Speaker 1: Kaboom. 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 Clearinghouse of hot
Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. That's right,
Speaker 1: you've stumbled upon the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
Speaker 1: Danny g Radio. Because let's face, four hours a night,
Speaker 1: five days a week, clearly on enough bonus coverage here
Speaker 1: on the fifth Hour. Very exciting, I know it's true.
Speaker 1: Calm down, Calm down, and Danny. This is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite shows of the week. It's the mail Bag,
Speaker 1: mail Bag Bag. It's been a beautiful weekend already, Sports
Speaker 1: with Coleman uh Saturday shows a lot of fun, there's
Speaker 1: NFL preseason in action, and then you got the Fifth
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Speaker 1: That's right, it's all you need and the proper way
Speaker 1: to start the mail Bag. There's only one way to
Speaker 1: do it, and we have to strike up the band, Ohio,
Speaker 1: al it's mail bag, alright, good job. I love that
Speaker 1: right to the point that allows us to get to
Speaker 1: the many many, many questions. Right, come back touching, it's
Speaker 1: time for mail call. That is right. This is what
Speaker 1: we call the mail bag. We do it every week.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to contribute, you don't have to wait
Speaker 1: five days to send a question. You can do it
Speaker 1: right now now. We're not gonna read your question right now,
Speaker 1: because we're not actually live right now is a podcast.
Speaker 1: We will read it on the next show, if you know,
Speaker 1: assuming we get it in time and all. But you
Speaker 1: can email at any point. You can email right now,
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Speaker 1: On the Facebook page which is Ben Maller's show, I'm
Speaker 1: told no teenagers, no one under the age of seventy
Speaker 1: is on Facebook, but I'm still on there to see
Speaker 1: family and whatnot. But Facebook Ben Mallers Show on there.
Speaker 1: You can check it out are we on TikTok? No,
Speaker 1: we're not on TikTok? Are we on h There was
Speaker 1: another one my nieces told me about just take a
Speaker 1: photo of what you're doing at that moment, a snapshot,
Speaker 1: And they're like, all your friends are supposed to take
Speaker 1: a photo of what you're doing at that time. Have
Speaker 1: you ever heard of this? Maybe you listening can help
Speaker 1: us out on that. I just googled new social media discord.
Speaker 1: We know about Twitch, Instagram reels, No, we know about Patreon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know Twitter, Space. Let me see Spotify, green Room, Caffeine, No,
Speaker 1: super Nova na clubhouse not clubhouse now, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's been around for a while and I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't remember the name, but it's Yeah. My
Speaker 1: my niece is in high school, so she's much cooler
Speaker 1: than I am, quite far. She's got all the answers
Speaker 1: to lights fine, and she shops at thrift stories. My
Speaker 1: other niece is in college, so she's come on. Al Right,
Speaker 1: the first too cool for you with all those holes
Speaker 1: in their jeans. Damn right? All right, we start with
Speaker 1: this one. Mike from Fullerton rights in and he says, hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: you asked how I became a rabid fan of your show,
Speaker 1: So I will say, oh, this is the big reveal
Speaker 1: from Mike from Fullerton. Uh, he says, I've just been
Speaker 1: an occasional sports radio listener until last summer when I
Speaker 1: was looking for more things to listen to in the background,
Speaker 1: I found a show I liked, but it was not yours,
Speaker 1: he points out. It was Fox Sports Radio alumnus Steve
Speaker 1: Mason and John Ireland Mason and Ireland show. Both of
Speaker 1: them worked at Fox Sports Radio back in the day.
Speaker 1: In fact, John Ireland, before he became the Laker broadcaster,
Speaker 1: did a Saturday morning show with Steven A. Smith at
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Steven had not done much radio, they
Speaker 1: worked together. I did updates on that show from time
Speaker 1: to time. I do recall trying to touch up Stephen
Speaker 1: as work. He did not appreciate that, but Steve Mason
Speaker 1: also a Fox Sports Radio guy. Anyway, Mike says, I
Speaker 1: mainly podcasted them at night, and I enjoyed it until
Speaker 1: the NBA season started and all their whining and illusions
Speaker 1: over the West Brick Lakers disaster got very annoying, so
Speaker 1: I dropped him. How about that? He got rid of
Speaker 1: Mason in Ireland. They've been on the radio and in in
Speaker 1: l A for like three decades. He says, I put
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio on one night because I needed a
Speaker 1: new show, and Yours was on. Brian Finley was filling in,
Speaker 1: and Tennis arguments took over. It was great. Wow. I
Speaker 1: became a fan of the show right away. You can
Speaker 1: either thank or blame Brian Finley for that. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: blame him. Uh And Mike says, I listened for a
Speaker 1: few months without contributing anything until the Rams won the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I was pumped up, so I called the
Speaker 1: Instant Advice Line for the first time and started tweeting
Speaker 1: the show that night. The reason I've been tweeting more
Speaker 1: the last few months, he says, is just that I've
Speaker 1: been around longer and I started talking to the other
Speaker 1: super fans of the show. He says also enjoyed bugging
Speaker 1: my friends with clips from the show. He also says,
Speaker 1: if you're wondering how I am able to listen to
Speaker 1: the show every night, it's pretty simple. I'm not very
Speaker 1: outgoing and I work from home. That's like the perfect combination, right,
Speaker 1: introvert work from home, check mate. He says, that's my story.
Speaker 1: Keep up the great work man and YouTube Danny Gee. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Mike. I am flattered. And I do like
Speaker 1: Mike's sense of humor. He's got a very sarcastic, dry
Speaker 1: sense of humor, which I enjoy very much. Are we
Speaker 1: going to eat him at the Mallard Meat and Greece?
