WEBVTT - "Bacon Bucks" Mail Bag 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.240 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:32.400 Maller starts right now, n N in the air everywhere 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.000 back on a Sunday, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:42.680 and Danny G. Radio because just not enough time to 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.320 get all the content. And this a spinoff of the 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.120 Overnight Show. As we are in the air everywhere eight 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.479 days a week, and we thank you for supporting the podcast, 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.720 supporting the radio show, all of that. And this is 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:00.680 the Sunday mail Bag Danny G. This is a actacking, 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.480 spectacular podcast. My favorite podcast of the week, the Mailbag. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.560 So without further ado, are you ready Danny? Yeah, it 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.440 is a big day for the Mallard Militia. Big night 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.120 because tonight and Monday morning of course the Bennies. So 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.119 we have our steamers out just like Coop. I think 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.920 you found some bell bottoms in your closet. Yeah, well, 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:23.920 I was a kid, my mom, I have some photos 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.480 I found when I have you know, I went through 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.960 the stuff. I was a Bell Bottoms baby. I want 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.800 you to know, Danny, I was a Bell Bottomed I 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:37.200 was that seventies show. Damn right. So we are ready, 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.680 here we go. Let's strike. I mean in the mailbag. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:44.240 You know how we start the mailbag right here bag 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.960 thanks to our buddy ohio Al who sent that one in. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.960 We honor ohio Al every week with that little male ditty. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.040 And let's get into you've got all right. First one 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.040 comes from moving man Matt Currently. He says he's in 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.840 Barstow but headed to Vegas. I wonder if he had 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.960 a taco from Del Taco, the famous Del Taco and Barstow. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.040 So it's original Del Taco, right or one of the Yeah, 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.120 that was one of the very first Del tacos. And 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.679 if you go there to this day, they put more 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.200 beans inside the burritos there. Yes, their claim to fame. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.040 They have the Barstow menu. Yeah, the burritos like the 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.920 size of your head. Wow, if you don't know what 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.120 Del Taco is, because it's not all over the country. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.680 It's like Taco Bell, but it's the you know, yeah, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.839 a little more Mexican? Is it more Mexican? I think 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.079 I think they those are gringo tacos, the crunchy tacos 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.919 that I like. There they are, but I think the 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:54.280 burritos are a little more Mexican. Movie Man Matt says, 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:58.600 would you buy the Mallard billboard? It's currently for sale 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.639 and a new Mallard billboard will becoming a more luxurious one. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.320 It is a piece of show history after all. Well, 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.079 that's very flattering, moving man, Matt, that you would think 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.120 that I would want to purchase that, Ay, that I 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.720 would want of course I would want it, be I 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.280 have nowhere to put it. It's massive. I can't put 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.720 it anywhere and take up too much space. And see 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:24.600 I couldn't afford it. So other than that, uh, we 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.440 need somebody else to step up. But thank you for 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.639 the very kind offer. I do appreciate that, but unfortunately, uh, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.040 can I do it now? He has a question for Danny. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.080 Moving Man Matt says, what was the coolest thing about 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.600 being able to get former President Donald Trump on the 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:48.520 phone for Clay when you did it? And tell that story, Danny. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.800 For those that have not heard you were producing for 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.040 Clay Travis. You were the reason, part of the reason 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.160 that Clay became the new Rush Limball. You helped him, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.480 he helps you vice versa. But when you were producing 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.400 his show, you had some very interesting guests. And you've 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.680 got to do something that I'm very jealous of. To 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:11.040 talk to a president, the president of the United States 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.840 most powerful position, uh finger on the nuclear bombs and 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.160 you talked to this guy. What was that like? Yeah, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.640 I haven't got to talk about that on our podcast. Uh, 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:27.680 it was definitely scary that first time he called to 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.880 be answering the phone and knowing that our phone system 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:37.240 is not fool proof. I just totally assume that the 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.520 phones are not gonna work. So let's see how this goes, 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:44.120 and me the fool running the phone box. I turned 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.240 on the lights extra bright in the studio because, as 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.840 you know, Ben Roberto and I like the lights to 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.279 be low in there, like mood lighting. Yes, I set 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.520 the mood in there when I'm in the studios. But 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.640 I turned the lights on him like I gotta see 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.560 what I'm doing. And then I was sweating it because 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:05.479 Clay's teasing this obviously all morning. I'm getting text messages 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.600 from bosses that normally aren't awake at that time, texting 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.680 me if they are listening at that time. Usually I 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.920 don't hear from them. So I'm hearing from all these 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.280 different people. My phone is blowing up. I'm trying to 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.320 concentrate on the show that was live and what's going 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.239 on on the phone, and then Clay gets nervous, why 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.719 do our phones not work? The crazy part, Ben was 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.520 that I figured that when the call did finally come 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.400 in during the time that the call was expected, that 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.760 you know, it would be like the guy in charge 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:47.080 of White House Communications, the secretary, somebody official, okay, stand 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.000 by for the president. Because I had guests on that 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.040 show who were like senators and stuff like that, and 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.839 they even had press secretaries who would come on first 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.400 make sure the connection was good for the interview, and 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.320 then when it was time, they would say, okay, and 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.159 here's the senator, and then the senator would come on 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.680 the phone. In my mind, that's what I'm expecting. The 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.760 phone's ringing, and in Clay's air, I tell him phones 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.120 ringing so he could mentally prepare to set up this 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.560 live interview. Now that it's time, I pick up the 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.960 phone and it's just Donald J. Trump himself on his soul. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.000 Does he say like, hey, don't be rude. Did you 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:33.679 say that? So I'm like, you know, he answered Fox 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.839 Sports Radio and he was like uh and he says 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.760 Danny and I say yeah, and he's like, this is 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:44.240 the president and it's great, right. So I'm like, holy 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.320 sh it, this guy just called me by my name. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.200 Isn't a press secretary? What the hell? The best part is, 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.800 you know, Clay's doing this whole intro, getting the scene 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.719 set and everything before he's gonna bring him on. So 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.640 Clay had told me, okay, you get him because Claire, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.800 He's also thinking I'm on the phone with somebody official. