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 gutter 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, back
Speaker 1: at it again. The talking does not end. A brand
Speaker 1: spanking new addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard
Speaker 1: and Danny G Radio back in the podcast Ojo. We
Speaker 1: are never boring, and occasionally we get into the ring
Speaker 1: and we try to avoid taking calls from We don't
Speaker 1: want him here, but Danny G. A new weekend is
Speaker 1: upon us. A crazy week has played out, and here
Speaker 1: we are amazing, amazing, amazing, man. This is the second
Speaker 1: end of the week where we get football. So I'm
Speaker 1: a happy person. And this is the first real exhibition weekend.
Speaker 1: Last week we just had one game, the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame game. But now it is on like donkey kong
Speaker 1: uh this weekend. And the thing that we always say
Speaker 1: about this when you talk about exhibition games, there's only
Speaker 1: one thing that comes out of these exhibition games. And
Speaker 1: much like Donkey Kong, your some of your star players
Speaker 1: who play end up, or like your boy Matt Stafford,
Speaker 1: they never get on the field to begin with because
Speaker 1: they're hurt. Ah, they'rebellishing that he's never gonna play again. Ben.
Speaker 1: His arm is gonna be amputated. He's gonna he's gonna
Speaker 1: lose an arm, the whole thing. He's gonna have his
Speaker 1: head chopped off. It's all over now, it's all over,
Speaker 1: just ramant, unless it's not exactly We have a carpool,
Speaker 1: Benny Opening Day, cookie Monster, Backscratcher, and whatever else we
Speaker 1: decided to talk about. All right, clear your ears out,
Speaker 1: get get a cute tip, whatever you have to do,
Speaker 1: We're good to go here. Rub your eyes, wake up,
Speaker 1: put some water on your face, do what you have
Speaker 1: to do. The show must go on. So uh, this
Speaker 1: being the Saturday podcast Danny the Life of Mallard and
Speaker 1: Danny g Spectacular. This doesn't have the number one station anymore,
Speaker 1: is it. So there has been a pattern in these parts.
Speaker 1: If you've been keeping track and you listen regularly, there
Speaker 1: is a theme to these podcasts, and it involves automobile blues.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, and it has happened again now each weekend
Speaker 1: we have exchanged stories of car related shenan against. You
Speaker 1: got an unbelievably ridiculous bill from the auto shop, Danny,
Speaker 1: last week, and you told us about that you were
Speaker 1: trying to go. Was it uphill and uphill to work?
Speaker 1: Which did not work? Yeah, so this week is no different.
Speaker 1: Now again my wife was on the way to her job.
Speaker 1: My wife far away from the north Woods, far far
Speaker 1: away from the north Woods, and uh whatever, it's the
Speaker 1: normal driver. I think you know how the story ended.
Speaker 1: The malamobile started malfunctioning, much like the trip, the romantic
Speaker 1: trip up the California coast where we got to Sherman
Speaker 1: Oaks from the north Woods and turn out the lots
Speaker 1: the parties over so the same thing, bells and whistles,
Speaker 1: lights flashing on the dashboard and it was toe on
Speaker 1: the go. I had to get towed off the freeway.
Speaker 1: So the second time we've had a tow truck in
Speaker 1: the last couple of months, which began an absolute nightmare
Speaker 1: week scheduling wise, and down to one car, Danny, and
Speaker 1: living in California, there's no real rapid transit where we live,
Speaker 1: so you gotta take the automobile or uber or whatever.
Speaker 1: And you know this, you're you're living this also, so
Speaker 1: down to one car, we decided, you know, I can
Speaker 1: work from home some of the time, so I'm okay.
Speaker 1: But this week, because of scheduling and we had some visitors.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that later on in the podcast.
Speaker 1: That paid a visit and I had to be in
Speaker 1: the studio. I had to be the one wearing the
Speaker 1: clown makeup, right, I had to have had I had
Speaker 1: to put on a show, and so I had to
Speaker 1: go in the studio. My wife had to go into
Speaker 1: her job at the police station. She's a nine when
Speaker 1: one operator and so uh, I picked up a new nickname,
Speaker 1: uh car pool Benny uh and UH. I normally avoid
Speaker 1: rush hour traffic. It's one of the perks of working overnight.
