Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old Republic a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to 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 on a
Speaker 1: championship Sunday in the National Football League. Think of this
Speaker 1: as your pregame show without the x former NFL guys
Speaker 1: and without the chuckles. Well we'll laugh, ha ha ha.
Speaker 1: We're gonna laugh a little bit. But it is the
Speaker 1: mail bag The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny
Speaker 1: g Radio. You've got your formal raider gear on today.
Speaker 1: You're all dressed up without the unnecessary field reports on
Speaker 1: dumb ship that we already know. Is that the most
Speaker 1: annoying thing when the announcers are like, yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: right ankle injury. So let's go down to the sideline
Speaker 1: with so and so and then go down. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: a right ankle injury. He's in the tent. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: know it's a right ankle injury. Don't go to the
Speaker 1: sideline reporters, Ben, unless it's some ship we have not
Speaker 1: heard yet. Now I love the sideline. I got a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine that is a news, old newspaper guy
Speaker 1: like journalists, like real journalism, back in the old days
Speaker 1: before newspapers became you know, ghost ships, and he will
Speaker 1: text me after the NFL game. Because almost every these
Speaker 1: NFL games, almost every one of the first recorders, first
Speaker 1: question from the reporters how does it feel? How does
Speaker 1: it feel? That's like the number one questioned it. It
Speaker 1: drives him, It drives him insane. What was going through
Speaker 1: your mind on that final drive? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. It's like, well, I was trying to score.
Speaker 1: We were trying to score because we were down and
Speaker 1: we had to score or else we were lost the game.
Speaker 1: So I was trying to score. But it's like, you
Speaker 1: don't have to go to some high falutin journalism school
Speaker 1: if your first question is going to be how did
Speaker 1: it feel? You know, you don't know, I could get
Speaker 1: any schmow out of the crowd asked that question. And
Speaker 1: the most fascinating thing is a lot of these sideline
Speaker 1: reporters think that they're gonna win the Pulitzer Prize for
Speaker 1: Journalism with this line of questioning. It's fascinating to me.
Speaker 1: They've convinced themselves that their job is essential and these
Speaker 1: questions are very important and we as football fans would
Speaker 1: not be able to survive without them. And I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: whatever floats your boat. But I hate to hate to
Speaker 1: be the bear of bad news. But spoiler alert, yeah,
Speaker 1: we were the first fifth hour interview after the football
Speaker 1: is on hiatus, Shannon Spake, that'll be you, Danny. I'll
Speaker 1: be taking that weekend off. You'll have to handle that. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I know some of these people and they're fine, but
Speaker 1: it's just you're not You're not moving mountains here, neither
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna do a sports radio show in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night. I'm not moving mountains. But at
Speaker 1: least I don't. I don't pretend, Danny. I don't pretend
Speaker 1: like I am moving mountains. I don't sit there and
Speaker 1: think somehow that these are amazing questions. And a lot
Speaker 1: of these sideline reporters they're like they're like hugging the
Speaker 1: players and stuff. They're like, buddy, buddy, it's like the
Speaker 1: it's like the the w w ET or something. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm friends with Shannon. I'd like to say she does
Speaker 1: a fine job, but there's just sometimes where the reporting
Speaker 1: is just brainless to me. Yeah, well the thing that
Speaker 1: me and when I when I used to get up
Speaker 1: early on Sunday with Looney and we did the Football
Speaker 1: Show for years. It's like seven or eight years we
Speaker 1: did that show. But with Looney we would watch the
Speaker 1: pregame shows and they actually on Fox Sports Radio. They
Speaker 1: carry the Fox Pregame Show. And the amount of laughter,
Speaker 1: like and I don't mind a good belly laugh, but
Speaker 1: on everything's funny, you don't have to laugh at everything.
Speaker 1: And these guys would laugh at everything. It was like chuckles.
Speaker 1: Its wild, It's like can studio laughter. It was insane. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we've got mail enough of that. Now that we've bashed
Speaker 1: the NFL television, I think we can move on. Yes, yes, yes, yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: we'll change it up a little bit. We'll get right
Speaker 1: to the mail bag. These are actual listener questions from
Speaker 1: actual listeners like yourself, and we love when we get
Speaker 1: questions from people that aren't regulars. We like, we enjoy
Speaker 1: our regulars, but it's always nice to hear some new
Speaker 1: names pop up on our radar or some people that
Speaker 1: only email occasionally from time to time. Life keeps you
Speaker 1: busy and you can't send questions in all the time.
Speaker 1: So the way you can contact us very simple. It's
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard Show at Gmail. I don't know that's not
Speaker 1: It's Ben mallow Show on Facebook. I was screwed it
Speaker 1: up so easy. I screwed it up. It's Ben Mallard
Speaker 1: Show on the Facebook page and then real fifth we're
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. I wanted to mention we didn't
Speaker 1: get to this. We ran out of time yesterday on
Speaker 1: the Saturday podcast. But we did actually get a great
Speaker 1: review from on Backscratcher. We got one review on the
Speaker 1: Apple podcast page, which is what we're really gunning for
Speaker 1: and a couple of weeks would be great, and this
Speaker 1: one said it gave us five stars, a must listen
Speaker 1: on the weekends. It says the Ben Mallard Podcast. Though
Speaker 1: we misspelled my name, but that's auto correctly when you
Speaker 1: when you put my name in it auto corrects the
Speaker 1: Ben Mallett. I don't know why, but the they my name.
Speaker 1: According to the algorithm is mallet anyway, so he says.
