WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour - "On the Live Air" Mail Bag 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.240 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:33.360 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. Back at 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.720 it again on a another edition of The Fifth Hour 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:43.360 Sunday Sunday Sunday. Because hey, four hours a night during 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.280 the week enough, eight days a week, we do this 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.800 podcast with me, Ben Maller and Danny G. Radio back 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.840 for the very popular mail back. Do you have your 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.040 battle armor ready to go? Danny G? I'm ready man 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.680 mail bag time. I looked like one of the lacrosse 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.839 players I saw in a field here in Ventura County 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.679 last week. Big shoulder pads on and nowhere to go. Yeah, well, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.160 I listen, this is a very this is a dangerous territory. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:16.120 We are trained professional broadcasters. Do not attempt answering listener 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.000 questions unless you have years and years of training. It 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.280 is a bad idea. You're risking your life don't do it. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.560 Do not do it. With that being said, here we 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:39.319 go all right, come back, it's sign from mail call. Well, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.920 thank you, Ohio, I appreciate that. And into the mail 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.560 bag we go, and we start out with all right, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:51.680 telling in Stu in Palmetto Bay, Florida, and they write 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:57.880 and they say, Ben Danny Gira Deli Deli. Yeah, you 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.480 reveal the big reveal last week that Danny may Or 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:05.840 may not be part of the famous Giadelli chocolate family. Yeah. 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.520 And last week I checked in on one of our locations, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.240 which is inside California Adventure Park. Did you get what 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:17.079 I say is the greatest dessert ever? The Sunday Cookie 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.160 Sunday amazing, amazing, amazing, but really more for like two 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.880 or three people than one person. But I thought of 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:28.640 you when I saw Disneyland goers enjoining those. But um, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.359 I didn't part take. I was just saying hi to 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.760 the employees. They're doing a nice job there for the 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.040 garat Delli Empire. Yeah, and they they love that, you know, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.359 as it says here in the email Helen and Stu. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.399 They say, Danny Chocolate. Uh, that's your one of your nicknames. 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.120 They're good early morning to both of you, Stu and 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:50.720 I the email rights are far more experts in real 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.160 estate as we then we are as technology and all that. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.799 But we saw this week an interesting article titled that 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:03.400 radio dj a you here may already be a robot? 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:09.560 About that for a plot twist surprise, motherfucker, Yes, very 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.640 big surprise there. And I saw this story also anyway, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:17.880 says from music to now sports artificial intelligence is already 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:23.960 being used to create andy artificial neutral disc jockeys using 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:29.240 real radio voices like yours. In a deeper dive by 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.720 partnering with a Los Angeles based company, Fox Sports, and 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:37.800 I heart will be using super WiFi in all new 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:43.160 studios like your future Burbank location to create evil automated 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:47.400 programming drama on this is through the roof, Danny, I mean, 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.400 my god, and will be real. Ben Mallard Please stand up, Ben? 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:58.080 Are you real? Or are you just a robot? The 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.680 question asked. And let's see that's a beauty right there, Helen. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:10.720 And still you never really know, you never really know. Yeah, 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.360 Now I feel bad for my DJ friends because they 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.320 are getting rid of the DJs. Well, there's already that 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.920 format that hasn't really done that well, in most cities, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:24.360 Odyssey has it. That's Jack FM and l A Well. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.200 This is something band that they tested way back in 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.840 the nineties nineties. A friend of mine was part of 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:35.360 the founding radio station in Mantica, California. They had the 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:40.160 idea to put on a jockless radio station. Let's just 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.360 play all music and see how it does in the ratings. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.880 It bombed big time because part of the comfortability of 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.560 the radio and part of the enjoyment of listening to 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.400 the radio is you feel like the DJ's talking to you, 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.840 and that's your friend at two in the morning, you know, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.280 And so if it's missing at all parts of the day, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.720 it's just super generic. It was like an iPod back 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.200 then before there were iPods. Yeah, I agree, of course 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.720 we are both biased because we make our living talking 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.920 into microphones. But I I would absolutely agree with you 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.400 that part of the charm to me, the magic of 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.840 radio is I was a lonely, fat kid. I didn't 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.000 have any friends, but the radio guy, the guy on 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.520 the radio my friend. The guy in the radio talk 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.400 to me and and I love that, and so I 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.839 had to lose that. I know, people change and stuff, 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.200 but I think human beings that It's just it takes 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.440 away life when you don't have somebody who's real there, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.120 and if you don't know what's real and fake, that's 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:47.000 also a problem. And well also the entertainment in between 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.040 the songs. I loved guys like Rick Chase from one 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.240 oh six, K M E Out. He was amazing in 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:58.480 between songs. His content was absolutely some of the best 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.920 radio I heard as a kid. Umber six point one, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.920 j M, E M. This is Rick Chase four oh nine. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.320 I got the solid jams, zero commercials. Don't know if 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:15.719 this our controversy with right Chase pimony contest. Just have 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:21.520 to judge for yourself sexist or is it fun? You know, 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.680 I having a lovely birthday. Nobody remembers helly birthday. Damn it, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:34.800 thank you baby making Hey, this is getting not in 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:45.279 California is not one music station. It drew me in 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.480 as much as the music did. I mean, they were 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.200 playing really good hip hop and R and B in 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.440 the late eighties throughout the nineties, but I wanted to 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.120 hear the DJs just as much as the music, and 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.240 also the callers and all the different things going on 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.840 in the city. When you listen to that station. In 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.440 those voices, you felt like you were tapped in. Yeah, 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.200 you know, just to follow up on that. As a kid, 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.760 you know, I love sports, but I remember it's just 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.440 the way they talk though it was more than And 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.360 we've talked about this before on the Overnight Show. Like I, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.400 I spend a lot of time with these monologues and 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.600 I'll go on and on about whatever, and when I 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.320 meet listeners when I'm able to do that, they never 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.240 want to talk about the monologue. They just want to 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.560 talk about you know, I had a bad I dropped 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.680 Karayaki sauce at the store or whatever. That knows. That's 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.560 what people want to talk about. They don't care about 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.320 the sports. They listen. I guess for the sports stuff, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.840 but I just think of a world where all radio 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:46.200 guys go away and it's just but hopefully that does 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.960 not happen. But if it does, I'll be long gone 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.800 by then. And they have done studies though that have indicated, 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.160 as you referenced, Danny, that it hasn't gone well. When 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:00.840 they've tried to have faceless radio stations. It just doesn't work. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.480 And people can get that content. There's a lot of 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.280 streaming places. Even I the I Heart app which is 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.200 carries this podcast. If you want just music without DJs, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.320 you can get it. But if you know, if you're 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.679 by yourself working late at night, or you can't sleep, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.520 you want to hear a voice on the radio, you 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.920 should be able to hear that. Or if you're driving, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:21.880 you're stuck in traffic, you want somebody to talk to 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.840 you so you don't have a nervous breakdown. It's the 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.320 magic of all right. Next email from Tammy in Montana, 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.840 and she's an enemy combatant of Helen and Stu. There's 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.880 been great rivalry the Mallar militia. They were very happy 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.280 Helen and Stu left and now that they're back, there's anger. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:44.240 There's there's rage. There's a primal instinct, primal scream that 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.880 takes off anyway, Uh, Tammy and Montana right, since she 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:51.760 says classy Danny g Radio giving props to Gascon unlike 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:57.719 that classless crocodile Helen, who is completely unaware of how 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.240 many militia wish she would get ragged into a pond 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:05.840 by a gator. Wow, that is vicious. God. Tammy is 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.360 very feisty. She's a very feisty woman. Uh. Stu is 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:14.000 probably an alcoholic and heavily medicated to stay married to 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:19.400 that nasty smelling old crow. Wow vicious. Uh, he keeps 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.880 the paper sack company in business, buying so many to 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.000 keep her ugly face covered. Wild Timmy, how do you 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.439 really feel? Thanks for doing that, Stu, the world appreciates. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:35.840 Go go drink some prune juice, Medusa. Wow, try to. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.800 She says, you're trying to shift out some of your nastiness. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.959 You your poor family. Wow, dammy, man, man, I'm so 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.760 happy I came into this beef late so that I 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.960 could just be the ultimate politician and say I love everybody. Yeah, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.839 you're much better off on that, because this is a 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:55.880 you know what this is? This is like back and forth, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.840 is like flatulence. They're they're farting at each other. It's 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:03.439 just terrible. It's torrible. J M writes in he says, 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.160 what was the other name you said you used when 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.360 you had a daytime local show. I never heard about 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:15.280 that before. And he says, ps, I think that beer 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.400 drinking Brian is giving you a story about his power 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:20.920 and heating being shut off. He talked about that on 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.960 the show this week. JM Jam says, I am about 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.319 nine percent sure that Missouri has a cold weather law 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.440 that you are not allowed to shut off utilities in 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.080 the winter months. Was he talking about when you were 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.839 little Ben Mallett. No, No, that's how you've typed my 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.840 name into Google. It comes up Ben Mallett. But no, uh, 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.920 this actually was pretty funny. So I was doing the 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.560 show at eleven fifty, a young guy, and we got 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.000 some positive pulp. And back in those days, it was 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.320 very important to be on in the l a Times 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:58.240 radio TV critic Larry Stewart, and that was the big deal. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.400 Like you knew you were of every one in the 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.800 industry read that column. That was that was a sign 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.720 you've made it. And Larry didn't write a lot about radio. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.040 He seemed to enjoy television more than radio, and so 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:13.959 he didn't write about radio much. But a few times 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.840 a year he read right and maybe more than that, 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.320 I'm exactly ate. Usually at the end of his column 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.160 he'd have a little bit of radio news. So he 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.040 wrote a really nice thing about me when I was 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.000 a young guy. I was in my early twenties and 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.400 he wrote a really nice thing. I thought, why this 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.760 is I've arrived. My mom was impressed. My dad was impressed. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.040 You know people, I used to work with this like 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:33.959 a big deal, right the l a times, back when 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.920 everyone read newspaper and uh, except he wrote my name, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:44.080 Ben Waller. How my name was in the so I 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.320 on the air at that time, much like these days. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:49.880 They made it. I had to do the show, and 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.160 I had to do updates, and I hated doing the updates. 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:54.839 I just wanted to do the show. I didn't want 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.000 to worry about the updates, and they made me do 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.520 the updates and so on the updates, I was Ben Waller, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.120 and I'd said I. I was like Phil Henry, like 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.720 a mental patient. I was throwing to myself, all right, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.880 let's go to the news desk. Here's Ben Waller, you know. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.760 And then I, uh so, do you think about that 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:15.959 anytime you watch a Las Vegas Raiders game? No Waller Jersey, 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.520 oh oh the wall Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.920 right the tight end there. Yeah, that's right. Uh. Do 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.800 you do you ever use Danny any kind of fake 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.080 radio names when you're a DJ back in the day, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.640 any kind of No? No, But you know, when I 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:35.640 was at NBC Sports Radio, I would do updates half 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.760 of the week for my salary. There. Part of doing 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.319 the national updates at NBC Sports Radio was you had 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.840 to do the sixty second sports updates live on Bloomberg News, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.520 which was really cool because you were live in New 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.080 York and San Francisco. But they would not let me 0:12:55.160 --> 0:13:00.720 say Danny g. For a news organization like Bloomberg, you 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.199 can't use hip hop names. They told me that's a 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.920 hip hop name, so according to them, So I had 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.880 to come up with something. I didn't know what to do. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.600 I went Batman Ben Danny Grayson. Really you said, you went, 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:20.560 you were full of Batman? Here we come. Yeah, batman sidekick, 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.120 of course, but that's because the newsman would throw to 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.680 me and then I'd be a sports sidekick. I didn't 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.840 know what else to do. I just came up with that, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.679 you know, the day before I had to be on Bloomberg. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.440 That's the only other alias I've ever had on the radio. Yeah, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.200 I've only done the Ben Waller thing I remember they had. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.719 You know, Fox Sports Radio has a news thing that 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.080 they have for Fox News Radio. I don't know if 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.880 they still do that or not, but they used to, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.280 and they had to come up with different different names. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.600 Uh and Uh, I forget Looney had a funny one. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.360 I forget what it was, but he had he was 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.640 obsessed with that. You want to come up with the 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.800 perfect fake name, and uh, I don't remember. I wish 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.520 I did, but I don't know. You we do have more, 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.400 let's see. John in Colorado writes into the fifth Hour podcast. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.080 By the way, if you want to send us a question, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.200 I think next week Danny will be our last podcast 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.040 of the year. They we're gonna will be dark on 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.360 Christmas weekend and then the first weekend of the new year, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.200 and so that we'll be back. I think January tent 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:31.120 ish something like that with new podcast. Anyway, John in 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:35.560 Colorado says, in the process of renovating the new Mallard mansion, 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:41.080 where you tempted to add a hidden door or secret passage, Yes, John, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.640 I would have. I love the idea of a hidden room. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.320 As a kid watching those old shows from when I 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.520 was a child, they always had like the bookcase, you 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.600 pull out the book and the the thing open to speaking 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.880 of Batman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, So I thought more 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:01.640 that would be outstanding right to pull that went off? Uh, 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.440 and we we may still do it. But the the 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:09.000 cause there's a problem. It is a problem. And so 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.800 there's a staircase in the Mallard mansion here, and so 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:17.360 there's a little storage room underneath the staircase. And so 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.600 the plan was my wife's idea. She thought it would 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.240 be great to kind of go Harry Potter and put 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.280 a fake dummy bookcase where the storage room opens up, 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.120 and then how you can pull a book out and 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:32.680 it opens up. And really, because you know, we have 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:36.480 nieces and nephews and little kids, and like, how cool 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.960 would that be if you're a little kid and you 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.600 come over and you you have your own like private 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.240 hideaway and you can open it up and then bam, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.600 you can put all kinds of stuff in there and 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.560 knock yourself. I think that would be awesome. So and 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.080 if any of her family members go missing, we know 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.480 where to look first. Yeah, yeah, right, that's that's that 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.280 would be the spot. Uh, definitely, that would be the spot. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.640 But yeah, we we are thinking about that, John, But 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.240 that's you know, shut up and eat your man a sandwich. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.680 Yeah exactly, you evil kids? How dare you sound proof 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.720 the room? Chef Scott from New Orleans, right, So, and 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.280 he says, holy crap, a podcast featuring all of the 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:19.240 Christmas songs from the Mallets next Friday. No guest, I've 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:23.880 decided these listeners keep sending these holiday songs in Mr 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:28.280 PC Jeopardy ah and Jack called Jeopardy Jeopardy out. That's 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.720 a name from the past. Ohio. All I got my 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.920 Al's mixed Ohio. All our our guy in Maine, Harry 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.240 and Maine are buddy in Richmond. There's so many talented people, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.120 So I thought, since this is a very unique thing 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:42.920 that we have, we have so many songs, we have 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.720 enough songs to fill a whole hour that I can 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.320 be like DJ Benny, I like you nothing but those 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.480 songs for the full hour on Friday. And because that's 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.040 the week before Christmas, and I can't think of a 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.280 better way to annoy your relatives at holiday parties by 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.080 playing Mallard theme songs and and how wrong that would 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.160 be and how annoying that would be. So I think 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.360 we should do it so next Friday. Uh Chef's Guy 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:08.960 talked about it on the show a little bit. So 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.920 these songs are so well done too. I was listening 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.040 to you live on the radio when I was coming 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.199 back from Anaheim on Wednesday night and one of the 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.520 rejoined songs, I turned the volume up because I thought 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.560 maybe it would be one of the p ones, and 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.040 I was like, oh, no, this is a classic Christmas song. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.199 But then I heard the word Mallard being song and 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.360 I was like, holy shit, no it's not. It's one 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:38.240 of the Mallard songs. Man, these parody songs are legit. Yeah, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.639 they're nuts. And this guy, Mr PC, I don't know 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.840 a lot about him, but he even added this week 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.880 his latest songs. He added a female lead, so it's 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:53.400 a duet. It's a male female duet, which is unbelievable. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.119 And he's in a recording studio in Michigan. And so 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.880 Coop told the story on the air that apparently what's 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.399 on on is that the guy at the recording studios like, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.360 you shouldn't be doing this. You should you know. They 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.560 got into a back and forth like a war, like 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.800 you shouldn't be doing this. These are professional songs, you 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.239 should not do. Were doing this for free, And so 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.199 that Mr PC is like, oh, I'll do what I 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.840 want or whatever, and so he's like I like doing this, 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.200 and it's you know, it's gotta be cool if you 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.160 have an opportunity. We have a one good thing about 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.720 The Overnight. We have a very big reach on that 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.600 show because of the time we're on, we're cleared on 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.800 over four hundred stations, and it's a pretty cool way 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:31.840 to kind of cheat to the top and say you've 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.320 had your music played on all these radio stations. So 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:39.560 America's most talented listeners for sure. Yeah. I mean it's 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.720 crazy because we've done this in the past and we've 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.920 had some good songs, but like one or two, not 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.800 a whole c D s or not that they use 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.600 CDs anymore any anyway, says that'll be podcast gold. Chef 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.680 Scott says from the Bayou, absolute gold. The songs this 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.600 year are epic. Uh, he says, thanks Ben and the 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:04.240 talent did Milicia songwriters. Happy birthday, Danny, g It says, 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.520 But happy birthday, Danny, as you know that means we 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.399 love you. Bro It says, here, welcome back to Mallard Town. 