Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of hot takes
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and you
Speaker 1: have locked in on a special edition of The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G. Radio. And unlike
Speaker 1: the other Friday pot becaun't. We do this thing every week,
Speaker 1: and normally we have somebody on here, a pre eminent
Speaker 1: name in the world of sports, or somebody that I
Speaker 1: just know from the radio world, and we commits and
Speaker 1: we we schmooze and that whole thing. But we thought
Speaker 1: this being a special Friday, we must look back at
Speaker 1: an out of sight night, one of the great nights
Speaker 1: of the year, the Mallard Meet and greets. So Danny G.
Speaker 1: I consider this the post game show for those that
Speaker 1: were there and those that were unable to intend because
Speaker 1: of their schedules and whatnot, or they lived too far away.
Speaker 1: The opportunity to look back at what was a great night,
Speaker 1: and there's so many things that we have not been
Speaker 1: able to get into. I talked about it with Eddie
Speaker 1: a little bit on the radio on Sunday night in
Speaker 1: the Monday morning, but we left a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: out because we had to get to the show. And
Speaker 1: it was just a phenomenal night and a night that
Speaker 1: I will remember for a long time. And I know
Speaker 1: Danny you had, you had an interesting day yourself getting
Speaker 1: there and all that, and just everything that happened. So
Speaker 1: this is a chance to look back, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: get into everything that happened as much as we can.
Speaker 1: And there's a few highlights of things that will focus
Speaker 1: on Stranger Danger, uh, the the the dreaded cartoon bubble,
Speaker 1: the family affair and all that. But I thought we
Speaker 1: would begin first of all, Danny was so just some
Speaker 1: general thoughts at this hooting Nanny that took place. I
Speaker 1: was very happy with the turnout. Not everyone who said
Speaker 1: they were gonna be there showed up, but there were
Speaker 1: people that said they weren't gonna or people that we
Speaker 1: didn't even know we're gonna be there that showed up.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was great, and people came from
Speaker 1: near and far, and it was just it was a
Speaker 1: good night. It was a fun night, and I walked in.
Speaker 1: Some crazy stuff happened right away when I got there,
Speaker 1: right at six o'clock. But uh, Danny, you had quite
Speaker 1: the journey. You could have flown, I believe, the Kansas
Speaker 1: City and you would have been able to make it
Speaker 1: wheels up wheels own time in the year by the
Speaker 1: time you got to the event. Is that accurate. That's
Speaker 1: one crazy part about living in southern California. You know,
Speaker 1: if we lived in another state and we were on
Speaker 1: the road for that many hours, we would have crossed
Speaker 1: through like three different states. But here you just get
Speaker 1: to the next county in three hours. I started my
Speaker 1: journey on the border of Ventura County in l A County,
Speaker 1: drove through l A County, which was a mission and
Speaker 1: a half. I left my house right before five pm,
Speaker 1: because obviously I was at the school all day, got home,
Speaker 1: showered really quick, jumped in the car, got on the freeway.
Speaker 1: I knew I was entering Karma Gedton, but it was
Speaker 1: well worth the drive. Ben. It took me two hours
Speaker 1: and fifty four minutes to get there. Oh no, oh
Speaker 1: wait too, I did. I thought it was like two
Speaker 1: and a half So two hours and fifty four minutes
Speaker 1: you got in the car. I assume you use one
Speaker 1: of the mapping apps, whether it's Maps or or Ways.
Speaker 1: Did you use one of those or did you you did?
Speaker 1: I used the Ways app? And when you got in
Speaker 1: the car. How long did it say it would take? Initially?
Speaker 1: What was it? Was it small? Was it insignificant? Initially
Speaker 1: had said I would arrive there at seven thirty four pm,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that'll be right before halftime. But
Speaker 1: then when I was in that slow crawl right around
Speaker 1: the Burbank area which is soon going to be our
Speaker 1: home allegedly, Yeah, then the ways app started ticking up.
Speaker 1: It went from seven thirty four to seven forty four.
Speaker 1: Then it said seven forty eight or something like that.
Speaker 1: And that's when you called me. You called me when
Speaker 1: I was like eight miles away. I was just in
Speaker 1: bumper to bumper, even though it said eight miles away.
Speaker 1: I was like, come on, man, just get me off
Speaker 1: this freeway. Already we were worried about you because some
Speaker 1: of the some of the fans were like, where's Danny
Speaker 1: g you know, Danny g said he was gonna be here,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, yeah, he did. I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened. I gave you a call to see
Speaker 1: what was going on, and then you you gave me
Speaker 1: the whole, the whole lap there what was happening. And
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, that's wild man. I mean it
Speaker 1: took me a little bit. I mean I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't live right near that location. Eddie made it seem
Speaker 1: like I lived right near there. I don't. But I
Speaker 1: did not have to travel as far as you had
Speaker 1: to travel, because you spent three hours in the car
Speaker 1: to go to the events, So you could have a
Speaker 1: three hour of flight would have put you in Dallas.
