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Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
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Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny G Radio
Speaker 1: back at it in the podcast Dojo on a Sunday,
Speaker 1: and that means one thing and one thing only. It
Speaker 1: is time to plump up Danny G. Because we are
Speaker 1: about to jump head first into a colossal Bafo sako
Speaker 1: addition of the mailbag, and that means, ohio A, let's
Speaker 1: at ome. It's all right, thank you for that, ohio.
Speaker 1: All these are actual questions sent in by actual listeners.
Speaker 1: I would like to put out we did not get
Speaker 1: the backscratcher yesterday. We ran out of time. It's okay
Speaker 1: because nobody scratched our back, Danny. Not a single person
Speaker 1: scratched our back. Bad job by you. But there's another opportunity.
Speaker 1: This week, And if you want to help us out,
Speaker 1: the podcast page is available, the Apple podcast page, and
Speaker 1: you can write a nice review. We got shut out
Speaker 1: this week. We had a bunch last week. We had
Speaker 1: like four or five last week. This week none. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't really call it a shutout. I would call it
Speaker 1: you being a really bad teacher giving out too much homework. No,
Speaker 1: people are busy voting right now for the biggest award
Speaker 1: show this season, and that is tonight. And if you
Speaker 1: missed the Friday podcast, go back. It is your partner,
Speaker 1: it is your assistant, it is your comrade to walk
Speaker 1: you through batch, your significant other to the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three Bennies which are going to kick off tonight, all
Speaker 1: the awards given out, all the honors. What an amazing night,
Speaker 1: the greatest night of overnight talk radio and sports that
Speaker 1: we have. But so no backscratcher. But let's get to
Speaker 1: the mailbag. We played Ohio, how so we must get
Speaker 1: to the actual questions by actual listeners. Let's get to it.
Speaker 1: The first one, it's from Fred in Spring, Texas. He says, hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: and Danigee. He says, Ben, can you share some of
Speaker 1: your experiences on New Zealand radio. Did you ever visit
Speaker 1: New Zealand? Did you ever master knowledge of cricket or rugby?
Speaker 1: Says Fred So. First of all, I've never been to
Speaker 1: New Zealand. I would love to go to New Zealand.
Speaker 1: I was a correspondent. I was the American correspondent on
Speaker 1: the They had a bunch of international correspondents raio. It
Speaker 1: was called Radio Sport in New Zealand, and I loved it.
Speaker 1: It was great, it was wonderful and all that. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: when COVID came around, that's it. They did not make
Speaker 1: it through COVID. They were casualty. The entire network went
Speaker 1: out of business during COVID. The reason, the real reason
Speaker 1: they went out of business is it cost a lot
Speaker 1: of money and the company that owned Radio Sport no
Speaker 1: longer wanted to spend the amount of money that it takes,
Speaker 1: and so they pulled the plug. They said that's it.
Speaker 1: You know, we're done, And so I lost the gig.
Speaker 1: But I had become good friends with Darcy Waldergrave, who
Speaker 1: was doing the afternoon show and now does but he does.
Speaker 1: He did a morning show. Now he's on the news
Speaker 1: talk station. And the comparison on that would be like
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles you have KFI. In New York you
Speaker 1: have WINS. I don't know if WINS is the right
Speaker 1: example because WINS is just a hard news station. It's
Speaker 1: more of a news talk But anyway, Darcy does a
Speaker 1: show on the weekends which is the number one show
Speaker 1: in New Zealand. It's a morning breakfast show. And I
Speaker 1: still go on with him every once in a while,
Speaker 1: but it's no longer a paying gig. I was getting
Speaker 1: paid to appear on radio sport. I would love to
Speaker 1: go to New Zealand. I have learned that my appearances
Speaker 1: can be preempted by cricket. Cricket goes on forever and
Speaker 1: ever and ever and ever. And I've learned some fun
Speaker 1: facts about people in New Zealand that I didn't know about.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people go on vacation or as
Speaker 1: they call it, holiday to Indonesia. That's a popular spot
Speaker 1: in a few other countries which are obviously not that
Speaker 1: far away, and New Zealand's not close to anything. But
Speaker 1: I did also learn that New Zealand and Australia are
Speaker 1: not all that close. It's a it's a big flight
Speaker 1: to go for it. Seems on the map, Danny, that
Speaker 1: they're right next, but not quite. So it's no surprise
Speaker 1: that they went out of business because here they were
Speaker 1: paying big celebrities like you to come on as a guest. Hey,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something, all right, we have we
Speaker 1: have listeners to this day because of that. On the
Speaker 1: overnight people listen. We're actually on in New Zealand as well,
Speaker 1: which doesn't hurt Marcus in San Antonio writes, and he says, hello,
Speaker 1: Uncle Ben and Daddy, Gee Daddy, and a happy daylight
Speaker 1: savings time to both of you. Growing up as a
Speaker 1: military brat, my childhood was mostly spent overseas in Europe.
