Speaker 1: If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, I 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 gutter 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 and welcome
Speaker 1: into the podcast Ojo The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard
Speaker 1: and Danny g Radio. It's that favorite time of the weekend.
Speaker 1: The mail Bag. Yeahlbag. How exciting is that? Oh my god?
Speaker 1: It's suit asked Ben. Has always been my favorite feature. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is the mail boy. This is not asked Ben.
Speaker 1: This is nothing like spend it all people. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. This is the complete opposite. This is the mailbag.
Speaker 1: This is totally different content right now, okay, just package differently. No,
Speaker 1: there's no new packaging at all. This is an entirely
Speaker 1: new concept. No one else has ever had this idea.
Speaker 1: It is an amazing bit that we have here. Mailbag.
Speaker 1: The bid is Danny. People send virtual mail in and
Speaker 1: then we read the mail Even though it's digital mail.
Speaker 1: And even former President Donald Trump. You know what he
Speaker 1: said about the mailbag. You're very special, that's right. He
Speaker 1: said special. And he told me to pass this message
Speaker 1: under you, Danny. He didn't say very very special. No, no,
Speaker 1: he didn't say that, but he said that you are,
Speaker 1: that's what he said. And he also said, please don't
Speaker 1: be rude, come on now, okay, quiet, quiet, that's right.
Speaker 1: He also said I should get a big fat raise. Well,
Speaker 1: was you wrong? That never happened. Yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we all need to laugh. That's what he also said.
Speaker 1: After he said that, he said, I'm joking, and he
Speaker 1: said I don't look so bad right now after the
Speaker 1: Biden gas tacts and all that. Anyway, all right, this
Speaker 1: is not a political sort just I just can't calm down.
Speaker 1: But it is the mail bag, and there's only one
Speaker 1: way to start the mail bags, trying to lower our
Speaker 1: rating to four point seven. I don't want that, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. Calm that everything, you'll be okay. Please, no,
Speaker 1: it's okay, and it will be okay. Calm that alright,
Speaker 1: then so let's shot. Okay, we will and uh way
Speaker 1: we go, Ohio, Wow, it's uh thank you Ohio. All
Speaker 1: right to it. We got mail and we start out
Speaker 1: with Pierre for East of the Rockies. It's a great
Speaker 1: tribute to the George Norry. Now, last week there were
Speaker 1: we were doing a bit could anybody guess my Halloween costume?
Speaker 1: And Pierre from the East of the Rocky says, first off,
Speaker 1: to answer your question to my question from last week,
Speaker 1: I would guess that you are dressing up as a
Speaker 1: chicken finger or chicken tender, and Mrs Mallard will be
Speaker 1: dressing up as a container of raising kanes dipping sauce.
Speaker 1: So this is this is tremendous peer In fact, this
Speaker 1: is such a good idea. It's not what I was
Speaker 1: going to dress up as, but it's such a great
Speaker 1: idea that I actually messaged my wife while she was
Speaker 1: at work. I said, this is a great idea. You
Speaker 1: gotta hear what this guy Pierre came up with. And
Speaker 1: she's she laughed, she knows how addicted I am to
Speaker 1: that raising kines. And she said, that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: And but unfortunately it's too late along in the process
Speaker 1: for this year. But next year, Danny, we might have
Speaker 1: to go raising kinestein costume. I might have to do
Speaker 1: that with the wife. We might have to have that happen,
Speaker 1: and well, yeah, we have to get the side of bread.
Speaker 1: That's right, the Texas toast? Is that what they call
Speaker 1: the Texas Toast? Right? All right? Add Pier says. For
Speaker 1: this week's question, he says, will there be a max
Speaker 1: limit put on the wager ring of the high stakes
Speaker 1: cornhole competition at the Mallard Halloween party this year? That's
Speaker 1: a question. A question B What on the grittle menu?
Speaker 1: What is on the grittle menu at the party? Well,
Speaker 1: my wife is the social butterfly. She is the party planner.
Speaker 1: I just kind of go along with crap. That's my
Speaker 1: job in this relationship. And she plans parties and then
Speaker 1: I get to invite a few of my radio friends,
Speaker 1: and then she invites her friends, and then we have
Speaker 1: mutual friends and things like that. So there's that, and
Speaker 1: it's not really cornhole. Although I will dominate Danny. I
Speaker 1: will kick your ascid cornhole. I'll tell you all right
Speaker 1: now if you come to the Halloween party, so be
Speaker 1: prepared on that. But also we've got this left right
Speaker 1: center game and that's the game. But there's really no
Speaker 1: way to cheat at that game. You just gotta play
Speaker 1: it straight up. It's left right center. That's a fun game.
Speaker 1: We gotta play that. So make sure if you're listening
Speaker 1: to this and you're coming to the ugly not the
Speaker 1: ugly sweat of the Halloween Park, make sure to bring
Speaker 1: dollar bills, dollar bills, dollar bills, dollar bills, dollar bills.
Speaker 1: So whenever you and I hang out and we have
Speaker 1: a big stack of dollar bills, just tell the girls
Speaker 1: that we're playing left right center exactly. That's it missing.
Speaker 1: We're just trying trying to win a couple of bucks.
Speaker 1: You know, a couple of boys gamble, and that's what
Speaker 1: men do. We gamble. All right, come back, pay attention.
