Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, twelve
Speaker 1: hundred minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the
Speaker 1: last remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The Clearinghouse
Speaker 1: of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere,
Speaker 1: hanging out in the audio dojo. It's the Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller and Danny Gee. And it is the
Speaker 1: Sunday Bonus edition of The Fifth Hour, And that means
Speaker 1: we get down and dirty. How about Ketty. The safety
Speaker 1: net is off, Danny. We're gonna be bobbing and weaving
Speaker 1: in the mailbox like Creed three. I saw that last
Speaker 1: weekend at a theater. How was that? Did you have
Speaker 1: popcorn when you went to the movies? Did you get snacks? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We do popcorn and a slushy? Now did you mix
Speaker 1: any chocolate with the popcorn? No? But last weekend we
Speaker 1: did get a little thing of red vines to go
Speaker 1: with the popcorn. Okay, yeah, Because I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: the chocolate the sugar and the salt. You combine those together,
Speaker 1: and it's chef's kiss, is what the Oh I know
Speaker 1: my mom she used to make the popcorn at home
Speaker 1: because she was a cheapo, and then she would take
Speaker 1: ziplock bags and she'd put peanut Eminem's mixed with the popcorn,
Speaker 1: seal it up, throw it at you and be like, here,
Speaker 1: go to the movies. You fil the animal. That's a
Speaker 1: good mom move. That's a solid because she your mom
Speaker 1: realized that that is the magic. I've said this many times.
Speaker 1: Olive cooking is just combining fat, salt, sugar, all those things,
Speaker 1: like the proper mix. It's all you're doing in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: But it's it's awesome. Oh man, it's so great that
Speaker 1: that bliss point. Everyone's trying to find that bliss point
Speaker 1: in eating. And if you do that, you got me
Speaker 1: excited for a Sunday morning breakfast. As soon as we
Speaker 1: get done with ask Ben two point zero. No no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: This is not asked Ben. This is the mail bag
Speaker 1: we spill the beans, Danny. This is a much different
Speaker 1: segment of radio. This sounds nothing like ask Ben. People do.
Speaker 1: There's no confusion. If this were to go to the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. They would say, these are two totally different entities. Good,
Speaker 1: don't don't look at me like that. I don't need
Speaker 1: you to look at me like that. Okay, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: I can't emphasize that enough. I'm experienced, Dear Danny, I've
Speaker 1: done this a couple of times, and I'm a savvy
Speaker 1: better and this is a much different segment. Let's bring
Speaker 1: in Ohio l. All right, it's my man Ohio awl
Speaker 1: yet again, dazzling as always, the sound on the countryside
Speaker 1: of Ohio al in the background leading us in. So
Speaker 1: wherever we go, whatever po dunk backwater place we go
Speaker 1: in the mailbag. Now, first up on the mailbag, Big
Speaker 1: Greg in Iowa writes in. He says, dear Ben and
Speaker 1: Daddy Danny g Daddy, although I prefer name that too.
Speaker 1: Ruined Fox has the masked singer going on Wednesday nights,
Speaker 1: Big Greg points out, and he then says, if they
Speaker 1: were to ask through your bosses, of course, or who
Speaker 1: whomever they'd reach out to to get in contact with you,
Speaker 1: would you do the mass singer show? And he says, Ben,
Speaker 1: how awful would it be to find a tall enough
Speaker 1: outfit for you. Well, and this guy Greg gets it.
Speaker 1: He knows that we are big stars in the Fox
Speaker 1: universe and that we would be perfect. Like I would
Speaker 1: get on there and i would do the jitterbug Foo Drizzle.
Speaker 1: I'd start out now, I would I would start out
Speaker 1: doing the jitterbug, I'd move into the Charleston and then
Speaker 1: maybe if we had enough time, the chat chat chop
Speaker 1: that would be. That would be how I would do it,
Speaker 1: and it would be you imagine the hosts of that
Speaker 1: show when they did your unveiling. They always shoot for
Speaker 1: the moon with their guesses, Bradley Cooper, and then they
Speaker 1: would take your mask off and they'd be like, who
Speaker 1: the fuck is this? How the fuck this guy gets?
Speaker 1: Get Fox A Security, Get this idiot out of here.
Speaker 1: Who put this guy in here? Shame on you? And
Speaker 1: but no, I'm the guy that did the dipsy, do
Speaker 1: the docy, do the whole thing. Come on. That show
Speaker 1: is for C list celebrities, not D list celebrities. Well
Speaker 1: you you're very kind to say you're a D list.
