Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everyway, and welcome in to the extra crispy,
Speaker 1: extra spicy Fifth Hour, every f and day here at
Speaker 1: the Sweatshop, the audio sweatshop that we hang out at. Myself,
Speaker 1: Big Ben, and my radio brother from a different mother,
Speaker 1: Danny G Radio. You hear him with Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: during the week. You hear me on the original recipe
Speaker 1: Ben Mahler Show, which is going to be back later tonight.
Speaker 1: This the eighteenth day of August, this Sunday, Happy National
Speaker 1: Faheata Day. I will put my fijetas up against anyone's
Speaker 1: fihetas on the Mallard griddle. A lot of work to
Speaker 1: make proper fihetas, but when done right, wonderful, absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1: It is also bad Poetry Day. So celebrate appropriately. Isn't
Speaker 1: all poetry bad poetry? Is that shot? Is that unacceptable?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's unacceptable because Tupac wrote a book of poems
Speaker 3: and there's some poetry that's turned into some great music
Speaker 3: over the years.
Speaker 1: Everything with you goes back to Tupac. It's always back
Speaker 1: to Tupac.
Speaker 3: It is are you're going to be.
Speaker 1: Tupac again when Halloween comes around? Your wife retired that
Speaker 1: Tupac mask, right, that was always your go to.
Speaker 3: Oh, she didn't have anything to do with that. Going away.
Speaker 3: Last Halloween, I couldn't find the mask because I wrap
Speaker 3: it up and bubble wrap to protect it and hide
Speaker 3: it in the garage, and Halloween I couldn't find where
Speaker 3: I hit it.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was what happened.
Speaker 3: Do you ever do that where you want to keep
Speaker 3: something safe so you hide it so well that you
Speaker 3: can't find it.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I have moved a couple times in the
Speaker 1: last ten years, and it I still haven't found things.
Speaker 1: There are things I remember packing up and making a
Speaker 1: big deal about it so I wouldn't lose it. And
Speaker 1: I need to find a treasure map to find it
Speaker 1: because I don't know where it is.
Speaker 3: It's the worst effing feeling, because the whole reason you
Speaker 3: go to such great lengths you don't want anything to
Speaker 3: happen to it, and you wind up losing it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it sucks.
Speaker 1: Well, roses are red virus of blue, and I can
Speaker 1: find stuff better than you.
Speaker 3: Is that I thought you were going to bumst out
Speaker 3: a Tupac poem, the Rose that grew through the concrete.
Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you my favorite story with poetry
Speaker 1: does involve does involve Steve di Seger, And you know
Speaker 1: that story. It's one of the all time great stories.
Speaker 1: I don't know, do we want to get into it here.
Speaker 3: But it involved a quick version.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give you the quick version. So we had
Speaker 1: this great caller, like the male Genie meant for Jimmy
Speaker 1: Ray from Tampa Bay. Oh, I love that man, Rest
Speaker 1: in piece, Jimmy Ray. So, Jimmy Ray died years ago,
Speaker 1: and a friend of his emailed me and said, listen,
Speaker 1: Jimmy loved your show. And you know he's really sick,
Speaker 1: and he had an alcohol problem the last couple of
Speaker 1: years of his life, and you know, you give this
Speaker 1: a really wonderful message about how the show really kept
Speaker 1: him going. He loved the show, and he was a
Speaker 1: character on the show and made me feel really good.
Speaker 1: And he said, you didn't know this about Jimmy, but
Speaker 1: Jimmy liked to write little poems, and so we thought
Speaker 1: it would be a great tribute if you could read
Speaker 1: some of his poetry on the air as a tribute.
Speaker 1: So I'll give you the rest of the story in
Speaker 1: a minute, as Paul Harty was saying, but I read
Speaker 1: the poetry on the air, and I think Jimmy would
Speaker 1: appreciate this. If there's if he's behind the pearly gates,
Speaker 1: if there's an afterlife, and somehow hears about this. So
Speaker 1: I read the poetry. Was it was absolutely horrible. It
Speaker 1: was my God, was it bad?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: But I knew that this was I knew this was
Speaker 1: important to the friends of Jimmy Ray. So I read it.
Speaker 1: And in the middle of me, in the middle of
Speaker 1: me reading the poetry, I was working with the great
Speaker 1: Steve de Seger. I love to sega when my great
Speaker 1: radio people, wonderful person. So in the middle list the
Speaker 1: saga interrupts and he he does the old Broses are
Speaker 1: read by this of blue. And I can write poetry
Speaker 1: better than Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay. Uh. Well, the
Speaker 1: rest of the story is the reason the friends wanted
Speaker 1: me to read the poetry is because they were recording
Speaker 1: the show to play at Jimmy Ray's funeral.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't feel bad now about that time we
Speaker 3: got called to the principal's office for talking about Steve Disager.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about, but uh, Danny,
Speaker 1: I I kept trying to sell. I was like, Steve,
Speaker 1: you know, but I to say. He's like, in his defense,
Speaker 1: he said, well, you didn't tell me that before. I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I did, just I was kind of
Speaker 1: why would.
Speaker 3: I read this?
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's like anyway. But uh, I can
Speaker 1: only imagine what it must have been like at that
Speaker 1: memorial service when they played.
Speaker 3: You think that anybody in the family was good at
Speaker 3: editing audio?
