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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor
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Speaker 1: the podcast, so we don't need to promote the fact
Speaker 1: that the podcast is available just about everywhere, just about everywhere.
Speaker 1: We do not need to do that. And on this
Speaker 1: Sunday podcast we have the mailbag Dany G. And in
Speaker 1: addition to that, we have what we have a surprise,
Speaker 1: a surprise at the beginning and I realized we should
Speaker 1: probably get at some point to Backscratcher. We didn't do that.
Speaker 1: We didn't do that on Saturday. That's a bad job
Speaker 1: by us. We did not do Backscratcher. On Saturday, shame
Speaker 1: on us. But we begin with a programming update, a
Speaker 1: very important programming update for the radio show. So this
Speaker 1: is Sunday, and normally on Sunday night, I go into
Speaker 1: the studio and I do the show Sunday through Thursday
Speaker 1: on the West Coast, Monday through Friday on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: But this week different than most weeks, I will not
Speaker 1: be going through the motions. I will not be heading
Speaker 1: to the Salt Mine because I am headed to the
Speaker 1: Big Apple. Danyg headed to the Big Apple. I had
Speaker 1: mentioned in a previous episode of the podcast that I
Speaker 1: was supposed to go to New York and then the
Speaker 1: trip got canceled because of my unexpected electrical bill for
Speaker 1: an electrical panel from Hell. And I had this hole
Speaker 1: in my head. I had this great vision I was
Speaker 1: going to go to New York and I was gonna
Speaker 1: go up to Maine and hang out with the fans
Speaker 1: in Maine. They're gonna have a Mallard meet and greet.
Speaker 1: It was gonna be great. And then I got this
Speaker 1: massive bill, so I wasn't gonna go. And then I
Speaker 1: had some conversations with my brother who lives in New
Speaker 1: York Danny, and he was able to convince me this
Speaker 1: is a very important thing that I.
Speaker 3: Need to be there.
Speaker 1: And so when somebody tells you have to be there,
Speaker 1: just show up right. You show up for family. And
Speaker 1: my brother brings up a great point because this is
Speaker 1: my niece graduated from high school and there's a big
Speaker 1: family party. And so I got family on the East
Speaker 1: Coast and they'll be there, and some other relatives and
Speaker 1: some people who are total strangers who have no idea
Speaker 1: who they are, will be there, and so we are
Speaker 1: making the pilgrimage to New York. I've not been to
Speaker 1: New York in several years, and I used to go
Speaker 1: there regularly, like every couple of years. But with COVID,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think the last time I went, it
Speaker 1: probably was five years ago. So it's been a bit
Speaker 1: of a stretch for me because I usually go every
Speaker 1: couple of years. And I cannot wait because it's the
Speaker 1: East Coast version of Los Angeles, Danny. It's it's homeless,
Speaker 1: it's crime, it's all that.
Speaker 3: Sweet music to our ears.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll have a good time. I don't know whether
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to a Yankee or a Mets
Speaker 1: game or any of that. I have no idea, although
Speaker 1: I did look if I buy tickets to the Mets game.
Speaker 1: The Mets are so shitty on the secondary market. You
Speaker 1: can get tickets for like six bucks on the secondary
Speaker 1: market to a Mets game.
Speaker 3: Wow. A broadcast from New York.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I wanted to, but I don't know why
Speaker 1: the company lately has not. They have not encouraged me
Speaker 1: to do a remote broadcast. I would have loved to
Speaker 1: have done. I've done the show from New York in
Speaker 1: the past. I did it from the iHeart Building in
Speaker 1: Lower Manhattan, which blew me away. By the way, when
Speaker 1: I did the show from the iHeart Building in Lower
Speaker 1: Manhattan and I got out of there at six in
Speaker 1: the morning and it was a ghost town, I thought
Speaker 1: I was in the twilight. Soon I'm like in the
Speaker 1: I'm in Manhattan, man, what the hell? There was nobody around.
Speaker 1: There were some people, sanitation guys were cleaning up trash.
Speaker 1: And then I walked by the NYPD Bureau and they
Speaker 1: had their they were changing shifts, so they were all
Speaker 1: out in front of the police the police station. Like
Speaker 1: going over there protocol for the day. But that was it.
Speaker 1: I didn't see anybody else. I swear that was that
Speaker 1: was crazy. But no, I'm not broadcasting unfortunately from New York.
Speaker 1: This week I will be The show will be dark,
Speaker 1: I mean the show beyond I will show it's always dark,
Speaker 1: but I will not be there. And it's also an
Speaker 1: act of chivalry, Danny, because my wife, of course going
Speaker 1: with me, and this week is her birthday week, and
Speaker 1: you know when it's your birthday week, it's a big time.
Speaker 1: That's a big Birthday week is a big f in deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some females that even do a whole birthday month.
Speaker 1: Oh well there's that too, Yeah, there's bad. But the
Speaker 1: week in particular, I mean that is when the spark
Speaker 1: really takes place right there. And if I were to
Speaker 1: work and not go on the trip and all that,
Speaker 1: I'd be a sline ball. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: be a sline ball.
Speaker 3: Day. How dare you make some money to spoil the
Speaker 3: person on their birthday month and week? Exactly an hour?
Speaker 1: Now? I love doing the show remotely. I don't mind
Speaker 1: doing it remotely. I like going to different radio stations.
Speaker 1: I've already been the one in New York and all
Speaker 1: that that is The cool thing about the iHeart building
Speaker 1: in New York. They have the cluster of New York stations.
