Speaker 1: Kaboom. 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 in the air everywhere
Speaker 1: and welcome to a special Sunday edition, eight days a week,
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio
Speaker 1: Ready to dazzle you. We started out doing this. I
Speaker 1: originally did the podcast like one day a week, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then over time we've gone to the three day
Speaker 1: a week format. We used to do like one and
Speaker 1: it was really long, and now it's three and they're
Speaker 1: all kind of long. You're all kind of long. So
Speaker 1: when are we gonna go to four? Wash your mouth
Speaker 1: out with hope and water? How there you? Oh? My god?
Speaker 1: Who the hell cans nobody wants for? Does anyone nobody
Speaker 1: wants for? I should have said, when are we gonna
Speaker 1: cut this down to two? Yeah? Yeah, Well I always
Speaker 1: threatened to cut it down to two. We don't get
Speaker 1: enough questions for the mailbag. Some weeks we get a ton.
Speaker 1: Normally we get enough for the mail bag. And this
Speaker 1: is actually one of the more popular things that we have,
Speaker 1: and people seem to love the randomness of the questions.
Speaker 1: It's like a box of chocolates. You never know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. You never know what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: in the mailbag. So, without further ado, let's strike up
Speaker 1: the band Ohio all start the mailbag. Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Here we go, It's bag and right to it. You've
Speaker 1: got mail, Yes we do. These are actual questions by
Speaker 1: actual listeners like you who have stumbled onto our podcast
Speaker 1: and wanted to be part of the fund And if
Speaker 1: you'd like to add to a future mail bag, you
Speaker 1: can send me an email anytime you want. Real Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com, It's letters, spell it all out, real and
Speaker 1: then fifth F I F T h Our at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com or on the show Facebook page. Ben Mallers
Speaker 1: show first question comes from Kevin and Rockford. He says,
Speaker 1: if all the producers were to get in into a
Speaker 1: producer's battle royale, who would come out victorious. This is
Speaker 1: from Kevin So, the Fox Sports Radio producers, the fs
Speaker 1: ARE lineup, which includes yourself, Bob Gara, Frostburg, Frostburg, who
Speaker 1: does Jason show, Cooper Loo. I wish I could pull
Speaker 1: off those suits. Boy, I think you do pretty well there,
Speaker 1: did he? Do you know? Rob g Or We call
Speaker 1: him wrong button Bob for our listeners. He probably would
Speaker 1: be a sneaky good fighter because he said this on
Speaker 1: our show one time that he would kick you in
Speaker 1: the kneecap. Yes, yeah, yeah, I would put him like
Speaker 1: ahead of Frostberg and Coop. Those are nice guys. I
Speaker 1: don't see them as fighters. Then there's Jason Stewart, who's
Speaker 1: got Leaves producer. Yeah, I know Jay, still haven't seen
Speaker 1: him in a while. He's kind of a mid sized guy.
Speaker 1: Cowherd's got who's he got to Yeah, he's got two
Speaker 1: and then Um Music. Yeah, he's got Ryan Music and
Speaker 1: two e These are like he's got like seven producers actually,
Speaker 1: so yeah, Howard would win because of he gang up on.
Speaker 1: You still feel strongly that if Cowherd's producers came at me,
Speaker 1: I could do the Kasmanian devil move, but I would
Speaker 1: try to take all of them out. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I we have lead a lap who produces Jonas the show,
Speaker 1: and I could see Lee pulling out bloody knuckles or
Speaker 1: something like that. I could see that and I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: you got the hat on, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: where'd that come from? And he's got bloody knuckles. But
Speaker 1: I I'm not sucking up to you, Danny. I think
Speaker 1: from a physicality standpoint, in a Battle Royale still cave deathmatch,
Speaker 1: I would put my money on you. You'd be the favorite.
Speaker 1: I'd have Bob Garrett too, lead a LAP three and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I think that that would be my top three.
Speaker 1: The microphone throttler. Yeah, all right, Chris, and that would
Speaker 1: be a cool charity event though. That would that would
Speaker 1: be fun. It's time from now. I'll call all right,
Speaker 1: Chris and Mary Coca the IOWA says, have you ever
Speaker 1: secretly called into a radio show of someone you know
Speaker 1: to see if they recognize you? P ask go Raiders.
Speaker 1: Chris says, I. I did call in one time to
Speaker 1: show Tom Looney was on, but I didn't stay on
Speaker 1: hold long enough to get on the hear so no,
Speaker 1: I guess technically I tried, but I didn't have the
Speaker 1: patience to stand. I was gonna see if Looney would
Speaker 1: recognize my voice. But other than that, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think off the top of my head. I don't recall.
