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.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the a Everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
Speaker 1: and Danny G a global reach available you found it
Speaker 1: wherever podcasts are available. You can find this podcast on demand.
Speaker 1: A spinoff of The Overnight Show, The Ben Mahlercher heard
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, eastn Standard time two in the morning,
Speaker 1: two in the morning till six in the morning, but
Speaker 1: on the West Coast eleven pm until three am. And
Speaker 1: if you're in Hawaii, it's just a night show. And
Speaker 1: if you're in Europe, it's on during the day and
Speaker 1: you can hear me there. Danny G, who used to
Speaker 1: work with me on the Overnight Show, you can hear
Speaker 1: him on with Covino and Rich Monday through Friday. Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. When can people hear you exactly Danny.
Speaker 3: G on the West coast two to four pm and
Speaker 3: on the East coast five.
Speaker 1: To seven, five to seven. Check that out from our
Speaker 1: new studio. A couple weeks into the new studio and
Speaker 1: it's not been trashed completely yet. I was upset because
Speaker 1: they changed the air conditioning the wall and the main
Speaker 1: studio like it's still fine, it works, but they had
Speaker 1: this really nice box on the wall for the air
Speaker 1: conditioning that was like high end, and they took it
Speaker 1: off and put this like crappy one on. I don't
Speaker 1: know why they did. That's a downgrade.
Speaker 3: I wonder why they did that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea, but I noticed
Speaker 1: that at and the people have been asking what's the
Speaker 1: old what's going on in the old studio? Nothing, it's there.
Speaker 1: They didn't change anything, they didn't get rid of it.
Speaker 1: I've actually gone in there. I've gotten to work because
Speaker 1: I've had to drive in a little bit more from
Speaker 1: way out in the north Woods. I'm really happy about that.
Speaker 1: I like that drive. It's a good make sure my
Speaker 1: car works, and good to support the oil industry with
Speaker 1: the gas. So I got out there and I've gotten
Speaker 1: it early and sat in that room and watched some
Speaker 1: of the NBA playoff games in my old seat, so
Speaker 1: that was kind of neat nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the daytime, they record some podcasts in there.
Speaker 1: Oh really, but just recording podcasts.
Speaker 3: Got Leave does podcasts and so does Rob Parker.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's the new podcast studio. Yeah, okay, there
Speaker 1: you go. So who knew. Well, we we do our
Speaker 1: podcast differently and we don't want to use that. We
Speaker 1: don't use that studio.
Speaker 3: So you don't use that stinking studio, man.
Speaker 1: And that studio. We're done with that studio. Absolutely. We
Speaker 1: are not done with the mail bag. And that means ohio,
Speaker 1: al it's.
Speaker 3: This bag. Yeah, just getting started with a mail bag.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get started here, deep into the mail bag.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to send a question in, you do
Speaker 1: not have to wait for me to post something on Facebook.
Speaker 1: You can email me right now. Email Danny Greel fifth
Speaker 1: hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. I cannot guarantee that we will put your
Speaker 1: question on the air, but the odds improved dramatically if
Speaker 1: you actually send one in as opposed to not sending
Speaker 1: one in. I will guarantee if you don't send a
Speaker 1: question in we will not be able to read your
Speaker 1: question on the air. So with that said, the first
Speaker 1: mail bag question comes from Pete the Machinist, who is
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast in Albany, Oregon. He says, Guys,
Speaker 1: when it's the weekend or maybe a day off, are
Speaker 1: you still somewhat like nocturnal? He says? Or do you
Speaker 1: adjust your sleep schedule for the weekends and then go
Speaker 1: back to sleep regularly or back to sleep the same
Speaker 1: sleep schedule for the weekdays. I guess you're talking to
Speaker 1: me here. When you do the overnight show, does your
Speaker 1: overnight shift conflict with your wife's schedule? So, Pete, here's
Speaker 1: the problem. I like to keep the schedule as close
Speaker 1: as I can to the weekday schedule, but that would
Speaker 1: mean that I would not see any friends or family,
Speaker 1: and I like to see some people from time to time.
Speaker 1: So I do attempt to tweak my schedule a little
Speaker 1: bit on the weekends. It's not easy. My wife does
Speaker 1: work similar hours, but she's got a superpower. I'm married.
Speaker 1: My wife wants to dress up. She how dare you?
Speaker 1: It's very hard for me to get quality sleep. She's
Speaker 1: able to sleep whenever she wants. I don't have that,
Speaker 1: so I hope that answers your question. Danny. I know
Speaker 1: you did the overnight show for a while, so you
Speaker 1: had to battle sleep and all that.
Speaker 3: It was one problem dating during that time working on
Speaker 3: your show, because I'd have to flip my schedule around
Speaker 3: every weekend to be a normal person and keep up
Speaker 3: with the girl that I was dating at the time.
