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Speaker 1: mail bag edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Speaker 1: and Danny g Radio eight days a week, even on
Speaker 1: a holiday weekend. It is a holiday weekend. Just this
Speaker 1: counts as a holiday weekend, right, Danny? It does. But
Speaker 1: Father's Day gets no shine the way Mother's Day gets.
Speaker 1: It's like kind of half forgotten. A lot of dad
Speaker 1: just get overlooked. I think, yeah, well, moms are more important.
Speaker 1: That true, very true. I love my mom more. I
Speaker 1: love my dad too, but I love my mom more.
Speaker 1: See what I'm saying exactly. But but anyway, so listen
Speaker 1: the deal on this. It's the mail bag. You know
Speaker 1: how this works. And it's also this is June teenth, right?
Speaker 1: Is this today? Is that? I think that's today? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think that is yes. Is that federal holiday radio
Speaker 1: is like seven elevens were always open exactly. That's what
Speaker 1: I always say. I don't know holiday smaalilay, I don't
Speaker 1: know any holiday. Come on, man, I'm working and those holidays.
Speaker 1: As you know, Danny doing the holiday doing the holiday stuff.
Speaker 1: There's new people to tune in right as you can
Speaker 1: give an audience there, you create new fans that way. Boy.
Speaker 1: It was a phenomenon during COVID when it first started
Speaker 1: and the lockdown happened. Oh god, radio is gonna go
Speaker 1: out of business. Instead, all of the ratings doubled. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That is one of the more fascinating things in my
Speaker 1: life and and your life as well. Doing sports talk
Speaker 1: radio without sports, doing sports talk radio for oh a
Speaker 1: half a year, well, I guess it was a third
Speaker 1: of a year. Uh. We went a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: four days without any lives sports. The industrial complex of
Speaker 1: sports shutdown in America. I remember that. I'm March eleventh.
Speaker 1: We were all remember that March eleventh. They played some
Speaker 1: NBA and NHL games and then that was a Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and then they didn't play again, no sports until Thursday, July. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Keeping in our business talk show host complain when there's
Speaker 1: no games around the baseball All Star break. What am
Speaker 1: I gonna talk about? I don't know what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk about, so just put a socket us socking it.
Speaker 1: But without further let's get right to the mail bag.
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Speaker 1: to fill up the mail bag and you can provide content.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of regulars, but we always love
Speaker 1: new names and people can tell their story and learning
Speaker 1: about new fans of the show. So I'd love to
Speaker 1: have you part of the program. So with that said,
Speaker 1: we begin with this first email from Mason the Millennial
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. He says, I was just riding
Speaker 1: in because I really enjoyed your trip to Chicago conversation
Speaker 1: with Danny G. I will be traveling there this weekend,
Speaker 1: and in fact i'm here right now. By the time
Speaker 1: that this podcast, the Sunday podcast gets released, I will
Speaker 1: re listen to the podcast of you talking about it.
Speaker 1: But what was some hidden jams perhaps we could check
Speaker 1: out in the downtown area on our last day. I
Speaker 1: figure the Willis Tower and the Bean Thing. Love the
Speaker 1: podcast from Mason. Well, I recommend Mason, since you're a
Speaker 1: tourist and you're doing the tourist things in Chicago. They
Speaker 1: have a great architectural boat tour. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: different companies that do it, and they take you right
Speaker 1: down the Chicago River and you can see all the
Speaker 1: beautiful architecture in Chicago's one of the great visual cities
Speaker 1: in America. To you know, for our blind listeners just
Speaker 1: imagine some really big skyscrapers. Is beautiful and it's it's
Speaker 1: really neat, uh. And so it takes you down. They
Speaker 1: tell you the history of Chicago, what's happened there, some
Speaker 1: of the old buildings, and I learned some interesting fun
Speaker 1: facts on that I enjoyed a lot. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're into that kind of thing. Mason, I did
Speaker 1: not go to the We don't call up the Willis Tower,
Speaker 1: the Sears Tower. Did not do that. Did go to
Speaker 1: the Bean. And if you want Mason, about a block
Speaker 1: away from the Bean is the Mallard Building. It's about
Speaker 1: a block away from the famous Bean in Chicago. And
Speaker 1: they have like a tourist there that you can go
Speaker 1: down a soldier field and check that out. It looks
Speaker 1: like a spaceship these days. I did goof on Wrigley
Speaker 1: Field because it's all corporate now, but if you've never
Speaker 1: been there, it's pretty pretty neat to walk around and
Speaker 1: think that that team has played on that field for
Speaker 1: a hundred years or something like that. At so and
Speaker 1: even in Chicago, Danny any Chicago, No, No, Chicago. No,
Speaker 1: it's one of the great cities. I haven't got to visit.
Speaker 1: I've been there on a layover quick airplane. It wasn't quick,
Speaker 1: but it was an airplane change. But other than that,
Speaker 1: I haven't got to go as a tourist all right.
Speaker 1: And and by the way, Masson, if you want to
Speaker 1: visit my cousin. She lives in the kind of a
Speaker 1: North Burbs outside Chicago, so you can come over there
Speaker 1: and eat a brisket or something like that. You have
Speaker 1: a grand old time, right, what what could possibly possibly
Speaker 1: go wrong with that? But now Chicago, I think the
Speaker 1: crime is obviously an issue in Chicago, but that's an
Speaker 1: issue in a lot of places. And I was there
Speaker 1: not that long ago, and I survived to tell about it.
Speaker 1: So he's gotta like anywhere any big city, you gotta
Speaker 1: be careful and try to avoid certain parts. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: south side is not particularly great in Chicago, for example,
Speaker 1: but you gotta picture spot. Maybe while you were there,
Speaker 1: you heard some stories about the history of the city,
Speaker 1: like San Francisco that was the early nineteen hundreds where
Speaker 1: they had to rebuild after the great earthquake there in Chicago.