Speaker 1: I don't have to deal with the monotony of bumper
Speaker 1: to bumper to bumper to bumper to bumper. But I
Speaker 1: did a couple of days this week I had to
Speaker 1: take her to work. Now, one of the days I
Speaker 1: took her to work and then I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'll just go to the radio station. I'll get ready
Speaker 1: for the show at the radio station, and we're allowed
Speaker 1: to do that, although there's not a lot of room
Speaker 1: anymore because they got rid of the offices and so whatever.
Speaker 1: So I went and that was all right, and then
Speaker 1: I ended up coming back to her work because she
Speaker 1: worked much longer than a radio shift. You worked twelve
Speaker 1: hour shifts at the at the nine one one desk,
Speaker 1: and so she was there way after I got done.
Speaker 1: So I hung out at the police station and I
Speaker 1: got to use the WiFi. That was That was cool.
Speaker 1: Careful what you're searching, though, but here exactly no no porn.
Speaker 1: But the other thing thing, I you go to the
Speaker 1: police station, and you always loved going there when you're
Speaker 1: not in the jail, right that that you're doing pretty
Speaker 1: good there when you're not in jail. So I was
Speaker 1: hanging out with her, which is kind of cool. It
Speaker 1: was nice to talk to the officers, and I haven't
Speaker 1: seen them that often, certainly the COVID and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I know some of the guys, uh and women that
Speaker 1: worked there, so so that was fine. So then the
Speaker 1: next day, this ended up being two days of purgatory.
Speaker 1: What a pain in the behind now that the car
Speaker 1: has actually been repaired and toda. We We went to
Speaker 1: a local mom and pop repair shop where near where
Speaker 1: the car broke down, which happened to be near where
Speaker 1: we used to live. And unlike the DVA, you would
Speaker 1: think the dealer would have all the answers. No, they
Speaker 1: couldn't fix it. They said, we don't know what the
Speaker 1: promise this other place. Oh yeah, we know exactly what
Speaker 1: that is. Here's three things you need about a being
Speaker 1: bout a boom uh you know, strike one, strike two,
Speaker 1: strike three, year out and the car will be fixed.
Speaker 1: So that's fine. But but I had to go another
Speaker 1: day to drive the wife out to her job. And
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I'm gonna come back home. I'll
Speaker 1: do the show from home. Nothing to worry about here,
Speaker 1: we're good to go. So, Danny, I'm on the way
Speaker 1: to the wife's work area. I'm stuck in horrendous traffic.
Speaker 1: I'm questioning my decision making at this point, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: how do people do this? I couldn't handle this. And
Speaker 1: so I'm driving and I get a buzz on my
Speaker 1: phone and it's from one of our bosses at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio saying, hey, they're doing some work on the
Speaker 1: internet and some other things at the studio, and because
Speaker 1: of that, you can't work from the home studio. You
Speaker 1: have to be in studio. Yeah, so I'm on the way.
Speaker 1: I don't mind you. If I had had my headphones
Speaker 1: and my badge to get into the office the I
Speaker 1: Heart building, the Premier building, I would have just gone
Speaker 1: to the office. But I had already put my time
Speaker 1: in in the studio. I've been there a couple of days.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: bring anything, so I couldn't go to the studio. I
Speaker 1: didn't have my anything I needed I didn't have, so
Speaker 1: I had to go home. So then I'm like texting back,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, are you really sure there's there's nothing.
Speaker 1: We could we work on a compromise. So then uh,
Speaker 1: Scott was like, well, you know, if you can't make it,
Speaker 1: we'll get somebody to fill in. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't want didn't want that. I wanted to do
Speaker 1: the show, and so I dropped my wife off after
Speaker 1: spending ninety minutes in traffic, I then spent another hour
Speaker 1: in twenty minutes in traffic. So now I'm out to
Speaker 1: We had two hours in fifty minutes in traffic, and
Speaker 1: I've gotten nowhere. I've gone back to where I need
Speaker 1: to be. So then I've got a scramble because, as
Speaker 1: you know, Danny, I'm a very methodical preparer for the show.
Speaker 1: I I have a certain cadence that I followed ready
Speaker 1: for a radio show. And exactly I'm a creature of habit.
Speaker 1: That's what I was looking for. So completely just uh
Speaker 1: waylaid my entire schedule. And these are first world problems
Speaker 1: to have. So I'm scrambling. I'm like, all right, who
Speaker 1: the you know, who the f cares? I'll just put
Speaker 1: this out there. I don't give a crap, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: I got a few opinions. I was actually I was
Speaker 1: stopped near at one point near Anaheim Stadium, the Big A.
