Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 4: In the air Everyway back at it again, another edition
Speaker 4: of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g As.
Speaker 1: We are providing you with a marginal podcast. Well hopefully
Speaker 1: it's better than marginal, and you can binge on the podcast.
Speaker 1: You can listen to all the podcasts. If you wait
Speaker 1: till the end of the weekend you can overindulge, or
Speaker 1: you can listen podcast by podcast and wait for it
Speaker 1: to download. I do love the fact. I love and
Speaker 1: hate the fact, and Danny g is with me of
Speaker 1: course on the bikes. I love that that people plan
Speaker 1: their schedule around the podcast to the point where if
Speaker 1: it's not up at exactly the right time, I get
Speaker 1: angry messages and people saying what's going on. I don't
Speaker 1: understand why is the podcast that not off like they
Speaker 1: think that there is some kind of war crime Danny.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, tough cookies or how do you say it is?
Speaker 5: Tough turtles, tough what toenails?
Speaker 1: Tough toenails, or tough toenails.
Speaker 5: That's a good one.
Speaker 1: But listen, we're glad that you love the podcast. We
Speaker 1: try to get it up as early as possible, but
Speaker 1: sometimes there's acts of God. Isn't that the get out
Speaker 1: of jail? If you're an insurance company, well, we don't
Speaker 1: have to pay the claim. It's an act of God.
Speaker 1: So if the podcast doesn't get up at exactly the
Speaker 1: right time, it's an act of God. Right, And you
Speaker 1: can't unpeel an orange. You can try, but you can't
Speaker 1: unpeel an orange. So sometimes things happen, and you.
Speaker 5: Know, well, you know, I just saw one comment on
Speaker 5: Facebook last weekend. But the thing is is, remember I'm
Speaker 5: also working and doing other jobs on the weekend, like
Speaker 5: I did last weekend, so I was doing double duty.
Speaker 5: I was carrying my laptop around with me. While we
Speaker 5: were in a studio with Mike Tyson. You could hear
Speaker 5: Ben Mallers tones coming out of the computer speaker. This
Speaker 5: travels with me. Ben, This is like my baby. I
Speaker 5: have a son, Daddy. This is like my first kid though,
Speaker 5: because this travels with me no matter where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Are you going to be naming your son radio or
Speaker 1: pod Pod for podcast?
Speaker 5: It would be a good middle name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, radio pod there you go. Well, well, radio would
Speaker 1: be a tough first name because your last name is radio,
Speaker 1: so it it'd be radio ring.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 1: That would be an awkward name. The kid would be
Speaker 1: picked on at school. Radio Radio'd a bit of a problem. Anyway,
Speaker 1: big event at the Malor Mansion. Now, if you follow
Speaker 1: this podcast, you know and this is just the life
Speaker 1: of me Ben, in the life of Danny g As.
Speaker 1: We kind of let you behind the microphone as we
Speaker 1: have big, exciting lives star radio people. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: living the dream here, Danny. We're big time radio people.
Speaker 1: An amazing thing. It is not at all like the
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone. It's not like you're traveling through another dimension,
Speaker 1: a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mine. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it is a wondrous land. So a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago when the COVID hit, I guess we're going back
Speaker 1: three years now, a few months before COVID happened, I
Speaker 1: had made a very big and very big purchase that
Speaker 1: was a life changing proom. This is what a loser
Speaker 1: I am that I was so excited about getting this.
Speaker 1: I got a gymnasium grade treadmill. They were on sale
Speaker 1: and there was a gym that had closed. It's the
Speaker 1: same treadmill that I use when I go to the
Speaker 1: actual gym. I love this thing, right, I'm on there
Speaker 1: all the time. You know, It's my standard default workout.
Speaker 1: That's my deal. So I bought this treadmill and I
Speaker 1: got the whole thing. We had to call an electrician
Speaker 1: to get the things set up because it takes special
Speaker 1: kind of plug. And anyway, when COVID happened, to make
Speaker 1: a long story a little bit longer, things did not
Speaker 1: go well. And at the end of twenty twenty into
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, my father had become sick and really
Speaker 1: suddenly passed away. And in the process we ended up
Speaker 1: moving while the pandemic was still going on. And the
Speaker 1: people that moved the treadmill, let's just say they didn't
Speaker 1: use kid gloves when they were taking the treadmill apart.
Speaker 1: It was not a Noble Art the art of moving there.