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.680 He's like when when he's ready, and he's the one 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.840 on the line, tell me in my ear. So now 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.520 instead of talking to a secretary, I'm actually shooting the 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.560 ship with the president. He's asking me about how the 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.680 morning's go in, and it was the coolest thing. I'm 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.800 just like, hey, everything's good here, and I kind of 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.640 joke around with him and he's like, hey, because you 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.560 have the President on the phone, Clay definitely needs to 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.880 give you a raise. And I said, your lips to 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.600 God's Ears and we're kind of laughing about that, and 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.520 I tell him, Okay, I'm gonna put you on hold 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.800 and I'm gonna let Clay know you're ready. And he's like, okay, 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.560 thanks for having me. He's like, by the way, you 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.880 guys have a great show. I love it. So I 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.280 put him on hold, and Roberto's just kind of staring 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.200 at me, like what the fun is going on? So 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.360 I tell Clay, hey, he's ready, Clay brings him on 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.800 the air, does that interview with him. No matter what 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.480 your politics are, it's obviously super cool to have a 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.880 sitting president live on your radio show, you know. And 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.360 most of these guys ben if they're if they're a 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.360 big shot, whether it's a coach, a big time athlete, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.080 an actor, somebody like that. At the end, when the 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.560 host says thank you, and they say thank you and 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.240 they part ways, they'll just hang up. Yeah. I've had 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.440 people hang up in the middle of interviews, Danny, as 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.640 you know on this podcast. I've interviewed people and right 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.320 in the middle I gotta go by. Uh. Sometimes I 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.160 don't even say by. They just hang up. When you're 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.400 producing a show and you have a guest. Usually they're gone, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.760 Like you'll go to the phone and you'll pick it 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.320 up just to see and you'll say it's a courtesy. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.000 There's a lot of times I'll pick up the phone 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.000 and I'll say, hey, thanks again for joining us, and 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:52.160 nobody says anything because they're gone. Well, this time, I 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.839 pick up the phone and that's what I'm expecting. But 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.240 he stayed on the line, and so now he's talking 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.120 to me again after the interview, and he was like, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.560 how was that was that? Was that what you needed? 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.319 Was that good? And I'm like, yeah, man, Clay loved 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.360 it obviously, you know. And Clay is trying to talk 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.280 to me on the talkback system. Yeah. So I got 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.480 two conversations going at once, and Roberto tells Clay on 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.480 his talk back He's like, oh, he's still on the 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.840 phone with Danny right now. And Clay was like okay, 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.040 And so he talks to me for you know, maybe 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.840 thirty seconds afterwards. I'll come on the show again. You guys, 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.680 let me know when you want to talk more college football, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.439 because this was during COVID and a lot of that 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.240 conversation was how are they going to bring college football back? 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:41.920 It was just like twenty twenty early or when what 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.400 would you Yeah, so this was Pete Covid time, So 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.520 maybe summer of you know, I'll have to go back 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.640 to look at the official date, but I know it 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.680 was when all that drama was going on with the 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.880 Pack twelve canceling. Okay, so then maybe we'll college football. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:05.559 Heason is in October September, you know, around then. So 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:10.320 so they were fighting to get the big ten back, remember, yes, yes, yes, yes, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.960 Well that's when that was going on, and it was 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.160 really crazy. The second time he called, I was more 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.400 comfortable because I was like, well, he was cool with 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.760 me and he knew me, and Roberto and all those 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.079 guys teased me because we're in those commercials when Clay 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.680 was on the talk back, I hang up. I kind 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.240 of share with Clay off the air what the conversation 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.920 was like with him, and Clay's laughing. He's like, Wow, 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.040 that's cool that he just called on his own phone 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.120 like that. I want to talk about that on the 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.440 air when we come back for the final segment. And 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.960 I was like, all right, cool. So we come back, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.480 Clay's laughing about how he called himself and he goes 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.080 to me, and he's like, Danny, what was that like 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.840 answering the phone? And I told him how nervous I 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.520 was to accidentally hang up on the president, And and 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.200 then Clay was like and supposedly he said that you 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.800 deserved to raise. I share exactly what happened, like I 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.679 just did with you, and Roberto's laughing. Roberto's like yeah right, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.559 And so Clay goes around the horn. He's like, let 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.719 me go around the horn, Eddie, do you believe the 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.360 president said that? And he's like nope, and he's like 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.560 Roberto and Roberto is like, yeah, well, how convenient that 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.600 it was on one side of the phone and none 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.960 of us could hear it. Yeah? Right, And so Clay said, hey, 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.160 if he does ever join the show again, I'm gonna 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.000 ask him if he really said that. So that second 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.839 time Trump called the show, Clay asked him, did you 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.000 tell my producer Danny g that he deserved a raise 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.840 when you called last time? Absolutely? I said, you get 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.480 the president, but you really do. You have a great show, 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.400 and he's a nice guy. I said, you get the 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.880 president of the phone, you deserve a raise. I haven't 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.840 done too many of these calls. That's great, that's awesome. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.040 It was the all time radio stories that I I listened. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.599 I remember we were doing the over Night showed. That 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.760 was back before I did it from home, and we 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.840 hadn't made the transition, and people are like, oh, Trump's 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.840 gonna be on and I was like, oh wow, that's 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.200 like I had to I couldn't believe it. I thought 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.200 there's no way they were rumors. And then it actually 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:03.920 turned out to be the case. So that was awesome. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.280 That's great. All right, that is a wonderful answer. Thank you, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.760 moving Man, Matt. Moving Man. Matt was part of that 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.800 trucker convoy. He sent some photos out. He was around 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.040 d C. All Right, what is next? Helen and stew 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:23.680 from palmetto Bay, Florida. Very controversial couple, say Ben and 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.800 Danny Happy Sunday, Sunday Sunday, Ain't no party like the 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.960 Fifth Hour Party. This week's letter includes a joke, a 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.120 few quick comments, and a question. Let's get to it. