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Speaker 1: it again on a another edition of The Fifth Hour
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Speaker 1: bag we go, and we start out with all right,
Speaker 1: telling in Stu in Palmetto Bay, Florida, and they write
Speaker 1: and they say, Ben Danny Gira Deli Deli. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: reveal the big reveal last week that Danny may Or
Speaker 1: may not be part of the famous Giadelli chocolate family. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And last week I checked in on one of our locations,
Speaker 1: which is inside California Adventure Park. Did you get what
Speaker 1: I say is the greatest dessert ever? The Sunday Cookie
Speaker 1: Sunday amazing, amazing, amazing, but really more for like two
Speaker 1: or three people than one person. But I thought of
Speaker 1: you when I saw Disneyland goers enjoining those. But um,
Speaker 1: I didn't part take. I was just saying hi to
Speaker 1: the employees. They're doing a nice job there for the
Speaker 1: garat Delli Empire. Yeah, and they they love that, you know,
Speaker 1: as it says here in the email Helen and Stu.
Speaker 1: They say, Danny Chocolate. Uh, that's your one of your nicknames.
Speaker 1: They're good early morning to both of you, Stu and
Speaker 1: I the email rights are far more experts in real
Speaker 1: estate as we then we are as technology and all that.
Speaker 1: But we saw this week an interesting article titled that
Speaker 1: radio dj a you here may already be a robot?
Speaker 1: About that for a plot twist surprise, motherfucker, Yes, very
Speaker 1: big surprise there. And I saw this story also anyway,
Speaker 1: says from music to now sports artificial intelligence is already
Speaker 1: being used to create andy artificial neutral disc jockeys using
Speaker 1: real radio voices like yours. In a deeper dive by
Speaker 1: partnering with a Los Angeles based company, Fox Sports, and
Speaker 1: I heart will be using super WiFi in all new
Speaker 1: studios like your future Burbank location to create evil automated
Speaker 1: programming drama on this is through the roof, Danny, I mean,
Speaker 1: my god, and will be real. Ben Mallard Please stand up, Ben?
Speaker 1: Are you real? Or are you just a robot? The
Speaker 1: question asked. And let's see that's a beauty right there, Helen.
Speaker 1: And still you never really know, you never really know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now I feel bad for my DJ friends because they
Speaker 1: are getting rid of the DJs. Well, there's already that
Speaker 1: format that hasn't really done that well, in most cities,
Speaker 1: Odyssey has it. That's Jack FM and l A Well.
Speaker 1: This is something band that they tested way back in
Speaker 1: the nineties nineties. A friend of mine was part of
Speaker 1: the founding radio station in Mantica, California. They had the
Speaker 1: idea to put on a jockless radio station. Let's just
Speaker 1: play all music and see how it does in the ratings.
Speaker 1: It bombed big time because part of the comfortability of
Speaker 1: the radio and part of the enjoyment of listening to
Speaker 1: the radio is you feel like the DJ's talking to you,
Speaker 1: and that's your friend at two in the morning, you know,
Speaker 1: And so if it's missing at all parts of the day,
Speaker 1: it's just super generic. It was like an iPod back
Speaker 1: then before there were iPods. Yeah, I agree, of course
Speaker 1: we are both biased because we make our living talking
Speaker 1: into microphones. But I I would absolutely agree with you
Speaker 1: that part of the charm to me, the magic of
Speaker 1: radio is I was a lonely, fat kid. I didn't
Speaker 1: have any friends, but the radio guy, the guy on
Speaker 1: the radio my friend. The guy in the radio talk
Speaker 1: to me and and I love that, and so I
Speaker 1: had to lose that. I know, people change and stuff,
Speaker 1: but I think human beings that It's just it takes
Speaker 1: away life when you don't have somebody who's real there,
Speaker 1: and if you don't know what's real and fake, that's
Speaker 1: also a problem. And well also the entertainment in between
Speaker 1: the songs. I loved guys like Rick Chase from one
Speaker 1: oh six, K M E Out. He was amazing in
Speaker 1: between songs. His content was absolutely some of the best
Speaker 1: radio I heard as a kid. Umber six point one,
Speaker 1: j M, E M. This is Rick Chase four oh nine.
Speaker 1: I got the solid jams, zero commercials. Don't know if
Speaker 1: this our controversy with right Chase pimony contest. Just have
Speaker 1: to judge for yourself sexist or is it fun? You know,
Speaker 1: I having a lovely birthday. Nobody remembers helly birthday. Damn it,
Speaker 1: thank you baby making Hey, this is getting not in
Speaker 1: California is not one music station. It drew me in
Speaker 1: as much as the music did. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: playing really good hip hop and R and B in
Speaker 1: the late eighties throughout the nineties, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: hear the DJs just as much as the music, and
Speaker 1: also the callers and all the different things going on
Speaker 1: in the city. When you listen to that station. In
Speaker 1: those voices, you felt like you were tapped in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, just to follow up on that. As a kid,
Speaker 1: you know, I love sports, but I remember it's just
Speaker 1: the way they talk though it was more than And
Speaker 1: we've talked about this before on the Overnight Show. Like I,
Speaker 1: I spend a lot of time with these monologues and
Speaker 1: I'll go on and on about whatever, and when I
Speaker 1: meet listeners when I'm able to do that, they never
Speaker 1: want to talk about the monologue. They just want to
Speaker 1: talk about you know, I had a bad I dropped
Speaker 1: Karayaki sauce at the store or whatever. That knows. That's
Speaker 1: what people want to talk about. They don't care about
Speaker 1: the sports. They listen. I guess for the sports stuff,
Speaker 1: but I just think of a world where all radio
Speaker 1: guys go away and it's just but hopefully that does
Speaker 1: not happen. But if it does, I'll be long gone
Speaker 1: by then. And they have done studies though that have indicated,
Speaker 1: as you referenced, Danny, that it hasn't gone well. When
Speaker 1: they've tried to have faceless radio stations. It just doesn't work.
