Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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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
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Speaker 1: Everywhere you have found your way to the Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio and we thank you.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast Dojo and we have double barrel
Speaker 1: action on the Sunday podcast. We'll have the mail bag,
Speaker 1: but in the leadoff chair, Danny, it is time right now.
Speaker 3: Four What goes culture?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: John John.
Speaker 1: Pop goes the culture? All right, let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Here we go. These are random pop culture stories that
Speaker 1: came across our radar and things that some of them
Speaker 1: you might have heard about, some of them you've not
Speaker 1: heard about. And this guy went viral, this Belgium guy,
Speaker 1: this thing, this story blew up. So this guy in
Speaker 1: Belgium baked his own death and shows up at his
Speaker 1: own funeral and It's all recorded on camera, so he
Speaker 1: had his his family, his close family, play along. The
Speaker 1: guy claimed he was teaching everyone a lesson. Did you
Speaker 1: see the story, Dannis is a wild story. So the
Speaker 1: guy fakes his death. He then everyone's dressed in black.
Speaker 1: They're at his funeral, and the guy shows up in
Speaker 1: a helicopter and gets out of the of the helicopter
Speaker 1: and walks over to the crowd of the people. What
Speaker 1: an idiot, right, what an asshole? Proving the people that
Speaker 1: didn't want to spend time with him were in the right.
Speaker 1: Like he was upset, he said, because his claim was
Speaker 1: he did this to teach people a lesson, you know,
Speaker 1: cause he wanted to find out who actually was his
Speaker 1: you know, gonna good a morning when he died, you know,
Speaker 1: And so that's why he did it. And the guy
Speaker 1: ends up looking like a total schmuck, total schmuck, Danny G.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's something we've all wondered about from time
Speaker 3: to time, but you don't do it. You don't go
Speaker 3: to great lengths like that to find out that you're
Speaker 3: still a loser.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, I've been to enough funerals
Speaker 1: now at this point in my life here's what's gonna happen. Right,
Speaker 1: you go to your funeral when you die. There'll be
Speaker 1: people morning. They'll be in black, some people were very upset.
Speaker 1: There'll be some people happy or dead. There'll be some
Speaker 1: There'll be people there that have no idea why they're there,
Speaker 1: they were dragged there by someone else, They don't really
Speaker 1: want to be there, and like anybody likes going to
Speaker 1: a funeral. And then there'll also be the people there
Speaker 1: that want they want something from you, like money or
Speaker 1: something like that. They think they need to be there,
Speaker 1: right because maybe they're in the will or maybe you
Speaker 1: left them your old baseball cards or something like that,
Speaker 1: you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So or in our case radio community. And then guys
Speaker 3: would get up there and tell stories about some of
Speaker 3: the bits and the jokes that you did on the
Speaker 3: air that they'll always remember.
Speaker 1: Well that is that is true? Well, you know who
Speaker 1: hired you at? When did you start at Fox Sports Radio?
Speaker 3: I got I got hired at the end of twenty fourteen,
Speaker 3: and it was Annie and and Scott Shapiro had just started.
Speaker 1: Okay, because one of the wildest funerals I've ever been
Speaker 1: to our old boss at Fox sports radio. This guy
Speaker 1: named Andrew Ashwood.
Speaker 3: Who I've heard plenty of stories about him.
Speaker 1: Bigger than life, and he he got cancer at a
Speaker 1: young age and passed away and from San Antonio, great
Speaker 1: radio guy, and he knew he was going to check out.
Speaker 1: He had a fatal disease that was incurable and so
Speaker 1: he kind of had a chance to plan things out.
Speaker 1: And he loved the Green Bay Packers, and he planned
Speaker 1: this funeral which was actually like a kind of a party.
Speaker 1: It was a celebration of life and it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It was really really wild. There was the craziest party
Speaker 1: I've ever been to at the Hollywood Hills, like a
Speaker 1: real Hollywood party, like people shorton lines of coke off
Speaker 1: hookers took it is like it was unreal and that
Speaker 1: just blew me away there. That was a wild night.
Speaker 3: But anyway, sounds like my twenties with Deaf Jam records.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that stuff in movies. But that's that's
Speaker 1: about it up until that point. Also on Pop Go's
Speaker 1: the Culture, how about this? I didn't talk about this
Speaker 1: on the radio show Pat Sajack, Yeah, done, what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do? We lost Alex Trebek and now Pat
Speaker 1: Sajak those shows simultaneous, right back to back, Wheel the
Speaker 1: Fortune and Jeopardy.
Speaker 3: Who would have ever thought that Vanna White would outlast
Speaker 3: Pat Sajack.
Speaker 1: Didn't They try to get rid of Vana White years
Speaker 1: ago because she was too old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then there was bad blood, I guess between
Speaker 3: the two of them. I don't know if there still is,
Speaker 3: but anytime I've seen it on TV, I get a
Speaker 3: weird vibe from the two of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well I actually met Pat Sajack. I'll do a
Speaker 1: look at me Hollywood story. But Pat Sajack, he used
Speaker 1: to go to Dodger games all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: he lives in I think he lives in Maryland. He
Speaker 1: lives in the east, on the East Coast. He doesn't
Speaker 1: live in LA. He flies out the tape wheel of
Speaker 1: Flour a couple of times a year. He'll tape like
Speaker 1: tons of episodes in a week and then go back
Speaker 1: and like when I say tons of episodes, Dady, they
Speaker 1: tape like twenty a day or some ridiculous number.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, yeah, they film all day long.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, So my run in with Pat Sajack, well
Speaker 1: there were there were actually there were two run ins,
Speaker 1: So there was this guy named Stu Nahan who was
Speaker 1: an LA sportscaster and like a legendary figure. He was
Speaker 1: in movies. He was in Rocky Fast Times at Ridgemont High,
Speaker 1: like all these different old school movies, and he had
Speaker 1: bit parts, you know, usually played a TV anchor, which
Speaker 1: is what he did. He was a sports anchor in
Speaker 1: LA and so I knew Stu. Stu was nice to me.