Speaker 1: Maybe they've moved since I was there, but they have
Speaker 1: the brains of the iHeart app that we're on right now,
Speaker 1: and it's got all these supercomputers. It was really cool.
Speaker 1: It's like the size of a football field in my head.
Speaker 1: It's probably not that big, but in my head, it
Speaker 1: was the size of a football field. And it's just
Speaker 1: all these servers that keep the audio content going on
Speaker 1: the different iheartstreams and the podcasts and all that. And
Speaker 1: that's where they're headquartered, or at least they were headquartered.
Speaker 1: They're back. Last time I was was in the city.
Speaker 3: It's very cool. And when do you return?
Speaker 1: So I will be back this coming weekend, but we
Speaker 1: will have podcasts though next next week, so I want
Speaker 1: you to know we'll still have the podcast, and I'll
Speaker 1: post something on Facebook and all the responses will be, Hey,
Speaker 1: why aren't you hear numb nuts? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Fat boy entertain me?
Speaker 3: How dare you do the podcast but you're not on
Speaker 3: the live show?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly, for fuck's sake, what's wrong with you? You
Speaker 1: know that I'll think so. I know that's coming. But
Speaker 1: we will have brand new original podcast next weekend. Just
Speaker 1: the radio show will not be on, and so that
Speaker 1: is what we have to look forward to, or maybe
Speaker 1: not to look forward to this week. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: there'll be great people. I don't even know who's filling in.
Speaker 1: They don't tell me these things. I have no control
Speaker 1: over it. I'm sure there'll be wonderful people. And you
Speaker 1: people will send nasty messages to me about the people
Speaker 1: that fill in, which always happens, and so that's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. Suck it up, Buttercup, deal with it.
Speaker 1: Oh hell, Bill Miller. All right now the mail bag
Speaker 1: that means oh hi, oh ah, it's bag. And these
Speaker 1: are actual questions by actual listeners. Thank you, ohio Wow.
Speaker 1: You can send your question right now. You don't have
Speaker 1: to wait for me to post something. If you already
Speaker 1: have a question you want to ask, you're curious about something,
Speaker 1: whether it's about to show, about life, about anything, you
Speaker 1: can send questions care of Reeal fifth Hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. That's Real fifth Hour, Real fifth Hour at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com and you can check that out the
Speaker 1: Facebook page Bain Mallard Show. We post usually on Tuesdays,
Speaker 1: although this week, God only knows when I'll post to
Speaker 1: ask for questions. I don't know. Hopefully i'll remember, but
Speaker 1: check that out. First one comes from Cliff in Nashville,
Speaker 1: and he says, Hey, guys, my wife is fasting, but
Speaker 1: when I'm frying bacon, if she can't resist the temptation.
Speaker 1: I know you don't eat bacon, but is there something
Speaker 1: your wife cooks that leads you into temptation? Yes? I
Speaker 1: love food, Cliff, I can't get enough. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love the smell of it. I love the taste
Speaker 1: of it. I want to eat it all. But I
Speaker 1: have worked up my self, disciplined where I'm I'm good.
Speaker 1: I have not fallen off the fasting wagon. Let me
Speaker 1: let me. I'm going to the app, Danny, I'm going
Speaker 1: to the app right now. On a second, because I'm streaking.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: We're going streaking, man, We're going streaking.
Speaker 3: Hang on, I'm gonna tweet this out on the Fox
Speaker 3: Sports radio account.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is big. So I, as of this moment,
Speaker 1: have gone nine hundred and forty six consecutive days fasting.
Speaker 1: What nine hundred and forty six consecutive days?
Speaker 3: How are you still alive.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I actually I actually passed away a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. So yeah, that's you know, that's closing in.
Speaker 1: I gotta get to one thousand ninety five days and
Speaker 1: that'll be three full years. So I have another what
Speaker 1: is that a hund in something days to go, and
Speaker 1: then I'll be a three full years, three full years.
Speaker 1: But I can't stop then. I can't because if I
Speaker 1: miss one day, I go back to zero. You know
Speaker 1: how upsetting that would be to me, Danny, after I've
Speaker 1: built this big streak up. So I have to do
Speaker 1: this the rest of my life.
Speaker 3: I mean, what counts as a day of fasting?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the minimum fast is sixteen hours, but I
Speaker 1: usually right now I'm averaging twenty one and a half
Speaker 1: hours between meals.
Speaker 3: How do you do that?
Speaker 1: So what I do during the week is I usually
Speaker 1: skip one day and then I fast. I fast like,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty twenty three to twenty two hours a
Speaker 1: couple of days. On the weekends, I'll do like the
Speaker 1: bare minimum. I like sixteen hours. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: cheating on the weekends when I do the sixteen hours,
Speaker 1: I want a camel. Yeah, that's my mission. Goss. So
Speaker 1: to answer your question, Cliff, that was like a humble
Speaker 1: brag by me. There are plenty of things my wife
Speaker 1: makes there. There have been days I've been fasting and
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of delicious Mexican food being made in
Speaker 1: the house or baked goods, and I can't eat any
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: So there is that bacon is a tough one to
Speaker 3: get past, just the way it makes the whole house
Speaker 3: smell delicious. And if you get that crispy bacon that
Speaker 3: snaps in two oh, man, that's that's heaven right there.
Speaker 1: There's so many foos like that, like French fries, you
Speaker 1: name it. I mean, the things you make are just
Speaker 1: just great. Terry and England writes in on the mail bag.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, how did you start at WEEI? You
Speaker 1: were obviously at FSR at the time, how so how
Speaker 1: did that come about? I used to listen to both shows.