Speaker 1: Ben Mallett podcast is a great podcast listen to. Danny
Speaker 1: G is the perfect co host with great relatable stories
Speaker 1: as well as old school radio DJ stories. I really
Speaker 1: enjoy the stories about when Ben started as a radio
Speaker 1: stringer and his eventual rise. I like what he says
Speaker 1: in quotes rise to now hosting a nationally syndicated overnight
Speaker 1: radio show. Danny G brings his own sauce with awesome
Speaker 1: stories about his daily life, his other career, and awesome
Speaker 1: stories about the beginnings as a radio DJ. Love the
Speaker 1: mail bag and the new pop goes the culture segment.
Speaker 1: Highly recommend this podcast. Dominican Mike, our guy, Dominican Mike.
Speaker 1: That's one of the nicest reviews we've gotten. It's very kind.
Speaker 1: Dominican Mike is one of the great characters, and I'm
Speaker 1: bummed out he has a day job. But I love
Speaker 1: that guy, and I love when he was in our
Speaker 1: rotation of callers because he lived in Arizona part of
Speaker 1: the time, lived in Tampa, Florida. I think he's in
Speaker 1: Florida now full time, but he's working the dreaded day
Speaker 1: shift and we had a great time. I remember when
Speaker 1: Dominican Mike tried to take the oath, but he was
Speaker 1: either tired or in debriated, or maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: of both, and he really struggled. He was bouncing off
Speaker 1: the walls there. Did not go well, but it made
Speaker 1: for hilarious audio that we still play to this day.
Speaker 1: And it's been several years and we still play that
Speaker 1: audio from Dominican Mike. It's tremendous. When some listeners asked
Speaker 1: the question what happened to this regular or that regular.
Speaker 1: A lot of the times, day jobs get in the way,
Speaker 1: but the beauty of podcasting is they're still listening, just
Speaker 1: at a different time. Yeah, it is really cool because
Speaker 1: very rarely will someone listen to like Cowherd and be
Speaker 1: loyal to him and then go to the overnight shift.
Speaker 1: Normally that doesn't happen. It's it's usually the other way.
Speaker 1: People work overnight for a little bit, then they'll go
Speaker 1: to the day shift, and so it's it's cool. We've
Speaker 1: got a lot I got people have emailed me Danny
Speaker 1: that listen ten twelve years ago, I guess longer now.
Speaker 1: Years keep adding up, and but they're still that they've
Speaker 1: worked during the day. They got normally, got married and
Speaker 1: had kids. Used to they were in their twenties working overnight,
Speaker 1: trying to make money at the grocery store. And then
Speaker 1: now they're they're all grown up and they got there
Speaker 1: their families, but they still listen. That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I liked it. I love that. So alright, what do
Speaker 1: we have in the mail bag? First up on the mailbag?
Speaker 1: Oh wait, Ohio? Aw'm so Ohio. All hit that button there? Ohio, Aw,
Speaker 1: it's all right, thank you, Ohio. All. First one is
Speaker 1: from Pierre down the road from minute Chog Regional High School.
Speaker 1: Where As Tombodett would say, we'll leave the light on
Speaker 1: for you. Just a couple of fun facts before my question. Uh.
Speaker 1: He says that Wilbraham, Massachusetts, is the former home of
Speaker 1: the Friendly's ice Cream corporate headquarters. Ooh, that's a fun fact.
Speaker 1: Most notable sports related to alumni the minute Chog Regional
Speaker 1: High School for our our former MLB picture Mike Trombley.
Speaker 1: I remember him. He was like the middle of the
Speaker 1: rotation starting pitcher if I remember correctly. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah. ESPN, Mike Trombley, do you play for
Speaker 1: the Twins Orioles? Something along those lines. I for some reason,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking Twins and Orioles. He probably played for somebody else,
Speaker 1: but those are the teams that I associate in my
Speaker 1: head with. Mike Trombley. Whoa when I typed in Trombley,
Speaker 1: uh said, Trombley sausage. Oh well, I don't need to
Speaker 1: see the man sausage. I'm good on that. I don't
Speaker 1: need to let me put in Trombley baseball. Okay, Mike
Speaker 1: Trombiley t R O m L. First picture that pops
Speaker 1: up as him and the Twins. Yeah, I still got it, Danny,
Speaker 1: I still got it. I still got it Danny. Probably
Speaker 1: Orioles and the Dodgers. Oh there, I must if I
Speaker 1: forgot to dot years. When did he pitched for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: What year? Let's take a look, and yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: why I know his name is because of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Two thousand one. Okay, so that was a little I
Speaker 1: was here. I was working in Fox Sports Radio two
Speaker 1: thousand one. Um. I still went to the to the
Speaker 1: Dodging games all the time. But I remember my favorite
Speaker 1: X Minnesota twinter I became really good friends with when
Speaker 1: he pitched for the Dodgers. There was a relief pitcher
Speaker 1: named Mark Guthrie. Oh yeah, pretty had a couple of
Speaker 1: good years in the big least. Wonderful dude, one of
Speaker 1: the nicest people. And I became I was a young guy,
Speaker 1: he was a young guy, and we were you know,
Speaker 1: you know, buddy buddy a little bit. That was cool. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a picture for the Twins named Kevin Tappani,
Speaker 1: who was a pretty good starting pitcher in the nineties
Speaker 1: and he got he ended up on the Dodgers, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't do nearly as good as with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers as I remember as he did with the Twins.