Speaker 1: He said, he's not very outgoing and he's an introvert,
Speaker 1: so probably not. Now. I I will say these things
Speaker 1: I've done in the past. Usually what happens, and I
Speaker 1: know this because I'm an introvert too, but I I
Speaker 1: usually take some caffeine, so I'm bouncing off the walls
Speaker 1: at these things. Normally there'll be a few fellow introverts
Speaker 1: that will go to these things and sit by themselves,
Speaker 1: kind of in the back act, because that's what we
Speaker 1: do as introverts. Yeah, and so I'll try to as
Speaker 1: much as I can go up and say hello if possible,
Speaker 1: because I have that bond with the introvert, and so
Speaker 1: there's a connection that we have and I understand the
Speaker 1: language or the introvert. So anyway, I thank you Mike
Speaker 1: for that. Keep it going on really quick, Ben, your niece,
Speaker 1: is it be Real. Yes, there it is be Real.
Speaker 1: You ever heard before? Yeah, I found this New York
Speaker 1: Times article. It says this new social app is boring
Speaker 1: in a good way. Once a day, at an unpredictable time,
Speaker 1: be Real notifies its users that they have exactly two
Speaker 1: minutes to post a pair of pictures. The feed is
Speaker 1: mundane but also fun for now at least. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we were at the beach and Uncle Benny, that's me,
Speaker 1: I'm Uncle Benny. So we I had to be in
Speaker 1: the photo with my niece. You know, she got the
Speaker 1: notification while Yeah, we were hanging out in the the
Speaker 1: beach cabana, which is just a tent, but we were
Speaker 1: hanging out there and she's all, I gotta gotta post this,
Speaker 1: And so we get to the bottom of everything on
Speaker 1: this damn podcast. You want to answers, We gotta answers
Speaker 1: Chris and Marrit Coca to Iowa writes in he says,
Speaker 1: if you could choose where and how you will die,
Speaker 1: what would it be? That's a very morbid question. On
Speaker 1: the beach, watching the sunrise or in a warm bed? Uh?
Speaker 1: Can I take none of the above? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you don't. You don't know how.
Speaker 1: It's the surprise of life, the mystery of life. You
Speaker 1: don't know how you're gonna die? Um, and do you
Speaker 1: want to die suddenly? I have. It's a weird thing
Speaker 1: because I have both experiences. My mom had breast cancer.
Speaker 1: She was sick for many years, the last probably ten
Speaker 1: years of her life. Most of it she was sick,
Speaker 1: and then my dad was mostly healthy up until like
Speaker 1: just a couple of days before he checked out. And
Speaker 1: so I don't I don't know what's better. I I
Speaker 1: felt like more with my mom. I got to say
Speaker 1: goodbye to her, and we knew the end was coming.
Speaker 1: My dad, I didn't really expect that he was not
Speaker 1: going to make it. So that's a that's a tough
Speaker 1: one to people say die in their sleep. But the
Speaker 1: moment you die, don't you go like ah like that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I guess if you Yeah, it's hard to
Speaker 1: answer that question. But you would love to be surrounded
Speaker 1: by your loved ones. Yes, And my mom got that,
Speaker 1: which is great because we knew what was going to happen.
Speaker 1: When my dad did not because of we had a
Speaker 1: heart attack, but it was also because of COVID and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. That's unfortunate. Chris also says when you
Speaker 1: get mail delivered, changing the topic from from the mail delivery,
Speaker 1: when you get mail delivered to your house and it
Speaker 1: isn't yours, you a throw it away, be put it
Speaker 1: in the correct mailbox, or see right, return to center
Speaker 1: on it and put it back in your mailbox. Ps
Speaker 1: go raiders. So the answer to that for me, Chris
Speaker 1: is I will I don't throw it away unless let
Speaker 1: me let me check that unless it's like junk mail. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: well this person, Why am I going to track down
Speaker 1: this person? They're not gonna want this. But assuming it's
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like junk mail, I will try to
Speaker 1: put it in the correct box. But if it's somewhere
Speaker 1: I don't realize where it is and all that, I'll
Speaker 1: just you know, do the return to center thing. But
Speaker 1: I don't throw it away unless it's junk. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: it's somebody you know in your neighborhood and they just
Speaker 1: got a couple of the house or apartment numbers backwards,
Speaker 1: then you walk it down and set it on their doorstep.
Speaker 1: But if you could tell it's junk, you're right, you
Speaker 1: throw that in the trash can. Yeah. The last thing
Speaker 1: you want is a neighbor to bring you junk mail
Speaker 1: and be like yeah, yeah, you didn't get this, but
Speaker 1: here it is. I was like, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't need that exactly. Thanks for my phone bill.
Speaker 1: I don't want that. It's junk mail. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: you pay it, Okay, I don't. I don't need that
Speaker 1: at all. All right, what what the heck is wrong
Speaker 1: with you? All right? What is next year? We do? Uh?
Speaker 1: Next one, says dear Menace of night radio and die
Speaker 1: no my Danny g. Oh, this is Neil from the
Speaker 1: real Miami. He says. It has come to my attention
Speaker 1: that you two utes are in a career surrounded by sausages.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I've been there. I spent
Speaker 1: five years in the Marines. Fun real, not real, fun.
Speaker 1: Question for you two utes? What other career do you
Speaker 1: or did you dream of? For a taco party? Danny?
Speaker 1: He says, Look at that? Is that the reason Danny
Speaker 1: g got a gig at the school? Wow warm regard
Speaker 1: from the other Sunshine state. Here Neil in Miami. So yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you answer that when I what other career
Speaker 1: would you do like a strip club. DJ. Well, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, and hopefully when you're thinking about work,
Speaker 1: you're thinking with your big head, because I never thought about, well,
Speaker 1: let me think about this career because there's gonna be
Speaker 1: girls there. That's not how that works. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I was at FM radio stations, so that had a
Speaker 1: combination of female and male DJs. But obviously he's right
Speaker 1: about sports radio, it's predominantly male. But we don't go
Speaker 1: to work to mac on anybody were we both have
Speaker 1: significant others. First of all, I guess that hasn't stopped
Speaker 1: some other dirt bags, but we're not. Neither of us
Speaker 1: are like that. And No, to answer his question about
Speaker 1: going to a school and working there or teaching at
Speaker 1: a school, my experience with female teachers has not been
Speaker 1: so amazing. I mean, I don't want to stereotype female teachers,
Speaker 1: but uh, they're either granola cruncher's or they're very strict,
Speaker 1: or they're very old or but I but I've never
Speaker 1: gone to a campus thinking about, oh man, what teachers
Speaker 1: are gonna be here. I'm thinking about, oh ship, what's
Speaker 1: my lesson plan for this morning? How many kids are
Speaker 1: going to be in this class. Yeah. Yeah, well he's
Speaker 1: probably thinking like as when you're younger, you know, you
Speaker 1: imagine okay, okay, the hot teacher or something like that.
