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 a male
Speaker 1: bag addition to the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
Speaker 1: Danny G Radio, because five nights a week not enough,
Speaker 1: four hours a night not enough. Bonus coverage eight days
Speaker 1: a week, and if my math is correct Annie, for me,
Speaker 1: this would be the eighth day of the week, Sunday,
Speaker 1: but two shows on Friday. I think it's not trigonometry.
Speaker 1: I think the math on that works out well. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we've got the mailbag and I am raring to go.
Speaker 1: Are you prepared to go into the mailbag? Danny G?
Speaker 1: I am ready. And it's gonna be an extended Mallard
Speaker 1: week for me because I'm gonna be in for coup
Speaker 1: on Monday night and Tuesday night on your live show,
Speaker 1: The Microphone Throttler. We're going old school, and I might
Speaker 1: even make a rare and appropriate, mandated by the company
Speaker 1: appearance in studio one of those nights, I will I
Speaker 1: will likely stop by and we will hang out, and
Speaker 1: that'll be wonderful, wonderful one full circle. I'll bring Bubbo
Speaker 1: in with me, Bobo on the radio, my man, Bobbo.
Speaker 1: I don't talk to Bobbo. Is he in on Sunday Nights? Idea?
Speaker 1: He used to say hello to me, Miller. We should
Speaker 1: get Bobbo on the Fifth Hour podcast. So we get
Speaker 1: him on here for sure? Absolutely, all right, here we go,
Speaker 1: strike up the band, let's start this thing off right
Speaker 1: here we go. Do you ever get the feeling you're
Speaker 1: living in groundhog Day that your life just repeats By
Speaker 1: the time we get to the podcast, I've got tons
Speaker 1: of mail, so I I panic. I prematurely think, oh crap,
Speaker 1: no one's sending questions and we're not going to do
Speaker 1: the mail bag. And then inevitably it always seems to
Speaker 1: work out one way or another. Yeah, it's like a
Speaker 1: lot of shots get thrown up in the third and
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Yeah, yeah, you fall behind early, like this
Speaker 1: is just sucks. You know what's going on here? Nothing's
Speaker 1: really working out for us, and then before you know it,
Speaker 1: you're having a great time, so it works out. I
Speaker 1: got mail, Yeah, I got mail, Yeah, yes you do.
Speaker 1: First one comes from Pierre from Springfield, Mass And again
Speaker 1: you can post your question on Tuesday on the Facebook
Speaker 1: page Ben Mallow Show or Real Fifth Hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. Pierre from Springfield, Mass to choose at home
Speaker 1: with the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame and also alf
Speaker 1: the aen O. Piner says, with the popularity and success
Speaker 1: of your newest game show, are there any other any
Speaker 1: others bouncing around that melon of yours? Also, like you say,
Speaker 1: football is the gas that fuels the show? Is anyone
Speaker 1: efforting the next season of Benny Versus the Penny on
Speaker 1: some type of live stream platform sans the elitist? So
Speaker 1: we have nothing concrete on Benny Versus the Penny. We
Speaker 1: have big dreams of monetizing Benny Versus the Penny, making
Speaker 1: that a big deal. I think it's a great concept.
Speaker 1: We've been doing it for a long time and there's
Speaker 1: a there's a market for that. But somebody asked to bite,
Speaker 1: and we've been in talks with a number of people,
Speaker 1: and those kind of deals do get done now, Pierre.
Speaker 1: Even though football season is not until September, this is
Speaker 1: the time of the year where those kind of things
Speaker 1: get negotiated. So what would Marcel say, keep your fingers crossed.
Speaker 1: I think you would. I would think you would say
Speaker 1: something like that. And as far as game show ideas,
Speaker 1: I always have game show ideas. The problem is most
Speaker 1: of them suck. We finally found one that's good. We've
Speaker 1: been playing Danny the Mallard Militia Feud is our newest game,
Speaker 1: and people seem to really like it. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: a fun game. People enjoy it. It's not really a
Speaker 1: sports game, but it's just about life and things that everyone.
Speaker 1: We're all we all live a similar life one way
Speaker 1: or another. So yeah, And as far as Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny, it's kind of like when NBA teams finally
Speaker 1: put that logo on their jersey sponsored I cannot wait
Speaker 1: for Benny Versus the Penny brought to you by co Tex. Yes. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: if this is the checks big enough, as we learned
Speaker 1: with Dustin Johnson this week going to play golf for
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, that if the check's big enough, it'll happen.
Speaker 1: All right, You've got mail Nick in Wisconsin rights and
Speaker 1: he says, with recently being off the last month of work,
Speaker 1: I've been podcasting the entire a show sometimes, Nick writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, it overlaps with my family time. My
Speaker 1: wife gets piste oh at me for listing. What do
Speaker 1: you do unintentionally that pisces off your wife or in
Speaker 1: Danny G's cases, Queen Tenderoni. Yeah, so for me it's easy.
Speaker 1: I'm very stressed out all the time, thinking I'm forgetting
Speaker 1: something and worried about making the show as good as
Speaker 1: I can. So I often I'm not proud of it.