Speaker 1: Once we returned to the States, we landed in a
Speaker 1: suburb just outside of Kansas City. This was in the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties and the Royals were at the top of
Speaker 1: their game. They won the World Series in nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: and it was a great season. Upon returning, or upon
Speaker 1: entering rather, the sixth grade, Marcus writes, Upon entering the
Speaker 1: sixth grade, one of my classmates was the son of
Speaker 1: fledgling middle reliever, a guy named Dennis Leonard, and the
Speaker 1: son was a bit on the arrogant side. To say
Speaker 1: the least. His dad wasn't a major part of the Royals,
Speaker 1: but when the Royals lost a game, everyone would give
Speaker 1: him a hard time. Marcus says. My question for you
Speaker 1: guys is have either of you or your family members
Speaker 1: ever had to deal with taking crap from someone because
Speaker 1: of something said on the radio or social media by
Speaker 1: either of you? Marcus says, in today's climate of oversensitive
Speaker 1: people and those who are seeking out any way to
Speaker 1: be offended, I was curious of your experiences. Thanks again
Speaker 1: for your time, and I will be voting for the Bennis,
Speaker 1: he says during his can'tnot wait to hear the winners.
Speaker 1: That's from Marcus in San Antonio. So I don't want
Speaker 1: to speak for you, Danny, but my experience is my
Speaker 1: wife does not really listen that much, so she's kind
Speaker 1: of out of a loop. And she doesn't really do
Speaker 1: social media anymore. She stopped at because she heard of
Speaker 1: some podcast not to do social media, so she stopped
Speaker 1: doing social media. So she's really oblivious to what's going on.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know if that's the right way
Speaker 1: to phrase it, but she's she's not She didn't have
Speaker 1: to worry about this stuff because she's not dealing with it.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny? Yeah, same, my dad facebooks. My
Speaker 1: girl stays off of Twitter and stuff like that. She
Speaker 1: loves Instagram reels. She likes seeing funny videos. That's pretty
Speaker 1: much why she has Instagram on her phone, and I
Speaker 1: can relate to that. That's the same reason I use
Speaker 1: Instagram as far as like arguing with people are saying
Speaker 1: something that gets the family and the weeds. No, my
Speaker 1: older brother is on Twitter, but he's very much a
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson tweeter. He'll tweet stuff like I wish I
Speaker 1: could see this Lakers team all season, so there's nothing
Speaker 1: controversial going on that's funny. Yeah, my dad used to
Speaker 1: listen to everything, well, my mom listening to. My dad
Speaker 1: would listen when I was convenient for him, which was
Speaker 1: when I did the Boston stuff when I was on EI,
Speaker 1: and he would listen, and sometimes every once in a
Speaker 1: while somebody would track him down a listener, and my
Speaker 1: dad didn't really know how to deal with that, like,
Speaker 1: what are they talking about? I don't understand. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a phenomenon, right, because if you first
Speaker 1: start doing this, then everyone around you wants to tune in.
Speaker 1: When you've been doing this for a long time, no
Speaker 1: one arounds you really gives a shit. Yeah, no, they
Speaker 1: don't give a crap, Like, yeah, he's he's been doing
Speaker 1: that for twenty years. I'm yeah, yeah, good deal. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you start, it's everyone listens, They comment on your
Speaker 1: your takes, what you're saying. Yeah, they got an opinion,
Speaker 1: they want to they're proud of you. And then after
Speaker 1: a while, so I got you know, it's like it's
Speaker 1: just like driving a bus, you know, it's like we're
Speaker 1: driving a bus around town. Next up on the mailback,
Speaker 1: Mike from Fullerton Rights and says, I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of the Benny Awards, as big a fan as anyone,
Speaker 1: But do you find it worrying how full of themselves
Speaker 1: the winners become after winning Best Crew Filling last year?
Speaker 1: Danny g has never been the same? Oh me? Is
Speaker 1: that true to any Have you not been the same
Speaker 1: since you won Best Crew Filling? Well, clearly it catapulted
Speaker 1: me to the Cavino and Rich Show, and so I
Speaker 1: do a victory lap every single afternoon on the network.
