Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearing
Speaker 2: house of hot takes. Break free for something special. The
Speaker 2: Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, hanging out in the podcast dojo.
Speaker 1: We are honored to have you as we do this
Speaker 1: mindless work. Well it's actually not mindless work when you
Speaker 1: think about it's the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and
Speaker 1: Danny G. But you already knew that. And my man
Speaker 1: Danny G right there hanging out with me. He's on
Speaker 1: with Covino and Rich all week. I do, of course
Speaker 1: the Overnight Show, the Ben Maller Show, and Danny. If
Speaker 1: you're new to the podcast, if you weren't listening years ago,
Speaker 1: Danny used to work on the show. He was my
Speaker 1: right hand man for several years on the Overnight Show,
Speaker 1: and then he moved on. We're with Clay Travis and
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. When's that Animal Thunderdome coming. Do
Speaker 1: we have a date on the Animal Thunderdome.
Speaker 3: I got a text from Clay Travis last week. I'm
Speaker 3: sure that'll solve it. Let me see, let me pull
Speaker 3: it up on my phone. I'll tell you exactly what
Speaker 3: he wrote here. Where are you there? It is? He
Speaker 3: sent me a story of an alligator that weighed eight
Speaker 3: hundred and two point five pounds and measured fourteen feet
Speaker 3: three inches long, longest alligator in Mississippi history captured by hunters.
Speaker 3: So he sent that link and he said, we are
Speaker 3: close on an extension on my contract so I can
Speaker 3: be able to get rolling on Animal Thunderdome with you.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean, you know that's been i'mgoing for
Speaker 3: a while now. But at least he texted with a
Speaker 3: little update last week. Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: Speaking of alligators, I talked about this on the Overnight
Speaker 1: Show the other night, but I recalled the story out
Speaker 1: of Alabama. Did you see the Alabama football team what
Speaker 1: they had for dinner this week? They had it looked
Speaker 1: like a four hundred pound gator that they cooked the
Speaker 1: entire gator and they were just picking away at the
Speaker 1: flesh of the gator.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it was really.
Speaker 1: Disgusting looking like the image was really over the top,
Speaker 1: and and the ironic things they were not. They're not
Speaker 1: playing the Florida Gators today, you know, in the college
Speaker 1: football world, they're playing South Florida, which is the Bulls.
Speaker 1: But still they decided the great minds there in Tuscal looser.
Speaker 1: They're like, ah, screw it, We'll just have gator and
Speaker 1: they cooked the How do you cook that is? Where
Speaker 1: do you find an oven that's big enough to put
Speaker 1: a full sized gator in? Do you have to barbecue it?
Speaker 1: How does that work?
Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell? Does gator taste like?
Speaker 1: I've never had it? Does it taste fishy? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I guarantee you we have listeners of the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour based on I've seen the numbers here Danny, where
Speaker 1: people are listening, and we have listeners in Gator country.
Speaker 1: And I know a guy, our friend, the guy that
Speaker 1: used to be known as Sir scratch Off and now
Speaker 1: he's known the Wild Southern whatever. He said, a four
Speaker 1: to six hundred pound gator will cost you between one
Speaker 1: thousand and twelve hundred dollars if you want to buy.
Speaker 3: One to eat, and the Internet says that gator tastes
Speaker 3: like quail with a mildly fishy flavor and is often chewy,
Speaker 3: depending on preparation.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want that. That sounds disgusting.
Speaker 1: What do you think dinosaurs tastes like? Probably like gators?
Speaker 1: I think of gators. Is I think that's in that's
Speaker 1: a dinosaur. I look at it an alligator. That's a
Speaker 1: dinosaur to me. I know they say it's not and
Speaker 1: chickens or relatives of dinosaurs, but for my money, I'm
Speaker 1: saying that is a damn dinosaur when I see those
Speaker 1: things walking around golf courses in South Carolina or Florida.
Speaker 3: Same with cortoises. Yeah yeah, man, and those hard shell
Speaker 3: creatures live a long time. They definitely are the last
Speaker 3: dinosaurs left on earth. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I've got on this podcast. We've got rock a
Speaker 1: Bye Baby's Away, Backscratcher, the word of the week, and
Speaker 1: time permitting, will have pop Goes the Culture. So we'll
Speaker 1: have all of that content for you and we'll get
Speaker 1: started with this. So once upon a time like last week, Danny,
Speaker 1: Once upon a time like a week ago. It was
Speaker 1: last Friday. So my wife had to work overtime. She's
Speaker 1: a nine to one operators, so you had to do
Speaker 1: an extra shift at the police station. So I had
Speaker 1: my gambling buddy. I had the night free of my
Speaker 1: my wife, so I had my gambling but she was busy,
Speaker 1: so I had my gambling pole. Came over to hang
Speaker 1: out my guy Hunter. And I've known this guy since
Speaker 1: high school. We played football together in high school. We
Speaker 1: both have very busy lives, and even though we don't
Speaker 1: live that far away from each other, this socializing doesn't
Speaker 1: happen as often as as shit. So had a free knight.
