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: We are back at it on a Saturday. I know
Speaker 1: you're excited. Calm down here another edition of the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour were Ben Mallard in Danny g Radio Because four
Speaker 1: hours a night are not enough, eight days a week
Speaker 1: now the phones are ringing, people are fired up here.
Speaker 1: Danny's unbelievable. Look at that, everyone, every line of the building,
Speaker 1: just like that. I can't believe it. And how do
Speaker 1: they know we're here? It's a podcast. You don't know
Speaker 1: when we record the podcast. We could record it three
Speaker 1: days ago, we could record it today. Magic of a podcast, Danny.
Speaker 1: We cut hours off our lives, I mean, our beauty
Speaker 1: sleep to do this. That's right, that's right. We're getting uglier.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, I know it's true. It's true.
Speaker 1: We're getting a little uglier by the day. But listen,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this podcast. You know, Saturday is all
Speaker 1: about us. It's all about us, and who doesn't like
Speaker 1: talking about themselves? Right, so, and it's all about the
Speaker 1: greatness of the Raiders. Come down, Come down that it
Speaker 1: is a playoff weekend. We'll find out now will the
Speaker 1: Raiders live to play another day or will they meet
Speaker 1: there to minds? I have no idea. Can you tell
Speaker 1: Danny I'm fired up to have the sound effect machine
Speaker 1: here as always? Yes, do you have a Josh Jacob's button?
Speaker 1: But Baby, if the Raiders do win, I know they
Speaker 1: can say this motherfucker just like that to the Bengals
Speaker 1: because the Bengals are expecting to win that game, and
Speaker 1: there's a chance of snow, right, so they're gonna really
Speaker 1: need the running game because Derek Carr is not always
Speaker 1: done very well in snow games or cold games for
Speaker 1: that matter. Are you saying there? Car is a Californian
Speaker 1: warm weather cliche quarterback. He is definitely a California slash
Speaker 1: Texas kid. Yeah yeah, but but remember though, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: is from northern California and is arguably the greatest cold
Speaker 1: Weather quarterback, which just is really a byproduct of paying
Speaker 1: with the Patriots, right, I think that's kind of the
Speaker 1: deal on that. Anyway, on this podcast, kind of give
Speaker 1: you the menu of what's coming up here. We have
Speaker 1: an amazing array Harry situation workers, comp salute, and we'll
Speaker 1: do a little pop quiz. I like doing pop quiz.
Speaker 1: By the way, if the Raiders win, are you okay
Speaker 1: with Pistacia continuing as the coach there? Yeah? If he
Speaker 1: wins a playoff game and makes it five wins in
Speaker 1: a row, I think it'd be hard to argue against
Speaker 1: him getting the full time job. But he's not a
Speaker 1: big name, right. He's not a big name they needed
Speaker 1: with Vegas. You need a big name, right. He's more Branson,
Speaker 1: Missouri performer than a Vegas performer name wise. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: just win baby is one of the slogans, So you
Speaker 1: can't not give him the job just because he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a shiny name. Everyone seems to think the Raiders
Speaker 1: want the big name coach and that your guy Mark
Speaker 1: Davis is willing to throw a whole bunch of cats,
Speaker 1: so who knows. So Over the over the last week,
Speaker 1: Danny I was convinced I had my arm twisted a
Speaker 1: little bit to make a change, to make a change
Speaker 1: here now. Uh, As you know you've known me for
Speaker 1: a long time, I've always won a lot of hats.
Speaker 1: I'm known as the mad Hatter of a sports chatter.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason for that is because as I
Speaker 1: have gotten a little older, the hair has gone backpack, back, back, back, back, back,
Speaker 1: back back back. I just like that. And as a
Speaker 1: result of it's a combination really of genetics. I think
Speaker 1: I remember as a kid my grandfather. I have a
Speaker 1: similar hairline to my grandfather. But then also the stress,
Speaker 1: as you know, you know day to day working in radio,
Speaker 1: and the stress that we have every day is a
Speaker 1: new show. Every day is a new set of fires
Speaker 1: to put out. So so it's like the perfect storm.
Speaker 1: For the last couple of years, my wife has said,
Speaker 1: you know what you should do. She says, you should
Speaker 1: just go off the deep end. And and I'm not gonna,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna, you know, do that. Don't get crazy here.
Speaker 1: But the last week the plunge. I'm not fully bald,
Speaker 1: but I'm close all right now, I'm I'm closing because
Speaker 1: of the haircut. It's as close as you can get
Speaker 1: without needing a wax like a bowling ball, if you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, without the Michael Jordan's look. Uh
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. And so you know when when you go
Speaker 1: to a barbershop or if you cut your own hair,
Speaker 1: I don't know, do you cut your own idea? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I use my own clippers, all right. Well, if you
Speaker 1: get an electronic razor, you don't have the different settings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like different guards on the blade, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: So it goes what does it go from like six?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what the highest is,
Speaker 1: but it goes down to like one, and then you
Speaker 1: take the guard off and it's just yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: stubble guard. Yeah. So I'm at a I'm at a
Speaker 1: number one. I'm at a number one now and I've
Speaker 1: always been in four. It's a big step, Danny, in
Speaker 1: a man's life. When you go from a four to
Speaker 1: a one, that's a that's a dramatic decline. And I
Speaker 1: am still getting getting usually and the next step would
Speaker 1: be to just shave it everything, just completely nothing left.