Speaker 1: It's sign from now call. Next up is Chris and
Speaker 1: Mary Cocoa. I always just say Mallard and Danny G.
Speaker 1: I don't have a question, but thought you would enjoy
Speaker 1: these pictures from my local radio station k m a Q.
Speaker 1: I had to do a thirty minute guest spot to
Speaker 1: talk about my involvement with the city park board and
Speaker 1: snap them afterwards. The state is a literal time capsule
Speaker 1: from the nineteen fifties and look and feel hope you
Speaker 1: and Danny G. Enjoy, he says, ps Go Raiders and Danny,
Speaker 1: I made sure to send these photos over to you,
Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, it's it's pretty cool. I noticed in
Speaker 1: the studio it looks like those are cards. To me,
Speaker 1: there's cart racks and c D racks, which is both
Speaker 1: used when we were kids. We did this is k
Speaker 1: M a q A MT twenty and ninety five point
Speaker 1: one on the FM dial Marraccada, Iowa, and both stations simula.
Speaker 1: They simulcast each other for about half of the the
Speaker 1: broadcast day. So yeah, that's that's pretty pretty neat it
Speaker 1: As a radio nerd, it's it's it's cool to check
Speaker 1: these things out. I years ago, when I did a
Speaker 1: college football game in Norman, Oklahoma, I had to record
Speaker 1: this one hour syndicated like football thing that I a
Speaker 1: college football show that I was doing it. I really
Speaker 1: like it, but we had to we were on the
Speaker 1: road and we had to go to the local radio station,
Speaker 1: so we went to one in Norman, Oklahoma, and it
Speaker 1: was like right out of The Simpsons, Danny. It was
Speaker 1: like they had this massive radio tower, you know, flat Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: It's a massive radio tower, and then they had like
Speaker 1: this little trailer where the radio station was, and I
Speaker 1: was like, ohly crap, what am I doing here? That
Speaker 1: reminds me. I'm not sure if I ever told you
Speaker 1: about the radio station. I went to visit a buddy
Speaker 1: because he was board operating the station he worked for
Speaker 1: was put inside an old bomb shelter in Modesto, California.
Speaker 1: Is that right? It was the creepiest looking thing you
Speaker 1: could ever imagine. They had nice studios, nice equipment, but
Speaker 1: it all looked like early fifties from the carpet to
Speaker 1: the furniture. Uh. The actual electronics were nice, the actual shelter,
Speaker 1: the like the door. He showed me what it looked like. Ye,
Speaker 1: I mean, God, our country was spooked back then, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone thought they were in any moment the nuclear bomb
Speaker 1: was gonna be shot and that was it, go to dynamite.
Speaker 1: It was end times. I'm looking at the transmitter, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the power. It's a five radio station Marricoco, Iowa.
Speaker 1: Five watts. But it reaches during the daytime. It reaches Davenport,
Speaker 1: which is I guess the big city, Uh, Davenport, It
Speaker 1: reaches Dubuque, Iowa. It's just on the fringes. It can.
Speaker 1: It does not reach Iowa City. And I don't even
Speaker 1: want to look at the night time because the nighttime
Speaker 1: there are a hundred and thirty five watts. I have
Speaker 1: light bulbs that have more watts. And I mean, let's
Speaker 1: be let's be honest here. But but that's cool. That's
Speaker 1: a local local a d oh, and I support that.
Speaker 1: I love the fact. I remember when I got into
Speaker 1: the business, Danny and I talked to these old DJs
Speaker 1: and they worked at all these small stations like places
Speaker 1: in Marricca, Iowa, and they bounced around and there's no
Speaker 1: way to do that. You haven't been able to do
Speaker 1: that in thirty five years in radio at least. And um,
Speaker 1: but that used to be how the business work. You
Speaker 1: bounce around from little station to little station, and that's
Speaker 1: the way you did it. So, you know what, that
Speaker 1: decor reminds me of that movie Blast from the Past,
Speaker 1: remember that with Brendan Fraser. And you know what, I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta vibe to the Rick Dy's board. Vibe.
Speaker 1: I got a little bit Rick Dy's old school board.
Speaker 1: Anything that had a tube. He wanted it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he loved that. He did not like the new digital
Speaker 1: stuff that came in at the end of his run
Speaker 1: to Kiss FM in l A uh that that also
Speaker 1: reminded me of it all right. Next up, I got mail, yea,
Speaker 1: I got mail yea great p one Brigadier General in
Speaker 1: the Malle Militia Jason from Rocky Mount, Virginia. He says, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: this question may have been asked before, but what was
Speaker 1: your first ever paying job and what was your starting
Speaker 1: pay rate? My first job, I was delivering the Irvine
Speaker 1: World News, a defunct newspaper when I was growing up
Speaker 1: in Irvine, and I tossed the newspaper. My mom drove
Speaker 1: me around. I didn't even have a car and driving.