Speaker 3: It was not easy because I would feel lethargic. I
Speaker 3: would feel run down, and this girl is like, you know,
Speaker 3: a block ahead of me on her mountain bike if
Speaker 3: we were riding bikes that weekend or whatever, and I
Speaker 3: just didn't feel like myself. It sucked, and everyone in
Speaker 3: your life just expected you to flip a switch with
Speaker 3: regular hours on the weekend and then transition back to
Speaker 3: the graveyard on Sunday night, super super hard. I have
Speaker 3: a lot of respect for everybody that does the third shift.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not easy. The worst was when I did
Speaker 1: the weekend overnights Friday and Saturday. And after I did
Speaker 1: weekend overnights probably for six, seven, eight years something like
Speaker 1: that pretty consistently, and people stop inviting you to parties.
Speaker 1: They no longer because they know you won't go because
Speaker 1: most Friday parties are on Friday or Saturday, like, well,
Speaker 1: he's working, so we won't even invite him. Not that
Speaker 1: I would probably go anyway, but they stopped inviting. You
Speaker 1: had dating the Nightmare because of that schedule. And then
Speaker 1: I had a website where I was working during the week.
Speaker 1: So I was doing my website, my gossip site, aggregating
Speaker 1: gossip during the week, and then on the weekends doing
Speaker 1: the radio stuff. And I was filling in all over
Speaker 1: the place. There's a big Nightmare next up on the
Speaker 1: But thank you Pete the Machine, it's next up alf
Speaker 1: the unofficial official show historian. He says, Ben, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the ocean waters are like in California, but
Speaker 1: you know what you're into. But do you know what
Speaker 1: you're into when you hit the main coast this summer,
Speaker 1: he says, be prepared to have some blue balls. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was a lot. I was holding ball, touching balls,
Speaker 1: you name it. I had a lot of balls. And
Speaker 1: here's a fun fact for your privates. And he's got
Speaker 1: a graph here, Danny, you can't see. It's got the
Speaker 1: water temperature off the coast different places in Maine. So
Speaker 1: First of all, Alf, we are tentatively planning on Maine.
Speaker 1: That is not confirmed, though you know, the water in
Speaker 1: California is probably right now, it's about in the low sixties.
Speaker 1: I would say off the coast of californ which is
Speaker 1: what it is in the summer, the hottest part of
Speaker 1: the main.
Speaker 3: But then again, Ben, if you were traveling to Maine,
Speaker 3: I don't think your number one thing on your agenda
Speaker 3: would be to go run into the water.
Speaker 1: You don't think I would do a cannon ball from
Speaker 1: the pier or into the water in the Atlantic, No,
Speaker 1: I would not.
Speaker 3: I don't see that. No, you're the dude on the
Speaker 3: beach with the tent.
Speaker 1: I am in the tent. Yeah, not pitching a tent. Well,
Speaker 1: I think to get the tent. Yeah. But anyway, here's
Speaker 1: the other problem. An unpopular opinion. Danny having spent time
Speaker 1: on the beach on the East Coast of America and
Speaker 1: the West coast West Coast all day, the beaches on
Speaker 1: the West coast much better than the beaches on the
Speaker 1: East coast, And some people say, well what about Florida. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I just like to hole the sunset on the
Speaker 1: West coast. Awesome, It's right over the water.
Speaker 3: You're looking really cool. It's just a beautiful it's.
Speaker 1: Just wonderful, marvelous, marvelous, marvel marvelous, marvelous marvels.
Speaker 3: The sun sinks into the ocean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really cool. But thank you Alf for that
Speaker 1: uplifting message. I appreciate it, and I'll keep you guys posted.
Speaker 1: As of now, there is no plane ticket purchase, there
Speaker 1: is no hotel booked, and we'll see what happens with that,
Speaker 1: with the old finances the Mala Mansion, Mike in Fullerton writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, how to Ben and Danny g it's
Speaker 1: birthday season. So I'm going to ask what you did?
Speaker 1: What was your favorite birthday party? Right? What you guys
Speaker 1: do with your kids. My favorite as a kid was
Speaker 1: me and a bunch of friends at the long since
Speaker 1: bankrupt Discovery Zone. My favorite as an adult was at
Speaker 1: a similar place that is still around, according to Mike
Speaker 1: in Fullerton, and he of course included as Alf did,
Speaker 1: he had a graph and there's also a photo here
Speaker 1: that Mike included, which is it's good to know that
Speaker 1: you love whether there's the Discovery Zone there, there's is
Speaker 1: that you and the photos Mike. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's you in there Discovery Zone. There is a Discovery
Speaker 1: Music Science Center, which I don't think is the same thing,
Speaker 1: but that's that's a thing in Orange County. I think
Speaker 1: it's one in La also, but thank you think you might.
