back scratcher, flippin' the bird with a mask, ghosted, name that pasta, and more!
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Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
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takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
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Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere is
a Saturday, Saturday Saturday. The content does not end. The
Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G Radio to
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get you through the hell that the weekend could be now.
Normally people look forward to the weekend, but sometimes you
have nothing to do. But we are here to liven
things up, Danny G. Even on a Saturday. How's your
bracket looking? Is it already in the trash can? Well,
they call me Benny Bracketts for a reason, day d G.
As you can see on the company website, I was
requested by management to fill out a bracket and I
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told them, I said, I'm gonna win that TV is
what I'm gonna win. Now you're gonna give me that TV? Andinghuse, no, no, no, Yeah.
Westinghouse is a big sponsor, which I think I read
seventeen thousand times and all that stuff. But the the
n C A a a tournament, a big, a big festivals
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year on this on this weekend, and that's what it's
all about. I'm sure you know from Black Friday. Westinghouse
is the TV that people line up for for blocks. Yeah, no, no, no,
I you know there's there's a million different TV companies.
Danny g and the Westinghouse an all time or a classic.
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It never goes out of style. I've got on this podcast.
I've got my I've got Wizard, We've got that, We've
got backscratcher, flipping the bird with a mask, a swing
and a miss and ghosted. That's a lot of content.
That's a that's a lot of content and a limited
amount of time. So let's get right into what do
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you say here? You ready to go? Yeah? All right,
this is siting. I'm very excited. So, as you referenced,
and it is that time of the year again, as
everyone in sports radio, we all undergo a metamorphosis and
it's like transforming, like it's like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.
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And we're all college basketball experts, all of a sudden
Abrica dabra hocus pocus. College basketball does not get a
lot of play on radio. It just doesn't. I was
talking to a radio friend of mine back East, and
he thinks that the the COVID shutdown of the n
c A tournament in was the final blow the college basketball,
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completely knocking it out of the zeitgeist of people. Now
I'm not there yet. I'm not quite there yet, and
I get into the tournament. I have some reasons for that.
They do call me, as I said, Benny Bracketts and
all that, but we're all experts on college basketball. So
I have been Danny over the last couple weeks, leaning
into this weekend as we chopped the field down from
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sixty four and widow it away or actually sixty eight
with the playing games back early in the week. But
so I've been immersing myself in n c A hoops
over the last couple of weeks. Actually, it is the
most wondrous time of the year for office pools, for
for gambling and all this stuff. With March madness. Now
we have it on, you know at the Mallard Mansion,
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a NonStop. But for me, it's all about the Wizard Danny,
it's all about the wizard, about the wizard, as in
the Wizard of Westwood John R. Wooden legend. Well, the
as you as you know, I'm an ambassador for the
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memory the legacy of John Wooden. You're saying, what is that,
you gas bag? You blow hard? Let me explain. So
this will be my twentieth year voting for the John R.
Wooden Award, And uh, I've talked about it from times right,
it is really cool. I like, I mean, we kid
around about it. But I don't need the heisman. I
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don't need the the m v P, the cy Young,
any of that stuff. I don't need because I have
a vote. I have a there's a limited number of
votes available, media votes, and I get to vote for
the the awards a pound for pound, Danny, for my money,
the Wooden Award is at the very top. It is
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for lem wrong. Now, how did you get this back
in the day? Did you apply for it? Were they desperate? No?
I got a great story. So there was a well
known sportscaster in Los Angeles named Ed Arnold. Ed worked
at Channel five in l A kt l A and
I was friends with that Ed. It was very nice
to me early on in my career when no one
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should have been nice to me, no one should have
done anything cool to me, and but he was very
kind to me, and he kind of you know, led me,
you know, down the path to to have a career
in radio. One of the people that was very positive
to me. And I'm very grateful to Ed Arnold. And
Ed was a long time TV sportscaster in l A.
And he said, you know what, Ben came up to me.
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It was actually Dodger Stadium and and said, you know
you've been you know, I forget exactly what he said.
He was very kind, something along the line you know,
I think you're gonna go places whether so he he
wanted me to vote for the Wooden War and uh,
this is you know, long, long, long ago, and I've
been in the business for a while, so I wasn't
like a young total young pup. But gave me the
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Wooden Award vote. And my first year voting was twenty
two and Jay Williams, who's now on ESPN, but he
was at Duke. He is the Wooden Award winner that year.
And over the years, we've had legends like Kevin Durant
won the Wooden Award. Andrew Boget was a number one
pick for I think it was the Bucks, but he
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won the Wooden Ward JJ reddick uh. And then they're
like college legends like Jimmer for Debt who I loved
a b y u Jimber for Debt, but he didn't
make it in the NBA. Zaion Williamson won it. He's
a stiff in the NBA right now. But it's been
a lot of fun. So it's been a lot of fun.
And one player come to mind that you went against
the grain, you voted for somebody that wasn't the popular choice. Well,
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I did vote, and he ended up winning the award.
But at the time, Jamir Nelson, remember Jamir Nelson look
guard out of I think Joe's I believe it was
in Philly and he had a decent NBA career, but
I've remember voting for him, and yeah, the Orlando Magic
among other teams, a pretty good career. I'm guessing he's
fully vested in the NBA pension. Yeah, they send out
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a watch list for the Wooden Award, and so once
I get to watch list, that's that's who I look at.
That's my guys. I try to watch as many of
those games as I can. And uh and and I'm
waiting actually might might have the ballot. It's an online vote,
it's a secure online vote, like everything these days. And
so I'm waiting until the eleventh hour to fill out
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the ballot. It's I'm waiting till this weekend's done, just
so I get one last look at the top guys
in the tournament. And uh, and then I'll finish up.
And then right after the show Sunday and the Monday,
so tomorrow night, after the show, so early Monday morning,
just before the deadline when they locked the vote, I
have set an alarm on my iPhone to make sure
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I don't screw this up, because I I got concerned
the last year, Danny, I I I changed my email ID,
just my email I just changed, and I was worried
I was gonna get vote. Eddie reminded me, and so
I was in a panic. I was in a tizzy.
I'll play with Eddie. So yeah, yeah, you can't screw
this stuff after twenty years. No, I gotta keep I
gotta keep voting. And John wouldn't. He's famous, I would
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say the most famous quote wouldn't, of course, known as
college basketball circles is the goat of all time and
all that stuff. But the the one quote from what
he had, the seven point Creed, which I'm sure you've
heard Danny over. There's a seven point creed. But there's
one line in that that has been repeated at nauseum.