Speaker 1: And people can get that content. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: streaming places. Even I the I Heart app which is
Speaker 1: carries this podcast. If you want just music without DJs,
Speaker 1: you can get it. But if you know, if you're
Speaker 1: by yourself working late at night, or you can't sleep,
Speaker 1: you want to hear a voice on the radio, you
Speaker 1: should be able to hear that. Or if you're driving,
Speaker 1: you're stuck in traffic, you want somebody to talk to
Speaker 1: you so you don't have a nervous breakdown. It's the
Speaker 1: magic of all right. Next email from Tammy in Montana,
Speaker 1: and she's an enemy combatant of Helen and Stu. There's
Speaker 1: been great rivalry the Mallar militia. They were very happy
Speaker 1: Helen and Stu left and now that they're back, there's anger.
Speaker 1: There's there's rage. There's a primal instinct, primal scream that
Speaker 1: takes off anyway, Uh, Tammy and Montana right, since she
Speaker 1: says classy Danny g Radio giving props to Gascon unlike
Speaker 1: that classless crocodile Helen, who is completely unaware of how
Speaker 1: many militia wish she would get ragged into a pond
Speaker 1: by a gator. Wow, that is vicious. God. Tammy is
Speaker 1: very feisty. She's a very feisty woman. Uh. Stu is
Speaker 1: probably an alcoholic and heavily medicated to stay married to
Speaker 1: that nasty smelling old crow. Wow vicious. Uh, he keeps
Speaker 1: the paper sack company in business, buying so many to
Speaker 1: keep her ugly face covered. Wild Timmy, how do you
Speaker 1: really feel? Thanks for doing that, Stu, the world appreciates.
Speaker 1: Go go drink some prune juice, Medusa. Wow, try to.
Speaker 1: She says, you're trying to shift out some of your nastiness.
Speaker 1: You your poor family. Wow, dammy, man, man, I'm so
Speaker 1: happy I came into this beef late so that I
Speaker 1: could just be the ultimate politician and say I love everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're much better off on that, because this is a
Speaker 1: you know what this is? This is like back and forth,
Speaker 1: is like flatulence. They're they're farting at each other. It's
Speaker 1: just terrible. It's torrible. J M writes in he says,
Speaker 1: what was the other name you said you used when
Speaker 1: you had a daytime local show. I never heard about
Speaker 1: that before. And he says, ps, I think that beer
Speaker 1: drinking Brian is giving you a story about his power
Speaker 1: and heating being shut off. He talked about that on
Speaker 1: the show this week. JM Jam says, I am about
Speaker 1: nine percent sure that Missouri has a cold weather law
Speaker 1: that you are not allowed to shut off utilities in
Speaker 1: the winter months. Was he talking about when you were
Speaker 1: little Ben Mallett. No, No, that's how you've typed my
Speaker 1: name into Google. It comes up Ben Mallett. But no, uh,
Speaker 1: this actually was pretty funny. So I was doing the
Speaker 1: show at eleven fifty, a young guy, and we got
Speaker 1: some positive pulp. And back in those days, it was
Speaker 1: very important to be on in the l a Times
Speaker 1: radio TV critic Larry Stewart, and that was the big deal.
Speaker 1: Like you knew you were of every one in the
Speaker 1: industry read that column. That was that was a sign
Speaker 1: you've made it. And Larry didn't write a lot about radio.
Speaker 1: He seemed to enjoy television more than radio, and so
Speaker 1: he didn't write about radio much. But a few times
Speaker 1: a year he read right and maybe more than that,
Speaker 1: I'm exactly ate. Usually at the end of his column
Speaker 1: he'd have a little bit of radio news. So he
Speaker 1: wrote a really nice thing about me when I was
Speaker 1: a young guy. I was in my early twenties and
Speaker 1: he wrote a really nice thing. I thought, why this
Speaker 1: is I've arrived. My mom was impressed. My dad was impressed.
Speaker 1: You know people, I used to work with this like
Speaker 1: a big deal, right the l a times, back when
Speaker 1: everyone read newspaper and uh, except he wrote my name,
Speaker 1: Ben Waller. How my name was in the so I
Speaker 1: on the air at that time, much like these days.
Speaker 1: They made it. I had to do the show, and
Speaker 1: I had to do updates, and I hated doing the updates.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to do the show. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to worry about the updates, and they made me do
Speaker 1: the updates and so on the updates, I was Ben Waller,
Speaker 1: and I'd said I. I was like Phil Henry, like
Speaker 1: a mental patient. I was throwing to myself, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the news desk. Here's Ben Waller, you know.
Speaker 1: And then I, uh so, do you think about that
Speaker 1: anytime you watch a Las Vegas Raiders game? No Waller Jersey,
Speaker 1: oh oh the wall Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're
Speaker 1: right the tight end there. Yeah, that's right. Uh. Do
Speaker 1: you do you ever use Danny any kind of fake
Speaker 1: radio names when you're a DJ back in the day,
Speaker 1: any kind of No? No, But you know, when I
Speaker 1: was at NBC Sports Radio, I would do updates half
Speaker 1: of the week for my salary. There. Part of doing
Speaker 1: the national updates at NBC Sports Radio was you had
Speaker 1: to do the sixty second sports updates live on Bloomberg News,
Speaker 1: which was really cool because you were live in New
Speaker 1: York and San Francisco. But they would not let me
Speaker 1: say Danny g. For a news organization like Bloomberg, you
Speaker 1: can't use hip hop names. They told me that's a
Speaker 1: hip hop name, so according to them, So I had
Speaker 1: to come up with something. I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I went Batman Ben Danny Grayson. Really you said, you went,
Speaker 1: you were full of Batman? Here we come. Yeah, batman sidekick,
Speaker 1: of course, but that's because the newsman would throw to
Speaker 1: me and then I'd be a sports sidekick. I didn't
Speaker 1: know what else to do. I just came up with that,
Speaker 1: you know, the day before I had to be on Bloomberg.
Speaker 1: That's the only other alias I've ever had on the radio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've only done the Ben Waller thing I remember they had.
Speaker 1: You know, Fox Sports Radio has a news thing that
Speaker 1: they have for Fox News Radio. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they still do that or not, but they used to,
Speaker 1: and they had to come up with different different names.
Speaker 1: Uh and Uh, I forget Looney had a funny one.