Speaker 1: Or uh, maybe I've been too serious with work then,
Speaker 1: because I didn't think about that when I was a
Speaker 1: kid either. Yeah. No, I had very old, cremudgeney teachers.
Speaker 1: I did not have anyone mildly attractive who was a
Speaker 1: teacher of mine, as I recall. Maybe I had a
Speaker 1: substitute one time that was kind of cute, but other
Speaker 1: than that, it was and you know, even if she
Speaker 1: was cute, I mean I was. I was the bowling ball,
Speaker 1: I was the beach ball. I mean, no, there's nothing
Speaker 1: going on there at all. I got mail, yea, I
Speaker 1: got mail Ya Berry from Music City, USA. He says,
Speaker 1: yah yama, Man, Benny, yah yama, Benny. I am really
Speaker 1: hoping that today, on this episode The Real Fifth Hour,
Speaker 1: you will give us an update on Benny versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I also have you mentioned you have
Speaker 1: mentioned rather Barry says, you have mentioned many times that
Speaker 1: you like to bet on the NFL. Do you bet
Speaker 1: on any other sports, either professional or college? I'll hang
Speaker 1: up and listen Hello, l all right, so Barry, the
Speaker 1: first thing is the Benny Versus the Penny thing is
Speaker 1: all over the map. There's a possibility that will be
Speaker 1: on this podcast. There's a chance it'll be on different platform. UM.
Speaker 1: I am talking to a number of people about this,
Speaker 1: and it's a very fluid situation. And I realized the
Speaker 1: NFL season is less than a month away now, and uh,
Speaker 1: I don't have anything locked down. I'm really at the
Speaker 1: mercy of some very powerful people that I am caught
Speaker 1: up as you as you know Danny, in the bureaucracy
Speaker 1: of corporations, and you know, it's just the part of
Speaker 1: the the way this stuff works. So there's also a
Speaker 1: chance that Benny Versus the Penny might start out on
Speaker 1: the podcast, and then at some point, since I own
Speaker 1: that proper, I guess it could move to another platform
Speaker 1: later on. Um. That's also on the table. Uh, And
Speaker 1: so there's different possibilities. I was I was actually playing
Speaker 1: around Dan. I don't know if we should tal about
Speaker 1: this on the podcast, but if you do end up
Speaker 1: being the Penny, at least at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: I was thinking maybe there'd be a way we could
Speaker 1: do this on a Twitch Feed recorded because a lot
Speaker 1: of the fans of the show loved the live interaction
Speaker 1: and that's a a big part of it. So I
Speaker 1: thought maybe we could do something on Twitch and then
Speaker 1: recorded off there and use it for the fifth hour
Speaker 1: on the weekends, like, don't do it on a oneever time.
Speaker 1: We'll just It's like I remember when Adam Corolla started
Speaker 1: doing his podcast stuff. He just like tweet out, hey,
Speaker 1: we're doing a live show called now ye that, like
Speaker 1: we could do something like that. And then I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure I don't know about Barry's schedule, but I bet
Speaker 1: you Alf the Adental Pineer would show up no matter when,
Speaker 1: and and Justin and Cincinnati and just Josh and your
Speaker 1: lover Rachel Brohlalla A right of course. So wow, she's
Speaker 1: a wonderfully talented music shouldn't werelucky to have her? All Right,
Speaker 1: come back pay Attuching, It's time for little speak of
Speaker 1: the Devil, and he shall appear. Pierre from far far
Speaker 1: away says, I will not be attending the Mallard meet
Speaker 1: and greet in the o C Huh, how dare him? Pierre?
Speaker 1: If you had started walking but have maybe made it
Speaker 1: to Pennsylvania by the time the thing starts anyway, uh,
Speaker 1: he says, ben I feel the need to clear the air.
Speaker 1: Pierre writes, there's a lot of fake news surrounding me,
Speaker 1: the Muppet militia and the Mallard militia. Here says, first off,
Speaker 1: my burner account was inspired by the feud between Ernie
Speaker 1: and the rest of the Muppet militia. I enjoyed the
Speaker 1: playful attacks and am very sad that Ernie and the
Speaker 1: rest of the Muppet parody accounts are gone. He says.
Speaker 1: I was Switzerland in the skirmish and did not take sense.
