Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: It's the ad everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler
Speaker 3: and Danny G. Were welcome you back into the podcast, Doe,
Speaker 3: Joe and you have stumbled on what is for many
Speaker 3: the most important podcast of the weekend because we go
Speaker 3: into the bag Danny g Radio Inside the mail Bag
Speaker 3: always a dangerous, rocky road to go down. You never
Speaker 3: know what you're gonna get in the mail bag on
Speaker 3: the Fifth Hour. And this week somewhat interesting because I
Speaker 3: was a little disheveled from my trip from Minnesota. I
Speaker 3: forgot to post a message on social media until late
Speaker 3: in the week, So these are last minute emails that
Speaker 3: were sending. Now, there were a few people that did
Speaker 3: send emails in earlier, but usually I have to send
Speaker 3: out a reminder, so I'm excited to get in the
Speaker 3: mail bag.
Speaker 1: Are you ready, Danny?
Speaker 4: Yes, these questions are closer to us right now than
Speaker 4: they were last week.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is sure. Whatever you said, I'll have some
Speaker 3: of that. Why not?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Yes, I craik up the band in our buddy, Ohio.
Speaker 3: It's okay. Thank you for that, Ohio. Al good as always.
Speaker 3: And the first messa comes from Alf the Alien opiner says, Ben,
Speaker 3: have you considered reacquiring the URL for benmallard dot com
Speaker 3: to promote your brand? I remember the good old days
Speaker 3: of dialing up America online and reading the latest rumors
Speaker 3: on your website.
Speaker 1: Nowadays you'd be able.
Speaker 3: To promote your Fox Sports radio show the podcast, not
Speaker 3: to mention that you'd probably be able to get some sponsors.
Speaker 3: I'm sure your social media team is doing a cost
Speaker 3: benefit analysis as you read this, So Danny, can you
Speaker 3: check in with the social media team to see how
Speaker 3: that's looking that cost benefit analysis the spreadsheet on the
Speaker 3: benmallard dot com url.
Speaker 4: That'll be an easy check in.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So to answer the question, Alf, yes, there was
Speaker 3: a clerical error that was made and I did lose
Speaker 3: Benmallard dot com. I had owned it for several years
Speaker 3: after I stopped using it daily because of the radio commitments.
Speaker 3: And what had happened. First of all, is it was
Speaker 3: a clerical error, so we lost it. Then we tried
Speaker 3: to get it back. But what happens is there were
Speaker 3: some people that were opportunistic and they they purchased it.
Speaker 3: There was a company out of Asia that originally purchased
Speaker 3: the URL. Now why someone in Japan or China would
Speaker 3: want benmallard dot com is beyond me, but I think
Speaker 3: the reason they were squatting and they wanted some money,
Speaker 3: and so the problem. Secondly is I have tried to
Speaker 3: get the website back, but it is a ridiculous amount
Speaker 3: of money for that URL, which no one is going
Speaker 3: to right now. They want the buy it now price
Speaker 3: for benmallard dot com is sixty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: Gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 3: I Am not spending six grand to get a website
Speaker 3: that I built and eventually destroyed, by the way, but
Speaker 3: I'm not paying six grand for that.
Speaker 1: You gotta be joking. Yeah, If you go.
Speaker 3: To benmallard dot com right now, it says the domain
Speaker 3: name benmallar dot com is for sale and it's six
Speaker 3: four hundred and ninety dollars.
Speaker 1: Now, why is it that much?
Speaker 3: A They seem to think I'm more famous than I
Speaker 3: am because they probably see the name and they think
Speaker 3: the radio show, so they think I'm more famous. B.
Speaker 3: The website did get really great traffic for a number
Speaker 3: of years when I was putting the rumor page together.
Speaker 3: But no, I'm not interested in spending that kind of money. Now.
Speaker 3: If somebody wants to buy that for me, that would
Speaker 3: be a waste of your money. I wouldn't tell you
Speaker 3: to do that, but I would accept it if you
Speaker 3: give it back to me.
Speaker 1: But I'm not spending six grand. Not happening. I don't care.
Speaker 3: If it's a hassle free payment, I don't care. If
Speaker 3: there's a buyer protection program, doesn't matter to me. I'm
Speaker 3: not interested. Sorry, not sorry.
Speaker 4: So what if I buy it and then sell it
Speaker 4: to back to you for seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Well, you could try that. You could try that. You
Speaker 3: might want to toss that into Lake Superior with the
Speaker 3: brown water, Danny, that's going to be the quality of
Speaker 3: the brown water. Next up on the mailbag, Fred in Spring, Texas, Right,
Speaker 3: since says, hey, guys, great show as usual, Ben and
Speaker 3: Danny g He says, Hey, Ben, do you miss the
Speaker 3: days when you travel with a ball club and mingled
Speaker 3: with the players, etc. Yes, of course I do. Fred
Speaker 3: who would not want to do that? It was a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. I didn't get to do it for
Speaker 3: very long, but I had a great time when I
Speaker 3: did it. And the thing that bothers me about that
Speaker 3: chapter in my life is I got this great gig
Speaker 3: and I felt like I wasn't completely prepared for it.
Speaker 1: I just kind of got tossed into it. And it's fine.
