Speaker 1: Boom. 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 cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now, n N in the air everywhere
Speaker 1: back on a Sunday, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard
Speaker 1: and Danny G. Radio because just not enough time to
Speaker 1: get all the content. And this a spinoff of the
Speaker 1: Overnight Show. As we are in the air everywhere eight
Speaker 1: days a week, and we thank you for supporting the podcast,
Speaker 1: supporting the radio show, all of that. And this is
Speaker 1: the Sunday mail Bag Danny G. This is a actacking,
Speaker 1: spectacular podcast. My favorite podcast of the week, the Mailbag.
Speaker 1: So without further ado, are you ready Danny? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is a big day for the Mallard Militia. Big night
Speaker 1: because tonight and Monday morning of course the Bennies. So
Speaker 1: we have our steamers out just like Coop. I think
Speaker 1: you found some bell bottoms in your closet. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I was a kid, my mom, I have some photos
Speaker 1: I found when I have you know, I went through
Speaker 1: the stuff. I was a Bell Bottoms baby. I want
Speaker 1: you to know, Danny, I was a Bell Bottomed I
Speaker 1: was that seventies show. Damn right. So we are ready,
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's strike. I mean in the mailbag.
Speaker 1: You know how we start the mailbag right here bag
Speaker 1: thanks to our buddy ohio Al who sent that one in.
Speaker 1: We honor ohio Al every week with that little male ditty.
Speaker 1: And let's get into you've got all right. First one
Speaker 1: comes from moving man Matt Currently. He says he's in
Speaker 1: Barstow but headed to Vegas. I wonder if he had
Speaker 1: a taco from Del Taco, the famous Del Taco and Barstow.
Speaker 1: So it's original Del Taco, right or one of the Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was one of the very first Del tacos. And
Speaker 1: if you go there to this day, they put more
Speaker 1: beans inside the burritos there. Yes, their claim to fame.
Speaker 1: They have the Barstow menu. Yeah, the burritos like the
Speaker 1: size of your head. Wow, if you don't know what
Speaker 1: Del Taco is, because it's not all over the country.
Speaker 1: It's like Taco Bell, but it's the you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: a little more Mexican? Is it more Mexican? I think
Speaker 1: I think they those are gringo tacos, the crunchy tacos
Speaker 1: that I like. There they are, but I think the
Speaker 1: burritos are a little more Mexican. Movie Man Matt says,
Speaker 1: would you buy the Mallard billboard? It's currently for sale
Speaker 1: and a new Mallard billboard will becoming a more luxurious one.
Speaker 1: It is a piece of show history after all. Well,
Speaker 1: that's very flattering, moving man, Matt, that you would think
Speaker 1: that I would want to purchase that, Ay, that I
Speaker 1: would want of course I would want it, be I
Speaker 1: have nowhere to put it. It's massive. I can't put
Speaker 1: it anywhere and take up too much space. And see
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford it. So other than that, uh, we
Speaker 1: need somebody else to step up. But thank you for
Speaker 1: the very kind offer. I do appreciate that, but unfortunately, uh,
Speaker 1: can I do it now? He has a question for Danny.
Speaker 1: Moving Man Matt says, what was the coolest thing about
Speaker 1: being able to get former President Donald Trump on the
Speaker 1: phone for Clay when you did it? And tell that story, Danny.
Speaker 1: For those that have not heard you were producing for
Speaker 1: Clay Travis. You were the reason, part of the reason
Speaker 1: that Clay became the new Rush Limball. You helped him,
Speaker 1: he helps you vice versa. But when you were producing
Speaker 1: his show, you had some very interesting guests. And you've
Speaker 1: got to do something that I'm very jealous of. To
Speaker 1: talk to a president, the president of the United States
Speaker 1: most powerful position, uh finger on the nuclear bombs and
Speaker 1: you talked to this guy. What was that like? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't got to talk about that on our podcast. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was definitely scary that first time he called to
Speaker 1: be answering the phone and knowing that our phone system
Speaker 1: is not fool proof. I just totally assume that the
Speaker 1: phones are not gonna work. So let's see how this goes,
Speaker 1: and me the fool running the phone box. I turned
Speaker 1: on the lights extra bright in the studio because, as
Speaker 1: you know, Ben Roberto and I like the lights to
Speaker 1: be low in there, like mood lighting. Yes, I set
Speaker 1: the mood in there when I'm in the studios. But
Speaker 1: I turned the lights on him like I gotta see
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. And then I was sweating it because
Speaker 1: Clay's teasing this obviously all morning. I'm getting text messages
Speaker 1: from bosses that normally aren't awake at that time, texting
Speaker 1: me if they are listening at that time. Usually I
Speaker 1: don't hear from them. So I'm hearing from all these
Speaker 1: different people. My phone is blowing up. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: concentrate on the show that was live and what's going
Speaker 1: on on the phone, and then Clay gets nervous, why
Speaker 1: do our phones not work? The crazy part, Ben was
Speaker 1: that I figured that when the call did finally come
Speaker 1: in during the time that the call was expected, that
Speaker 1: you know, it would be like the guy in charge
Speaker 1: of White House Communications, the secretary, somebody official, okay, stand
Speaker 1: by for the president. Because I had guests on that
Speaker 1: show who were like senators and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: they even had press secretaries who would come on first
Speaker 1: make sure the connection was good for the interview, and
Speaker 1: then when it was time, they would say, okay, and
Speaker 1: here's the senator, and then the senator would come on
Speaker 1: the phone. In my mind, that's what I'm expecting. The
Speaker 1: phone's ringing, and in Clay's air, I tell him phones
Speaker 1: ringing so he could mentally prepare to set up this
Speaker 1: live interview. Now that it's time, I pick up the
Speaker 1: phone and it's just Donald J. Trump himself on his soul.
Speaker 1: Does he say like, hey, don't be rude. Did you
Speaker 1: say that? So I'm like, you know, he answered Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio and he was like uh and he says
Speaker 1: Danny and I say yeah, and he's like, this is
Speaker 1: the president and it's great, right. So I'm like, holy
Speaker 1: sh it, this guy just called me by my name.
Speaker 1: Isn't a press secretary? What the hell? The best part is,
Speaker 1: you know, Clay's doing this whole intro, getting the scene
Speaker 1: set and everything before he's gonna bring him on. So
Speaker 1: Clay had told me, okay, you get him because Claire,
Speaker 1: He's also thinking I'm on the phone with somebody official.
