Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio, Happy Sunday to you. It
Speaker 1: is the thirteenth day of July. We have arrived here
Speaker 1: and one of the final Sundays before the NFL. What
Speaker 1: kind This is one of those kind of things because
Speaker 1: I think today or tomorrow the Chargers begin training camp.
Speaker 3: They are, yeah, their rookies are supposed to.
Speaker 1: Today, right, I think it's today, Yes, yeah, So they
Speaker 1: play in the Hall of Fame game, and throughout the
Speaker 1: week we'll be getting NFL news, We'll have training camps
Speaker 1: will start opening up slowly and surely around the NFL.
Speaker 1: So it's getting underway, and we're about fifty some odd
Speaker 1: days I think away from the first real NFL game,
Speaker 1: they'll be exhibition games in less than a month. They'll
Speaker 1: be exhibition football in less than a month, which is
Speaker 1: very cool. This is the greatest baker.
Speaker 3: You know. The last day of this month is the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame game, right, the thirty first.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think you're right on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so we could say there's football this month.
Speaker 1: Very cool. So we're excited about that and we look
Speaker 1: forward to it. Obviously, it's where sports radio. That's the
Speaker 1: golden time for sports radio, right, that's the golden period there, time.
Speaker 3: Of the year where we're not supposed to take any
Speaker 3: days off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I'm taking no no once the season
Speaker 1: regular season begins is so I'm gonna try to squeeze
Speaker 1: all my time off the rest of July and August
Speaker 1: once football begins. I normally don't take any days off
Speaker 1: other than the company forces me to take off. I
Speaker 1: think it's Christmas Eve because they have best of programming
Speaker 1: in New Year's Eve. But other than that, I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm in, baby, I am all in from September until February.
Speaker 1: No days off, no days off. Yeah, we do have
Speaker 1: the mailbag. I did also want to point out that
Speaker 1: we like dope Holidays. It is National Barbershop Music Appreciation Day.
Speaker 1: I bring this up for a couple of reasons. Number One,
Speaker 1: I like barbershop music. That makes me weird. Number two
Speaker 1: years ago, there was a listener from Chicago who sent
Speaker 1: us some barbershop quartet style music. And one of the
Speaker 1: songs that this person may is a classic and there
Speaker 1: were two versions made. A gentleman made this song in
Speaker 1: honor of the Cubs, the Three Cubs. So this goes
Speaker 1: back twenty some odd years ago and it's one of
Speaker 1: the all time great parody songs ever delivered. And it
Speaker 1: was a fan of the Mallor Show, The Chubby Cubby,
Speaker 1: Remember the Chubby Cubby, Danny the c Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: barbershop quartet, and that is a song that we played
Speaker 1: on the show. We actually got in trouble with the
Speaker 1: score in Chicago for playing that song. They for some reason,
Speaker 1: somebody there got upset with us. I don't know why
Speaker 1: they did. And so there you go.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a spinoff of Jingles. And you're such
Speaker 3: a big fan of Jingles. I can see how you
Speaker 3: love barbershop quartets.
Speaker 1: I do. I do you remember watching the movie Hoosiers
Speaker 1: it featured a barbershop quartet singing the national anthem before
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 3: That's right, yeah, and so that was in the eighties.
Speaker 1: That's a long time ago. And anyway, it's celebrate appropriately.
Speaker 1: And if somebody wants to make a Mallor Show theme
Speaker 1: song barbershop quartet style. I'm not saying we wouldn't play
Speaker 1: it all the time, but we would absolutely play it
Speaker 1: every chance we get. So I'm just saying, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: let's get to the mail bag. What do you say,
Speaker 1: Danny G. What do you say?
Speaker 3: Let's go? It's bang.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, ohio A. These are actual letters
Speaker 1: by actual listeners to the show. First up, our man
Speaker 1: from Michigan. He's a Michigan man. I assume he's from there.
Speaker 1: I know he lives there, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: I don't know the history of everyone that writes in.
Speaker 1: Reggie from Detroit, who's always a muckraker. He writes and
Speaker 1: he says, been and daddy G. I hope you guys had
Speaker 1: a great week. Wayne, is malord merch coming? You've been
Speaker 1: teasing this bit for a while. Are you actually going
Speaker 1: to pull the trigger? Big fan? Reggie in Detroit. Reggie,
Speaker 1: thank you first of all for actually admitting you want
Speaker 1: some Mallord merch. Secondly, I'm trying to do this the
Speaker 1: right way. I have been in contact with a couple
Speaker 1: of people. I just I'm crutching Oways as my grandfather
Speaker 1: who says yettish term. I got to pull the trigger
Speaker 1: on this. There's some things I'm waiting on before I
Speaker 1: do it. I wanna, you know, I want to throw
Speaker 1: some stuff out there and give people the opportunity that
Speaker 1: are fans of the show to buy some stuff. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of how much of the
Speaker 1: the stuff I want to put out. There's no budget.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. There's no budget. Now some people have
Speaker 1: come forward and offered to to set it up and
Speaker 1: they'll they'll take a cut of whatever money is there.