Speaker 1: I know why the show ended, but how did the
Speaker 1: hiring process work? That's from Terry in England, So Terry,
Speaker 1: the way it worked is that the program director of
Speaker 1: WEI was someone that I had known, had actually briefly
Speaker 1: popped in at Fox Sports Radio. We had a pass
Speaker 1: together he was a fan of my show, The Overnight Show,
Speaker 1: and I originally when at that time, the second time
Speaker 1: I had been on WI before, I filled in for
Speaker 1: Mikey Adams, who we've had on the podcast. I filled
Speaker 1: in for him many many years ago. But they brought
Speaker 1: me back and I was auditioning. They flew me back
Speaker 1: to Boston for a couple of days. I auditioned on
Speaker 1: the morning show. I was up for the morning show
Speaker 1: on WI and it wasn't really a good fit because
Speaker 1: I would have been like a third wheel and I
Speaker 1: didn't really want to do that. I kind of like
Speaker 1: doing my own thing, and you know, I didn't really
Speaker 1: want to be that guy, and so I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was a great fit.
Speaker 3: Play well with others well, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: They they were they were very nice and they they
Speaker 1: liked my work, and they said, Hey, would you be
Speaker 1: willing to do some stuff remotely? We have an opening
Speaker 1: at night. We've got kind of a rotating group of
Speaker 1: people at night. Is that something that you would be
Speaker 1: interested in? And I said, hell, yeah, absolutely, I would
Speaker 1: love to be in, you know, be part of that,
Speaker 1: And so I did it for a while. We had
Speaker 1: a lot of the show did pretty well.
Speaker 3: I we're listening and a lot of your FSR live
Speaker 3: listeners would support you on that station as you talked
Speaker 3: about Boston hockey.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well I didn't do too much of that, but
Speaker 1: it was the funniest was I. I did the late
Speaker 1: night show at EI, and part of that show, the
Speaker 1: Red Sox covered up the show a lot, so they
Speaker 1: didn't need somebody full time because they had the Red
Speaker 1: Sox and those back That was back before the pitchclock
Speaker 1: when the games would go five hours and Red Sox
Speaker 1: games would go on forever. So the first hour I
Speaker 1: did this show called Red Sox Review, which was the
Speaker 1: like in LA we have Dodger Talk, yes, but in
Speaker 1: Boston it's called Red Sox Review. So I would come
Speaker 1: on from the Malor Mansion in southern California doing the
Speaker 1: Red Sox Review postgame talk show, and there'd be people
Speaker 1: leaving Finway Park that would be calling me up to
Speaker 1: talk about the Red Sox game that night. And this
Speaker 1: is back in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, so it
Speaker 1: was spanned a couple of years, and that actually won
Speaker 1: the World Series in twenty eighteen. They were cheating against
Speaker 1: my Dodgers in the World Series. But anyway, so I
Speaker 1: did that and I did the show, and it ended
Speaker 1: for those that don't know the backstore and that the
Speaker 1: reason I had to stop working at WI remotely is
Speaker 1: because the Overnight show got picked up by the Sports Hub,
Speaker 1: which is the rival station of Weei, and we have
Speaker 1: been on the Sports Hub for the last five years,
Speaker 1: which is great. That is the number one sports station
Speaker 1: ratings wise in the entire country, and that is an
Speaker 1: absolute flamethrower Danny in terms of audience reach. And I'm
Speaker 1: very lucky that first hour, which is the last hour
Speaker 1: for us, but it's like the early morning drive hour,
Speaker 1: absolutely kill it in Boston. There you go, Terry Joshua
Speaker 1: writes in he says, Slim Mallor and Danny g Hey Malor,
Speaker 1: how come the Jason Smith Show has so many new
Speaker 1: and different imaging features, but the Malor Show can't even
Speaker 1: afford to change the imaging of lame jokes and s
Speaker 1: on the end of it. I'm outraged, SS Joshua. Well,
Speaker 1: there's several reasons for that. I know you're just trying
Speaker 1: to get under my skin and it's working. It's absolutely working.
Speaker 1: Get that out of the way your big dummy. But no,
Speaker 1: I mean usually what happens. I don't know all the
Speaker 1: inner workings, but typically the producer has to request new imagery.
Speaker 1: I think Coop is very satisfied with the imaging, apparently
Speaker 1: doesn't want new stuff. I think he's okay with it,
Speaker 1: and that's just that's my interpretation. I don't think we've
Speaker 1: gotten any new imaging since you were on the show, Danny.
Speaker 1: I think everything is the same. I think it's all.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong on that, but I don't recall.
Speaker 3: I definitely typed up some imaging for your show and
Speaker 3: sent it into Vito when I was there. I don't
Speaker 3: know what happened after me, but yeah, we had we
Speaker 3: tried a couple of new games when I was on
Speaker 3: your program.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's not true. There is one. There is
Speaker 1: one new thing we had mal d Militia Feud which
Speaker 1: came after you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, So there is one new piece. So
Speaker 3: Coop did send something in.
Speaker 1: That's Rightoper Loop, and that's my man. But I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on on the Jason Smith showing all that.
Speaker 1: I mean, those are nice guys. I see him at work,
Speaker 1: but when I'm when I'm coming in where like ship's
Speaker 1: passing the night they're leaving.
Speaker 3: Whenever Jason Smith is rocking the sleeveless shirts, does it
Speaker 3: does make you want to wear your muscle shirt to work.
Speaker 1: I want to come in my banana hammock to work.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to do. I love Jason is
Speaker 1: so laid back man, and they now record all these months,
Speaker 1: so I'm always like, I got to look somewhat decent.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't be a total slob because I'm
Speaker 1: on camera. Even though it's radio, I'm on camera. You
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be on the internet. The Internet's forever.