Speaker 1: Uh, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just oh my god, it was that's my that's
Speaker 1: bad poetry right there.
Speaker 3: That is uncle had one of the early versions of Adobe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Oh, Danny, one of those I want to
Speaker 1: get away moments, you know Southwest Airlines want to get away,
Speaker 1: want to get far, far far away. Oh, before we
Speaker 1: get into the mailbag. A programming note. I I said
Speaker 1: last week, Hey, I'm back for the long haul. The company, though,
Speaker 1: has other ideas. They have other ideas. So I will
Speaker 1: be back tonight in the audio Dojo. I will be
Speaker 1: on Tomorrow night, Monday into Tuesday on the Audio Dojo,
Speaker 1: and then Tuesday and Wednesday I will not be on
Speaker 1: because we are going to do a cross promotion. I
Speaker 1: have been called in out of the bullpen the rare
Speaker 1: and appropriate, rare and appropriate Maler fill in. I will
Speaker 1: be working with my friend Rob Parker sound the Alarm.
Speaker 1: I'll be in the Chris Broussard chair, and that'll be
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, so I will be in there much.
Speaker 3: Earlier, balling on a budget Brothers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Benny the brother Racist. What time is that is that?
Speaker 1: What time is that show? Seven o'clock Eastern? I don't
Speaker 1: even know.
Speaker 3: It comes on right after Covino and Rich.
Speaker 1: Okay, so like seven to ten? Is that? Am I
Speaker 1: correct on that? Seven to ten eastern, four to seven Pacific?
Speaker 1: I think I'm right on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm right.
Speaker 1: So that'll be Tuesday. Robbie the Mark at three hours,
Speaker 1: Robbie the Marina Fan is supposed to be in on
Speaker 1: Monday hanging out with us. So yeah, this week and
Speaker 1: then I'll be back the next day on the Overnight show.
Speaker 1: So just one day cameo with Rob Parker, Rob Parker,
Speaker 1: so that'll be.
Speaker 3: Coming to park Sports Radio logo on it.
Speaker 1: And you're you hear the podcast. You're getting that. No
Speaker 1: one else has it. I didn't announce that. I didn't
Speaker 1: say that on the Overnight show. So you're getting that
Speaker 1: because you're a pee wow.
Speaker 3: And now are you coming into the studio? Are you
Speaker 3: going to do this from your home studio.
Speaker 1: The remote studio? That's a game time decision. I do
Speaker 1: not know, but I'm thinking about going in there. But
Speaker 1: then I'm also thinking about, well, wait a minute, what's
Speaker 1: the traffic situation and and all that. So we'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll see what the traffic is, and then if it's reasonable,
Speaker 1: I might come in. If not, I'll just crank on
Speaker 1: the remote studio and we'll be on our way. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the mail bag. Ohio Wow, it's this mail
Speaker 1: bag all right, thank you very much, the great Ohio.
Speaker 2: Al.
Speaker 1: These are actual letters by actual listeners who want to
Speaker 1: send a question to the esteemed panel. On the fifth
Speaker 1: Army and Danny g you can send that to Real
Speaker 1: fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Alf from the Malard Militia headquarters. Right sin,
Speaker 1: he says, is there any truth of the rumor Gagon
Speaker 1: decided to update your computer during the Mailbag podcast recording
Speaker 1: session from Las Vegas. That's right, Danny, we had a
Speaker 1: podcast catastrophe that took place. Very unfortunate, Danny, very unfortunate.
Speaker 3: Well, I wouldn't call it a catastrophe because I received
Speaker 3: several messages saying listeners loved the great moments in Malor's
Speaker 3: show history. In fact, in its entirety, I played the
Speaker 3: Malor Mountain of Money where your boy from Fremont, California,
Speaker 3: Andrew killed two people. As Carson Palmer, your natural hysterical
Speaker 3: laugh is one of the best ever on radio, and
Speaker 3: you were hysterically laughing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I had another one of those moments this week, Nanny,
Speaker 1: and I hope we can play that on the podcast here. So,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard about He's probably didn't
Speaker 1: because you're you know, you're working a different shift. But
Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton calls up the last Hour. Now, the
Speaker 1: great thing about dick. That sounds dirty. But the thing
Speaker 1: that I enjoy about his calling the show the Dixter
Speaker 1: is he doesn't listen to the show, but he loves
Speaker 1: the show. It's fascinating. He loves being a character on
Speaker 1: the show, but he does not like like actually listening
Speaker 1: to the show. So we've been kicking around is Mallard
Speaker 1: Meet and Greed? And in fact, on this podcast we
Speaker 1: have been given an all offer to have a Mather
Speaker 1: Meet and Greed in in Ohio. We've we've talked about
Speaker 1: this and a gentleman and his his girlfriend this this
Speaker 1: bar in Columbus. Zach has offered the hostess. He's like
Speaker 1: a big shot there at the bar and it's a
Speaker 1: it's a hockey bar for the Blue Jackets and they
Speaker 1: do very well, and so it's it's really colose. He
Speaker 1: offered to host it and nothing scheduled, but we were
Speaker 1: like twenty twenty five fact, I told my wife this
Speaker 1: was Jack contacted me before the Charleston Meet and Greed
Speaker 1: and he's he's the guy that he told us the story.