Speaker 1: Like the whole the whole reason I would do it, Reggie,
Speaker 1: is to try to get money to do more Malord
Speaker 1: meet and greets in different places. Because the company, I
Speaker 1: guess there going through hard times. They don't ever pay
Speaker 1: for anything, none of my travel. So I do these
Speaker 1: Mallard meet and greets. It's out of my pocket. No,
Speaker 1: it's good marketing for the show. And I don't mind
Speaker 1: doing it. You know, I be better if the company
Speaker 1: actually paid for it. So I figure, if I can
Speaker 1: sell some shirts and some other crap, then I can
Speaker 1: use that money not for myself, but to travel to
Speaker 1: to go to some different places and meet fans of
Speaker 1: the show in different different cities. And so that's really
Speaker 1: the motivation behind it. Kind of create a travel fund
Speaker 1: where I hate you know, the Mallard Militia pays for
Speaker 1: future Mallor meet and greets, So that would be the
Speaker 1: way I would do it. I wouldn't like the money
Speaker 1: wouldn't go to me, per se. I just reinvested in
Speaker 1: the show. So I'm definitely close to doing something, Reggie,
Speaker 1: I haven't I haven't obviously done it yet. So I'm
Speaker 1: very busy during the week. I only have a couple
Speaker 1: of days to kind of throw everything out there. I'll
Speaker 1: let you know as and Danny, you're aware of this.
Speaker 1: One thing I'm never bashful about is promotion. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm promoting something I go all in like the Mallard
Speaker 1: Palooza is coming up a week from today. Week from
Speaker 1: tonight is the Malard Palooza twenty twenty five. The biggest
Speaker 1: event in overnight sports talk radio during the summer is
Speaker 1: the Mallard Palooza. You were part of some of those
Speaker 1: back in the day. We used to be called the
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard Talent Show. It's the Mallard Palooza. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be off the hook. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: Oh. I'm gonna call up to do some poetry. My
Speaker 3: poet name is the Poet of Rage.
Speaker 1: No. I like that. Roses are red, violence of blue,
Speaker 1: and I hate you and you can just go yeah. Perfect.
Speaker 3: Oh. I was gonna say, and I'm gonna kill you
Speaker 3: because I'm poet of rage.
Speaker 1: That's true. Got a murder well that would see that
Speaker 1: you're better at poetry. That would be perfect. Yeah, thank you, Richie.
Speaker 1: Next up Dodger Kevin in Houston, oh Man, the Belly
Speaker 1: of the Beast. Hey Ben, and g Man. Hey Danny,
Speaker 1: you're g Man. He says. I grew up in the Valley.
Speaker 1: I love LA sports radio. I moved to Houston during COVID,
Speaker 1: he says, Kevin, to escape your governor Newsom. He's still here, Kevin,
Speaker 1: he says, And I live near my wife's family, the
Speaker 1: in laws. So the reason I'm writing you is they
Speaker 1: were talking about you on local sports radio here in
Speaker 1: Houston as a topic and n Dodger Kevin says, hey,
Speaker 1: are you aware of this? And b what do you
Speaker 1: think of being a punching bag for these loser astro fans?
Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by. That's from Kevin. So, first of all, Kevin,
Speaker 1: I was kind of aware that my name came up
Speaker 1: on sports radio in Houston, because after I did the
Speaker 1: cheating ass whole monologue, we're on podcasts. I can say
Speaker 1: that I all of a sudden got a lot of
Speaker 1: email and social media content from people from Houston who
Speaker 1: were new names. So I figured either they saw the
Speaker 1: video on social media or my name came up on
Speaker 1: sports radio in Houston.
Speaker 3: So I you know where I got to hear? You
Speaker 3: were ant and on the astros recently. Where's that you
Speaker 3: were filling in on the blow torch AM five seventy
Speaker 3: LA sports Radio.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3: You and Jonas knocks and you were going off on
Speaker 3: the astros. And I was laughing in my car as
Speaker 3: I was driving to the study.
Speaker 1: I was rich listen, uh we enjoyed that. I was
Speaker 1: very disappointed the daytime callers on the Rogan and Rodney show,
Speaker 1: Danny way too positive, Like, way too positive, Dodd, You're like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, come on now, the Dodgers have
Speaker 1: had a terrible week of baseball year, you know, and
Speaker 1: then they're limping into the All Star break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys were like, the Dodgers suck. They suck
Speaker 3: right now. By the way, we're giving away tickets at
Speaker 3: any moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Jonas of course, waited until the final segment
Speaker 1: of the show to get away. It's but of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the oldest trick in the book, right, You
Speaker 1: never give him away right away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could have happened in five minutes from now.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's funny because we gave him away. And
Speaker 1: the last time I was on that show with Fred,
Speaker 1: Fred's like, what number caller bend should we use? And
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know. I don't give anything away.