Speaker 1: I forget what it was, but he had he was
Speaker 1: obsessed with that. You want to come up with the
Speaker 1: perfect fake name, and uh, I don't remember. I wish
Speaker 1: I did, but I don't know. You we do have more,
Speaker 1: let's see. John in Colorado writes into the fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you want to send us a question,
Speaker 1: I think next week Danny will be our last podcast
Speaker 1: of the year. They we're gonna will be dark on
Speaker 1: Christmas weekend and then the first weekend of the new year,
Speaker 1: and so that we'll be back. I think January tent
Speaker 1: ish something like that with new podcast. Anyway, John in
Speaker 1: Colorado says, in the process of renovating the new Mallard mansion,
Speaker 1: where you tempted to add a hidden door or secret passage, Yes, John,
Speaker 1: I would have. I love the idea of a hidden room.
Speaker 1: As a kid watching those old shows from when I
Speaker 1: was a child, they always had like the bookcase, you
Speaker 1: pull out the book and the the thing open to speaking
Speaker 1: of Batman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, So I thought more
Speaker 1: that would be outstanding right to pull that went off? Uh,
Speaker 1: and we we may still do it. But the the
Speaker 1: cause there's a problem. It is a problem. And so
Speaker 1: there's a staircase in the Mallard mansion here, and so
Speaker 1: there's a little storage room underneath the staircase. And so
Speaker 1: the plan was my wife's idea. She thought it would
Speaker 1: be great to kind of go Harry Potter and put
Speaker 1: a fake dummy bookcase where the storage room opens up,
Speaker 1: and then how you can pull a book out and
Speaker 1: it opens up. And really, because you know, we have
Speaker 1: nieces and nephews and little kids, and like, how cool
Speaker 1: would that be if you're a little kid and you
Speaker 1: come over and you you have your own like private
Speaker 1: hideaway and you can open it up and then bam,
Speaker 1: you can put all kinds of stuff in there and
Speaker 1: knock yourself. I think that would be awesome. So and
Speaker 1: if any of her family members go missing, we know
Speaker 1: where to look first. Yeah, yeah, right, that's that's that
Speaker 1: would be the spot. Uh, definitely, that would be the spot.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we we are thinking about that, John, But
Speaker 1: that's you know, shut up and eat your man a sandwich.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, you evil kids? How dare you sound proof
Speaker 1: the room? Chef Scott from New Orleans, right, So, and
Speaker 1: he says, holy crap, a podcast featuring all of the
Speaker 1: Christmas songs from the Mallets next Friday. No guest, I've
Speaker 1: decided these listeners keep sending these holiday songs in Mr
Speaker 1: PC Jeopardy ah and Jack called Jeopardy Jeopardy out. That's
Speaker 1: a name from the past. Ohio. All I got my
Speaker 1: Al's mixed Ohio. All our our guy in Maine, Harry
Speaker 1: and Maine are buddy in Richmond. There's so many talented people,
Speaker 1: So I thought, since this is a very unique thing
Speaker 1: that we have, we have so many songs, we have
Speaker 1: enough songs to fill a whole hour that I can
Speaker 1: be like DJ Benny, I like you nothing but those
Speaker 1: songs for the full hour on Friday. And because that's
Speaker 1: the week before Christmas, and I can't think of a
Speaker 1: better way to annoy your relatives at holiday parties by
Speaker 1: playing Mallard theme songs and and how wrong that would
Speaker 1: be and how annoying that would be. So I think
Speaker 1: we should do it so next Friday. Uh Chef's Guy
Speaker 1: talked about it on the show a little bit. So
Speaker 1: these songs are so well done too. I was listening
Speaker 1: to you live on the radio when I was coming
Speaker 1: back from Anaheim on Wednesday night and one of the
Speaker 1: rejoined songs, I turned the volume up because I thought
Speaker 1: maybe it would be one of the p ones, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, this is a classic Christmas song.
Speaker 1: But then I heard the word Mallard being song and
Speaker 1: I was like, holy shit, no it's not. It's one
Speaker 1: of the Mallard songs. Man, these parody songs are legit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're nuts. And this guy, Mr PC, I don't know
Speaker 1: a lot about him, but he even added this week
Speaker 1: his latest songs. He added a female lead, so it's
Speaker 1: a duet. It's a male female duet, which is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And he's in a recording studio in Michigan. And so
Speaker 1: Coop told the story on the air that apparently what's
Speaker 1: on on is that the guy at the recording studios like,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be doing this. You should you know. They
Speaker 1: got into a back and forth like a war, like
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be doing this. These are professional songs, you
Speaker 1: should not do. Were doing this for free, And so
Speaker 1: that Mr PC is like, oh, I'll do what I
Speaker 1: want or whatever, and so he's like I like doing this,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's gotta be cool if you
Speaker 1: have an opportunity. We have a one good thing about
Speaker 1: The Overnight. We have a very big reach on that
Speaker 1: show because of the time we're on, we're cleared on
Speaker 1: over four hundred stations, and it's a pretty cool way
Speaker 1: to kind of cheat to the top and say you've
Speaker 1: had your music played on all these radio stations. So
Speaker 1: America's most talented listeners for sure. Yeah. I mean it's
Speaker 1: crazy because we've done this in the past and we've
Speaker 1: had some good songs, but like one or two, not
Speaker 1: a whole c D s or not that they use
Speaker 1: CDs anymore any anyway, says that'll be podcast gold. Chef
Speaker 1: Scott says from the Bayou, absolute gold. The songs this
Speaker 1: year are epic. Uh, he says, thanks Ben and the
Speaker 1: talent did Milicia songwriters. Happy birthday, Danny, g It says,
Speaker 1: But happy birthday, Danny, as you know that means we
Speaker 1: love you. Bro It says, here, welcome back to Mallard Town.
Speaker 1: So a big fan of yours there are, Buddy. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Yeah, and actually I will be celebrating a
Speaker 1: birthday during the break. Okay, well there you go, Altough,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday day after Christmas, which means package them all together. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: if somebody gives you, I don't know, say they give
Speaker 1: you a book for Christmas, that's a bad gift, right,
Speaker 1: But as a kid, you'd hear Merry Christmas and happy Birthday.
Speaker 1: Yeah that sucks. And Roberto's birthday actually just happened this
Speaker 1: week day. You know, guys in December, with the birthdays,
Speaker 1: you should pick a day where there's not much going on,
Speaker 1: like a June. Yeah, that's the day I'm going to
Speaker 1: celebrate the birthday. I agree, because my chick's been trying
Speaker 1: to plan somewhere to take me and the rates are
Speaker 1: all jacked up because it's Christmas week. Yeah, I just wait.
