Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of Hot
Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere is
Speaker 1: a Saturday, Saturday Saturday. The content does not end. The
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G Radio to
Speaker 1: get you through the hell that the weekend could be now.
Speaker 1: Normally people look forward to the weekend, but sometimes you
Speaker 1: have nothing to do. But we are here to liven
Speaker 1: things up, Danny G. Even on a Saturday. How's your
Speaker 1: bracket looking? Is it already in the trash can? Well,
Speaker 1: they call me Benny Bracketts for a reason, day d G.
Speaker 1: As you can see on the company website, I was
Speaker 1: requested by management to fill out a bracket and I
Speaker 1: told them, I said, I'm gonna win that TV is
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna win. Now you're gonna give me that TV? Andinghuse, no, no, no, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Westinghouse is a big sponsor, which I think I read
Speaker 1: seventeen thousand times and all that stuff. But the the
Speaker 1: n C A a a tournament, a big, a big festivals
Speaker 1: year on this on this weekend, and that's what it's
Speaker 1: all about. I'm sure you know from Black Friday. Westinghouse
Speaker 1: is the TV that people line up for for blocks. Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I you know there's there's a million different TV companies.
Speaker 1: Danny g and the Westinghouse an all time or a classic.
Speaker 1: It never goes out of style. I've got on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I've got my I've got Wizard, We've got that, We've
Speaker 1: got backscratcher, flipping the bird with a mask, a swing
Speaker 1: and a miss and ghosted. That's a lot of content.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a lot of content and a limited
Speaker 1: amount of time. So let's get right into what do
Speaker 1: you say here? You ready to go? Yeah? All right,
Speaker 1: this is siting. I'm very excited. So, as you referenced,
Speaker 1: and it is that time of the year again, as
Speaker 1: everyone in sports radio, we all undergo a metamorphosis and
Speaker 1: it's like transforming, like it's like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.
Speaker 1: And we're all college basketball experts, all of a sudden
Speaker 1: Abrica dabra hocus pocus. College basketball does not get a
Speaker 1: lot of play on radio. It just doesn't. I was
Speaker 1: talking to a radio friend of mine back East, and
Speaker 1: he thinks that the the COVID shutdown of the n
Speaker 1: c A tournament in was the final blow the college basketball,
Speaker 1: completely knocking it out of the zeitgeist of people. Now
Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. I'm not quite there yet, and
Speaker 1: I get into the tournament. I have some reasons for that.
Speaker 1: They do call me, as I said, Benny Bracketts and
Speaker 1: all that, but we're all experts on college basketball. So
Speaker 1: I have been Danny over the last couple weeks, leaning
Speaker 1: into this weekend as we chopped the field down from
Speaker 1: sixty four and widow it away or actually sixty eight
Speaker 1: with the playing games back early in the week. But
Speaker 1: so I've been immersing myself in n c A hoops
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. Actually, it is the
Speaker 1: most wondrous time of the year for office pools, for
Speaker 1: for gambling and all this stuff. With March madness. Now
Speaker 1: we have it on, you know at the Mallard Mansion,
Speaker 1: a NonStop. But for me, it's all about the Wizard Danny,
Speaker 1: it's all about the wizard, about the wizard, as in
Speaker 1: the Wizard of Westwood John R. Wooden legend. Well, the
Speaker 1: as you as you know, I'm an ambassador for the
Speaker 1: memory the legacy of John Wooden. You're saying, what is that,
Speaker 1: you gas bag? You blow hard? Let me explain. So
Speaker 1: this will be my twentieth year voting for the John R.
Speaker 1: Wooden Award, And uh, I've talked about it from times right,
Speaker 1: it is really cool. I like, I mean, we kid
Speaker 1: around about it. But I don't need the heisman. I
Speaker 1: don't need the the m v P, the cy Young,
Speaker 1: any of that stuff. I don't need because I have
Speaker 1: a vote. I have a there's a limited number of
Speaker 1: votes available, media votes, and I get to vote for
Speaker 1: the the awards a pound for pound, Danny, for my money,
Speaker 1: the Wooden Award is at the very top. It is
Speaker 1: for lem wrong. Now, how did you get this back
Speaker 1: in the day? Did you apply for it? Were they desperate? No?