Speaker 1: It was a bit of a frightening experience. It was
Speaker 1: really terrifying watching this thing being taken apart. So it
Speaker 1: stayed in storage for about a year. It came out
Speaker 1: as storage and it didn't work. So that was a problem. Shocker, yeah,
Speaker 1: and covered in dust and all that. And so finally
Speaker 1: within the last week here my lovely wife has has
Speaker 1: gifted this is this my birthday weekend here Danny and
Speaker 1: so I said, she asked me what I wanted for
Speaker 1: my birthday? What a loser? I said, this is what
Speaker 1: I want. I want my I want to I want
Speaker 1: a treadmill to be fixed. So we knew a guy
Speaker 1: that kind of Now it's halfway fixed. It's not all
Speaker 1: the way fixed. You know how treadmills have elevation. That's
Speaker 1: not working. But the rest of it works, and I'm
Speaker 1: fine with that for now. I'm fine with that for now.
Speaker 1: So I can studio exactly exactly. You know, it's not perfect.
Speaker 1: Looks good, it definitely looks good. It looks like everything
Speaker 1: should be working. It doesn't all work. It looks great.
Speaker 1: It's aesthetically pleasing and all that. So still needs a
Speaker 1: little bit work, But it's been nice to have it back.
Speaker 1: And I don't even use it every but I still
Speaker 1: go to the gym because I have a gym membership
Speaker 1: that I'm still paying for. But it's nice to have.
Speaker 1: And sometimes on the weekends or if I have an
Speaker 1: extra fifteen minutes, I want to just jump on here
Speaker 1: and there sporadically. So it's kind a cool thing to have.
Speaker 1: And it's a one of those perks in life that
Speaker 1: are neat to have, and so it's it's nice. You know.
Speaker 1: It's also nice dad shoes. Hell right, not those?
Speaker 5: No, they're not nice.
Speaker 1: Oh they're not nice.
Speaker 5: No, Well you buy? Do you buy yours? At Costco?
Speaker 1: I don't. My feet are two wide. I can't buy.
Speaker 5: Otherwise you would, though, right of course I would.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 5: There's somebody else And I mentioned his name a few
Speaker 5: minutes ago. Might surprise you that he rocks dad shoes
Speaker 5: in Vegas broadcasting live last weekend for that big fight, which,
Speaker 5: by the way, did the Russian bot help you watch it?
Speaker 1: I was able to see it. Did you go to
Speaker 1: the fire? Were you able to get in?
Speaker 3: Or no?
Speaker 1: You No? You did not? Ah?
Speaker 5: No, I know. It's like when we covered the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know. It's like everyone goes to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and hardly anyone ever actually goes to
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, but it was still a great weekend,
Speaker 5: good food. It was fun hanging out with Covino and
Speaker 5: Rich and spot.
Speaker 1: Now did you make before you tell the story you
Speaker 1: take it to I did recommend a burger place? Were
Speaker 1: able to make it?
Speaker 5: Or no? No? Because we had food credits but only
Speaker 5: inside Win and Encore.
Speaker 1: Oh so you had free food? Huh.
Speaker 5: We we did have some free food, but we had
Speaker 5: to stay but where we were at although funny story
Speaker 5: about that. We go into one of the restaurants in
Speaker 5: the wind and Rich says, all right, I'm gonna put
Speaker 5: this meal on my room for the credit that I
Speaker 5: have for a meal. So you know, we're eating, We're
Speaker 5: ordering what we want off the menu. He even ordered
Speaker 5: two desserts ben not one, but two for the table.
Speaker 5: And then when he told the waitress at the very end, yeah,
Speaker 5: my room number is this, she said, we're privately owned. No, yeah,
Speaker 5: poor Rich. So he had to just put it on
Speaker 5: his own credit card.
Speaker 1: And that's a body blow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just to be a dick, I said, so, do
Speaker 5: you think you would have got a second dessert?
Speaker 1: No, what you should have done is that he said,
Speaker 1: can I get a doggy bag? I'd like some of
Speaker 1: that orange chicken to go? Can I get some?
Speaker 5: It was a good time. It was a lot of fun,
Speaker 5: but it was hard work too, because we're lugging around
Speaker 5: all this broadcasting gear. What three four hours of broadcasting,
Speaker 5: But there was a law of prep before. There was
Speaker 5: a lot of post production after. Of course, not for
Speaker 5: rich He got to run and he plays digital Roulette
Speaker 5: really yeah, a video game. It's like Roulette, but a
Speaker 5: video game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with real money. I've done that. I love Roulette really,
Speaker 1: that's my favorite game to play in Vegas. The problem
Speaker 1: I got burned on one of those Roulette things because
Speaker 1: I have a certain system with Roulette, like it's it's
Speaker 1: you play the odds, right, it's either black, red or green,
Speaker 1: and you need to pick red or black fifty to
Speaker 1: fifty chance or even fifty. Well it's not quite fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty. But I was playing one of those Roulette
Speaker 1: machines and I was betting red. And the way it
Speaker 1: works is you when you know, I'll give the system
Speaker 1: out right. I don't do it really much anymore. But
Speaker 1: you bet red, you lose, you double your bet, you
Speaker 1: lose again, you double your bet. Now you got to
Speaker 1: have a big enough payroll, big enough bank roll. But
Speaker 1: eventually it's going to come back to red in less. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a rig game, and you're playing a roulette game,
Speaker 1: a video game version, and it hits green or black.
