Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of
Speaker 1: Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now, nine in the air
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Speaker 1: the radio show, The Restore Radio Show five days a week,
Speaker 1: the podcast three days a week. You're saying, hey, stupid,
Speaker 1: there's only seven days a week. No, there's not. We
Speaker 1: have more. We have more, We have an extra day
Speaker 1: in our little world here Danny G and excited for
Speaker 1: the mail bag. A great number of messages coming in here.
Speaker 1: So people have questions, questions, questions, questions, and some of
Speaker 1: them will surprise us, surprise, motherfucker. Others of them will
Speaker 1: roll their eyes out and say, why did we use
Speaker 1: that question? So that's usually the way that's worse. Let's go,
Speaker 1: this is my second favorite day of the week. Yes, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: alright to it we go on the mail bag again.
Speaker 1: Actual listener letters sent in via the email Real fifth
Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com. It's f I F T
Speaker 1: H Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and also
Speaker 1: on our show Facebook page, Ben Mathers Show. So here
Speaker 1: we go, Thank you very much. The great Ohio Al
Speaker 1: sent that in. First. One comes from Nick in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: He says, I listen to all of the Ben Mallers
Speaker 1: shows and listen to the Pat McAfee show. But when
Speaker 1: I'm not listening to that in my commute, I listened
Speaker 1: to audio books. What is your guilty pleasure to listen to?
Speaker 1: Congrats Danny g and uh, he says, congrats on your
Speaker 1: Benny so Nick and Wisconsin happy that you won. Thank you, Nick.
Speaker 1: I see you still have it there. You're holding it
Speaker 1: up and your I've been carrying it around with me
Speaker 1: all week. Yeah, it's very heavy, solid gold. Of course,
Speaker 1: can't wait to show it to Brian Finley. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Well, that dope he was. He claimed he won.
Speaker 1: He said there was some kind of voter fraud, that dingling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what is our guilty pleasure to listen to? So
Speaker 1: I do not listen to a lot of sports talk
Speaker 1: radio because I want to do my own thing. And
Speaker 1: you listen to other shows, you have a habit of
Speaker 1: kind of what's the word, parroting, parroting some of the
Speaker 1: stuff that other shows do. So I try not to
Speaker 1: do that. Don't listen to much sports talk at all.
Speaker 1: And I have friends of mine. We we've been in
Speaker 1: the business long enough. Uh Danny g Where will tune
Speaker 1: in and listen? Uh? Tim Conway, I'll check him out
Speaker 1: on KFI here in l A. Does a great job
Speaker 1: on the on the night show. They have a lot
Speaker 1: of news updates on that on that show and and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I'll listen to that. I have some some DJ friends.
Speaker 1: I'll tune in. The buddy of mine Striker used to
Speaker 1: work at k Rock in l A. He's now at
Speaker 1: ninety eight point seven, and so he's moved across the
Speaker 1: radio that. There's a few other people around the country
Speaker 1: that I will sample their show. My buddy Sports with Coleman,
Speaker 1: who does do a sports show, but he's in Baltimore
Speaker 1: talking about the Orioles. Nothing. I want to nothing. I
Speaker 1: want to pair it about the Orioles and all that.
Speaker 1: So there's that. What about you, Danny G Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: in the car for a short time on weekdays. In
Speaker 1: the morning it's k l OS, which is the rock
Speaker 1: station in southern California, Heidi and Frank in the morning,
Speaker 1: I hear them laughing for a few minutes. In the
Speaker 1: afternoon it's Petros and Money. Now I don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about parenting any of their takes been because like
Speaker 1: this podcast, they're not really talking about sports. No, most
Speaker 1: of the time they're just playing grab bass. So I'll
Speaker 1: hear that. And our buddy Victor Brick, who you talked
Speaker 1: to on Friday, feeling you yes. And then on the weekends,
Speaker 1: on my way into the studios at fs ARE, I
Speaker 1: am listening to Power one oh six, usually on the freeway,
Speaker 1: just to get hyped up. So that's your rotation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those three are in rotation. Got you all right? Well,
Speaker 1: thanks for the question, Nick, appreciate that. And the next
Speaker 1: up come back attention. It's time from now I'll call
Speaker 1: Murray in Saskatoon, right, that's a good word to say,
Speaker 1: Saskatoon Canadian lads. Hello, King Ben. I love your incredible
Speaker 1: list of nicknames, but every time I hear the nickname
Speaker 1: Marconi Maller, I realized that I've never heard the story
Speaker 1: about the time that you won the Marconi Award. Can
Speaker 1: you please grace us with the story and don't be
Speaker 1: afraid to leave out all the details? Thank you. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked Murray, and I know there's some
Speaker 1: sarcasm in that, but I would never call myself Marconi
Speaker 1: Maller unless there was some truth in it. And so
Speaker 1: let me give you the backstory. A couple of years back,
Speaker 1: I was doing some satellite work before COVID. This is
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen eighteen, so two years I was working at
Speaker 1: w e I in Boston filling in on the night show.
Speaker 1: So that was my my extra on the side gig
Speaker 1: before this podcast stuff started. So I was doing that
Speaker 1: talking Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, occasionally the Bruins, and while
Speaker 1: I was at w e I, filling in at night
Speaker 1: around Red Sox games, even doing the Red Sox postgame
Speaker 1: talk show from time to time, which was very bizarre.
Speaker 1: But w e I was named the Marconi Sports Talk
Speaker 1: Radio Station of the Year, and since I was on
Speaker 1: that station, Mary you schmuck. Since I was on the
Speaker 1: station the year they won the award, by default, I
Speaker 1: was part of the award because I was on the station.
Speaker 1: So I had a small role, a very small role,
Speaker 1: and that's how I picked up the nickname Marconi Mallard.
Speaker 1: Now i'd like to win a different Marconi at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. That would be awesome, but I haven't and
Speaker 1: you have to be nominated, and I've been nominated. I
Speaker 1: know that Alf the Alien opiner a super fan end
Speaker 1: of the show. Alf has been working on that, but
Speaker 1: typically somebody in the business has to do it. And
Speaker 1: the way this works, I am the low man on
Speaker 1: the totem pole. So if you're gonna nominate someone for
Speaker 1: a mar Coney road, it's gonna be somebody that's on
Speaker 1: the radio between six am and six pm, not somebody
Speaker 1: who's on the radio from six pm to six am.
Speaker 1: That's the dead zone. So I don't think you have
Speaker 1: to worry about that. But I did have a small
Speaker 1: role in the Marconey So put that your pipe and
Speaker 1: smoke it, Murray in Saskatoon, because I know what you
Speaker 1: were doing, Murray. I am onto you, Murray, I'm aware
Speaker 1: of what you were doing. I got mail, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got mail. Yeah, all right, And he writes in next
Speaker 1: he's still dodging the hobo insanity near Tommy's and Holly
Speaker 1: Weird now and he's emailed a few times. I used
Speaker 1: to hang out at that Tommy's right off the one
Speaker 1: on one Freeway, Danny, when I was doing the weekend
Speaker 1: over that shows early days in Fox Sports Radio before
Speaker 1: I lost the weight. I'd go in there, cruise in
Speaker 1: there about three thirty in the morning, and I'd load
Speaker 1: up on double chili cheeseburgers and chili cheese fries, and
Speaker 1: I'd sit there and people watch I eat the parking
Speaker 1: lot because it was too scary to go out of
Speaker 1: the out of my car. Right. You said your mom
Speaker 1: would worry about you being in that part of town. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: There was was a sunset strip and the people would
Speaker 1: come off the Sunset Strip who had been boosting it up,
Speaker 1: having a great time, and then they'd come down there
Speaker 1: for a little post game party at that Tommy's in
Speaker 1: Hollywood anyway, and he says, glad to have Danny g
Speaker 1: on the pod. He says, but still hurting that you
Speaker 1: didn't use my little Benny co host idea from last year.