Speaker 1: For those of you the new to the show, I
Speaker 1: had this guy, Ernie, the Great Opiner, who lived in
Speaker 1: Michigan and was a super fan of the show and
Speaker 1: contributed a lot of content, and he had Ernie from
Speaker 1: Bergen Ernie as his avatar. And what happened on the
Speaker 1: show was a number of other listeners got jealous that
Speaker 1: this guy was getting all the attention, and they were
Speaker 1: very annoyed, and so they started attacking him by coming
Speaker 1: up with other Muppet accounts. Came out of nowhere, and
Speaker 1: we thought it was funny, and then it just kept
Speaker 1: happening one after another. It wasn't random after a while.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was just one person
Speaker 1: or if it was like fifty people, but it seemed
Speaker 1: like a lot of people had Muppet account and so anyway, Ernie,
Speaker 1: it was all fun and games at first, and Ernie
Speaker 1: was cool and all that, and then at some point
Speaker 1: things went terribly wrong. And I'm not really sure what happened,
Speaker 1: but some of these uninvited guests who became Muppet accounts
Speaker 1: said they did something. Ernie claims he changed shifts, but
Speaker 1: I think there's more to it. I think it goes
Speaker 1: deeper than that. Danny, Yeah, I think it had something
Speaker 1: to do with a certain snuffle up against Avatar. Well
Speaker 1: maybe Oscar the Grouch came over and started ship talking
Speaker 1: from his can food and then Ernie gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: have thicker skin than that. Though there's a lot of
Speaker 1: Oscar the Grouches in this world. Yeah. Yeah, and social
Speaker 1: media is a cess pool anyway, We've known that since
Speaker 1: that one. And you know, people do stuff just to
Speaker 1: get attended. Do you see the video that went viral
Speaker 1: this week of the guy that went up to uh,
Speaker 1: this NBA player in the candy shop and he's like
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook, I love you, Russell Westbrook. And
Speaker 1: it was Ben Simmons. Yeah, yeah, And so I think
Speaker 1: I was just being a dick. And there was the
Speaker 1: other one, Chris Paul. Chris Paul. Yeah, it was the
Speaker 1: same thing. And so you know there's some guys asked
Speaker 1: not you got the wrong NBA player or whatever, but
Speaker 1: it was like just doing it. Get social media cloud. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're being funny. All right. Back to the message from Pierre,
Speaker 1: he says, as far as me bullying members of the
Speaker 1: Malla misia, that is also fake news. I have been
Speaker 1: very supportive to others new and old, to the Malley Militia.
Speaker 1: As far as my question, this is probably aimed towards
Speaker 1: the great Danny J. Pierre says, as he once sat
Speaker 1: in Roberto's chair as well as Coops. Every day I
Speaker 1: listened too much to the live show and then I
Speaker 1: download and listened all four hours at work. How about this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: dream listenership for us right there? God bless you, Pierre.
Speaker 1: What do you think Pierre does for work? What kind
Speaker 1: of work do you think Pierre listens to the radio? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you monetize that. I'm a pro radio listener. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: question is why does some audio get dropped from the pod?
Speaker 1: I e. Certain sound effects, music, or even crew members audio.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll hear you Ben conversing, but not the other
Speaker 1: crew member. Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't happen a lot, because
Speaker 1: when it does happen, it's a mistake. Usually, Yeah, unless
Speaker 1: it's some copy written material that we know can't be
Speaker 1: included in the podcast. But because of that, sometimes on
Speaker 1: the board we call them pots pot not because we
Speaker 1: smoke them smoke weed. It's an abbreviation. And that's the
Speaker 1: line on the board that you turn up and down.
Speaker 1: They're settings above that, each line on the control board,
Speaker 1: and you can either feed it to the live air
Speaker 1: and the podcast, or you could press that button to
Speaker 1: not feed it to the podcast. So, for instance, when
Speaker 1: we play rejoined music, that's not fed to the podcast.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you'll play a sound effect or something like that,
Speaker 1: or you'll accidentally have that button off on a microphone
Speaker 1: up at top and so that's not fed to the podcast.
Speaker 1: We look back later and we see a gap in
Speaker 1: the podcast, We're like, oh, ship, what was supposed to
Speaker 1: be right there? And then I'll say, hey, Roberto, you're
Speaker 1: not feeding X or Y to the podcast and he's like,
Speaker 1: oh ship and he presses the button and gets it
Speaker 1: back to the podcast. So no bumper music. What about
Speaker 1: the Mallard music? We can put that on the podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if a listener sends us something that they personally created,
Speaker 1: we can play that. If it's something that you or
Speaker 1: I personally created, we can play that. But if it's
Speaker 1: something that's copy written, we can't play that music on
Speaker 1: a podcast. Yeah. And the company we work for, I heart,
Speaker 1: they have to write a giant check to the record companies. Right,
Speaker 1: is that it's as cap I think? Is that still
Speaker 1: the outfit that controls the music the money. Every time
Speaker 1: we play anything, we have to send money. And if
Speaker 1: we were only allowed to a certain amount of music,
Speaker 1: not to get two inside radio. But there's lots of
Speaker 1: different rules. For instance, if we were like, hey, let's
Speaker 1: have a Bob Marley Friday, we actually couldn't sit there
Speaker 1: and play Bob Marley three or four times an hour
Speaker 1: for an entire show. And also you're not allowed on
Speaker 1: a network like us. We're not allowed to promote music
Speaker 1: that's coming up because we're not a music station, So
Speaker 1: we are actually not allowed to say oh, coming up next,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play this song. We can't do that. So
Speaker 1: there's lots of little strange copyright rules. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: the company rights a giant check, one of those huge checks,
Speaker 1: and then they as cap Well, it's great. Imagine if
Speaker 1: you're a musician and you write a hit song that
Speaker 1: gets a lot of radio play, even like you can
Speaker 1: do it when you're nineteen years old, eighteen, whatever it
Speaker 1: might be, and you're getting you get a little bit
Speaker 1: of money for the rest of your the rest of
Speaker 1: your time. You're getting a litt chet Yeah. It's exactly
Speaker 1: like how Coop still gets small checks from whenever they
Speaker 1: play his movie. How messed up are we though? Is
Speaker 1: that the people in radio? Why didn't they do that
Speaker 1: in radio? Like you play an old radio show, you
Speaker 1: get a little check. I agree with you. Every time
Speaker 1: an old show gets downloaded, you and I get eight cents.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's go, I'll take five cents. I don't
Speaker 1: even need eight cents, you know, I'll take five. It
Speaker 1: all adds up every download, five cents. All right? Moving
Speaker 1: on on the mail back come back at it's signed
Speaker 1: for mail call. Ozzy was from South cross Western Australia.