Speaker 1: You could have gotten to Dallas if you loan Kansas City.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's an insane And so then I when
Speaker 1: somebody had said you were there, Danny, and I didn't
Speaker 1: see you, and then I saw you at the bar,
Speaker 1: so I was like, I went up to you at
Speaker 1: the bar and I was hey, Danny, Jay, I was like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing over me? I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: know what had gone on. I and so you would
Speaker 1: at that point because you had shown up and then
Speaker 1: you were at the bar having a drink, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I definitely needed a drink after all that traffic.
Speaker 1: But I entered the party from the side. I was
Speaker 1: being an undercover agent checking everything out. A couple of
Speaker 1: listeners came up to me right away, and we're talking
Speaker 1: to me about this very podcast, and so we got
Speaker 1: into this big conversation about the fifth hour, and the
Speaker 1: two really nice listeners were talking to me about how
Speaker 1: this podcast is a big deal for their listening pleasure
Speaker 1: every week, and they were talking about drops and different
Speaker 1: stories that we've told, and it was a really cool conversation.
Speaker 1: But then I asked him. I said, where's the bar
Speaker 1: at and they said, oh, over by the Chargers fans.
Speaker 1: They pointed me in that direction. I said, here's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get a quick drink and
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna come back here. And as I was
Speaker 1: ordering the drink, there were listeners at the Bard America,
Speaker 1: and so I was talking to listeners at the bar,
Speaker 1: and then that's when you came over. And the best
Speaker 1: part Ben when you grabbed me and took me over
Speaker 1: back over to the kids together there. I took the bill.
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be signing for the bartender, and
Speaker 1: I stuck it in my pocket. Oh oh. The bartender
Speaker 1: came over and he was like, hey, uh, I know
Speaker 1: you left abruptly. It wasn't your fault. He's like, but
Speaker 1: I think you took the copy of the bill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my lad you drank and
Speaker 1: ditch do you know? No, no, no, I told him
Speaker 1: what I was doing there and made quick small talk
Speaker 1: with him when I ordered the drink. So it's not
Speaker 1: like I was trying to ditch the guy. I just
Speaker 1: forgot all about it because you're like, hey, get over here,
Speaker 1: and so I shoved it in my pocket before I
Speaker 1: signed the bill for the guy. I resigned the check
Speaker 1: and he walked away. But way one of the listeners like, oh,
Speaker 1: you were trying to ditch the bartender Like no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: bet got from the bar and so yeah. Best part
Speaker 1: about that drive though, when Eddie found out why it
Speaker 1: took so long. He was like, Hey, do me a favor.
Speaker 1: Don't tell or Roberto how long it took you to
Speaker 1: get here, because I don't want them to be able
Speaker 1: to use that as ammunition. Oh yeah, well, listen that
Speaker 1: those guys. They had the opportunity. We invited Coop and
Speaker 1: Roberto to be there, and it was a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of guys were like, where's Roberto, where's getting Coop?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, hey, yeah, And for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it wasn't important for them to be there, and they didn't.
Speaker 1: They didn't put a lot of emphasis on it. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's their decision, and I wish they would have done,
Speaker 1: but you know, it would have gone, but we don't
Speaker 1: get paid, and with the price of gas, ended up
Speaker 1: costing all of us a little bit of money. But
Speaker 1: it was worth it for me and I was when
Speaker 1: I was a little kid, Mary I watched Mary Poppas
Speaker 1: and she would say, super califragilistic, XBLI does it was
Speaker 1: that kind of good. It was. It was just great
Speaker 1: and but no, it was not all great day. So
Speaker 1: I told I told this story a little bit. I
Speaker 1: believe it was the English playwright and poet William Congreve
Speaker 1: who is credited with the line hell hath no fury
Speaker 1: like a woman scorned. And so that was my first
Speaker 1: experience at this sublime Mallard meet and greet. It was
Speaker 1: wonderful life energy. People were enthusiastic big fans of the show.
Speaker 1: Was a great mix people from all different backgrounds. It
Speaker 1: was a melting pot, right, I was wonderful. So I
Speaker 1: walk in right at six o'clock. I'm on time, Mallard
Speaker 1: by the clock for the clock, plosibly all about the clock,
Speaker 1: and within thirty seconds, hand to God. Within thirty seconds
Speaker 1: of my arrival, I am in the middle of stranger danger.