Speaker 1: But uh, some random names. But Mike Trombley says, from
Speaker 1: this high school, Uh, this is a Pierre, He says
Speaker 1: in minnocha got really quick. I was gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: Close to our heart is the town he was born in,
Speaker 1: because we both have relatives born there, Springfield, Massachusetts. Oh
Speaker 1: that's right, Yeah, there you go, beautiful all right, And
Speaker 1: that's where this right next to Springfield and this high
Speaker 1: school is. Uh. And Pierre also says that the ESPN
Speaker 1: co founder Scott Rasmussen from that high school and current
Speaker 1: Red Sox hitting coach Peter Fatsy is awesome from that
Speaker 1: high school, says. My question to you is do you
Speaker 1: feel ripped off by SNL for stealing the minute chog
Speaker 1: light story for their weekend update segment or flattered that
Speaker 1: the writers are fans of The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Mallory and Danny g. I'll take my answer off the year,
Speaker 1: So I didn't see Saturday Night Lavel last week. I
Speaker 1: love the fact that they they had that story. That's
Speaker 1: a great story that the high school had the lights
Speaker 1: on for years and these these idiots could not in academia,
Speaker 1: could not figure out how to turn the lights off.
Speaker 1: And I mean, that's just wonderful. It's a ten out
Speaker 1: of ten. But I didn't you watch Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: I don't usually. I don't know anybody that watches that
Speaker 1: program any longer. Last time I watched it, I watched
Speaker 1: it because I'm a big Larry David fan and he
Speaker 1: was hosting, and so I checked it out to see him.
Speaker 1: But that was about it. Next up on the mail bag,
Speaker 1: Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia rights in the Lovely Jennifer says, Hey,
Speaker 1: Benn and Danny Ge. Last week, my oldest son and
Speaker 1: I drove from Richmond, Virginia to Minneapolis, and while passing
Speaker 1: through Wisconsin, I remember your trip last year to see
Speaker 1: your relatives in Appleton. Did you know that the highway
Speaker 1: rest stops have vending machines with cheese kurds. We got
Speaker 1: a bag, of course, since it is the cheese state. Yummy.
Speaker 1: In Marcel's voice, she says, that's some. Jennifer, Now, Jennifer,
Speaker 1: the big the big question is did you take your
Speaker 1: son to Kenosha where the cheese Castle is? Because that's
Speaker 1: that's next level. That's ultimate Wisconsin, which is just across
Speaker 1: it's not far from the Illinois border. When you make
Speaker 1: the trip from Chicago up the road there into Castle.
Speaker 1: Well it it is actually a castle, but it's not
Speaker 1: made out of cheese. But you've never heard of the
Speaker 1: chee Castle. No. I got excited. I thought like the
Speaker 1: moat was gonna be melted nacho cheese. No, dude, this
Speaker 1: is like the first spot I've not been to Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: I had not been to Wisconsin since I was doing
Speaker 1: stuff with the Dodgers like twenty years ago, and I
Speaker 1: you know, then you're with the team and you don't
Speaker 1: really go out exploring. You kind of go to the
Speaker 1: hotel and you go to the stadium and all that ship.
Speaker 1: But this thing is insane. I'm gonna send you a
Speaker 1: link right now, let's sake you. I want you to
Speaker 1: check this out. Um, and I do recommend it. It It
Speaker 1: was really cool. Becuse the ultimate like Wisconsin kind of
Speaker 1: touristy trap thing. When you're you're driving through on your
Speaker 1: way to Milwaukee or Chicago and you stop by the
Speaker 1: Mars Cheese Castle, which is I just sent you a
Speaker 1: link there, and they've got all kinds of Wisconsin products.
Speaker 1: They've got a gift shop. You can get your packer,
Speaker 1: your your Buccaneers stuff, you're not your stuff, any kind
Speaker 1: of cheese you could possibly want. Yeah, it is pretty neat.
Speaker 1: They got a restaurant there, they got old They got
Speaker 1: cheese curds up the wazoo. Um, so yeah, it's pretty
Speaker 1: pretty neat. But those cheese curds are man man solid.
Speaker 1: I gotta every couple of years, I gotta visit my brothers,
Speaker 1: so I get my my cheese fixed when I'm in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: But I hope you had safe shovel's. Jennifer, is your
Speaker 1: son going to school in Minneapolis. Is that what that's
Speaker 1: all about? All right? Next up, Barry in Nashville rights
Speaker 1: and he says, yo yo mo, Benny, you talk a
Speaker 1: lot about in a minute fasting. Have you hit your
Speaker 1: weight goal or are you still trying to lose more weight? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't really wit myself. I I know when
Speaker 1: my clothes get a little tight that I've gained too
Speaker 1: much weight. Um. Pretty happy with where I am right now.
Speaker 1: I probably like to lose a little more weight, and
Speaker 1: doctors will tell you to lose weight. But I did
Speaker 1: have a bunch of blood tests done about a year
Speaker 1: and a half ago, and surprisingly I was doing pretty
Speaker 1: well for my age and all that. Um, so it's
Speaker 1: it's more about my michigasp berry where I'm afraid if
Speaker 1: I eat three meals in a day that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: gain all the weight back in like two days, you know,
Speaker 1: and all that. So it's really more about my neurosis
Speaker 1: than anything else. And on the weekends, I'll eat a
Speaker 1: couple of meals, but during the week I'm pretty religious.
Speaker 1: Like at the time we're doing this podcast, I have
Speaker 1: not eaten in over forty hours, so you know, what
Speaker 1: the hell? Next up, Fred from Spring Texas Rights, and
Speaker 1: he says, hey, there, guys, how has the rise of
Speaker 1: advertising revenue through sports gambling businesses affected the radio business?
Speaker 1: Has it changed the way you cover sports? So that's
Speaker 1: a that's a pretty good question from our guy, Fred.
Speaker 1: It's been wonderful for for what we do, it's been great.