Speaker 1: I tried to do it on my bike, but there
Speaker 1: were too many newspapers. I couldn't do it on my bike,
Speaker 1: so I had my mom drive me around. But I
Speaker 1: got paid a weekly stipend and then I had to
Speaker 1: get you know, you try to you work people for
Speaker 1: this the tips around Christmas. But I didn't get very much.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what I think it was like,
Speaker 1: maybe like fifty bucks a week. It was really low.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a long time ago, so it was
Speaker 1: it was not very much. What about you, Danny g Yeah,
Speaker 1: also delivering newspapers. My family moved from l A to
Speaker 1: the Bay A back to where my mom grew up
Speaker 1: in San Jose, and my cousin threw a paper route
Speaker 1: for the San Jose Mercury News. Cool, and he would
Speaker 1: bribe me with baseball, basketball, football cards and he'd throw
Speaker 1: me five ten dollar bills to help him throw the route.
Speaker 1: So that was the first time ever made money off
Speaker 1: of a job. He's San Jose Mercury, which is still around,
Speaker 1: unlike the newspaper that I delivered, which is not not
Speaker 1: around anymore. Next up, Barry right Sin from Nashville. He says,
Speaker 1: Yo yo mob Benny. I don't recall this question being
Speaker 1: asked before I apologize if I missed it. I am
Speaker 1: curious how long ago was it when you first started
Speaker 1: using your catchphrase in the air everywhere? And how did
Speaker 1: it come about that you came up with that slogan?
Speaker 1: All right, so Verry, First of all, I'm really bad
Speaker 1: with dates. I think I've only been at Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio for like five years. I've been there over twenty years,
Speaker 1: so I'm really better. I think everyone's around my age,
Speaker 1: even when they're really young or really old. I think
Speaker 1: I'm really bad with that stuff. So I don't know
Speaker 1: exactly when I started using it. It was at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. I didn't use it before Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: It was early on in my run, so anywhere from
Speaker 1: like two thousand one to two thousand four or two
Speaker 1: thousand five, somewhere in that area. So it's been a
Speaker 1: long time I've been using it. And in the early days.
Speaker 1: This is gonna shock people because I do a lot
Speaker 1: of the same bits over and over, but I would
Speaker 1: experiment with different things. When I started on the weekends,
Speaker 1: I was doing the weekend overnight show. We were on
Speaker 1: No Affiliates. We had nobody listening other than Cowboy John
Speaker 1: Brad and Doc Mike. They were the only ones in
Speaker 1: Pete and Pittsburgh. And so I would just try different crap.
Speaker 1: And I was just throwing spaghetti against the wall seeing
Speaker 1: what would stick. And I drove in and people say,
Speaker 1: I got that from a cartoon. I guess that used that,
Speaker 1: But I did not get that from a cartoon. I
Speaker 1: just I said it one night on a Saturday night,
Speaker 1: late at night, I blurted it out and I got
Speaker 1: some good feedback. And since we all have a little
Speaker 1: self esteem. You know how it works, dandy, right, You
Speaker 1: get good feedback. You're like, hey, people like that, Let
Speaker 1: me do that again. And I did, and it just
Speaker 1: kind of became my thing. It became my stick, and
Speaker 1: so I've used it ever since then and I will
Speaker 1: continue to use it as long as I am giving
Speaker 1: access to one of these big microphones. And it's just
Speaker 1: kind of how it happens. It was not when I
Speaker 1: said it the first time. I was like, all right, whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, and try something else next hour. But people
Speaker 1: really liked it. They thought it was good. It clicked,
Speaker 1: and and now it'll forever be attached to the network.
Speaker 1: It will be on my tombstone someday. You ever think
Speaker 1: the network would come this far? Oh my god, no,
Speaker 1: I we were when we started. ESPN Radio is the giant, right,
Speaker 1: They were the mother ship everyone wanted to be, you know,
Speaker 1: ESPN Radio was all it could be. And they're a
Speaker 1: little piss ants now compared to our network. I know.
Speaker 1: It is stunning. I am so proud of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: It is amazing because when we started, there were other
Speaker 1: networks that were around. There was I think, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't think sports fan radio is around, but the
Speaker 1: sporting news radio there were I remember that there were
Speaker 1: a couple other networks and we were low on the
Speaker 1: totem poll, right. We were like, you didn't have any affiliates.
Speaker 1: People didn't like that, didn't take us seriously, and and
Speaker 1: so to see where we are right now, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so happy, so proud of everyone that's
Speaker 1: worked here over the years at Fox Sports Radio. Because
Speaker 1: in the early days it did we were questioning whether
Speaker 1: we were going to even make it. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll get a job back in local radio. I
Speaker 1: don't know this because there were rumors because we didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of affiliates and there were a lot
Speaker 1: of changes that were made at the network. And to
Speaker 1: go from that toiates, I know, we when I started,
Speaker 1: I didn't start the first like month of Fox SPO.
Speaker 1: I was hired like a month or so after the
Speaker 1: network started, and I was the first weekend. They didn't
Speaker 1: have any weekend programming when they started because they didn't
Speaker 1: have any affiliates, So what do you need programming for? Um?