Speaker 1: Decided to have the Malard Pizza party from scratch made.
Speaker 1: I love the pizza party Danny rip off parmeersan garlic twist.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just like they have it roundtable, except they'll
Speaker 1: cost you about three dollars instead of twenty dollars. And
Speaker 1: then I made the mallard pie, the traditional mallar pie,
Speaker 1: garlic onion, bell pepper, thinly sliced onion. It melts in
Speaker 1: your mouth. The garlic ah nice, the bell pepper. Really
Speaker 1: a pizza artisan if I pull a muscle patting myself
Speaker 1: in the back. But no, this is one of the
Speaker 1: few things I make that I think I could like
Speaker 1: serve in a restaurant. I think it's not good anyway,
Speaker 1: So slaving over the hot stove and everything tasted the
Speaker 1: delicious chef's kiss, right, I was very happy Michelin Star meal,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. So then after the meal,
Speaker 1: I was kind of hanging out, you know, talking about life,
Speaker 1: how we're going to solve all of life's problems. Then
Speaker 1: we were like, well, we can't really solve that problem,
Speaker 1: screw it, and had a piece of celebratory cake. I
Speaker 1: sent out a photo on Instagram and I think I
Speaker 1: put it on Facebook also where the wife to celebrate
Speaker 1: the TV thing, decided let them eat cake, right, let
Speaker 1: them eat cake, And so she bought this big cake,
Speaker 1: which my favorite cake was like a Smurf cake. It's
Speaker 1: got like thick frosting and this like blue cake.
Speaker 3: It's really good. Yeah, saw the photos.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's pretty. So so we had a piece of
Speaker 1: the cake. So then we're just hanging out. My buddy
Speaker 1: was trying to sober up, to be honest with it,
Speaker 1: because he had had a bunch of alcohol and I
Speaker 1: did not. By the way, I did not, you know,
Speaker 1: I got to keep my lean television body. He was
Speaker 1: trying to sober up. We were sitting on the sofa,
Speaker 1: you know, chatting again, you know, telling old stories, old
Speaker 1: war stories, back in my day and my day is
Speaker 1: his day because we were the same age. So this
Speaker 1: is the part of the story where things started to
Speaker 1: go hey wire, dating like, this is the part where
Speaker 1: things went a little crazy. So my buddy, we're talking
Speaker 1: about college football because he's got a sibling that works
Speaker 1: at a major college football program, like a top ten
Speaker 1: college football program. His sister is a big deal in
Speaker 1: that world, actually works for one of us, Nick Saban
Speaker 1: would say, one of the organizations. So he knows a
Speaker 1: lot of crap, and he knows I won't repeat it
Speaker 1: because I hardly ever talk about college football, but he
Speaker 1: hears everything. So that's kind of like a safe zone, Danny,
Speaker 1: because you know, you work with me a long time.
Speaker 1: College football just doesn't usually come up that much on
Speaker 1: the show unless it's Deon Sanders or Nick Saban. It doesn't.
Speaker 3: It doesn't move your needle very often.
Speaker 1: And I pointed out people get upset. I get emails
Speaker 1: from people from time to time who live in the South,
Speaker 1: let's say Southern Fried football or in the Midwest where
Speaker 1: the Big Ten is mostly and they'll be like, well,
Speaker 1: you really need to talk more about collegeball. And I've
Speaker 1: always pointed out if the show was on a different schedule,
Speaker 1: we would absolutely do it. But during football season the
Speaker 1: show we come on Sunday night in the West, right
Speaker 1: after the NFL games, like the late Sunday night NBC
Speaker 1: game ends, and then week come on a couple hours
Speaker 1: after that hour and a half after that that game,
Speaker 1: depending on the schedule, sometimes whatever, it's within a couple
Speaker 1: hours of the Sunday night football game inning, so that's
Speaker 1: a fresh story. It's always the biggest game of the week,
Speaker 1: and so we start running rhymes about that and whatever
Speaker 1: else happened in the NFL that day, and we don't
Speaker 1: talk about college football. And then on Monday night, you think, well,
Speaker 1: maybe you talk college football on Monday night and the
Speaker 1: Tuesday no, No, because we have a Monday night game
Speaker 1: to talk about. So we talk about the Monday night game,
Speaker 1: and that's how.