Speaker 1: You know, all this craps going through my head. I
Speaker 1: wish I could be like Jason. Jason doesn't give a shit.
Speaker 1: Jason just wears whatever he wants to wear, and he's
Speaker 1: dressed for comfort, and I give him credit. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I wear certain things that I'm not really comfortable in
Speaker 1: because I think they look somewhat better and hide some
Speaker 1: of my ugliness. So, yeah, Jason, he loves the shirts.
Speaker 1: Those are like nineteen eighty style. What do you think
Speaker 1: old school? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I wear those when I clean out the garage.
Speaker 1: Well, you go out there when you're trying to show
Speaker 1: the guns off right, you wear those Yeah.
Speaker 3: When the neighbors passed by the garage, I just slowly
Speaker 3: lift the gun show up. More like a beauty gun
Speaker 3: show right now.
Speaker 1: Nick in Wisconsin says, hey, Ben and Danny g Nick
Speaker 1: popped up at the mall of Meet and Greet. Great
Speaker 1: to meet Nick back in the day, he says, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny with that guy messing his shoulder up on
Speaker 1: the Price is Right? Which game would you rather be on?
Speaker 1: The Price is Right? Or Wheel of Fortune and any
Speaker 1: other game shows that would be your favorite. Nick says, So,
Speaker 1: I loved Prices right when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: I would skip school because I was a miscreant, and
Speaker 1: I would stay home and my mom said, you can't
Speaker 1: leave the house. You're going to stay home. And then
Speaker 1: i'd find when she was doing something else, I would
Speaker 1: flip on daytime TV and it was these crappy soap operas,
Speaker 1: but they had in the morning, they had The Price
Speaker 1: was Right, and I was all about it, man. And
Speaker 1: then I actually met Bob Barker years later at a
Speaker 1: college radio conference. I'll have to tell that story sometime.
Speaker 1: I've told it in the past. But I haven't told
Speaker 1: them a while. But anyway, I would love to be
Speaker 1: on the prices right. I think it'd be great. You
Speaker 1: know the game that I loved also Deal or No Deal?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah with well Monty Hall, I think hosted
Speaker 1: a Deal or No Deal? And What's Behind Door Number three?
Speaker 3: I had a girlfriend back in the day drag me
Speaker 3: to a taping of that, and it was for my birthday.
Speaker 3: I did not want to go. I did not want
Speaker 3: to sit there dressed up. So what I did I
Speaker 3: put on my entire Tupac costume smoke, so I was
Speaker 3: Tupac in the audience of Deal or No Deal, the
Speaker 3: new version of it, of course. And I guess they're
Speaker 3: racist because they didn't pick me.
Speaker 1: Did they? They say, what do you do? Are you going?
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel as Karl Malone? What are you doing here?
Speaker 1: How dare you racist?
Speaker 3: You know the ones they're gonna pick, because when you're
Speaker 3: in line and they're interviewing you on their video camera
Speaker 3: really quick before they let you in, there's all these
Speaker 3: people with all this fake energy, doing somersaults and dancing
Speaker 3: for the camera like a chicken on an open flame.
Speaker 3: And then they get to me, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 3: what up, I'm Tupac. Yeah yeah, yeah, go in. We're
Speaker 3: not picking you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good to have you here. Thank you for
Speaker 1: being here, Thanks.
Speaker 3: For being here. Get your ass in there. We're not
Speaker 3: picking you, buddy.
Speaker 1: Another show that I love and I actually quote this
Speaker 1: show on the Overnight show, Press Your Luck. Do you
Speaker 1: ever watch Press Your Luck? It's Nommy nommy, big money money.
Speaker 3: Okay. I was a little kid. My grandmother would watch that,
Speaker 3: and so yeah, secondhand, I watched it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved it because it had the cartoon characters
Speaker 1: and I was a little you know, I was a
Speaker 1: kid too, We're around the same age, and I would
Speaker 1: watch it and I was like, wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: You're seventy sam right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was great. That is neat man.
Speaker 1: And there was another another game show, and I forget
Speaker 1: the name of it, but it it was like you
Speaker 1: would peel back like pictures on a board and then
Speaker 1: you had there was like a cartoon drawing and you
Speaker 1: just say what the cartoon drawing meant?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds familiar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying. I don't remember the name. Let's slick up.
Speaker 1: I see. That was probably of old.
Speaker 3: By saying that, though you made me think of the
Speaker 3: game that's on the price is right where you punch
Speaker 3: pull out the amount of money that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I remember. Yeah yeah, here's old school game shows.
Speaker 1: Here's American gladiators, remember that, of course, classic back in
Speaker 1: the old school days. I think, uh, double talk, No,
Speaker 1: not that face, the music, the newlywed game now mind readers,
Speaker 1: matchmakers may remember. I have to see if I can
Speaker 1: have it pop into my brain at some point here. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I would rather be on prices right, or press your
Speaker 1: luck or family feud would be fun too.
Speaker 3: It would be fun, yeah, of course, because Steve Harvey's
Speaker 3: he's one of your mentors.