Speaker 1: But they we had. I was the first overnight guy,
Speaker 1: and I had update shifts and things, so there was
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of crap that I had
Speaker 1: going on. And we were on in Binghamton, New York, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: and and we had an affiliate in Michigan, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't Detroit. It was like outside of Detroit. But that
Speaker 1: was about it. We had, like there were a few
Speaker 1: other really small radio stations. Wow. So it's it's pretty
Speaker 1: crazy to think where we are today compared to where
Speaker 1: we were back then. We got this whole podcast crap
Speaker 1: that we've gotten out, Danny right, like it's a wild Well,
Speaker 1: it's really scary when you think about it. You went
Speaker 1: from Milli Vanilly to Pitbull Mr Worldwide. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 1: stop in the train. The train is going. Uh. Next
Speaker 1: up on the old mail bag, come back touch It's
Speaker 1: Si from mail Call Mike from Fullerton Rights. And he says,
Speaker 1: first of all, I will like to thank Pierre for
Speaker 1: changing locations every mail bag to spare us all from
Speaker 1: boring Pro Basketball Hall of Fame factoids. Kudos to you, sir.
Speaker 1: By the way, Mike, did you know that Muffett McGraw
Speaker 1: is enshrined in the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame? Did
Speaker 1: you know that? Yeah? Anyway, Mike, says, I have a
Speaker 1: short question for each of you, Danny, G who do
Speaker 1: you like more Covino Rich? That's pretty funny. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a loaded question right there. That is a loaded question,
Speaker 1: and Kennon will be used against you if you actually
Speaker 1: answer the question, Danny, I will say this, um Covino's
Speaker 1: personality probably match his mind a little more because he's
Speaker 1: he's more laid back in the studio, whereas Rich is
Speaker 1: more like a chihuahua. And I mean he jokes about
Speaker 1: this himself. He'll pace back and forth in the hallway
Speaker 1: during the commercial breaks, and he's always in and out
Speaker 1: of the studios, and he's he's very positive, and he's
Speaker 1: got a ton of energy. No, you should have the
Speaker 1: nervous hearts. On Friday's show, he drank not one, but
Speaker 1: two coffees, two iced coffees. He's a guy bend. He
Speaker 1: should never be allowed to drink one coffee at all ever.
Speaker 1: And so I love his energy, but sometimes it's like
Speaker 1: a puppy. Yeah yeah, so I I would say there's
Speaker 1: a term for that. It's called the Ferman, the Andy Ferman. Right,
Speaker 1: Rich is like Andy Ferman a little bit. Is that
Speaker 1: what you're saying I want a mature guy. He is
Speaker 1: auntie and he brings that energy to the airwaves, which
Speaker 1: is really good for all air but off the air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he can't really sit still, and so Covino, I think
Speaker 1: is more like me as far as sitting still and
Speaker 1: only getting up occasionally. And uh, we channel our energy
Speaker 1: to the airways, whereas Rich as nothing but energy. I
Speaker 1: like it though. There is not a day where any
Speaker 1: of us can lag because rich will, you know, bring
Speaker 1: us out of our shell for sure. Yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: more like you and Conveno. I don't really leave the
Speaker 1: studio much. I'm like I, I sit my ask down
Speaker 1: and I just kind of do my thing. You used
Speaker 1: to do laps I did. I did back in the day.
Speaker 1: I was so I was so paranoid about losing weight
Speaker 1: and all that. He would walk around the building. But
Speaker 1: I don't do that anymore. Now I'm just a lump.
Speaker 1: I just sit there and I'll get out one So
Speaker 1: I could I go to the gym and I get
Speaker 1: my workout in there. I figure I've as long as
Speaker 1: I maintain my weight. Now I'm in in decent shape,
Speaker 1: so I can just keep doing that. Uh. And Mike
Speaker 1: also says Ben on the weekday radio show, you sometimes
Speaker 1: say that you don't need to take calls. You have
Speaker 1: plenty of content. I've yet to hear a whole show
Speaker 1: with no callers, So I'm curious what kind of bonus
Speaker 1: content we're missing out on. Do you always have extra
Speaker 1: monologues or stories prepared in case the phones are down?
Speaker 1: Or is it bullshit? And by the fourth hour you'd
Speaker 1: have to resort to announcing the next day's starting lineup
Speaker 1: or starting pitchers for every team in baseball, just to
Speaker 1: fill the time. I was so excited I wanted to
Speaker 1: pick more guys. I love it. How dare you? Uh So? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna brag or anything like that, but I
Speaker 1: am I a hyper preparer. And the reason I'm a
Speaker 1: hyper preparer I had a very bad experience Mike early
Speaker 1: in my radio career, the first show that I ever did.
Speaker 1: I've told this story a few times, but I had
Speaker 1: the program director, this guy named Bo Bennett, who was watching,
Speaker 1: and I was this is like the opportunity of a lifetime.
Speaker 1: L A Radio the number one radio market Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: It's not New York, it's l A. Because people in
Speaker 1: cars and all that. So number one market, the whole
Speaker 1: thing l A. I got an opportunity to a show,
Speaker 1: a trial show. So I spent all week preparing for
Speaker 1: these monologues. And I just nailed the monologue and I
Speaker 1: had nothing else and I figured I'll just take calls,
Speaker 1: and no one called because yeah, so I had flop
Speaker 1: sw I'm pretty sure I drowned that day and I'm dead,
Speaker 1: but I had flops with from from not being prepared,
Speaker 1: and so I made a pack with myself that day.
Speaker 1: I said, as long as I'm lucky enough to have
Speaker 1: one of these jobs, I am never gonna go into
Speaker 1: that studio depending on a single fucking caller. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not because I can't depend on them. Sometimes people call,
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't call. This was local radio and now
Speaker 1: I'm doing a six hundred affiliates. There's always people calling.