Speaker 1: My dad was born there, so remember him and telling
Speaker 1: me a story about the late eighteen hundreds where a
Speaker 1: fire ran through Chicago for a day and left like
Speaker 1: a third of the city homeless. They had to rebuild
Speaker 1: the whole city the great fire. Mrs o'larry's cow that
Speaker 1: it was from a farm. Yeah, yeah, Well, of those days,
Speaker 1: the Chicago is not. It wasn't a big city. It
Speaker 1: was a farm, you know, farming area. Yeah, they said
Speaker 1: that that story is bullshit about the cow. They said
Speaker 1: that on the boat tour. I remember I told us
Speaker 1: on the podcast that Chicago actually the name, the Indian
Speaker 1: name for Chicago is like smelly onion is what Chicago means,
Speaker 1: which I think is hilarious. And they talked about on
Speaker 1: that boat tour if Mason the Millennial takes the boat tour,
Speaker 1: they talked about the fact they called it the I'm
Speaker 1: talking trying to trying to remember the term here that
Speaker 1: they used, the balconation of Chicago. They called it the
Speaker 1: balconation of Chicago because they had all these old buildings
Speaker 1: with no balconies, a lot of these old warehouses, and
Speaker 1: they turned them into these marvelous apartment buildings, but in
Speaker 1: order to guss them up a little bit, they put
Speaker 1: these balconies. They just hung the balconies, these metal balconies,
Speaker 1: off the side of the buildings in Chicago. So they
Speaker 1: called it the Balkanization of Chicago, which I thought was interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Next up, Blind Scott in Boston, the North End of Boston,
Speaker 1: says Ben, are you worried about the wild fires this
Speaker 1: summer at your new home in the North Woods. Well,
Speaker 1: you're always cognizant. You're always cognizant of the wildfires. But
Speaker 1: am I worried? No, I'm not. I'm not worried, mainly
Speaker 1: because about uh many many other houses would have to
Speaker 1: burn to get to my house to burn. So, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. There have been fires
Speaker 1: where I'm living now, and this is an issue. But really,
Speaker 1: fire seasons year round in California. It's not just during
Speaker 1: the summer. Right. People usually think, well July August is
Speaker 1: the big fire season, but it's year round. Now, have
Speaker 1: they gotten rid of the shrub around your guys homes
Speaker 1: in your area? Oh? No, Now we got cactus. Remember
Speaker 1: we talked about it. We probably plenty cactus. So you
Speaker 1: gotta burn through the cactus, is what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: So I did say your wife has a black thumb.
Speaker 1: Yes that is true. Yes, alright, come back, pay attention.
Speaker 1: It's sign from now call balls fan Jimmy rites in
Speaker 1: from big Orange Country. He says, for both of you,
Speaker 1: with the cost of living so high in California, if
Speaker 1: you could move, where would it be? We can ask
Speaker 1: this question semi regularly balls fan Jimmy, and is there
Speaker 1: anywhere that she Wisconsin, North Carolina places I went where
Speaker 1: a lot of cheap Chicago was not, but as she
Speaker 1: was compared to California l A. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: had opportunities to do radio in Boston, but that seems
Speaker 1: like it's just as expensive as l A. If I
Speaker 1: was just going based on cost of living, I would
Speaker 1: likely go below the Mason Dixon line, somewhere in the South.
Speaker 1: I would think, I'm not sure where, somewhere in Florida.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny, where would you go if you
Speaker 1: wanted to save a couple of nickels? I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess I would go somewhere near Sodona in Arizona. Maybe
Speaker 1: that area was was pretty like Flagstaff because it's more
Speaker 1: like mountains and forests. It's not desert. Uh huh, you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean I will go to Hawaii. It's not it's
Speaker 1: not it's cheap. That's expensive. But if I was gonna
Speaker 1: pay the same thing i'm paying now or close to it,
Speaker 1: I'd rather be there. In Maui, there are not a
Speaker 1: lot of affordable places, and I'm a West Coast guy
Speaker 1: like you. So yeah, yeah, yeah. The other thing too,
Speaker 1: is I've heard this has been a thing. We talked
Speaker 1: about this sending on the show that a number of
Speaker 1: people are moving to Tijuana from l a in San Diego,
Speaker 1: moving to Tijuana, moving to Mexico save money. The pace
Speaker 1: so goes the dollar to the pace, so it goes
Speaker 1: a long way. In Mexico, you can live like a
Speaker 1: king there. We have a janitor who's retired and he
Speaker 1: comes to the campus to visit sometimes. He lives half
Speaker 1: the time in Mexico, and he tells these big stories
Speaker 1: about how he's living like a king in Mexico. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like he's got all these girlfriends and he's got this
Speaker 1: big mansion. And I mean, and here in the United
Speaker 1: States he makes average money, or he did make average money,
Speaker 1: but in Mexico he is royalty. Yeah. And I know
Speaker 1: if I was from Mexico, I come to come to
Speaker 1: the States. He worked for a few years and it's
Speaker 1: hard labor, and then you can end up owning a
Speaker 1: bunch of apartment buildings in Mexico and you're geez, you're
Speaker 1: not kidding. He went on to tell us that he
Speaker 1: just bought his daughter a condo down there, talk about
Speaker 1: stretching your dollars and we have no idea what that's
Speaker 1: like here where we live. No, no, but we couldn't
Speaker 1: own anything in Mexico, right because we're not from Mexico.
Speaker 1: The even though you buy stuff there as an American. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're renting the land basically. Yeah. Yeah, so you don't
Speaker 1: really get to own owning of that stuff. But a
Speaker 1: good question from Balls fan Jimmy. All right, Next up
Speaker 1: Big Ben and Danny ge Neil from the Real Miami Here.