Speaker 1: I love Chuck E Cheese. I was a kid that
Speaker 1: was not that old. When I was a kid, Chuck
Speaker 1: E Cheese that was like a big that was a
Speaker 1: big deal. There was a ripoff of Chuck E Cheese
Speaker 1: called Bullwinkles, which I thought was kind of cool. That
Speaker 1: was fun like that. I'm of the age when we
Speaker 1: were little kids. McDonald started the playgrounds. Just going there
Speaker 1: you felt like you were like a big shot because
Speaker 1: you were hanging out with Ronald McDonald and you had
Speaker 1: the ball pit, which was always disgusting. Any great birthday locations,
Speaker 1: Danny from back in the day.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, I don't want anybody sympathy, but you
Speaker 3: know this from you know, because we've known each other
Speaker 3: for a long time. I for a portion of my
Speaker 3: childhood my mom was single, bouncing around. We didn't have
Speaker 3: a place to stay for a while. It was not
Speaker 3: good times as a little kid. For a lot of
Speaker 3: the years. So like Biggie rapped, birthdays was the worst days.
Speaker 3: Now we sip champagne when we Thursday. So yeah, birthdays
Speaker 3: weren't really a thing, Ben, You.
Speaker 1: Did not celebrate the birthdays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, just like Biggie. And you know, my
Speaker 3: very first official birthday party was when I was in
Speaker 3: my early twenties and a radio station held it. They
Speaker 3: did a surprise birthday party and it turned out this
Speaker 3: is in Ventura, California, but this should have been an Oxnard,
Speaker 3: California because it was like a cholo party. Every single
Speaker 3: gift I unwrapped was something Raiders, al Raighties.
Speaker 1: And you have a very similar closet to Roberto, where
Speaker 1: in my head there's one side that is Raiders. It's
Speaker 1: it's like a triangle. You've got one side Raiders, one
Speaker 1: side Lakers, and then the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: There's also the Hawaii section though, Okay, like I got
Speaker 3: Hawaii hats, I have not Hawaiian shirts, but shirts from Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't have that. I have like a
Speaker 1: fair amount of a Clipper random shirts, but most I
Speaker 1: don't have too many teams, teams, a lot, a lot
Speaker 1: of hats, a lot of hats I've got that.
Speaker 3: You do have some Dodgers.
Speaker 1: I do have a fair amount of Dodger I have
Speaker 1: like every Dodger hat possible. I've got that. A few
Speaker 1: Dodger shirts, a couple of Clipper shirts, a couple of
Speaker 1: Ram shirts, but not not too much.
Speaker 3: Well, good news for you, Ben. I was at Target
Speaker 3: the other day Clipper shirts half off again.
Speaker 1: Oh look at you. Very funny there, what is still
Speaker 1: wrong with the Clippers? Very funny. Another class Laker historian.
Speaker 1: I saw my man, Ralph Lawler, who's retired. I was
Speaker 1: friends with Ralph when he was a Clipper broadcaster, and
Speaker 1: I used to listen to him when I was a kid, which.
Speaker 3: Is very weird. I like that guy.
Speaker 1: So Ralph is retired. So he he was living part
Speaker 1: of the year in Florida, part of the year in Oregon.
Speaker 1: I guess he sold his house in Florida and moved
Speaker 1: to Oregon full time. So whatever, he's an Oregon And
Speaker 1: he said he was consolidating items in his house and
Speaker 1: he found all these old T shirts. Ironically enough, we
Speaker 1: were just talking about T shirts, and they are all
Speaker 1: these old Clipper shirts, you know, and they're they're cool things,
Speaker 1: vintage shirts. From back in the eighties and the nineties
Speaker 1: and all the way up to Lob City and the
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin and all that, and so it's just a
Speaker 1: harmless post and he's doing his thing whatever. And then
Speaker 1: some guy posts, I don't see any NBA championship shirts.
Speaker 1: What do you think that was, Danny? You think that
Speaker 1: was a Clipper fan or a Laker history orient Who
Speaker 1: do you think that was?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I know some bitter Clipper fans.
Speaker 1: That a classless, scumbag, loser, Laker historian. And another reason
Speaker 1: all the NBA cheers against the Lakers the most in
Speaker 1: the NBA. And Ralph Wahler came back and buried this guy.
Speaker 1: He said, what's your point? He said, I would not
Speaker 1: look back at my career anymore fondly if my collection
Speaker 1: of shirts included multiple championship shirts. I loved the game
Speaker 1: and I enjoy it. I enjoyed every second of my
Speaker 1: forty years with the Clippers.
Speaker 3: That's why he's lying to himself. If he says a
Speaker 3: title during his career wouldn't have mattered, Come on.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter, it doesn't I don't think it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter unless you're making money off it or
Speaker 1: something like that. Doesn't matter, all right, Moving on, David
Speaker 1: writes in from Jersey. I thought I think he's in
Speaker 1: Israel now, he says, mal or Danny g I have
Speaker 1: heard you mentioned in the past that you have some
Speaker 1: really valuable sports trading cards, specifically Michael Jordan rookie cards
Speaker 1: that you have had over the years. I have also
Speaker 1: heard you say that you're in the process, or say
Speaker 1: you said the process of authentication. Often what's the word?