Speaker 1: But I was like, you know, I'm never gonna do
Speaker 1: this again. And so, uh, do you think you slightly
Speaker 1: overcorrected like maybe the NFL is doing with concussions. Yes,
Speaker 1: I I wish I could get to a point where
Speaker 1: I don't have as much that there's so much stuff
Speaker 1: that I never get to that never ends up on
Speaker 1: the radio that I have in my back pocket just
Speaker 1: in case I I have Roberto or Cooper say hey,
Speaker 1: the phones aren't working, you know, or something like that,
Speaker 1: or nobody calls. Um. But I've I've never I've never
Speaker 1: had to go that far down. But no, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely able to do an entire show without taking
Speaker 1: a single call. And and that's that's just the way
Speaker 1: I've been preparing. And I've I've done that for twenty
Speaker 1: years since I well over twenty years now, since I've
Speaker 1: been at Fox. Uh. Mike also says, my guest for
Speaker 1: Ben's Halloween costume this year is Larry the Lobster from
Speaker 1: SpongeBob SquarePants. Okay, I will reveal, should I do it now?
Speaker 1: You want me to real? And uh, you should probably
Speaker 1: do the big reveal at the end of the program.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna wait till the end for the
Speaker 1: big reveal. Next up on the mail bag is our
Speaker 1: Man our Myth, the legend from Colorado. You heard him
Speaker 1: on yesterday's show, Adrian in the Mile High City, he says,
Speaker 1: Benn in Danny g I enjoyed the conversation last week
Speaker 1: about food waste. I'm right here with you guys. Adrian says,
Speaker 1: I hate food waste. I'm a frugal guy myself. When
Speaker 1: we were on a family cruise this summer, you would
Speaker 1: not believe all the food that was wasted on board
Speaker 1: the ship. All yeah, I can't imagine because that would
Speaker 1: have me crazy. It's all inclusive, right, So you get
Speaker 1: you get a plate of burgers, eat one burger. You're like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm good. That's it. Uh And Adrian says, I was
Speaker 1: happy to hear, however, that most of the wasted food
Speaker 1: on the ship gets ground down to almost a liquid
Speaker 1: form and is allowed to be dumped into the ocean
Speaker 1: for marine life to eat. Well, that's cool. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. I did not know that either. What do
Speaker 1: they do with the human waste though? That? Imagine people
Speaker 1: on a one week cruise. How much human ship must
Speaker 1: be on that boat. What do they do with that?
Speaker 1: They can't drop that, and they probably stir the two
Speaker 1: together and they call that fast food. But I'm bumped,
Speaker 1: all right, that's funny, all right. He says that George
Speaker 1: nori Kt is a character. Fellas. Your conversation on shape
Speaker 1: shifting was interesting. I'm getting ready to do my annual
Speaker 1: shape shifting here at the end of the month. Be
Speaker 1: on the lookout for the next few weeks of Halloween picks.
Speaker 1: Uh the return of Bronco Man. All Right, I like
Speaker 1: that sure. Hope by the time you dropped this on
Speaker 1: a Sunday that Mr Unlimited and the Broncos will have
Speaker 1: taken care of the Colts on Thursday night. Injuries have
Speaker 1: hit my squad early and off in this season. Well,
Speaker 1: also self inflicted wounds. Adrian. You know it's a bad
Speaker 1: sign when your squad can't even get a playoff without
Speaker 1: a pre snap penalty. That's that's like a Pop Warner
Speaker 1: type penalty, and I've seen that happen a lot for
Speaker 1: the Broncos this year. He says, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, the eleventh, when the Dodgers host Game one
Speaker 1: of the NLDS. You know, I got some good coin
Speaker 1: on l A winning it all. I'll be bleeding Dodger
Speaker 1: blue this postseason. And he says, lastly, I'm a hat guy,
Speaker 1: uh like you, the mad Hatter of sports chatter. He says,
Speaker 1: check out this Dodger had I got for the platform's
Speaker 1: and you can't see this to anybody's got a Dodger
Speaker 1: hat and it's it's got like the Dodger logo with
Speaker 1: a little green in got a little little green in that.
Speaker 1: And Adrian is always so cool. He since got a
Speaker 1: beautiful family, and he sent a bunch of of photos
Speaker 1: year of his kids. And your wife, says a cardinal fan, Adrian,
Speaker 1: what's up with that man? She from Saint Louis. She's
Speaker 1: wearing a Saint Louis hat. What's up with that? Damn
Speaker 1: red Birds they used to be she's on the juice.
Speaker 1: I used to call them the cheating Cardinals, but then
Speaker 1: the astros said, hold my beer and uh, and I
Speaker 1: even forgot about that whole thing with the Cardinals back
Speaker 1: in Dabby, there's some cool photos of corus Field. You've
Speaker 1: been there right many times, Danny, And yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: there a few times. Yeah, there you go. It's uh,
Speaker 1: his lovely bride. Adrian's got his kids, and now I
Speaker 1: hope you let your daughter eat the fuci. She had
Speaker 1: a lot of mustards that your hot dog or her
Speaker 1: mustard or her hotducts covered in mustard. And then your kid,
Speaker 1: who's a dead ringer, Like a dead ringer for Adrian.