Speaker 1: Well that was what put it over the top. Don
Speaker 1: Martin was just trying to decide what should I do here? What?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, crew filling of the year, look me in, coach,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to play. My man, you just turned into
Speaker 1: a radio legend. My man, oh man, I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: you famous moment. He also said, Mike, congrats on me,
Speaker 1: Ben finally becoming an Instagram model. I knew it was
Speaker 1: only a matter of time before you were discovered. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, Mike, and I believe he's referencing
Speaker 1: to last week's podcast when I finally was sent an
Speaker 1: offer to be an influencer for really ugly women's sunglasses.
Speaker 1: Those orange frames look good on you right now though,
Speaker 1: thank you. I took a dozen. I figured they were offering,
Speaker 1: so why not. You can't turn down an offer like that.
Speaker 1: Next up from Kay Ringing in okac He says, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: how's it going? Right to the question on the mail bag?
Speaker 1: What are some of your biggest bets that you won?
Speaker 1: What are the biggest bets that you have also lost?
Speaker 1: Says I know, Ben Gambles, what about you, daddy? Gee
Speaker 1: ha ha ha. I know people get worked up over
Speaker 1: betting good or bad. I bet it would be awesome content,
Speaker 1: especially when and gets mad it's hilarious. It's not Radio
Speaker 1: Gold Kyrie. Somebody wants to hear me angry. They want
Speaker 1: to hear me happy. They want to hear me flexing
Speaker 1: and doing a victory laub. So I will not even
Speaker 1: share the wins because the wins. Any real gambler who
Speaker 1: shares wins is full of shit. The gambler remembers the losses,
Speaker 1: not the wins. And I've had some all time losses.
Speaker 1: I lost my ass on the Music City Miracle, which
Speaker 1: you probably might not remember if you're of a certain age,
Speaker 1: if you're young. But this was the Tennessee Titans wild
Speaker 1: card weekend against the Buffalo Bills. Doug Flutie, Brad Johnson,
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips, that era of the Buffalo Bills against the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, and Buffalo was in position to pull the
Speaker 1: upset on the what turned out to me the fateful
Speaker 1: final play. It was called the Music City Miracle. It
Speaker 1: was an illegal forward pass from Franky. I checked to
Speaker 1: Kevin Dyson. I still I could still close my eyes
Speaker 1: Danny and see the play was a total bullshit call.
Speaker 1: The ball went forward. That's an illegal forward pass because
Speaker 1: they had already lateraled the officials didn't have the balls
Speaker 1: to call it, and next thing you know, Tennessee went
Speaker 1: on that play, they scored, They scored the touchdown. I
Speaker 1: lose my bet. Freaking nightmare. I'm still pissed about it
Speaker 1: all these years later. And then the other one, the
Speaker 1: other one I remember really bad. I was convinced the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves were going to beat the Saint Louis Cardinals
Speaker 1: in a playoff series. And this is when the Braves
Speaker 1: had Maddox, Clavin and Smoltz, three bona fide Hall of Fames.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals didn't have much at all, and they had
Speaker 1: traded for a guy from I think he had been
Speaker 1: on the Giants, but he might have been on somebody
Speaker 1: after the Giants, Will Clark, Will the thrill Clark. Oh god,
Speaker 1: he had that ugly batting stance. Yeah, and this Jabroni
Speaker 1: who had seemingly been washed up, so he might have
Speaker 1: come from like the Texas Rangers or the Orioles or
Speaker 1: something like that. But this guy Will Clark had a
Speaker 1: couple of big hits, as I remember, and the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: all these punch and judy hitters were getting hits standard
Speaker 1: Cardinal baseball, killing me and I lost that bet, and
Speaker 1: I still in retrospect, I still can't believe that a
Speaker 1: team with Maddox, Glavin and Smoltz, bunch of Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame position players also and they lost to a second
Speaker 1: rate Cardinal team blows me away. I bet on the series.
Speaker 1: It wasn't one game. I bet on the entire series.
Speaker 1: So you're not much of a gambler, right, You save
Speaker 1: your money, Daddy G. I'm a sports purist. I love sports.
Speaker 1: I do not like losing my hard earned money on
Speaker 1: said sports. You don't lose your win We're winners. I
Speaker 1: want winners. Yeah, I've seen you at four in the
Speaker 1: morning at the twenty four hour Diner in Vegas with
Speaker 1: your last eight dollars. Hey, but those those eggs over
Speaker 1: easy are not beat the Pancakes and not be Kevin
Speaker 1: and Kansas rights in on the mail bag, he says,
Speaker 1: Dear Ben and Danny G. Radio. When I was growing up,
Speaker 1: I watched the weekly baseball game on in BC and
Speaker 1: the Cubs and Braves on Cable. I learned to do
Speaker 1: a lot of quick math in my mind by calculating
Speaker 1: batting averages after each at bat or figuring out ball
Speaker 1: and strike ratios. I transferred those skills to other sports
Speaker 1: as well. Did you guys do similar mental math when
Speaker 1: you were watching sports or were you just watching the game?