Speaker 3: I did as good a job as I could possibly do.
Speaker 3: But if I had a job like that now, I
Speaker 3: feel like I would be so much better at it.
Speaker 3: But I didn't really appreciate it as much as I
Speaker 3: should have at the time. But I have great memories,
Speaker 3: amazing memories of that time. In fact, I see some
Speaker 3: of those guys on the Dodgers that were around when
Speaker 3: I was there, and you know, there's there's a there's
Speaker 3: a bond, there's a kinship there from them that era.
Speaker 3: I ran into Eric Harras, who does games at Fox,
Speaker 3: and he was the first basement for the Dodgers. When
Speaker 3: I was doing that stuff, and I had seen I
Speaker 3: hadn't seen e K in probably a decade, and you know,
Speaker 3: we caught up. We were telling old stories and Eric
Speaker 3: carras an old sports radio guy, used to listen to
Speaker 3: the Jim Rome Show back in the nineties and and
Speaker 3: all that, so we bonded over sports radio.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so I do I do miss that.
Speaker 3: Although I'm at a different place in my life now,
Speaker 3: I don't know that I would want to travel that much.
Speaker 3: I think I'm I'm kind of cool with my rare
Speaker 3: and appropriate vacation. You know what I mean, Danny Wright,
Speaker 3: You're like, rare and appropriate. You don't want to go
Speaker 3: out traveling all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And also something else you brought up. It's funny
Speaker 4: how when you're a beginning broadcaster, because I do the
Speaker 4: same thing. I look back at some of the big
Speaker 4: radio stations I was on and I really didn't understand
Speaker 4: what I was doing yet. And now when I think
Speaker 4: about it, I'm like, man, what an opportunity. Not that
Speaker 4: I did bad and not that you did bad, but
Speaker 4: we just didn't know how to harness the broadcasting power
Speaker 4: yet bang bang, And so you're making all these different
Speaker 4: little mistakes and then that stuff weighs on you and
Speaker 4: you're not you don't have your personality yet, I guess,
Speaker 4: is what I'm saying. And so we look back at
Speaker 4: that and it's like, damn it, man, if I could
Speaker 4: go back and do that again, because it's kind of
Speaker 4: like when you think about going back to high school
Speaker 4: and you know, banging the chicks that you missed out on.
Speaker 3: Which is all of them, which is one hundred percent
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yet.
Speaker 3: Totally right there, Danny, you think about, boy, if I
Speaker 3: could go back with what I know now, the skill
Speaker 3: set I have now, man, we would dominate. We'd have
Speaker 3: the top ratings everyone we love in the shows that
Speaker 3: we do, and it'd be just some great and you're like,
Speaker 3: you can't go back, you can only go forward. But
Speaker 3: it was it was a fun time in my life
Speaker 3: and I have great memories and I can I can say,
Speaker 3: you know, whatever happens the rest of the way, that
Speaker 3: I got to accomplish that.
Speaker 1: So that was kind of cool.
Speaker 3: Mike in Fullerton writes, and he says, oh, Ben and
Speaker 3: Danny g last Friday's podcast about Hiccups with the Lady
Speaker 3: Doctor was very interesting. Yes, that's her name. I don't
Speaker 3: even know that she's a doctor. By the way, she's
Speaker 3: a scientist. I don't know that she's a doctor anyway,
Speaker 3: And Mike says, do you believe bo Jackson has chronic
Speaker 3: hiccups because he's part frog or something like she said.
Speaker 4: Have athletic agility that would make you think, you know, he.
Speaker 3: Was superhuman frogman bo Jackson frogman. Yeah, that line she
Speaker 3: had that they think experts that we burn.
Speaker 1: Because we go back to when we were in the ocean.
Speaker 1: That was the most fascinating part of that whole podcast.
Speaker 3: I was like, what do you think you think I'm
Speaker 3: burping because I used to be My relatives were swimming
Speaker 3: in the oceans. Come on, but hey, whatever gets you
Speaker 3: through the day, why not?
Speaker 4: And makes sense with that tad pole tongue, dare you?
Speaker 3: Mike says, I appreciate you ending Ben ending it with
Speaker 3: Danny G's famous later alligator outro. Yes, that was original, Danny.
Speaker 3: I did not steal that from you, Danny.
Speaker 4: That was an original's But it's a later skater, not
Speaker 4: later alligator.
Speaker 3: I got close, I got close.
Speaker 4: Rhyme, you rhymed at least.
Speaker 3: Mike says, here's a question just for Danny G. He says,
Speaker 3: have you come up with a name for baby G yet?
Speaker 3: If not, I would like to nominate Michael. Mike from
Speaker 3: Fullerton says he would like to nominate Michael as the name.
Speaker 3: I think it's a great name, he says, But if
Speaker 3: you don't like it, just promise me you aren't going
Speaker 3: to name your child Alf.
Speaker 1: So that's from Mike.
Speaker 3: Have you picked the name yet, Danny, do you have any.
Speaker 4: We have picked the first name, but not the middle
Speaker 4: name yet.
Speaker 3: Did you pick the first name or did your wife
Speaker 3: pick the first name?
Speaker 4: Uh? My wife and her kids picked the first name.