Speaker 1: Actually took one of my jobs with the Dodgers, but
Speaker 1: that's a different story. But Stu passed away a number
Speaker 1: of years ago, and he was really good friends with
Speaker 1: Pat Sajack. I had actually seen say Jack and Stu
Speaker 1: at a Dodger game. That was like my first time
Speaker 1: I came across Pat Sajack. But Pat Sajack spoke. He
Speaker 1: was like the host of the funeral, the memorial service
Speaker 1: for my friend, you know, Stune and his friend. He
Speaker 1: was better friends with him than me.
Speaker 3: And it was.
Speaker 1: Actually at the movie theater right across from the studios
Speaker 1: in Sherman Oaks, at the Galleria there. They ran it
Speaker 1: out a theater in the afternoon. I didn't even know
Speaker 1: you could do this, and there were invited, you know,
Speaker 1: celebrities and you know people dignitaries. And that's also where
Speaker 1: I Scott Boris, the agent, was there as well. He spoke,
Speaker 1: but any way, was the host, and it was it
Speaker 1: was wonderful because he told one of the all time
Speaker 1: great stories. So Pat Sajack worked in Los Angeles television.
Speaker 1: I think, if I remember correctly, he was like the
Speaker 1: weather guy. I might be wrong on that, but I
Speaker 1: think he was the weather guy.
Speaker 3: Sounds about right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so there was this game show that was
Speaker 1: starting and he's like, hey, you know, take it, ladies.
Speaker 1: He said no. Pat Sajak asked stud and Ahan for advice.
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, can you can you help help me out?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about taking this job. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: a you know, it's a game show. And what do
Speaker 1: you think Stu? And so Stu, who had all his
Speaker 1: TV experience at the time, he and Pat tells the
Speaker 1: story great, So he says, he asked Stu and Stu
Speaker 1: Sue said, no, don't do that. Those game shows never last.
Speaker 1: You'll never you'll never make it work. You know, people
Speaker 1: always need the weather, they always need the weather. They
Speaker 1: don't need you know, they don't need what you're doing
Speaker 1: over there. And of course, what forty one years for
Speaker 1: Pat Sajak he started in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 3: That is even longer than Bob Barker's run, which was
Speaker 3: thirty five years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's who's going to replace Pat Sajak. Eh, you
Speaker 1: know that, you know who the favorite is? No, Ryan
Speaker 1: Seacrest is the phase of the favorite.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Should I point out, Danny that when I started in
Speaker 1: LA radio, there there was Ryan Seacrest was the afternoon
Speaker 1: DJ at ninety eight point seven, which Starr FM or
Speaker 1: what it was called at the time. Jimmy Kimmel was
Speaker 1: the morning sports guy at k Rock. I did a
Speaker 1: mid day show on the sports station. And which of
Speaker 1: those three people did not hit the lottery? Danny, Uh,
Speaker 1: not that I'm bitter, Not that I'm bitter. I'm happy
Speaker 1: for them. Good for them, you know, wonderful.
Speaker 3: Listen, my man, you've become one of the sports legends.
Speaker 3: My man.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you're a legend. I know everyone's sleeping mom man,
Speaker 1: but you're a legend. You're Yeah. Anyway, So good luck
Speaker 1: to Pat. Say Jack, that's a great gig, that's an
Speaker 1: easy gig. Well, see, Chres quit his morning show. He
Speaker 1: moved back to La.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, do that. That's probably why the rumor mill
Speaker 3: already started about him.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you think that that was already planned out.
Speaker 1: You think they.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe his uh, maybe his uh what do you
Speaker 3: call it, his handlers, his uh, his agency knew something
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, could be, could be. Usually I don't. Usually most
Speaker 1: of the time, from my experience, when a big job
Speaker 1: like that opens up, it's already filled before it opens up.
Speaker 1: There's already somebody lined up, and it's unfortunate, but that's
Speaker 1: usually the way that works. But the one that didn't
Speaker 1: have that lined up because it wasn't planned was it
Speaker 1: was jeopardy. They still don't have like it's kind of
Speaker 1: like wandering.
Speaker 3: We thought they had their person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know what happens when you Yeah, pop
Speaker 1: goes the culture? What is next? What is next? On
Speaker 1: pop goes the culture? Well, here's a fun story. More
Speaker 1: on aliens. More on Aliens.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was hoping you were going to bring this
Speaker 3: Las Vegas story up.
Speaker 1: Oh no, not that one. This is we got to talk.
Speaker 3: About the Vegas story.
Speaker 1: All right. Well let's sorry, So yeah, this is the
Speaker 1: Vegas Well we'll start with the Vegas story, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll start with the Vegas.
