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Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the A and rWAR
Speaker 1: in the podcast Ojo, welcome in. You have made it
Speaker 1: to the mail bag, the most interesting, most fascinating, most
Speaker 1: ribbon ng podcast that we do all weekend. We put
Speaker 1: our money on the table. You pay me five thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: I'll endorse a game magazine. We leave the dungeon and
Speaker 1: we go into the audio wonderland and we welcome in
Speaker 1: as always on Benny versus the Not Betty versus Me
Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour, I can't even talk Dandy g Radio,
Speaker 1: So I'm wearing a smile, Danny, because we were telling
Speaker 1: in our production meeting, we were telling some classic radio stories.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's not a radio nerd would not appreciate. But
Speaker 1: those of us being radio nerds, oh wonderful. Let's just
Speaker 1: say there was some fuccory that went on over the holidays.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, which is an all time great story that
Speaker 1: will not be told here and probably never on this podcast,
Speaker 1: but you never know, Well there was there wasn't great
Speaker 1: behind the scene story that was told on yesterday's podcast.
Speaker 1: Make sure you download Saturdays as well as obviously you're
Speaker 1: listening to Sunday. Right now, we are in the middle
Speaker 1: of a super wild card weekend until Monday. Yeah, that last,
Speaker 1: the big one. That's the big one. Tastes like a
Speaker 1: touchdown in your mouth. How dare you Anyway, Well, we'll
Speaker 1: get to the mail bag, and that means Ohio, all right,
Speaker 1: Now that's not dili down. We've got a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: So let's get to that mail bag. It's all right,
Speaker 1: thank you, Ohio, A good job by you. You live
Speaker 1: another week here and so the key to success, if
Speaker 1: you want to be part of the mail bag, you
Speaker 1: actually have to send a question in. So get on
Speaker 1: your soapbox, do whatever you have to do. Uh say hello, shalom, bonjoora?
Speaker 1: What is it? What are the other knichiwa? That's Japanese?
Speaker 1: I believe bonejor no? Is that Italian? I think that's
Speaker 1: a time that's for hello, right bonjor no that that
Speaker 1: means hello. I believe I'm correct on that. Helloha. Oh
Speaker 1: that's the great Hawaiian uhha. Back home, we just said howdy,
Speaker 1: you know what's happened? You know? Uh cowabunga dude like
Speaker 1: I love that when you're there and they say, that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool man, the island life, the island life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: since you just went to Hawaii and you left with
Speaker 1: an extra member of your family in the oven? Uh
Speaker 1: do you do you want the mrs? Do you watch
Speaker 1: that Hawaiian HD DV like real estate show Hawaiian Life
Speaker 1: where they it's it's right when you've been there and
Speaker 1: you've seen what it's like and well you can kind
Speaker 1: of peek and see you kind of having a better idea,
Speaker 1: better grasp of what's going on there. I've watched that
Speaker 1: show for a long time, way before this relationship, and
Speaker 1: every time I watched that show, I was like, damn it, man,
Speaker 1: I want to be on that show because I definitely
Speaker 1: want to retire there. That'd be pretty cool, man, be
Speaker 1: pretty nice. Start saving those pennies. If you eat one
Speaker 1: meal a week, you could probably save that money. And
Speaker 1: by the time you get done, you can buy the
Speaker 1: house in Hawaii. Yeah, I'm gonna bring my son there
Speaker 1: someday and have them look over the land and I'll say, son,
Speaker 1: this is where I left it in. That's where you were.
Speaker 1: The we we we created you right here. You get
Speaker 1: away from me there the magic happened, all right. So
Speaker 1: the mail back if you want to send a message,
Speaker 1: and you can do it a couple of different ways.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have shifted to the email, which
Speaker 1: is great and we love that, and we want you
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Speaker 1: can do that right now you want. It's not gonna
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Speaker 1: if you want to wait. So the Facebook page pops
Speaker 1: up on Tuesday or Wednesday. It's Ben mall Or show.
Speaker 1: That's on our Facebook page, and you can submit a
Speaker 1: question about anything you want to know about the show,
Speaker 1: about radio, about life. We generally avoid sport equ questions, Danny.
Speaker 1: We triaually avoid the sporting questions, but every once in
Speaker 1: a while when we do that all week so the
Speaker 1: weekends for fun exactly, but every once in a while,
Speaker 1: we will allow an interloper to get their question on.
Speaker 1: So on this mailbag, we start out with Barry in
Speaker 1: Nashville via the Bahamas this week. How about that he's
Speaker 1: hanging out the beautiful Bahamas, he says, Yo Yo, Bob, Benny,
Speaker 1: and Danny G Have either of you been zip lining?
Speaker 1: If not, would you ever do it? So I'll go first. Danny,
Speaker 1: I have never been zip lining. I've only thought about
Speaker 1: it really once or twice in my life. I know
Speaker 1: on in Vegas at the Fremont Street Experience, they have
Speaker 1: a zip line that goes right down Fremont Street. Um,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm too big and I'd probably break
Speaker 1: it like I broke the microphone, so I'd probably tried
Speaker 1: to avoid that. Well, what about you, Danny. The only
Speaker 1: zip lining I've ever done? I guess you could call
Speaker 1: it get zip lining. On the east side of San
Speaker 1: Jose in the eighties, my cousin brother and I used
Speaker 1: to take an old wheelchair and push it down with
Speaker 1: one of us in it. The other two would push
Speaker 1: the other person down what we called the ditch it
Speaker 1: was behind. Actually it was the alley of the Evergreen
Speaker 1: Town homes there, and this ditch was super steep into
Speaker 1: all these It was like a brush hill. And when
Speaker 1: you got momentum, I remember my cousin flipping over multiple
Speaker 1: times in the wheelchair. It was awesome. That was our
Speaker 1: version of zip lining. Wow, how many broken bones ended
Speaker 1: up out of that? How many over under on broken bones?