Speaker 1: Told her, I'm like, let's postpone it. Yeah, because you
Speaker 1: can have the same experience and with half the price.
Speaker 1: Why would you you know, I'm a cheap I'm a
Speaker 1: cheap guy. So that's what I I would do. You know,
Speaker 1: you know what I want for for Christmas, Danny? You
Speaker 1: know what I want? A spider pig, right, pig spider
Speaker 1: pinkus whatever spider pig. Guys, can you thwing from a web?
Speaker 1: You know we can't. He's a pig look he is.
Speaker 1: I really have no reason that. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: hear that. I thought that was funny. I don't really
Speaker 1: want a spider pig, but I just love that. So
Speaker 1: just like playing drops. Yeah, oh you know it's a toy.
Speaker 1: You know I like toys. Well, you know what I'll do.
Speaker 1: I'll play a couple of Genie drops right here, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll match your spider pig with a Genie. I have
Speaker 1: a statin night Joune on my peach cobbler list. Oh Genie,
Speaker 1: Oh god, I miss her, Genie, I miss you. They've
Speaker 1: to play like four or five of her drops on
Speaker 1: last week's podcast, and the response was amazing. I I
Speaker 1: miss hearing her drops. Genie was great, man, she had
Speaker 1: so much fun with her on the show. Yeah. Remember
Speaker 1: the story she told us about how she was a
Speaker 1: stripper in Compton. Yes, really, and we looked it up
Speaker 1: and it check it out through. Yeah, we looked it
Speaker 1: up and we yeah, with some joint in Compton that
Speaker 1: she really stripped at. Yeah, it's nuts. Were you were
Speaker 1: you with me the night this is not a Genie story,
Speaker 1: but the night that that mob guy knocked on the door.
Speaker 1: Were you were you working that night. I was working
Speaker 1: that night. Yes, yeah, that guy's from Good Fellows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he was the real guy from good Yeah he's
Speaker 1: dead now was the guy's name. We had so many
Speaker 1: crazy visitors bet and remember when Helmet Man would show up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we don't. We haven't heard from helmet Man. We
Speaker 1: don't know if he's alive or not. He disappeared. We
Speaker 1: haven't since COVID started. Helmet Man went away. I it
Speaker 1: spawned that famous drop where Helmet Man said, I'm actually
Speaker 1: on the live air. Yes, you're on Yes, which was
Speaker 1: one of the great jobs of all time. Sitting in
Speaker 1: a radio station within on air, light pulsing on air,
Speaker 1: on air, on air, and me talking to him into
Speaker 1: a microphone in a different studio, and he had no
Speaker 1: idea that he was on the air. My on the
Speaker 1: live air, Oh my, yes, exactly in our swamp, helmet Man,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with you out there? We'll have to do
Speaker 1: in the future podcast will go over in great detail
Speaker 1: the night one of the great mob guys of all time.
Speaker 1: That happens to be my favorite movie, Good Fellas. I
Speaker 1: love good my favorite mob movie, good Fellas. By the way,
Speaker 1: Henry Hill was like, yes, that's right, Henry Hill. Henry
Speaker 1: Hill drunk as could possibly be drunk, banging on the door,
Speaker 1: you know, I we'll get tobies. And we wanted to
Speaker 1: get in the radio studio, and I of course walked
Speaker 1: out past the mob guy because I had to call
Speaker 1: the late great Joe McDonald, l a radio legend, did
Speaker 1: cross talk with him, and I was embarrassed because people
Speaker 1: would look at me when I talked. So I got
Speaker 1: outside and I'd walk around the streets of Sherman Oaks anyway,
Speaker 1: Vahed writes in from Sant's Country. He says, Danny g
Speaker 1: a great hire for the part. Well, you know higher, uh, Danny,
Speaker 1: I think we're giving you a chicken feed for this.
Speaker 1: I think maybe, but the big money will come then,
Speaker 1: as you know, but you were already part of the company,
Speaker 1: so we didn't hire d money. Yes, yes, uh question.
Speaker 1: Could Danny G book William Shatner? We have heard about
Speaker 1: his booking skills, big names, former presidents and many more
Speaker 1: great people keep doing great big bend and Danny G
Speaker 1: from he there in New Orleans where that would be
Speaker 1: the big get. I doubt Shatner would do it, but
Speaker 1: it you know, you could harass him. And it's always
Speaker 1: when he does a media thing. And I say that
Speaker 1: in the kindest way. When I say harass, I don't
Speaker 1: mean in like actually, I just mean a friendly message.
Speaker 1: He hates you with a passion. So the angle I
Speaker 1: would have to come at would be some sort of
Speaker 1: contribution towards his favorite charity or something like that. Because
Speaker 1: back in the day, Clay Travis got into it with
Speaker 1: Peter King and the who hated each other, and we're
Speaker 1: sparring on Twitter, and I was able to book Peter
Speaker 1: King and get him on the air, which was a
Speaker 1: classic interview on OutKick the Coverage. Clay agreed to pay
Speaker 1: I think it was five thousand bucks or something to
Speaker 1: Peter's favorite charity and maybe maybe a thousand dollars, but
Speaker 1: it was a pretty decent sum of money to convince
Speaker 1: Peter to come on, even though he hated Clay's guts.
Speaker 1: That's really the only workaround, I think when it's a
Speaker 1: guy that hates the guy you're trying to connect them with,
Speaker 1: so it has to be financial. There has to be
Speaker 1: a financial stake, and that's how Shatner ended up unblocking me.
Speaker 1: Is that a Trekky a star trek NERD was so
Speaker 1: bothered by the warring Mallard militia and all that that
Speaker 1: this guy Shatner had on his one of his charity things.
Speaker 1: He had the whole to do about how you know,
Speaker 1: you wanna you don't want to end this and I'll
Speaker 1: follow ben I don't think followed me. He doesn't follow me,
Speaker 1: but donated dollars and some dude did. I don't even
Speaker 1: know the guy. And then the guy just he was
Speaker 1: tired of the whole thing and he's like, hey, let's
Speaker 1: let me settle this right now, and he did. And
Speaker 1: Shatner followed through and saved a horse's ass or something like.
Speaker 1: Now you guys are best friends on Twitter. I didn't matter.