Speaker 1: I even said so early in the morning here, what
Speaker 1: is awesome to get verified, valid whatever? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, it's quite pricey. So I was wondering whatever
Speaker 1: happened to them? Did you sell them? I would love
Speaker 1: to know how much? If you don't mind saying, so,
Speaker 1: did you authenticate? I can't say the word, did you verify,
Speaker 1: validate them? Whatever? Or do you still have them? Anyway?
Speaker 1: I still enjoy authenticate, authenticate. There you go get authenticate, authentic, authentic,
Speaker 1: authenticate to infinity and beyond authenticate. Do you do I
Speaker 1: really enjoy he says, enjoys the show? And well, thank
Speaker 1: you David, and I not heard from you in a while,
Speaker 1: so thank you. I know you and your brother Both
Speaker 1: were callers at one point to the show. So A,
Speaker 1: I still have the collection. B it is collecting dust
Speaker 1: in the garage at the Malor Mansion. And see, I
Speaker 1: still have on my list a plan to get rid
Speaker 1: of them. I'm actually talking to my colleague Mike Harmon
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio with Jason Smith. Mike is very
Speaker 1: into the sports memorabilia world. He knows some people, he's
Speaker 1: got some ideas. He knows what to keep and what
Speaker 1: to get rid of. So I might have to bring
Speaker 1: mister Harmon to the Malor Mansion to get him like cheese,
Speaker 1: steak and burgers and things like that and uh and
Speaker 1: kind of play it that way and kind of have
Speaker 1: him as my my advisor, my think tank. So they're
Speaker 1: all still there. I haven't touched I haven't touched any
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Harmon is a card show nerd. No, he is.
Speaker 1: He's totally into it, like that's it. That's his world, man.
Speaker 1: He's all all about it, like he's buying stuff, stuff,
Speaker 1: like he's really invested. Next up on the mail bag,
Speaker 1: who do we have here, Big Greg in Iowa? Right,
Speaker 1: So he says, dear Ben and Danny g Since it
Speaker 1: has been over a week after your new studio has opened. Truthfully,
Speaker 1: how many of the chairs in the main studio have
Speaker 1: you sat in? Taking off everything except you're tidy white?
Speaker 1: He's been, he says the answer. What do you think,
Speaker 1: Danny seven eight nine chairs? How many do you think
Speaker 1: I've sat in there?
Speaker 3: One?
Speaker 1: Yeah, one, exactly one. That's it. I don't have to please,
Speaker 1: and I would sit elsewhere, but I was told I
Speaker 1: have to sit in a certain place because they record
Speaker 1: for the internet channels. They record the monologue, so I
Speaker 1: was not allowed to sit in random places.
Speaker 3: And they told you to stop sweating profusely like Patrick
Speaker 3: ewing hat trick.
Speaker 1: Well, I did the first monologue I did in there,
Speaker 1: I had the flop sweat going. We told the story
Speaker 1: on the podcast, but that's because some a hole, I
Speaker 1: think Jason Smith had turned the heater up and it
Speaker 1: was like eighty degrees in there, and I'm in there
Speaker 1: doing the show and I'm sweating because all these lights
Speaker 1: are on and I'm like, what are we doing? This
Speaker 1: is terrible, he says Danny G. Also, this is from
Speaker 1: Big Greg. Danny G. Have you caught your breath from
Speaker 1: having to run a marathon? Taking notes to Covino and Rich.
Speaker 1: Serious question, and I'm not sure if it has been asked,
Speaker 1: but what's your favorite thing to make on the Blackstone?
Speaker 1: That is from Big Greg? There you go, well, Big Greg,
Speaker 1: I actually said this a few seconds ago. But the
Speaker 1: quality of the cheese steak sandwich. I've been to Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: I've had authentic cheese steak. I will put my cheese
Speaker 1: steaks in against any of the cheese steak sandwiches that
Speaker 1: I've had in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Oh, those are some strong words.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, these things are amazing and the
Speaker 1: only the main reason I've been able to do it.
Speaker 1: I would not be possible without the Blackstone griddle, which
Speaker 1: I love. It's one of the coolest things. I'm sounding
Speaker 1: like a total middle aged human being here. If you
Speaker 1: had flashed back and gone in the hot tup time
Speaker 1: machine to when I was a kid, and you had
Speaker 1: told me, Ben, someday you'll be you know, X number
Speaker 1: of years old and you'll be celebrating a griddle, I
Speaker 1: would have told you to go pound sand is what
Speaker 1: I would have told you. But here we are, and that, Danny,
Speaker 1: I believe, is called life. That right there is life,
Speaker 1: and I wish my mom had lived a little longer
Speaker 1: because I didn't really get into cooking until she had
Speaker 1: unfortunately checked out. But she was wonderful in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: and so maybe some weird genetic thing passed on where
Speaker 1: I've kind of picked it up. They My wife's taught
Speaker 1: me a lot of stuff too, so she's very good
Speaker 1: cooking and whatnot. So but I love the griddles, wonderful.