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:41.559 The letter begins, STU, over this, over this for a week? 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:48.160 Bitch uh? He begins, question, what does that one sex 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:54.800 toy insult trick pony living in Montana get told? On 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.920 the tenth of every month Uh. The answer the rent 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:06.560 was due on the first wow, Helen is feisty says 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.320 Bruce Jenner was back in the n c A a 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.559 trans swimmer news this week. We missed that guy. Looking back, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.480 he should have told us, given us a chance to 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.240 say goodbye by going on a year long farewell tour. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.400 Shout out to our favorite comic Bill Burr, who, as 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.079 a big sports fan living in l A, should be 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.640 a future guest on the fifth hour. Do you have 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.840 a contact for Bill Burr? Can we get him on 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.920 the podcast? But he do the podcast. He's a big, 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.640 big name in comedy. Would even come on a podcast 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.240 like this? I have no idea we can ask, right, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:46.560 doesn't uh? And the message continues, Ben jellyfish have survived 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:51.959 six fifty million years without brains. Great news for Fox 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.120 Sports Radio executives who failed to promote you to Clay 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.520 Travis's time Slide. Well, very kind, very kind, Helen. But 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.920 as I have said many times, the kind of show 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.880 that I do overnight, I would not be allowed to 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.800 do if I was in a morning time slot. They 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.240 would just not allow it. The corporate muckety MUCKs would interfere. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.520 They would put their foot down and say, well, what 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.240 are you talking to a guy from Brooklyn who eats 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.200 chef boy Ard for ten minutes? What's wrong with you? Uh? 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.120 And and why are you talking to a guy in 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.760 Maine who this is like a whack of doodle? What's 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.240 up with that? So? Yeah, but I do appreciate the 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:33.160 kind words telling fun facts. Helen says an autopsy showed 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.040 that cocaine used contributed to the heart disease that suddenly 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.320 killed TV pitchman Billy Mays. As a reminder, it's one 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:46.000 Benny Awards ballot time. Please vote now for Danny g 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.760 as the best crew fill in. So a badge of 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.200 honor for you. And Helen also says, Ben, your natural 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.200 weight loss of two hundred pounds and keeping that weight 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:01.960 off remains inspirational and legendary. Question. Who's the biggest cheater? 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.840 Whether man Al Roker celebrating his this this week twenty 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:12.200 years since his gastric bypass surgery or the cheating stros Well, Helen, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.520 you know the answer to that. I've never met Al Roker. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.880 I've seen him on TV many times, but I was 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.080 at the seventeen World Series and flow with them astros. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.760 That's what I have to say that's right, all right, 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.680 it's a podcast, Danny. I can say that. You can 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.760 bleep it out if you want. I don't care, all right, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.440 So thank you, Helen and Stuke. Kevin in Kansas writes 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.880 in says, dear Benn and Danny, g it's severe weather 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:38.560 season again. Here in the Great Plains. We get dust storms, blizzards, 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.080 and tornadoes. Any memorable encounters with any of these situations. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.280 I've never been in a tornado. I've never been in 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.800 a blizzard. Well, actually, I've been in some nasty snowstorms. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.520 I didn't think it was like a blizzard on the 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.680 East Coat. I've got a Boston and New York whatnot. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.840 I've been in some nasty weather, but not really a 0:15:54.880 --> 0:16:00.040 real blizzard. Uh. And also also the dust. M I 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.200 have been in a dust storm before, but not like 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.520 a real Great Plains dust storm. So that one I 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.600 was driving in the desert and that was a little 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.000 little wacky a desert storm, which I think was it. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.680 Does it qualifies as a dust a dust storm? What 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.920 about you, Danny? Have you been in any of those things. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.760 I've seen a tornado in northern California. They're rare and 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.760 they're not as big as the tornadoes that you might 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.840 see in other parts of the country. But my family 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.200 when I was a kid, we were in the l 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:30.360 A area. Then we moved up to northern California, where 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.360 my mom is from in the San Jose area, but she, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.080 because of money, settled in the Modesto area. So that's 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.360 right when northern California begins. But the central part of 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.880 the state, and I'll never forget. We were at Brown 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.040 Elementary School playing basketball. My little sister came running and 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.120 she's like, you guys, gotta come home. Mom says, you 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.880 gotta come home because of the tornado. Like tornado, what 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.040 the fund is he talking about? So we get to 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.080 the front of our house us and from there you 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.119 you had a view towards the west end of the 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:09.159 town and you saw just an ominous sky and a 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:14.440 tornado from a far distance that was some scary looking ship, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.080 and people were jumping in their cars and driving the 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.600 other direction. I remember my mom like throwing my little 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.760 baby sister into our car seat, getting everybody into the 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.239 car and driving the other direction. And it was on 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.119 the news that night and everything. I think it tore 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.639 up some part of the town on the outskirts, but 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.800 it didn't make its way into the city. Yeah, but 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.400 it's the only time I've ever seen anything like that. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.240 But dude, people that live in the part of the 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.159 country where they see that often or they've seen it 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.239 more than once in their life. Yeah, that's something that 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.080 I think would follow you around in your nightmares. The 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.600 worst weather I've ever been in was in Buffalo. But 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.680 it wasn't snow. It was rain. There was like a 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.760 storm that was passing through Buffalo. Because of the lake, 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.040 it added to the water. It was so bad. I 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.800 was on the highway and driving out of Buffalo. I 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.280 was at a Bills game and I had to stop. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.920 We could not see where we were going. We had 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.600 to stop on this expressway and I was just waiting 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.679 for a car to hit. It hit us from behind. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.399 It was surreal. I'd never see I didn't know it 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.600 could rain that much. I'm used to California rain. This 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:31.439 was so ridunculous. Oh yeah, it was. It was nuts. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.720 It was the most ridiculous thing. I thought I was 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.880 gonna drown, and then it passed and just kept going 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.200 like nothing happened. That was it. You know, it's water everywhere. 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.600 Fred from Spring, Texas right and says, Hi, guys, can 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.879 either of you drive a stick shift auto? Have you 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:52.119 ever owned a convertible? What is your current car? Well, 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.800 I have the Mallardmobile. I have the fourth or fifth 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.760 generation of the Mallanmobile, which is like the Batmobile's Mallanmobile. 