"Bacon Bucks" Mail Bag

get all the content. And this a spinoff of the Overnight Show. As we are in the air everywhere eight days a week, and we thank you for supporting the podcast, supporting the radio show, all of that. And this is the Sunday mail Bag Danny G. This is a actacking, spectacular podcast. My favorite podcast of the week, the Mailbag. So without further ado, are you ready Danny? Yeah, it is a big day for the Mallard Militia. Big night because tonight and Monday morning of course the Bennies. So

we have our steamers out just like Coop. I think you found some bell bottoms in your closet. Yeah, well, I was a kid, my mom, I have some photos I found when I have you know, I went through the stuff. I was a Bell Bottoms baby. I want you to know, Danny, I was a Bell Bottomed I was that seventies show. Damn right. So we are ready, here we go. Let's strike. I mean in the mailbag. You know how we start the mailbag right here bag thanks to our buddy ohio Al who sent that one in.

We honor ohio Al every week with that little male ditty. And let's get into you've got all right. First one comes from moving man Matt Currently. He says he's in Barstow but headed to Vegas. I wonder if he had a taco from Del Taco, the famous Del Taco and Barstow. So it's original Del Taco, right or one of the Yeah, that was one of the very first Del tacos. And if you go there to this day, they put more beans inside the burritos there. Yes, their claim to fame.

They have the Barstow menu. Yeah, the burritos like the size of your head. Wow, if you don't know what Del Taco is, because it's not all over the country. It's like Taco Bell, but it's the you know, yeah, a little more Mexican? Is it more Mexican? I think I think they those are gringo tacos, the crunchy tacos that I like. There they are, but I think the burritos are a little more Mexican. Movie Man Matt says,

would you buy the Mallard billboard? It's currently for sale and a new Mallard billboard will becoming a more luxurious one. It is a piece of show history after all. Well, that's very flattering, moving man, Matt, that you would think that I would want to purchase that, Ay, that I would want of course I would want it, be I have nowhere to put it. It's massive. I can't put it anywhere and take up too much space. And see I couldn't afford it. So other than that, uh, we

need somebody else to step up. But thank you for the very kind offer. I do appreciate that, but unfortunately, uh, can I do it now? He has a question for Danny. Moving Man Matt says, what was the coolest thing about being able to get former President Donald Trump on the phone for Clay when you did it? And tell that story, Danny. For those that have not heard you were producing for Clay Travis. You were the reason, part of the reason that Clay became the new Rush Limball. You helped him,

he helps you vice versa. But when you were producing his show, you had some very interesting guests. And you've got to do something that I'm very jealous of. To talk to a president, the president of the United States most powerful position, uh finger on the nuclear bombs and you talked to this guy. What was that like? Yeah, I haven't got to talk about that on our podcast. Uh, it was definitely scary that first time he called to be answering the phone and knowing that our phone system

is not fool proof. I just totally assume that the phones are not gonna work. So let's see how this goes, and me the fool running the phone box. I turned on the lights extra bright in the studio because, as you know, Ben Roberto and I like the lights to be low in there, like mood lighting. Yes, I set the mood in there when I'm in the studios. But I turned the lights on him like I gotta see what I'm doing. And then I was sweating it because

Clay's teasing this obviously all morning. I'm getting text messages from bosses that normally aren't awake at that time, texting me if they are listening at that time. Usually I don't hear from them. So I'm hearing from all these different people. My phone is blowing up. I'm trying to concentrate on the show that was live and what's going on on the phone, and then Clay gets nervous, why

do our phones not work? The crazy part, Ben was that I figured that when the call did finally come in during the time that the call was expected, that you know, it would be like the guy in charge of White House Communications, the secretary, somebody official, okay, stand

by for the president. Because I had guests on that show who were like senators and stuff like that, and they even had press secretaries who would come on first make sure the connection was good for the interview, and then when it was time, they would say, okay, and here's the senator, and then the senator would come on the phone. In my mind, that's what I'm expecting. The phone's ringing, and in Clay's air, I tell him phones ringing so he could mentally prepare to set up this

live interview. Now that it's time, I pick up the phone and it's just Donald J. Trump himself on his soul. Does he say like, hey, don't be rude. Did you say that? So I'm like, you know, he answered Fox Sports Radio and he was like uh and he says Danny and I say yeah, and he's like, this is the president and it's great, right. So I'm like, holy sh it, this guy just called me by my name.