Speaker 1: I don't have any gifts to get away in the overnight,
Speaker 1: so I don't call her six. And so I was like,
Speaker 1: call her six, and then Fred's like, that's so easy.
Speaker 1: So this week I said call her fifty eight, and
Speaker 1: they got upset with me because I guess that was
Speaker 1: too high call it. I got to find somewhere in
Speaker 1: the middle, somewhere, some of them. But anyway, back to
Speaker 1: Dodger Kevin, Kevin, thank you for listening. And I'm flattered.
Speaker 1: I am flattered that who were.
Speaker 3: Talking about you. Do you have any idea?
Speaker 1: I do not know their names. I wouldn't know them even.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was on seven ninety in Houston, which
Speaker 1: is our our affiliate, so I don't know who's on there.
Speaker 1: I was told one of the guys that always attacks
Speaker 1: me is like a Rockets broadcaster or something. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's true. I don't know. Maybe somebody can
Speaker 1: let me know one of our maybe Kevin can write
Speaker 1: back or whatever. I think it's a guy that works
Speaker 1: or either did work on the Rockets broadcast the Houston Rockets,
Speaker 1: or somebody that does. Now I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm going to search their station later today and see
Speaker 3: if I can find audio of them. They obviously one
Speaker 3: of them heard you doing the take and then said,
Speaker 3: let's react to that on our show, and then they
Speaker 3: spent probably an hour talking about you and your take.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know how long they spent talking about you,
Speaker 1: but I am I'm flattered that I can say something
Speaker 1: at four in the morning in Houston and these Jabbroni's
Speaker 1: are gonna talk about me. Now, that's the oldest trick
Speaker 1: in the book, Danny. I learned the art of weaponizing
Speaker 1: other people's takes from my time at WI. When I
Speaker 1: and this year's ago I got hired to fill in
Speaker 1: at WEI, I was doing it remote lee, and I
Speaker 1: learned the art of taking something that Rob Parker or
Speaker 1: Skip Bayless or Stephen A. Smith said that morning about
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and the Patriots and molding that into an
Speaker 1: hour of talk radio. There is an art, Yeah, there
Speaker 1: is an art to it.
Speaker 3: It's just like a few days ago that Kansas City
Speaker 3: broadcaster called Patrick Mahomes fat.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, perfect, that's a great extent.
Speaker 3: Everybody was doing a topic out of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It is really a great tool if it's Radio
Speaker 1: one oh one. It's something to add to your toolbox
Speaker 1: if you want to get into this or the podcast game.
Speaker 1: You weaponize other people's takes. Normally the overnight guy does
Speaker 1: not have their takes weaponized. So I am flattered that
Speaker 1: whoever that nobody in Houston was decided to put my
Speaker 1: name out there. I am such a radio loser. Alf
Speaker 1: writes in from Magic City, a bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1: He said, Hey, guys, I'm going to be there tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I heard the recent promo about Coveno and Rich and
Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball All Star Game. So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: that FSR is sending all of the talent to Atlanta. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what happens when you assume Alf for the festivities.
Speaker 1: My question is will all of you be attending Rob
Speaker 1: Parker's blowout party at Magic City? And will it be
Speaker 1: raining lemon pepper wings? That's from the great Alf. Well, Danny,
Speaker 1: you're going. I am not invited to these things. I
Speaker 1: am not one of the cool kids. But you will
Speaker 1: be there, Danny. So are you going to the infamous
Speaker 1: Magic City, which is so good that La Clipper Lou
Speaker 1: Williams left the bubble to eat lemon pepper wings at
Speaker 1: Magic City?
Speaker 3: You know I love wings bone in one of my
Speaker 3: favorite things to dip in ranch. I definitely want to
Speaker 3: try those wings.
Speaker 1: I've been told. I've been told by the way that
Speaker 1: if you go to Magic City, the only bones there
Speaker 1: are on the chicken wings. The women very curvacous, not
Speaker 1: a lot of bones showing they they did. Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: Rich Davis tells this funny story that he was with
Speaker 3: I guess, a couple of radio friends back in the
Speaker 3: day when he last visited Atlanta. They were like the
Speaker 3: dudes that worked at his sister radio station at the time,
Speaker 3: like their urban station, And so they take him into
Speaker 3: Magic City and he looks around and he told them,
Speaker 3: He's like, you guys, I'm the only white guy in here.
Speaker 3: And he said, at one point he walked out, he
Speaker 3: had to walk out to the parking lot to get
Speaker 3: some fresh air because he was just overwhelmed by everything
Speaker 3: that was going on inside. And he said when he left,
Speaker 3: he smelled like cocoa butter and wings.
Speaker 1: So I that is great. Like I have not been
Speaker 1: to the ballet in a while, but the cocoa butter
Speaker 1: is uh. That is the perfect word described the the
Speaker 1: the experience at the uh at the ballet. That is uh.
Speaker 1: That is great. That is uh. Well. I actually got
Speaker 1: into an argument with my guys sports with Coleman, I
Speaker 1: think it was back on Friday, because I'd praised the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Airport, the Atlanta you know, Hartfield whatever.
