Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old Republic a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. Welcome in
Speaker 1: another edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
Speaker 1: Danny G. Radio. In the podcast do Joe is a
Speaker 1: very exciting year and one of my favorite moments of
Speaker 1: the week. The mailbag is that not? Is that now? Wonderful?
Speaker 1: The mailbag tremendous, tremendous, tremendace and interesting conversation. Danny G.
Speaker 1: If you missed the Saturday podcast, you are the modern
Speaker 1: Bill Ny the science guy. We gotta come up with
Speaker 1: the nickname. We have not yet come up with a
Speaker 1: nickname for you, but we well, what runs Danny G
Speaker 1: Radio really flows like. That's a great what you're known
Speaker 1: as Danny G Radio? Something science to have the spit ball.
Speaker 1: One thing I know about the listener to this program
Speaker 1: and and the radio show The restaurant radio show is
Speaker 1: very creative. Some people like just Josh, Justin and Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: They might be X rated names, but they're interesting. The
Speaker 1: one thing I found out is that science is gonna
Speaker 1: kill me, literally because I had to bring those projects
Speaker 1: home in big boxes every day. And my tinder ronis
Speaker 1: gotta shout her out because she helped me cut holes.
Speaker 1: I had like a whole workshop going on on our
Speaker 1: kitchen table, talk about over time, hours been and that's
Speaker 1: why all teachers across the board, the good teachers, not
Speaker 1: the old grouchy ones that are tenured, but the good ones,
Speaker 1: they bring their work home and so you're really working
Speaker 1: around the clock. That week felt like three weeks. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely looking for some easier projects and experiments to
Speaker 1: get into here. The good thing is the longer you
Speaker 1: do this, you're you're going to be like that tenured
Speaker 1: teacher where you have like a whole roll of decks
Speaker 1: of projects and all that. But then you also want
Speaker 1: to keep it fresh, right, you know what to do
Speaker 1: the same things over and over again. So it's like
Speaker 1: that give and take. Do you wanna yeah, have everything
Speaker 1: laid out? It's like, uh, my, my mother in law.
Speaker 1: She's a she's a teacher, just actually just retired. But
Speaker 1: she'd been doing it for a long time, so she
Speaker 1: had like all of her like she knew everything, all
Speaker 1: the lessons, plans and all that stuff because she's been
Speaker 1: doing it for so long, so she had all laid up.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like doing a radio show. That's
Speaker 1: one good thing about the radio show. Like every day
Speaker 1: is different though, there's so much us to react to,
Speaker 1: so you've got some built in stuff. But you no,
Speaker 1: you're right. The rundowns that we do for the show,
Speaker 1: it's similar to lesson planning. There's a lot of similarities. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you're planning stuff out and making you know, kind
Speaker 1: of looking at the clock and figuring out what needs
Speaker 1: to go. Were putting a jigsaw puzzle together every day.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't have enough pieces for the jigsaw puzzle,
Speaker 1: but you still gotta put it together. And when one
Speaker 1: of the little kids burns their hand on the hot
Speaker 1: glue gun, it's like a bad segment on the radio.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. All right, let's get to the mail back
Speaker 1: here we go, hit us, strike up the band, ohio, wow,
Speaker 1: hit that button right there. It's all right. The first
Speaker 1: email comes from a very polarizing figure on this show,
Speaker 1: Helen and Stu from Mallard Town, USA. It is signed
Speaker 1: and the email reads boys extended vacation Deshaun Watson settlement
Speaker 1: dittos from Cape Cod How about that they're hanging out
Speaker 1: on Cape Cod? Uh? They say Benjamin is short on time,
Speaker 1: but suffice to say that wherever we holiday, the Mallard
Speaker 1: Militia juggernaut is with us. In the air everywhere. Next week,
Speaker 1: in the fifth hour mail bag, crazy vacation drama including
Speaker 1: Code three, Lights and sirens, Stu almost die stayed Helen
Speaker 1: and Stu. Good to hear that Stu still with us.
Speaker 1: Now that's a tease, Danny, that's an email tease. She
Speaker 1: didn't tell you how he almost died. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: she's she said she's gonna tell us in the next
Speaker 1: mail So we have to wait. I'm on the edge
Speaker 1: of my seat right now. I cannot wait for the
Speaker 1: next email. Do you want to take a guess? How
Speaker 1: do you think Stu almost died? Why don't we take
Speaker 1: a guess? Here they were hiking and he almost fell
Speaker 1: down a cliff. I almost fell down a cliff. I
Speaker 1: am going to go. He ate a meal that some
Speaker 1: combination of foods that caused his innerds to react in
Speaker 1: a negative way. Or he was playing tennis at a
Speaker 1: country club on on the Cape and he overdid a
Speaker 1: little bit and then he kind of passed out, so
Speaker 1: they had to call am. I've got two answers. I'm
Speaker 1: going with one of those, right, What is his food picks? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go oodles and noodles, pizza, hot dog, you
Speaker 1: know a new hot dogs and lamb chops. Yeah right.
Speaker 1: Marcel gets so upset, like Friday, we didn't have time
Speaker 1: to do the food picks, and you can tell he
Speaker 1: gets upset. It's it's pretty amusing, like he's bummed out.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get to tell us what he had for
Speaker 1: dinner the night before when it's one of four things.