Speaker 1: I got a great story. So there was a well
Speaker 1: known sportscaster in Los Angeles named Ed Arnold. Ed worked
Speaker 1: at Channel five in l A kt l A and
Speaker 1: I was friends with that Ed. It was very nice
Speaker 1: to me early on in my career when no one
Speaker 1: should have been nice to me, no one should have
Speaker 1: done anything cool to me, and but he was very
Speaker 1: kind to me, and he kind of you know, led me,
Speaker 1: you know, down the path to to have a career
Speaker 1: in radio. One of the people that was very positive
Speaker 1: to me. And I'm very grateful to Ed Arnold. And
Speaker 1: Ed was a long time TV sportscaster in l A.
Speaker 1: And he said, you know what, Ben came up to me.
Speaker 1: It was actually Dodger Stadium and and said, you know
Speaker 1: you've been you know, I forget exactly what he said.
Speaker 1: He was very kind, something along the line you know,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna go places whether so he he
Speaker 1: wanted me to vote for the Wooden War and uh,
Speaker 1: this is you know, long, long, long ago, and I've
Speaker 1: been in the business for a while, so I wasn't
Speaker 1: like a young total young pup. But gave me the
Speaker 1: Wooden Award vote. And my first year voting was twenty
Speaker 1: two and Jay Williams, who's now on ESPN, but he
Speaker 1: was at Duke. He is the Wooden Award winner that year.
Speaker 1: And over the years, we've had legends like Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: won the Wooden Award. Andrew Boget was a number one
Speaker 1: pick for I think it was the Bucks, but he
Speaker 1: won the Wooden Ward JJ reddick uh. And then they're
Speaker 1: like college legends like Jimmer for Debt who I loved
Speaker 1: a b y u Jimber for Debt, but he didn't
Speaker 1: make it in the NBA. Zaion Williamson won it. He's
Speaker 1: a stiff in the NBA right now. But it's been
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. So it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And one player come to mind that you went against
Speaker 1: the grain, you voted for somebody that wasn't the popular choice. Well,
Speaker 1: I did vote, and he ended up winning the award.
Speaker 1: But at the time, Jamir Nelson, remember Jamir Nelson look
Speaker 1: guard out of I think Joe's I believe it was
Speaker 1: in Philly and he had a decent NBA career, but
Speaker 1: I've remember voting for him, and yeah, the Orlando Magic
Speaker 1: among other teams, a pretty good career. I'm guessing he's
Speaker 1: fully vested in the NBA pension. Yeah, they send out
Speaker 1: a watch list for the Wooden Award, and so once
Speaker 1: I get to watch list, that's that's who I look at.
Speaker 1: That's my guys. I try to watch as many of
Speaker 1: those games as I can. And uh and and I'm
Speaker 1: waiting actually might might have the ballot. It's an online vote,
Speaker 1: it's a secure online vote, like everything these days. And
Speaker 1: so I'm waiting until the eleventh hour to fill out
Speaker 1: the ballot. It's I'm waiting till this weekend's done, just
Speaker 1: so I get one last look at the top guys
Speaker 1: in the tournament. And uh, and then I'll finish up.
Speaker 1: And then right after the show Sunday and the Monday,
Speaker 1: so tomorrow night, after the show, so early Monday morning,
Speaker 1: just before the deadline when they locked the vote, I
Speaker 1: have set an alarm on my iPhone to make sure
Speaker 1: I don't screw this up, because I I got concerned
Speaker 1: the last year, Danny, I I I changed my email ID,
Speaker 1: just my email I just changed, and I was worried
Speaker 1: I was gonna get vote. Eddie reminded me, and so
Speaker 1: I was in a panic. I was in a tizzy.
Speaker 1: I'll play with Eddie. So yeah, yeah, you can't screw
Speaker 1: this stuff after twenty years. No, I gotta keep I
Speaker 1: gotta keep voting. And John wouldn't. He's famous, I would
Speaker 1: say the most famous quote wouldn't, of course, known as
Speaker 1: college basketball circles is the goat of all time and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But the the one quote from what
Speaker 1: he had, the seven point Creed, which I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: heard Danny over. There's a seven point creed. But there's
Speaker 1: one line in that that has been repeated at nauseum.