Speaker 1: It's influx of cash and these gambling companies like we're
Speaker 1: associated on on our show with DraftKings and they're a
Speaker 1: big sponsor and they spend a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of advertising dollars on Fox Sports Radio. We're very grateful
Speaker 1: that for that. And yeah, I heard Coop do a
Speaker 1: live read for them on your show. Well, Koop knows
Speaker 1: how to make the advertiser very happy. As you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: I wish I could pull off those suits. Uh but
Speaker 1: but no, And in all in all seriousness, it's been wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's I'm trying to think, what's the comparison, and we've
Speaker 1: both been in the business a long time, Danny, is
Speaker 1: there's something else that can match what we've got right
Speaker 1: now because it's just this big influx of cash. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess some money here. I would think maybe when
Speaker 1: the dot com things started and people were advertising, was
Speaker 1: it pets dot com and some of those early websites
Speaker 1: where they were trying to get people to go to
Speaker 1: them and they'd buy radio spots. The other one, Ben,
Speaker 1: and you can attest to this because I'm sure you
Speaker 1: did your share of live remotes at cell phone stores. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Yeah, when the smartphone face came around. Yes,
Speaker 1: all these little cell phone stores were battling with each other,
Speaker 1: all had their run times on radio stations. I remember
Speaker 1: there would be certain saturdays where we would be at
Speaker 1: two different cell phone stores broadcasting live. Yeah. I totally
Speaker 1: forgot about you. That's a great call by you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember we were. We used to go when I
Speaker 1: was doing local radio because it was the nineties when
Speaker 1: these things kind of came on the scene, and we
Speaker 1: we were like a T and T store in Santa
Speaker 1: Monica on his Saturday morning. But then we do a
Speaker 1: remote from uh what was the other I'm trying to
Speaker 1: I'm having a blank on the other phone. But it
Speaker 1: was another one of the big phone companies, and we would,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, just show up, get people to come down
Speaker 1: and buy a phone. And it was brilliant because once
Speaker 1: you get locked in with a type of phone. It's
Speaker 1: very difficult to cross old like on the smartphone thing.
Speaker 1: If you're an iPhone person, you're an iPhone person, and
Speaker 1: if you're an Android person, they're an Android person. And
Speaker 1: those were back in the days when people had blackberries,
Speaker 1: remember the black thing. That was big for business people.
Speaker 1: And there were still mon pop shops at the time
Speaker 1: who carried all the different kinds of phones. Obviously they
Speaker 1: just had agreements and licensing with all the different carriers.
Speaker 1: So we had big stores, little ones, mob pop, corporate.
Speaker 1: It didn't matter. They were all trying to sling these phones.
Speaker 1: So I remember hot dogs, three hot dogs for an
Speaker 1: hour with with the DJ table out right in front
Speaker 1: of the cell phone store, and of course they were
Speaker 1: giving away a free phone by the end of the
Speaker 1: broadcast and big sale that day on on service and
Speaker 1: you know you can trade your phone in or whatever.
Speaker 1: Do we spend hours and hours at those dumb stores,
Speaker 1: Yeah I did. I totally forgot about that, But that
Speaker 1: was a huge thing for radio, and the phone thing
Speaker 1: came around, and um, you know, the sports radio business model.
Speaker 1: As far as covering sports, I've always been into gambling,
Speaker 1: but there is a fine line it's really like threatened
Speaker 1: a needle, because if you do too much gambling, it's
Speaker 1: a nightmare. Nobody wants to listen to it, so you
Speaker 1: really have to. And people tune in for the sports
Speaker 1: that that you know Dud's been on games I get
Speaker 1: I do we do this podcast. We have Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny. But the way I've always approached it, even
Speaker 1: on Benny Versus the Penny, it's more about the matchup
Speaker 1: and the you know, the mental part of it. When
Speaker 1: you some of these gambling shows and I have friends
Speaker 1: of mine to do these things, Danny, it's like you
Speaker 1: do a hard oh sports gambling show. To me, that's
Speaker 1: a heartless. To me, that's a tough list. So you
Speaker 1: got you gotta balance it. It is. There's those paid
Speaker 1: one phone number shows we've all heard on local radio
Speaker 1: stations screaming about do you like boats, because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put a boat in the driveway? Yeah? Are you tired
Speaker 1: a bit a loser? Do you want your wife to
Speaker 1: leave you alone? I'll get you a boat. You'll be
Speaker 1: listening to this on a boat. The first five picks
Speaker 1: are free, and their locks let me tell you their locks,
Speaker 1: And there for free the first five are free, call
Speaker 1: my number right now, operatives are standing by absolutely free.
Speaker 1: And then you call up, it's like twenty seven minutes
Speaker 1: of commercials to buy their product. And then at the
Speaker 1: very end, by the way, I like the Chiefs minus two,
Speaker 1: you know, and then and then they call you back
Speaker 1: and they get your number, and it's a whole ship show.
Speaker 1: So that's crazy. That's how it used to be. Now
Speaker 1: it's an app in your phone and you can bet
Speaker 1: on whatever your heart desires, unless you're in a state
Speaker 1: like ours. Yeah, well another is it two more years?
Speaker 1: We have to wait for one more year and then
Speaker 1: the Native American groups, the the Indian casinos will control
Speaker 1: the gambling market. I don't want to mess with those people. Man,
Speaker 1: they got they I'll tell you what they own the
Speaker 1: gambling market in California. They are all they beat big gambling.
Speaker 1: That's insane that they were able to push out these
Speaker 1: huge gambling companies all hailed at That tells you how
Speaker 1: much money those gambling operations, these casinos around California make
Speaker 1: on Native American land. Uh. Next up on the mail
Speaker 1: bag we go to Drew, who says, Big Ben love
Speaker 1: the show. Keep up the arguing, Uh, yeah, we did
Speaker 1: a little back and Eddie annoys me sometimes and I
Speaker 1: have to sell at him. And then then usually what
Speaker 1: happens is Coop will then take eighties side and then
Speaker 1: Roberto will chime in, and so then I have to
Speaker 1: I have to talk these guys away. And he says
Speaker 1: it reminds me of Howard Stern, what he would do
Speaker 1: with the stuttering John or Bob a booie. Uh. He
Speaker 1: enjoyed that play the Mona song Blair, he says, in Maine,
Speaker 1: reminds me of Jeff the drunk from the Howard Stern Show.