Speaker 4: I got to sit on the sideline and agree or disagree.
Speaker 4: That was my job, and then I get the privilege
Speaker 4: of giving the child the middle name.
Speaker 3: So question, will you hijack the name game? Even though
Speaker 3: you will be only giving the middle name and many
Speaker 3: people think that is inferior to the first name. But
Speaker 3: if you call the kid by the middle name, they
Speaker 3: will then embrace the middle name and your spawn will
Speaker 3: then consider that their primary name. Therefore, you will circumvent
Speaker 3: your wife and the other kids, and you will have
Speaker 3: complete ownership of the naming process in a backhanded, devious way.
Speaker 4: I like the way you're thinking.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, and will the child be named podcast
Speaker 3: or radio which will.
Speaker 4: Be the middle of well, radio is his last name,
Speaker 4: so yeah, radio radio would be weird.
Speaker 3: That would be odd that they in movie radio, which interesting, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4: So you know, I guess as we get closer now
Speaker 4: seven weeks away from birth daddy, which is really scary
Speaker 4: when you think about it.
Speaker 1: Now, have you taken bets Danny on?
Speaker 3: We should do some kind of betting here will the
Speaker 3: child be born on time early or late?
Speaker 1: On time?
Speaker 4: Earlier late?
Speaker 3: And you should put you know how the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: You have the squares?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Do you should do squares at work with Cavino and
Speaker 3: Rich and the guys. I'll get in on it, and
Speaker 3: whoever gets the right date gets the money, and then
Speaker 3: then you'll just do it that way. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, I'm wondering what time of the day or night?
Speaker 4: Do you know what time you were born?
Speaker 3: I believe I was born at night, and I hope
Speaker 3: your kids born at night, because your child will then
Speaker 3: be able to use the Andy Furman line, I was
Speaker 3: born at night, but.
Speaker 1: Not last night. Slap me around a little bit.
Speaker 3: If you say you were born during the day. I
Speaker 3: guess you could say I was born during the day,
Speaker 3: but not yesterday, so it would work. But it sounds
Speaker 3: better at night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean like you, I was born to do
Speaker 4: radio early or late because I was born exactly one
Speaker 4: minute after midnight.
Speaker 1: And what your birthday is?
Speaker 3: When is your Birthda's in the what part of the
Speaker 3: year is it the end of the year?
Speaker 4: December twenty seventh.
Speaker 1: That would be the end of the year.
Speaker 3: That would be if you only waited a couple more days, Danny,
Speaker 3: you would have been right there. You could have been
Speaker 3: the first baby born in a new year.
Speaker 4: Lost out on that. And they were still wrapping kids
Speaker 4: in Christmas blankets and my Mom's like, it's not Christmas anymore,
Speaker 4: and they're like, yeah, but it's still a Christmas baby.
Speaker 3: Otherwise known as we still have these blankets and we
Speaker 3: have to get rid of them. So you're getting a
Speaker 3: blanket that has a clause on it or a Christmas
Speaker 3: next up on the mailbag. Kevin in Kansas, right, so,
Speaker 3: and he says, dear Ben and Danny, g do you
Speaker 3: guys remember riding bikes as kids? Did you do anything
Speaker 3: special to them? Like baseball cards and the spokes reminiscing
Speaker 3: would like to know.
Speaker 1: So I never did the.
Speaker 3: Baseball cards of the Spokes, but I loved riding the bicycle.
Speaker 3: I grew up in Orange Groves and the freedom I
Speaker 3: loved there was a couple of hills, going to the
Speaker 3: top of the hill and going down, and you felt
Speaker 3: like you were going as fast as you could possibly
Speaker 3: humanly go. You were breaking the time space continuum. So
Speaker 3: many fond memories that the freedom that that was could
Speaker 3: go anywhere, could go to the grocery store, go to
Speaker 3: the liquor store, pizza shop, any of those places was awesome.
Speaker 3: And it blows me away, Nanny that the kids today,
Speaker 3: I don't get the same sense the kids today. And
Speaker 3: maybe I'm just being the old guy. I don't think
Speaker 3: they a care that much about having access to a
Speaker 3: bike and b I just I don't think they appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm repeated with as, there's just
Speaker 3: something missing from that, like they don't need it. They've
Speaker 3: got everything they need in their house.
Speaker 1: They don't. Well, in our day, we needed to go
Speaker 1: out to experience life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, we have the bike culture in
Speaker 4: common as kids. I also was in southern California, a
Speaker 4: different town I think, more run down than yours because
Speaker 4: our friends on their bikes they also had spray paint
Speaker 4: cans and their long socks if they were going to
Speaker 4: go tag up rialto California. But we would go to
Speaker 4: where these kids used a water and shovels and they
Speaker 4: did the hard dirt ramps and jumps, and it was
Speaker 4: amazing to be able to ride with your friends over
Speaker 4: to where the bike jumps were. And of course we
Speaker 4: were all too scared to go on the best and
Speaker 4: biggest jumps. We would to watch other kids do it
Speaker 4: and then eat shit, and that made you want to
Speaker 4: stay away from it even more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was nothing cooler when I was a kid
Speaker 3: than the guys that were the BMX guys that would
Speaker 3: do the jumps and the motorcross stuff. They were like
Speaker 3: rock stars. They were the heroes for those of us
Speaker 3: that rode our bikes. And I grew up in an
Speaker 3: area where there we didn't tag everything. We just had.