Speaker 1: So are we looking at there? Let's not tell our
Speaker 1: moms how we got hurt. They thought it was football. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know football sush football tells you not to play
Speaker 1: tackle football. And meanwhile we're pushing each other down a
Speaker 1: hill in an old wheelchair. Those great times. But real
Speaker 1: zip lining have never done it. Um, I guess I'd
Speaker 1: be down for it. Well, in Hawaii, we're just talking
Speaker 1: about Hawaii. You can go on. There's a zip line
Speaker 1: over the forest you can do in Kawaii. I know
Speaker 1: that that's one of the tourist attractions. If you're into
Speaker 1: such things and you have a lot of money, disposable money,
Speaker 1: liquid assets, liquid money that you want to spend on that.
Speaker 1: So uh, next up on the map back Kevin in
Speaker 1: Kansas Rights and he says, hey, guys, Ben and Danny
Speaker 1: g I have noticed in my high school a zombie
Speaker 1: like atmosphere. Students walk down the hall with this thing
Speaker 1: in their hands and they're staring at it as they walk.
Speaker 1: The bell rings for class to start, and they continue
Speaker 1: to stare at this device. Can either of you explain
Speaker 1: this weird phenomena? Have you noticed it at your workplace?
Speaker 1: Kevin in Kansas? Well, Danny, you're at a school part
Speaker 1: of the week, right, So you see the kids that
Speaker 1: they all have their phones. Are they are they phones
Speaker 1: for boating? Are they are they banned from the school
Speaker 1: at the middle school level the moment they walk on
Speaker 1: the campus, their phone has to be put away. If
Speaker 1: the phone is seeing the phone is taken. Oh, that
Speaker 1: is a problem. That is a problem. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like the thing I would say, Kevin, Yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my phone right now, like I'm like
Speaker 1: everyone else, you know, I'm checking it out and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But the thing about it is, I've noticed
Speaker 1: that sporting events, Danny, Like, people spend a lot of
Speaker 1: money to go to these games. I don't go to
Speaker 1: a lot of games anymore. I used to go every night.
Speaker 1: But you go to these games and that people aren't
Speaker 1: even really paying attention that you were just at a
Speaker 1: Raider game and everyone's on their phone. And the other
Speaker 1: thing I love is what I call the statue of Liberty,
Speaker 1: the thousands of statue of Liberty. If there's like a
Speaker 1: big moment in a baseball game or a basketball and
Speaker 1: football game, everyone's like this with their arm like fully
Speaker 1: extended like a torch, with the statue of Liberty, and
Speaker 1: they're and I'm convinced no one ever watches those fucking videos,
Speaker 1: but everyone's taken them. Everyone wants to be the one
Speaker 1: to capture the dramatic moment and sell at the Harvey
Speaker 1: Leven at TMZ. And that's the thing. I was at
Speaker 1: Disneyland last weekend because we were supposed to go on Christmas,
Speaker 1: but we're sick, so we took the kids on Sunday.
Speaker 1: When the fireworks go off, Why do you need to
Speaker 1: record the entire fireworks display at Disneyland. We've joked about
Speaker 1: this on Covino and Rich before. Do you have a
Speaker 1: box of tapes from back in the day, let's say Disneyland,
Speaker 1: Oh six fireworks? You collect fireworks videos and now it's
Speaker 1: all digital. But I mean, we never watched these things back,
Speaker 1: so why not live in the moment? Why are you
Speaker 1: recording this entire stupid fireworks show. Yeah, Like, there's some
Speaker 1: things that are wonderful, like you know, your your kids
Speaker 1: first time speaking or walking. You might actually go back
Speaker 1: and watch that fucking thing. But you're not gonna watch
Speaker 1: a fireworks show, no, sid when you I'm fit, Like
Speaker 1: you have family over right now from out of town.
Speaker 1: I don't have them staying right down yelling. I'm they're
Speaker 1: upset with me because I'm yelling. I'm doing a podcast
Speaker 1: right now. But yeah, can you imagine pulling down? Uh like,
Speaker 1: what did that used to be? Our grandparents had him.
Speaker 1: It was like a shade they pulled down for the
Speaker 1: projector oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah the slide. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's Benny with his fireworks slide show. Everyone gathered around.
Speaker 1: You want to see the fireworks. We saw Disneyland. It's
Speaker 1: so it never happened, So why waste your time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can I completely agree with you on that, but
Speaker 1: thank you. Kevin has always a great question by our guy,
Speaker 1: Kevin and kids. Next up on the mailback, Joe and
Speaker 1: Darcy in Florida. Right in the dynamic duo Benn and
Speaker 1: Danny g. I usually keep my questions light, but I
Speaker 1: do have a serious sports related question Joe and Darcy
Speaker 1: right in, he says, are members of the sports media,
Speaker 1: specifically the NBA media members afraid to ask people like
Speaker 1: the woke James real questions? Most media members will never
Speaker 1: get the chance to interview someone one on one like
Speaker 1: l Woke, So what would they stand to lose by
Speaker 1: asking real questions as opposed to the fluff questions that
Speaker 1: he gets. I'm singling out this since I feel he
Speaker 1: has done more harm than good in his time in
Speaker 1: the NBA from a sports popularity standpoint. Joe and Darcy
Speaker 1: say here and he was over over the course of
Speaker 1: the of he's talking about some of the events here.