Speaker 1: Legend he liked the Malamobile back in the day, a
Speaker 1: fan of it. Yeah, rel no, he was. He in
Speaker 1: his security guard walked by, and then they liked, let's
Speaker 1: see here, we've got well past where we play on
Speaker 1: our show. I don't see the name. If I see
Speaker 1: the name, I would know right away. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's move on here. What do we have next? Up
Speaker 1: on the mailbag? J Bone from Portland, Maine. J Bone,
Speaker 1: We've gotten this question before, but we'll answer it against
Speaker 1: if our answers have changed. J Bone in Portland, Maine says,
Speaker 1: if you had to eat one thing for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life, what would it be. He says, you
Speaker 1: also are taking a crazy vitamin for all of the
Speaker 1: health shit, so that doesn't matter. But you can only
Speaker 1: eat one meal forever. And he says, go bills from
Speaker 1: Jbone in Portland, Maine. So I will give my answer, Danny.
Speaker 1: It is a food that is versatile. It is a
Speaker 1: food that can cover the full spectrum of food. Zah
Speaker 1: pizza pizza. Yeah, because you can get a cheese steak pizza,
Speaker 1: you can get a Mexican style pizza, you can get
Speaker 1: any kind of topping you want from another food. You
Speaker 1: can get if you choose to go down that direction.
Speaker 3: That's cheating a little bit, but not cheating.
Speaker 1: It's one food pizzas of food.
Speaker 3: Try to try like one restaurant. Is there a restaurant
Speaker 3: that makes all those different kinds of pizzas?
Speaker 1: Are you accusing me of cheating at the mail bag?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're accusing me of cheating at the
Speaker 1: freaking mail bag?
Speaker 3: It's almost like Eddie Garcia is a guest this week
Speaker 3: on the mail Bag.
Speaker 1: How about shut up. Well, I know Eddie does bend
Speaker 1: the rules quite a bit there and then claims that
Speaker 1: he's not bending the rules. But that's a different conversation,
Speaker 1: the different conversation. So I'd go pizza. What would you
Speaker 1: go there, Danny.
Speaker 3: I'll just pick one restaurant. It's been our go to
Speaker 3: lately for big events, like after a graduation or something
Speaker 3: like that Firestone Grill.
Speaker 1: That's your spot, that spot because.
Speaker 3: They have the try tip, a great salad. They have
Speaker 3: all the sides you can imagine, and their bread and
Speaker 3: their pizza is good. And they have these breadsticks, these
Speaker 3: garlic parmesan breadsticks ben Oh my god. I don't know
Speaker 3: how they do it, but they are crispy on the outside,
Speaker 3: super soft on the inside, and then you dip it
Speaker 3: into their barbecue sauce. Sounds good to me. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: is wonderful.
Speaker 1: You could also go like a deli, some of those
Speaker 1: big delis like Canter's Deli has a menu that goes
Speaker 1: on or Cheesecake Factory, the massive menus you know those.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I like their venue for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's got like ten pages advertising. It's like a program
Speaker 1: at a stadium when they used to have those. Next
Speaker 1: up is Chakar John from Redmond, Oregon. He writes in
Speaker 1: he says, I was surprised and happy Ben to hear
Speaker 1: you with Zabe. I've been a fan of his for
Speaker 1: many many moons, going way back. Who the great Steve Zaban?
Speaker 1: How they going? Former FSR morning host never heard of them?
Speaker 1: To the hiccups, the statement that upside down doesn't work
Speaker 1: is bullshit. Back in my heavy beer consumption days, I
Speaker 1: would get the hiccups while tossing down the bruise rapidly
Speaker 1: standing on my head. Not athletic enough to stand on
Speaker 1: my hands against the wall would cure the hiccups every time.
Speaker 1: If I was too inebriated, I would bend over the
Speaker 1: back of a high back couch with my head on
Speaker 1: the floor. And sometimes that would work, yeah, man.
Speaker 3: And then I would choke on my own vomit.
Speaker 1: Yes, Then I would I would pass out from all
Speaker 1: the blood rising to my head, and then I would
Speaker 1: need a body bag. He says. I hope that someday
Speaker 1: your taste buds will mature and you will appreciate the
Speaker 1: fine taste of the Devil's blood ranch dressing. Well, John,
Speaker 1: I think I'm good Man. Good Man, I'm past that
Speaker 1: age and I am strong in the anti Devil's Blood camp.
Speaker 1: And it was wonderful to be on the Zabe Cast
Speaker 1: my second appearance, Danny on the Zabe Cast.
Speaker 3: You've made it the great Steve.
Speaker 1: Zaban morning man in Milwaukee and also a longtime radio
Speaker 1: personality in Washington, d C. Former FSR guy. And I
Speaker 1: love Zabe. I'm a big fan because he was very
Speaker 1: nice to me when he worked at Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: and he didn't have to be nice to me because
Speaker 1: he was the big morning guy. I was the weekend
Speaker 1: filling guy. But also the fact that he's a radio guy.
Speaker 1: He's one of us, Danny. He's not some former TV
Speaker 1: high poalutant dude or comic or jock. He's a guy
Speaker 1: like us. He's a radio artisan, is what he is.
Speaker 3: Blue collar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked it. That's those are my guys, radio people.
Speaker 1: That's what we got.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I had a tremendous rand dressing
Speaker 3: last night with a pepperoni pizza from Amazon Fresh and
Speaker 3: I cut the pizza up in the slices and dipped
Speaker 3: it just slightly into the ranch. It was wonderful and.
Speaker 1: You'll be going to hell for that. You'd be hanging
Speaker 1: out with the devil because you're drinking the devil's blood
Speaker 1: and the devil does not like that bad job by you.
Speaker 1: Next up on the mailbag, John in Tacoma Rights and
Speaker 1: says Ben and Danny g I just listened to your
Speaker 1: latest podcast. The topic of UFO aliens and extratrestrials was discussed.