Speaker 3: Airport, the beautiful airport.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you agree with me. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a great airport, and Sports with Coleman is like,
Speaker 1: people hate it, it sucks. He's from Atlanta. Originally He's like,
Speaker 1: it's blows. I don't know why you praise it. And
Speaker 1: I told him Danny, I said, listen, first of all,
Speaker 1: you're completely wrong. Every time I've been to the Atlanta airport,
Speaker 1: I've had a good experience. And secondly, I compare everything
Speaker 1: to LAX. So pretty much every airport I go to
Speaker 1: other than La Guardia in New York. Other than that,
Speaker 1: every other airport is better than LAX and Atlanta. They
Speaker 1: have a train system, right, they got a whole. I
Speaker 1: mean there's a whole, but going on like that's to me,
Speaker 1: that was an efficient, well run airport. So I don't
Speaker 1: agree with Sports with It's a good.
Speaker 3: Last time, the last time I flew into Atlanta was
Speaker 3: for the Super Bowl there. What was that like maybe
Speaker 3: six seven years ago now, And it was crazy because
Speaker 3: we land, we get inside and there was a drum
Speaker 3: line in there. There was like a band, a marching band,
Speaker 3: a black school marching band, and they're going all crazy
Speaker 3: on their drums and their instruments and people were dancing
Speaker 3: inside the airport. It was wild.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, no, I like the Atlanta airport. So
Speaker 1: there you go. Are they going to have a staff
Speaker 1: meeting at Magic City called by Rob Parker? You think
Speaker 1: that'll have and that Rob will get everyone together? I
Speaker 1: need a cole showered. All right, we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: meeting everyone, you know, team bonding. We're going to Magic City.
Speaker 1: Got the back of it.
Speaker 3: You're not wrong because when the guys saw the odd
Speaker 3: couple on Friday as the show was over for us,
Speaker 3: they were telling Rob what time? Which day are we
Speaker 3: gonna meet you there?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, I hear you. Now wait till you're turning
Speaker 1: the expense report to management and on the.
Speaker 3: Bill of Magic City, all right, CBS on top of
Speaker 3: the receipt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Maddie from Maddie from Michigan Rights
Speaker 1: and says, hey, Ben and Danny, I know you guys travel.
Speaker 1: Well this is perfect because it says you travel. You
Speaker 1: guys travel a lot. Did you see the story in
Speaker 1: Maine where passengers were forced to spend over seventeen hours
Speaker 1: in at an airport in Maine because a flight was
Speaker 1: diverted because some people were smoking cigarettes in the bathroom
Speaker 1: on the plane. So, Matti, I did not see this story.
Speaker 1: If that is what happened. What you're saying here, Maddie,
Speaker 1: shouldn't those people go to jail? Danny like, what do
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 3: Of course, yeah, go to chit. I think it's interesting
Speaker 3: too to hear about what happens with other people and
Speaker 3: cigarette smokers. I walked through the garage at Sherman Oaks,
Speaker 3: the big parking garage we have. Once in a while
Speaker 3: they'll be idiots who step out of the elevator chain
Speaker 3: smoke cigarettes right by the entrance of the elevators, get
Speaker 3: back inside the elevator and go down and go back
Speaker 3: into their office. Because we're in a huge bank building.
Speaker 3: I walked into a cloud of smoke the other day
Speaker 3: that got stuck in my throat. It was in my
Speaker 3: lungs all afternoon. And then the same damn thing when
Speaker 3: I went to the mall. And by the way, I
Speaker 3: also saw a bunch of nerds walking into the theater
Speaker 3: dressed like Superman in costumes.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Cosplasure.
Speaker 3: One of them had a red cape on and he
Speaker 3: was smoking a cigarette outside the theater. People still do
Speaker 3: this in the year twenty twenty five. Are you I
Speaker 3: was going to say retarded. I can't not allowed to
Speaker 3: say that anymore.
Speaker 1: Go get canceled, I think, well, no, I think.
Speaker 3: Joe, are the people that are smoking cigarettes should be
Speaker 3: the ones who get canceled.
Speaker 1: It's a little much, I know, but I'm always amazed. Guy.
Speaker 1: I when I go to Vegas, everyone smokes, and like
Speaker 1: usually I don't see a lot of people here, although
Speaker 1: I did. I was at the beach. Was it last
Speaker 1: week or I don't know it was last week because
Speaker 1: it was last week was the fourth of July, so
Speaker 1: I guess it was a couple of weeks ago. And
Speaker 1: I ended up down Win from some dude was smoking
Speaker 1: on the beach, which I think you're not even allowed
Speaker 1: to do that in California, but he was and I
Speaker 1: was down Win, so I was I might as well
Speaker 1: have been the one smoking, cause it was coming right
Speaker 1: in my white right in my lungs, you know, boom,
Speaker 1: you know, like, what do you come on? Qwaang from
Speaker 1: Vietnam yet again? Right? And this guy is loyal. He
Speaker 1: doesn't miss a week anymore. We thank you, Kwang. He
Speaker 1: says he's in Ho Chi Minh he loves to say
Speaker 1: that super one, Yeah, Big Ben and Daddy g Radio.