Speaker 1: I'm a finger biter. I bite my nails and uh my,
Speaker 1: my wife gets so untoid when I do that. She
Speaker 1: can't stand it. And I do it. I don't even
Speaker 1: realize I'm doing it half the time, but that really
Speaker 1: bothers And and she has miss a phony, who so
Speaker 1: that's a problem. Chewing food becomes a problem when you
Speaker 1: have miss a phony. It's a mental illness. And so
Speaker 1: those are the things that really annoy when I eat,
Speaker 1: and which I think you have to do to live.
Speaker 1: And then when I bite my finger nails because I'm
Speaker 1: stressed out because I'm trying to think of some other
Speaker 1: monologue ideas and I don't have any. What about you, Danny?
Speaker 1: What really annoys the good number one in arone in
Speaker 1: your life? Absolutely nothing? Man, I'm perfect in her eyes?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Really? You don't ever? You don't do
Speaker 1: that at all. I don't do that in front of it. Um.
Speaker 1: I will say, she's slightly O. C. D Ish, so
Speaker 1: she likes things in their perfect places, and so if
Speaker 1: you move something and you don't put it back right away,
Speaker 1: it annoys her. There's times where I and I know this,
Speaker 1: so I'm really good at putting things back, but there's
Speaker 1: times where I won't put something back immediately, and when
Speaker 1: I come back to do it, she's already done it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that that's about it. Though I don't think I
Speaker 1: get on our nerves other than some of the O.
Speaker 1: C d issues she's done. Are you still in the honeymoon?
Speaker 1: Do you't even married yet? Are the state we've been
Speaker 1: in the honeymoon? Stay all right? You live with somebody,
Speaker 1: It's just natural. There's gonna be certain things that they
Speaker 1: do that just kind of get under your skin. But
Speaker 1: that's the key. To, you know, long healthy relationship you got.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I slap her ass too hard and she's like, well,
Speaker 1: it's a barbro. That's what we came here. So it's
Speaker 1: gotta get your money's worth with that hotel. Come on,
Speaker 1: all right, let's see Michael from SoCal Rights. He said
Speaker 1: during the NFL off season, wire sportswriter is compelled to
Speaker 1: do mock drafts and mock fifty three man rosters and
Speaker 1: mock rookies and who may become standouts when all these
Speaker 1: mocks are wrong of the time, I'd rather they post
Speaker 1: cat photos. Mos are a complete waste of time. I'm
Speaker 1: right there with you, Michael. You're preaching to choir. And
Speaker 1: the reason they do that stuff is a they are
Speaker 1: told to do that stuff by people who make decisions
Speaker 1: in the editorial department and then be for some reason,
Speaker 1: they get a lot of clicks. Otherwise they wouldn't do it,
Speaker 1: So somebody must be loving that content. I always get
Speaker 1: a kick out of the power rankings that come out
Speaker 1: during the NFL season, and that's during the season. It's
Speaker 1: just I think one dude's opinion on where the teams
Speaker 1: are in the NFL, and people get so upset if
Speaker 1: their team is not high enough in the power rankings.
Speaker 1: Like I've always kind of goofed on you know, Danny
Speaker 1: have goofed on list radio, but the list, And I
Speaker 1: had had a friend tell me years ago, said, the
Speaker 1: list is amazing. People human nature get upset by a
Speaker 1: list of arbitrary list of things. If it's not in
Speaker 1: the right order. They oh, my god, craziness, Dan, especially
Speaker 1: if they feel like something has been left off of
Speaker 1: the list. How could you overlook that? Oh? Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's the secret, right if you if you need the
Speaker 1: answer to something, give the wrong answer and then people
Speaker 1: will give you the right. That's the old internet legend.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and I will push back slightly on the
Speaker 1: mock draft lists. And the reason why is because my
Speaker 1: favorite NFL team would be so high up in the
Speaker 1: draft most seasons that it was all I had to
Speaker 1: look forward to. Really, I would click and be like,
Speaker 1: who are we going to draft to bring us back
Speaker 1: to greatness? And now the Raiders are following in your
Speaker 1: rams foot steps. F them picks. F them picks. Absolute.
Speaker 1: See when you f them picks, you get the daily double.
Speaker 1: That's the sound for the day. You get the daily double.
Speaker 1: On that and the thing about the draft too, is
Speaker 1: the only thing I really value is the scouting reports.
Speaker 1: But I even laugh at that. They do strength and weaknesses,
Speaker 1: and I get sent a lot of these things links
Speaker 1: to different websites that are supposedly they want me to
Speaker 1: promote their website and all that, and some of that's
Speaker 1: good information. And I do this bit every year where
Speaker 1: I go back five years and I look at an
Speaker 1: old NFL draft three or five years and mock all
Speaker 1: the wrong predictions, which inevitably it's shooting fish in a
Speaker 1: barrel is what that is. Let's see what is next toime.
Speaker 1: I got mail? Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, skipped a
Speaker 1: zip the old Roastmaster General known as Skippy in Ohio,
Speaker 1: It says been I ever received several invites from the
Speaker 1: proud parents of a graduating high school senior to their
Speaker 1: child's graduation party. The most recent was a massive group text.