Speaker 3: We do it.
Speaker 1: So we do that, and then Tuesday, usually it's still
Speaker 1: fallout from Monday night. Wednesday, we start looking ahead to
Speaker 1: Thursday's NFL come.
Speaker 3: Well, surely on Thursday night into Friday morning. You talk
Speaker 3: about college.
Speaker 1: No, because we have a Thursday night NFL game to
Speaker 1: talk about it. Just see the problem here, You understand
Speaker 1: the problem. So there has to be a tremendously wonderful
Speaker 1: scandal for us to get into college football. Now. Fortunately
Speaker 1: we've had Dion Sanders who wants to rip the head
Speaker 1: off every other coach that he plays because of some
Speaker 1: great injustice. The coach said, disrespect and all that, and
Speaker 1: Dion able to work his magic the other coach makes it.
Speaker 3: Parsonal, Yeah, how let.
Speaker 1: Me ask you this, Danny, how long can that stick
Speaker 1: last for Dion? At some point? Isn't that not going
Speaker 1: to work? When you when you get to week seven
Speaker 1: or eight of the coma, I.
Speaker 3: Think it has legs to carry him to his next job.
Speaker 1: You want to take a bet on where his next
Speaker 1: job will be?
Speaker 3: What do you think next gig for gig? I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say it is going to be a team that drafts
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had said, as a distant relative of Nostradamus
Speaker 1: and friend of Nosterdenis, I had said the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: I tossed that out. I don't think the Cowboys. I
Speaker 1: don't think Jerry Jones would go down that road, even
Speaker 1: though that would be amazing fodder for those of us
Speaker 1: that are in the sports media world. And then you
Speaker 1: look around. You got to look at the Southeastern Conference
Speaker 1: because that's the top of college football. So at anybody
Speaker 1: who's about to get whacked. Jed who fled the knucklehead
Speaker 1: Jed who fled from Florida. He actually had. I thought
Speaker 1: a pretty good line that even though he was probably
Speaker 1: higher than a kite, I think he's onto something. He
Speaker 1: mentioned Texas A and m as possibility.
Speaker 3: That's not mad. But I could definitely see Dion taking
Speaker 3: his talent to the NFL. Would his style of coaching
Speaker 3: work in the National Football League?
Speaker 1: It's like short term, but he'd probably wear out as
Speaker 1: welcome right, because a lot of the guys, like the players,
Speaker 1: don't want to deal with the bull crap in the
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I don't want anything to do with that.
Speaker 1: And I was like, eh, but it might if he
Speaker 1: gets a young team and he hasn't played in so long.
Speaker 1: It's like the players in college they know of Dion Sanders,
Speaker 1: but it's not like they watched him play. And the
Speaker 1: guys even in the NFL. Dion played so long ago
Speaker 1: that the guys in the NFL who were the younger guys,
Speaker 1: they were like five or six maybe the last time
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders was playing in the NFL. But the Texas
Speaker 1: A and m row with Jimbo Fisher not exactly like
Speaker 1: in the World on Fire, I could see that. I
Speaker 1: can see that happening, though. That would be the mother
Speaker 1: of all payouts. Does this count as college football talk.
Speaker 3: By the way, Danny, it sure does.
Speaker 1: I got distracted. I was telling a story.
Speaker 3: You were talking about how you don't cover college football,
Speaker 3: and then now you covered college football.
Speaker 1: Did about ten minutes on college well, but no, back
Speaker 1: to the story. Sorry, but you carry away. It's a podcast.
Speaker 3: What do you want?
Speaker 1: So my buddy's telling me stuff about college football because
Speaker 1: that's a world he's familiar with and he's got relative
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 3: And so I'm listing.
Speaker 1: And I don't remember much more than that, because next
Speaker 1: thing I know, it's rock by Baby in the tree top.
Speaker 1: When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
Speaker 3: You know that whole thing. You sing that to.
Speaker 1: Your son, by the way, you got to sing nursery
Speaker 1: rhymes and those little those little things.
Speaker 3: Man, Yeah, I sing that, and then I pretend like
Speaker 3: he's falling down to the floor. Nice, you gotta I
Speaker 3: bump his head on the carpet softly, but he laughs.
Speaker 3: He thinks it's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have I have fun like hush, little baby
Speaker 1: and all that. I remember my mom. I hardly have
Speaker 1: any memories when I was really little, but I hear
Speaker 1: those songs and I in my head, I'm like my mom.
Speaker 1: I remember my mom reading those songs to me when
Speaker 1: I was a little baby. So we'll get to the point, please.