Speaker 3: It was a planned community and they had orange groves everywhere,
Speaker 3: and there were military bases kind of in the area
Speaker 3: where I grew up, and so we would get chased sometimes.
Speaker 3: I've told the story before we get chased by some
Speaker 3: of the soldiers when they were off duty. They would
Speaker 3: just get completely shit faced and go out in the
Speaker 3: orange groves and God only knows what kind of debauchery
Speaker 3: they were getting into in the orange groves, but to
Speaker 3: entertain themselves the kids, the soldiers would chase us kids around.
Speaker 3: So we'd be on our bikes trying to desperately get away.
Speaker 3: Things were about to be hatcheted and mured by some marine.
Speaker 3: And so those are some of my other crazy memories.
Speaker 3: I was chasing my brother around, my older brother. I
Speaker 3: would always follow him around, trying to be part of
Speaker 3: the cool kids who are older.
Speaker 1: So I have great memories Kevin.
Speaker 4: And really quick Ben for Kevin. On the accessories on
Speaker 4: the bike, do you remember the grips like we would
Speaker 4: change the handle grips a lot. That was a thing,
Speaker 4: you know, the color and the style of the grips.
Speaker 3: The grips was big. My thing was I got a bell.
Speaker 3: That was a big thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My mom got me a little bell. That was a
Speaker 3: big deal. So I was like pee wee Herman.
Speaker 1: I had a little bell.
Speaker 3: Because that's a safety feature. My mom thought I could
Speaker 3: alert the other people that I.
Speaker 4: Was, Oh, I thought you were going to say you
Speaker 4: had some sweet pegs. Thinking about a bell.
Speaker 3: I had a cheesy bell, But to me, that was
Speaker 3: like the coolest bell. That was like my horn. You know.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was in the car and I
Speaker 1: didn't have I didn't.
Speaker 3: Have a horn, but I had the bell, and I
Speaker 3: could ring the bell and then I'd be I'd be
Speaker 3: set up.
Speaker 1: So that was my big thing.
Speaker 3: I did not My mom did not think it was
Speaker 3: necessary for me to go crazy with the different colored
Speaker 3: handles and things like that, so that was not really
Speaker 3: my gem. Next up, Pete, the machinist from Albany, Oregon,
Speaker 3: right says, says Ben and Danny ge what is your
Speaker 3: earliest memory of a sports moment that you'll remember forever?
Speaker 3: Mine was the forty nine Ers wild Card game versus
Speaker 3: the Packers in ninety eight where too caught the catch two.
Speaker 3: I was eight years old, he says. I can remember
Speaker 3: who I was with and where I was when that happened.
Speaker 1: Says Pete. The machine is.
Speaker 3: There the beaver believer, as in Oregon State beaver believer,
Speaker 3: and he does, say Pete, he sees me with a
Speaker 3: Oregon State hat every once in a while, he says,
Speaker 3: throw that into the rotation. Often more often, that was
Speaker 3: a gift from Robbie, the Falcon fan, who hooked me
Speaker 3: up with that Oregon State Beaver hat, and it is
Speaker 3: one of my cooler hats. I do like that logo,
Speaker 3: and I do have a lot of hats.
Speaker 1: I have to work that. In so earliest.
Speaker 3: Sports memory, there's a few vague ones I remember. I
Speaker 3: remember how excited I was to watch the Chicago Bears
Speaker 3: with Refrigerator Perry against the New England Patriots because he
Speaker 3: was getting all this attention on the local news. My
Speaker 3: mom would like, you got to come watch the news.
Speaker 3: They're doing a feature on the fat guy from the Bears,
Speaker 3: and so William Perry the refrigerator. That was a big deal,
Speaker 3: even though I wasn't a Bears fan, but I was
Speaker 3: a Refrigerator Perry fan growing up right around that time.
Speaker 3: Because I remember the Royals and the Cardinals in the
Speaker 3: eighty five World Series. I remember that very vividly, the
Speaker 3: great comeback by the Royals and the report that Joaquin
Speaker 3: Andrew Harror had destroyed at toilet in the Cardinal locker room.
Speaker 3: I remember that as a child, and then I remember
Speaker 3: I was a kid. I was playing youth basketball, going
Speaker 3: to a Laker game. We got to play after the game.
Speaker 3: They were playing the Golden State Warriors. George Carl was
Speaker 3: like a young coach for the Warriors, and I remember
Speaker 3: walking down and seeing Kareem Abdul Jabbar make a skyhook
Speaker 3: and it looked like he was like the size of
Speaker 3: a giraffe. It was insane how tall a his arm
Speaker 3: would reach. I thought he was hitting the top of
Speaker 3: the forum.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. What about you, Dan, any sporting.
Speaker 3: Memories when you were a young a young pup that
Speaker 3: you remember and you will remember the rest of your
Speaker 3: life unless you get some kind of disease.