Speaker 1: But I remember he was sleeping and in the dark,
Speaker 1: and he like he was walking around with naked and
Speaker 1: his wife, sisters saw his twigging berries and all I
Speaker 1: remember that.
Speaker 3: I remember that, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, quite quite the characters that I like this guy.
Speaker 1: So he offered to host it, and I'm like, I'm in, Zach,
Speaker 1: I want to do it. I just if football season's
Speaker 1: very difficult to get to Ohio, so probably have to
Speaker 1: do it either in the spring of twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: or somewheer in the summer, depending on other things. So
Speaker 1: we were talking about on the air, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, we were kicking around after we were talking
Speaker 1: about Vegas, like what should we do the next meet
Speaker 1: and reading. In the course of the conversation, Ohio came up,
Speaker 1: and so then Dick in Dayton's on around that time,
Speaker 1: and Coop and some of the guys were like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, what do you want to go to Ohio?
Speaker 1: You know, there's nothing to really do in Ohio. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you talking about? There's stuff to
Speaker 1: do in Ohio. I believe there's stuff to do everywhere.
Speaker 1: So I'm talking to Dick and date. I hope Zach
Speaker 1: heard this. I don't know if here it. We're probably
Speaker 1: hope we can play it again here Danny. So I
Speaker 1: in my head. I said, Okay, Dick and Dayton loves Ohio.
Speaker 1: He thinks of it like a country and that you
Speaker 1: need a passport to leave Ohio. Like he never goes
Speaker 1: anywhere other than Ohio. So he would be the perfect
Speaker 1: guy to sing the praises and be part of the
Speaker 1: marching and Chowder Society for Ohio. So I was like, Dick,
Speaker 1: tell I forget exactly what I said, was like talk
Speaker 1: about all the great things in Ohio. And at that
Speaker 1: very moment, without missing a beat, Dick and Dayton, without pausing,
Speaker 1: all right, have a good night or something like that,
Speaker 1: he ends the call. It was it was hilarious, dying.
Speaker 1: It was so so wonderful. I want to we can
Speaker 1: play that. He would be wonderful because it's one of
Speaker 1: the great moments. I want to say, either Sunday or Monday,
Speaker 1: the last hour of the show, in near the middle
Speaker 1: part of the last hour, Dick and Dayton just just
Speaker 1: just absolutely great.
Speaker 3: I will find that.
Speaker 1: Alf also says, I need to preface my second question
Speaker 1: with an apology to Danny g Radio. Some high ranking
Speaker 1: officials and the militia have questions regarding the total number
Speaker 1: of your nicknames. So can we get a rundown of
Speaker 1: your entire list of your nicknames and the total number
Speaker 1: to celebrate your new affiliate.
Speaker 3: Oh oh crap, Ben, you're breaking up just like you
Speaker 3: did in Vegas.
Speaker 1: No no, I think. I think we're good and we're
Speaker 1: on now the FM dow the fan in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: our newest affiliate, and in honor of that, I am
Speaker 1: known as the spin breaking No no no, the spin
Speaker 1: Master of misinformation, the banning broadcaster.
Speaker 3: This isn't that the number one station anymore?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: I've been called the Beethoven of BS, Tremussion of commentary,
Speaker 1: the Chasm of sarcasm, the Czar of zany. They could
Speaker 1: stop the Dark Knight, a weak night radio, Mogo of mischief,
Speaker 1: Benny the brazen King of zaying moneyball Maller, Benny the bopper,
Speaker 1: that's when I play baseball.
Speaker 3: No one has ever called you moneyball Mallard.
Speaker 1: Oh no, they have assaulted of insultant, the Shaman of Schotenfreude,
Speaker 1: sensitive sniffer, jumping jack of wisecrack, insight of overnight medicine
Speaker 1: man Mallard. Wow, Oh my Neighbob of negativity, Sage of outrage,
Speaker 1: the pinnacle of Cynical, the Prince of preposterous, Professor of propaganda.
Speaker 1: His are hyperbole, the floating turd of the spoken word,
Speaker 1: and the mad Hatter of sports chatter. Now that's only
Speaker 1: half my nicknames.
Speaker 3: Now that floating turd one is actually pretty good. You
Speaker 3: like that?
Speaker 1: The floating turd of the spoken word? Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: So I see you're approving, You're you're coming around. You're
Speaker 1: warming up to that.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I liked one out of one hundred.
Speaker 1: Okay, well here, but wait, there's more. There's a weight,
Speaker 1: there's more. Remember the guy were you with me?
Speaker 3: I tell you what. Why don't we do the rest
Speaker 3: of the nicknames on the six hour? No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no? Were you with me when we tried
Speaker 1: to get Rompo peel on? And then he? Were you
Speaker 1: with me at that time? And then he blew? And
Speaker 1: then he dropped dead? Anyway, but wait, there's more.
Speaker 3: Uh are you saying we're all gonna drop dead for
Speaker 3: hearing the names?
Speaker 1: Well, eventually we will all drop it. A Baron of Baldadash,
Speaker 1: big gall Bladder, Venice, the Menace, Captain knee Jerk, the
Speaker 1: Duke of the north Woods, General of Degenerates, Tycoon of Tea's,
Speaker 1: Master of Disaster, Hustler of filibuster, night Light of Nightlife,
Speaker 1: Humbler of producers, Benny Brightside, Manatee of insanity, Marconi Maller.