Speaker 1: I could look into the Big A. The entire freeway
Speaker 1: was was stopped. There was a traffic break because of
Speaker 1: an accident on the Connector road. So this actually worked
Speaker 1: out to be a good thing because I was able
Speaker 1: to on my I own throw some I was surfing
Speaker 1: around getting some stories and I was trying like, well,
Speaker 1: what do I think about that? Is that good enough
Speaker 1: for the show, and then I saw that actually helped
Speaker 1: me out. The traffic helped me out on it as
Speaker 1: weird as that is. So you were getting a Mallard
Speaker 1: show riddle while you were stopped in traffic. Yes, yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what was happening, Danny. So finally, you know,
Speaker 1: I got home. I as I said, I threw some
Speaker 1: stuff together, Bella hung out with me right next to me,
Speaker 1: and then got piste. When I left, I was went
Speaker 1: home for like a couple of hours, and I had
Speaker 1: to get back in the roads. And then I spent
Speaker 1: another hour in the car to get to the studio
Speaker 1: and then the cherry on top of the Sunday. Nothing happened,
Speaker 1: nothing went down, no equipment broke, there was no WiFi issue.
Speaker 1: Everything was fine. I could have stayed at the home
Speaker 1: studio and done the work and nobody would have known
Speaker 1: any different. Now, I was so upset that I kept
Speaker 1: hitting the computer. I said, I told her, I said,
Speaker 1: this is that this thing is gonna go down. This
Speaker 1: is gonna go down. It never went down, So that
Speaker 1: was my my nightmare. And then but wait, there's more.
Speaker 1: So now at this point I'm out three hours and
Speaker 1: fifty minutes, I believe. So then I do the show
Speaker 1: and I've got to run back because I do the
Speaker 1: podcast from the home studio. I don't I can't even
Speaker 1: do it at the the studios we work out of
Speaker 1: to do the radio show. I don't know the equipments
Speaker 1: and equated and all that. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: do it. There's nobody there. So I gotta come home
Speaker 1: so now, and I gotta not that I'm upset to
Speaker 1: work with you, Danny, but another hour. So now I'm
Speaker 1: out almost five hours if my math is correct on that.
Speaker 1: I think my math is right about five hours. And
Speaker 1: and you know, just driving around, just five hours, five
Speaker 1: hours I spent driving around. Well, at least you have
Speaker 1: air conditioning and you weren't slaving away in the hot sun.
Speaker 1: That is true. Yeah, there are people that actually do
Speaker 1: real work, card labor that that is. That is much harder.
Speaker 1: But I'm used to my usual routine. And so that
Speaker 1: was that opening day, if you will, Danny. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not talking baseball opening day. I'm not even talking foot
Speaker 1: were talking about football, but this is a whole different
Speaker 1: frontier here. It very much was like an MLB opening day.
Speaker 1: You could feel the excitement in the air. The kids
Speaker 1: were back on campus, the dress codes were being enforced
Speaker 1: once again, and I was on campus very early to
Speaker 1: help open up. So this past Tuesday, we open up
Speaker 1: the campus, all the kids come trampling back on twelve
Speaker 1: hundred middle schoolers. Ben. This is like a nightmare all
Speaker 1: right now. Mind you, a lot of these are sixth
Speaker 1: graders who have never had a locker. They've never had
Speaker 1: multiple classes, they've never had to deal with running to
Speaker 1: a class with two bells going off. They've just not
Speaker 1: had this experience. So, as you can imagine, there were
Speaker 1: lots of bug eyed kids walking around at seven thirty
Speaker 1: am trying to figure out what class was what and
Speaker 1: where they were supposed to go. Mapping out the rest
Speaker 1: of the day. I had several kids walk up to
Speaker 1: me asking me to please show them how to work
Speaker 1: the master lock. And as you know, Ben, it's right
Speaker 1: right right. You go right to clare it, then land
Speaker 1: on your first number, then you go left past it
Speaker 1: to the second number, and then you go right to
Speaker 1: the third number and pull it down. And and when
Speaker 1: it's really the pressure is really on you when you
Speaker 1: got to to class because the bell is about to ring,
Speaker 1: I just want to clarify for the kids that probably
Speaker 1: are not listening to this podcast, that I, as a
Speaker 1: middle aged adult, still have trouble with the lock. I
Speaker 1: I much prefer the key lock. I cannot stand those
Speaker 1: with the code. I hate him. I hate him, and
Speaker 1: they seem like cheaper locks too. These things feel like
Speaker 1: they're gonna fall apart in your hand. But this is
Speaker 1: what the school district hands out to the kids for
Speaker 1: their locker for their books, and then for their pe
Speaker 1: locker inside the locker rooms where they change, so they
Speaker 1: have two of these to figure out. These sixth graders
Speaker 1: been They looked like they were completely lost. One of
Speaker 1: them came up to me and he's like, can you
Speaker 1: please show me how to do the lock again? So
Speaker 1: I showed it to him, had him do it in
Speaker 1: front of me. He got it. But then he looks
Speaker 1: up at me and he says, I have to do
Speaker 1: this every day. Yes Toomey, welcome. It only goes downhill
Speaker 1: from here, God bless him. Man, wait till you have
Speaker 1: to do taxes and all the other adult bullshit the
Speaker 1: rest of us have to. Yes. Yeah, So these kids
Speaker 1: are lugging around books from their first classes trying to
Speaker 1: shove them in these lockers. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Of course, the seventh and eighth graders were peacocking around
Speaker 1: the campus because they've been there before, they've been in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Um, it was a great first day.