Speaker 1: And Danny, now that you've got a bun in the
Speaker 1: oven there, and you know, you might need to buy
Speaker 1: a blackstone and learn how to cook.
Speaker 3: No, you're not wrong. We have a balcony and I've
Speaker 3: been talking to my girl about buying a nice barbecue
Speaker 3: grill for the summer because it's about time to fire
Speaker 3: up some steaks and hot dogs.
Speaker 1: Now, what kind of what are we looking at? Here?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you gonna do like charcoal? You're gonna
Speaker 1: do gas? Like? What's the plan?
Speaker 3: See? I gotta figure that out. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Now. I like cooking with gas because it's it's more efficient,
Speaker 1: but that some people love the taste. If you're barbecuing
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, you might like the charcoal. It
Speaker 1: really it's about preference, and there are charcoal snobs that
Speaker 1: spat Loogi's at you. If you say you like cooking
Speaker 1: with gas?
Speaker 3: What about the woodchip snobs?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you could do that. So that's another I.
Speaker 3: Got some woodchips, love eh, I.
Speaker 1: Got a smoker. Well you should get a smoker like
Speaker 1: I have. Okay, you none need a brag. Fred in Spring, Texas,
Speaker 1: Right so, and says hi, guys, Ben, you always talk
Speaker 1: about the overnight shift is the bottom of the barrel?
Speaker 1: Is that really true? In what do you aspire to be?
Speaker 1: I love what I do for a living, Fred, But
Speaker 1: in the radio business there's the halves and the have nots,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty much divided up in radio. Between six
Speaker 1: am and six pm, you're really cool, You're important, you matter.
Speaker 1: You get to go to the Super Bowl every year
Speaker 1: and different events and boxing matches and NBA finals and
Speaker 1: World Series and things like that. You're important. And then
Speaker 1: if you're on from six pm to six am, you
Speaker 1: are like mushrooms that grow at the bottom of the sewer.
Speaker 1: And that's just the way it is. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: just treated that way. You're a second class citizen. I
Speaker 1: get it. I've done it a long time. I've done
Speaker 1: overnight's my entire career. I just wish the shift was
Speaker 1: respected more because we're actually on more affiliates than the
Speaker 1: daytime shows are. Obviously the audience is a little smaller
Speaker 1: because most people are sleeping and all that. But no,
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to be in radio. My dream was
Speaker 1: a little kid to be in radio. So I'm very
Speaker 1: happy to do what I do. I love doing the podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm sure at some point we'll just do the podcast,
Speaker 1: we won't do the radio anymore, and we'll just focus
Speaker 1: on the podcast. But there's all the things I'd like
Speaker 1: to do. I'd like to get back and try television again.
Speaker 1: That would be fun. Maybe start my website up again
Speaker 1: and see if I can generate some revenue. It's somewhat
Speaker 1: frustrating when I think back when I started my website.
Speaker 1: My rivals contemporaries were Mike Florio, he had a website
Speaker 1: before Football Talk, and there was a site called dead
Speaker 1: Spin that is still around but it's been changed ownership.
Speaker 1: And there was a one of my friends who was
Speaker 1: a very well known NBA reporter for ESPN. He told me,
Speaker 1: he said, Malord, you cost yourself millions by closing your
Speaker 1: website before you did you know what I he's probably
Speaker 1: not wrong.
Speaker 3: He's probably what year did you stop?
Speaker 1: It was probably about thirteen, maybe four, I don't know,
Speaker 1: ten to thirteen years ago, something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so you probably would have had to hold
Speaker 3: on for like five extra years.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you know. I got some radio stuff and
Speaker 1: I just didn't have enough time for everything, so I
Speaker 1: had to let it go. But yeah, if I had
Speaker 1: held on, man, oh jeez. Oh so so close, but
Speaker 1: so far Ozzie was, writes in on the mailbag. He says,
Speaker 1: my mate's Big Man and Daddy G Radio. I A'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I have not been able to contribute the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Been super busy. He's in Western Australia. Download
Speaker 1: the podcast and listen while working. So here we go.
Speaker 1: He said, you had your big board of memorable moments
Speaker 1: in the old FSR studio, So what was your most
Speaker 1: embarrassing moment that happened in the old FSR studio? So
Speaker 1: any embarrassing. We've had a few things that have happened.
Speaker 1: I think on the show. It was All Star weekend.
Speaker 1: The All Star Game was in Denver and they booked
Speaker 1: a guest and I forget. I forget who they said
Speaker 1: it was, but I just remember who it actually was.
Speaker 1: They said it was somebody else, so I interviewed the person.
Speaker 1: I introduced the person asked a question because I was
Speaker 1: told it was one person, and it was actually Clyde
Speaker 1: Drexler was not I thought I was talking to somebody else,
Speaker 1: but it was. It was kind of embarrassing because he's
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame basketball player.