Speaker 1: Imagine the life of Mallard add ons. You have Hama
Speaker 1: toshing cooking outfit, updated costco greener uniform and a Clipper
Speaker 1: final four shirt. Well there you These people get so offended,
Speaker 1: they're so triggered by the Clippers making the Final four.
Speaker 1: It's not my problem, it's your problem. It is the
Speaker 1: Clippers were in the Final four. Deal with it, Okay,
Speaker 1: they were there. I didn't make it happen. They made
Speaker 1: it happen. I had nothing to do with it. But
Speaker 1: I did enjoy it. I did admit. What is still
Speaker 1: wrong with the Clippers? And he says, question any big
Speaker 1: ben hacks to counter the pain from the outrageous Biden inflation,
Speaker 1: any fruit frugality tips, ways to save money, shortcuts to
Speaker 1: keep the wallet closed. Yeah, I'm feeling it. Andie, I
Speaker 1: guess you can get a radio show and never leave
Speaker 1: your house and not have to pay for gas. But
Speaker 1: my wife drives a lot, so she has to pay
Speaker 1: for gas. So that's the first thing that the no
Speaker 1: gas thing, and the other thing that I've done, And
Speaker 1: he is, I don't eat as much. I fast a lot.
Speaker 1: So if you only eat one meal a day, you're
Speaker 1: saving money on two meals. Traditionally people eat three meals
Speaker 1: a day. I only eat one meal a day. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I skip meals all together. I'll go a couple of
Speaker 1: days without you, which I'm told starting in there'll be
Speaker 1: a food shortage, which we have. I was reading a
Speaker 1: story online about that, Danny. They said that there's issues
Speaker 1: with the food supply. Now we're going to be back
Speaker 1: to where we you can't get bread or meat. It's
Speaker 1: through what a what a world? Where in it's crazy
Speaker 1: to me that the things are getting the opposite direction.
Speaker 1: Then you thought things always get better, like I've heard that,
Speaker 1: oh things get better things oh lately and that's so much.
Speaker 1: Growing up, we'd always hear stories about Hawaii, like, oh man,
Speaker 1: the milk is this much, and the peanut butter costs
Speaker 1: this much and because obviously all the food it needs
Speaker 1: to be shipped over. Yeah, now those prices we will
Speaker 1: hear about Hawaii. That's what we're dealing with where we
Speaker 1: live in California. My tender rony, she got a little
Speaker 1: thing of peanut butter last week, eight dollars for the
Speaker 1: small one jelly nine dollars for the little small jelly. Now,
Speaker 1: so it is a man it is a quandary if
Speaker 1: I can use a five dollar word, somebody owes me
Speaker 1: five bucks because what do you do? Do you go
Speaker 1: out to eat? Because that is expensive drive to go
Speaker 1: out to eat, and for four people that's easily fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: Even if you do fast going out food like a
Speaker 1: Chipotle or something like that were placed over the Arby's.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately that in the fast food category. You know, some
Speaker 1: people just won't eat fast food, and I get it,
Speaker 1: but right now we're trying to figure out the balance
Speaker 1: between grocery shopping and eating out. Yeah, and there's a
Speaker 1: sweet spot with the fast food, like there's a sweet
Speaker 1: spot where not all fast food restaurants in the same
Speaker 1: You've got your core four that are everywhere, like McDonald's
Speaker 1: and what's on that list, Burger King. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of some of the ones that are every everywhere
Speaker 1: you go, everywhere. By's, Wendy's is a national operation. There's that,
Speaker 1: and then there's places that are a little different, like
Speaker 1: people that don't like fast food but they love Chick
Speaker 1: fil A. Right, I don't know if it's all over
Speaker 1: the country. But like we have Alpoo Loco. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think here in the southwest. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: like drough but healthier than like McDonald's type food. Is
Speaker 1: a place that serves like Asian bowls of meat. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of meat. That is a lot of meat
Speaker 1: and chicken. What's it called this and that? I think
Speaker 1: it's a national change. Maybe it's just a Panda Express. No,
Speaker 1: not that uh orange. Yeah, it starts with a W.
Speaker 1: I'm having a mental block from it. But it's now
Speaker 1: we do have Panda Express in our rotation, and that's
Speaker 1: because my tender Ronie say, well, I get the veggie
Speaker 1: bowl from them, I get the vegetables and the rest
Speaker 1: of us eat all the orange chicken and get fat.
Speaker 1: But Ben for three people at Panda Expressed, the bill
Speaker 1: was forts man. So it's just getting Yeah, the prices
Speaker 1: have gone up everywhere around us. All I have to
Speaker 1: say is, thank god. We've all been getting raises at
Speaker 1: our jobs, especially in radio. They monthly we've been getting raises.
Speaker 1: In fact, the boss of calls up sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: I hate to do this to body again, another raise,
Speaker 1: another raise, and I know you're shocked. By that and surprised. Motherfucker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go the best of luck, which means as
Speaker 1: good luck as everyone else has. Andy. Uh, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens there, but I would advise not eating, uh,
Speaker 1: not driving anywhere. And other than that, I have a
Speaker 1: quick one for him. Take the stra patty off your
Speaker 1: burger at five guys, they put two nice patties in there.
Speaker 1: And what's great is they give you the burger in foil,
Speaker 1: so you already have the tin foil. So what I do.
Speaker 1: I take one of the patties out, eat the burger,
Speaker 1: wrap the extra patty up in the tin foil, bring
Speaker 1: that home, and then with some bread at home, you
Speaker 1: can make a second burger later. So I thought you
Speaker 1: were gonna say, just eat the peanuts and eat one
Speaker 1: patty and then don't do the second patty. And just
Speaker 1: know that's something you would do. You're the go to
Speaker 1: the store to get the leftover old Valentine's candy the
Speaker 1: next day. That is a solid move for the frugal man.
Speaker 1: It has never failed. You say, I gotta work, and
Speaker 1: I usually had to work on Valentine's Day. Anyway, Dandy,
Speaker 1: I go in there. I wasn't like doing it maliciously.
Speaker 1: I had to work anyway because I was like, I
Speaker 1: couldn't see the person until after Valentine's They said, I'll
Speaker 1: be like, all right, I go in there the day
Speaker 1: after by a couple of those hard candy things and
Speaker 1: some other stuffed animals stuff and then be good to go.
Speaker 1: And you were also single for twenty years longer than that.
Speaker 1: A radioactive Ryan in Salt Lake City, Utah rights and says, hey,
Speaker 1: fifth hour fellas, thanks for making my work days much
Speaker 1: easier to tolerate. Ben. I was thinking about the time
Speaker 1: you were pulled over, and if you had been the
Speaker 1: officer's favorite Petro's Papa Vegas, you would have avoided getting
Speaker 1: a tick. You remember that story, Danny. This time I
Speaker 1: was on my way to work. I was running a
Speaker 1: little late. And this is when I lived in Lincoln Heights.
