Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the.
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Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny G Radio
Speaker 1: a spin off of the Overnight show you hear Monday
Speaker 1: through Friday on many Fox Sports Radio affiliates across the country.
Speaker 1: And we are doing it live well kind of kind
Speaker 1: of live a global exclusive Danny G. Nobody else has
Speaker 1: the content that we are about to provide. I can
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Speaker 1: in the Malard.
Speaker 3: Militia speeding at you like a rented malardmobile.
Speaker 1: Aha, that is on the list, that is on the agenda.
Speaker 1: But this is the thorough, in depth team coverage review
Speaker 1: as Danny G will be the inquisitive reporter and he
Speaker 1: will be asking all the questions that you wish you
Speaker 1: could ask, but Danny has the chance to do that.
Speaker 1: So it's the Malard Meet and Greet, the first podcast
Speaker 1: since our trip to Minnesota last week had a wonderful time,
Speaker 1: and we'll go through all of the details on this
Speaker 1: will give you a blow by blow among the features
Speaker 1: on this podcast, we'll take a trip on the love Boat,
Speaker 1: we'll go speed racer, a rollicking Happy Days type festivity,
Speaker 1: and we will also have information that no one else has.
Speaker 1: We will tell you which member of the Malad militia
Speaker 1: almost stripped buck naked at the Malor Meet and Greet
Speaker 1: to the shock of everyone that saw this happen. We
Speaker 1: had nudity at the Malor Meet and Greet. We will
Speaker 1: get to that and also some sticker fund So there's
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot to navigate through, Danny, but I
Speaker 1: have my machete and we will be swashbuckling our way
Speaker 1: through the festivities on the Friday podcast. So we'll start
Speaker 1: out with the love vote. So got to Minnesota. Now
Speaker 1: we'll get to the meet and greet, which was a
Speaker 1: wonderful affair on Saturday in the evening time from five
Speaker 1: to nine. But prior to that, got up really tried
Speaker 1: to maximize my time. I figured, no, I don't want
Speaker 1: to sit in some room watching TV or listening to
Speaker 1: some audio. I want to go out. I want to
Speaker 1: experience everything that Minnesota has to offer. So we got
Speaker 1: there on Friday and on Saturday morning, we got up
Speaker 1: kind of early. My brother drove over from Appleton, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: which is about a four hour drive. I believe he
Speaker 1: said about four hours. So I met my brother. My
Speaker 1: wife was with me, So me and my wife met
Speaker 1: my brother and his wife and we headed to Lake Minnetonka.
Speaker 1: So why did we go to Lake Minnetaka, Danny ge,
Speaker 1: why do you think this was? There's a ten thousand
Speaker 1: plus lakes. There's like twelve thousand lakes in Minnesota, but
Speaker 1: we chose Lake Minnetonka. Why do you think that.
Speaker 3: Is the famous Vikings cruise.
Speaker 1: That is correct ding ding ding ding days. So Lake Minnetaka,
Speaker 1: which is only like fifteen minutes away from downtown Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: a notorious lake if you're a football fan. Because within
Speaker 1: the last I want to say, it's probably about fifteen years.
Speaker 1: I forget exactly when it happened, but it's been been
Speaker 1: a fair amount of time, maybe even longer than that,
Speaker 1: but if you were around for it. The Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: got in a whole lot of trouble because a group
Speaker 1: of players decided to rent a boat and they went
Speaker 1: out on Lake Minnetonka. And one of the players had
Speaker 1: flown in a group of professional ladies, a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1: Women who knew exactly what they were doing, and they
Speaker 1: also realized that they could get paid for their skills,
Speaker 1: and so they had a unbelievably great time out there
Speaker 1: on what became known as the Love Boat on Lake Minnetonka.
Speaker 1: And so I made my way. We now we did
Speaker 1: not actually go on the lake. We walked around the lake.
Speaker 1: There's a nice trail around Lake Minnetonka. A bunch of
Speaker 1: people are out with boats. The weather was great, it
Speaker 1: was really cool. I checked out my first first lake
Speaker 1: in Minnesota was lakeman Tanka, and it was a very
Speaker 1: nice lot of little towns kind of around the lake
Speaker 1: where they have shops and you know, standard touristy stuff
Speaker 1: and things like that. So that was that was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I did not see anyone making love
Speaker 1: on a boat though, so I think that it might
Speaker 1: have happened, but they did it in the privacy of
Speaker 1: the lower deck of the boat.