Speaker 3: So I thought about you. When Covino and Rich dove
Speaker 3: into this and we played the audio of the nine
Speaker 3: one one operator, I thought about you and your lovely wife,
Speaker 3: because because the kid is so calm on the videotape,
Speaker 3: I'll play a piece of it right here on the podcast.
Speaker 4: All right, there's like an a fool person decided and
Speaker 4: another one inside and it has big guys that are
Speaker 4: looking at us and it's still there.
Speaker 3: Okay, where is this on your property?
Speaker 4: In my back yard? I swear to god this is
Speaker 4: not adult, but this is actually.
Speaker 2: Were So there's two people or two subjects fatter in
Speaker 2: your backyard.
Speaker 4: Correct, And they're very large. They're like a nice I
Speaker 4: don't know, they're like they look like ilius, like big guys.
Speaker 4: They have big eyes, like like I can't excited and
Speaker 4: big I'm out their tiny eyes and and they're not
Speaker 4: human one hundred percent. They're not human.
Speaker 3: And you hear how calm he is. He's just like,
Speaker 3: it's one hundred not human. And because he's so calm,
Speaker 3: spot was ourding on our show that it's completely fake.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I haven't asked my wife about this,
Speaker 1: but I have a theory that the nine to one
Speaker 1: one operators get so many bullshit calls that they probably
Speaker 1: just assumed this guy's on some kind of drugs and
Speaker 1: these just imagining this, you know, and I'll type it in.
Speaker 3: The Vegas PD saw something that night in that neighborhood,
Speaker 3: and that's why they actually took his call serious. And
Speaker 3: now the follow up to the story is they have
Speaker 3: actually put some cameras on this kid's property.
Speaker 1: But they don't have photos of what they saw, right.
Speaker 1: They don't know how come they never have photos of
Speaker 1: these things and everyone's got cameras everywhere. I don't understand.
Speaker 3: I think something like that and if it happens fast,
Speaker 3: and who knows how fast these vessels are, then that's
Speaker 3: the other thing. That was the other argument on our
Speaker 3: afternoon show is why does it always look great? Any
Speaker 3: like it came from an old Nokia flip phone exactly.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating. Now, listen, I believe there are absolutely creatures
Speaker 1: that are living on the planet. Don't I'm not naive
Speaker 1: to think that that is not not going on here.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I look out to the heavens
Speaker 1: and I am like, oh, there's stuff going on. I
Speaker 1: believe that, but it's just odd that there's not been
Speaker 1: any kind of photographic or video clear, video clear photographs.
Speaker 3: There was something legit going on with this though, the
Speaker 3: way the PD reacted, the footage that the police actually
Speaker 3: had of the property, and the article said that there
Speaker 3: was a small crop circle in their backyard, So I
Speaker 3: haven't seen a photo of that. I don't know. It's
Speaker 3: so hard to believe any of this, But at the
Speaker 3: same time, we've talked about it on the podcast before.
Speaker 3: You'd be naive, so naive to be like, ah, there's
Speaker 3: no such we're the only ones here and who oh cowherd.
Speaker 3: Recently there's a video of him saying we are the
Speaker 3: only ones. There's no aliens, and he's going on and
Speaker 3: on about how humans are the only life form in
Speaker 3: the galaxy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we can add that. I love Colin, but
Speaker 1: as he's pointed out, he's not paid to get his
Speaker 1: takes right, He's paid to have a take. That's fine.
Speaker 1: And then when the aliens pop up, I'm sure he'll
Speaker 1: he'll ask whether or not they can play with Lebron,
Speaker 1: or whether they should play the cowl or whatever and
Speaker 1: all that. So, yeah, hey, I'd love to hang out
Speaker 1: with an alien. I think that would be be wonderful.
Speaker 3: I think the first alien to ever play in the NBA.
Speaker 3: Colin will be pounding on his desk trying to get
Speaker 3: them to get picked by the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they need a super team, a super galaxy team
Speaker 1: from outside this the Milky Way Galaxy and all that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well the alien story that I saw and we got
Speaker 1: to get to the mail back because there's a ton
Speaker 1: of mail. But this guy, David Grush, I believe that
Speaker 1: the guy that has been the whistleblower, and he's the
Speaker 1: guy that said, hey, listen, I need to speak because
Speaker 1: this is real. And like the US House of Representatives
Speaker 1: announced they are planning to hold hearings to investigate the
Speaker 1: claims by this Air Force guy, decorated Air Force veteran.
Speaker 1: So he added on to his story this week. He's
Speaker 1: the guy that says they've recovered the United States has
Speaker 1: retrieved UFOs. Right, he said it, and now he's added
Speaker 1: onto it. His latest claim. He says that the Vatican
Speaker 1: was involved in the the first ever mission of the
Speaker 1: United States the secret UFO retrieval program. He said, it's
Speaker 1: long been known that the regime of the Italian dictator
Speaker 1: Mussolini documented numerous unidentified aerial phenomena UFOs or UFOs, and
Speaker 1: there's an internal memo from the Italian secret service and
Speaker 1: includes drawings of the unidentified aerial phenomena. And in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty three, almost one hundred years ago, was the first
Speaker 1: recovery in Europe and it was in Italy. There you go,
Speaker 1: you're maybe some old relative there, Danny back in Italy
Speaker 1: might have been doing that for you. But they recovered
Speaker 1: a partially intact vehicle. The Italian government moved it to
Speaker 1: the secret air base. It was there until around nineteen
Speaker 1: forty four or nineteen forty five, and the Pope backed
Speaker 1: channeled that and told the Americans what the Italians had,
Speaker 1: and so the Americans then scooped it up the Pope.