Speaker 1: It's point number three in the seven point Creed. Now,
Speaker 1: point number one is be true to yourself. Point number
Speaker 1: two is help others. The third one is the money quote,
Speaker 1: and it's make each day your masterpiece. What do you
Speaker 1: want from me? It's a great quote that it's a
Speaker 1: wonderful line. Make every just if you just make every
Speaker 1: day your masterpiece, it's a life will live too bad.
Speaker 1: A lot of our days are like finger painting hundred
Speaker 1: hundred and and he had wouldn't spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time coming up with like sayings and things to put
Speaker 1: on lines. He had the Pyramid of Success, which is
Speaker 1: another thing he came up with, which is the behaviors
Speaker 1: to be a successful person in life and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: which I don't know how many of these do you
Speaker 1: think you actually connect on? Anyway, I'll give you the
Speaker 1: twenty five real quick, you got you got faith patients
Speaker 1: now went up to three billions. Fight slap me around
Speaker 1: a little bit. Competitive greatness, integrity, resourcefulness, poise, confidence, reliability, adaptability,
Speaker 1: condition skills. I'm gonna start the whack off right now.
Speaker 1: Team spirit, honesty, ambition, self control, alertness. I'm a huge initiative.
Speaker 1: What else you have? Sincerity, friendship, industrial nous, loyalty, cooperation,
Speaker 1: enthusiasm in tentness also on me on the list? Wow,
Speaker 1: just like the great Jerry West throwing his m v
Speaker 1: P trophy through the window on the new HBO Lakers drama.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. I've heard they made Jerry look
Speaker 1: like a douchebag. I have not seen that. He doesn't
Speaker 1: come off as the nicest guy, but definitely comes off
Speaker 1: as a basketball savant. Yeah, yeah, I have not. I
Speaker 1: have not checked that out. I I don't know is
Speaker 1: it worth I'm not a Laker guy, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: But I think I think you would like it, regardless
Speaker 1: of if you're a Laker guy or not. You know. Also,
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention before I forget that we had
Speaker 1: a passing this week of someone that I knew and
Speaker 1: I didn't get to it. On the radio. She also
Speaker 1: pat chop by me. Uh, you probably know who this
Speaker 1: guy is, Danny g from your Laker fandom. Alan Massingille,
Speaker 1: the Great Alan Massonille passed away. He had been very sick.
Speaker 1: He had colon cancer for years. And Alan, uh, someone
Speaker 1: that you again we crossed pass back when he was
Speaker 1: doing he was doing the Lakers stuff on k CAL
Speaker 1: l A him and I think it was James Worthy
Speaker 1: would be on after after Laker games. But Alan very
Speaker 1: good guy. He was one of the originals at ESPN
Speaker 1: And the thing I loved about Alan Massingale was he
Speaker 1: was always kind of down to earth and he could
Speaker 1: have been a total dick because a lot of people
Speaker 1: I've known that worked at ESPN back in the heyday,
Speaker 1: and he worked kind of work. He worked there before
Speaker 1: that it really became the monster that it eventually became
Speaker 1: announced quite as not as big a monster as it was,
Speaker 1: but but he worked there and he was always in
Speaker 1: the early days and very very cool guy from Florida,
Speaker 1: from the South, I believe from Florida. Uh. And he
Speaker 1: had been sick. I guess he fell and then he
Speaker 1: ended up passing away as a result of the fall
Speaker 1: because he had made in poor health for a long time,
Speaker 1: but rest in peace. Alan Massingale uh a long time
Speaker 1: l a sportscaster, but a guy that that worked at
Speaker 1: ESPN in the early days and did some Laker broadcasting
Speaker 1: stuff post games. So rest rest of me. Way too young,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's never a right time to die,
Speaker 1: but he was. I think he was sixty three years always,
Speaker 1: even younger than my mom. My mom died she was
Speaker 1: sixty six. So yeah, I was sad to see that report. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we have the we went from the wizard
Speaker 1: to the backscratcher. We gotta do it again. That last
Speaker 1: week we lamented the fact, Danny, that that no one,
Speaker 1: no one really gave us any love on the reviews. Remember,
Speaker 1: we were like, wait a minute, what happened? You know,
Speaker 1: we got crickets, that's all we got. And I was
Speaker 1: depressing and all that stuff, you know, very sad. The
Speaker 1: good news is we got a bunch a six pack
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Speaker 1: if people send a review in on the Apple podcast page,
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Speaker 1: gotta just go to shady massage parlors every single week.