Speaker 1: He writes, meet ball Triodge. I talked about meatball surgery
Speaker 1: on the show, and the person had no idea what
Speaker 1: I was talking about. I assume you know that term
Speaker 1: like meatball surgery. Ay so Quang says meatball triage is
Speaker 1: a term used to describe a method of rapidly processing
Speaker 1: a large number of patients, often in a chaotic environment,
Speaker 1: prioritizing those most likely to survive. It involves making quick decisions,
Speaker 1: performing procedures efficiently, sometimes at the expense of thoroughness, to
Speaker 1: save as many lives as possible. He says, the term
Speaker 1: game popularity, though on which TV show? All right, Danny
Speaker 1: or you should know this right away? What do you
Speaker 1: think what TV show did meetball triage meatball surgery become
Speaker 1: famous on? I know the answer answers revealing.
Speaker 3: This one's easy. Laverne and Shirley.
Speaker 1: That is absolutely right. Remember Laverne came home and she
Speaker 1: hurt herself and Shirley had to operate and it was
Speaker 1: a she lost to toe, but it was there. You go,
Speaker 1: remember Mash back in the day, Mash the story about
Speaker 1: Vietnam and.
Speaker 3: I don't remember that because whenever reruns of MASH would
Speaker 3: come on our TV, we would see who could run
Speaker 3: to the TV first to turn it off or change
Speaker 3: the channel.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that show though still to this day the
Speaker 1: most watched. The ten most watched TV shows are like
Speaker 1: all NFL games and then like MASH is in there the.
Speaker 3: Final I still don't get it, and I still as
Speaker 3: an adult now I've seen reruns and I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I watched as a kid. My parents
Speaker 1: were into it, and I remember, in fact, one of
Speaker 1: the listeners sent me a Toledo mud Hens hat because
Speaker 1: hot it was. It wasn't hot gy. I forget which
Speaker 1: one of the characters, Jamie Farr's character, one of the characters,
Speaker 1: wore Toledo mud Hen's hat, and so I always thought
Speaker 1: that was a cool hat only because I saw it.
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 3: There canned laughter at the guy that was a cross dresser.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: That was that creepy. Yeah, that show was creepy. It
Speaker 3: just had a creepy vibe to it, like a creepy
Speaker 3: Vietnam vibe to it.
Speaker 1: Well, it's hard to make a show about war and
Speaker 1: have like some comedy in it, you know what it
Speaker 1: was like. It's tough. Yeah, it's hard to well remember
Speaker 1: the what Hogan's Heroes was about concentration camp, right, or jail,
Speaker 1: a German jail or whatever, and they tried to make
Speaker 1: that into a comedy. So it's not It's not the
Speaker 1: easiest thing to do anyway. So yeah, it was mash So.
Speaker 3: Think it would be like if there was canned laughter
Speaker 3: during Dexter.
Speaker 1: Yes, well that was the era though, Danny. All the shows, right,
Speaker 1: they were like it was cookie cutter. Every show's gonna
Speaker 1: have a laugh track. You gotta have a laugh track,
Speaker 1: so people watching no when to laugh, because nobody knows
Speaker 1: when to laugh unless you you have to make it
Speaker 1: obvious because it's not really that funny. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: make sure you.
Speaker 3: Put a little some weird shows. No wonder our grandparents
Speaker 3: were so screwed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, twenty years from now, Cole will be like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand what my dad was watching. I don't
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 3: I don't what is happen Love Island? What a bunch
Speaker 3: of degenerates?
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, no culture back then. Ferg Dog and they're right,
Speaker 1: Ferg Dog in Fullerton writes and says, Hi, Captain Ben
Speaker 1: and Admiral G, sorry for not sending a question last week.
Speaker 1: I was busy having a great time on magic Johnson
Speaker 1: yacht with huge stars like Rodney Pete. Maybe next year
Speaker 1: you guys will get the invite too, he says. So
Speaker 1: in thirty or forty years, when both of you guys
Speaker 1: end up retiring, would you be okay with an AI
Speaker 1: version of you being your successor? I can already imagine
Speaker 1: AI Ben dishing out some real hot takes and AI
Speaker 1: Danny G Danny G really shining on Animal Thunderdome AI
Speaker 1: when AI Klay Travis does the show with Danny G. Uh, there,
Speaker 1: that's a great idea. Well, that is a way Thunderdome
Speaker 1: will get done. The AI version of Clay and you
Speaker 1: together guarantee the show gets done.
Speaker 3: You know what, what have I've been winning three and
Speaker 3: a half years now? I could have put together about
Speaker 3: ten episodes by now using AI Clay and me piecing
Speaker 3: his voice together myself to make the.
Speaker 1: AI yeah one hundred percent? Well what else? Let's say? Now?