Speaker 1: This is unbelievable, sounds like a movie. We got Mussolini,
Speaker 1: we got the Pope. And is that time? Did it?
Speaker 1: When did technology explode? Because my theory has always been
Speaker 1: it's like the iPhone and all these gadgets that we
Speaker 1: use is a direct result of re engineering alien technology.
Speaker 1: So if the guy said around nineteen forty five, so
Speaker 1: let's say they got the vehicle from Italy in nineteen
Speaker 1: forty five. They then, what do you think how many
Speaker 1: years does it take to figure it out reverse engineer
Speaker 1: the technology? Ten twelve years probably, maybe maybe longer. But
Speaker 1: would that work out where the advancements in technology took
Speaker 1: place from that point forward that things have gone at
Speaker 1: a ridiculously high paced since then.
Speaker 3: Could be. I mean, that's how my mom had that
Speaker 3: state of the art JVC stereo.
Speaker 1: All right, well that should be I think that we'll
Speaker 1: leave it on that. There were some other pop goos,
Speaker 1: the culture stories, but we have to get to the
Speaker 1: mail bag, Danny, why got tons of mail? We also
Speaker 1: did not get to Backscratcher, and I wanted to get
Speaker 1: to that as well. I was supposed to do that
Speaker 1: on Saturday, but we forgot to get to backscratch Your
Speaker 1: bad job.
Speaker 3: Oh, it gives you even more time to write your
Speaker 3: own reviews so that we read yours as well next weekend.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. But I want to thank Fabian.
Speaker 1: Got one review this week, Danny, that's all. We'll take
Speaker 1: one a week. This is headline Roberto the bus driver.
Speaker 1: He said that was awesome, an awesome episode of the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour. Going to miss him totally understand why he left.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the closure. Well, you're welcome there, and that
Speaker 1: is very nice to me. He gave us five stars,
Speaker 1: so thank you for the That backscratcher is up. It's
Speaker 1: the Apple podcast page. Yep, everything, Danny. You put that
Speaker 1: in the description of people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just click on the description in this very podcast
Speaker 3: and then scroll down and you'll see the overall score
Speaker 3: of the podcast and it says write a review. Click
Speaker 3: on that make a user name five stars, write your review. Bam,
Speaker 3: easy peasy.
Speaker 1: And why don't we now dive into the mailbag. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go rapid fire. Danny got tons of mail this week.
Speaker 1: Some weeks we get a few, you know, it's never
Speaker 1: that bad, but some weeks we get tons. And this
Speaker 1: was a very popular mail bag week. Yeah, it's and
Speaker 1: here we go. Jeff In Jackson, Tennessee writes and he says,
Speaker 1: do you all? And that means he's legitimate Tennessee. When
Speaker 1: you start out by saying do y'all, that's legitimate Tennessee.
Speaker 1: That's not a guy that moved to Tennessee. That's a
Speaker 1: guy who was born in Tennessee and is like the
Speaker 1: fifth or sixth generation from Tennessee. Anyway, Jeff says, do
Speaker 1: y'all do sports talk because you love sports? Or is
Speaker 1: it fame and fortune?
Speaker 3: Jesus?
Speaker 1: And what sports, if any, did you play back in
Speaker 1: the day. That's from Jeff in Jackson, Tennessee. Well, as
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff, I'll go first here. When you really
Speaker 1: want fame and fortune, sports radio, especially for me overnight,
Speaker 1: sports radio is really the place you go to. It's
Speaker 1: either that or become a Hollywood star or on Broadway
Speaker 1: or any of those other things. No sports commentator is
Speaker 1: right at the top. So I absolutely hate sports, and
Speaker 1: I only do it because of the fame and the wealth.
Speaker 1: As you know, Danny, when I move houses, my home
Speaker 1: purchase is in the real estate section of the La
Speaker 1: Times because I buy such expensive property, that is why.
Speaker 1: And as far as sports, played played all the big sports.
Speaker 1: I played baseball, basketball, football, loved them all occasionally volleyball.
Speaker 1: Didn't really love that, but played. I played soccer when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, football, all of those. What about you, Danny?
Speaker 3: Love radio, and even if there was no popularity attached
Speaker 3: to it, I would still do radio, love music, love sports.
Speaker 3: Sports was the other passion growing up in It was
Speaker 3: sports and it was music. As kids, those were the
Speaker 3: two things that me and my older brother both loved
Speaker 3: a lot. Street trunks for legs. So as a kid,
Speaker 3: I was a running back, had some speed. I was
Speaker 3: hard to take down. And for baseball, even as an adult,
Speaker 3: still playing in a league at Balboa Park, third baseman,
Speaker 3: and I wrote, line drives down the third baseline.
Speaker 1: Is Walt Rinniac your hitting coach is that you're.
Speaker 3: You know, I haven't got to play in a few
Speaker 3: years because of our crazy radio schedules, but I'm hoping
Speaker 3: to get back. Because Rich Davis from Covino and Rich,
Speaker 3: he plays in that same league at Balboa Park.
Speaker 1: You guys should have a Covino and Rich league.
Speaker 3: They've talked with some editors. They're trying to put a
Speaker 3: FSR softball team together.