Isn't a press secretary? What the hell? The best part is, you know, Clay's doing this whole intro, getting the scene set and everything before he's gonna bring him on. So Clay had told me, okay, you get him because Claire, He's also thinking I'm on the phone with somebody official. He's like when when he's ready, and he's the one on the line, tell me in my ear. So now instead of talking to a secretary, I'm actually shooting the ship with the president. He's asking me about how the

morning's go in, and it was the coolest thing. I'm just like, hey, everything's good here, and I kind of joke around with him and he's like, hey, because you have the President on the phone, Clay definitely needs to give you a raise. And I said, your lips to God's Ears and we're kind of laughing about that, and I tell him, Okay, I'm gonna put you on hold and I'm gonna let Clay know you're ready. And he's like, okay, thanks for having me. He's like, by the way, you

guys have a great show. I love it. So I put him on hold, and Roberto's just kind of staring at me, like what the fun is going on? So I tell Clay, hey, he's ready, Clay brings him on the air, does that interview with him. No matter what your politics are, it's obviously super cool to have a sitting president live on your radio show, you know. And most of these guys ben if they're if they're a big shot, whether it's a coach, a big time athlete,

an actor, somebody like that. At the end, when the host says thank you, and they say thank you and they part ways, they'll just hang up. Yeah. I've had people hang up in the middle of interviews, Danny, as you know on this podcast. I've interviewed people and right in the middle I gotta go by. Uh. Sometimes I don't even say by. They just hang up. When you're

producing a show and you have a guest. Usually they're gone, Like you'll go to the phone and you'll pick it up just to see and you'll say it's a courtesy. There's a lot of times I'll pick up the phone and I'll say, hey, thanks again for joining us, and nobody says anything because they're gone. Well, this time, I pick up the phone and that's what I'm expecting. But he stayed on the line, and so now he's talking to me again after the interview, and he was like,

how was that was that? Was that what you needed? Was that good? And I'm like, yeah, man, Clay loved it obviously, you know. And Clay is trying to talk to me on the talkback system. Yeah. So I got two conversations going at once, and Roberto tells Clay on his talk back He's like, oh, he's still on the phone with Danny right now. And Clay was like okay, And so he talks to me for you know, maybe

thirty seconds afterwards. I'll come on the show again. You guys, let me know when you want to talk more college football, because this was during COVID and a lot of that conversation was how are they going to bring college football back? It was just like twenty twenty early or when what would you Yeah, so this was Pete Covid time, So maybe summer of you know, I'll have to go back to look at the official date, but I know it was when all that drama was going on with the

Pack twelve canceling. Okay, so then maybe we'll college football. Heason is in October September, you know, around then. So so they were fighting to get the big ten back, remember, yes, yes, yes, yes, Well that's when that was going on, and it was really crazy. The second time he called, I was more comfortable because I was like, well, he was cool with me and he knew me, and Roberto and all those guys teased me because we're in those commercials when Clay

was on the talk back, I hang up. I kind of share with Clay off the air what the conversation was like with him, and Clay's laughing. He's like, Wow, that's cool that he just called on his own phone like that. I want to talk about that on the air when we come back for the final segment. And I was like, all right, cool. So we come back, Clay's laughing about how he called himself and he goes to me, and he's like, Danny, what was that like