Speaker 1: Does that make me weird? From Kevin? Kevin and Kansas.
Speaker 1: So I learned geography from baseball. I learned where the
Speaker 1: states were that had teams. I learned the minor leagues.
Speaker 1: I knew everyone's Triple A team and what's state they
Speaker 1: were in, and that was a lot of smaller places.
Speaker 1: That's how you knew Ottawa was the capital of Canada. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew all of Like the geography, I memorized so
Speaker 1: much nonsense back in the day. But I recall that,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if I should admit it. I
Speaker 1: have talked about this in the past, but I at
Speaker 1: the gym when I'm on my treadmill doing my workout.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, I'll flip on YouTube. There's
Speaker 1: a couple of the channels that put the NBC Game
Speaker 1: of the Week on. This past week, I was watching
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five Dodgers Astros from the Astrodome Intro Guerrero. Yeah, yeah, dominating,
Speaker 1: and it was Bob Costas and I think it was
Speaker 1: Jim Cott. But they were calling the game and it
Speaker 1: was the full broadcast, and they were talking about the
Speaker 1: state of the teams at the time. The trade deadline
Speaker 1: was coming up. There was the Dodgers needed a third baseman,
Speaker 1: and so it was just I love like stupid stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But Bob Costas was like those rumors the
Speaker 1: sports writers are saying, the Dodgers are gonna get Buddy
Speaker 1: Bell from the Rangers, and Tommy Lasorda went and visited
Speaker 1: his buddy Bobby Valentine and Arlington before the Dodgers got
Speaker 1: to Houston, and they ended up Do you remember who
Speaker 1: they ended up trading for that year, Danny at the
Speaker 1: trade deadline nineteen eighty five. Third baseman guy was prolific
Speaker 1: in the eighties, had some off the field problem. Bill Madlock,
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, mad Dog big guy right, Uh yeah, pudgy,
Speaker 1: but yeah it was a Kirby Pucket looking dude, right,
Speaker 1: not quite to that level, but yeah, he was yet
Speaker 1: well Kirby Pucket when he was in shape. How about that.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Though, I started covering the
Speaker 1: Dodgers in nineteen early nineties, I'll date myself, but it
Speaker 1: was not that long after. Bill Mallock and Madlock hadn't
Speaker 1: played for the Dodgers for very long, but the people
Speaker 1: he left such a mark on the Dodger people. They
Speaker 1: freaking loved Bill Madlock. The guys would talk about Madlock
Speaker 1: and how great he was. The two guys I recall,
Speaker 1: and there's all ths, but the two off of my time,
Speaker 1: I uh that were briefly Dodgers that were beloved in
Speaker 1: the locker room and around the people that worked for
Speaker 1: the team. Back when the O'Malley family on the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: it was Bill Madlock. And you remember a guy named
Speaker 1: Juan Samuel, Yeah, Wan Samuel. Juan Samuel was beloved by
Speaker 1: the people around the Dodgers. I don't know what he did,
Speaker 1: but they loved the guy. And he was bounced around
Speaker 1: and played for a bunch of a bunch of different teams.
Speaker 1: But as far as the Math, I got carried away
Speaker 1: to any bad job by mad Dog Madlock. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. But you want to answer Kevin's question, the
Speaker 1: math and he learned because we didn't have graphics on
Speaker 1: the screen like they do now. These kids today and
Speaker 1: they're graphics. It was only occasionally when they go to
Speaker 1: commercial or come back to commercial they'd put the score up.
Speaker 1: Didn't even know what the damn score was. Take that
Speaker 1: for data. Yeah, put that in your pipe. You're right.
Speaker 1: We did keep the score Classic Lakers Boston Celtics matchup.