Speaker 1: But if it was sports, you would be a world champion. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not quite. I'm not quite there yet.
Speaker 1: It's it's taking a little getting used to it, I
Speaker 1: think would be the way that we can describe it.
Speaker 1: And but I still wear hats mostly. I'm wearing a
Speaker 1: hat right now. I don't need to wear a hat,
Speaker 1: but I'm wearing a hat. And but but around the
Speaker 1: house I will often go without it. But my wife claims,
Speaker 1: I think she's lying to me. She says, Danny, then
Speaker 1: it looks better that the way I'm doing it now,
Speaker 1: this is the better look, so that I can go
Speaker 1: out and I don't need to worry about the hats
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. When you have a body like this, Danny,
Speaker 1: who needs hair? Right when you're when you're built like
Speaker 1: a fledgling uh, you know ball a lard that does
Speaker 1: does overnights. But they do say bald is beautiful, Danny.
Speaker 1: I've heard that before. Everybody's paying attention to the gun
Speaker 1: show and the party. Ball too fifty to look at
Speaker 1: the dome. That's right. When when you have the washboard
Speaker 1: abs and you are built like Adonis, and everyone looks
Speaker 1: at you just goes like that, you don't really need
Speaker 1: to worry about the hair, right. The hair is secondary
Speaker 1: now It's funny because I remember when Tony Bruno. I
Speaker 1: was friends with Tony. Tony worked at Fox and I
Speaker 1: worked with them elsewhere, and I remember when Tony took
Speaker 1: the plunge because Tony used to have a hair and
Speaker 1: he just like, finally one day, that's it. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: it shaved everything off and he was doing like TV
Speaker 1: stuff at the best damn sports show period, that old
Speaker 1: TV show at Fox, and he finally just said, uh,
Speaker 1: that's it, I'm out. And yeah, he went for it.
Speaker 1: Who knew that? Years later, I now again, I'm not
Speaker 1: fully bald, but I'm you can't call me Benny baldy,
Speaker 1: but I'm close. So I'm on the I'm on the
Speaker 1: spectrum of of bald. I guess you could you could
Speaker 1: say on the spectrum. So anyway, that is my tail
Speaker 1: with the hairy situation. So I know some of the
Speaker 1: guys love to bust my balls and love the goof
Speaker 1: on me because of the the hair. But I have
Speaker 1: a great hat collection and I'm not giving up the
Speaker 1: hat collection and the listeners and and you'll benefit from
Speaker 1: this as well. Danny being on the on the podcast
Speaker 1: like very generous, like I love hats with bees and
Speaker 1: ms on them and uh and you know, because my
Speaker 1: name Ben Mallard, so I've got a number of those
Speaker 1: and people are very kind, and so it's I'll still
Speaker 1: wear the hats. I'm just telling you. I guess I
Speaker 1: don't need as big a hat, although I still wear
Speaker 1: a size eight, but it's just a little looser now, Davy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know I have a great hat collection as well.
Speaker 1: When I had a hundred percent of my hair, I
Speaker 1: still wore a hat every day. So yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if anyone has anything to say about your head.
Speaker 1: You just point up to the rafters to all the
Speaker 1: championship banners, that's right, and you tell him, look, I'm
Speaker 1: Michael jordan In and you're a sucker. Yeah, And if
Speaker 1: you don't like it, you know you are fake you
Speaker 1: It didn't happen, right, knock it off. Whatever it is,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what it is. But you don't
Speaker 1: need a hair transplant, you know. I got I I
Speaker 1: think we talked about this before, but I actually got
Speaker 1: into the business a little too late for the freezing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I remember, you know, like a few years before
Speaker 1: I got into business, like every local radio guy was
Speaker 1: getting lasic eye surgery and hair transplants. And a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, I was working for w e I
Speaker 1: in Boston and they still had some advertisers that we're doing,
Speaker 1: you know, hair transplants. Remember Jerry Callahan, one of the
Speaker 1: hosts that he he had that. I think he had
Speaker 1: that done because I remember him on the commercial. But yeah, see,
Speaker 1: is that something you'd want your voice on the commercials of.
Speaker 1: I don't mind. Come on, I don't care, Danny, you
Speaker 1: know them I've done. Come on, look at me? What
Speaker 1: a slug? Yeah, I mean I did the lasic eye
Speaker 1: surgery thing. When I was a kid. There was no
Speaker 1: need um for anything to do with hair, but the eyes.
Speaker 1: I didn't mind. It's just like, you know, I needed
Speaker 1: glasses to drive my car at night or whatever. Now
Speaker 1: I don't need glasses anymore. And but if you're gonna
Speaker 1: slap your name on a hair transplant thing, that's a
Speaker 1: little cheesy. Well you wanted to work, that's uh. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that stuff. Does that stuff actually work?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I I used to work
Speaker 1: with a guy in radio that had some work done
Speaker 1: and it kind of looked like you could tell something
Speaker 1: was little off. You know. Yeah, I guess it's kind
Speaker 1: of like botox where you like you said, you can tell.
