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 and
Speaker 1: welcome into a special addition of the Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. As we have returned
Speaker 1: to the podcast, do Joe and we are ready for
Speaker 1: what I look forward to every week. Now. I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: like what podcast gets the most downloads. Is it the
Speaker 1: Friday one with the interview? Is it The Saturday Life
Speaker 1: of Mallard and Danny G? Or is it the mail Bag?
Speaker 1: As you know, Danny, I just keep my head down
Speaker 1: and keep marching on, hoping that the audience is there.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's an odd thing that the Mailbag.
Speaker 1: I like it because I don't really know what we're
Speaker 1: gonna get on. The Mailbag literally is a mixed bag.
Speaker 1: I've told you before. One of my favorite segments working
Speaker 1: with you on the live show. Was asked Ben, because
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: questions we're gonna come up. And then we would learn
Speaker 1: something new about you and everybody on the crew. And
Speaker 1: most of the time it was something humorous that we'd
Speaker 1: all be laughing about later. Well, it might be romantic
Speaker 1: or you know, and that's so sweet and hopefully not romantic.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hear about that. That's true, That's definitely true.
Speaker 1: You can tell some story about how you save somebody
Speaker 1: out of a burning car and the crowd went wild.
Speaker 1: Would you run towards a burning car to help somebody?
Speaker 1: You know? You don't know until you're in the moment.
Speaker 1: I would like to think I would, depending on the
Speaker 1: level of fire. Depending on the level of fire, yeah,
Speaker 1: like smoke and you maybe you could see just a
Speaker 1: little bit of flames starting by the engine. Yea, in
Speaker 1: my head. I think we all have this and like
Speaker 1: the cartoon bubble in our heads. Were the hero, right,
Speaker 1: we run over just in the nick of time, We
Speaker 1: pull the person out of the car, we get away,
Speaker 1: and then when we get like thirty steps away, kaboom,
Speaker 1: the thing explodes and and then we wake up and
Speaker 1: we realize that's actually not what happened, that none of that,
Speaker 1: none of that took place, and boom goes to dynamite.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the mail bag. It's all right.
Speaker 1: The first question on the mailbag comes from Kevin in Kansas.
Speaker 1: He says, Dear Ben and Danny G. You both have
Speaker 1: odd sleep schedules. What's the longest you've gone without sleep
Speaker 1: and how un normal were you during that span or
Speaker 1: did you actually function decently? That is from Kevin, our
Speaker 1: buddy in Kansas who is a fellow teacher Danny G.
Speaker 1: And So I trying to think the longest way, I
Speaker 1: think it might have actually been when I had my
Speaker 1: gall bladder issues because I couldn't sleep. I was so
Speaker 1: uncomfortable that it was a nightmare. Uh So that might
Speaker 1: have been it. Outside of that, when I was doing
Speaker 1: that television stuff at NBC and I was traveling and
Speaker 1: I had to get off the plane and immediately work.
Speaker 1: But the problem I have is I sound like I'm drunk.
Speaker 1: I start luring my words, which is when you're in
Speaker 1: the business I'm in and you're in, Danny, that becomes problematic.
Speaker 1: Except a lot of our favorite Mallard Militia members sound
Speaker 1: that way. That is true, Yeah, you just sound like
Speaker 1: the leader. Yeah. But as far as the number of
Speaker 1: hours I without doing any kind of pharmaceuticals like Jet
Speaker 1: who fled that some of the other people that call
Speaker 1: the show, I would say, I've probably stayed up maybe
Speaker 1: three days. I think is the is about the limit
Speaker 1: on that. I've definitely done two days a lot where
Speaker 1: I've gone over forty right around forty eight hours where
Speaker 1: I have gone without sleep. So I've done that. But
Speaker 1: I'm getting older now, Danny, we're both getting older. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much that I can do anymore. I
Speaker 1: need at least a few hours. I'm not a good sleeper,
Speaker 1: but it's at least a few There were some nights
Speaker 1: where I had to do the intricate parts of some projects. Now,
Speaker 1: mind you, that's sixty kids, sixty different projects. So I
Speaker 1: had the hot glue gun out here at home, and
Speaker 1: I had like an assembly line on my kitchen table encounters.
Speaker 1: I literally was up all night working on it, and
Speaker 1: then showered, went to work, stayed up working all day,
Speaker 1: got home. I love science. You know, I guess that's
Speaker 1: doable because you don't sleep, You're up for two days whatever.
Speaker 1: But when I first started the podcast with you and
Speaker 1: I was moving here to where I'm at now, Ben,
Speaker 1: there was a three day span where I was moving,
Speaker 1: working at the network, working at the school, and I
Speaker 1: literally did not sleep for three straight days. It was
Speaker 1: just work, this shift, double shift, this move. And I
Speaker 1: remember being in my old place in Burbank with my
Speaker 1: eyes just bugged out. I've never done drugs like cocaine
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but that would have been the
Speaker 1: time to start. I remember thinking to myself, how did
Speaker 1: people do this back in the eighties, you know, where
Speaker 1: they just worked around the clock and they never slept.
Speaker 1: And then it occurred to me they did not do
Speaker 1: it on their own. They didn't do it sober. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard stories about people we I think we know
Speaker 1: some of the people who have done television in l
Speaker 1: A who were skiing the mountains even when there was
Speaker 1: no snow on the mountains. They were they were riding
Speaker 1: the white Horse. Yes, yes, exactly, exactly so uh yeah,
Speaker 1: But I've never done that stuff either. I mean, people
Speaker 1: get blown away. I've I've talked about this also in
Speaker 1: the past, but I I've never had a cup of coffee,
Speaker 1: and I can't have it at this point because that
Speaker 1: is my claim to fame, that is my conversation starter.