Speaker 1: I don't recall doing that, but I have had people
Speaker 1: like Punk me and call up that I knew that
Speaker 1: he do the do a fake voice and all that.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny ever called up a radio show
Speaker 1: just to see if somebody would recognize your voice? No,
Speaker 1: I'm I mean, I think I would get caught right away.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly have the kind of invisible voice where
Speaker 1: I could get away with Crank calling people. They would
Speaker 1: be like, I know it's you. I called your show
Speaker 1: one time. It was my night off and you were
Speaker 1: having a six line tribute to the great Rowdy Roddy Piper. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I called in to be part of the sixth
Speaker 1: line salute. I think that's it. As a grown adult,
Speaker 1: I've only called the Ben Mallor show. Okay, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: flattered by that. Yeah, and I remember saying a long
Speaker 1: time producer, first time caller, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 1: I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. YEA, all right,
Speaker 1: Devin and Munsey says Ben, which would you rather have
Speaker 1: David Gascott as your personal butler or the Dodgers lose
Speaker 1: the World Series to the Yankees. Well, I don't want
Speaker 1: the Dodgers to lose to the Yankees, but I would
Speaker 1: not want Gascott either as a but I think you'd
Speaker 1: be a terrible butler. He's got that West of the
Speaker 1: four oh five attitude. So I don't think that would
Speaker 1: that would work. That's like a Sophie's choice situation. So
Speaker 1: what kind of question is that? How dare you? Man?
Speaker 1: You get a clown horn? Is what you get? All right?
Speaker 1: All right? Zack? And Seattle, says Ben. When you were
Speaker 1: coming up in radio, what was your dream market to
Speaker 1: work it, says says Zack. Well, I grew up in
Speaker 1: southern California. Want to be on the radio in l A.
Speaker 1: But I always wanted to be on in like Boston
Speaker 1: and New York and the big cities. You want to
Speaker 1: be on in the biggest cities you can be on,
Speaker 1: and those are the biggest market Chicago. So you aspire
Speaker 1: to be on the radio where the most people listen
Speaker 1: to the radio, and those are the biggest, biggest cities.
Speaker 1: So the cool thing, and I've told the story before, Zach.
Speaker 1: But when I was coming up in radio, I started
Speaker 1: in San Diego. In fact, you heard with Ralph Irvin,
Speaker 1: who I worked with at the mighty six ninety back
Speaker 1: in the day, and we were coming up together in radio,
Speaker 1: and I sent out a bunch of cassette tapes because
Speaker 1: it was so long ago, to these different radio stations
Speaker 1: and I really wanted to get a job, and these
Speaker 1: they had openings, and I'd send these tapes out and
Speaker 1: I used to have I don't think I have it anymore,
Speaker 1: but I had a box of rejection letters and and
Speaker 1: these are many of the stations that over the years
Speaker 1: my show has been picked up by. And it's pretty cool,
Speaker 1: like to think back, like they wouldn't hire me, And
Speaker 1: I don't understand why they didn't hire me. I wasn't
Speaker 1: that good at that point. I didn't have any experience
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But yeah, so, but the biggest Boston,
Speaker 1: New York, Chicago, l A, the biggest Philadelphia is another
Speaker 1: great the great sports time. Do you want to be
Speaker 1: on where there's passion doing a sports radio? You want
Speaker 1: to be on where it matters and those cities it matters.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny anywhere you wanted to be on
Speaker 1: the radio, and you're starting out the business as a
Speaker 1: little kid. I was doing hip hop radio, so I
Speaker 1: wanted to be on San Francisco, LA, or New York airwaves.
Speaker 1: Those were the three cities that you would shoot for.
Speaker 1: And so in the late nineties that's still a kid
Speaker 1: and be on l A radio. It was pretty amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was cool. I I started when I
Speaker 1: was young, and it was very fortunate the station I
Speaker 1: worked at in San Diego. The company bought an l
Speaker 1: A station and wanted to flip it to sports, and
Speaker 1: so that worked out very well because they didn't have
Speaker 1: any employees and they hired me, and they probably regretted it,
Speaker 1: but it worked out. So I was I was lucky
Speaker 1: on that one. You've got mail, the Russian kid writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, as the mail back continues, if you
Speaker 1: could choose one movie actor to be the president of
Speaker 1: the United States, who would it be. So I'll go
Speaker 1: with someone who I think has a legitimate opportunity of
Speaker 1: being a Donald Trump like president, meaning has a chance
Speaker 1: to win. The Rock I mean, Dwayne Johnson. I could
Speaker 1: see The Rock being a president in my lifetime. Then congratulations.
Speaker 1: Now just for comedic reason, I don't agree with this politics,
Speaker 1: but Larry David would be funny as a president. How
Speaker 1: about didn't Disney canceled Tim Allen put him in there?
Speaker 1: They got rid of him, rid his buzz light Year,
Speaker 1: they canceled him being a prequel. I don't think he
Speaker 1: thought his voice was necessary all right, because I had
Speaker 1: read a headline that Disney dumped him because of his
Speaker 1: politics and all that stuff. That that's why they they
Speaker 1: got rid of. Right. Even Tom Hanks was like, what
Speaker 1: did they get rid of? What's up with that? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Who would you pick? Danny? Any actor that you would pick?