Speaker 1: Next up, Tammy and Montana back to back and belly
Speaker 1: to belly, Tammy and Helen bitter good, Fey to mambo.
Speaker 1: Exactly right, these two get together, is yeah? Tammy rights in.
Speaker 1: I have been listening to the podcast while at work
Speaker 1: and enjoying the guests stories, life lessons and emails. My
Speaker 1: question is about fan loyalty out of your top three
Speaker 1: teams you are loyal to. Which one would you quit
Speaker 1: being a fan of if your life dependent on it. Well, Tammy,
Speaker 1: if my life depended on it, I quit all. All
Speaker 1: of the teams aren't like. But but to answer your question,
Speaker 1: this one's gonna surprise a fair amount of people. I
Speaker 1: you'll be the judge of that. So my three favorite
Speaker 1: teams are the Rams, the Clippers, and the Dodgers. The
Speaker 1: one I would get rid of. You want to take
Speaker 1: a guess which one it is name, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Rams because they've flipped flop cities. That is correct, the Rams.
Speaker 1: Because I lived many years of my life without the Rams.
Speaker 1: In my life, I I liked football, I watched games.
Speaker 1: I was a gambler. We did the bid on the
Speaker 1: show where every year I had a different team that
Speaker 1: I would follow in support for that year, and I
Speaker 1: was wearing the clown makeup and all that. So I've
Speaker 1: lived the life without the Rams, and so for me,
Speaker 1: it's like, I liked the Rams that are back, and
Speaker 1: I love the fact they won the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: I got to go to the NFC Championship game and
Speaker 1: all that stuff was really cool. But I would dump
Speaker 1: the Rams in a second, like I need to see
Speaker 1: the Clippers win in my life, just one, just one championship.
Speaker 1: I've seen the Dodgers win back in the day, although
Speaker 1: it wasn't you know, the World Series I went to.
Speaker 1: They didn't win the one, the one that was played
Speaker 1: in Texas, uh, and not at Dodger Stadium. They won
Speaker 1: all the games in Texas, So that would be Now
Speaker 1: what about your Dadny, You're you're the Lakers, Dodgers, and Raiders.
Speaker 1: So those are your top three? Yeah? This is hard.
Speaker 1: I guess I would have to say baseball though, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff with MLB that I don't
Speaker 1: agree with. I don't like the commissioner, I don't like
Speaker 1: the greed of the stadium here in Los Angeles. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: How Yeah, And because of that, I guess have some
Speaker 1: sort of reason to walk away from baseball. It would
Speaker 1: be hard. I love the Dodgers a lot, but well,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers had always treated their fans so well, now
Speaker 1: they're just price gouging. I mean, I love the Dogs,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I feel like the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: like the baseball version of gasoline here in Southern California. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, they know I'm still gonna be a fan.
Speaker 1: They know I have to pay it to see them.
Speaker 1: And then Ben, they're pulling this crap where now I'm
Speaker 1: paying every month for spectrum and some of the games
Speaker 1: aren't even on the Dodgers station. Now, yeah, well that's
Speaker 1: going everywhere. That's that's the whole thing you gotta buy.
Speaker 1: Rob Manford has bent over every hardcore baseball fan. And
Speaker 1: there's no vasseline. Uh and he's just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you know what's going on there. You not only have
Speaker 1: to have your local cable, you've got to have on Fridays,
Speaker 1: it's APT on Sundays it's the pea cock yeah them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like you're supposed to be growing the sport. But
Speaker 1: it's just as you said, it's greed personified. It's it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. We don't care about the customer. And and
Speaker 1: that's the bullet excuse my French from the work stoppage,
Speaker 1: which didn't last very long. It was like both sides, well,
Speaker 1: we care about the fans. We're all about the fan. No,
Speaker 1: you're shut up, shut up, all right. I mean I
Speaker 1: like going to a game and here in the Oregon,
Speaker 1: you know, and then here we go like that's cool
Speaker 1: and all that, but ridiculous. And then and then you've
Speaker 1: got the angels, and you've got the angels treating media
Speaker 1: like pieces of crap. They are the pieces of crap
Speaker 1: for doing that. But at least they're trying to do
Speaker 1: like family night style promotions. Every ballpark in our country
Speaker 1: should be bending over backwards to help the working man
Speaker 1: and the working class families out right now. Yeah, it's like,
Speaker 1: do you really need to charge the price? Like the
Speaker 1: concession prices are so obscene. Yeah, it's bad enough we
Speaker 1: have to pay those prices at the grocery store, we
Speaker 1: have to get raped at the gas pump. If you're
Speaker 1: baseball and you really want to grow your sport, I
Speaker 1: would do what Atlanta did with their concession stands a
Speaker 1: few years ago and make those prices one of the
Speaker 1: selling points of Hey, come here, we're gonna take care
Speaker 1: of you. Yeah, or at least have a value, manu,
Speaker 1: like a legitimate like there is not everything, but some
Speaker 1: of the items are reasonably priced. It's like, why do
Speaker 1: they charge so much? Because they can write? Because they
Speaker 1: can and they know that they've got you. You're like
Speaker 1: Pavlov's dogs, that you love the team and no matter
Speaker 1: what you're trained, you are anyway. I'm getting carried away
Speaker 1: on that. It's like we're at a rave and we
Speaker 1: took some e We're really dehydrated and it's eight dollars
Speaker 1: for a bottled water. We really need that water. We're
Speaker 1: gonna pass out and die? Is it the electric Daisy Carnival?