Speaker 1: I don't know how effective it is everybody. I guess
Speaker 1: results are different for each person because if there was
Speaker 1: one magical solution to that, then every guy would do
Speaker 1: that thing right exactly exactly. You know. It's like remember
Speaker 1: years ago, there was that infomercial, you know, the spray
Speaker 1: on hair it's like and I was like, well, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll get that, But then I was like, well, no,
Speaker 1: that's a scam because you know you anytime you sweat,
Speaker 1: the stuff's gonna drip down your you know, your face,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be be discussing. But to answer your question,
Speaker 1: I would I do a commercial for for hair treatment? Yes?
Speaker 1: Am I doing a commercial? No? Would I? Would I
Speaker 1: pay for it? Probably not? E d Would you do
Speaker 1: a commercial for a rectile dysfunction? Oh? I already have Danny?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, what are you talking about? Please? Uh?
Speaker 1: But in that commercial for M drive, you're not saying
Speaker 1: you have Oh no, no, no I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: announcing that I have. You know I have some issues there,
Speaker 1: but but but no, I mean wrote a script saying hey,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Maller and I had a problem in the bedroom.
Speaker 1: Would you do that? I believe in the you ever
Speaker 1: read the book The Magic Christian that everyone has a price.
Speaker 1: So if the check was big enough, Danny, and I
Speaker 1: guarantee you right now that check is not big enough.
Speaker 1: But if the check was big enough, uh, and there
Speaker 1: were enough zeros on that and desmal points and things
Speaker 1: like that, of course you would be open to it. Right,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, you know, maybe maybe you know why not?
Speaker 1: But I mean, I get ripped on this podcast. There's
Speaker 1: there's a you know, weight loss uh, you know website
Speaker 1: that I endorse, and uh, they bought a good amount
Speaker 1: of spots on the podcast, and we think that we're
Speaker 1: grateful for that if they're kind of them do that
Speaker 1: and people complain about that. I've never understood the complaining
Speaker 1: on the podcast commercial because you can just fast forward
Speaker 1: and you're not supposed to fast forward, but you can
Speaker 1: conceivably fast forward. I know a lot of people are
Speaker 1: like driving and doing things while they're listening to the podcast,
Speaker 1: but it is if it's that big inconvenience, Danny just
Speaker 1: simply you know, hit the hit the buzzer. They just
Speaker 1: fast forward. Yeah, we talked about this when I first
Speaker 1: joined you on the podcast. Yeah, hey, don't be lazy
Speaker 1: like you just said. You can handle it if it
Speaker 1: really bugs you, but be You're getting the programming for free,
Speaker 1: So don't be be such a cheap ass that you
Speaker 1: can't support Ben Mallard, because if you want to support Ben,
Speaker 1: that's how you do it exactly. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's not that hard I play when we do, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I I just not. This's not a a
Speaker 1: college radio show or something. No commercials that we have advertisers.
Speaker 1: Every sponsor you here on this podcast by at least one.
Speaker 1: And when you're on the phone say Ben Mallard, Ben Mallards, Right,
Speaker 1: that's right there, you get. That's that's how it works anyway.
Speaker 1: And now the the workers comptail a a bad week
Speaker 1: for Danny je is it fair to say, or at
Speaker 1: least a bad day. The day was going really well.
Speaker 1: I was working with kindergarteners on Wednesday. They do this
Speaker 1: game like in between the learning center tables and you know,
Speaker 1: all the crap where the kids grown and moan because
Speaker 1: they're like, I don't want to learn, which you know,
Speaker 1: I agree. I want to do the puzzles and the
Speaker 1: fun stuff too, but they get to go to the
Speaker 1: play structure after they have their lunch. Now, what is
Speaker 1: the play structure For those who don't know, kind of
Speaker 1: paint the picture here. What It's just like a regular
Speaker 1: playground or something special. It's a big square of that
Speaker 1: soft rubber material, you know. Is that way if a
Speaker 1: kid falls and hits his head, the head can slightly
Speaker 1: bounce off the turf. Is it made out of like
Speaker 1: tire stuff? Is? Yeah, it's that that rubber stuff on
Speaker 1: the ground. And then it's it's got one slide. It's
Speaker 1: your standard little playground, but it's a miniature version. It's
Speaker 1: for the little kids. As an adult, you know, you
Speaker 1: get on top of this thing and you look mammoth.
Speaker 1: The kids always want to play freeze tag. They call
Speaker 1: it freeze Monster. Freeze Monster, Freeze Monster. They want me
Speaker 1: to be You're the monster. You know, a monster, Danny,
Speaker 1: You're the to the kids, you're a monster. I really
Speaker 1: and I looked like the monster inside the matter horn
Speaker 1: at Disneyland. That's what the kids are picturing as I
Speaker 1: tagged them and freeze them. Half the kids tell me no,
Speaker 1: you can't freeze me. I have magical powers, and so
Speaker 1: they don't play by the rules. The other half stopping,
Speaker 1: you know, try to stay still. It's fun for them
Speaker 1: for me. After ten minutes, I'm like, Okay, my back
Speaker 1: is hurting a little bit. I need a I need
Speaker 1: a break. I need an old man break here, an
Speaker 1: old monster break. Yeah, because I really got to turn
Speaker 1: the jets on because you know, these kids are fast,
Speaker 1: so I gotta show my speed. Man. My wheels were
Speaker 1: on full display. I'm like fully chasing these kids around
Speaker 1: as the monster, and I mean I'm tagging everybody. Every
Speaker 1: little damn kid is frozen or shouldn't. You gotta be careful.