Speaker 1: I'm more of a z Z list generation. I was
Speaker 1: calling you a D list. No, No, I'm below d
Speaker 1: I'm I'm the Z. I'm the Z guy. I'm right
Speaker 1: there at the very bottom. But thank you, Greg, I
Speaker 1: would I would have a lot of fun. I'm not
Speaker 1: a great dancer unless nobody knows who I am. If
Speaker 1: I had a mask on and I was out there
Speaker 1: just kind of doing my thing, and I think I'd
Speaker 1: be a really good dancer if I thought no one
Speaker 1: would ever find out that it was me in the costume.
Speaker 1: Like we have to be like nineteen twenty style, like
Speaker 1: New Year's Z for you. Well, I could do the
Speaker 1: humpy you know, I could do the humpy dance. You know,
Speaker 1: come on, pimping, got your tims off. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: modern when we were ten years old. About the name,
Speaker 1: I could do the whip name, I can't do it.
Speaker 1: That's you could do. What about the salsa? You want
Speaker 1: to see me salsa dance? I could no? Thank you
Speaker 1: all passed the samba? No anyway. Next up is Andy
Speaker 1: from Hollywood in the Hood, in HollyHood, slap me around
Speaker 1: a little bit. No, this is my guy and he
Speaker 1: lives right near that Tommy's off the one on one.
Speaker 1: I used to sit there and eat my right, that's right.
Speaker 1: What's up Andy? My triple chili cheeseburgers and fries and
Speaker 1: watch all the crazy drug down people come down from
Speaker 1: the sunset trip and eat their burgers and fries and
Speaker 1: all that in chili. And he says, howdy, gentlemen, have
Speaker 1: not written in ages. Still diligently listen to the radio
Speaker 1: show and obediently download all the casts, enjoy them all. However,
Speaker 1: and he says, I am this is a quote. I'm incensed.
Speaker 1: How dare you Ben encourage Roberto to delete the go
Speaker 1: King Eddie drop. It is the connective tissue fusing the
Speaker 1: different eras of the show and makes me laugh out
Speaker 1: loud every time, no matter where I am, Go King
Speaker 1: Eddie Go. He says, I love the the Mallarin Danige lifehacks,
Speaker 1: like the chicken sauce dip from Costco. Well, that was
Speaker 1: actually from Walmart. The chicken was from Costco. Yeah, rip
Speaker 1: off Chick fil At sandwiches. Nobody emailed me to say
Speaker 1: they tried that, so I guess nobody did. But the
Speaker 1: sauce was from Walmart. The chicken sandwich was from Costco.
Speaker 1: So he says, any other inflation busting your life enhancing pointers,
Speaker 1: it might be a good fifth hour segment says, happy Spring.
Speaker 1: That's Andy, our friend in the hood in Hollywood. Danny
Speaker 1: got anything to save a couple of bucks. We usually
Speaker 1: mention these things when they come up, right. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean this is regional because I don't think Alpoyo Locos
Speaker 1: all over the country. But you could probably do this
Speaker 1: at a local chicken slash Mexican spot. Get there bean
Speaker 1: and cheese burrito. There's the BRC burrito at Elpoyo Loco,
Speaker 1: which is on the West Coast. And then I get
Speaker 1: a chicken breast on the side, I peel the chicken,
Speaker 1: put it in with their creamy cilantro sauce, and I
Speaker 1: make my own chicken burrito and it is two dollars
Speaker 1: cheaper than any chicken burrito on their menu. Oh that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good move. I like that. I have. I've
Speaker 1: heard some McDonald's hacks. I'll have to share. I'll have
Speaker 1: to share some of the things I don't have on
Speaker 1: top of my head. And yeah, I will definitely do
Speaker 1: more of that, Andy, because we are tight wahs and
Speaker 1: everyone's got to save a couple of bucks these days,
Speaker 1: with the way the economy is and everything's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I did hear a car hack, a rental car hack
Speaker 1: that if you rent a car, you say you're renting
Speaker 1: a car for a week, and they charge you, I
Speaker 1: don't know, four hundred dollars for the week or something
Speaker 1: like that, which is a probably a good deal these days.
Speaker 1: Just the date. I've heard that sometimes what you can
Speaker 1: do is you can adjust the date for a couple
Speaker 1: of days extra that you don't even need the car.
Speaker 1: It'll actually be cheaper. It'll be cheaper to rent the car.
Speaker 1: And then what you do is when you're done with
Speaker 1: the car, you turn the car in early and sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll even give you a bigger discount. How crazy is that?
Speaker 1: Like a reward almost? Yeah, Like you turned the car
Speaker 1: in early and they're grateful and so they'll give you
Speaker 1: a little extra money back. So that's that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: And I did get one of those travel cards where
Speaker 1: you get points because we'll be doing a lot of
Speaker 1: mini road trips and flights this year to different locations,
Speaker 1: and so we've got one of those credit cards they
Speaker 1: tell you to use I was reading up on it.