answering the phone? And I told him how nervous I was to accidentally hang up on the president, And and then Clay was like and supposedly he said that you deserved to raise. I share exactly what happened, like I just did with you, and Roberto's laughing. Roberto's like yeah right, And so Clay goes around the horn. He's like, let me go around the horn, Eddie, do you believe the

president said that? And he's like nope, and he's like Roberto and Roberto is like, yeah, well, how convenient that it was on one side of the phone and none of us could hear it. Yeah? Right, And so Clay said, hey, if he does ever join the show again, I'm gonna ask him if he really said that. So that second time Trump called the show, Clay asked him, did you tell my producer Danny g that he deserved a raise when you called last time? Absolutely? I said, you get

the president, but you really do. You have a great show, and he's a nice guy. I said, you get the president of the phone, you deserve a raise. I haven't done too many of these calls. That's great, that's awesome. It was the all time radio stories that I I listened. I remember we were doing the over Night showed. That was back before I did it from home, and we hadn't made the transition, and people are like, oh, Trump's gonna be on and I was like, oh wow, that's

like I had to I couldn't believe it. I thought there's no way they were rumors. And then it actually turned out to be the case. So that was awesome. That's great. All right, that is a wonderful answer. Thank you, moving Man, Matt. Moving Man. Matt was part of that trucker convoy. He sent some photos out. He was around d C. All Right, what is next? Helen and stew from palmetto Bay, Florida. Very controversial couple, say Ben and Danny Happy Sunday, Sunday Sunday, Ain't no party like the

Fifth Hour Party. This week's letter includes a joke, a few quick comments, and a question. Let's get to it. The letter begins, STU, over this, over this for a week? Bitch uh? He begins, question, what does that one sex toy insult trick pony living in Montana get told? On the tenth of every month Uh. The answer the rent was due on the first wow, Helen is feisty says Bruce Jenner was back in the n c A a

trans swimmer news this week. We missed that guy. Looking back, he should have told us, given us a chance to say goodbye by going on a year long farewell tour. Shout out to our favorite comic Bill Burr, who, as a big sports fan living in l A, should be a future guest on the fifth hour. Do you have a contact for Bill Burr? Can we get him on the podcast? But he do the podcast. He's a big, big name in comedy. Would even come on a podcast like this? I have no idea we can ask, right,

doesn't uh? And the message continues, Ben jellyfish have survived six fifty million years without brains. Great news for Fox Sports Radio executives who failed to promote you to Clay Travis's time Slide. Well, very kind, very kind, Helen. But as I have said many times, the kind of show that I do overnight, I would not be allowed to do if I was in a morning time slot. They would just not allow it. The corporate muckety MUCKs would interfere.

They would put their foot down and say, well, what are you talking to a guy from Brooklyn who eats chef boy Ard for ten minutes? What's wrong with you? Uh? And and why are you talking to a guy in Maine who this is like a whack of doodle? What's up with that? So? Yeah, but I do appreciate the kind words telling fun facts. Helen says an autopsy showed that cocaine used contributed to the heart disease that suddenly killed TV pitchman Billy Mays. As a reminder, it's one

Benny Awards ballot time. Please vote now for Danny g as the best crew fill in. So a badge of honor for you. And Helen also says, Ben, your natural weight loss of two hundred pounds and keeping that weight off remains inspirational and legendary. Question. Who's the biggest cheater? Whether man Al Roker celebrating his this this week twenty years since his gastric bypass surgery or the cheating stros Well, Helen, you know the answer to that. I've never met Al Roker.

I've seen him on TV many times, but I was at the seventeen World Series and flow with them astros. That's what I have to say that's right, all right, it's a podcast, Danny. I can say that. You can bleep it out if you want. I don't care, all right, So thank you, Helen and Stuke. Kevin in Kansas writes in says, dear Benn and Danny, g it's severe weather season again. Here in the Great Plains. We get dust storms, blizzards, and tornadoes. Any memorable encounters with any of these situations.