Speaker 1: My older brother and I would keep the score and
Speaker 1: we would keep saying the score out loud, and then
Speaker 1: they would finally flash the score and we would see
Speaker 1: if we were right. Try. Yeah, trying to try to
Speaker 1: guess with the score. That's good. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, So definitely, Kevin, You're not weird. I
Speaker 1: do recommend Kevin, though, and I don't want you to
Speaker 1: stop listening to the podcast. But in addition, as a
Speaker 1: companion for you, if you go on YouTube, you can
Speaker 1: find links to old baseball games, just random like type
Speaker 1: in certain like Monday Night Baseball or NBC Game of
Speaker 1: the Week, and these things will pop up. And some
Speaker 1: of them even have the commercials. So if you want
Speaker 1: to go full nostalgia and you can go back and
Speaker 1: watch some of those old commercials. The car commercials just
Speaker 1: kill me. Yeah, please the sea Cow well that, but
Speaker 1: they the national commercials. Most of the cars don't even
Speaker 1: exist anymore, and you look at them and they're total
Speaker 1: pieces of shit compared to the cars today, right, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, this was a brand new car that
Speaker 1: was it's all excited to have, and you're like, man,
Speaker 1: that that's a total Jalopy. What was a sticker price?
Speaker 1: Six thousand dollars? Oh? Yeah, total, it was like five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, four thousand, nine hundred ninety nine dollars right
Speaker 1: now for a piece of ship that was worth three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Yeah, exactly. Next up on the mailbag, Barry
Speaker 1: in Nashville, says Yo Yo Yo yo yo mob Benny
Speaker 1: and Danny Gee, have either of you done or would
Speaker 1: you do the one ship challenge? So I'm good on
Speaker 1: that I've not done it. Yeah, somebody offered me some money.
Speaker 1: I would consider that. Sounds like something Caveno and Rich
Speaker 1: and you Danny have either done or will do. Something
Speaker 1: about needing to breathe correctly is big, especially like I'm
Speaker 1: a boxer, so I've had two broken noses as a kid.
Speaker 1: Cartilage in my nose. One of my nostrils is like
Speaker 1: sixty percent closed. I need to breathe out of the
Speaker 1: one good nostril. Can you imagine eating one of those
Speaker 1: chips and you're choking, you can't breathe. That's a scary thought.
Speaker 1: I don't need that in my life. Yeah, I'm good
Speaker 1: on that, So you wouldn't want to use that, Joe
Speaker 1: missoula thing? Right? Did you see the Celtic coach who's
Speaker 1: he tapes his mouth shut? Did you see that at night? Oh?
Speaker 1: Hell no? Oh yeah, he tapes his mouth shut. So
Speaker 1: he says he gets better sleep because it forces you
Speaker 1: to breathe through your That's one thing is that, man,
Speaker 1: I can't sleep breathing through my mouth, So if people
Speaker 1: ever call us a mouth breather, that's incorrect. I sleep
Speaker 1: through my nose no matter what. So that's why I
Speaker 1: freak out if my good nostril gets stuffed up. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know this was a thing until I read
Speaker 1: about it this week. Though. Did you realize that there
Speaker 1: are people that buy tape to a special sleep tape
Speaker 1: to tape your mouth shut? What are you a hostage?
Speaker 1: I would want no part of that, Nicholas. But thank
Speaker 1: you Berry. Good question. Nicholas from Parts Unknown rights in
Speaker 1: on Facebook. He says, why do you keep yelling? Number one? Well,
Speaker 1: the reason I do that, Nicholas, is to just annoy you.
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out how I could annoy you,
Speaker 1: and I determined after a minute long investigation that you, Nicholas,
Speaker 1: hearing me yell number one would really bother you. But
Speaker 1: that is is a tribute, Danny. You know what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: a tribute to two old HR radio stations. No, you
Speaker 1: know the soccer play by play, you know the soccer
Speaker 1: when there's a goal. Instead, I thought you meant the
Speaker 1: number one in general, because that number one jingle we
Speaker 1: got it from Big brother Jake back in the day.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well we had the number one jingle. I
Speaker 1: love jingles. I'm all about the jingles. Jingles are great.
Speaker 1: We should have some jingles. I'm sure the company will
Speaker 1: buy jingles for us. Ben Maller and Danny g jingles
Speaker 1: the weakest but also the most awesome jingles in Bakersfield radio.
Speaker 1: As I was driving up the five Freeway last weekend,
Speaker 1: everything was a fucking jingle on their radio stations. That's
Speaker 1: great nineteen eighties style. Yeah, easy, top of the hour news.
Speaker 1: They even sang to introduce their news. I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm all about that. And jingles the way to go.