Speaker 3: We're too modern for that, Ben. This happened back in
Speaker 3: two thousand and.
Speaker 1: Five, oh Zara, So it's been eighteen years, eighteen years
Speaker 1: since the love boat and the vikings around that time.
Speaker 1: Not only they have the love boat scandal, but you
Speaker 1: remember they also had the Wisonator, which was a few
Speaker 1: years after that. The guy got busted Ontario Smith I
Speaker 1: believe was his name, Yeah, the airport, because he had
Speaker 1: a fake device to deliver urine a fallus, a fake
Speaker 1: fallus what taught with and that was was also a
Speaker 1: great moments in Viking history. So we had a fake
Speaker 1: Dick Cheney, yes exactly, a fake Dick and Dayton, if
Speaker 1: you will. But so she had that. So then there
Speaker 1: was this great debate whether or not my wife was
Speaker 1: going to go to the meet and greet and some
Speaker 1: interesting folks that comes to these things. My wife has
Speaker 1: been to some of these events in the past, but
Speaker 1: not all of them, and she was debating whether or
Speaker 1: not to go, and we were talking about that. She
Speaker 1: decided kind of at the last minute she was going
Speaker 1: to go. But as you know, Danny, you can't just
Speaker 1: roll out of bed and go to a Malor meet
Speaker 1: and greet. You've got to get all dulled up because
Speaker 1: you're representing the show, you're representing the brand, and so
Speaker 1: my wife always wants to look as good as possible.
Speaker 1: So she had to go to the store to pick
Speaker 1: up a few things that she did not have with
Speaker 1: her in her suitcase, and we were getting ready. We
Speaker 1: had a bit of an issue. We got back to
Speaker 1: the place we were staying and the code to get in
Speaker 1: was not working, so that delayed us. We were like,
Speaker 1: we got locked out, and if we had been locked out,
Speaker 1: we would not have been able to make the Mallord
Speaker 1: meet and greet, which would have been a slight problem
Speaker 1: considering people were traveling from all over to come to
Speaker 1: this thing. But anyway, we figured it out. We got
Speaker 1: in there, so my wife got ready fine, but we
Speaker 1: left a little bit later than I was hoping for.
Speaker 1: So I got on the highway there in Minnesota and
Speaker 1: started cruising to Mounds View, Minnesota. The Mermaid in an
Speaker 1: event center where the Mallard meet and greet was taking place.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I was driving with the flow of traffic. Okay, I
Speaker 1: was driving.
Speaker 3: I wasn't going.
Speaker 1: Faster than everyone. I wasn't out in front, I wasn't.
Speaker 3: The pace car.
Speaker 1: I was with the pod of people that were going
Speaker 1: the same speed. And I look in my rear view
Speaker 1: mirror and I notice a police car has now come
Speaker 1: up on my bumper. Oh no, And I look in
Speaker 1: the rear y mirror again. I thought, well, maybe they're
Speaker 1: going to go around me. And then the guy's like
Speaker 1: he's mad dog in my license plate. You know, he's
Speaker 1: looking at the license plate and all that.
Speaker 3: So what color was this rental?
Speaker 1: The rental was like a great color. It wasn't anything
Speaker 1: like outrageous. So I'm driving whatever. And but I knew
Speaker 1: once you kind of get locked in, it's like you
Speaker 1: get locked in this asteroid belt or something like that,
Speaker 1: this holding pattern. And I was done. I knew I
Speaker 1: was done. And the question is do I just pull
Speaker 1: over now before he turns his lights on? Do I
Speaker 1: wait a little bit, like what's the move? Do I
Speaker 1: try to get off the freeway, which would have been
Speaker 1: a bad move.
Speaker 3: It's like Star Wars where you get locked into their
Speaker 3: tractor beam.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was heading to the Death Star. So this
Speaker 1: is going on. And but the main reason I think
Speaker 1: I got pulled over, this is my theory and I'm
Speaker 1: sticking with it, is I had the one thing you
Speaker 1: do not want to have when you travel and get
Speaker 1: a rental car, and that was the trunk. Uh No.