Speaker 1: I have crossed the rubicon of age where I can
Speaker 1: no longer discuss uh even having a cup of coffee
Speaker 1: because it's off the table. And sushi, right, I've never
Speaker 1: had sushi either, That is correct. I've never see. The
Speaker 1: sushi part is amazing to me. The coffee, I kind
Speaker 1: of get it because I don't exactly like the smell
Speaker 1: of black coffee. Um, you know, I need like a
Speaker 1: lot of creamer, I need a lot of sugar, I
Speaker 1: need milk added. So I like the cold coffee. I
Speaker 1: would drink a cold latte way before I would drink
Speaker 1: any sort of hot coffee. So I kind of can
Speaker 1: understand that. But never having sushi and you live in
Speaker 1: southern California, that's just weird. I'm obviously weird. I'm in radio.
Speaker 1: You know that you're not even a California roll. See,
Speaker 1: that's like sushi par beginners. No, I've never. I've never.
Speaker 1: I don't like fish. If I don't like fish when
Speaker 1: it's cooked, why am I gonna eat sushi when it's not?
Speaker 1: When it's not cooked. We forgot, by the way, to
Speaker 1: mention our buddy ohio Aw. We thank ohio Aw. I
Speaker 1: just kind of slid it. We slid into that without
Speaker 1: giving him the proper credit. It's a bad job by us.
Speaker 1: But Ohio aw came up with the the jingle great Ohio.
Speaker 1: All the mail continues, it does not end. I got
Speaker 1: mail yea, I got mail yea. The air from East
Speaker 1: of the Rockies rights and he says, I am writing
Speaker 1: in on the wild card line. He says, uh, I
Speaker 1: like that. Three quick questions, Hey, why did you save
Speaker 1: your bone breaking adventures for the Mallard Town podcast and
Speaker 1: not your own? And he says, credit to the Aussie
Speaker 1: guy for breaking the news. That's a great question, Pierre.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that that ended up that way.
Speaker 1: I never I never spent too much time, uh worried
Speaker 1: about him. I just kind of, like I told, I
Speaker 1: told the story with him, and I guess it just
Speaker 1: didn't come up on the podcast. That's a bad job
Speaker 1: by me. He also says, can you share the cautionary
Speaker 1: tale of Ernie the Great oh Piner for the listeners.
Speaker 1: He says he wants to know the details. Ernie was
Speaker 1: you were on the show when Ernie was part of
Speaker 1: the show, right, Danny there, and Ernie was a big,
Speaker 1: big part of what we were doing and all that,
Speaker 1: and he quit the show like he was like a
Speaker 1: major contributor in the show. And Ernie was a great
Speaker 1: fan of the show. And we had the Muppet remember
Speaker 1: the Muppets account and and and actually Pierre is alf
Speaker 1: the alien o Pineer and he was one of the
Speaker 1: guys that started that. And Ernie was getting so upset
Speaker 1: because he had Ernie from Burton Ernie as his avatar,
Speaker 1: and he was so annoyed by all these other Muppet accounts.
Speaker 1: It was hilarious, it was. But and that's part of
Speaker 1: the reason he went away. Uh, And I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna hear from Ernie again. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: think nothing. He's dead. I think he's moved on. But
Speaker 1: it sucks if somebody quits your live show, it's almost
Speaker 1: like a death. Yeah, these are people that are part
Speaker 1: of our family. I agree with you. It's a weird
Speaker 1: thing when they get traded, like like Chris and Houston,
Speaker 1: who was like a nemesis from Houston. Chris, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't call anymore because he's on the dreaded day shift.
Speaker 1: He's sold out for the day shift, and yah, you
Speaker 1: miss him. You're like like, once in a while, I'd
Speaker 1: like to have a nice conversation with Chris so I
Speaker 1: could bust his balls about the Astros, the cheating as astros.
Speaker 1: Uh and Pierre also says, is Fullerton west of the
Speaker 1: four oh five? Asking for a friend, he says, uh no,
Speaker 1: uh no, no, no, it is west Uh it's actually
Speaker 1: east of the five, although I think the five goes
Speaker 1: through part of Fullerton west of Fashion Island. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that is uh let's it's not anyway, I thank you
Speaker 1: for that. Next up, Ironically enough, I don't know how
Speaker 1: this worked out. Come back, pay a touch. It's time
Speaker 1: from now. I'll call Mike from Fullerton rights and he says,
Speaker 1: has USC and U c l A joining the Big
Speaker 1: Ten made you feel any different now that southern California
Speaker 1: is part of the Big ten country. It took me
Speaker 1: a while to adjust, but I'm really starting to appreciate
Speaker 1: these Midwestern values since Mike from Fullerton. Yeah, when I
Speaker 1: was driving through Westwood this week to get to the
Speaker 1: Fox Sports radio studios, I was I took the dreaded
Speaker 1: four oh five to get over the hill and through
Speaker 1: bel air and all that nonsense. And so I'm driving
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at the u c l A Campus.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I can't believe they get snow here.
Speaker 1: That's what it's gonna be wild. It's absolutely crazy. And
Speaker 1: I wonder what the U c A Hockey team is
Speaker 1: gonna be And when they take on Wisconsin in Michigan,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be cool, right man. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: Mike also says he's adding a few more to his
Speaker 1: interview wish list, and he's got Ralph Lawler, Don McLean,
Speaker 1: Jose Mode uh, and Donald Trump. He says Danny g
Speaker 1: has his number, and he says last, but certainly least
Speaker 1: Brian Finley's on the list. So out of that list,
Speaker 1: not that we do list podcasting, but Ralph Lawler I
Speaker 1: believe will be on the podcast at some point. I'm
Speaker 1: friends with Ralph. He's retired now, he's he spend part
Speaker 1: of his time in Oregon, part of his time in Florida.