Speaker 1: So I fell asleep while my friend was talking to me,
Speaker 1: tell me some college football story. I was so zonked
Speaker 1: from staying up twenty five hours last week. I actually
Speaker 1: over twenty five hours to do the TV thing, the
Speaker 1: radio thing and all that. It finally caught up to me.
Speaker 1: I completely zonked. I it was like I had NARPLELEPSI.
Speaker 1: I passed out and uh yeah. So that my friend left.
Speaker 3: My buddy like.
Speaker 1: Left, well, I fell asleep on the seb He just
Speaker 1: took off. He said, I had to go. That was
Speaker 1: and I won't.
Speaker 3: You weren't a good thing. You weren't on a date.
Speaker 1: I know, I woke up and I was like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute.
Speaker 3: I was like, what happened? You know, like crap.
Speaker 1: I was like half awake, half asleep. You know, you're bedraggled,
Speaker 1: You're not sure what's going on. And then on Saturday
Speaker 1: last week, my my wife had me at you know,
Speaker 1: because part of the marriage dealing, you know this Danny
Speaker 1: is when you're married, you're the plus one. When the
Speaker 1: wife goes to a party, you're the plus one.
Speaker 3: You gotta go.
Speaker 1: And so I got taken to a work party and
Speaker 1: I was in total zombie mode. Still I think I
Speaker 1: had I barely recovered now, so I'm in zombie mode,
Speaker 1: unable to function properly throughout the day and night, in
Speaker 1: a general malaise.
Speaker 3: And this is kind of eh.
Speaker 1: It's like being hungover, but I didn't even have alcohols,
Speaker 1: just sleep lack of sleep. And then this, you know,
Speaker 1: this whole thing has been wonderful, it's been a vortex
Speaker 1: of goodness, but my sleep schedule is completely effed up.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's the whole point. I rock a bye baby.
Speaker 1: I fell asleep while my friend was telling me a
Speaker 1: college football story, and that was that, and it was
Speaker 1: just was away Danny for for him and for you apparently.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It so very similar to how our college football
Speaker 3: talk put people to sleep. Your buddies did the same
Speaker 3: thing to you.
Speaker 1: That is correct.
Speaker 3: Yes, fast asleep, fast asleep. Oh my, oh my gosh. Monday,
Speaker 3: for nine to eleven, there was, as you referenced on
Speaker 3: yesterday's podcast, there was an iHeart event at the old
Speaker 3: Johnny Carson studio. I don't think you've been to that
Speaker 3: studio since iHeart took it over, have you? I have not. No.
Speaker 1: I used to go by there quite a bit when
Speaker 1: Jay Leno, and you know, that was years ago when
Speaker 1: he had the Tonight show and I was around there.
Speaker 1: But no, I have not.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I knew they took it over, but I didn't really
Speaker 1: know what they had done with it. So how is
Speaker 1: it over there?
Speaker 3: It's very cool. They've built it into a small TV
Speaker 3: studio for live performances. So anytime a big music star
Speaker 3: has an album that's being released or an event that
Speaker 3: they want to throw, iHeart will hold it there with
Speaker 3: their TV cameras and an iHeart host. Usually, you know,
Speaker 3: one of their big boys will come out, Like if
Speaker 3: it's a country show, it'll be Bobby Bones. They're interviewing
Speaker 3: the artist, and what they do is like a mini
Speaker 3: concert for one hour. They will air it on all
Speaker 3: of Iheart's channels and their YouTube channel, and they'll broadcast
Speaker 3: it live across the world. And they have a small
Speaker 3: audience in there of clients, VIP and iHeart employees, so
Speaker 3: it only holds, as you know, a couple hundred people
Speaker 3: in there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not very big at all. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: you were did you you got you went to this
Speaker 1: where you were able to attend this thing?
Speaker 3: Is that? Yeah, big country and rock superstar Jelly Roll
Speaker 3: from Tennessee was performing. He flew and he's been opening
Speaker 3: for that big country star Eric Church. He took a
Speaker 3: break off that tour to fly into LA for the
Speaker 3: nine to eleven tribute show that iHeart wanted him to
Speaker 3: do for wounded warriors and some other organizations, some other
Speaker 3: charities for soldiers, which was really cool of him. Get
Speaker 3: to the Burbank studios there and it's Monday night football
Speaker 3: Jets and as you know the debut of one Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: It's broke. It's broke. Our oldest went along with me
Speaker 3: to the show because he's a big country music fan,
Speaker 3: kind of like take your kid to work day for
Speaker 3: me because our boss was nice enough to let my
Speaker 3: kid hang out in the studio as I produced Covino
Speaker 3: and Rich on Monday afternoon, hurried up and did the
Speaker 3: post production, and as we were walking in to the theater,
Speaker 3: that's when it's broke. It's broke. That's what's when Aaron
Speaker 3: Rodgers got hurt. Oh boy, oh man in the coup
Speaker 3: one hundred people in front of the theater waiting to
Speaker 3: get in, the whole place was buzzing about Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: and the Jets. Let you know how even more how
Speaker 3: NFL is king because people were out there for music
Speaker 3: and everybody was talking about Aaron Rodgers in the NFL.