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.000 I do not know how to dravistick shift, and I 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:06.240 have never owned a convertible. I have had cars that 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.960 have sun roofs that I consider a fat guys convertible. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.639 What about your diddy? Yeah, we've talked about cars on 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:18.280 this podcast before. I loved hot wheels and I loved 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.159 fast cars. When I was a kid, I had a 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.520 poster of a Ferrari, so I thought, Man, when I 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.680 get my license and I get a job, I'm gonna 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.680 get a fast car. So the second car I bought, 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.440 because the first one was a beater. The second one, though, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.840 was a turbo and it was super fast. After that, 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.840 later in life, I was able to buy a convertible 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.439 Mercedes Benz, which was nice. Got in a wreck. The 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.879 insurance company, as you can guess, did not give me 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.480 my full value back. Of course, yes, that Mercedes Benz 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.760 turned into a Nissan, but with those Nissans. Man, I 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.680 found the three seventi z s and those have been 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.600 my favorite cars the past few years. I'm on my 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.159 second one right now. It's a Heritage Edition, really fast 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.280 and it is it is a clutch, it's a six speed, 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.920 and man, I mean when I have open road, that 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.480 thing flies. It sucks to drive and bumper to bumper traffic, 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.359 but on an open road it's a beauty. Now do 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.640 you drive your cars into the ground or do you 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:21.160 just before that, go and get a new car, because 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.600 I I have lately been driving cars in the ground. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.080 That's my new thing. I take really really good care 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.200 of my cars. Every week. I make sure it's washed. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.320 Every week. I clean out the inside. My car right 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:36.720 now is four and a half years old, and when 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.120 people see it, they think I just bought it recently. 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.080 So that's my trink. It's just keep it, man, treat 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.600 it like a palace. That way. If I do want 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.280 to trade it in, you can get top dollars for it. No, 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.840 that's great. And I used to try to take really 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:52.600 good care of the cars and then I got married. 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:59.480 Well now and now it's just the ugly redheaded step child. 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.119 The car. It just gets beaten up. I used to 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.520 never eat in car. I've never eaten the car. I 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:07.800 would never you know, drink anything of like soda or 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:09.760 anything like that. When I backed my soda drinking days 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:13.280 because I don't want to spill any uh. My wife, though, 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.240 has a different perspective on that. She is open minded, 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:20.240 and so that I lost that battle. But that's anyway. 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:24.760 Next up, Alan and akeron Ohio birthplace of Lebron and 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:29.600 Steph Kurt. Yeah, how did your diet change after you 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:35.919 had your gallbladder removed? Was there any other lifestyle changes? Alan, So, 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:41.600 I had my gall bladder taken out November three, twenty nineteen. 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:47.240 I believe it was and I have not really changed 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.800 my diet. I do inter minute fasting, so I don't 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:51.800 eat as often as other people that have had their 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.439 gallbladder taken out. And I have noticed with the inter 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:56.560 minute fasting, when I go a long time without eating 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.520 and then I eat something, it's off to the races. 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.600 After I eat, I within about forty five minutes to 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:06.120 an hour. It's shipped creak is what it is. They're 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.120 ship's creek. It's a lot of pooping and all that stuff. 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:11.560 But I really haven't changed my diet. I eat many 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.480 of the same things I've always eaten. I've heard stories 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.160 that some people can it's different for everybody, but I've 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:21.040 been pretty lucky and out of sight, out of mind, 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.879 I don't think about it. I a gall black is 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.600 very small. Then he can't see I'm I'm showing you. 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.480 It's like very small the actual gall bladder. Now, how 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:31.840 did you know you needed it taken out? Did you 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.160 have bloating? Like? What are the signs that you need 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:37.800 that thing out? Well? I almost died, Actually, I had 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.520 gall stones. I did not realize they were goal stones. 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:45.720 I thought it was heartburk. I had multiple incidents where 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:48.480 I felt like pain in my chest and I thought 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.240 it was just I had eaten, and it was always 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:52.520 after I had eaten a really big meal, which is 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.320 the gall bladder. But I didn't put two and two together, 0:22:56.320 --> 0:23:00.280 and so finally I had a massive attack where I 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:04.280 couldn't clear the gulf stones and I couldn't sleep. I 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:08.640 was so uncomfortable. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't drink anything, 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:11.159 I couldn't eat anything. It was just it was terrible. 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:14.119 I thought I was dying, and so I went to 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:17.960 the emergency room and they gave me some was it 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:23.240 morphine I think it was, and within ten minutes it 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:26.240 cleared the gold stones out and I was I was 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:27.720 all right. But then I had to stay in the 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:31.680 hospital because I had so many gold stones. They wanted 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:33.760 to do the operation. Usually the operations in and out, 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:36.040 you're done within a few hours, you're back home. But 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:38.760 I was so fooled up from all of the gulf 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:41.760 stones and they were really tiny gull stones that had 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:43.919 gone all over the place. So I had to stay 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:46.320 for a week. I was like in a hospital for 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:48.760 almost a week because they had to wait because they 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:50.679 couldn't do the operation because they had to wait for 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:53.560 everything to kind of clear. And so then I had 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.240 had the procedure done, and yeah, it was pretty wild man, 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:59.480 pretty pretty well. It was done on November three, but 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:01.960 I was in the hospital a few days before that. 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:05.080 And the longest fast I ever had, because I was 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:09.679 on a fast, I went, God, how many hours was it? 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:12.800 I think it was it was like nineties something hours 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:17.040 or something like that without eating anything. So yeah, good times. 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:19.520 I don't know how you do the fasting. I would 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:22.399 get so hungry that by the time I got to food, 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:25.640 I think I would overeat. Nah, I'm all right, I'd 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.560 see one hearty meal and that's it. Falls Fan Jimmy 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:34.200 from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes, and he says, beat that's right. 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:36.560 Uh oh, that's I'm sorry, bad job, but I have 0:24:36.640 --> 0:24:39.080 not been playing that. I got so curried away talking. 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:42.359 It's a bad job by me. There you go, all right, 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:45.280 sorry balls, fan Jimmy, I gotta play. I gotta play 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:46.880 all of them now because I didn't play a bad job. 