Speaker 1: Then you're at risk of like popping in Achilles or somebody.
Speaker 1: You gotta be careful. I'm pretty fast. The problem on
Speaker 1: this small play structure for a big person is I
Speaker 1: pulled myself up to reach in and freeze one of
Speaker 1: the kids. Now, this kid's name is Anthony. He was like, Mr,
Speaker 1: g you can't freeze me because I was born inside
Speaker 1: of a flame. What yeah, a flame inside of a flame.
Speaker 1: And he's like yeah, and he showed me his hands
Speaker 1: and he's like, and my hands shoot out electricity and
Speaker 1: he was dead serious, and I'm like, okay. I'm like,
Speaker 1: but I'm the freeze monster. So when I tag your
Speaker 1: asked your feet turned to puddles and he just wasn't
Speaker 1: having it. But I still try to reach in and
Speaker 1: freeze him, even though he supposedly had magical powers. Problem.
Speaker 1: When I reached my head through, I thought the bar
Speaker 1: that goes across was above my head. No, it was
Speaker 1: probably at that point like uh, Peyton Manning level forehead.
Speaker 1: The five my son alasses came flying off my California
Speaker 1: required mask went up above my eyes. I was seeing
Speaker 1: stars like tweety bird uh, and I was dazed and
Speaker 1: confused for a moment. I mean I hit this bar hard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I smacked that thing because I was going full speed.
Speaker 1: Are any of the kids coming over to see if
Speaker 1: you're okay or they don't give a crap? You're the
Speaker 1: monster and you just died, don't Yeah, they could give
Speaker 1: a crap. I saw a little bit of blood on
Speaker 1: my hand and I asked one of the kids. I said,
Speaker 1: am I bleeding? And he looked at me and he
Speaker 1: was like, no, not really, Let's keep playing. And I'm like, okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to at least go wash up. You
Speaker 1: know that kid believes and he just rubbed some dirt
Speaker 1: on it, some dirt on it, and you're no big deal.
Speaker 1: I can respect that, but I mean, I asked another kid,
Speaker 1: did it leave a mark? No, no, there's nothing. I
Speaker 1: had to go to the main room an ice pack.
Speaker 1: They had to wright me up because you know, once
Speaker 1: the supervisors of the school see that you're holding an
Speaker 1: ice pack on your on your schnauser, then uh and
Speaker 1: I and I told the campus supervisor. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I do not need to be written up. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do workman's camp because that's the only reason they
Speaker 1: write that crap up. Oh yeah, they're worried about lots its.
Speaker 1: Yeah they don't. They're worried about lawsuits exactly. So she
Speaker 1: had to write an email to the school district, which
Speaker 1: is hilarious. And I told her, I said, in the
Speaker 1: subject line, can you please write freeze monster. Well, they're
Speaker 1: they're looking out, yeah, they're looking at for the uh
Speaker 1: cash register that you're gonna win the school lottery there.
Speaker 1: But that's funny. Yeah, Now, if I did want some
Speaker 1: time off this past Wednesday, night. It was a little
Speaker 1: harder to go to sleep, but you had the big
Speaker 1: schnaz all on right. Yeah. Yeah, I mean my nose
Speaker 1: was already big enough. I mean, why couldn't I have
Speaker 1: hit something I needed, you know, to be bigger like
Speaker 1: my brain? Oh man? And the kids now you know,
Speaker 1: you went back to school and after I put the
Speaker 1: ice pack away, I sold your right back out there
Speaker 1: and continued to play freeze monster. Solid. That's solid. You
Speaker 1: rubbed a little dirt on it, put a little ice
Speaker 1: on it, and you're back out there. One of the
Speaker 1: kids told me, hey, be careful of the bar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like in your head, you're like if this kid,
Speaker 1: this kid's a loser there this kid, what's wrong with him?
Speaker 1: Shut up? That's funny. It's better you than one of
Speaker 1: the kids, right, because then it's a whole to do right.
Speaker 1: When the kids gets hurt, then it's a nightmare. I
Speaker 1: look like Joey Bosa right now. Yeah, you little Joey.