Speaker 1: I was impressed by the size, but I'm not gonna lie, Danny.
Speaker 1: That was a big cock moneyline. Mallard, masshole, mallar a
Speaker 1: mass whole. Mickey gave me that nickname. Emissary of Embellishment,
Speaker 1: weak Night, Windbag, Wizard of Wacky, Slayer of Naysayers, Grand
Speaker 1: Goober of gab the Ola, Dark of Dark, Tower of
Speaker 1: babbel On, honest to Donnis, Nocturnal Colonel, the Underdog of monologue,
Speaker 1: and the Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope.
Speaker 3: You get away from me. Oh look at that, the
Speaker 3: show's over.
Speaker 1: Good night everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah that was brief.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I lost track. I stopped counting alf so you'll
Speaker 1: have to go back and play that back and count
Speaker 1: how many they are. Barry in South Carolina and this
Speaker 1: is the guy he used to live in Nashville. I
Speaker 1: met Beret the Charleston meet and read. Very nice man,
Speaker 1: he says, Yo yo Ma. Benny and Danny g was
Speaker 1: away all last week in London, found the real Big Ben. Actually,
Speaker 1: I found out that Big Ben is the bell which
Speaker 1: you can't see. The tower that everyone refers to as
Speaker 1: Big Ben is actually the Elizabeth Tower. There's a fun fact.
Speaker 1: It is a fun fact. Did you know that?
Speaker 3: Never never even heard that I had not.
Speaker 1: That's good information and that proves what we talked about
Speaker 1: the man that shot Liberty Balance Danny. When the legend
Speaker 1: becomes the fact, you go with the legend. And the
Speaker 1: legend is that building, for those of us around the world,
Speaker 1: is Big Ben. The fact that it's actually the Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Tower does not matter because for our purposes it is
Speaker 1: Big Ben. That's the legend. It is become the fact.
Speaker 1: And when the legend becomes the fact, you go with.
Speaker 3: So. Yeah, like in the nineties when all my coworkers
Speaker 3: spread a story about me banging some chick in the studio.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure that happened or not, but it became
Speaker 3: a fat And yeah, those those people, I hear from
Speaker 3: them on Facebook sometimes and they're like, remember what you
Speaker 3: did in the studio, And I was like, remember nothing
Speaker 3: about what I did talking on the radio, only about
Speaker 3: what they thought I did behind the scenes in a studio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you'd also do it. Well, if it didn't happen,
Speaker 1: it probably should happen. You know, it might not have happened,
Speaker 1: but it probably should have happened. So whether it happened
Speaker 1: or not, you know that year there was.
Speaker 3: A blondie there, but I just gave her a tour
Speaker 3: and then she left.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was plutonic or platonic or whatever.
Speaker 3: There you go. So it dropped off some bottled water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. That's the ticket, right, that's the ticket.
Speaker 1: What else? Barry also says I raised the question what
Speaker 1: international city is on your most want to visit list?
Speaker 1: Barry says, I highly recommend London was fabulous and the
Speaker 1: museums are free and amazing. That sounds good. I really
Speaker 1: had never wanted to go anywhere other than America, But
Speaker 1: as I've gotten older, I'm like, I'm more. My wife
Speaker 1: really wants to go to Italy and the Netherlands and whatnot,
Speaker 1: so and she would like to do it the next
Speaker 1: couple of years. So is there anywhere in particular? Not really.
Speaker 1: Part of me wants to go to New Zealand because
Speaker 1: I did radio there for a long time. I have
Speaker 1: a friend Darcy walder Grave who's a big talk show
Speaker 1: host in New Zealand. So it would be kind of
Speaker 1: cool to hang out with Darcy and have him show
Speaker 1: me around as a native of New Zealand. That would
Speaker 1: be cool. But then I think, like, why would you
Speaker 1: fly all that time in New Zealand's probably just like
Speaker 1: going into like Malibu or something, and I can drive
Speaker 1: to Malibu.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: You know and all that. But I've loved these malle
Speaker 1: meet and greets. You know Dale, the guy, the great
Speaker 1: listener Dale in South Carolina who put together the Charleston
Speaker 1: Meet and greet. It was great meeting him, and I wondered, like,
Speaker 1: could we get a meet and beat? Do we have
Speaker 1: enough listeners? And you're in like London. We have a
Speaker 1: fair amount of people that contact me from London. Cand
Speaker 1: we have a meet and greeting. That'd be crazy to
Speaker 1: do one in London. And but then it'd be just
Speaker 1: nice to see other parts of the world, like Italy.
Speaker 1: Although I don't think i'd like the authentic Italian food.
Speaker 1: I like the American version of Italian food, so I
Speaker 1: don't know that I like real Italian food, but it
Speaker 1: may cool. My my wife's grandfather who passed away a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. It was named Luigi from from Italy.