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:49.840 What is up? I have this toy here come back 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:54.879 gets time from no call? I got Mayo? Yeah, I 0:24:55.040 --> 0:25:00.480 got Mayo. Yeah, you've got Mayo? Played them all valls. 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:03.480 Fan Jimmy Faville, Tennessee says, man, are you planning on 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:07.199 having the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party this year? If so, 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:11.320 will the guest list be slimmed down? Danny G. What 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:14.120 was the last concert you have been to? I'm going 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:18.200 Saturday night to Nashville to see Snoop Dogg, ice Cube 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:23.080 too short and Warren G. Yeah that uh so, I'll 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:27.120 answer that. I plan on having the ugly uh Sweater 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:29.880 party again. We did not do it the last by 0:25:29.880 --> 0:25:31.679 the last couple of years we have not done it 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:34.360 because of the COVID stuff. I hope to bring it back. 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:36.479 It seems like the world's more open to that and 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:39.680 people are back to normal, and I'd like to do that. 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:41.439 I don't know that anyone's gonna show up. I live 0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:44.280 in the north Woods now, it's very far and with 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:46.000 the price of gas and all that. But we will 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:48.920 invite many people, and hopefully many will be able to 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:50.880 make it. We'll have a great night, a very memorable 0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:53.600 night with all my my friends and our friends from 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:55.679 radio and people that have met over the years that 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:59.719 are people I like. So hopefully Danny you can make it. 0:25:59.760 --> 0:26:01.680 We can meet your TENDERRONI hopefully I'll meet a meet 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:05.520 her before then. Yeah, and so yeah, that's the plan. 0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:08.040 What and Dan, was the last concert you you've gotten to? 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:12.200 That's Jimmy's question for you. Let's see. Oh, speaking of her, 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:15.880 she brought me to see Kane Brown at the Staple 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:18.520 What it was the Staple Center then and we had 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:22.560 to show vaccine cards to get in. And uh, it 0:26:22.640 --> 0:26:27.080 was a good concert. Though he is a biracial country star, 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:31.199 it's modern country music. In fact, he even has had 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:33.760 a couple of hits on Top forty radio. If you 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:37.760 don't know who came brown is, google them. Just google him. 0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:40.200 That's all you have. Just google them. Yeah, as our 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:43.600 buddy Mike North used to say, just google them, Um 0:26:43.840 --> 0:26:47.920 say you kids, just google. Yes, we don't need to 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:51.800 bring Jonas in and uh boy. The last hip hop 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:53.800 concert I went to, It's been a little while for 0:26:53.880 --> 0:26:55.760 hip hop, but I got to see Bone Thugs and 0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:59.960 Harmony do a little reunion concert. And that's and speak. 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:02.000 You know, Modesto, like I was talking about a little 0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:05.200 earlier on the podcast, when I went to school there, Ben, 0:27:05.280 --> 0:27:09.560 I was a city kid from southern California reuniting with 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:12.800 my San Jose family in the Bay. And when you 0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:16.280 would go to the Central Valley in Modesto, in that area, 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:19.919 the kids there, they had a Garth Brooks CD and 0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:23.399 a Doctor dre CD. It was interesting. It was like 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:26.240 kids wanted to go to a Snoop Dogg concert and 0:27:26.280 --> 0:27:29.679 they also wanted to go to a Garth Brooks concert. Okay, 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:34.800 I was like a country concert. Who's your favorite, Who's 0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:41.560 your who's your favorite country star? That Dirty Boots and 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:44.320 that's followed me all through my adult life. Um, you know, 0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:47.200 I love to go see country concerts and I love 0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:50.680 to go see hip hop concerts. Yeah. I watched that 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:54.320 country documentary a few years ago on PBS. Don't if 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:57.600 you saw that. I did. I was told by somebody 0:27:57.640 --> 0:28:00.199 that it's it was about radio, and it is a 0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:03.480 lot about radio and the radio business and how related. 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:07.399 And they were intertwined country music. Very good documentary by PBS. 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:10.360 They really nailed that one. And I fell in love 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:13.480 with all those old country music songs like I loved 0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:16.920 every one of them. In fact, that's in my rotation now, 0:28:16.960 --> 0:28:20.119 many of those old old school country music songs from 0:28:20.200 --> 0:28:23.760 the grand old opry. Yeah, wonderful. Well you're a Johnny 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:28.399 Cash fan just like Yeah, I love Johnny Cash absolutely 0:28:29.160 --> 0:28:33.720 all right, thank you for that, and enjoy that concert. Yeah, 0:28:33.760 --> 0:28:35.760 I have a good time. How much do you think 0:28:35.760 --> 0:28:37.720 Snoop Dogg gets paid for that? Do you think he 0:28:37.760 --> 0:28:42.480 gets out of that? Probably gets a cool dollars for 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:45.960 a little live show for one day's work. You've got mail, 0:28:46.000 --> 0:28:47.880 all right, next time we stay in the state of Tennessee, 0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:51.760 j C represent the entire volunteer state, says, Hey, Ben, 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:55.120 I write you today because I cannot stand Dan Wilkin. 0:28:55.800 --> 0:28:59.680 The man seems to hate sports, but for some reason 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:04.320 he works in sports journalism. He was one of them 0:29:04.560 --> 0:29:07.320 that seemed to think that if sports came back while 0:29:07.400 --> 0:29:12.440 COVID was happening, that everyone would die. His sports takes 0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:15.240 are so bad that I can just read the headline 0:29:15.360 --> 0:29:18.240 of an article and no, it was written by Doo Doo, 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:22.320 Dan the Igluman. In all your years working in sports 0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:25.160 talk radio, have you ever come across a radio host 0:29:25.640 --> 0:29:29.360 or a sports journalist that had such awful sports takes 0:29:29.440 --> 0:29:34.720 that it just made you dislike them as a person. Uh. Yeah, 0:29:34.760 --> 0:29:37.440 there's been a lot of disingenuous people. I have been 0:29:37.480 --> 0:29:42.200 able to see how they make the hot dogs. And yeah, 0:29:41.720 --> 0:29:46.560 the idea that people are a certain way, both athletes 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:49.800 and members of the media that are one way publicly 0:29:50.480 --> 0:29:55.920 and complete assholes, completely phony and you know it, but 0:29:56.480 --> 0:29:58.440 you're one of the few people that knows it. And 0:29:58.480 --> 0:30:03.200 it's very it's very eye opening and disappointing at the 0:30:03.240 --> 0:30:06.240 same time, because you hear about people one way and 0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:08.520 then you see them the other way and you're like, well, 0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:10.800 that guy's got a great reputation. He's a complete dick, 0:30:11.320 --> 0:30:13.600 you know, I don't get it. So there was and 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:18.000 Dan Wilkins a legend for being fear is mongering, fearmongering, 0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:21.600 Sky is falling, Chicken little. This guy has been doing 0:30:21.640 --> 0:30:23.920 that act for a long time. I don't know Dan Wilkin, 0:30:24.040 --> 0:30:26.160 but all I all I hear about him is really 0:30:26.160 --> 0:30:29.320 bad things. His reputation is not very good. Yeah, there's 0:30:29.360 --> 0:30:32.120 one other guy that comes to mind for me, and 0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:36.120 that's Mike Florio. Oh the they call him the Nanny 0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:39.840 Mike Florio. Yeah. Yeah. I had a personal run in 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:43.640 with him at the Atlanta super Bowl radio row. We 0:30:43.760 --> 0:30:47.680 had set Kwan Barkley scheduled to join Clay Travis on stage. 0:30:48.440 --> 0:30:51.280 Him and his posse rolled in and Clay was in 0:30:51.320 --> 0:30:54.080 the middle of another interview. But I thought, oh, they're 0:30:54.120 --> 0:30:55.880 here a little bit early, you know, so I'll get 0:30:55.920 --> 0:30:58.200 him ready. I'll sit him in our little green room 0:30:58.240 --> 0:31:00.680 here off to the side of our stage. He does 0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:03.480 a bee line though, and he goes over to Florio set, 0:31:04.200 --> 0:31:06.680 and I'm like, okay, well that's all right, but it's 0:31:06.680 --> 0:31:09.680 gonna make him run late to his interview time with us. 