Speaker 1: I was running late, and I am on the five
Speaker 1: going to the one thirty four, and I get pulled over,
Speaker 1: and you guys like, you know, what do you do
Speaker 1: where you're going? And I had the chance that that
Speaker 1: was my opportunity to tell him finally I could say,
Speaker 1: without being a douche, well, I'm going to the radio station.
Speaker 1: And anytime you tell the police officer you're going to
Speaker 1: radio station, Oh, which one that you know that's coming.
Speaker 1: So then you're like, oh I Fox Sports Trading. Oh
Speaker 1: really yeah? And I'm like, oh, yeah, it's on in
Speaker 1: l here it's a M five seventy and and then
Speaker 1: he yes, who I was, and he saw my driver's license,
Speaker 1: had no idea, but loved Petros. Loved Petros, big fan
Speaker 1: of Petros. Anyway, Radio actor Ryot says, another one of
Speaker 1: your great stories was the KFC manager who mistook you
Speaker 1: for a former high school student that defaced property in
Speaker 1: his story. Yes, that was hilarious. That was so. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Irvine, California, and this guy who was
Speaker 1: living in Washington calls the show and he knew a
Speaker 1: little bit about me. He says, you go too high school? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I went there for a little bit. I went to
Speaker 1: a couple of different you know, yeah, I went to
Speaker 1: And this guy was the manager at the Kentucky Fried
Speaker 1: Chicken down the street from the high school where all
Speaker 1: the punk high school kids would go. And he had
Speaker 1: accused me of some vandalism at the KFC restaurant and
Speaker 1: that was incorrect. I did not do that. I did
Speaker 1: not take part in that elicted activity. I did eat
Speaker 1: that KFC, but I did not take part in that activity.
Speaker 1: But he was convinced that I did. Did this involve
Speaker 1: a spray can? Because I mean, you're tall, so you
Speaker 1: could reach some spots where usually we'll look up see graffiti,
Speaker 1: We're like, how did somebody get to that spot right there? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: where I grew up, the big vandalism was food fights.
Speaker 1: There would be people throwing, chucking French fries and whatever
Speaker 1: else at each other. That was the big vandalism when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. But he also says I was
Speaker 1: wondering if Danny g has any tales of brushes with
Speaker 1: the law or cases of mistaken identity. He signs off
Speaker 1: by saying, f out tube and screw Korea, blank my
Speaker 1: blank and blank you radioactive? Ryan? Yeah? Well, former listeners
Speaker 1: about kicked the coverage will remember this during the peak
Speaker 1: of COVID, like when it was a ghost town out
Speaker 1: on all the roads, including the freeway. The staff had
Speaker 1: to have FEMA cards. Did they give us more money,
Speaker 1: Ben when we were government assistants? No, But I did
Speaker 1: learn about the was it the marshal something something that
Speaker 1: allows us to have access to the roads. That was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Actually, yeah, so we're driving around with these
Speaker 1: FEMA cards like big shots, and if we got pulled over,
Speaker 1: our bosses told us, we'll take out your paperwork and
Speaker 1: your FEMA card and you'll be good. Because nobody was
Speaker 1: supposed to be out on the roads unless they had
Speaker 1: to go to a job. That was what was it?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well it was what was the word they used? Crap?
Speaker 1: How how soon this leaves us like some jobs were
Speaker 1: needed and others weren't. Remember, and we're like, well, who's
Speaker 1: to say that that job is needed and that one's not.
Speaker 1: There was that big discussion at the start of COVID. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that your sports talk radio host needs a FEMA card,
Speaker 1: but the pression that works construction does not, or vice
Speaker 1: versa or something like that. Anyways, I'm driving through the
Speaker 1: ghost town that was Burbank at the time. There were
Speaker 1: literally no cars on the road. I am driving to
Speaker 1: get onto the freeway to go to the studios to
Speaker 1: produce Clay Travis Talk. I see sirens and I'm like,
Speaker 1: here we go. I pull over. I'm right next to
Speaker 1: a Chevron gas station, so I pull into the gas
Speaker 1: station officer did not like the fact that I pulled
Speaker 1: into the gas station, tears around really quickly and pulls
Speaker 1: in front of me, puts their brights on me, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, this doesn't look like this is gonna go well,
Speaker 1: gets out start screaming at me about why did I
Speaker 1: pull off the main road. I'm trying to explain I'm
Speaker 1: on my way to work. This female officer wasn't having it.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for my female card, Ben, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I have no idea where the stupid card is. So
Speaker 1: for days I had this thing available, and I'm looking
Speaker 1: for this card. She puts her flashlight in my eyes,
Speaker 1: and she's like, I don't like the look of your eyes.
Speaker 1: Surely you can't be serious like your eyes like my eyes.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right, well, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: date you, and don't call me. You didn't give her
Speaker 1: the puppy dog eyes. You didn't give her those, No,
Speaker 1: you didn't. Then my eyes look glossy. I just woke
Speaker 1: up to get into the studio at two thirty am,
Speaker 1: so of course my fucking eyes look glossy. Man. But Ben,
Speaker 1: she thought I was coming home from drinking somewhere, so
Speaker 1: she thought I was a d U. I she had
Speaker 1: other officers show up. I'm quickly trying to text Clay
Speaker 1: because now I know I'm gonna be late for the show.
Speaker 1: And she yells at me for being on my phone.
Speaker 1: She's like, drop your phone immediately immediately. What are you
Speaker 1: doing here? And I and I get later I found
Speaker 1: out that's because they're scared that maybe you're calling people
Speaker 1: to come help you. Um, so she made me. She
Speaker 1: took my phone after I told her what I did
Speaker 1: for a living where I was going. She's like, let
Speaker 1: me see your phone. Let me see this Clay Travis guy.
Speaker 1: You were texting. Who's there? So in the text, I
Speaker 1: had told Clay, oh boy, no one's on the roads
Speaker 1: obviously because of COVID. I'm getting pulled over right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be late. Your first guest is at seven am,
Speaker 1: and it's so and so she tells, me, h, seven am,
Speaker 1: you're not on your way to work. And I told
Speaker 1: her time zone situation. Yeah. I told her, ma'am, we're
Speaker 1: a network, we work on Eastern Yeah. And she just
Speaker 1: had this look on her face like, oh, she thought
Speaker 1: she had me. It wasn't it got your moment. Oh now.
Speaker 1: One of the male officers who showed up heard the
Speaker 1: story from her, came up to me and asked me
Speaker 1: if Clay Travis could give him a shout out. Sweet, sweet,
Speaker 1: you're in now, you're in right, So they shipped me off.
Speaker 1: I got to tell the story on the air. Clay
Speaker 1: had fun with it. Um, but yeah, that was but
Speaker 1: as many officers that were there, there were five squad
Speaker 1: cars there at the end, they had nothing to do
Speaker 1: because no one was out, so everyone was sheltering in
Speaker 1: place to stay at home, orders and all that nonsense exactly. Now.
Speaker 1: One good thing that came from that a buddy of
Speaker 1: mine who is a sheriff in Los Angeles. He sent
Speaker 1: me a family badge, family police badge for l A.
Speaker 1: It's gotten me out of two tickets so far. I
Speaker 1: got caught speeding through the desert last year. You open
Speaker 1: up to get your I d it shows a real
Speaker 1: badge and the officers like, are you off duty? And
Speaker 1: I said, oh no, no, I have family. Okay, do
Speaker 1: me a favorite slowdown? Wow? Yeah, boy, that's the move.