Speaker 1: My question to the both of you, John says, do
Speaker 1: you believe these aliens are from outer space or are
Speaker 1: they demonic beings from the underworld?
Speaker 3: Ooh, well, my mom did teach us that there were
Speaker 3: angels that were kicked out of heaven because they were
Speaker 3: bad angels and what do they do with their free time? Duh?
Speaker 3: They tore ment humans on Earth. So there could be
Speaker 3: a segment of bad angels that are, you know, down
Speaker 3: here causing a ruckus. But I still think there's also life,
Speaker 3: another life form. We're not alone, definitely. Like I watched
Speaker 3: Men in Black, the original Men in Black one.
Speaker 1: That was a documentary.
Speaker 3: It was because go back and if you probably haven't
Speaker 3: seen it in a while, go back and watch Men
Speaker 3: in Black one, and it's exactly what's happening right now
Speaker 3: with all our UFO discussions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was a movie that was based
Speaker 1: on real life events. They went back in time. Do
Speaker 1: you remember the New York Mets outfielder that was in
Speaker 1: Men in Black at Shay Stadium. No, Bernard Guilkey. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: they showed Bernard Guilkey, who used to be a big
Speaker 1: league player. I remember more for the Cardinals and the Mets,
Speaker 1: but they showed him in the movie. So there's a
Speaker 1: fun fact that would be quite the plot twist. You
Speaker 1: talk about a surprise if they government says these are
Speaker 1: not aliens from outer space, these creatures live in the
Speaker 1: middle of the hollow Earth. Surprise. Then they leave from
Speaker 1: a portal, a demonic portal in the ocean, and that's
Speaker 1: why they fly out of the ocean. And they've got
Speaker 1: these powers, right, these unbelievable powers, and they swirl around
Speaker 1: like a cauldron. And yes, it's this dystopian hellhole that
Speaker 1: is right in the middle of the Earth. And then
Speaker 1: he wakes up. But that would be the next as
Speaker 1: we said last week, that'll be the next big pandemic.
Speaker 1: Greg in West Saint Paul, Beautiful Saint Paul. I really
Speaker 1: liked my time in the Twin Cities. That's a beautiful place.
Speaker 1: Of course, I was not there in the winter. I
Speaker 1: was there when the weather was perfect. There were no mosquitoes,
Speaker 1: there was no snow, there was no sun, there was nothing.
Speaker 1: It was just perfect.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 1: Greg says, I have a problem. Oh, he's a sporto question, Danny.
Speaker 1: He says, I have a problem with the way baseball
Speaker 1: is played and scored. If a pitcher comes up in
Speaker 1: the top of the ninth and his team is up
Speaker 1: by one run and he gives up two runs. In
Speaker 1: the bottom of the ninth, his team scores two runs
Speaker 1: and wins, why is he given the victory when he
Speaker 1: blew the save? So he's upset with the the save
Speaker 1: rule and how they award wins and all that. Well,
Speaker 1: the good news is that the wind no longer matters, Greg,
Speaker 1: that the nerds have eliminated the value of the win.
Speaker 1: But it is one of those weird things. And when
Speaker 1: I was a young guy starting out in the media,
Speaker 1: I actually met one of the people that was responsible
Speaker 1: for the save rule. He was a buddy of mine.
Speaker 1: He hosted a radio show in La This guy named
Speaker 1: irv K's do you know who that is? Probably not No. Yeah,
Speaker 1: IRV K's was a PR guy and it was an
Speaker 1: executive for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also worked for the
Speaker 1: Yankees and the Raiders and all this stuff and really
Speaker 1: good guy. He helped me out. I was a teenager
Speaker 1: when I started in radio, and he kind of showed
Speaker 1: me some of the ropes. He actually got me an
Speaker 1: interview with King Griffy Junior when Griffy was the biggest
Speaker 1: star in baseball with the Mariners. Remember how big a
Speaker 1: deal Griffy was back in the day, like the biggest
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan of baseball. And I got a one on
Speaker 1: one with Griffy because Irvk's was friends with his dad
Speaker 1: when he was the Yankee PR guy, Ken Griffy, And
Speaker 1: which is ironic because Kangriiffy jun hated the Yankees right.
Speaker 1: He couldn't stand the Yankees because they fucked over his dad.
Speaker 1: So Irvk's was one of three executives. There was a
Speaker 1: guy from the Cardinals and a guy from the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and they created the save rule in baseball. They came
Speaker 1: up with the rule which is really you know, I
Speaker 1: love irv but like we saw a pitcher I think
Speaker 1: last week that got a save Danny and it was
Speaker 1: like a ten run game, and he came in and
Speaker 1: pitched three innings and all. But this became an official
Speaker 1: role back in the nineteen I think nineteen sixty nine,
Speaker 1: the end of the sixties, it became an official role.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I got sidetracked. I just want to tell
Speaker 1: my IRVK story. That's all I got, you know, that's it.
Speaker 3: Well, back to the original question, who sent that in?
Speaker 1: That was from Greg in West Saint Paul.
Speaker 3: Greg just become part of the press. Go to the
Speaker 3: auxiliary press box in Anaheim. Watch all the games from there.