Speaker 1: But the reason I believe he'll come on the podcast,
Speaker 1: Danny he's got a book. Yeah, the books coming out,
Speaker 1: so he'll be on the pimp his book, and I
Speaker 1: actually want to read the book. He's gonna tell Sterling stories,
Speaker 1: stories about Donald Sterling, his time with the Clippers, obviously
Speaker 1: his life. And so hopefully we'll get him on at
Speaker 1: some point. I know, I know all these guys except Trumps,
Speaker 1: Don McClean I know from the Petrols and Money Show,
Speaker 1: and Don I when he played in the NBA years
Speaker 1: ago and all that. He's been around forever, So hopefully
Speaker 1: we get him on. And Jose Moda known known Jose
Speaker 1: for for many many years. Also casually, you know we're
Speaker 1: not best friends. Then would this be a good time
Speaker 1: to vent for a minute about Brian Billick? Is it now?
Speaker 1: Can we officially put the cover of the coffin down
Speaker 1: and say that's it? We're done? Are we at that point? Though?
Speaker 1: I would like to because on a previous podcast we
Speaker 1: joked around, because we jumped through all these hoops with
Speaker 1: Brian Billick and his representative to get him on as
Speaker 1: a guest on the podcast Brian bill Brian Billick, they
Speaker 1: said yes to the interview, and then through email only,
Speaker 1: they would not give me cell phone numbers except we
Speaker 1: had one cell phone number. Remember that said this isn't
Speaker 1: Brian's phone anymore. Oh that's right, yes, yes, And I
Speaker 1: got that number from somebody who that was the number
Speaker 1: that was Brian Billick pretended like his cell phone number
Speaker 1: wasn't his cell phone number. And in that text message,
Speaker 1: which was very odd, he said, Brian Billick doesn't use
Speaker 1: this cell phone anymore. You need to get ahold of
Speaker 1: his rep. And he gave the reps name and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: if Brian doesn't use this phone anymore, how would this
Speaker 1: person know who Brian Billicks rep is. So I'm like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: I'll play your stupid game. Brian Billick. I've been emailing
Speaker 1: back and forth with his rep. This is just amazing
Speaker 1: to me because back and forth, I'm talking ten emails. Ben,
Speaker 1: he doesn't come on the podcast. So you and I
Speaker 1: were like whatever, Brian Billick. I even I have a
Speaker 1: funny drop from that podcast because you're like Brian Billick,
Speaker 1: Brian Billick, Brian bill Brian Billick. And it's just funny
Speaker 1: to hear your voice cracking because you're so piste off
Speaker 1: about dumb ass Brian Billy. Well, fast forward to Monday,
Speaker 1: I get email from the rep saying hey, Danny, it's
Speaker 1: been a while. I know you guys really wanted to
Speaker 1: have Brian on the show Good News. He's doing media
Speaker 1: tomorrow all day Tuesday. He's gonna go on TV and radio.
Speaker 1: So give me the time for Ben and we'll make
Speaker 1: it happen. I promise. And I'm like, well that's nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it was a ship show last
Speaker 1: time trying to work with this guy. But he's trying
Speaker 1: to make it up to us. So I text you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, Ben, what's your window? When can we
Speaker 1: take this guy? Yeah? I gave you two windows, right,
Speaker 1: do it a morning window in an afternoon window to
Speaker 1: completely f up my day for the podcast. Talk to
Speaker 1: Brian Billick, who is not coached in the NFL and
Speaker 1: over a decade. I immediately send this information back to
Speaker 1: him via email and I'm like, dude, we look forward
Speaker 1: to it. Here are the two windows. Let me know
Speaker 1: what works for Brian. Got crickets, that's all we got.
Speaker 1: Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
Speaker 1: tick tick. Nothing nothing back, nothing back, nothing back. I'm
Speaker 1: checking my email all day now. I'm interrupting my school
Speaker 1: job by trying to slightly check my email in between
Speaker 1: lesson plans and teaching these kids in the classroom. I'm like, all,
Speaker 1: are you guys cutting paste over there? I gotta check
Speaker 1: my email. So I'm checking my email. Nothing from this guy.
Speaker 1: Nothing back. Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick. Day goes,
Speaker 1: day goes, nothing back. So that night I email him
Speaker 1: again and I'm like, dude, it's almost Tuesday. When are
Speaker 1: we gonna say? I wake up Ben? I set my
Speaker 1: alarm for Tuesday morning. I set it for four am,
Speaker 1: five am, and six am. That way I don't miss
Speaker 1: any communication with this guy. I get one email from
Speaker 1: him Tuesday morning at five a m r. Time, and
Speaker 1: it said what time does Ben wanted to hype again?
Speaker 1: And and mind you Danny. In the afternoon, I'm texting
Speaker 1: my friend in Baltimore because he knows Billick and he's
Speaker 1: one of the people whatever so we're friends, and and
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, I heard Billocks on one of the
Speaker 1: stations in Baltimore right now doing an interview. You know, like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is one of the windows that
Speaker 1: I had given Danny and Billicks red interview. And then
Speaker 1: he popped up on a station in Denver like he
Speaker 1: did a bunch of like radio stuff and a few
Speaker 1: podcast things. But we were on the list and we
Speaker 1: didn't make the lid. What was that? Hi? I like
Speaker 1: the saint. That's that's fine, that's it. And next time
Speaker 1: and they need something to promote, I'll remember this, al right.