Speaker 1: The one thing, the one thing Danny, you do not
Speaker 1: want to have is out of state plates. You do
Speaker 1: not want to have out of state place because that
Speaker 1: is a dead it's a dead giveaway. It's easy money
Speaker 1: for the police. They can write the ticket. They know
Speaker 1: you're not going to fight the ticket because you don't
Speaker 1: live there. They assume you don't live there. So when
Speaker 1: I picked up the rental car, I only had two options.
Speaker 1: You get to the rental car booth and they say,
Speaker 1: all right, there's two cars, pick either one. One of
Speaker 1: the cars had a Texas license plate. The other had
Speaker 1: a Kansas license plate. So I decided Kansas was closer
Speaker 1: to Minnesota, up by a little bit, so I'll take
Speaker 1: the Kansas license plate. So I was driving around with
Speaker 1: Kansas plates. Wow, and I was in a no win situation. Now,
Speaker 1: the officer was totally cool. It was a nice guy.
Speaker 1: Young guy looked like he was just out of the
Speaker 1: academy and this might have been the first ticket he
Speaker 1: had ever written. And so he's like, why why are
Speaker 1: you in such a hurry? You know, they ask you
Speaker 1: the questions when they asked, Well, so then I had
Speaker 1: the chance to say, well, it's funny you should bring
Speaker 1: that up, because I actually I do a radio show
Speaker 1: and I'm on my way to meet listeners from the
Speaker 1: show that's that are here in Minnesota, and so I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, maybe that'll give me some Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna double this. Fool's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So so the guy's like, oh, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and then he just watch back. It went back and
Speaker 1: it's a little more confusing when you had a ticket
Speaker 1: in a rental car and because you don't you have
Speaker 1: to show the insurance, but you don't you have your
Speaker 1: own personal insurance, and then you have to obviously the
Speaker 1: driver's license is out of state, and so they got
Speaker 1: to run that. And so anyway, the guy did all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So that caused me to be about a
Speaker 1: half an hour late to the malth of meet and greet.
Speaker 1: And the ticket was not expensive. It's it's affordable, you
Speaker 1: can do it online, you fill out the ticket. Whatever.
Speaker 1: It's a nuisance, got a murder, It's an absolute nuisance,
Speaker 1: pain in the behind. One complaint. I had a wonderful
Speaker 1: time in Minnesota. But the one thing I will complain
Speaker 1: about the speed limits in the Greater Minneapolis area. Ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The speed limit is like sixty fifty five to sixty
Speaker 1: miles an hour. No one is driving fifty five to
Speaker 1: sixty miles an hour because the weather was good. Now
Speaker 1: maybe in the winter. Maybe in the winter, Danny, when
Speaker 1: the weather's nasty. And yeah, I can understand how you'd say, Okay,
Speaker 1: this needs It's like.
Speaker 3: They need two different sets of signs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, because I'm going with the
Speaker 1: flow of traffic. And I've had this rule. We've talked
Speaker 1: about it on the radio show. I got pulled over
Speaker 1: years ago a highway patrol officer in California. He told
Speaker 1: me said, listen, if you go seventy nine or under,
Speaker 1: I will not even bother pulling you over. It's not
Speaker 1: worth my time. I go eighty eighty five or above.
Speaker 1: So Ever, since then, I had always made sure not
Speaker 1: to go seventy nine over seventy nine miles an hour
Speaker 1: because I figured I would not get a ticket. As
Speaker 1: my plan, my battle plan and all that. So in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: I was going seventy six miles an hour and not
Speaker 1: to seventy nine. But I still got a ticket because
Speaker 1: I had out of state plates. That's my again, that's
Speaker 1: my theory, that's what I'm going with. And so anyway,
Speaker 1: that was my pain in the ass trip to go
Speaker 1: to the the Mermaid for the Malared meet and greet.
Speaker 1: So then we get to the Mallard Meet and greet.
Speaker 1: The first thing I say, I pull off the highway.