Speaker 1: He's like when when he's ready, and he's the one
Speaker 1: on the line, tell me in my ear. So now
Speaker 1: instead of talking to a secretary, I'm actually shooting the
Speaker 1: ship with the president. He's asking me about how the
Speaker 1: morning's go in, and it was the coolest thing. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, hey, everything's good here, and I kind of
Speaker 1: joke around with him and he's like, hey, because you
Speaker 1: have the President on the phone, Clay definitely needs to
Speaker 1: give you a raise. And I said, your lips to
Speaker 1: God's Ears and we're kind of laughing about that, and
Speaker 1: I tell him, Okay, I'm gonna put you on hold
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna let Clay know you're ready. And he's like, okay,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. He's like, by the way, you
Speaker 1: guys have a great show. I love it. So I
Speaker 1: put him on hold, and Roberto's just kind of staring
Speaker 1: at me, like what the fun is going on? So
Speaker 1: I tell Clay, hey, he's ready, Clay brings him on
Speaker 1: the air, does that interview with him. No matter what
Speaker 1: your politics are, it's obviously super cool to have a
Speaker 1: sitting president live on your radio show, you know. And
Speaker 1: most of these guys ben if they're if they're a
Speaker 1: big shot, whether it's a coach, a big time athlete,
Speaker 1: an actor, somebody like that. At the end, when the
Speaker 1: host says thank you, and they say thank you and
Speaker 1: they part ways, they'll just hang up. Yeah. I've had
Speaker 1: people hang up in the middle of interviews, Danny, as
Speaker 1: you know on this podcast. I've interviewed people and right
Speaker 1: in the middle I gotta go by. Uh. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't even say by. They just hang up. When you're
Speaker 1: producing a show and you have a guest. Usually they're gone,
Speaker 1: Like you'll go to the phone and you'll pick it
Speaker 1: up just to see and you'll say it's a courtesy.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of times I'll pick up the phone
Speaker 1: and I'll say, hey, thanks again for joining us, and
Speaker 1: nobody says anything because they're gone. Well, this time, I
Speaker 1: pick up the phone and that's what I'm expecting. But
Speaker 1: he stayed on the line, and so now he's talking
Speaker 1: to me again after the interview, and he was like,
Speaker 1: how was that was that? Was that what you needed?
Speaker 1: Was that good? And I'm like, yeah, man, Clay loved
Speaker 1: it obviously, you know. And Clay is trying to talk
Speaker 1: to me on the talkback system. Yeah. So I got
Speaker 1: two conversations going at once, and Roberto tells Clay on
Speaker 1: his talk back He's like, oh, he's still on the
Speaker 1: phone with Danny right now. And Clay was like okay,
Speaker 1: And so he talks to me for you know, maybe
Speaker 1: thirty seconds afterwards. I'll come on the show again. You guys,
Speaker 1: let me know when you want to talk more college football,
Speaker 1: because this was during COVID and a lot of that
Speaker 1: conversation was how are they going to bring college football back?
Speaker 1: It was just like twenty twenty early or when what
Speaker 1: would you Yeah, so this was Pete Covid time, So
Speaker 1: maybe summer of you know, I'll have to go back
Speaker 1: to look at the official date, but I know it
Speaker 1: was when all that drama was going on with the
Speaker 1: Pack twelve canceling. Okay, so then maybe we'll college football.
Speaker 1: Heason is in October September, you know, around then. So
Speaker 1: so they were fighting to get the big ten back, remember, yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Well that's when that was going on, and it was
Speaker 1: really crazy. The second time he called, I was more
Speaker 1: comfortable because I was like, well, he was cool with
Speaker 1: me and he knew me, and Roberto and all those
Speaker 1: guys teased me because we're in those commercials when Clay
Speaker 1: was on the talk back, I hang up. I kind
Speaker 1: of share with Clay off the air what the conversation
Speaker 1: was like with him, and Clay's laughing. He's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's cool that he just called on his own phone
Speaker 1: like that. I want to talk about that on the
Speaker 1: air when we come back for the final segment. And
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, cool. So we come back,
Speaker 1: Clay's laughing about how he called himself and he goes
Speaker 1: to me, and he's like, Danny, what was that like
Speaker 1: answering the phone? And I told him how nervous I
Speaker 1: was to accidentally hang up on the president, And and
Speaker 1: then Clay was like and supposedly he said that you
Speaker 1: deserved to raise. I share exactly what happened, like I
Speaker 1: just did with you, and Roberto's laughing. Roberto's like yeah right,
Speaker 1: And so Clay goes around the horn. He's like, let
Speaker 1: me go around the horn, Eddie, do you believe the
Speaker 1: president said that? And he's like nope, and he's like
Speaker 1: Roberto and Roberto is like, yeah, well, how convenient that
Speaker 1: it was on one side of the phone and none
Speaker 1: of us could hear it. Yeah? Right, And so Clay said, hey,
Speaker 1: if he does ever join the show again, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask him if he really said that. So that second
Speaker 1: time Trump called the show, Clay asked him, did you
Speaker 1: tell my producer Danny g that he deserved a raise
Speaker 1: when you called last time? Absolutely? I said, you get
Speaker 1: the president, but you really do. You have a great show,
Speaker 1: and he's a nice guy. I said, you get the
Speaker 1: president of the phone, you deserve a raise. I haven't
Speaker 1: done too many of these calls. That's great, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: It was the all time radio stories that I I listened.
Speaker 1: I remember we were doing the over Night showed. That
Speaker 1: was back before I did it from home, and we
Speaker 1: hadn't made the transition, and people are like, oh, Trump's
Speaker 1: gonna be on and I was like, oh wow, that's
Speaker 1: like I had to I couldn't believe it. I thought
Speaker 1: there's no way they were rumors. And then it actually
Speaker 1: turned out to be the case. So that was awesome.
Speaker 1: That's great. All right, that is a wonderful answer. Thank you,
Speaker 1: moving Man, Matt. Moving Man. Matt was part of that
Speaker 1: trucker convoy. He sent some photos out. He was around
Speaker 1: d C. All Right, what is next? Helen and stew
Speaker 1: from palmetto Bay, Florida. Very controversial couple, say Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny Happy Sunday, Sunday Sunday, Ain't no party like the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour Party. This week's letter includes a joke, a
Speaker 1: few quick comments, and a question. Let's get to it.
Speaker 1: The letter begins, STU, over this, over this for a week?
Speaker 1: Bitch uh? He begins, question, what does that one sex
Speaker 1: toy insult trick pony living in Montana get told? On
Speaker 1: the tenth of every month Uh. The answer the rent
Speaker 1: was due on the first wow, Helen is feisty says
Speaker 1: Bruce Jenner was back in the n c A a
Speaker 1: trans swimmer news this week. We missed that guy. Looking back,
Speaker 1: he should have told us, given us a chance to
Speaker 1: say goodbye by going on a year long farewell tour.
Speaker 1: Shout out to our favorite comic Bill Burr, who, as
Speaker 1: a big sports fan living in l A, should be
Speaker 1: a future guest on the fifth hour. Do you have
Speaker 1: a contact for Bill Burr? Can we get him on
Speaker 1: the podcast? But he do the podcast. He's a big,
Speaker 1: big name in comedy. Would even come on a podcast
Speaker 1: like this? I have no idea we can ask, right,
Speaker 1: doesn't uh? And the message continues, Ben jellyfish have survived
Speaker 1: six fifty million years without brains. Great news for Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio executives who failed to promote you to Clay
Speaker 1: Travis's time Slide. Well, very kind, very kind, Helen. But
Speaker 1: as I have said many times, the kind of show
Speaker 1: that I do overnight, I would not be allowed to
Speaker 1: do if I was in a morning time slot. They
Speaker 1: would just not allow it. The corporate muckety MUCKs would interfere.