Speaker 1: They tell you to use one credit card, have a
Speaker 1: favorite airline, and only use that airline. That way, you
Speaker 1: actually get some decent points. Otherwise not so much. Not
Speaker 1: so much. Next up on the mailbag, Mike from Fullerton,
Speaker 1: no relation to furg Dog says, last week, you guys
Speaker 1: brought up Vinyl outselling CDs for the first time in
Speaker 1: thirty five years. I thought that was pretty neat. So
Speaker 1: I was wondering if either of you think VHS or
Speaker 1: Beta Max will make a similar comeback against DVDs and
Speaker 1: Blu rays. Ah. Did you hear what's going on with
Speaker 1: Blockbuster Video? No, what happened perfect timing for Ferg. I
Speaker 1: mean Mike's question here. Just a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: a story popped up about Blockbuster their website has come
Speaker 1: back to life suddenly, and they put a message on
Speaker 1: their website saying please be kind while we rewind. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's lots of speculation out there. Does this mean they're
Speaker 1: gonna start to open up more stores, because obviously they
Speaker 1: went bankrupt just over a decade ago and there's only
Speaker 1: one location left, which they did that documentary on in Bend, Oregon.
Speaker 1: So either this is just a ploy and they're gonna
Speaker 1: sell merchandise and stuff like that, or there's rumblings that
Speaker 1: the retro movement like with vinyl, could come back with
Speaker 1: video stores. I don't buy it. I'll tell you why,
Speaker 1: because the DVD is a better quality than the VHS tape.
Speaker 1: So why like the argument, I don't think they would
Speaker 1: do VHS tapes there. They would probably do Blu Ray
Speaker 1: I'm guessing. But even that is most people are just
Speaker 1: streaming these days, right, isn't that the that's what everyone's doing? True?
Speaker 1: But I would argue this, what's the last electronic device
Speaker 1: that most of us own where we did watch movies,
Speaker 1: and that's Blu Ray. Like I have a Blu Ray
Speaker 1: player still with my TV gear. I still can't get
Speaker 1: over the story that Blockbuster Video had a chance to
Speaker 1: eliminate Netflix and they didn't. They didn't take advantage of it. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know, talk about kicking yourself in the ass. For
Speaker 1: how many years now, every night those executives got to
Speaker 1: go to bed knowing they made one of the worst
Speaker 1: decisions ever. That was one of the coolest things though,
Speaker 1: when you'd go to Blockbuster Video and you'd find that
Speaker 1: new movie and there was one left and you'd grab it,
Speaker 1: you'd snatch it, and it's like, oh, that was the
Speaker 1: coolest thing yet, or you would get one of the
Speaker 1: employees to look through the return been oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah that too, Yeah, that was awesome, And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: and the candy packages right at the front when you
Speaker 1: were checking out solid good memories Blockbuster videos, like what
Speaker 1: are you doing this weekend? We're going to Blockbuster to
Speaker 1: find something to watch Blockbuster and chill. Then you'd get
Speaker 1: there and they'd have no good fucking movies, so you'd
Speaker 1: end up watching some old movie. But you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all you had, And there was that distinct smell
Speaker 1: inside every Blockbuster. Mike also says, have either of you
Speaker 1: ever been drunk or high on the air before? I
Speaker 1: think you can tell the truth on the fifth hour
Speaker 1: without getting in trouble. So I've only been drunk on
Speaker 1: the air one time, and I've told the story randomly
Speaker 1: in the past. I haven't told a long time. This
Speaker 1: is back in the late nineties. I was doing a
Speaker 1: nighttime show in LA It was a new sports station
Speaker 1: and we got preempted for Olympic women's hockey, which was
Speaker 1: like a trial sport. It wasn't even like a real thing.
Speaker 1: But the boss is like, oh, we're going to carry
Speaker 1: the network feed and we wanted to do the show.
Speaker 1: We were like, we know, who the hell in LA
Speaker 1: wants to hear a women's hockey game on the radio.
Speaker 1: And we were like, we want to do the show.
Speaker 1: And he's like, NA, no, no, he's we're gonna carry this.
Speaker 1: But the feed the Olympics were overseas. I don't remember
Speaker 1: what country they were in, you can look it up.
Speaker 1: But the guys, the boss at the time, this guy
Speaker 1: Bow is like, all right, listen. He said, just kind
Speaker 1: of you gotta be the station. You guys can go
Speaker 1: out and have a nice meal. I'm probably not gonna
Speaker 1: need you, but just be in the area in case
Speaker 1: we need need to fill some time after the Olympic
Speaker 1: coverage gets done. So we were like all right. And
Speaker 1: this was in Burbank. We went to Dults, which is
Speaker 1: a legendary. It's not there. It's been gone for many
Speaker 1: many years, probably been gone for twenty years. But this
Speaker 1: place was amazing. It was sandwiched right near Warner Brothers
Speaker 1: studios that was on one side. On the other side
Speaker 1: he had all the radio stations, all the big radio
Speaker 1: stations in LA had studios and so it was all
Speaker 1: radio people, TV people. This was back in the nineties.