Speaker 1: Movie star, the Russian kid, the Russian kids dying to know,
Speaker 1: do not do not get it wrong. Gary Busey would
Speaker 1: be great. Uh. The Western White House would be a
Speaker 1: rehab clinic in Malibu. I would feel comfortable if Morgan
Speaker 1: Freeman was our real life president. He's got though, isn't
Speaker 1: he God? You can't have? Was God? He was also
Speaker 1: president in a movie though, okay, and I liked his leadership.
Speaker 1: I felt like comfortable with him at the helm, so
Speaker 1: he could he could take on that challenge. Yeah, will
Speaker 1: there ever be a president in our life time that
Speaker 1: is universally loved. No, right, No, I don't think so,
Speaker 1: although I did talk to somebody about this as I
Speaker 1: was talking to a buddy of mine last week, and
Speaker 1: we were like, after remember after nine eleven, like people
Speaker 1: really rallied around the country and and President Bush was
Speaker 1: the president. But it only lasted for like a couple
Speaker 1: of months and then everyone was back at their each other.
Speaker 1: That was a great scene when he was on the bullhorn, remember,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it will all hear us, And yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: everybody was rallying around that moment. That probably will be
Speaker 1: the last time in my life that people forget the
Speaker 1: political bowl, you know. And just and he threw a
Speaker 1: perfect pitch remember pitch out at Yankee Stadium, right yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: bullet proof vest On and and he's still threw a strike. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good job by him, old Texas Ray Users owner back
Speaker 1: in the day. All right, let's see here, I got mail, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got mail, Yeah, Mike from Fullerton, right city the
Speaker 1: mail bag, He says, have you ever considered turning the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour into a true crime podcast? I hear those
Speaker 1: are big right now, there's gotta be a murder out there.
Speaker 1: That you guys want to want to see solved. He's
Speaker 1: not wrong, though, Mike's not wrong, right. These these podcasts,
Speaker 1: these crime podcasts, are very popular these days. They just
Speaker 1: are capitalizing off of all of our girlfriends and wives
Speaker 1: who like to watch this crap on TV I D
Speaker 1: Channel or the true crime shows and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have complete networks dedicated to this programming.
Speaker 1: And then these women go to sleep scared out of
Speaker 1: their minds and having bad dreams. Well, don't watch that
Speaker 1: crap at night right before you go to bed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But it's one of those things with human nature I
Speaker 1: talk about like I don't do list radio, as you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: because I don't believe in it. But I do do
Speaker 1: Big Bend's Big Board, which is not list radio wrong.
Speaker 1: But human beings are what when people hear a list
Speaker 1: they kind of they react to it, but also people
Speaker 1: are it's just a flaw in human nature. They gravitate
Speaker 1: towards a mystery like who done it? Right? Who done it?
Speaker 1: And they want to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: Remember that show Forensic Files that that was like the
Speaker 1: pot that was on TV, but it was that thing
Speaker 1: and they had the guy I forget the name of
Speaker 1: the guy, the name of the voiceover guy that was
Speaker 1: on there, and he had very dramatic delivery, you know,
Speaker 1: and she went for a dog and she never returned.
Speaker 1: Our parents used to watch this on remember Oh sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: used to have that kind of programming before they were
Speaker 1: complete networks dedicated to that. Thank god. My tendernie doesn't
Speaker 1: like those kind of shows because I have known girls
Speaker 1: that that's all they watch at night, like every night,
Speaker 1: they'll watch those kind of shows. And I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm in safe hands or safer hands because a lot
Speaker 1: of the programming on those shows they like are the
Speaker 1: ones where the women are killing the men. I feel
Speaker 1: like they're just trying to get some ideas how to
Speaker 1: you know, get away with certain things and vice versa
Speaker 1: if it's a guy killing a woman. But it's just
Speaker 1: odd to me that you would be that invested in
Speaker 1: finding out how people kill each other. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: What's the The old saying about a woman's weapon is uh,
Speaker 1: what is it I'm telling poison? Oh no, no, it
Speaker 1: was something like that, though, Yeah, I don't I'll see
Speaker 1: if I can, it'll come to me. But there was
Speaker 1: a phrase about uh, yeah, like something about women men
Speaker 1: and how you know their their weapon of choices like
Speaker 1: arsenic or something like this is something like that anyway, Um,
Speaker 1: well the great idea, Mike, Either that or we can
Speaker 1: get Martha Stewart to you know, do the podcast with us,
Speaker 1: right she's isn't she doing something? Without I heart? I
Speaker 1: just found it. Poison is a woman's weapon. Yes, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. A woman's weapon. Well that's comforting. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know you see that stuff. When women kill men, it's
Speaker 1: usually they make him brownies and they put bleaching there
Speaker 1: or something there are you know, whatever it might, whatever
Speaker 1: it might do the trick. Kevin in Kansas writes in mail.