Speaker 1: For you, you're forced to wear a mask everywhere, so
Speaker 1: you've got that going for you. You cover it up
Speaker 1: and we're seventeen masks and your way to go. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're on your way. So as far as the uh,
Speaker 1: the salute, if you will. So I have, as you have,
Speaker 1: been with Fox Sports Radio for a long time. I've
Speaker 1: been with the company for pretty much my entire adult
Speaker 1: life other than a few years. I worked local radio
Speaker 1: before that, and so being Fox Sports Radio for a
Speaker 1: long time. The faces come and go, and we've had
Speaker 1: an amazingly large number of people that have been on
Speaker 1: the air and off the air, behind the scenes, people
Speaker 1: that have worked at Fox Sports Radio for the company.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's been different the last couple of
Speaker 1: years because of COVID. I've been working from the home studio,
Speaker 1: which I love and it's great and all that, but
Speaker 1: I missed being at the radiations sometimes and being around
Speaker 1: the camaraderie that we would have and and all that
Speaker 1: and so. But in the early days when I was
Speaker 1: there all the time, doing weekends, filling in and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Uh, you know, you have good friends with
Speaker 1: a lot of people, and I have very few of
Speaker 1: those people have left. Typically I'm out of the loop
Speaker 1: on these transactions when people come and go, the comings
Speaker 1: and goings, I I don't know unless somebody tells me.
Speaker 1: But somebody did tell him that one of our imaging
Speaker 1: guys had announced at the end of one that he
Speaker 1: was retiring, and this is somebody that I know, and
Speaker 1: it hit a nerve with me because I was like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I know that. Who's that guy? Pal,
Speaker 1: who's the guy? And it's I don't even know if
Speaker 1: you know him. Yeah, Chris. Yeah, Chris has worked there
Speaker 1: since Fox Sports Radio started, and you know behind the
Speaker 1: scenes guy along with Vito, who's our imaging guy. Vito.
Speaker 1: I remember when Vito started at the company and he's
Speaker 1: now been there for a long time as the image guy.
Speaker 1: But Chris was also an imaging guy and they worked together.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know the inner workings of radio stations,
Speaker 1: those guys make all the promos, the commercials, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: the the the back and forth, the music, the call
Speaker 1: an image. Right. So it's it's the sound of Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, right. I think I'm right on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely they and they control the big network voice. So
Speaker 1: anytime you hear the big voice of the network involved
Speaker 1: in some kind of promoing of the network that they're doing, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So they do voiceover sessions with the voice of Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio and a lot of that stuff. So and
Speaker 1: the the very beginning of this podcast, the intro that
Speaker 1: you hear with the big voice, they did that, Yeah, exactly. Now,
Speaker 1: I know sometimes we can write the copy, but they
Speaker 1: will record it, put the imaging, you know, the sound
Speaker 1: in and allo anyway. Uh, you know, I've known Chris
Speaker 1: for the whole time I've been at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: He was actually with the Premier Networks before fs are
Speaker 1: even launched, and then he got assigned to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: So he was an original. And when I started doing
Speaker 1: updates back in you know, two thousand, over it one, Uh,
Speaker 1: it was I was in the update chair and Chris
Speaker 1: sapped at a computer and he was the entire editing
Speaker 1: department at Fox Sports rad Now we have a lot
Speaker 1: of people behind the scenes now that work in editing,
Speaker 1: and all the sound that we play from from different
Speaker 1: sporting events, somebody has to be there to record it
Speaker 1: it up and the news conferences which take up a
Speaker 1: lot of time, so all that stuff, there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of people to do that. But for the first two
Speaker 1: or three years of Fox Sports Radio, we had one guy,
Speaker 1: and it was Chris, and so I found out that
Speaker 1: he was retiring, and so I didn't have his number anymore.
Speaker 1: I had lost his number. So I reached out to
Speaker 1: management and I said, hey, you don't want to call
Speaker 1: this guy and so our text him or whatever, and
Speaker 1: so I was given his number. You know, it's one
Speaker 1: of these things. It's about the aging process right there.
Speaker 1: So I remember when he had twins and it's all
Speaker 1: excited for him. And then I remember the little little
Speaker 1: girls and they would come to the radio station and
Speaker 1: hang out with her dad and they were you know, three,
Speaker 1: four or five, and then now they're graduated from you know,
Speaker 1: college or what. It's insane. It's absolutely insane. What what
Speaker 1: has going on? I mean the blink of an eye
Speaker 1: boom in college and I think one of them is
Speaker 1: out of college already. It's been that long. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so that's when you know you're really good friends with
Speaker 1: someone though, and you're like, so your kids, what are
Speaker 1: they fifth sixth grade? Uh no, they just started at
Speaker 1: Cal lou Yeah, yeah, exactly, it exactly. You know, time
Speaker 1: slows down for nobody anyway. So I reached out, um
Speaker 1: with thanks to management giving me the number. So I
Speaker 1: reached out to Chris and this is where it got awkward. Danny. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to salute. I sent him a
Speaker 1: nice texts, Hey, it's Mallard, you know, and we used
Speaker 1: to work together and I haven't talked to you in
Speaker 1: a while, you know, because of COVID and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and I, yeah, send him a nice No, I don't
Speaker 1: want to get into a personal and so I look,
Speaker 1: you know, on your phone, you can see when somebody
Speaker 1: reads the message, and he read the message and I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for a reply. I'm I'm waiting, thank you. You
Speaker 1: know that nothing new phone? Who it is? Right? I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no response, And I'm like, oh, you know, fuck,
Speaker 1: I just sent a heartfelt message to some number that
Speaker 1: I thought was the right number and it no reply.