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.520 So a big fan of yours there are, Buddy. I 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.879 appreciate that. Yeah, and actually I will be celebrating a 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.720 birthday during the break. Okay, well there you go, Altough, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:26.240 Happy birthday day after Christmas, which means package them all together. Unfortunately, 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.760 if somebody gives you, I don't know, say they give 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.400 you a book for Christmas, that's a bad gift, right, 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:36.360 But as a kid, you'd hear Merry Christmas and happy Birthday. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.439 Yeah that sucks. And Roberto's birthday actually just happened this 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.040 week day. You know, guys in December, with the birthdays, 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.119 you should pick a day where there's not much going on, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.960 like a June. Yeah, that's the day I'm going to 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.359 celebrate the birthday. I agree, because my chick's been trying 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.560 to plan somewhere to take me and the rates are 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.399 all jacked up because it's Christmas week. Yeah, I just wait. 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.280 Told her, I'm like, let's postpone it. Yeah, because you 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.080 can have the same experience and with half the price. 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.639 Why would you you know, I'm a cheap I'm a 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:12.000 cheap guy. So that's what I I would do. You know, 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.680 you know what I want for for Christmas, Danny? You 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:17.959 know what I want? A spider pig, right, pig spider 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:23.639 pinkus whatever spider pig. Guys, can you thwing from a web? 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:28.320 You know we can't. He's a pig look he is. 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.680 I really have no reason that. I just wanted to 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.720 hear that. I thought that was funny. I don't really 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.239 want a spider pig, but I just love that. So 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.920 just like playing drops. Yeah, oh you know it's a toy. 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:43.479 You know I like toys. Well, you know what I'll do. 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.520 I'll play a couple of Genie drops right here, all right, 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:49.520 I'll match your spider pig with a Genie. I have 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:55.720 a statin night Joune on my peach cobbler list. Oh Genie, 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:59.920 Oh god, I miss her, Genie, I miss you. They've 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.080 to play like four or five of her drops on 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:06.679 last week's podcast, and the response was amazing. I I 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.680 miss hearing her drops. Genie was great, man, she had 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.080 so much fun with her on the show. Yeah. Remember 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.240 the story she told us about how she was a 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:21.520 stripper in Compton. Yes, really, and we looked it up 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:23.960 and it check it out through. Yeah, we looked it 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.840 up and we yeah, with some joint in Compton that 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:34.720 she really stripped at. Yeah, it's nuts. Were you were 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:36.920 you with me the night this is not a Genie story, 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:41.000 but the night that that mob guy knocked on the door. 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.439 Were you were you working that night. I was working 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:48.200 that night. Yes, yeah, that guy's from Good Fellows. Yeah, 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.960 well he was the real guy from good Yeah he's 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.359 dead now was the guy's name. We had so many 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:59.240 crazy visitors bet and remember when Helmet Man would show up. Yeah, 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:00.920 we we don't. We haven't heard from helmet Man. We 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:02.879 don't know if he's alive or not. He disappeared. We 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.399 haven't since COVID started. Helmet Man went away. I it 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:10.040 spawned that famous drop where Helmet Man said, I'm actually 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:14.840 on the live air. Yes, you're on Yes, which was 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:16.760 one of the great jobs of all time. Sitting in 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:21.639 a radio station within on air, light pulsing on air, 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:25.120 on air, on air, and me talking to him into 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:28.359 a microphone in a different studio, and he had no 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.720 idea that he was on the air. My on the 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:39.640 live air, Oh my, yes, exactly in our swamp, helmet Man, 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:44.240 what's wrong with you out there? We'll have to do 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:47.440 in the future podcast will go over in great detail 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.840 the night one of the great mob guys of all time. 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:54.000 That happens to be my favorite movie, Good Fellas. I 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:57.280 love good my favorite mob movie, good Fellas. By the way, 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:00.880 Henry Hill was like, yes, that's right, Henry Hill. Henry 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:06.640 Hill drunk as could possibly be drunk, banging on the door, 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:08.639 you know, I we'll get tobies. And we wanted to 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:10.919 get in the radio studio, and I of course walked 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:13.960 out past the mob guy because I had to call 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:17.040 the late great Joe McDonald, l a radio legend, did 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:20.600 cross talk with him, and I was embarrassed because people 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:21.959 would look at me when I talked. So I got 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:25.680 outside and I'd walk around the streets of Sherman Oaks anyway, 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:29.159 Vahed writes in from Sant's Country. He says, Danny g 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:34.920 a great hire for the part. Well, you know higher, uh, Danny, 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:36.520 I think we're giving you a chicken feed for this. 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:39.360 I think maybe, but the big money will come then, 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:41.679