Speaker 1: He says, dear Ben and Danny g what's the status
Speaker 1: of the laundry card? He's asked me the status of
Speaker 1: the laundry cart you found on one of your walks
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I'm not sure why I
Speaker 1: continue to think about it. I think it's the uniqueness
Speaker 1: of the story that sticks with me. Thanks for the
Speaker 1: up Well, yes, Kevin, for those that are new to
Speaker 1: the podcast. In my old place in the San Gabriel
Speaker 1: Valley where I was living, I would walk around the neighborhood,
Speaker 1: especially during COVID, this really came up. I used to
Speaker 1: go to the gym and then COVID started and the
Speaker 1: gym's was closed, and so I'd walk around it was
Speaker 1: like a hundred and ten degrees and then walk around.
Speaker 1: And one day I was wandering around the neighborhood and
Speaker 1: there was this abandoned laundry cart, like a professional laundry
Speaker 1: cart that you would get at a laundry matt, that
Speaker 1: somebody had just left on the side of the road.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, that's a really good looking
Speaker 1: laundry card. That would be great, and it was in
Speaker 1: good condition. I'm like, well, who dumped this? And it
Speaker 1: was like with other trash, and it was trash around it,
Speaker 1: but it was in good shape. So I walked by it,
Speaker 1: and in the back of my head, I said, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on my walk. I'm not gonna think
Speaker 1: about it. But then when I get home, if it's
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in my car and it's still there,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get it because I want that. So
Speaker 1: I did my walk, I got I got back and
Speaker 1: then sure enough the thing was still there. So I
Speaker 1: went out and it barely fit in the mallarmobile. I
Speaker 1: put in the back, took it home and then use it.
Speaker 1: But it update you, Kevin. The laundry cart was in
Speaker 1: storage for oh Man over a year and we just
Speaker 1: had it. We didn't need it, and now we have it.
Speaker 1: We did bring it back to the the new Mallard
Speaker 1: mansion in the north Woods. The problem is it's not
Speaker 1: really effective because it's a two story home here, and
Speaker 1: the laundry cart's got wheels. It doesn't go. It's downstairs.
Speaker 1: The closes are upstairs, so I might have to say goodbye.
Speaker 1: If you want a laundry cart, Daity, I have a
Speaker 1: really good laundry card if you want, If any listener wants,
Speaker 1: if you pay for shipping, I can give it to
Speaker 1: you and you can have my old laundry cart, which
Speaker 1: is a great cart, works very well, but really not
Speaker 1: useful where I live now, I'm the same as you
Speaker 1: dealing with stairs. What we need are those old school
Speaker 1: laundry shoots. Oh that's true, that's a good. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: laundry shoot. Yeah, trash shoots are good too. I love
Speaker 1: the trash shoot. Wonderful thing. It's like magic. You walk out.
Speaker 1: I used to have an apartment. I lived in Park
Speaker 1: LaBrea in in l A. That massive if you're familiar
Speaker 1: with the geography, they're massive complex. It's one of the
Speaker 1: biggest conglomerates of apartments in the entire country. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I lived there for a while. They these old buildings
Speaker 1: and they had trash shoots and was wonderful. Trash starts
Speaker 1: smelling boom, go out the hall and steps, throw it away.
Speaker 1: It's gone from Wow, you brought back some memories. I've
Speaker 1: only lived in a building one time that had a
Speaker 1: trash shoot, and you're right, man, it was like magic.
Speaker 1: Just walk out your door, pull the shoot down, throw
Speaker 1: your trash in there. You were done. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 1: was It was good. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yea,
Speaker 1: all right, Gary, and Victoria writes in uh, he says,
Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut looked ready for something crazy happening at that
Speaker 1: eating contest. Gary says, do you guys think he got
Speaker 1: wind of the curse of the Bambino from a producer?
Speaker 1: Or did you warn him? Gary? Gary says, no, I
Speaker 1: did not warn the great Joey Chestnut. And Joey's always prepared.
Speaker 1: He's always on his toes. The man is a professional,
Speaker 1: all right, And I'm not gonna sit here and pander
Speaker 1: to Joey Chestnut say there's a curse and all that.
Speaker 1: But we were just we're bonding and all that. And
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's in full defense motor
Speaker 1: at all times on his tiptoes and that's that was great,
Speaker 1: So good job by him. Yeah, I'll be prepared. It
Speaker 1: might be land minds are You never know. Occasionally in
Speaker 1: life it's an acrobatic high wire act and you gotta
Speaker 1: occasionally thread a needle. In all. As much as he
Speaker 1: talked about loving New York and there's only one place
Speaker 1: like it in the world, your head needs to be
Speaker 1: on a swivel because that is the super Bowl of
Speaker 1: all hot dog eating. With the Super Bowl comes crazy,
Speaker 1: big crowds. Yeah, at least nobody glued themselves to Joey
Speaker 1: Or remember that woman in Minnesota at the Timberwolves game.
Speaker 1: She's put some superglue and clue herself to the court,
Speaker 1: like yeah, and then there was another one who chained
Speaker 1: herself to the the basket. Yeah. It's pretty hard to
Speaker 1: protest if you have a job, isn't it, right? I
Speaker 1: mean sorry, because you gotta know your job. It's difficult.