Speaker 1: Authentic Italian dude. It'd be kind of cool to see
Speaker 1: where he grew up because we became friends near the
Speaker 1: end of his life, and so that would be that
Speaker 1: would be neat. So yeah, verry the food and how's
Speaker 1: the food in line after the Food's not very good,
Speaker 1: but I'd probably love it because it's my kind of food.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, fish and I was just going to say,
Speaker 3: you like chicken tenders, so I could see you eating
Speaker 3: fish and chips.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably, so probably, So Ozzie was speaking of international
Speaker 1: Ozzie was right. Sin from Western Australia says my mate's
Speaker 1: big men and Danny gees. Sorry, I have not interacted
Speaker 1: with you guys for a bit. Still listening. Just super
Speaker 1: busy with work, doing thirteen hour days and home life,
Speaker 1: so let's get into it, says living where we do,
Speaker 1: it's about an hour away from a big supermarket. We
Speaker 1: do a monthly shop for groceries. Think about that. We
Speaker 1: do get all of our meat like pork, lamb and
Speaker 1: beef fresh from the farm. So we have two freezers
Speaker 1: and three fridges and yes, one is a beer fridge.
Speaker 1: You got to live up to the Australian lifestyle. Ozzie
Speaker 1: was all the way. You can't be called Ozzie Wash
Speaker 1: if you don't have a refrigerator just filled with beer.
Speaker 1: You cannot have that. You can't have that name if
Speaker 1: you don't have that. He says, how many do you
Speaker 1: guys have in the Malar Mansion and the Danny g Castle.
Speaker 1: So we actually have We have a few. We don't
Speaker 1: need them. We have a freezer we got for long
Speaker 1: term frozen meats and stuff, like one of those black
Speaker 1: you know, the small freezers that you can get. You
Speaker 1: uould be able to get them for like one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Now they're probably two hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of those.
Speaker 1: We have a refrigerator, and then when my father passed away,
Speaker 1: we inherited his refrigerator. So we have three, well two refrigerators,
Speaker 1: and then that's like a combo with the freezer, and
Speaker 1: then we have one just freezer. But yeah, we have three.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny?
Speaker 3: So my eight oh five beer is in the fridge
Speaker 3: downstairs in the garage that is like the flow over
Speaker 3: freezer slash fridge. The older refrigerator and then the new
Speaker 3: refrigerator is in the kitchen. Okay, so you got a
Speaker 3: couple may sure too that because I'm not fancy like
Speaker 3: you with your ice cube machine or ice maker.
Speaker 1: Gotta get it.
Speaker 3: The one thing from your mansion I was most jealous
Speaker 3: of was your ice machine. This new fridge we got
Speaker 3: has an ice maker, which is nice, but it's no
Speaker 3: Sonic and Chick fil A.
Speaker 1: You have that in the kitchen, Yeah, it's It is
Speaker 1: one of the great things in life. It's one of
Speaker 1: the little joys in life you should get. They're not
Speaker 1: that expense if you use it all the time. I
Speaker 1: use that thing. I love ice water, so I'm drinking water.
Speaker 1: I don't eat a lot, so I drink the water.
Speaker 1: I'm all about the water. But it's pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Ozzy Was also says, ps, do you still want a
Speaker 1: pig to go head to head with Poppy or is
Speaker 1: he calls him Poopy? I can probably arrange that, yeah,
Speaker 1: Ozzy Was. If you're willing to commit, it's a long commitment.
Speaker 1: It's a twenty twenty weeks of NFL football, actually longer
Speaker 1: than that with the playoffs and all. But if you're
Speaker 1: down for it, we can set that up. We have
Speaker 1: to come up with a creative name. Ozzie was his
Speaker 1: pig and Poppy. Yeah, absolutely, if you're serious about that,
Speaker 1: let us know. It sounds like you're letting us know,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny. This one comes from Reggie from Detroit,
Speaker 1: says Ben. What was the fallout from the Pizzagate scandal
Speaker 1: on the show? Did Coop really eat pizza and leave
Speaker 1: the studio during the show or was that a bit
Speaker 1: that's from Reggie. Reggie, first of all, your airport is insane.
Speaker 1: There We talked about that running through the Detroit airport
Speaker 1: this weekend. But yes, we had a Pizzagate scandal, not
Speaker 1: like the one in DC. So we time shifted Mallard
Speaker 1: of the third degree, Danny, and I'm not making this up.
Speaker 1: We didn't do this as a bit, it was it
Speaker 1: happened organically. So the way it works when you time
Speaker 1: shift Mallard of the third degree for ratings purposes, you
Speaker 1: probably know this Reggie from being a listener. So we
Speaker 1: shifted to after the monologue the following out. So I
Speaker 1: will finish the monologue. I will then toss to the
Speaker 1: third degree. I will and be asked a series of
Speaker 1: questions by Coopoloo that's how we do it. So I
Speaker 1: finished the monologue. I've got these bright lights on me
Speaker 1: because they're recording the show for YouTube. I'm a YouTuber influencer, so,
Speaker 1: you know, with the monologue and I just you know,
Speaker 1: muscle memory, I'm like, all right, let's get the mallet
Speaker 1: of the third degree with the kopoloo and the open plays.
Speaker 1: And I look over to the producer's station in the
Speaker 1: other room across the glass and there's no one there.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's just a chair. And then I look
Speaker 1: over the rain as standing where she's supposed to be,
Speaker 1: and there's there's no coup And I'm like, Okay, did
Speaker 1: he have a heart attack. Maybe he's on the floor.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 1: And I think you heard what happened? Reggie Coop had
Speaker 1: left because he was heating up some pizza. He wanted
Speaker 1: to get the pizza, and uh, I guess an extra
Speaker 1: two minutes would have ruined the pizza. That's it. My
Speaker 1: favorite part of this is his response when I said,
Speaker 1: you know, Coop, you maybe should have just left the
Speaker 1: pizza in and done the bit, but I want to
Speaker 1: mount it. And he said, Danny, he deadpanned, it would
Speaker 1: have burned.