Speaker 1: I think there's a few words missing, But the the
Speaker 1: original Jesse Smolette with his bogus race crime in his
Speaker 1: house that never happened, He says, Uh, Joe and Darcy,
Speaker 1: and the fact that most people would not even get
Speaker 1: the references approves my point. Would the NBA go as
Speaker 1: far as stripping a press member of one's credential if
Speaker 1: they dared ask him real questions? I would assume a
Speaker 1: press member would stand to gain more by being a
Speaker 1: rebel and dare asking real questions, Am I missing something?
Speaker 1: Code of the Cats still sucks signed to Joe and Darcy,
Speaker 1: So yeah, it is an interesting dynamic. I've been out
Speaker 1: there a lot in media events over the years. I've
Speaker 1: actually been at some media events with Lebron, ironically not
Speaker 1: since he came to the Lakers, more when he was
Speaker 1: with Cleveland back in the day. And there's a term
Speaker 1: in wrestling. The way I would describe it, it's called
Speaker 1: a k K fab. I believe it's how you say it, right,
Speaker 1: that's the in professional wrestling. It's the portrayal of staged
Speaker 1: events as real but the people involved. No, it's it's
Speaker 1: not like I don't know if that's the right way
Speaker 1: to describe this. But the the reason Joe that a
Speaker 1: lot of the NBA media do not ask tough questions
Speaker 1: is because it is access. But the other people snicker.
Speaker 1: There's so many fan boys and girls in the media
Speaker 1: that love, truly worship people like Lebron James and they
Speaker 1: don't want to be the awkward person that asked the
Speaker 1: tough question. And as far as the dumb questions that
Speaker 1: get asked, there's a lot of hard ohs in the
Speaker 1: sports media that really want to get into the xs
Speaker 1: and os. They think their coaches and they want to
Speaker 1: get into the xs and ohs and and things like that.
Speaker 1: So they so that you've got several variables in play.
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest one is peer pressure, Danny,
Speaker 1: that you don't want to be the one that asked
Speaker 1: the awkward question because then Lebron gives a weird answer,
Speaker 1: he might end the interview, and then he doesn't answer
Speaker 1: any more questions, and so it's all those things playing together.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Danny? Let me ask you because
Speaker 1: I used to ask Clay Travis this, why do you care? Look?
Speaker 1: When I watched sports? I watched sports. Do I watch
Speaker 1: the postgame interviews? No? I really could give a ship.
Speaker 1: Unless it's like a major game, like a National championship
Speaker 1: game with an award, a Super Bowl with an award,
Speaker 1: something like that, then we'll watch the post game, right,
Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't care what these dudes
Speaker 1: are saying their street clothes. I might or might not agree.
Speaker 1: It doesn't do anything for me in my life, right.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna make gats cheaper for me. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna help me with my health insurance. Multimillionaires some of
Speaker 1: these guys almost billionaires. Now I think Lebron might be
Speaker 1: a billionaire. I think you're right. Yeah, these dudes are
Speaker 1: so filthy rich. And I hate that part of it
Speaker 1: where reporters run to them Ben and they're like, what
Speaker 1: do you think about the NFL canceling the game when
Speaker 1: Hamlin was hurt and Lebron's commenting on it, And then
Speaker 1: you realize Lebron doesn't even a player he's talking about,
Speaker 1: because he's like that kid he didn't even know him
Speaker 1: Lynn's name, but he shouldn't. He's not an NFL analyst,
Speaker 1: he doesn't even play in the NFL, So why do
Speaker 1: these reporters all run to him and ask him about
Speaker 1: the flavor of the hour is? Yeah, I mean, but
Speaker 1: that's the I totally understand. I think, like where Joe
Speaker 1: and Darcy are coming from, and if you're really into
Speaker 1: this and we're into it, but if you're watching it
Speaker 1: and these guys like Lebron's put on a pedestal, and
Speaker 1: I think you kind of agree. Like He's like, why
Speaker 1: it's this worship, the celebrity worship, this obsession with guys
Speaker 1: like Lebron James and and what they say matters and
Speaker 1: it's an odd thing about human issue because I'm kind
Speaker 1: of like you. I'm over as a talk shows. I'm
Speaker 1: not over it. But is it just a fan I'm
Speaker 1: over it that part of it. I don't really give
Speaker 1: a crap. You know. I'm an adult. I've made my
Speaker 1: own decisions. I have my own view on life. I
Speaker 1: don't need someone else to tell me. But there's so
Speaker 1: many people that are just like they're the robots. They
Speaker 1: need these celebrities that they have to follow, thee everybody's
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a ridiculous set up. But that's just human nature. A
Speaker 1: lot of people are like, oh, I need celebrities, are
Speaker 1: more they're better people than me because they're famous. No,
Speaker 1: they're not. Stop being cheap. Be your own man, be
Speaker 1: your own woman. Yeah, it does take a while for
Speaker 1: people to kind of cross that that rubicon, I believe,
Speaker 1: and then they figure at some point you figure it
Speaker 1: out and all that. But it's a self fulfilling prophecy
Speaker 1: though as far as because you need clickbait, and so
Speaker 1: lebron is more than happy to give it to guys
Speaker 1: like that and then boom you go, all right, Next
Speaker 1: up on the mail bag Jeff from Milton, Washington. Good Country,
Speaker 1: God's Country, writes in Jeff, he says, do any of
Speaker 1: you ever feel like you might need security? He's starting
Speaker 1: to you know, you and me Danny with with you
Speaker 1: when you go out and about a couple of your callers. Waa.