Speaker 1: A more effective protest would have been have somebody dress
Speaker 1: up as a giant hot dog and then chain yourself
Speaker 1: to the dog. That's good point. They did have a
Speaker 1: Nathan's hot Dog mascot walking U. There was that, um
Speaker 1: but but thank you for that. Gary In Victoria Patrick
Speaker 1: writes and he says, who's your favorite Canadian pro sports athlete?
Speaker 1: Is this all time or currently playing? He didn't say, Well,
Speaker 1: all time, it's got to be number ninety nine, right,
Speaker 1: the great Wayne Gretz, the greatest of all time at
Speaker 1: what he did in hockey. But you know how I
Speaker 1: used to like a lot was Larry Walker. He was
Speaker 1: a character baseball player. Larry Walker. Yeah, he's a good player.
Speaker 1: And I talked about him earlier on the podcast The
Speaker 1: Legendary Rowdy Roddy Piper. Oh that's a good one too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a solid one. One of Canada's greatest imports,
Speaker 1: Steve Nash Canadian, didn't he Stevens Joey Votto another proud Canadian?
Speaker 1: Does Vince Carter account. I think of him as a
Speaker 1: Canadian Air Canada, yuh, not a Canadian? What he represented
Speaker 1: Canada so long? I feel like he's one of theirs.
Speaker 1: Who are some other Canadian baseball players, Like I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think this. I remember Russell Martin played for the Dodgers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Justin more No, no, yeah, you played for the Fins
Speaker 1: and some other Yeah, you're right. Larry Walker is one
Speaker 1: of the first ones that comes up on a search.
Speaker 1: Matt Stairs. Oh that guy, Bay That Stairs ruined my
Speaker 1: one one of my nights that against just I still,
Speaker 1: I still, I can still see have I closed my eyes,
Speaker 1: I can see that ball flying into the pavilion at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. Holy can only that guy? You know, I
Speaker 1: know the exact game you're talking about. And let's see,
Speaker 1: how about Ryan Dempster, Dempster the Dumpster. Yeah, okay, one
Speaker 1: of the best names in all of baseball. Stubb Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: remember that guy got into uh dust up this this
Speaker 1: year's a coach with the Cardinals. Now, Stubby Clap. That's
Speaker 1: a great name. Is Stubby Clap is like he's like
Speaker 1: a little guy and he's named Stubby. You gotta be
Speaker 1: like a little guy. He's like a tree trunk, and
Speaker 1: he's a tough He's a tough mofoe. Though. That guy
Speaker 1: tough mo. So did we say enough Canadian names to
Speaker 1: pacify Patrick? You think he's happy with the smiling air
Speaker 1: to air right now? The Dodger closer that was on steroids.
Speaker 1: What was the guy's name? He was Eric Canadian? All right,
Speaker 1: moving moving on, as we go down down the rabbit hole,
Speaker 1: down down, down, down down, come back, it's time from now?
Speaker 1: Call all right? Dale? Right? Same with a sporty question,
Speaker 1: he says, if by some small chance, the Lakers get Kyrie,
Speaker 1: do you think the Clippers will still beat them? Well,
Speaker 1: of course I do, Dale, because Kyrie will not be
Speaker 1: playing even if they trade for him. Kyrie will be
Speaker 1: off on some mission I'm doing whatever he's going down
Speaker 1: or be heard. He's only played half the games since
Speaker 1: he got to Brooklyn and in his career, going back
Speaker 1: to Duke, there's some guy posted this online many many
Speaker 1: months ago that Kyrie has missed in his career. It's
Speaker 1: it's almost fifty of all the games he was scheduled
Speaker 1: to play. So I'm not I'm not worried about Kyrie
Speaker 1: because even if you get him, he's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: off doing some nonsense there and he will not be participating.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't want to mention I did not receive
Speaker 1: an email from Helen and Stu. Remember they promised we're
Speaker 1: gonna give us the details. Helen said she teased it
Speaker 1: and she said, oh you wait, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: next week. I'm gonna give you this story on how
Speaker 1: Stu almost passed. Do I hopefully stews okay? She was
Speaker 1: doing Blues Clues. Yeah. I emailed her though, and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: what happened. Let me know what happened. We want to
Speaker 1: have the email, and she never responded. So I hope
Speaker 1: Stuart and them are okay, But that's a cliffhanger or
Speaker 1: Helena hanger, as we we do not have have the
Speaker 1: answer missing person report like Kawahi Leonard and Paul George
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Lebron James Lebron's missed eighty games since he
Speaker 1: got to the Lakers. He's almost missed an entire season.
Speaker 1: How Miskawi miss last year, but he was legitimately hurt.
Speaker 1: Lebron just takes time off. You know, it's not please
Speaker 1: all right, Okay, it's not right with you and your nonsense. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: exactly what is still wrong with the Clippers anyway, Pierre
Speaker 1: in Springfield, mass how many pro bouncy ball Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame where you can see Muffett McGraw in shrine and others?