It's point number three in the seven point Creed. Now,
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point number one is be true to yourself. Point number
two is help others. The third one is the money quote,
and it's make each day your masterpiece. What do you
want from me? It's a great quote that it's a
wonderful line. Make every just if you just make every
day your masterpiece, it's a life will live too bad.
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A lot of our days are like finger painting hundred
hundred and and he had wouldn't spent a lot of
time coming up with like sayings and things to put
on lines. He had the Pyramid of Success, which is
another thing he came up with, which is the behaviors
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to be a successful person in life and all that stuff,
which I don't know how many of these do you
think you actually connect on? Anyway, I'll give you the
twenty five real quick, you got you got faith patients
now went up to three billions. Fight slap me around
a little bit. Competitive greatness, integrity, resourcefulness, poise, confidence, reliability, adaptability,
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condition skills. I'm gonna start the whack off right now.
Team spirit, honesty, ambition, self control, alertness. I'm a huge initiative.
What else you have? Sincerity, friendship, industrial nous, loyalty, cooperation,
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enthusiasm in tentness also on me on the list? Wow,
just like the great Jerry West throwing his m v
P trophy through the window on the new HBO Lakers drama.
I haven't seen that. I've heard they made Jerry look
like a douchebag. I have not seen that. He doesn't
come off as the nicest guy, but definitely comes off
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as a basketball savant. Yeah, yeah, I have not. I
have not checked that out. I I don't know is
it worth I'm not a Laker guy, so I don't know.
But I think I think you would like it, regardless
of if you're a Laker guy or not. You know. Also,
I wanted to mention before I forget that we had
a passing this week of someone that I knew and
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I didn't get to it. On the radio. She also
pat chop by me. Uh, you probably know who this
guy is, Danny g from your Laker fandom. Alan Massingille,
the Great Alan Massonille passed away. He had been very sick.
He had colon cancer for years. And Alan, uh, someone
that you again we crossed pass back when he was
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doing he was doing the Lakers stuff on k CAL
l A him and I think it was James Worthy
would be on after after Laker games. But Alan very
good guy. He was one of the originals at ESPN
And the thing I loved about Alan Massingale was he
was always kind of down to earth and he could
have been a total dick because a lot of people
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I've known that worked at ESPN back in the heyday,
and he worked kind of work. He worked there before
that it really became the monster that it eventually became
announced quite as not as big a monster as it was,
but but he worked there and he was always in
the early days and very very cool guy from Florida,
from the South, I believe from Florida. Uh. And he
had been sick. I guess he fell and then he
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ended up passing away as a result of the fall
because he had made in poor health for a long time,
but rest in peace. Alan Massingale uh a long time
l a sportscaster, but a guy that that worked at
ESPN in the early days and did some Laker broadcasting
stuff post games. So rest rest of me. Way too young,
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I mean, you know, it's never a right time to die,
but he was. I think he was sixty three years always,
even younger than my mom. My mom died she was
sixty six. So yeah, I was sad to see that report. Yeah,
all right, we have the we went from the wizard
to the backscratcher. We gotta do it again. That last
week we lamented the fact, Danny, that that no one,
no one really gave us any love on the reviews. Remember,
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we were like, wait a minute, what happened? You know,
we got crickets, that's all we got. And I was
depressing and all that stuff, you know, very sad. The
good news is we got a bunch a six pack
this week. These are actuals. And the deal is, Danny,
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if people send a review in on the Apple podcast page,
we will read the review. That's what we agreed to, right,
let's fucking go. All right, that's Finn so Mario is
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The review five stars. I received the link you sent me.
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(17:36):
he says. Hashtag what's still wrong with the Clippers? What
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and then vinman or rom Rommy. I think that's all. Yeah,
I mean the dear Ken Miller. One logan that was logan.
So that was logan our gout logan in Memphis, Tennessee,
one of the great barbecue cities in in America. So
I'm told, so flipping the bird with a mask? What
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is this about, Danny g What are we what are
we dealing with this one? Well, and yesterday's podcast, I
was talking a little bit about how Monday was the
first day that California schools we're no longer requiring you
who worked there at the school or students to have
to wear a mask. It was optional. In fact, we
went around the campus and hung up these flyers that
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showed a picture of a girl with her thumb up
a box that was checked, saying I am comfortable without
a mask. And then and then another picture I've heard
with the other thumb up saying I am comfortable with
my mask. All the cheesiness that you would expect from
the school districts here in California. Of course this is
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a big deal. We're they're still trying to encourage the kids,
like overwhelming the you should keep wearing the mask and
all that. Don't don't stop. They still you don't know,
at least the school that I work for. I gotta
give them props because they didn't say anything to the
staff like that. They didn't say anything to the students.
They only hung those those flyers up. So I was like,
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all right, cool, I mean, it's up to us what
we want to do. In my mind, I'm thinking the
parents are gonna show up on Monday morning drop off
the kids. They are gonna run in, screaming with their
friends with no masks on Sure, my morning shift, I'm
out there in front of the school. Some of my
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responsibilities are with the gate. You're like, you're shepherding them in. Yes, yes,
I I'm the muscle right outside the main gates. You're
the ranch hero leading down. Yes. So I got my
walkie to hockey that looked very official. Parents are pulling up,
but I noticed something ben that caught me off guard. Okay,
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there were parents inside their cars wearing masks. I'm talking
both parents with a mask on, two kids in the
back seat, both wearing masks, and then the parents pushed
the kids out of the car. And what I heard
the parents say was, and do not take it off
the entire day. No, really, boom, you can light me
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on fire. And they're looking right at me too, like
you scumbag without a mask. I see you. So it
felt like not so subtle way of flipping me off
with their masks on while all of you are getting sick.
Now because some of the masks are off, we're gonna
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double up our masks and wear them inside. Bull crap
corrept Oh man. I saw at least six or seven
cars Monday morning where that was their vibe. That's what
was going on. And these are the same cars I've
seen before where they don't have masks on normally inside
the car. Yeah, you have to have a very low
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i Q to be driving with your family or by
yourself and wearing a mask in your car. No, I
agree with you. But the problem is, first of all,
I'm not surprised by this. Secondly, it's you know bad
you know, bad habits die hard, or I'd say that
that's the issue here. See the problem is people have
we're all creatures a habit and I see the same thing.
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I'm driving around. You're not driving around where I'm where
I'm living out and I'll see people walking by themselves
on a beautiful day in California and they've got the
mask all, you know, covering their face. I'm like, what
are you doing? You know? But they estimate I remember
this years ago because I was trying to lose weight.
I could never lose weight. I was like, what the hell?
And because you gotta change your habits. But the problem is,
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once people change happens, it takes like over two months.
They asked him, a scientists it is study years ago.
