WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Green Palette" Mail Bag 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:06.160 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.680 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.360 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.239 crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.680 pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of hot takes 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.520 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:34.199 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and welcome 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.920 into the podcast Ojo The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:43.440 and Danny g Radio. It's that favorite time of the weekend. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:49.879 The mail Bag. Yeahlbag. How exciting is that? Oh my god? 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.080 It's suit asked Ben. Has always been my favorite feature. No, no, no, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.760 this is the mail boy. This is not asked Ben. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.920 This is nothing like spend it all people. No, no, no, no, 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.160 no no. This is the complete opposite. This is the mailbag. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:12.520 This is totally different content right now, okay, just package differently. No, 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.360 there's no new packaging at all. This is an entirely 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:21.400 new concept. No one else has ever had this idea. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.240 It is an amazing bit that we have here. Mailbag. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:30.200 The bid is Danny. People send virtual mail in and 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.680 then we read the mail Even though it's digital mail. 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.320 And even former President Donald Trump. You know what he 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.560 said about the mailbag. You're very special, that's right. He 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.560 said special. And he told me to pass this message 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.880 under you, Danny. He didn't say very very special. No, no, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.160 he didn't say that, but he said that you are, 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.520 that's what he said. And he also said, please don't 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:58.600 be rude, come on now, okay, quiet, quiet, that's right. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.640 He also said I should get a big fat raise. Well, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.240 was you wrong? That never happened. Yeah, well, you know, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.000 we all need to laugh. That's what he also said. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.040 After he said that, he said, I'm joking, and he 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.960 said I don't look so bad right now after the 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.320 Biden gas tacts and all that. Anyway, all right, this 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.040 is not a political sort just I just can't calm down. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.440 But it is the mail bag, and there's only one 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.520 way to start the mail bags, trying to lower our 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.200 rating to four point seven. I don't want that, I know, 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.440 I know. Calm that everything, you'll be okay. Please, no, 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.440 it's okay, and it will be okay. Calm that alright, 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.120 then so let's shot. Okay, we will and uh way 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:56.359 we go, Ohio, Wow, it's uh thank you Ohio. All 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.200 right to it. We got mail and we start out 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.079 with Pierre for East of the Rockies. It's a great 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.560 tribute to the George Norry. Now, last week there were 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.000 we were doing a bit could anybody guess my Halloween costume? 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.880 And Pierre from the East of the Rocky says, first off, 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.880 to answer your question to my question from last week, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.120 I would guess that you are dressing up as a 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.000 chicken finger or chicken tender, and Mrs Mallard will be 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:28.080 dressing up as a container of raising kanes dipping sauce. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.560 So this is this is tremendous peer In fact, this 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.560 is such a good idea. It's not what I was 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.880 going to dress up as, but it's such a great 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.040 idea that I actually messaged my wife while she was 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.760 at work. I said, this is a great idea. You 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.560 gotta hear what this guy Pierre came up with. And 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.720 she's she laughed, she knows how addicted I am to 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.600 that raising kines. And she said, that's a great idea. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:53.480 And but unfortunately it's too late along in the process 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.360 for this year. But next year, Danny, we might have 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.080 to go raising kinestein costume. I might have to do 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.120 that with the wife. We might have to have that happen, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.880 and well, yeah, we have to get the side of bread. 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.000 That's right, the Texas toast? Is that what they call 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.400 the Texas Toast? Right? All right? Add Pier says. For 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.480 this week's question, he says, will there be a max 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.320 limit put on the wager ring of the high stakes 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:24.320 cornhole competition at the Mallard Halloween party this year? That's 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.200 a question. A question B What on the grittle menu? 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.760 What is on the grittle menu at the party? Well, 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.359 my wife is the social butterfly. She is the party planner. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.680 I just kind of go along with crap. That's my 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.040 job in this relationship. And she plans parties and then 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.479 I get to invite a few of my radio friends, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.200 and then she invites her friends, and then we have 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.120 mutual friends and things like that. So there's that, and 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.080 it's not really cornhole. Although I will dominate Danny. I 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.159 will kick your ascid cornhole. I'll tell you all right 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.680 now if you come to the Halloween party, so be 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.400 prepared on that. But also we've got this left right 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.800 center game and that's the game. But there's really no 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.719 way to cheat at that game. You just gotta play 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.360 it straight up. It's left right center. That's a fun game. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.039 We gotta play that. So make sure if you're listening 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.760 to this and you're coming to the ugly not the 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.640 ugly sweat of the Halloween Park, make sure to bring 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.839 dollar bills, dollar bills, dollar bills, dollar bills, dollar bills. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.039 So whenever you and I hang out and we have 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.040 a big stack of dollar bills, just tell the girls 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.119 that we're playing left right center exactly. That's it missing. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.920 We're just trying trying to win a couple of bucks. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.640 You know, a couple of boys gamble, and that's what 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.640 men do. We gamble. All right, come back, pay attention. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.240 It's sign from now call. Next up is Chris and 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.400 Mary Cocoa. I always just say Mallard and Danny G. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.600 I don't have a question, but thought you would enjoy 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:50.320 these pictures from my local radio station k m a Q. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.800 I had to do a thirty minute guest spot to 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.480 talk about my involvement with the city park board and 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.719 snap them afterwards. The state is a literal time capsule 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:07.640 from the nineteen fifties and look and feel hope you 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.880 and Danny G. Enjoy, he says, ps Go Raiders and Danny, 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.960 I made sure to send these photos over to you, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.479 and uh, yeah, it's it's pretty cool. I noticed in 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:25.400 the studio it looks like those are cards. To me, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:30.760 there's cart racks and c D racks, which is both 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.120 used when we were kids. We did this is k 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.279 M a q A MT twenty and ninety five point 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:43.479 one on the FM dial Marraccada, Iowa, and both stations simula. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:48.200 They simulcast each other for about half of the the 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:54.960 broadcast day. So yeah, that's that's pretty pretty neat it 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.279 As a radio nerd, it's it's it's cool to check 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.200 these things out. I years ago, when I did a 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:05.159 college football game in Norman, Oklahoma, I had to record 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.760 this one hour syndicated like football thing that I a 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.360 college football show that I was doing it. I really 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:13.560 like it, but we had to we were on the 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.520 road and we had to go to the local radio station, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.000 so we went to one in Norman, Oklahoma, and it 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.920 was like right out of The Simpsons, Danny. It was 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.600 like they had this massive radio tower, you know, flat Oklahoma. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.520 It's a massive radio tower, and then they had like 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.280 this little trailer where the radio station was, and I 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:34.560 was like, ohly crap, what am I doing here? That 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.440 reminds me. I'm not sure if I ever told you 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.360 about the radio station. I went to visit a buddy 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.800 because he was board operating the station he worked for 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:48.560 was put inside an old bomb shelter in Modesto, California. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.920 Is that right? It was the creepiest looking thing you 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:56.200 could ever imagine. They had nice studios, nice equipment, but 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.200 it all looked like early fifties from the carpet to 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:06.040 the furniture. Uh. The actual electronics were nice, the actual shelter, 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.960 the like the door. He showed me what it looked like. Ye, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:15.320 I mean, God, our country was spooked back then, right, yeah, yeah, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.960 everyone thought they were in any moment the nuclear bomb 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.560 was gonna be shot and that was it, go to dynamite. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.320 It was end times. I'm looking at the transmitter, I'm 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.760 looking at the power. It's a five radio station Marricoco, Iowa. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.800 Five watts. But it reaches during the daytime. It reaches Davenport, 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.200 which is I guess the big city, Uh, Davenport, It 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:43.160 reaches Dubuque, Iowa. It's just on the fringes. It can. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.120 It does not reach Iowa City. And I don't even 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.360 want to look at the night time because the nighttime 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.600 there are a hundred and thirty five watts. I have 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.560 light bulbs that have more watts. And I mean, let's 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.439 be let's be honest here. But but that's cool. That's 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:02.640 a local local a d oh, and I support that. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.520 I love the fact. I remember when I got into 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.840 the business, Danny and I talked to these old DJs 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.959 and they worked at all these small stations like places 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.320 in Marricca, Iowa, and they bounced around and there's no 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:15.760 way to do that. You haven't been able to do 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.240 that in thirty five years in radio at least. And um, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.240 but that used to be how the business work. You 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.160 bounce around from little station to little station, and that's 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.360 the way you did it. So, you know what, that 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.880 decor reminds me of that movie Blast from the Past, 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.200 remember that with Brendan Fraser. And you know what, I 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.440 gotta I gotta vibe to the Rick Dy's board. Vibe. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.600 I got a little bit Rick Dy's old school board. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.680 Anything that had a tube. He wanted it. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.080 he loved that. He did not like the new digital 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:49.840 stuff that came in at the end of his run 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.960 to Kiss FM in l A uh that that also 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.040 reminded me of it all right. Next up, I got mail, yea, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:02.080 I got mail yea great p one Brigadier General in 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.160 the Malle Militia Jason from Rocky Mount, Virginia. He says, Hey, guys, 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.160 this question may have been asked before, but what was 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.319 your first ever paying job and what was your starting 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:19.199 pay rate? My first job, I was delivering the Irvine 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.240 World News, a defunct newspaper when I was growing up 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:27.559 in Irvine, and I tossed the newspaper. My mom drove 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.679 me around. I didn't even have a car and driving. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:31.760 I tried to do it on my bike, but there 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.000 were too many newspapers. I couldn't do it on my bike, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.200 so I had my mom drive me around. But I 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.200 got paid a weekly stipend and then I had to 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.240 get you know, you try to you work people for 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:44.920 this the tips around Christmas. But I didn't get very much. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.800 I'm trying to remember what I think it was like, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.560 maybe like fifty bucks a week. It was really low. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.160 I mean, it's a long time ago, so it was 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.240 it was not very much. What about you, Danny g Yeah, 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.600 also delivering newspapers. My family moved from l A to 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.200 the Bay A back to where my mom grew up 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.160 in San Jose, and my cousin threw a paper route 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.400 for the San Jose Mercury News. Cool, and he would 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.320 bribe me with baseball, basketball, football cards and he'd throw 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.600 me five ten dollar bills to help him throw the route. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.000 So that was the first time ever made money off 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.720 of a job. He's San Jose Mercury, which is still around, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.480 unlike the newspaper that I delivered, which is not not 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:34.920 around anymore. Next up, Barry right Sin from Nashville. He says, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.640 Yo yo mob Benny. I don't recall this question being 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.000 asked before I apologize if I missed it. I am 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.400 curious how long ago was it when you first started 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.240 using your catchphrase in the air everywhere? And how did 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.560 it come about that you came up with that slogan? 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.600 All right, so Verry, First of all, I'm really bad 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.680 with dates. I think I've only been at Fox Sports 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.800 Radio for like five years. I've been there over twenty years, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.360 so I'm really better. I think everyone's around my age, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.560 even when they're really young or really old. I think 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.040 I'm really bad with that stuff. So I don't know 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.679 exactly when I started using it. It was at Fox 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.120 Sports Radio. I didn't use it before Fox Sports Radio. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.760 It was early on in my run, so anywhere from 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:21.520 like two thousand one to two thousand four or two 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.840 thousand five, somewhere in that area. So it's been a 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.720 long time I've been using it. And in the early days. 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.120 This is gonna shock people because I do a lot 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.160 of the same bits over and over, but I would 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.880 experiment with different things. When I started on the weekends, 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.079 I was doing the weekend overnight show. We were on 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.680 No Affiliates. We had nobody listening other than Cowboy John 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.840 Brad and Doc Mike. They were the only ones in 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.680 Pete and Pittsburgh. And so I would just try different crap. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.400 And I was just throwing spaghetti against the wall seeing 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.040 what would stick. And I drove in and people say, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.440 I got that from a cartoon. I guess that used that, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.240 But I did not get that from a cartoon. I 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.560 just I said it one night on a Saturday night, 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.199 late at night, I blurted it out and I got 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.280 some good feedback. And since we all have a little 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.200 self esteem. You know how it works, dandy, right, You 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.160 get good feedback. You're like, hey, people like that, Let 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.040 me do that again. And I did, and it just 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.040 kind of became my thing. It became my stick, and 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.400 so I've used it ever since then and I will 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.520 continue to use it as long as I am giving 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.559 access to one of these big microphones. And it's just 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.560 kind of how it happens. It was not when I 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.400 said it the first time. I was like, all right, whatever, 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:37.000 you know, and try something else next hour. But people 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.200 really liked it. They thought it was good. It clicked, 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.800 and and now it'll forever be attached to the network. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.840 It will be on my tombstone someday. You ever think 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.000 the network would come this far? Oh my god, no, 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.520 I we were when we started. ESPN Radio is the giant, right, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.920 They were the mother ship everyone wanted to be, you know, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.360 ESPN Radio was all it could be. And they're a 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.000 little piss ants now compared to our network. I know. 