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? That? Yeah? They got you trapped? Baby,
Speaker 1: I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: next email, else, says Dear Danny g. And Mr Maller
Speaker 1: he says, He says, so Mr Mallor has an ongoing
Speaker 1: streak of not having coffee or pork at sushi in
Speaker 1: there as well for the rest of his life, as
Speaker 1: he already already made it this far without them, like
Speaker 1: a good mench listen from our buddy in Miami, he says,
Speaker 1: do you have any similar michigas or streaks you are
Speaker 1: keeping outside of gambling since selling off your baseball cards?
Speaker 1: Who could have known? I grew up in the nineties
Speaker 1: too and had tons of rookie cards and stars and
Speaker 1: uh in the nineties, But say, lave any chance to
Speaker 1: get a comedian on the Salad Days Friday episode. What
Speaker 1: we had we had? I know you sent this before,
Speaker 1: but we did have a comedian, Sarge, a professional comedian,
Speaker 1: a lifetime comedian, was on the show on Friday. I
Speaker 1: hope you heard that and enjoyed it, and we will
Speaker 1: we have more. Is it from Neil, the real Neil
Speaker 1: in in Miami? Who sent this in? Uh? He says,
Speaker 1: I saw this at a Whole Foods as well on
Speaker 1: my way to get beer and instantly thought of you
Speaker 1: Ben and all the guests. Uh. He says here he
Speaker 1: knows from the Salad Days on Friday, and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a sixteen dollar, sixteen dollar nine cent bottle of uh
Speaker 1: of salads drink called Salad Days. That's what it is,
Speaker 1: so you can drink your Salad Days. And he then
Speaker 1: asked the real Neil in Miami says, is Bill Burr
Speaker 1: and your roll of Days seems like a good Salad
Speaker 1: Days guests? Well, sure, I'm sure Bill Burr, very hot
Speaker 1: comedian these days, would love to come on the fifth
Speaker 1: hour right no, in between filming Boba Fette. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he'll be right on it. Yeah, I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Mallard Show Yeah, let me go get a at
Speaker 1: all that salad days white wine, and then I'll I'll
Speaker 1: do a good twenty minute hit on the Mallard podcast.
Speaker 1: What could possibly go wrong? Uh? You know, I loove
Speaker 1: if in anybody listening who has a friend or somebody
Speaker 1: that you think would be good for the podcast that is,
Speaker 1: Do we have to do semi famous or at least
Speaker 1: famous to us? Yeah, put anybody on. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: willing to put listeners on. I don't care, I'll put
Speaker 1: them in here. I don't I don't want. We can
Speaker 1: do we can do a series if you want with
Speaker 1: just random p ones. We did that during COVID in
Speaker 1: and it was some of the most popular stuff that
Speaker 1: we did. But I think that might be because there
Speaker 1: was nothing else going on. Yeah maybe, yeah, but I
Speaker 1: guess I'm interested to know the backstory of some of
Speaker 1: the p ones too, So yeah, I could see how
Speaker 1: the listeners would like that. All right, next time come back,
Speaker 1: it's time from that. I'll call our friend Jennifer from
Speaker 1: Richmond and Virginia, right, Sin says a little. Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny always like when Jennifer takes time out to write,
Speaker 1: and she says, have you ever been rehashing a movie
Speaker 1: with someone fully confident in your description, only to be
Speaker 1: corrected and told that you combine two movies and gave
Speaker 1: a mash up description. She says, men, hope you're feeling
Speaker 1: better from your wisdom teeth issue. I am feeling better, Jennifer,
Speaker 1: thank you. Yes, Well, that's one of the things that's
Speaker 1: very scary about the way courts worked for so many years,
Speaker 1: where it was based on eyewitness testimony, and because what
Speaker 1: you remember and what actually happened are often two totally
Speaker 1: different things. You know, It's like it's our our memories
Speaker 1: are so flawed. Like we we we remember certain things,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of stuff we leave out. And
Speaker 1: and yeah, there's quotes that I've given from movies that
Speaker 1: I was conveyed Jennifer that I was like, I know that,
Speaker 1: and then upon further review, it was like, oh man,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's not it at all. A great example
Speaker 1: of that is feel the dreams. You know what, you
Speaker 1: know what the line is, the great line in that
Speaker 1: old baseball when you feel the dreams? Yeah, what if
Speaker 1: if you build it, he will come. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: build it, he will come. But that is that is
Speaker 1: not it, right, the actual the actual line. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: a little different. Yeah, if you build it, they will come, ye,
Speaker 1: not he will come, They will come. I guess we're
Speaker 1: waiting for his dad. So that's why we all say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's just something that said. You know, once it
Speaker 1: becomes the legend, you go with the who shot Liberty evilence?