Speaker 1: He's got the the pizza at the at the Rockies game.
Speaker 1: And I do like that hat to Adrian's wearing. You
Speaker 1: can't see this on the podcast, but he's wearing that
Speaker 1: old school I like that old Bronco logo with the
Speaker 1: white horse coming out of the d there. I like that.
Speaker 1: It's a solid one of those undeniable children where you
Speaker 1: could never be like, oh, it's not my baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't say that's the mailman of the pool guy
Speaker 1: or the mechanic, that's that's your DNA pal, that's it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't get around that man. She could deny it's
Speaker 1: her kid, but you can't deny that your kid. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a weird situation there, all right,
Speaker 1: Next up here we go, let's keep the training moving. Mail.
Speaker 1: Next up is pat in Madina, Ohio and not Madinada.
Speaker 1: Everyone gets it wrong. No worry, he's been, he says,
Speaker 1: been in Danny g. Since it is the spooky season,
Speaker 1: I have some questions about your horror movie favorites. Do
Speaker 1: you guys have a favorite horror movie? If I may
Speaker 1: be so bold as to ask for a second one,
Speaker 1: I always loved going to haunted houses, as a kid
Speaker 1: growing up in Ohio, did you or Danny ever go
Speaker 1: to a haunted house scary hay rides as a kid, Yes,
Speaker 1: although I was always freaked out by the the haunted houses,
Speaker 1: but usually these were like Halloween carnivals that they had. Um,
Speaker 1: So I recall that, and I'm not a big horror
Speaker 1: movie guy. That's just not my genre of movies. So
Speaker 1: I recall back in the day when I was younger,
Speaker 1: was like Friday with the Big One. I remember, remember that.
Speaker 1: Does The Gremlins count as a horror movie? Probably not?
Speaker 1: Probably not, But I mean it is kind of like
Speaker 1: the attack, you know, don't give them water after midnight whatever,
Speaker 1: don't feed him. Uh well, any favorite horror movie, Danny
Speaker 1: g that comes to mind? You know, as far as
Speaker 1: like slasher movies, I I've never liked those, even when
Speaker 1: I was younger, I didn't care for those. But psychological
Speaker 1: thrillers I really like. Um there's a movie that's out
Speaker 1: right now called The Barbarian and that's a psychological thriller
Speaker 1: that was good. I like that. But yeah, but he's saying,
Speaker 1: maybe your favorite like growing up as a kid or
Speaker 1: going to a haunted house. No, I didn't get to
Speaker 1: do that. My mom is so Christian. She did not
Speaker 1: partake in Halloween. She thought it was evil. So is
Speaker 1: that right? Yeah, she's not alone. There's quite a few
Speaker 1: people that that think that way about Halloween. To each
Speaker 1: their own. Um, she's just like anything that kind of
Speaker 1: is for the devil or where the devil's glorified. I'm
Speaker 1: not into that. So horror movies were not really a
Speaker 1: thing in our house. She didn't let us watch any
Speaker 1: of those, even classics like The Shining. I had to
Speaker 1: wait until I was an adult to see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen some of the classic horror movies, but I'm
Speaker 1: not like I don't go out of my way to
Speaker 1: to watch them. But thank you, pat In Mdina not
Speaker 1: Mdina Madina understand Big Blue from the LBC is Yes,
Speaker 1: he says a k the black man hockey fan racist. Well,
Speaker 1: he ain't kidding. He loves hockey, even goes and watches
Speaker 1: Eddie play adult hockey. That's a dedication. Stop Eddie, I says, question.
Speaker 1: What would you do if a previous girlfriend Conquest showed
Speaker 1: up at a Mallard meet and greet with a fan
Speaker 1: listener of the show, Well, that would be very awkward,
Speaker 1: big blue, very very awkward. Uh, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know what I would do, and I would like to
Speaker 1: not be in that situation to find out. It would
Speaker 1: be uncomfortable. I try to try to brush it off
Speaker 1: like I don't really you know, just we're just friends
Speaker 1: something like that. Right then, he wouldn't that be the
Speaker 1: move to play it off like that? Yeah, the first
Speaker 1: thing you need to do is go in for a
Speaker 1: really tight hug, grab some math, and then just act
Speaker 1: normal after that. That way you break the ice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just break the ice that way. That would be weird.
Speaker 1: I did have a someone I didd years ago who
Speaker 1: actually lives in Denver, in the Denver area, and she
Speaker 1: she messaged me out of the blue saying, hey, I
Speaker 1: she's still single. She was on a date and they
Speaker 1: were talking about what they were into, and the the
Speaker 1: guy said he was a fan of mine, and that
Speaker 1: kind of upset her a little bit. I think I
Speaker 1: was triggered. Yeah, so she contacted me and I can't
Speaker 1: get rid of this guy. Yeah, she thought that was interesting,
Speaker 1: haunting me. Uh. I would back in your DJ days, Danny,
Speaker 1: any odd things pop up there when you were doing
Speaker 1: an appearance and somebody might have shown up that you
Speaker 1: might or might not have had some quality time with
Speaker 1: in the past. There. I mean, I think too. When
Speaker 1: I was programming the hip hop radio station in Ventura,
Speaker 1: Santa Barbara, I was on this date and it was
Speaker 1: a really pretty blonde girl from Santa Barbara, from their
Speaker 1: Christian college there in Santa Barbara. And she loved house
Speaker 1: music and dance music. Cool girl, and it was like
Speaker 1: a second date with her. I didn't have her come
Speaker 1: into the studio, but I needed to stop by to
Speaker 1: print out a music log for the guy that was
Speaker 1: going to do the evening show so I could go
Speaker 1: have dinner with her. So I run inside, print this
Speaker 1: music log out, run it into the studio, and as
Speaker 1: I walk out the studio doors, my ex is sitting
Speaker 1: there in her saturn. She had a red saturn and
Speaker 1: she was just hovering outside of the studio doors stoker.