Speaker 1: The problem is I don't know the parents, I don't
Speaker 1: know the child, and it would appear I don't even
Speaker 1: know anyone else in the group text. If it were you,
Speaker 1: what would you do, he says, A ignore the invites,
Speaker 1: be respond to the group text with I don't know
Speaker 1: who you are but congratulations see send a card with
Speaker 1: an inspirational quote or d send a car everybody long,
Speaker 1: obnoxious but heartfelt Valeve Korean speech type letter thing, he says,
Speaker 1: quoting Walt Disney Tesla Ronald Reagan telling the child, we
Speaker 1: are all so proud of them, and it has been
Speaker 1: such a joy to watch them grow up, etcetera, etcetera,
Speaker 1: and let them figure it out on their own later. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a very detailed response, skipped the zip. So I'm
Speaker 1: an a guy. I love I love d The d
Speaker 1: answer was great, But I'm an a guy. That sounds
Speaker 1: like some spam to me. Well that sounds like that's
Speaker 1: a that's a fishing expedition to me. But what about you, Danny?
Speaker 1: And I was gonna say, how are you in a
Speaker 1: group chat with people you don't know? Now? Is Skip
Speaker 1: a teacher? Is it possible that he's followed in your footsteps? Danny?
Speaker 1: And he's doing education, so maybe that's why he's taking
Speaker 1: this a little more seriously than somebody like me who's
Speaker 1: not a teacher. And somebody sent me a text like that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, if you I'm not responding, go away. We
Speaker 1: need skipped a zip. We need more context or skippy,
Speaker 1: you've got mail Orlando in Hampton Roads, Virginia. I was
Speaker 1: just in Hampton Roads, Virginia, a beautiful part of the country.
Speaker 1: That was it was cool, says I have a couple.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it hasn't been asked already. When you look back
Speaker 1: at the time you and your wife dated, was there
Speaker 1: any pickup lines or anything you did to impress her
Speaker 1: that you you'd like to have back? He says. Also,
Speaker 1: have you and the guys considered password or mountain of
Speaker 1: money when you and Eddie are the contestants, maybe have
Speaker 1: blind Scott to mar seller, somebody be your partner. I
Speaker 1: love the show that's from Orlando. He says. He's been
Speaker 1: listening since the Tim Tebow Radio roast when the great
Speaker 1: bits we've ever done hilarious? The Tim Tebow Radio Roast
Speaker 1: Man was that fun and that was actually skipped a
Speaker 1: zip was part of that, the roastmaster General some of
Speaker 1: those shows back in the day. But Orlando, and to
Speaker 1: answer for this question, I was terrible. I still am
Speaker 1: terrible with relationship dating. You know women, obviously somehow you
Speaker 1: can miss my wife to marry me. But I had
Speaker 1: no pickup couch and I never told anyone I really
Speaker 1: worked in radio, because then they think I had more
Speaker 1: money than I did, and then didn't think I'm more
Speaker 1: famous than I am, and so I always kind of
Speaker 1: avoided that. So I didn't really have any any good
Speaker 1: pickup ones. I wish I did. I wish I had
Speaker 1: some corny ones I could share with you. I don't.
Speaker 1: And the idea of password and Mallard's mount of money
Speaker 1: being played with blind Scott and Marcel feedings clues is
Speaker 1: the fuel of nightmares. Uh. And we've had Marcel and
Speaker 1: our friend from Maine, Blair whoopee pie Blair play and
Speaker 1: it's been interesting. But if they're the ones giving the clues,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Been one of the great show game
Speaker 1: show moments. And I included this in the best of
Speaker 1: was when Flexus was on password and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: Flexus is never gonna get this, throw me a good one.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, so this is perfect number number nine that
Speaker 1: proves its prouves you jackass. Okay, this proves and all
Speaker 1: of this is just Tom is just alright, relax, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to I'm trying to if I get it, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: all right, here we go I'll go, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: get what I wanna the angle i'd like to go.
Speaker 1: I will go. I'll just throw this up fruit banana.
Speaker 1: You got it right? Oh, stop laughing, alright, banana. And
Speaker 1: indeed it was banana the show. I mean there was
Speaker 1: five minutes of laughter that ensued. It was great. And
Speaker 1: to hear Flexus like truly laughing to where Flexus couldn't
Speaker 1: get the words out, it was like, but I got
Speaker 1: it right, But that was right, A little classic moment, man,
Speaker 1: it was I I do remember that night. We've had
Speaker 1: some zany stuff on those those game shows. All right,
Speaker 1: who is next? We'll keep it going. A lot of
Speaker 1: mail this week, which is good. We like that, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up is Fred from Spring, Texas. Fred is a
Speaker 1: regular in the mail bag. He says, hey, guys, when
Speaker 1: you have people over to visit, do you just talk
Speaker 1: or do you play games or charades? It's an interesting question.
Speaker 1: So usually it's around food. I've noticed the same way
Speaker 1: when I grew up. Usually it's like, let's have a meal,
Speaker 1: or let's have dessert, or let's have snacks or something
Speaker 1: like that. It's very rarely just come over and not
Speaker 1: eat anything. I don't remember the last time we've had
Speaker 1: company over that didn't involve food. So it's always food,
Speaker 1: no charades. I like the idea of playing games, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen very often. What about you did my
Speaker 1: TINDERNI puts together a really nice charcovery board. Oh the cheeseboard, right,
Speaker 1: cheese and meats. We have the meats. Where are the meats?