Speaker 1: He says, Mr Jed who fled cost you the game,
Speaker 1: Yes he did. Jed was completely inebriated the other night.
Speaker 1: Should stay off the drugs. Can't stand that, guy says. Anyway,
Speaker 1: cheers brother. And to the cry babies that can't handle
Speaker 1: the arguing, he says, they can go listen to Dan Patrick,
Speaker 1: he says, and then he says some rather unflattering things
Speaker 1: about Dan, so I probably will leave those out. Um,
Speaker 1: but thank you Drew in southern California. I appreciate that
Speaker 1: great kind of you. It is a tremendous compliment because
Speaker 1: you didn't say, I sound like Howard Stern, now the
Speaker 1: woke Coward Stern. He said, I sound like the old
Speaker 1: Howard Stern, which, when you know he dominated. He was
Speaker 1: the king of all radio, king of all media in
Speaker 1: his day for real, And so that is a tremendous compliment.
Speaker 1: Next up Mike from Fullerton Rights, and he says, so
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g since since Ben went Benny the
Speaker 1: bulldozer in the studio, Mike says, he says, guys, have
Speaker 1: people at fs R started treating you better? Or something like?
Speaker 1: He's asking me and what would explain? Maybe that would explain.
Speaker 1: He says, why Steve Disager broke his mike so soon after?
Speaker 1: At least did you hear about that? No? I didn't
Speaker 1: hear about that. Yeah. Yeah, So I had my mike
Speaker 1: issue where I tried to help out Jonas Knox by
Speaker 1: putting the mic back where it needed to be, and
Speaker 1: then somehow my superhuman strength like thor or he Man
Speaker 1: or whoever, I ripped the mic, ripped the mike off,
Speaker 1: Peppermint Patty ripped the mic off, and Steve Disager in
Speaker 1: the update studio the mike came tumbling off also, and
Speaker 1: Eddie came in on a Sunday night and the mic
Speaker 1: was like laying on the board in the update studio.
Speaker 1: So he says, Mike says, do either of you plan
Speaker 1: to steal something from the studio? He's talking to me
Speaker 1: and you Danny to smash office space style before moving
Speaker 1: into the new one. Good question, what is gonna happen
Speaker 1: to our current studio? Are they gonna is it gonna
Speaker 1: be condemned, there's gonna be red tagged. They're gonna turn
Speaker 1: that part of the building back into a Denny's. Back
Speaker 1: into it Danny's. It would be great. Uh full circle, Ben, No,
Speaker 1: I heard that they're gonna leave it the way it
Speaker 1: is and use it as a backup production studio. Okay, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I like that. There's this big sign they put up
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio launched this big It looks like
Speaker 1: the kind of sign you'd see at a gas station,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of plastic or Auto Zone. No, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want that. It used to be the Auto
Speaker 1: Zone studios. Yeah, that was they put a sign up
Speaker 1: and then auto Zone they were a sponsor for a
Speaker 1: number of years early on and then they bailed. But
Speaker 1: they still feel like the American pickers would want that
Speaker 1: auto zone sign though, Oh yeah, they would totally love that.
Speaker 1: So it's a great sign. No, I want the big
Speaker 1: Fox sign that's above it. That's the one I would
Speaker 1: I want to rip that off the wall. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they're keeping that. They're they're keeping that, all right.
Speaker 1: If we could take anything we wanted, I would rip that.
Speaker 1: Casey Cason signed down. Oh that's now that that's worth
Speaker 1: a million bucks. You know how many hours of rady
Speaker 1: millions and millions of people listen to Casey Cayson do
Speaker 1: the countdown? Yeah, right, staple with our grandparents and our parents.
Speaker 1: Oh man, and you do you remember his his famous catchphrase?
Speaker 1: Remember what he would say on about a star? Yes,
Speaker 1: keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for
Speaker 1: the star. I'm Casey case almost killed him, almost killed
Speaker 1: him famous a famous store in the hallways of Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, and Mr Kayson was doing his countdown show.
Speaker 1: He's in a recording session. Some bad timing on that
Speaker 1: the case. Well that's his doctor worked there soon after. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was working their lovely lady whatever. What's she doing that?
Speaker 1: Probably a podcast, right, Probably a podcast. Next up, Chris
Speaker 1: and Marrit Cocada, Iowa writes in on the mail bag.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben and Danny g I highly recommend on
Speaker 1: the line starring Mel Gibson. For a minute, I thought
Speaker 1: it was based on on your overnight show it. I'll
Speaker 1: check this out. This is unflattering, so I thought it
Speaker 1: was flattering when I first saw this. To anybody, says
Speaker 1: an aging overnight talk show host who pisces off all
Speaker 1: his coworkers. He says, have you ever heard that on
Speaker 1: the line with Mel Gibson? Never heard of that? Let
Speaker 1: me hold on, I say, let me see here. How
Speaker 1: old do you think this is? Wait a minute, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's at old. I'd want to say, how
Speaker 1: did we never hear about this? Um? It says it's
Speaker 1: a film? What they made a film about radio? And
Speaker 1: we didn't even know about it? What is? I feel
Speaker 1: like this is sane to me? Thriller. Well, this is
Speaker 1: probably why it got on Rotten Tomatoes pretty low. Then
Speaker 1: the Well, but it's about radio, you think we still
Speaker 1: would have heard about it. Let's see, it's on Prime video.