Speaker 1: That's old school radio right there. The jingle and there's
Speaker 1: a place in Dallas. We talked about this. There's that
Speaker 1: guy that place in Dallas and Clayton Kershaw's father was
Speaker 1: at Jingle. He worked at that place. He made the
Speaker 1: jingles and all that. Next up is ni in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben and Danny, if you were offered one
Speaker 1: million dollars but you could only eat ballpark hot dogs
Speaker 1: for lunch and dinner, breakfast is still okay? Would you
Speaker 1: take the money? Of course now because you just eat
Speaker 1: whatever you want for breakfast. You don't have to eat
Speaker 1: breakfast food. You could eat barbecue, you could eat pizza
Speaker 1: for breakfast whatever. No I mean on this diet he's
Speaker 1: talking about. I'm already a winner because he just described
Speaker 1: mainly what we ate as kids growing up. Would even
Speaker 1: cut up hot dogs when she was rich, she would
Speaker 1: cut hot dogs up and mix those hot dogs into
Speaker 1: the macaronian cheese. That's when you knew you were bawling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ballpark hot dogs are hit and miss I do not.
Speaker 1: I have an unpopular opinion. I do not enjoy the
Speaker 1: dodge dog. I do not enjoy the dodge dog. I
Speaker 1: do not think it's great. But I love of Finnway Franks,
Speaker 1: the Monster Dog. And there's a listener, Phil in Massachusetts
Speaker 1: who used to send me every year. You might remember this.
Speaker 1: Then he'd sent a big box of Finway Franks, which
Speaker 1: they sell in the local grocery stores in Boston. Delicious.
Speaker 1: I grilled some up when I was living in Burbank.
Speaker 1: They were so good. Yeah, those are good. I really
Speaker 1: think Phil. I haven't heard from Phil in a while.
Speaker 1: I hope he's all right, But yeah, those were great, man.
Speaker 1: I love those monster dogs and the Finway Francs. That's
Speaker 1: how you make a hot dog. Cleveland had good hot
Speaker 1: dogs too, So if I could only eat, to answer
Speaker 1: your question, Nick, only eat ballpark hot dogs, I get
Speaker 1: to pick the ballparks. So I picked the Finnway Frank.
Speaker 1: I picked the dog in Cleveland, no dodge of dogs.
Speaker 1: I have not been to a Mets or Yankees game
Speaker 1: in a while, so I don't know what the hot
Speaker 1: dog situation there is, but I'm sure there's others that
Speaker 1: I would like as well. And plus remember that hot
Speaker 1: dog in Arizona, and they think they have one in
Speaker 1: Texas which is like it's like five feet long, and
Speaker 1: they put fries on it, and they put all the
Speaker 1: other stuff on top of it, Like that counts as
Speaker 1: a hot dog, right, Nick? I could eat that and
Speaker 1: then I got the fries. I got everything else on top.
Speaker 1: But I'm technically honoring the one million dollar wager and
Speaker 1: the one million dollar wager that has to be after taxes, Danny,
Speaker 1: that cannot be before taxes. That has to be after taxes.
Speaker 1: Do we agree on that? That's something you see on
Speaker 1: the Food Challenges, Right, you have twenty minutes to eat
Speaker 1: that whole giant dog with the fries and the chili
Speaker 1: and all the other concoctions they mixed together. And that
Speaker 1: guy looked like he was gonna freaking die at the
Speaker 1: end of it. Yeah. You guy to quit the show
Speaker 1: because of health problems. Allegedly he moved on did other things.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's thin now. Mark writes in from Parts and on.
Speaker 1: He says a question for you guys, have you ever
Speaker 1: been late to your radio shows? Yes, I've done a
Speaker 1: lot of radio. It's happened twice twice. I've been late once.
Speaker 1: I overslept and that was my boss's fault. I'm blaming
Speaker 1: him because I had a Friday night show and then
Speaker 1: he had us coming back. We got off the air
Speaker 1: at midnight and we had to be on the air
Speaker 1: at seven in the morning. We're doing at seven to
Speaker 1: ten on Saturday morning because the boss figured out he
Speaker 1: could sell remotes every Saturday at home depots and lows
Speaker 1: and hardware stores and tire stores. So the only reason
Speaker 1: we did the Saturday show was because they sold remotes.
Speaker 1: But the problem was we'd get off at midnight on Friday,
Speaker 1: and then we would want to go and kind of
Speaker 1: wind down, and by the time you get to sleep,
Speaker 1: it's like three in the morning and you got to
Speaker 1: be up at six, and so that didn't work out.