Speaker 1: Pierre says, Ben, I think we all know how you
Speaker 1: feel about Ned Flanders. He's the audio version of a
Speaker 1: never ending dentist appointment. I'd like to get Danny G's
Speaker 1: opinion of the person whose name we shall not utter. Also,
Speaker 1: can both of you tell us any particular horror stories
Speaker 1: of working with Mr Twenty one minute Update? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't have any horror stories. He's a nice guy
Speaker 1: to work with. Yeah, no, he's not always the update
Speaker 1: anchor when I'm in there on the weekend, but you know,
Speaker 1: when he is, I run to the restroom because I
Speaker 1: know I can't use the commercial breaks to go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom. During the commercial breaks, that's when I'm doing
Speaker 1: a lot of the podcasting and tweeting and things like that.
Speaker 1: When do you go to the bathroom, you really don't
Speaker 1: have a window to to do that. So when that
Speaker 1: update begins, I know I have a good six minutes.
Speaker 1: I run to the bathroom, I get some water. I
Speaker 1: come back and he is wrapping up his report. It's
Speaker 1: always perfect timing. Yeah. So I don't know what more
Speaker 1: I can add to this, because there's a voice in
Speaker 1: my head that says, don't okay. I'll try not to
Speaker 1: be rude, but let's just say, normally, Danny, the way
Speaker 1: I prepare for the show and the way I do
Speaker 1: the show, the quickest part of my day is the show.
Speaker 1: It just flies by it. To me, that's a sign
Speaker 1: the show is doing well when it blow. When four
Speaker 1: hours seem like fifteen minutes, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: to anywhere, you know, it's just smooth like silk and
Speaker 1: it's just wonderful, and you're like, man, that's great. And
Speaker 1: then there are nights and I don't know why this happens.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but there's some some nights when
Speaker 1: certain people are there, it just drags on and four
Speaker 1: hours seemed like twelve hours and it just will not end,
Speaker 1: and you just said, please, can it? Can it please end?
Speaker 1: Can it please come into an end? You're like, somebody
Speaker 1: helped me, you know, and it just will not and
Speaker 1: it just goes on and on and on and on
Speaker 1: and on and on and on, and you're like, please
Speaker 1: please quiet, quiet, Yeah, and it won't stop. So you
Speaker 1: are so right about certain voices making a shift go
Speaker 1: longer and I don't know what it is. And Arnie,
Speaker 1: I love you, but there's sometimes when Arnie is on
Speaker 1: and I feel like we're an hour four and we
Speaker 1: just started our two. Yeah, that's the worst feeling if
Speaker 1: you ever get a radio show, if you're listening to
Speaker 1: this and get a radio show. The worst feeling is
Speaker 1: when you look at the clock, which you don't look
Speaker 1: at all the time because you just do your thing,
Speaker 1: but you look up and it's like you're flashing back
Speaker 1: the second grade. Remember you were in second grade and
Speaker 1: the time would not move, and you're like, what is
Speaker 1: going on? How did this happen? And how is this
Speaker 1: ever going to end? Just like one of the worst
Speaker 1: feelings in your adult life. We've all had a job.
Speaker 1: Are jobs where you would count the minutes on the
Speaker 1: clock or you would play that game where you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna look at the clock. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: look at the clock. I'm gonna guess that it's this time. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's got to be twenty minutes later than that by now,
Speaker 1: isn't And you just play that guessing game in your head.
Speaker 1: That's how much you can't stand being at that job.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's terrible. All right, I thank you, Pierre.
Speaker 1: I think we've addressed that enough. Scott writes, and he
Speaker 1: brings up an interesting question. Why doesn't Rob Dibble ever
Speaker 1: check in with FS are former colleague Rob Dibble? We
Speaker 1: should reach out to Robb was doing a radio show.
Speaker 1: Last I heard, he was in Hartford, Connecticut doing a
Speaker 1: radio show. But I haven't talked to Rob. And since
Speaker 1: he left The Nasty Boy, did you work you? Did
Speaker 1: you work at Fox when Rob was at five? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He did. When I started, he was still there, but
Speaker 1: not for long. Yeah, it did not did not go
Speaker 1: that long after you you came in and we track
Speaker 1: robbed down. I don't know if you'd do it or not.
Speaker 1: I got along with Rob though, we had a good time.
Speaker 1: I had no issue with Rob. We were We did
Speaker 1: a few shows together randomly, which I was always cool.
Speaker 1: My my Rob Dibble memory was the obviously the Reds.
Speaker 1: He was on the Reds team that won the World
Speaker 1: Series in the You know, I guess why. I wasn't
Speaker 1: even alive. I watched videos on YouTube though that it
Speaker 1: was impressive, and then remember he was coming off the mound.
Speaker 1: It was in New York and he had given up
Speaker 1: a home run and he ripped his jersey off like
Speaker 1: he was the Incredible Hulk. That was pretty cool. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Next up, soon to be college student heading to Wazoo.
Speaker 1: I got Mayo, Yeah, I got mail. Yea blind Emmett's
Speaker 1: his favorite sporting event. You've ever you never a question,
Speaker 1: We'll take it, Emmett. So the coolest sporting event I
Speaker 1: ever attended was the first World Series I ever went to.