Speaker 1: I'm not paying five bucks for it free anywhere, So
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm thinking it was one of those movies
Speaker 1: that went directly to one of those dreaming services. I
Speaker 1: see the trailer. I should we play the trailer. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get in trouble if we play that. I don't
Speaker 1: know know if we credit them? It's okay, all right,
Speaker 1: let me see if I can get this to work here?
Speaker 1: This is uh honestly, let me pause this. All right?
Speaker 1: So this is the trailer for a movie I've never
Speaker 1: heard of and and you, Danny have never heard of it.
Speaker 1: But christ and Merri Cocoa I alway says it's a
Speaker 1: on the Line starring Mel Gibson. We're a couple of
Speaker 1: radio dudes, So why not here we go. Let's hit
Speaker 1: the button here and let's see see how this goes.
Speaker 1: What are the odds this actually works here? This is
Speaker 1: the official trailer. That's I'm gonna turned that. That's a
Speaker 1: commercial for a car company. But well I don't need
Speaker 1: to play that. Oh I can skip it. Here we go,
Speaker 1: all right, here, settle and relax. Give me a call.
Speaker 1: This is one you really we're expecting your calls. Talk
Speaker 1: to Elvis live on air and tell him about all
Speaker 1: of your issues and problems driving rates radio host. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got Gary on the line. Let's say you Gary,
Speaker 1: there are you just really tonight? You at home? No?
Speaker 1: Does the home belong to someone you know? No, it
Speaker 1: belongs to somebody not very nice. And I'm I'm going
Speaker 1: to take out his whole family. I'm bringing Gary. Stop
Speaker 1: what you come on? Why I heard his family smell
Speaker 1: and get their innocent? You're better than Garry. Tell me
Speaker 1: common where exactly are you? I'm at your house? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Daddy, make sure and the worst night of
Speaker 1: your line, see your creatody, and I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: love it. The clock, there's clock with a countdown. It
Speaker 1: can still end will it's grabbing the bike. I don't
Speaker 1: want it to end well and change everything. We don't
Speaker 1: want to telling a baseball bag and I don't want
Speaker 1: you to show up. So how about you tell us
Speaker 1: the truth? We're all listening. You know yourself? Joct slip
Speaker 1: Oh scary on the line, Provocative and edgy radio host
Speaker 1: must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with
Speaker 1: a mysterious caller who's kidnapped his family and he's threatening
Speaker 1: to blow up the whole station. Wow, okay, uh that
Speaker 1: did kind of remind me though, of this guy that
Speaker 1: calls the overnight show from Minnesota. The guy's voice sounded
Speaker 1: and kind of like the man that cleans the bodies
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. There, I'm at your house. Wow, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you Chris Man. He says. Did you did you
Speaker 1: find mel believable? He? He says, Uh, have you seen
Speaker 1: the show? No? I haven't. We just heard the trailer.
Speaker 1: Did you find mel believable as a radio guy? If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it? Would you cast who you cast
Speaker 1: to play you? Um? I don't know. I mean, jeez,
Speaker 1: that's I don't know that I love radio, Dan, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm gonna watch that movie though, I don't know. Man,
Speaker 1: do you think that's worth a watch? It's free? He
Speaker 1: had kind of a Larry King vibe to him there
Speaker 1: when he was trying to be on the air. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think John c Riley would
Speaker 1: do a good job playing you. Uh, screw you? All right?
Speaker 1: Who would play you? Daniel? Who Who would playing Tone Loco?
Speaker 1: What do we? What do we done? Look? Yeah, John
Speaker 1: c Riley and Tone Loke would be doing our See
Speaker 1: the thing about that movie, though, that's a dead giveaway.
Speaker 1: HOWAI radio is better than a podcast? You kid? And
Speaker 1: I listen, I know that we're on a podcast now,
Speaker 1: But you can't have that kind of drama on a
Speaker 1: podcast because a podcast is typically recorded and all that.
Speaker 1: But like that's I mean, there are people to this
Speaker 1: day and and and a radio is an it's an
Speaker 1: interesting media. And people listen online a lot, not so
Speaker 1: much on traditional radio. But we still get people that
Speaker 1: scan the dial that call up at three in the
Speaker 1: morning that are like, hey, you want to talk and
Speaker 1: I you know, it's it's like it's really wild. Um,
Speaker 1: but thank you for that. Chris from Parts Unknown rights
Speaker 1: in he says, guys, have you ever been selected for
Speaker 1: the Nielsen's I was this fall and made twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars off of them. As far as they know, I
Speaker 1: only consume the Ben Maller Show content, so technically it
Speaker 1: does pay to listen to the show. Well, thank you, Chris.
Speaker 1: I don't know that you're allowed to say that, but
Speaker 1: I guess it's after the fact. Yeah, I mean afterwards,
Speaker 1: if a listener says something about it, we can't do
Speaker 1: anything about that. If a listener says something to us
Speaker 1: while they have what's called a diary, then we're supposed
Speaker 1: to immediately put our fingers into our ears or AirPod
Speaker 1: tips and say la la la la la la la.