Speaker 1: I walk. I try to pretend like I don't see her.
Speaker 1: I walked to my car where the date is sitting
Speaker 1: in the passenger seat of my car with her window down,
Speaker 1: and she looks at me. Hi, it was excited that
Speaker 1: I'm back out for the date, and dun, dun, dun dun,
Speaker 1: dun dune. The Saturn pulls up to my car are
Speaker 1: and she says, aren't you gonna come kiss me? Man? Whoa?
Speaker 1: Aren't you gonna even say hi? You're not gonna give
Speaker 1: me a kiss. She's saying it loud enough so that
Speaker 1: the girl in my car can hear her pulled up
Speaker 1: behind my car so that I couldn't get out. It
Speaker 1: was a mess. And so then you're forced to explain
Speaker 1: this to the new person you're trying to date, so
Speaker 1: that that was a fun dinner unless it wasn't. I
Speaker 1: bet what a what a pain? And that took is
Speaker 1: that is man? I would do a couple more. Blind Scott,
Speaker 1: he randomly sent this in It's not really a question,
Speaker 1: he says. It's a local story in Boston. He says,
Speaker 1: a guy jumped into the Charles River to retrieve his
Speaker 1: lost phone. Unfortunately, he did not find his phone. He
Speaker 1: found eleven other phones, but not his. Ah is that
Speaker 1: this is a news story. That's crazy. That is wow.
Speaker 1: And I walked around the Charles River a bunch and
Speaker 1: and it's people are running that one thing about Boston.
Speaker 1: People are outdoors a lot, not not you know, not
Speaker 1: in the winter, obviously, but but in the summer and
Speaker 1: the spring and the fall, they're running around and bikes
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And how do your how does
Speaker 1: your phone end up in the Charles River? Though I
Speaker 1: don't I don't get it all right now, But that's wild.
Speaker 1: Eleven Phones, You're a Cool show would be an investigative
Speaker 1: show that tells the story of all eleven phones and
Speaker 1: how they got there. It sounds like a podcast or
Speaker 1: something like that. It sounds like a promo for an
Speaker 1: I Heeart podcast exactly three part series as only on
Speaker 1: iHeart podcast Network. All right, next time, I Got mail? Yea?
Speaker 1: I got mail, yea. Kevin in Kansas right soon, says
Speaker 1: near Ben and Danny g. It's obvious that both you
Speaker 1: are hard workers. How far back does your work history go?
Speaker 1: I loaded play pigeons at a trap club, worked at
Speaker 1: a McDonald's, wrote sports for the local paper, and have
Speaker 1: my own mowing business, among other jobs in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: What jobs did you have in addition to being radio guys?
Speaker 1: That's from Kevin in Kansas. Well, Kevin, I, I've been
Speaker 1: in radio for a long time. Me and Danny both
Speaker 1: started young ages. I started I was nineteen Danny was
Speaker 1: younger than I was when he started in radio. Before that,
Speaker 1: though I mentioned, I was a newspaper delivery kid when
Speaker 1: I was growing up. Most of my work experience was
Speaker 1: actually with my parents. My mom ran a mailing service.
Speaker 1: She did like mail for realtors and things like that,
Speaker 1: when they'd send flyers out back in the days before
Speaker 1: the Internet, they'd send flyers out for open houses and
Speaker 1: things like that, and we did a lot of that.
Speaker 1: It was you know, junk mail, bulk mail, and so
Speaker 1: my mom helped had me help her with the business
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and I put a lot
Speaker 1: of like stickers on different labels, address labels and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Thousands thousands of these things we'd send out. So I
Speaker 1: did a lot of that as a kid, and I
Speaker 1: worked at the the I did a website, Ben mallary
Speaker 1: dot com I had for a long time, and I've
Speaker 1: done a few other Internet writing things, but most of
Speaker 1: my work is in radio. What about you, Dan? By
Speaker 1: the way, what did the homepage of your website look like?
Speaker 1: Ben mallard dot com. My my website, I was all
Speaker 1: it was. I was aggregating, you know, it looks like
Speaker 1: did they have a picture of you though, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not really. It was just my name at the top.