Speaker 1: He didn't check in on me before he went to
Speaker 1: outer space. We did have a brief interaction on on
Speaker 1: the Twitter machine, but it's it's been a while. So
Speaker 1: I love how the militias celebrates his birthday every year. Yeah, yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: there's so many good Foot soldiers that met their demise
Speaker 1: at the hands, you know, the Twitter demise at the
Speaker 1: hands of William Shatner. It was it was interesting. That
Speaker 1: was a fun time though that that night, when spats
Speaker 1: with shots originated, and that there was that one night
Speaker 1: he was flying to Germany, and because he was up
Speaker 1: the whole night on a plane, and I guess they
Speaker 1: had WiFi because he's William Shatner, so he's not sitting
Speaker 1: in the cheap seats, and he kept replying, and he
Speaker 1: was trying to block everybody, and he was in such
Speaker 1: a hurry, and he was so flustered. He started following
Speaker 1: security guards and guys cleaning toilets. And you know, the
Speaker 1: the hardcore me of the Mallard Show, the people that
Speaker 1: are working busting their ass all night and they're getting
Speaker 1: a follow from William Shatter. Joe Blow, who's got three followers,
Speaker 1: has William Shatner clicking follow trying to block him? Insane?
Speaker 1: Absolutely insane. But Shatter still doing pretty since ninety or
Speaker 1: something wrong that none William Shatter and he's still he's
Speaker 1: still going. He hasn't had the old Donkey coom anyway. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see what is next here. Kevin and Kansas rights
Speaker 1: in on the mail back, says, dear Ben and Danny
Speaker 1: g Or, both of you have seen and visited a
Speaker 1: lot of stadiums over the years, which ones were so
Speaker 1: horribly awful that everyone was glad when they got a
Speaker 1: new place. Well, the first one I will bring up
Speaker 1: is the l A Memorial Sports Arena, which I spent
Speaker 1: a lot of my life at. The Clippers played there
Speaker 1: in the nineties and late eighties, and that place was
Speaker 1: a total, uh, tear down, destroy what ever you want
Speaker 1: to say. And I the last time I ever went
Speaker 1: in the l A Sports Arena was at a USC
Speaker 1: Notre Dame game and they put the overflow parking on
Speaker 1: the floor of the sportsmen So I parked at a
Speaker 1: big four f one fifty truck and I parked my
Speaker 1: truck on the floor of the l A Sports Arena
Speaker 1: and somewhere I took pictures of it. I haven't been
Speaker 1: able to find the photo, but it was crazy. That's
Speaker 1: a place that it had NBA All Star Games, NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: That's where the Lakers had played when they moved to
Speaker 1: l A, you know, in the early days, and I
Speaker 1: saw the Candy Man play there. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: was that was amazing hockey that all kinds big events.
Speaker 1: They had political uh what do you call it conferences
Speaker 1: or whatever? The conventions conventions were held there, lots of
Speaker 1: rap concerts. I saw West Side Connection performed there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but by the time that place was you know, the
Speaker 1: Clippers had moved out of there. The USC was kind
Speaker 1: of planning there. Then they got a new arena. That
Speaker 1: place was a dump. And how did they fill the
Speaker 1: seats for Clipper games back then, Ben, Well, Yeah, at
Speaker 1: halftime they would open up the doors and they were
Speaker 1: there would be more people in the second half in
Speaker 1: the first half and they were actually just a lot
Speaker 1: of homeless people or people down on their luck trying
Speaker 1: to get out of the cold. Yeah, and den you know,
Speaker 1: not that it gets that cold in l A. But
Speaker 1: December and January and they'd come in there and it
Speaker 1: was Boy, the stuff I saw at the sports are
Speaker 1: holy moly. That is it will be in your book, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be in my tell Bucking. I'd say. Shay Stadium
Speaker 1: is another one. I don't know if you ever went there,
Speaker 1: but I was with the Dodgers and we went to
Speaker 1: Shaye Stadium and that place was a complete rat hole. Uh,
Speaker 1: just horrible at And I know what you're thinking. The
Speaker 1: Oakland Alameda Coliseum, which is still there, hasn't They have
Speaker 1: not torn that that things that dump too. I have
Speaker 1: been there but some historic NFL and Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: games took place on that field. Unfortunately, the building around
Speaker 1: the field was crumbling or is crumbling still. A few
Speaker 1: years ago, I think it was ten season, I got
Speaker 1: to go in the bowels of that stadium as a
Speaker 1: stringer to get the star of the game to call
Speaker 1: into fs R. There were hanging live wires like you
Speaker 1: could see sparks from, you know, these electrical wires that
Speaker 1: were hanging down almost touching people's heads. The popcorn machine
Speaker 1: up in the media area where the broadcasters were that
Speaker 1: wasn't working. The soda machine wasn't working. That Mackenzie d
Speaker 1: that used to be the general manager was mumbling and
Speaker 1: grumbling as he walked over the stained carpet. He was
Speaker 1: bitching about how stuff wasn't working. And that's pretty much
Speaker 1: in a nutshell that place. Obviously, all the stories about
Speaker 1: the urinals not working and floods with what I guess,
Speaker 1: muddy water. Just take a guess what's in the water.
Speaker 1: It's what can brown do for you? I mean, the
Speaker 1: stench coming out of those bathrooms. But and the home
Speaker 1: field advantage at that place was insane. Now you look
Speaker 1: at Vegas, it's obviously a great destination if you want
Speaker 1: to see your favorite NFL team. So you just don't
Speaker 1: have that same home field advantage anymore as a Raider.
Speaker 1: So that's the bad part. But that building, oh my god, Ben,
Speaker 1: they need to honor it and show all those great
Speaker 1: memories there and then bulldoze the place and give the
Speaker 1: Oakland A's a brand new stadium. It's like the area
Speaker 1: around Chernobyl there's that zone you can't enter in and
Speaker 1: just get rid of that thing. And have you ever
Speaker 1: seen that creek water around the coliseum there. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's toxic. If you overthrow a NERF football and it
Speaker 1: goes down there, you're not getting a whole NERF back.
Speaker 1: And I remember watching games when I was a kid
Speaker 1: on TV when the A's when the Raiders were in
Speaker 1: l A And that place looked for baseball, was beautiful
Speaker 1: with the backdrop and all that. And then they built
Speaker 1: Mountain they us and that was a disaster. I was
Speaker 1: also I'm trying to think some other stadiums. A county
Speaker 1: stadium in Milwaukee, qualcom alcome yeah, Jack Murphy Stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's gone now right. They got rid of that
Speaker 1: for they're building the San Diego State Stadium. There I
Speaker 1: was told, yeah, they blew that building up. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time there. And that's another one.