Speaker 1: I think it was nine or ten times in a row,
Speaker 1: and I went, I lost everything.
Speaker 5: Oh brutal. There. At one point he was up seven
Speaker 5: hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh see, what you got to do is when you
Speaker 1: got to go back to your original amount and save
Speaker 1: the rest is as profits is which you got.
Speaker 5: So I told him the same thing and he was like,
Speaker 5: I know, I know, but he kept he's a Niners fan.
Speaker 5: He kept doing Red sixteen, Red sixteen for Joe Montana,
Speaker 5: Red sixteen, so he's he's you know, he at least
Speaker 5: got to go have a little bit of fun doing that.
Speaker 5: While I was doing post production in the Blue Wires
Speaker 5: studios there at the wind so beautiful setup looked spectacular
Speaker 5: on the cameras but also functioned at one hundred percent
Speaker 5: nice studios there is you're walking away from the pool
Speaker 5: in the Spa to some of the fancy restaurants, you
Speaker 5: walk past this studio, so it's like being in a
Speaker 5: fish bowl. All the wind clientele and visitors are looking
Speaker 5: into the studio and they can hear the broadcast. So
Speaker 5: it's a pretty cool setup. So we do Friday show live. Saturday,
Speaker 5: we come back to do a special podcast version of
Speaker 5: the show as a fight preview. But we get a
Speaker 5: call saying, hey, we know you guys are all set
Speaker 5: to go at two pm. We're gonna have to push
Speaker 5: you back a little bit because Mike Tyson is in
Speaker 5: there right now doing his podcast. He and his crew
Speaker 5: mentioned that he's been on your show quite a few times,
Speaker 5: and they apologize for pushing you guys back, but he
Speaker 5: said he'll do a few minutes with you and take
Speaker 5: some video promo stuff with you before you jump on
Speaker 5: the air. So we're like, okay, that's cool. So we
Speaker 5: hang around. We're waiting, We're waiting. We get in there.
Speaker 5: There's obviously a shit ton of people outside the window
Speaker 5: watching and listening, trying to get a picture of Mike Tyson.
Speaker 1: I feel this is a little self and grand diving.
Speaker 5: Inside the Green room. Is this guy who's kind of
Speaker 5: cheering on the interview uh, And a couple of times
Speaker 5: he kept saying, my dad this, and yeah, my dad, Well,
Speaker 5: when's my dad gonna be done? And I didn't know
Speaker 5: if he was talking about the guy who was interviewing
Speaker 5: Mike Tyson. The R and B singer Neo was also
Speaker 5: in there, and I'm like, well, this kid's a little
Speaker 5: too old to be Neo's son, but I wasn't sure.
Speaker 5: So finally I asked him. I said, who's your dad, Mike.
Speaker 5: Mike's my dad, so's Tyson's son, which was cool, So
Speaker 5: we started chatting with him, and then Tyson comes out
Speaker 5: and he's got this look on his face. Ben it
Speaker 5: looked like he was about to go ten. He wanted
Speaker 5: to punch somebody in the grill.
Speaker 1: I love me.
Speaker 5: It turns out he wanted to get the f out
Speaker 5: of there because they wouldn't let him smoke inside the studio.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was gonna ask you, because he's a big
Speaker 1: weed guy. Did he smell like weed? Was he smelling
Speaker 1: like the weed there?
Speaker 5: His weed company manager was there in the building. They
Speaker 5: were pushing that brand, and they were also pushing Mike's
Speaker 5: Pro brand, which is his boxing gloves and boxing gear. Well,
Speaker 5: he had some of those edible ears that he sells
Speaker 5: in honor of Evander Holyfield, so he had the gummies
Speaker 5: they were handing out. They gave us a cool bag
Speaker 5: of some Tyson boxing gloves. And even though Tyson was
Speaker 5: super I don't want to say grouchy, but he had
Speaker 5: been in there broadcasting for four hours, which you know
Speaker 5: what that's like, But for him, four hours without a
Speaker 5: weed break might as well have been a year because
Speaker 5: he wanted to get the f out of there and
Speaker 5: smoke smoke.
Speaker 1: No, I'm surprised in being in Vegas where it is
Speaker 1: nothing but cigarette and weed smoke. Like they won't they
Speaker 1: won't allow Mike Tyson to smoke in the studio, like
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get it. Did they anyone explain why?