Speaker 1: And i'll tell you what, Ben, the sixth graders overall
Speaker 1: seem a lot more calm because last year's collection of
Speaker 1: sixth graders, holy crap, they were just coming off of COVID,
Speaker 1: so they were wild. They had the numb chucks and
Speaker 1: the astro blasters ready to go. Yeah, you know, they
Speaker 1: hadn't been social for a while, they hadn't been at home,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, like wild animals, they
Speaker 1: were released back into the wilderness. That's what it was
Speaker 1: like last school year. The sixth graders this year will
Speaker 1: be a little more calm. Well usually, and you could
Speaker 1: speak better to me, but as I better than me.
Speaker 1: But as I remember when I was in school, it's
Speaker 1: usually you start out, you're pretty good, and then at
Speaker 1: some point certain students common deer the school, you know,
Speaker 1: they overtake it and they try to topple the whole
Speaker 1: the whole operation, and boom goes to dynamite. Good start, well,
Speaker 1: that's good. So it was a busy beginning to the week.
Speaker 1: On the radio show, I mentioned the car troubles and
Speaker 1: back in business and all that, and it's really cool
Speaker 1: that if you were listening, you heard this if you
Speaker 1: listen to the live show, but a couple of card
Speaker 1: carrying legends in the Mallar Militia in studio visits Sunday
Speaker 1: into Monday. The Great J. Scoop paid us of is
Speaker 1: it very talented musician friend of the show, and he's
Speaker 1: he's actually documented he's met more listeners from coast to
Speaker 1: coast than I have. He was the ringleader of that
Speaker 1: very famous Mallard meet and greet that we did with
Speaker 1: all the big stars, all the bizzas the Wild Factor
Speaker 1: in Seattle just before the world shut down late in
Speaker 1: nineteen it was late December, if I remember correctly, it
Speaker 1: was between Christmas and New Year's at the Mallard Meet
Speaker 1: and greet, and that was that was a special. Like
Speaker 1: we had a lot of legends, Danny, we had JJ
Speaker 1: from Renton who doesn't call the show anymore, Robbie the
Speaker 1: Mariner fan ed and Christina from Spokane. No Stradinas was there.
Speaker 1: There were so many others that I'm forgetting right now.
Speaker 1: Bad job by me. Some of our joke writers showed
Speaker 1: up there, and so it was great. I had not
Speaker 1: seen Jay Scoop since then, and he stopped by and
Speaker 1: shot the Bullpucky with us, and we hung out and
Speaker 1: chatted the night away, and I had him on for
Speaker 1: a couple of segments. He took some some phone calls,
Speaker 1: and I actually ended up giving him a lift back
Speaker 1: to his hotel room. He was staying down the street
Speaker 1: at that Marriott. You know that hotel. Yeah, I stayed
Speaker 1: there one time when I got locked out of my apartment. Oh,
Speaker 1: I stayed there one time too. I stayed there when
Speaker 1: there was Karma Geddon. What was Karma Gedding? How long ago?
Speaker 1: Is that a few Yeah, it was a few years ago. Yes,
Speaker 1: So Karma Geddon they shut down the four oh five freeway.
Speaker 1: They had to put an overpass or something like that.
Speaker 1: And our studios are right at the base of the
Speaker 1: four oh five and the one on one in l A.
Speaker 1: And so I was doing a bunch of weekend shifts.
Speaker 1: So like, we'll get your hotel room. You can't go home,
Speaker 1: you won't be able to get back. And it turned out.