Speaker 1: I was only two off ramps away, Danny, two off
Speaker 1: ramps away. If I had made it, I would have
Speaker 1: been fine. Obviously, got pulled over. So I get back
Speaker 1: on the highway. I get off the highway at Moundsview
Speaker 1: and I turn and there I see it, like a
Speaker 1: beacon of light off in the distance, The Mermaid. Here
Speaker 1: it is. I've heard so much about this place. We
Speaker 1: promoted it for several weeks. And I see flashing the
Speaker 1: jumbo tron. There it is my name in lights, Danny
Speaker 1: as a queen, the Queen of the Mala Musia in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: she's not Queen Roxanne, but she's spin Cycle Regina, who's
Speaker 1: the queen of the Minnesota contingent of the Mala Musia.
Speaker 1: So she had had my name put up on the
Speaker 1: billboard outside right on this big road in Minnesota. I
Speaker 1: saw this. My name was flashing, which was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I was like, I did a double tike. I was like,
Speaker 1: is that really my name? I was like, maybe that's
Speaker 1: maybe that's Ben Maler or something like that. So I
Speaker 1: got there. Now I was still kind of in a
Speaker 1: bad mood. Not kind of I was because I'd just
Speaker 1: gotten a speeding ticket. But I saw that jumbo tron
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, that's great glowing right there,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of twilight. The sun was it
Speaker 1: was still up because it doesn't get dark in Minnesota
Speaker 1: till like eight thirty, but you know, summers down a
Speaker 1: little bit, but not all the way down. And I
Speaker 1: walked in and everyone was all excited to see me,
Speaker 1: and it was a huge crowd there, and it was
Speaker 1: really cool. It was a really neat thing, and I
Speaker 1: had a wonderful time meeting everybody. We had people come
Speaker 1: from all over the place, all over the states. Obviously
Speaker 1: in that area around Minnesota from Wisconsin, Iowa. Doc Mike
Speaker 1: was there from Chicago. We had northern Minnesota well represented.
Speaker 1: We had Nebraska, and also Ernesto flew in from the
Speaker 1: Bay Area, so we had northern California represented, and I'm sure,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm forgetting some other other locations. But it
Speaker 1: was great. I had a wonderful time. I got to
Speaker 1: meet a bunch of people. I tried to balance my time, Danny,
Speaker 1: because you know, a lot of people there and I
Speaker 1: and my wife actually was very helpful because she was
Speaker 1: like encouraging me to move on to some other people,
Speaker 1: because otherwise I just would have talked to like one
Speaker 1: person the whole time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was your handler.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. She was pushing me to the other groups
Speaker 1: of people. So I was doing that and it was
Speaker 1: it was really really neat. We had a big contention
Speaker 1: of the Viking World Order, which I did not know
Speaker 1: much about. But this is like the top fan club
Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Vikings, which Regina spent cyc A. Regina
Speaker 1: the queen of the Minnesota Contingent. She is a part
Speaker 1: of that, and so she got a couple of the
Speaker 1: other members to come out there. They were all hanging out,
Speaker 1: so that was cool. Tommy Kramer. You remember Tommy Kramer,
Speaker 1: the quarterback for the Vikings back in the eighties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Tommy Kramer was there. He made he popped up,
Speaker 1: he popped in there. He was kind of signing autographs,
Speaker 1: hanging out. He had had merchandise that he was selling,
Speaker 1: so he had a little table he was setting up.
Speaker 1: And we had live music. Really good local artists there
Speaker 1: were performing and it was just a really rollicking happy
Speaker 1: days kind of thing there. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Met Eke from Roseville, Minnesota, Rob from Minnesota. All these
Speaker 1: guys that are big contributors of content to the show.
Speaker 1: Many of them were able to make it. Not everyone.
Speaker 1: We didn't meet Hayes the Crazy Guy, allegedly Crazy Guy,
Speaker 1: he was not there. Met Mike de Farmer and his
Speaker 1: wife who work on a small farm out in the
Speaker 1: boondocks in Po Dunk, USA, and they have no kids,
Speaker 1: just them working on the farm and he listens every night.
Speaker 1: He gets up at two thirty in the morning to
Speaker 1: feed all the animals on the farm and he listens
Speaker 1: to the overnight show while he's working and says he's
Speaker 1: I think he told me, Mike. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get this wrong, but he said he hadn't left the
Speaker 1: farm more than like twice in the last several years,
Speaker 1: but he left to come hang out with us at
Speaker 1: the meet and greet. So that was really cool. That
Speaker 1: was neat, and you know how these things go, Danny.