Speaker 1: They would put their foot down and say, well, what
Speaker 1: are you talking to a guy from Brooklyn who eats
Speaker 1: chef boy Ard for ten minutes? What's wrong with you? Uh?
Speaker 1: And and why are you talking to a guy in
Speaker 1: Maine who this is like a whack of doodle? What's
Speaker 1: up with that? So? Yeah, but I do appreciate the
Speaker 1: kind words telling fun facts. Helen says an autopsy showed
Speaker 1: that cocaine used contributed to the heart disease that suddenly
Speaker 1: killed TV pitchman Billy Mays. As a reminder, it's one
Speaker 1: Benny Awards ballot time. Please vote now for Danny g
Speaker 1: as the best crew fill in. So a badge of
Speaker 1: honor for you. And Helen also says, Ben, your natural
Speaker 1: weight loss of two hundred pounds and keeping that weight
Speaker 1: off remains inspirational and legendary. Question. Who's the biggest cheater?
Speaker 1: Whether man Al Roker celebrating his this this week twenty
Speaker 1: years since his gastric bypass surgery or the cheating stros Well, Helen,
Speaker 1: you know the answer to that. I've never met Al Roker.
Speaker 1: I've seen him on TV many times, but I was
Speaker 1: at the seventeen World Series and flow with them astros.
Speaker 1: That's what I have to say that's right, all right,
Speaker 1: it's a podcast, Danny. I can say that. You can
Speaker 1: bleep it out if you want. I don't care, all right,
Speaker 1: So thank you, Helen and Stuke. Kevin in Kansas writes
Speaker 1: in says, dear Benn and Danny, g it's severe weather
Speaker 1: season again. Here in the Great Plains. We get dust storms, blizzards,
Speaker 1: and tornadoes. Any memorable encounters with any of these situations.
Speaker 1: I've never been in a tornado. I've never been in
Speaker 1: a blizzard. Well, actually, I've been in some nasty snowstorms.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was like a blizzard on the
Speaker 1: East Coat. I've got a Boston and New York whatnot.
Speaker 1: I've been in some nasty weather, but not really a
Speaker 1: real blizzard. Uh. And also also the dust. M I
Speaker 1: have been in a dust storm before, but not like
Speaker 1: a real Great Plains dust storm. So that one I
Speaker 1: was driving in the desert and that was a little
Speaker 1: little wacky a desert storm, which I think was it.
Speaker 1: Does it qualifies as a dust a dust storm? What
Speaker 1: about you, Danny? Have you been in any of those things.
Speaker 1: I've seen a tornado in northern California. They're rare and
Speaker 1: they're not as big as the tornadoes that you might
Speaker 1: see in other parts of the country. But my family
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, we were in the l
Speaker 1: A area. Then we moved up to northern California, where
Speaker 1: my mom is from in the San Jose area, but she,
Speaker 1: because of money, settled in the Modesto area. So that's
Speaker 1: right when northern California begins. But the central part of
Speaker 1: the state, and I'll never forget. We were at Brown
Speaker 1: Elementary School playing basketball. My little sister came running and
Speaker 1: she's like, you guys, gotta come home. Mom says, you
Speaker 1: gotta come home because of the tornado. Like tornado, what
Speaker 1: the fund is he talking about? So we get to
Speaker 1: the front of our house us and from there you
Speaker 1: you had a view towards the west end of the
Speaker 1: town and you saw just an ominous sky and a
Speaker 1: tornado from a far distance that was some scary looking ship,
Speaker 1: and people were jumping in their cars and driving the
Speaker 1: other direction. I remember my mom like throwing my little
Speaker 1: baby sister into our car seat, getting everybody into the
Speaker 1: car and driving the other direction. And it was on
Speaker 1: the news that night and everything. I think it tore
Speaker 1: up some part of the town on the outskirts, but
Speaker 1: it didn't make its way into the city. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's the only time I've ever seen anything like that.
Speaker 1: But dude, people that live in the part of the
Speaker 1: country where they see that often or they've seen it
Speaker 1: more than once in their life. Yeah, that's something that
Speaker 1: I think would follow you around in your nightmares. The
Speaker 1: worst weather I've ever been in was in Buffalo. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't snow. It was rain. There was like a
Speaker 1: storm that was passing through Buffalo. Because of the lake,
Speaker 1: it added to the water. It was so bad. I
Speaker 1: was on the highway and driving out of Buffalo. I
Speaker 1: was at a Bills game and I had to stop.
Speaker 1: We could not see where we were going. We had
Speaker 1: to stop on this expressway and I was just waiting
Speaker 1: for a car to hit. It hit us from behind.
Speaker 1: It was surreal. I'd never see I didn't know it
Speaker 1: could rain that much. I'm used to California rain. This
Speaker 1: was so ridunculous. Oh yeah, it was. It was nuts.
Speaker 1: It was the most ridiculous thing. I thought I was
Speaker 1: gonna drown, and then it passed and just kept going
Speaker 1: like nothing happened. That was it. You know, it's water everywhere.
Speaker 1: Fred from Spring, Texas right and says, Hi, guys, can
Speaker 1: either of you drive a stick shift auto? Have you
Speaker 1: ever owned a convertible? What is your current car? Well,
Speaker 1: I have the Mallardmobile. I have the fourth or fifth
Speaker 1: generation of the Mallanmobile, which is like the Batmobile's Mallanmobile.
Speaker 1: I do not know how to dravistick shift, and I
Speaker 1: have never owned a convertible. I have had cars that
Speaker 1: have sun roofs that I consider a fat guys convertible.
Speaker 1: What about your diddy? Yeah, we've talked about cars on
Speaker 1: this podcast before. I loved hot wheels and I loved
Speaker 1: fast cars. When I was a kid, I had a
Speaker 1: poster of a Ferrari, so I thought, Man, when I
Speaker 1: get my license and I get a job, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get a fast car. So the second car I bought,
Speaker 1: because the first one was a beater. The second one, though,
Speaker 1: was a turbo and it was super fast. After that,
Speaker 1: later in life, I was able to buy a convertible
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz, which was nice. Got in a wreck. The
Speaker 1: insurance company, as you can guess, did not give me
Speaker 1: my full value back. Of course, yes, that Mercedes Benz
Speaker 1: turned into a Nissan, but with those Nissans. Man, I
Speaker 1: found the three seventi z s and those have been
Speaker 1: my favorite cars the past few years. I'm on my
Speaker 1: second one right now. It's a Heritage Edition, really fast
Speaker 1: and it is it is a clutch, it's a six speed,
Speaker 1: and man, I mean when I have open road, that
Speaker 1: thing flies. It sucks to drive and bumper to bumper traffic,
Speaker 1: but on an open road it's a beauty. Now do
Speaker 1: you drive your cars into the ground or do you
Speaker 1: just before that, go and get a new car, because
Speaker 1: I I have lately been driving cars in the ground.
Speaker 1: That's my new thing. I take really really good care
Speaker 1: of my cars. Every week. I make sure it's washed.
Speaker 1: Every week. I clean out the inside. My car right
Speaker 1: now is four and a half years old, and when
Speaker 1: people see it, they think I just bought it recently.
