WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Maller Minnesota Postgame 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.400 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:36.159 Air everywhere you have stumbled on, not by accident, by choice. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.160 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny G Radio 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.360 a spin off of the Overnight show you hear Monday 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:49.400 through Friday on many Fox Sports Radio affiliates across the country. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.320 And we are doing it live well kind of kind 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.800 of live a global exclusive Danny G. Nobody else has 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.640 the content that we are about to provide. I can 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:04.080 say with a garon t that no one can touch 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:09.360 this podcast when it comes to exclusive, worldwide details. That 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.520 is a must listen for every man, woman and child 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:15.160 in the Malard. 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:19.080 Militia speeding at you like a rented malardmobile. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.640 Aha, that is on the list, that is on the agenda. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:29.000 But this is the thorough, in depth team coverage review 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:34.360 as Danny G will be the inquisitive reporter and he 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.360 will be asking all the questions that you wish you 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.560 could ask, but Danny has the chance to do that. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.000 So it's the Malard Meet and Greet, the first podcast 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:48.279 since our trip to Minnesota last week had a wonderful time, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.480 and we'll go through all of the details on this 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.200 will give you a blow by blow among the features 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.120 on this podcast, we'll take a trip on the love Boat, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:05.160 we'll go speed racer, a rollicking Happy Days type festivity, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.760 and we will also have information that no one else has. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.560 We will tell you which member of the Malad militia 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.440 almost stripped buck naked at the Malor Meet and Greet 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.079 to the shock of everyone that saw this happen. We 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.720 had nudity at the Malor Meet and Greet. We will 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.480 get to that and also some sticker fund So there's 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.680 a lot, a lot to navigate through, Danny, but I 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.560 have my machete and we will be swashbuckling our way 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.720 through the festivities on the Friday podcast. So we'll start 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:46.400 out with the love vote. So got to Minnesota. Now 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.120 we'll get to the meet and greet, which was a 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.919 wonderful affair on Saturday in the evening time from five 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.680 to nine. But prior to that, got up really tried 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.040 to maximize my time. I figured, no, I don't want 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.760 to sit in some room watching TV or listening to 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.080 some audio. I want to go out. I want to 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.280 experience everything that Minnesota has to offer. So we got 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:11.360 there on Friday and on Saturday morning, we got up 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.720 kind of early. My brother drove over from Appleton, Wisconsin, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.560 which is about a four hour drive. I believe he 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.760 said about four hours. So I met my brother. My 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.799 wife was with me, So me and my wife met 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.720 my brother and his wife and we headed to Lake Minnetonka. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.239 So why did we go to Lake Minnetaka, Danny ge, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.920 why do you think this was? There's a ten thousand 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.800 plus lakes. There's like twelve thousand lakes in Minnesota, but 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.880 we chose Lake Minnetonka. Why do you think that. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.040 Is the famous Vikings cruise. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.920 That is correct ding ding ding ding days. So Lake Minnetaka, 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.200 which is only like fifteen minutes away from downtown Minneapolis, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.840 a notorious lake if you're a football fan. Because within 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.400 the last I want to say, it's probably about fifteen years. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.040 I forget exactly when it happened, but it's been been 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:03.960 a fair amount of time, maybe even longer than that, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.400 but if you were around for it. The Minnesota Vikings 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.840 got in a whole lot of trouble because a group 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.400 of players decided to rent a boat and they went 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.599 out on Lake Minnetonka. And one of the players had 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:22.360 flown in a group of professional ladies, a. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.239 Bunch of hookers and cocaine. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.760 Women who knew exactly what they were doing, and they 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.880 also realized that they could get paid for their skills, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:38.520 and so they had a unbelievably great time out there 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.960 on what became known as the Love Boat on Lake Minnetonka. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.680 And so I made my way. We now we did 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.040 not actually go on the lake. We walked around the lake. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.960 There's a nice trail around Lake Minnetonka. A bunch of 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.800 people are out with boats. The weather was great, it 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.960 was really cool. I checked out my first first lake 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.080 in Minnesota was lakeman Tanka, and it was a very 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.400 nice lot of little towns kind of around the lake 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.840 where they have shops and you know, standard touristy stuff 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.240 and things like that. So that was that was a 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.600 lot of fun. I did not see anyone making love 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.000 on a boat though, so I think that it might 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.279 have happened, but they did it in the privacy of 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:19.839 the lower deck of the boat. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.880 We're too modern for that, Ben. This happened back in 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:23.880 two thousand and. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:29.799 Five, oh Zara, So it's been eighteen years, eighteen years 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.400 since the love boat and the vikings around that time. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.359 Not only they have the love boat scandal, but you 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.680 remember they also had the Wisonator, which was a few 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.919 years after that. The guy got busted Ontario Smith I 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.000 believe was his name, Yeah, the airport, because he had 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:51.039 a fake device to deliver urine a fallus, a fake 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:56.200 fallus what taught with and that was was also a 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.520 great moments in Viking history. So we had a fake 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.320 Dick Cheney, yes exactly, a fake Dick and Dayton, if 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.800 you will. But so she had that. So then there 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.640 was this great debate whether or not my wife was 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.000 going to go to the meet and greet and some 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.120 interesting folks that comes to these things. My wife has 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:20.960 been to some of these events in the past, but 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:25.520 not all of them, and she was debating whether or 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.000 not to go, and we were talking about that. She 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.680 decided kind of at the last minute she was going 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.359 to go. But as you know, Danny, you can't just 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.680 roll out of bed and go to a Malor meet 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.080 and greet. You've got to get all dulled up because 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.440 you're representing the show, you're representing the brand, and so 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.720 my wife always wants to look as good as possible. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.720 So she had to go to the store to pick 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.880 up a few things that she did not have with 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:56.520 her in her suitcase, and we were getting ready. We 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.279 had a bit of an issue. We got back to 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.080 the place we were staying and the code to get in 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.599 was not working, so that delayed us. We were like, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.680 we got locked out, and if we had been locked out, 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.560 we would not have been able to make the Mallord 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.920 meet and greet, which would have been a slight problem 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.360 considering people were traveling from all over to come to 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.640 this thing. But anyway, we figured it out. We got 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.880 in there, so my wife got ready fine, but we 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.920 left a little bit later than I was hoping for. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.280 So I got on the highway there in Minnesota and 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:37.320 started cruising to Mounds View, Minnesota. The Mermaid in an 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.160 event center where the Mallard meet and greet was taking place. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:41.440 Now. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:48.160 I was driving with the flow of traffic. Okay, I 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:48.760 was driving. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:50.160 I wasn't going. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.480 Faster than everyone. I wasn't out in front, I wasn't. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:53.880 The pace car. 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.400 I was with the pod of people that were going 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.240 the same speed. And I look in my rear view 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:08.280 mirror and I notice a police car has now come 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.680 up on my bumper. Oh no, And I look in 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.680 the rear y mirror again. I thought, well, maybe they're 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.480 going to go around me. And then the guy's like 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.000 he's mad dog in my license plate. You know, he's 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:20.480 looking at the license plate and all that. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.120 So what color was this rental? 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.400 The rental was like a great color. It wasn't anything 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:32.760 like outrageous. So I'm driving whatever. And but I knew 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.720 once you kind of get locked in, it's like you 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.600 get locked in this asteroid belt or something like that, 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.120 this holding pattern. And I was done. I knew I 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.480 was done. And the question is do I just pull 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.960 over now before he turns his lights on? Do I 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.240 wait a little bit, like what's the move? Do I 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.000 try to get off the freeway, which would have been 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:52.559 a bad move. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.880 It's like Star Wars where you get locked into their 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:56.720 tractor beam. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.520 Yeah, I was heading to the Death Star. So this 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.520 is going on. And but the main reason I think 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.640 I got pulled over, this is my theory and I'm 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.760 sticking with it, is I had the one thing you 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.400 do not want to have when you travel and get 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.679 a rental car, and that was the trunk. Uh No. 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.560 The one thing, the one thing Danny, you do not 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:25.680 want to have is out of state plates. You do 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.960 not want to have out of state place because that 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:33.960 is a dead it's a dead giveaway. It's easy money 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.520 for the police. They can write the ticket. They know 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.600 you're not going to fight the ticket because you don't 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.760 live there. They assume you don't live there. So when 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.679 I picked up the rental car, I only had two options. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.319 You get to the rental car booth and they say, 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.920 all right, there's two cars, pick either one. One of 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.520 the cars had a Texas license plate. The other had 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:59.240 a Kansas license plate. So I decided Kansas was closer 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.200 to Minnesota, up by a little bit, so I'll take 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.400 the Kansas license plate. So I was driving around with 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:10.120 Kansas plates. Wow, and I was in a no win situation. Now, 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.400 the officer was totally cool. It was a nice guy. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.839 Young guy looked like he was just out of the 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.880 academy and this might have been the first ticket he 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.400 had ever written. And so he's like, why why are 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:23.800 you in such a hurry? You know, they ask you 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.439 the questions when they asked, Well, so then I had 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.480 the chance to say, well, it's funny you should bring 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.440 that up, because I actually I do a radio show 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.440 and I'm on my way to meet listeners from the 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.760 show that's that are here in Minnesota, and so I 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.199 was like, oh, maybe that'll give me some Yeah. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.120 Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna double this. Fool's fine. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.880 Yeah, yeah, exactly. So so the guy's like, oh, yeah, okay, 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.400 and then he just watch back. It went back and 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.640 it's a little more confusing when you had a ticket 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.240 in a rental car and because you don't you have 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.360 to show the insurance, but you don't you have your 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.160 own personal insurance, and then you have to obviously the 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.360 driver's license is out of state, and so they got 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.120 to run that. And so anyway, the guy did all 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.080 that stuff. So that caused me to be about a 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.520 half an hour late to the malth of meet and greet. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.520 And the ticket was not expensive. It's it's affordable, you 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.160 can do it online, you fill out the ticket. Whatever. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.880 It's a nuisance, got a murder, It's an absolute nuisance, 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:27.840 pain in the behind. One complaint. I had a wonderful 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.440 time in Minnesota. But the one thing I will complain 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:37.359 about the speed limits in the Greater Minneapolis area. Ridiculous. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.680 The speed limit is like sixty fifty five to sixty 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.800 miles an hour. No one is driving fifty five to 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.880 sixty miles an hour because the weather was good. Now 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.720 maybe in the winter. Maybe in the winter, Danny, when 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:56.079 the weather's nasty. And yeah, I can understand how you'd say, Okay, 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:57.520 this needs It's like. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.560 They need two different sets of signs. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:04.160 Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, because I'm going with the 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.560 flow of traffic. And I've had this rule. We've talked 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.720 about it on the radio show. I got pulled over 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:15.240 years ago a highway patrol officer in California. He told 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.240 me said, listen, if you go seventy nine or under, 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.880 I will not even bother pulling you over. It's not 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.760 worth my time. I go eighty eighty five or above. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.440 So Ever, since then, I had always made sure not 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.839 to go seventy nine over seventy nine miles an hour 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.880 because I figured I would not get a ticket. As 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.160 my plan, my battle plan and all that. So in Minnesota, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:45.480 I was going seventy six miles an hour and not 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.760 to seventy nine. But I still got a ticket because 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.080 I had out of state plates. That's my again, that's 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.760 my theory, that's what I'm going with. And so anyway, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:59.240 that was my pain in the ass trip to go 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.360 to the the Mermaid for the Malared meet and greet. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.440 So then we get to the Mallard Meet and greet. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.520 The first thing I say, I pull off the highway. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.880 I was only two off ramps away, Danny, two off 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.240 ramps away. If I had made it, I would have 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.280 been fine. Obviously, got pulled over. So I get back 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.720 on the highway. I get off the highway at Moundsview 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.880 and I turn and there I see it, like a 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:27.040 beacon of light off in the distance, The Mermaid. Here 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.080 it is. I've heard so much about this place. We 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:34.760 promoted it for several weeks. And I see flashing the 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:40.680 jumbo tron. There it is my name in lights, Danny 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.360 as a queen, the Queen of the Mala Musia in Minnesota, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.680 she's not Queen Roxanne, but she's spin Cycle Regina, who's 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.760 the queen of the Minnesota contingent of the Mala Musia. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.360 So she had had my name put up on the 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:00.040 billboard outside right on this big road in Minnesota. I 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.720 saw this. My name was flashing, which was kind of cool. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.040 I was like, I did a double tike. I was like, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.040 is that really my name? I was like, maybe that's 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:12.080 maybe that's Ben Maler or something like that. So I 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:13.720 got there. Now I was still kind of in a 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.559 bad mood. Not kind of I was because I'd just 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.120 gotten a speeding ticket. But I saw that jumbo tron 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.640 and I was like, man, that's great glowing right there, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.040 and it was kind of twilight. The sun was it 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.240 was still up because it doesn't get dark in Minnesota 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.880 till like eight thirty, but you know, summers down a 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.760 little bit, but not all the way down. And I 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.960 walked in and everyone was all excited to see me, 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.080 and it was a huge crowd there, and it was 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.880 really cool. It was a really neat thing, and I 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:46.560 had a wonderful time meeting everybody. We had people come 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.400 from all over the place, all over the states. Obviously 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.880 in that area around Minnesota from Wisconsin, Iowa. Doc Mike 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:58.680 was there from Chicago. We had northern Minnesota well represented. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:04.120 We had Nebraska, and also Ernesto flew in from the 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:09.040 Bay Area, so we had northern California represented, and I'm sure, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:13.960 I'm sure I'm forgetting some other other locations. But it 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.920 was great. I had a wonderful time. I got to 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:20.560 meet a bunch of people. I tried to balance my time, Danny, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.840 because you know, a lot of people there and I 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.120 and my wife actually was very helpful because she was 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.600 like encouraging me to move on to some other people, 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.320 because otherwise I just would have talked to like one 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.280 person the whole time. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.000 Yeah, she was your handler. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.480 Yeah exactly. She was pushing me to the other groups 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.040 of people. So I was doing that and it was 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.920 it was really really neat. We had a big contention 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:50.000 of the Viking World Order, which I did not know 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.520 much about. But this is like the top fan club 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.200 of the Minnesota Vikings, which Regina spent cyc A. Regina 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.360 the queen of the Minnesota Contingent. She is a part 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.600 of that, and so she got a couple of the 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.400 other members to come out there. They were all hanging out, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:11.120 so that was cool. Tommy Kramer. You remember Tommy Kramer, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.920 the quarterback for the Vikings back in the eighties. Yeah, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.480 So Tommy Kramer was there. He made he popped up, 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.560 he popped in there. He was kind of signing autographs, 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.640 hanging out. He had had merchandise that he was selling, 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.800 so he had a little table he was setting up. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.080 And we had live music. Really good local artists there 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.920 were performing and it was just a really rollicking happy 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.320 days kind of thing there. It was a lot of fun. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.440 Met Eke from Roseville, Minnesota, Rob from Minnesota. All these 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.600 guys that are big contributors of content to the show. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.760 Many of them were able to make it. Not everyone. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:55.160 We didn't meet Hayes the Crazy Guy, allegedly Crazy Guy, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.960 he was not there. Met Mike de Farmer and his 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:03.800 wife who work on a small farm out in the 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:08.480 boondocks in Po Dunk, USA, and they have no kids, 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.760 just them working on the farm and he listens every night. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.720 He gets up at two thirty in the morning to 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.639 feed all the animals on the farm and he listens 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:21.840 to the overnight show while he's working and says he's 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:23.680 I think he told me, Mike. I don't want to 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.119 get this wrong, but he said he hadn't left the 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.879 farm more than like twice in the last several years, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.800 but he left to come hang out with us at 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.119 the meet and greet. So that was really cool. That 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.160 was neat, and you know how these things go, Danny. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.480 Everyone's got a story, everyone's got something they want to 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.320 share with you. There were a bunch of introverts, so 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.560 I tried to make sure I accommodated the introverts. As 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.320 a fellow introvert, I felt like it was important for 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.480 me to spend time with them, and everyone seemed to 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.960 be having a good time. Angelino was there. She's the 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.840 big fan super fan, and she got a lot of 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:03.800 the shirts and she was hanging out with some of 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.920 her friends. She got me a nice gift. Some people 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.199 did bring me gifts. I got some. I got a 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.119 hat from Angelina, Colorado Buffalo's hat, which was kind of cool. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.280 There were some other knickknacks that I got as well. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.520 So as it was very very welcoming. You've heard of 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:23.200 Minnesota nice, A lot of Minnesota nice, dandy, a lot 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:24.200 of Minnesota nice. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.680 Now I want you to address the axe throwing video. Yeah. 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.480 So I will get to the ax throwing video in 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.240 a moment, but first a global exclusive, Danny g before 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.040 we get to that. No one else has what I'm 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.640 about to do. Which member of the Malard militia at 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:46.439 the Malor meet and greet almost stripped Buck naked in 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:50.840 the middle of the Mermaid in the middle of the Mermaid. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.160 So air Force Andrew was there. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.879 Well, you would assume it would be Air Force Andrew 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.560 because he's the legend from previous Mallet meet and greets. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.119 But no, it was not Air Force Andrew. He was 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.320 not the guy that was there, the person that decided 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:12.280 to turn the Mermaid into a Chippendale's the one and 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:23.360 only hollering James. Hollering James, the crazy caller, Hollering James. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.720 So let me set this up. So James had someone 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.200 drive him, very nice gentleman, and I believe his wife 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:36.399 drove hollering James to the meet and greet, and I 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.440 was really looking forward to meeting Jims. James has called 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.359 the show for years. If you listen to the Overnight show, 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.399 James breaks the mold, or maybe he's part of the mold. 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.960 So hollering James is the guy that's been evicted from 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.520 several places he's lived because he calls the show in 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:54.399 the middle of the night and starts screaming about the 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:58.440 Vikings or the Twins, or the Timberwolves or the Golden Gophers, 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.840 like it's why old and crazy, right, wild and crazy. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:06.960 So anyway, I show up. They say, hey, there's hollering James. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.560 So I go up to hollering James. The first thing 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.359 he does is literally take the hat off his head 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.359 and say, hey, I want you to have this. He 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:20.160 hands me this Viking hat which is covered in schmutz. 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.720 It's it's got, it's I don't know, it's smelled. It 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.840 was disgusting. So I said, you know what, James, that's 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:28.879 very kind that you wanted to give me your hat. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:31.880 But I'm okay, I want you to have that hat. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.680 So I handed the hat back to hollering j He's 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:37.920 He's like, no, I want you to have I said, no, 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.800 no'm James. You listen, you take that. You need the 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:42.600 hat more than me. You're the Viking fan. I'm a 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.720 Rams fan. I don't need the hat. But he tried 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.200 to give me so fine. So I talked to James 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.200 for a little bit. At some point he procured a 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.320 Mallard Meet and Greet shirt. There were a couple extra shirts. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:58.840 He was able to get his hands on a Mallard 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:00.879 Meet and Greet shirt, so got his hands on this. 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:07.520 So he then we have a conversation and he's like, hey, 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.840 I want you to autograph the shirt. So I said, 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.920 no problem. You're hollering James. That's very flattering. I mean, 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:16.199 what do you want an autograph from me? 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:17.320 And what with that? 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:19.520 So I said, you know what, Okay, I am going 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.879 to give you an autograph. And it's very hard to 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.240 sign an autograph because you're wearing He was wearing the 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:30.560 shirt at this point. So James is like okay and 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:37.000 starts taking the shirt off, and he starts undressing in 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:42.280 the middle of this restaurant, bowling alley, concert hall type venue. 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:48.520 And now the photo I posted of hollering James, Danny, 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:53.159 I think that's a pretty flattering photo. Pretty flattering photo 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:59.480 of hollering James. And he's a round mound of sports 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:04.560 talk power. He's large and in charge. Hollering James women. 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.840 I saw some things when he took the shirt off 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:12.360 that I did not need to see. I didn't Now. 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:14.639 Fortunately I was able to convince him to put the 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:19.639 shirt back on, and I decided just to sign. He 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:21.560 wanted on autograph, so I was like, all right, I'll 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:25.200 sign the autograph, just leave the shirt on, and so 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:28.560 so he did. It's not the cleanest looking autograph, but 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:31.840 he he allowed me to do it, so so I 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:36.840 I autographed that, uh, and he was happy. And I 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:38.640 didn't even see him leave. I told him to come 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:40.320 say bye when he left, but I don't I don't 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.560 know where he where he ended up. But that was 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:49.040 hollering James, briefly turning into a Chippendale's dancer. Now you 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:50.600 wanted to know about this axe throwing. 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.840 Yes, yeah, it reminded me of you throwing those lollipops 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:56.760