Speaker 3: So we get inside the theater. They basically spent millions
Speaker 3: of dollars to pimp this place out so that these
Speaker 3: star musicians look like stars up on this stage for
Speaker 3: when they filmed them. And what's really cool about it
Speaker 3: is you're standing right in front of the stage. If
Speaker 3: you were a stalker, you literally could reach your hand
Speaker 3: out and grab Jelly Roll's ankle, although that wouldn't end well.
Speaker 1: Back in my younger days, I did have a lot
Speaker 1: of jelly rolls. I did enjoy a jelly roll.
Speaker 3: I did. Yeah, you're not familiar with jelly Roll. You
Speaker 3: can google him and he's got a hit on the
Speaker 3: radio right now called save Me. No.
Speaker 1: I actually I have heard of jelly Row. You probably
Speaker 1: don't think I have, because you know, I'm not really
Speaker 1: up on too much pop culture. But I had heard
Speaker 1: of this guy.
Speaker 3: He's got a really good documentary out on Hulu right
Speaker 3: now called Save Me. So add that to your list
Speaker 3: of documentaries to watch.
Speaker 1: I do love documentaries. Now, before you go on, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hit the pause button here, daddy, So before you
Speaker 1: go on here, Now, the kid, your son that you
Speaker 1: took to the Covino and Ritual. Was he a into
Speaker 1: the show? Was he impressed at what you do or see?
Speaker 1: Was he just futzing around on his phone the whole time,
Speaker 1: bored out of his mind?
Speaker 3: He wasn't on his phone. He had his laptop with
Speaker 3: him because he is a new student at KL lou University,
Speaker 3: so he was doing some homework. All right, that's cool. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so he was kind of paying attention to what was
Speaker 3: going on. I'd hear him laugh once in a while.
Speaker 3: Then during commercial breaks, he would walk over and kind
Speaker 3: of take a look at what I was doing on
Speaker 3: the computers, and then he would wander back over and
Speaker 3: start working on his on his history page. Again, he
Speaker 3: was half engaged. I would say, gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you always just just like when me and you
Speaker 1: would walk into a radio station.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so dude, us at that age, well, I
Speaker 3: mean both of us were already in radio at his age,
Speaker 3: but back up earlier. If somebody had taken us to
Speaker 3: studios when we were little kids, oh man, it would
Speaker 3: be the same thing as when we went to stadiums
Speaker 3: for the first time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is amazing, like this is the hallowed ground
Speaker 1: and so cool, so cool.
Speaker 3: So he did. He was pretty impressed with the new studios.
Speaker 3: He thought it was really cool. And then of course
Speaker 3: he got to see the iHeart Theater, which he thought
Speaker 3: was really really cool. And now we're standing just a
Speaker 3: few feet away from mister Jelly roll and put on
Speaker 3: a great show. He's got like four or five hits now.
Speaker 3: He did his hits in between talking about first responders
Speaker 3: and what that meant to him after the tragedy and everything.
Speaker 3: And he was a little kid at the time, but
Speaker 3: after watching the first responders rush into those buildings, he
Speaker 3: had a whole new appreciation for firefighters and policemen. Obviously
Speaker 3: there were some military folks in the building, and so
Speaker 3: it was really a warm, like a really nice feeling
Speaker 3: there inside the building and all over the world. They
Speaker 3: put this out for everybody to watch and listen to,
Speaker 3: and he's belting out these tunes, Big Ben, like, this
Speaker 3: guy's got some crazy vocals. So the crowd was super
Speaker 3: impressed with his singing. And then there's a director who's
Speaker 3: kind of like cut like, letting him know you are
Speaker 3: no longer on the iheartfeed, which means he's now just
Speaker 3: performing for us inside the little Johnny Carson theater. Nice well,
Speaker 3: Ben was away because Jelly Roll gets on his mic
Speaker 3: and he said, all right, so the forty minutes on
Speaker 3: the Feet is over. I'm just live in the theater.
Speaker 3: And somebody gave him a thumbs up and he's like, huh.