Speaker 1: So that's my trink. It's just keep it, man, treat
Speaker 1: it like a palace. That way. If I do want
Speaker 1: to trade it in, you can get top dollars for it. No,
Speaker 1: that's great. And I used to try to take really
Speaker 1: good care of the cars and then I got married.
Speaker 1: Well now and now it's just the ugly redheaded step child.
Speaker 1: The car. It just gets beaten up. I used to
Speaker 1: never eat in car. I've never eaten the car. I
Speaker 1: would never you know, drink anything of like soda or
Speaker 1: anything like that. When I backed my soda drinking days
Speaker 1: because I don't want to spill any uh. My wife, though,
Speaker 1: has a different perspective on that. She is open minded,
Speaker 1: and so that I lost that battle. But that's anyway.
Speaker 1: Next up, Alan and akeron Ohio birthplace of Lebron and
Speaker 1: Steph Kurt. Yeah, how did your diet change after you
Speaker 1: had your gallbladder removed? Was there any other lifestyle changes? Alan, So,
Speaker 1: I had my gall bladder taken out November three, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I believe it was and I have not really changed
Speaker 1: my diet. I do inter minute fasting, so I don't
Speaker 1: eat as often as other people that have had their
Speaker 1: gallbladder taken out. And I have noticed with the inter
Speaker 1: minute fasting, when I go a long time without eating
Speaker 1: and then I eat something, it's off to the races.
Speaker 1: After I eat, I within about forty five minutes to
Speaker 1: an hour. It's shipped creak is what it is. They're
Speaker 1: ship's creek. It's a lot of pooping and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I really haven't changed my diet. I eat many
Speaker 1: of the same things I've always eaten. I've heard stories
Speaker 1: that some people can it's different for everybody, but I've
Speaker 1: been pretty lucky and out of sight, out of mind,
Speaker 1: I don't think about it. I a gall black is
Speaker 1: very small. Then he can't see I'm I'm showing you.
Speaker 1: It's like very small the actual gall bladder. Now, how
Speaker 1: did you know you needed it taken out? Did you
Speaker 1: have bloating? Like? What are the signs that you need
Speaker 1: that thing out? Well? I almost died, Actually, I had
Speaker 1: gall stones. I did not realize they were goal stones.
Speaker 1: I thought it was heartburk. I had multiple incidents where
Speaker 1: I felt like pain in my chest and I thought
Speaker 1: it was just I had eaten, and it was always
Speaker 1: after I had eaten a really big meal, which is
Speaker 1: the gall bladder. But I didn't put two and two together,
Speaker 1: and so finally I had a massive attack where I
Speaker 1: couldn't clear the gulf stones and I couldn't sleep. I
Speaker 1: was so uncomfortable. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't drink anything,
Speaker 1: I couldn't eat anything. It was just it was terrible.
Speaker 1: I thought I was dying, and so I went to
Speaker 1: the emergency room and they gave me some was it
Speaker 1: morphine I think it was, and within ten minutes it
Speaker 1: cleared the gold stones out and I was I was
Speaker 1: all right. But then I had to stay in the
Speaker 1: hospital because I had so many gold stones. They wanted
Speaker 1: to do the operation. Usually the operations in and out,
Speaker 1: you're done within a few hours, you're back home. But
Speaker 1: I was so fooled up from all of the gulf
Speaker 1: stones and they were really tiny gull stones that had
Speaker 1: gone all over the place. So I had to stay
Speaker 1: for a week. I was like in a hospital for
Speaker 1: almost a week because they had to wait because they
Speaker 1: couldn't do the operation because they had to wait for
Speaker 1: everything to kind of clear. And so then I had
Speaker 1: had the procedure done, and yeah, it was pretty wild man,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty well. It was done on November three, but
Speaker 1: I was in the hospital a few days before that.
Speaker 1: And the longest fast I ever had, because I was
Speaker 1: on a fast, I went, God, how many hours was it?
Speaker 1: I think it was it was like nineties something hours
Speaker 1: or something like that without eating anything. So yeah, good times.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do the fasting. I would
Speaker 1: get so hungry that by the time I got to food,
Speaker 1: I think I would overeat. Nah, I'm all right, I'd
Speaker 1: see one hearty meal and that's it. Falls Fan Jimmy
Speaker 1: from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes, and he says, beat that's right.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, that's I'm sorry, bad job, but I have
Speaker 1: not been playing that. I got so curried away talking.
Speaker 1: It's a bad job by me. There you go, all right,
Speaker 1: sorry balls, fan Jimmy, I gotta play. I gotta play
Speaker 1: all of them now because I didn't play a bad job.
Speaker 1: What is up? I have this toy here come back
Speaker 1: gets time from no call? I got Mayo? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got Mayo. Yeah, you've got Mayo? Played them all valls.
Speaker 1: Fan Jimmy Faville, Tennessee says, man, are you planning on
Speaker 1: having the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party this year? If so,
Speaker 1: will the guest list be slimmed down? Danny G. What
Speaker 1: was the last concert you have been to? I'm going
Speaker 1: Saturday night to Nashville to see Snoop Dogg, ice Cube
Speaker 1: too short and Warren G. Yeah that uh so, I'll
Speaker 1: answer that. I plan on having the ugly uh Sweater
Speaker 1: party again. We did not do it the last by
Speaker 1: the last couple of years we have not done it
Speaker 1: because of the COVID stuff. I hope to bring it back.
Speaker 1: It seems like the world's more open to that and
Speaker 1: people are back to normal, and I'd like to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't know that anyone's gonna show up. I live
Speaker 1: in the north Woods now, it's very far and with
Speaker 1: the price of gas and all that. But we will
Speaker 1: invite many people, and hopefully many will be able to
Speaker 1: make it. We'll have a great night, a very memorable
Speaker 1: night with all my my friends and our friends from
Speaker 1: radio and people that have met over the years that
Speaker 1: are people I like. So hopefully Danny you can make it.
Speaker 1: We can meet your TENDERRONI hopefully I'll meet a meet
Speaker 1: her before then. Yeah, and so yeah, that's the plan.
Speaker 1: What and Dan, was the last concert you you've gotten to?
Speaker 1: That's Jimmy's question for you. Let's see. Oh, speaking of her,
Speaker 1: she brought me to see Kane Brown at the Staple
Speaker 1: What it was the Staple Center then and we had
Speaker 1: to show vaccine cards to get in. And uh, it
Speaker 1: was a good concert. Though he is a biracial country star,
Speaker 1: it's modern country music. In fact, he even has had
Speaker 1: a couple of hits on Top forty radio. If you
Speaker 1: don't know who came brown is, google them. Just google him.
Speaker 1: That's all you have. Just google them. Yeah, as our
Speaker 1: buddy Mike North used to say, just google them, Um
Speaker 1: say you kids, just google. Yes, we don't need to
Speaker 1: bring Jonas in and uh boy. The last hip hop
Speaker 1: concert I went to, It's been a little while for
Speaker 1: hip hop, but I got to see Bone Thugs and
Speaker 1: Harmony do a little reunion concert. And that's and speak.