Speaker 4: Oh for sure. The very first time I got to
Speaker 4: go to Dodger Stadium, my grandmother took me and my
Speaker 4: older brother. She had her son umbrella and a transistor
Speaker 4: radio because she was in love with Vin Scully, two
Speaker 4: guys that she said she would make out with ben
Speaker 4: Vin Scully and Bob Barker.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I have a chance with Bob Barker.
Speaker 3: I don't know that Vin was into any of that
Speaker 3: kind of hanky panky, but bo, I think Bob did
Speaker 3: make out with a few people back in the Who
Speaker 3: are the Dodgers playing? Who are they playing? The first
Speaker 3: game you went to?
Speaker 4: Oh it was too little at the time. You remember,
Speaker 4: this is when Fernando Mania was going on.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was a little kid, little little kid, But
Speaker 4: I remember for walking us all the way to the top.
Speaker 4: I remember her being out of breath really bad because
Speaker 4: she was already an older lady at that time, or
Speaker 4: at least back then. I guess people didn't take care
Speaker 4: of themselves the way we do now, right, So if
Speaker 4: she was in her fifties, that's like the equivalent today
Speaker 4: to somebody being seventy. So she's out of breath. She
Speaker 4: puts her son umbrella up, turns Vin's silky voice on
Speaker 4: her transistor radio, and we got to watch Fernando do
Speaker 4: his thing on the mound.
Speaker 3: The first time I ever went to Dodger Stadium was
Speaker 3: the nineteen eighty four Summer Olympics. My parents had gotten tickets.
Speaker 3: It wasn't even that big a deal because baseball was
Speaker 3: not an official Olympics sport. It was a what's the
Speaker 3: word a demonstration sport, I guess is the way they
Speaker 3: would describe it. And so you only had a few
Speaker 3: teams that were in the Olympics at that time. And
Speaker 3: I remember walking into Dodger Stadium and I was like,
Speaker 3: oh man, it's like the biggest thing I'd ever seen,
Speaker 3: and it was amazing, and I couldn't believe how many
Speaker 3: seats there were and how green the hills were and the.
Speaker 1: Grass and all that. It was crazy. So I have
Speaker 1: fond memories of that.
Speaker 4: How about did you ever get to go to any
Speaker 4: Oakland A's games at the Coliseum back in the day.
Speaker 1: I did not.
Speaker 3: I watched a bunch on TV. I did go to
Speaker 3: the Coliseum, but that was after the Raiders. I was
Speaker 3: older and the Raiders had come back there to play.
Speaker 4: But I thought, you we would get to go to
Speaker 4: A's games. And I remember the very first A's game
Speaker 4: I ever saw was against the Brewers and Raleigh Fingers
Speaker 4: was on the Brewers. I got the biggest kick out
Speaker 4: his watching that dude, because we had his baseball cards
Speaker 4: and we got a kick out of the way he
Speaker 4: looked on his cards. So when I saw him in person,
Speaker 4: I'm like, that's Rawley Fingers.
Speaker 1: Oh, totally, totally.
Speaker 3: You see these guys that you only know from cardboard.
Speaker 3: You're like, holy crap, that's a real person. I can't
Speaker 3: believe it. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that was a good good memories, all right.
Speaker 3: Next up on the mail bag, this one's from Big
Speaker 3: Greg and Iowa.
Speaker 1: I met Big Greg and Iowa. A very nice man.
Speaker 3: He drove up like five hours from Iowa to hang
Speaker 3: out with us in Minneapolis at the Mall of Meet
Speaker 3: and Greed, he says, Dear Ben and the Daddy Danny
Speaker 3: g After seeing a meme about Monopoly, Big Greg says,
Speaker 3: have you ever had a game of Monopoly end with
Speaker 3: the table or the Monopoly board flung in the air,
Speaker 3: with everything scattered everywhere? And was it you or someone
Speaker 3: else who flipped the board? And then he also says
Speaker 3: how many Juicy Lucy's were consumed in Minnesota? From Big Greg?
Speaker 3: So I'll answer that. I'll let you answer the monopoly
Speaker 3: one I consumed. Let me do my math here. Let's
Speaker 3: see four four Juicy Lucy's were consumed by me in
Speaker 3: three and a half days.
Speaker 1: So pretty good.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good. Not a bad ratio right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Monopoly. I have never been the one to
Speaker 1: scatter a Monopoly board. What about you? Danny, you have
Speaker 1: you had.
Speaker 3: A hissy fit and aniption fit and just tossed everything
Speaker 3: in the air.
Speaker 4: No, but I do remember my stepdad being a poor
Speaker 4: sport and doing that a couple of times. He was
Speaker 4: also famous for losing out a video game and then
Speaker 4: hitting the reset button before the game was officially over.
Speaker 3: That is a very mature weight to handle things.
Speaker 1: Very mature.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, I used to get into it with my
Speaker 3: younger and older brothers who were playing video games, and
Speaker 3: so I would occasionally pull some shenanigans. Possibly liked your stepfather,
Speaker 3: But I never did it with Monopoly, and it was
Speaker 3: always we always complained as kids because it took so
Speaker 3: long to play Monopoly.
Speaker 1: We wanted a quicker pace. We felt like it lagged.
Speaker 1: There was too much lagging.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, new magic kids nowadays trying to play that.