Speaker 1: The beef between the retired couple and the fake Miami
Speaker 1: Palm Bay, Uh, Miami Palm Bay and Queen of Gascon
Speaker 1: team started when for some reason, the retirees dug up
Speaker 1: some private info and on Gascon's family, specifically his sister,
Speaker 1: and we're not nice about it to Gascon and David.
Speaker 1: She called her the count and then it was on
Speaker 1: like donkey Kong, Neil says, So, I guess that sounds
Speaker 1: about right. On the Origin stories topic, Ben, what was
Speaker 1: your impetus for the fasting? Did you hear the Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan podcast or something? I don't recall you talking in
Speaker 1: detail on when, why, how you got started on fasting
Speaker 1: guy was not because of Joe Rogan. I don't remember
Speaker 1: exactly what led me down this pad. I think my
Speaker 1: wife had something to do with it. She had mentioned
Speaker 1: that some people were doing this at her work, and
Speaker 1: and even before I was officially fasting with an app
Speaker 1: on my phone, when I did lose a lot of
Speaker 1: the weight originally and I gained some back, and I've
Speaker 1: lost it again, I was doing it. I was intermittent
Speaker 1: fast againning. I was trying to go because there's there's
Speaker 1: a couple of there's million million different ways to diet.
Speaker 1: A lot of people eat like birds. I don't want
Speaker 1: to eat like a bird. So I was like, if
Speaker 1: I eat once a day, I can eat a good meal,
Speaker 1: and then if I just don't think about it, I
Speaker 1: can then look forward to my next big meal. And
Speaker 1: then I read some stuff online. My wife had mentioned
Speaker 1: some stuff, and I read some stuff online about how
Speaker 1: for hundreds and thousands of years before the mass grocery
Speaker 1: stores and things that we have, and this this time
Speaker 1: to be alive, that people who had to go out
Speaker 1: and hunt for their food often didn't find anything, that
Speaker 1: their percentage of success was like less than twenty. They'd
Speaker 1: go out hunting for something to eat, and they wouldn't
Speaker 1: always find something, and so a lot of the time
Speaker 1: they would just have to fast. They wouldn't have the
Speaker 1: proper food. They've beaten twigs and berries and things like that.
Speaker 1: So so that was like, Okay, that makes sense, and
Speaker 1: I fell in love with it. And then Neil says,
Speaker 1: for Danny g I may have missed this, but how,
Speaker 1: when and why why did you start the school gig
Speaker 1: in general? So he wants to know your teaching move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's something that I started with. Fifteen years ago, I
Speaker 1: walked away from a program director job at a big
Speaker 1: radio station. I just had kind of had it with
Speaker 1: the corporate way they were running. They were starting to
Speaker 1: run things. There was a change in upper management and
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I think I'm done with this
Speaker 1: for right now and started working out of school. Once
Speaker 1: you have the radio bug, they always say this about broadcasters.
Speaker 1: Even when you take a break, that's all it is.
Speaker 1: It's a break, You're gonna go back. I started working
Speaker 1: for NBC Sports Radio Friday Saturday Sunday, and I was
Speaker 1: on the school campus Monday through Friday. So I was
Speaker 1: working seven day weeks for four or five years, and
Speaker 1: then when Fox hired me full time to do your
Speaker 1: show and the Jason Smith Show. Originally I was able
Speaker 1: to drop the school gig and go back to broadcasting
Speaker 1: full time time. When the company moved Clay Travis to
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh's chair, suddenly my week was open again. They're like, hey,
Speaker 1: give you a good salary whatever, just to do some
Speaker 1: three day a week stuff for the company. So I
Speaker 1: had days open during the week, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: let me go fill it with the education field work
Speaker 1: a kid. There you go, and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: Now he's the coolest summer school teacher around. Every kid
Speaker 1: loves him. He's a hero. You're an inspiration. Everyone wants
Speaker 1: to follow in your footsteps. Uh for that fatass, miss Norton.
Speaker 1: That's right, that Karen. All right, let's see here when
Speaker 1: we're get next up, some Kevin in Kansas is his
Speaker 1: dear Ben and Danny g You guys are pretty wise.
Speaker 1: What are some of the worst team names in any
Speaker 1: pro sport that teams? What teams need to change? You
Speaker 1: should have changed upon relocating. I believe it's what he's
Speaker 1: saying here. I know the Minnesota Lakers made perfect sense
Speaker 1: at one time, but Los Angeles. What would be better
Speaker 1: names instead of the one for those teams that never changed?
Speaker 1: Kevin says, well, the l A River. This is something
Speaker 1: that the early settlers of Los Angeles totally left up
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. The l A River at one time was
Speaker 1: an actual river, and they enclosed it in concrete. There
Speaker 1: if they had done it differently, think about how much different,
Speaker 1: how much better I think l A would have been.
Speaker 1: They had an actual river running through Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: they filled it in with concrete. Terrible, really stupid, same
Speaker 1: dumb decision to take the trains and trolleys out of
Speaker 1: the city back in the day. Oh that's right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for the oil companies and all that they had public
Speaker 1: great public transportation was the envy supposedly of many many cities.
Speaker 1: You can learn more about that in Roger Rabbit. If
Speaker 1: you want to learn more about that in the movie
Speaker 1: Roger Rabbit. It's a documentary on the the evil oil companies.
Speaker 1: We could say the same thing for your Clippers, right,
Speaker 1: they were the San Diego Clippers. What is still wrong
Speaker 1: with the Clippers? Well, I think about bad team names
Speaker 1: Charlotte has had, but the Bobcats, the Hornets, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Hornets is kind of cool, like goofy teal logo, you
Speaker 1: get that. The one that always people bring up the
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz when you think of jazz, when you think
Speaker 1: of authentic jazz, you think as Salt Lake City. Unless
Speaker 1: you don't, that team could be called the Utah Salt
Speaker 1: the Zions saying, any of you can come up with
Speaker 1: a local name. I'm a big advocate of locally. The
Speaker 1: one that's really lame is the Las Vegas Golden Knights.