Speaker 1: The AI thing is interesting because there is already the
Speaker 1: technology which is rather scary that they could already do this, Danny,
Speaker 1: if you sign off on it, and even if you
Speaker 1: don't sign off it and they can still do.
Speaker 3: I'm about the reporter chick that fooled a lot of
Speaker 3: people at Wimbledon. Did you see that? No?
Speaker 1: I did not see that. No.
Speaker 3: So there were all these sports fans across the world
Speaker 3: fawning over this lady who supposedly was a reporter at Wimbledon.
Speaker 3: She was not real. Pictures of her at Wimbledon were
Speaker 3: AI generated?
Speaker 1: Oh is that right?
Speaker 3: And yeah, it tricked a lot of people online. She
Speaker 3: somebody made a fake profile and she got all these
Speaker 3: followers and people she she made these websites with people
Speaker 3: like who's who's she? She's like, you know, the it
Speaker 3: girl from Wimbledon this year. Turns out she's not even real.
Speaker 1: Well, that's like the did see the Spotify story this
Speaker 1: week that they this hot indie rock band that's been
Speaker 1: killing it on Spotify and has more than a million
Speaker 1: listeners on Spotify and it's AI generated. Oh it's an
Speaker 1: indie rock AI generated band and it's red hot. Yeah.
Speaker 4: We're not going down a good path with this right now. No, well,
Speaker 4: we we're definitely not. And that's why I've pushed back Danny.
Speaker 4: Everyone's like, I want AI and baseball. I want the
Speaker 4: umpires to be AI and all this shit.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, really, it is a slippery slope
Speaker 1: to go down, and you know, ya be careful, and
Speaker 1: it's like.
Speaker 3: You're yeah, but it's something that can take people's jobs. Beware,
Speaker 3: be careful with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and for better or worse, I am, I guess
Speaker 1: an old head of boomer. I want humans as So
Speaker 1: it's like to answer Ferg, go back to his question,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty forty years from now, have AI replace Thiss?
Speaker 1: Like I always think these are great jobs. And when
Speaker 1: my time is done on this planet and I can't
Speaker 1: and I die or whatever, I want somebody else to
Speaker 1: have this great job and somebody else to live that
Speaker 1: life the next generation. And if you just keep the
Speaker 1: same people like I would have never gotten this opportunity.
Speaker 1: You would have never gotten this opportunity you have, Danny.
Speaker 1: If AI who was before us did these jobs, that
Speaker 1: would be it. So No, I want some other future
Speaker 1: people that aren't even born yet to have these kind
Speaker 1: of jobs. And if you put AI in here, then
Speaker 1: that never happens. And how does anything get done, if
Speaker 1: everything's done by AI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm not going to be the one doing
Speaker 3: Animal Thunderdome. It's going to be my son Coha.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've already got a contract signed with iHeart.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that'll solve it.
Speaker 1: It's for call. Yeah, you're his legal guardian, so as
Speaker 1: the father. So random woman on social media rights and
Speaker 1: she does not want her name revealed. She says, my
Speaker 1: boyfriend is a huge fan of yours and has been
Speaker 1: waiting for the announcement ben on the Malor meet and
Speaker 1: greet event in Columbus. Have you decided yet? And then
Speaker 1: she gives some other information that will give her away,
Speaker 1: so I will not read that here. She does not
Speaker 1: want her to name used. So, first of all, you're
Speaker 1: a great girlfriend. I don't know you. But the fact
Speaker 1: that you're doing this on behalf of your boyfriend who's
Speaker 1: a fan of the show. I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's considered true love.
Speaker 1: That is true love. Now, because most of the time
Speaker 1: when dudes get hitched up with ladies, the women are like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're married.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: You got to be a grown up. You can't listen
Speaker 1: to that stupid overnight radio show. You know, we got
Speaker 1: to cuddle and a spoon in bed. We can't have
Speaker 1: that stupid, ugly mallear on there.
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, your voice is like repellent.
Speaker 1: I can't tell every one of these meeting me it's
Speaker 1: the one in Vancouver, the one we did in Vegas,
Speaker 1: the la ones we've done Minnesota. There's inevitably at least
Speaker 1: one or two women that will come up to me
Speaker 1: and yell at me. Now most of them are just
Speaker 1: kind of busting my balls about their husband listening to
Speaker 1: the show and how they've had to like deal with it,
Speaker 1: and they wear ear plugs. It's it's pretty funny. So
Speaker 1: I like tap joking exactly exactly. I admit it. I
Speaker 1: admit so the Ohio thing has been completely affed up.
Speaker 1: I humbly apologize to all of the people. I said
Speaker 1: it would happen in July. It's not gonna happen here
Speaker 1: in July. I am on standby. I continue to be
Speaker 1: on standby. So I've been waiting for something that was
Speaker 1: supposed to happen on July. By July first, there was
Speaker 1: a soft deadline for a decision to be made July first.