Speaker 1: He says, Oh, that isn't funny. Also, any of you
Speaker 1: ever complete a half or full marathon? I love the show. Thanks.
Speaker 1: That's from Jeff in Milton, Washington. Well, thank you Jeff
Speaker 1: for listening. Number one, uh, number two, uh day to day. No,
Speaker 1: don't don't need security, although I'm a little concerned. Blind
Speaker 1: Scott seems to be trying to track down my address.
Speaker 1: That seems somewhat troubling. And then we we go out
Speaker 1: and do Mallard meat and greets. We have the proper
Speaker 1: amount of security there, Danny. We don't like to talk
Speaker 1: about that. It's secret. Well, you have people out there
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on us. We're not going there blind.
Speaker 1: You know. We have street gangs that protect us, so
Speaker 1: we're we're good on We have the crips and the bloods.
Speaker 1: They work together and they keep an eye on us.
Speaker 1: The Avenue gangs in l A. So it explains that
Speaker 1: Montre all expose hat you're wearing right now. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about, Danny, I have no idea
Speaker 1: read together. Oh yeah, I got a combined. That's a
Speaker 1: good point. There you go. Next up on the mailbag,
Speaker 1: we have Terry from England with a sport Oh question,
Speaker 1: he says, it's Sean McVeigh. Is Sean McVey running away
Speaker 1: from a complete rebuild like this idea of the Rams.
Speaker 1: It's like a long term rebuild. If the Rams all
Speaker 1: you people that are all horny for draft picks, If
Speaker 1: the Rams wanted to, they could get a boatload of
Speaker 1: draft picks right away. Trade Sean mcveigho the Cowboys for
Speaker 1: two first round picks and a couple of second round picks.
Speaker 1: Trade Aaron Donald to the Patriots for three first round picks.
Speaker 1: Send Jalen Ramsey to whoever for a couple of the
Speaker 1: first round picks. You all of a sudden, you end
Speaker 1: up with like five or six first round picks and
Speaker 1: second round picks and all that, if that's what you
Speaker 1: want to do. So now you don't have Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: and you don't have these guys on your team. And
Speaker 1: these are pillars of the Rams currently. But if you
Speaker 1: really want to get the draft picks, you can make
Speaker 1: the draft picks happen. You can work it out. There
Speaker 1: are ways to do it. Cooper Cup can be traded.
Speaker 1: You can make yourself like an expansion team and get
Speaker 1: rid of every headline player. I don't recommend that being
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles because the RAM fans a lot of
Speaker 1: them do like the star players, so I don't recommend
Speaker 1: getting rid of everybody. But if that's your mission, you
Speaker 1: can absolutely do it. I think fans need to stop
Speaker 1: being overemotional when things don't go your way. It's okay,
Speaker 1: the world's not gonna end. You don't need to blow
Speaker 1: everything up. You don't need to fire everybody. You don't
Speaker 1: need to start over from scratch. You just need to
Speaker 1: make some adjustments, hopefully get the right free agents, and
Speaker 1: hopefully get a good chemistry going with the guys you
Speaker 1: have on your squad. This whole with the Dodgers, they
Speaker 1: didn't even win the World Series with the best offense
Speaker 1: in the leading blow it all up. You don't need
Speaker 1: to blow everything up. We talked about this a lot
Speaker 1: last week. In the afternoon, there's a lot of fans
Speaker 1: on a M five seventy you you used to do
Speaker 1: Dodger talk, and a lot of those fans are on
Speaker 1: their screaming about how we haven't seen the results. You
Speaker 1: still have some key players and you still have an
Speaker 1: organization that is rich, so Ben, you don't need to
Speaker 1: start over. Yeah, but it's it's the black and white world, right,
Speaker 1: It's either you're you're with us or you're against us.
Speaker 1: And it's like, I agree with, I think this is
Speaker 1: the thing is a term that's been lost over the
Speaker 1: generations called fine tuning, right slight improvement, not blowing the
Speaker 1: whole thing up from and going back to bedrock, updating it,
Speaker 1: you know, adding a little bit. It's like it's kind
Speaker 1: of like when you get an app on your phone.
Speaker 1: You don't delete the app and and you know, download
Speaker 1: seven other apps. You go to the app store, they
Speaker 1: update the app, they find tune the app, they add,
Speaker 1: they reorganized, recalibrate, whatever they have to do, whatever word
Speaker 1: did you verbage you want to use and then you
Speaker 1: can still use the app and they make it a
Speaker 1: little bit better, but they don't destroy the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And uh, and I agree with, Like I look at
Speaker 1: the Rams. I'm like, okay, if if you know, they
Speaker 1: sign the right free agents and they get a couple
Speaker 1: of guys likely not in the draft, but in free agency,
Speaker 1: meaning college free agents who aren't drafted that turned out
Speaker 1: to be decent. Oh, we're fine, you got something. And
Speaker 1: and it's like, what happened to here's the term that
Speaker 1: we don't use enough. I think Danny coaching up, coaching up,
Speaker 1: getting more out of talent and and and doing it
Speaker 1: that way, like to me, a great coach you take
Speaker 1: a guy who's a C level player and make him
Speaker 1: a B player, and you take a B player, make
Speaker 1: him an A player and an A player, making a
Speaker 1: plus player instead. It's like, well, if this guy is
Speaker 1: a C player, you're not gonna win because you just said, well,
Speaker 1: how about he get better? How about they they improve?