Speaker 1: Next time they had some crappy product they want to
Speaker 1: promote or whatever, some gambling thing, I'll remember. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm moving on as we continue. You always exciting a
Speaker 1: fifth hour mail bag? Who is next here? All right?
Speaker 1: We have Neil from the real Miami, he says, A
Speaker 1: three hour long but scenic drive from Hemingway's Key West
Speaker 1: a great place for the Miami chapter of the Mallard
Speaker 1: Militia to meet up. You can fly over to Miami
Speaker 1: or Fort Lauderdale twenty minutes away Gascon and Lawrence the
Speaker 1: Lawyer ak marlins Man can pick you up in a
Speaker 1: stretch Limo and we can swing by to get weed man,
Speaker 1: hippie and cantankerous COVID couple from pombay Uh And on
Speaker 1: the way to Key West, what do you say? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you name pretty much all the listeners, although we did
Speaker 1: have that that guy the dick from from Miami. Then
Speaker 1: I love you? Who calls up every once in a while.
Speaker 1: He hasn't called up in a while. That would be
Speaker 1: great fun. I'd love to do it. I've I've been
Speaker 1: to Miami at once in my life. I was there
Speaker 1: for like a week years ago for a World Series
Speaker 1: and I've not been back, so that would be That
Speaker 1: would be great. And uh, I've friends that have moved there,
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of people in Florida. Over
Speaker 1: the last three years, a lot of people left California.
Speaker 1: Many of them have gone not just to Miami, but
Speaker 1: Orlando and you name it, the Gulf Coast region where
Speaker 1: the what they call the redneck rivieria, I believe is
Speaker 1: the term some friends that are there. Uh. Neil also
Speaker 1: says pro tip for you and the Mallard militia. Best
Speaker 1: time to go to Miami is the end of the
Speaker 1: hurricane season, which is from Halloween when they have a
Speaker 1: Freaky Fantasy Fest and then followed by festival after festival,
Speaker 1: including some food festivals like seafood so you can pick
Speaker 1: your own poison. That's great advice. Yeah, And that's a
Speaker 1: good time to go anyway, because the weather in Miami
Speaker 1: is always pretty much the same. It doesn't really get
Speaker 1: that cold doesn't get that hot. It's always kind of
Speaker 1: the same around the same temperature. So if you go
Speaker 1: there in October, I maybe wait till November, right because
Speaker 1: it gets a little colder in November. Where we are,
Speaker 1: it doesn't get all that cold. So thanks for the information, Neil.
Speaker 1: And if I do end up having another one of
Speaker 1: my friends relocate to Miami, I guess I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to go back to Miami. And sounds to me like
Speaker 1: there will be more people I know moving to Miami. Miami, Miami.
Speaker 1: You've got mail Tony in Seattle, write s this is
Speaker 1: somewhat related, he says. The next place you'd like to travel?
Speaker 1: Yes with Mrs Mallard and Mrs TINDERNI So any road trips?
Speaker 1: I know you You mentioned your car issues here, Danny,
Speaker 1: so she won't be going on any car trips. But
Speaker 1: any any exotic locations that you'd like to visit. No,
Speaker 1: nothing exotic. We're actually gonna try to go to Disneyland
Speaker 1: next week. That's tost of going somewhere exotic. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna start robbing banks on the way? Um? I do
Speaker 1: have a few week days off in between this summer
Speaker 1: school job ending and the next school semester starting. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be nice to have a couple of week days off.
Speaker 1: Just gonna try to stay close by in southern California. No,
Speaker 1: nothing long distance until November. A stay cation. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: We got Maui coming up in November. That's that's the
Speaker 1: big one. That's the big one. So we're saving. We're
Speaker 1: in that mode right now where we're like, get the
Speaker 1: one that's on sale. I hear you. Yeah, as far
Speaker 1: as me, Tony. Actually, I would like to get to
Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest again, a lot of Portland. My wife's
Speaker 1: got a friend in Portland and we were talking about
Speaker 1: going up there and visiting her and her kid and
Speaker 1: all that. Uh. And I want to get back to Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I was so close in Wisconsin, and I learned that
Speaker 1: people from Minnesota do not cross the Wisconsin Minnesota border.
Speaker 1: It's a point of demarcation. It's apparently the people in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin hate the people in Minnesota and vice versa. They
Speaker 1: think the other state is like a demilitarized zone. So
Speaker 1: I had a meet and greet in Appleton, and we
Speaker 1: had all these listeners in Minnesota like, oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna drive over it's a long drive, but I want
Speaker 1: to meet you. And then nobody showed up from Minnesota,
Speaker 1: but I we we do so well there on the
Speaker 1: radio show. I really would love to meet a bunch
Speaker 1: of the big fans of the show that listen on
Speaker 1: on CAFAN. One of the great sports talkers in the country,
Speaker 1: and it's very cool that they carry the overnight show.
Speaker 1: So I'd love to go in there and go to
Speaker 1: some juicy lucy place. And if you're one of our
Speaker 1: p ones and you know a restaurant in Minnesota, like
Speaker 1: the reason I picked a Latin Fusion restaurant in Appleton
Speaker 1: because I was a friend of the family and so
Speaker 1: I it's much easier to do these things if you
Speaker 1: end up knowing someone or you have somebody's a fan
Speaker 1: of the show at the restaurant. Uh. There has been
Speaker 1: some talk of a Mallard meet and greet sometime in
Speaker 1: August at a I cannot reveal the location yet, that's
Speaker 1: not finalized, so I don't want to say anything about
Speaker 1: it to jinx it Um. But to answer your question again,
Speaker 1: Tony Minnesota, possibly Portland's and that's that's about it. But
Speaker 1: whether I get to any of those places I can't
Speaker 1: can't say, what do you like? Burn it down? Like Bakersfield?