Speaker 1: Everyone's got a story, everyone's got something they want to
Speaker 1: share with you. There were a bunch of introverts, so
Speaker 1: I tried to make sure I accommodated the introverts. As
Speaker 1: a fellow introvert, I felt like it was important for
Speaker 1: me to spend time with them, and everyone seemed to
Speaker 1: be having a good time. Angelino was there. She's the
Speaker 1: big fan super fan, and she got a lot of
Speaker 1: the shirts and she was hanging out with some of
Speaker 1: her friends. She got me a nice gift. Some people
Speaker 1: did bring me gifts. I got some. I got a
Speaker 1: hat from Angelina, Colorado Buffalo's hat, which was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: There were some other knickknacks that I got as well.
Speaker 1: So as it was very very welcoming. You've heard of
Speaker 1: Minnesota nice, A lot of Minnesota nice, dandy, a lot
Speaker 1: of Minnesota nice.
Speaker 3: Now I want you to address the axe throwing video. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I will get to the ax throwing video in
Speaker 1: a moment, but first a global exclusive, Danny g before
Speaker 1: we get to that. No one else has what I'm
Speaker 1: about to do. Which member of the Malard militia at
Speaker 1: the Malor meet and greet almost stripped Buck naked in
Speaker 1: the middle of the Mermaid in the middle of the Mermaid.
Speaker 3: So air Force Andrew was there.
Speaker 1: Well, you would assume it would be Air Force Andrew
Speaker 1: because he's the legend from previous Mallet meet and greets.
Speaker 1: But no, it was not Air Force Andrew. He was
Speaker 1: not the guy that was there, the person that decided
Speaker 1: to turn the Mermaid into a Chippendale's the one and
Speaker 1: only hollering James. Hollering James, the crazy caller, Hollering James.
Speaker 1: So let me set this up. So James had someone
Speaker 1: drive him, very nice gentleman, and I believe his wife
Speaker 1: drove hollering James to the meet and greet, and I
Speaker 1: was really looking forward to meeting Jims. James has called
Speaker 1: the show for years. If you listen to the Overnight show,
Speaker 1: James breaks the mold, or maybe he's part of the mold.
Speaker 1: So hollering James is the guy that's been evicted from
Speaker 1: several places he's lived because he calls the show in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night and starts screaming about the
Speaker 1: Vikings or the Twins, or the Timberwolves or the Golden Gophers,
Speaker 1: like it's why old and crazy, right, wild and crazy.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I show up. They say, hey, there's hollering James.
Speaker 1: So I go up to hollering James. The first thing
Speaker 1: he does is literally take the hat off his head
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I want you to have this. He
Speaker 1: hands me this Viking hat which is covered in schmutz.
Speaker 1: It's it's got, it's I don't know, it's smelled. It
Speaker 1: was disgusting. So I said, you know what, James, that's
Speaker 1: very kind that you wanted to give me your hat.
Speaker 1: But I'm okay, I want you to have that hat.
Speaker 1: So I handed the hat back to hollering j He's
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I want you to have I said, no,
Speaker 1: no'm James. You listen, you take that. You need the
Speaker 1: hat more than me. You're the Viking fan. I'm a
Speaker 1: Rams fan. I don't need the hat. But he tried
Speaker 1: to give me so fine. So I talked to James
Speaker 1: for a little bit. At some point he procured a
Speaker 1: Mallard Meet and Greet shirt. There were a couple extra shirts.
Speaker 1: He was able to get his hands on a Mallard
Speaker 1: Meet and Greet shirt, so got his hands on this.
Speaker 1: So he then we have a conversation and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want you to autograph the shirt. So I said,
Speaker 1: no problem. You're hollering James. That's very flattering. I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you want an autograph from me?
Speaker 3: And what with that?
Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, Okay, I am going
Speaker 1: to give you an autograph. And it's very hard to
Speaker 1: sign an autograph because you're wearing He was wearing the
Speaker 1: shirt at this point. So James is like okay and
Speaker 1: starts taking the shirt off, and he starts undressing in
Speaker 1: the middle of this restaurant, bowling alley, concert hall type venue.
Speaker 1: And now the photo I posted of hollering James, Danny,
Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty flattering photo. Pretty flattering photo
Speaker 1: of hollering James. And he's a round mound of sports
Speaker 1: talk power. He's large and in charge. Hollering James women.