Speaker 1: We are now as we wake up this morning Danny's
Speaker 1: July thirteenth, No decision has been made. Literally everything is
Speaker 1: on old my entire summer plans. Now, remember we talked
Speaker 1: about this earlier, Danny. This weekend, like, I am going
Speaker 1: to try to take all of my time off July
Speaker 1: and August, so when football starts in September, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to miss any shows all my I'll be here
Speaker 1: over the holidays and all that stuff. Well, any travel
Speaker 1: plans that I was gonna make, I can't make other
Speaker 1: than the random day here or there where I have
Speaker 1: like a staycation because I'm waiting for this news, which
Speaker 1: will affect other things. So once I get that, I
Speaker 1: will be able to book something. And I need to
Speaker 1: get there. My man, Dick and Dayton unfortunately moved into
Speaker 1: he moved into an assisted living retirement home. Not that
Speaker 1: you know assisted living, but he's a retirement home. So
Speaker 1: I need to get there. I'm gonna make it happen.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking sometime in August, probably later August at this point,
Speaker 1: but I will let everyone know, and I will I
Speaker 1: will promote it, much like I will promote what Reggie
Speaker 1: asked about the merch, so you'll know you're gonna.
Speaker 3: Know this is starting to sound like your version of
Speaker 3: Animal Thunderdome.
Speaker 1: It is, and I feel terrible because I had in
Speaker 1: my head, Danny, I had everything mapped out. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, this is gonna happen the best laid plans
Speaker 1: of mice, men and people waiting for other people to
Speaker 1: make decisions. And that's just the way it is. A
Speaker 1: couple more quick ones. What do we have, Shane? When
Speaker 1: Dallas says, hey, Benny and Danny, Ben, do you feel
Speaker 1: vindicated to see the story this week Amazon was caught
Speaker 1: hiking prices before Prime Day's discounts. That is from Shane. Shane, Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, thank you for listening, because I used
Speaker 1: to rant about this. Remember Danny, you were with me,
Speaker 1: I think when I used to rand about when they
Speaker 1: said like up to fifty percent off, they'd always These
Speaker 1: stores are notorious. It's one of the oldest tricks in business.
Speaker 1: You artificially inflate the price of an item and then
Speaker 1: you put a discount on it, and you say, well,
Speaker 1: you're getting seventy five percent off or whatever. I'll give you.
Speaker 1: I'll give you some inside skinny, so not to give
Speaker 1: too much away, but I don't want to get you
Speaker 1: in trouble. But a friend of this show, and someone
Speaker 1: by the way, Danny, who's I'm sure a big fan
Speaker 1: of your work as well, reached out to me and
Speaker 1: let me know that that Disney they have a store
Speaker 1: for Disney employees and friends of Disney employees, and at
Speaker 1: this store you can buy all of the merch that
Speaker 1: Disney has too much of at those stores at Disneyland,
Speaker 1: it's all fifty percent off. All of it is fifty
Speaker 1: percent off, right, and they're still making money. They're still
Speaker 1: making money. So how overpriced do you think those items
Speaker 1: at Disneyland are, Danny? Like, when you buy Cola, that
Speaker 1: little stuff Mickey Mouse doll right, you pay a full
Speaker 1: price for it. You could go to this other store
Speaker 1: if you worked at Disneyland, you pay half price for it.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. And I may or may not
Speaker 1: have seen a little stuffed animal Mickey Mouse for ten dollars,
Speaker 1: so maybe it was more than fifty percent off, but
Speaker 1: it was like ten dollars for a little stuffed stuff Mickey. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they are rich beyond their wildest dreams. And the
Speaker 3: price there at the park just keeps going up and
Speaker 3: up and up. I was trying to at the end
Speaker 3: of this month, It's Brenda's birthday and I wanted to
Speaker 3: take her there. Tickets for just an average day over
Speaker 3: two hundred dollars a person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just will Well. You know, maybe maybe our
Speaker 1: guy can can hook you up, Danny. I'll see what.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's listening and wants to reach out, and you
Speaker 1: can make that happen for you.
Speaker 3: Danny. We're at Disney family, and everybody in my family
Speaker 3: loves Disney, so we'll still pay the crazy prices. I
Speaker 3: mean when we can. Right now, we have no money
Speaker 3: to pay that price. But when we have the money, Ben,
Speaker 3: we'll give it to them.
Speaker 1: No, No, I hear you, I hear you. What else
Speaker 1: do we have here that is funny? Amazon got caught
Speaker 1: doing that though I'm not. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, and I loved your Disney story that I was jealous.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, Ben has the hookup. No, I mean
Speaker 3: it was great. I mean you've met this guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you've got Gardelli when you were there.
Speaker 1: Every time I go to Disney, I get the Geareddelly.
Speaker 1: I love the Gearadelly, Kevin and Kansas. Right, it says
Speaker 1: dear Ben and Danny g as I was mowing my
Speaker 1: twenty fifth yard for the week. It's a side hustle
Speaker 1: in retirement. I was wondering about how many jobs you
Speaker 1: have had at one time in your past? When I
Speaker 1: taught full time, I taught a night class, I wrote,
Speaker 1: as wrote for a newspaper, and I mowed, making that
Speaker 1: four jobs at one time. How many jobs have each
Speaker 1: of you had at one time? That is from Kevin.