Speaker 1: Why are they just stuck you know, their pigeonholes as
Speaker 1: as this player? I am annoyed by that. I don't
Speaker 1: like that. Danny alright, Kyrie in okay, see rights in
Speaker 1: our guy, Kyrie, the Kyrie we love, not the other
Speaker 1: Kyrie Kyrie And okay, see rights. And he said, hey,
Speaker 1: big homie, big ben Ak the goat. Danny g my guy.
Speaker 1: He was the first producer when I began listening to
Speaker 1: your show, like seven, eight or nine years ago now
Speaker 1: the microphone throttler, I've been listening about as long as
Speaker 1: my oldest daughter, who is nine. So somewhere Kyrie writes
Speaker 1: around there. Anyway, how much or how come? Rather how come?
Speaker 1: Too much or not enough? Is the only game show
Speaker 1: where you can win two golden tickets? What made that
Speaker 1: game have that one and only perk? Like? What is it?
Speaker 1: The origin story of that game show? Which I love
Speaker 1: all the game shows, the trivia of the jokes, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Listen to you guys eight days a week so much.
Speaker 1: My wife hates you anyway much love to you and
Speaker 1: and Danny g Well, I think your wife, I would say,
Speaker 1: for putting up with us, but it sounds like she
Speaker 1: really is not putting up with us. But that's that's fine.
Speaker 1: Uh so that too put up with us either, So yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly our watch don't listen to any of this stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but like too much and not enough that
Speaker 1: just kind of happened organically, and people have pointed out
Speaker 1: it's the easiest game that we have, and yet you
Speaker 1: can get two golden tickets I have heard that complaint, Danny.
Speaker 1: We had Holleringen James in Minnesota was fast asleep, yeah,
Speaker 1: and ended up winning the game in one of the
Speaker 1: great moments in radio history. Based on the rhythm of
Speaker 1: the snoring. Yeah, yeah, based on on the snoring and
Speaker 1: whether he was quiet or not. So that was that
Speaker 1: was something that was unplanned and just amazing. Um. So
Speaker 1: there there's there's really no rhyme or reason to it. Um.
Speaker 1: And I'd like to add some some new games. I
Speaker 1: like the Mallard Militia Feud, which we've been doing on
Speaker 1: Mondays now Sunday and the Monday. I have fun with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe if you didn't throttle the clock like Andy Reid
Speaker 1: and you could actually get that entire game fit in there.
Speaker 1: I know, well, it's it's it's one of those double
Speaker 1: edged swords, like you're damned if you do, You're damned
Speaker 1: you don't, because that when when I leave a lot
Speaker 1: of time, usually those are terrible games, and then when
Speaker 1: I don't leave enough time, they're great games. It's gotta
Speaker 1: be that perfect spot where you feel the rush and
Speaker 1: so your blood is pumping, so you gotta get it
Speaker 1: fit in just in time. But it can't be too
Speaker 1: short of a time where you're going so fast you're
Speaker 1: stumbling over your words. Yeah, well, Eddie, not to throw
Speaker 1: any under the bus. But Eddie went so long on
Speaker 1: his puck the world that we didn't even have time
Speaker 1: for fact or fiction. We were like, man, we're going
Speaker 1: for and it was going for. I don't care, I'm
Speaker 1: leaving goodbye. He was going I guess there's a lot
Speaker 1: of hockey news. That's an icing penalty. I believe the
Speaker 1: next up, Ozzy is our friend from out in the
Speaker 1: middle of nowhere in Western Australia. You think of Australia,
Speaker 1: you think of the beaches, you think of the kangaroo's,
Speaker 1: you think of the sun, the fun, and this guy
Speaker 1: is out there in the back country in Western Australia.
Speaker 1: He says, My mates big Man and Danny Gee. You
Speaker 1: had someone ask a couple of weeks ago about your
Speaker 1: favorite sports movie of all time. But I would like
Speaker 1: to know what movie that is your all time favorite
Speaker 1: not to do with sports, and he says, no, Ben
Speaker 1: documentaries do not count, even though I do enjoy watching those.
Speaker 1: He says, ps, I am not a dinosaur. I do
Speaker 1: believe you're a couple of years older than me. Well
Speaker 1: not really, Ozzy was because you actually have a real job.
Speaker 1: I I do sports radio, so I have not aged.
Speaker 1: I'm stuck at the same age. I've been the same
Speaker 1: age for a long time. But my favorite movie of
Speaker 1: all time, I would say Good Fellas is probably number one.
Speaker 1: That's that's my my go to. I mean there's other ones,
Speaker 1: but what about you, Danny Well, Godfather one and two
Speaker 1: are right up there for me. But if I had
Speaker 1: to pick one movie that has completely stood the test
Speaker 1: of time, back to the Future. Oh yeah, Back to
Speaker 1: the Future is When that comes on now, I get
Speaker 1: just as excited as I was when I was a
Speaker 1: little kid watching it. It's to the point where a
Speaker 1: lot of theaters across the country will play it for
Speaker 1: special showings on the big screen. And whenever that happens,
Speaker 1: make sure you get some tickets for you and your
Speaker 1: family and go see it at the theater whenever they
Speaker 1: play it as a classic. And there's certain songs like
Speaker 1: Star Wars. When you hear that the theme for Star Wars,
Speaker 1: or like Superman uh Indiana Jones is like brings back
Speaker 1: memories but not necessarily like watching my all time favorite movies,
Speaker 1: but like watching them is like just hearing the music.