Speaker 1: That is?
Speaker 5: The guy that runs the place told us that the
Speaker 5: Win went all out with these facilities. They spent over
Speaker 5: a million dollars on this TV slash radio setup. It's
Speaker 5: brand shiny, spanking new, kind of like our new setup
Speaker 5: in Sherman Oaks, California. And so it would be like
Speaker 5: coop lighting up inside the new digs. We have just
Speaker 5: not gonna see that. So even though he was Mike,
Speaker 5: they told him, all right, we're gonna wrap it up.
Speaker 5: You did your four hours. I guess they filmed two
Speaker 5: of their two hour podcasts back to back. But for Mike,
Speaker 5: he already had a long day because it's a fight weekend.
Speaker 5: Everybody's trying to get a piece of him. Everybody was
Speaker 5: trying to interview him to get his prediction on the
Speaker 5: big Garcia fight and Tank Davis. Mike was a already tired,
Speaker 5: you know, from being picked at, but then he had
Speaker 5: to do his own show, his own hot boxing podcast.
Speaker 5: But it was funny to watch him walk out of
Speaker 5: the main studio. I wasn't the only one. Cavino looked
Speaker 5: down too. Mike has this blinged out shirt on. It's
Speaker 5: like some shiny thread. It looked like he must have
Speaker 5: dropped one thousand dollars on his shirt, but then on
Speaker 5: his feet some new balanced dad shoes. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look the baddest man on the planet, iron like ty.
Speaker 1: That's kid dynamite.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Man, the one thousand dollars shirt, but the dad shoes.
Speaker 5: He came out and he gave both Covino and Rich
Speaker 5: a hug. Obviously, he's a big part of our Tuesdays
Speaker 5: at the Network with Tyson Tuesdays and Iron Mike Trivia.
Speaker 5: So him and his camp gave us giveaways to give
Speaker 5: out his prizes on Tuesday, and he only posed for
Speaker 5: one picture before he got out of there to smoke,
Speaker 5: and that was with you know and Rich, which was
Speaker 5: really nice. But as he walked away, Cavina looked at
Speaker 5: me and he was like, did you see his dad shoes?
Speaker 1: That's your that's your future, Danny g your future. He's
Speaker 1: only he's not actually that much older than us. I think.
Speaker 1: I don't know how old is Tyson. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: He's got to be got to me in his fifties.
Speaker 5: But yeah, he's not bigger than us. I could take him.
Speaker 1: You think I'd like to see that. He's not very tall.
Speaker 1: Does his kid look like him? Does his son?
Speaker 5: Yeah? His son did look like him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got a bunch of kids, U he does, Mike.
Speaker 5: So really nice kid, very well spoken, and yeah he
Speaker 5: helps his dad at the ranch.
Speaker 1: The weed ranch, Tyson must have. I bet you he's
Speaker 1: made more money from weed than he had boxing.
Speaker 5: They're not wrong. His manager told us that Tyson's weed
Speaker 5: company right now sells the most weed in America?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 1: How about that? Think about that heavyweight champion of the world,
Speaker 1: all those big fights with Lennox Lewis and all the
Speaker 1: different fights over the years. But he was part of
Speaker 1: one of the great one of the great failed radio promotions.
Speaker 1: We were in the late nineties, I think it was
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, and we'd rent out the radio station,
Speaker 1: would rent out venues in Hollywood and they'd have listener
Speaker 1: parties for the big pay per view fights, and it
Speaker 1: was the Whiskey of Go Go, I think it was
Speaker 1: the It was either the Whiskey of Go Go or
Speaker 1: the Viper Room, which I don't think is around anymore.
Speaker 1: But they rented out one of these places in Hollywood
Speaker 1: for the Tyson fight with the Vander Holyfield, which ended
Speaker 1: with Tyson getting the munchies fighting off the ear of
Speaker 1: holy Field. And the people that were there at the
Speaker 1: party were so upset they wanted like refunds and stuff
Speaker 1: because the way the fight is. I'm like, no, I
Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna get a no refunds, No, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think you know. The program director was freaking out.
Speaker 1: It was like a big, a big shit show, is
Speaker 1: what it was. I'm a man, I'm forty and I
Speaker 1: know we played this not that long ago. But today
Speaker 1: is the day. Today is a big day. It's April
Speaker 1: twenty ninth.
Speaker 5: Yeah, your birthday, your birthday.