Speaker 1: Of the Vegas Golden Knights and the NHL so paranoid
Speaker 1: they to stick up there took us. They would not
Speaker 1: allow any gambling theme nicknames. You're in Vegas. Think of
Speaker 1: all the different possibilities for a team in Vegas with
Speaker 1: a gambling theme name. The Blackjacks, the Ones, the One
Speaker 1: Armed Bandits, any of those things would have been a
Speaker 1: great nickname, But no. Golden Knights. Come on. The Devil
Speaker 1: Rays also stunk from the start. Yeah that was that
Speaker 1: was never good. But there could have been a way
Speaker 1: better nickname for that team from the beginning. But Raise
Speaker 1: is stupid too. It's like a pizza place in Manhattan.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Raise and have a pie. Is what
Speaker 1: it sounds like to me, is a dumb name. I
Speaker 1: don't like Marlins either. They I think they whipped on
Speaker 1: both baseball teams there. But at least the Miami Marlins flows.
Speaker 1: It flows off the toll. But it didn't start as
Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins. No, it was a Florida Marlins. For
Speaker 1: many many years it was the Florida Marlins. Um. And
Speaker 1: then let me think about teams. Now, would you ever
Speaker 1: name a team after like a sock, like the Red
Speaker 1: Sox and the White Side? Like? Who thought that was
Speaker 1: the way to go? Who said, you know what, we
Speaker 1: got a baseball team here and we don't know what
Speaker 1: to call them, so they're wearing white sox, so we'll
Speaker 1: call them the White Sox. The that went into that
Speaker 1: fascinating to me. Yeah, the same with our Dodgers. I mean,
Speaker 1: ain't nobody dodging trolleys nowadays? No, No, it's it's absolutely correct.
Speaker 1: And l A King's that's the original. I was a
Speaker 1: team in l A the hockey team. But there's other
Speaker 1: teams named the King's. I I'm a big believer in
Speaker 1: having your own name. I don't like the teams that
Speaker 1: share the names. I had never the New York Giants
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Jans. I know why they did it
Speaker 1: because they were both in New York, but I like unique.
Speaker 1: And what did you think of Washington's choice, Oh, the
Speaker 1: the Commanders of the Nationals. I hate both those names,
Speaker 1: and I actually hate every nickname of a Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Sports franchise. They had the Washington Bullets. I know you
Speaker 1: can't use that name, but that was like that that
Speaker 1: was a cool name. That was a cool logo. Yes
Speaker 1: it was. And you know, I'm doing nostalgia, but when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, one of the first NBA games
Speaker 1: I went to the it was actually a Laker game.
Speaker 1: They were playing the Washington Bullets, and I kept that
Speaker 1: ticket stub for a long time. I had a ticket
Speaker 1: stub and I was like, the coolest thing. I know,
Speaker 1: the Bullets logo, and it's like, oh, that's pretty neat.
Speaker 1: And then they of course get rid of that, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it's like the name that was great. That
Speaker 1: moved to Dallas. The north Stars and hockey perfect Minnesota
Speaker 1: north Star they go to Dowas now they're just the Stars.
Speaker 1: We're getting carried away on this, but a good question.
Speaker 1: Kevin and Kansas. We can go on and on and
Speaker 1: on and on and on with that. For sure, You've
Speaker 1: got mail Mike from Fullerton Rights, and he says, I
Speaker 1: have a similar question for both of the ben Have
Speaker 1: you ever quickly hung up on a caller for having
Speaker 1: a very annoying voice? And for Danny g Wall screening calls,
Speaker 1: have you ever hung up on people for the same
Speaker 1: reason or do you write something down to warned the
Speaker 1: host about the caller's voice. So I'll go first on this,
Speaker 1: Mike uh No. I generally speaking, if I hear an
Speaker 1: odd voice, I get excited. I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be good. This is something again unique. I go back
Speaker 1: to the word unique, and that draws me to that
Speaker 1: particular person, and I want to hear their story. So
Speaker 1: I take the opposite nas I when I hear a
Speaker 1: really goofy sounding caller, I think this has a tremendous
Speaker 1: amountability to be good radio and I want to learn
Speaker 1: more about how this person, assuming they're not doing a
Speaker 1: fake voice and it's just a real voice. Hey man,
Speaker 1: you might not notice, but I'm black. Yeah, I want it. Now?
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny? What? What what's your technique there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean producing your show, and your show is super busy.
Speaker 1: You're spinning eight plates at once, so there's no time
Speaker 1: to sit there and type, Hey Ben, this dude's got
Speaker 1: a strange voice, and I would lean more like what
Speaker 1: you're saying. If it is a voice that really stands out,
Speaker 1: then that's really good for a radio show. Because you
Speaker 1: don't want all the voices to sound similar. No you don't,
Speaker 1: you know, and all the guys to be Hello, it's Tim,
Speaker 1: It's Trim from Manhattan. No, you don't want that. You
Speaker 1: want a drag queen. You want a guy named Cowboy
Speaker 1: and windsor right, you need that. You need a hollering
Speaker 1: James in Minnesota. You gotta spice it up a little bit.
Speaker 1: You gotta keep it, keep it fresh, is what you
Speaker 1: have to do. And I like really good laughs too,
Speaker 1: people that have contagious laughs. That's one good thing about
Speaker 1: your show. Like when you get Eddie to laugh, his
Speaker 1: laugh is very contagious. So that's one thing I listened for,
Speaker 1: or notice I should say when I'm on the phone screening,
Speaker 1: I'll talk with somebody. We're laughing a little bit. I
Speaker 1: noticed people that have good radio laughs. Absolutely, all right,
Speaker 1: let's see I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea.