Speaker 3: I'll forget about it. Barry in Nashville, says Yo Yo
Speaker 3: Ma Benny as a long time listener, I think I
Speaker 3: am up on how much how each rather the p
Speaker 3: Ones got their nicknames, But I don't recall ever hearing
Speaker 3: or remembering how Alf the Alien Opiner got his nickname.
Speaker 3: Signed Barry in Nashville, so Barry. I don't know the
Speaker 3: origin of the origins of ALF. I would assume what
Speaker 3: happened was we used to have this guy that many
Speaker 3: members of the Mallaind Militia were jealous with, named Ernie
Speaker 3: the Great O'piner. And Ernie was a character from the
Speaker 3: state of Michigan who was a big part of the show,
Speaker 3: and he used to comment on everything that we did,
Speaker 3: and he loved the show and the whole thing, and
Speaker 3: other fans of the show got jealous. They were offended
Speaker 3: by Ernie the Great O'piner. So we had for a
Speaker 3: couple of months we had the Great Muppet takeover. So
Speaker 3: these other guys thought it would be funny to bust
Speaker 3: Ernie's balls, and they all started accounts as different Muppet characters,
Speaker 3: and they were then added the Great o'piner to their name.
Speaker 3: And so I don't know for sure that that's how
Speaker 3: Alf the Alien Opiner started.
Speaker 1: I would assume that's how that started.
Speaker 3: And one thing led to another, and eventually Ernie actually
Speaker 3: quit the show. He got so flustered by all the
Speaker 3: other Muppet accounts he left the show. Can you believe
Speaker 3: leaving a show because you're offended by other people who
Speaker 3: you feel their manners are not right and they copy
Speaker 3: your bit and what is that?
Speaker 4: Do you think the last thing he said was snuffle
Speaker 4: up against the old pineer put this, I'm out of here.
Speaker 3: Well he turned into Alfred, he turned into Oscar the Grouch,
Speaker 3: the great opiners what he turned into? But yeah, it
Speaker 3: did not go well. So I think that's the answer.
Speaker 3: Very Next up is Lions fan Austin. He says, did
Speaker 3: you get a three way with Doc, Mike and Regina. No,
Speaker 3: that did not happen, but thank you for asking. Very
Speaker 3: classy of a Lions fan. Clayton writes, insists, did you
Speaker 3: explain to Eddie that the Mississippi River does indeed flow
Speaker 3: through Minneapolis or does he still think it's a conspiracy theory? Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I tried to tell Eddie Clayton that the Mississippi
Speaker 3: goes through Minnesota. He seemed to be blown away by
Speaker 3: this fact. We talked about it on the air. He
Speaker 3: was not acting. He genuinely did not realize that the
Speaker 3: Mississippi rivers started from Canada.
Speaker 1: And went all the way down.
Speaker 3: And I would I would like to point out, in
Speaker 3: Eddie's defense, not that this is a proper defense. But
Speaker 3: there was one other person I know that works in
Speaker 3: radio who also was gobsmack, could not believe that this
Speaker 3: is true that the Mississippi River went through Minnesota.
Speaker 4: I thought everybody knew that started in Canada. They taught
Speaker 4: us that in middle school.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't really pay attention to school, but that's
Speaker 3: one thing I remembered from school, So call me crazy.
Speaker 3: How about shut up? Nick and Wisconsin Wright sin It
Speaker 3: was great hanging out with Nick. Nick and his power
Speaker 3: were there. I had a frisbee. I aniographed a frisbee
Speaker 3: for Nick Nicks, the guy I remember. He said his
Speaker 3: wife was busting his balls about going to this thing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, And Nick said by the time he left,
Speaker 3: his wife actually kind of wanted to go. So she
Speaker 3: had done a ONET eighty and she was kind of
Speaker 3: disappointed she could not come to the event.
Speaker 1: So that made me feel pretty good.
Speaker 3: Nick says, Ben, it was great meeting you and the
Speaker 3: fellow members of the Malam Militia last weekend. Side note
Speaker 3: for Danny, end of July is a great time to
Speaker 3: have a baby. That's when I had my first born.
Speaker 3: The question for you, Ben and Dan, would you rather
Speaker 3: have a third nipple or an extra toe.
Speaker 1: That's a good question.
Speaker 3: So I have two nipples now they don't really serve
Speaker 3: any purpose, so I don't need a third nipple. But
Speaker 3: I would think an extra toe would get in the way.
Speaker 3: I think it would be easier to conceal an extra
Speaker 3: nipple than an extra toe, because it would mess up
Speaker 3: your shoes and the way everything goes. There there was
Speaker 3: a guy named Antonio Alfonseka. He was a closer for
Speaker 3: the Marlins and some other teams, and he had an
Speaker 3: extra toe on each foot and an extra finger on
Speaker 3: each hand, so he had six fingers on each hand
Speaker 3: and six toes on each foot. And I remember, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I peaked.
Speaker 3: I saw a the in the locker room.
Speaker 1: I kind of took a look.
Speaker 3: But he had these like little baby extra fingers and
Speaker 3: extra toes. They were not the full size. But the
Speaker 3: answer would be none of the above. But if I
Speaker 3: had to choose, I would choose a nipple. I'd go
Speaker 3: for the nip. Then I could have a nip slip.