Speaker 1: Next up on the mailback, Cliff in Nashville rights and
Speaker 1: he says, Ben, how does Danny g manage his schedule?
Speaker 1: He's got the fifth hour Cavino and rich middle school
Speaker 1: teenagers and a pickle craving new wife. All right, Danny,
Speaker 1: what's your secret? Cliff would like to know your secret
Speaker 1: on how you are juggling? A lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of balls up in the air. There. You've got a
Speaker 1: lot of things going up in the a lot of
Speaker 1: disks in the air, A bunch of hookers in cocaine.
Speaker 1: Ask my man right there, our most name has drops,
Speaker 1: a bunch of hookers and cocaine. Uh no it it's
Speaker 1: a busy schedule, So I just try to nap whenever
Speaker 1: I can. When you become an adult, you start to
Speaker 1: realize right next to golden value is naptime. Remember we
Speaker 1: were kids, Ben, and your mom would make you go
Speaker 1: take a nap, and you'd hear other kids playing outside,
Speaker 1: and you could get really frustrated, like it sucks. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be inside. You didn't want to be napping.
Speaker 1: Last thing you wanted to do was go to sleep.
Speaker 1: Now as we get older. Man, that hour long nap
Speaker 1: that you could take before you have to drive into
Speaker 1: your job, that's gold money right there. I make sure
Speaker 1: that I'm well prepared for whatever shift I'm about to do,
Speaker 1: and then I take a little nap right before I
Speaker 1: go in for the war. Well, you're more grown up
Speaker 1: than I am, Danny. I'm a bad napper. I'm a
Speaker 1: terrible sleeper. I do catch up, I will say on
Speaker 1: the weekends, usually Friday night, I just burn out and
Speaker 1: I lay on the couch. My wife knows if I
Speaker 1: always said, well, I'll lay on the couch. I watched
Speaker 1: the TV with you know, and I lay on the
Speaker 1: couch and I'm sleeping. I'm like gone to the world. Man,
Speaker 1: I just I fall into that sofa and that's it.
Speaker 1: Turn out the lights, the parties over, and I'm just yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just that's it. I'm worn out. I'm and and
Speaker 1: you know that our jobs are mentally draining because you
Speaker 1: have to think a lot. But they're not physically training.
Speaker 1: We're not building buildings or roads or something like that.
Speaker 1: And but mentally I'm always on the on the goach
Speaker 1: trying to think about what's gonna happen next and what
Speaker 1: I So, it's a big pain in the ask I did.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to mention I failed to answer that
Speaker 1: guy Jeff and Milton's question that the other question about
Speaker 1: are you are you gonna ever compete a half or
Speaker 1: a full marathon? I wanted to do a full marathon,
Speaker 1: and I actually I told my wife I'd like to
Speaker 1: do the l A Marathon. I like, at least walk it,
Speaker 1: wile the jog, gonna walk it and some of that stuff.
Speaker 1: But then I've messed up my knees, so I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I'm able to do that at this point.
Speaker 1: I probably could. I'd like my my brother who's in
Speaker 1: town here visiting. He's run the New York Marathon many
Speaker 1: many times, and I'd like to walk the l A
Speaker 1: Marathon at least, But I have not. I've not gone
Speaker 1: down that road. Next up Pierre uh staring at the
Speaker 1: back of a milk carton looking for Helen and Stu
Speaker 1: John the jailer et said that's a great point. We've
Speaker 1: still not heard from Helen and stew and John the jailer.
Speaker 1: I hope they're okay. I don't know. I did email
Speaker 1: Helen and Stu. I did a wellness check. They never
Speaker 1: wrote back, so who the hell know? They've all gone
Speaker 1: missing from the mailbag? Ben. I know how much the
Speaker 1: Bennett's like the nickname Rundown, but unfortunately only half now
Speaker 1: take up an entire segment or half of the podcast.
Speaker 1: Would it be possible to post the entire list on
Speaker 1: social media? Also? Could you add the one uh to
Speaker 1: the pile of my past suggestions, which is an update
Speaker 1: to a current nickname, the Grand Godfather of Gab, So
Speaker 1: that would replaced the Grand Goober of Gab. That would
Speaker 1: be the Godfather Danny. Do you approve of that nickname change?
Speaker 1: All right? You know what, I'll make that happen. I'll
Speaker 1: make a note of that and I will add that
Speaker 1: for my man Pierre dedicated p one. Al right, next
Speaker 1: up on the mailbag, MIKEE though, we need to commission
Speaker 1: one final nickname for you. I hope it's the final one.