Speaker 1: Very in music, he says, Yo yo mo, Benny, very right.
Speaker 1: You really wanted to have Ron pope Peel on the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast. Now that you have a lengthy list
Speaker 1: of star studded guest that you've had on your podcast,
Speaker 1: do you think that Ron would accept your invite if
Speaker 1: he were alive? Uh? Sure, why not? Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: famous story. Now, Ron Popeil was the guy that I
Speaker 1: wanted to get on the podcast. If you're new to
Speaker 1: the show, Ron Popeel was the set in and forget
Speaker 1: it guy, the rotisserie chicken guy, the whole thing infomercial
Speaker 1: god and I I'm friends. I was friends with Ron
Speaker 1: Popeel on Facebook, which I didn't realize was just everyone
Speaker 1: was friends with Ron Popeil on Facebook. So I sent
Speaker 1: a message to the account. I said, listen, I do
Speaker 1: a radio show. I'm a big fan. I am a
Speaker 1: big fan of Ron Popeel and I really like to
Speaker 1: talk to him, and you know, why not let's give
Speaker 1: it a shot and have on the podcast. So the
Speaker 1: PR person for rom pope You rights back and says, uh, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, tell me more about the podcast. We would
Speaker 1: love to get you on the infomercial legend and all that,
Speaker 1: I said it and forget it. Uh, And so I
Speaker 1: right back and she's like, well, when can you record
Speaker 1: the podcast? And so I wrote back, as well, I
Speaker 1: can record it this time on this day, blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and it. She gets back to me
Speaker 1: one more time. She said, well, run one run, thinking
Speaker 1: about doing it, but he wants to know. He asked
Speaker 1: who you've had on the podcast? Who? So I'm like,
Speaker 1: here we go. Yeah, it's no longer said it and
Speaker 1: forget it. It's said it, and let's circle back to that.
Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. As they say as that was
Speaker 1: his line, I think that was his line. But wait,
Speaker 1: there's more. So I know I right. I said, Well,
Speaker 1: we had Lenny Dike Straw on the Drug Addict from
Speaker 1: the Mets back in the day. We had him on, uh,
Speaker 1: and we you know, we had this guy, that guy
Speaker 1: with Tony Bruno was on. And and so this guy
Speaker 1: think he is Brian Billick. Yeah, I think he thought
Speaker 1: he was going on the Tonight Show or something like
Speaker 1: oh yeah exactly. So anyway, the guy, you know, the
Speaker 1: woman's like, well, it's unfortunately spending time with his grandkids.
Speaker 1: He can't he's no longer interested in doing your podcast.
Speaker 1: And then he he died shortly after that, So I
Speaker 1: guess it's good he spent time with his grandkids and
Speaker 1: not doing the podcast. But but anyway, Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he I think once he heard Vernon Davison boy
Speaker 1: that but that was the lid lifter that pushed it
Speaker 1: over the top right there. Do you think Brian Billick
Speaker 1: is ever gonna call me back? Brian Billy, Brian Billick?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, the NFL draft in't get back to you,
Speaker 1: all right. Yeah. Well the good thing about Bill because
Speaker 1: you ask him one question, he'll just give you twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: So that's the thing about that. Barry says, have you
Speaker 1: have either there been any other guests that you wanted
Speaker 1: to have on but we're unavailable because of death or illness? Well? Sure,
Speaker 1: I got through my phone and I have a bunch
Speaker 1: of phone numbers from people, you know, a b cless
Speaker 1: celebrities that I've met over the years that I got
Speaker 1: their number, and a lot of them are dead, like
Speaker 1: Larry King, the CNN host. I have five phone numbers
Speaker 1: for Larry King not available, Uh to do the interview?
Speaker 1: Not available to the interview go through? You want dead
Speaker 1: dead celebrities in my phone for a thousand? You want
Speaker 1: to do that? Let's see here, Tommy, I have Tommy
Speaker 1: Losorta's cell phone. I do have Tommy the Sorta's number
Speaker 1: in my phone. Let's see who else? Do I have?
Speaker 1: Page down? Page down? Some of these people? I am
Speaker 1: not sure if they're dead or alive, so I don't
Speaker 1: want to see their name, because then that's the worst
Speaker 1: when you say someone's dead and they're not dead, and
Speaker 1: then you get crap thrown back at you. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: those are the big ones. Um scrolling through the phone.
Speaker 1: This is compelling podcasting. Billy Martin, do not have Billy
Speaker 1: Martin's number. Let's see here. I can't read that. Uh bucket.
Speaker 1: I wish i'd be a good one to get. No.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay's number of his number not available.
Speaker 1: He checked out to have Genie and Medford's number. Genie,
Speaker 1: I got it all over me. Uh, I have jet
Speaker 1: Field George's number. I don't know why I have that number.
Speaker 1: He called the show for a while, he disappeared again.
Speaker 1: I think he started stooping his maid or something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He told some wild story. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: here's one that's said Darrell Hamilton. Remember Darrell Hamilton's baseball player.
Speaker 1: He was a ballplayer for the Brewers. He was murdered.
Speaker 1: I did TV with him at NBC and he was
Speaker 1: murdered by his lady friend. We turned out not to
Speaker 1: be his lady friend because she murdered got a murder. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see who else do we have. Let's see Page
Speaker 1: Dan here. Oh, my guy, Rodney, Rodney Hunt, the great
Speaker 1: TV camera man in l A. He died. I have
Speaker 1: his number. That's my trip. I never taken his number
Speaker 1: out of the phone. See who else we have? Page Dan?