Speaker 1: Some good hummus, some salami, some cheeses, things like that,
Speaker 1: And that gets the party started before you start hitting
Speaker 1: the alcohol. So that's like the pregame show. That's the
Speaker 1: warm up act. I got you all right, Well, thank
Speaker 1: you for that. Comes out on stage and start stancing. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you've got mail Chris and Marracca to Iowa, says, I
Speaker 1: understand radio stations make money by selling ads, but I'd
Speaker 1: like to know how much does it cost to place
Speaker 1: an ad? I know prime time costs more, but what
Speaker 1: kind of range are we talking about here? A hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a minute? And don't give me that that's not
Speaker 1: my job. Line. Surely you've talked to an ad guy.
Speaker 1: Your name is Ben not surely? Yes? Yes, so so
Speaker 1: I will answer this now. I do not actually know
Speaker 1: how much. I know a ballpark figure of how much
Speaker 1: the commercials go for. But I had some people over
Speaker 1: the years that have contacted me from mom and pop
Speaker 1: businesses trying to get advertising on this pod guest or
Speaker 1: the radio show, and I said, sure, why not. And
Speaker 1: then when they saw and they found out how much
Speaker 1: it cost, it was sticker shock. I couldn't afford us
Speaker 1: out of the budget we're talking. I think the minimum
Speaker 1: buying is six figures. That's a lot of doll It's
Speaker 1: a lot of Yeah, it's up there. There are smaller
Speaker 1: packages than that. Because I dealt with this recently, um
Speaker 1: I I was kind of like to go between for
Speaker 1: a company and our ad department. Um. But yeah, they
Speaker 1: tailor a package for you, and it is pricey because
Speaker 1: it's national, so you're not just heard in one city,
Speaker 1: You're heard all over the world, and thus the price tag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's different as you said, there's different, Grady, you
Speaker 1: do live live reads costs more. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: pay a talent fee. Apparently not for me, but sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to do that kind of stuff. And and
Speaker 1: so there's really depends what you want. But it's trust me, Chris,
Speaker 1: I I wish it was affordable for everybody to buy advertising,
Speaker 1: but you know, we are a national outfit. And it's
Speaker 1: like I was watching that documentary about the TV station
Speaker 1: in Perempt, Nevada, and it's like a cable channel and
Speaker 1: the guy started selling spots. It was on HBO documentary
Speaker 1: type thing. They were selling spots for like five dollars
Speaker 1: a spot just to get advertisers in. And it was like, man,
Speaker 1: that's wild, and it is like a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: It's like a couple of years ago. Anyway, what if
Speaker 1: we did that weed man hippie would have a series
Speaker 1: of commercials, God don't don't remind me please? And he says,
Speaker 1: ps go raiders who from Chris It's time? From that
Speaker 1: call all right treas rights And he says, if you
Speaker 1: had to lose one or the other, would you lose
Speaker 1: one hand or one fot you get a call or
Speaker 1: a peg leg through a place. It's actually an interesting question.
Speaker 1: And as much as I love movement and walking, I
Speaker 1: would think it would be a bigger pain in the
Speaker 1: ass without the hand. But we we have a mutual
Speaker 1: friend that used to work at Fox Sports Radio, the
Speaker 1: one Arm bandit and uh and from Syracuse who had
Speaker 1: He's his entire life, he has not had the hand.
Speaker 1: He was born without it, and he's now an extra
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. I saw he left. I did not realize
Speaker 1: he had left the company. Actually emailed him. His name
Speaker 1: is Nick. I emailed him and said, what's going on
Speaker 1: in your Hollywood? And yeah, he he left to do acting,
Speaker 1: which I don't know how good that's going. That's that's
Speaker 1: for him to tell and all that stuff. But I
Speaker 1: guess he did think it might have been more lucrative
Speaker 1: than he turned out to turn out to be. He
Speaker 1: recently Freeze framed a show that he was in the
Speaker 1: back ground of. Yeah, catch me up the mark. Well,
Speaker 1: you can get extra work, but the problem is it
Speaker 1: a doesn't pay a lot and and be it takes
Speaker 1: a long time to do, like one scene. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a lot of hours that you're spending sitting around
Speaker 1: doing nothing. That's the one thing a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't realize about that sort of work. Downtime. The downtime
Speaker 1: kills most people's vibe. They are like, I had no
Speaker 1: idea I was gonna sit on this set hungry and
Speaker 1: thirsty for ten hours. Oh for sure, for sure, But
Speaker 1: to answer your question, tres A, I like this question
Speaker 1: is a unique question. I would pick if I had
Speaker 1: to lose one I could choose. I would lose a foot.
Speaker 1: I would have a peg leg like a pirate, and
Speaker 1: I'd get Yeah. And I just did a two dollar
Speaker 1: drum roll for you. I couldn't do that with one hand.
Speaker 1: My right hand was getting a workout. See that's right.
Speaker 1: What would you so you would you would choose the hands,
Speaker 1: right you, You'd pick the hands and then lose the foot.
Speaker 1: Is that what you would do? I would lose one foot, yeah,
Speaker 1: because then you'd have a reason to have motorized scooters
Speaker 1: at the theme parks it's right, yeah. And at the
Speaker 1: handicap parking right, yeah, handy in at the school campus,
Speaker 1: they'd give me a golf cart. Be great. Yeah. There
Speaker 1: are some positives and not all negative. It's not all negative.