Speaker 3: You'll never see that play happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you will not see anything. You will look at
Speaker 1: the foul pole and then if you look off to
Speaker 1: your right again, you will see the pearly gates. It's
Speaker 1: right there. You have a front row seat to the
Speaker 1: pearly gates.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. IRV passed away years ago. I wonder how he
Speaker 1: feels about all these guys that get into the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame because of a rule that he created. There's
Speaker 1: a bunch of Hall of Fame close. Mariano River, the
Speaker 1: all time leader in saves, the only guy I think
Speaker 1: he's still the only guy to be a unanimous Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame guy. Right, I think he is. He was
Speaker 1: first first to do it. Next up, we've got Rick
Speaker 1: from Parts Unknown for both of you guys, He says,
Speaker 1: do you guys listen to FSR on your off time? Yeah? So,
Speaker 1: I don't listen all that much. I will flip around
Speaker 1: to see, you know, sometimes occasionally. But the main reason
Speaker 1: I don't is not that I don't think the people
Speaker 1: are great, because I think they're wonderful.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a corporate answer.
Speaker 1: Well, the main reason is I don't want to steal
Speaker 1: someone else's material. I want to do my own.
Speaker 3: I totally understand that, because that stuff gets in your
Speaker 3: head exactly right. Yeah, you could repeat some of it
Speaker 3: back later without even thinking about it because you heard
Speaker 3: it somewhere. A lot of times you'll be like, who
Speaker 3: did I hear say this? Somebody said that? You're right,
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's better to just not listen to any of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it gets in your subconscious, right, it gets conscious,
Speaker 1: and then you start you start repeating it, and I
Speaker 1: think I'm good. I think I'm okay.
Speaker 3: When there is breaking news, though, I'd like to hear
Speaker 3: how the show that's on the air reacts to it.
Speaker 3: So that is a time where I will open up
Speaker 3: my iHeartMedia app and listen to our network. I just
Speaker 3: want to see what the reaction is of the guys
Speaker 3: that are on the air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I that is true. And there's breaking sports news.
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool to hear in real time there's
Speaker 1: a big Super Bowl ends, or there's controversy in a
Speaker 1: game or something like that. That's kind of cool to
Speaker 1: tune in and hear what's going on. So I don't
Speaker 1: listen all that much, but it's not because I don't
Speaker 1: think I wouldn't enjoy the shows or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I just want to stay in your lane, as LeVar
Speaker 1: Ball says, the great poet Laureate LeVar Ball. Fred, a
Speaker 1: regular emailer from Spring, Texas, says, Hi, guys, do you
Speaker 1: have a favorite DVD? How about that a DVD that
Speaker 1: you like to rewatch now and then? Fred, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love that you got your DVDs and all that. No,
Speaker 1: I don't remember the last time I watched the DVD.
Speaker 1: It's my wife has seventeen thousand streaming services, so you
Speaker 1: have pretty much anything we want on demand at any
Speaker 1: given time. So yeah, I don't remember the last time
Speaker 1: I watched DVD. I think the last DVD I love.
Speaker 1: My favorite movie is Goodfellas, so it was probably Goodfellas
Speaker 1: or a classic sports movie like Major League something like that,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I have no idea. The last DVD I purchased back
Speaker 3: in the day was the Trilogy of The Godfather. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: never even took the third one out of the thing,
Speaker 3: but one and two got played so much that the
Speaker 3: second one got lost. So when you open up the
Speaker 3: trilogy pack, it's one in three in there right now.
Speaker 1: It's not personal, it's strictly business day. It's right there.
Speaker 1: And I remember the the leave the gun, take the Canoli.
Speaker 1: I remember that that was the.
Speaker 3: Head in the bed, one of the best, one of
Speaker 3: the best scenes in cinematic history.
Speaker 1: That movie's those movies are old, and it's still to
Speaker 1: this day that we use lines in pop culture. There
Speaker 1: are still lines. There's these punks on TikTok who have
Speaker 1: no idea what the Godfather movies were, and they still
Speaker 1: use those lines.
Speaker 3: Do you know the anniversary last year, they played the
Speaker 3: movie at all the AMC theaters and I took my
Speaker 3: lovely wife there. To see it for her first time.
Speaker 3: She saw it on the big screen the way it
Speaker 3: was meant to be seen.
Speaker 1: Did you tell her I'm gonna make you an offer
Speaker 1: you can't refuse?
Speaker 3: Yep, And for her that's a slurpy dur a slushy
Speaker 3: during the movie cherry and coke swirled together.
Speaker 1: Solid choice by the wife, and she's about to she
Speaker 1: upset that she's about to end the as an oven
Speaker 1: making the child. That's about the kids about to pop
Speaker 1: out of the oven.
Speaker 3: There she Oh, she wants him out now, get away
Speaker 3: from me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she's been through this before, so she's a
Speaker 1: she's a savvy veteran. Yeah, the child birthing process and
Speaker 1: all that. But yeah, my go to is a big
Speaker 1: giant bucket of popcorn, buttered popcorn that will literally take
Speaker 1: thirty days off your life. And then like some chocolate,
Speaker 1: some kind of chocolate, whether it's peanut m and ms
Speaker 1: or peanut butter cups.
Speaker 3: Popcorn is one of those things where you feel like
Speaker 3: you're dying as it fills in your stomach and you keep.
Speaker 1: Going, yeah, you are dying. Every kernel of popcorn you
Speaker 1: eat is about an hour of life you will not live.
Speaker 1: But you still do it. You still do it, and
Speaker 1: you just It's like Han Solo from Star Wars. May
Speaker 1: the Force be with you. May you overcome, overcome the
Speaker 1: things that you're putting in your body and all that.
Speaker 1: We did not get an email from alf the Alien opiner,
Speaker 1: but we did get an email from Mike and Fullerton.
Speaker 1: We'll close it out on this. Mike and Fullerton says, Hello,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g He says, if you want clean
Speaker 1: Ecoli free food, you should give Carl's Junior a truck.