Speaker 1: I have an I rate angry woman who's little past
Speaker 1: middle age, who starts reading me the riot act. I.
Speaker 1: Her name is Dotty, which is the perfect name, right, Dotty,
Speaker 1: And she's like a fire breathing dragon. Okay, I believe
Speaker 1: the term is hen pecked, uh, Danny, I think that's
Speaker 1: the term. Just google it if you've never heard the term.
Speaker 1: But so she comes up to me and she tells
Speaker 1: me that she does not like who. He doesn't like me,
Speaker 1: doesn't like the show because of me. She's calling me
Speaker 1: like a bully, right, She's really upset, and she she's
Speaker 1: making me out to be some kind of abrasive ruler, tyrant,
Speaker 1: despotic uh, like I've got the hammer and sickle from
Speaker 1: the old Communist party there in Russia. Like she's really angry, like,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was an act At first. I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, what does she think, I'm Attila the
Speaker 1: Hunt or something like that show. I thought she was kidding,
Speaker 1: but no, she wasn't kidding, Like she really didn't like.
Speaker 1: I don't recall ever having that happened. I've done a
Speaker 1: lot of these over the years all over the country,
Speaker 1: and you'd think something like that would happen in a
Speaker 1: place like Boston, where people are known to be kind
Speaker 1: of surly, and no, it was in southern California where
Speaker 1: this woman comes up very upset, ruthless and angry and
Speaker 1: you're mean to Eddie and Brian Finlay and she's going
Speaker 1: on and that would be like being invited to a
Speaker 1: Lakers meet and greet and attacking Lebron James right when
Speaker 1: he enters the building, the leader of the crew. There's
Speaker 1: a little lot, so she's calling me all these names.
Speaker 1: Say why she hated you so much? Well, yeah, she
Speaker 1: explained it was because I do not say nice things
Speaker 1: to about Brian Finley and Eddie that I goof on Finley.
Speaker 1: I call him numb nuts, and I occasionally will pick
Speaker 1: on Eddie as I believe the term is stickola. My
Speaker 1: grandfather would say stickla on the show we bust each
Speaker 1: other's balls. Lady, she was a finly fanatic. Yeah, apparently
Speaker 1: we found the one Brian Finley fan. Might be related
Speaker 1: to Brian. I don't know. Maybe it was an aunt,
Speaker 1: maybe it was his mom. I have no idea. Daddy,
Speaker 1: did you call Brian to let him know you located her? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up, because this woman is
Speaker 1: hopping match. She's spitting fire right, very angry. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to calm her down, you know, I'm I'm using my
Speaker 1: late night DJ voice trying to calm her down. Everything's okay,
Speaker 1: it's just a radio show, life short. What are you
Speaker 1: doing having I'm using all that right, I'm like, why
Speaker 1: did you show up? You hate the show? I don't understand.
Speaker 1: And so then she explains to me that her brother,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's younger or old, he was
Speaker 1: there and he's a fan of the ship. So I
Speaker 1: guess they listened together and she hates the show, he
Speaker 1: likes the show. And then she hands me this card
Speaker 1: and she tells me not to read it till I
Speaker 1: leave the event. So I put this card in my
Speaker 1: back pocket. So I got that. I'm walking around. It's
Speaker 1: it's crazy, it's and of the people that show up
Speaker 1: to these things are are great and super fans and
Speaker 1: all that general's in the mallard militian. There's always that
Speaker 1: one percent who complete asshole, and uh, it just happened.
Speaker 1: It was within the margin of error. So so anyway,
Speaker 1: I pulled out the old cell phone and I dialed
Speaker 1: up Brian Finley and ring ring, ring ring. Uh nothing.
Speaker 1: He didn't answer, which is fine. So then it goes
Speaker 1: to voicemail. I never leave, yeah, I never leave a voicemail.
Speaker 1: But I was like, all right, whatever, this woman's pain
Speaker 1: in the ass. So I handed my phone to Dottie
Speaker 1: and I said, here's Brian's voicemail. You can send send
Speaker 1: him a message. So she left some I don't know
Speaker 1: where she left, but she left some message on the phone.
Speaker 1: Daddy not daddy, dotty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dottie, and she
Speaker 1: handed the phone back to me, which is good. I
Speaker 1: thought she might steal my phone and run away. But
Speaker 1: the good news is Danny by the end of the night,
Speaker 1: before she left, she left before the event was over.
Speaker 1: She said that at least I'm nicer in person then
Speaker 1: I am on the radio. That's a backhanded compliment if
Speaker 1: I've ever heard one. It's an old, left handed compliment
Speaker 1: from Dottie. So that was my run in with Dottie.