Speaker 1: So what all about? Just have a random women sitting
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Speaker 1: So we'll just call this person lou but I don't
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Speaker 1: he says. Hashtag what's still wrong with the Clippers? What
Speaker 1: is still wrong? What the Clippers not? Dare you the
Speaker 1: best drops ever? That was from David in Boston. Was
Speaker 1: that a total of six? Thank you? Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we're I think that's all six. I men, Mario,
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Speaker 1: I mean the dear Ken Miller. One logan that was logan.
Speaker 1: So that was logan our gout logan in Memphis, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: one of the great barbecue cities in in America. So
Speaker 1: I'm told, so flipping the bird with a mask? What
Speaker 1: is this about, Danny g What are we what are
Speaker 1: we dealing with this one? Well, and yesterday's podcast, I
Speaker 1: was talking a little bit about how Monday was the
Speaker 1: first day that California schools we're no longer requiring you
Speaker 1: who worked there at the school or students to have
Speaker 1: to wear a mask. It was optional. In fact, we
Speaker 1: went around the campus and hung up these flyers that
Speaker 1: showed a picture of a girl with her thumb up
Speaker 1: a box that was checked, saying I am comfortable without
Speaker 1: a mask. And then and then another picture I've heard
Speaker 1: with the other thumb up saying I am comfortable with
Speaker 1: my mask. All the cheesiness that you would expect from
Speaker 1: the school districts here in California. Of course this is
Speaker 1: a big deal. We're they're still trying to encourage the kids,
Speaker 1: like overwhelming the you should keep wearing the mask and
Speaker 1: all that. Don't don't stop. They still you don't know,
Speaker 1: at least the school that I work for. I gotta
Speaker 1: give them props because they didn't say anything to the
Speaker 1: staff like that. They didn't say anything to the students.
Speaker 1: They only hung those those flyers up. So I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, cool, I mean, it's up to us what
Speaker 1: we want to do. In my mind, I'm thinking the
Speaker 1: parents are gonna show up on Monday morning drop off
Speaker 1: the kids. They are gonna run in, screaming with their
Speaker 1: friends with no masks on Sure, my morning shift, I'm
Speaker 1: out there in front of the school. Some of my
Speaker 1: responsibilities are with the gate. You're like, you're shepherding them in. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I I'm the muscle right outside the main gates. You're
Speaker 1: the ranch hero leading down. Yes. So I got my
Speaker 1: walkie to hockey that looked very official. Parents are pulling up,
Speaker 1: but I noticed something ben that caught me off guard. Okay,
Speaker 1: there were parents inside their cars wearing masks. I'm talking
Speaker 1: both parents with a mask on, two kids in the
Speaker 1: back seat, both wearing masks, and then the parents pushed
Speaker 1: the kids out of the car. And what I heard
Speaker 1: the parents say was, and do not take it off
Speaker 1: the entire day. No, really, boom, you can light me
Speaker 1: on fire. And they're looking right at me too, like
Speaker 1: you scumbag without a mask. I see you. So it
Speaker 1: felt like not so subtle way of flipping me off
Speaker 1: with their masks on while all of you are getting sick.
Speaker 1: Now because some of the masks are off, we're gonna
Speaker 1: double up our masks and wear them inside. Bull crap
Speaker 1: corrept Oh man. I saw at least six or seven
Speaker 1: cars Monday morning where that was their vibe. That's what
Speaker 1: was going on. And these are the same cars I've
Speaker 1: seen before where they don't have masks on normally inside
Speaker 1: the car. Yeah, you have to have a very low
Speaker 1: i Q to be driving with your family or by
Speaker 1: yourself and wearing a mask in your car. No, I
Speaker 1: agree with you. But the problem is, first of all,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised by this. Secondly, it's you know bad
Speaker 1: you know, bad habits die hard, or I'd say that
Speaker 1: that's the issue here. See the problem is people have
Speaker 1: we're all creatures a habit and I see the same thing.