I've never been in a tornado. I've never been in a blizzard. Well, actually, I've been in some nasty snowstorms. I didn't think it was like a blizzard on the East Coat. I've got a Boston and New York whatnot. I've been in some nasty weather, but not really a real blizzard. Uh. And also also the dust. M I have been in a dust storm before, but not like a real Great Plains dust storm. So that one I was driving in the desert and that was a little little wacky a desert storm, which I think was it.

Does it qualifies as a dust a dust storm? What about you, Danny? Have you been in any of those things. I've seen a tornado in northern California. They're rare and they're not as big as the tornadoes that you might see in other parts of the country. But my family when I was a kid, we were in the l A area. Then we moved up to northern California, where my mom is from in the San Jose area, but she, because of money, settled in the Modesto area. So that's

right when northern California begins. But the central part of the state, and I'll never forget. We were at Brown Elementary School playing basketball. My little sister came running and she's like, you guys, gotta come home. Mom says, you gotta come home because of the tornado. Like tornado, what

the fund is he talking about? So we get to the front of our house us and from there you you had a view towards the west end of the town and you saw just an ominous sky and a tornado from a far distance that was some scary looking ship, and people were jumping in their cars and driving the other direction. I remember my mom like throwing my little baby sister into our car seat, getting everybody into the car and driving the other direction. And it was on

the news that night and everything. I think it tore up some part of the town on the outskirts, but it didn't make its way into the city. Yeah, but it's the only time I've ever seen anything like that. But dude, people that live in the part of the country where they see that often or they've seen it more than once in their life. Yeah, that's something that I think would follow you around in your nightmares. The worst weather I've ever been in was in Buffalo. But

it wasn't snow. It was rain. There was like a storm that was passing through Buffalo. Because of the lake, it added to the water. It was so bad. I was on the highway and driving out of Buffalo. I was at a Bills game and I had to stop. We could not see where we were going. We had to stop on this expressway and I was just waiting for a car to hit. It hit us from behind. It was surreal. I'd never see I didn't know it could rain that much. I'm used to California rain. This

was so ridunculous. Oh yeah, it was. It was nuts. It was the most ridiculous thing. I thought I was gonna drown, and then it passed and just kept going like nothing happened. That was it. You know, it's water everywhere. Fred from Spring, Texas right and says, Hi, guys, can either of you drive a stick shift auto? Have you ever owned a convertible? What is your current car? Well,

I have the Mallardmobile. I have the fourth or fifth generation of the Mallanmobile, which is like the Batmobile's Mallanmobile. I do not know how to dravistick shift, and I have never owned a convertible. I have had cars that have sun roofs that I consider a fat guys convertible. What about your diddy? Yeah, we've talked about cars on this podcast before. I loved hot wheels and I loved

fast cars. When I was a kid, I had a poster of a Ferrari, so I thought, Man, when I get my license and I get a job, I'm gonna get a fast car. So the second car I bought, because the first one was a beater. The second one, though, was a turbo and it was super fast. After that, later in life, I was able to buy a convertible Mercedes Benz, which was nice. Got in a wreck. The insurance company, as you can guess, did not give me my full value back. Of course, yes, that Mercedes Benz

turned into a Nissan, but with those Nissans. Man, I found the three seventi z s and those have been my favorite cars the past few years. I'm on my second one right now. It's a Heritage Edition, really fast and it is it is a clutch, it's a six speed, and man, I mean when I have open road, that thing flies. It sucks to drive and bumper to bumper traffic,

but on an open road it's a beauty. Now do you drive your cars into the ground or do you just before that, go and get a new car, because I I have lately been driving cars in the ground. That's my new thing. I take really really good care of my cars. Every week. I make sure it's washed. Every week. I clean out the inside. My car right now is four and a half years old, and when people see it, they think I just bought it recently. So that's my trink. It's just keep it, man, treat

