Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere,
Speaker 1: even on a Sunday, Sunday Sunday, from a special secret
Speaker 1: podcast studio somewhere buried in the north Woods. We are
Speaker 1: in the air everywhere, and we thank you for subscribing
Speaker 1: to the podcast. It is the Fifth Hour, as you know,
Speaker 1: with Ben mallow That would be me and Danny g.
Speaker 1: We are again on a Sunday, various, very excited. It
Speaker 1: was excited for us to be here because listen, the
Speaker 1: Overnight show. Five days a week, four hours at night
Speaker 1: not enough. We do this eight days a week. This
Speaker 1: could be the eighth day, Daddy, This is the eighth
Speaker 1: day of the week here on a football Sunday. If
Speaker 1: there were nine days in a week, we'd both be
Speaker 1: working that too. Well. You can ram it all day
Speaker 1: and ram it all night Daddy. That very important day here,
Speaker 1: rams it rams it, rams it, rams it all. They
Speaker 1: got that Kansas City Buffalo game today as well, So
Speaker 1: it's a big night. Now before we get into it, Danny,
Speaker 1: we mentioned at the end of yesterday's podcast that it
Speaker 1: is very important do the review. Yeah, and then we'll
Speaker 1: all say congratulations. Yeah. Well, so we'll tell you that
Speaker 1: if you if you do that. And and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that we have never met, Danny, that
Speaker 1: have a lot of power at the company, and they
Speaker 1: they just look at that off they they love the reviews,
Speaker 1: right that that it gets very I think the word
Speaker 1: is political bull Yes, that's what it is. And so
Speaker 1: you know, you just have to kind of play the
Speaker 1: game anyway. So it's it's Mailback Sunday. That's that's what
Speaker 1: this is, Danny Mail Back Sunday. Very exciting. And these
Speaker 1: are listener questions from people who are just random, you know,
Speaker 1: fans of the show that happen to stumble onto the
Speaker 1: podcast and have submitted Hey question, Now, this was the
Speaker 1: podcast that almost did not happen. Uh, Danny, not not
Speaker 1: to be overly dramatic here, uh oh hell, because I
Speaker 1: would be wrong. Yeah. Well, well, so I posted on
Speaker 1: back on Tuesday, I posted a link for questions, and
Speaker 1: I gave out the email life and usually we have
Speaker 1: a solid core group that send questions. And I went
Speaker 1: back to look to see the questions because I was
Speaker 1: gonna start compiling them, and I became bug eyed and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, yeah, I mean that's it.
Speaker 1: Uh Like, I think they're like two people that had posted,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what did I do wrong? Well,
Speaker 1: how did that happen? And it makes no sense. So
Speaker 1: then I opened up the email and there were a
Speaker 1: few people that had sent questions in on the email,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't the volume that we're used to. You
Speaker 1: were suddenly the Amy Lawrence Show. That's a good line
Speaker 1: and uh. So I looked at that and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, that's uh this is a sob story here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was brutal, and so I I had a hissy
Speaker 1: fit and I posted on the Facebook page that if
Speaker 1: you know, we don't get any more question I guess
Speaker 1: we don't have to do the podcast. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not lying. We weren't gonna do the podcast. It
Speaker 1: was gonna be a two podcast weekend. But then the
Speaker 1: man that saved this podcast and kept the podcast machine
Speaker 1: going was none other than Pierre in Springfield, better known
Speaker 1: as Alf the Alien Opiner. He then went over to
Speaker 1: Twitter and called on the malle and militia over on
Speaker 1: Twitter and so a bunch of things. We're gonna could
Speaker 1: blame you for working today, Alf, Yes it is. It
Speaker 1: is Alf slash Pierre the Grade opineer. It is his
Speaker 1: fault that we are here. So without further ado, you
Speaker 1: know the drill here, Danny. We'll just read the questions
Speaker 1: and we'll answer them and we're on our way. Here
Speaker 1: we go. Well, you know that's not how we start.
Speaker 1: Hold on a sec, but who Google, I've got to know.
Speaker 1: You know, we have the official mailback song from our
Speaker 1: buddy in Ohio, Ohio. Wow, So this is how we
Speaker 1: properly begin the mailbag. All right, thank you Ohio. Al
Speaker 1: And with that, see now we're allowed. That would have
Speaker 1: been a false start if we did not played the song.
Speaker 1: Now it feels like a Sunday alright. So Pierre in Springfield,
Speaker 1: that Springfield mass home of the Pro Basketball Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame where you can see Muffett McGraw and a bunch
Speaker 1: of Russian coaches that you've never heard of. So, Pierre says, Ben,
Speaker 1: you referenced your flight plan uh for two last week,
Speaker 1: and I was wondering if you give us a Master's
Speaker 1: update regarding the listener that offered you and the elitist
Speaker 1: uh some credentials for the Masters. Yeah. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know about that, Danny, but we had a
Speaker 1: listener that lives right near Augusta, Georgia, and he said
Speaker 1: he's got a hook up, that he's a made man.
Speaker 1: This guy, he knows people at the tournament or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, and he's got a place for us to stay.
Speaker 1: And I was doing the show with Gascon and he
Speaker 1: invited us down to to be part of the Masters. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think it's in April. Uh. Pierre says furthermore,
Speaker 1: now that the aforementioned elitist has been jettison from the podcast,
Speaker 1: I think he's talking about West of the four or five,
Speaker 1: will said invitation be extended to Danny g Radio. Uh.
Speaker 1: Great question, Pierre. I do not know the answer to
Speaker 1: either one of those questions. And I'm not sure whether
Speaker 1: that was kind of a friendly just hey, I like you,
Speaker 1: here's a fake offer, or if that was a real offer.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I don't know whether that was just
Speaker 1: kind of for the email and he's not really doing it.