Speaker 1: It's a big day for me. But it's also a
Speaker 1: big day because this is the fortieth anniversary. I believe
Speaker 1: it's the fortieth anniversary of the greatest rant of all time,
Speaker 1: the Lee Ilia rant, which is my favorite. I'm so
Speaker 1: happy that I was born on this day. So this
Speaker 1: happened in nineteen eighty three, April twenty ninth, nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 1: so I believe I'm right. You go eighty three to
Speaker 1: ninety three to two thousand and three, twan thirteen, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. So this fortieth anniversary of Lee Ilia, the
Speaker 1: Cub manager. After a Cub Dodger game early in the season,
Speaker 1: Cubs got off to a bad start. It was not
Speaker 1: a good situation and normally I would not play this again, Danny,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna play it right here, and this is
Speaker 1: the day to do it. It is the single greatest
Speaker 1: rant in the history of coaches rants, the gold standard
Speaker 1: the great lee Ilia. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one fucking thing. I hope we get
Speaker 3: fucking hotter and shit, just to stuff it up them
Speaker 3: three thousand fucking people that show up every fucking day,
Speaker 3: because if they're the real Chicago fucking fans, they can
Speaker 3: kiss my fucking hands right downtown and print it. They're
Speaker 3: really really behind you around here, my fucking hands.
Speaker 5: The fuck am I supposed to do?
Speaker 3: Go out there and let my fucking players get destroy
Speaker 3: every day and be quiet about it for the fucking
Speaker 3: nickel Dine people to show up. The motherfuckers don't even work.
Speaker 3: That's why they're out at the fucking game. They only
Speaker 3: go out and get a fucking job and find out
Speaker 3: what it's like to go out there in a fucking living.
Speaker 3: Eighty five percent of the fucking world work it. The
Speaker 3: other fifteen come out here the fucking playground for the cocksuckers.
Speaker 3: Rip them, motherfuckers, rip them tuck the cocksuckers. What the
Speaker 3: fucking players, god guys fusing their fucking ass and them
Speaker 3: fucking people do. And that's the cut, my fucking ant.
Speaker 3: They talk about the great fucking support that the players
Speaker 3: get around here. I haven't seen it this fucking there.
Speaker 3: The name of the game is hit the ball, catch
Speaker 3: the ball, and get the fucking job done. Right now,
Speaker 3: we have more losses than we have wins. The fucking
Speaker 3: changes that have happened in the Cup organization are multifolds.
Speaker 3: They don't show because we're five and fourteen, and unfortunately
Speaker 3: that's the criteria of them. Some fifteen motherfucking percent that
Speaker 3: come out to day baseball. The other eighty five percent
Speaker 3: are earning a living. It'll take more than a five
Speaker 3: and thirteen or five and fourteen to destroy the makeup
Speaker 3: of this club. I guarantee you that there's some fucking
Speaker 3: pros out there that want to fucking.
Speaker 1: Play this game.
Speaker 3: But you're sucking a fucking sigma, the fucking Dodgers and
Speaker 3: the Phillies and the Cardinals and all that sheep shit.
Speaker 3: All these mother fucking editorials about say and fucking the
Speaker 3: philliitis and all that shit that's they're sickening. It's unbelievable,
Speaker 3: it really is. It's a disheartening fucking situation we're in
Speaker 3: right now, five and fourteen. Doesn't the gate all that
Speaker 3: work one hundred and forty three fucking games left. What
Speaker 3: I'm trying to say is, don't rip them fucking guys
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 5: Rip me.
Speaker 3: Do you want to rip somebody? Rip my fucking hand,
Speaker 3: But don't rip them fucking guys because they're given everything
Speaker 3: they can give. But once we hit that fucking groove,
Speaker 3: it'll flow, and it will flow. The talent's there. I
Speaker 3: don't know how to make it any Clearancey, I'm frustrated.
Speaker 3: I'll guarantee I'm frustrated. It'd be different if I walked
Speaker 3: in this room every day at eight thirty, I saw
Speaker 3: a bunch of guys. They didn't give a shit. They
Speaker 3: give a shit, and it's a tough National League.
Speaker 1: Eese, oh man, of all the days. Day on my birthday,
Speaker 1: that's what a great gift. I was a little kid.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm saying you can, uh, you can ask for
Speaker 5: whatever audio you would like today, but that one was
Speaker 5: so nice we had to do it twice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And some have said, why why would you do
Speaker 1: the podcast? It's your birthday, you should take the podcast up,
Speaker 1: And I say, no, dandy, no, this is this is
Speaker 1: not the work. You know, It's pales in comparison to
Speaker 1: what other people do, have real jobs and where they
Speaker 1: have to pave roads and do construction and things like
Speaker 1: that and physical I mean, we're mentally drained at the
Speaker 1: end of the week. But you know, at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's fun. We like doing it. And plus you got
Speaker 1: to keep doing it until they pull the microphone away
Speaker 1: from you. Isn't that the way that works, right? I
Speaker 1: think that's the way that works.