Speaker 4: Fu, fuck, damn it fuck, And people are just kind
Speaker 4: of standing there looking and half the crowd is laughing,
Speaker 4: and he's like, I'm sorry, just how to get that
Speaker 4: out of my system?
Speaker 3: For forty minutes there, I felt like I was performing
Speaker 3: at fucking Disneyland.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: So he obviously he's used to, you know, letting it
Speaker 3: rip and saying whatever he wants to say. And he's
Speaker 3: got a good message in his music that also accompanies
Speaker 3: the some of the party style that that he's known for.
Speaker 3: But yeah, man, it was funny because I thought you
Speaker 3: could appreciate that, because you know, especially on regular FAMFM,
Speaker 3: we don't curse in the hallway. You cursed a lot.
Speaker 3: I noticed when I worked with you on your live show, blank, my,
Speaker 3: blank and blank. You like radio savant. You would crack
Speaker 3: the microphone and no curse words ever came out of
Speaker 3: your mouth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been every once in a while. I've had
Speaker 1: a few hiccups over the years, but.
Speaker 3: Very few, very few hiccups.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I get my cursing out in the commercials,
Speaker 1: and I usually in the main studio. I tried to
Speaker 1: avoid that as a rule of thumb. In the podcast studio,
Speaker 1: we can say all those words. But I did work
Speaker 1: with the guy years ago, early on in my career,
Speaker 1: and he had one of the legendary stories in LA radio.
Speaker 1: He was working at a station I think you know
Speaker 1: who this is. He was working at a station, the
Speaker 1: station w was changing formats. He was about to lose
Speaker 1: his job and the last night this is why you
Speaker 1: never get a final show on radio. So his last
Speaker 1: night on the air, he was completely schnockered, and near
Speaker 1: the end of the show he said, like, you know,
Speaker 1: who cares. They can't fire us, And then he just
Speaker 1: started saying the F word and the S word, like
Speaker 1: over and over and over, just like you heard with
Speaker 1: Jelly Roll. And he did it into the microphone on
Speaker 1: a radio station. And this is back in the days
Speaker 1: when everyone was like freaking out, Oh my god, the yes,
Speaker 1: the FCC is going to get you in all that.
Speaker 1: And I don't think he got in any trouble for it,
Speaker 1: but he did it. He like did it on the air.
Speaker 1: How crazy is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe screw him. He's one of the reasons why
Speaker 3: we didn't get to say goodbye to our listeners when
Speaker 3: we got fired from radio stations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
Speaker 3: He's the reason. That's the reason right there we didn't
Speaker 3: get to have farewells shows.
Speaker 1: It's not right, man, it's not right. You never get
Speaker 1: to goodbye. He's just vanished. Did you go off into
Speaker 1: the cosmos? And that is that all right, so we
Speaker 1: have what we we've got Backscratcher. That is what's next, Backscratcher, Danny.
Speaker 1: These are actual reviews by actual people that have listened
Speaker 1: to the podcast, and it does help us out the
Speaker 1: Apple podcast pages. In the description this week, Danny, do
Speaker 1: we have one, two, three, or four reviews on the
Speaker 1: Backscratcher Apple podcast page?
Speaker 3: Wow, you went all the way up to four. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say three.
Speaker 1: Well, Danny, you'll be happy to know that we have
Speaker 1: not one, not two, but d n Nate Nate name,
Speaker 1: you got it right?
Speaker 3: Three? Three? Yeah? Man, I'm good at this game.
Speaker 1: I think you did. You cheat, Danny, don't cheat now.
Speaker 1: First one is from our friend Peter, who is from Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and he gave us five stars. He said he rarely
Speaker 1: misses an episode. Says his brother in law listens live
Speaker 1: every night. He recommended the show, and I started podcasting
Speaker 1: it and now rarely miss an episode. He says he
Speaker 1: especially loves the fifth hour, and he loves the listener letters.
Speaker 1: He likes the mail bag. Danny loves the mail bag.
Speaker 1: I love the mail bag.
Speaker 3: Too, Peter. I love I love ask Ben.
Speaker 1: He just not ask Ben. This is a totally different feature,
Speaker 1: and it'll be on tomorrow's podcast. He says, thanks for
Speaker 1: consistent excellence. Highly recommend the show and follow up. It
Speaker 1: just keeps getting better. Best duel on the dial. Danny
Speaker 1: and Benny rocketed to my top podcast.
Speaker 3: How about that, Danny, nice man. I'm gonna show that
Speaker 3: to our boss. We are.