Speaker 1: I remember one time, were you on the show, Danny
Speaker 1: when we got invited to Cotchella. So there was a
Speaker 1: listener that said he was kind of like a made man?
Speaker 1: Or were there? Now? Conchella is a big concert in
Speaker 1: Palm Desert, huge festival. Yeah, it's a huge thing. People
Speaker 1: go and do a lot of drugs and listen music
Speaker 1: and stuff. So anyway, so this guy's like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: got a hook up, and you know, tickets are pretty expensive.
Speaker 1: It's like a three day thing and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I've never been. Um, I'm not a huge music guy.
Speaker 1: I like music, but i'm not I don't get a
Speaker 1: lot of consciences why my wife would have loved to
Speaker 1: have gone that. So I was like, yeah, I'll go
Speaker 1: out there. And the guy was a big fan of
Speaker 1: the show and he said I can hook you up.
Speaker 1: And everyone that was on the show, I guess you
Speaker 1: were not part of it then. And and so anyway
Speaker 1: we're like, yeah, this does ring a bell because Cooper
Speaker 1: was all excited, right, yeah, yeah, Cooper was the most excited.
Speaker 1: I didn't partake. I wasn't gonna be one of the
Speaker 1: ones getting the freebees, but I do remember this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I I was like, yeah, and he asked for
Speaker 1: some of our personal information. We're like, okay, we're reluctantly
Speaker 1: we're gonna give a stranger some of our personal information.
Speaker 1: And we did and and then the guy like vanished
Speaker 1: and we never ever right, Yeah, yeah, because I remember
Speaker 1: Coop with a real sad look on his face telling
Speaker 1: me about which day he was gonna choose, and now
Speaker 1: there was no way he was going to be able
Speaker 1: to afford those festival concert tickets. Yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 1: And the guy like he he called up and he did.
Speaker 1: He didn't totally disappear, but he gave us some story
Speaker 1: about how you know, something had changed and he he
Speaker 1: no longer had to hook up. And but I mean
Speaker 1: he had made a big we made a big deal
Speaker 1: about on the show, and it was like all to do.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what is up with that? You know,
Speaker 1: something about a policy change to where he couldn't get
Speaker 1: the passes he thought I didn't get for friends and
Speaker 1: family and so on and so forth. That happens a
Speaker 1: lot in our business because people will talk about their
Speaker 1: hookups before they actually have the hard tickets or passes
Speaker 1: in their hands. Yeah, for future reference. And people are
Speaker 1: very kind and Ian We've been pretty lucky people you
Speaker 1: know on my The Overnight Show and you you were
Speaker 1: part of the show, and people send us nice things, food, whatever,
Speaker 1: gives very kind, but it is polite to not actually
Speaker 1: offer something unless you actually have said, am I being
Speaker 1: a dick? I don't think I am. I think you're
Speaker 1: just better off if you actually have the item. And like,
Speaker 1: you know, the guys that call up and say, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go smoke a bowl coop and then smoke.
Speaker 1: He gets excited, but then they don't have it and
Speaker 1: you're like, well, what what's up with that? You know,
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Anyway, all right, moving on here, all right,
Speaker 1: come back, attention, it's time from now call all right
Speaker 1: Brandon from how is Next? He says, good to hear
Speaker 1: you again on the airwaves. My question is regarding your
Speaker 1: intro themes every hour. He's talking about the open at
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. I assume here every hour
Speaker 1: your intro is different, and I always look forward to
Speaker 1: hearing them when I try to wake up and listen Curiously,
Speaker 1: Brandon says, I've wondered why every other talk show on
Speaker 1: fs ARE seems to have the same intro for all
Speaker 1: the hours. How did you manage to get all four
Speaker 1: different intros? My favorite one is with Rachel from Manto
Speaker 1: Bello in the later hours saying something like You're the
Speaker 1: greatest ever, and then you saying ever, I love the show,
Speaker 1: hope to take the oath one day. Well, Brandon, you're
Speaker 1: more than welcome. We haven't given out the oath in
Speaker 1: a while, and that that that oath is from Skeeter
Speaker 1: and Montana. But if you're welcome to do it, Brandon,
Speaker 1: call us up. We only do it once a night,
Speaker 1: so you gotta get in before somebody else does. But
Speaker 1: we'd love to do it. As far as the imaging, Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't know what goes on on the other shows.
Speaker 1: I know on our show we just kind of picked
Speaker 1: stuff up. We've been there a long time, and so
Speaker 1: that's one of the things. I mean, we just randomly
Speaker 1: get a new open now and again, and we've been
Speaker 1: there so long we have a bunch of different I
Speaker 1: think that's the answer. Am I wrong? Well? From last
Speaker 1: week's podcast, clearly you are best friends with the imaging department.
Speaker 1: I was the guy like, so I don't know about
Speaker 1: that with Chris and you getting that phone number. If
Speaker 1: you don't know what I'm talking about, download last Weekend's
Speaker 1: fifth our podcasts. But yeah, you do have your own
Speaker 1: unique touch on the opens and the different production for
Speaker 1: your show. And a lot of that has to do
Speaker 1: with so many great callers as part of the mallor
Speaker 1: militia that there are a lot of drops and with
Speaker 1: those drops comes a lot of great production. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean the people that do the production to a great job,
Speaker 1: and they're like magicians who dan They're just like Yeah.
Speaker 1: For instance, the other night when I was filling in
Speaker 1: for Coop, I passed you on Mallard to the third
Speaker 1: degree because you gave me two minutes to read the
Speaker 1: three questions and at the end I said, I did
Speaker 1: not think you could do that in two minutes or
Speaker 1: something to that effect, and I said, I was the
Speaker 1: two minute man. I think two minute man every night. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so boom mark that that's a draw you No,
Speaker 1: you did not put that in. You did not put
Speaker 1: that in that And to great Ben Mallard, that's a drop.