Speaker 3: It said when if you have taken your fire compliance,
Speaker 3: your safety compliance online for our building, you would know
Speaker 3: that They tell us we have to stand there with
Speaker 3: our microwave or meal in the toaster oven, whatever we're
Speaker 3: doing in that big, bad blue kitchen. It says that
Speaker 3: you should not ever leave your food unattended while it's cooking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that training did. Now when did you tell I
Speaker 1: just took it like the other.
Speaker 3: Day, like three days ago.
Speaker 1: This is should I should I say the quiet part
Speaker 1: out loud? Should I say the quiet part out loud?
Speaker 3: Or should I no? Do it? Do it?
Speaker 1: Management doesn't listen to this podcas yes, right. So the
Speaker 1: way the training is, they have like an eight or
Speaker 1: a nine minute video and then they have a quiz
Speaker 1: and you have to get one hundred percent right to
Speaker 1: pass the quiz. But I hope you realize what I realized.
Speaker 1: All of these quizzes are for liability. The only reason
Speaker 1: they do that is because you know, if the building
Speaker 1: burns up and we die, you can't sue us because
Speaker 1: you took training and you did the wrong thing, and
Speaker 1: you know it's on you. You're responsible. But I know
Speaker 1: why they do so knowing that, and then I realized
Speaker 1: after the first video, which took eight minutes or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, to play about what they do during an earthquake.
Speaker 1: The next chapter of the training, I didn't watch the video.
Speaker 1: I just went to the quiz because ninety five percent
Speaker 1: of the questions are just obvious, you know what I mean, Dan,
Speaker 1: It's just common sense. I know common sense isn't common,
Speaker 1: but it's just common sense answers. And I got on
Speaker 1: the quiz. I got all all of them right except
Speaker 1: for two. But here's the thing. They told you which
Speaker 1: ones you got wrong, So then you just go back
Speaker 1: and you correct those two and then you're good. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, I didn't I didn't watch any of the
Speaker 1: videos other than the first one, and I got all
Speaker 1: of the quizzes one hundred percent, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you didn't do bad. Then I half watched
Speaker 3: and I only got one incorrect. But you're right. It
Speaker 3: self corrects tells you you have to go back and
Speaker 3: do it over again, but you just repeat all your
Speaker 3: same answers and fix the one you boo booed on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're fine. So what's the point again, It's
Speaker 1: just for liability, that's why they do it. Wayne from
Speaker 1: Cansauh City Rights and he says, Ben, your show is
Speaker 1: now on ninety six point five FM, the Fan in
Speaker 1: Can's I think I did I say that.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: This whole weekend's a blur. Anyway, when he says you're
Speaker 1: on the You're now on ninety six point five the
Speaker 1: Fan in Kansas City rather than six ten sports. It
Speaker 1: is the home of the Royals and the Chiefs. Is
Speaker 1: this a game changer, it says Winn No. I mean
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's a game changer. It's a game
Speaker 1: changer for my my friend Bob Fesco, who does the
Speaker 1: morning show, because I said this, I was the first
Speaker 1: guest on ninety six point five FM the Fan there
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, which was cool on his morning show.
Speaker 1: It's a much bigger deal when you're on FM as
Speaker 1: opposed to AM, and so that's really cool. It doesn't
Speaker 1: change our show because we do the same show whether
Speaker 1: we're on AM or FM, or we get covered up
Speaker 1: because of the Royals or the Chiefs or Kansas or
Speaker 1: Missouri or whoever's on there. So yeah, it's good for them,
Speaker 1: but I don't know game changer. I hope the station
Speaker 1: does very well. I have some friends that work there,
Speaker 1: and yeah, for us, it doesn't really change much other
Speaker 1: than hopefully we have more people that can hear the show.
Speaker 1: In the Kansas City market, there are more people listen
Speaker 1: to FM than AM. But a lot of this these days,
Speaker 1: Danny is based on streaming anywhere. They'll spend some more
Speaker 1: money because it's a new branded station. So I would
Speaker 1: imagine the people over at Odyssey who own that station
Speaker 1: will end up spending more money for billboards and things
Speaker 1: like that, which will trickle down, as Ronald Reagan taught us,
Speaker 1: trickle down economics, and then we'll benefit from some of that.
Speaker 1: Mike and Fullerton rights and he says, how do you do? Ben?
Speaker 1: And Danny g He says, Ben, if you're looking for
Speaker 1: good barbecue in the area, head over to Fullerton. Mike
Speaker 1: and Bulletin says, over the past five years, more than
Speaker 1: thirty new restaurants and bars have opened in Fullerton's so
Speaker 1: Co district. It's been dubbed Bourbon Street West. You ever
Speaker 1: heard that, Danny, Bourbon Street West isn't Fullerton now, he said,
Speaker 1: OC Weekly called it Bourbon Street West. I'm sure you'll
Speaker 1: find what you're looking for there. Notice that Mike did
Speaker 1: not do the legwork to try to find a restaurant
Speaker 1: that serves barbecue. He just said just to go there.