Speaker 1: But that that one never, to me was really that beautiful.
Speaker 1: You know. It was like I go to Padre games
Speaker 1: and I went a few Charger games and the people
Speaker 1: were cool. The tailgating and Charger games is kind of
Speaker 1: eating the parking lot, but the stadium was was brutel,
Speaker 1: brutel and similar qualities to Oakland. Yeah, thank you, Kevin.
Speaker 1: That inspired some hot talk. Hot talk. We do have
Speaker 1: more mail. Terry from New Franklin, Ohio. Right since says
Speaker 1: choose one A. You can keep your Holiday Derek decorations
Speaker 1: up all year long. Be you never decorate for the
Speaker 1: holidays again and see to me, the outcome would be
Speaker 1: the same. And I'll tell you why. Because if you
Speaker 1: keep the holiday day decorations up year round, it loses
Speaker 1: its wild fact. You become used to it. It's like
Speaker 1: my theory. Now. Mr West of the four oh five,
Speaker 1: who was on the podcast before you, I used to
Speaker 1: fight with him by like everyone talks about, you want
Speaker 1: to live near the ocean, you wanna have ocean front views.
Speaker 1: You wanna have skyline views of Miami or New York
Speaker 1: or Chicago. But once you live there after a while,
Speaker 1: it just becomes normal. It's not like you sit there
Speaker 1: and stare out the window, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so that's always been my theory, Like you want
Speaker 1: to live in a good part of town, but you
Speaker 1: don't know, you don't necessarily need to have great views
Speaker 1: because you're just not You're not gonna look after a while.
Speaker 1: It's maybe your friends will be impressed when they come over,
Speaker 1: but you're like, let's just that's home, you know. It's
Speaker 1: like that's the way it is. So I actually I
Speaker 1: called the Queen tender owning a mini Mallard last week
Speaker 1: because she had lights go out on the top half
Speaker 1: of her fake Christmas tree that she's had for years,
Speaker 1: and then she found this thing eight years ago on
Speaker 1: sale for thirty five bucks. It's a good move. I
Speaker 1: told her, you'd be proud of her. Do you think
Speaker 1: a she threw the tree away and finally bought a
Speaker 1: new one or be she bought thirty five dollars in
Speaker 1: lights and strong new lights on the top half of it.
Speaker 1: That's a solid move, Listen, that's a good job by you,
Speaker 1: and that's the way to do it. Listen, things are expensive,
Speaker 1: everything is more expensive these days. Why not? And he's
Speaker 1: saving the environment at the same time, right, saving the environments.
Speaker 1: I like that. That's good. Yeah, we haven't done any
Speaker 1: holiday decorations because the house is a absolute mess. But
Speaker 1: my answer, I think the answer, Terry to answer your
Speaker 1: question is it wouldn't really matter because if you keep
Speaker 1: them up all year, they come used to him, and
Speaker 1: I think it would be no fun never to decorate.
Speaker 1: So is that the worst most political answer of all time? Danny?
Speaker 1: Is that Bella has been leaving some holiday treats around. Yes,
Speaker 1: shell over your floor, by the way, it's hit and miss.
Speaker 1: You know, someday she's good. The other day she decided
Speaker 1: to hellttle rain in l A so that she did
Speaker 1: not enjoy that. We need update she's yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: she leaves. We don't call him poop Danny. We call
Speaker 1: him little cups of clumps of coal is what we
Speaker 1: called him. There And alright, Pierre from Springfield, mass home
Speaker 1: of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where Muffett McGraw
Speaker 1: is Enshrine, says Ben and Danny Gee have either of
Speaker 1: you performed the Costco food court Marcel food Pick de Luxe.
Speaker 1: What is that you ask? It is rolling up a
Speaker 1: slice of pizza around a Costco hot dog And he
Speaker 1: sent some video here Danny of someone on TikTok doing this. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a veteran, veteran move. Also, I I have never
Speaker 1: done that. I usually what I'll do is I will
Speaker 1: get the hot dog and the pizza. I get the
Speaker 1: I eat the hot dog first because I feel like
Speaker 1: once that gets colder, it's not as enjoyable to eat pizza.
Speaker 1: You can eat when it's a little cool. That's a
Speaker 1: good move, yeah, but I've never done them. At the
Speaker 1: same time. I separate them because I'd rather have two
Speaker 1: big slices of pizza and maybe two hot dogs, but
Speaker 1: in separate sittings. I don't like the pizza and the
Speaker 1: hot dog together. One of my goals is to go
Speaker 1: to Canada to not only eat the poutine. But we
Speaker 1: had a listener in Vancouver that used to send me
Speaker 1: screenshots every time you go to Costco because at the
Speaker 1: Costco in Vancouver at least a few years ago, they
Speaker 1: had chicken fingers and fries on the menu, And I'm like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's like next level. Yeah, they streamlined the menu during COVID.
Speaker 1: They got rid of a lot of stuff at Costco
Speaker 1: for a while. They got rid of the Barry Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's blasphem. You can't give rid of the Barry So, like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is that getting rid of the Barrys sign?
Speaker 1: They brought it back. People complained they brought back the
Speaker 1: Barry Sunday. James in Greensboro writes, and he says, why
Speaker 1: is Muffett McGraw always mentioned when you mentioned the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame? Uh, there's two reasons for that, James A.
Speaker 1: It's a funny name to say, Uh, and that's the
Speaker 1: main thing. And Muffett McGraw, that's just kind of it
Speaker 1: sounds like it sounds like a mistake or something like that. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's that. And then also the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: It's to make a point, the NBA doesn't actually have
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame. Technically Baseball, Major League Baseball doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's a National Baseball Hall of Fame. But I just
Speaker 1: point out that it's people go to Basketball of Fame
Speaker 1: and you think like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan's you know,
Speaker 1: and then you see Muffett McGraw and the Russian coach
Speaker 1: from nine two or something like that, and you're like,
Speaker 1: what is it. That's just just having some fun, Jane,
Speaker 1: just having some fun. Calm down. I love filling in
Speaker 1: for Coop on the Ben Mallard Show, on the Live
Speaker 1: Radio show, because when you do the NBA Pick them,
Speaker 1: I go back and I find the best nineteen eighties
Speaker 1: NBA player names, and those are the picks I give
Speaker 1: for Coop. Board has Hell, Danny g for Cooper. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with a dark Alley guy, Charles Oakley, solid
Speaker 1: good pick, eighties Nicks bowls good pick. Yeah. And that's
Speaker 1: the proper way to do it. And sometimes there are
Speaker 1: people that sit in there and they actually try to
Speaker 1: They get competitive and they try to win, and that's
Speaker 1: that's when it becomes a problem. And we say, listen, pal,
Speaker 1: don't be rude. Knock that off. Okay, knock that off.