Speaker 1: That's a drop. All right. You know here I I
Speaker 1: say something in a very comical I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: get a mild laugh. And then this bullshit sticks around
Speaker 1: for years and it's like that that thing you and
Speaker 1: the gay Porton man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you
Speaker 1: pay me five hundred thousand dollars. All the doors say whatever.
Speaker 1: And and the funny about that, that's like editing. I
Speaker 1: Jake threw that together. You can hear the editing that,
Speaker 1: but they still play it. It is wrong, it is
Speaker 1: And I tell him, I said, listen the funk up. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: the fuck up. They don't listen to me. Danny did
Speaker 1: not for whatever reason, you guys don't. I don't understand
Speaker 1: what it is. I don't get it. All right, what
Speaker 1: is next? I got mayl yea. I got mayl yea,
Speaker 1: all right, Travis in Rosberg, Oregon rights and he says,
Speaker 1: are you training for the opening pitch for the pickles?
Speaker 1: He says, also, what's the mailing address for the show?
Speaker 1: I'd like to add to the growing hat collection. Well,
Speaker 1: that would be very kind, Travis. But yeah, Danny, do
Speaker 1: you know the there's a minor league baseball teams, like
Speaker 1: an independent minor League baseball team in Portland, Oregon, and
Speaker 1: they I believe this is because at Pierre Slash Alf
Speaker 1: they offered me a chance to throw out the first
Speaker 1: pitch at a Portland's pickles game. And I'm not training
Speaker 1: for the gig, but I would love to do it.
Speaker 1: And my wife whatever her best friends from high school
Speaker 1: actually moved to the Portland's area. So this, Danny, what,
Speaker 1: I could kill two birds with one stone. I could
Speaker 1: be like the good guy. I tell my wife, listen,
Speaker 1: you want to see your girlfriend, Let's go to Portland.
Speaker 1: I know to me, Portland's at the very bottom of
Speaker 1: the places I want to go at this point for
Speaker 1: many reasons. But I would be like, hey, let's go
Speaker 1: to Portland, you know, and she can hang out and
Speaker 1: I'll be you know, I want to go to a game.
Speaker 1: Why don't you go hang out with her and then
Speaker 1: I'll go to the game. Boom, done right, perfect. Now.
Speaker 1: I have some memories of you throwing a meat ball
Speaker 1: when we were in Bakersfield. No, no, no, can you
Speaker 1: please throw a fastball for your next pitch at an
Speaker 1: opening ceremony of a baseball game. Well, Danny, listen, I
Speaker 1: threw a devastating lollipop curve. That is an unhittable pitch.
Speaker 1: It is an a In fact, that pitch has been
Speaker 1: used in the major leagues to strike out professional hitters.
Speaker 1: Lollipop is the key word. Well, it's like a bugs
Speaker 1: bunny pitch or it's uh, you know, you go down.
Speaker 1: It's known as the pitch and it's lethal and know
Speaker 1: because guys like you want to throw a hundred miles out,
Speaker 1: but there's more than one way to peel an orange
Speaker 1: and there's more than one way to get a hit
Speaker 1: her out. And the way I throw that pitch it
Speaker 1: is That's why the Portland Pickles would like me to
Speaker 1: come through out the first pitch because that that pitch
Speaker 1: where I going like that? Uh? That that pitch. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's really highlights how good their arms are on their club. No,
Speaker 1: it goes with a pickle, you know because anyway, but
Speaker 1: thank you Chevis. And what size how do you do?
Speaker 1: I'm a size eight? What size? How are you Danny
Speaker 1: for a fitted cap, fitted hat? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have to get back to you on that because
Speaker 1: I've been doing the trucker caps lately. Oh you've been
Speaker 1: going trucker Yeah, because the fitted I'm like in between
Speaker 1: two sizes. Either loose and looks big like a lid,
Speaker 1: or it's tight and gives me a headache. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do an old guy rant. I remember when the fitted
Speaker 1: hats were like fifteen bucks. They're now like forty bucks.
Speaker 1: It's insane how much these fitted hats are. A Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember saving up twenty two dollars to go to
Speaker 1: the mall and get a fitted cap, and it was
Speaker 1: a big deal to have one. I had a brand
Speaker 1: new Sparkling Dodgers fitted cap. But even back then, the
Speaker 1: fitted size, I remember I'd have to get a haircut
Speaker 1: like yours with a number one clipper. That's right. You
Speaker 1: get the hat to fit comfortably. Uh. And as far
Speaker 1: as the address, Travis, I hopefully you can write this
Speaker 1: down and replay it and record the part. You know,
Speaker 1: go back on the podcast, but hit the back fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds a couple of times. Yeah, it's one, five to six, Oh,
Speaker 1: Ventura Boulevard? Sweet? Was it sweet? Now? I always put
Speaker 1: first floor? Now, all right, so you can say first four,
Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks, California, nine or three and send it to
Speaker 1: care of Ben Mallers show. Fox Sports Radio. Put that
Speaker 1: above the address. Keep in mind, though, if you're not
Speaker 1: sending that anytime soon. We are moving to Burbank. Burbank
Speaker 1: right across the street from where Johnny Carson used to
Speaker 1: do the Tonight Show back in the day, Jay leno
Speaker 1: um and which now is an empty studio. Uh, We're
Speaker 1: gonna be right there in Burbank eventually. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do you know any rumors when we're moving, Danny, any
Speaker 1: update on that. I've not heard anything. I know they
Speaker 1: said by the summer. I've heard August, so I thought
Speaker 1: like August was like the latest, so it might even
Speaker 1: be sooner than than August. But who knows. Well, whenever
Speaker 1: anybody talks construction, go with the latest plan, the later plan. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's at the earliest then, yeah, that is that is correct?