Speaker 3: I would say, and you're gonna laugh when you remember
Speaker 3: this too. When I trained Roberto to go into my
Speaker 3: shoes in your show, what did he do for the segment?
Speaker 3: How did he try to replace Tinderoni tips?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, what a freaking nightmare. But we look back on
Speaker 3: it with hilarity because I wish we had a recording
Speaker 3: of it. Ben talk about a train wreck that killed
Speaker 3: one hundred passengers. Roberto got it in his head that, well,
Speaker 3: I'll do Tinderoni tips, but for married people, is it weler?
Speaker 3: It might have been the worst five minutes of radio
Speaker 3: on the network's history.
Speaker 1: It's a bull strategy, it really is. I will give
Speaker 1: Roberto credit. He was thinking outside the box, which was
Speaker 1: actually it's weird because it was in the box. Because
Speaker 1: he was copying what you were doing, but he added
Speaker 1: his own twist to it, so it was outside the box.
Speaker 3: So I immediately jumped in and had a powwow with him,
Speaker 3: and I helped him come up with that segment where
Speaker 3: I had the voting for the drop of the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We did that for a while. Then he had
Speaker 1: weather with Roberto, which was fun. We did that, and
Speaker 1: he's done cooking with Roberto, so he's changed his yeah segment.
Speaker 3: If you've been around long enough to remember the very
Speaker 3: first week Roberto took over for me in that shift, God,
Speaker 3: that was funny. Even Roberto makes fun of it to
Speaker 3: this day. He's like, I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker 3: He's like, that was so bad. It just was. It
Speaker 3: was great. It was great radio, like for the all
Speaker 3: wrong reasons. But it turned out to be a funny,
Speaker 3: embarrassing moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that Ozziwaz brings this up. The other one
Speaker 1: I remember. Although it wasn't really embarrassing for me, it
Speaker 1: was embarrassing. It was embarrassing for the network, is what
Speaker 1: it was. So there was this older gentleman who had
Speaker 1: mostly worked in television who got hired as a board
Speaker 1: op an engineer, board operator, technical engineer, producer.
Speaker 3: Whatever you call.
Speaker 1: It was like his first weekend. And so when I
Speaker 1: did the weekend overnight show, they always broken the new
Speaker 1: board ops with me. They figured, oh, who cares if
Speaker 1: you blow, You're on Mallard's show, it doesn't matter. And
Speaker 1: I was fine because I got I became friendly with
Speaker 1: all the board ops. So when i'd fill in, like
Speaker 1: they'd moved to different shows, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: knew everybody, and so that was kind of neat. But
Speaker 1: let's just say this guy did not grasp the necessary
Speaker 1: responsibilities to run the board. And you're in charge. You're
Speaker 1: really in charge of piloting the entire operation, all the drops,
Speaker 1: all the songs, the ins and outs, the commercials. You're
Speaker 1: in charge of hitting right, but in the tones, everything.
Speaker 3: The timing, all the affiliates, everything.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know what you're doing, or if
Speaker 1: you're not confident, it becomes problematic. So I'm doing the
Speaker 1: show and I could tell this guy's drowning, you know,
Speaker 1: and there's no one there and he's on his own,
Speaker 1: and he's having issues with profit the system that we use,
Speaker 1: and so it's like it's like almost two o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, and I've still got a couple hours to go,
Speaker 1: because at that point I did a.
Speaker 3: Five hour did five hours.
Speaker 1: I did five hours, so I had several hours to
Speaker 1: take and so this I'm closing out the hour. I
Speaker 1: lock out for the hour, and I'll never forget the
Speaker 1: look on the face of the board up. He has
Speaker 1: the look of like he's seen a ghost. He hits
Speaker 1: the talk back button. He says, just keep going, just
Speaker 1: just keep going. Oh no, and he somehow he said
Speaker 1: the computer he hit the wrong button. Thing froze. So
Speaker 1: we just swept the top of the hour, which you're
Speaker 1: never supposed to do on a network radio show because
Speaker 1: affiliates dropped the show. Show at the top of the hour,
Speaker 1: you fired. And so he's like, just keep going, keep going.
Speaker 1: So we had no update. The update guy, I was like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? I don't understand what that is. That
Speaker 1: was awkward, that was uncomfortable. What else do we have
Speaker 1: in the middle back I did want to say, and
Speaker 1: these are not I don't think they wanted these red
Speaker 1: on the air. But Angelina, she is very happy that
Speaker 1: the location we picked for the Mallard meet and greet,
Speaker 1: and she says it's very good for those of us
Speaker 1: who are living living just across the Minnesota border in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin as well. She's looking forward to it, and also Jennifer,
Speaker 1: our friend in Richmond, Jennifer in Virginia. There, she's said,
Speaker 1: unfortunately she's not going to make it, but she is
Speaker 1: trying to convince her son and his friends to go
Speaker 1: hang out with us, so on her behalf.
Speaker 3: So what's up, Jennifer. Yeah, I'm still I'm in I'm
Speaker 3: in the same boat as Jen. I'm waiting for Iheart's reply.