Maybe it's changed, but human behavior, something becomes automatic in
sixties six days. They say, that's exactly. That's a sweet
spot for on average sixty six days. If you want
to change something, you have to do it for sixty
six days, and then at that point it just becomes
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part of you. And we are two years into this,
Danny almost I think we're over the two year mark
for the mask thing. Maybe not, but we're close to it.
Two years into the mass thing, people have been now hardwired.
It's like Pavlov's dogs to wear the mask, so now
they have to be hardwired the other way. And I
was telling I was telling a buddy of mine when
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I when I was growing up. But I think I've
told this story before on the podcast. But when I
when I was getting my mom, God rest her soul,
she she hoarded like everything because she grew up in
a household that her parents went through the depression, and
so for you know, I had to have you know,
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when you had the opportunity to buy a million rolls
at tolet paper or saran wrap or illuminum for she
would load up for like the nuclear winter, and that
was the rest of her entire life. She did that
because of the trauma as a kid. And so I
think we're gonna have the same bull crap these poor
kids of today. You know, we'll be gone, Danny, but
these kids are still gonna be wearing masks when they
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go out a lot because they were programmed as children.
And it sucks. But I I don't know a way
around it. I don't. Yeah, it's gonna take a while.
Oh my mom and dad told me i'd better not
take it off today. It's just gonna go on for
a long time. Unfortunately. The one thing I will say
for me and uh, I would say about seventy percent
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of the staff had their masks off and uh and
the dean of the school, one thing he did tell
me is he's like, I think it's important for the
kids to see our faces. And yes, yeah, they see
our facial expressions and you know, to really get a
handle on things going on on the campus. That makes
a lot of sense because when kids can't see your
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facial expressions, you're only using your words, and that doesn't
always work. So, you know, it was nice to see
a lot of the faculty for the first time. I
swear to god, the ladies in the office, I had
never seen their faces. It was. It was so strange,
and some of them should have put their masks back on.
That's the problem day, right, because I you know, it's
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kind of a lot of times women will get all
dolled up with a lot of makeup on. But yeah,
the mask. What's the point of putting the makeup on?
You know what? You got the mask on. Now you
gotta go back and do all that bulk crap again,
I guess you. Of course, who am I to talk
I have a face for radio, obviously. But I go
and I go to the lunch like I talked about
on yesterday's podcast, I go to work with the kindergarteners,
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and that same girl Aria in the afternoon, she was
following me around and she said, I'm gonna marry you.
I'm marrying Mr g I'm gonna marry you. And I'm like,
that's appropriate. She's hugging my leg. Thirty seconds later, and
and Ben, you know not that you get a big
ego from a five year old telling you they think
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that you look nice without your mask. Thirty seconds later,
she was doing a very bad impersonation of me, sticking
out her stomach saying I'm Mr ge whoa who like
very unflattering, you know, uh talking ship. And I was like, wait,
thirty seconds ago, you wanted to marry me. You can't
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out women five years old. She's already listen that the
rest of her life should be the same way She'll be,
you know, twenty some years old, should be dating same bullcraps.
Canna happen some guy, some other kids that you know,
some other schools gonna be you know, the same age,
you're gonna be dating her and be like, what the
hell are you? I don't understand what are you doing?
One final thought on the mask. I noticed that my
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energy levels are way way up. I would say a
by you're breathing is labor, especially when you're outside and
you're chasing kids around and you have a physical job.
That thing was a killer. I would go home and
want to collapse. Now I've actually been coming home and
getting emails and stuff done because I still feel good. Yeah, no,
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I agree with you. Like the the breathing, it's not good,
it's not it's not eat And I'd be fully transparent here.
I always thought this was kind of preposterous and ludicrous back,
you know, even when it started. So what I I
would go walking when I lived in the old place.
And also this is nonsensical, but so many people felt
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like if you didn't wear the mask, you know, it's
insubordination of society and all this bull crap. So what
I would do is, I'd wear the mask is like
a chin strap, and then I was walking, I walked
by people, I'd raise it up and then as soon
as I walked past them, I l I'd lower it
and that would be that would buy be my way
to get around it. But yeah, and I I feel
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you on the showing up, the parents showing up and
giving the the stank guy, you know, giving you the
side eye, like what are you doing? I hate that?
And I see I see these pompous assholes occasionally, you know,
I go out to the store or something like that,
and I don't wear the mask, and there's still people
they look at you like, well, what's wrong with you?
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But but there's part of me also thinks, in addition
to people being programmed and trained now that they have
to wear the mask, and they'll you'll take a long
time to change their habits. The other issue here is
I think there's a lot of people that don't realize
the mandate's gone. They just they think it's still going around.
They don't pay attention to the headlines and they're just like, oh,
it must be still going on. They haven't gotten the memo.
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I think there's those people also that don't want to,
you know, they don't acknowledge the media in any way,
and they're like, I don't understand. I'm you know, they
told me years you know, a month ago, two years ago,
to do this. I gotta keep doing it. You know
those parents that were like that on Monday morning. I
just gave them a thumbs up and an even bigger smile. Hi,
I like to saint, I'm figured, all right, you're gonna
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flip me off with your mask inside your car, I'm
gonna smile at you even bigger. Yeah. No, No, I'll
walk around here and I'll take I take pictures. I
have a photo collection of people sitting in their cars
at red lights with mass I do and like that.
Those are our fellow human beings. We are all the
same here, We're all It's the most illogical thing ever.
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You're not gonna get COVID while you're on the freeway
by yourself in a car. And if COVID was that,
you know, contagious, then what's the point you know? I
mean you really well, you know, come on, what do
we do? You don't you have anxiety over that? Stop
stop with the emotional collapse and on it last thing here,
We're gonna combine these last last two things. The that
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we we tease, because if you tease Danny as you know,
you gotta please, you're swinging a miss and the ghosted,
which is really the the same, the same de Leo
here so real quick. So over the years, I have
been very blessed have multiple culinary establishments across the United
States named food dishes after me, and it's been very cool.
Some of them have come and gone. We had the
(29:09):
Mallard Pizza and Grand Rapids, Michigan. That didn't last very long.
We also had the originator, the o G in Syracuse,
the mal Zone, which is a it was a cal
zone with the Mallard touched. It was like Philly cheese steak,
but it was the It was really good. But we
still have we still have three items on the on
the menu of the various menus. We've got the Mallard
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fowler at the Bird the Ballet there in Lawrence, Kansas.
We have the Mallard chicken Fingers at the Landing and Liberty, Missouri,
right near the Royals Chiefs complex there where they play
their their sports. In Kansas City. The Mallard Buffalo chicken
sandwich that's at three locations now Danny and Denver. That
place started with one location three locations the greater Denver area.