Speaker 1: All right? Next, who do we have you? Let's see
Speaker 1: and by the way, adjustable hat for me? Thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, thank you, Travis. Oh, hold on,
Speaker 1: that's right, all right. Come to Patricia from Laws, Vegas,
Speaker 1: formerly of Rhode Island. She says, hey, Ben, uh, note
Speaker 1: that your gall bladder is gone. Does it have an
Speaker 1: effect on what you can eat? I have to either
Speaker 1: have mine out or completely change my diet forever. Can
Speaker 1: you eat meat again or dairy products now or do
Speaker 1: they still bother you? Thanks Patricia, Well, Patricia should never
Speaker 1: take medical advice from someone on a podcast or a
Speaker 1: radio show. But I can't tell you my experience. And uh,
Speaker 1: the may thing, you know, I have a weird diet.
Speaker 1: I don't eat every day. I eat maybe once a day,
Speaker 1: and then I'll eat the next day, and then I'll
Speaker 1: skip a day. So it's it's a little different with me.
Speaker 1: But I have I really can eat whatever I want.
Speaker 1: I haven't had any problems. I have a pretty basic
Speaker 1: diet of the diet of like an eight year old.
Speaker 1: But I eat whatever I want. And the one thing
Speaker 1: I will tell you, Uh, if you go a long
Speaker 1: time between meals, you've got to be within walking distance
Speaker 1: quick walk, because you're gonna get the Tennessee trots. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have a little case of dysentery. And usually if
Speaker 1: I go a day with fasting and then I eat
Speaker 1: within fifteen minutes of me starting from the start of
Speaker 1: the meal, uh, there will be a situation that There
Speaker 1: was a famous story Danny I on the podcast. I
Speaker 1: was on a walk in the old house. I lived
Speaker 1: in the old Mallam mansion, and I thought I could
Speaker 1: make it home and and then I realized I couldn't
Speaker 1: make it home because I had to go to the
Speaker 1: For some reason, it just hit me and then I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna I decided to go to the
Speaker 1: bathroom at the public park. This is like early on
Speaker 1: in covid in and uh, you know, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to touch the toilet seat in the public bathroom because
Speaker 1: it was disgusting. So I attempted the hover technique where
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to hit the bulls. I
Speaker 1: and you can go back and hear the podcast for
Speaker 1: the full story. But I unloaded the missiles. Uh, and
Speaker 1: I didn't want to look back. But I was gonna flush.
Speaker 1: I was gonna be polite and flush. And I went
Speaker 1: back and I looked, and it looked like a crime scene.
Speaker 1: It looked like a they needed to bring in a
Speaker 1: crew to clean up what I had done. And it was.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievably horrible. I don't know how I missed
Speaker 1: by that margin. Apparently the there's something that it's like algebra,
Speaker 1: like the where I was pointing, the direction I was
Speaker 1: pointing and the way the wind was blowing and did
Speaker 1: not go so t M I t M I in
Speaker 1: now after that story, I'm gonna be fasting for a
Speaker 1: couple of days. Here, you gas, I'm gonna help you
Speaker 1: lose some weight. That'll be the way to go. Max
Speaker 1: right soon, says White. Can't Mitch album afford a better wig?
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a great question. Uh into terror
Speaker 1: from Upstate New York rights and he says he's a
Speaker 1: classically trained musician. Uh says, last week the Raiders tight End,
Speaker 1: Darren Waller was the subject of Factor fiction. Now. One
Speaker 1: of the clues was about his great grandfather, the astonishing
Speaker 1: stomp and jazz pianist called Fats Waller. Of course that comes.
Speaker 1: That's very important to Inca because he works in the
Speaker 1: music business. He says. It's true that he performed for
Speaker 1: al Capone's birthday party, but the story is better than that.
Speaker 1: Inco Terrorist says Uh. He says, let's just say that
Speaker 1: that this wasn't something on Fats's calendar. That Fats was
Speaker 1: actually abducted at gunpoint by al Capone's henchman, blindfolded and
Speaker 1: then driven to al Capone's party. He played for several
Speaker 1: days before once again being blindfolded and dropped off with
Speaker 1: serious piles of cash. He says, this is my favorite
Speaker 1: gangster tale. And then he says, Benny and Danny g
Speaker 1: do you guys have a favorite gangster tail? Well, I
Speaker 1: don't have anyone as good as that, But I can't
Speaker 1: tell you about five years ago, I actually had a
Speaker 1: brush inkood terror with a guy that claimed to be
Speaker 1: owning mob blood. All right, So, um, I had a
Speaker 1: car that was a lemon. The Mallamobile was a lemon,
Speaker 1: and I had to turn the keys over because I
Speaker 1: was getting my money back. And they rip you off
Speaker 1: on that. By the way, don't don't do that, because
Speaker 1: they don't give you the full amount, they give you
Speaker 1: any much lower amount. Anyway, I had, I had returned
Speaker 1: the car to the dealership, and the guy who handled
Speaker 1: the transaction, when you get a lemon, you know this car,
Speaker 1: you're never going to get a lemon. Well, you do
Speaker 1: get lemon. And so this guy came in from an
Speaker 1: outside company, third party, and he was very talkative and
Speaker 1: he starts telling the story about how he says, I
Speaker 1: am the grandson of a legend, and okay, whatever you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of random that you would tell too. Strange
Speaker 1: that my wife and me at the story. And then
Speaker 1: he says he is the grandson of Charles Luciano. You
Speaker 1: know who that is, Danny. You that's better known as
Speaker 1: Lucky Luciano, an Italian mobster crime boss. And so this
Speaker 1: guy claims that his mom was like a or not
Speaker 1: his mom, I guess his grandma. I think he said
Speaker 1: he was the grandson. Uh. No, I think he said
Speaker 1: he was the son. Actually, anyway, his mom or his
Speaker 1: grandma was like a maid for Luciano and was his mistress.