Speaker 1: There are some positive. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail, yeah,
Speaker 1: email from Jim and Jim's wife about Jim's wife saying
Speaker 1: Jim and Jim's wife says, Ben and Daniji, So thank
Speaker 1: you so thanks for helping me have a little fun
Speaker 1: at my husband Jim's expense. Jim's wife writes he has
Speaker 1: a problem with the term final four? Has anyone if
Speaker 1: I don't wanted to talk about the clips in the NBA, Well,
Speaker 1: I want Jim and Jim's wife to know that my man,
Speaker 1: Eddie Garcia this week in hockey referenced the final four.
Speaker 1: So it's not just me, it's Eddie, and Eddie likes
Speaker 1: to goog fund me, and so what do you say
Speaker 1: to the final four? He did the same thing. How
Speaker 1: about shut up? Email? Continues says He and I, meaning
Speaker 1: the wife, listen to every Fox Sports Radio and fifth
Speaker 1: hour podcast of your God, love you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. He's a huge fan of yours,
Speaker 1: Danny and all the Mallard militia. But he's not computer
Speaker 1: savvy and not even email. His life must be so
Speaker 1: much easier, right, Jim, You don't have to deal with
Speaker 1: the bull bull crap. I almost said way less stressed. God,
Speaker 1: I wonder if I'd never plugged into America Online and
Speaker 1: Netscape Navigator back in the day, how my life would
Speaker 1: have changed. But here I am anyway, it says. She
Speaker 1: says he her husband used to call the local sports
Speaker 1: radio show while taking a bubble bath in the evening
Speaker 1: after work, so they called him bubble boy. That could
Speaker 1: be taking for her bad. Uh. If if he can
Speaker 1: ever wake up early enough to become a regular caller
Speaker 1: to the show, would you give him a nickname? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I will. I love giving out nicknames. I believe overnight
Speaker 1: radio we need as many nicknames as we can possibly
Speaker 1: give out. The last nickname we gave out was to
Speaker 1: Paul from Rhode Island, Plastered Paul, who earned that nickname
Speaker 1: and Jim says he'd be honored Living in Kansas. He's
Speaker 1: a Case State fan and still calls Bill Snyder the
Speaker 1: Pope man that Manhattan, Kansas. Yeah, he can be like
Speaker 1: warm Take Jim in a warm bath. Uh. He was
Speaker 1: wondering the email rights Jim. This is from Jim's wife.
Speaker 1: Jim was wondering if you could did George Brett whenever
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Mendoza line, never heard of him. Thank
Speaker 1: you for your humorous and engaging personality there. You have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun listening. Well. I will try to
Speaker 1: remember next time I bring up the Mendoza line, I
Speaker 1: will give a credit to George Brett. And I noticed
Speaker 1: Jim and Jim's wife there's no reference to anyone currently
Speaker 1: on the Kansas City Royals. And I understand why because
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Royals are That's how they are this season,
Speaker 1: So why not I go on every week in Kansas City, Danny,
Speaker 1: they never want to talk Royals baseball, So I wonder why.
Speaker 1: I wonder why that's not a topic, royals having their
Speaker 1: problems on the road. I'm Ben Mallick. Alright, come back,
Speaker 1: it's time from may call. Male continues Angelina. Mister Angelina
Speaker 1: writes in she says, responding to some of the things
Speaker 1: from last week's mail bag, she says she does intimate
Speaker 1: it fasting along with me, Helen and Stu, and she
Speaker 1: says she agrees it does work. I'm right there with yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: I even know that the studies said it didn't work.
Speaker 1: My my thought on that is that study was done
Speaker 1: by diet companies that are like, no, no, the key
Speaker 1: to dieting is not just intermitutefest. You know, you gotta
Speaker 1: take our magic potion or whatever that might be. M h.
Speaker 1: She says, not that you're taking a poll, but I
Speaker 1: agree with Danny g regarding animal crackers that they are cookies.
Speaker 1: I also love wheat thins and could eat an entire
Speaker 1: box and once, yes, I don't know what that secret
Speaker 1: ingredient is in wheat thins, and that is the perfect
Speaker 1: mix of salt oil, oh, salt oil crack, Yes, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Angeline also says it would be great if you fly
Speaker 1: into Minneapolis St. Paul and drive to Appleton sometime when
Speaker 1: you do at the Mallamilsa know when and where you'll
Speaker 1: do a meat and great. And she also added Angelina
Speaker 1: that she wants to do the Apple podcast thing for
Speaker 1: the fifth hour, but she's having a difficult time finding it.
Speaker 1: But it's in the description box on the podcast, Angelina,
Speaker 1: So on your phone, assuming you're listening on your phone,
Speaker 1: you can. You can do it if you're on your computer,
Speaker 1: same same concept of plot. Click on the link and
Speaker 1: then page down and you'll see where you can write
Speaker 1: a review. And I still have that recipe you sent me, Angelina,
Speaker 1: I have yet to make it. I have to make
Speaker 1: that at some point this summer. She sent me a
Speaker 1: really cool monster cookie recipe that I've got to add.