Speaker 3: And I say, which one is three nipples?
Speaker 1: Which one is it? What about you, Danny?
Speaker 4: Well, back in the day, I had an orange tabby hat,
Speaker 4: and he was the coolest cat man. Not only was
Speaker 4: his personality the greatest, but he was polydactyl, so he
Speaker 4: had those extra digits. It looked like he had mits.
Speaker 4: He could pick a pen up off the floor and
Speaker 4: he would go around and play hockey like. He would
Speaker 4: find different toys and things on the floor and he
Speaker 4: would bat it from side to side as he was running.
Speaker 4: It looked like he was about to score a hockey goal.
Speaker 4: So I would go the extra toes. For sure. You
Speaker 4: would look way cooler than some freak with an extra nipple.
Speaker 3: Well, no one would know you have the extra nipple
Speaker 3: until you take your clothes off, right, they would realize
Speaker 3: you had the nipple.
Speaker 4: Well, I have an OnlyFans page.
Speaker 1: Well that is true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people wonder how Danny can survive in southern California
Speaker 3: working in radio and the podcast. And it is the
Speaker 3: fact that you for years have had a very successful
Speaker 3: fans only page.
Speaker 1: So I congratulate. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4: It's like one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. Tax free, right, tax free?
Speaker 3: I think This next one's from Greg in West Saint Paul, Minnesota,
Speaker 3: says After last week's discussion on where to eat the
Speaker 3: best Juicy Lucy in the Twin Cities, I'm getting shout
Speaker 3: outs from restaurants around town to come in and try theirs.
Speaker 3: On Friday, I'm going to the three twenty eight Club
Speaker 3: to try the Juicy Lucy. They call it the Greg Testimony.
Speaker 3: On the many that listen to the Fifth Hour, you're
Speaker 3: making me famous.
Speaker 1: Ps. Did you try the Nook?
Speaker 3: Yes? And hopefully you had a chance Greg to hear
Speaker 3: the Malor review. Also, raz Quit, the band that was
Speaker 3: on the Saturday podcast is how many juicy season?
Speaker 1: The answer was or? He says, how was the Juicy Lucy?
Speaker 1: And you can hear all of that.
Speaker 3: Content on the Fifth Hour podcast from Saturday.
Speaker 1: But I loved it.
Speaker 3: I'm upset I didn't get to meet Rask with de
Speaker 3: baand I was hoping I would be able to meet him,
Speaker 3: but I did not get to meet him.
Speaker 1: But very nice.
Speaker 3: Thank you Greg the nook, major major tip on the microphone.
Speaker 3: That place was great and now I'm bummed out. If
Speaker 3: that three twenty eight place is good, I'll be like,
Speaker 3: oh crap. I could have gone to the three twenty
Speaker 3: eight Club and tried their juicy lucy, but oh well.
Speaker 3: Next up is Keith and NorCal. He says bacon or
Speaker 3: sausage with breakfast.
Speaker 4: Danny, oh, bacon all day, especially extra crispy. I like
Speaker 4: it when you can snap the bacon in half.
Speaker 3: You're a snapper. See my answer is none of the above.
Speaker 3: I don't a I don't eat a lot of breakfast.
Speaker 3: Very rarely do I eat breakfast because I have this
Speaker 3: fugsey fasting thing. But when I eat breakfast, my go
Speaker 3: to breakfast meat is cornbysh. I love corn beef hash.
Speaker 3: It flashes back to my childhood. I had that when
Speaker 3: I was a kid. You give me corn beef hash
Speaker 3: and a pancake and I'm good.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: This weekend, I told the story on one of the
Speaker 3: podcasts about how we were trying to get a cinnamon
Speaker 3: roll and we ended up going down thirty sixth Street.
Speaker 1: We made a turn.
Speaker 3: And we ended up going right where the George Floyd
Speaker 3: incident had started. At that bakery, they did not have
Speaker 3: a cinnamon roll. But the next day we did end
Speaker 3: up eating breakfast and I had a caramel roll. Where
Speaker 3: do you rate the carmel roll on your big board
Speaker 3: of desserts?
Speaker 4: I don't know if I've ever had a caramel roll.
Speaker 1: You have not had a carmel roll.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know. Let me look that up. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure.
Speaker 3: So a caramel roll is like a cinnamon roll, but
Speaker 3: it's obviously got a few different ingredients in that, and
Speaker 3: it's got it's.
Speaker 4: Still it looks like a cinnamon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like a cinnamon roll. It's like an
Speaker 3: old fashioned, gooey carmel role.
Speaker 4: Okay. And sometimes there's pecans on it, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I often have the pecans. They used to have
Speaker 3: these at Angel games. I don't know if they still
Speaker 3: do with the big A when I used to go
Speaker 3: back in the day.
Speaker 4: There, it's right up there. Those are neck and neck
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're very good.