Speaker 1: There wasn't hardly any traffic. People were line. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so Jay scoo, I give him right back to the hotel.
Speaker 1: He actually brought a massive box of goodies. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: passed him in the hallway. I got to meet him
Speaker 1: really quick because I was leaving my shift as you
Speaker 1: were starting yours, and he's carrying this huge box of
Speaker 1: these huge cookies. Yeah, so what's in the box? And
Speaker 1: uh and and and then you saw the box. I
Speaker 1: don't want to exaggerate and embellish the size of the box.
Speaker 1: It was about the size of the state of Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and it was about them, and it was all kinds
Speaker 1: of flavors. You know, Cookie Monster would have been in
Speaker 1: with this box of cookies. Okay, I mean he really did.
Speaker 1: Did it great. He went above and beyond the call.
Speaker 1: And he had the traditional chocolate chip, the snickerdoodle, the
Speaker 1: peanut butter. There were some more exotic flavors. There was
Speaker 1: like a banana flavor. You're the cookie man, though, are
Speaker 1: these were these as good as your batches of cookie?
Speaker 1: They're good. They were better than like process because they
Speaker 1: were made from a local bakery. Looked like that. So
Speaker 1: they had the label and whatnot. But no, I mean
Speaker 1: I love making making the cookies and I actually made
Speaker 1: some chocolate chip cookies this week. Actually made a few
Speaker 1: few chocolate chip cookies and all that. But but yeah, so,
Speaker 1: I mean, he brought the cookies and Eddie the hoarder
Speaker 1: ended up grabbing most of the snicker Doom. It's a
Speaker 1: bad job by him, but I was able to squirrel away.
Speaker 1: I had a bag I think it was Doug Gottlieb's
Speaker 1: bag that he left in the studio. I grabbed the
Speaker 1: bag and I put a hodgepodge of cookies in there.
Speaker 1: So then that was on Sunday night, and then Monday
Speaker 1: into Tuesday. Our old pal Chris and Houston he paid
Speaker 1: a visit. Yeah, yeah, we we've had many great sparring
Speaker 1: matches over the years. Chris sold out, he took the
Speaker 1: dreaded day shift, so he no longer works overnights, but
Speaker 1: he's a podcast listener and die hard rockets Texans and
Speaker 1: cheating stros am I on the live here. Well that
Speaker 1: of course a great homage to help with me. But
Speaker 1: but he he was in l A to take his
Speaker 1: skins to Disneyland and v I P package and all
Speaker 1: that and I gotta tell you, Danny, you know, he
Speaker 1: was pretty smooth. I mean, you can tell he's done
Speaker 1: some podcasting stuff. But was he good enough to impress
Speaker 1: Blind Scott? No, of course not no, no, no, Blind Scott.
Speaker 1: No Scott, if you didn't know, called Ben on the
Speaker 1: air and said that all the callers that have been
Speaker 1: coming in to meet you in studio are trash and
Speaker 1: if he came in, he'd be so good. Management would
Speaker 1: fire you and give the overnight shift to him. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the cream rises at the top of that, and Dylan
Speaker 1: as his sidekick. That would be wonderful. The press release
Speaker 1: on that alone would rock the sports world. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Blind the first dog on the air, right. No, we
Speaker 1: have have a whole lineup. We have a kennel, that
Speaker 1: is what we have. But what you're talking about, jeez,
Speaker 1: it's a madhouse around there. Well, we need a fleabath,
Speaker 1: that is what we need. Anyway, Chris, we made sure
Speaker 1: me and Roberto we patted him down. We checked him
Speaker 1: for the buzzers. We didn't see any buzzers. No Astros
Speaker 1: contraband if he's wearing Astro's merchandise, we were not going
Speaker 1: to allow him in the studio. Was he eyeing the
Speaker 1: trash can in the main studio, Well, he felt at
Speaker 1: home he saw the trash can, He's like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: my my happy place, that's my happy place. But it
Speaker 1: was it was cool to see him busting his chops
Speaker 1: and all that, and good job by Roberto. He wore
Speaker 1: the asterisks shirt. So remember I don't know if you
Speaker 1: remember that Eddie bought us all shirts that has it
Speaker 1: looks like the Astros logo, but it says asterisk on it.