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:13.080 So I go over to Florio set. He's got these 0:31:13.080 --> 0:31:17.200 weenie bodyguards over there. They tell me I'm not allowed there, 0:31:17.240 --> 0:31:19.280 and I said, you have my guest right now, I 0:31:19.320 --> 0:31:21.920 am allowed right here. So I get into it with 0:31:22.000 --> 0:31:28.280 his guys on the set there and and uh, Florio 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:32.400 walks over to me and he says, yeah, say, Kwan 0:31:32.480 --> 0:31:34.800 is gonna join us on the stage, so you really 0:31:34.800 --> 0:31:37.200 need to talk to his manager because he's probably not 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:39.720 gonna get over to your set on time. And I 0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:42.800 was like, this little dick, all right. So I get 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:45.640 to say Kwan's manager, and I'm like, Hey, here's the deal. 0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:49.520 I'm not trying to be threatening or anything like that, 0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:52.160 but if you piss off Fox Sports Radio, which is 0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:55.320 the number one sports network right now, does that make 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:59.560 sense just to appease Florio and his little audience and 0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:01.280 the man you're kind of looked at me and he 0:32:01.360 --> 0:32:03.760 was like, all right, well tell you what. I'm gonna 0:32:03.760 --> 0:32:05.560 cut it short with him and we'll get over to 0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:08.680 you on time, maybe two minutes late. So I go 0:32:08.760 --> 0:32:11.840 over there, running more late than that. I'm like, oh, 0:32:11.920 --> 0:32:14.280 these assholes. So I go over there. I don't have 0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:16.479 to say anything the second time, though, Ben I just 0:32:16.600 --> 0:32:20.760 ice grill Florio and the manager, and so Florio says 0:32:20.760 --> 0:32:23.360 goodbye to say Quon on the set and they run 0:32:23.440 --> 0:32:27.440 him over to Clay Talk. And so anytime I see 0:32:27.480 --> 0:32:30.920 that guy on TV, I'm like, funk that Florio guy. 0:32:31.200 --> 0:32:32.760 And of course a lot of people don't like him 0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:36.440 because he comes off really grouchy on the air. Yeah, 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:38.680 it seems like he's in a bad mood all the time. 0:32:38.680 --> 0:32:41.960 And whenever I see radio or TV guys I like 0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:44.240 to feel like And that's one thing I can say 0:32:44.280 --> 0:32:47.760 about Cowherd what I like about him. I feel like 0:32:48.040 --> 0:32:50.640 he's in a good mood. What I see or hear 0:32:50.720 --> 0:32:53.320 guys that always feel like they're in a bad mood, 0:32:53.560 --> 0:32:56.160 it doesn't make me want to tune in. Yeah, I 0:32:56.640 --> 0:32:59.640 have not dealt with Actually knew Florio a little bit 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:02.640 for he became like the Mike for there. He was 0:33:02.800 --> 0:33:05.440 partnered up with a couple other guys on the original 0:33:06.040 --> 0:33:09.840 Pro Football Talk before he partnered up with NBC. And 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:12.920 back when I was doing Ben Mallory dot Com. He 0:33:12.920 --> 0:33:16.160 he was a lawyer, I believe I think he was 0:33:16.200 --> 0:33:18.360 a lawyer and he was messing around with the internet 0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:22.280 stuff and it was it was a rumor sight. I 0:33:22.320 --> 0:33:24.880 was doing a rumor site. So we were competing against 0:33:24.880 --> 0:33:28.200 each other for eyeballs back in those days. Uh. And 0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:30.160 just to follow up with j C, there is a 0:33:30.200 --> 0:33:32.880 baseball insider. I will not reveal the baseball inside because 0:33:32.880 --> 0:33:36.240 I'm still working. Who was a is a complete asshole, 0:33:36.480 --> 0:33:39.360 very short baseball writer. They're all short, though, they're all 0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:43.760 fun size to these baseball writers who comes across one 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:48.360 way on television and then uh, it's a complete Uh 0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:53.680 hell you go any further than that. So thank you 0:33:53.760 --> 0:33:56.920 j C. That is a good behind the scenes question. Yes, 0:33:57.360 --> 0:34:00.320 thank you, j C. We'd appreciate that. And the mail 0:34:00.400 --> 0:34:06.120 bag continues. Never is this, No, it is never that. 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:10.239 It is always exciting, fascinating and all of that. So 0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:13.439 who is next? You've got mail? Alright, let's see here 0:34:13.480 --> 0:34:16.400 we have Pierre, our buddy in Springfield, mass Home with 0:34:16.440 --> 0:34:19.719 a pro basketball Hall of Fame. Pierre says, paper or plastic. 0:34:20.400 --> 0:34:22.760 When the world shut down two years ago, local grocery 0:34:22.760 --> 0:34:28.160 stores in Springfield implemented a reusable bag policy, which seems 0:34:28.200 --> 0:34:32.600 less hygienic to me. Shortly thereafter, one local chain started 0:34:32.600 --> 0:34:35.360 to offer paper bags for a fee of ten cents. 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:40.400 Much like you, Ben, I steadfastly refused to pay for bags, 0:34:40.440 --> 0:34:45.080 sometimes carrying my groceries by hand. Unfortunately, lately I have 0:34:45.360 --> 0:34:48.920 caved and as you know, Ben, those pickle jars can 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:52.239 get very heavy and the paper bags aren't very strong. Well, 0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:55.680 that is a pickle problem. It's a real pickle pickle 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:57.839 to be in, Pierre, I'm right there. As I've talked 0:34:57.880 --> 0:35:01.160 about this before, I do. I cannot stand the paper 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:05.720 bag policy in California, the plastic bag, paper bag policy, 0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:08.880 the charge for the bag, complete rip off, complete scam. 0:35:09.160 --> 0:35:11.880 I also don't like bringing bags. I usually forget to 0:35:11.920 --> 0:35:15.319 bring the bags to the grocery store, so I have 0:35:15.560 --> 0:35:18.560 made many a run where I'm holding my groceries like 0:35:18.600 --> 0:35:22.200 a baby or a football going to the parking lot. 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:25.080 I've also done the trick where I'll get a grocery 0:35:25.080 --> 0:35:27.680 cart and I'll just leave everything in the cart and 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:29.480 have them put it back in the cart and then 0:35:29.560 --> 0:35:32.600 take it take it away. So I've done that, you know, 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:34.920 take it to the car that way. But I usually 0:35:34.920 --> 0:35:37.480 forget the bag. It's a pain in the ass and 0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:42.520 I would rather just buy a plast a new reusable 0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:45.560 bag than spend the money on the disposable bag at 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:47.440 the store. Because I feel like it's just a waste, Like, 0:35:47.480 --> 0:35:50.279 what's the point. I might as well invest towards the 0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:53.320 new bag. Then I'm going to get So I hated, 0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:56.440 I hated, I hated, and it's not fixing the environment 0:35:56.480 --> 0:36:01.920 at all. So stop, okay, stop with your nonsense. Ridiculous anyway, 0:36:02.360 --> 0:36:09.040 Travis from Roseberg, Oregon rights in. As we continue the 0:36:09.160 --> 0:36:15.600 amazing mail bang, Travis says, how close were you coming 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:19.759 to the dark side to those delicious bacon wrap hot 0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:22.799 dogs at the big Game? Well, that happens every time, 0:36:22.840 --> 0:36:25.600 she said, Like, I don't eat the bacon, I eat 0:36:25.600 --> 0:36:28.560 turkey bacon. I eat the pig, the swine, and it 0:36:28.640 --> 0:36:31.799 smells amazing. In every time I've gone to a sport 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:33.120 ingum it in l A. If I get out, if 0:36:33.120 --> 0:36:36.080 I leave the game and there's still people mulling abound 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:40.000 around the stadium or the whatever venue it is, there's 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:46.040 these brigades of folks who are selling hot dogs bacon wrap. 0:36:46.040 --> 0:36:49.480 Talk's amazing. There must be like a secret meeting place 0:36:50.640 --> 0:36:53.400 bacon wrap hot dog people all get together and they 0:36:53.480 --> 0:36:57.320 dropped them off with their carts and and they're not griddles, 0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:02.080 they're just like rolling carts with aluminum foil on them. Yeah, 0:37:02.600 --> 0:37:06.600 bacon wrap. It's like gold, all right, when you grow 0:37:06.680 --> 0:37:10.080 up with limited a limited budget. So there would be 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:12.560 times where I would smell bacon and I would think, 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:15.640 oh my god, we're rich right now, We're rich. And 0:37:15.719 --> 0:37:18.600 she would cook it almost burned where it would snap 0:37:18.680 --> 0:37:22.120 like that, and Ben, my stepdad, would eat almost all 0:37:22.160 --> 0:37:25.560 of it. And I would get so pissed because I 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:28.560 got a couple of pieces and that was it. And 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:30.799 so one of my things in my mind, I was like, 0:37:30.840 --> 0:37:33.319 when I grow up, I gotta be rich because I 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:35.799 gotta be able to buy bacon. I'm look at you now, 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:39.600 you're a big radio star. Yeah, so your congratulations. You've 0:37:39.600 --> 0:37:42.080 made it. I have bacon at least twice a year. 0:37:42.400 --> 0:37:45.560 All right, come back, pay attention. It's time from now. 0:37:45.760 --> 0:37:54.040 Call Chris from Falling Waters Rest, Virginia, right below Haggerstown, Maryland. Hey, Gerstown, Maryland, 0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:57.760 where the truck convoy has been camping out. Chris says, 0:37:57.800 --> 0:38:01.480 my question this week is have you ever regretted saying 0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:05.080 something on the air? Maybe you made someone but hurt 0:38:05.120 --> 0:38:10.360 by a comment. No, I've never regretted anything I've said. 0:38:10.440 --> 0:38:13.680 I have been stunned by the reactions I've gotten over 0:38:13.760 --> 0:38:17.040 things I've said that I don't believe are controversial. The 0:38:17.120 --> 0:38:21.960 people that took offense the things I said blows me away. 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:26.040 The angry messages I get from certain people who we'll 0:38:26.080 --> 0:38:29.480 say in the same email, Danny, that's why you're on Overnight. 