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The sports Book Bar and Grill had that. I've had
that sandwich, good sandwich. So I bring this up because
we we were close, at least I thought we were
close to having another food dish and the return of
the Mallard Pizza, you know, right. And so I'm bringing
this up because it's gotta kind of a disappointing part
(30:16):
to the miracle to the story. So I have been
corresponding with a fan of the show discussing the Mallard Pie,
and the plan was to add this to the To me,
the rule is, if you're new to the show, the
Mallard the way this worries, all you have to do
is put it on the man. You don't have to
pay me or anything like that. I mean, we occasionally
I will promote these restaurants from time to time and whatnot.
(30:39):
And so the Mallard Pizza's roasted garlic, bell pepper. I
like to throw different colors to make it really pop, red, green, yellow,
throw some onions on. There's very simple. It's a simple pie.
It's the kind of pie that will keep vampires away
because of the garlic and around of stuff. And so
so anyway, this establishment in the Northeast and the Boston
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area was going to do this, at least that's what
I was told. And Uh, however, I think I need
to contact the ghostbusters here because Danny, all of a
sudden I have been ghosted, uh as it vanished, and
so I've I've decided since I don't think that's gonna happen.
I think it's been long enough. I think that we're
(31:20):
we've moved on from that, or they've moved on for
that or whatever. So uh, if and I'll just throw
this out there, nobody has to do it. Maybe nobody will.
But if there's some mom and pop shop out there
that I would like is interested in this, uh, then
you know, contact me. And I I love promoting small,
small restaurants. I know how difficult it is in the
(31:40):
restaurant business. I've had friends in that. Not tough it
can be, and so I'd love to help me out.
And I'd like to bring the Mallard pizza back. So
you can email me, contact me Ben Maller's show at
gmail dot com. And uh and again the rules are
very simple. I have to just put the Mallard name
on there, some kind of food dish and then that's it.
And then we've we've had multiple p ones. I know
(32:04):
moving man Matt in Boston has done the matter of
food toward multiple times because he's got an excuse because
he drives a moving truck all over the country. We
had a few other listeners that have done that, and
then so uh, I've also thought of the if the
pizza is not a thing, how about the Mallard Burger, Danny,
we could do that. I've never had a Mallardburg, never
done the Mallardburg, so we could do that too. So
I'm not going to cook on my knees. What would
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the Danny Gee dish b if a restaurants like I
want to? I like Danny G more than you, Mallard
What would a food dish be for Danny G Radio?
What do you think that would be? Danny? What would
you come up? Let's see what was my go to dish?
I would say a pasta for me, some kind of
pasta like a fedecchini alfredo or something like that. Yeah, yeah, pasta.
Maybe a lasagna. Okay. It's a really great place here
(32:49):
called Maria's, and the pasta's outstanding. I mean, you would
kill somebody to get their lasagna and they serve it
to you in one of those hot tins. Even when
you get it home, it is super hot. And you know,
a restaurant means business when they're serving up lasagna like that.
The flavors are superb. So yeah, I would I would
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like a nice lasagna. When I think of a mallard pie,
I'm thinking maybe instead of a salami, maybe you do
a bologna. You are the Beethoven of bs. Well, that
would be funny, like a bologna sandwich or something like that.
That would be that would be funny. But you see,
I'm on a fast right now as we're doing this,
(33:29):
as we're you're doing the podcast, and and you talking
about that pasta. Man, it's making me wish I had
some pasta right now. Or it's some kind of great
Italian food. My I had that last Friday night with
my tender roni and we took it home and they
said it's gonna take forty minutes, and we're okay with that.
We knew they were making everything fresh, and we know
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they serve it up really hot in there in their
tins that they send you off with. So when we
got that on the kitchen table and we spread it out,
it was like a smorgest board of goodness. And I
was really strategic. I'm like I'm gonna just take one
little slice of this lasagna, save the rest for tomorrow.
Brought it to the studio with me. It lasted for
(34:13):
two days. What a weekend just having that Italian food
like that. That's great. Yeah, I had lately. The Italian
place we've been going to occasionally is in uh down
in Orange County and Huntington Beach called Casino Romano. Wonderful.
Right Literally, the park, there's a parking lot behind it,
(34:33):
and then the beach sunset beaches on the other side.
There's like so there's some beaches, houses on the beach,
but there's a parking lot, line of houses and then
the beach, and then on the other side is the restaurant.
This place is really good. I'm making a note of
that right now. It's really hard to convince my tender
roni to go to Italian where do white women at
(34:55):
That's the least visited kind of restaurant by us because
she doesn't want stay. You dont live even once. Enjoy life, man, Yeah,
here's what you do. Here's the move. Unfortunately, she's probably
listening to this so she'll hear it. But the move
would be take your your queen Tinderoni to Huntington's down
in that area and say, hey, we're down here anyway,
(35:16):
why not have h I know a good Italian place.
Boom done right, just like that, I'm gonna do that.
She had a nice caesar salad and she likes chicken peccata,
so she'll do the chicken. Okay, I got you, I
got you all right. I'm hungry now to let's go eat.
I know right, It's all sounds very appetizing to me.
I mean I'll take even some some cheese rabby olie
(35:38):
or something like that. I'm good to go on that.
My taste buds are are watered, little taste. I have
a great rest your Saturday. We will catch you on
the mail bag on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, Asta Love East,
No later, Scarter. You didn't You didn't do your osta pasta.
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Gotam ver, Gotta go
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Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere is
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get you through the hell that the weekend could be now.
Normally people look forward to the weekend, but sometimes you
have nothing to do. But we are here to liven
things up, Danny G. Even on a Saturday. How's your
bracket looking? Is it already in the trash can? Well,
they call me Benny Bracketts for a reason, day d G.
As you can see on the company website, I was
requested by management to fill out a bracket and I
(01:06):
told them, I said, I'm gonna win that TV is
what I'm gonna win. Now you're gonna give me that TV? Andinghuse, no, no, no, Yeah.
Westinghouse is a big sponsor, which I think I read
seventeen thousand times and all that stuff. But the the
n C A a a tournament, a big, a big festivals
(01:26):
year on this on this weekend, and that's what it's
all about. I'm sure you know from Black Friday. Westinghouse
is the TV that people line up for for blocks. Yeah, no, no, no,
I you know there's there's a million different TV companies.
Danny g and the Westinghouse an all time or a classic.
(01:47):
It never goes out of style. I've got on this podcast.
I've got my I've got Wizard, We've got that, We've
got backscratcher, flipping the bird with a mask, a swing
and a miss and ghosted. That's a lot of content.