Speaker 1: You know, Modesto, like I was talking about a little
Speaker 1: earlier on the podcast, when I went to school there, Ben,
Speaker 1: I was a city kid from southern California reuniting with
Speaker 1: my San Jose family in the Bay. And when you
Speaker 1: would go to the Central Valley in Modesto, in that area,
Speaker 1: the kids there, they had a Garth Brooks CD and
Speaker 1: a Doctor dre CD. It was interesting. It was like
Speaker 1: kids wanted to go to a Snoop Dogg concert and
Speaker 1: they also wanted to go to a Garth Brooks concert. Okay,
Speaker 1: I was like a country concert. Who's your favorite, Who's
Speaker 1: your who's your favorite country star? That Dirty Boots and
Speaker 1: that's followed me all through my adult life. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I love to go see country concerts and I love
Speaker 1: to go see hip hop concerts. Yeah. I watched that
Speaker 1: country documentary a few years ago on PBS. Don't if
Speaker 1: you saw that. I did. I was told by somebody
Speaker 1: that it's it was about radio, and it is a
Speaker 1: lot about radio and the radio business and how related.
Speaker 1: And they were intertwined country music. Very good documentary by PBS.
Speaker 1: They really nailed that one. And I fell in love
Speaker 1: with all those old country music songs like I loved
Speaker 1: every one of them. In fact, that's in my rotation now,
Speaker 1: many of those old old school country music songs from
Speaker 1: the grand old opry. Yeah, wonderful. Well you're a Johnny
Speaker 1: Cash fan just like Yeah, I love Johnny Cash absolutely
Speaker 1: all right, thank you for that, and enjoy that concert. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a good time. How much do you think
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg gets paid for that? Do you think he
Speaker 1: gets out of that? Probably gets a cool dollars for
Speaker 1: a little live show for one day's work. You've got mail,
Speaker 1: all right, next time we stay in the state of Tennessee,
Speaker 1: j C represent the entire volunteer state, says, Hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: I write you today because I cannot stand Dan Wilkin.
Speaker 1: The man seems to hate sports, but for some reason
Speaker 1: he works in sports journalism. He was one of them
Speaker 1: that seemed to think that if sports came back while
Speaker 1: COVID was happening, that everyone would die. His sports takes
Speaker 1: are so bad that I can just read the headline
Speaker 1: of an article and no, it was written by Doo Doo,
Speaker 1: Dan the Igluman. In all your years working in sports
Speaker 1: talk radio, have you ever come across a radio host
Speaker 1: or a sports journalist that had such awful sports takes
Speaker 1: that it just made you dislike them as a person. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of disingenuous people. I have been
Speaker 1: able to see how they make the hot dogs. And yeah,
Speaker 1: the idea that people are a certain way, both athletes
Speaker 1: and members of the media that are one way publicly
Speaker 1: and complete assholes, completely phony and you know it, but
Speaker 1: you're one of the few people that knows it. And
Speaker 1: it's very it's very eye opening and disappointing at the
Speaker 1: same time, because you hear about people one way and
Speaker 1: then you see them the other way and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: that guy's got a great reputation. He's a complete dick,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't get it. So there was and
Speaker 1: Dan Wilkins a legend for being fear is mongering, fearmongering,
Speaker 1: Sky is falling, Chicken little. This guy has been doing
Speaker 1: that act for a long time. I don't know Dan Wilkin,
Speaker 1: but all I all I hear about him is really
Speaker 1: bad things. His reputation is not very good. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: one other guy that comes to mind for me, and
Speaker 1: that's Mike Florio. Oh the they call him the Nanny
Speaker 1: Mike Florio. Yeah. Yeah. I had a personal run in
Speaker 1: with him at the Atlanta super Bowl radio row. We
Speaker 1: had set Kwan Barkley scheduled to join Clay Travis on stage.
Speaker 1: Him and his posse rolled in and Clay was in
Speaker 1: the middle of another interview. But I thought, oh, they're
Speaker 1: here a little bit early, you know, so I'll get
Speaker 1: him ready. I'll sit him in our little green room
Speaker 1: here off to the side of our stage. He does
Speaker 1: a bee line though, and he goes over to Florio set,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, well that's all right, but it's
Speaker 1: gonna make him run late to his interview time with us.
Speaker 1: So I go over to Florio set. He's got these
Speaker 1: weenie bodyguards over there. They tell me I'm not allowed there,
Speaker 1: and I said, you have my guest right now, I
Speaker 1: am allowed right here. So I get into it with
Speaker 1: his guys on the set there and and uh, Florio
Speaker 1: walks over to me and he says, yeah, say, Kwan
Speaker 1: is gonna join us on the stage, so you really
Speaker 1: need to talk to his manager because he's probably not
Speaker 1: gonna get over to your set on time. And I
Speaker 1: was like, this little dick, all right. So I get
Speaker 1: to say Kwan's manager, and I'm like, Hey, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be threatening or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but if you piss off Fox Sports Radio, which is
Speaker 1: the number one sports network right now, does that make
Speaker 1: sense just to appease Florio and his little audience and
Speaker 1: the man you're kind of looked at me and he
Speaker 1: was like, all right, well tell you what. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: cut it short with him and we'll get over to
Speaker 1: you on time, maybe two minutes late. So I go
Speaker 1: over there, running more late than that. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: these assholes. So I go over there. I don't have
Speaker 1: to say anything the second time, though, Ben I just
Speaker 1: ice grill Florio and the manager, and so Florio says
Speaker 1: goodbye to say Quon on the set and they run
Speaker 1: him over to Clay Talk. And so anytime I see
Speaker 1: that guy on TV, I'm like, funk that Florio guy.
Speaker 1: And of course a lot of people don't like him
Speaker 1: because he comes off really grouchy on the air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like he's in a bad mood all the time.
Speaker 1: And whenever I see radio or TV guys I like
Speaker 1: to feel like And that's one thing I can say
Speaker 1: about Cowherd what I like about him. I feel like
Speaker 1: he's in a good mood. What I see or hear
Speaker 1: guys that always feel like they're in a bad mood,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make me want to tune in. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have not dealt with Actually knew Florio a little bit
Speaker 1: for he became like the Mike for there. He was
Speaker 1: partnered up with a couple other guys on the original
Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk before he partnered up with NBC. And
Speaker 1: back when I was doing Ben Mallory dot Com. He
Speaker 1: he was a lawyer, I believe I think he was
Speaker 1: a lawyer and he was messing around with the internet
Speaker 1: stuff and it was it was a rumor sight. I
Speaker 1: was doing a rumor site. So we were competing against
Speaker 1: each other for eyeballs back in those days. Uh. And
Speaker 1: just to follow up with j C, there is a
Speaker 1: baseball insider. I will not reveal the baseball inside because
Speaker 1: I'm still working. Who was a is a complete asshole,
Speaker 1: very short baseball writer. They're all short, though, they're all
Speaker 1: fun size to these baseball writers who comes across one
Speaker 1: way on television and then uh, it's a complete Uh
Speaker 1: hell you go any further than that. So thank you
Speaker 1: j C. That is a good behind the scenes question. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, j C. We'd appreciate that. And the mail
Speaker 1: bag continues. Never is this, No, it is never that.