Speaker 1: The other time, I got a flat tire on the
Speaker 1: way to work and that deep sixed me. So I
Speaker 1: was a little late, and that was at Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio that one. What about you, Danny, I think that
Speaker 1: I am like you. I can count on one hand
Speaker 1: how many times because we're psycho about getting there on time,
Speaker 1: and we'll set five alarms on our phone. You're not
Speaker 1: allowed to be late to radio. Radio goes twenty four
Speaker 1: hours a day and nobody waits for your show to start. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those jobs where it's a great
Speaker 1: job to have, unlike a like a podcast. You can
Speaker 1: be late. It doesn't the podcast starts when you start
Speaker 1: doing the podcast. But the radio you're You're powered by
Speaker 1: the radio gods. Yea. Even getting pulled over, there was
Speaker 1: a time where I told the officer, I don't mean
Speaker 1: to be rude, sir, but I have to get to
Speaker 1: my radio program and it starts whether I'm there or not,
Speaker 1: you know, And he gave me a ticket, but it
Speaker 1: was fine. I was just like, hurry up the tickets
Speaker 1: so I can get to my show. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Can't close the deal, Neil. Right, so he says,
Speaker 1: what was your most memorable moment of your tenure in radio.
Speaker 1: It's kind of an generic question, Neil. You can do
Speaker 1: better than that, Neil. We love you. You can't close
Speaker 1: the deal, Neil. It just depends on the day, depends
Speaker 1: on the day, the moment that you want to go
Speaker 1: back in time. I've had some wonderful shows, individual shows.
Speaker 1: I've often talked about. The night the Malice at the
Speaker 1: Palace happened. I was on the air for five hours
Speaker 1: after that. That was unbelievably fun. Sports radio met a
Speaker 1: lot of cool people, that stand out people I never
Speaker 1: thought I would you know, would would know that became
Speaker 1: somewhat friendly with me. So legends people I looked up
Speaker 1: to when I was a kid, So that was always cool.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if you can whittle it down
Speaker 1: to one one moment. Is there one moment for you, Danny?
Speaker 1: Is it doing this podcast? Is that it? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously this is way up there. But as a kid,
Speaker 1: I got to interview Digital Underground, a little known rapper
Speaker 1: was part of their group, Tupac Shakur. Oh wow. And
Speaker 1: so Tupac hopped on the phone and I got to
Speaker 1: talk to him on the air for a few minutes,
Speaker 1: which I wish I had the cassette tape of that.
Speaker 1: Fast forward to when I was an adult in my
Speaker 1: early twenties, I interviewed Jay Z and he told a
Speaker 1: great story about Biggie Smalls. It all kind of came
Speaker 1: full circle because now I'm really on an FM station
Speaker 1: interviewing a big rapper. And then fast forward to doing
Speaker 1: sports talk radio and it was a very very very
Speaker 1: big deal. Congratulations to have on the President of the
Speaker 1: United States. Yeah I remember, Oh yeah, that was Big
Speaker 1: the Trumpster on the air, not once, but twice. We
Speaker 1: love Big Ben, Big Ben's a friend of mine. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I always heard those stories when we were when I
Speaker 1: was growing up and I am being in politics a
Speaker 1: little bit and be like, you know, the President would
Speaker 1: call whoever the Red Sox congratulate them or they didn't win.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid that the Yankees and the
Speaker 1: President would call up and as a standby, the President
Speaker 1: of the United States is going to come on the phone, right,
Speaker 1: And the President Trump didn't do that, he just did
Speaker 1: it as well. If he didn't, he didn't have a
Speaker 1: bunch of people call him up, right. That was the
Speaker 1: balled on his own cell phone. And you would have
Speaker 1: thought Brian know was on the phone talking to me
Speaker 1: because he was. He was speaking to me as if
Speaker 1: he knew me. And he said, well, I listened to
Speaker 1: you guys every morning, and and it's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he was just bullshitting, but that's what he
Speaker 1: told me. So after that, I had a new appreciation
Speaker 1: for jeez, people do listen to this crap. That is
Speaker 1: outstanding A ten out of ten for President Trump there
Speaker 1: calling up and he was a big radio guy. That
Speaker 1: was a big part of his life. He does President Trump,
Speaker 1: but loved radio. He was a regular on stern Show
Speaker 1: before or Stern went Allwaukee and went off the deep
Speaker 1: end and became everything he hated and all that. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was a big part of that, that show and
Speaker 1: some other shows. So Sarah from Minnesota rice in. She says,
Speaker 1: you guys had asked for some information regarding the old
Speaker 1: Gascon fifth Hour promos and when they were playing, and
Speaker 1: she sent me the exact times. She says, during the
Speaker 1: Ben Mallar Show on March fifth and sixth, on the
Speaker 1: iHeart podcast, they played the old fifth hour promo. What
Speaker 1: is going on with this? Danny Hey, Okay, so let
Speaker 1: me explain it to you. The old version stashed away
Speaker 1: somewhere and he's putting the old version into the podcast
Speaker 1: for the Mallards show. Okay, some producers at our network
Speaker 1: who have the old version of your promo and they
Speaker 1: have that stashed away and their folders or whatever, and
Speaker 1: they're just pulling that and putting it in because the
Speaker 1: Marching Orders say this week we're putting the Ben Maller
Speaker 1: promo in and it attaches the new version of your promo.