Speaker 1: I used to hang out there all the time. It
Speaker 1: was like our local, our local spot. That's where I
Speaker 1: first met Pat O'Brien. Pob Wow. We had a giant.
Speaker 1: He was doing that entertainment show and he had a giant.
Speaker 1: And this location wasn't that far from your favorite karaoke spot, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: it was right down the street from Dimple's. Yeah, right
Speaker 1: down the street. So this was back when Drew Carey
Speaker 1: was big and sein fell like that area that era
Speaker 1: of television, and a lot of the actors from those
Speaker 1: shows and the people on the crew after they were
Speaker 1: done taping, they would come hang out and have chicken fingers. Anyway,
Speaker 1: long story short, So the boss is like, you just
Speaker 1: hang out in the area. Well, the restaurant was in
Speaker 1: the next building over these two skyscrapers. It was the
Speaker 1: next building over. I say skyscrapers is Burbank, So they
Speaker 1: were probably like fourteen stories whatever. But we went over
Speaker 1: to the next building. We were eating and drinking and
Speaker 1: and whatever, and then we were about to, you know,
Speaker 1: go on our merry way and the boss called. It
Speaker 1: wasn't even a text. This is back in the days.
Speaker 1: We you call said, hey, I need you to get
Speaker 1: back on. You gotta get back to the radio station.
Speaker 1: I probably need you for about half an hour. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: So now we walked back across the street, you know,
Speaker 1: and feeling feeling no pain. We get back across the street,
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget the late Mark Smith, my engineer.
Speaker 1: May he rest in peace. Mark. Mark was this interesting
Speaker 1: character who, Yeah, he came from maybe the wrong part
Speaker 1: of town, but for him, it was the great part
Speaker 1: of town. And if we screwed something up, Mark was
Speaker 1: the kind of engineer that would come in and he
Speaker 1: had these massive fists. He was from Englewood, and he
Speaker 1: would punch. He would literally punch us if we screwed up.
Speaker 1: And it was the The Ben and Dave Show with
Speaker 1: this guy Dave Smith. And I don't even remember what
Speaker 1: was going on. All I know is that Mark kept
Speaker 1: coming in and punching me in the arm and the
Speaker 1: side of the head. I just kept finishing sentences with
Speaker 1: curse words. Oh yeah, like I just I didn't realize
Speaker 1: I was so I was so inebriated. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. So that's the only time that happened.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny? Any stories going back I told
Speaker 1: the story last week about being drunk on Saint Patty's
Speaker 1: Day on the air, where I said Happy Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: At the end, I've only been high on the air
Speaker 1: one time on an FM station. Our general manager used
Speaker 1: to tell all of us in staff meetings, He's like, look,
Speaker 1: I'm not naive. I know you guys all smoke weed.
Speaker 1: You do hip hop for a living. I get it,
Speaker 1: But do not smoke right before you go on the microphone.
Speaker 1: Smoke away from work, at the club, whatever, outside the club,
Speaker 1: don't smoke outside the studio. Do not be high on
Speaker 1: the air. You're not going to get good results. Smoke weed.
Speaker 1: I didn't smoke a lot back then, but yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: a couple of times a week. And I smoked at
Speaker 1: one time because I was in pain a bad back
Speaker 1: or something at the time, all right, from lifting all
Speaker 1: those hoes at the club, and I smoked and went
Speaker 1: on the air. I was having like blank spots where
Speaker 1: I couldn't put together my next sentence. And remember bringing
Speaker 1: the traffic girl in and she said, are you okay,
Speaker 1: went into the restroom, splashed some cold water on my face.
Speaker 1: Don't don't shit where you eat, right, And the same
Speaker 1: thing obviously working with school and with kids, and we
Speaker 1: would get tested. And so at that point I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to smoke at all anymore because obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're gonna be tested and or you're
Speaker 1: gonna be around kids, that's not a place to smoke either.
Speaker 1: So basically, jobs took all the fun out of smoking
Speaker 1: back in the day. Having a grow up, it's yeah boo,
Speaker 1: Pierre writes in on the mail bag Pierre from the
Speaker 1: Short Attention Span Theater. He says, guys, how devastated will
Speaker 1: you be when they banned TikTok in the United States? So, Pierre,
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten, I on devastation
Speaker 1: the Mallard scale of devastation for TikTok possibly being banned,
Speaker 1: I am at a solid minus one. I don't use TikTok.
Speaker 1: It has no impact. I mean, I'm not on there.
Speaker 1: The only time I see TikTok videos are when Pierre
Speaker 1: sends them to me or some other listeners. Seriously, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not in that world. Are you on TikTok? Danny?