Speaker 1: I my made Macadamien nut cookies recently. Last week, I
Speaker 1: made my my wife's gluten free so I made some
Speaker 1: gluten free peanut buttercup cookies, which were very disappointing because
Speaker 1: I guess I had I screwed something up because they
Speaker 1: came out flat. I get really piste off when the
Speaker 1: cookies come out flat. It's an epic fail. That's what
Speaker 1: it is. An epic fail on that pancakes. Pretty much,
Speaker 1: little peanut buttercup pancakes is what I made. You've got
Speaker 1: mail Cliff from Nashville rights and mail back continues. He said, Ben,
Speaker 1: does your wife make you go shopping with her? Mine
Speaker 1: has to touch and feel everything. When she finds what
Speaker 1: she wants, she doesn't buy it because it might be
Speaker 1: cheaper someone else somewhere else. I don't know what makes
Speaker 1: them tick. Well. Funny enough, Cliff, you're not gonna like this,
Speaker 1: and we'll ask Danny about him and his Tinderoni. But
Speaker 1: with me, I'm kind of like your wife more than
Speaker 1: my My wife's probably like you, Cliff. She she didn't
Speaker 1: care about the price. She'll buy it doesn't matter and
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out financially. I'm like, Okay, do we
Speaker 1: a do we really need this? Be Let's look on Amazon,
Speaker 1: let's look around. Sometimes my wife will do that, but
Speaker 1: oftentimes she's like let's just get it. We'll buy whatever
Speaker 1: we need. That's it. And so I'm I'm more like
Speaker 1: your your wife in this instance. What about you, Denny?
Speaker 1: When you guys are out shopping, are you the one
Speaker 1: that's like, do we really need that? Or Yeah? I'm
Speaker 1: the one who's like that because I'm usually thinking ahead,
Speaker 1: trying to save for something that I really want to
Speaker 1: spend our money on. UM. She's been really good recently
Speaker 1: because we are saving up for a trip to Hawaii
Speaker 1: in November, and we've given that advice on this podcast before.
Speaker 1: If you want to save money, put a goal out
Speaker 1: there for a trip, a nice trip that you're gonna
Speaker 1: save up for, so then you think twice and three
Speaker 1: times about all your money decisions. Now, there are different
Speaker 1: levels to go into Hawaii. The most expensive part of
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the lodging and the obviously the airfare.
Speaker 1: You could save on lodging. Are you hotel people? You
Speaker 1: know Airbnb? What's the plan you can? You can even
Speaker 1: I was watching some YouTube videos and they have like
Speaker 1: these they're kind of camping things, but they're not it's
Speaker 1: not like outside, they're like it's weird. They're like those
Speaker 1: shacks you can stay in there are supposedly like two
Speaker 1: hundred bucks a night or a hundred bucks a night
Speaker 1: or something like that. I've mentioned before that she's a
Speaker 1: hotel stob, which I don't mind because I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna vacation, if you're gonna honeymoon, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna do anything like that, you should be in a
Speaker 1: better place than where you live. That's the whole point
Speaker 1: of saving up your money and to travel. So we
Speaker 1: are going to do an airbnb for half the time
Speaker 1: a little nice condo there in Maui, and then the
Speaker 1: other half of the time we're gonna do a few
Speaker 1: nights at a fancy resort. Yeah, I guess I got
Speaker 1: some money here. Gonna mix it up in the island
Speaker 1: hop a little bit. But it's a lot of saving up,
Speaker 1: a lot of saving up. Yeah, Yeah, that's cool. Which islands?
Speaker 1: Are you planning? Like? You're gonna Maui? Where else you
Speaker 1: canna go? Uh? You're gonna go to Kauaii? Are you
Speaker 1: gonna go to Oahu? Where are you heading? TB D.
Speaker 1: Kauaii is in the conversation, Oh well, let me know,
Speaker 1: I can and tell you exactly. The beach I got
Speaker 1: married on it's I know, from Poipoo where you go,
Speaker 1: and they should put a memorial there that my my
Speaker 1: bachelorhood ended right on that beach, right there on the
Speaker 1: shores of of of that that little deserted beach in Kauai,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if they still have. There was trash
Speaker 1: that was on not a lot. There was a little
Speaker 1: trash that had come ashore from like Asia. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's which country in Asia, but it had Asian
Speaker 1: writing on it and it floating on on the on
Speaker 1: the grass or on the sand. Rather all right, what
Speaker 1: is next year? Let's see any meaning. I got mail, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got mail, yeah, from Fulton rights in he says,
Speaker 1: continuing on from last week. I looked into the podcast data.
Speaker 1: Take that for data, put that in your pipe, and
Speaker 1: confirmed that downloads go up when callers get blown up
Speaker 1: for cursing. If you want to start getting Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: like numbers, just give me the green light and I'll
Speaker 1: start letting the expletives fly whenever I call in. Mike said, blank,
Speaker 1: my blank and blank you also now that, benns me,
Speaker 1: we'll be driving to the studio again. I already did.
Speaker 1: I'm going to let you in on a secret to
Speaker 1: save big on gas with nothing more than the length
Speaker 1: of two uh two of a plastic tubing and a
Speaker 1: hated neighbor. He says, I'll explain more in a separate email.
Speaker 1: I look forward to that. All too good to be true?