Speaker 1: I can hear you la la la la. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is we boting. You're not supposed to deal with people
Speaker 1: like that, but thank you for that. You you have
Speaker 1: anything to do with ratings and radio, you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to talk to radio people about it. Yeah, that's not
Speaker 1: that's not something that's supposed to happen there for sure. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see what else we have. We can't be selected
Speaker 1: to answer his question. Yes, yes, no, we work for
Speaker 1: a radio station. You can't do the ratings. Yeah, out
Speaker 1: your wish. You would write Ben Mallard, Ben Mallard, Ben Maller,
Speaker 1: you would write Danny G, Danny G, Danny G. And uh,
Speaker 1: I remember back in the nineties, there was a guy
Speaker 1: that got caught like his family got a ratings diary
Speaker 1: and they filled it out and he got a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of trouble, a lot of hiri in. Okay,
Speaker 1: see write since this dear Ben and Danny G. I
Speaker 1: write this with a heavy heart due to the fact
Speaker 1: that I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan. So how do you
Speaker 1: guys remain fans of the Clippers and Raiders? He says
Speaker 1: with utter disappointment, looming around the corner. Remember I'm a
Speaker 1: Cowboy fan, he says. I'm thirty two years old. I
Speaker 1: was born in so I witnessed their greatness, but have
Speaker 1: no memory as I was like five years old. I
Speaker 1: respect real die hard fans, same as Danny g I
Speaker 1: have my team's tattooed on me for life, just asking
Speaker 1: as a real heartbroken fan. That's from Kyrie and okay,
Speaker 1: see well, Kyrie, I feel your pain. Although as the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: it's a little different, Like the Clippers are never supposed
Speaker 1: to win, what is still wrong with the Clippers? The
Speaker 1: Cowboys are always supposed to win, So it's a different
Speaker 1: situation between those two teams. But you have to go
Speaker 1: through as a fan. You have to go through the
Speaker 1: stages of of grief, right, denial, anger, depression, bargaining, all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and then you finally accept it and then
Speaker 1: you forget about it for a while, and then the
Speaker 1: next season comes around you're like, well, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be our year, al right, is gonna be our year?
Speaker 1: And then that's how you do it when you haven't
Speaker 1: made the playoffs in a long time, or you went
Speaker 1: like the Raiders did and they were one and done.
Speaker 1: Against the Bengals. You're you're happy that your team's moving
Speaker 1: in the right direction. And unless you work for the team,
Speaker 1: unless you're a part owner of the team, you can't
Speaker 1: let it run your life. You can't let it ruin
Speaker 1: your life. So as passionate as we are about sports
Speaker 1: and our favorite teams, I think there's a certain maturity
Speaker 1: and thick skin. Ben. Part of it is working for
Speaker 1: a sports radio network. I could have never did this
Speaker 1: in my early twenties. In my early twenties, if the
Speaker 1: Raiders lost on Sunday, I mourned for three days. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about it for three days. Now. I've
Speaker 1: learned in the past ten years how to talk about
Speaker 1: the losing while the losing is happening, because I've been
Speaker 1: in there on a Sunday while they're puking on TV
Speaker 1: and I'm part of the crew that's on the air.
Speaker 1: So you quickly have to learn how to deal with
Speaker 1: it and and learn to laugh about it. And it's
Speaker 1: just part of life. Yeah, Like you know, as you said,
Speaker 1: you don't work for the team, and you know you
Speaker 1: you learn, like the Dodgers won the World Series, the
Speaker 1: Rams have won the Super Bowl, like you know, as
Speaker 1: great as that is and as happy as you are, like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily change your life. You still have the
Speaker 1: same things you had. You just you know, you're a
Speaker 1: little happier because your team won. But it's not like
Speaker 1: you don't get a ring. You don't get the bonus
Speaker 1: when they didn't. It actually cost you money because you
Speaker 1: gotta go by this the Super Bowl champion had or
Speaker 1: the World Series championship or whatever. It's a good problem
Speaker 1: to have. But that's funny you say that, because what
Speaker 1: would be awesome? What if it was like this with sports?
Speaker 1: If we're die hard fans and we signed up, filled
Speaker 1: out some sort of application and we've had a proven
Speaker 1: track record. When our team won the Super Bowl, not
Speaker 1: only did we go to the parade, but we got
Speaker 1: a year paid for our job and we just got
Speaker 1: a year off to celebrate. Oh yeah, now that would
Speaker 1: be that would be outstanding. You have that. That would
Speaker 1: crank things up a couple of notch is there. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine what that parade would be like with the
Speaker 1: p Ones. Yeah, I'll be awesome. Tear that city apart. Uh.
Speaker 1: Next up, Genie writes in she says, why does Roberto
Speaker 1: say a hundred times, Okay, a hundred times, just to annoy.
Speaker 1: Eugenie Corey writes in from Minnesota and says, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: what are your top three fast food Mexican spots? Well,
Speaker 1: that's an important question. Uh. Let's see. I don't know
Speaker 1: Elpoil Loco, which I don't think is national. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to eat a lot when I did in
Speaker 1: the evening show at Baja Fresh. I think that's a
Speaker 1: national chain. Isn't a Fresh national chain? I think so?
Speaker 1: You seet a lot of the taco back in the day.