Speaker 1: Once the legend you go with the legend and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And there's there's a bunch of movie references
Speaker 1: like that. But I'm sure that's happened to you too, right,
Speaker 1: Danny and all that. Yeah. Yeah. Just last week, I
Speaker 1: was talking about that Robert Redford classic The Natural Speaking
Speaker 1: of Baseball, and I was explaining to my tender Rowni
Speaker 1: son about that movie. He's never seen it, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you would love that movie. So I started explaining the
Speaker 1: movie a little bit my tender OROWNI was like, is
Speaker 1: that what happened? I don't remember that? And then she
Speaker 1: tried to play it off like she didn't want to
Speaker 1: watch it. She said, oh, yeah, Danny made me watch
Speaker 1: that movie. H handcuffs or something. No, And then I
Speaker 1: started reminding her parts of the movie. She's like, I
Speaker 1: don't remember that. No, that wasn't in that movie. I
Speaker 1: think I know that movie. I had it on VHS
Speaker 1: tape as a kid, and we watched that movie over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. That was in a full
Speaker 1: time rotation. She just kind of thumbs her nose out
Speaker 1: of classic, like, yeah, it's ok it's okay, it's shot
Speaker 1: think Redemption. She had never seen that. I showed her
Speaker 1: that movie and she's like it was all right. She
Speaker 1: has bad taste in some movies. Yeah, well bad damn.
Speaker 1: And also I just did the As far as the
Speaker 1: memory thing though, again like the distorted memory, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of like I've brought this up before, because all
Speaker 1: we do is audio here. We promote audio, we we
Speaker 1: sell audio, and that's what we're in when the audio business.
Speaker 1: And they've done studies that point out that in a
Speaker 1: podcast like this or a radio show, most people only
Speaker 1: remember seventeen of things they listened to spoken word, that's it.
Speaker 1: So that means all of this content, at most, at
Speaker 1: most is retained, which means you can do the math
Speaker 1: on that at seventy five right down to toilet. So
Speaker 1: could we record seventeen minutes for a podcast and then
Speaker 1: repeat the same seventeen minutes. Again. That's a great idea.
Speaker 1: That is an absolute wonderful Like it's like some sports
Speaker 1: guys on the radio doing the first hour live and
Speaker 1: then playing it over and over and over again, yes,
Speaker 1: or doing one topic and yeah, repeating the bullet points
Speaker 1: every hour the audience turns over. I don't need any
Speaker 1: new content. We're good to happy to say. They do
Speaker 1: not allow that at Fox Sports Radio. I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to be part of a show like that. Would not
Speaker 1: come back. It's Finn from now. Call Pierre from Springfield,
Speaker 1: mass home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame were Muffett,
Speaker 1: mcgraws and Shrine. Says, far be it from me to
Speaker 1: put the kabash on any fun or for volity on
Speaker 1: your daily show. But the is a butt. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of butts, but not this. But I don't
Speaker 1: like this kind. Better be a nice one. We don't
Speaker 1: like those flabby asses. Yeah, says the other day on
Speaker 1: the Mallard Feud, you're contestant. I couldn't believe that his
Speaker 1: answer to the question names something that you do when
Speaker 1: you first get up in the morning, and he said
Speaker 1: take a pee. Wasn't in the top five of the
Speaker 1: one people survey Pierces. My question is, without exposing your
Speaker 1: game show, who in the hell are the one people
Speaker 1: being surveyed besides Mrs Bella Bella, Mrs Mallar, rather, Earf Bella, Cooper,
Speaker 1: Roberto Eddie and yourself, Well, Pierre, as we like to
Speaker 1: say Danny, on this show, we don't talk about how
Speaker 1: we make the sausage. Just enjoy the sausage. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about how we make the sausage, because if you see
Speaker 1: how we make the sausage, you won't want to eat
Speaker 1: the sauce. Only when it comes to monologues and games,
Speaker 1: though everything else is fair game, Yeah, everything else is
Speaker 1: are we talked a lot of behind the scenes, but yeah,
Speaker 1: when people ask you your secret recipe to your monologues
Speaker 1: or how does this work with a game, that's where
Speaker 1: we draw the line. We're like, Nope, can't ruin it
Speaker 1: for everybody will give you some chicken shit answer, some
Speaker 1: piecemeal answer that would be that. Next up is Carlos
Speaker 1: in Houston. He says, quick comment on the guy who
Speaker 1: asked about old Ben Mallard episodes. Carlos as a life hack,
Speaker 1: he says, claims on Spotify that they have episodes going
Speaker 1: as far back as seventeen. He said they have an
Speaker 1: archive of old shows. He says, I listen to them
Speaker 1: from time to time, and I'm not gonna lie. He
Speaker 1: enjoys some of the old content, the old takes from
Speaker 1: back in the day, says ben Kin, you add Astro
Speaker 1: Mallard to your list of nicknames since you like to
Speaker 1: cheat at the game. Should I do not cheat? That
Speaker 1: is a misconception that has been thrown out erroneously by
Speaker 1: my colleagues who have tried to slander my good name.
Speaker 1: Been going on for years. Well, it's all lies. It's
Speaker 1: all lies. It's all fake news, is what it is. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Carlos says, uh, let's get a full rundown of those nicknames.
Speaker 1: It's been a while since you've done on the podcast.
Speaker 1: And he says, also, Danny, will there ever be a
Speaker 1: day that you fill in for Roberto on the show?
Speaker 1: I think I know the answer that Danny, that that
Speaker 1: will not happen. Uh, you can forget about that, right.