Speaker 1: Oh that'd be cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be cool.
Speaker 1: I might actually play in that, but the probably play
Speaker 1: on knights. I can't do it, but if they played
Speaker 1: on a night I could, I would be part of that.
Speaker 1: Next up on the mailbag, Mike in Fullerton writes, and
Speaker 1: he says, hello, Ben and Danny g now that the
Speaker 1: search is on for Roberto's permanent replacement, I'd like to
Speaker 1: officially endorse Chris Perfet. He's got hot, takes great timing,
Speaker 1: and didn't completely own a segment of lame jokes with
Speaker 1: a million stupid laugh drops like Iowa, Sam, how dare you?
Speaker 3: Mike?
Speaker 1: He says, the do the right thing, Ben and pick Perfet,
Speaker 1: and then he says, Okay, with that out of the way,
Speaker 1: here's my question of the week, Danny g If you
Speaker 1: quit Fox Sports Radio, are you brave enough to go
Speaker 1: through Ben's hard hitting interview like Roberto did? And Ben?
Speaker 1: If you quit, would you have an interview yourself or
Speaker 1: how would that work? He says? Would you have to
Speaker 1: interview yourself? Yes? I would. Well, the good thing is
Speaker 1: if I if I leave the radio show, the podcast
Speaker 1: I think vanishes also, so that would there would be
Speaker 1: a different podcasts. I think these are all tied together,
Speaker 1: the podcast and the radio show, So you'd have to
Speaker 1: follow me on social media to find out where I'm
Speaker 1: at next.
Speaker 3: So you'll have to put you on the Gottlieb podcast.
Speaker 3: And I definitely last weekend I mentioned I've been fired
Speaker 3: from one big radio station and it was due to
Speaker 3: a management change, which I talked about last weekend, And
Speaker 3: I would have loved to talk to the listeners afterwards,
Speaker 3: and I wouldn't have bashed the company or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I would have just talked about all the fun times
Speaker 3: and reminisced, talked about what I was going to do next,
Speaker 3: and then you get to go, you know, bond voyage.
Speaker 3: But with radio companies freezing your ass out, I didn't
Speaker 3: get to do that. I'm glad that he got to
Speaker 3: do that. But for some of us that got fired
Speaker 3: back in the day in radio that didn't exist back then.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. And I love ill Sam Man. I did
Speaker 1: talk to Sam. You know, there is a certain when
Speaker 1: you do the lame jokes you do have to have.
Speaker 1: We found it works better when you just use one. Yeah. Yes,
Speaker 1: when you try to mix a bunch of things together,
Speaker 1: it's just hard to you can't really enjoy the segment.
Speaker 1: So and I was Sam. I think he understands, and
Speaker 1: so he'll do it better next time. Ozzie Was writes
Speaker 1: in from Western Australia. He says, hey, Big Ben and
Speaker 1: and Daddy G longtime no speak. I was catching up
Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour podcast. I finally am up to date.
Speaker 1: I had an issue with the one when you were
Speaker 1: at the meet and greet and started talking about burgers
Speaker 1: and the juicy Lucy whatever that may be. Well, Ozzie
Speaker 1: was I explained what the juicy Lucy is. So burger
Speaker 1: stuffed with cheese. It's got cheese in that's the thing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he says, I got that burger. I got that burger
Speaker 1: while working. That my normal lunch. She said he heard
Speaker 1: the podcast and I was not able to get a burger.
Speaker 1: Get the job done, he says, Rather, so I shut
Speaker 1: the machine down. He says he drove forty five minutes
Speaker 1: into the closest town just to get a hamburger.
Speaker 3: Oh so he's saying, you made him really hungry.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he's blaming me because I got you. He
Speaker 1: had to eat a hamburger, and he says it was
Speaker 1: worth the hour and a half long journey to get
Speaker 1: that in his belly. Okay, so you should be happy
Speaker 1: then we helped you out. You think they have juicy
Speaker 1: Lucy's in Western Australia?
Speaker 3: Probably not?
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably not, probably not. Chris and Marri Coca to
Speaker 1: Iowa writes in on the mail bag. He says, where
Speaker 1: does the juicy Lucy? Here's appropriate, Where does the juicy
Speaker 1: Lucy rank in your Malar Big Board of burgers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like the Juicy Lucy. It is a top ten burger.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I have it in the top five.
Speaker 1: And here's why. It's hard to get it well done.
Speaker 1: And I like a well done burger. So that's my
Speaker 1: only problem. I think it was one of the juicy
Speaker 1: Loosiers I got that was well done. There were some
Speaker 1: of them that were completely undercooked and made they want
Speaker 1: to puke. So if you can make a juicy Lucy
Speaker 1: well done, that would be the perfect burger. He also says, Chris,
Speaker 1: I heard a caller mentioned the horseshoe food. Have you
Speaker 1: ever played a game of horseshoes before? Yes, Chris, I
Speaker 1: have played horseshoes, and I assume you have Danny right.
Speaker 1: We're old. They used to play horseshoes when we were younger.
Speaker 3: I remember my grandparents doing it on like some little
Speaker 3: camping trip.
Speaker 1: That used to be a good park game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a horseshoe?