Speaker 1: And then I'm debating. You know, there's that awkward situation
Speaker 1: where you're like, should I send a follow up message?
Speaker 1: Should I send a second message? And I almost did.
Speaker 1: I didn't do it, and I was like, what, I mean,
Speaker 1: who does that? Who reads the message? I can see
Speaker 1: that you read the message and you didn't reply, and
Speaker 1: I'm sending I'm spilling my guts out. No man wants
Speaker 1: to do that. And uh, anyway, I forgot about it.
Speaker 1: And then the next day almost twenty four hours later,
Speaker 1: I get a reply. Oh man, I was like freaking out.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is this about? And uh so, anyway, Chris,
Speaker 1: very nice to exchange some messages. But man, I exhaled,
Speaker 1: oh man, what have I done here? Because I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I mean they gonna give me a number.
Speaker 1: They didn't. I mean maybe they gave me the wrong number,
Speaker 1: maybe they had an all number or something like that.
Speaker 1: Now it's funny you tell us this story because a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, I was filling in for Rob
Speaker 1: G on The Odd Couple. Somebody sent me Rob Parker's
Speaker 1: contact so that I could communicate with him back and forth.
Speaker 1: I entered the contact into my phone and during the show,
Speaker 1: I am texting him with all of the callers information,
Speaker 1: like line one through six, here's the caller and and
Speaker 1: I'm like hello and and on the area. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm waiting to hear from Danny G about the phone situation.
Speaker 1: And I'm sending him another text like dude, I just
Speaker 1: sent you all that info and this long change just
Speaker 1: from me, but nothing back from him. Finally, somebody replies
Speaker 1: and they're like, I don't know who the hell this is?
Speaker 1: But please stop texting me? That's great. Yeah. So I
Speaker 1: go into the contact and I look and two numbers
Speaker 1: are listed inside the contact for Rob, and I guess
Speaker 1: the old number is the one that my iPhone triggered
Speaker 1: for the text and spending get to Rob's old cell
Speaker 1: phone number. Oh that's that's bad, man. So somebody already
Speaker 1: got Rob's old number. Yeah, which is great. But imagine
Speaker 1: that person who has his old cell phone number getting
Speaker 1: random text messages about all the callers on which line.
Speaker 1: That's that's hilarious, all the behind the scenes programming notes
Speaker 1: and they're like, the hell is this? Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's great. That's that's wonderful. Well, you know, it's weird.
Speaker 1: Some people have their notefing. Sometimes you text somebody and
Speaker 1: you can't tell whether they read it or not. Right,
Speaker 1: that turned off. But when you have you but it's weird,
Speaker 1: like when you get when you get left on red. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's definitely an uncomfortable feeling. Yeah, especially this because I didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have talked to the person a while.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if it was the right number, and
Speaker 1: then I was like, oh boy, all right, what are
Speaker 1: we doing all right, let's do a little We have
Speaker 1: a little time left, Danny, so let's do some pop quiz.
Speaker 1: Are you ready Danny g for a Mallard podcast, the
Speaker 1: fifth hour edition of pop Quiz. Let's do it all right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna let it rip. And again the whole point
Speaker 1: of the bit, I'm gonna ask Danny the question. I
Speaker 1: have the answers here. This is stuff I found from
Speaker 1: the internet, and then Danny can answer it. You can
Speaker 1: answer it as well, and we'll see who does better.
Speaker 1: So a new survey Danny finds that fifty nine percent
Speaker 1: of Americans planned to do this more in two What
Speaker 1: is it? Planned to do this more? Yeah, more of
Speaker 1: this make babies, make babies. Well, I'm sure we all
Speaker 1: would love to do more practice on that, but uh no,
Speaker 1: I should say practice making practic not a game. Not
Speaker 1: a game, not a game. We're talking about practice. But no.
Speaker 1: Spending time with family and friends boring, isn't that? Shouldn't
Speaker 1: that be the same every year? Doesn't know? People say
Speaker 1: that every year? But but haven't we all kind of
Speaker 1: spent too much time with our family and friends the
Speaker 1: last couple of years with the COVID stuff, certainly in
Speaker 1: maybe not as much in And I guess it depends
Speaker 1: what state you're in. Yes, that's true, and yeah, well
Speaker 1: we live you have much more time to spend with
Speaker 1: your your relatives. A new survey finds Americans are expected
Speaker 1: to spend more on this here in two than they
Speaker 1: did way back in. Yes, let's say you're gonna buy
Speaker 1: more truck. Uh no, it's gone. You spend more money
Speaker 1: on vacation travel. Okay, r are you are you having?
Speaker 1: Do you have any big vacation plans this year? Not yet?
Speaker 1: Not yet, No, But my tender RONI is definitely a planner.
Speaker 1: Loves to go on little getaways. I like to get
Speaker 1: out of town too, so looking forward to going somewhere.
Speaker 1: But things are kind of strange out there right now.