Speaker 1: Terry in England listening and uh, well he's listening to this.
Speaker 1: Eventually when we put it up, he says, when you
Speaker 1: started listening to a m radio, Ben, did you do
Speaker 1: it to be a d xer or just for sports?
Speaker 1: You know what d xer means danny. That that jargon,
Speaker 1: that lingo, that means d xer as I understand, it
Speaker 1: means to try to listen to far away like a
Speaker 1: Ham radio nerd. Almost yeah, exactly that Terry's a Ham
Speaker 1: radio guy like my old man may rest in peace,
Speaker 1: and so I Terry did. That's part of the magic.
Speaker 1: That to me, that's part of the magic. But living
Speaker 1: in the West, I did not Western part of the
Speaker 1: United States. We did not have as many far away
Speaker 1: stations to get. But I've told the story before. I
Speaker 1: as a kid, my mom listened to Art Bell, who
Speaker 1: was on Forever. Actually it was even I think it
Speaker 1: was even Art Bell, but somebody else. And they had
Speaker 1: a commercial for this antenna that would get far away
Speaker 1: AM radio stations at night. And I begged my mom
Speaker 1: for this. What a nerd? What a loser? And my
Speaker 1: mom it was pretty expensive at the time. I don't
Speaker 1: remember how much. It was pretty pricey. My mom kept
Speaker 1: reminding me about how expensive it was, but she finally
Speaker 1: got it. I remember you talking about this gadget before.
Speaker 1: What did it look like? It was brown? It was.
Speaker 1: It was pretty big. It was like the size of
Speaker 1: it was the size of a laptop. But it was round.
Speaker 1: It was round, you know, like those look like a
Speaker 1: little satellite almost kind of, but it had a knob
Speaker 1: in the middle, some more like rabbit airs. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it was shape. It was round, kind of like
Speaker 1: you know those ring lights, kind of like that. And
Speaker 1: it really worked. Yeah, it actually did work. I was.
Speaker 1: I thought when I first got all this ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: This is just a cheap plastic thing, and it actually did.
Speaker 1: I don't know the technology behind it, but I got stations,
Speaker 1: you know, living in l A. I got stations in St. George, Utah.
Speaker 1: I got a station from Portland, Oregon. San Francisco comes in.
Speaker 1: There's several stations in San Francisco to come in the
Speaker 1: l A market. Suddenly you were probably listening to Suns
Speaker 1: basketball games. I was. I listened. In fact, I've told
Speaker 1: the story about Al McCoy, the voice of the Suns,
Speaker 1: who was still alive. I had the chance to meet
Speaker 1: him and I told him, I said, beside family in Arizona.
Speaker 1: And when I was a kid, I told al McCoy
Speaker 1: of this story. When we went to Arizona, I told
Speaker 1: my mom, I said, we got to eat at what
Speaker 1: a burke and she said, we didn't have how why
Speaker 1: would you want to eat? What? Do you don't even
Speaker 1: know what that is? I said, well no, But I
Speaker 1: listened to the Son's game on the radio and they
Speaker 1: when the Suns would make a three point shot, Al
Speaker 1: McCoy's call would be what a shot? What a burger?
Speaker 1: That was his his tag, And he told me All
Speaker 1: McCoy told me that that was one of the first
Speaker 1: product placements in the NBA broadcast that hit that kind
Speaker 1: of thing, that they were the first ones to kind
Speaker 1: of do it, and so he got a kick out
Speaker 1: of that story on their jerseys. Yeah, now it's all
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. H And then I got Utah Jazz Games
Speaker 1: hot Rod Huntley out of St. George, Utah. It was
Speaker 1: a station I got that was a lot of Vegas.
Speaker 1: I listened to the Stardust line that I got my
Speaker 1: gambling fixed, Lee Pete. This old radio legend in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Every Sunday night, kind I think it was tend to
Speaker 1: midnight was the Stardust Line, and they'd give out the
Speaker 1: latest lines for the next week. That was like a
Speaker 1: big deal. You got the lines for the next week
Speaker 1: in the NFL, so I could go on and on.
Speaker 1: But did you do any of that, Danny when you
Speaker 1: were literally you were too cool for that. You didn't.
Speaker 1: You weren't doing that. Maybe it was too cool supposedly
Speaker 1: because I was at the hip hop slash Rap and
Speaker 1: we didn't even call it R and B. We call
Speaker 1: it soul. At the time. It was the best in
Speaker 1: hip hop and soul for the nineties, and that station
Speaker 1: was cool. But that same instructor, he was the electronics
Speaker 1: teacher at my high school. Man he would tell the
Speaker 1: class at the beginning of the semester, he would say,
Speaker 1: you could either do the book work and bore yourself
Speaker 1: to death, or you could get a Ham radio license
Speaker 1: and get an automatic A and A class. I'm not
Speaker 1: doing bookwork. Screw that. So I actually got a technicians
Speaker 1: license and I passed the Advanced Morse Code test to
Speaker 1: get an A. Wow. That was always my hang up.
Speaker 1: My dad wanted me to become a Ham radio operator,
Speaker 1: but that damn Morse Code thing, I just was. It
Speaker 1: was hard. I had to take that test three times.
Speaker 1: I had to pass the last time I took it,
Speaker 1: and I did. The pressure was on. The trick was
Speaker 1: just staying ahead of yourself because if you fell behind
Speaker 1: a couple of letters, you were screwed. It's like, what
Speaker 1: is it, wheel of fortune. You kind of put things
Speaker 1: together if you just stay on track. So I would
Speaker 1: miss a letter here and there, but you could make
Speaker 1: out what the word is do that Morse code would
Speaker 1: go so fast. Now, I never used this radio license.