it like a palace. That way. If I do want to trade it in, you can get top dollars for it. No, that's great. And I used to try to take really good care of the cars and then I got married. Well now and now it's just the ugly redheaded step child. The car. It just gets beaten up. I used to never eat in car. I've never eaten the car. I would never you know, drink anything of like soda or anything like that. When I backed my soda drinking days because I don't want to spill any uh. My wife, though,

has a different perspective on that. She is open minded, and so that I lost that battle. But that's anyway. Next up, Alan and akeron Ohio birthplace of Lebron and Steph Kurt. Yeah, how did your diet change after you had your gallbladder removed? Was there any other lifestyle changes? Alan, So, I had my gall bladder taken out November three, twenty nineteen. I believe it was and I have not really changed

my diet. I do inter minute fasting, so I don't eat as often as other people that have had their gallbladder taken out. And I have noticed with the inter minute fasting, when I go a long time without eating and then I eat something, it's off to the races. After I eat, I within about forty five minutes to an hour. It's shipped creak is what it is. They're ship's creek. It's a lot of pooping and all that stuff. But I really haven't changed my diet. I eat many

of the same things I've always eaten. I've heard stories that some people can it's different for everybody, but I've been pretty lucky and out of sight, out of mind, I don't think about it. I a gall black is very small. Then he can't see I'm I'm showing you. It's like very small the actual gall bladder. Now, how did you know you needed it taken out? Did you have bloating? Like? What are the signs that you need that thing out? Well? I almost died, Actually, I had

gall stones. I did not realize they were goal stones. I thought it was heartburk. I had multiple incidents where I felt like pain in my chest and I thought it was just I had eaten, and it was always after I had eaten a really big meal, which is the gall bladder. But I didn't put two and two together, and so finally I had a massive attack where I couldn't clear the gulf stones and I couldn't sleep. I was so uncomfortable. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't drink anything,

I couldn't eat anything. It was just it was terrible. I thought I was dying, and so I went to the emergency room and they gave me some was it morphine I think it was, and within ten minutes it cleared the gold stones out and I was I was all right. But then I had to stay in the hospital because I had so many gold stones. They wanted to do the operation. Usually the operations in and out,

you're done within a few hours, you're back home. But I was so fooled up from all of the gulf stones and they were really tiny gull stones that had gone all over the place. So I had to stay for a week. I was like in a hospital for almost a week because they had to wait because they couldn't do the operation because they had to wait for everything to kind of clear. And so then I had had the procedure done, and yeah, it was pretty wild man,

pretty pretty well. It was done on November three, but I was in the hospital a few days before that. And the longest fast I ever had, because I was on a fast, I went, God, how many hours was it? I think it was it was like nineties something hours or something like that without eating anything. So yeah, good times. I don't know how you do the fasting. I would get so hungry that by the time I got to food, I think I would overeat. Nah, I'm all right, I'd

see one hearty meal and that's it. Falls Fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes, and he says, beat that's right. Uh oh, that's I'm sorry, bad job, but I have not been playing that. I got so curried away talking. It's a bad job by me. There you go, all right, sorry balls, fan Jimmy, I gotta play. I gotta play all of them now because I didn't play a bad job. What is up? I have this toy here come back gets time from no call? I got Mayo? Yeah, I

got Mayo. Yeah, you've got Mayo? Played them all valls. Fan Jimmy Faville, Tennessee says, man, are you planning on having the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party this year? If so, will the guest list be slimmed down? Danny G. What was the last concert you have been to? I'm going Saturday night to Nashville to see Snoop Dogg, ice Cube too short and Warren G. Yeah that uh so, I'll answer that. I plan on having the ugly uh Sweater

party again. We did not do it the last by the last couple of years we have not done it because of the COVID stuff. I hope to bring it back. It seems like the world's more open to that and people are back to normal, and I'd like to do that. I don't know that anyone's gonna show up. I live in the north Woods now, it's very far and with the price of gas and all that. But we will invite many people, and hopefully many will be able to

make it. We'll have a great night, a very memorable night with all my my friends and our friends from radio and people that have met over the years that are people I like. So hopefully Danny you can make it. We can meet your TENDERRONI hopefully I'll meet a meet her before then. Yeah, and so yeah, that's the plan. What and Dan, was the last concert you you've gotten to?