Speaker 1: What was the card? Was it a Starbucks gift card
Speaker 1: in there for you? Well, that's the funny thing, Danny.
Speaker 1: So I got home, I completely forgot about the card,
Speaker 1: you know, out of sight, out of mind. I got
Speaker 1: in the car, said by to everybody, got in the car,
Speaker 1: set by Eddie, and then I'm driving back and I
Speaker 1: did not get to eat at this event because I
Speaker 1: I felt guilty that people had come from so far away.
Speaker 1: That's actually the other part of story. So in my
Speaker 1: in my head that you kind of play things out.
Speaker 1: You know, we all have this soundtrack that is like
Speaker 1: the voice that tells you that that kind of narrates
Speaker 1: our lives. I assume you have that too, Danny. I
Speaker 1: think everyone kind of has that. Like you're you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what I'm gonna do, Here's what's going on. You're
Speaker 1: thinking in your head. Yeah, mine's voiced by Merlin Olsen.
Speaker 1: Mine's voiced by the guy from the Wonder Years. Remember
Speaker 1: that show back, and so I was, I was, it
Speaker 1: was all mapped out. I was gonna futs around with
Speaker 1: the listeners, but at some point would be halftime, and
Speaker 1: I was gonna take a break. In fact, uh supermarket,
Speaker 1: Steve and his lovely wife had they had made She
Speaker 1: had made some tar tiram sioux, and I said, she
Speaker 1: gave me one to eat, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not quite the time to eat. It's not my time.
Speaker 1: I've got I'm fasting, which I was. So I was, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll eat and I was gonna take a break, and
Speaker 1: I was gonna have cheeseburger in Paradise with tater tots.
Speaker 1: I was looking at the menu, the tater tots, pretzels,
Speaker 1: the whole thing, and in the cartoon bubble in my head,
Speaker 1: I had a feast fit for a king. But what
Speaker 1: ended up happening. I was so worried about being a
Speaker 1: schmuck and not saying load of people and I know
Speaker 1: people couldn't stay for the whole thing. They were only
Speaker 1: there for a little bit. And this was, you know,
Speaker 1: this whole mock up I had going to my head,
Speaker 1: and so I didn't want to leave anyone without getting
Speaker 1: the proper amount of time if they really wanted to
Speaker 1: spend time with me. I was honored that they would
Speaker 1: come out of their way and and pause their lives
Speaker 1: to hang out with us, and so I wanted to
Speaker 1: spend time with them, and so I ended up bouncing around.
Speaker 1: So I'm bouncing all over the place, and I'm shaking
Speaker 1: a lot of hands, I'm kissing a lot of babies,
Speaker 1: taking a lot of photos. I even signed a few autographs,
Speaker 1: which was cool, and I had a blast a couple
Speaker 1: of our buddies from Reno. One of the guys, I
Speaker 1: think they both work at the prison, which is far
Speaker 1: outside Reno, but they're big fans of the show, and
Speaker 1: they had got clipper hats. So I saw an autograph
Speaker 1: these really nice clipper hats, which was neat, and a
Speaker 1: few other things. So anyway, I think when you thought
Speaker 1: the value of a Clippers had couldn't go any lower,
Speaker 1: exactly right. It's what is still wrong with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: A personalized autograph. I wasn't even personalized. I just saw
Speaker 1: my name there because I didn't want to f up
Speaker 1: the hat anymore by personalizing it. But it was it
Speaker 1: was nice that they wanted me to do that whatever.
Speaker 1: So so then I got out of there, uh and
Speaker 1: ended up leaving the card that Dotty the angry woman
Speaker 1: had given me. I was. I went home. I then
Speaker 1: had to get food because I hadn't eaten, and so
Speaker 1: I went out with with the wife with the family.
Speaker 1: We went out by the food of food. And then
Speaker 1: the next morning I forgot about the card again, and
Speaker 1: then on my way to work on Sunday night, I
Speaker 1: was like, wait a minute, what happened to the card?
Speaker 1: And I don't know what happened to it. I think
Speaker 1: I left it in the back pocket of my pants
Speaker 1: and either it got thrown out because it went in
Speaker 1: the washing machine. I don't know. So we will never
Speaker 1: know what kind of angry words were on Dotty's card
Speaker 1: that she put there. It could have been a peace offering,
Speaker 1: though ben could have been some amazing gift certificate in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I was concerned about. I was concerned that
Speaker 1: Dotty possibly put like a thousand dollars in there something
Speaker 1: like that. I just I just got rid of of money.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well that was the other possibility, right that.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, she put some kind of white
Speaker 1: powder and she wanted me to open it up after
Speaker 1: we leave, because it's possible that everyone would die, uh,
Speaker 1: depending on what the thing was. And so I guess
Speaker 1: I'll never know unless it turns up somewhere, I will
Speaker 1: not know what our home girl Dotty put in the card.