Speaker 1: You destroying the equipment and the lights in the studio
Speaker 1: unintentionally by any of the bulldozer there you go, something
Speaker 1: like that. If you haven't a suggestion, send it to
Speaker 1: the mailback next week real fifth hour at Ben Mallor
Speaker 1: and we will consider you can have the power of
Speaker 1: adding a nickname to my nickname Rundown Mike from Fullerton
Speaker 1: Rights and not to be confused with fir Dogg. He says,
Speaker 1: congrats to my boy daddy J. I know you think
Speaker 1: he'll be a Raider someday, but in twenty years the
Speaker 1: Rams should have some draft picks again, So don't get
Speaker 1: to ahead of yourself. So, first of all, thank you,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Um. Yeah, it's weird, man, because last
Speaker 1: weekend you did the math. What do you say it
Speaker 1: was gonna be the kid's gonna be born? Do date
Speaker 1: is this year? Right? So the math on that you
Speaker 1: think he goes to college it's twenty would be twenty
Speaker 1: something around there. Yeah, it'd probably be draft if he
Speaker 1: stays in school. Yeah, holy crap, I mean, what do
Speaker 1: you think this kid's like a linebacker, defensive end, the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, quarterback. What are we looking at? Well, the
Speaker 1: miss has had her very first official doctor's appointment. They
Speaker 1: did the ultrasound and the doctors like, man, that baby
Speaker 1: is big for nine weeks, so we might be looking
Speaker 1: at an old lineman here, the next Lincoln Kennedy. Yes,
Speaker 1: there you go. Uh, Mike continues. He says, before my question,
Speaker 1: I have to come clean after something Ben said last week.
Speaker 1: I'm not as dedicated to a listener as you think.
Speaker 1: Mike says, yes, I listened to every radio show and podcast,
Speaker 1: but I skip your weekly segment on FESCO in the Morning.
Speaker 1: Now that you know the truth, I hope you don't
Speaker 1: think less of me. Yeah, well, shame on you. Shame
Speaker 1: on you. Like that's an award winning radio which has
Speaker 1: a sponsor. The Landing in Kansas City, the home of
Speaker 1: the Ben Mallory Chicken fingers, is a sponsor of my
Speaker 1: weekly segment on six ten Sports in Consas City, the
Speaker 1: home of the Chiefs, where they're all upset Danny because
Speaker 1: of this neutral site championship game in the a f C,
Speaker 1: and as it has been pointed out, I talked about
Speaker 1: it on my appearance on FESCO in the Morning this
Speaker 1: past week, that that is a trial balloon, Danny and
Speaker 1: mark my words, the NFL. If that goes well and
Speaker 1: they make money on that, you will see no more
Speaker 1: a f C NFC championship games in home stadiums. You
Speaker 1: will see neutral site championship games. Gearrongti coming to the
Speaker 1: NFL money, money, money, money, It's all about sucking that
Speaker 1: money out of your wallets. And Mike says with Benny
Speaker 1: versus the penny winding down and weekly interviews not coming back,
Speaker 1: it's sound is like you could use some ideas for
Speaker 1: Friday's going forward. So I came up with a couple.
Speaker 1: How about on Fridays you read a book. The militia
Speaker 1: needs it. Benny of the book, Benny the book reader. Uh,
Speaker 1: the militia needs it. If you don't like that idea,
Speaker 1: considered doing a SMR, which I believe he means autonomous
Speaker 1: sensory meridian response. He says, just tap on your microphone
Speaker 1: and make weird noises for an hour. Boom done. Let
Speaker 1: me see how that would work. You like green eggs
Speaker 1: and Ham? I not like them, Sam, I am, I
Speaker 1: do not like green Eggs and ham Uh. Nick and
Speaker 1: Wisconsin right sitting on the mailback, he says, Benn and
Speaker 1: Danny Gee won't lie. I was upset I forgot to
Speaker 1: get a question in last week. Going back to the
Speaker 1: well this week, Nick and Wisconsin, the cheese capital of
Speaker 1: the World, says, would you rather have a driver, a butler,
Speaker 1: or a chef? If you were rich. You can only
Speaker 1: have one. Yeah, So I I like driving, unless it's
Speaker 1: it's bad rain that I don't want to drive anymore.
Speaker 1: I like cooking, so I would take a butler to
Speaker 1: do my laundry in the clean up. I think the
Speaker 1: butler would be the way to go. What about you, nanny,
Speaker 1: I think I would actually go the chef route. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love driving fast. I already have a butler. That's
Speaker 1: my wife. E Oh, shots fired there, sexist, No, you
Speaker 1: know what, truth be known. I'm her butler right now
Speaker 1: while she's prego. You are you are? You're her slave,
Speaker 1: Danny or whatever? Yes, yes, I am at the in
Speaker 1: and out drive through at midnight for her. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know why, Like, I don't have a problem helping
Speaker 1: with stuff or on the house. If I'm at home
Speaker 1: and I'm not working, I don't mind helping. I help
Speaker 1: all I can. But the cooking, I know that's been
Speaker 1: a pain in the ass for my girl, and so
Speaker 1: I would like a chef to just cook us up
Speaker 1: some amazing meals, not too not three, not full, not five,
Speaker 1: not six seven times a day. There you go, make
Speaker 1: it happen, Nick. You know people, Nick make that happen.
Speaker 1: Valls fan Jimmie writes in from Big Orange Countries is.
Speaker 1: First off, the Mallard Show is the best show on Fox,
Speaker 1: point blank period. This is for you both. What is
Speaker 1: your favorite girl Scout cookie? I didn't expect that one,
Speaker 1: So I've always gone thin Mint, but I've expanded my
Speaker 1: taste buds over the years, and I've added to that.