That's Jimmy's question for you. Let's see. Oh, speaking of her, she brought me to see Kane Brown at the Staple What it was the Staple Center then and we had to show vaccine cards to get in. And uh, it was a good concert. Though he is a biracial country star, it's modern country music. In fact, he even has had a couple of hits on Top forty radio. If you don't know who came brown is, google them. Just google him.

That's all you have. Just google them. Yeah, as our buddy Mike North used to say, just google them, Um say you kids, just google. Yes, we don't need to bring Jonas in and uh boy. The last hip hop concert I went to, It's been a little while for hip hop, but I got to see Bone Thugs and Harmony do a little reunion concert. And that's and speak.

You know, Modesto, like I was talking about a little earlier on the podcast, when I went to school there, Ben, I was a city kid from southern California reuniting with my San Jose family in the Bay. And when you would go to the Central Valley in Modesto, in that area, the kids there, they had a Garth Brooks CD and a Doctor dre CD. It was interesting. It was like kids wanted to go to a Snoop Dogg concert and they also wanted to go to a Garth Brooks concert. Okay,

I was like a country concert. Who's your favorite, Who's your who's your favorite country star? That Dirty Boots and that's followed me all through my adult life. Um, you know, I love to go see country concerts and I love to go see hip hop concerts. Yeah. I watched that country documentary a few years ago on PBS. Don't if you saw that. I did. I was told by somebody that it's it was about radio, and it is a lot about radio and the radio business and how related.

And they were intertwined country music. Very good documentary by PBS. They really nailed that one. And I fell in love with all those old country music songs like I loved every one of them. In fact, that's in my rotation now, many of those old old school country music songs from the grand old opry. Yeah, wonderful. Well you're a Johnny Cash fan just like Yeah, I love Johnny Cash absolutely all right, thank you for that, and enjoy that concert. Yeah, I have a good time. How much do you think

Snoop Dogg gets paid for that? Do you think he gets out of that? Probably gets a cool dollars for a little live show for one day's work. You've got mail, all right, next time we stay in the state of Tennessee, j C represent the entire volunteer state, says, Hey, Ben, I write you today because I cannot stand Dan Wilkin. The man seems to hate sports, but for some reason he works in sports journalism. He was one of them that seemed to think that if sports came back while

COVID was happening, that everyone would die. His sports takes are so bad that I can just read the headline of an article and no, it was written by Doo Doo, Dan the Igluman. In all your years working in sports talk radio, have you ever come across a radio host or a sports journalist that had such awful sports takes that it just made you dislike them as a person. Uh. Yeah, there's been a lot of disingenuous people. I have been

able to see how they make the hot dogs. And yeah, the idea that people are a certain way, both athletes and members of the media that are one way publicly and complete assholes, completely phony and you know it, but you're one of the few people that knows it. And it's very it's very eye opening and disappointing at the same time, because you hear about people one way and then you see them the other way and you're like, well, that guy's got a great reputation. He's a complete dick,

you know, I don't get it. So there was and Dan Wilkins a legend for being fear is mongering, fearmongering, Sky is falling, Chicken little. This guy has been doing that act for a long time. I don't know Dan Wilkin, but all I all I hear about him is really bad things. His reputation is not very good. Yeah, there's one other guy that comes to mind for me, and that's Mike Florio. Oh the they call him the Nanny Mike Florio. Yeah. Yeah. I had a personal run in