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.079 It is stunning. I am so proud of Fox Sports Radio. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.040 It is amazing because when we started, there were other 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.800 networks that were around. There was I think, I don't know, 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.160 I don't think sports fan radio is around, but the 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.320 sporting news radio there were I remember that there were 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.560 a couple other networks and we were low on the 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.360 totem poll, right. We were like, you didn't have any affiliates. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.760 People didn't like that, didn't take us seriously, and and 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.880 so to see where we are right now, it's awesome. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.360 I mean, I'm so happy, so proud of everyone that's 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.240 worked here over the years at Fox Sports Radio. Because 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.600 in the early days it did we were questioning whether 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.240 we were going to even make it. I was like, oh, 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.360 maybe I'll get a job back in local radio. I 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.200 don't know this because there were rumors because we didn't 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.200 have a lot of affiliates and there were a lot 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.680 of changes that were made at the network. And to 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:57.400 go from that toiates, I know, we when I started, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.880 I didn't start the first like month of Fox SPO. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.720 I was hired like a month or so after the 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:08.440 network started, and I was the first weekend. They didn't 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.640 have any weekend programming when they started because they didn't 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.880 have any affiliates, So what do you need programming for? Um? 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.480 But they we had. I was the first overnight guy, 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.840 and I had update shifts and things, so there was 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.360 a lot of a lot of crap that I had 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:28.080 going on. And we were on in Binghamton, New York, Pittsburgh, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.920 and and we had an affiliate in Michigan, but it 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.000 wasn't Detroit. It was like outside of Detroit. But that 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.520 was about it. We had, like there were a few 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:42.120 other really small radio stations. Wow. So it's it's pretty 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.560 crazy to think where we are today compared to where 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.680 we were back then. We got this whole podcast crap 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.320 that we've gotten out, Danny right, like it's a wild Well, 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:57.800 it's really scary when you think about it. You went 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:02.080 from Milli Vanilly to Pitbull Mr Worldwide. Yeah, there's no 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.840 stop in the train. The train is going. Uh. Next 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:11.359 up on the old mail bag, come back touch It's 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.960 Si from mail Call Mike from Fullerton Rights. And he says, 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.560 first of all, I will like to thank Pierre for 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.760 changing locations every mail bag to spare us all from 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.240 boring Pro Basketball Hall of Fame factoids. Kudos to you, sir. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.440 By the way, Mike, did you know that Muffett McGraw 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.840 is enshrined in the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame? Did 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:38.360 you know that? Yeah? Anyway, Mike, says, I have a 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.480 short question for each of you, Danny, G who do 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:52.280 you like more Covino Rich? That's pretty funny. Yeah, it's 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.920 a loaded question right there. That is a loaded question, 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.400 and Kennon will be used against you if you actually 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.040 answer the question, Danny, I will say this, um Covino's 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:07.280 personality probably match his mind a little more because he's 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:11.679 he's more laid back in the studio, whereas Rich is 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.359 more like a chihuahua. And I mean he jokes about 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.840 this himself. He'll pace back and forth in the hallway 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.639 during the commercial breaks, and he's always in and out 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.880 of the studios, and he's he's very positive, and he's 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.159 got a ton of energy. No, you should have the 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.119 nervous hearts. On Friday's show, he drank not one, but 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:35.080 two coffees, two iced coffees. He's a guy bend. He 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.640 should never be allowed to drink one coffee at all ever. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.040 And so I love his energy, but sometimes it's like 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.960 a puppy. Yeah yeah, so I I would say there's 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.240 a term for that. It's called the Ferman, the Andy Ferman. Right, 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.159 Rich is like Andy Ferman a little bit. Is that 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:58.960 what you're saying I want a mature guy. He is 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:02.160 auntie and he brings that energy to the airwaves, which 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.120 is really good for all air but off the air. Yeah, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:09.560 he can't really sit still, and so Covino, I think 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.439 is more like me as far as sitting still and 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:18.000 only getting up occasionally. And uh, we channel our energy 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.400 to the airways, whereas Rich as nothing but energy. I 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.400 like it though. There is not a day where any 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.600 of us can lag because rich will, you know, bring 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.520 us out of our shell for sure. Yeah, I'm I'm 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.040 more like you and Conveno. I don't really leave the 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.560 studio much. I'm like I, I sit my ask down 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.440 and I just kind of do my thing. You used 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.480 to do laps I did. I did back in the day. 