Speaker 1: He was stooping her. Uh and apparently one got past
Speaker 1: the goaltender there and exactly exactly, so this guy like
Speaker 1: it was so bizarre inco Or and Danny that he
Speaker 1: pulled out a photo of Lucky Luciano and his mom
Speaker 1: or his grandma for get, and then but he showed
Speaker 1: he put the photo like near his face, like see,
Speaker 1: don't we look alike? You know, it's very very bizarre.
Speaker 1: What do you have any mob favorite mobs stories? Danny
Speaker 1: g holding the phone up by the face. That's kind
Speaker 1: of creepy. I'm sorry. Did he look like him? He
Speaker 1: looked like him? A little bit, but a lot of
Speaker 1: people look like him. You know, if you're you know,
Speaker 1: if you're Italian, you're from that part of the country.
Speaker 1: What every well, No, I mean certain people look similar
Speaker 1: and they all look alike. Um I say that I'm Italian,
Speaker 1: I can say that. Okay. So I'm in San Francisco
Speaker 1: with a good radio friend Tim. It was like a
Speaker 1: Saturday night the festive. This is before San Francisco became
Speaker 1: poop city, with human feces on the sidewalk. A lot
Speaker 1: of the strip clubs were popping in the nightclubs with
Speaker 1: one of six km e L That's where we were headed,
Speaker 1: and there was a decked out Nissan in front of us.
Speaker 1: The guy driving the car was getting into it with
Speaker 1: somebody on the sidewalk yelling at them through his window.
Speaker 1: This Asian dude stops his Niecean right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the busy street and hops out, opens up the trunk,
Speaker 1: pulls out a huge ninja sword should you not, and
Speaker 1: takes the what's it called a sheath the cover on
Speaker 1: the on the blade, going it sure, why not? Yes,
Speaker 1: pulls it out and starts doing Ninja moves with his
Speaker 1: huge ninja sword as he runs towards the guy on
Speaker 1: the street, so he's like an action hero or an
Speaker 1: arcade game player. Yeah, this is like something that you
Speaker 1: would have seen on a movie. With Jackie Chan. We
Speaker 1: looked around. I swear to god, my friend's mouth was
Speaker 1: hanging open because he couldn't believe what he was watching
Speaker 1: in real life, and I was looking for movie cameras.
Speaker 1: It was super gangster, more ninja like, but a super
Speaker 1: gangster moment. That's crazy. And Jim backed up and got
Speaker 1: the out of there. I bet you. I'm sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: why not, Let's go the other way. Let's go I
Speaker 1: know another another street over there. Maybe now the other
Speaker 1: gangster story, which I just I just remember. I've told
Speaker 1: this a lot over the years. It actually happened at
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio before Danny g worked at Fox Sports Radio. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I was doing a show at night. This probably
Speaker 1: goes back almost fifteen years. Maybe maybe he's even longer
Speaker 1: than that. And so I to promote my show. We
Speaker 1: were on on the local l A station, but I
Speaker 1: would call into Joe McDonald's show, the Late Joe McDonald
Speaker 1: on his show, his local show, and so I would
Speaker 1: go out of the Fox Sports Radio studios out on
Speaker 1: uh Spulvida, right right at the corner of Sepaulva Ventura,
Speaker 1: and I would call in because I didn't want people
Speaker 1: like listening to what I was saying. So this night
Speaker 1: it's different than all of the night. So I walk
Speaker 1: out of the studio to call in to the other show.
Speaker 1: And this this vagrant guy, this homeless guy. He said, hey,
Speaker 1: are you on the radio? And I want to talk
Speaker 1: on a fucking radio And I said, no, sir, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind, I'm walking out of radio station,
Speaker 1: like I'm literally walking out of radio. And I said, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not. And so I walked down the street and
Speaker 1: I did you know, it was like a five minute
Speaker 1: hit on the radio. And I do the thing. And
Speaker 1: I walked back and this freaking guy is standing like
Speaker 1: a few feet away from the door, and again he said,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you're going back. Then you're on the
Speaker 1: goddamn you know, he's cursing and all this stuff. You're
Speaker 1: on the radio. I say, sir, I'm not, uh And
Speaker 1: the guy says, he says, I'm Henry fucking Hill, and
Speaker 1: I have a story to tell and I want to
Speaker 1: be on the rate, you know, I want to Beyond,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. So I was like, all right, this
Speaker 1: guy is so freaking drunk. Greg Bergman, I don't if
Speaker 1: you know Burgie he was my producer. Yeah, you know Burgie, right,
Speaker 1: so he was my producer. And so I get in.
Speaker 1: I was able to get past the guy. You know,
Speaker 1: he's disheveled and drunk, and now he starts banging on
Speaker 1: the door. I'm Henry Hill. I I been on you know,
Speaker 1: this show and that show and all, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, wait a minute. My favorite movie of
Speaker 1: all time is Good Fellas. I love Good Fellas. That's
Speaker 1: my favorite mob movie, Good Fellas. So I go on,
Speaker 1: you know, I go and I I told I was
Speaker 1: so funny. As I told burg I get rid of
Speaker 1: this guy. Don't open the door, tell me go away whatever,
Speaker 1: get rid of him, because the guy was just banging
Speaker 1: on the door, you know. And so I go in
Speaker 1: the studio and I go to Google images and I
Speaker 1: what does Henry Hill look like? Like? Now? Hand to God, Danny,
Speaker 1: Hand to God, that was Henry Hill that I had
Speaker 1: an interaction with the real Henry Hill. Did he live
Speaker 1: in the Sherman Oaks Hills or something? Well, yeah, he
Speaker 1: was the funny. He was in the Witness Protection program.