Speaker 1: So thank you. Because of that story I got to
Speaker 1: tell on Clay Travis show a fine officer in l
Speaker 1: A sent me that in the mail and so I
Speaker 1: have a badge, Baby, I am l A p D service.
Speaker 1: If any officers would like to help me out, you're
Speaker 1: more than welcome. I would be receptive to that. I
Speaker 1: would not be against that at all. Uh. The only
Speaker 1: time I get I can use that my wife, but
Speaker 1: she's not a police officer, she's a what's it? Nine
Speaker 1: one one? So occasionally that will work. But if I'm
Speaker 1: on my own, I'm done, I'm getting a ticket. It's
Speaker 1: gonna have. The word I think we were looking for
Speaker 1: was essential, right, not a sential essential? That was the
Speaker 1: big term, non essential or essential. Carlos in Houston is
Speaker 1: next the great Carlos in Houston. As we continue the
Speaker 1: mail bag, I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Carlos and Houston says Ben, you mentioned that you knew
Speaker 1: the Andrea in impersonator. Who is it? He says? Also,
Speaker 1: will you have art though on your podcast to preview
Speaker 1: the baseball season? Speaking of baseball, we need a wellness
Speaker 1: check on where's my baseball guy? So a lot of questions, Carlos,
Speaker 1: not a lot of answers. Now, I do know who
Speaker 1: the Andrea impersonator is and I think we've said this
Speaker 1: on there, so I'll go with it. It is Robin Vegas,
Speaker 1: the Great Robin Vegas is called up and impersonated Andrea
Speaker 1: in Berkeley and one of Benny for them. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is a great impersonation of her. Hello, Ben, how are
Speaker 1: you doing? Uh? And Roberto, I don't know that Roberto's
Speaker 1: booked for the podcast. We will do some baseball. I
Speaker 1: love talking baseball. The season beginning. You know what should
Speaker 1: get back on as a friend of the show. Lenny
Speaker 1: Dike Stronikester wants to come back on the podcast, and
Speaker 1: Eddie Garcia is scared him. Lenny, Yeah, Eddie is afraid.
Speaker 1: He would not allow Lenny wanted to come in studio
Speaker 1: and hang out back before COVID and hang out and
Speaker 1: just shoot the shoot the ship. And Eddie said no, no,
Speaker 1: he did not want him in the studio. He thought
Speaker 1: he had cooties or something. He probably does have cooties.
Speaker 1: But Lenny's interested. Never boring with Lenny Dike's never boring
Speaker 1: with Lenny. Friend of the show, so we might get
Speaker 1: him on. And Rick Monday. Rick's a friend and he
Speaker 1: said he would do it. I didn't want to bother
Speaker 1: him in the off season. We get Rick on Dodger
Speaker 1: broadcaster man saved the American flag back in the day
Speaker 1: when the great moments in baseball history. He doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like he'd be grouchy at all. No, No, Ricks. Ricky's great,
Speaker 1: but rich got you know, tremendous stories from back and
Speaker 1: then he was the first ever draft pick, first ever
Speaker 1: pick in Major League Baseball's draft. You know, he was
Speaker 1: the number one pick of the Kansas City Athletics, Rick Monday. Uh.
Speaker 1: And as far as the speaking of baseball, we need
Speaker 1: a Where's my Baseball Guy? Update? I believe he changed
Speaker 1: to a day shift, but we have not heard from
Speaker 1: the Where's my Baseball Guy? Have not heard that. And
Speaker 1: the callers on the advice line change. It's not the
Speaker 1: same people. We've had different waves over the years. So
Speaker 1: that's just that's part of the deal. Very Nashville rights
Speaker 1: in on the mail back. He said, Yo, yo, mom, Benny,
Speaker 1: I love the Bennies this week, best one yet. See
Speaker 1: again the term best pops up. The greatest one ever? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the greatest, better than all the rest, he says. Tell
Speaker 1: us when did you start the Bennies and how did
Speaker 1: The idea come up with the Betty started a number
Speaker 1: of years ago and we thought why not. Kind of
Speaker 1: it started as a as I remember it, Danny, the
Speaker 1: Bennies began as a way to mock award shows. The
Speaker 1: Spis was one we thought was just ridiculous and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's still could so we we like to coop on that.
Speaker 1: And then the Academy Awards. And I've never been a
Speaker 1: big fan of award shows. My mom used to love
Speaker 1: watching the Academy Awards every year, is you know, the
Speaker 1: typical cliches. She want to see what people were wearing
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And I was always bored out
Speaker 1: of my mind, like, who cares they're wearing a dress
Speaker 1: or they're wearing a tuxedo. It's not a lot of
Speaker 1: variety in this. But that's just my perspective on fashion.
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of how that began. The idea
Speaker 1: for it began that way, and over the years it's
Speaker 1: taken a life of its own. I had a listener
Speaker 1: who contributes content to the show whose mother emailed me
Speaker 1: to say, and this is a grown ass human being
Speaker 1: whose mom emailed me to say, Hey, I think my
Speaker 1: son deserves a nomination for a bit doesn't have to win,
Speaker 1: it just deserves a nomination, And like, really, you gotta
Speaker 1: be kidding me, Okay, yeah, why not? What the heck?
Speaker 1: I think that was actually kind of cool, man. I said,
Speaker 1: that's something like my mom would do, you know. But
Speaker 1: it's at the same time part of me was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great. The other part of me, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But I did get to hear some of the Bennies.
Speaker 1: I didn't get to hear who One Drop of the
Speaker 1: Year though, you were up for a couci. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: Rachel and Monto Bello. Congratulations to Rachel. The boys enjoyed
Speaker 1: the Swallow drop. The swallows have returned and a big
Speaker 1: fan of that. Of course. Barry also says, you spoke
Speaker 1: about tornadoes on last week's fifth Hour. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a firsthand account of an e F five tornado next week.
Speaker 1: So Barry's promises content for next week. Then nice, like
Speaker 1: a radio version of the movie Twister. He's teasing ahead
Speaker 1: to next week. And living in Nashville. Wasn't there a
Speaker 1: tornado that hit in the city of Nashville come long ago? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: not that long ago. It's crazy. I was reading a
Speaker 1: story about tornadoes, and there's this myth about tornadoes they
Speaker 1: don't hit big cities. But they say that that that bullshit,
Speaker 1: because what really goes on is there's very few big
Speaker 1: cities in America. Most of America and tornado country is
Speaker 1: either farmland or just open land. It's not cities, just
Speaker 1: only a handful. So it's there were big cities there,
Speaker 1: they would get hit exactly. It's it's like hitting the
Speaker 1: middle of a bull's eye. To hit a city. To
Speaker 1: hit the middle of the bulls eye doesn't normally happen. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll hear what Barry has to say next week. Chris
Speaker 1: from Falling Waters, West Virginia. It's a good name. Chris
Speaker 1: is next. He says, what was the funniest moment on
Speaker 1: the show that you remember? The biggest laugh I got
Speaker 1: from your show was when Justin and Cincinnati said that
Speaker 1: marcel ate a yummy snack for food foot picks. Eddie
Speaker 1: was dying laughing for over five minutes. There are some
Speaker 1: great moments. Typically they involved things that don't make it
Speaker 1: on the air. Yeah, yeah, there are things that get
Speaker 1: dumped out. I have a clip of us laughing hysterically
Speaker 1: the very first time we ever heard Eddie Garcia sing that.