That's a that's a lot of content and a limited
amount of time. So let's get right into what do
(02:08):
you say here? You ready to go? Yeah? All right,
this is siting. I'm very excited. So, as you referenced,
and it is that time of the year again, as
everyone in sports radio, we all undergo a metamorphosis and
it's like transforming, like it's like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.
(02:28):
And we're all college basketball experts, all of a sudden
Abrica dabra hocus pocus. College basketball does not get a
lot of play on radio. It just doesn't. I was
talking to a radio friend of mine back East, and
he thinks that the the COVID shutdown of the n
c A tournament in was the final blow the college basketball,
(02:54):
completely knocking it out of the zeitgeist of people. Now
I'm not there yet. I'm not quite there yet, and
I get into the tournament. I have some reasons for that.
They do call me, as I said, Benny Bracketts and
all that, but we're all experts on college basketball. So
I have been Danny over the last couple weeks, leaning
into this weekend as we chopped the field down from
(03:17):
sixty four and widow it away or actually sixty eight
with the playing games back early in the week. But
so I've been immersing myself in n c A hoops
over the last couple of weeks. Actually, it is the
most wondrous time of the year for office pools, for
for gambling and all this stuff. With March madness. Now
we have it on, you know at the Mallard Mansion,
(03:41):
a NonStop. But for me, it's all about the Wizard Danny,
it's all about the wizard, about the wizard, as in
the Wizard of Westwood John R. Wooden legend. Well, the
as you as you know, I'm an ambassador for the
(04:02):
memory the legacy of John Wooden. You're saying, what is that,
you gas bag? You blow hard? Let me explain. So
this will be my twentieth year voting for the John R.
Wooden Award, And uh, I've talked about it from times right,
it is really cool. I like, I mean, we kid
around about it. But I don't need the heisman. I
(04:22):
don't need the the m v P, the cy Young,
any of that stuff. I don't need because I have
a vote. I have a there's a limited number of
votes available, media votes, and I get to vote for
the the awards a pound for pound, Danny, for my money,
the Wooden Award is at the very top. It is
(04:43):
for lem wrong. Now, how did you get this back
in the day? Did you apply for it? Were they desperate? No?
I got a great story. So there was a well
known sportscaster in Los Angeles named Ed Arnold. Ed worked
at Channel five in l A kt l A and
I was friends with that Ed. It was very nice
to me early on in my career when no one
(05:05):
should have been nice to me, no one should have
done anything cool to me, and but he was very
kind to me, and he kind of you know, led me,
you know, down the path to to have a career
in radio. One of the people that was very positive
to me. And I'm very grateful to Ed Arnold. And
Ed was a long time TV sportscaster in l A.
And he said, you know what, Ben came up to me.
(05:27):
It was actually Dodger Stadium and and said, you know
you've been you know, I forget exactly what he said.
He was very kind, something along the line you know,
I think you're gonna go places whether so he he
wanted me to vote for the Wooden War and uh,
this is you know, long, long, long ago, and I've
been in the business for a while, so I wasn't
like a young total young pup. But gave me the
(05:48):
Wooden Award vote. And my first year voting was twenty
two and Jay Williams, who's now on ESPN, but he
was at Duke. He is the Wooden Award winner that year.
And over the years, we've had legends like Kevin Durant
won the Wooden Award. Andrew Boget was a number one
pick for I think it was the Bucks, but he
(06:10):
won the Wooden Ward JJ reddick uh. And then they're
like college legends like Jimmer for Debt who I loved
a b y u Jimber for Debt, but he didn't
make it in the NBA. Zaion Williamson won it. He's
a stiff in the NBA right now. But it's been
a lot of fun. So it's been a lot of fun.
And one player come to mind that you went against
the grain, you voted for somebody that wasn't the popular choice. Well,
(06:34):
I did vote, and he ended up winning the award.
But at the time, Jamir Nelson, remember Jamir Nelson look
guard out of I think Joe's I believe it was
in Philly and he had a decent NBA career, but
I've remember voting for him, and yeah, the Orlando Magic
among other teams, a pretty good career. I'm guessing he's
fully vested in the NBA pension. Yeah, they send out
(06:56):
a watch list for the Wooden Award, and so once
I get to watch list, that's that's who I look at.
That's my guys. I try to watch as many of
those games as I can. And uh and and I'm
waiting actually might might have the ballot. It's an online vote,
it's a secure online vote, like everything these days. And
so I'm waiting until the eleventh hour to fill out
(07:19):
the ballot. It's I'm waiting till this weekend's done, just
so I get one last look at the top guys
in the tournament. And uh, and then I'll finish up.
And then right after the show Sunday and the Monday,
so tomorrow night, after the show, so early Monday morning,
just before the deadline when they locked the vote, I
have set an alarm on my iPhone to make sure
(07:42):
I don't screw this up, because I I got concerned
the last year, Danny, I I I changed my email ID,
just my email I just changed, and I was worried
I was gonna get vote. Eddie reminded me, and so
I was in a panic. I was in a tizzy.
I'll play with Eddie. So yeah, yeah, you can't screw
this stuff after twenty years. No, I gotta keep I
gotta keep voting. And John wouldn't. He's famous, I would
(08:04):
say the most famous quote wouldn't, of course, known as
college basketball circles is the goat of all time and
all that stuff. But the the one quote from what
he had, the seven point Creed, which I'm sure you've
heard Danny over. There's a seven point creed. But there's
one line in that that has been repeated at nauseum.
It's point number three in the seven point Creed. Now,
(08:25):
point number one is be true to yourself. Point number
two is help others. The third one is the money quote,
and it's make each day your masterpiece. What do you
want from me? It's a great quote that it's a
wonderful line. Make every just if you just make every
day your masterpiece, it's a life will live too bad.
(08:47):
A lot of our days are like finger painting hundred
hundred and and he had wouldn't spent a lot of
time coming up with like sayings and things to put
on lines. He had the Pyramid of Success, which is
another thing he came up with, which is the behaviors
(09:08):
to be a successful person in life and all that stuff,
which I don't know how many of these do you
think you actually connect on? Anyway, I'll give you the
twenty five real quick, you got you got faith patients
now went up to three billions. Fight slap me around
a little bit. Competitive greatness, integrity, resourcefulness, poise, confidence, reliability, adaptability,
(09:34):
condition skills. I'm gonna start the whack off right now.
Team spirit, honesty, ambition, self control, alertness. I'm a huge initiative.
What else you have? Sincerity, friendship, industrial nous, loyalty, cooperation,
(09:58):
enthusiasm in tentness also on me on the list? Wow,
just like the great Jerry West throwing his m v
P trophy through the window on the new HBO Lakers drama.