Speaker 1: How dare you that stadium still there although it should
Speaker 1: be burnt down? I will say that Chris and Marracoca
Speaker 1: to Iowa, Right, since it's you and Danny G should
Speaker 1: start watching a TV series together and you can discuss
Speaker 1: the weekly episode on the pod. Yeah. I don't know
Speaker 1: that I have enough time, neither to you Danny, with
Speaker 1: our crazy schedules to dedicate every week to watch an episode.
Speaker 1: But from I'm the time I I did this with
Speaker 1: with Gascon back in the day west of the four
Speaker 1: oh five, where if there was a cool documentary or something,
Speaker 1: and we could both watch it and give our like
Speaker 1: book report or movie review like Siskel and Ebert, there's
Speaker 1: an outdated reference thumbs up or thumbs down, you know,
Speaker 1: on the on the documentary. Have you been watching the
Speaker 1: Jeter documentary? God? No, I'm not a Yankee fan, and
Speaker 1: I I don't want to overdose on athlete worship, so
Speaker 1: I've not I've not checked it out. I have heard,
Speaker 1: I've heard some things. The Yankee fans, of course love it.
Speaker 1: They think it's the greatest thing ever. But I'm not
Speaker 1: a Yankees fan by any means, But I like it.
Speaker 1: But I like most sports documentaries. Yeah, like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: hit and miss on the sports documentary thing, like some
Speaker 1: of them. I love the one about the baseball cards.
Speaker 1: I thought was fascinating. But I'm on the age of
Speaker 1: where I grew up in that world, so I see that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, man, well I was. I was a
Speaker 1: Mark and they took advantage of me as a kid.
Speaker 1: Rat bastards. Me and my older brother. Man, I've told
Speaker 1: you before paper Chase, our goal in life was to
Speaker 1: get some little bit of coin and get our butts
Speaker 1: to paper Chase to buy some more plastic sheets. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a whole wing filled with cards and I
Speaker 1: still have to get rid of. But a part of
Speaker 1: me's like, no, it's nostalgia. But then the other part
Speaker 1: of me is taking up space. I gotta get rid
Speaker 1: of this stuff. What a pain in the behind. That was?
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep it going on the mailbag. Next
Speaker 1: up is Mark. He says, how did Marcel completely fool you? Ben?
Speaker 1: That dude is the biggest fake ever. Ben. He's making
Speaker 1: you look really weird, Ben? Is that really him? On Twitter? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Marcel. I didn't know he was black, not to
Speaker 1: sound like that famous Ben Mallard drop. Famous man. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this, but I'm black. That's right. That.
Speaker 1: Oh that was the guy that sounded like Bill Cosby.
Speaker 1: I used to Arizona have that drop in my hard drive. Here.
Speaker 1: Hey man, you might not notice, but I'm black. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He just readily starts and it was hilarious. Marcel is
Speaker 1: African American, and uh, all these people think we're getting punked.
Speaker 1: And he's a character. And this is another one of
Speaker 1: those cases where Danny people seem to think we have
Speaker 1: a much bigger budget than we do and that we're
Speaker 1: much more creative than we are. Neither one of those
Speaker 1: things is true, because Marcel is a kid who lives
Speaker 1: in the projects in Brooklyn. I've said it before. We'll
Speaker 1: say it again for those of you that haven't heard.
Speaker 1: Marcel's got issues. He's got problems. He loves the radio.
Speaker 1: It's his outlet to the world. He doesn't get out
Speaker 1: of his home, he doesn't see the world. He's stuck
Speaker 1: in this little apartment in Brooklyn, and Uncle Dynamite comes
Speaker 1: by and gives him food and and so there's only
Speaker 1: a couple of things he eats. But Marcel, for him,
Speaker 1: this is like the greatest thing in the world that
Speaker 1: he gets to be on the radio. And he likes
Speaker 1: being a character. From what I can tell, he likes
Speaker 1: being a character on the show, and he likes to
Speaker 1: play along with us and all that and so. But
Speaker 1: he's not somebody we're paying and he's not punking us.
Speaker 1: I've trust me. It's his version of Ham Radio, big
Speaker 1: antenna on his roof, and he's reaching out to everybody
Speaker 1: around the country. Yeah, he's in his own little world
Speaker 1: and it's he's on the Internet and he's able to
Speaker 1: call our show. He's a He was a correspondent on
Speaker 1: the Big JAB in Maine in Portland, Maine, I think
Speaker 1: the PM JAB, but I mean it was the AM JAB.
Speaker 1: One of the more either the AM or the PM
Speaker 1: show they had him on. And he's my favorite is
Speaker 1: when he contacts Australian news anchors like he somehow tracked
Speaker 1: them down. So it's weird because he's he's got some
Speaker 1: mental issues, but he's able to find these these broadcasters
Speaker 1: and and so in some parts of his his mind, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's a savant when it comes to investigative reporting. He
Speaker 1: is the man that broke the Titanic, that the Titanic
Speaker 1: could hit the iceberg. Nobody else had reported that as
Speaker 1: breaking news. I heard that that morning breaking news sounder
Speaker 1: the Titanic sunk. He hasn't fallen for that ruse much anymore. So.
Speaker 1: I think he has figured out that when somebody sends
Speaker 1: him a breaking news story, you might want to double
Speaker 1: check it. You might want to check into a little more,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up on the you know what You've got?