Speaker 1: I do remember that night now what it was his
Speaker 1: real talk back when he was on the show. He
Speaker 1: would make bets with some of us on the crew,
Speaker 1: and if we lost that bet, we would have to
Speaker 1: sing a duet with him. That's right, he did a
Speaker 1: duet with Eddie Garcia. I have a clip of it
Speaker 1: that I'll insert right here on the way. We were gentlemen,
Speaker 1: scattered pictures but smiles, we laugh and as you can hear,
Speaker 1: we were just dying laughing because we didn't know Eddie
Speaker 1: was gonna take it so serious, and we didn't know
Speaker 1: Eddie was a songbird. Yeah, yeah, you figured Eddie. You don't.
Speaker 1: You look at Eddie. You listen to Eddie, You're like,
Speaker 1: this is not a guy that sinks at all. There's
Speaker 1: no music at all in it, but sure enough, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 1: But to answer you crushing christa further, they give you
Speaker 1: some more examples of that. Just a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Roberto tried to announce, he tried to pronounce he was
Speaker 1: doing a cooking segment and he tried to pronounce black pepper,
Speaker 1: but he didn't say black pepper, that's something else that
Speaker 1: starts with the P. And it was just funny, like Roberto,
Speaker 1: where do you get that ingredient? Roberto is that is that?
Speaker 1: It was hilarious. It's fun to add to the funny content.
Speaker 1: But you blush and you feel so dumb when you
Speaker 1: say something thing like that. Because two weekends ago on
Speaker 1: Cavino and Rich on Sunday Afternoon, I was trying to
Speaker 1: say Westwood one, and I said Westwood, Come, well, it
Speaker 1: does happen over in Westwood, but I understand, but I
Speaker 1: don't know how to live there, so I don't know. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it was like a moment in time that gets paused.
Speaker 1: It was radio silence and then tons of laughter and
Speaker 1: and me saying, dump that dump that dump that. There
Speaker 1: was one time, me and me and Looney we were
Speaker 1: doing the Blitz is like an eight hour show, right,
Speaker 1: So we're in a commercial period on the show, and
Speaker 1: usually during the commercials, and we talked about all the
Speaker 1: gossip at the radio station. So we're going back and
Speaker 1: forth and we're going on and all the drama, and
Speaker 1: our engineers, Steve still Well comes hustling back and he
Speaker 1: turns the corner and he had forgotten to turn our
Speaker 1: mics off, so everything we had been saying was broadcast.
Speaker 1: But fortunately we were not on the microphone Danny's you know,
Speaker 1: those microphones are gonna be right on top. You gotta
Speaker 1: spitting into the microphone, so it was in the background.
Speaker 1: But we were diing. We were we were upset initially,
Speaker 1: and then we found out that it didn't Actually nobody
Speaker 1: can understand it. We started laughing. That was the funniest thing,
Speaker 1: and uh, that was that was great? All right? What
Speaker 1: is next year? On the mail bag? Actual letters by
Speaker 1: actual listeners to the show. You can contribute one if
Speaker 1: you want in a future edition. We told you how
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this. And if you're saying, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, you're not that guy, trust me, you're not
Speaker 1: that guy. Anybody can send a message. You don't have
Speaker 1: to have special powers anything like that. All right, come back,
Speaker 1: it's time from now call j C from Tennessee, writes
Speaker 1: in says, dear Ben, as a fan of the Tennessee Titans,
Speaker 1: I was pleased to hear you say that Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: should be traded to the Titans. When I first heard
Speaker 1: that Baker wanted to be traded I immediately thought that
Speaker 1: I would like to have Baker on the Titans. But
Speaker 1: I write you today not to talk about Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: or the Tennessee Titans, but to inform you that you
Speaker 1: called Nashville the birthplace of country music, and that, sir,
Speaker 1: is incorrect. Nashville is the home of country music thanks
Speaker 1: largely to the Rieman Auditorium, the mother Church and country
Speaker 1: music and the mother Church of country music, while Bristol, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: is the birthplace of country music so as so recognized
Speaker 1: by the United States Congress. He also says fun fact
Speaker 1: Danny G came to visit Nashville once he and I
Speaker 1: went on a tour of the Rieman Auditorium. Is that true?
Speaker 1: Danny J c to me there that building, Ben when
Speaker 1: they explained to you the history and how it started
Speaker 1: and where it's at today. Yeah. I want to get
Speaker 1: to Nashville. I have not been to Nashville. My wife
Speaker 1: actually has some relatives that live in that area. So
Speaker 1: I'd like to get down there and hang out and
Speaker 1: check out. There's a Johnny Cash museum I understand in Nashville,
Speaker 1: which fan of Johnny Cash. I'd like to see that.
Speaker 1: The reason I said that j C. Though I'll pass
Speaker 1: the buck. I watched this great documentary years ago on
Speaker 1: PBS about country music, and I'm pretty sure that they
Speaker 1: had said that in the documentary. Maybe I'm wrong on that,
Speaker 1: but Nashville the birthplace of country music. But the Grand
Speaker 1: Old Opery and all that that took place there in Nashville,
Speaker 1: the history of that tremendous. And so there you go.
Speaker 1: J C says, a proud Tennessee and a proud Tennessee
Speaker 1: and he just wanted to set the record straight on that. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: the food and the music in that city, it is
Speaker 1: a place to visit, that's for sure. It's one of
Speaker 1: the boom towns. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, alright.
Speaker 1: Next up is Adrian in the Mile Highest City, says
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny Gy. Is it possible to drop the
Speaker 1: weekend podcast at six am Mountain time or earlier? That
Speaker 1: would be what are we looking at here? Five am? Pacific?
Speaker 1: I enjoy listening to them during early morning workouts. Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's been a while since I emailed the show. So
Speaker 1: do you guys dress up for Halloween? I usually don't,
Speaker 1: but this past Halloween my wife found me this white
Speaker 1: broncho head mask with white hooves to match. I was
Speaker 1: broncho man in my bronco jersey walking my kids around
Speaker 1: the neighborhood trick or treating that night. He actually sent
Speaker 1: a photo of this Danny. You can't see it, but
Speaker 1: that's a good looking costume. He says. It didn't hurt
Speaker 1: that they be the team formerly known as the Redskins.
Speaker 1: Earlier that afternoon, as soon as the Mr Unlimited press
Speaker 1: conference was over here in Denver, I ordered my orange
Speaker 1: home number three Russell Wilson jersey. Unfortunately, it's not scheduled
Speaker 1: to be delivered until the beginning of May. I'll keep
Speaker 1: you posting on Wanted to Rise. It is wild. In
Speaker 1: the span of like a year and a half, two years,
Speaker 1: we had every. I know we've complained about this a
Speaker 1: lot to any but it wasn't that long ago. We
Speaker 1: had too much. We had an abundance of everything, and
Speaker 1: now you can't even get a jersey. He didn't even
Speaker 1: get a jersey without waiting a couple of months. It's
Speaker 1: extra bothering people. Because we're such an on demand society
Speaker 1: now thanks to Amazon and on demand TV and movies
Speaker 1: and everything like that. That We're used to getting things
Speaker 1: the next day. If we order something, it better get
Speaker 1: here within a week, where I'm gonna be pissed. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Adrian also says do you have any favorite Costco Kirkland
Speaker 1: brand items? My top three are Kirkland brand briefs, Kirkland
Speaker 1: Brand coffee, and Kirkland Trail Mix. The trail Mix comes
Speaker 1: in a box of twenty eight individual snack backs, which
Speaker 1: I like because it limits me too how much I eat.