Speaker 1: And then it was just a bunch of a bunch
Speaker 1: of random stories that I would aggregate every day and
Speaker 1: nobody else was really doing at the time, and so
Speaker 1: I had my own corner of the Internet. There was
Speaker 1: no like cool jail shot of you bending down with
Speaker 1: your arms crossed. I can, I know, Well, it depends
Speaker 1: on a few in a different dimension. Nanny, there were
Speaker 1: there was that, and yeah all that stuffact Hollywood head
Speaker 1: shot of you on the front page. Oh yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think I had any models wearing T shirts
Speaker 1: with my name them. I think I had what happened
Speaker 1: to that guy? By the way, Oh I know, I know,
Speaker 1: you know, much like you. I got my start with
Speaker 1: newspaper delivery um from my cousin. I learned how to
Speaker 1: throw a paper out, and then my mom moved us
Speaker 1: to the central valley where houses were more affordable. So
Speaker 1: I was throwing a morning newspaper for the big city,
Speaker 1: and then the smaller newspaper was delivered in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: so I could do both. I through the morning paper
Speaker 1: and the afternoon paper. I gave my mom half of
Speaker 1: the money I earned, and then I took the other
Speaker 1: half and I bought c d s so that I
Speaker 1: could go into the high school radio station in DJ.
Speaker 1: So I had to hustle, hustle hard um, you know,
Speaker 1: because you had to provide your own music. So then
Speaker 1: I moved on to the college radio station, and I
Speaker 1: logged my crates and bags of c d s to
Speaker 1: the college radio station every Friday night, Come on, pipping off.
Speaker 1: We didn't have called R and B band. We called
Speaker 1: it the best in soul in hip hop for the nineties.
Speaker 1: There you go, How does it make you feel, Danny,
Speaker 1: that the oldiest stations are now playing stuff from like
Speaker 1: the early nineties and stuff I called it. I knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew it was gonna happen because when even when
Speaker 1: people were saying, oh, it's a fad, it's a fad,
Speaker 1: even at that time, it had been around for twenty
Speaker 1: years and some people were still calling it a fad.
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, this music is amazing and
Speaker 1: it's gonna last forever. I'm gonna be a grandfather on
Speaker 1: some classic hip hop station. And I remember people laughing
Speaker 1: when I would say that there was gonna be classic
Speaker 1: hip hop stations, and now that's a genre, that's an
Speaker 1: actual radio format. Now, oh, absolutely absolutely, we do one more.
Speaker 1: We gotta get out of here, one more here John
Speaker 1: in Northern Colorado. John is a longtime fan of the show.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben in, Danny, g do you prefer your
Speaker 1: eggs fried, scrambled, or boiled? Well, this is an easy one.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big egg guy, but it's gotta be
Speaker 1: scrambled or I ain't eating it scrambled all the way.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing the boiled. I'm not doing the fried.
Speaker 1: I'm doing scrambled. What about you, Danny. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: scrambled eggs as soon as we get done with our podcast,
Speaker 1: right now, Ben, One cool thing about my girl. She's
Speaker 1: not a huge fan of milk products or milk because
Speaker 1: you call it, but she does love scrambled eggs, and
Speaker 1: she makes really, really good scrambled eggs. Sometimes throws a
Speaker 1: little bit of melted cheese in there, puts the perfect
Speaker 1: amount of salt and pepper. Whenever she serves up scrambled
Speaker 1: eggs and English muffins, I run as fast as you
Speaker 1: can imagine to the table. I right. Well, when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I used to eat breakfast, and my
Speaker 1: mom would make omelets with cheese omelets, and I did.
Speaker 1: I did like that. I did enjoy that. That was
Speaker 1: that was a nice treat back in the Oh, that
Speaker 1: sounds good. That sounds good. Yeah it was. It was
Speaker 1: really good and really unhealthy for you. But what the hell?
Speaker 1: Why not? They only live once? Might as well enjoy
Speaker 1: the journey, you know, the destination. All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: out of here on that. You know, we need your
Speaker 1: big reveal. Oh that's right, that's right. The Halloween costume.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast exclusive. Let me know when you're
Speaker 1: ready for the two dollar drum roll. Alright, no one
Speaker 1: else has this content. Hit the drum roll, Danny J.
Speaker 1: Here we go, and I will be dressing up as
Speaker 1: PBS celebrity Bob Ross. I will be dressed up as
Speaker 1: Bob Ross. There are no mistakes, Danny, just happy little accidents. Wow,
Speaker 1: it won't just be coop that I'm smoking within your backyard,
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be painting a mosaic, is what I
Speaker 1: will be doing with those little trees and on the
Speaker 1: hippie lettuce. At your party, I'll be hanging out. Ninet
Speaker 1: seventies Style nineteen eighties, Bob Ross, smoke weed, the shirt,
Speaker 1: the jeans, the whole thing. I got it all going on.
Speaker 1: We'll get out of here. You're off today, Danny, Right,
Speaker 1: you're done, my day off. Get to kick back, watch
Speaker 1: some NFL and wait for my Raiders on Monday night.
Speaker 1: All right, have a great rest of your day. I'll
Speaker 1: be back on the radio tonight, the Magic Radio Box
Speaker 1: as we will kick off the festivities at eleven pm
Speaker 1: in the West on Sunday, two am in the East,
Speaker 1: and we'll go all the way to six am in
Speaker 1: the East and we'll talk all things ANDFL and the
Speaker 1: baseball playoffs. What a wonderful time of the year it
Speaker 1: is to do this and to be a sports fan.
Speaker 1: We got a lot on our plate. We'll get to
Speaker 1: it all and we look forward to that and we'll
Speaker 1: catch you next time. We're out like a pig snout.
Speaker 1: That's a new one.