Speaker 5: Oh outswinging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to keep doing it because eventually they
Speaker 1: won't give you the opportunity. Got to keep going. Malar Merch.
Speaker 1: Malard Merch a tremendous success. It's nobody can buy the
Speaker 1: shirts anymore. But we had the Minnesota Malard meat and
Speaker 1: green shirt which was available limited time. We talked about
Speaker 1: it last week on the podcast. We had overwhelming support
Speaker 1: from the Mallard Militia, which is great. It's a limited
Speaker 1: edition shirt, it's purple, it's got the the Ben Mahler
Speaker 1: Show name on it, the silhouette of the state of
Speaker 1: Minnesota and all of that. And so those will be
Speaker 1: sent out. You should be getting them before the meet
Speaker 1: and greet, and I'm happy to report a lot of
Speaker 1: people that appeers order those who are not going to
Speaker 1: actually attend the event and one woman in particular I
Speaker 1: would like to thank, and I don't think she wants
Speaker 1: me to say her name, at least not her real name.
Speaker 1: But she's a super fan of the show in Minnesota, Danny,
Speaker 1: and she decided to help support the Malard Merch movement.
Speaker 1: I guess she wants more malor merch. She bought I
Speaker 1: think one fan bought twenty five shirts, right, yeah, twenty
Speaker 1: five or twenty six shirts. She said she's going to
Speaker 1: give them out to her friends. She said she wishes
Speaker 1: they all listen, but she said some of them do
Speaker 1: and all whatnot. I guess maybe they'll start listening and
Speaker 1: all that. But it was really great.
Speaker 5: Here's an idea for her, ben she can do a
Speaker 5: hit at the meet and greet. She could do Mallard
Speaker 5: or Militia trivia and she's like her own street team.
Speaker 5: She has prizes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: See, that's a great idea because people have been emailing me, Danny,
Speaker 1: and they're saying, well, what kind of events are we have?
Speaker 1: What are we having at the meet and greet? And
Speaker 1: my response is always, well, it's just kind of me
Speaker 1: hanging out, you know, me talking to saying hello, and
Speaker 1: you can meet other listeners but a Mather Show theme trivia,
Speaker 1: which would either be one of the greatest things of
Speaker 1: all time or a disaster where no one gets it right.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there like, oh my god, what Jimminy cricket?
Speaker 1: What happened? So it could go one of two ways.
Speaker 1: But it's already gonna be a circus under the big Top,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna be the ringleader. We've got Spence, Cycer,
Speaker 1: Regina who's helping put this together, Doc Mike. There's a
Speaker 1: couple of listeners in Florida that are considering flying in.
Speaker 1: We have one from northern California, one of our buddies,
Speaker 1: a big forty nine er fans gonna be flying in.
Speaker 1: I've had people email me from Canada, obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of people Wisconsin who are going to drive over, which
Speaker 1: is not that far. And so I'm excited. I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun, and it sounds
Speaker 1: like we're gonna get a pretty good turnout. But I
Speaker 1: have no idea who's gonna show up. But as far
Speaker 1: as the Mallard merch, I did want to thank the
Speaker 1: people that purchased the shirts, and I did see some
Speaker 1: familiar names. I don't know if they want me to
Speaker 1: say their names or not, but thank you. I know
Speaker 1: there was one of our big fans and okay see
Speaker 1: for example. And so this was a test run. And
Speaker 1: if you guys want you know those of you that
Speaker 1: bought the shirt and those of you that didn't buy
Speaker 1: the shirt but thought maybe you should have bought the
Speaker 1: shirt and you missed out on it. My idea is
Speaker 1: later on, maybe in the summer or the end of summer,
Speaker 1: we'll try to do something again, maybe a more generic
Speaker 1: shirt that like a Mallard militia theme thing. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens with that. But I'm happy to report
Speaker 1: that one very well. We have the backscratcher segment, Danny,
Speaker 1: the backscratcher segment. As you scratch our back, we will
Speaker 1: scratch your back. And how many reviews did we get
Speaker 1: this week to chase the four hundred? Did we get zero,
Speaker 1: one or three reviews this week?
Speaker 5: Danny G. I think the listeners were just as busy
Speaker 5: as we were with the brand new studios.
Speaker 1: Zero surprise, surprise, surprise, Danny. We got one fun review.
Speaker 1: One review and here it is. It says five stars,
Speaker 1: five stars. This is the Apple podcast page, which for
Speaker 1: some reason the management look at and they like, I
Speaker 1: don't understand why. It makes no sense to me, but
Speaker 1: they do. These are people that live different lives than us.