Speaker 1: I'm driving around. You're not driving around where I'm where
Speaker 1: I'm living out and I'll see people walking by themselves
Speaker 1: on a beautiful day in California and they've got the
Speaker 1: mask all, you know, covering their face. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? You know? But they estimate I remember
Speaker 1: this years ago because I was trying to lose weight.
Speaker 1: I could never lose weight. I was like, what the hell?
Speaker 1: And because you gotta change your habits. But the problem is,
Speaker 1: once people change happens, it takes like over two months.
Speaker 1: They asked him, a scientists it is study years ago.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's changed, but human behavior, something becomes automatic in
Speaker 1: sixties six days. They say, that's exactly. That's a sweet
Speaker 1: spot for on average sixty six days. If you want
Speaker 1: to change something, you have to do it for sixty
Speaker 1: six days, and then at that point it just becomes
Speaker 1: part of you. And we are two years into this,
Speaker 1: Danny almost I think we're over the two year mark
Speaker 1: for the mask thing. Maybe not, but we're close to it.
Speaker 1: Two years into the mass thing, people have been now hardwired.
Speaker 1: It's like Pavlov's dogs to wear the mask, so now
Speaker 1: they have to be hardwired the other way. And I
Speaker 1: was telling I was telling a buddy of mine when
Speaker 1: I when I was growing up. But I think I've
Speaker 1: told this story before on the podcast. But when I
Speaker 1: when I was getting my mom, God rest her soul,
Speaker 1: she she hoarded like everything because she grew up in
Speaker 1: a household that her parents went through the depression, and
Speaker 1: so for you know, I had to have you know,
Speaker 1: when you had the opportunity to buy a million rolls
Speaker 1: at tolet paper or saran wrap or illuminum for she
Speaker 1: would load up for like the nuclear winter, and that
Speaker 1: was the rest of her entire life. She did that
Speaker 1: because of the trauma as a kid. And so I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna have the same bull crap these poor
Speaker 1: kids of today. You know, we'll be gone, Danny, but
Speaker 1: these kids are still gonna be wearing masks when they
Speaker 1: go out a lot because they were programmed as children.
Speaker 1: And it sucks. But I I don't know a way
Speaker 1: around it. I don't. Yeah, it's gonna take a while.
Speaker 1: Oh my mom and dad told me i'd better not
Speaker 1: take it off today. It's just gonna go on for
Speaker 1: a long time. Unfortunately. The one thing I will say
Speaker 1: for me and uh, I would say about seventy percent
Speaker 1: of the staff had their masks off and uh and
Speaker 1: the dean of the school, one thing he did tell
Speaker 1: me is he's like, I think it's important for the
Speaker 1: kids to see our faces. And yes, yeah, they see
Speaker 1: our facial expressions and you know, to really get a
Speaker 1: handle on things going on on the campus. That makes
Speaker 1: a lot of sense because when kids can't see your
Speaker 1: facial expressions, you're only using your words, and that doesn't
Speaker 1: always work. So, you know, it was nice to see
Speaker 1: a lot of the faculty for the first time. I
Speaker 1: swear to god, the ladies in the office, I had
Speaker 1: never seen their faces. It was. It was so strange,
Speaker 1: and some of them should have put their masks back on.
Speaker 1: That's the problem day, right, because I you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of a lot of times women will get all
Speaker 1: dolled up with a lot of makeup on. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the mask. What's the point of putting the makeup on?
Speaker 1: You know what? You got the mask on. Now you
Speaker 1: gotta go back and do all that bulk crap again,
Speaker 1: I guess you. Of course, who am I to talk
Speaker 1: I have a face for radio, obviously. But I go
Speaker 1: and I go to the lunch like I talked about
Speaker 1: on yesterday's podcast, I go to work with the kindergarteners,
Speaker 1: and that same girl Aria in the afternoon, she was
Speaker 1: following me around and she said, I'm gonna marry you.