Speaker 1: You're not on there? No, But I do get links
Speaker 1: from TikTok sent to me by Coveno all the time
Speaker 1: from Covino and Rich. So once in a while there'll
Speaker 1: be some sort of sports video or TMZ type video
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, we need the audio from this.
Speaker 1: That is the only time I use TikTok. Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not in that world of TikTok. But I know
Speaker 1: Pierre Man. He's on there. He's going for it. He's
Speaker 1: on there all the time. He loves the TikTok and
Speaker 1: everything that they have to offer. He's doing the hokey
Speaker 1: pokey and the whole thing. Next up Fred from Spring
Speaker 1: Texas Everyboddy Fred Wrights and he says, Hi, there, you
Speaker 1: said last week that you had the rights to Benny
Speaker 1: versus the penny. Do you have the rights for in
Speaker 1: the air everywhere? Fred? No, No, I do not. I
Speaker 1: like the phrase. I've used it a lot. I don't
Speaker 1: think I owned the rights to that. I don't know
Speaker 1: that you can't own the rights of that. So the
Speaker 1: answer is a big n oh. Hey, say, just keep
Speaker 1: up the good work. Barry from Nashville Rights and says,
Speaker 1: yo yo mo Benny. He says, you have been doing
Speaker 1: the sports overnight for a long time. Would you ever
Speaker 1: consider jumping from sports to a non sport old program.
Speaker 1: For instance, if the hosting of the Coast to Coast
Speaker 1: program became available, would you do that. I would love
Speaker 1: to sit in on Coast to Coast one night. I
Speaker 1: think that would be a lot of fun if they
Speaker 1: ever needed someone to pinch it on Coast to Coast,
Speaker 1: like on the weekends or something like that. If I know,
Speaker 1: George does it during the week and then they've got
Speaker 1: George Knapp and some other cats that fill it on
Speaker 1: the weekends. But I would I think that would be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. What did you make of that
Speaker 1: story last week where people report did those comment looking
Speaker 1: things that were trailing each other in the sky? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think if I was on Coast to Coast I
Speaker 1: could have done four hours on that. I could have like,
Speaker 1: I totally could have knocked that out of the park.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it wouldn't be fun to sit there with
Speaker 1: some I feel like I do that anyway. I talk
Speaker 1: to people that believe in a lot of that stuff,
Speaker 1: and they just happened to be sports fans, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, I was gonna say you could
Speaker 1: have half of your regular callers still call in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked at half our regular callers when
Speaker 1: they get done calling our show, they call the coast
Speaker 1: to coast. When they get done, they move over there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me at all if that was what was
Speaker 1: going on. Next up, Thank you Barry, though my man
Speaker 1: Barry in the Music City. Ozzy was from Western Australia,
Speaker 1: right since, says dear Ben big Ben and Daddy G.
Speaker 1: I stuffed up and I think, well, he says, stuffed up,
Speaker 1: And in the United States we say screwed up. In
Speaker 1: Australia he says stuffed up. I says, I stuffed up,
Speaker 1: And I didn't actually send my question last week. Bad
Speaker 1: job by me. I did not hit the send button.
Speaker 1: But here we go. You have started daylight savings time
Speaker 1: over there, while good for me, I get one extra
Speaker 1: hour of the Mallar Show and now only one of
Speaker 1: Colvino and Richest Show due to work hours. So here
Speaker 1: we go. Besides farmer not liking it, he says, or
Speaker 1: so I think he means my farmers not liking it,
Speaker 1: What is the funniest excuse for not having it? For example,
Speaker 1: he says. Over here in Australia, Ozzia says I heard
Speaker 1: with the extra hour of sunlight, my curtains will fade
Speaker 1: or I will lose an hour of my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't know what you've heard, Danny. I've heard
Speaker 1: that everyone's pretty much in agreement there is no need
Speaker 1: for daylight savings time. We should just pick a time
Speaker 1: and just go with it. But the reason they haven't
Speaker 1: changed it is because a lot of the technology is
Speaker 1: not designed for just one time, so it would be
Speaker 1: a lot of work to fix the infrastructure, and it
Speaker 1: would take several years to get her done. Allegedly, So
Speaker 1: are you saying this is like the two K Millennium
Speaker 1: two thousand was about to roll around, everybody freaked out.
Speaker 1: The computers around the world are gonna crash. Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: Don't be in an elevator, don't be anywhere near anything computerizer,
Speaker 1: You're gonna die. And then it happened, and nothing happened.
Speaker 1: The late great Art Bell, the greatest overnight host of
Speaker 1: all time, Art Bell on his Coast to Coast show.