I haven't seen that. I've heard they made Jerry look
like a douchebag. I have not seen that. He doesn't
come off as the nicest guy, but definitely comes off
(10:21):
as a basketball savant. Yeah, yeah, I have not. I
have not checked that out. I I don't know is
it worth I'm not a Laker guy, so I don't know.
But I think I think you would like it, regardless
of if you're a Laker guy or not. You know. Also,
I wanted to mention before I forget that we had
a passing this week of someone that I knew and
(10:41):
I didn't get to it. On the radio. She also
pat chop by me. Uh, you probably know who this
guy is, Danny g from your Laker fandom. Alan Massingille,
the Great Alan Massonille passed away. He had been very sick.
He had colon cancer for years. And Alan, uh, someone
that you again we crossed pass back when he was
(11:02):
doing he was doing the Lakers stuff on k CAL
l A him and I think it was James Worthy
would be on after after Laker games. But Alan very
good guy. He was one of the originals at ESPN
And the thing I loved about Alan Massingale was he
was always kind of down to earth and he could
have been a total dick because a lot of people
(11:22):
I've known that worked at ESPN back in the heyday,
and he worked kind of work. He worked there before
that it really became the monster that it eventually became
announced quite as not as big a monster as it was,
but but he worked there and he was always in
the early days and very very cool guy from Florida,
from the South, I believe from Florida. Uh. And he
had been sick. I guess he fell and then he
(11:43):
ended up passing away as a result of the fall
because he had made in poor health for a long time,
but rest in peace. Alan Massingale uh a long time
l a sportscaster, but a guy that that worked at
ESPN in the early days and did some Laker broadcasting
stuff post games. So rest rest of me. Way too young,
(12:04):
I mean, you know, it's never a right time to die,
but he was. I think he was sixty three years always,
even younger than my mom. My mom died she was
sixty six. So yeah, I was sad to see that report. Yeah,
all right, we have the we went from the wizard
to the backscratcher. We gotta do it again. That last
week we lamented the fact, Danny, that that no one,
no one really gave us any love on the reviews. Remember,
(12:26):
we were like, wait a minute, what happened? You know,
we got crickets, that's all we got. And I was
depressing and all that stuff, you know, very sad. The
good news is we got a bunch a six pack
this week. These are actuals. And the deal is, Danny,
(12:47):
if people send a review in on the Apple podcast page,
we will read the review. That's what we agreed to, right,
let's fucking go. All right, that's Finn so Mario is
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(13:08):
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(13:53):
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(14:37):
Keep up the great work. That's from Logan in Memphis.
So that was very kind of wow. Really in a
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(15:00):
gotta just go to shady massage parlors every single week.
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(15:23):
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He says, I must listen podcast just when I think
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(15:46):
That's from James the Pool Guy. Two guys is enough
for me. Very nice. Couple more here. This is from Well,
there's not really a name on this. One says Lou
o X and then a bunch of other random letters.
So we'll just call this person lou but I don't
even know if that's their name. They didn't sign their name,
which is fine. Thanks a lot for the lack of sleep.
(16:08):
The review five stars. I received the link you sent me.
I have been listing for a couple of years. Oh
this must be the Donut Gat I've been listening for
a couple of years now. The monologues are normally spot on.
Your cynical mind is one of a current I listen
every night or listen to download shows until you are live.
Keep it up. The fifth Hour has been better with
(16:28):
Danny G. The staff is awesome. The Milicia is something else.
Thanks for keeping me tired all day. That's from I
believe that's from That means not no, that's from Lou.
The other ones from Benmin. But thank you Lou or
whatever your actual real name is. We appreciate that. What
a guy. Thank you. Last one from let's see here
(16:51):
from Rami. I believe it's from Rami. My eyes are
deceiving me here. It's just just the beginning, he says. Man,
twelve hour shifts would be immensely tough tackle without you
been truly I noticed myself blast through the Ben Mallard
podcast by noon, I can already be done with all
four hours. Most days, at least Fridays and Mondays are
(17:13):
now filled with a little extra juice, no juice to
help make it through the day. The banter is so
enjoyable no matter who's on set with Ben, all because,
like he says, he's not some regular sports gas beggar
blow hard. Ben's genuine blah blah blah blah blah. Very
nice there, even if that means he admits liking the Clippers. Wow, yeah,
(17:36):
he says. Hashtag what's still wrong with the Clippers? What
is still wrong? What the Clippers not? Dare you the
best drops ever? That was from David in Boston. Was
that a total of six? Thank you? Uh yeah, I
think we're I think that's all six. I men, Mario,
we had Craig James, the pool guy, this guy Lou
(17:57):
and then vinman or rom Rommy. I think that's all. Yeah,
I mean the dear Ken Miller. One logan that was logan.
So that was logan our gout logan in Memphis, Tennessee,
one of the great barbecue cities in in America. So
I'm told, so flipping the bird with a mask? What
(18:19):
is this about, Danny g What are we what are
we dealing with this one? Well, and yesterday's podcast, I
was talking a little bit about how Monday was the
first day that California schools we're no longer requiring you
who worked there at the school or students to have
to wear a mask. It was optional. In fact, we
went around the campus and hung up these flyers that
(18:42):
showed a picture of a girl with her thumb up
a box that was checked, saying I am comfortable without
a mask. And then and then another picture I've heard
with the other thumb up saying I am comfortable with
my mask. All the cheesiness that you would expect from
the school districts here in California. Of course this is
(19:02):
a big deal. We're they're still trying to encourage the kids,
like overwhelming the you should keep wearing the mask and
all that. Don't don't stop. They still you don't know,
at least the school that I work for. I gotta
give them props because they didn't say anything to the
staff like that. They didn't say anything to the students.
They only hung those those flyers up. So I was like,
(19:25):
all right, cool, I mean, it's up to us what
we want to do. In my mind, I'm thinking the
parents are gonna show up on Monday morning drop off
the kids. They are gonna run in, screaming with their
friends with no masks on Sure, my morning shift, I'm
out there in front of the school. Some of my
(19:45):
responsibilities are with the gate. You're like, you're shepherding them in. Yes, yes,
I I'm the muscle right outside the main gates. You're
the ranch hero leading down. Yes. So I got my
walkie to hockey that looked very official. Parents are pulling up,
but I noticed something ben that caught me off guard. Okay,
(20:08):
there were parents inside their cars wearing masks. I'm talking
both parents with a mask on, two kids in the
back seat, both wearing masks, and then the parents pushed
the kids out of the car. And what I heard
the parents say was, and do not take it off
the entire day. No, really, boom, you can light me
(20:34):
on fire. And they're looking right at me too, like
you scumbag without a mask. I see you. So it
felt like not so subtle way of flipping me off
with their masks on while all of you are getting sick.