Speaker 1: He he, I'm sure there's nothing nothing that could go
Speaker 1: wrong with that, Trevor and Tulsa writes in on the
Speaker 1: next mail bag. See, he says, I high bed just
Speaker 1: curious how many miles from the Mallard mansion to the
Speaker 1: FSR studios Love the show day Shift Worker podcast listener
Speaker 1: Trevor in Tulsa. So this week it was roughly round
Speaker 1: trip hundred and ten miles an hour. So I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are people that have worse commutes than that. And
Speaker 1: the good thing is I'm on it late night, so
Speaker 1: I don't have too much traffic. But wait, and ten
Speaker 1: miles or ten miles per hour, a little bit of both,
Speaker 1: you know. No, I don't I go seventy nine. I
Speaker 1: am the guy that goes seventy nine because I got
Speaker 1: told years ago by a highway patrol officer in California
Speaker 1: here that he does not write tickets. We're seventy nine
Speaker 1: and below. He says, eighty and above. That's the ticket.
Speaker 1: So I haven't gotten a ticket knock on woods since then.
Speaker 1: So I keep doing that, and eventually when I get
Speaker 1: a ticket going seventy nine, I will then start driving
Speaker 1: ninety miles an hour, but for now, seventy nine until
Speaker 1: further notice. So that's that's that, Trevor, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the day shift, the dreaded day shift, and
Speaker 1: the podcast. That is the odd thing. We always bring
Speaker 1: this up Danny doing the overnight show. We have so
Speaker 1: many people listen on the podcast. One of the reasons
Speaker 1: we're doing this podcast is because the podcast numbers have
Speaker 1: been so good from the radio show. And every once
Speaker 1: in a while I'll sit there, like in the middle
Speaker 1: of the show, do you think more people are gonna
Speaker 1: hear this on delay on demand than are listening right now?
Speaker 1: You never know, You never know who's out. So that's
Speaker 1: hard to do though, because you're on so many hundreds
Speaker 1: of affiliates. Yeah, no, it's true, and it is always
Speaker 1: odd to me. I had this experience this week where
Speaker 1: like the last part of the show, I think there's
Speaker 1: a bigger audience because it's early morning drive and people
Speaker 1: are getting their start going to work and yes, that's right. Okay.
Speaker 1: Next up is Falls fan Jimmy from Big Orange Country SYS.
Speaker 1: For both of you, could you can play any position
Speaker 1: on all three major sports? What would it be? And
Speaker 1: for who? No favorite teams allowed. I think we've gotten
Speaker 1: this version of this one before. Valls fan Jimmy. Quality
Speaker 1: of life. If you're a pitcher, you pitch once every
Speaker 1: five days. I know you have to work out and
Speaker 1: do that stuff, but once that every five days, quarterback
Speaker 1: once every seven days, although you can get your ass kicked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what would you go with Danny? You know, when I
Speaker 1: was a little kid, it was at the very end
Speaker 1: of his career, but I loved watching Joe Morgan play
Speaker 1: second base smooth. Yes, And the very first baseball glove
Speaker 1: I got was a hand me down from my uncle
Speaker 1: and it had Joe Morgan's signature in the glove. So yeah,
Speaker 1: So I guess I would go with second base because
Speaker 1: of the old Red's great um. Yeah. For football, I
Speaker 1: mean I love playing running back as a kid, juke
Speaker 1: and and give in and making people miss, breaking ankles,
Speaker 1: the spin move. You could be like a human video game,
Speaker 1: which is why we loved watching Barry Sanders carry the rock.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, yeah, he was the joystick on the field,
Speaker 1: moving all over the place. Jason from Rocky Mount, Virginia. Right,
Speaker 1: so come back, it's sign from now I'll call and
Speaker 1: says so, Ben, since you've been notified that you will
Speaker 1: be making tracks from the north Woods to the studio,
Speaker 1: have they told you what days you have to make
Speaker 1: the journey? And will it be even further when the
Speaker 1: studio moves later this year? That is an interesting question.
Speaker 1: I believe it will be about the same. It might
Speaker 1: even be a little closer from where I'm living right now. Yes,
Speaker 1: for you, it'll be closer, Okay, So for me it'll
Speaker 1: be a little closer. For you, it'll be a little further, Jason.
Speaker 1: I I don't have a set schedule. I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty fluid week the week, and so that's good, that's
Speaker 1: a bonus. It's a blessing and a curse. So it's
Speaker 1: good that I have the ability to kind of make
Speaker 1: my own schedule as far as when I come in.
Speaker 1: But it's bad because sometimes if I don't do it
Speaker 1: the first couple of days a week, then I gotta
Speaker 1: go back to back and belly to belly and all that.
Speaker 1: But we'll see how this goes. I saw Jason and Harmon.
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen them and both of them together in
Speaker 1: a long time, a couple of years. But thank you Jason,
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I wonder how far away I was from
Speaker 1: Rocky Mount, Virginia when I was in the Hampton Roads area.
Speaker 1: Neil and Jasper, Indiana. Right, since it says can you
Speaker 1: reveal what happened when you got a six month and
Speaker 1: twenty six day layoff from Fox Sports Radio? If you
Speaker 1: can't reveal, will you tell us in a book someday? Well,
Speaker 1: can't close the deal, Neil. I will absolutely tell tell
Speaker 1: all books about that entire episode. And I've told versions
Speaker 1: of this story over the years, but uh, it was
Speaker 1: it was an interesting time. In fact that on the
Speaker 1: Mallard Town podcast I got into this a little bit.