Speaker 1: Page Dan, the big cod piece in there? Oh? I
Speaker 1: have Frank Pollock. Yeah, absolutely have Frank Pollock in here.
Speaker 1: Frank will be in my phone till I die, and
Speaker 1: then someone will delete the phone and then they'll disappear
Speaker 1: it all vantage. See who else do we have? That's
Speaker 1: a that's a. There's a few others, but it's taking
Speaker 1: a dark turn here. Yeah, all right, I've Phil I
Speaker 1: Phil Henry's number. Should we have fill on the show?
Speaker 1: Do you want to get filled on it? It would
Speaker 1: be cool. How if you do it, it's a radio legend.
Speaker 1: It's a Hall of Famer, right there, Philip George. I'd
Speaker 1: love to get George knowing I would. I wonder if
Speaker 1: you do it, I'll send an email. Yeah, see, if
Speaker 1: you do it, it'd be fun. What is next? Cliff
Speaker 1: from Nashville? Right, so, he says, been and Danny g
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, Danny talked about how to check a
Speaker 1: watermelon for ripeness. Oh yeah, thumping is fine, Cliff says,
Speaker 1: looking for the brown spider veins suggests sweetness. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I says. The best indication of ripened melon is by
Speaker 1: placing a broom straw on the watermelon. If it spins
Speaker 1: by it, you can thank me later. Would say what
Speaker 1: he said. If you place a broom straw, all right,
Speaker 1: so you take a piece of your broom you put
Speaker 1: it on the watermelon, and if it spins by it,
Speaker 1: Why would I have a broom straw with me? Because
Speaker 1: you want a nice, delicious watermelon. That's why you would
Speaker 1: remember to put that in your pocket before you go
Speaker 1: to the groceries store, before you go to Costco or
Speaker 1: Walmart or whatever your store of choices. You gotta get
Speaker 1: a little broomstraw. That must be a Southern thing. Cliff
Speaker 1: must have learned that that's like an old family thing.
Speaker 1: Either that or he's just bullshiting us and this is
Speaker 1: all scam and he just wants to punk us. You
Speaker 1: have a good laugh. Imagine us spinning something on a
Speaker 1: watermelon exactly. Van the one Legged Man or one legged
Speaker 1: Bama Man, This is a guy that has legs eating
Speaker 1: off by an alligator, has like bitten off by an alligator,
Speaker 1: and then his buddy killed the alligator and then they
Speaker 1: ate it. It's a very masculine story. You don't get
Speaker 1: that story in Boston. You don't get that story in Seattle.
Speaker 1: You get that story in Alabama. Wait, though, if you
Speaker 1: eat the alligator that ate you, then you're eating yourself.
Speaker 1: Well no, they they they I guess the leg the
Speaker 1: way the way it worked, the way this works. So
Speaker 1: Van the one legged Bama Man, as I remember the
Speaker 1: story he told, he ended up having his leg bitten
Speaker 1: almost off by the alligate. So the alligator kind of
Speaker 1: spit it out after chewing for a while, so they
Speaker 1: then it was hanging on by a thread. They had
Speaker 1: to cut off the leg. Look a piece of humba babba.
Speaker 1: It's only good for a few seconds exactly. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like, I don't I know, I liked it, but
Speaker 1: I don't like it that much. I'm gonna spit it back.
Speaker 1: But by the I mean he done at all the
Speaker 1: ligaments were destroyed and so the leg had to be
Speaker 1: chopped off, and so then they ended up killing the
Speaker 1: alligator and then they had the delicious alley. Anyway, he says,
Speaker 1: Coop wouldn't put me through on on aspects, So I
Speaker 1: want to do this right now. Did you know that
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick's real name is Dan Pew. Yes, yes, we
Speaker 1: we know that. I think I've heard that before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well his brother, Dan Patrick's brother, Bill Pew, was one
Speaker 1: of my bosses in San Diego and in l A.
Speaker 1: Bill Pugh, Dan Patrick the family in the radio business.
Speaker 1: The Dan Pew or Patrick is family in the radio business.
Speaker 1: And Van the one Legged Bama Man says, do you
Speaker 1: think the one Legged Bama Man can kick Dan Patrick's ass?
Speaker 1: I can answer this, uh for you? Hell yes, all right.
Speaker 1: So fans would like to to have physical violence with
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick, good luck on that. What did Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: due to him? I don't know. Nick in Wisconsin right saying,
Speaker 1: we gotta pick up the pace. You're playing a game.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I'll let you go. I'll let you play
Speaker 1: this one. Danny, Who are you going to choose? F
Speaker 1: Mary Kill Lizzoh, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi? Good luck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not touching that one. The third raild, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: touch that one with your pole. Hello. Uh, well, you
Speaker 1: definitely wouldn't. I don't think you'd do the Well, I
Speaker 1: can't say, but there's two of those you probably wouldn't do.
Speaker 1: In the third one you might want to do. But
Speaker 1: that's about it, all right. Haji from Roanoke, Virginia rights
Speaker 1: in and says, how did you originally meet your wife?
Speaker 1: And was it love at first sight or was there
Speaker 1: some runway time before you send it a tie? They're
Speaker 1: not so, Haji. I met my my wife online. I
Speaker 1: was don online dating at the time and Christian mingled Dot. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course, uh. And I was on a swinger's website. No,
Speaker 1: but she way out of my league, way out of
Speaker 1: my league. And everyone says that way out of the league.
Speaker 1: And so I showed up disheveled, covered in sweat, smelling
Speaker 1: like disgusting, you know, human being, and somehow it all
Speaker 1: worked out. But I where'd you guys go on your
Speaker 1: first date? We went to Pasadena, were supposed to go
Speaker 1: to the movies, ended up going to a restaurant over there,
Speaker 1: and kind of walking around big shopping center in Pasadena
Speaker 1: and in Colorado Boulevard where the Rose Parade goes down,
Speaker 1: and so it was cool. So that's that's the way.