Speaker 1: It is always exciting, fascinating and all of that. So
Speaker 1: who is next? You've got mail? Alright, let's see here
Speaker 1: we have Pierre, our buddy in Springfield, mass Home with
Speaker 1: a pro basketball Hall of Fame. Pierre says, paper or plastic.
Speaker 1: When the world shut down two years ago, local grocery
Speaker 1: stores in Springfield implemented a reusable bag policy, which seems
Speaker 1: less hygienic to me. Shortly thereafter, one local chain started
Speaker 1: to offer paper bags for a fee of ten cents.
Speaker 1: Much like you, Ben, I steadfastly refused to pay for bags,
Speaker 1: sometimes carrying my groceries by hand. Unfortunately, lately I have
Speaker 1: caved and as you know, Ben, those pickle jars can
Speaker 1: get very heavy and the paper bags aren't very strong. Well,
Speaker 1: that is a pickle problem. It's a real pickle pickle
Speaker 1: to be in, Pierre, I'm right there. As I've talked
Speaker 1: about this before, I do. I cannot stand the paper
Speaker 1: bag policy in California, the plastic bag, paper bag policy,
Speaker 1: the charge for the bag, complete rip off, complete scam.
Speaker 1: I also don't like bringing bags. I usually forget to
Speaker 1: bring the bags to the grocery store, so I have
Speaker 1: made many a run where I'm holding my groceries like
Speaker 1: a baby or a football going to the parking lot.
Speaker 1: I've also done the trick where I'll get a grocery
Speaker 1: cart and I'll just leave everything in the cart and
Speaker 1: have them put it back in the cart and then
Speaker 1: take it take it away. So I've done that, you know,
Speaker 1: take it to the car that way. But I usually
Speaker 1: forget the bag. It's a pain in the ass and
Speaker 1: I would rather just buy a plast a new reusable
Speaker 1: bag than spend the money on the disposable bag at
Speaker 1: the store. Because I feel like it's just a waste, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the point. I might as well invest towards the
Speaker 1: new bag. Then I'm going to get So I hated,
Speaker 1: I hated, I hated, and it's not fixing the environment
Speaker 1: at all. So stop, okay, stop with your nonsense. Ridiculous anyway,
Speaker 1: Travis from Roseberg, Oregon rights in. As we continue the
Speaker 1: amazing mail bang, Travis says, how close were you coming
Speaker 1: to the dark side to those delicious bacon wrap hot
Speaker 1: dogs at the big Game? Well, that happens every time,
Speaker 1: she said, Like, I don't eat the bacon, I eat
Speaker 1: turkey bacon. I eat the pig, the swine, and it
Speaker 1: smells amazing. In every time I've gone to a sport
Speaker 1: ingum it in l A. If I get out, if
Speaker 1: I leave the game and there's still people mulling abound
Speaker 1: around the stadium or the whatever venue it is, there's
Speaker 1: these brigades of folks who are selling hot dogs bacon wrap.
Speaker 1: Talk's amazing. There must be like a secret meeting place
Speaker 1: bacon wrap hot dog people all get together and they
Speaker 1: dropped them off with their carts and and they're not griddles,
Speaker 1: they're just like rolling carts with aluminum foil on them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bacon wrap. It's like gold, all right, when you grow
Speaker 1: up with limited a limited budget. So there would be
Speaker 1: times where I would smell bacon and I would think,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we're rich right now, We're rich. And
Speaker 1: she would cook it almost burned where it would snap
Speaker 1: like that, and Ben, my stepdad, would eat almost all
Speaker 1: of it. And I would get so pissed because I
Speaker 1: got a couple of pieces and that was it. And
Speaker 1: so one of my things in my mind, I was like,
Speaker 1: when I grow up, I gotta be rich because I
Speaker 1: gotta be able to buy bacon. I'm look at you now,
Speaker 1: you're a big radio star. Yeah, so your congratulations. You've
Speaker 1: made it. I have bacon at least twice a year.
Speaker 1: All right, come back, pay attention. It's time from now.
Speaker 1: Call Chris from Falling Waters Rest, Virginia, right below Haggerstown, Maryland. Hey, Gerstown, Maryland,
Speaker 1: where the truck convoy has been camping out. Chris says,
Speaker 1: my question this week is have you ever regretted saying
Speaker 1: something on the air? Maybe you made someone but hurt
Speaker 1: by a comment. No, I've never regretted anything I've said.
Speaker 1: I have been stunned by the reactions I've gotten over
Speaker 1: things I've said that I don't believe are controversial. The
Speaker 1: people that took offense the things I said blows me away.
Speaker 1: The angry messages I get from certain people who we'll
Speaker 1: say in the same email, Danny, that's why you're on Overnight.
Speaker 1: Your show sucks, but I'm offended by X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1: So to me, though, you're you're you're doing two separate
Speaker 1: things here. You're telling me I'm irrelevant and I don't
Speaker 1: listen to your show, but you are so offended by
Speaker 1: what I said. Yeah, that's my response to that. What
Speaker 1: about you, Danny? Who is the will one follow up
Speaker 1: question for you? Yeah? Who is the most famous person
Speaker 1: to get offended by something you said? Would that be
Speaker 1: Deshaun Uh? Deshaun is on the list. I would say
Speaker 1: the commissioner of Major League Baseball would probably be higher
Speaker 1: up on the list of at that he's on there.
Speaker 1: William Shatner, of course, we had the spats with Shats.
Speaker 1: He's an all time timeless guy. Number of Dodger players
Speaker 1: over the years. I had Ralph Lawlor, who was the
Speaker 1: Clipper broadcaster, and I'm like Mr Clipper fanboy. Ralph got
Speaker 1: so upset with me when I ripped Michael olivera Candy
Speaker 1: uh famous bust in Clipper history. And I was doing
Speaker 1: a midday show in l A the Clippers draft of
Speaker 1: this guy, and I knew within five games, Danny, this
Speaker 1: guy was a giant turd. This guy couldn't play. And
Speaker 1: you just know, you just know he's had a feeling.
Speaker 1: This guy is terrible, very rarely. Are you wrong? And
Speaker 1: I I laid into that guy, said what are the
Speaker 1: Clippers doing with this guy? And Ralph came up to me.
Speaker 1: It was at the great Western Forum before a Clipper
Speaker 1: Laker game, and he saw me in the bowels of
Speaker 1: the great Western Forum and he read me the Riot
Speaker 1: Act and he said, you are so wrong. This guy's
Speaker 1: gonna be an all time I've told the story before.
Speaker 1: We had Lee Klein on and Lee was there, he
Speaker 1: was a witness to it. And and and Ralph promised
Speaker 1: that older Candy was gonna be an NBA All Star
Speaker 1: within a couple of years, and if not, he was
Speaker 1: gonna kiss my ass at center court at Staples or not,
Speaker 1: but became Staples. It was that the it was at
Speaker 1: Sports Rainy and Uh, needless to say that never happened,
Speaker 1: and Ralph. Ralph would always kid around, Well, maybe it'll
Speaker 1: happen next week. You never know, it might happen next week.