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: So this guy called up the radio show from southern
Speaker 1: Missouri or southern Illinois, near Missouri, near Saint Louis, and
Speaker 1: he said they have a local delicacy. Delicacy there called
Speaker 1: the horseshoe. What the hell is that? So the horseshoe
Speaker 1: is a big slice of Texas toast and then they
Speaker 1: put a big pile of French fries on there, some
Speaker 1: cheese and meat, and they call it a horseshoe. It's
Speaker 1: an open faced sandwich. That sounds pretty good. It sounds
Speaker 1: sounds sounds sounds like poutine to me. It sounds sounds solid.
Speaker 1: Next up on the mailbag, Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia. Right,
Speaker 1: since it has been and Danny g have either of
Speaker 1: you ever let yourself indulge in the thought of just
Speaker 1: up and leaving your careers to be impulsive and just
Speaker 1: go off the grid for a while. Money isn't an
Speaker 1: issue in that alternative reality. What would you be doing
Speaker 1: with all your newfound time and freedom from the daily grind? Yeah? So, Jennifer,
Speaker 1: sure you think about like what would happen if you
Speaker 1: didn't do what you're doing? But I would be an
Speaker 1: absolute wreck. I have to stay busy. I do not
Speaker 1: handle down time very well. I got to always have
Speaker 1: something going on, and if I don't have something going on,
Speaker 1: my mind starts wandering. And now if all my bills
Speaker 1: are paid, and I had no worries about finances. I
Speaker 1: had a bank account that was filled, and I knew
Speaker 1: I'd be taking care of for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: I think I could figure out how to re wire
Speaker 1: my mind, but it would be very difficult to do that.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny.
Speaker 3: I would pull a Phil Jackson and have a huge
Speaker 3: property in Montana. And if I had to do anything
Speaker 3: for work, just to enjoy it, because all the bills
Speaker 3: were paid, I'd probably do something for the National Parks.
Speaker 1: That'd be cool. Yeah, you could actually afford to move
Speaker 1: to Montana right now. You'd be living like the unibomber.
Speaker 1: But you could actually live in Montana right now, you
Speaker 1: could afford it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But I would want a big mansion like what
Speaker 3: Phil Jackson lives in.
Speaker 1: Not a little shack.
Speaker 3: I want a big, huge spread with some horses, something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: I want a camel. Caleb writes in from Parts on Known,
Speaker 1: He says, what's your go to artist? To listen to?
Speaker 1: Guys when you're exercising, you're doing stuff around the house.
Speaker 1: So we'll go quick on this. When I'm getting ready
Speaker 1: for the show and I'm preparing for the show, trying
Speaker 1: to find things to talk about it. Listen to classical music,
Speaker 1: although lately I've been mixing in this is my wife's fault.
Speaker 1: I've been mixing in Spanish guitar music, which is pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You ever listen to Spanish guitar music? No, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Actually, it's got a good beat to it.
Speaker 1: It's it's like a step above classical music because it
Speaker 1: moves a little bit more. And yeah, I enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so big band doing the salsa on the exercise machines.
Speaker 1: Right, absolutely correct? What's your goate.
Speaker 3: Get hyped up? Like? For instance, I have a weight
Speaker 3: bench in my garage. On the speakers, I'll play west
Speaker 3: Side Connection, foh Drizzle. I also play like Red Hot
Speaker 3: Chili Peppers, stuff like that, and like some some harder
Speaker 3: alternative rock to really get the blood going, so hard
Speaker 3: Wrap and some hard rock.
Speaker 1: Big Glu rites in. What can Big do for you?
Speaker 1: Big Lou says, how do you How did you're re
Speaker 1: hiring by Fox Sports Radio? Start Ben? Did you send
Speaker 1: Fox Sports a DM on MySpace, a new profile on
Speaker 1: Twitter and tweeted at them? Yes? No, so I had
Speaker 1: actually been in negotiations with a couple of other people,
Speaker 1: and I was I was very close to getting a
Speaker 1: job that likely would have caused me to relocate from
Speaker 1: southern California. And this is uh, well, that was one
Speaker 1: of the jobs I did interview at ESPN. There was
Speaker 1: another another gig that I had lined up back east
Speaker 1: in Boston, and and uh and then I also talked
Speaker 1: to the people at Sirius XM and they were interested,
Speaker 1: but these you know, how is Danny people are interested,
Speaker 1: but they're like not that interested. You know. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get we'll get back to you, and we have
Speaker 1: we think we want to hire you, but we got
Speaker 1: to wait for this kind of lose their job. And
Speaker 1: it is like all.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, it's a waiting game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so I was waiting and the z Dog
Speaker 1: calls me up and she's like, hey, we want you back,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, I thought, yeah, are you pulling
Speaker 1: my chain? You know like and then I realized the
Speaker 1: z Dog does not do sarcasm. It's not I love her,
Speaker 1: but she does not do sarcasm. And so this was legit.
Speaker 3: And our best idea that didn't work out.
Speaker 1: And my mom, you know, is not she was not
Speaker 1: in the best of health at that time. So this
Speaker 1: was in nine, the summer of nine, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: do I really want to leave my mom? You know?
Speaker 1: And she's say, you're not doing great.
Speaker 3: The listeners that don't know really quick, they tried to
Speaker 3: put a collage together of like all the supposed best
Speaker 3: parts of the day that happened in the previous twenty
Speaker 3: four hours, and that was what was supposed to replace
Speaker 3: the big Ben Mallard didn't work. You fired.
Speaker 1: They called it the soup because there was a is
Speaker 1: that show still on the soup that was.