Speaker 3: It was a very enjoyable carmel role. Love that at
Speaker 3: this I did not really like the vibe it. We
Speaker 3: went to this hipster bakery. I'm not really a hipster
Speaker 3: bakery guy, Danny, I don't really fit in at a
Speaker 3: hipster bakery. But the food was really good. Chris, and
Speaker 3: the moin writes and he says, hey, Ben, we met
Speaker 3: Chris by the Chris, great guy. You can tell this
Speaker 3: guy's a Bartender. He's very social Chris and the Moins.
Speaker 3: He knows how to relate to everybody. He says, if
Speaker 3: you could bring back one sports team that no longer exists,
Speaker 3: for example, Super Sonics, Hartford Whalers, who would you bring back?
Speaker 3: That's from Chris in Des Moines. You would bring back
Speaker 3: the Oakland Raiders, wouldn't you, Danny, You'd bring back the
Speaker 3: Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 4: Boy, I'm not gonna lie. That home field advantage was
Speaker 4: pretty sweet. Too bad that stadium is a dump now.
Speaker 4: You know. I'll say this because you're fresh back from Minnesota.
Speaker 4: I wish that I would have got to go there.
Speaker 4: I thought about it all weekend, the entire time you
Speaker 4: were away and you were there. I was jealous. I
Speaker 4: wanted to be there. How about the north Stars.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: Dino Cicarelli and the Minnesota north Stars.
Speaker 1: Here's one.
Speaker 4: Anytime my mom would watch a rerun of the Mary
Speaker 4: Tyler Moore Show, they'd always be talking about the Minnesota
Speaker 4: north Stars. I got you, yeah, And so that I
Speaker 4: knew that because of my mom watching those reruns, and
Speaker 4: so it's really crazy to think about that that team
Speaker 4: is actually the one that went to Dallas.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, they got rid of the North and just
Speaker 3: became the Stars.
Speaker 1: Okay, that stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't understand why they have to keep the same
Speaker 3: name just if you move cities.
Speaker 1: I think you should leave the name.
Speaker 3: And I know you'll be upset by this, but the
Speaker 3: Lakers should not be called the Lakers. That's a Minneapolis name,
Speaker 3: the Great Lakes. They should have had a different name
Speaker 3: when they moved to LA And I feel the same
Speaker 3: way about even the Dodgers. I love the Dodgers, but
Speaker 3: they left Brooklyn. They were named the Trolley Dodgers. Come
Speaker 3: up with your name when you change That's my rule
Speaker 3: when I become commission.
Speaker 1: When you change cities, you change names.
Speaker 3: As far as my answer to that question for Chris
Speaker 3: in Des Moines, I guess I would say, how about
Speaker 3: this to offend people, the Colt forty fives. If you
Speaker 3: can bring back the Colt forty five, boy, with that
Speaker 3: upset people, that would rock the boat.
Speaker 4: I want to add one man, I want to bring
Speaker 4: the Washington Bullets back.
Speaker 3: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1: You could do that too.
Speaker 3: That's I love the Washington bullet That was a great
Speaker 3: logo they had, the Washington Bullets, great logo.
Speaker 1: It was a great logo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the Bullets, the Cold forty fives, you can
Speaker 3: bring them back Montreal expos that would be a good one.
Speaker 1: Also, so there's a bunch of those, Yeah.
Speaker 4: The Redskins and then lead the Chop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the bakers Show, the bakers Field Blaze. We could
Speaker 3: bring them back, right, they're out of business, now we
Speaker 3: can get them back. I we'll do one more and
Speaker 3: one more only the next question from Randy.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a sporty do we want to do a
Speaker 1: sporty question?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yah, Brandy, I think we're good on that.
Speaker 3: And Dino and l pass so we thank you guys
Speaker 3: for your questions. But eh, I think we're good.
Speaker 1: I think we're good.
Speaker 3: We talked sports all week exactly. We talk sports. I
Speaker 3: do four hours a night mostly talking sports and the
Speaker 3: drunk people.
Speaker 1: So I'm good. I'm good on that.
Speaker 3: Anything you want to promote here, Danny as we close
Speaker 3: out the weekend, I'll be back tonight in the main studio.
Speaker 3: It's a holiday weekend, but we'll have a live show.
Speaker 3: No days off. I've already used my allotted time off,
Speaker 3: so I'll be doing an original show Sunday into the
Speaker 3: Monday holiday, and I'll be doing that and live shows
Speaker 3: all week.
Speaker 4: I will be on with Covino and Rich just three
Speaker 4: hours after you leave the airwaves because we're going to
Speaker 4: be filling in for the Dan Patrick show.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: I wish you well.
Speaker 3: I will be long gone by the time you're there,
Speaker 3: but I do wish you well and have a fine
Speaker 3: time with that. So anyway, thank you for downloading. Tell
Speaker 3: a friend about the podcast. Thank you, thank you, thank
Speaker 3: you so much. Have a great week. And if you
Speaker 3: missed any of the other podcasts, we went in depth
Speaker 3: on the Malor meet and greet. On Friday, we had
Speaker 3: the Malard food review, and Danny g was part of
Speaker 3: a live police chase in Los Angeles. You can only
Speaker 3: get that content here on the podcast. So all of
Speaker 3: that will have for you all weekend long and now
Speaker 3: as we head.
Speaker 4: Into the week.
Speaker 1: So have a great day today.
Speaker 4: Later, skater got a murder. I gotta go