Speaker 1: He was living in Sherman Oaks, not in the Hills,
Speaker 1: but he was living in Sherman Oaks. And you know,
Speaker 1: he actually died a couple of years after that. I
Speaker 1: think we know why might have led to his to mins,
Speaker 1: but he he had, I guess, been on The Stern
Speaker 1: Show and some other shows and whatnot. But wow, that
Speaker 1: was crazy, Like I did not I thought when I
Speaker 1: went to look at the image of Henry Hill, there
Speaker 1: was no way it is you know, it's it was
Speaker 1: like a historical figure in in that world. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he was in the Witness Protection program and that gave
Speaker 1: him a place in Sherman Oaks, right near the studios
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio. So that was pretty crazy. I
Speaker 1: know he's so drunk though. We couldn't have put him
Speaker 1: on the air. He would have cursed every other word
Speaker 1: moving man. Matt or he says as Danny probably remembers
Speaker 1: me as Matt from the Cape. Oh yeah, he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny ge will Ben be sick after Tom
Speaker 1: Brady TV twelve rams it to the rams off? Please,
Speaker 1: I did radio with laryngitis. If I did radio with Larry,
Speaker 1: why would I take a time off if the Rams lose?
Speaker 1: The Rams are supposed to lose that the underdogs. They're
Speaker 1: playing with house money today, rams it rams it, rams
Speaker 1: it rams it. How dare Then he says, why did
Speaker 1: Danny give up the coveted overnight slot? Uh? He says,
Speaker 1: that's from a moving man, Matt or Matt from the Cape.
Speaker 1: So uh, that said, well, you've been through that, Danny,
Speaker 1: right you. We've talked about that on the podcast before.
Speaker 1: But doing both shows and both shifts at the same time,
Speaker 1: with the Ben Mallor Show and the Morning show, even
Speaker 1: back when it was just the daybreak fellas Mike North
Speaker 1: and Andy Furman, and then when it turned into out
Speaker 1: kicked the coverage, I was doing that show along with
Speaker 1: your show. And when their executive producer moved on to
Speaker 1: a Nashville morning show, I got to take his spot
Speaker 1: as a promotion. So that's when I was just doing
Speaker 1: mornings alright. Uh. Matt also says, in the spirit of
Speaker 1: Howard Stern's Fuck Mary Kill Uh, he says, how about this,
Speaker 1: three players sign build with retire? Okay, So he says,
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, Peyton Manning and Lebron that is the the
Speaker 1: ultimate f Mary Kill. Uh So, I guess I would
Speaker 1: sign Lebron, I would build with Peyton, and I would
Speaker 1: retire Eli, but you know I would that would it
Speaker 1: sounds about right? That would be my list, Craig from
Speaker 1: and you would marry Matthew Stafford. Uh well yeah, or
Speaker 1: and have a little baby. Ben Mallards with him, dare you?
Speaker 1: Craig in Campmel City formerly of St. Louis, says a
Speaker 1: two part question, Ben, any update on the possible meat
Speaker 1: and greet in North Carolina and your thoughts of pineapple
Speaker 1: on pizza? For me, it's a no go. Um. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: then you can handle the pineapple on pizza. I've actually
Speaker 1: had it. I didn't hate it, but I don't really
Speaker 1: go out of my way for it. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: so that's a bad answer, but that's my position. Like
Speaker 1: I had it. It was okay, but I didn't really
Speaker 1: enjoy it, and it wasn't the worst thing I ever had,
Speaker 1: But I'm not I'm not jones in for pineapple on pizza.
Speaker 1: It's not my favorite pizza, but I like it. There's
Speaker 1: something to be said about when you have a little
Speaker 1: bit of sweetness with me on a pizza pie. Um,
Speaker 1: if there's some good chicken or pepperoni or salami or
Speaker 1: something like that on the pie, or in this case,
Speaker 1: Canadian bacon or ham, then the pineapple goes well with it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And as far as the other question, Craig, I will
Speaker 1: be in the outer Banks of North came I'm I'm
Speaker 1: actually planning if if we can pull it off, a
Speaker 1: awesome road trip, but I'm not sure if the logistics
Speaker 1: are gonna work out. But but anyway, Craig, I would
Speaker 1: love to meet you. I'm sure you live far away
Speaker 1: from the Outer Banks and I don't know anyone there,
Speaker 1: so we'd have to we'd have to find someone that
Speaker 1: owns a restaurant or a bar who would be willing
Speaker 1: to host the host an event. And if we can
Speaker 1: find that, if someone's interested, a mom and pop place,
Speaker 1: or you know, someone who maybe works in the chain,
Speaker 1: I don't care, but I'd prefer her mom and pop
Speaker 1: and I'd love love to do it. But it's got
Speaker 1: to be within reasonable driving distance of the outer Banks,
Speaker 1: and that is I think it's actually closer to Virginia
Speaker 1: that it is to the meat of North Carolina. Who
Speaker 1: else do we have a Ben and Danny G Radio
Speaker 1: air to the Garratt Deli Chocolate Fortune, Good Day, a
Speaker 1: brief step back in holiday time to let you know
Speaker 1: how much we enjoyed over the over and over again
Speaker 1: the Mallard Mussa theme Christmas Classics remastered. One problem, Ben,
Speaker 1: there was a voice missing. The email says, and that
Speaker 1: would be yours as a good mench and as a
Speaker 1: favor to our one year two month old grandson, Bentley
Speaker 1: a k A. Big Ben. Will you commit right now
Speaker 1: to working with producers J. Scoop, Just Josh, Mr pc
Speaker 1: Ohio Al and say Danny G to release next Hanaka,
Speaker 1: your collaborative remix version of the Dradol song with an
Speaker 1: eleven month Hollywood head start. The Grammy nominated possibilities are endless,
Speaker 1: including a YouTube music video featuring you, Adam Sandler, and
Speaker 1: the entire crew of The Ben Mallow Show. She and
Speaker 1: It says, You're welcome, much love and appreciation, Helen and
Speaker 1: Stu from Palmetto Bay, Florida. Well listen, Helen, I grew
Speaker 1: up singing the Drado song, and I want you to
Speaker 1: know the Mallard family. When I was a little boy,
Speaker 1: nobody sang the Drado song. Quite like I did you
Speaker 1: know the Drado song? Probably don't, Danny, You're not do it.