Speaker 1: And then here's the question, he says, And if you
Speaker 1: want to play miniature golf, you don't need to drive
Speaker 1: all the way to Myrtle Beach. We've got that here too.
Speaker 1: Just go to Camelot Golf Land in Fullerton's sister city, Anaheim.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, And he says, do you guys been and
Speaker 1: Danny enjoy playing golf or miniature golf more? I haven't
Speaker 1: done either in a long time. I feel more grown
Speaker 1: up playing golf, but I have more fun playing miniature golf.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you hear about the new place called Swingers that's
Speaker 3: opening at Mandalay Bay in Vegas?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Three stories, forty thousand square feet, thirty six holes, and
Speaker 3: there's going to be bars. It's adults only. It is
Speaker 3: like miniature golf on steroids. It's going to open in November.
Speaker 1: Nice. Where did they put was that behind Mandalay Bay
Speaker 1: where they.
Speaker 3: I don't know it did not say that in the article.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Oh, I didn't get to this in Foody Fun.
Speaker 1: But this will be something that only you and I
Speaker 1: will appreciate. Remember that famous Arby's that closed in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I used to go there when I lived in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: the iconic Arby's on it Hollywood Boulevard there. So it closed,
Speaker 1: and it has reopened as LA's first drive through pizza place.
Speaker 3: Drive through pizza. Yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Actually, it is a good idea, right. And I looked
Speaker 1: at this place and it looks like the food is
Speaker 1: absolutely as the kids say on fire. It just looks
Speaker 1: really good. So next time I'm in Hollywood, I told
Speaker 1: the wife, I said, we got to go. It's called
Speaker 1: Prince Street Pizza. I've not been there, but these mazzarella sticks.
Speaker 1: If anybody listening in LA has been there, they have
Speaker 1: smoked mozzarella sticks. And it's in that old Arby's. They
Speaker 1: still have the Arby's sign in front. But it's called
Speaker 1: Prince Street Pizza and it looks just freaking awesome, just
Speaker 1: freaking awesome. Dummy, I will do a few more Mike
Speaker 1: in Northern Wisconsin, says Ben and Danny. Ben, how ups everyone.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to ask about the drama on the show.
Speaker 1: We had a Pizzagate question. This one's from from Mike.
Speaker 1: He says, how upset you get when the sound doesn't
Speaker 1: get played during your monologue? He said, listening, it sounded
Speaker 1: like your your head was ready to explode. That's from
Speaker 1: Mike in Wisconsin. Yeah, I get, I get, I get
Speaker 1: a upset. There's very little I can't control. You know, Danny,
Speaker 1: you work with me. You know I'm a bit of
Speaker 1: a control freak, right, you know that. But you know
Speaker 1: I like to be in control. I like to be
Speaker 1: in the driver's seat as much as I can, and
Speaker 1: not to get too much into how we make the
Speaker 1: hot dogs. However, there's a cadence. I spent a lot
Speaker 1: of my time getting ready for the show. I spent
Speaker 1: hours trying to find things I think are interesting enough
Speaker 1: to put in a monologue, then try to form ideas
Speaker 1: and put bullet points down for the monologue. I'm always
Speaker 1: trying to come up with different ideas for segments that
Speaker 1: we can talk about on the show. So it's a
Speaker 1: lot of my day. It's my life's work. I am
Speaker 1: such a radio loser. I even find the sound. A
Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize this. I'm the one that
Speaker 1: finds Coop doesn't do any of that I find all
Speaker 1: the sound that we plan on the show, and that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are many reasons for that. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get into that here, but I have to
Speaker 1: find the sound. Normally in big market radio, that's not
Speaker 1: how it works, but I have to do it, so
Speaker 1: fine whatever. You know, most shows it's not like that,
Speaker 1: but that's what I have to do. So to do
Speaker 1: all the legwork to you know, it's my job, but
Speaker 1: to get ready for the show to in my head
Speaker 1: say all right, I'm gonna go from I have a
Speaker 1: point I want to make and then I'm going to
Speaker 1: play off this audio and the key to the monologue
Speaker 1: is the audio, and then I'm going to react to
Speaker 1: the audio and that that's how we're going to do it.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to craft It's like a craftsman, crafting,
Speaker 1: crafting the money monologue. And in my head it just
Speaker 1: plays out perfectly. And yeah, Mike, I was. I was
Speaker 1: pretty upset because I had some sound that I needed
Speaker 1: and I had sent it to Coop, you know, so
Speaker 1: i'd do the legwork. All he has to do is
Speaker 1: give the number to Loraina and then she plays the
Speaker 1: audio and that's how it works. And I tossed to
Speaker 1: the audio. I thought it was pretty good toss. I
Speaker 1: thought I nailed the toss. And I don't hear it,
Speaker 1: and I'm on camera and I look over and to
Speaker 1: my right, in my peripheral vision, I see Lorena, I
Speaker 1: see Coop and Eddie had walked over from his his booth,
Speaker 1: and they're having a really good conversation. I mean, they
Speaker 1: seem like they were really enjoying whatever they were talking about.
Speaker 1: And I felt kind of rude interrupting what they were
Speaker 1: doing because it seemed like they were really enjoying it.