Speaker 1: Very angry Dotty. But anyway, so that was that was
Speaker 1: the experience. But I give you credit, Danny. I can
Speaker 1: tell you've done more of those things because you, unlike me,
Speaker 1: I was bouncing around you like you You're like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sit down. You had a huddle of people around you.
Speaker 1: There was like a half circle around you, and you
Speaker 1: were just sitting there telling stories. And that's that's a
Speaker 1: great strategy. I love it, Like rather than me, I'm
Speaker 1: the idiot, I'm running all over the place. And you
Speaker 1: had a game plan and you said, Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: know if this was planned out or just happened organically. Uh,
Speaker 1: but whether it was by design or not, but you
Speaker 1: had people that were wrapped around you like you were
Speaker 1: the quarterback calling the play in the huddle. Was great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it kind of happened organically. Although when I think back
Speaker 1: to some of the meet and greets that we did
Speaker 1: for Q one on four seven and the heat back
Speaker 1: in the day. That's how the night would kind of
Speaker 1: play out. We'd usually be broadcasting from a place and
Speaker 1: we would be sitting down with the microphones and the headphones,
Speaker 1: and then the listeners would kind of come over and
Speaker 1: and that's exactly how it played out there. The only
Speaker 1: thing missing from that booth that Eddie and I were
Speaker 1: sitting at for a while was headphones and a microphone
Speaker 1: on the live. Yeah, I know, it was It was
Speaker 1: cool and I got a lot of steps in walking
Speaker 1: walking around and did you were bouncing around, which that
Speaker 1: was cool. Though you were working the room. There were
Speaker 1: a lot of listeners that obviously wanted to take photos
Speaker 1: with you, and um, there were some that you could
Speaker 1: tell that we're a little bit on the outskirts, so
Speaker 1: they get together that we're on the shy side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you can relate to that, so you kind of
Speaker 1: went and pulled them in. Yeah, I am, and people
Speaker 1: some some people were sending me emails, Oh you say
Speaker 1: you're an extra, you're an introvert, but I don't believe it.
Speaker 1: You were out there doing your thing and I'm like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because that was the event. But it took a lot
Speaker 1: of energy and a lot of effort for me to
Speaker 1: schmooze and go around and and I'm not trust me.
Speaker 1: You've known me a long time, Danny, Am I a
Speaker 1: social butterfly? I'm not right. You've been to parties. I
Speaker 1: hope you'll come again this year when we have the
Speaker 1: parties again. After the last couple years we haven't be
Speaker 1: able to do it because of COVID. But um, my
Speaker 1: wife is much more outgoing, she's much more of a
Speaker 1: socializer and all that. And you know, I'll do it occasionally,
Speaker 1: but I pretty much keep to myself. That's why I
Speaker 1: went to radio. If I was an extrovert, if I
Speaker 1: was the life of the party, I'd be doing something else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at at a perfect party, I would be behind the
Speaker 1: turntables and you'd be behind the griddle. Yeah exactly. I'd
Speaker 1: be cooking up doing something or serving you know, drinks
Speaker 1: or whatever it might be. Uh and you know, put
Speaker 1: fire on on you know, put wood on the fire
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. But uh yeah, so but and
Speaker 1: it was it was neat. I didn't meet. We had
Speaker 1: a good mix. We had some extroverse. There were some
Speaker 1: people very enthusiastic, energetic that were gung ho to to
Speaker 1: be part of this. And then there were the other
Speaker 1: people who I related to a little bit more who
Speaker 1: were kind of, as you said, in the back and
Speaker 1: introverted and then didn't want to be the one to
Speaker 1: go up to me. And and I totally get that.
Speaker 1: I feel you. It is so awkward and it's it's
Speaker 1: a weird thing, but it's also somewhat therapeutic, Danny to
Speaker 1: do these things, because we're so lucky to have these jobs,
Speaker 1: to work on radio and podcasting and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and without the people who are who were there that
Speaker 1: listen and our fans and what we do, then we'd
Speaker 1: have to go out and get a real job. I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you, was this year very first Raider tailgate?