Speaker 1: Since the advent of COVID, they have mandated a strict
Speaker 1: hand washing policy for all employees. You're welcome for the tip. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for that, Mike, I appreciated. He says, I
Speaker 1: don't find the after I don't know the aftermath yet.
Speaker 1: Well I think we do now know the aftermath from
Speaker 1: that that vessel with the Titanic that did not did
Speaker 1: not have a happy ending. But anyway, says, will you
Speaker 1: two think twice before boarding the Finding Nemo Submarine ride
Speaker 1: at Disneyland from now on.
Speaker 3: I never got on that stupid thing to begin with.
Speaker 3: I'm claustrophobic. That is my one superpower weakness, all right,
Speaker 3: When I'm flying around Metropolis and I'm saving humans from
Speaker 3: dying and I'm fighting crime. If a Nemesis popped up
Speaker 3: and he was like, I'm gonna put you in a
Speaker 3: closet and lock you in there and I couldn't get out,
Speaker 3: I would freak the you know what out. I hate
Speaker 3: small spaces. I refuse to get on that ride at Disneyland.
Speaker 3: I don't know how those five guys agreed to go
Speaker 3: in that little that little thing, and then the way
Speaker 3: they were sitting ben, how do you call that?
Speaker 1: It's like, well, I think the photo is it like
Speaker 1: we used to call it Indian style? Is that what
Speaker 1: you're talking about? Is? Yeah? And I don't think they
Speaker 1: say that anymore. Is racist?
Speaker 3: I don't know not only not only Indian style, but
Speaker 3: they had to kind of sit side to side to
Speaker 3: make themselves all squish in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's terrible.
Speaker 3: I mean I read an article about how they were
Speaker 3: trying to be conservative with certain spending versus science and research,
Speaker 3: and so there was a guy kind of defending why
Speaker 3: they would use a cheap remote control like that, and
Speaker 3: he said that they did spend a lot of money
Speaker 3: on other parts of it. But on certain parts of
Speaker 3: the vessel they had to cut corners. But man, hell no,
Speaker 3: you're gonna put me down that deep and you're gonna
Speaker 3: cut corners on nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a person.
Speaker 1: These are some of the richest people in society. And
Speaker 1: I mean there was some There was like a teenage
Speaker 1: kid on there, like nineteen year old kid with his
Speaker 1: dad on I.
Speaker 3: Mean, jeez, that's sad. He's Louise Man.
Speaker 1: Anyway, on that positive note, remember I will be away
Speaker 1: from my post at the watchtower. I'll be sleeping like
Speaker 1: the security guard at work there. I will be hanging
Speaker 1: out in the Big Apple.
Speaker 3: So if you're in the New York area, Yeah, you
Speaker 3: talked about pizza during this podcast. You're gonna get a
Speaker 3: slice as soon as you land.
Speaker 1: Unpopular opinion, Danny, I like the pizza in Chicago better
Speaker 1: than the pizza in New York.
Speaker 3: I could see that. Yeah, I could see that because
Speaker 3: there was a time Covino was talking shit about in
Speaker 3: and Out on the air and I turned my mic
Speaker 3: and I said, well, don't get me started on your
Speaker 3: overrated New York pizza. And oh it was like I
Speaker 3: dropped a bomb. It's not that the New York pizza
Speaker 3: is bad. It's just when I went there, I had
Speaker 3: such high expectations that didn't live up to it.
Speaker 1: So years ago I went with my brother.
Speaker 3: We went.
Speaker 1: There's two famous Brooklyn pizza places, which are supposed to
Speaker 1: be like the top pizza places in New York, you know,
Speaker 1: La Di Da, And so we go in there, and
Speaker 1: I think I upset my brother because I said I'd
Speaker 1: rather have Costco pizza. It tastes better to me. I'm
Speaker 1: at this famous Brooklyn pizzaiha, and I'm like, I kind
Speaker 1: of like the Kirkland brand pizza more than this. All right,
Speaker 1: you're back tomorrow, Danny, Yes.
Speaker 3: Monday after you pissed off the entire East coast right now,
Speaker 3: But Monday afternoon two to four on the West side,
Speaker 3: and that's five to seven in New York City, where
Speaker 3: you're gonna be.
Speaker 1: That's right, and I will. There's two things now, food
Speaker 1: wise in New York. I gotta go to Katz's Delhi,
Speaker 1: which is it's the greatest deli in New York. And
Speaker 1: they charge you seven hundred dollars to go there just
Speaker 1: to look at it. Seven hundred dollars, and then I
Speaker 1: love the street pretzel salt like the street pretzel big oversized,
Speaker 1: which is hard fine, It's hard to find that a
Speaker 1: good spreak.
Speaker 3: Also, the street Euros are really good. And the bagels.
Speaker 3: Go to any good deli there get a bagel and
Speaker 3: cream cheese. I don't know how they do it. It's
Speaker 3: the water, supposedly.
Speaker 1: I know they claim the world blah blah blah, the water.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but every time I had a bagel
Speaker 3: in New York, I wanted a second one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will definitely be eating many bagels, and I
Speaker 1: will My fasting streak will be tested Danny this week.
Speaker 1: Will I be able to continue my streak pigging my
Speaker 1: way out through New York? Will find out on the
Speaker 1: next edition of The Fifth Hour, which we'll be back
Speaker 1: on Friday. Have a great rest of your Sunday, have
Speaker 1: a wonderful week, stay safe, and I will be back
Speaker 1: with Danny g in my position right here on the
Speaker 1: podcast next week.
Speaker 3: Later. Skater got a murder. I gotta go