Speaker 1: I'm marrying Mr g I'm gonna marry you. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's appropriate. She's hugging my leg. Thirty seconds later, and
Speaker 1: and Ben, you know not that you get a big
Speaker 1: ego from a five year old telling you they think
Speaker 1: that you look nice without your mask. Thirty seconds later,
Speaker 1: she was doing a very bad impersonation of me, sticking
Speaker 1: out her stomach saying I'm Mr ge whoa who like
Speaker 1: very unflattering, you know, uh talking ship. And I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: thirty seconds ago, you wanted to marry me. You can't
Speaker 1: out women five years old. She's already listen that the
Speaker 1: rest of her life should be the same way She'll be,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty some years old, should be dating same bullcraps.
Speaker 1: Canna happen some guy, some other kids that you know,
Speaker 1: some other schools gonna be you know, the same age,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be dating her and be like, what the
Speaker 1: hell are you? I don't understand what are you doing?
Speaker 1: One final thought on the mask. I noticed that my
Speaker 1: energy levels are way way up. I would say a
Speaker 1: by you're breathing is labor, especially when you're outside and
Speaker 1: you're chasing kids around and you have a physical job.
Speaker 1: That thing was a killer. I would go home and
Speaker 1: want to collapse. Now I've actually been coming home and
Speaker 1: getting emails and stuff done because I still feel good. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Like the the breathing, it's not good,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not eat And I'd be fully transparent here.
Speaker 1: I always thought this was kind of preposterous and ludicrous back,
Speaker 1: you know, even when it started. So what I I
Speaker 1: would go walking when I lived in the old place.
Speaker 1: And also this is nonsensical, but so many people felt
Speaker 1: like if you didn't wear the mask, you know, it's
Speaker 1: insubordination of society and all this bull crap. So what
Speaker 1: I would do is, I'd wear the mask is like
Speaker 1: a chin strap, and then I was walking, I walked
Speaker 1: by people, I'd raise it up and then as soon
Speaker 1: as I walked past them, I l I'd lower it
Speaker 1: and that would be that would buy be my way
Speaker 1: to get around it. But yeah, and I I feel
Speaker 1: you on the showing up, the parents showing up and
Speaker 1: giving the the stank guy, you know, giving you the
Speaker 1: side eye, like what are you doing? I hate that?
Speaker 1: And I see I see these pompous assholes occasionally, you know,
Speaker 1: I go out to the store or something like that,
Speaker 1: and I don't wear the mask, and there's still people
Speaker 1: they look at you like, well, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: But but there's part of me also thinks, in addition
Speaker 1: to people being programmed and trained now that they have
Speaker 1: to wear the mask, and they'll you'll take a long
Speaker 1: time to change their habits. The other issue here is
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of people that don't realize
Speaker 1: the mandate's gone. They just they think it's still going around.
Speaker 1: They don't pay attention to the headlines and they're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: it must be still going on. They haven't gotten the memo.
Speaker 1: I think there's those people also that don't want to,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't acknowledge the media in any way,
Speaker 1: and they're like, I don't understand. I'm you know, they
Speaker 1: told me years you know, a month ago, two years ago,
Speaker 1: to do this. I gotta keep doing it. You know
Speaker 1: those parents that were like that on Monday morning. I
Speaker 1: just gave them a thumbs up and an even bigger smile. Hi,
Speaker 1: I like to saint, I'm figured, all right, you're gonna
Speaker 1: flip me off with your mask inside your car, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna smile at you even bigger. Yeah. No, No, I'll
Speaker 1: walk around here and I'll take I take pictures. I
Speaker 1: have a photo collection of people sitting in their cars
Speaker 1: at red lights with mass I do and like that.
Speaker 1: Those are our fellow human beings. We are all the
Speaker 1: same here, We're all It's the most illogical thing ever.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get COVID while you're on the freeway
Speaker 1: by yourself in a car. And if COVID was that,
Speaker 1: you know, contagious, then what's the point you know? I
Speaker 1: mean you really well, you know, come on, what do
Speaker 1: we do? You don't you have anxiety over that? Stop
Speaker 1: stop with the emotional collapse and on it last thing here,
Speaker 1: We're gonna combine these last last two things. The that
Speaker 1: we we tease, because if you tease Danny as you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta please, you're swinging a miss and the ghosted,
Speaker 1: which is really the the same, the same de Leo
Speaker 1: here so real quick. So over the years, I have
Speaker 1: been very blessed have multiple culinary establishments across the United
Speaker 1: States named food dishes after me, and it's been very cool.