Speaker 1: But it's I have a little Drado. I made it
Speaker 1: out of clay, and when it's dry and ready, then
Speaker 1: Drado I shall play and then it goes, oh, drad old,
Speaker 1: right old, right old, I made it out of clay. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do the whole thing right now,
Speaker 1: but I am down with it. Sounds like a hit.
Speaker 1: Not there you but did j school just Josh? I
Speaker 1: know you guys listen to the podcast Mr pc Ohio.
Speaker 1: Anybody that's interested in that, I can voice it over
Speaker 1: and if you can add a little music and add
Speaker 1: your touch and maybe some sound effects. I I am
Speaker 1: willing to do that. And we had a long way
Speaker 1: to go. I mean, we'll probably forget about it because
Speaker 1: Hanakah floats. Sometimes it's early in December, sometimes it's in November,
Speaker 1: in the December, sometimes at the end of December. So
Speaker 1: I don't know when Honeck is uh this year. But
Speaker 1: that's a great idea. Helen and Stu and I am
Speaker 1: down with drade Old, dred Old, drade Old. I am
Speaker 1: I'm down with and I've got the lyrics here and
Speaker 1: let's do it. So anyway, Barry from Music City says,
Speaker 1: Yo yo mob, Benny and Danny G great question for
Speaker 1: you guys this week. This past Saturday, I was leaving
Speaker 1: my building. I saw an object laying in the street
Speaker 1: by the curb. I went over and picked up a
Speaker 1: fairly new looking wallet. The wallet was very thin, and
Speaker 1: Barry says I I looked inside and there were just
Speaker 1: two things, and then he sent me a photo of
Speaker 1: the wallet. Here. Danny says there was a driver's license
Speaker 1: and twelve one hundred dollar bills. Look, twelve hundred dollars
Speaker 1: total cash. Damn. He says. There was nothing else in
Speaker 1: the wallet, no insurance card, no, no credit card, nothing.
Speaker 1: So the question from Barry is what would you guys
Speaker 1: have done? Yeah, I see the problem is the driver's license.
Speaker 1: If there was no driver's license, that would have obviously
Speaker 1: I would return all six hundred dollars of that. He
Speaker 1: would return all. Say no, you know, you return the
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars. You'd say, you know it was only
Speaker 1: for some reason there was only two hundred. I don't
Speaker 1: understand what that's all about. Yeah, but the yeah, I see,
Speaker 1: you know what the I don't know you believe in
Speaker 1: karma or anything like that. But I've had people returned
Speaker 1: my wallet and so I feel I remember how good
Speaker 1: I felt when I went to the store. I dropped
Speaker 1: my wallet in the parking lot. I've actually done it
Speaker 1: a couple of times. And when you're when you don't
Speaker 1: have your wallet, you're like, oh, man, I gotta call
Speaker 1: every credit card company, I gotta go to the d
Speaker 1: m V I you know, I got I think you're
Speaker 1: trying to remember, like what you had in your wallet,
Speaker 1: you have any money and a cash you know you're
Speaker 1: going through all these and uh, I remember how relieved
Speaker 1: I was when I found my wallet and it was
Speaker 1: in text. So I would I would like to give
Speaker 1: someone else that same feeling. And if they have their license,
Speaker 1: then sure. Now if they didn't have their license in there, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know whose wallet is right to
Speaker 1: me anyway exactly, and I would return it. Here's the thing, though,
Speaker 1: you should tip the person that returns it if all
Speaker 1: the money's in it. So if somebody returned that wallet
Speaker 1: and I, for some odd reason had twelve one dollar bills,
Speaker 1: and nowadays, why would you have that much cash in
Speaker 1: your wallet, let's be honest. Well, maybe he's a drug
Speaker 1: dealer or something, but if you did, if I did
Speaker 1: have that many bills, I would shift the person off
Speaker 1: with one of the one bills for returning it to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The weird thing about that is when I had my
Speaker 1: wallet that I lost the last time, I tried to
Speaker 1: pay the person that had the wallet and she said
Speaker 1: the woman said no because it's company policy not to
Speaker 1: accept any money. And I was like, no, No, nobody's looking,
Speaker 1: you know he's I mean, she wouldn't do it. She
Speaker 1: wouldn't take the money. She was worried about losing her job.
Speaker 1: For you, that was a one for me. Shane in
Speaker 1: des Moines, right, So he says, I have two questions. Says,
Speaker 1: I'm new to the show as des Moines didn't get
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio until a few years ago. But I've
Speaker 1: always wondered who some of the drops are, namely the
Speaker 1: gott a murder, Gotta go and that's my duck that
Speaker 1: drops those two. He wants to know, and he says,
Speaker 1: who does the voiceovers for the ads played during your
Speaker 1: show for other fs ARE shows, Well, that would be
Speaker 1: the voice of Fox Sports Radio. Who does that? But
Speaker 1: as far as the Bob, Yeah, Bob the voice over again.
Speaker 1: But but got a murder Gotta go. That was a
Speaker 1: police officer from Florida. I put that drop in there.
Speaker 1: That was a fun night. Yeah, And he had he
Speaker 1: was playing a game and it didn't go well for him, right,
Speaker 1: he was getting blown out, turned into an embarrassing game
Speaker 1: show for him. Towards the end, he just wanted to bail,
Speaker 1: and so that's what he said, got a murder gotta go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was. His name was Craig from Boca,
Speaker 1: if I remember, I think you're right, Craig from Boca.