Speaker 1: That's all right, that's a nice touch by Roberto. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm excited. The COVID rules have been rolled
Speaker 1: back and so we can hang out with fans of
Speaker 1: this show again. That happened to pass through Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and so if you're interested in that, if you're it's
Speaker 1: gotta be somebody we know, I would think, right, Danny,
Speaker 1: we can't just let anyone in. But if we were
Speaker 1: aware of you, if you've contributed content to the show
Speaker 1: and you happen to be around and the schedule works out,
Speaker 1: as long as you don't outshine us, that would be bad.
Speaker 1: But we we'd love to meet you. We gotta get
Speaker 1: out on this, Danny. We have backscratcher, and I want
Speaker 1: to give you, Danny a gold star who you know why,
Speaker 1: because you explain paint by numbers, how to write a
Speaker 1: review and we had let me see, you went to
Speaker 1: three four five, We had a record five reviews. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's all because of you, Danny. Congratulations. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: you need to do that every week when we get
Speaker 1: done here. You have to explain because whatever you say,
Speaker 1: as bleary eyed as you were, whatever you said, you
Speaker 1: you're a teacher. You taught the people. I knew it.
Speaker 1: Brent Musberger and now five star five reviews. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Musburger was amazing. Dude. To hear his voice in your
Speaker 1: voice together, Ben, If we don't send that into the
Speaker 1: Marconi folks, I don't know what we're doing with our lives.
Speaker 1: And I love Musburger because Brent I was trying to
Speaker 1: talk about his career and make it all about him.
Speaker 1: But Brent, he wanted to talk baseball. He wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, football, and he didn't want to
Speaker 1: talk about himself, which was kind of cool because we
Speaker 1: we know guys. I'm not gonna name names. Pat O'Brian,
Speaker 1: who loved to talk about themselves. But but Brent, I
Speaker 1: got the center. He did talk about himself, but I
Speaker 1: tried to make it all about him, and he was like, no,
Speaker 1: he wanted to talk about watching a Yankee game or
Speaker 1: college football schedule. And but he did tell the story.
Speaker 1: And I won't give it away, but the story he
Speaker 1: told I to him about how he got some of
Speaker 1: his catchphrases, the one you're looking live, which is his
Speaker 1: most famous catchphrase. I don't know that he's I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's told that over there. I've never heard the story
Speaker 1: that he told. I don't know if that's an exclusive
Speaker 1: on the fifth Hour, but you're right, I had never
Speaker 1: heard that story before. Yeah, it was pretty it was
Speaker 1: pretty neat and it as far as the backscratcher danities,
Speaker 1: are actual rews by actual listeners, thanks to you, Danny
Speaker 1: and the fact that you let people know how they
Speaker 1: could actually get to the podcast page where they needed
Speaker 1: to click to review it. So this guy Twizzle T,
Speaker 1: I don't know that he he's posted like three different
Speaker 1: reviews over the last couple of months. Does he delete
Speaker 1: his account and then start over? I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: that works, but he wrote in he says, I love
Speaker 1: it the fifth hour. This show every week keeps me entertained.
Speaker 1: Keep it up, fellas. Twizzle T says, you're the best,
Speaker 1: which actually means you're only as good as everyone else,
Speaker 1: that's what. So you're slightly better than that, which means
Speaker 1: you're better than average either way. Twizzle T says, I
Speaker 1: love the show and I use a sleep mask with
Speaker 1: Bluetooth so I can listen to the rainforest. That's a
Speaker 1: good idea. And we talked about Yeah, that was a
Speaker 1: topic last weekend listener cal writes in says great easy listening,
Speaker 1: always great and helps me get through my morning weekend chores.
Speaker 1: Is that the old honey do list? Honey dudes? Uh,
Speaker 1: He says, chores with a smile. Sometimes makes me realize
Speaker 1: that my life is so simple. That's it. There you go.
Speaker 1: I like it. Man. No. We talked about how the
Speaker 1: podcast helps us drive in l A traffic. Yeah, yeah, no, No,
Speaker 1: I will give the podcast credit here, Danny that because
Speaker 1: we do the Saturday podcast, I pay more attention to
Speaker 1: the things I do. I don't know if you've noticed that,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, well, I mean sometimes you do stuff
Speaker 1: and you don't really pay attention. You're not in the moment.