Speaker 1: The man that got attacked by the kangaroo. He told
Speaker 1: us that story in the previous episode of the show,
Speaker 1: he says, Big Man and Danny G. As I was
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast last week, DANNYG was talking about
Speaker 1: twirling a snake over his head after he ran that
Speaker 1: sucker over, which reminded me about being out in the woods,
Speaker 1: he says, Woodwood with the brother in law on one
Speaker 1: of the one of his paddocks that we were cleaning
Speaker 1: up and Ozzy was goes on to say here that
Speaker 1: he was in a loader and was outside the tip truck.
Speaker 1: He u. He motioned to me a snake was close
Speaker 1: and now he killed that sucker, which is illegal in
Speaker 1: Australia as they are a protected species. You're not, Oh
Speaker 1: how about that, dude? Can't Did you know that? I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. You can't kill us? Man? Uh, he says,
Speaker 1: But cut the story short, I asked him, He says,
Speaker 1: short story. I asked him if it was poisonous and
Speaker 1: he picked up the dead carcass and said yes, as
Speaker 1: the scales on its belly goes a certain way. And
Speaker 1: my reply was high snaky, don't bother me? Can I
Speaker 1: pick your tail up to see if you're poisonous. He says, here,
Speaker 1: so there's azziwas tail from Western Australia. They're protected. But
Speaker 1: what if it's self defense? Well that's a good point.
Speaker 1: If a snake comes after you, if it's poisonous, what
Speaker 1: are you supposed to get bitten and die? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: then do you need to hire a snake lawyer? You
Speaker 1: think you'll ever go to Australia, Danny, think your travels
Speaker 1: will ever take you to Australia. I haven't had the
Speaker 1: chance to go to Europe yet. I think that will
Speaker 1: be next on the tinderonis list for the upcoming years
Speaker 1: ahead of us. So I don't. I don't see Australia.
Speaker 1: I wish, but I don't think so in my lifetime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to do radio in New Zealand. I would
Speaker 1: love to go. I have a couple of friends in
Speaker 1: New Zealand from the radio stuff that I did back
Speaker 1: in the day. I'd love to go to New Zealand.
Speaker 1: But I feel like if you go to New Zealand,
Speaker 1: you kind of got to go to Australia too, don't
Speaker 1: you there They're they're not that far. It's a couple
Speaker 1: hour flight. But they're close to each other, so you
Speaker 1: gotta do it, don't you think? All right, we'll keep
Speaker 1: it going. It is the mail bag here, and let's
Speaker 1: see any meaning Manti, Yes, we do have, man, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of mail. Kevin in Kansas rights and
Speaker 1: he says, dear Ben and Danny g I have discovered
Speaker 1: a common word that nobody can say with any authority.
Speaker 1: The word is latte. Can either of you say the
Speaker 1: word with any kind of toughness behind? Kevin says, I,
Speaker 1: I don't think even Chuck Norris or John Wayne could
Speaker 1: say latte without losing their credibility as real men. Any thoughts, yo, Man,
Speaker 1: I put some poison in that motherfucking latte. There, you
Speaker 1: guys here, there, you go right there. And he's got
Speaker 1: the pipes, Kevin, he could do it. I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I say latte, Latte, Latte, latte. There are some words
Speaker 1: like that, but there's other words I don't. I I
Speaker 1: butcher like free throws. I I I say foul shots.
Speaker 1: I usually say foul shots. A lot of broadcasters have
Speaker 1: problems saying Russell Westbrook. They'll say Russell rest Brook, Russell Russell. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: I like when it's football and basketball season and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Russell Wilson and then about Russell Westbrook, and
Speaker 1: that inevitably I will confuse the my Russell's. I'll mix
Speaker 1: up my Russell's bad job by me. I do not
Speaker 1: believe there's any antidote to that. I think I might
Speaker 1: need to take some penicillin, all right. Next up on
Speaker 1: the mail back, thank you Kevin. Kevin has been a
Speaker 1: great mail bag contributors. He's there for us pretty much
Speaker 1: every week, and and good questions from Kevin, So thank
Speaker 1: you for that and keep it moving here alright. Next
Speaker 1: up is Greg from West St. Paul, Minnesota. He says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, g when you were kids in grade school,
Speaker 1: what was your favorite subject? In your least favorite? So
Speaker 1: the least favorite is easy, that's math. I hated math
Speaker 1: my my favorite except when grade school. I loved speech class,
Speaker 1: but that was in high school. Like grade school. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember. Like I liked history a little bit,
Speaker 1: like learning American history. I thought that was cool. I'm
Speaker 1: telling what else there was. I was not a good student,
Speaker 1: so there wasn't a lot that I loved in school.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny? Anything you love, you hate? Greg
Speaker 1: wants to know He's dying to know. In West St. Paul. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by far, my favorite was Miss Martinez, my third grade teacher,
Speaker 1: And once a week she would put a really cool
Speaker 1: poster up on the board in front of the room
Speaker 1: and she would say, Okay, here's the assignment. You all
Speaker 1: take out a blank sheet of paper. See what's going
Speaker 1: on in the poster. And it would usually be like
Speaker 1: a Transformers poster or a Winnie the Pooh poster or
Speaker 1: something like that, and whatever the scene was, she'd say,
Speaker 1: how did they get to that point right there? What
Speaker 1: led up to this scene? You need to write that
Speaker 1: and the best ones I'm gonna read out loud to
Speaker 1: the class. The best one out of all of them
Speaker 1: wins that poster and a prize pack. And so it's
Speaker 1: kind of cool, right. So I loved creative writing even
Speaker 1: back then. So what I did. I look at this
Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh poster and I incorporated all of the
Speaker 1: kids in class, the class clown, the girl everyone had
Speaker 1: a crush on. I inserted them into the funny story
Speaker 1: and then got to that point of the poster. So
Speaker 1: she reads my paper and the classes busting up laughing
Speaker 1: because I was writing jokes about all the kids in
Speaker 1: the class, and I remember winning the poster and the
Speaker 1: prize pack. But the problem been after that, everybody started
Speaker 1: copying that idea. So whatever posters she would put up,
Speaker 1: all the kids had knockoff versions of what I did
Speaker 1: to start the school year. Oh yeah, so I had
Speaker 1: to fight with the copycatters after that. Um, But still
Speaker 1: it was a great way to start the year. I
Speaker 1: loved any writing. Whenever the teachers had anything going on
Speaker 1: like that, I paid close attention. And then when it
Speaker 1: was math time, I was like, can I go outside
Speaker 1: for some extra recess? Not interested in the numbers? Oh
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure, I I recall. I wish I
Speaker 1: could track down some of my old elementary school teachers.