Speaker 1: Some of them have come and gone. We had the
Speaker 1: Mallard Pizza and Grand Rapids, Michigan. That didn't last very long.
Speaker 1: We also had the originator, the o G in Syracuse,
Speaker 1: the mal Zone, which is a it was a cal
Speaker 1: zone with the Mallard touched. It was like Philly cheese steak,
Speaker 1: but it was the It was really good. But we
Speaker 1: still have we still have three items on the on
Speaker 1: the menu of the various menus. We've got the Mallard
Speaker 1: fowler at the Bird the Ballet there in Lawrence, Kansas.
Speaker 1: We have the Mallard chicken Fingers at the Landing and Liberty, Missouri,
Speaker 1: right near the Royals Chiefs complex there where they play
Speaker 1: their their sports. In Kansas City. The Mallard Buffalo chicken
Speaker 1: sandwich that's at three locations now Danny and Denver. That
Speaker 1: place started with one location three locations the greater Denver area.
Speaker 1: The sports Book Bar and Grill had that. I've had
Speaker 1: that sandwich, good sandwich. So I bring this up because
Speaker 1: we we were close, at least I thought we were
Speaker 1: close to having another food dish and the return of
Speaker 1: the Mallard Pizza, you know, right. And so I'm bringing
Speaker 1: this up because it's gotta kind of a disappointing part
Speaker 1: to the miracle to the story. So I have been
Speaker 1: corresponding with a fan of the show discussing the Mallard Pie,
Speaker 1: and the plan was to add this to the To me,
Speaker 1: the rule is, if you're new to the show, the
Speaker 1: Mallard the way this worries, all you have to do
Speaker 1: is put it on the man. You don't have to
Speaker 1: pay me or anything like that. I mean, we occasionally
Speaker 1: I will promote these restaurants from time to time and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And so the Mallard Pizza's roasted garlic, bell pepper. I
Speaker 1: like to throw different colors to make it really pop, red, green, yellow,
Speaker 1: throw some onions on. There's very simple. It's a simple pie.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of pie that will keep vampires away
Speaker 1: because of the garlic and around of stuff. And so
Speaker 1: so anyway, this establishment in the Northeast and the Boston
Speaker 1: area was going to do this, at least that's what
Speaker 1: I was told. And Uh, however, I think I need
Speaker 1: to contact the ghostbusters here because Danny, all of a
Speaker 1: sudden I have been ghosted, uh as it vanished, and
Speaker 1: so I've I've decided since I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I think it's been long enough. I think that we're
Speaker 1: we've moved on from that, or they've moved on for
Speaker 1: that or whatever. So uh, if and I'll just throw
Speaker 1: this out there, nobody has to do it. Maybe nobody will.
Speaker 1: But if there's some mom and pop shop out there
Speaker 1: that I would like is interested in this, uh, then
Speaker 1: you know, contact me. And I I love promoting small,
Speaker 1: small restaurants. I know how difficult it is in the
Speaker 1: restaurant business. I've had friends in that. Not tough it
Speaker 1: can be, and so I'd love to help me out.
Speaker 1: And I'd like to bring the Mallard pizza back. So
Speaker 1: you can email me, contact me Ben Maller's show at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. And uh and again the rules are
Speaker 1: very simple. I have to just put the Mallard name
Speaker 1: on there, some kind of food dish and then that's it.
Speaker 1: And then we've we've had multiple p ones. I know
Speaker 1: moving man Matt in Boston has done the matter of
Speaker 1: food toward multiple times because he's got an excuse because
Speaker 1: he drives a moving truck all over the country. We
Speaker 1: had a few other listeners that have done that, and
Speaker 1: then so uh, I've also thought of the if the
Speaker 1: pizza is not a thing, how about the Mallard Burger, Danny,
Speaker 1: we could do that. I've never had a Mallardburg, never
Speaker 1: done the Mallardburg, so we could do that too. So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to cook on my knees. What would
Speaker 1: the Danny Gee dish b if a restaurants like I
Speaker 1: want to? I like Danny G more than you, Mallard
Speaker 1: What would a food dish be for Danny G Radio?