Speaker 1: But do you think that they go in and pull
Speaker 1: what's attached to that email? Oh? Come, on too much work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. Well, thank you, Sarah. So contact Coop
Speaker 1: and let Coop know to change the promo if indeed
Speaker 1: that is coming from him. In your Ben Mallor podcast. Now,
Speaker 1: Sarah says, onto more important things. Juicy Lucy's. She says,
Speaker 1: these two restaurants bars invented the Juicy Lucy and there
Speaker 1: is a fight as to which did it. I love
Speaker 1: I love local city Conna. I love the cuisine battle.
Speaker 1: We have that in Los Angeles with the French Dip sandwich,
Speaker 1: right with Philip's and Cole's. Yeah, they've they've battled it
Speaker 1: out in La on that. This is great. So, Sarah says,
Speaker 1: they're battling it out. I've had both and they are excellent.
Speaker 1: Matt's Bar and Grill and the fifty eight Club. We
Speaker 1: Minnesotans are fired up to see you in May. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Sarah. And I'm still putting the itinerary together
Speaker 1: and as soon as I get all that lockdown, as
Speaker 1: soon as the plane tickets purchased, we will let you
Speaker 1: guys know. We still have to figure out a venue.
Speaker 1: I have been corresponding with Regina spin Cycle. Regina, She's
Speaker 1: got a couple of venues lined up, so hopefully that'll
Speaker 1: work out. One of those venues will work out and
Speaker 1: we'll have a place we can all get together and
Speaker 1: hang out for a couple hours on a Friday or
Speaker 1: a Saturday and have a wonderful time. I think we'll
Speaker 1: get out on that. I Scott took a shot at
Speaker 1: Marcel and Blair and the Red Sox and Mike Is
Speaker 1: he's a big fan in Saint Louis. He wants me
Speaker 1: to come to Saint Louis and hang out. I'll go
Speaker 1: eat some toasted ravioli there and Saint Louis with you, Mike,
Speaker 1: with thank you everyone else that we didn't get to.
Speaker 1: So we'll get out on that. Tonight is the night, Danny,
Speaker 1: g Tonight it is. We've waited all year, and here
Speaker 1: it is tonight. I haven't been in a tux since
Speaker 1: last November when I was on the beach. I've got
Speaker 1: my boat tie ready to go. Danny, It's gonna be
Speaker 1: an amazing night. Cannot wait. Tonight's the night. It is
Speaker 1: the single greatest night in overnight sports radio. A lot
Speaker 1: of hardware to be handed out, a lot of big
Speaker 1: names will be winning, a lot of heartbreaks, as well.
Speaker 1: If you haven't voted, you gotta vote quickly. You gotta
Speaker 1: vote by obviously tonight. The voting will be turned off
Speaker 1: right before the show and then it's over. Do you
Speaker 1: think there are gonna be any huge upsets? You don't
Speaker 1: know what the elector's gonna do. The worst caller could
Speaker 1: go any direction, Rookie of the Year, any direction. These
Speaker 1: are wide open categories. I don't know if that counts
Speaker 1: as an upset, but if you missed the Friday podcast,
Speaker 1: go back and download that. We went methodically, surgically through
Speaker 1: every single category, point by point information no one else
Speaker 1: has about the bunnies. I never got to give Mike
Speaker 1: Epton speech for my twenty twenty one Benny would be
Speaker 1: okay if I call in and give my speech one
Speaker 1: year late. I think you should do it on the
Speaker 1: fifth hour. Whenever that show the fifth hours, and I
Speaker 1: think you should do it on the fifth hour. That
Speaker 1: would be the way to go. I hate that show.
Speaker 1: That's a great show, so you should try listening to
Speaker 1: it sometime. Anyway, we'll get out on that. Have a
Speaker 1: wonderful rest of your Sunday. Tonight's the night. Tune in, listen,
Speaker 1: download support the radio show and we will catch you.
Speaker 1: Then where's my damn ballot? No election fraud, Danny, no
Speaker 1: election fraud. Later Skater, Hey, hey, let you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the oil? That is a
Speaker 1: classic line, Helmet man, we just got a new drop