Speaker 1: I saw some things when he took the shirt off
Speaker 1: that I did not need to see. I didn't Now.
Speaker 1: Fortunately I was able to convince him to put the
Speaker 1: shirt back on, and I decided just to sign. He
Speaker 1: wanted on autograph, so I was like, all right, I'll
Speaker 1: sign the autograph, just leave the shirt on, and so
Speaker 1: so he did. It's not the cleanest looking autograph, but
Speaker 1: he he allowed me to do it, so so I
Speaker 1: I autographed that, uh, and he was happy. And I
Speaker 1: didn't even see him leave. I told him to come
Speaker 1: say bye when he left, but I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know where he where he ended up. But that was
Speaker 1: hollering James, briefly turning into a Chippendale's dancer. Now you
Speaker 1: wanted to know about this axe throwing.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it reminded me of you throwing those lollipops
Speaker 3: at are baseball outing.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a bad take by you, Danny. Let me
Speaker 1: explain what happened here. It's it's a common misconception that
Speaker 1: somehow that I was bad at throwing an axe, which
Speaker 1: is fake news. That is not true at all. So
Speaker 1: what happened was, at the end of the event, the
Speaker 1: thing was kind of whinding down and the spin cycle,
Speaker 1: Regina came over to me. She's like, hey, the people
Speaker 1: would like you the people of the Mermaid have given
Speaker 1: me permission you could throw an axe. I was like, oh, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: So I had to sign a waiver. Now, the young
Speaker 1: lady that worked at the axe throwing part of the Mermaid,
Speaker 1: she looked like she was just out of high school,
Speaker 1: and so she's describing to me the different ways to
Speaker 1: throw an axe safely. Now, I had never thrown an
Speaker 1: axe before in my life. I didn't anticipate that I
Speaker 1: would start throwing an axe at this event. But everyone
Speaker 1: was like a nick in Wisconsin, and some of the
Speaker 1: other guys were like they were excited and they wanted
Speaker 1: me to throw the axe and so okay. So I
Speaker 1: went over there, and as I said, the lady there,
Speaker 1: the young lady was describing the different ways. There's this technique,
Speaker 1: which is the one handed technique, and there's the uh
Speaker 1: there's this which is the that's the.
Speaker 3: Two over the top of your head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the two handed technique. So uh, So she
Speaker 1: hands me the bucket of axes. She says, you're never
Speaker 1: supposed to pass the acts to anyone else. You just
Speaker 1: take them out of the buck And so I'm kind
Speaker 1: of I'm warming up. I'm loosening up for the axe toss.
Speaker 1: Kyle from Denver's there and our buddy from Des Moines,
Speaker 1: and so a couple of other people were there. So
Speaker 1: I'm kind of loosening up with the axe toss, and
Speaker 1: the first couple were not particularly great. And of course
Speaker 1: what always happens is the the paparazzo tries to make
Speaker 1: you look like you're you're incompetent, and so these idiots,
Speaker 1: these nimrods, posted the video which made me look like
Speaker 1: I was unable to throw an axe. Of course, they
Speaker 1: conveniently left out the clip of the video. Once I
Speaker 1: warmed up and once I had my batting practice, my
Speaker 1: ax practice, Danny, I nailed, absolutely nailed the axe toss.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. In fact, I am now an honorary lumberjack,
Speaker 1: one of my just all bunyan and I will challenge
Speaker 1: you or anyone else I know. I challenged Cooper Loop
Speaker 1: and Eddie and Roberto, and I will challenge you. I
Speaker 1: am now a MENSA level axe thrower.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: I went through the process, a learning process and batting
Speaker 1: practice and all that. But I'm telling you what right now,
Speaker 1: and anyone that was there that saw this, whether it's Angelina.
Speaker 1: I don't think she saw it, or a wheelchair Brad
Speaker 1: or Shane or any of these guys. I promise you
Speaker 1: I will beat you. I'm an AX expert.
Speaker 3: Sounds very defensive.
Speaker 1: Not defensive it all. It's an accurate portrayal because when
Speaker 1: somebody throws out a video which is clearly there put
Speaker 1: on the internet to make you look bad, and they
Speaker 1: don't give you the whole story. They tell you part
Speaker 1: of the story, but not the whole story. Bad job
Speaker 1: by them.