Speaker 1: I know we had first walked in and Eddie talked
Speaker 1: about this on your live show. There was a Chargers
Speaker 1: fan club there, but his wife's Chargers fan club. They
Speaker 1: had the pop up tent outside of this restaurant, and
Speaker 1: I noticed that right when I was parking, Wow, are
Speaker 1: the Chargers sponsoring this event? So I walk in andto
Speaker 1: the left where the bar was at there were all
Speaker 1: these Charger fans watching this meaningless preseason game. Yeah. They
Speaker 1: were playing the Saints and their last Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: weren't making any noise, and they just all kind of
Speaker 1: look bored out of their minds. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: it must be kind of hard to have a viewing
Speaker 1: party for a preseason game. Then I look over to
Speaker 1: the right and I saw a Raider viewing party. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's cool. Whole bunch of Raider fans
Speaker 1: showed up to outdo all these Charger fans over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a humongous you're not exatary. There might have
Speaker 1: been more Raider fans on our side of the bar
Speaker 1: the Charger fans on the other side of the bar.
Speaker 1: Confused because I was doing like a spin around the place. Well,
Speaker 1: where's the mallard get together at? Yeah? No, it was
Speaker 1: it was why we well right away. Also, not only
Speaker 1: did I have Dottie who was was doing doing her thing,
Speaker 1: but Teverlely and uh she. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: met Teverley. She's a huge Raider fan. I've known her
Speaker 1: for a while because they went to Bakersfield and some
Speaker 1: of your other events. Great couple and her I think
Speaker 1: husband right she here, he was screaming you know, he
Speaker 1: was yelling out random things as the night went on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: was communicating with the Charger fan club. It was great
Speaker 1: because it was like primal screams throughout the bar, and
Speaker 1: and it was like Mallard, you know, he's just like
Speaker 1: made no sense, but he randomly send these things out.
Speaker 1: It was very very amusing, and so we had we
Speaker 1: had told my TENDERNI that I felt like I was
Speaker 1: at the Oakland Coliseum. It was. It was crazy. Some
Speaker 1: other observations. We we had a fair amount of families
Speaker 1: that that was really cool. Not probably by the time
Speaker 1: you got there, Danny, they had left a lot of them.
Speaker 1: But when I walked in, like early on when the
Speaker 1: shin dig began, there were a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: brought there their kids and their wives and girlfriends and
Speaker 1: hopefully not both wives and girlfriend at the same time.
Speaker 1: But uh, but it was it was a family fair
Speaker 1: and that was really neat, Like it was really cool,
Speaker 1: and they had had dinner there and they were hanging
Speaker 1: out and I took some photos of some of the
Speaker 1: kids and in fact, one of the guys from East
Speaker 1: l A. I did a cameo for for these two
Speaker 1: big fans of the show back a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and I invited them to the studio and I said,
Speaker 1: once COVID's over, I want you to come in because, uh,
Speaker 1: the kids at that time, I guess he was in
Speaker 1: the seventh grade or the sixth grade, but he's in
Speaker 1: the eighth grade now and so he's in junior high.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, yeah, come have your dad
Speaker 1: bring it down. We're gonna show you around the radio station.
Speaker 1: And so I saw them. They showed up. It was
Speaker 1: great to see them. Hadn't hadn't met them in person,
Speaker 1: and so I invited them down to the radio station
Speaker 1: again and I told them Danny, I said, email me
Speaker 1: because I want to set up a date. Well, have
Speaker 1: you come in and we'll coordinate it because I have
Speaker 1: a hybrid schedule. I do the show from the remote
Speaker 1: studio my my home studio about half the time and
Speaker 1: then I'm in the main student do the mothership half
Speaker 1: the time. And so he said, shore, no problem, I'll
Speaker 1: email it. But I still haven't gotten emailed Danny, So
Speaker 1: I'm concerned. Hopefully they hear this and you can email
Speaker 1: me Ben Mallards Show at gmail dot com for that.
Speaker 1: That's B. E. N M A L L E. R.
Speaker 1: S h o W at gmail dot com and send
Speaker 1: me a message. I know who you are and I
Speaker 1: know a few things that the general population does not know.
Speaker 1: So send me a message and will set something up
Speaker 1: and you can come in and hang out for for
Speaker 1: an hour or two and see how we do the
Speaker 1: show and behind the scenes and all that. Sad to
Speaker 1: miss some of the kids, and like Anthony and Anaheim,
Speaker 1: like you said, the families left right about the halfway point.
Speaker 1: Because everybody knows Ben the hookers in cocaine come out
Speaker 1: at about eight p m. Bunch of hookers and cocaine. Well,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's at the after party. There was an
Speaker 1: after party. Jay Scoop had an after their party with
Speaker 1: Jay Dot and his lovely girlfriend and then the very
Speaker 1: beautiful Regina spin Psycho. Regina was there and so I
Speaker 1: think some other people. They went up to the the
Speaker 1: suite there and I had a fine time in the
Speaker 1: Holiday Inn, which was adjacent because this was right next
Speaker 1: to the Holiday and it was conjoined. It was like
Speaker 1: the restaurant for the holiday. And I believe right, I
Speaker 1: think that's there was some con't joining all right, I'm
Speaker 1: sure And we had people and we're not naming a
Speaker 1: lot of names here because I I've tried to avoid
Speaker 1: that because when you start naming names, Danny leaves so
Speaker 1: many people out. Yeah, it's like a speech accepting an award.