Speaker 1: I don't love it first. I think usually it doesn't
Speaker 1: that that's in those books love it first. I think
Speaker 1: usually what happens is, boy, that person is attractive. That's
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Right then, That's usually how
Speaker 1: that starts, right, It's more of that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: You're like, well, that's kind of there's a good looking
Speaker 1: person over there. Me and the tender rowning Man, we
Speaker 1: had sparks the first time she came over, got out
Speaker 1: her car and she was giggling. She couldn't look at
Speaker 1: me without giggling. And yeah, like from the time we
Speaker 1: got in and then she started making out with me,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is the one right here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and and it's a similar man. I On
Speaker 1: our first date, things went very well. Much better than
Speaker 1: I suspected, much better than I suspected. So, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that was That was a good situation. Next up Eric
Speaker 1: and bingham to New York. Right, so and he says,
Speaker 1: Benn and dan Gy, I totally got the Crimson Tide
Speaker 1: reference to my question. I have seen the movie way
Speaker 1: too many times. Thank you for the answer. I am
Speaker 1: a comic book collector and seller as you can imagine.
Speaker 1: Eric says, I beat the ladies off with a stick.
Speaker 1: I bet you do. My question for you guys is
Speaker 1: did you have a sacred collectible baseball card, comic book, etcetera.
Speaker 1: That you had as a child that you wish you
Speaker 1: kept it? Uh? He goes on to say that it
Speaker 1: it does. Let me see, I lost my place on this.
Speaker 1: He says, uh, see page down here. It does bow.
Speaker 1: But have to be based on value, doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be based on values what he said. I think there's
Speaker 1: a letter as far as money doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: like worth a lot of money, just worth something to you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: from our guy. Eric and Binghamton says, you guys kick gas.
Speaker 1: He says he's listening. He listens on the radio on
Speaker 1: the radio show to fourteen thirty am W E n
Speaker 1: E one of the first FSR affiliates. I heard you
Speaker 1: mentioned them last week. Guess he launched Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: in the early days in Pittsburgh and Binghamton, New York.
Speaker 1: But I really think Binghamton was the first, the first affiliate,
Speaker 1: so Eric, I have pretty much my entire baseball card
Speaker 1: collection my mom had saved for me, and I don't
Speaker 1: even know what to do it. There's so much stuff here.
Speaker 1: I don't know to It's the coolest collect people's I
Speaker 1: had were stuff I go to games and I got
Speaker 1: foul balls a couple of times. I mean those things
Speaker 1: were like that was like winning the lottery. Getting a
Speaker 1: baseball game, baseball and a ball game was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, that was like the coolest thing in the
Speaker 1: world and all that. But I had a bunch of
Speaker 1: baseball cards. I love baseball cards. I have a massive collection.
Speaker 1: The most valuable card I got was a Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: Like it wasn't even his rookie card. It was like
Speaker 1: his second year Jordan card. But they didn't make a
Speaker 1: lot of basketball cards in those days, and that thing's
Speaker 1: worth a good amount of money. But I have fond
Speaker 1: memories of that what about you, Danny, any collectible that
Speaker 1: really stands out? A comic book, garbage failed kids? Oh
Speaker 1: I remember those? Yeah, I had those two. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: were too broke for my mom to buy those. But yeah,
Speaker 1: people at school had him when I was a little Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you didn't get anybody. My mom thought that
Speaker 1: they were devilish too. They kind of were when you
Speaker 1: think about it, some of them were. But um, all
Speaker 1: my c d s and Cassette as a kid and
Speaker 1: Deejaying from a young age. I was able to save
Speaker 1: most of that music. I still have the one thing
Speaker 1: I didn't get to save, Like what you were just
Speaker 1: talking about, I wish I had my original baseball and
Speaker 1: football and basketball cards. They did not make it with
Speaker 1: me to my adult life. Most of them I had
Speaker 1: to sell off to pay a bet on a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl when I was in high school and I bet
Speaker 1: on a super Bowl. I lost. I had to sell
Speaker 1: a lot of my baseball and football cards to get
Speaker 1: the money to pay off the bookie. And from that
Speaker 1: moment on, Ben, I have never gambled on sports again.
Speaker 1: It's a good life lesson. It really was. It really
Speaker 1: was a let's go quickly here. Pierre from Springfields has been.
Speaker 1: I thought I heard you say you gotta girl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked about it, we gave you credit. Pierre Slash, Alfhae,
Speaker 1: Alien Pinter And yesterday's show is it the outdoor Variety?
Speaker 1: And if so, does that mean that I could convince
Speaker 1: you to splurge for an outdoor wood or gas pizza oven.
Speaker 1: I just imagine the ugly sweater party was Chef Benny's garlic,
Speaker 1: onion and bell pepper pizzas flying out of the oven
Speaker 1: every two or three minutes. That is on my list.
Speaker 1: But I can only do one crazy thing a year,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna have to wait till next year. Pierre,
Speaker 1: I've got the griddle. I'm mastering the griddle. But we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens next year. Carlos in Houston, Texas Bang
Speaker 1: Bang says a long time, no talk. Ben. Like I
Speaker 1: said before, I'm always listening if I don't email the
Speaker 1: podcast anyway. My question for you guys is how did
Speaker 1: the sandstorm Fridays come about? Was this a Danny g
Speaker 1: idea or Ben Mallory idea? Also, what are the chances
Speaker 1: you get gascon on the podcast? Just to catch up?
Speaker 1: And one last thing, I truly hate to see that
Speaker 1: your wish did didn't come true with the Astros being
Speaker 1: the dwellers of the division. But it's a long season.