Speaker 1: You have to be honest with you. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how to fly the spaceship any longer. I'm back
Speaker 1: behind the pilot and I haven't done that in so
Speaker 1: many years. To be honest with you, I would crash
Speaker 1: the spaceship so I would know how to play the drops,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't know some other stuff that's been changed
Speaker 1: or updated through through the years, like the computer system
Speaker 1: and some of the methods of connecting the com rex
Speaker 1: boxes and things like that. Ben, the last time I
Speaker 1: was doing that, we were still using I SDN boxes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which I'm a fan of the I S D. I
Speaker 1: like the D but yeah, it's like that's like a
Speaker 1: hard line for people that are wondering. And as far
Speaker 1: as the nicknames, you know, Carlos, I would love to
Speaker 1: give you the nicknames. So I'm gonna give you the nicknames,
Speaker 1: is what I'm gonna I am noticed, the spin master
Speaker 1: of misinformation, the bannering broadcaster, the Beethoven of bs. You
Speaker 1: pay me five thousand dollars, I'll endorse a game magazine.
Speaker 1: How dare you, Kurmudgeon of commentary, Chasm of sarcasm, czar
Speaker 1: of zany I'm on drugs right now, man, the dark
Speaker 1: night of weeknights sports radio now dumber for having listened
Speaker 1: to it. Mode of Mischief, Betty the Brazen King of Zing, Moneyball, Mallard,
Speaker 1: Betty the Bopper, Bill Miller, Facetious Fox, Sultan of insulting.
Speaker 1: I was gonna post up and take a nap right now. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not even halfway down. The Shaman of
Speaker 1: schaden Freud, the jumping Jack of wise Track, the Insight
Speaker 1: of Overnight Medicine, Man Miller, the name Bob of negativity,
Speaker 1: this Sage of outraged, Pinnacle of senecal, Prince of preposterous,
Speaker 1: Professor of propaganda, Tzar of Hyperperly. This isn't the number
Speaker 1: one station anymore, is it? And the Mad Hatter of
Speaker 1: Sports Day. Now that Dandy is only half of the nicknames.
Speaker 1: Carlos wanted the full Monthy wanted the entire menu, and
Speaker 1: on a radio show, I can't really do that, but
Speaker 1: this is the podcast Danny, so dreams can't come true.
Speaker 1: That would take up the whole seventeen minutes of fresh content.
Speaker 1: So the rest of my fifty officially sanctioned nicknames are
Speaker 1: the Baron of Balgladesh, Big gall Bladder, Bennice, the Menace,
Speaker 1: Captain Nietsuer stop Eddie, General of the Genus, the Tycoon
Speaker 1: of Tease, Master of Disaster, the hustler of filibuster. My
Speaker 1: right hand was getting a workout. Night Light of Nightlife
Speaker 1: of Producers, Benny Brightside, Manity of Insanity, Marconi Mallard, money
Speaker 1: Line Mallard, the Emissary of embellishment, week Night, wind Bag Beach,
Speaker 1: Wizard of Wacky, Slayer of Naysayers, Grand Goober of gab,
Speaker 1: the olda Gark of Dark. That's one of my newer names,
Speaker 1: the Oldagark of Dark, Tower of babel On. Oh my,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Now, don't don't act like your board
Speaker 1: you're enjoying. Honest Adonis, nocturnal Colonel, the underdog of monologue
Speaker 1: and wait for it, I am such a radio loser,
Speaker 1: the Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope. And that is
Speaker 1: all of the nickname Holy sh it. You don't have
Speaker 1: to say holy, you say boy, that's impressive. That's a
Speaker 1: lifetime of people giving you great nickti is what that is?
Speaker 1: All right now? Out of time because of that, we've
Speaker 1: used all the a lot of time on the podcast.
Speaker 1: And let good job. Who was responsible for that. That's
Speaker 1: Carlos in the Den of inequity for sports anyway in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1: Are you owe me some barbecued ribs, Buddy John and
Speaker 1: San Francisco is very upset. He says, all these commercials,
Speaker 1: very little content. He's talking about the radio shows, and
Speaker 1: no one listens to the last fifteen minutes of any
Speaker 1: hour anymore. I used to love this show. It's just
Speaker 1: unbearably the hours commercials. That's from John. Well, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be as bad if you weren't been Andy Reid, Clock
Speaker 1: Management Mallard. If that should be a new nickname for No, No,
Speaker 1: Nothing to do Now. They have added some more commercials,
Speaker 1: but there is a It's like it's like making a
Speaker 1: cake and you have to have all the ingredients. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be like there's that sweet spot where it's the
Speaker 1: right mix of everything. And sometimes we do get a
Speaker 1: little carried away John where it becomes problematic and I
Speaker 1: feel your pain. I would recommend the podcast We're we're
Speaker 1: not supposed to say this, but you can fast forward? Wow,
Speaker 1: now that you should do that, because that's taboo, right
Speaker 1: then he should not do that. No, we need you
Speaker 1: to support the sponsors that support us. I'll make a
Speaker 1: deal with you though, if you want to fast forward
Speaker 1: to the podcast, I will send you a list of
Speaker 1: the sponsors. You can support the sponsors, and then you're
Speaker 1: free to just fast forward through the podcast. Hey that's
Speaker 1: a good idea, right, and then they get what they want,
Speaker 1: you get what you want. We're all everyone's happy. The
Speaker 1: list of the sponsors with a link that would be
Speaker 1: good a link, just click on it. But so I
Speaker 1: do thank you, and John, I feel your pain. It
Speaker 1: sounds like you're tremendously hurt by this, which means a lot.