0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:33.239 Your show sucks, but I'm offended by X, Y and Z. 0:38:34.000 --> 0:38:37.760 So to me, though, you're you're you're doing two separate 0:38:37.800 --> 0:38:41.879 things here. You're telling me I'm irrelevant and I don't 0:38:41.920 --> 0:38:46.319 listen to your show, but you are so offended by 0:38:46.360 --> 0:38:51.799 what I said. Yeah, that's my response to that. What 0:38:51.920 --> 0:38:55.000 about you, Danny? Who is the will one follow up 0:38:55.080 --> 0:38:58.280 question for you? Yeah? Who is the most famous person 0:38:58.400 --> 0:39:01.480 to get offended by something you said? Would that be 0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:05.440 Deshaun Uh? Deshaun is on the list. I would say 0:39:05.480 --> 0:39:08.239 the commissioner of Major League Baseball would probably be higher 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:11.120 up on the list of at that he's on there. 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:14.960 William Shatner, of course, we had the spats with Shats. 0:39:14.960 --> 0:39:19.480 He's an all time timeless guy. Number of Dodger players 0:39:19.520 --> 0:39:22.160 over the years. I had Ralph Lawlor, who was the 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:27.040 Clipper broadcaster, and I'm like Mr Clipper fanboy. Ralph got 0:39:27.160 --> 0:39:32.160 so upset with me when I ripped Michael olivera Candy 0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:36.399 uh famous bust in Clipper history. And I was doing 0:39:36.400 --> 0:39:39.480 a midday show in l A the Clippers draft of 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:43.000 this guy, and I knew within five games, Danny, this 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:47.960 guy was a giant turd. This guy couldn't play. And 0:39:48.000 --> 0:39:50.840 you just know, you just know he's had a feeling. 0:39:50.880 --> 0:39:55.120 This guy is terrible, very rarely. Are you wrong? And 0:39:55.360 --> 0:39:58.080 I I laid into that guy, said what are the 0:39:58.120 --> 0:40:01.719 Clippers doing with this guy? And Ralph came up to me. 0:40:01.760 --> 0:40:03.920 It was at the great Western Forum before a Clipper 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:06.320 Laker game, and he saw me in the bowels of 0:40:06.360 --> 0:40:09.880 the great Western Forum and he read me the Riot 0:40:09.920 --> 0:40:12.800 Act and he said, you are so wrong. This guy's 0:40:12.840 --> 0:40:15.759 gonna be an all time I've told the story before. 0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:17.920 We had Lee Klein on and Lee was there, he 0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:21.719 was a witness to it. And and and Ralph promised 0:40:21.760 --> 0:40:23.799 that older Candy was gonna be an NBA All Star 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:25.840 within a couple of years, and if not, he was 0:40:25.880 --> 0:40:31.319 gonna kiss my ass at center court at Staples or not, 0:40:31.400 --> 0:40:33.279 but became Staples. It was that the it was at 0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:37.520 Sports Rainy and Uh, needless to say that never happened, 0:40:37.560 --> 0:40:40.879 and Ralph. Ralph would always kid around, Well, maybe it'll 0:40:40.920 --> 0:40:43.200 happen next week. You never know, it might happen next week. 0:40:43.239 --> 0:40:45.239 He's retired now he lives in Florida part of the year, 0:40:45.320 --> 0:40:47.520 lives in Oregon. But he's on the list. There's a 0:40:47.560 --> 0:40:49.680 bunch of other ones. So what about you, Denny. You've 0:40:49.719 --> 0:40:51.560 been on the radio a long time. Anything you say that, 0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:54.240 you're like, oh, I wish I could have that back. Well, 0:40:54.920 --> 0:40:57.000 I'm like you, I don't think so. I had a 0:40:57.080 --> 0:40:59.839 run in with rapper mac Chen when I was doing 0:40:59.840 --> 0:41:04.799 that FAM radio also boxer Fernando Vargas. Those both turned 0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:08.040 out okay in the end. And then I guess staff members, 0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:10.319 like we talked about this on the podcast one time, 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:14.319 how you and I talked about another staff member and 0:41:14.360 --> 0:41:17.240 got in trouble. Yeah, but it's just all in fun. 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:20.400 When you do radio, you know, sometimes you get in 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:23.360 a groove. And I think that's one good thing about 0:41:23.400 --> 0:41:26.400 your show is that it's its own little world, and 0:41:26.480 --> 0:41:30.480 you almost forget that you're broadcasting too. You know, almost 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:34.799 five hundred affiliates across the country. You don't think like that, 0:41:34.960 --> 0:41:37.719 You're you're just in the moment and you're in your 0:41:37.800 --> 0:41:41.560 little bubble, your little world, and so we're talking to you, 0:41:41.640 --> 0:41:44.760 we're talking to one person. We're not thinking about all 0:41:44.880 --> 0:41:47.160 the people listening. And I think that's how we could 0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:50.839 get into trouble sometimes. Yeah, I know, I completely agree 0:41:50.880 --> 0:41:52.759 with you. You're just you're like, oh, we're just doing 0:41:52.800 --> 0:41:54.759 this in fun, even though we're busting balls. That's what 0:41:54.800 --> 0:41:57.360 we do. We're men. We bust balls. That's when the 0:41:57.360 --> 0:41:59.360 women on the show do the same thing. The bust balls. 0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:02.200 That's how we operate there. It's fun to listen to. 0:42:02.680 --> 0:42:05.040 So to us, we're not doing anything wrong. We're doing 0:42:05.120 --> 0:42:07.480 what people want well. And then you've got people that 0:42:07.560 --> 0:42:09.520 come in from the outside that aren't regulars and they're 0:42:09.520 --> 0:42:13.200 like stop it. You know, they get very upset. Yeah, 0:42:13.200 --> 0:42:15.160 they get complain and all that. I'm like, well, we're 0:42:15.160 --> 0:42:19.320 just having a good time. We're just having being so sensitive. Yeah, 0:42:19.560 --> 0:42:21.840 it's like the drop that we used to play about 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:27.120 the the knuckleball pitchers Joe and Phil forget their last name, 0:42:27.200 --> 0:42:29.960 and people would hear that, but all those negroes look 0:42:30.040 --> 0:42:35.040 the same. And I would get angry emails from people 0:42:35.080 --> 0:42:40.160 who meant well and they were convinced that I had said, uh, 0:42:40.320 --> 0:42:43.480 something I didn't say, because it sounded kind of like that. 0:42:43.560 --> 0:42:45.759 And people, as we know Danny from being in the 0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:50.080 business a long time, even the most engaged listener is 0:42:50.160 --> 0:42:53.799 only hearing about of what we're saying and and the 0:42:53.840 --> 0:42:56.560 rest of it's just kind of going away and and 0:42:56.600 --> 0:42:58.920 all that. And so people listen with half in the 0:42:59.000 --> 0:43:00.839 year and they think they hear or something, and then 0:43:00.880 --> 0:43:03.920 I get the nasty email. So he didn't stop playing 0:43:03.920 --> 0:43:06.480 that because people were calling up complaining because they were 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:10.160 convinced that I had said the thing that I didn't say. 0:43:10.560 --> 0:43:15.000 God bless unfiltered podcasting because I could play it on 0:43:15.040 --> 0:43:18.560 this show and get no blowback. I don't know about that. 0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:20.879 And all it takes is one person. All it takes 0:43:21.000 --> 0:43:24.960 is one person. But the FCC doesn't regulate podcasting. Oh 0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:27.800 that is true. It's like cable television. It's radio's version 0:43:27.800 --> 0:43:32.080 of cable television. I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea. 0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:36.479 Next one's from Adrian in the Mile High City. He's 0:43:36.560 --> 0:43:38.440 back Ben and Danny G has been a while, Yes 0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:40.239 it has. Adrian. I wonder what happened. I thought you 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:43.160 were offended or something like that, but it sounds like 0:43:43.160 --> 0:43:45.840 you're not. I'm happy to return to the Sunday Sunday 0:43:45.960 --> 0:43:49.440 Sunday mail Bag. The last few months have been busy 0:43:49.640 --> 0:43:53.160 at my job, so, as my man Marcel says, let's 0:43:53.239 --> 0:43:57.080 get into it. Adrian rights. First off, Danny g has 0:43:57.080 --> 0:44:00.279 been a breath of fresh Mountain air, compre heir to 0:44:00.320 --> 0:44:03.160 that narcissist West of the four oh five guy. How's 0:44:03.200 --> 0:44:06.520 Gascon doing? By the way, nice, he's the same West 0:44:06.560 --> 0:44:08.960 of the four oh five snotty. I was texting him 0:44:09.040 --> 0:44:12.640 last night. We were texting about something and he's I 0:44:12.640 --> 0:44:14.480 guess he's doing some good play by play jobs. He 0:44:14.520 --> 0:44:16.600 was telling me he's doing some FS one stuff and 0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:20.080 even working some games. He's a freelancer, so we'll do 0:44:20.120 --> 0:44:23.640 some games for ESPN, and he was very braggadosh just 0:44:23.719 --> 0:44:25.640 West of the four oh five. He's talking about travels 0:44:25.640 --> 0:44:28.000 he's gonna make, going to different parts of the country 0:44:28.040 --> 0:44:30.480 to do play by play gigs. So he seems very 0:44:30.480 --> 0:44:33.920 happy about that. He's doing well, Adrian continues. In November, 0:44:34.000 --> 0:44:36.480 my wife and I made the trip to Dallas to 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:39.120 watch the Broncos take on the Cowboys at Jerry's World. 0:44:39.400 --> 0:44:42.000 The stadium is huge, and we were like a couple 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:45.520 of peacocks strunning out out of there with the w Yett. 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:47.839 I was one of the great surprises of the NFL season, 0:44:47.920 --> 0:44:51.239 the Broncos beating those Cowboys, and that set the Cowboys 0:44:51.280 --> 0:44:55.080 on a sideways stretch of games. He says. The Ben 0:44:55.120 --> 0:44:57.200 Mallard T shirt made the trip to Dallas, and I 0:44:57.239 --> 0:44:59.400 was walking around a T n T stadium repping the 0:44:59.440 --> 0:45:04.160 show before putting my Bronco jersey over it at game time. 0:45:04.200 --> 0:45:08.680 Good job, thank you, thank you, appreciate that. Marketing Guerilla marketing, 0:45:09.520 --> 0:45:13.000 Adrian says, bring Benny versus the Penny back this fall. 0:45:13.080 --> 0:45:15.600 A lot of good advice and good money to be made. 0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:18.360 We'll see what happens with Benny versus the Penny. I 0:45:18.400 --> 0:45:20.480 had to stop doing it because I had the COVID. 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:23.760 It seems like something always pops up, something life always 0:45:23.800 --> 0:45:25.560 gets in the way of your plans. Danny, It's it's 0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:28.600 always something. The year before, my pops passed away, so 0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:31.040 I had to stopped doing it, and this past year 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:34.839 it was the COVID. Anyway, says Ramad all day, ramadall night. 0:45:34.840 --> 0:45:39.120 Congrats Ben on the Rams Super Bowl Championship in February 0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:45.359 and Rama Night and how far can Mr Unlimited take 0:45:45.400 --> 0:45:48.560 the Broncos in the highly competitive a f C West. 0:45:49.320 --> 0:45:51.640 The In and Out Burger and Raising Canes are both 0:45:51.680 --> 0:45:54.200 open for business in the city I live in here 0:45:54.239 --> 0:45:57.680 in Colorado. They are next door neighbors to each other. 