Now because some of the masks are off, we're gonna
(20:54):
double up our masks and wear them inside. Bull crap
corrept Oh man. I saw at least six or seven
cars Monday morning where that was their vibe. That's what
was going on. And these are the same cars I've
seen before where they don't have masks on normally inside
the car. Yeah, you have to have a very low
(21:16):
i Q to be driving with your family or by
yourself and wearing a mask in your car. No, I
agree with you. But the problem is, first of all,
I'm not surprised by this. Secondly, it's you know bad
you know, bad habits die hard, or I'd say that
that's the issue here. See the problem is people have
we're all creatures a habit and I see the same thing.
(21:36):
I'm driving around. You're not driving around where I'm where
I'm living out and I'll see people walking by themselves
on a beautiful day in California and they've got the
mask all, you know, covering their face. I'm like, what
are you doing? You know? But they estimate I remember
this years ago because I was trying to lose weight.
I could never lose weight. I was like, what the hell?
And because you gotta change your habits. But the problem is,
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once people change happens, it takes like over two months.
They asked him, a scientists it is study years ago.
Maybe it's changed, but human behavior, something becomes automatic in
sixties six days. They say, that's exactly. That's a sweet
spot for on average sixty six days. If you want
to change something, you have to do it for sixty
six days, and then at that point it just becomes
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part of you. And we are two years into this,
Danny almost I think we're over the two year mark
for the mask thing. Maybe not, but we're close to it.
Two years into the mass thing, people have been now hardwired.
It's like Pavlov's dogs to wear the mask, so now
they have to be hardwired the other way. And I
was telling I was telling a buddy of mine when
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I when I was growing up. But I think I've
told this story before on the podcast. But when I
when I was getting my mom, God rest her soul,
she she hoarded like everything because she grew up in
a household that her parents went through the depression, and
so for you know, I had to have you know,
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when you had the opportunity to buy a million rolls
at tolet paper or saran wrap or illuminum for she
would load up for like the nuclear winter, and that
was the rest of her entire life. She did that
because of the trauma as a kid. And so I
think we're gonna have the same bull crap these poor
kids of today. You know, we'll be gone, Danny, but
these kids are still gonna be wearing masks when they
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go out a lot because they were programmed as children.
And it sucks. But I I don't know a way
around it. I don't. Yeah, it's gonna take a while.
Oh my mom and dad told me i'd better not
take it off today. It's just gonna go on for
a long time. Unfortunately. The one thing I will say
for me and uh, I would say about seventy percent
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of the staff had their masks off and uh and
the dean of the school, one thing he did tell
me is he's like, I think it's important for the
kids to see our faces. And yes, yeah, they see
our facial expressions and you know, to really get a
handle on things going on on the campus. That makes
a lot of sense because when kids can't see your
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facial expressions, you're only using your words, and that doesn't
always work. So, you know, it was nice to see
a lot of the faculty for the first time. I
swear to god, the ladies in the office, I had
never seen their faces. It was. It was so strange,
and some of them should have put their masks back on.
That's the problem day, right, because I you know, it's
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kind of a lot of times women will get all
dolled up with a lot of makeup on. But yeah,
the mask. What's the point of putting the makeup on?
You know what? You got the mask on. Now you
gotta go back and do all that bulk crap again,
I guess you. Of course, who am I to talk
I have a face for radio, obviously. But I go
and I go to the lunch like I talked about
on yesterday's podcast, I go to work with the kindergarteners,
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and that same girl Aria in the afternoon, she was
following me around and she said, I'm gonna marry you.
I'm marrying Mr g I'm gonna marry you. And I'm like,
that's appropriate. She's hugging my leg. Thirty seconds later, and
and Ben, you know not that you get a big
ego from a five year old telling you they think
(25:12):
that you look nice without your mask. Thirty seconds later,
she was doing a very bad impersonation of me, sticking
out her stomach saying I'm Mr ge whoa who like
very unflattering, you know, uh talking ship. And I was like, wait,
thirty seconds ago, you wanted to marry me. You can't
(25:34):
out women five years old. She's already listen that the
rest of her life should be the same way She'll be,
you know, twenty some years old, should be dating same bullcraps.
Canna happen some guy, some other kids that you know,
some other schools gonna be you know, the same age,
you're gonna be dating her and be like, what the
hell are you? I don't understand what are you doing?
One final thought on the mask. I noticed that my
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energy levels are way way up. I would say a
by you're breathing is labor, especially when you're outside and
you're chasing kids around and you have a physical job.
That thing was a killer. I would go home and
want to collapse. Now I've actually been coming home and
getting emails and stuff done because I still feel good. Yeah, no,
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I agree with you. Like the the breathing, it's not good,
it's not it's not eat And I'd be fully transparent here.
I always thought this was kind of preposterous and ludicrous back,
you know, even when it started. So what I I
would go walking when I lived in the old place.
And also this is nonsensical, but so many people felt
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like if you didn't wear the mask, you know, it's
insubordination of society and all this bull crap. So what
I would do is, I'd wear the mask is like
a chin strap, and then I was walking, I walked
by people, I'd raise it up and then as soon
as I walked past them, I l I'd lower it
and that would be that would buy be my way
to get around it. But yeah, and I I feel
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you on the showing up, the parents showing up and
giving the the stank guy, you know, giving you the
side eye, like what are you doing? I hate that?
And I see I see these pompous assholes occasionally, you know,
I go out to the store or something like that,
and I don't wear the mask, and there's still people
they look at you like, well, what's wrong with you?
(27:21):
But but there's part of me also thinks, in addition
to people being programmed and trained now that they have
to wear the mask, and they'll you'll take a long
time to change their habits. The other issue here is
I think there's a lot of people that don't realize
the mandate's gone. They just they think it's still going around.
They don't pay attention to the headlines and they're just like, oh,
it must be still going on. They haven't gotten the memo.
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I think there's those people also that don't want to,
you know, they don't acknowledge the media in any way,
and they're like, I don't understand. I'm you know, they
told me years you know, a month ago, two years ago,
to do this. I gotta keep doing it. You know
those parents that were like that on Monday morning. I
just gave them a thumbs up and an even bigger smile. Hi,
I like to saint, I'm figured, all right, you're gonna
(28:04):
flip me off with your mask inside your car, I'm
gonna smile at you even bigger. Yeah. No, No, I'll
walk around here and I'll take I take pictures. I
have a photo collection of people sitting in their cars
at red lights with mass I do and like that.
Those are our fellow human beings. We are all the
same here, We're all It's the most illogical thing ever.