Speaker 1: It was the Cleveland they were then called the Indians
Speaker 1: and the Marlin's the Florida Mornins. Miami and Cleveland went
Speaker 1: from eighty five degrees in Miami two snow there was.
Speaker 1: I was at a World Series game in Cleveland where
Speaker 1: it's snowed, and that was tremendously that. I was young
Speaker 1: and it was like the first time I'd ever experienced
Speaker 1: something like that. So that was cool and like the big,
Speaker 1: the big events. I was at a Pro Bowl in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: which was awesome. Pro Bowl practice in Hawaii. Didn't actually
Speaker 1: attend the Pro Bowl and just being there and being
Speaker 1: part of that which at a stadium which I found
Speaker 1: out they tore down a Loja Stadium no longer exists.
Speaker 1: That's that's gone. So but NBA Finals games back when
Speaker 1: I was assigned to cover the the Hated Lakers and
Speaker 1: stuff and shock and Kobe in that era of the Lakers. Well,
Speaker 1: what about you, Danny. Any sporting event standout that you're like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is great. I can't believe I was here part
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, one in particular because I was a
Speaker 1: Raider's season ticket holder for a long time and unfortunately
Speaker 1: I had to sit through the Jamacus Russell years. God
Speaker 1: and all that. But prior to that, Ben I got
Speaker 1: to be live at the two thousand two a f
Speaker 1: C Championship game where rich Gannon and the Mighty Raiders
Speaker 1: beat Steve McNair and the Titans to go on to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. What a game that was, What an
Speaker 1: experience that was. And prior to that game starting, I
Speaker 1: remember people going crazy in one of the main parking
Speaker 1: lots and Metallica had pulled in with huge truck trailers
Speaker 1: and set up a makeshift stage and did an impromptu
Speaker 1: concert in the parking lot. What God, America. If you
Speaker 1: look on YouTube Metallica Oakland Championship game, you'll see videos
Speaker 1: that people took of Metallica wearing Raider jerseys and I
Speaker 1: wasn't even supposed to be out of concert. That's cool.
Speaker 1: I don't remember that. I don't, but that's that's pretty neat.
Speaker 1: Moving on from that time for a few more a tillo, right,
Speaker 1: since I'm curious, do we report to you when we
Speaker 1: hear one of your regular callers call in on another
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio show or should I just call and
Speaker 1: try to get in to talk to you. I actually
Speaker 1: heard three call into Brian No show early Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: It's from till yeah see the thing on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio where we are all family. So it's not so
Speaker 1: much about Fox Sports Radio. It's like when you listen
Speaker 1: to other shows that are not Fox Sports Radio properties
Speaker 1: and people cheat on us. That's that's an issue. That's
Speaker 1: what we get upset, like people will rat out, holler
Speaker 1: and jeems. But yeah, you can send me a message
Speaker 1: or call up if you want. Next up Balls fan
Speaker 1: Jimmy's rights in from Big Orange Country. He says, for
Speaker 1: both of you, have you ever had a real shouting
Speaker 1: match with a coworker? Yes? Absolutely I have, and I
Speaker 1: I think you might have witnessed one of those Danny
Speaker 1: back in the back in the day. But I'm pretty
Speaker 1: common mellow most of the time. But as my wife
Speaker 1: will point out, I do sometimes there's certain things that
Speaker 1: bother me and I don't say anything, and it's like
Speaker 1: a volcano, and then if enough things pile up there's
Speaker 1: enough pressure in the volcano, I will explode and I'll
Speaker 1: go nuts and uh completely in neurotic neuroses, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to say there. Uh, it doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 1: It hasn't happened a long time, but I have had incidents,
Speaker 1: and it's it's like work in radio. You're when you're
Speaker 1: in the studio, you're around people, you see them every day,
Speaker 1: and when things don't go right, and if you think
Speaker 1: that other people are not carrying the water that they're
Speaker 1: supposed to do, you get upset, and in the heat
Speaker 1: of the moment, right there, in the heat of the moment,
Speaker 1: you end up saying some things you probably shouldn't say,
Speaker 1: and you raise your voice and you make a ruckus
Speaker 1: and it's a big hullabaloo and all that. Normally you
Speaker 1: make up and then you're good, And that's normally how
Speaker 1: people do it. But every once in a while someone
Speaker 1: will go go to HR and then it's a problem.
Speaker 1: The only problem I ever encountered. It was early on
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio with another producer, and the way
Speaker 1: I did it was more quiet. I told him I
Speaker 1: need to talk to you outside of the studios real quick.
Speaker 1: So we walked outside that door on Sepulvida there on
Speaker 1: the street. I looked him in the eyes and I said,
Speaker 1: you are not going to ruin this experience for me.