Speaker 1: If I bought a giant bag of trail Mix, I
Speaker 1: might eat half the bag in one sitting. Amen on that, Adrian,
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. So Kirkland brand products that
Speaker 1: I might go to Kirkland brand products. The batteries, they
Speaker 1: are the name brand batteries without the name brand. I
Speaker 1: found out a couple of years ago that those are
Speaker 1: energizer batteries. They just put the Kirkland brand on them,
Speaker 1: so I was going with the Kirkland brand batteries. There
Speaker 1: are these Macadamian nut cluster things that I've been getting.
Speaker 1: They're a little pricing now, the price of everything's gone up,
Speaker 1: but those are delicious. Those are wonderful. Um all about that,
Speaker 1: and I don't use the Kirkland brand toilet paper, although
Speaker 1: I have been told it got it got better, but
Speaker 1: I generally stay away from that any items you go
Speaker 1: two items Danny at Costco Kirkland brand. One quick thought
Speaker 1: on you. Talking about how the price of everything has
Speaker 1: gone up. A Trader Joe's cashier said last week that normally,
Speaker 1: before all this mess, they would have two to three
Speaker 1: price increases per week at the store. Yeah, last week
Speaker 1: alone they had thirty six Wow. Why the hell is
Speaker 1: it a hundred and eighty three dollars for four bags
Speaker 1: of groceries? That's why. And it's one of those things, Danny.
Speaker 1: It doesn't go back once it goes up, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's the price. It's not like it works the other way.
Speaker 1: Let's say the price of fuel went down. Are they
Speaker 1: gonna lower the prices of everything? Are they gonna go
Speaker 1: through the store Trader Joe's and these other stores and say, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna lower the price of the peanuts by twenty
Speaker 1: cents today? Yeah? I say no. I said, this is
Speaker 1: the price. It's never gonna go back. The price of
Speaker 1: gas will go down, maybe, who the heck knows, But
Speaker 1: this other stuff is not gonna go down. Yeah, Well
Speaker 1: the Kirkland brand gas gasoline. That's a good one. Sure.
Speaker 1: And then I'll go with your Ugly Sweater Party Kirkland
Speaker 1: brand alcohol. Yes, that's the staple, the Ugly Sweater Party,
Speaker 1: the vodka and other adult beverages on the Kirkland brand label.
Speaker 1: There you go, right, I'm right there with you all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on the mail bag, mal Mike in Fullerton
Speaker 1: in Soko says, with the Will Smith slap being the
Speaker 1: talk of the town, when was your biggest slap in
Speaker 1: the face For me? It easily was the time that
Speaker 1: I was nominated for an award by a big time
Speaker 1: radio show that's on over four radio affiliates and they
Speaker 1: only got two measily votes. Yeah. Well that's what happens
Speaker 1: for a dog. That was shocking for a dog. He
Speaker 1: was in the opening round of the Benny's online vote
Speaker 1: for Social Media in Fluencer of the Year and for
Speaker 1: the longest time he did not have a single vote.
Speaker 1: It was wild. He needs to market himself better. The
Speaker 1: only time I've ever seen him pop up on our
Speaker 1: FSR Twitter account is when he's complaining about one of
Speaker 1: the hosts. Well, there's a lot to complain about. As
Speaker 1: you know, there's much to complain about, all right. Next up,
Speaker 1: As far as my slapping face, by the way, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think doing doing the Ben Mather Show
Speaker 1: and having the company update the website and misspelled my
Speaker 1: name and then tell me they corrected it, and still
Speaker 1: having the name mess up. I think that would be
Speaker 1: the biggest slap in the face. But who cames Miller
Speaker 1: I've made you were so excited to see your new
Speaker 1: section of the website and you click on and it
Speaker 1: says Bill Miller, yes, yes, and then they switched to
Speaker 1: it was I think it was Ben Miller. I think
Speaker 1: after that, I have a screenshot of one of those
Speaker 1: things somewhere around here on on the computer. I would
Speaker 1: love to see that, all right now. Next up is
Speaker 1: Grandma from Salt Lake City. I enjoyed the Benny Awards.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the Benny Awards. Marcel should have won, So
Speaker 1: some controversy from Grandma from Salt Lake listens every night,
Speaker 1: Christie the Grandma and then we're very big with the
Speaker 1: Grandma's And you thought, Danny and to this podcast as well.
Speaker 1: Listener Lorene chimed in and she responded she says, she's
Speaker 1: a granny from Lehigh, Utah. Think I'm saying that right,
Speaker 1: And and she listens every night also, so listen. A
Speaker 1: good grandma is a gift from the gods. A grandma
Speaker 1: that spoils you. I mean I had some some. I
Speaker 1: had one grandma from from Russia kind of. Actually, both
Speaker 1: my grandma's were from from Russia, so now I think
Speaker 1: I went from Chernobyl and she was both kind of
Speaker 1: from the old country. Danny, so a little on the cold.
Speaker 1: But my my one grandma, she would always when we
Speaker 1: go over, she give us books, but the books were
Speaker 1: heading in the back of a closet and we had
Speaker 1: to like crawl through this little spot in their in
Speaker 1: their bed. It was it was really cool. I remember
Speaker 1: it fondly. I lived in North Hollywood and we'd go
Speaker 1: there and hang out and it was a lot of
Speaker 1: fun and all that stuff. But yeah, grandma's are wonderful.
Speaker 1: How about the grandma that used to call our show
Speaker 1: and she would send us New Orleans style cake. Oh,
Speaker 1: Barbara from New Orleans? Yes, Barbara from New Orleans. You
Speaker 1: haven't heard from Barbara in a while? No, I think
Speaker 1: some other radio shows stole her away. Well the day.
Speaker 1: Hadn't heard from her in a long time either. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what happened. Barbara, very
Speaker 1: nice woman. That kink cake. Yeah, she sent us the
Speaker 1: Marty Grass stuff. Yeah. And then you had to find
Speaker 1: the little plastic guy in the cake. Yeah I got him. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got the little play you ate the little plastic guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a really good cake. Have you been in
Speaker 1: New Orleans? I have not been, the Norman. I have
Speaker 1: been to New Orleans two different times, both both times
Speaker 1: I was in my twenties. So that's kind of got you, alright.
Speaker 1: I next up on the mail bag, the mail bag,
Speaker 1: I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea. Bill Billy
Speaker 1: Mike writes in from Virginia. He says, at the time
Speaker 1: of the auction is talking about this Tom Brady stories,
Speaker 1: trying to figure something out. He says, who actually owned
Speaker 1: the football that Leland's auctioned off as the last Brady
Speaker 1: touchdown past football? I remember they got the ball back
Speaker 1: from the fan in the stands to give back to Brady.
Speaker 1: Auction houses don't generally own the merchandise. They just they're
Speaker 1: just in the middle of the middleman taking the money,
Speaker 1: So who was the owner? If Brady owned the ball
Speaker 1: and had Leland auction and off, then turns around and announced,
Speaker 1: as he's unretiring, he's got to be the biggest douche
Speaker 1: tag in the world. He would make Eli Manning look
Speaker 1: like a saint. Also, how about making some virgo sounds
Speaker 1: even better than Baba good news? Well Hill Billy Mike.