Speaker 1: So this one says, if you enjoy fun facts, this
Speaker 1: is the podcast for you. Out the Alien O piner Oh,
Speaker 1: this is a rare and appropriate update to My Golden Ticket,
Speaker 1: awarded previous review of the Fifth Hour podcast with Ben
Speaker 1: Mallor and Daddy Radio who.
Speaker 5: Gave him a golden ticket, Well, he.
Speaker 1: Deserved a golden ticket. The man got a golden ticket,
Speaker 1: he says. If you never listen to this podcast, it's
Speaker 1: a spin off of the Ben Maler show, The Overnight
Speaker 1: Juggernaut on Fox Sports Radio weeknights two am to six am.
Speaker 1: This sounds like something I wrote. The podcast is constantly
Speaker 1: evolving and only getting better. Tune in eight days a
Speaker 1: week to catch up on old episodes and listen to
Speaker 1: new content every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 5: He said, sounds like commercial copy I write.
Speaker 1: This is a professional copy. I did not write this.
Speaker 1: You can someday tell your friends that you were a
Speaker 1: listener to Ben Maller before he was awarded the Marconi
Speaker 1: for excellence and radio broadcasting. That is, if he is
Speaker 1: nominated for the aforementioned award by the people that care
Speaker 1: about this review.
Speaker 5: Ben's beIN Big. Ben Maller is an American sports radio
Speaker 5: host weekday radio show up Fox Sports Radio three Pacific Time.
Speaker 1: Well, al thank you very much. Alf. Actually this is funny.
Speaker 1: So Alv tried to nominate me for a Marconi Award,
Speaker 1: but then realize the only way you can be nominated
Speaker 1: is if your employer nominates you. And I hate to
Speaker 1: inform Alf that there are about seven thousand people that
Speaker 1: this company will promote for a Marconi Award before me,
Speaker 1: and probably as it should be. So my advice to
Speaker 1: Alvin if you want to help, There's all kinds of awards, right,
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of awards out there, so just find someone.
Speaker 1: There's like pot, there's podcasting awards. There's all kinds of
Speaker 1: other awards, so you know, hey, why not if you're
Speaker 1: into that kind of thing. I don't even know some
Speaker 1: of these awards.
Speaker 5: Hey, I have a fun fact for you.
Speaker 1: Fun fact. We have a fun fact.
Speaker 5: Oh hi, o, wow, please make a little production piece
Speaker 5: for this, like something about fun facts are so fun.
Speaker 5: Fun fact and then we'll come on with a fun fact.
Speaker 5: Alf will love this. The day that we opened the
Speaker 5: brand new Fox Sports Radio studios, whose birthday was it?
Speaker 1: Whose birthday was it?
Speaker 5: Birthday was a long time ago, but it was his birthday.
Speaker 5: I do not know Marconi?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 5: Was Marconi's birthday the day we opened up the brand
Speaker 5: new studios.
Speaker 1: Is that why they chose that day?
Speaker 5: Is that the no I talked to Scott Shapiro. He
Speaker 5: had no idea, but he said, now that you told
Speaker 5: me that, I'm gonna lie and tell people that.
Speaker 1: Of course it's the way. Yeah, who knew? Amazing?
Speaker 5: So the Marconi Studios, sorry, that's what we should call them.
Speaker 5: They are the Marconi studios.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Marconi uh Premiere or whatever you know. Put
Speaker 1: some spots or tire round.
Speaker 5: Oh and we got to put Uncle Frank in there too.
Speaker 1: That's right, the great And then that was the talk
Speaker 1: and the Great Frank Pollock, the big cod p May
Speaker 1: he rest in peace. The Great Frank Pollack are old engineering.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to do something for him and all that.
Speaker 1: Uh so we have, but we can either do a
Speaker 1: little get scientifical or pop culture. Pop goes the culture
Speaker 1: which one you want to a couple of stories? Just
Speaker 1: a couple of stories.
Speaker 5: What do you think that you Let's steal a couple
Speaker 5: of scientificals.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get scientifical. A tribute to the old
Speaker 1: pen and Teller show Bullshit, where we give you science
Speaker 1: stories and then we try to figure out whether we
Speaker 1: believe it or not, or whether or not it is bullshit.
Speaker 1: So here's a a fun story from the science community.
Speaker 1: A new study has linked French fries to depression. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you a French fry guy? Dan?
Speaker 5: I like French?
Speaker 1: Who doesn't like French fries? I don't know anybody that
Speaker 1: doesn't like friends.
Speaker 5: I like them, but I skipped them all the time.
Speaker 5: If there's a combo where fries arecluded, I get something else.