Speaker 1: But I have noticed, like even just little things. You're
Speaker 1: like a pitching coach. You take that little notepad out
Speaker 1: of your back pocket. Yeah. Yeah, It's like we've had
Speaker 1: comedians on the podcast and I've I've known it's Sorrge
Speaker 1: who I used to work with at Fox back in
Speaker 1: the day, and like you know, certainly we don't do
Speaker 1: comedy here, but just that mindset where you have to
Speaker 1: be paying attention, you have to to to make mental
Speaker 1: notes that you're remembering certain things. It certainly does help
Speaker 1: when we get to the to the podcast. I don't
Speaker 1: have to scramble. I'm like, well, let me let me
Speaker 1: see what I've done on Monday and Tuesday and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and it helps you out. Craig from South
Speaker 1: Dakota writes in he says, I was I was finally
Speaker 1: able to follow the directions to the review link. I
Speaker 1: enjoy Benn and Danny Ge talking about lie. See there
Speaker 1: you go, Danny right there. This guy likes our lives.
Speaker 1: Who know, we had such interesting lives, live in an
Speaker 1: interesting city, and we have interesting jobs. Yeah, that is correct.
Speaker 1: We we don't have your normal run of the mill job.
Speaker 1: It's an unusual lifestyle that we live working in radio
Speaker 1: and broadcasting. When are they going to cancel the word radio? Danny?
Speaker 1: Is that gonna be next year, that year after, and
Speaker 1: then we can't say radio anymore. Work on different audio
Speaker 1: platforms been oddo addio as an audios exactly, Craig says,
Speaker 1: keep up the variety of guests on Friday, Joey Chestnut
Speaker 1: the Competitive Eater was great. Well, thank you, Craig, and
Speaker 1: let us know what you guys thought of Brent Musburger
Speaker 1: on the reviews and that that would be cool. I
Speaker 1: I geeked out, Danny. I was like a little kid,
Speaker 1: I was. I was like, I flashed back. We had
Speaker 1: talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
Speaker 1: There's certain play by play announces when you hear their voice,
Speaker 1: your flashback. That's why I was so hyped when he
Speaker 1: was calling the Raider games for a couple of seasons
Speaker 1: because as a kid, I would see him on TV
Speaker 1: and he was one of the guys Ben where I
Speaker 1: was like, that would be so cool to do that job,
Speaker 1: just like Ben Scully and just like Bill King. I
Speaker 1: would see him doing games and I wanted to do
Speaker 1: that and just having having him being willing to do
Speaker 1: it was great, and he took time out. He was
Speaker 1: with his family in Montana. You know, he's on a
Speaker 1: big ranch in Montana, and here he's talking talking to
Speaker 1: us on the podcast. So it was very kind of
Speaker 1: him and I appreciate Unlike some other people we've tried
Speaker 1: to get Danny who have been totally rude, Brian Bill,
Speaker 1: Brian Billick, uh, Brett Musburger, he gets an A in
Speaker 1: my book. So it was great to have him on
Speaker 1: Cosmo Mark last well, actually we got two more Cosmo.
Speaker 1: Mark says, uh, Saturday's best. When you get on listening,
Speaker 1: he says to Eddie Garcia's three hour Hockey Pocket, he
Speaker 1: does a three hour hockey podcast. Is that right, Danny?
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was three hours? Holy crap, is
Speaker 1: there that much hockey to talk about in August? You
Speaker 1: must be you must be making that up, right, you must.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no he's got to be sarcastic with that.
Speaker 1: I would hope. Yeah. I don't even listen to three
Speaker 1: hour podcasts about the NFL. No, No, you can't. Like
Speaker 1: I think I've only listened to one podcast that was
Speaker 1: that long, and it was when Joe Rogan, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't always listen to Rogan. I just somebody had
Speaker 1: sent me this link and said, you got to hear this,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. He had what was the guy's name
Speaker 1: from Info World Wars who got Who got sued Nest
Speaker 1: to pay a bunch of money out? Alex Jones. I
Speaker 1: think he's a guy's name. So it was Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: and Alex Jones and somebody's one of my buddies and
Speaker 1: radios like, you gotta hear this. This is this guy's
Speaker 1: next level. So I listened, and I did listen to
Speaker 1: the whole thing. I could not believe what I was hearing.
Speaker 1: It was fast, and I was like, this is this
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. But that's about it. I my my attention
Speaker 1: span is not that great. But anyway, this guy says
Speaker 1: he listens today's podcast and he unwinds with He says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g rambling on the greatest podcast about nothing.
Speaker 1: I love the Saturday Show, gentlemen, I like, I look
Speaker 1: forward to it every week. Well that's good to hear,
Speaker 1: and the last one we'll get out on this. Danny
Speaker 1: Buzz in Vegas says, the fifth hour I love the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour. I used to listen to The Mallard Show
Speaker 1: live when I worked overnights. It's great to be able
Speaker 1: to listen to the show again via the podcast. By
Speaker 1: the way, Buzz says, I was listening to Two Pros
Speaker 1: and a Cup of Joe the podcast recently when they
Speaker 1: interrupted their flow and said, who was that who walked by?