Speaker 3: They were supposed to pay for my ticket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't know why they wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, as you know, the company has been very
Speaker 1: generous here. They're very supportive. They've covered I actually bought
Speaker 1: a plane ticket, but the company said, you know what, Ben,
Speaker 1: we're making a lot of money, so we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna reimburse you for your plane ticket and your time.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you some money for meals. We're gonna
Speaker 1: treat you like a first class is and we're going
Speaker 1: to take care of you. Also, we're gonna upgrade your hotel.
Speaker 1: We're gonna you know, President's Suite no problem on.
Speaker 3: The nice, real nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They didn't have to do that, you know, and
Speaker 1: most people say, oh, they never do that, but they did,
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate that's very kind of them to
Speaker 1: do that. They really did not have to do that.
Speaker 3: I feel like they're going to buy you a couple
Speaker 3: of juicy Lucy's too.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure they had some cheese curds
Speaker 1: to be named later. Kevin in Kansas, right since, says
Speaker 1: dear Ben, can you provide an update on your found
Speaker 1: laundry cart. Is it still in service or have you
Speaker 1: repurposed it into something else like a lawn ornament? Have
Speaker 1: you found any other interesting items in your new territory?
Speaker 1: You and Danny g rule the weekends. So A, I
Speaker 1: still have the laundry cart that I found on the
Speaker 1: side of the road during COVID A. I'm talking. This
Speaker 1: is like a laundry maat quality laundry cart, probably fum
Speaker 1: an actual laundromat that somebody stole and tossed on the
Speaker 1: side of the road, and I happen to walk by
Speaker 1: it and find it. So I still have it. It
Speaker 1: is not currently in service. It's what do they call
Speaker 1: it's on dry dock. Remember I take a ship and
Speaker 1: they put it on dry dock. It's on dry dock
Speaker 1: right now, Kevin and I don't know what the plan
Speaker 1: is for it. It likely will not be used where
Speaker 1: I live now. There's really no need for it because
Speaker 1: of the layout on the house, so unlikely that we're
Speaker 1: gonna need it. So, Danny, you know what, if you
Speaker 1: would like a nice laundry cart, you are more than welcome.
Speaker 1: I can, I can get it to you. You can
Speaker 1: come pick it up, knock yourself up.
Speaker 3: It's a great offer. But like I mentioned on yesterday's podcast,
Speaker 3: I'm already trying to get this out of the garage.
Speaker 3: Baby's taking over.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: The baby thinks it's his cave. He's not even here yet.
Speaker 3: Get the hell out of my garage.
Speaker 1: The boss baby, Man, it's the boss baby, That's what
Speaker 1: it is right there.
Speaker 3: Daddy, As my grandpa used to say, my mom's name
Speaker 3: is Cynthia. He'd yell whenever we'd be visiting him. He'd say, Cynthia,
Speaker 3: get your goddamn kids out of my garage.
Speaker 1: That's great, I bet you. Your grandfather was like my grandpa.
Speaker 1: My Grandma's Yiddish for he's spoke Yiddish at the house
Speaker 1: and all that, but he's the same way, very no
Speaker 1: beating around the bush, just yell at, screaming, no decorum.
Speaker 3: Just none of that. The only time he'd let us
Speaker 3: in his garage, he'd unscrew this jar that had quarters
Speaker 3: in it and he'd say, are you doing good in school?
Speaker 3: And we'd be like yeah, and he'd give us two
Speaker 3: quarters and he'd say, now get the hell out of
Speaker 3: my garage.
Speaker 1: Nice, very nice, and fifty cents. I'm gone fond memories.
Speaker 1: And someday your little kid likely will grow up there
Speaker 1: and then you'll be that guy and you'll be like,
Speaker 1: screw you. I've got my own radio station. They'll say,
Speaker 1: what is radio? What is that you have radio? Stay? Yes,
Speaker 1: I have my own radio station. How dare you? Gary
Speaker 1: writes him from Parts on. He says, guys, what is
Speaker 1: your favorite sports memory as a kid. My favorite memory
Speaker 1: as a kid is the Carlton Fisk home run in
Speaker 1: Game six of the nineteen seventy five World Series against
Speaker 1: the Reds. Yes, so I remember the you know, the
Speaker 1: Gibson home run in eighty eight. I was a little
Speaker 1: kid watching the Mets and the Red Sox World Series,
Speaker 1: and I remember the watching the game. Well, that whole
Speaker 1: postseason was crazy because the Mets and Astros had a
Speaker 1: wild NLCS game that went extra innings. The Angels in
Speaker 1: Red Sox had the Dave Henderson Don Baylor home run
Speaker 1: in game I think it was Game five, Game six,
Speaker 1: so that American League Championship Series, I think it was
Speaker 1: Game six, and then they went back to Boston for
Speaker 1: Game seven and the Angels lost, I believe, so I
Speaker 1: remember that. Those are some of the things I recall.