Speaker 1: We are number one on Peter's smartphone, loud and clear,
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 5: Number one, number one, number one now with a bullet,
Speaker 5: number one on an iPhone or an Android or whatever
Speaker 5: he happens to have.
Speaker 1: Next up, Thank you, Peter. Next up, we have a
Speaker 1: splendid Daddy from Leesburg, Alabama. Daddy's four point nine stars,
Speaker 1: Nobody's perfect, Ben and Danny and Splendid Daddy says, I
Speaker 1: have listened to all twenty three hours a week, twenty
Speaker 1: for the show and three for the fifth hour for
Speaker 1: three years running.
Speaker 3: Now and then his mind must be warped.
Speaker 1: Smartest guy in Leesburg, Alabama, and to prove that he's
Speaker 1: really from Leesburg, Alabama, he says, y'all are down to earth,
Speaker 1: anti woke, and best of all, I love the sarcasm.
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. Hopefully all get another twenty years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we.
Speaker 1: Prout both Danny probably need to work in other twenty years.
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty fair to say, right, I don't know,
Speaker 1: unless we win the lottery or something like that.
Speaker 3: Right, well, we are definitely retiring at seventy five years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, I think, I think so, I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna that's gonna happen. Cliff in Nashville rights away
Speaker 1: twenty years. How will you think I am?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Cliff in Nashville rights and so, he says, I so
Speaker 1: look forward to the real Fifth Hour with Mallard and
Speaker 1: Danny g Every weekend. They share their interesting life experiences
Speaker 1: with candor and humor we can all relate to. And
Speaker 1: then he says, Ben's quick wit, Danny's calm approach me
Speaker 1: for a great team.
Speaker 3: So they go, thank you, And everyone's been very nice here, Dad.
Speaker 1: And the reason everyone's been nice is we just we
Speaker 1: don't even read the bad reviews.
Speaker 3: We just leave those the side. We only read the
Speaker 3: good reviews.
Speaker 1: But no, we would read the bad reviews, but we
Speaker 1: don't get too many of those, which is pretty cool. Actually,
Speaker 1: most of the ones we got were when I was
Speaker 1: doing the show with guests, and he would go through
Speaker 1: his Rolodex and put like these really polarizing political people
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and I'm like, all right, whatever your book,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to whoever.
Speaker 3: I don't really I rarely.
Speaker 1: Turned down anyone, but certain people really got like freaked out,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm I'm of the mindset I'll talk
Speaker 1: to pretty much anybody. I'm not, you know, on either
Speaker 1: side of the aisle. Obviously I'm on the anti woke side,
Speaker 1: but I'll talk to people I don't really care.
Speaker 3: And some people just lose their mind. They lose their mind.
Speaker 3: And we've had to rebuild your overall score ever since.
Speaker 1: I know, we were like what happened? Man, People were
Speaker 1: like us.
Speaker 3: When I joined your show, you had like a three
Speaker 3: point nine overall rating. Well give or take, you know,
Speaker 3: give me. But thank you to all the nice regular
Speaker 3: listeners of the podcast, because that number is up to
Speaker 3: a four point nine right now. Loujah Hei you Jesus. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing about this and I thank you
Speaker 1: for downloading the podcast and supporting what we do here
Speaker 1: because originally, when we started the podcast, it was going
Speaker 1: to be like another Sporto podcast. It was gonna be
Speaker 1: a gambling podcast, which it was for a while, and
Speaker 1: then it was just gonna be all interviews. And now,
Speaker 1: even though we talked some hot college football earlier in
Speaker 1: this podcast, it is I would say ninety two percent
Speaker 1: just about like us.
Speaker 3: And ten percent shenanigans.
Speaker 1: I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: add up. Yeah, and it's like, listen, we're in the
Speaker 1: same battle everyone's in, right, We're all trying to make
Speaker 1: it through the crazy cornfield maze that is life, and
Speaker 1: stupid is as stupid does.
Speaker 3: And that's the way.
Speaker 1: The way it works. All right, we have with the
Speaker 1: word of the week, the word all the week. I
Speaker 1: think I used this word yesterday, Danny. The word of.
Speaker 3: The week, the word of the week.