0:45:57.760 --> 0:46:01.360 The double double, no onion can nat combo, no slaw 0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:05.200 extra fies are might go tibes. What about the animal 0:46:05.280 --> 0:46:08.680 style fries with the double double? What about that? Have 0:46:08.760 --> 0:46:13.440 you gone that direction? Adrian? Answer that question. I've noticed 0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:18.439 that the people that run the Raising Canes franchise they're 0:46:18.600 --> 0:46:22.920 very smart, shocking most at least where I am, and 0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:25.680 I've been to Raising Canes in multiple cities around the country. 0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:29.640 It always seems to be the Raising Canes location is 0:46:29.840 --> 0:46:33.680 right next to Chick fil A and In and Out 0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:37.080 like they're those three. It's like the the axis of 0:46:37.200 --> 0:46:40.520 food is uh, the access of great food right there. 0:46:41.280 --> 0:46:43.839 And it's really smart to put a chicken joint next 0:46:43.840 --> 0:46:45.680 to Raising cans because you'd say that would be dumb, 0:46:46.160 --> 0:46:49.760 But one day a week you have a competitive advantage 0:46:49.920 --> 0:46:53.000 over Chick fil A if you're raising canes because they're 0:46:53.000 --> 0:46:55.920 not open on something so anyone that's going out. A 0:46:55.920 --> 0:46:57.520 lot of people forget that Chick fil A is not 0:46:57.600 --> 0:46:59.520 open on Sunday, and they go to get their Chick 0:46:59.560 --> 0:47:01.600 fil A on Sunday. They can't get there. They're fixed. 0:47:01.719 --> 0:47:04.040 So they wait a minute. There's a raising canes right here. 0:47:04.120 --> 0:47:06.480 Let me give them a try, and boom, you got 0:47:06.480 --> 0:47:09.880 a new customer. Just like that. Good marketing it is. 0:47:10.040 --> 0:47:13.319 Adrian also says, lastly, I still say, how about that 0:47:13.840 --> 0:47:16.120 when my wife and I get into a friendly argument 0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:20.440 about chores about the house, says I swept the floors 0:47:20.440 --> 0:47:23.080 and took out the trash. How about that if the 0:47:23.160 --> 0:47:27.160 kids are down one, two or all three, yell out 0:47:27.320 --> 0:47:29.279 Ben Maller in the house. How about that you got 0:47:29.320 --> 0:47:32.960 the kids trained. My wife gets so annoyed, but I 0:47:33.000 --> 0:47:37.400 think it's the funniest thing. Well, thank you, Adrian, very kind, 0:47:37.480 --> 0:47:40.279 appreciate it. Just keep the podcast coming and good to 0:47:40.280 --> 0:47:43.640 have you back on the long email. And I have 0:47:43.719 --> 0:47:45.640 big plans to travel. I don't have any time to 0:47:45.680 --> 0:47:47.600 do it, but I'd love to get to Denver and 0:47:47.640 --> 0:47:52.040 meet you Adrian and have the Ben Mallard chicken sandwich. 0:47:52.120 --> 0:47:56.360 Of course that's available there. Next up, as we continue 0:47:56.400 --> 0:48:01.600 the mails. Carlos in Bang Bang Houston says, I've been 0:48:01.640 --> 0:48:06.040 listening to you since and I remember Coop eating the 0:48:06.120 --> 0:48:10.840 scoop of vasoline, probably the best segment on radio ever. Anyways, 0:48:10.840 --> 0:48:12.879 when are the Bennies whether this weekend? We've already talked 0:48:12.880 --> 0:48:15.719 about in the NFL Book, the NFL Book him, I 0:48:15.840 --> 0:48:19.600 keep pushing back. I don't know why we haven't done it. 0:48:19.600 --> 0:48:21.840 It's not like it's been postponed. Nobody's told us we 0:48:21.920 --> 0:48:24.719 can't do it, but something always seems to come up, 0:48:25.400 --> 0:48:27.400 a big NFL story or something like that, and we 0:48:27.440 --> 0:48:29.000 forget to do it. So I have it on my 0:48:29.080 --> 0:48:31.360 list of things to accomplish. Maybe I'll finally get around 0:48:31.360 --> 0:48:34.280 to it this week. He says. Also, third Rail Friday 0:48:34.320 --> 0:48:37.080 should definitely be a staple of the show. And what 0:48:37.239 --> 0:48:40.080 is the origin story of Jet who Fled And how 0:48:40.080 --> 0:48:42.800 did he get his nickname? Well, Carlos, Jet who Fled 0:48:42.920 --> 0:48:45.560 had a different name when he called the show originally, 0:48:46.200 --> 0:48:50.160 and he was in the octagon and I think it 0:48:50.360 --> 0:48:53.680 was against what's his name, the guy in New York 0:48:53.719 --> 0:48:57.239 that we talk real talk, Yeah, real talk in New York. 0:48:57.560 --> 0:49:01.640 Go to hell, Back up, back up, Get Jack Up. 0:49:01.680 --> 0:49:04.840 Jack up really got himself man from the show, and 0:49:04.920 --> 0:49:07.879 so we had promoted that octagon. It was a big 0:49:07.920 --> 0:49:11.680 deal on the show. And then Jed just he fled. 0:49:11.719 --> 0:49:14.040 He didn't show up. We couldn't get a hold of him. 0:49:14.560 --> 0:49:17.080 We were, well, what happened, and so his new nickname, 0:49:17.080 --> 0:49:19.200 we changed his nickname to mock him Jed who Fled, 0:49:19.320 --> 0:49:22.520 and that's been his nickname ever since. Hasn't changed. That's 0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:26.600 the deal on that and Ozzy momentum. Right, so we 0:49:26.640 --> 0:49:29.880 got time for uh. The clock is uh, the clock 0:49:30.000 --> 0:49:33.280 is not our friend. The clock is not our friend. Unforce. 0:49:33.320 --> 0:49:35.239 We we'll do. Uh'll do at least one more. All right, 0:49:35.480 --> 0:49:39.719 come back, it's time from now call Ozzy. Bomenhow says. 0:49:39.880 --> 0:49:41.799 So the other day I was watching one of those 0:49:41.880 --> 0:49:45.759 Russian slapping competitions. If you haven't seen them, check out 0:49:45.800 --> 0:49:47.399 the link. He sent a link. Yeah, I've seen those. 0:49:47.400 --> 0:49:50.120 Those are a while anyway. My question is what is 0:49:50.160 --> 0:49:52.640 the craziest type of competition to evant that you'd be 0:49:52.640 --> 0:49:56.520 prepared to enter into, I e. A slapping, slapping competition, 0:49:56.600 --> 0:49:59.520 running with the bulls, cheese wheel, et cetera. I would 0:49:59.600 --> 0:50:03.600 love to be in a eating contest, competitive eating. I'm 0:50:03.600 --> 0:50:06.759 fascinated by the art of competitive eating. I've interviewed a 0:50:06.760 --> 0:50:09.040 few of those guys. In fact, Danny Market down right now. 0:50:09.080 --> 0:50:11.560 I want to get Joey Chestnut on this podcast when 0:50:11.560 --> 0:50:14.080 we get closer to July, I want to get him on. 0:50:14.200 --> 0:50:18.000 I had the guy last year, the promoter of the 0:50:18.200 --> 0:50:23.400 Coney Island staple, and he was great. But eating contests, 0:50:24.160 --> 0:50:26.600 I don't really run that much, so I probably would 0:50:26.680 --> 0:50:30.360 be bull food. I'd get gorged by a bull. I 0:50:30.440 --> 0:50:33.600 just run off the side and hide. What about you 0:50:33.640 --> 0:50:36.719 did anything jumping out of a plane, anything weird you 0:50:36.719 --> 0:50:39.080 would be willing to do. Man, I still have some 0:50:39.200 --> 0:50:44.000 decent footwork. So log rolling log where you do log rolling? 0:50:44.320 --> 0:50:48.080 Competitive log rolling? Remember the early days of ESPN when 0:50:48.080 --> 0:50:51.000 they would put strongman competitions on That was like all 0:50:51.040 --> 0:50:55.720 their programming, and it would like people cutting wood, chopping 0:50:55.760 --> 0:50:59.279 down trees and lumberjack stuff. It was one. It was 0:50:59.320 --> 0:51:01.600 really good, actually looking back, and I don't know that 0:51:01.640 --> 0:51:03.600 I enjoyed it as much then as I do now. 0:51:03.719 --> 0:51:06.520 I'm fascinated by those things. At this age, when I 0:51:06.520 --> 0:51:08.320 was younger, I was like, what they have no programming 0:51:08.400 --> 0:51:11.399 where they putting this ship on for But now I'm like, wow, 0:51:11.440 --> 0:51:14.200 those guys are like real men. That's like the modern 0:51:14.320 --> 0:51:19.239 version now is like the cornhole Championships. Yeah, but let's 0:51:19.320 --> 0:51:21.759 come on, anyone can do that? Who can take a 0:51:21.960 --> 0:51:26.080 saw and uh cut through it first? And remember the 0:51:26.120 --> 0:51:29.080 guys you're calling the big Rig. Remember the guys called 0:51:29.120 --> 0:51:32.400 the big Rig? That was awesome? Yea, that that's Wild 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:37.000 Berry in Music City last morning. He says, yo yo, Mom. 0:51:37.120 --> 0:51:39.799 Benny Berry says hold on, saying I gotta give you 0:51:39.800 --> 0:51:43.800 the property. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, 0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:46.799 totally enjoy your new toy, the sound drop Machine. How 0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:50.000 many drops can that thing hold? Now? Went up to 0:51:50.040 --> 0:51:53.720 three billion? Yeah? I have not counted how many drops. 0:51:53.719 --> 0:51:56.799 And I have a weird collection that I have put 0:51:56.840 --> 0:52:01.640 together that I have hands selected from the sound and 0:52:02.160 --> 0:52:04.400 I don't know, I haven't counted them, but there's a lot. 0:52:04.440 --> 0:52:06.160 I have a lot here. I mean, I can, you know, 0:52:06.320 --> 0:52:08.400 go through all of them if you want to smoke. 0:52:09.800 --> 0:52:14.640 If you talk about the Vikings, any reference to Borat 0:52:14.920 --> 0:52:19.759 and I get that going nice. You're talking about baseball, 0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:28.839 How about Britney Spears. You're talking about Britney Spears. Well, 0:52:28.840 --> 0:52:31.720 I could drop battle you. Here's one I pulled last week. 0:52:32.320 --> 0:52:34.920 I was more concerned about him giving me a double fish. 0:52:35.480 --> 0:52:39.560 Oh hot, dare you how about this one? That's a classic. 0:52:39.719 --> 0:52:43.760 That was classic? Yeah, alright, and if you're a Howard 0:52:43.800 --> 0:52:46.920 Stern fant that as well. Anyway, we gotta get out 0:52:46.920 --> 0:52:48.239 of here. Thanks to everyone else, we didn't get to 0:52:48.239 --> 0:52:49.960 a lot of the emails. I apologize for that. Hill 0:52:50.000 --> 0:52:52.960 Billy Mike's and a nice letter in Radioactive Ryan in 0:52:53.000 --> 0:52:57.160 Salt Lake City. Mike from Fullerton. John wrote in also 0:52:57.320 --> 0:53:01.160 t love all you guys, say you, thank you, thank you. 0:53:01.160 --> 0:53:04.560 We apologize we're not getting your messages, but send another 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:06.279 one in next week. Hopefully we'll have more time in 0:53:06.320 --> 0:53:08.719 the mailbag and we will be able to get to it. 0:53:08.960 --> 0:53:12.200 And Danny, thank you. You'll be back at Fox Sports 0:53:12.280 --> 0:53:15.600 Radio today right producing. Yeah, I'll be on Coveno and 0:53:15.719 --> 0:53:21.399 Rich Sunday afternoon into plankin Spaniard Sunday night leading into 0:53:21.480 --> 0:53:25.080 the Bennies. Yes, big night on the show. Tell a 0:53:25.120 --> 0:53:26.520 Friend and Tell a Friends to be one of the 0:53:26.560 --> 0:53:29.479 most downloaded podcast I know, but you gotta hear it live. 0:53:29.960 --> 0:53:34.800 The winners of the Bennies have a wonderful glorious rest 0:53:34.840 --> 0:53:38.640 of your Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, last Sunday of March. Right, 0:53:38.680 --> 0:53:41.080 this is it, last day March, and before you know, 0:53:41.120 --> 0:53:44.000 it's gonna be April, April fools Day. Have a wonderful day. 0:53:44.040 --> 0:53:47.640 We'll talk to you next time. Osta pasta gott a murder, 0:53:47.680 --> 0:53:48.040 gotta go.