with him at the Atlanta super Bowl radio row. We had set Kwan Barkley scheduled to join Clay Travis on stage. Him and his posse rolled in and Clay was in the middle of another interview. But I thought, oh, they're here a little bit early, you know, so I'll get him ready. I'll sit him in our little green room

here off to the side of our stage. He does a bee line though, and he goes over to Florio set, and I'm like, okay, well that's all right, but it's gonna make him run late to his interview time with us. So I go over to Florio set. He's got these weenie bodyguards over there. They tell me I'm not allowed there, and I said, you have my guest right now, I

am allowed right here. So I get into it with his guys on the set there and and uh, Florio walks over to me and he says, yeah, say, Kwan is gonna join us on the stage, so you really need to talk to his manager because he's probably not gonna get over to your set on time. And I was like, this little dick, all right. So I get to say Kwan's manager, and I'm like, Hey, here's the deal.

I'm not trying to be threatening or anything like that, but if you piss off Fox Sports Radio, which is the number one sports network right now, does that make sense just to appease Florio and his little audience and the man you're kind of looked at me and he was like, all right, well tell you what. I'm gonna cut it short with him and we'll get over to you on time, maybe two minutes late. So I go over there, running more late than that. I'm like, oh,

these assholes. So I go over there. I don't have to say anything the second time, though, Ben I just ice grill Florio and the manager, and so Florio says goodbye to say Quon on the set and they run him over to Clay Talk. And so anytime I see that guy on TV, I'm like, funk that Florio guy. And of course a lot of people don't like him because he comes off really grouchy on the air. Yeah, it seems like he's in a bad mood all the time.

And whenever I see radio or TV guys I like to feel like And that's one thing I can say about Cowherd what I like about him. I feel like he's in a good mood. What I see or hear guys that always feel like they're in a bad mood, it doesn't make me want to tune in. Yeah, I have not dealt with Actually knew Florio a little bit for he became like the Mike for there. He was partnered up with a couple other guys on the original Pro Football Talk before he partnered up with NBC. And

back when I was doing Ben Mallory dot Com. He he was a lawyer, I believe I think he was a lawyer and he was messing around with the internet stuff and it was it was a rumor sight. I was doing a rumor site. So we were competing against each other for eyeballs back in those days. Uh. And just to follow up with j C, there is a baseball insider. I will not reveal the baseball inside because I'm still working. Who was a is a complete asshole,

very short baseball writer. They're all short, though, they're all fun size to these baseball writers who comes across one way on television and then uh, it's a complete Uh hell you go any further than that. So thank you j C. That is a good behind the scenes question. Yes, thank you, j C. We'd appreciate that. And the mail bag continues. Never is this, No, it is never that. It is always exciting, fascinating and all of that. So

who is next? You've got mail? Alright, let's see here we have Pierre, our buddy in Springfield, mass Home with a pro basketball Hall of Fame. Pierre says, paper or plastic. When the world shut down two years ago, local grocery stores in Springfield implemented a reusable bag policy, which seems less hygienic to me. Shortly thereafter, one local chain started to offer paper bags for a fee of ten cents. Much like you, Ben, I steadfastly refused to pay for bags,

sometimes carrying my groceries by hand. Unfortunately, lately I have caved and as you know, Ben, those pickle jars can get very heavy and the paper bags aren't very strong. Well, that is a pickle problem. It's a real pickle pickle to be in, Pierre, I'm right there. As I've talked about this before, I do. I cannot stand the paper bag policy in California, the plastic bag, paper bag policy, the charge for the bag, complete rip off, complete scam.