(28:26):
You're not gonna get COVID while you're on the freeway
by yourself in a car. And if COVID was that,
you know, contagious, then what's the point you know? I
mean you really well, you know, come on, what do
we do? You don't you have anxiety over that? Stop
stop with the emotional collapse and on it last thing here,
We're gonna combine these last last two things. The that
(28:47):
we we tease, because if you tease Danny as you know,
you gotta please, you're swinging a miss and the ghosted,
which is really the the same, the same de Leo
here so real quick. So over the years, I have
been very blessed have multiple culinary establishments across the United
States named food dishes after me, and it's been very cool.
Some of them have come and gone. We had the
(29:09):
Mallard Pizza and Grand Rapids, Michigan. That didn't last very long.
We also had the originator, the o G in Syracuse,
the mal Zone, which is a it was a cal
zone with the Mallard touched. It was like Philly cheese steak,
but it was the It was really good. But we
still have we still have three items on the on
the menu of the various menus. We've got the Mallard
(29:30):
fowler at the Bird the Ballet there in Lawrence, Kansas.
We have the Mallard chicken Fingers at the Landing and Liberty, Missouri,
right near the Royals Chiefs complex there where they play
their their sports. In Kansas City. The Mallard Buffalo chicken
sandwich that's at three locations now Danny and Denver. That
place started with one location three locations the greater Denver area.
(29:52):
The sports Book Bar and Grill had that. I've had
that sandwich, good sandwich. So I bring this up because
we we were close, at least I thought we were
close to having another food dish and the return of
the Mallard Pizza, you know, right. And so I'm bringing
this up because it's gotta kind of a disappointing part
(30:16):
to the miracle to the story. So I have been
corresponding with a fan of the show discussing the Mallard Pie,
and the plan was to add this to the To me,
the rule is, if you're new to the show, the
Mallard the way this worries, all you have to do
is put it on the man. You don't have to
pay me or anything like that. I mean, we occasionally
I will promote these restaurants from time to time and whatnot.
(30:39):
And so the Mallard Pizza's roasted garlic, bell pepper. I
like to throw different colors to make it really pop, red, green, yellow,
throw some onions on. There's very simple. It's a simple pie.
It's the kind of pie that will keep vampires away
because of the garlic and around of stuff. And so
so anyway, this establishment in the Northeast and the Boston
(30:59):
area was going to do this, at least that's what
I was told. And Uh, however, I think I need
to contact the ghostbusters here because Danny, all of a
sudden I have been ghosted, uh as it vanished, and
so I've I've decided since I don't think that's gonna happen.
I think it's been long enough. I think that we're
(31:20):
we've moved on from that, or they've moved on for
that or whatever. So uh, if and I'll just throw
this out there, nobody has to do it. Maybe nobody will.
But if there's some mom and pop shop out there
that I would like is interested in this, uh, then
you know, contact me. And I I love promoting small,
small restaurants. I know how difficult it is in the
(31:40):
restaurant business. I've had friends in that. Not tough it
can be, and so I'd love to help me out.
And I'd like to bring the Mallard pizza back. So
you can email me, contact me Ben Maller's show at
gmail dot com. And uh and again the rules are
very simple. I have to just put the Mallard name
on there, some kind of food dish and then that's it.
And then we've we've had multiple p ones. I know
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moving man Matt in Boston has done the matter of
food toward multiple times because he's got an excuse because
he drives a moving truck all over the country. We
had a few other listeners that have done that, and
then so uh, I've also thought of the if the
pizza is not a thing, how about the Mallard Burger, Danny,
we could do that. I've never had a Mallardburg, never
done the Mallardburg, so we could do that too. So
I'm not going to cook on my knees. What would
(32:26):
the Danny Gee dish b if a restaurants like I
want to? I like Danny G more than you, Mallard
What would a food dish be for Danny G Radio?
What do you think that would be? Danny? What would
you come up? Let's see what was my go to dish?
I would say a pasta for me, some kind of
pasta like a fedecchini alfredo or something like that. Yeah, yeah, pasta.
Maybe a lasagna. Okay. It's a really great place here
(32:49):
called Maria's, and the pasta's outstanding. I mean, you would
kill somebody to get their lasagna and they serve it
to you in one of those hot tins. Even when
you get it home, it is super hot. And you know,
a restaurant means business when they're serving up lasagna like that.
The flavors are superb. So yeah, I would I would
(33:09):
like a nice lasagna. When I think of a mallard pie,
I'm thinking maybe instead of a salami, maybe you do
a bologna. You are the Beethoven of bs. Well, that
would be funny, like a bologna sandwich or something like that.
That would be that would be funny. But you see,
I'm on a fast right now as we're doing this,
(33:29):
as we're you're doing the podcast, and and you talking
about that pasta. Man, it's making me wish I had
some pasta right now. Or it's some kind of great
Italian food. My I had that last Friday night with
my tender roni and we took it home and they
said it's gonna take forty minutes, and we're okay with that.
We knew they were making everything fresh, and we know
(33:51):
they serve it up really hot in there in their
tins that they send you off with. So when we
got that on the kitchen table and we spread it out,
it was like a smorgest board of goodness. And I
was really strategic. I'm like I'm gonna just take one
little slice of this lasagna, save the rest for tomorrow.
Brought it to the studio with me. It lasted for
(34:13):
two days. What a weekend just having that Italian food
like that. That's great. Yeah, I had lately. The Italian
place we've been going to occasionally is in uh down
in Orange County and Huntington Beach called Casino Romano. Wonderful.
Right Literally, the park, there's a parking lot behind it,
(34:33):
and then the beach sunset beaches on the other side.
There's like so there's some beaches, houses on the beach,
but there's a parking lot, line of houses and then
the beach, and then on the other side is the restaurant.
This place is really good. I'm making a note of
that right now. It's really hard to convince my tender
roni to go to Italian where do white women at
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That's the least visited kind of restaurant by us because
she doesn't want stay. You dont live even once. Enjoy life, man, Yeah,
here's what you do. Here's the move. Unfortunately, she's probably
listening to this so she'll hear it. But the move
would be take your your queen Tinderoni to Huntington's down
in that area and say, hey, we're down here anyway,
(35:16):
why not have h I know a good Italian place.
Boom done right, just like that, I'm gonna do that.
She had a nice caesar salad and she likes chicken peccata,
so she'll do the chicken. Okay, I got you, I
got you all right. I'm hungry now to let's go eat.
I know right, It's all sounds very appetizing to me.
I mean I'll take even some some cheese rabby olie
(35:38):
or something like that. I'm good to go on that.
My taste buds are are watered, little taste. I have
a great rest your Saturday. We will catch you on
the mail bag on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, Asta Love East,
No later, Scarter. You didn't You didn't do your osta pasta.
(35:59):
Gotam ver, Gotta go
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