Speaker 1: You might as well just say thank you to everybody
Speaker 1: that's helped along the way. You know who you are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I could name probably se people there, but I
Speaker 1: leave out. I named Dottie because she attacked me. I
Speaker 1: name Teverley because she comes to all of these things.
Speaker 1: She's been a fan of the show for years and
Speaker 1: she's so supportive and she's she's in real estate. She
Speaker 1: was telling me about her real estate dealings, and I'm
Speaker 1: very curious how that works because these things are so expensive.
Speaker 1: Of the houses, like, how many houses a year do
Speaker 1: you have to sell to make a living? And she's
Speaker 1: told me that if she sells three or four houses,
Speaker 1: she's in pretty good shape for the year. But that's
Speaker 1: that's still a lot. That's and that's one every every so,
Speaker 1: you know, every few months or so. So it's it's
Speaker 1: a pain. And it was it was really cool learning
Speaker 1: about the stories of how people found the show, and
Speaker 1: you talked about the podcast. People help them out, and
Speaker 1: it is one of the interesting things about doing the
Speaker 1: overnight show. I think it was Steve Somers, who did
Speaker 1: the overnight show at w FAN for years, who said
Speaker 1: that radio is just more important at night. It's a
Speaker 1: little more important at night than it is for people
Speaker 1: during the day. And I completely agree with that sentiment.
Speaker 1: It just means so much more to people at night,
Speaker 1: not that it doesn't matter during the day. And trust me,
Speaker 1: the people and we both know this, Danny from being
Speaker 1: a radio The people that do daytime shows six am
Speaker 1: to six pm, they make more money than us. They
Speaker 1: get endorsement deals that we don't get. But I don't
Speaker 1: think there shows matter as much. And maybe I'm just
Speaker 1: biased by doing the overnight show, but I've heard so
Speaker 1: many stories from people who were down on their luck, depressed,
Speaker 1: got dumped by their girlfriend, lost their job, or they're
Speaker 1: working a dead end job, a ship job, and they
Speaker 1: wish they were doing something else and they were depressed,
Speaker 1: or they had medical issues and they were in the
Speaker 1: hospital and they found the show and we were a friend,
Speaker 1: we were there friends, and so I don't know that
Speaker 1: that happens on a daytime show. It's the same sort
Speaker 1: of sentiment that a band receives from their fans, like
Speaker 1: I Found you and I was going through a really
Speaker 1: bad breakup tracks number four, seven and ten Saved of
Speaker 1: My life. Like, musicians will get this a lot, and
Speaker 1: you're right, nighttime DJs will hear that often as well,
Speaker 1: because in the daytime there's just a lot going on,
Speaker 1: a lot of hustle and bustle, and in a way,
Speaker 1: some radio shows are almost like background music. But when
Speaker 1: everything slows down and a listener is really paying attention
Speaker 1: and concentrating to a nighttime radio show, that's when things
Speaker 1: are calm and more quiet, and you have time to
Speaker 1: like be in your own head and you're dealing with stuff,
Speaker 1: and that's when some people need a friend. And unfortunately
Speaker 1: for you, Benny, that's when the pressure is on you
Speaker 1: and the spotlight's on you for your time slot. Well wait,
Speaker 1: there's more, no, no, it is. I listen. It was great,
Speaker 1: And I love the guys that were like in jail
Speaker 1: and found the show and and now they're they're living
Speaker 1: a good life and they've got a job and family
Speaker 1: and things like that. That's that's really cool. There was
Speaker 1: a guy in the military, a couple of guys that
Speaker 1: were from the military backgrounds and they they found the show.