Speaker 1: They would laugh their ass off at how much time
Speaker 1: I spend putting notes together for the show and different
Speaker 1: bullshit that I do as an adult. They would because
Speaker 1: I was such a disheveled child, right, and you know,
Speaker 1: a typical loner dude, you know, in overt and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But if they could see me now, if
Speaker 1: only they could see me now and say and they
Speaker 1: laugh and say, yeah, you should have paid more attention
Speaker 1: you know. It's funny because a lot of broadcasters look
Speaker 1: back at being told to shut up in class. You
Speaker 1: talk way too much. You're never gonna come out to anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh sure, and we goofed right now. I was, you know, spitballs.
Speaker 1: I've told the story before. I had a buddy of
Speaker 1: mine who had never seen a naked woman, and they
Speaker 1: had National Geographic magazine, and he could not stop looking,
Speaker 1: and of course was passing it around. And I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is the most amazing thing he'd ever seen in
Speaker 1: his life. I got mail. Yeah, I got mail. The
Speaker 1: next one from Walt. He says, three hundred sixty four
Speaker 1: miles east of the four oh five. So what is
Speaker 1: that in the Phoenix area? Am I right on that?
Speaker 1: Somewhere in Arizona. I've think Phoenix is like three seventy
Speaker 1: five from l A. I think, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't driven there in a long time. I used
Speaker 1: to go to spring training in Arizona back in the day.
Speaker 1: Walt says, you mentioned that your father was an amateur
Speaker 1: radio operator. Yes, he was. My father was a prolific
Speaker 1: amateur radio operator, and he was convinced until his last
Speaker 1: day on the planet because I know I talked to
Speaker 1: him a few hours before he passed away. We didn't
Speaker 1: realize he was gonna pass away from heart of that.
Speaker 1: But my dad was convinced that there would be a
Speaker 1: bigger earthquake in l A and Ham radio Ham operators
Speaker 1: were gonna save the day. And he taught actually Ham
Speaker 1: radio at some of the local colleges near where he lived.
Speaker 1: So he was all in, and he was fully invested
Speaker 1: in amateur radio. Uh and Walt says, did you ever
Speaker 1: think about taking the FCC test to get a license
Speaker 1: and then get his old call sign? I did not.
Speaker 1: I did not realize that I was even an option
Speaker 1: to get his old call signed. I don't think you can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works. But my my father,
Speaker 1: he tried. God bless arrest his soul. Also, my dad
Speaker 1: tried to get me to become a Ham radio guy.
Speaker 1: And I was into it, like the talking part of it.
Speaker 1: But up until not that long ago, you had to
Speaker 1: know Morse code, and I I, for the life of me,
Speaker 1: I could not figure out Morse fucking code. And I tried.
Speaker 1: My dad got me all these books. He tried. My
Speaker 1: dad was very good with numbers. He was a math
Speaker 1: major at U C l A. So he was very
Speaker 1: good with math. But I was I was completely lost.
Speaker 1: If it had just been the speaking part, I couldn't nailed.
Speaker 1: That was probably the toughest test I took in all
Speaker 1: of high school. The electronics teacher, Mr Haskins, he would
Speaker 1: set it all up. He was all official. He wasn't
Speaker 1: an advanced technician for Ham radio, and he would set
Speaker 1: up the test and he was super serious about it.
Speaker 1: And I remember Ben falling behind a couple of steps
Speaker 1: listening to that damn Morse code. And once you get behind,
Speaker 1: you're screwed. You're screwed because it leaves you in the dust. Um.
Speaker 1: So it took me three tries, and on my third
Speaker 1: and final try passed it to get a technician's license.
Speaker 1: The final attempt. Yeah, that's press er when you know
Speaker 1: you don't even get another chance. Yeah. And my my
Speaker 1: dad he also there was a Ham radio magazine, if
Speaker 1: if anyway is listening q s R. I think it
Speaker 1: was called I think he had every single addition of
Speaker 1: that of that magazine. He was just he was a
Speaker 1: huge fan of that magazine. So I know we have
Speaker 1: a few Ham radio people that are fans I think
Speaker 1: are our buddy Terry in England is a Ham radio
Speaker 1: operator also, So what became of your dad's Ham radio equipment. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously I'm not a Ham guy, so we we actually
Speaker 1: we were able to give it to He was part
Speaker 1: of a local community club. You know. They they're an
Speaker 1: emergency response team if there's a disaster in the city
Speaker 1: he was living in, and so we were able to
Speaker 1: donate that to the people who are in the Ham clubs,
Speaker 1: so they were able to use his equipment. And you know,
Speaker 1: he had he had tons and tons of of really
Speaker 1: old stuff. He didn't have a lot of new stuff.
Speaker 1: My dad liked the old stuff. And I used to
Speaker 1: bust my dad's balls because he he was so into
Speaker 1: Morse code because that's what he learned as a kid,
Speaker 1: and he'd get on the Ham radio bands at night
Speaker 1: and he'd be very frustrated there weren't a lot of
Speaker 1: people doing the Morse code. But and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: just do the vocal stuff because there's more people doing that.