Speaker 1: Mail mail back, Mr Luciano from Southgate and Sokel says,
Speaker 1: this question is for Ben and Danny. G Are you
Speaker 1: guys exciting that the NFL is almost back? And how
Speaker 1: much betting, if any? Will you guys do? Keep up
Speaker 1: the great work, guys. Well, we hope to have on
Speaker 1: some platform Benny versus the Penny to be back. So
Speaker 1: we'll pick every game against the spread as far as
Speaker 1: the games were actually gonna bet, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick my spots as I usually do. I don't bet
Speaker 1: every game. You shouldn't bet every game. But if I
Speaker 1: got a pretty good vibe on a team or a
Speaker 1: player that going into a game, I will obviously bet it,
Speaker 1: but I usually only bet. I try to bet three
Speaker 1: games a weekend, sometimes five, but I try to keep
Speaker 1: it to three and if perfect scenario would be only
Speaker 1: one and just let it roll. If you have, really
Speaker 1: it's it's hard enough to win one game, and then
Speaker 1: you gotta win two out of three, or three out
Speaker 1: of five or four out of seven, or if you
Speaker 1: do a parlay, you gotta win them all, which is
Speaker 1: a pain in thee or a teaser pains. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we're obviously excited. Mr. You knew we're excited. Man. I
Speaker 1: saw a video the other day of Car throwing a
Speaker 1: long past two Adams in double coverage and him snatching it,
Speaker 1: and I stood up Ben and celebrated as if it
Speaker 1: was a tough down in the regular season. Now, are
Speaker 1: you gonna make the pilgrimage to Vegas for Are they
Speaker 1: having any opening, any open practices at that massive air
Speaker 1: hanger radar facility that I drove by last time I
Speaker 1: was in Vague. That's a good question. I've been so
Speaker 1: busy between the network and school that no, I haven't
Speaker 1: even looked into it. The prices are astronomical, Like Disneyland.
Speaker 1: I did the stadium tour, but I haven't been there
Speaker 1: for a game yet, So I'm gonna try to go
Speaker 1: this season for one game. Now, is it a regular
Speaker 1: season game or an exhibition? Which one are you? I
Speaker 1: would rather go to a meaningful game like in in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season or down the stretch. I
Speaker 1: would rather go sometime in November or December, all right,
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at the secondary market. I just punched
Speaker 1: it up on my computer here in the studio, and
Speaker 1: I have are you sitting down? Are you YEA? Which
Speaker 1: game were you thinking of? Should I just go through
Speaker 1: all the games? Or you want me to pick one
Speaker 1: or two that you're thinking about. I go towards the
Speaker 1: middle of the season, so you're looking like October November
Speaker 1: something like seven, the week twelve, all right, So after
Speaker 1: the bye week, so the Raiders will be rested. They
Speaker 1: have their bye week. In week six, the Raiders will
Speaker 1: play the Houston Texas. Now the Texans are a dog
Speaker 1: food team. That game will cost you their tickets as
Speaker 1: low if you want to sit near the purly gates
Speaker 1: for a hundred and fifty two dollars okay with an
Speaker 1: oxygen mask voll setor the Indianapolis Colts will visit November.
Speaker 1: That's week ten. Oh, that's gonna be pricey. It's a
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one bucks for the cheaper that's not
Speaker 1: too bad, I guess. But for something good. What's a
Speaker 1: good ticket costs for that? Oh boy, lower bowl right
Speaker 1: at the fifty yard line behind the Colts bench. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna cost you minimum one thousand and fifty three dollars.
Speaker 1: Now all I say now in the end zone is
Speaker 1: still expensive. Section one oh one at Allegian Stadium three
Speaker 1: hundred eleven dollars, still very pricey. But you are in
Speaker 1: the lower bowl, so that would be six plus for
Speaker 1: a pair. Yeah. Yeah, there's a reason they made the
Speaker 1: most money off of tickets last season. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's a destination situation. People are dying Jones. And again,
Speaker 1: let's see the the cheapest ticket. Where is the cheapest Wow,
Speaker 1: this is this compelling podcasting. The cheapest ticket is at
Speaker 1: the hotel across the street with the binoculars. The funny
Speaker 1: thing about that, the cheapest I'm looking at all the
Speaker 1: games for the Raiders, the cheapest ticket. This is surprising
Speaker 1: to me. Well, no, no, it's not. That makes sense
Speaker 1: raiders stealers in pits Burg. But the reason it's the
Speaker 1: cheapest ticket it's Christmas Eve, Saturday, December Christmas Eve is
Speaker 1: the people are busy with family dollar ticket, so you
Speaker 1: could probably fly to pitch. It would be cheaper to
Speaker 1: fly to Pittsburgh and see that game and fly back home.
Speaker 1: You are damn right. I went down a rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: Here's what happened. Uh, next time we all watched you
Speaker 1: go on YouTube. I know, I know, I'm like, what
Speaker 1: is what the hell is? This falls fan Jimmy Wrights
Speaker 1: and from Big Orange Country. He says for both of you,
Speaker 1: in your opinion, why is college football so much more
Speaker 1: popular in the South then on the West coast? Myself,
Speaker 1: I would walk to Knoxville. I would rather walk to
Speaker 1: Knoxville than drive to Nashville. Who is your favorite college
Speaker 1: football team? Well, it's it's just really a product of
Speaker 1: the way I read that college football is. Popularity in
Speaker 1: the South is provincial, and people in the West are
Speaker 1: There's a lot of transient people that have moved from
Speaker 1: other parts and so they might like college football, but
Speaker 1: they're fans of whatever school they came from. And in
Speaker 1: the South, I just feel like, it's more people that
Speaker 1: are that are locked in and loaded, that are from
Speaker 1: their generations of families and things like that, and they
Speaker 1: grew up fans of Alabama or Auburn, Georgia, L s U,
Speaker 1: whoever it might be, and just just keep it going. Uh, Danny,
Speaker 1: any theory on the love of college football in the South,
Speaker 1: I would tend to agree with what you just said,
Speaker 1: because like Clay Travis, for instance, his grandfather played for Tennessee.