Speaker 1: And then the that's my duck, uh, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: That is a farmer from Georgia that called the show
Speaker 1: only a couple of times and was a very very
Speaker 1: unique character, very unique character. And he claimed that he
Speaker 1: lived on this big farm out in the sticks in Georgia,
Speaker 1: and I asked him. I was like, well, what kind
Speaker 1: of animals do you have on the farm? And so
Speaker 1: he did start doing all these animal sound effects like
Speaker 1: he's from you know, some movies somewhere, and he made
Speaker 1: some duck noise and that's my duck like that, and
Speaker 1: then he went through like all these different animals. Really
Speaker 1: was really good. I wish that guy had become a regular.
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever happened to him, but he only
Speaker 1: called a couple of times, and we've we've kept that
Speaker 1: drop for a long time. So, now, what's going on
Speaker 1: with this Batman guy who keeps calling your show? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's gonna work out. And now
Speaker 1: we had this guy this week named Batman. Uh for
Speaker 1: I don't know where he's from. I don't I think Gotham, right, guy?
Speaker 1: Is that is that where batmanlan? Huh? Yeah? So I
Speaker 1: didn't know you had a new affiliate in God them,
Speaker 1: but that's what it sounds like. Yeah, because throughout the
Speaker 1: night when I was filling in for Coop, I would
Speaker 1: answer one of the lines. It would be quiet, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, and I repeat myself, and then you would
Speaker 1: just hear and he was, you know, doing a full
Speaker 1: on impersonation. Yeah, it's all he would say. I couldn't
Speaker 1: get any other words out of him. That's limited anyway.
Speaker 1: So Neil from the Real Miami writes in, and Neil
Speaker 1: has been with us a long time on the podcast
Speaker 1: and the show. He says, I'm not sure if it's
Speaker 1: a bad job by me being a longtime listener or
Speaker 1: by you. But what are the origin stories of Bella?
Speaker 1: How did she become the platinum member of the Mallard Militia?
Speaker 1: And then he has a bonus mailbag question. Uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: Bella is the dog at the Mallard mansion. She's the
Speaker 1: head bitch at the at the Mallar mansion and um,
Speaker 1: my my life. A while back, wanted to get a dog.
Speaker 1: We actually had a different dog named Taser that was
Speaker 1: an undomesticated beast and uh, it was just a nightmare
Speaker 1: and h was horrible, and we got rid of you know, Taser.
Speaker 1: We moved Taser to somebody else's house and then I
Speaker 1: was like, we're never getting another dog. And then a
Speaker 1: couple of months later, Bella popped up. Somebody from my
Speaker 1: wife's work had the dog was looking for a new
Speaker 1: home and Bella's um, I guess was living with this
Speaker 1: older woman she had passed away, and so I was like,
Speaker 1: I'll give I was like a trial period, Danny. I said,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll give Bella a try, and we, uh,
Speaker 1: we fell in love with Bella. And now she's an
Speaker 1: old dog and she ships all over the house, and
Speaker 1: like the other night, I was walking and I was
Speaker 1: doing the show and walking around and the problem is
Speaker 1: that the floors we have here, the the Bella bombs,
Speaker 1: you can't tell where they are because it's camouflaged. And
Speaker 1: what a mess. What a mess makes just a trip
Speaker 1: to the bathroom exciting? Oh my god? What is this
Speaker 1: other question? Neil says, Uh, First, congrats on the Rams
Speaker 1: running over the Cardinals. On that note, you and Danny
Speaker 1: Gee prefer the do you prefer the boat race domination situation?
Speaker 1: And go to sleep early for us on a normal
Speaker 1: schedule or a toe to toe down to the wire
Speaker 1: heartbreak win for your team? Uh? That you were you
Speaker 1: root for? Uh? So I enjoyed the heck out of
Speaker 1: the Ram blowout. I love that. I absolutely love that.
Speaker 1: I know what's going on there as all kinds of
Speaker 1: weird noise going on there. But I love the blowout
Speaker 1: for the Rams. But like in a Super Bowl, I
Speaker 1: would love it to come down to the very end
Speaker 1: and then have the team that I like pull out
Speaker 1: the game at the end. I think that would be awesome.
Speaker 1: But for a regular game or even an early playoff game,
Speaker 1: I love a blowout A good solid beat down. I'm
Speaker 1: all about it. What about you, Danny? As a fan,
Speaker 1: of course, you would love it if your team just
Speaker 1: comes out the gates and blows the other team away.
Speaker 1: Nothing for you to sweat over it. Last Saturday I
Speaker 1: had to sweat that entire game versus the Bengals, and
Speaker 1: then it looked like the Raiders had that miraculous comeback.
Speaker 1: They get all the way down by the goal line,
Speaker 1: and then Derek Carr throws that ugly duck in front
Speaker 1: of the goal line. Please explain that past to me.
Speaker 1: So you got that amazing pass to Waller and then
Speaker 1: you got that shitty pass in front of the goal
Speaker 1: line when it's fourth and goal, Why do you not
Speaker 1: throw into the end zone? Yeah, it's yeah, I understood,
Speaker 1: I understand. I was watching that. I think about Danny's
Speaker 1: is probably the inroverto probably really upset it to that,
Speaker 1: as you can tell him over it. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: we gotta get out of here. They look at the
Speaker 1: time unbelievable. Thanks to everyone else I know, Betty, I
Speaker 1: believe in Huntington Beach. She was. She had an email
Speaker 1: Fred in Spring Texas, Cliff from Nashville. Unfortunately, we ran
Speaker 1: out of time, but thank you guys for sending the email.
Speaker 1: Sent him in again. Oh yes, I have a wonderful
Speaker 1: Sunday and you'll find out if I'm in a good
Speaker 1: mood or a bad mood, depending on what happens this
Speaker 1: afternoon on the gridiron in the NFL Dune Dun Dune