Speaker 1: But he he loved the Morse code and that's what
Speaker 1: he wanted to do. And he got frustrated because a
Speaker 1: lot of the time, Uh, there wouldn't There wouldn't be
Speaker 1: people on there doing the Morse code. So, by the
Speaker 1: way I googled the amateur radio magazine q ST, QST
Speaker 1: knew he was a cue all right, Johnny writes in
Speaker 1: from fishing Texas waters. I guess that's what he's doing
Speaker 1: right now. He's fishing the waters of Texas. Uh, he says,
Speaker 1: how is it that FSR does not recognize you as
Speaker 1: the most influential people in the world. There you go, Uh,
Speaker 1: why is that, Danny? G Why didn't we not get
Speaker 1: recognized as the most influential people in the world because
Speaker 1: we're the most interesting people in the world. So we
Speaker 1: can't hold two title belts at the same time. Yes,
Speaker 1: and as much as they want to overpay us, Danny,
Speaker 1: we both we want to keep our blue collar outlook
Speaker 1: we do. We don't want to become white collar. It
Speaker 1: would ruin the whole bit that we have. It's much
Speaker 1: better to carry the rock thirty five times in a game,
Speaker 1: to ground and pound and help the team win the division.
Speaker 1: We're not the prissy prima donna quarterback who doesn't want
Speaker 1: to get sacked. Yeah, there's some people that order an omelet,
Speaker 1: but there's other pool that have to break the eggs
Speaker 1: to make them, and that's what we do, right, I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you believe any of that. That
Speaker 1: is a load of bull puck. Alright, Croy in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Right so, and he says, what is the best firing
Speaker 1: story you've had? You are a co worker? Well, that's
Speaker 1: that's appropriate because we had our Buddy Sports with coleman
Speaker 1: on who was let go I lost. I've told the
Speaker 1: story a few times over the years. I haven't told
Speaker 1: him a while. I was hosting Dodger Talk and I
Speaker 1: lost the gig at a pay phone on outside a
Speaker 1: cat walk from the press box at County Stadium in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: It's the end of a road trip the Dodgers where
Speaker 1: they went to Chicago Milwaukee, and I got a call
Speaker 1: from the programming guy saying, hey, you gotta, you know,
Speaker 1: give me a buzz when you get back to l A.
Speaker 1: And of course I was like, I want to find
Speaker 1: out right now what's going on. And the guy's like, hey,
Speaker 1: we decided to make a change. And there's this other guy.
Speaker 1: He's a bigger name, and uh, he's going to replace
Speaker 1: you starting tomorrow. And I was like what And Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I lost. I lost the gig there that I
Speaker 1: got replaced though by a legend in l a television Oh,
Speaker 1: David vasse No uh Silver Tips stew the great student
Speaker 1: aahan Oh, a long time television personality was in movies.
Speaker 1: Why did Stu need that gig at the time? He
Speaker 1: didn't need the gig, but he was. He was actually
Speaker 1: retired and he loved the Dodgers, and so he thought
Speaker 1: it would be a fun gig to travel around and
Speaker 1: come on, Stu, he should have let a young Benny
Speaker 1: continue that job. I often wonder what would have happened
Speaker 1: if I had continued that job, Like, how would my
Speaker 1: life have turned out? If I would I still be
Speaker 1: doing that job. You might be sitting in the booth
Speaker 1: decks to Charlie Steiner. I gotta tell you, though, Dan Danny,
Speaker 1: it was not the easiest thing, because even though I
Speaker 1: love the Dodgers, when they played like shit, I wanted
Speaker 1: to say, hey, they they You know that guy's a
Speaker 1: bomber and you can't really do that in that job.
Speaker 1: You have to be a houseman. It's you can't give
Speaker 1: anytime you say there was a day I did that job.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers. It was like a Sunday I think they
Speaker 1: were playing the Montreal Expos how long ago that was,
Speaker 1: and they had a terrible They made like six errors
Speaker 1: in the game or something like that, and I was
Speaker 1: like ripping the defense, and some somebody got offended that
Speaker 1: I was being too critical. I was like, what am
Speaker 1: I supposed to say? You have like six errors in
Speaker 1: a game. What do you want me to do? Praise
Speaker 1: you for your gold glove defense? Hm. But anyway, any
Speaker 1: firing stories you want to share with Croy. So when
Speaker 1: I was programming a hip hop radio station here in
Speaker 1: southern California, I actually inherited a staff, which, as you know,
Speaker 1: that's hard because at the time the station sucked pretty bad.
Speaker 1: They were in seventh place. There's that weird transition period
Speaker 1: where you got to figure out who you're gonna keep,
Speaker 1: who you're gonna acts. Uh, And it's the hardest with
Speaker 1: the weekend staff, because that's hard to fill those jobs. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this weekend staff. I need to fill
Speaker 1: out the roster. There was this one guy named Timothy James,
Speaker 1: fake radio name and a fake voice. Ben He'd be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Saturday. Yeah, oh yeah. He was horrible what he
Speaker 1: did the early Saturday shift in an early Sunday shift,
Speaker 1: and I thought, well, let me just leave him alone.
Speaker 1: Except he was an asshole in the hallways. He created
Speaker 1: lots of drama with the staff. So I kept talking
Speaker 1: to my general manager like, can I just get rid
Speaker 1: of this guy please? He's just a troublemaker and he's
Speaker 1: bad on the air. And my GM was like, wow,
Speaker 1: you know, just bear with it. Just just you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to, you know, control the guy. And I'm like
Speaker 1: all right. So every weekend was something new. Every weekend
Speaker 1: was a new problem with this guy Ben. So finally
Speaker 1: I I wake up one Saturday, a I turn on.
Speaker 1: You know, when you program the station, a big part
Speaker 1: of your life is listening to your damn radio station.