Speaker 1: And you hear that a lot a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that I met when I visited Tennessee, their family history
Speaker 1: runs deep like that with whatever school, whether it be
Speaker 1: Auburn or Tennessee, they have family ties. I don't have
Speaker 1: that here in California. My family spread out. One person
Speaker 1: went to Santa Cruz, one person went to U C. Davis,
Speaker 1: one person went to school in the o C. It's
Speaker 1: so spread out for us here that we just don't
Speaker 1: have that family tie the way people do in the South. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now that being said, if U C. L A and
Speaker 1: USC both have good football teams, it's popping at the
Speaker 1: colisseum of the Rose Bowl for sure. When's the last
Speaker 1: time that happened where they both had good Bush Bush.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time. When USC was going off
Speaker 1: with Liner and Bush, I remember people crowding the sports
Speaker 1: bars here. Oh, it was massive I at that time,
Speaker 1: and I I was around those USC teams when Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll was there and I was in an elevator, was
Speaker 1: Spike Lee and Rick Fox who was still playing at
Speaker 1: the time. They were in the end, and I want
Speaker 1: to point out Spike Lee looked at me like he
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna mug him and kill him. And
Speaker 1: when the when the elevator doors ows, there's a thing
Speaker 1: when you're a celebrity you don't like being in an
Speaker 1: elevator with other strangers. And he Spike Lee. I can
Speaker 1: still close my eyes on the look that he gave
Speaker 1: me in the elevator at the Polissey And before they
Speaker 1: renovated it, you thought you were debot from Friday. Why
Speaker 1: are you in here my bike? You're not supposed to
Speaker 1: be an area and all that stuff. Carlos in Bang
Speaker 1: Bang Houston says, hey, Ben, good job in installing the
Speaker 1: Mallard riddle into the show. I love hearing the funny
Speaker 1: answers from the Mallem militia. Also, I'm an Astros fan,
Speaker 1: and I enjoy listening to you every day. So you
Speaker 1: can't really say the Astros fans don't like well, I
Speaker 1: could say that Carls. I can say that not all
Speaker 1: Astro fans dislike me, but many do, and it's still
Speaker 1: blows me away. We were on seven ninety in Houston,
Speaker 1: which is the Astros radio station. So every once in
Speaker 1: a while, all of the stars will aligned Danny and
Speaker 1: Astro Talk will end and my show will come on,
Speaker 1: our show will come on, and I will be in
Speaker 1: the middle of the rant the cheating astro's and did
Speaker 1: you have it take? Did you get to go rail
Speaker 1: on Jose Altuve conveniently being hit by a pitch so
Speaker 1: that he didn't have to come here to the All
Speaker 1: Star Game in l A. Yeah, that's now two years
Speaker 1: in a row, I believe it is. And because in
Speaker 1: he there was no All Star Game, so at least
Speaker 1: three years he's avoided the All Star Game. But this
Speaker 1: was the big one in in l A. And and
Speaker 1: the only cheating Astro that was there was Joe Musgrave
Speaker 1: or Musgrove rather the Padres. But that doesn't people. Once
Speaker 1: you change the laundry, they kind of forget about forever,
Speaker 1: Jose Altuve will be booed, correct, Bregman, George Springer and
Speaker 1: Toronto should be booed everywhere he goes all those cats. Uh,
Speaker 1: Carlos says, My question is, do you guys like the
Speaker 1: flat build hats or the curved build hats? Keep up
Speaker 1: the great work. And so I'm a curve guy. I
Speaker 1: like much like my women, I like curves. I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of the curves. And uh, what about I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the hat you're wearing. You appear to be team curve. Also,
Speaker 1: this was a hybrid, and I kind of like those
Speaker 1: the ones that are a cross between the flat and
Speaker 1: the curve. They're not quite curved down all the way.
Speaker 1: Those those ones that are curved down too much, I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan of. And most of the totally flat
Speaker 1: bills don't look right on your head because they'll pop up,
Speaker 1: they'll do a wheelie. Yeah, I do not like the
Speaker 1: flat build hats. Could I agree with you? Look you
Speaker 1: look like a dork. You know, you hard It's hard
Speaker 1: to look good in those kind of hats. So, but
Speaker 1: I'm I'm team curved hat all the way. Next up
Speaker 1: is Paul from Great Falls. He writes in on the
Speaker 1: mail bag, I got mail, yeah, I got mail. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Allsos who will be the next Pack twelve team to
Speaker 1: ditch their conference? And which conference will they join? So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna vote Big ten. I believe the Big ten
Speaker 1: comes back and starts poaching some more teams from the
Speaker 1: the Pack twelve. And if I was a betting man,
Speaker 1: which i am, I would look to northern California. You
Speaker 1: you go by the media market, it's all about eyeballs,
Speaker 1: It's all about qum, as we say in the radio business.
Speaker 1: And so San Francisco, Stanford the private school, Cal the
Speaker 1: state school, and get that market covered. Although Stanford has
Speaker 1: been good at football that last couple of years, I
Speaker 1: feel like that that program has gone the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: But they were very good for a number of years.