Speaker 5: Why Because I feel like a fat whale if I
Speaker 5: eat a whole bunch of fries.
Speaker 1: Well, I like to feel like a whale because I
Speaker 1: only eat once a day. So I'm like, what ever,
Speaker 1: might as well enjoy yourself. But according to a study
Speaker 1: from the Environmental Sciences that was published in the journal PNAS,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. It's all word slid
Speaker 1: to me. They found that frequent fried food consumption, especially
Speaker 1: fried potatoes aka French front is strongly associated with twelve
Speaker 1: percent to seven percent higher risk of anxiety and depression.
Speaker 1: So the new research suggesting that French fries are linked
Speaker 1: to depression, I'm going bullshit on this. I'm going I'm
Speaker 1: going bullshit on this. So that that's my hot take
Speaker 1: on that. I don't buy it because.
Speaker 5: People are scientists on the radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's people that are health health nuts
Speaker 1: that don't eat French fies, that are depressed and all that. Well,
Speaker 1: here's another fun study from the scientifical world. Men like
Speaker 1: meat because it makes them feel manly. Ah, the men
Speaker 1: enjoy me? How about that? For a study study, participants
Speaker 1: were surveyed on their perceived masculinity or femininity. They were
Speaker 1: also asked about their views on meat consumption and veganism.
Speaker 1: And those who can form most the gender roles see
Speaker 1: eating meat as natural. There you go, and so they
Speaker 1: put that together and they we're all Neanderthals if you
Speaker 1: go far enough back. That's the research from a university
Speaker 1: in Australia. They surveyed five and forty four men and women. Nah,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if I believe that one
Speaker 1: eat zero for two on that. Oh, here's a one
Speaker 1: from the space world. Are aliens trying to contact the
Speaker 1: mother Earth? Astronomers have detected twenty five new fast radio
Speaker 1: bursts from outer space.
Speaker 5: Do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Speaker 5: Do Do Do Do do doo. Yeah, they're coming. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's also another story in one of the science journals
Speaker 1: that says the scientists say alien contact with Earth could
Speaker 1: come as soon as the year twenty twenty nine. How
Speaker 1: the what do they picked us out of? It took
Speaker 1: us twenty twenty nine? Here's a hot take, Danny, We've
Speaker 1: already had contact with the aliens.
Speaker 2: You know how I know that.
Speaker 1: I have an iPhone. That's how I know that that's
Speaker 1: alien technology. Put that in your pipe and smoky. What
Speaker 1: else do we have here? Let's see me money, mo
Speaker 1: I think that's that's about That's about an I don't
Speaker 1: have too much time here, and so, out of an
Speaker 1: abundance of caution.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, before we say later, alligator,
Speaker 1: what do we have coming up here?
Speaker 5: Danny?
Speaker 1: G anything going? That's my birthday today.
Speaker 5: So I heard, man, it's your birthday. Hopefully that means
Speaker 5: some good luck on the lake today is the Derby.
Speaker 5: This is once a year where my dad rents that
Speaker 5: boat and we go out there and we try to
Speaker 5: catch the ten thousand dollars fish.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, I remember this story. Yeah, all right, well,
Speaker 1: good luck man. I hope my birthday is memorable and
Speaker 1: you get the ten grand. Now, after taxes, that's about
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars and you can divvy that up with.
Speaker 5: Everybody, right, so yeah in California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. In fact, they might actually charge you if
Speaker 1: you win, they might actually charge you an extra five
Speaker 1: thousand in taxes. But as far as what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: it's just a regular birthday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what are you doing for your b day?
Speaker 1: Milestone birthday? But there's a probably a little road trip
Speaker 1: action going on, a little roadie that will take place,
Speaker 1: and I can't get that far from from the mothership
Speaker 1: because I gotta work tomorrow night. I gotta do the
Speaker 1: podcast tomorrow. So we got that going on. But thanks
Speaker 1: to everyone for the birthday messages. I appreciate that. And
Speaker 1: some people say, what should we get you for your birthdays?
Speaker 1: I don't need it. But if you want to send something,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't reject it, right, Danny.
Speaker 5: And if you're going to be at the mallor meet
Speaker 5: and greet, find Benny a hat.
Speaker 1: Yes, size eight. I love hats. I got good Minnesota
Speaker 1: with an M on it for Minnesota. Now, I do
Speaker 1: have a Golden Golpher set, so I do have that.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll bring that with me. I have a Minnesota
Speaker 1: Golden Gopher set that I got.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, you got to pack that.
Speaker 1: That's got to be with me on that. All right,
Speaker 1: have a great rest of your Saturday, and we will
Speaker 1: chat with you tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day.
Speaker 5: Have a great birthday, Austin, Austa my relation