Speaker 1: Those are the two sports memories. Watch some Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: I remember the Broncos were playing the Giants in a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in Pasadena and my mom took me out
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl site to get shirts. They were
Speaker 1: like dirt cheap. The NFL didn't rape people back then
Speaker 1: for shirts. You know, you could get shirts for a
Speaker 1: reasonable price and all they didn't mark up everything like
Speaker 1: they do. You know these days, What about you, Dan,
Speaker 1: any anything that stands out there.
Speaker 3: The biggest memory from the World Series is watching or
Speaker 3: I was about to watch the A's and the Giants.
Speaker 3: Oh the Bay Bridge, and you know what happened. My
Speaker 3: family was in Northern California, not far from the San
Speaker 3: Francisco Bay area at the time. To see the TV
Speaker 3: kind of go off and then the earthquake. My entire childhood,
Speaker 3: I never saw my mom panic no matter what was
Speaker 3: going on, no matter what challenges we might have faced.
Speaker 3: She was a really cool, like calm late But in
Speaker 3: this instance, the way the earth was rocking, you couldn't
Speaker 3: even stand up, So everybody's falling down. As bad as
Speaker 3: you can imagine an earthquake, that's how bad this one was.
Speaker 3: We go to the backyard and is real and she's saying,
Speaker 3: oh my God, Oh my God, is this gonna stop?
Speaker 3: And she's like praying out loud Ben And that scared
Speaker 3: the shit out of me because if she's praying to
Speaker 3: God out loud because she thinks we're gonna die, I
Speaker 3: thought we were gonna die. So you can imagine all
Speaker 3: those poor people that were trapped on those freeways and
Speaker 3: those buildings that all collapsed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the the A's that was the World Series
Speaker 1: that they won in that era, with all those great players,
Speaker 1: that was the only one they they want. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget the video of the freeway that collapsed there.
Speaker 3: That was mimutes Yeah, that was crazy, and what sucks
Speaker 3: for a's in their history. They didn't even get to
Speaker 3: celebrate that World series. It was just a very subdue
Speaker 3: high five celebrate, you know what I mean. It wasn't
Speaker 3: your normal celebrating of a world series victory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like well kind of with the COVID
Speaker 1: they had that a couple of years ago, but it
Speaker 1: was obviously much a different situation. But you couldn't really
Speaker 1: celebrate good times. See any other you got a few
Speaker 1: quick ones. We'll get get out on these. Let's see
Speaker 1: here been page down, page down. Uh. David, our buddy
Speaker 1: in winter Park, Florida with Roscoe of the parents, says,
Speaker 1: what is your favorite ice cream? Favorite ice cream? I'll
Speaker 1: go first. I like my Big my Big three. Not
Speaker 1: necessarily disorder cookie dough, mint chip strawberry Danny.
Speaker 3: Cookie dough is gross.
Speaker 1: Oh it's not.
Speaker 3: How dare you gross?
Speaker 1: No, it's not bad. Take by you, Danny. That's god.
Speaker 3: There's only one ice cream and one ice cream only
Speaker 3: walking road rules.
Speaker 1: Ben too much stuff going on. You know, the marshmallow
Speaker 1: here and there's something over there. You don't need that.
Speaker 3: No perfect combination.
Speaker 1: Rocky Road ice cream is the ranch dressing of of
Speaker 1: that it is. No, it's like this, throw a bunch
Speaker 1: of crap in the ice cream where people will buy it,
Speaker 1: like ranch dressing. We got some rotting stuff, we'll put
Speaker 1: it out here, people will drink it.
Speaker 3: And you know what ice cream is? Gross? Pistachio. What
Speaker 3: little kid in his right mind was like, pistachio. Get
Speaker 3: the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1: Oh that's for grown ups though. That so I didn't
Speaker 1: realize this. I thought this would be a quick question.
Speaker 1: But that's all. That's an amazing question, all right. I
Speaker 1: think we're thanks to Shelley from Minnesota, John and parts
Speaker 1: unknown and another listener who did not leave their name,
Speaker 1: so who they all knows. We'll get out on that.
Speaker 1: I will be back tonight from the Mothership, Maine Studio,
Speaker 1: the new improved FSR Studios beyond a seven o'clock in
Speaker 1: the West, Sunday night, two am in the East, Monday
Speaker 1: morning till six am all night long. A lot of
Speaker 1: NBA playoff reaction and anything else that has popped up
Speaker 1: here over the weekend, Danny, anything you want to promote here.
Speaker 3: I will be back on the airwaves with Coveno and
Speaker 3: Rich tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the Coveno and Rich show.
Speaker 3: That's Monday two to four pm on the West five
Speaker 3: to seven New York Time beautiful.
Speaker 1: So have a wonderful rest of your weekend. We thank
Speaker 1: you so much, you're my favorite person for downloading this
Speaker 1: podcast and we will talk to you next time.
Speaker 3: Austa Pasta gotta murder. I gotta go.