Speaker 1: He's retired now he lives in Florida part of the year,
Speaker 1: lives in Oregon. But he's on the list. There's a
Speaker 1: bunch of other ones. So what about you, Denny. You've
Speaker 1: been on the radio a long time. Anything you say that,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I wish I could have that back. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm like you, I don't think so. I had a
Speaker 1: run in with rapper mac Chen when I was doing
Speaker 1: that FAM radio also boxer Fernando Vargas. Those both turned
Speaker 1: out okay in the end. And then I guess staff members,
Speaker 1: like we talked about this on the podcast one time,
Speaker 1: how you and I talked about another staff member and
Speaker 1: got in trouble. Yeah, but it's just all in fun.
Speaker 1: When you do radio, you know, sometimes you get in
Speaker 1: a groove. And I think that's one good thing about
Speaker 1: your show is that it's its own little world, and
Speaker 1: you almost forget that you're broadcasting too. You know, almost
Speaker 1: five hundred affiliates across the country. You don't think like that,
Speaker 1: You're you're just in the moment and you're in your
Speaker 1: little bubble, your little world, and so we're talking to you,
Speaker 1: we're talking to one person. We're not thinking about all
Speaker 1: the people listening. And I think that's how we could
Speaker 1: get into trouble sometimes. Yeah, I know, I completely agree
Speaker 1: with you. You're just you're like, oh, we're just doing
Speaker 1: this in fun, even though we're busting balls. That's what
Speaker 1: we do. We're men. We bust balls. That's when the
Speaker 1: women on the show do the same thing. The bust balls.
Speaker 1: That's how we operate there. It's fun to listen to.
Speaker 1: So to us, we're not doing anything wrong. We're doing
Speaker 1: what people want well. And then you've got people that
Speaker 1: come in from the outside that aren't regulars and they're
Speaker 1: like stop it. You know, they get very upset. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they get complain and all that. I'm like, well, we're
Speaker 1: just having a good time. We're just having being so sensitive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like the drop that we used to play about
Speaker 1: the the knuckleball pitchers Joe and Phil forget their last name,
Speaker 1: and people would hear that, but all those negroes look
Speaker 1: the same. And I would get angry emails from people
Speaker 1: who meant well and they were convinced that I had said, uh,
Speaker 1: something I didn't say, because it sounded kind of like that.
Speaker 1: And people, as we know Danny from being in the
Speaker 1: business a long time, even the most engaged listener is
Speaker 1: only hearing about of what we're saying and and the
Speaker 1: rest of it's just kind of going away and and
Speaker 1: all that. And so people listen with half in the
Speaker 1: year and they think they hear or something, and then
Speaker 1: I get the nasty email. So he didn't stop playing
Speaker 1: that because people were calling up complaining because they were
Speaker 1: convinced that I had said the thing that I didn't say.
Speaker 1: God bless unfiltered podcasting because I could play it on
Speaker 1: this show and get no blowback. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: And all it takes is one person. All it takes
Speaker 1: is one person. But the FCC doesn't regulate podcasting. Oh
Speaker 1: that is true. It's like cable television. It's radio's version
Speaker 1: of cable television. I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea.
Speaker 1: Next one's from Adrian in the Mile High City. He's
Speaker 1: back Ben and Danny G has been a while, Yes
Speaker 1: it has. Adrian. I wonder what happened. I thought you
Speaker 1: were offended or something like that, but it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're not. I'm happy to return to the Sunday Sunday
Speaker 1: Sunday mail Bag. The last few months have been busy
Speaker 1: at my job, so, as my man Marcel says, let's
Speaker 1: get into it. Adrian rights. First off, Danny g has
Speaker 1: been a breath of fresh Mountain air, compre heir to
Speaker 1: that narcissist West of the four oh five guy. How's
Speaker 1: Gascon doing? By the way, nice, he's the same West
Speaker 1: of the four oh five snotty. I was texting him
Speaker 1: last night. We were texting about something and he's I
Speaker 1: guess he's doing some good play by play jobs. He
Speaker 1: was telling me he's doing some FS one stuff and
Speaker 1: even working some games. He's a freelancer, so we'll do
Speaker 1: some games for ESPN, and he was very braggadosh just
Speaker 1: West of the four oh five. He's talking about travels
Speaker 1: he's gonna make, going to different parts of the country
Speaker 1: to do play by play gigs. So he seems very
Speaker 1: happy about that. He's doing well, Adrian continues. In November,
Speaker 1: my wife and I made the trip to Dallas to
Speaker 1: watch the Broncos take on the Cowboys at Jerry's World.
Speaker 1: The stadium is huge, and we were like a couple
Speaker 1: of peacocks strunning out out of there with the w Yett.
Speaker 1: I was one of the great surprises of the NFL season,
Speaker 1: the Broncos beating those Cowboys, and that set the Cowboys
Speaker 1: on a sideways stretch of games. He says. The Ben
Speaker 1: Mallard T shirt made the trip to Dallas, and I
Speaker 1: was walking around a T n T stadium repping the
Speaker 1: show before putting my Bronco jersey over it at game time.
Speaker 1: Good job, thank you, thank you, appreciate that. Marketing Guerilla marketing,
Speaker 1: Adrian says, bring Benny versus the Penny back this fall.
Speaker 1: A lot of good advice and good money to be made.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with Benny versus the Penny. I
Speaker 1: had to stop doing it because I had the COVID.
Speaker 1: It seems like something always pops up, something life always
Speaker 1: gets in the way of your plans. Danny, It's it's
Speaker 1: always something. The year before, my pops passed away, so
Speaker 1: I had to stopped doing it, and this past year
Speaker 1: it was the COVID. Anyway, says Ramad all day, ramadall night.
Speaker 1: Congrats Ben on the Rams Super Bowl Championship in February
Speaker 1: and Rama Night and how far can Mr Unlimited take
Speaker 1: the Broncos in the highly competitive a f C West.
Speaker 1: The In and Out Burger and Raising Canes are both
Speaker 1: open for business in the city I live in here
Speaker 1: in Colorado. They are next door neighbors to each other.
Speaker 1: The double double, no onion can nat combo, no slaw
Speaker 1: extra fies are might go tibes. What about the animal
Speaker 1: style fries with the double double? What about that? Have
Speaker 1: you gone that direction? Adrian? Answer that question. I've noticed
Speaker 1: that the people that run the Raising Canes franchise they're
Speaker 1: very smart, shocking most at least where I am, and
Speaker 1: I've been to Raising Canes in multiple cities around the country.
Speaker 1: It always seems to be the Raising Canes location is
Speaker 1: right next to Chick fil A and In and Out
Speaker 1: like they're those three. It's like the the axis of
Speaker 1: food is uh, the access of great food right there.
Speaker 1: And it's really smart to put a chicken joint next
Speaker 1: to Raising cans because you'd say that would be dumb,
Speaker 1: But one day a week you have a competitive advantage
Speaker 1: over Chick fil A if you're raising canes because they're
Speaker 1: not open on something so anyone that's going out. A
Speaker 1: lot of people forget that Chick fil A is not
Speaker 1: open on Sunday, and they go to get their Chick
Speaker 1: fil A on Sunday. They can't get there. They're fixed.
Speaker 1: So they wait a minute. There's a raising canes right here.
Speaker 1: Let me give them a try, and boom, you got
Speaker 1: a new customer. Just like that. Good marketing it is.