Speaker 1: With this latest variant, I had the latest feel. Yes
Speaker 1: you did, Thank God you didn't die, and that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing. More people might be getting it, but way
Speaker 1: less people are dying, thank god. Yeah, it's like a
Speaker 1: point four percent mortality rate. I think you're in pretty
Speaker 1: good shape. But that should be the slogan for travel agencies. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying. Like this year, I think I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: back on a plane for the first time since en
Speaker 1: I've been on a plane in the the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Supposed to go to North Carolina for a wedding and
Speaker 1: that's like the Outer Banks, and we have listeners in
Speaker 1: North Carolina. It's like the Outer Banks, which is out
Speaker 1: in the boondocks of North Carolina. Uh, there's a wedding
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to go to, which is I think it's
Speaker 1: actually like closer to Virginia than it is, like the
Speaker 1: meat and potatoes in North Carolina. Uh. And then I've
Speaker 1: also been and talks to go back to Kansas City
Speaker 1: for kind of an appearance thing in Kansas. I might
Speaker 1: go back. They're nothing confirmed on Kansas City. And I
Speaker 1: still I'm trying to get to Minnesota. I mean, so
Speaker 1: I have I have big plans. I don't know if
Speaker 1: any of this is actually gonna happen. The wedding will happen,
Speaker 1: because I think that's March or May. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It starts with an M one of those M months
Speaker 1: when paid deposits are involved, you know that date's gonna happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no going back in and plus the wife really
Speaker 1: wants to go, so there's a I'm I could conceivably stay,
Speaker 1: but I'd get in a lot of trouble, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying That I get said I gotta stay
Speaker 1: and hold down the ford. But then that would that
Speaker 1: would cause a different set of problems. Seventy nine percent
Speaker 1: danny of Americans surveyed believed that this food best leftovers. Now,
Speaker 1: I hate leftovers generally speaking, other than pizza, hate leftovers.
Speaker 1: But they say this food makes the best leftovers. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say Italian, Italian, and that time is not right
Speaker 1: little pasta because the flavors. Yeah, the flavors really sit
Speaker 1: into a pasta when you've heat it up the next day,
Speaker 1: it could be absolutely delicious. Now, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: But the answer they gave here is soup. Soup soup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know either. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big soup person. It's not a meal to me. It's
Speaker 1: just an appetizer. Yeah, I agree, it's an appetizer good
Speaker 1: like French onion soup is not. I mean, I I'm
Speaker 1: more into a nod chicken soup. When I I was
Speaker 1: sick the last couple weeks with the COVID, so I
Speaker 1: had a lot of chicken soup, chicken broth. You know.
Speaker 1: For me growing up Jewish, matzo ball soup is a
Speaker 1: big deal. But I'm not like I can go the
Speaker 1: rest of my life without soup. And I'm okay. Tomato
Speaker 1: bisque with a grilled cheese not not bad. Yeah sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But when somebody says, because my mom used to pull
Speaker 1: this when I was a little kid, all right, dinner's
Speaker 1: on the table, and she would have a big thing
Speaker 1: of tomato soup on the middle of the table with
Speaker 1: crackers and stuff like that, I'm like, that's not a meal.
Speaker 1: You're like, where's the main event. That's the that's the
Speaker 1: pregame show. Where's the main where's the main event? Yeah,
Speaker 1: soup is not a main event. I'm sorry. Even like
Speaker 1: my mom used to make lentil soup, which is a
Speaker 1: really thick I hated it. I couldn't stand it, but
Speaker 1: she loved especially when it's cold, she'd make lentil soup.
Speaker 1: And I didn't really like she loved it. So go
Speaker 1: to the habachi grill. I do like that miso soup.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, you know, yeah, again, that's the pregame
Speaker 1: before you get to the lobster and the shrimp. There's
Speaker 1: a as an Italian wedding something soup that's pretty good, Neste.
Speaker 1: Now we're just talking about soup. Now we're just being
Speaker 1: a whole riff. We don't like soup, but we we
Speaker 1: just named a bunch of soup. French onion, mots of
Speaker 1: ball soup, chicken soup, the wedding soup, the Italian soup,
Speaker 1: the tomatoes. There's a lot of there's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of soups out there, Daddy, Yeah, turned into a Seinfeld episode.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna end up as the old guys going
Speaker 1: to the soup plantation? Still around that place? No, it's not.
Speaker 1: COVID shut it down. Yeah, and uh we were. I
Speaker 1: say we because my my girl, before I even met her,
Speaker 1: she agreed. She used to go there a lot too.
Speaker 1: I probably bumped into her there. Back in the day.
Speaker 1: That was a go to place in Camario, California. They
Speaker 1: had this big soup plantation. You'd go in there, get
Speaker 1: the slices of pizza and the different breads and the
Speaker 1: different muffins and stuff like that corn bread, and then
Speaker 1: they had an assortment of some really good soups. But
Speaker 1: you see they had all the sides to go with it.
Speaker 1: Well that's the key. You fill up on the pizza
Speaker 1: and the bread and all that stuff. And yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: all right, well face style COVID killed it. Here, it
Speaker 1: killed it, but I think elsewhere it's lucky bastards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: eleven percent of women, that's a small percent of women
Speaker 1: have turned down a dude for a date because of this.