Speaker 1: My wife, she's such a sucker at work at the
Speaker 1: police station. She's a nine one one operator and she
Speaker 1: will buy like fifteen boxes of cookies and a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I tell you, I only eat one
Speaker 1: meal a day. Sometimes I don't even eat. What are
Speaker 1: you doing? And and but she's like, oh, yeah, these
Speaker 1: are my co workers, your daughter. They need the cookies
Speaker 1: and all that. You know what, I need the money.
Speaker 1: So and I got a niece, Now, who's who's going
Speaker 1: to be hitting us up for cookies and all that.
Speaker 1: But there's the thin mints are always the go to
Speaker 1: the trying to think of. I'm getting the names of
Speaker 1: these here, so I yeah, the samalwas the samoas are
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah like those, and the lemon cookie is
Speaker 1: really yeah, yeah, I like the lemon. I'm down with
Speaker 1: the lemon. I'm hippie. Yeah, lemon is number one for me,
Speaker 1: and then I would go with Samoa's and then the
Speaker 1: peanut butter cookies after that. Here you go. We'll get
Speaker 1: out on this. Noah from Austin writes and he says, greetings,
Speaker 1: Bend and Danny. G question for you this week, if
Speaker 1: you could have dinner. I feel like I know where
Speaker 1: this is going. This is gonna be. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those questions we get around Christmas and Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: which I don't like. But we'll we'll, we'll see you.
Speaker 1: He says, if you could have dinner with one president
Speaker 1: and celebrity, who would you choose? Celebrity or President can
Speaker 1: be dead or alive. There you go, Danny, that's what's next.
Speaker 1: List radio, Come on now. No I love you man.
Speaker 1: I hope your podcast blows up, but I cannot, even
Speaker 1: though we like to explore all avenues, I cannot go
Speaker 1: down that road that goes against all of my morals
Speaker 1: as a talk show host. So I'm gonna close that door.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pretend you did not send that question in Noah.
Speaker 1: That's what we call on the business. Danny an evergreen question,
Speaker 1: and I try to avoid that. We try to do
Speaker 1: live podcasting and radio and we don't. We don't walk
Speaker 1: in that ship. Okay, we don't do that. Understand, Yes,
Speaker 1: let me remix is question for him. What's the one
Speaker 1: radio show, Ben that you would love to go remix
Speaker 1: like you would now be the newest member of this show. Well,
Speaker 1: the one I grew up listening to the inspired me
Speaker 1: to get into radio, The Jim Healy Show in l A.
Speaker 1: I love that. But classic Howard Stern, the first Storm
Speaker 1: before he became woke. You want to pick a show
Speaker 1: that's on right now, on right now, Yeah, And the
Speaker 1: executive said, Okay, you get to go onto whatever show.
Speaker 1: We have an open checkbook for you. You picked the show.
Speaker 1: Would you sit right next to Skip Bayliss? Would you
Speaker 1: go on TV? Would you do radio? Would you would
Speaker 1: you be Dan Patrick's new co host? No, I don't
Speaker 1: think I do the I have done radio. You'd go TV? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'd give TV a shot. I think I
Speaker 1: could do all right on TV and given the opportunity
Speaker 1: and the right support and on that So, yeah, I
Speaker 1: could see you on the set of that new show
Speaker 1: Speak Talk. What is that? What is that is the
Speaker 1: Joy Taylor and uh yeah, yeah, I didn't know the
Speaker 1: name of it. I in the former Great marketing by them.
Speaker 1: You'd be sitting in between Shady McCoy and Joy Taylor.
Speaker 1: You get away from me? Yeah, here you go. I
Speaker 1: can give you that shot. I mean how those shows
Speaker 1: are like half an hour or an hour, but it's
Speaker 1: actually like forty minutes of content. What about you? What
Speaker 1: about you? It would be Shannon Sharp crying about what
Speaker 1: you tweeted, what we tweeted that. Man, I can't show
Speaker 1: up to work today because you gave an opinion I
Speaker 1: don't agree with. I'm not gonna show up today, you jerk.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it all about me, is what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do. Yeah, anyway, all right, have a great Sunday programming.
Speaker 1: Note though, Danny, as I mentioned in the previous podcast here,
Speaker 1: that I've got family in town and today is actually
Speaker 1: the day we're doing the big tribute, So I will
Speaker 1: not be at my watch post. I will not be
Speaker 1: in the catbird seat overlooking the overnight. Unfortunately, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to sneak some some watching. Hopefully my AD's not
Speaker 1: upset the cemetery he's in the ground anyway, but I'll
Speaker 1: be trying to check out some of the games on
Speaker 1: my phone and then uh, and then we have a
Speaker 1: big kind of social event here at the Mallard Mansion.
Speaker 1: And then I'll be back though Monday night after the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Buccaneers Island game, the Island Life, I'll be
Speaker 1: on the radio after that recap and everything that, the good,
Speaker 1: the bad, the ugly from the playoff weekend. What about you, Danny, Well,
Speaker 1: tomorrow I'll be back in there with Coveno and Rich
Speaker 1: having some super wild Card playoff talk and of course
Speaker 1: a lot of other fun topics that have nothing to
Speaker 1: do with sports. Two pm on the West Coast, so
Speaker 1: five to seven pm East Coast time. Beautiful. All right, listen,
Speaker 1: have a great rest of your weekend, stay safe, enjoy
Speaker 1: the football today, and we'll catch you next time. Let's
Speaker 1: go Raiders. Let's wait a second, let's go Rams. I
Speaker 1: don't I know it's next season. Bomber later, skater gott
Speaker 1: a murder, Gotta go