Speaker 1: I'd rather you be upset. There's too many commercials than
Speaker 1: have apathy. I don't want apathy. Uh to me. That
Speaker 1: tells me you're a fan, John, you like the show,
Speaker 1: and you want to see a change, you want to
Speaker 1: see transformation. And um, I'm somewhere in the middle on
Speaker 1: this because I do agree with your point that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be as a perfect amount and and I don't
Speaker 1: know what that that barometer is, where where that baseline is.
Speaker 1: But as we've talked about, Danny, when you do a
Speaker 1: radio show and there's not a lot of commercials, you
Speaker 1: got crickets, that's all we got, you start to get
Speaker 1: a little worried. At least you're not doing a live
Speaker 1: read every two minutes, because you listen to, like politics
Speaker 1: on the radio or talk talk radio. There is live
Speaker 1: commercial after live read after, live read after live read. Well,
Speaker 1: we do do a lot of live reay, surprising a
Speaker 1: surprising number, Lady. We've been doing a lot of live reads,
Speaker 1: but I hear not as much as the daytime political
Speaker 1: talk radio people. We don't do that. Well, we'll keep
Speaker 1: it going. Hang in there, John, hanging there, buddy, stay
Speaker 1: with us. We're gonna figure this out. I got mail, yea,
Speaker 1: I got mail, yea. Kevin in Kansas writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: Dear Benn and Danny, g it's summertime and the living
Speaker 1: is easy. You have the entire weekend free, including not
Speaker 1: having to go into work to do any radio show
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Are you more likely to take it easy
Speaker 1: around the house or would you prefer to go away?
Speaker 1: I feel like we've been asked a version of this question,
Speaker 1: and uh oh wait, right then, you've talked about that
Speaker 1: you like to go on weekend trips and that ye
Speaker 1: hell yeah, and I mentioned it before. I can slap
Speaker 1: my girls ass super hard. There's no complaints. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no complaints at home either, but there are kids
Speaker 1: in the house, so you gotta be careful a little
Speaker 1: bit about what you're doing. Her little rat dog barks
Speaker 1: at me when I slap her too hard. Offensive yea,
Speaker 1: she thinks I'm hurting her. But when when? But when
Speaker 1: we're away, Ben, it's hotel sex. And you know the
Speaker 1: difference between hotel sex and kids at the house sex.
Speaker 1: You can let it all hang down, all hang here
Speaker 1: you go, look at you at the room service, the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Yeah, I think at that. Uh well, I
Speaker 1: I like a little bit about We love doing weekend
Speaker 1: day trips and stuff. And I mentioned like the last
Speaker 1: couple of months it's been all about the beach. Like
Speaker 1: I I never used to go to the beach that much,
Speaker 1: but now where I'm in the north Woods, it's not
Speaker 1: that far away, so I've been going to the beach
Speaker 1: a lot. I love it. It's been great. It's like
Speaker 1: therapeutic to get my mind off the the rat race.
Speaker 1: It's also good because that particular beach that the WiFi
Speaker 1: doesn't the internet on my phone doesn't really work, so
Speaker 1: I have to like really shut it down, like I
Speaker 1: have no connection to the outside world there. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But I like these little day trips around the area
Speaker 1: in California here, so we do a lot of that.
Speaker 1: But if you're in Kansas, like Kevin, you know a
Speaker 1: lot more, have many more options you're geographically it's not
Speaker 1: that far to drive to multiple different states to leave California.
Speaker 1: When you're near the Pacific. It's a long haul to
Speaker 1: get the Arizona or Nevada just to get to the
Speaker 1: state line. It's a long Yeah. Alright, next up on
Speaker 1: this Ni meny mony mo. Let's see who is next.
Speaker 1: We don't need to play the SoundBite. Tony in Seattle
Speaker 1: writes in he says a favorite sitcom and why he says,
Speaker 1: keep up the good work. Well, thank you, Tony, as
Speaker 1: you are hanging out in a city. We had a
Speaker 1: Mallard meet and greet, the second to the last one.
Speaker 1: We did Appleton, Wisconsin this year, but we did Seattle
Speaker 1: back at the end of twenty nineteen before Armageddon. Uh so,
Speaker 1: I gotta go old school with the sitcoms. Well before
Speaker 1: I do old school does curb your enthusiasm? That's not
Speaker 1: really a sitcom, right, Yeah, it's not a sitcom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no laugh track. I love Curby in my favorite
Speaker 1: scripted or loosely scripted show old school. I watched the classics.
Speaker 1: It depends on how old you want to go. I
Speaker 1: love The Office. I think The Office is great, but
Speaker 1: that's an old show. All the shows I like, all
Speaker 1: the sitcoms are old, like Cheers Seinfeld. I was not
Speaker 1: a huge I didn't watch every sign Feld episode, but
Speaker 1: I sporadically watched a sign of Frasier. Uh, like, these
Speaker 1: are all old shows w k RP and were kids
Speaker 1: watching reruns? Yes, that we can blame that show for
Speaker 1: our careers. Also reruns of the show Chairs. Yeah, Cheers,
Speaker 1: Cheers is great? Yeah, of that, let's see. I like, um,
Speaker 1: everybody loves Raymond and also King of Queens. Sure, sure
Speaker 1: those are classics. Who doesn't love the Golden Girls, Rob Parker?