Speaker 1: But then I was like, wait a minute, didn't I
Speaker 1: just throw to a SoundBite and they're talking, they're playing
Speaker 1: grab ass, and so yeah, I got a little I
Speaker 1: got a little upset.
Speaker 3: Danny.
Speaker 1: I apologize, you know, heat of the moment, right, Danny,
Speaker 1: you know these.
Speaker 3: Things, did you call them some names on the air.
Speaker 1: Might have said a few mean things, you know, I
Speaker 1: might have might have stormed out after the show, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, so I didn't say anything I would regret
Speaker 1: that would be involved in hr.
Speaker 3: Lebron Mallard, Oh me.
Speaker 1: Oh no, not at all, not at all. I took
Speaker 1: my purse and I walked off, and I said that's it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so anyway, thank you, thank you, Mike, I Reagie.
Speaker 1: Also thank you for bringing up all all the weak moments.
Speaker 3: On the show. Thank you for making Ben relive all
Speaker 3: of the tragic.
Speaker 1: Moments PTSD from some of these moments. That's quite the story. Anyway.
Speaker 1: A couple more quotes Mike and San Diego says, Hey,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, Ben, when you worked in San Diego,
Speaker 1: do you ever get a chance to meet Ted Lightner
Speaker 1: and the Colonel Jerry Coleman. Yes, I didn't. I was
Speaker 1: around Jerry Coleman actually more then Ted Lightner, Teddy Ball Game.
Speaker 1: I worked for Hacksaw. Ted Lightner was doing an afternoon show.
Speaker 1: He was a rival of Hacksaw and Ted was on
Speaker 1: I think Channel eight in San Diego is the sports guy.
Speaker 1: And I always liked Ted because he was a bullshit guy,
Speaker 1: like I thought, you know, I he is the East
Speaker 1: Coast guy, but I liked his style and he'd say
Speaker 1: my podres and all that. But I was around Jerry Coleman,
Speaker 1: the Colonel many more times. I have some great stories.
Speaker 1: We don't have time to get to them now, but
Speaker 1: there's a story with Jerry Coleman when he was doing
Speaker 1: CBS Radio sports play by play. That is one of
Speaker 1: my top five all time stories in the business and
Speaker 1: involves Jerry Coleman and Jerry couldn't been cool one of
Speaker 1: the old guys at the mighty sixth ninety. Dave Marcus
Speaker 1: is the radio engineer for the San Diego Padres and
Speaker 1: has traveled with the Podreys for like thirty five years
Speaker 1: or something like that, and probably not that one about
Speaker 1: thirty years. And when he used to go to games
Speaker 1: all the time, I'd go out and hang out with
Speaker 1: Dave and sometimes I'd be in the Podres booth. And
Speaker 1: Jerry Coleman could not have been nicer played for the
Speaker 1: New York Yankees back when it matted to play for
Speaker 1: the New York Yankees. And he saw a thing or
Speaker 1: two in his life. And you can hang a star
Speaker 1: on that one, baby, Jerry Coleman. But yeah, I have
Speaker 1: fond memories of that. And also Ted Light. Ted was
Speaker 1: a legend in San Diego too, voice of the He
Speaker 1: was what's the Padres as well, and also San Diego State.
Speaker 1: All right, last one wild Man of Morgan Town. He says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g I was in the Navy for
Speaker 1: twenty two years. When I was in boot camp, I
Speaker 1: remember getting leg cramps at night, and all I could
Speaker 1: do was extend my legs and hold it until it
Speaker 1: went away. Later, I was told to keep yellow mustard
Speaker 1: packets close by if I ever got a cramp, it
Speaker 1: would bring relief. Is there anything to that? Do you
Speaker 1: guys like mustard?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Now do you run My question to you a while, man,
Speaker 1: is do you rub? I've not heard of this. Do
Speaker 1: you rub the mustard on your leg? Or do you
Speaker 1: eat the mustard? I've not heard about that, so I
Speaker 1: can't answer the question. Do I like I don't like
Speaker 1: mustard as a grown up, I'll eat it on a
Speaker 1: hot dog. I'll do ketchup mustard. Ketchup mustard one of
Speaker 1: my costco so I'll eat it like that.
Speaker 3: I looked it up for you. Says there isn't much
Speaker 3: scientific evidence that eating mustard can help prevent or treat
Speaker 3: leg cramps, but some people claim that it can.
Speaker 1: Well some people. That's weasel termino. That's enough, we have
Speaker 1: other Listen to me. I didn't get your question. Send
Speaker 1: it in resubmitted for next week. Hopefully we'll have time
Speaker 1: next week a real fifth hour at.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go rub some gray poupon on my ass.
Speaker 1: Right, you're tushy, I might sting a little bit, all right, Danny,
Speaker 1: thank you. Been a fun weekend and good luck with
Speaker 1: the week here. Any changes I mentioned I'm with Rob
Speaker 1: Parker on Tuesday this week? Are you doing the normal
Speaker 1: strow with Cavino and Rich Any changes this week?
Speaker 3: We are back to our regular programming in the afternoon
Speaker 3: slash early evening.
Speaker 1: All right, very good. I have a wonderful rest of
Speaker 1: your Sunday. I'll be on tonight, back in the audio
Speaker 1: dojo full week, and I'll just be on a little
Speaker 1: different time on Tuesday. But we'll talk to you then.
Speaker 3: A Plasta got a murder. I gotta go.