Speaker 1: They were listening for a while. Uh, you know, there's
Speaker 1: an Iraq. I guess I'll say the Rockers and the
Speaker 1: rocker who gave me my avatar. He helped my avatar
Speaker 1: on Twitter and he said he started listening in high school. Danny,
Speaker 1: he's now in his mid thirties. Holy crowd. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's stuff like that. How about the truck drivers
Speaker 1: who were there, Oh yeah, we're great. U. Yeah. That
Speaker 1: was awesome to hear from several drivers who talked about
Speaker 1: not only our live show, but the podcast meaning so
Speaker 1: much to them. God bless truly, the paper boys, security
Speaker 1: guards and drivers. And then also the Mason who hates
Speaker 1: our curse words being bleeped out of the podcast, even
Speaker 1: though I explained the bit to him, Ben, I mean,
Speaker 1: he knew kind of that it was a bit, but
Speaker 1: he he likes to hear the curse words. So just
Speaker 1: to honor him, last week, I left the curse within
Speaker 1: we are we are listening to your demands. Well, there
Speaker 1: were two Masons who were older. There was a kid
Speaker 1: named Mason, but there were two older Masons. There was
Speaker 1: Mason from Huntington's Beach. And then there was also Mason
Speaker 1: from the Bay who works like Tesla, so he was there,
Speaker 1: got you, Yeah, this was the younger man. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the Mason from from northern California who made the drive down.
Speaker 1: That motherfucker you can't understand normal thinking, Mason, is your
Speaker 1: problem there? I mean, And obviously that is an affectionate
Speaker 1: tone there with that F word for you. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. But but again thanks to everyone that showed up.
Speaker 1: And I would like to make this a yearly ritual.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to Eddie and on the way out,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we can do this every year, maybe around
Speaker 1: the same time, possibly at the same location, who knows.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll even make this like a big event and
Speaker 1: see if we can get promotions involved Danny, and see
Speaker 1: if we can get some some sponsorship dollars for a
Speaker 1: restaurant or something like that. That's always the possibility. I've
Speaker 1: tried to keep this kind of on the down low.
Speaker 1: The boss knows, yeah, he knows what. He was excited
Speaker 1: about it. He actually was talking to me about some
Speaker 1: shifts coming up Saturday. You needed some extra hours from me,
Speaker 1: And while he was texting me about that. He said,
Speaker 1: I saw pictures on Twitter. It looked like the Mallard
Speaker 1: event was awesome. Yeah, I wrote back, and I told him, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty amazing. He's in on it now, so
Speaker 1: I think we should get some sponsorship dollars out of him.
Speaker 1: I agree, and the other thing too. Before I forget,
Speaker 1: I really want to thank the guys and I should
Speaker 1: not encourage this activity because it can can work both ways.
Speaker 1: But we have crossover fans that are are big supporters
Speaker 1: of petros and money in l A. Are there the
Speaker 1: flagship the newon drive So they used to work at
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Where's the truck? Then? Yeah? Yeah no,
Speaker 1: But these guys were like going They told they told
Speaker 1: me they went up to Don Martin, the big boss,
Speaker 1: and we're like yelling to get me more exposure and
Speaker 1: our show more exposure and stuff like that. They were
Speaker 1: busting Don Martin's balls. That's thund that's our big man.
Speaker 1: I can't do anything about that. Mallard man, what do
Speaker 1: you do? It's just I don't ever fire anybody my man.
Speaker 1: The audience does that by tuning out. It was it
Speaker 1: was so good, but the I did want to go
Speaker 1: back to the overnight the overnight radio listen, nighttime radio listener,
Speaker 1: real quick, because I read a book years ago about infommercials.
Speaker 1: The reason infomercials are on late at night. One of
Speaker 1: the reasons is it's obviously easier to put them on
Speaker 1: late at night because it's cheaper advertising rates and all that.
Speaker 1: But they've done stage. People do behave differently at night,
Speaker 1: and and that's why people party at night and they
Speaker 1: do crazy things at night, right and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like that old Stephen King quote. Nothing good happens
Speaker 1: at midnight unless you listen to the radio. But but
Speaker 1: people's activity is different and their sensibilities change a little
Speaker 1: bit at the end of the day as opposed to
Speaker 1: the beginning of the day. I'm sure we missed a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, Danny, but we we've got to kick
Speaker 1: the can. We've got other business to get to this weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll have two other podcasts, but that is the Mallard
Speaker 1: Post Game Mallard Meet and Greet. Mallard and Danny g
Speaker 1: are thoughts on what It was a wonderful event thanks
Speaker 1: to everyone that showed up. Regina flew out from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: We had listeners judge, our friend Jay Scoop from Seattle
Speaker 1: Bay area and Nevada, Utah Ja Dot rove out from
Speaker 1: Utah and probably got here quicker driving at night from
Speaker 1: Utah than you did, Danny from where you came from.
Speaker 1: So that yeah, special shout out to Eddie and you
Speaker 1: and the p Ones who made it such a fun event. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great night and a night I will
Speaker 1: remember for many many years, and hopefully those of you
Speaker 1: that were there, well we'll remember that as one. Uh.
Speaker 1: That is it. We'll get out of here on that
Speaker 1: and we'll catch you on our Saturday podcast coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Have a great day later, Skater fun you go. What's
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