Speaker 1: I know that he's over there. I'm kidding that is
Speaker 1: Rob Parker's and uh and as a kid, I really
Speaker 1: love The Fresh Prince of bel Air. Yeah, yeah for sure. Uh,
Speaker 1: what are is the most popular show today? What's the
Speaker 1: most popular sitcom today? I don't know. I don't watch
Speaker 1: network TV. Yeah I don't either, I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Me and the Tender RONI we watched stuff like Ninety
Speaker 1: Day Fiance, I watched Better Call Saul stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Network TV. Well over here, my wife watches
Speaker 1: like the French baking shows and all the foreign shows.
Speaker 1: She loves foreign movies, and she likes movies where it's
Speaker 1: in a you know, a different language and they've got
Speaker 1: the words on the screen. And I hate that crap.
Speaker 1: But I watched a lot of documentaries. I'm pretty boring,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up balls fan Jimmy from Big Orange Country.
Speaker 1: He writes into the podcast. He says, the word is
Speaker 1: that Tiger Woods turned down a billion dollars to play
Speaker 1: in the Live Golf League. So when you were Danny
Speaker 1: g turned down a billion dollars to do another job.
Speaker 1: Let me think about that. If it was blood money, right,
Speaker 1: you put up what they're getting at You can rationalize anything.
Speaker 1: Everyone's got their price. And I'm gonna go I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be a phony and said I wouldn't do it. Uh,
Speaker 1: I would do it. But the goodness is based on
Speaker 1: my upbringing. I'm pretty sure the Saudies an't gonna throw
Speaker 1: any money, so I don't worried about that. I think
Speaker 1: I'm on the wrong tribe for them to send me
Speaker 1: any money. But I uh, yeah, I would. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: billion dollars, Come on, billion dollars, that's life changing money
Speaker 1: for It's not a good comparison though, because Tiger Woods
Speaker 1: is already filthy rich, whereas you know, we don't have
Speaker 1: anything near a billion dollars. So but they're taking these guys,
Speaker 1: the Saudis are taking these guys that had twenty million,
Speaker 1: which a lot of money, and they're giving them a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty million. But how much is enough? I mean,
Speaker 1: how much? I'm sorry. If I had twenty million dollars,
Speaker 1: then no, I would not sell my soul. I wouldn't. Well.
Speaker 1: The other argument I've heard is that all of these
Speaker 1: guys are around more something, around the same age, they're
Speaker 1: from the same generation of golf, and so they don't
Speaker 1: want to be the one left behind all of their
Speaker 1: It's like, imagine, if you will, a world where all
Speaker 1: of your buddies, all of your friends are no longer there.
Speaker 1: It's all different, and you're the last one left. But
Speaker 1: they're over there doing their thing in a different place,
Speaker 1: and you could be part of it, but you stayed behind,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We had a really good
Speaker 1: debate about this on the Covino and Rich Show last weekend.
Speaker 1: I told them, if you guys had a C in
Speaker 1: our shoe and it was being made in a sweatshop
Speaker 1: by kids, would you be okay making the profits off
Speaker 1: of that? I just feel like, you know, everybody wants money,
Speaker 1: and it's so it's everything is so greed driven money, money, money, money,
Speaker 1: But in the end, what is it? My mom always
Speaker 1: taught me and my siblings, it's paper with m's on it. Now,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I would love to make a
Speaker 1: ton of money, but at what cost? Where do your
Speaker 1: morals lie? If you have any? Well, everyone has morals,
Speaker 1: but everyone, as I've said, everyone has a price. Like
Speaker 1: you say, you wouldn't do this, that and the other thing,
Speaker 1: but there is a dollar amount and you are true.
Speaker 1: As I've gotten older, when I was younger, I always thought, well,
Speaker 1: it's all about getting money and stuff. And as I've
Speaker 1: seen my parents die and friends of mine die and
Speaker 1: all that, it's like I've been at so many funerals
Speaker 1: over the years and like, well, all these people work
Speaker 1: their lives to get all this money and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: And my mom busted her ash you had her own business.
Speaker 1: And then at the end, you leave it all behind,
Speaker 1: so you don't take it with you. You know, whatever
Speaker 1: you got you're leaving. You come into the world with
Speaker 1: what you had, and yeah, everything else is just you
Speaker 1: leave it behind. What's the old saying you can't pack
Speaker 1: that ship into a hearse? Yeah, well not anyone, but
Speaker 1: they used to it, like and that's the funny thing, Like,
Speaker 1: that's why all this two right in the Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess if you're Egyptian, right, I'm bringing all my golden
Speaker 1: riches with me, bitches. Just think all those poor pharaohs
Speaker 1: in Egypt too, though. I'm gonna leave all my richest
Speaker 1: right here and I'll be good. I'll come back. And
Speaker 1: then a bunch of m came in there and then
Speaker 1: tore the whole thing up. Man oh man uh. A
Speaker 1: couple more real quick Berry in Music City, he writes,
Speaker 1: And he says, Benny, after your trip out east where
Speaker 1: you experience Zaxby's bow Jangles, And he says, Culvers, what's
Speaker 1: your ranking of all the fast food joints? Now and
Speaker 1: Nashville will have a raising Keynes in December. Will enjoy
Speaker 1: raising Keynes in December. There'll be a long line Berry
Speaker 1: Kney at combo, no colest Law, extra fries, toast. You
Speaker 1: can get it regular or on both sides. They'll cook
Speaker 1: it on both sides. For that's my My order would lemonade,
Speaker 1: light ice, lemonade on light eyes, so Culvers. Of those two,
Speaker 1: I bo Jangles better than Zaxby's. That was a surprise.