Speaker 1: If you're not there, you are because you're listening in
Speaker 1: your car, on your phone at your house. To make
Speaker 1: sure everything is going smooth. In the old days, you
Speaker 1: had to listen line. Before all the apps where you
Speaker 1: could listen anywhere you want, it is yes number to
Speaker 1: call up to listen in on the station. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was my responsibility. My general manager said, you have a
Speaker 1: big contract, because you have big responsibilities. Then it bugged
Speaker 1: the ship out of my girlfriend at the time. So
Speaker 1: I wake up early on Saturday morning and I tuned
Speaker 1: my station in and there's dead air. What the what's
Speaker 1: going on? And then like a song comes on, but
Speaker 1: there was no imaging nothing before the song. All right, well,
Speaker 1: maybe Timothy is just tired starting off his shift. And
Speaker 1: then the next song ends, Ben, and there's more dead air,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the funk man? So I call
Speaker 1: of a hot line. At this point, I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: two incidents of dead air. I need to call and
Speaker 1: see if this is this guy hung over. Nobody answers
Speaker 1: the hotline the red phone in the studio with the
Speaker 1: blinky flashy light that means those ships the boss is calling.
Speaker 1: No one answers it the bat phone. And now I'm
Speaker 1: like really pissed, Like okay, so we sound like ship
Speaker 1: on the air right now, and nobody's answering the bat phone.
Speaker 1: So another song gets played and then imaging comes on,
Speaker 1: but it's train wrecking with a song. So Ben, I
Speaker 1: throw my clothes on, I speed down to the radio station.
Speaker 1: I stomp into the studio and I expect, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna see, but I'm thinking
Speaker 1: Timothy James is gonna be laid out, you know, on
Speaker 1: the floor, drunk or something like that. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to think. There was no Timothy James. It was
Speaker 1: a bright eyed intern, a scared look on his face,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, where the fuck is Timothy at I
Speaker 1: don't know. He just asked me to cover for him
Speaker 1: for an hour. This is Ashole Benefit fIF fifty radio station.
Speaker 1: This guy had an intern cover for him for an hour.
Speaker 1: So I stay there and I like where did he go?
Speaker 1: And he's like, I'm not sure. He didn't tell me.
Speaker 1: He just asked me to cover the control board for
Speaker 1: an hour. And I'm like, you don't know how to
Speaker 1: do the control board. Nobody trained you on this. And
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, I'm just trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: He showed me really quick, and I'm sorry if it
Speaker 1: sounds bad on the air, and I'm like, get the
Speaker 1: funk out of here right now. So I send the
Speaker 1: intern home, I get my headphones out of my programming office,
Speaker 1: and I jump on the air and I do the
Speaker 1: next break live, introduced the next song. He's driving back
Speaker 1: to the studios. Yeah, he hears the program director on
Speaker 1: the air ben he walked in. Forty five minutes later.
Speaker 1: He had an interview somewhere for like a daytime job
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday. He tried to have this guy cover
Speaker 1: while he went to the job interview. Yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: get your ship and get out of here. He was
Speaker 1: trying to argue with me, and I was like bye bye,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that was the best firing we ever had there.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of anything like that in raiding. We've
Speaker 1: heard a lot of crazy stories. No, that's that's quite
Speaker 1: the quite all right. Well, that's a perfect way to
Speaker 1: put the bow on this. And so for John in
Speaker 1: Northern Colorado, Luna, Mike, Steve, all you guys, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: we just ran out of time here, but we will
Speaker 1: next week. We'll have a new mailback, so if you
Speaker 1: want to submit your question for next week, John in
Speaker 1: Colorado and all you other guys there, and Gal, I
Speaker 1: don't see any gals. I lied. There's no women. Uh.
Speaker 1: And what happened to Helen and stew by the way,
Speaker 1: they they vanished. I hope they're okay. Helen and Stu.
Speaker 1: They they told this tale. They said they were gonna
Speaker 1: pay off the Great Tale and then they vanished. I
Speaker 1: only we've heard from them in like a month. So
Speaker 1: hopefully Helen and stew and Palmetto Bay, Florida there are Okay, Danny,
Speaker 1: what do you have coming up? You're also you're gonna
Speaker 1: be on the radio show, The Librado Show tomorrow. And
Speaker 1: don't forget. The Mallard meet and greet is this week.
Speaker 1: Hopefully Danny can make it. We'll find out. I will
Speaker 1: will obviously talk about it on the overnight show, but
Speaker 1: that'll be this Friday in southern California. Uh. Contact Eddie
Speaker 1: Garcia Eddie on Fox at gmail dot com if you're
Speaker 1: interested in attending in La Maratta. I believe it is
Speaker 1: La Maratta there. But Danny, what are you got going on? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun week besides the meet and
Speaker 1: great you're right Monday into Tuesday. I get to fill
Speaker 1: in for Coop today. This afternoon, I'm gonna be having
Speaker 1: fun with Covino and Rich and then the show, right
Speaker 1: but for yours Arnie Spaniard with Chris Plank Blaker Feds.
Speaker 1: And then it'll be Mallard time. Yeah, alright, well, listen,
Speaker 1: we'll have we'll have a great time this week, and
Speaker 1: who knows, you never know. It's gonna on the place.
Speaker 1: If you want to recommend a guest. That's some people
Speaker 1: emailing me different names for future guests. Now that we
Speaker 1: got Musburger Danny, I know. I think the world is
Speaker 1: our oyster. I think we can get anybody there. Set
Speaker 1: the bar high. I got some emails out to your
Speaker 1: boy George Norri. I would love to talk to George Nory,
Speaker 1: that would I would love to hear you and him
Speaker 1: having a conversation. So I'm efforting that at the moment,
Speaker 1: all right, So we'll see what happens with that. But
Speaker 1: have a great week, great rest of the day, obviously today,
Speaker 1: and I'll be back in the radio studio, the terrestrial
Speaker 1: radio studio, the brick and mortar studio, literally and figuratively
Speaker 1: there tonight, eleven pm in the west, three A. What
Speaker 1: is that to two am? I keep my math. They
Speaker 1: said there would be no math two am in the east,
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night there on a Monday.
Speaker 1: And we'll catch you then later. Skater gotta murder, gotta
Speaker 1: go