Speaker 1: It is danny. What would a woman turn a date
Speaker 1: down from a guy for eleven percent? It's a small percent,
Speaker 1: so because of the way he dressed. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like that. But it's too many tattoos, Like there's apparently
Speaker 1: there's a limit on body art. And then if you've
Speaker 1: crossed for some women, if you crossed that line, you
Speaker 1: know women at will be honest. Here the stereotype is
Speaker 1: like like to change men, and you can't change the tattoo.
Speaker 1: It's very hard to change the tattoo, right, that's forever.
Speaker 1: So if you're not a fan of the tattoo, but
Speaker 1: some women love the tective, they're all about the tattoome.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, thank goodness, Mike gender roon
Speaker 1: he loves tattoos, because I do have a lot of
Speaker 1: tattoos you like the body and I heard it's addictive.
Speaker 1: I remember there's a guy Alex we had I had
Speaker 1: on a podcast couple months ago, Alex, and he just
Speaker 1: started getting tattoos and he loves it. He's like he
Speaker 1: wants to get a whole sleeve on his arm, like
Speaker 1: he's and he spent hours. How many hours have you
Speaker 1: spent in tattoo parlor day and to getting your your
Speaker 1: body artwork done? I had a cover up on my
Speaker 1: chest because when I was younger, the ink and the
Speaker 1: art faded and I'm like, okay, let me, let me
Speaker 1: work to make this right. He literally took me all
Speaker 1: of last year to get my chest fixed, forty hours
Speaker 1: in the chair. It was a Russian lady who started
Speaker 1: to cover up and Ben, she was heavy handed that needle.
Speaker 1: It felt like she was pressing it into my heart.
Speaker 1: I've never never gotten a tattoo, but I am. I
Speaker 1: remember like driving around tattoo shops like how do these
Speaker 1: people stay in business? Now? Are there enough people getting tattoos?
Speaker 1: But then, as you said, you have to go back
Speaker 1: and there's other things. You know, it's not there's maintenance
Speaker 1: involved with the tattoo. It's not you. If it's a
Speaker 1: good artist, they market themselves through social media and then
Speaker 1: they signed people up ahead of time on their calendar.
Speaker 1: If it's a really good artist, they have a waiting
Speaker 1: time of a couple of months at least. Wow. Al right.
Speaker 1: Next one up on pop was nearly six in ten women,
Speaker 1: so almost six believe a marriage proposal. This is close
Speaker 1: to your heart day, just did this? A marriage proposal
Speaker 1: should include this crying? No, I'm kidding, should include the
Speaker 1: man getting on his knee. Uh no, actually, well, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that's probably more than six out of ten women
Speaker 1: because that's a girl watching a movie a disneygram. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: trained to the age, but asking for the parents blessing,
Speaker 1: I asked you for the parents. Now I didn't do that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you did it, but I did not.
Speaker 1: But my my wife really wanted to get married anyway,
Speaker 1: so she kind of encouraged me. So I felt like
Speaker 1: since she wanted to get married, I think she didn't
Speaker 1: need me to do the whole you know, the proper
Speaker 1: old school, you know. And and her I get along
Speaker 1: with her mom and dad, my in laws, and they're
Speaker 1: they're great people. But I didn't like ask for refermission.
Speaker 1: I didn't either, and the reason why I was I
Speaker 1: didn't want to chance to surprise getting ruined. And also,
Speaker 1: like you said, I knew from meeting them that they
Speaker 1: approved and liked me. So at that point, you know,
Speaker 1: that's all you kind of need. I'm like, well, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be happy, they're not gonna be mad. I love
Speaker 1: you killed me, all right, we I think we have
Speaker 1: time for one more and then we have to get
Speaker 1: out of here. This food is thrown away more than
Speaker 1: any other in the United States. What is it? Was
Speaker 1: the number one food that is thrown away? You like
Speaker 1: this answer? Ranch? Well that should be that should be
Speaker 1: the answer, but unfortunately it's not. It is the banana
Speaker 1: O I see, because they're time sensitive. Yeah, well, but
Speaker 1: you can make banana bread when when banana it shows
Speaker 1: it's you know, deterioration obviously changes coloring. But you can
Speaker 1: make banana bread and banana it's great. But people will
Speaker 1: usually just apparently throw them away. I was just gonna say,
Speaker 1: I think that's one thing people say, but then they
Speaker 1: don't really mean it. My mom would always be like, oh,
Speaker 1: just leave those old bananas there. I'm gonna make banana bread.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, she wound up throwing them all away. Yeah no, no,
Speaker 1: that's true. It sounds good. You're you're right. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things that sounds good to day. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make banana bread, but then there's a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: bullshit you have to do to make banana bread. I
Speaker 1: got it all over me. And who wants to put
Speaker 1: up with the bullshit? Right? So you don't want to
Speaker 1: bother with it? And so yeah, anyway, alright, very good.
Speaker 1: We will have a mail bag podcast. If you did
Speaker 1: not hear the Friday podcast, go back downloaded football football football,
Speaker 1: you get your football fixed, uh and all that. And
Speaker 1: you can follow both of us on Twitter. I'm at
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard Danny G Radio right on on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Danny G Radio, Go Raiders. Big game today, wonderful and
Speaker 1: we will catch it tomorrow. That's right. Flan