Speaker 1: Adrian also says, lastly, I still say, how about that
Speaker 1: when my wife and I get into a friendly argument
Speaker 1: about chores about the house, says I swept the floors
Speaker 1: and took out the trash. How about that if the
Speaker 1: kids are down one, two or all three, yell out
Speaker 1: Ben Maller in the house. How about that you got
Speaker 1: the kids trained. My wife gets so annoyed, but I
Speaker 1: think it's the funniest thing. Well, thank you, Adrian, very kind,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Just keep the podcast coming and good to
Speaker 1: have you back on the long email. And I have
Speaker 1: big plans to travel. I don't have any time to
Speaker 1: do it, but I'd love to get to Denver and
Speaker 1: meet you Adrian and have the Ben Mallard chicken sandwich.
Speaker 1: Of course that's available there. Next up, as we continue
Speaker 1: the mails. Carlos in Bang Bang Houston says, I've been
Speaker 1: listening to you since and I remember Coop eating the
Speaker 1: scoop of vasoline, probably the best segment on radio ever. Anyways,
Speaker 1: when are the Bennies whether this weekend? We've already talked
Speaker 1: about in the NFL Book, the NFL Book him, I
Speaker 1: keep pushing back. I don't know why we haven't done it.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's been postponed. Nobody's told us we
Speaker 1: can't do it, but something always seems to come up,
Speaker 1: a big NFL story or something like that, and we
Speaker 1: forget to do it. So I have it on my
Speaker 1: list of things to accomplish. Maybe I'll finally get around
Speaker 1: to it this week. He says. Also, third Rail Friday
Speaker 1: should definitely be a staple of the show. And what
Speaker 1: is the origin story of Jet who Fled And how
Speaker 1: did he get his nickname? Well, Carlos, Jet who Fled
Speaker 1: had a different name when he called the show originally,
Speaker 1: and he was in the octagon and I think it
Speaker 1: was against what's his name, the guy in New York
Speaker 1: that we talk real talk, Yeah, real talk in New York.
Speaker 1: Go to hell, Back up, back up, Get Jack Up.
Speaker 1: Jack up really got himself man from the show, and
Speaker 1: so we had promoted that octagon. It was a big
Speaker 1: deal on the show. And then Jed just he fled.
Speaker 1: He didn't show up. We couldn't get a hold of him.
Speaker 1: We were, well, what happened, and so his new nickname,
Speaker 1: we changed his nickname to mock him Jed who Fled,
Speaker 1: and that's been his nickname ever since. Hasn't changed. That's
Speaker 1: the deal on that and Ozzy momentum. Right, so we
Speaker 1: got time for uh. The clock is uh, the clock
Speaker 1: is not our friend. The clock is not our friend. Unforce.
Speaker 1: We we'll do. Uh'll do at least one more. All right,
Speaker 1: come back, it's time from now call Ozzy. Bomenhow says.
Speaker 1: So the other day I was watching one of those
Speaker 1: Russian slapping competitions. If you haven't seen them, check out
Speaker 1: the link. He sent a link. Yeah, I've seen those.
Speaker 1: Those are a while anyway. My question is what is
Speaker 1: the craziest type of competition to evant that you'd be
Speaker 1: prepared to enter into, I e. A slapping, slapping competition,
Speaker 1: running with the bulls, cheese wheel, et cetera. I would
Speaker 1: love to be in a eating contest, competitive eating. I'm
Speaker 1: fascinated by the art of competitive eating. I've interviewed a
Speaker 1: few of those guys. In fact, Danny Market down right now.
Speaker 1: I want to get Joey Chestnut on this podcast when
Speaker 1: we get closer to July, I want to get him on.
Speaker 1: I had the guy last year, the promoter of the
Speaker 1: Coney Island staple, and he was great. But eating contests,
Speaker 1: I don't really run that much, so I probably would
Speaker 1: be bull food. I'd get gorged by a bull. I
Speaker 1: just run off the side and hide. What about you
Speaker 1: did anything jumping out of a plane, anything weird you
Speaker 1: would be willing to do. Man, I still have some
Speaker 1: decent footwork. So log rolling log where you do log rolling?
Speaker 1: Competitive log rolling? Remember the early days of ESPN when
Speaker 1: they would put strongman competitions on That was like all
Speaker 1: their programming, and it would like people cutting wood, chopping
Speaker 1: down trees and lumberjack stuff. It was one. It was
Speaker 1: really good, actually looking back, and I don't know that
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it as much then as I do now.
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by those things. At this age, when I
Speaker 1: was younger, I was like, what they have no programming
Speaker 1: where they putting this ship on for But now I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: those guys are like real men. That's like the modern
Speaker 1: version now is like the cornhole Championships. Yeah, but let's
Speaker 1: come on, anyone can do that? Who can take a
Speaker 1: saw and uh cut through it first? And remember the
Speaker 1: guys you're calling the big Rig. Remember the guys called
Speaker 1: the big Rig? That was awesome? Yea, that that's Wild
Speaker 1: Berry in Music City last morning. He says, yo yo, Mom.
Speaker 1: Benny Berry says hold on, saying I gotta give you
Speaker 1: the property. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah,
Speaker 1: totally enjoy your new toy, the sound drop Machine. How
Speaker 1: many drops can that thing hold? Now? Went up to
Speaker 1: three billion? Yeah? I have not counted how many drops.
Speaker 1: And I have a weird collection that I have put
Speaker 1: together that I have hands selected from the sound and
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't counted them, but there's a lot.
Speaker 1: I have a lot here. I mean, I can, you know,
Speaker 1: go through all of them if you want to smoke.
Speaker 1: If you talk about the Vikings, any reference to Borat
Speaker 1: and I get that going nice. You're talking about baseball,
Speaker 1: How about Britney Spears. You're talking about Britney Spears. Well,
Speaker 1: I could drop battle you. Here's one I pulled last week.
Speaker 1: I was more concerned about him giving me a double fish.
Speaker 1: Oh hot, dare you how about this one? That's a classic.
Speaker 1: That was classic? Yeah, alright, and if you're a Howard
Speaker 1: Stern fant that as well. Anyway, we gotta get out
Speaker 1: of here. Thanks to everyone else, we didn't get to
Speaker 1: a lot of the emails. I apologize for that. Hill
Speaker 1: Billy Mike's and a nice letter in Radioactive Ryan in
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. Mike from Fullerton. John wrote in also
Speaker 1: t love all you guys, say you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: We apologize we're not getting your messages, but send another
Speaker 1: one in next week. Hopefully we'll have more time in
Speaker 1: the mailbag and we will be able to get to it.
Speaker 1: And Danny, thank you. You'll be back at Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio today right producing. Yeah, I'll be on Coveno and
Speaker 1: Rich Sunday afternoon into plankin Spaniard Sunday night leading into
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Speaker 1: most downloaded podcast I know, but you gotta hear it live.
Speaker 1: The winners of the Bennies have a wonderful glorious rest
Speaker 1: of your Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, last Sunday of March. Right,
Speaker 1: this is it, last day March, and before you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be April, April fools Day. Have a wonderful day.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next time. Osta pasta gott a murder,
Speaker 1: gotta go.