Speaker 3: On e H that's been long gone.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that was the ripoff. They ripped that show off,
Speaker 1: and the geniuses and the upper management at that time,
Speaker 1: I know what would do well? Fire malor we'll have
Speaker 1: no live overnight show and we'll just have you know,
Speaker 1: this rehash of different shows.
Speaker 3: And it was.
Speaker 1: It did not go well, which was good for me,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm happy that I'm back, and I've
Speaker 1: actually been back. I was at the company for nine
Speaker 1: years when they let me go, and I've been back
Speaker 1: now for fourteen years. So that's a long that's a
Speaker 1: long run. Lou also says, if you smoked weed as
Speaker 1: a young man. How much more would you have weighed
Speaker 1: from all the pope and bibing munchies?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, got yeah, you were already a hostess monster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Lou, I think I just would have I
Speaker 1: would have been what's that show nine hundred pound life
Speaker 1: or whatever? It's all the five hundred pounds where.
Speaker 3: They had to use a crane to get you out
Speaker 3: of the house.
Speaker 1: I would have just eaten myself to death. I would
Speaker 1: have just I'd have my and they would have found me,
Speaker 1: and I would have had like orange fingers from Cheetos
Speaker 1: and a chocolate you know, all over my mouth and
Speaker 1: Cheeto dust, and that would have been how they they
Speaker 1: found me. And maybe someday they'll still find me like that.
Speaker 1: Who knows Kevin in Kansas right send on the mailbag,
Speaker 1: he says. Dear Ben and Danny G. I was listening
Speaker 1: to a Bege's disco tune this morning. Suddenly I picture
Speaker 1: both of you out on the disco floor doing all
Speaker 1: the moves. I grew up during the disco era, but
Speaker 1: I never discoed. Have either of you shown your moves
Speaker 1: on the dance floor? If so, is there video you
Speaker 1: could post. Yeah, so no, there's no for me, there's
Speaker 1: no video. I bet Danny's done that. I've not done that.
Speaker 1: And I actually mentioned this this week, Kevin. It's serendipitous
Speaker 1: that you brought this up. So on ask Ben, which
Speaker 1: sounds nothing like the mailbag.
Speaker 3: Danny, No, it's not a ripoff at all, not at all.
Speaker 1: It's original content. And on ask Ben was asked, I forget.
Speaker 1: I think it was the thing you're embarrassed about what
Speaker 1: you wore. And I blamed my parents for this. But
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and I didn't know this
Speaker 1: until my parents passed, I was going through some photos
Speaker 1: and my mom took a photo of me in bell
Speaker 1: bottoms and yeah, Benny, call me Benny bell bottoms if
Speaker 1: you want. So that was a little awkward. Any disco
Speaker 1: in your past there, Danny? Do you you know you
Speaker 1: don't think you're a disco guy, though.
Speaker 3: I feel like, oh no, And thank god my parents
Speaker 3: didn't like disco. They were into R and B and
Speaker 3: soul and early hip hop. My mom liked all the
Speaker 3: white singers who sounded black.
Speaker 1: Racist.
Speaker 3: So she was a big Hall and Oates fan, a
Speaker 3: big Michael McDonald fan. So that's the kind of music
Speaker 3: they love. They hated disco, thank god, and it was
Speaker 3: past our like when our childhood, Disco wasn't a thing
Speaker 3: anymore good for us. Some early early photos of us, though,
Speaker 3: are some late seventies gear. What the hell were people
Speaker 3: thinking back then? You know, they were tripping on some
Speaker 3: LSD or something, but no, thank god, you know, in
Speaker 3: the nightclubs and djaying for a couple of decades. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, dancing is a big part of the night.
Speaker 3: But as they say, gangsters don't dance, we boogie, so
Speaker 3: kind of lean back, lean back. So even if you
Speaker 3: don't want to be out there dancing like a chicken
Speaker 3: with your head cut off, you can just kind of
Speaker 3: do the bob and flow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and disco did lead to what is the greatest
Speaker 1: radio promotion of all time in Chicago anyway, the Disco
Speaker 1: Demolition Night, which was this radio guy named Steve Dahl
Speaker 1: who is twenty four years old, and he thought it
Speaker 1: would be great to go out there and and blow
Speaker 1: up a bunch of records that were given by in
Speaker 1: the White Sox. I saw a documentary on this. It
Speaker 1: was pretty crazy. And so they had this nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: radio the guy had this. He was going to come
Speaker 1: in on a tank with like a military helmet on.
Speaker 1: And if I remember correctly, it's like if you if
Speaker 1: you brought a disco record, they would give you either
Speaker 1: a free ticket or a half priced ticket or something
Speaker 1: like that. It was it was in between. It was
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, I think it was. It was in between.
Speaker 1: It was in between a White Sox Tigers doubleheader, and
Speaker 1: they they expected a kind of a small crowd and
Speaker 1: the place was packed, right. They thought they'd get a
Speaker 1: crowd of maybe twenty thousand, which was like a little
Speaker 1: over what they usually got in those days. And they
Speaker 1: estimate that there was at the very minimum fifty thousand
Speaker 1: people that showed up. But they didn't have enough security,
Speaker 1: they didn't have enough ushers. It just totally created It
Speaker 1: had to postpone the game.