Speaker 1: I told a version of the story of the Mallardtown podcast.
Speaker 1: So when that drops, maybe it's out right now you'll
Speaker 1: hear some of what happened, which led to my brief
Speaker 1: what do you call sabbatical on the beach and radio?
Speaker 1: We call it on the beach, hanging out on the
Speaker 1: beach here. One part of that story I do remember
Speaker 1: is what they replaced you with was like, quote unquote
Speaker 1: best of moments. Yeah. Yeah, it was called the Soup,
Speaker 1: The Fox Sports Radio Soup was what it was called,
Speaker 1: and it was a rip off. Is that show still
Speaker 1: on a Comedy Central? There was a I don't think
Speaker 1: that's on anymore. It could be wrong, but um a
Speaker 1: recap basically of everything that happened on the network that
Speaker 1: that day, right, Yeah, And I was told by somebody
Speaker 1: that worked at the company after I was gone that
Speaker 1: it took so much time in production to put all
Speaker 1: that together and it was a nightmare. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's true or not. Maybe they're just trying
Speaker 1: to make me feel better, but they were. There were
Speaker 1: a lot of people complaining because it was that sounds
Speaker 1: about right, because first you got a pinpoint highlights from
Speaker 1: each show. Then you'd have to edit those and put
Speaker 1: them all together and then host them. So that seems
Speaker 1: like it would be much harder than actually having the
Speaker 1: guy on that people want to listen to live Go
Speaker 1: after Yourself, San Diego. Well, I'm biased, but I agree
Speaker 1: with you, so I'm biased. Terry and England rights in
Speaker 1: real quick. He says, if you and Danny g need
Speaker 1: a tutorial on cricket sometime, I'll be able to do that.
Speaker 1: It's the only other sport that I commit to, says
Speaker 1: Terry and England. And I think we'll end on that note.
Speaker 1: Uh So we have a bunch of other email too
Speaker 1: with Paul and cub fan Mike, Paul from Montana cup fan,
Speaker 1: Mike from Fort Wayne, everyone else here. We will have
Speaker 1: to get you next time so to send a question
Speaker 1: in and hopefully we'll have time to get to your
Speaker 1: email questions next year and next week, not next year,
Speaker 1: next week. I was like, man, you're taking a break. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm taking a little Yeah, I have a question for
Speaker 1: you mail question for Ben Mallard. Okay, it's exciting. Yes,
Speaker 1: this came up in the G Household recently. Chloe, who
Speaker 1: we talked about last week, are eleven year old fart consultant. Yes,
Speaker 1: she helped the Tinderoni pick out the perfect watermelon. Chloe
Speaker 1: did something she claims that she saw on YouTube. She
Speaker 1: was knocking on each watermelon to listen to how it sounded,
Speaker 1: and she was looking for a lot of white stripes
Speaker 1: on the watermelon. I ask you, because you know it
Speaker 1: was very red when we cut it open, but it
Speaker 1: didn't have any flavor, so it was a fail. How
Speaker 1: do you pick the perfect watermelon? Well, as you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a watermelon expert. For years, I worked in the
Speaker 1: watermelon industry, the industrial complex of watermelons. Uh. Now, I
Speaker 1: have heard my buddy tells me that the key is
Speaker 1: that she's clothes right. You want to get the watermelon
Speaker 1: with a lot of scratch marks on it, because that's
Speaker 1: I think they said. The bees, I think it is
Speaker 1: that are trying to get into the watermelon, or some
Speaker 1: kind of bugs trying to get into the watermelon, because
Speaker 1: that means it's the sweetest. And that's a dead giveaway
Speaker 1: that that's like a really good bottomelon. That's what I've heard.
Speaker 1: If it looks like a bug has been trying to
Speaker 1: invade the watermelon, yes, because that tells you something really
Speaker 1: good in there because the bug wants to get it,
Speaker 1: so you should you have an opportunity to get what's
Speaker 1: in there. And I always when I was picking watermelons before,
Speaker 1: I always just get the brightest green one. I said,
Speaker 1: I don't want one, so I scratched up. But those
Speaker 1: are supposedly the ones that are the greatest watermelon. But
Speaker 1: it's it's hit and miss, right, hit and miss. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of emails about this. Uh well yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: It's like the price of gas, right, there's at bottom.
Speaker 1: I ready to bring the gas. Yeah. Anyway, you'll be
Speaker 1: in studio right. You said that at the beginning, you'll
Speaker 1: hit a couple of nights this week, which is great.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna first of all, it's Sunday, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go in for the very fun Coveno and Rich show,
Speaker 1: which is the after noon into the evening, and then
Speaker 1: the lead into your show, which is Arnie Spaniard and
Speaker 1: Chris Plank ends at eleven pm local time here on
Speaker 1: the West Coast, the start of the Ben Mallor Show,
Speaker 1: and then your second show of the week. I'll be
Speaker 1: in Monday night, and I'll also be in for your
Speaker 1: Tuesday night into Wednesday morning show, the Microphone Throttler. Awesome,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great to have you back on the
Speaker 1: weekday show, Danny. Look forward to that, and have a
Speaker 1: great rest of the day today and we'll do it
Speaker 1: all over again. Cannot wait, can't wait. Cannot wait be
Speaker 1: deja vu all over again. I'll catch you then Asta
Speaker 1: pasta population