Speaker 1: So usually at the high end, it was like three
Speaker 1: or four media jobs. I worked at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: I had a TV gig at NBC. This is probably
Speaker 1: twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve. Had a once a
Speaker 1: month I would go to Connecticut to do TV for NBC,
Speaker 1: and then I did the radio show on the weekends.
Speaker 1: And then I filled in at the local LA radio.
Speaker 1: So that was my three jobs. And then few years
Speaker 1: back I did WEI fill in and Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: and I had an what was my I had a
Speaker 1: third job too. It must not have been a good job, though, Danny,
Speaker 1: because I don't remember, so I don't And of course
Speaker 1: recently I've had the TV show, the radio show, and
Speaker 1: then this podcast. Danny, what about you? You're a hustle man.
Speaker 1: You were doing the teaching thing or helping out of
Speaker 1: the school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say as recent as twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one, twenty two, I was at two different schools,
Speaker 3: bouncing back and forth in the same school district between
Speaker 3: some of their schools. And then I was doing the
Speaker 3: podcast with you, and I was still doing some podcast
Speaker 3: stuff with Clay at the time, and also producing weekends
Speaker 3: at the network after Jonas and that show in the morning.
Speaker 3: When I left that show, obviously I had to fill
Speaker 3: in the gap waiting for Covino and Rich to go
Speaker 3: full time. And that took a year of Sunday nights
Speaker 3: with Covino and Rich. So that whole year, Big Ben,
Speaker 3: I was juggling like five jobs all at the same time.
Speaker 3: And that was a long year. I feel like I
Speaker 3: aged five years in that twelve month period.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it was such cluttons for punishment because like,
Speaker 1: when I only have one job, I feel naked. Is
Speaker 1: that that's terrible? Right? You shouldn't like you shouldn't.
Speaker 3: Well, they always say in La you have to have
Speaker 3: a couple of side hustles just to be able to know. Yeah, pay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the cost of living here is insane. So if you
Speaker 3: only have one job. It's better be paying you, you know,
Speaker 3: four hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you're right, You're right. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: get on on that. I will be back tonight in
Speaker 1: the Magic Radio Box to break it all down. Everything
Speaker 1: that didn't happen this weekend. I will make it up.
Speaker 1: I will make it seem like it happened, Danny. I
Speaker 1: will wax poetic. And we are one week away again
Speaker 1: from the Mallord Palooza, the greatest night in overnight sports
Speaker 1: radio for the summer. And we're excited about that. And Danny,
Speaker 1: any thing you want to share here back with Covino
Speaker 1: and Rich is Dan Patrick back? Is Cowhard back? These
Speaker 1: guys have been on vacation.
Speaker 3: Oh they're not. No, Yeah, Dan, remember we were saying
Speaker 3: you have to get rid of all your vacation days
Speaker 3: prior to the NFL season starting. Yes, So not only
Speaker 3: is Dan Patrick out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, but we're filling
Speaker 3: in for him those three days live from Atlanta inside
Speaker 3: the Capitol one MLB All Star Village.
Speaker 1: Oh, that'll be exciting. All right, So you're you're in
Speaker 1: Atlanta all week? Are you back Thursday?
Speaker 3: Or Thursday. The guys are taking off a couple of
Speaker 3: their own days once we're done in Atlanta, So yeah,
Speaker 3: we won't be on the radio until the following week
Speaker 3: after Wednesday's morning show. But yeah, it's going to be
Speaker 3: three days of me running around chasing MLB guests to
Speaker 3: get them on the stage, because I guess there's going
Speaker 3: to be like former players and some Hall of famers
Speaker 3: kind of walking around the fan fest, and so it's
Speaker 3: going to be my job to run around and wrangle
Speaker 3: the the MLB stars to be interviewed on the air.
Speaker 1: Well, good luck. Baseball players are notorious for not wanting
Speaker 1: to do interviews, so hopefully stards.
Speaker 3: Why is that.
Speaker 1: They've always been the a holes? They don't want to
Speaker 1: do interviews, like I get Basketball guys usually want to talk.
Speaker 1: Football guys are shocked anyone to talk to them because
Speaker 1: they wear helmets and nobody knows who they are, and
Speaker 1: they're like, they're open to talking. But baseball players have
Speaker 1: always been Hockey players are great. Baseball players most have
Speaker 1: been schmucks. Anyway, Enjoy Atlanta, Danny's some great restaurants down there,
Speaker 1: Enjoy the All Star festivies. I'm jealous that you get
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 3: To the in the in the cocoa butter.
Speaker 1: That's right. Enjoy Magic City and I'll be on the
Speaker 1: radio tonight and we'll talk to you, talk to talk
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 3: Then later Skater got a murder. I gotta go.