Speaker 1: Cal hasn't been good more than a couple of years
Speaker 1: my entire life at football. But it's the market. But
Speaker 1: if you if you're just going by raw power, you'd say,
Speaker 1: if they could skip Cal goes Stanford and then the
Speaker 1: Oregon football program because of the Nike money, yeah that
Speaker 1: would be one. But what do you think, Danny about
Speaker 1: teams that are gonna ditch the Pack twelve for another conference. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know about ditching that conference, but I think
Speaker 1: the next major move that will rock the world will
Speaker 1: be Notre Dame finally picking aside. Well, they gotta go
Speaker 1: big ten though, right, That's what I would assume, And
Speaker 1: if Notre Dame went Big ten, then talk about a
Speaker 1: super conference that would end the USC Notre Dame thing
Speaker 1: every year anyway, though they wouldn't be able to hear
Speaker 1: from in the same conference unless they just said, screw it,
Speaker 1: We'll make up our own rules as we go. They
Speaker 1: would have to do that, right, because at that point
Speaker 1: they throw everything out the window. Yeah. God, that that
Speaker 1: would be. That would be something touchdown. Jesus would be
Speaker 1: very unhappy with that. I think it would be bed
Speaker 1: Lum speaking of a bar area is Steve in San
Speaker 1: Francisco Rights, and he says, did you see this story
Speaker 1: been about the lockness monster. I want to know your
Speaker 1: thoughts that you and Danny g Yeah, this was the
Speaker 1: story the other day, Danny we mentioned it briefly on
Speaker 1: the show. I guess Steve was not listening that scientists
Speaker 1: now are saying the existence of the lock nest monster
Speaker 1: is plausible because they found some fossils that they believe
Speaker 1: indicate that that is a thing. So yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: one of those things. I grew up when I was
Speaker 1: a kid with the Lockness Monster, and then I learned
Speaker 1: later on, although there's no such thing as the Lockness
Speaker 1: Monster bogus. So yeah, I think why not? People have
Speaker 1: seen that thing for years? I think that in Bigfoot,
Speaker 1: let's let's have all these things be real. Yeah, why
Speaker 1: couldn't the Lockness Monster be a leftover dinosaur? Your tortoises
Speaker 1: on Earth that have been alive for hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: five years? The Yeah, the blue whale? Right, how long
Speaker 1: has the blue whale been around? So it's not outside
Speaker 1: of the realm of possibility that there could be some
Speaker 1: sort of dinosaur like that left on earth. Yeah, Maddie
Speaker 1: in Boston writes, and he says, hey, Benn and Danny Gee,
Speaker 1: any chance you guys can bring the animal Thunderdome? Is
Speaker 1: that what you called it? Annimal Thunderdome? Oh? If he
Speaker 1: wants to, he wants to have that on this show.
Speaker 1: He said, well, actually, I heart our bosses have been
Speaker 1: working on making that a podcast for months and months
Speaker 1: and months and months. Oh is that are you gonna
Speaker 1: hosting if it happens. Yeah, it is something that they've
Speaker 1: been trying to put together behind the scenes. Now, can
Speaker 1: you find enough animal stories every week? Shockingly yes, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stupid people that do a lot
Speaker 1: of stupid things around animals. I still have listeners tweet
Speaker 1: animal stories to me weekly, so there are some weeks
Speaker 1: that are, you know, busier than others. But yeah, we
Speaker 1: used to do that on OutKick the Coverage once a
Speaker 1: week and there were plenty of stories. Yeah, Maddie says
Speaker 1: he he sent a link here to a story about
Speaker 1: I guess in South Africa there were some lions that
Speaker 1: ate a crocodile, a pack of pride of lions attack.
Speaker 1: I saw that. I saw that. Yeah, there was that
Speaker 1: elderly lady recently who fell into the water and a
Speaker 1: guy jumped in trying to save her and the alligator
Speaker 1: eight or oh oh yeah, and what a way to
Speaker 1: go right alligator food? Yeah, that's man, like, how long
Speaker 1: are you alive while it's eating you? That's got a
Speaker 1: shitty way to die. Well, you're feeling pain and then that,
Speaker 1: yet you're feeling nothing after a while. Man, that's nuts.
Speaker 1: I think we'll get out of there. On that note,
Speaker 1: that wonderful note. Well, animals choke out? Could you choke
Speaker 1: out a crocodile bed if one came after you? No?
Speaker 1: I always thought you had to run in a zigzag
Speaker 1: line because they can't can't deal with the zig zag
Speaker 1: They get off balance. Yeah, it's hard for them to
Speaker 1: shift their body that quickly. If it was right up
Speaker 1: in your face, though, would you just give it a
Speaker 1: good sock? And its nose? I guess it's not a nose.
Speaker 1: What is it? I don't know what is that called?
Speaker 1: Is it a snout? What is that on a crocodile?
Speaker 1: The snout the mouth? I don't know. I call a
Speaker 1: snout with sharp te Imagine how shocked the crocodile is
Speaker 1: though when the lion eats it, Because the crocodile must
Speaker 1: think it's invincible, and then it gets eaten by the lion.
Speaker 1: And then that's what they call it. The king of
Speaker 1: the jungle. What they call it the king? All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out of here. I think you have a
Speaker 1: great rest your Sunday. What are you going on here, Danny?
Speaker 1: G anything to promote it is Sunday, So gonna have
Speaker 1: some fun with Covino and Rich on the air this afternoon,
Speaker 1: and then right before your show it is Chris Plank
Speaker 1: and Arnie Spaniard and I will be in the God
Speaker 1: Willing I will be back in the amazing radio station
Speaker 1: and all that. So it's it's not really so, it's
Speaker 1: not really, it's just uh, just exactly. It's a second thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, great, rest your Sunday. I'll hopefully talk to
Speaker 1: you tonight eleven pm in the West, two am Monday
Speaker 1: morning in the East on my show, and Dani will
Speaker 1: be in many many hours before that, and we'll catch
Speaker 1: you then later. Skater population