Speaker 3: How many tries later did you actually get one to stick?
Speaker 1: The next one? It was the next try. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: Nick and Wisconsin, who's a big fan of the podcast,
Speaker 1: Nick explained, there's a cheat code and it's all about
Speaker 1: the risk movement. It's all about the risk movement. That's
Speaker 1: the key to throwing the acts. And once you master that,
Speaker 1: I'm now like a ninja. My right hand was getting
Speaker 1: a workout. Yeah, So it's really all about the risk
Speaker 1: is like ninety percent of the axe throwing. Once you
Speaker 1: get that down, your set. So I'm ready anywhere you
Speaker 1: want to go, anytime, any place, and we will do damage.
Speaker 1: We will make axe magic is what we're going to make.
Speaker 1: There was the axe toss on that I also wanted
Speaker 1: to mention and I want to thank Femi. Now, Femi
Speaker 1: is from Nigeria. He's actually hoping to call the show
Speaker 1: from Nigeria, but he lives in Minnesota. He's lived in
Speaker 1: Minnesota for years. Married guy, family guy, hard working guy,
Speaker 1: and and so Femi on his own. I didn't tell
Speaker 1: him to do this. I didn't say, hey, you should
Speaker 1: do this. He's such a big fan of the show
Speaker 1: that he went out and had some bumper stickers made
Speaker 1: for the show and it was his active kindness and
Speaker 1: Femi wanted to pass those out to everyone who showed
Speaker 1: up at the Malar meet and greet. He's the bumper
Speaker 1: sticker guy, and he was so kind. He made hundreds
Speaker 1: of these bumper stickers and we had a great turnout,
Speaker 1: but not everyone got bumper stickers, not everyone wanted them.
Speaker 1: And so he told me, says he wants to support
Speaker 1: the show so much that he said he will send
Speaker 1: a bumper sticker to anyone who's a fan of the
Speaker 1: Ben Malors Show or the Fifth Hour podcast, and he
Speaker 1: will he will cover the shipping for the bumper stickers,
Speaker 1: which isn't that much, but it's still a very kind
Speaker 1: act by Femi. And so if you're interested, and this
Speaker 1: is the number one uber each delivery guy in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: if you are interested in getting one of these bumper stickers,
Speaker 1: you can email him. I'm gonna give you his email
Speaker 1: address right now. It's Femi Vikings at yahoo dot com.
Speaker 1: Femi and then just Vikings like the NFL team at
Speaker 1: yahoo dot com. You can email Femi and this is
Speaker 1: all he's doing. It's got he's got these really cool
Speaker 1: bumper stickers in a few different shades and colors, and
Speaker 1: it's got the name of the show, it's got the
Speaker 1: time of the show. It's got those little microphones. So
Speaker 1: it's pretty neat. And check that out if you're interested,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to put it on your car.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to put it on something in your
Speaker 1: man cave or your office or back of your computer,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, whatever floats your boat. Forehead, well,
Speaker 1: if you have a five head, you could put that
Speaker 1: on there, making a forehead.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thank you to Femi. That's
Speaker 1: very nice, very nice job by you. Good job by you.
Speaker 1: So thank you for that. And I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: what else I can mention about the meet and greet.
Speaker 1: We had the wedding. We had the faux wedding with
Speaker 1: Doc Mike, who hands me Danny he's getting married to Regina,
Speaker 1: gets me a stack of like fifteen pages of copy
Speaker 1: that he wants me as the deacon. Deacon mallard, I'm
Speaker 1: overseeing the wedding, so he wants me to go over
Speaker 1: all this copy and exchange their vows and women. What
Speaker 1: a shit show that turned out to me? Yeah, my goodness,
Speaker 1: it was fun. It was fun. My wife was the
Speaker 1: flower girl. We had, We had the music going. It
Speaker 1: was interesting, and Regina spinsyger. Regina had somebody documenting everything.
Speaker 1: She had a camera person, like a professional camera person.
Speaker 1: It was like a wedding photographer taking photos of everything.
Speaker 1: It was like next level. It was wild and crazy. Dad,
Speaker 1: I'm going to decapitate a goat nuts.
Speaker 3: What stood out to you about this meet and greet
Speaker 3: that was different from all the others?
Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, this one, I would say the Viking
Speaker 1: world order being there and just a good happy vie.
Speaker 1: People seem genuinely happy. Not that they aren't happy when
Speaker 1: I see them elsewhere, but it was like I think
Speaker 1: people in Minnesota have this chip on their shoulder where
Speaker 1: it's like, ah, we're in Minnesota. No one wants to
Speaker 1: come here. It's flyover country, you know. People you think
Speaker 1: of the Midwest, people go to Chicago, right, They'll go there.
Speaker 1: There's a few other places in the Midwest, but Minneso
Speaker 1: is not normally high up on the list, and so
Speaker 1: I got a sense for people. They were genuinely happy
Speaker 1: that I would go out of my way to go
Speaker 1: to minne APIs and I had a wonderful time. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful place.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 1: The weather was great, likely the only week the weather
Speaker 1: will be good, but it was perfect. I want to
Speaker 1: thank all the listeners that did recommend that I come
Speaker 1: in May rather than in April where there was still
Speaker 1: snow on the ground. So thank you for that. That
Speaker 1: was a great hack that I got from people that
Speaker 1: are fans of the show who helped me out on that.
Speaker 3: So this is an important question. I know you don't
Speaker 3: like eating in front of people. Did you dabble in
Speaker 3: any sort of finger food or juicy lucy action in
Speaker 3: front of listeners? No?
Speaker 1: In fact, that's funny should bring that up, because I
Speaker 1: had no time from the time I got there. I
Speaker 1: was a little late because of the speeding ticket. But
Speaker 1: from the time I got there until the time I
Speaker 1: walked out of the venue, I had no time. I
Speaker 1: had my wife brought me a glass of water, and
Speaker 1: that was it. I had no time to eat any
Speaker 1: of the food of the mermaid. I was talking to
Speaker 1: somebody at all times, because you know how these events go, Danny.
Speaker 1: First thing, people you go there, there's a big crowd,
Speaker 1: and then people start leaving because they have things to
Speaker 1: do and they just wanted to meet me, and then
Speaker 1: you know, be part of the event, but then they
Speaker 1: had other things to do, and then there's like the
Speaker 1: second wave of people. So throughout the night we had
Speaker 1: different different waves convoys of people that were showing up,
Speaker 1: and then they had to go, and then there'd be
Speaker 1: new people that would show up. And so like we
Speaker 1: took a group photo, but that only shows you part
Speaker 1: of the group that was there. There were many other
Speaker 1: people that showed up either early and or they showed
Speaker 1: up late after we had already taken the team photo.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, I was trying to, you know, be
Speaker 1: as polite as I could possibly be to everybody, but
Speaker 1: I did not eat. I went out after. We'll actually
Speaker 1: talk about that later because I have a mallard of
Speaker 1: food review. We'll get to that coming up in the
Speaker 1: Saturday podcast. I think we'll leave that to the Saturday one.
Speaker 1: I think we're good on this. Anything you want to promote.
Speaker 1: It is Friday. You have Covino and Rich. I assume today,
Speaker 1: is that correct? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Friday morning. So I'm gonna take a little nap here
Speaker 3: and then get my ass back up and get to
Speaker 3: the studios for Covino and Rich from two to four
Speaker 3: pm on the West five to seven pm in New
Speaker 3: York City. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love the Covino and Rich show. There you go,
Speaker 1: so enjoy that, Danny, and we'll have amazing pod casting
Speaker 1: all weekend long, all weekend long. We have other exclusive details,
Speaker 1: another never before told story.
Speaker 3: I got a good one for you on Saturday as well.
Speaker 1: All right, well, I look forward to that. So we'll
Speaker 1: get out on that note. Have a wonderful rest of
Speaker 1: your Friday. It is my day of rest. I did
Speaker 1: the overnight show last night, and so now the podcast
Speaker 1: here and then I will be hanging out back baking.
Speaker 1: I did get the Kitchen Aid mixer that had the
Speaker 1: meatball surgery. Did come back, so I will be able
Speaker 1: to get back in the kitchen this weekend and make
Speaker 1: some delicious goodies. So I look forward to that. But
Speaker 1: have a wonderful day. We'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3: See you tomorrow. Asta pasta got a murder. I gotta go.