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.399 I was so I was so paranoid about losing weight 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.639 and all that. He would walk around the building. But 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.720 I don't do that anymore. Now I'm just a lump. 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.679 I just sit there and I'll get out one So 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:51.920 I could I go to the gym and I get 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.320 my workout in there. I figure I've as long as 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.159 I maintain my weight. Now I'm in in decent shape, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.880 so I can just keep doing that. Uh. And Mike 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.720 also says Ben on the weekday radio show, you sometimes 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.480 say that you don't need to take calls. You have 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.760 plenty of content. I've yet to hear a whole show 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.560 with no callers, So I'm curious what kind of bonus 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.320 content we're missing out on. Do you always have extra 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.000 monologues or stories prepared in case the phones are down? 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:26.240 Or is it bullshit? And by the fourth hour you'd 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.680 have to resort to announcing the next day's starting lineup 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.080 or starting pitchers for every team in baseball, just to 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.000 fill the time. I was so excited I wanted to 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:40.520 pick more guys. I love it. How dare you? Uh So? No, 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.600 I'm not gonna brag or anything like that, but I 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:47.480 am I a hyper preparer. And the reason I'm a 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.280 hyper preparer I had a very bad experience Mike early 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.720 in my radio career, the first show that I ever did. 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.199 I've told this story a few times, but I had 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.560 the program director, this guy named Bo Bennett, who was watching, 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:01.840 and I was this is like the opportunity of a lifetime. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.720 L A Radio the number one radio market Los Angeles. 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.840 It's not New York, it's l A. Because people in 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.280 cars and all that. So number one market, the whole 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.200 thing l A. I got an opportunity to a show, 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.439 a trial show. So I spent all week preparing for 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:20.199 these monologues. And I just nailed the monologue and I 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.600 had nothing else and I figured I'll just take calls, 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:27.159 and no one called because yeah, so I had flop 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.840 sw I'm pretty sure I drowned that day and I'm dead, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.360 but I had flops with from from not being prepared, 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.560 and so I made a pack with myself that day. 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.080 I said, as long as I'm lucky enough to have 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.600 one of these jobs, I am never gonna go into 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.800 that studio depending on a single fucking caller. Okay, I'm 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.399 not because I can't depend on them. Sometimes people call, 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:52.520 sometimes they don't call. This was local radio and now 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.320 I'm doing a six hundred affiliates. There's always people calling. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:57.560 But I was like, you know, I'm never gonna do 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.720 this again. And so, uh, do you think you slightly 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:05.920 overcorrected like maybe the NFL is doing with concussions. Yes, 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.440 I I wish I could get to a point where 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.480 I don't have as much that there's so much stuff 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.960 that I never get to that never ends up on 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.480 the radio that I have in my back pocket just 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.880 in case I I have Roberto or Cooper say hey, 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.280 the phones aren't working, you know, or something like that, 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:31.160 or nobody calls. Um. But I've I've never I've never 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.680 had to go that far down. But no, I'm I'm 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.520 I'm absolutely able to do an entire show without taking 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.520 a single call. And and that's that's just the way 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:41.639 I've been preparing. And I've I've done that for twenty 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.719 years since I well over twenty years now, since I've 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:48.040 been at Fox. Uh. Mike also says, my guest for 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.560 Ben's Halloween costume this year is Larry the Lobster from 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:59.160 SpongeBob SquarePants. Okay, I will reveal, should I do it now? 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:01.399 You want me to real? And uh, you should probably 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:03.879 do the big reveal at the end of the program. 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:05.760 All Right, I'm gonna wait till the end for the 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:09.280 big reveal. Next up on the mail bag is our 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:14.800 Man our Myth, the legend from Colorado. You heard him 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:21.880 on yesterday's show, Adrian in the Mile High City, he says, 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.600 Benn in Danny g I enjoyed the conversation last week 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:29.360 about food waste. I'm right here with you guys. Adrian says, 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:33.000 I hate food waste. I'm a frugal guy myself. When 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.840 we were on a family cruise this summer, you would 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.720 not believe all the food that was wasted on board 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:43.720 the ship. All yeah, I can't imagine because that would 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.880 have me crazy. It's all inclusive, right, So you get 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.840 you get a plate of burgers, eat one burger. You're like, okay, 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:54.560 I'm good. That's it. Uh And Adrian says, I was 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.200 happy to hear, however, that most of the wasted food 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:01.320 on the ship gets ground down to almost a liquid 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.400 form and is allowed to be dumped into the ocean 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:08.200 for marine life to eat. Well, that's cool. I didn't 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:11.359