Speaker 1: Do you understand what I'm saying. If you got problem
Speaker 1: with me, you need to address me. You need to
Speaker 1: talk to me, not to management upstairs. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be your fall guy for whenever you have problems down
Speaker 1: here on this floor. And he was kind of like
Speaker 1: capeche and he was a little nervous because I meant
Speaker 1: business and he was like, okay, I hear you, I
Speaker 1: hear you. We walked inside. Never had a problem with
Speaker 1: him again. See, you laid out the rules, right, You
Speaker 1: laid everything out and you explain the situation and all right.
Speaker 1: Next up, Jason from Rocky Mount, Virginia says, my dudes,
Speaker 1: when was the last time you washed the mallarmobile and
Speaker 1: the Danny Gmobile And did you do it yourself or
Speaker 1: run it through a car wash. Yeah, so, Jason, I
Speaker 1: do not mind washing my car. The problem is I
Speaker 1: am obsessive. I want to make it perfect, and it
Speaker 1: takes way too long. I only have limited time on
Speaker 1: the weekends. I'm working a lot with this podcast and
Speaker 1: the other stuff, and so what normally ends up happening
Speaker 1: is I just take it through one of those drive
Speaker 1: through car wash places, whether it's at the gas station
Speaker 1: or an actual car wash. But you still have to
Speaker 1: drive it through because it's just you don't have time
Speaker 1: for it. And I love the vacuums they have at
Speaker 1: those things. That's my favorite part, to the vacuum at
Speaker 1: the car and get it all nice on the inside.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the last time I actually washed the car
Speaker 1: before we met Marlin's Man because my wife was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe Marlin's Man needs a ride, it will be in
Speaker 1: our car, so we better wash. She's like, didn't want to.
Speaker 1: She didn't want Marlin's Man to think we were a
Speaker 1: bunch of slops, and so we had to wash the
Speaker 1: car before that. What about you, daddy. I would go
Speaker 1: to seventies six gas station here that has the soft
Speaker 1: touch drive through car washed. I used that once a week,
Speaker 1: and then when I get out of there, and you
Speaker 1: know the veteran move. You go really slow and in
Speaker 1: increments when you go through the dryer at the end
Speaker 1: of that wash, so that it can really dry your
Speaker 1: car as best as possible. But then when you get out,
Speaker 1: I stopped in the shade at one of those pumps.
Speaker 1: Don't put their over priced gas, but in the shade,
Speaker 1: I take out the terry cloth and I wipe down
Speaker 1: the spots where that water usually leaves, all the marks
Speaker 1: and streaks and everything. It's a solid move. That's a
Speaker 1: good move. That's what you gotta do with those drive
Speaker 1: through car washes. Absolutely now. I was thinking, not far
Speaker 1: away from where I live now, is this standalone car
Speaker 1: wash place, but you drive through they have like a
Speaker 1: monthly thing without thirty bucks a month or something. You
Speaker 1: can get as many car washes as you weren't. Yeah, club,
Speaker 1: I've seen those. I'm thinking maybe I'll try that out,
Speaker 1: because then I'll just get the cars washed every week
Speaker 1: and that'll be my thing. And it's real close to
Speaker 1: the house, so I might do that. Uh, we gotta
Speaker 1: get out of here on that. Thanks to Peter and
Speaker 1: Fred Peter in University Park, Florida, and Fred from Spring, Texas,
Speaker 1: and also thanks to Mike and Jeff and all you
Speaker 1: other guys. Unfortunately, we ran out of time on this
Speaker 1: podcast and so therefore we will not be able to
Speaker 1: use your question, but send him in if you want
Speaker 1: to submit a different question. Next week hopefully we'll have
Speaker 1: time to get your question. But thank you for filling
Speaker 1: up the mail bag again this week. And don't forget
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. If you'd like to submit a
Speaker 1: question for a future mail bag, can do it right now.
Speaker 1: You can wait whatever. The reviews on the Apple podcast
Speaker 1: page were great. Ben Maller Show on Facebook and I
Speaker 1: will be back tonight. I'll be in the Magic Radio studio.
Speaker 1: They're bloviating away on the overnight show from eleven to
Speaker 1: three in the West, two to six in the East.
Speaker 1: And what's your schedule like today on a Sunday dating,
Speaker 1: I'll be in those studios right before you. First the
Speaker 1: Covino and Rich Show this afternoon into the evening, and
Speaker 1: then the warm up to your Ben Mallor show is
Speaker 1: Chris Plank with Arnie Spaniard. Outstandings I have a great Sunday.
Speaker 1: Thank you for supporting the podcast. Don't forget to go
Speaker 1: back if you missed the Friday podcast. Our buddy Ralph Irvin,
Speaker 1: a couple of radio guys learning out telling radio stories.
Speaker 1: Just you know, a couple of dudes talking radio stories.
Speaker 1: I titled it let Elvis Take the Wheel because Ralph
Speaker 1: he's on his way to the desert. And if you
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm talking about, you need to go
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast. Yeah. Yeah, If you're a fan
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio and the comings and goings and
Speaker 1: all that, check that out. And all right, we'll get
Speaker 1: out of here on that. Thank you, Danny, and another
Speaker 1: full weekend of podcast starting on Friday. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next time. Osta pastaolation