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna like zax because I've read
Speaker 1: so much about Zaxby Zachs actors. But I like bo
Speaker 1: Jangles better and Culver's. I think Culver's is better than
Speaker 1: bo Jangles. So of those three, Barry, I would have Culver's,
Speaker 1: which is a local chain in Wisconsin and Illinois and
Speaker 1: that part of the country. I would have Culver's ahead
Speaker 1: of bo Jangles, and then Zaxby's would be third. I
Speaker 1: love the cheese curds at Culver's. That a lot of
Speaker 1: different things on the Maybe it's like the in and
Speaker 1: out Burger of Wisconsin, so it's it's really good. I
Speaker 1: was looking up online Culver's and I was like, maybe
Speaker 1: they put one out closer where I am. You know,
Speaker 1: I think the closest one is in Arizona. I don't
Speaker 1: like it enough to go to Arizona. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: but we may be there for the super Bowl though. Well,
Speaker 1: that's true. We are planning on going for the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and next year that's gonna be fun. I can't
Speaker 1: wait for that little roady yass. Mike from Fullerton Rights
Speaker 1: and he says, Ben, was there any blowback when you
Speaker 1: exposed Blake Griffin from winning the NBA slam Dunk Contest
Speaker 1: or anyone that was slam dun contests in twenty even, Well,
Speaker 1: that's a good story, Mike. I haven't thought about that
Speaker 1: in a long time. I can't believe it's been eleven years.
Speaker 1: And uh and he says, for Danny g can you
Speaker 1: slam dunk? Yeah? When I was a teenager, me and
Speaker 1: my older brother could get up and touch the rim
Speaker 1: because we had enough hops when we were teens. But yeah,
Speaker 1: as an adult, hell no, I can't get off the
Speaker 1: ground like that anymore. You need some flubber, that's what
Speaker 1: you need. You get that flubber. That's an outdated reference
Speaker 1: to flubber. That's an old movie. But Mike, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin thing was interesting because the slam Dunk contest
Speaker 1: was at Staples Center. Blake was he was a rookie
Speaker 1: but he had missed his first year with injury, and
Speaker 1: he was a big deal. He was like the breakout
Speaker 1: star in the NBA. The marketing arm of the NBA
Speaker 1: wanted Blake Griffin to be this big deal and so
Speaker 1: it was a slam Dunk contest. It was in l
Speaker 1: A at Staples Center. Were just now the crypto we're
Speaker 1: losing our ass arena or whatever it's called, and so uh.
Speaker 1: The NBA had sent out a press release before the
Speaker 1: Slam Dunk Contest was concluded, and it's actually before it,
Speaker 1: actually I remember it was before it, and it said
Speaker 1: congratulations to Blake Griffin on winning the Kia Slam Dunk concin.
Speaker 1: Blake was also a brand ambassador for Kia. Whoops, that's
Speaker 1: how Wait a minute, And that was the one. If
Speaker 1: I remember, JaVale McGhee had an amazing dunk where he
Speaker 1: had like multiple basketballs. It was like an octopus kind
Speaker 1: of dunk. That should have been the one that won it,
Speaker 1: but they gave to Blake Griffin. It was all about angles,
Speaker 1: like girls holding their phone up above their head. That's right,
Speaker 1: because he didn't really jump over a car, that's true.
Speaker 1: He did not. You're right, Yeah, it's over the front
Speaker 1: of the hood. Yeah. If the car had been parked
Speaker 1: in the land in the painted area facing yeah, jump
Speaker 1: the length of the car, Now that's something. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: would have landed on the hood. That would have been
Speaker 1: great TV. Yeah, so that's a that's good. As far
Speaker 1: as blowback, I mean, there were some people saying, you know,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? And the NBA people tried
Speaker 1: to spin it. The PR people for the NBA, as
Speaker 1: I recall, they were like, well, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: it was just a test email. I'm like, bull crap.
Speaker 1: Do you think Jordan and his heyday, do you think
Speaker 1: he could have cleared a car like for real as
Speaker 1: a car? Yeah? But I just him. I think there
Speaker 1: are a bunch of like Dominique Wilkins was an epic
Speaker 1: dunker in his day. I think he could have done it.
Speaker 1: Dr j Julius Irving and there's probably a bunch of
Speaker 1: other guys right now they could do it. We gotta
Speaker 1: get out of here, Danny, it's Sunday. You are working
Speaker 1: your behind off, You're the science guy. Anything to promote here, anything.
Speaker 1: I'm back on my regular FSR schedule for Sunday. So
Speaker 1: Covino and Rich at five pm Sific time, and then
Speaker 1: the lead in show to you, which is Chris plankin
Speaker 1: Arnie Spaniard and of course your first show of the week.
Speaker 1: I'll be listening to that as I drive home to
Speaker 1: lesson plan for Monday. All right, we will be back
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