Speaker 1: As I remember it, Danny wasn't in one of the
Speaker 1: Bucks receivers that gave the ball away, not realizing that
Speaker 1: that was gonna be Brady's last game. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: Mike Evans. Okay, So Mike Evans gave it to a
Speaker 1: fan and at that time the assumption was Brady was
Speaker 1: gonna keep playing. It turns out that assumption was right,
Speaker 1: but at somewhere along the way he said stopping. And
Speaker 1: now we had the great bruce Arians conspiracy this week
Speaker 1: that Brady came back, didn't like bruce Arians and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta get rid of this guy. So they said, okay,
Speaker 1: give us eighteen days, we'll make it happen. Give us
Speaker 1: a little time there and they're sure enough. One thing
Speaker 1: led to another, and I ye, I'm done with what
Speaker 1: a scandal. All right. Next up, balls fan Jimmy from
Speaker 1: Big Orange Country says, for both of you, gentlemen, what
Speaker 1: is your favorite dish that your wife cooks and what
Speaker 1: is hers that you cook? Yeah, so I've really gotten
Speaker 1: into cooking and mostly desserts and whatnot. My wife's does
Speaker 1: gluten freeze, so she's a neat most of that. Every
Speaker 1: once in a while I'll get her eat gluten. I've
Speaker 1: been making burgers, like smash burgers. That's my my thing.
Speaker 1: I've been pretty good at that. My wife makes really
Speaker 1: good tacos. She does a rip off recipe. She said,
Speaker 1: what kind of food do you like? I said, like
Speaker 1: Tito's tacos. She has like a rip off of Tito's tacos,
Speaker 1: which is really good. And she makes a lot of
Speaker 1: good stuff, very very talented in that department. She she cleans.
Speaker 1: She makes everything dirty and I cleaned it up. I
Speaker 1: do the dish. I'm a dish guy, but on the
Speaker 1: weekends it's it's a hobby I've picked up. You know
Speaker 1: you're getting all Danny when your hobbies cooking and bacon,
Speaker 1: you know you're getting old, old man, And that's a
Speaker 1: sign you're in middle age. A middle aged person. But
Speaker 1: I am I love I really loved it. And dabbling.
Speaker 1: My mom was very good in the kitchen. Start kind
Speaker 1: of honoring her memory by dabbling in the kitchen and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And what about you, Danny, you'll cook it all? Are
Speaker 1: you all about going out fast food? All that? I
Speaker 1: wish my tender Ronie was as easy as I'll take
Speaker 1: you to fast food. But she has a good palate,
Speaker 1: so I would say the best thing I've ever cooked
Speaker 1: for her is Q Sushi, expensive sushi place that I
Speaker 1: bring her to from time to time. If I'm ever
Speaker 1: in the doghouse, R take her to Q Sushi. That's
Speaker 1: to go to. But you cannot walk in there without
Speaker 1: spending at least a hundred bucks. Now, if you spend
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks, are you full after you've eaten it?
Speaker 1: Because sushi I've never I'm not a sushi guy. Don't
Speaker 1: like seafood, but it's usually pretty small. Does it fill
Speaker 1: you up? If you go to their happy hour, you'll
Speaker 1: get full and the bill will be about a hundred
Speaker 1: and ten bucks happy hour. That's happy hour. That doesn't
Speaker 1: seem happy to me. Now, my girl does cook. She
Speaker 1: does a wonderful taco night, Leo, Leo, Leo, And it
Speaker 1: reminds me of my mom's taco nights, which is why
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of it. Do the turkey meet
Speaker 1: with the great seasoning, all the sides you could ever
Speaker 1: dream of, and she lines them up across the kitchen counter,
Speaker 1: and then you go in and you can make the
Speaker 1: hard shell or the soft shell vago and you put
Speaker 1: whatever ingredients your heart desires into the tacos. Ten out
Speaker 1: of ten. So what kind of taco do you go to?
Speaker 1: My go to taco? I like the green goat taco.
Speaker 1: My buddy of Mexican get passed away years ago, Alex,
Speaker 1: and he goes, that's the green goat taco. That's not
Speaker 1: the real that's not the taco you get in Mexico.
Speaker 1: That's a fake taco. As I like it, I don't care.
Speaker 1: That's what I like. I like what I like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even in California, a lot of us grew up with
Speaker 1: the green goo tacos as well as the authentic ones.
Speaker 1: You know, Hey, you go out to get a street
Speaker 1: taco from a taco truck here where we live, but
Speaker 1: at home you get some of the green goo tacos.
Speaker 1: But I'll do I'll do a soft taco, so I'll
Speaker 1: do one flower and then I'll do one hard show.
Speaker 1: So you get a little bit of the crunchy and
Speaker 1: a little bit of the soft taco. Little taste got
Speaker 1: you all right. And Jimmy also says, by the way,
Speaker 1: Tennessee Balls baseball team at the time he sent this
Speaker 1: and one rank number one, number one in the nation,
Speaker 1: leading in almost every offensive category in the nation. So Jimmy,
Speaker 1: Jimmy's pivoted over the years. He used to be all
Speaker 1: about Tennessee volunteer football. Gave up on that for a while.
Speaker 1: He liked Tennessee basketball, gave up on that. Now he's
Speaker 1: pivoted to baseball. He's he's desperately trying to find a
Speaker 1: Tennessee athletic team that doesn't stink. And he's like, I'll
Speaker 1: go to baseball. Well, where are where we lived, Danny,
Speaker 1: in southern California, there's some tremendous college baseball programs. U
Speaker 1: c l A has has some really good teams over
Speaker 1: the years, cal State Fullerton, Pepperdine, USC. Occasionally there's some
Speaker 1: really good baseball where we are. But congratulations to the balls,
Speaker 1: And I don't check out the College World sirs, the
Speaker 1: ping of the College World Series. I checked that out.
Speaker 1: Watch a couple of games now and again. Fred in Spring,
Speaker 1: Texas is next, He says, Hi, guys, what city or
Speaker 1: state have you not visited and would like to any
Speaker 1: special site or a vet you would like to experience. Oh, yes, Frank, yes,
Speaker 1: I've always been lucky enough, other than six months in
Speaker 1: twenty six days to be gamefully employed in the radio business,
Speaker 1: so I've never had enough time to travel. I think
Speaker 1: it would be great to just casually drive across the
Speaker 1: country and see all the nooks and crannies and off
Speaker 1: the beaten path. I think that would be a ton
Speaker 1: of fun. I'd have a great time. But I want
Speaker 1: to see everything. And mostly been to the big cities
Speaker 1: in the Northeast, in the Midwest and on the West coast.
Speaker 1: And I'd like to explore a little more and go
Speaker 1: off the beaten path and that bad lands you have
Speaker 1: you seen that? I'd be cool. There's places in Utah
Speaker 1: Zion National Park looks amazing. I've been there. That is amazing.