Speaker 1: I don't know what are your go to Mexican chain
Speaker 1: fast food type places. Uh, definitely Elpoyo Loco and uh
Speaker 1: and then Taco Bell has always been a fan favorite
Speaker 1: to this day. I will go get a bean and
Speaker 1: cheese burrito with no onions, one crunchy taco boom. It's
Speaker 1: a small snack and a good one, and it's roughly
Speaker 1: four dollars in seventy cents. And how much was it
Speaker 1: when you first started buying it? Uh? Dollar twenty nine
Speaker 1: for the burrito and probably a dollar for the taco. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went from two fifty to four fifty. Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1: Uh No, Chipotle for you, you know, not not a big
Speaker 1: Chippotle person. I like it while I'm eating it, but
Speaker 1: I've always felt kind of weird after eating their food,
Speaker 1: like it sits in my stomach like a rock. When
Speaker 1: I did the Night Show back in my big eating days,
Speaker 1: we used to eat Baja Fresh at night. We'd have
Speaker 1: the intern go out and get it. And those days
Speaker 1: you didn't have food delivery, so the intern had to
Speaker 1: give the intern the order. They go to the Baja Fresh,
Speaker 1: they'd order the food and all that, and this this
Speaker 1: one intern would always funk up my order. It was
Speaker 1: so annoying. Man. It was I like, no vegetables and
Speaker 1: they put extra vegetables. And I'm convinced he didn't just
Speaker 1: a mess with me. I pity the fool. It doesn't
Speaker 1: give me my burrito. I'm convinced of it. Uh. Let's
Speaker 1: hear John and Colorado says, have you have you ever
Speaker 1: pre arranged for someone to call into you during a
Speaker 1: business meeting, a family function, or a first date so
Speaker 1: you could gracefully exit if needed? I think, didn't you
Speaker 1: talk about this something like this? I did? Yes? I
Speaker 1: uh oh man um, I would like to apologize to
Speaker 1: my wife he first, she probably won't download this anyways.
Speaker 1: So I had a girl over we um we danced
Speaker 1: all night. It was a fun night and then UM.
Speaker 1: I get a call from another girl that was in
Speaker 1: the mix, and she was like, I need you over
Speaker 1: here right now. And because She's like, because I just
Speaker 1: want to dance, so get over here now. And I
Speaker 1: was like can I I don't. I wasn't sure if
Speaker 1: I had any dancing left in me. But what I
Speaker 1: did was I took a call from a friend who
Speaker 1: I texted, and I had him saying that, oh, you
Speaker 1: need to get down to the radio station right now. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think I was at NBC Sports Network at
Speaker 1: the time, and I told the girl. I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta go. I got called into work and she
Speaker 1: heard me talking to my friend and my friend was
Speaker 1: conversing with me as if he was my boss, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, I'll be right there, because it was real.
Speaker 1: It was a real conversation. It just wasn't my boss, man.
Speaker 1: She lab. I walked her to her car and gave
Speaker 1: her a hug and it was a nice goodbye, and
Speaker 1: then I ran upstairs, showered, got ready, and drove to
Speaker 1: the to the next dance partner. Um, yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: only time I've ever had to fake a shift. You're fired.
Speaker 1: I don't my move. I don't recall doing that, like
Speaker 1: I probably did at some point, John, But I would
Speaker 1: be like, oh, like, you know, if something wasn't going right,
Speaker 1: which very usually it was them that we're trying to
Speaker 1: get out of it, you know me, But if it
Speaker 1: was me the rare occasion, I'd be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I forgot I had to do work. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh. Like I wouldn't even have I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even go to the level of having somebody say, hey,
Speaker 1: call me at this time. All right, we gotta get
Speaker 1: out of here, Danny. Anything to promote Sunday. We've got
Speaker 1: championships Sunday, got two games today. We'll know who's going
Speaker 1: to be in the super Bowl by the time. By
Speaker 1: the time I get back on the Overnight Show tonight,
Speaker 1: we will have an idea, a great idea of whether
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a good super Bowl crappy super Bowl.
Speaker 1: We've got the final four of the NFL today and
Speaker 1: can't wait to watch it all day long and then
Speaker 1: yap about it all night. It's gonna be fun. It
Speaker 1: gonna be a great time to and you know, because
Speaker 1: the penny is always right, it's gonna be a Philly Bengals. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the forty Niners and they will play
Speaker 1: the Bengals, which is also a rematch of a long
Speaker 1: ago Super Bowl A right, forty Niners and Bengals back
Speaker 1: in the eighties, late eighties, standing pat with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: They were my pick before the season started, saw me personally,
Speaker 1: not penny related. I gotta stick with the Eagles to
Speaker 1: win it all. Are you gonna do it? Eat? G
Speaker 1: ll eat Eagles chant like that, eat Eat Eat. All right, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks for this morning the podcast. We appreciate
Speaker 1: it and all that rigamaroor and all that nonsense. So
Speaker 1: I have a great rest of your day today. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Tell a friend, Tell a friend, and if you got
Speaker 1: older parents or grandparents or cousins and uncles and they're
Speaker 1: not really that tech savvy, just you know, grab their phone.
Speaker 1: So you want to help him out, give him a podcast,
Speaker 1: Subscribe to the podcast, have it automatically download, and maybe
Speaker 1: by chance they might listen. We'll get a little credit
Speaker 1: for that, so that'll help us out. A few days ago,
Speaker 1: I talked to my friend Tim from Northern California guided
Speaker 1: him on how to download the Fifth Hour. So he's
Speaker 1: now been listening to all the podcasts as he drives
Speaker 1: to see his girlfriend, who lives an hour away. Outstanding,
Speaker 1: I love that. It's great to hear. Yeah, listen. I
Speaker 1: used to do that on the Overnight Show, and I
Speaker 1: still it's still works. Listen. You know, it's not really illegal.
Speaker 1: If you're helping them out, maybe they would like to show.
Speaker 1: You don't know that they're not gonna like the show.
Speaker 1: You know, just because they haven't watched the sporting events
Speaker 1: since the sixties does not mean they're not gonna like
Speaker 1: the show. Maybe maybe they'll be into it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not We're not really doing a sport oh show
Speaker 1: here anyway. I was just gonna say, yeah, we're not
Speaker 1: sitting here breaking down games. Aside from the Penny, all
Speaker 1: the other podcasts are mostly about life exactly, and life
Speaker 1: is for the living, and we'll catch you neck. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go live our lives right now. Have a
Speaker 1: great rest of your day. We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: Let's go Eagles, Yeah, Eagles, forty Niners forty niners later,
Speaker 1: skater Eagles Gotta murder, Gotta go