Speaker 1: As you know, world series aren't one in June. Just
Speaker 1: keep up the Angels troll job. I get a kick
Speaker 1: out of it all. Yeah, well, no need to ask
Speaker 1: me to keep that up, Carlos, because the Angel PR
Speaker 1: staff made sure that I keep that up. But Sandstorm,
Speaker 1: that's all you, Danny. You had nothing to do with Sandstorm.
Speaker 1: That's all your addition to the show. You added that
Speaker 1: to the show. Yeah, the radio stations I programmed throughout
Speaker 1: the years, I was always known for my Friday playlist
Speaker 1: festive Friday jams, and that one was great because I
Speaker 1: could even play drops from the show during that Sandstorm song.
Speaker 1: So that just became a classic on your show, and
Speaker 1: I passed it onto Roberto, who's kept it alive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: although you would play, you played many more sun drops.
Speaker 1: I remember it plays a few, but Roberto, you know you,
Speaker 1: you would play like a bunch and mix them all
Speaker 1: and then that other song that you came up with
Speaker 1: that you found. I've had friends of mine that do
Speaker 1: radio shows around the country that have asked me, what
Speaker 1: is the name of that song, Lookout Weekend? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that is it. I'm sure there'll be people all on
Speaker 1: the podcast. What's the would give me more information? Lookout Weekend?
Speaker 1: It's a It's a not a mainstream song, but perfect
Speaker 1: if you do a radio show going into a weekend.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Yeah, it was a freestyle artist from back
Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties. Then we would always play
Speaker 1: that going into the weekend on my hip hop radio station.
Speaker 1: So I brought that to your show with me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a cool tune. I've had multiple people
Speaker 1: in radio who do shows at different places, morning shows like, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's the name of that song? Alan and Akran says,
Speaker 1: did you file an insurance claim for your lost wedding ring?
Speaker 1: If you have, how how has it been working with
Speaker 1: the insurance? No, I did not. I didn't even know
Speaker 1: you could do that. Are you allowed to do that? Danny?
Speaker 1: Could you file? I didn't realize that was an option? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you can. Well. I did r J in
Speaker 1: San Antonio. What non California restaurant you enjoy the most?
Speaker 1: Any deep dish Chicago pizza place? I don't go. I
Speaker 1: don't eat deep dish very often, but I love good
Speaker 1: deep dish. Chicago pizzas great. Any Chief Steak place in Philadelphia?
Speaker 1: Chris and marraccaa. Iowa right, so, and he says a
Speaker 1: few questions what we can't do all of them? Have
Speaker 1: you ever attended a high school reunion? And how did
Speaker 1: it go? I'm proud to say I've never been to any,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to. Yeah, because I've never been.
Speaker 1: I hated high school. I I only have a couple
Speaker 1: of friends left from high school. I just it was
Speaker 1: very tough. I it was an awkward time. Everyone poked
Speaker 1: fun at me. I didn't do well in school. I
Speaker 1: was not a good student. I feel like I'm much
Speaker 1: better as an adult. Although you do radio, part of
Speaker 1: me wants to go back to goes ah see look
Speaker 1: at me now. But then people be like, were a
Speaker 1: radio guy? Who cares you doing overnights? So I've not
Speaker 1: been back. Have you been back to any to any
Speaker 1: high school reunions or anything like that? Yeah? One they
Speaker 1: had me DJ the reunion. Okay, that's right, you told
Speaker 1: that story, right, Yeah, and it was good. I just
Speaker 1: kept my headphones on the whole time. Chris also says
Speaker 1: how far back can we hear episodes of the podcast?
Speaker 1: Right now? Only October? One would love to see an
Speaker 1: archive of all episodes? What say you? Well, I'm all
Speaker 1: for it. I don't control that content though, that's up
Speaker 1: for that's up for other people to determine. I don't
Speaker 1: know when they decide. The point of demarcation is where
Speaker 1: you've crossed the rubicon on that uh, And so I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how that works. Fred also says a similar
Speaker 1: question from Chris. He says, what was your high school
Speaker 1: prom experience? Like? Good time or bad? Didn't go? So
Speaker 1: I had a great time? Uh? And Danny, you've you've
Speaker 1: talked about that too, right, you've I had somebody who
Speaker 1: asked me to go. She was really pretty. My mom
Speaker 1: said no because it was all about drugs and fornication. Yes,
Speaker 1: and you said, mom, that's kind of what a life
Speaker 1: is like a bunch of hookers, and damn it. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll leave it on that note. So Jay Bone and
Speaker 1: UH and Steve and Mike and and all you know
Speaker 1: women this week it's all it's all dues. But that's fun.
Speaker 1: It's all that's fun. Uh. Anyway, So thank you all
Speaker 1: for sending your questions that we appreciate it. And again,
Speaker 1: if you want to send questions in next Sunday's mailbag,
Speaker 1: send them right now. Don't have to wait. Real fifth
Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour gmail dot
Speaker 1: com or on Tuesday the show Facebook page, Ben Mallard show,
Speaker 1: anything at all you want to promote here, Danny on
Speaker 1: a Sunday, I will be in the FSR studios for
Speaker 1: the very fun Covino and Rich show and then the
Speaker 1: lead into your show, which is Arnie Spaniard with Chris
Speaker 1: Plink outstanding, and then I will be back holiday or not,
Speaker 1: Father's Day or not. I will be back behind the
Speaker 1: powerful microphones of fs are pain, meds are not. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't care how many teeth I am missing. I
Speaker 1: will be there broadcasting no matter what. And have a
Speaker 1: great rest of your day. And thank you for supporting
Speaker 1: the pot because we appreciate later. Skater, Hey, hey, go
Speaker 1: all the way we were ladies and gentlemen. An that
Speaker 1: scattered pictures are the smiles we left behind.