Speaker 3: They turned into a huge shit show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was a wild I do recommend
Speaker 1: the documentary. And the guy that worked at the Loop,
Speaker 1: which was the station in Chicago, the promotions guy. He
Speaker 1: was a programming guy. I think he actually worked briefly
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio and he was the one that
Speaker 1: put that together. Jeff Schwartz is his name. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you ever worked with Jeff. Probably not. He
Speaker 1: was at Fox very briefly, but I guess he was
Speaker 1: a sales guy actually at the Loop and he worked
Speaker 1: as one of our guys at Fox Sports Radio briefly.
Speaker 1: And he told me, oh, I was fascinated. I was
Speaker 1: riveted about that that night, and he told me how
Speaker 1: crazy it was. And they were like afraid they were
Speaker 1: going to get arrested, and you know it, just like
Speaker 1: they thought they were gonna get blamed and all that.
Speaker 3: That's a radio dude dream come true. Though, for a
Speaker 3: promotion to blow up so big that it shuts a
Speaker 3: baseball game down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it shuts it down. And here we are
Speaker 1: a generation, actually two generations later, and it's still something
Speaker 1: that we can reference. Fred in Spring Texas I will
Speaker 1: do a couple more Fred and in Spring Texas Rights
Speaker 1: and it says, guys, how did you both meet your spouses?
Speaker 1: We've gotten this one before. How long did you date
Speaker 1: before you were married? And how long have you both
Speaker 1: been married to your current spouse? Wow, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of personal.
Speaker 3: Questions and last four of your social.
Speaker 1: Yes, and can you please help give us your bank
Speaker 1: info so we can get all your money. So I
Speaker 1: met my spouse online. I was doing some online dating.
Speaker 1: I met her that way, and we dated for like
Speaker 1: a couple of years. It wasn't that long, and then
Speaker 1: we got married and coming up on in about a month,
Speaker 1: it'll be ten years. I can't believe that, Dad, Wow,
Speaker 1: holy crap, that's a long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not even made it for ten months with
Speaker 3: a woman.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and now things are about to get real, Danny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now it's changing, TENDERNI tips. So, Yeah, I met
Speaker 3: my girl online and we dated for what two years,
Speaker 3: and just recently got married and recently got pregnant and
Speaker 3: about to pop out a baby. Daddy, it's been a
Speaker 3: wild couple of years. Here.
Speaker 1: Nice, last one alf from the mortuary, He says, been
Speaker 1: and Daddy g A, have either of you made out
Speaker 1: a will and b if so, have you made arrangements
Speaker 1: to have Haze from Minnesota flown out to prepare your
Speaker 1: body for your dirt nep, very very very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No. With the doc might treatments, we're both on. We're
Speaker 3: never gonna die exactly.
Speaker 1: We were actually lizard people and we will never ever
Speaker 1: die at all going to happen unless it does. I
Speaker 1: do not have a will. Do you have a willed?
Speaker 4: Inn?
Speaker 1: I do not have a will.
Speaker 3: No, I do.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the final frontier into adulthood when
Speaker 1: you get a will. Yeah, I'm not quite ready for that. Insurance, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's another one. I do have life insurance, but that's
Speaker 1: pretty much just I have the bare minium just to
Speaker 1: cover the funeral expenses and you know, the bills for
Speaker 1: a little bit if I if I croak before my
Speaker 1: my wife, which I probably have, but she's the way
Speaker 1: I look at it. She's a lot younger than me,
Speaker 1: so she'll probably outlive me, so she'll just and when
Speaker 1: you die and you're married, your wife just gets all
Speaker 1: your crap. So that's just kind of how.
Speaker 3: It goes, right, Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So as long as I check out before her,
Speaker 1: we're in good shape in that regard. And uh yeah
Speaker 1: so uh And thanks to Nick and Wisconsin, you actually
Speaker 1: have asked that question before John and Omaha, Bob in Seattle, Gregan, West,
Speaker 1: Saint Paul. We've got a lot of people we didn't
Speaker 1: get to. I apologize, Hey.
Speaker 3: Who's going to get all your radio equipment? Though? Because
Speaker 3: your wife doesn't need that that.
Speaker 1: You know, who's going to get that. I think doctor
Speaker 1: Landfill will get that. I think that's probably by the
Speaker 1: time I've done. I'll just put that right and that
Speaker 1: will be that number ones.
Speaker 3: To the Marconi Museum. Come on, all right, come on man.
Speaker 1: Oh by man, all right, Sunday, we get out of
Speaker 1: here on that. Have a wonderful rest of your day today.
Speaker 1: I'll be back on the radio, old school radio, transistor
Speaker 1: radio or iHeart app streaming, and we'll be back tonight
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock in the West on Sunday, two am in
Speaker 1: the East on Monday, and we'll take you through the
Speaker 1: four hours on the overnight and Danny, you're back tomorrow, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, back Monday afternoon with Covino and Rich two to
Speaker 3: four pm on the West Side and five to seven
Speaker 3: pm in New York City. York City.
Speaker 1: All have a wonderful day. We'll catch you next week
Speaker 1: on the podcast. But I'll catch you in a few
Speaker 1: hours here on the radio.
Speaker 3: Oh almost forgot to mention, Ben, we now have a
Speaker 3: refrigerator that makes ice.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, I love it. That's a big man. I
Speaker 1: love my ice.
Speaker 3: I'm all over an icy Sunday. Nice Asta pasta got
Speaker 3: a murder I Gotta go.