Speaker 1: In the lead up he did three years hand to God,
Speaker 1: three years of show about how the world was going
Speaker 1: to end, and it was all it was. We're all
Speaker 1: doomed and it was because of that, and then it happened,
Speaker 1: nothing bad happened, and then he just he just continued
Speaker 1: to hunt it. He had, he had the show to do,
Speaker 1: and that was that. So there you go, just pretend
Speaker 1: like it never happened exactly, Kyrie and okase Wrights and
Speaker 1: he says, how is it going, gentlemen? I love the Bennies.
Speaker 1: He says, that we did the Bennies, says a couple
Speaker 1: of Bennies shows. He says. It points out that you
Speaker 1: guys care about your audience and it's a very unique
Speaker 1: feature to give back to the fans and says, say thanks.
Speaker 1: Kyrie says the mother Militia. I really appreciate it. Another
Speaker 1: reason among countless others why you are the goat in
Speaker 1: my eyes. Well, very kind, Kyrie. Anyway, would there be
Speaker 1: ever be a fifth Hour Award show? Just wondering because
Speaker 1: I cannot contribute to the main radio show like others can.
Speaker 1: The dreaded day shift worker, he says, well, anyway, keep
Speaker 1: up the great work as always much loved Kyrie. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna do a Benny's version because
Speaker 1: I don't like to steal material. Danny, as you know
Speaker 1: from other other shows and other of course in the business.
Speaker 1: So we won't do that. But I could add a
Speaker 1: benny for the top fifth Hour contributor. Oh, that would
Speaker 1: be cool. Actually, Yeah, like the person that contributed the
Speaker 1: most content to the show, add a category for them,
Speaker 1: and I think that would be That would be pretty neat.
Speaker 1: Nick in Wisconsin, Right, since says Ben and Danny, g
Speaker 1: you cannot use one of these for the rest of
Speaker 1: your life. Would you rather not use toothpaste or not
Speaker 1: use the odorant? He says, have a great Sunday. So
Speaker 1: from Nick, I don't like that choice, or either of
Speaker 1: those choices, because we've all been around that one person
Speaker 1: who's allergic to deodorant for some reason, and that is
Speaker 1: not a good space to be in. But then again,
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Ben, but if I don't
Speaker 1: taste toothpaste in my mouth, I can't even sleep comfortably. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think your breath will not be right. And that's well,
Speaker 1: we're both married, Danny. I don't know that we need
Speaker 1: the odor I think the toothpaste is probably more more important.
Speaker 1: How about this, Keep the deodorant and then just use
Speaker 1: baking soda. Oh, yeah, you could do that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could just use baking soda on your toothbrush. Sure,
Speaker 1: for sure. Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, right she and she says, hello,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny. Gee, I think the Safari Kingdom segment
Speaker 1: is a great addition. Maybe you can even include stories
Speaker 1: of animal rescue groups. And she said, she sent me
Speaker 1: a link here. I will consider it, Jennifer. As you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: we are in the content business, so anywhere we can
Speaker 1: get content for it. You know, we can even have
Speaker 1: Clay Travis as a guest. Well, I have Clay's willing
Speaker 1: to do it. Drum um, drum. Now. I gotta tell you, Danny,
Speaker 1: back back in the day, I used to listen. I
Speaker 1: was a little boy and I used to I used
Speaker 1: to listen to this show called The Animal Thunderdome and
Speaker 1: it was a great show and I loved it a lot.
Speaker 1: And you know, so they had a lot of weird
Speaker 1: animal stories. Anyway, Jennifer says, My question for you guys,
Speaker 1: when you have a light bulbs start flickering in a
Speaker 1: room and you know it doesn't have much longer to live,
Speaker 1: do you change it right away or leave it until
Speaker 1: the bulbs in the other in the other rooms flicker
Speaker 1: and then change them all at once. Yeah. So, Jennifer,
Speaker 1: here's the way I'll ask that. First of all, it
Speaker 1: is annoying. We all have had that happen when the
Speaker 1: light starts flickering. So my move is to look under
Speaker 1: the kitchen sink where the light bulbs are stored, or
Speaker 1: in the garage and see if we have lightbulbs. If
Speaker 1: we have a light bulb, I will then immediately change
Speaker 1: the light bulb. If we don't have any light bulb,
Speaker 1: I'm not going down to lows or home depot. I
Speaker 1: will wait for all the lights to go out before
Speaker 1: I will then buy light bulbs. So that's my move.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny, I will one up you there
Speaker 1: with what's more annoying, Jennifer, how about when the smoke
Speaker 1: alarm needs new batteries. Oh I hate that, don't you
Speaker 1: hate that stupid chirping sound it makes, And a lot
Speaker 1: of times it is in a spot that is hard
Speaker 1: to reach, like you need a ladder, and so people
Speaker 1: will leave that sound there for a long time. It
Speaker 1: drove me up a wall in my Burbank townhouse that
Speaker 1: I had back in the day Finally it got to
Speaker 1: the point where I went to poem Depot, bought a ladder,
Speaker 1: went up, changed it, and then the next day I
Speaker 1: went and returned the ladder because I need a ladder.