Speaker 1: The word of the week. The word of the week
Speaker 1: is moxie. Moxie is the word of the week. So moxie,
Speaker 1: it's to me, it's a synonym of gumption, courage, I
Speaker 1: guess would be the way a lot of people look
Speaker 1: at it, that moxie means you have intestinal fortitude. If
Speaker 1: you got moxie, that's a compliment. Now, I didn't really
Speaker 1: know much about the history of the word, so I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, let's make this the word of
Speaker 1: the week. I use it from time to time. It's
Speaker 1: in my lexicon. What exactly does it mean? And I
Speaker 1: know what it kind of means? But where did it
Speaker 1: come from? So there's a couple of avenues you can
Speaker 1: go down from what I was able to uncover. It
Speaker 1: actually goes back about the modern usage goes back about
Speaker 1: one hundred years, and it was a brand name. The
Speaker 1: term moxie was a brand name of a bitter, non
Speaker 1: alcoholic drink, So that's in like the nineteen thirties, and
Speaker 1: then you go back to the eighteen eighties, eighteen seventies,
Speaker 1: it was the name of a medicine advertised to build
Speaker 1: up your nerve. Yeah, that kind of makes sense. And
Speaker 1: despite the beginnings of the word, there's all kinds of
Speaker 1: stories on the internet, I believe it or not. People
Speaker 1: people love words.
Speaker 3: I love words.
Speaker 1: And they claim that the company, that company, the medical company,
Speaker 1: put out all these wild stories about it. But they
Speaker 1: think the term actually came from a New England Indian word.
Speaker 1: And they say there's a fair amount of rivers, like
Speaker 1: there's a there's a river and a lake in Maine
Speaker 1: that are named moxie. They say, in the original Indian language,
Speaker 1: it means dark water. Okay, dark water. So there's a
Speaker 1: couple of different meetings on that. And they say in
Speaker 1: the nineteen teens, nineteen seventeen, there was a moxie company
Speaker 1: that won an infringement lawsuit against a competitor. Somebody started
Speaker 1: a different beverage called Proxy. That's pretty funny. That's like
Speaker 1: that coming to America where they had McDowell's.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you're selling a lot of beverages called moxie.
Speaker 1: So we're going to go the other way. We're going
Speaker 1: to go proxy. What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3: Man alive?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get out on that note, Danny, we
Speaker 1: will push pop goes the culture to the Sunday mail
Speaker 1: Bag podcast, but I will go first with the begging.
Speaker 1: And it's Saturday, which means I am not doing radio,
Speaker 1: but I am doing television. So Benny versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: If you have not watched it yet, please try to
Speaker 1: check it out. It's all over cable television regional cable
Speaker 1: television on the NBC Sports affiliates around the country in Boston, Chicago, La,
Speaker 1: New York, Philadelphia, and a bunch of other cities. You
Speaker 1: don't have to point out at every time, Danny, you
Speaker 1: don't point that out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let it be known. The Lakers channel in La
Speaker 3: is where you can watch Ben Malley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so that is going to be available off
Speaker 1: and on throughout the day, depending on which city you
Speaker 1: are in. If you've already watched it, watch it again.
Speaker 1: That would help us out a lot. That would help
Speaker 1: us out a lot. If you did that, that would mean
Speaker 1: a lot to me. So I do appreciate that. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make sure this thing doesn't get canceled by
Speaker 1: week nine, and if people actually watch it, maybe they'll
Speaker 1: actually bring it back for another year.
Speaker 3: That would be wild.
Speaker 1: Also, we've only made it through two weeks though, so
Speaker 1: we have many, many more shows to get through. Danny,
Speaker 1: what do you have going on here? You're not working today? Right, Saturday,
Speaker 1: day of rest.
Speaker 3: Day of travel, because in about an hour we are
Speaker 3: going to pack baby Koa into the car. He's gonna
Speaker 3: go on his first little trip. We're gonna drive about
Speaker 3: forty five minutes north to the ocean and spend one
Speaker 3: night there on the beach, just because we are sick
Speaker 3: of being stuck indoors.
Speaker 1: Nice and co on the Rota. Right, it kind of
Speaker 1: it flows right, you get like you have that as
Speaker 1: a slogan.
Speaker 3: CoA Bryant with his first road trip. You always remember
Speaker 3: your first road tips.
Speaker 1: And that's the story you'll tell when he gets his
Speaker 1: driver's license someday. I remember the first trip we took.
Speaker 3: I remember, you know, we went, you know here, and
Speaker 3: it's Hollywood Shores, Ben, So who wouldn't want their first
Speaker 3: trip to be an Oxnard, California.
Speaker 1: Beautiful ox Star. That's the training camp home of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ox nord America's team.
Speaker 1: All right, have a great Saturday. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this. And we have the
Speaker 1: mail Bag on Sunday, and you better listen to the
Speaker 1: mail Bag on Sunday because that happens to be Peter
Speaker 1: from Cleveland's Favorite Podcast, and I know we've got Peter listening,
Speaker 1: and so you should listen as well. We'll catch you
Speaker 1: next time. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Austa Pasta got a murder. I gotta go