Speaker 1: What do you think that would be? Danny? What would
Speaker 1: you come up? Let's see what was my go to dish?
Speaker 1: I would say a pasta for me, some kind of
Speaker 1: pasta like a fedecchini alfredo or something like that. Yeah, yeah, pasta.
Speaker 1: Maybe a lasagna. Okay. It's a really great place here
Speaker 1: called Maria's, and the pasta's outstanding. I mean, you would
Speaker 1: kill somebody to get their lasagna and they serve it
Speaker 1: to you in one of those hot tins. Even when
Speaker 1: you get it home, it is super hot. And you know,
Speaker 1: a restaurant means business when they're serving up lasagna like that.
Speaker 1: The flavors are superb. So yeah, I would I would
Speaker 1: like a nice lasagna. When I think of a mallard pie,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking maybe instead of a salami, maybe you do
Speaker 1: a bologna. You are the Beethoven of bs. Well, that
Speaker 1: would be funny, like a bologna sandwich or something like that.
Speaker 1: That would be that would be funny. But you see,
Speaker 1: I'm on a fast right now as we're doing this,
Speaker 1: as we're you're doing the podcast, and and you talking
Speaker 1: about that pasta. Man, it's making me wish I had
Speaker 1: some pasta right now. Or it's some kind of great
Speaker 1: Italian food. My I had that last Friday night with
Speaker 1: my tender roni and we took it home and they
Speaker 1: said it's gonna take forty minutes, and we're okay with that.
Speaker 1: We knew they were making everything fresh, and we know
Speaker 1: they serve it up really hot in there in their
Speaker 1: tins that they send you off with. So when we
Speaker 1: got that on the kitchen table and we spread it out,
Speaker 1: it was like a smorgest board of goodness. And I
Speaker 1: was really strategic. I'm like I'm gonna just take one
Speaker 1: little slice of this lasagna, save the rest for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Brought it to the studio with me. It lasted for
Speaker 1: two days. What a weekend just having that Italian food
Speaker 1: like that. That's great. Yeah, I had lately. The Italian
Speaker 1: place we've been going to occasionally is in uh down
Speaker 1: in Orange County and Huntington Beach called Casino Romano. Wonderful.
Speaker 1: Right Literally, the park, there's a parking lot behind it,
Speaker 1: and then the beach sunset beaches on the other side.
Speaker 1: There's like so there's some beaches, houses on the beach,
Speaker 1: but there's a parking lot, line of houses and then
Speaker 1: the beach, and then on the other side is the restaurant.
Speaker 1: This place is really good. I'm making a note of
Speaker 1: that right now. It's really hard to convince my tender
Speaker 1: roni to go to Italian where do white women at
Speaker 1: That's the least visited kind of restaurant by us because
Speaker 1: she doesn't want stay. You dont live even once. Enjoy life, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's what you do. Here's the move. Unfortunately, she's probably
Speaker 1: listening to this so she'll hear it. But the move
Speaker 1: would be take your your queen Tinderoni to Huntington's down
Speaker 1: in that area and say, hey, we're down here anyway,
Speaker 1: why not have h I know a good Italian place.
Speaker 1: Boom done right, just like that, I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 1: She had a nice caesar salad and she likes chicken peccata,
Speaker 1: so she'll do the chicken. Okay, I got you, I
Speaker 1: got you all right. I'm hungry now to let's go eat.
Speaker 1: I know right, It's all sounds very appetizing to me.
Speaker 1: I mean I'll take even some some cheese rabby olie
Speaker 1: or something like that. I'm good to go on that.
Speaker 1: My taste buds are are watered, little taste. I have
Speaker 1: a great rest your Saturday. We will catch you on
Speaker 1: the mail bag on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, Asta Love East,
Speaker 1: No later, Scarter. You didn't You didn't do your osta pasta.
Speaker 1: Gotam ver, Gotta go