Speaker 1: I have a wonderful story that just popped in my head,
Speaker 1: and I think Jennifer will appreciate this happened. I was
Speaker 1: doing a bonus show for w EI in Boston, so
Speaker 1: you'll appreciate this, dandy. So I'm at the old Mallard Mansion,
Speaker 1: which you were at a few times. I'm doing the
Speaker 1: show and the goddamn smoke detector starts going off while
Speaker 1: I'm on the air. In the background, you hear the
Speaker 1: noise while I'm doing the show. So I then go
Speaker 1: over to the smoke detector and I like try to
Speaker 1: take the battery out. I can't get the thing off
Speaker 1: the wall. So there's only a few minutes of commercials,
Speaker 1: so I got to go back on the air and
Speaker 1: again the background it was from your hot sports takes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was burning up the thing. So the next commercial
Speaker 1: break that we had, I went back and I turned
Speaker 1: into the incredible Hulk and just ripped the thing off
Speaker 1: the ceiling. We just ripped it down, and because it
Speaker 1: was one of these smoke detectors that it had like
Speaker 1: a battery that was inside, but it would not he
Speaker 1: would not. You couldn't take it out. Once the thing died.
Speaker 1: You just had to replace the whole thing, the whole unit.
Speaker 1: So that some of them get stuck to walls because
Speaker 1: of paint, and other ones, like you said, have the
Speaker 1: internal battery and they're impossible to turn off. A lot
Speaker 1: of people finally take wire cutters and just cut them
Speaker 1: out of the wall. Oh yeah, that's terrible. What a
Speaker 1: pain in the ass, What an absolute pain in the ass.
Speaker 1: Amish J wrote and he says originally from Cincinnati but
Speaker 1: currently reside in c Bus. What are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: twin Peaks? He says, it's similar to Hooters and Tilted
Speaker 1: Kilt and your favorite were walking favorite walking hiking trails
Speaker 1: in the Greater metro parks of Phoenix. He says, I
Speaker 1: just did a hike in the South Mountains recently and
Speaker 1: attended two spring training games along with some NHL action
Speaker 1: in Anaheim and Vegas. To see my sorry ass blue jackets,
Speaker 1: he says, So yeah, I've not done any hiking in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: I know in Tucson, not Tucson Tempe. There's some pretty
Speaker 1: cool trails right around the Angels. I used to go
Speaker 1: to Angels spring training. There was some cool cool things
Speaker 1: there that I recall. But other than that, no, I
Speaker 1: haven't done a lot of hiking in because I usually
Speaker 1: go to Arizona other than this year. I usually went
Speaker 1: in the summer and it's one hundred and twenty degrees.
Speaker 1: You're not hiking in one hundred and twenty degrees. That's
Speaker 1: not happening. So forget about that. Any comment on Twin
Speaker 1: Peaks there you want chime in on that. Well, when
Speaker 1: he said Twin Peaks, I thought about the Grand Tetons,
Speaker 1: I did too, That's what I thought. He was. Wyoming
Speaker 1: not only a beautiful mountain range, probably one of the
Speaker 1: the most beautiful mountain ranges in all of the world,
Speaker 1: but there is a great hiking trail at the base
Speaker 1: of the Grand Tetons. It's Jenny Lake. So if you
Speaker 1: ever get to go to Wyoming, if you ever get
Speaker 1: to go through there to visit Yellowstone, make sure you
Speaker 1: add that to your bucket list, and that Jenny Lake.
Speaker 1: For a couple of hours, you walk around the base
Speaker 1: of that lake, and it is just amazing because the
Speaker 1: lake is beautiful. Then when you look up, you're looking
Speaker 1: at the Grand Tetons. There you go. We had a guide.
Speaker 1: Do you remember Steve Stillwell you were you were around
Speaker 1: when he was at Fox Sports Radio. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still A left Fox Sports Radio to take a radio
Speaker 1: job in Shyenne, Wyoming. Oh, beautiful area. Yeah, he went
Speaker 1: there and still Well I love the guy. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: a typical radio dude. He went there, and then once
Speaker 1: he realized how much money the job paid, he didn't
Speaker 1: stay very long. He quickly got out of there, and
Speaker 1: they had him doing like five different radio stations for
Speaker 1: That's the thing is that you want to talk about
Speaker 1: mob pop operations that Montana, Well, you would be the
Speaker 1: program director, the general manager, the morning Am drive guy,
Speaker 1: you do afternoon drive, and then you do play by
Speaker 1: play for high school sports and get paid less than
Speaker 1: somebody working at Burger King. Yeah, the glamorous life of radio.