Speaker 1: Like to check that out, all of it. There's places
Speaker 1: in the South, some of the history of America, Civil
Speaker 1: War I was in Gettysburg. I was at the Gettysburg
Speaker 1: site and that was really cool to see that the
Speaker 1: history of America. But I'd like to do more of
Speaker 1: that stuff for sure, and I go all kinds of
Speaker 1: places before we check out. We might as well see
Speaker 1: as much as we can before the show is over,
Speaker 1: before its lights out. Might as well do it, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've never been to the Virginia's I think that would
Speaker 1: be a nice trip. And also Clay used to talk
Speaker 1: about summers in Michigan because that's where his wife is from,
Speaker 1: So I'd like to check out their legs there and
Speaker 1: see that. Well. I am scheduled to go on a
Speaker 1: Mallard World tour and I believe I will be stopping
Speaker 1: in the state of Michigan and in Virginia. I will
Speaker 1: be going to I've been to kind of been the
Speaker 1: Mission Detroit, Like I don't know, I'm going to like
Speaker 1: the real part of Mission where the people live outside Detroit.
Speaker 1: How about a major city. I've never been to Chicago.
Speaker 1: Chicago's awe, I'll be in Chicago to actually, I would
Speaker 1: love I would love to go to Chicago and and
Speaker 1: also Philly. I've never been to Philadelphia. Philadelphia is cool,
Speaker 1: although every time I've been to Philly it was nasty,
Speaker 1: rain and horrible and all that like, and I know
Speaker 1: it doesn't rain all the time there. I just had
Speaker 1: bad luck, I guess. I did go to a Phillies
Speaker 1: Dodgers game at Citizens Bank Park. That's a pretty cool
Speaker 1: ball But that's a band box that ballpark. That's what
Speaker 1: I should do. I should plan a trip for Dodgers. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: love seeing Yeah, I love seeing ballparks across the country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. I'm right there to go
Speaker 1: to Toronto, and it's not in the US, but right
Speaker 1: across the border there. Not now, I don't want to
Speaker 1: go to Canada, but maybe when they come to their
Speaker 1: senses in like seven or eight years, maybe then we
Speaker 1: can go to Canada and check it out. Next up here,
Speaker 1: let's see page Dan page. I got mail, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got mail. Yeah, He'll says, who in the Mallard militia
Speaker 1: do you want to go? Will Smith on Angry Bill
Speaker 1: is at the very top of the list, and occasionally
Speaker 1: christ and Houston. What about a nine year old girl? Okay,
Speaker 1: But other that, most of it's just fun. We just
Speaker 1: have a good time. Why not next up on the
Speaker 1: mail bag Angelina right soon. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: she wants us to be read on the air now,
Speaker 1: but I do appreciate the sentiment. She praised me, Danny
Speaker 1: body attacking one of our colleagues. I don't know that
Speaker 1: we want to put that on the podcast, because, yeah,
Speaker 1: trying to be professional here, and I like the people
Speaker 1: I work. I could bleep out their name if you
Speaker 1: say it. Yeah you don't, you know, whatt me say it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right? She pretty much ship all over. Okay, yeah
Speaker 1: she attacked. Yeah, that's fine, but but anywaynyways, she's just
Speaker 1: trying to support me because you know, some guy called
Speaker 1: up and said they liked that person more than me
Speaker 1: or whatever, so she was defending my honor. Calm down
Speaker 1: on that Sunday morning, and Angelina says, I love the
Speaker 1: show on the podcast. I just heard yesterday all the
Speaker 1: Benny Award nominations blah blah. So she said a few
Speaker 1: days ago, uh, and she enjoys the program. So sting,
Speaker 1: thank you, Angelina, and we'll get out on one more, Danny,
Speaker 1: one more. I think we've made it through the entire
Speaker 1: mail bag hiro mail back. First time we've done this months.
Speaker 1: I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. YEA John in
Speaker 1: Kentucky says, why are most men, including you, on radio
Speaker 1: and television jealous of Deshaun Watson receiving so many rubbing
Speaker 1: tugs and continue to debase a man that is simply
Speaker 1: being sued by a bunch of horrors who went to
Speaker 1: the job under the cover of a professional masseus. I
Speaker 1: love the show. There you go usually spot on epic
Speaker 1: fail on this one. Well, I know you're being funny, John,
Speaker 1: that's tongue in cheek, But if you actually did your
Speaker 1: homework on this, you would know these are not professional masseuses.
Speaker 1: I just hope this isn't all too good to be true.
Speaker 1: He he, These are just people DeShawn met on the
Speaker 1: internet on Instagram and wanted to stoop and did end
Speaker 1: up shooping many of them and brought a towel. That
Speaker 1: that clip that got online where he brought a towel
Speaker 1: and drove thirty miles out of town and made sure
Speaker 1: to bring his own towel not to leave any evidence
Speaker 1: behind someone incriminating. But hey, he's only gonna face civil lawsuits,
Speaker 1: which he's facing right now. We've all done that in
Speaker 1: our twenties in the NFL, doesn't did you do the
Speaker 1: volume though? I thought, if you're the quarterback, you don't
Speaker 1: have to do that, dandy. I thought, if you're the
Speaker 1: star quarterback, doesn't everyone want to be the star quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: So you don't have to be that guy. You're the quarterback,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that. You're talking about, Ben.
Speaker 1: If you were on FM radio and you kind of were,
Speaker 1: you worked right next door to Kiss FM, that's right,
Speaker 1: Rick D's in the morning, the D's lease. One of
Speaker 1: the funniest things about that. When I was working across
Speaker 1: the all of them. Kiss FM, they had the living
Speaker 1: member of Millie Vanilly. They hired as a bit to
Speaker 1: be a DJ during the day because that was one
Speaker 1: of the great music scandals. Just google it if you're
Speaker 1: too young to know what that is. But these guys
Speaker 1: became big stars in music and they were lip sinking.
Speaker 1: They didn't sing me and they didn't sing any of it.
Speaker 1: They were frauds. Which one died, Fab or Rob I
Speaker 1: don't remember, but whoever lived was a DJ Kiss FM.
Speaker 1: They had a brief show during the day. Hey, we
Speaker 1: gotta get out of here, my god, we gotta wait too,
Speaker 1: what what are we doing? Goodness any day coverage, baby
Speaker 1: bonus covered. That's right, An, let's see it is Sunday
Speaker 1: morning right now. I will get the podcast out as
Speaker 1: fast as I can after post production. Then I'll take
Speaker 1: a little nap and then I will be on Covino
Speaker 1: and Rich this afternoon on FSR, and then your boy
Speaker 1: Arnie Spanier along with Chris Plank as the warm up
Speaker 1: to The Ben Mallor Show, the first one of the week,
Speaker 1: the pregame show show with Arnie. Oh, look, gerfas is
Speaker 1: he's still picking Arizona to win the championship? Is he
Speaker 1: sticking with the Wildcats as he says it's his only
Speaker 1: winning team. Yeah, it's going very well. It's going very
Speaker 1: well clearly for Arnie. And I'll be back on terrestrial
Speaker 1: radio tonight. We'll have a new week of The Ben
Speaker 1: Mallen Show. Original audio content Baseball beginning next weekend on
Speaker 1: Friday Friday, Friday opening night, some day games, but opening
Speaker 1: night in baseball. Looking forward to that getting settled in.
Speaker 1: We have the championship game on Monday night in college basketball,
Speaker 1: so we have a lot to discuss and we'll get
Speaker 1: to that have a wonderful rest of your Sunday, and
Speaker 1: remember go and support the podcast, send us emails in
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Speaker 1: the content. And thank you. Have a have a have
Speaker 1: a really good day. Thank you later. Skater gott a murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go.