Speaker 1: Was that Ben Mallard? They sounded like teenagers who had
Speaker 1: just seen their favorite rock star. Bus says LaVar Arrington
Speaker 1: was clearly intimidated by the size and the fierce demeanor
Speaker 1: of Mallard and all and Pro Bowl linebackers are not
Speaker 1: easily intimidated, and Bus says, just how big are you?
Speaker 1: Or were you trying to terrorize your colleague? No, but
Speaker 1: I it's one of the great things about being a study.
Speaker 1: I love Jonas. I've known Jonas for a long time.
Speaker 1: He's worked all his way up. I love guys that
Speaker 1: work their way up in radio. That's what I did.
Speaker 1: And Jonas has paid his dues and he's got a
Speaker 1: great morning show, and so I love seeing Jonas. I've
Speaker 1: seen him work as a producer and an update guy
Speaker 1: and get a weekend show and now he's got a
Speaker 1: show during the week, except for that time he caught
Speaker 1: you cheating. You didn't like him. He lied about that.
Speaker 1: He's Pinocchio on that. But other than that, I like
Speaker 1: so I always rot. We're real radio guys, Danny. We
Speaker 1: we came up in the business, so we I think
Speaker 1: we agree on that. We've talked about in the past,
Speaker 1: the guys that go through and have to deal with
Speaker 1: the bullshit that you have to deal with when you're
Speaker 1: not a entertainer, you're not on television, or you're not
Speaker 1: in you're not in the normal avenues that people take.
Speaker 1: The blue collar radio hosts. Yeah, that just appreciate the
Speaker 1: art of audio content or whatever you want to say. So,
Speaker 1: but but LaVar has been great. And LaVar actually kind
Speaker 1: of lives where in the area where I used to live,
Speaker 1: so he hangs out at restaurants I used to go
Speaker 1: to when I lived in that area. And plus I
Speaker 1: remember LaVar was a bad mofo when he played in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Damn. I mean this guy was was tremendous,
Speaker 1: uh and really even better in college football at Penn State.
Speaker 1: But LaVar living up to the hype. Some of these
Speaker 1: guys get drafted high, and they do not exactly get
Speaker 1: or done in the NFL. But LaVar Arrington did and
Speaker 1: he had a good, good career, made a good amount
Speaker 1: of money and now he's doing well at the radio.
Speaker 1: But so but no, I mean, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know how. I'm a few inches taller than LaVar. LaVar
Speaker 1: is like I think he's six three, um, like you know,
Speaker 1: six six, But I usually lean over something shorter than that,
Speaker 1: and obviously way a lot more than LaVar, even though
Speaker 1: I've lost a lot of weight. I don't know how
Speaker 1: much the LaVar ways. But anyway, is it's nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you actually stand up straight, you look like you're
Speaker 1: six seven. Yeah. I usually want to be closer to everyone,
Speaker 1: so I have a hunchback. I'll be like Quasimodo at
Speaker 1: some point when I get done with all this, are
Speaker 1: we gotta get out on that Danny again, I explain
Speaker 1: how people can add to the podcast page on the
Speaker 1: Apple podcast platform, because management does check that out. So
Speaker 1: in the description of this very podcast, click on that link.
Speaker 1: The Apple page comes up, and you page down and
Speaker 1: you'll see the big four point nine, which is our
Speaker 1: overall rating, very close to a five. Thank you. For
Speaker 1: all those nice reviews, and it says write a review.
Speaker 1: There you go, very simple. You got to create a name, right,
Speaker 1: an account. Just create a name and you get to
Speaker 1: write a review. All right, And now what is your
Speaker 1: schedule like here on a Saturday, Danny, what do you
Speaker 1: have coming up here in the Fox Sports radio studios
Speaker 1: you're working today? Yeah, speaking of that bumper to bumper
Speaker 1: l A traffic, I'm gonna be in it on my
Speaker 1: way into Hartmann and Schwartz. And then after that, Brian
Speaker 1: no With from Saloon said, all right, listen, have a
Speaker 1: great rest of your day today. We get the mail bag,
Speaker 1: a spicy hot mail bag on Sunday. Have a great
Speaker 1: rest of your weekend until we talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: And we will see you next time later. Skater population