Speaker 1: We had two more quick ones. Joe writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: you have encouraged us to download your podcast. Is there
Speaker 1: a difference in whether we download a podcast versus just
Speaker 1: streaming it on demand? That's a good question. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a is there a difference on that If
Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast, it'll download to your device
Speaker 1: no matter matter what, even if you takes you a
Speaker 1: while to get to it. Yeah. Obviously, if you're just
Speaker 1: streaming on demand, then that's whatever you have time to
Speaker 1: listen to in real time. So yeah, it's probably better
Speaker 1: to subscribe that way. The whole library is they're waiting
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, and it listening live on the iHeart app,
Speaker 1: for example. That's a wonderful thing because there are how
Speaker 1: many thousands of iHeart radio stations and music stations on
Speaker 1: that app. It's insane. It's biggest media, biggest audio company
Speaker 1: out there. But Fox Sports Radio is always in the
Speaker 1: top five. I say always. It's been that way for years.
Speaker 1: That Fox Sports Radio is one of the five most
Speaker 1: listened to audio streams on the iHeart app, which is yeah,
Speaker 1: well it is incredible. A Big Lou writes in from
Speaker 1: the LBC at last one. He says, well, Big Lou,
Speaker 1: my man, Big Lue. This guy's is super fan. I
Speaker 1: hope Big Lu can make soda. What can Big Lou
Speaker 1: do for you? But A Fat sALS contributor to the show, yeah,
Speaker 1: hockey guy. He's actually watched Eddie play hockey. He says, well,
Speaker 1: you ever interview any mallor Militia members on the podcast?
Speaker 1: Or must we wait until another pandemic? Well, big lou,
Speaker 1: We're not that far away from another pandemic, trust me. No, No,
Speaker 1: I've talked to you, Danny. We've thought about maybe having
Speaker 1: a theme like a month where we pick some celebrities
Speaker 1: in the mallor Militia and have them on and learn
Speaker 1: what makes them tick and all that. I had Cowboy
Speaker 1: on this podcast, I've had over there during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: We put Doc Mike on. We can full of lists
Speaker 1: and maybe you could put some Benny winners on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we could do that, But how do you whittle it down?
Speaker 1: That's always the problem. There's so many people we have
Speaker 1: to choose from, Like, how do you whittle it down?
Speaker 1: And are they gonna be good? You know? I could
Speaker 1: do an interview with Dick and Dayton. Yeah, but what
Speaker 1: if that is right now you don't have a prize
Speaker 1: for the Bennis. What if that is a prize for
Speaker 1: winning a Benny. You win a Benny and you get
Speaker 1: an invite to be on the Fifth Hour podcast. That's great.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a wonderful idea. That's a carrot on
Speaker 1: the stick. I like that. I'm gonna have to I
Speaker 1: would not steal that, Danny, because as you know, I
Speaker 1: do not steal ideas. That's perfect because then the competition
Speaker 1: will get even more heated, because I want an hour
Speaker 1: to myself being interviewed by the great Ben Mallard. Oh
Speaker 1: that would be that is yeah, they would love that.
Speaker 1: The guys that I get emails all the time, I
Speaker 1: want to be on the fifth hour, this, that and
Speaker 1: the other thing. That's a great idea. On that note, Danny,
Speaker 1: a fitting end to the Sunday Mailbag podcast, the Last
Speaker 1: Sunday without Baseball, real baseball and anything you want to sell,
Speaker 1: anything you want to promote, you want to give out,
Speaker 1: your cameo, your TikTok, any of that. No, just a
Speaker 1: big thank you to everybody that participates in the podcast
Speaker 1: and your live shows. You're gonna be back on tonight,
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon Covino and Rich from two to four pm
Speaker 1: on the West coast. That is, I don't know what
Speaker 1: time is that five to seven in New York? Yeah,
Speaker 1: five to seven. You get that going on and what
Speaker 1: time is it in Tokyo? Do you know what time
Speaker 1: it is in Tokyo? That would be eleven pm. Just
Speaker 1: go with it. Yeah, I made that up. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: listened to sports radio and Tokyo the way they watched
Speaker 1: that World Baseball Classic. Oh dude, they there was like
Speaker 1: fifty million people watching the WBC in Japan. There were
Speaker 1: more people watching that than have ever watched the World
Speaker 1: Series game. That's crazy. Yeah, they love their baseball more
Speaker 1: than us. I like baseball, but I I geez. Anyway,
Speaker 1: don't worry Mike Trout. He'll he'll strike out next time too.
Speaker 1: He'll let you down. He'll break your heart. Trout. He
Speaker 1: has a lifetime reservation at the Heartbreak Hotel. We'll get
Speaker 1: out of here. Thank you, Danny. I'll be on tonight
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock in the West and that is two am
Speaker 1: in the East on all the big Fox sports radio stations,
Speaker 1: and we'll catch you next time. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for downloading. Later. Skater gott a murder, Gotta go.