Speaker 1: There was no reason or nothing to use it for
Speaker 1: except for that guy's class. He had a set up
Speaker 1: huge radio setups with the antenna on his roof there
Speaker 1: at the school. Yeah, and you know, it was more
Speaker 1: of like the find of Oh my god, I'm talking
Speaker 1: to somebody in Canada. So they would mark the map
Speaker 1: and it was I guess it was cool. It was
Speaker 1: better than doing the bookwork. But yeah, man, that Morse code. Ben.
Speaker 1: I had nightmares about that because it was really hard
Speaker 1: to pass. And they told us that if there was
Speaker 1: ever an emergency, it would become useful to us. Even today.
Speaker 1: My dad, you know, just passed away at the beginning
Speaker 1: of this year. He was a Ham radio He was
Speaker 1: in the city he lived in. They had an emergency
Speaker 1: communications team in the Ham Radio group. My dad we
Speaker 1: used to buy. I used to bust my dad's balls
Speaker 1: because he always said, it's could be a big earthquake,
Speaker 1: and you know, and you know, he loved Ham radio.
Speaker 1: It was his passion. It was his hobby. And he
Speaker 1: always told me, said, been someday there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big disaster and everyone's gonna love this hammer. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be the heroes, you know, and then we're gonna say,
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna turn to Ham radio. And then because he
Speaker 1: used to teach Ham radio, and I was very upsetting
Speaker 1: because you know, it would be there'd only be a
Speaker 1: couple of people that would sign up for his class,
Speaker 1: and then you know, sometimes they had to cancel the class,
Speaker 1: and so it was very upsetting to him because he
Speaker 1: loved the hobby. But he said he always said, if
Speaker 1: something bad happened, the Ham radio operator is gonna save
Speaker 1: the day. And that was his big shoutouts to Mr
Speaker 1: Hoskins was his name, and my stepdad, we have this
Speaker 1: in common. He was a Ham radio dude, and he
Speaker 1: used to on his hand set, used to do repeater sites.
Speaker 1: Before everybody carried cell phones around, he would make phone
Speaker 1: calls off his little Ham radio. Wow that's pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty neat. That's pretty neat. Um anyway, thank you, Terry.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, Matt, moving man, Matt says, why did
Speaker 1: Danny g abandoned the coveted overnight slot? He says, it's
Speaker 1: moving man, Matt. However, when Danny was on, I was
Speaker 1: still known as Matt from the Cape. So he said, well,
Speaker 1: you got promoted, Danny. That's happened on that right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. At the time, Jason Martin was given his
Speaker 1: own radio show in Nashville, doing Morning Drive locally, and
Speaker 1: so I got to step into his spot because I
Speaker 1: was already co producing the show and engineering it, but
Speaker 1: I got to take over the executive producer role, which
Speaker 1: was a promotion, and the hours were a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but I was still waking up at one thirty am
Speaker 1: every day. Yeah. That's uh, that's a no go h
Speaker 1: the one thirty wake up call. Yeah that is I'm good.
Speaker 1: I am. I'm good on that, all right. Valls Fan
Speaker 1: Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes in that's right, this is
Speaker 1: the last piece of mail we will use it. This
Speaker 1: is it. This is the final one. That's it was
Speaker 1: the last one. This is no more after all right,
Speaker 1: Valls Fan Jimmy says, I'm glad to hear Danny J
Speaker 1: back on the airwaves. Best choice you could make, could
Speaker 1: have made well. Best means as good as all the rest. Anyway,
Speaker 1: for both of you. Have you ever taken a girl
Speaker 1: out on a date and the service was so bad
Speaker 1: you got up and left? M h uh, so I'll
Speaker 1: go first. I don't recall that happening. I have gone
Speaker 1: on dates. I was meeting a date and then she
Speaker 1: bailed out early and I was left. That one sucks.
Speaker 1: I have left a movie early because my now wife
Speaker 1: hated the movie so we had to walk out. But
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever left. I've had really bad service. Um,
Speaker 1: but I don't leave. I won't leave a tip, or
Speaker 1: I'll leave a two dollar tip or something like that
Speaker 1: if your services. What about you, Danny, anything at a
Speaker 1: restaurant on a date where you just bailed out and said,
Speaker 1: let me get the heck out of here. This is
Speaker 1: this is not good. Yeah. Just a few months ago,
Speaker 1: I was with my tender Roni at a diner in
Speaker 1: downtown Burbank. In Burbank, the table was sticky, I'm hoping
Speaker 1: from syrup, and uh, service was bad, the water cups
Speaker 1: were dirty. It just didn't feel right from the start,
Speaker 1: and I looked at her and I was like, we
Speaker 1: need to leave before we order anything. The waiter, though,
Speaker 1: you could tell he was maybe part owner. The way
Speaker 1: he wasn't yelling at the staff. It was like he
Speaker 1: knew we wanted to leave. He could sense it. And
Speaker 1: so that made the dash hard because he already had
Speaker 1: his radar on. So I told her, I said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pretend like I take a call, pretended like I
Speaker 1: was talking to the radio station. And she then she
Speaker 1: followed me and she was laughing, and I'm like, what's
Speaker 1: so funny, And She's like, oh my god. He totally
Speaker 1: knew what we were doing. He told me, if you
Speaker 1: want to leave, just tell me you're leaving. Oh man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So he took it very personal surprise. All Right, it's
Speaker 1: been fun, Danny, but we've got to run, right. We've
Speaker 1: got places to go, things to do, people to see.
Speaker 1: That kind of thing on a Sunday, and I'll be
Speaker 1: back on the radio tonight. Good luck to your favorite
Speaker 1: NFL team, thank you? Yes, yes, that's right. Well, my
Speaker 1: my favorite NFL team is not playing until tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not yours. I was talking to the listener yours.
Speaker 1: You finally got better because you played Jacksonville last week.
Speaker 1: Whatever it takes, and uh, we'll see the Rams will
Speaker 1: be ramming it all day and ramming it all nights
Speaker 1: and the value of the sun. Have a wonderful rest
Speaker 1: of your Sunday, and don't forget send messages. The last
Speaker 1: mail bag of the year is going to be next weekend,
Speaker 1: so send your questions in and it's Real fifth hour
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
Speaker 1: or post on the Facebook page and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you then