I also don't like bringing bags. I usually forget to bring the bags to the grocery store, so I have made many a run where I'm holding my groceries like a baby or a football going to the parking lot. I've also done the trick where I'll get a grocery cart and I'll just leave everything in the cart and have them put it back in the cart and then take it take it away. So I've done that, you know, take it to the car that way. But I usually

forget the bag. It's a pain in the ass and I would rather just buy a plast a new reusable bag than spend the money on the disposable bag at the store. Because I feel like it's just a waste, Like, what's the point. I might as well invest towards the new bag. Then I'm going to get So I hated, I hated, I hated, and it's not fixing the environment at all. So stop, okay, stop with your nonsense. Ridiculous anyway,

Travis from Roseberg, Oregon rights in. As we continue the amazing mail bang, Travis says, how close were you coming to the dark side to those delicious bacon wrap hot dogs at the big Game? Well, that happens every time, she said, Like, I don't eat the bacon, I eat turkey bacon. I eat the pig, the swine, and it

smells amazing. In every time I've gone to a sport ingum it in l A. If I get out, if I leave the game and there's still people mulling abound around the stadium or the whatever venue it is, there's these brigades of folks who are selling hot dogs bacon wrap. Talk's amazing. There must be like a secret meeting place bacon wrap hot dog people all get together and they dropped them off with their carts and and they're not griddles, they're just like rolling carts with aluminum foil on them. Yeah,

bacon wrap. It's like gold, all right, when you grow up with limited a limited budget. So there would be times where I would smell bacon and I would think, oh my god, we're rich right now, We're rich. And she would cook it almost burned where it would snap like that, and Ben, my stepdad, would eat almost all of it. And I would get so pissed because I got a couple of pieces and that was it. And so one of my things in my mind, I was like, when I grow up, I gotta be rich because I

gotta be able to buy bacon. I'm look at you now, you're a big radio star. Yeah, so your congratulations. You've made it. I have bacon at least twice a year. All right, come back, pay attention. It's time from now. Call Chris from Falling Waters Rest, Virginia, right below Haggerstown, Maryland. Hey, Gerstown, Maryland, where the truck convoy has been camping out. Chris says, my question this week is have you ever regretted saying something on the air? Maybe you made someone but hurt

by a comment. No, I've never regretted anything I've said. I have been stunned by the reactions I've gotten over things I've said that I don't believe are controversial. The people that took offense the things I said blows me away. The angry messages I get from certain people who we'll say in the same email, Danny, that's why you're on Overnight. Your show sucks, but I'm offended by X, Y and Z. So to me, though, you're you're you're doing two separate

things here. You're telling me I'm irrelevant and I don't listen to your show, but you are so offended by what I said. Yeah, that's my response to that. What about you, Danny? Who is the will one follow up question for you? Yeah? Who is the most famous person to get offended by something you said? Would that be Deshaun Uh? Deshaun is on the list. I would say the commissioner of Major League Baseball would probably be higher up on the list of at that he's on there.

William Shatner, of course, we had the spats with Shats. He's an all time timeless guy. Number of Dodger players over the years. I had Ralph Lawlor, who was the Clipper broadcaster, and I'm like Mr Clipper fanboy. Ralph got so upset with me when I ripped Michael olivera Candy uh famous bust in Clipper history. And I was doing a midday show in l A the Clippers draft of this guy, and I knew within five games, Danny, this

guy was a giant turd. This guy couldn't play. And you just know, you just know he's had a feeling. This guy is terrible, very rarely. Are you wrong? And I I laid into that guy, said what are the Clippers doing with this guy? And Ralph came up to me. It was at the great Western Forum before a Clipper Laker game, and he saw me in the bowels of the great Western Forum and he read me the Riot Act and he said, you are so wrong. This guy's gonna be an all time I've told the story before.

We had Lee Klein on and Lee was there, he was a witness to it. And and and Ralph promised that older Candy was gonna be an NBA All Star within a couple of years, and if not, he was gonna kiss my ass at center court at Staples or not, but became Staples. It was that the it was at Sports Rainy and Uh, needless to say that never happened, and Ralph. Ralph would always kid around, Well, maybe it'll happen next week. You never know, it might happen next week.

He's retired now he lives in Florida part of the year, lives in Oregon. But he's on the list. There's a bunch of other ones. So what about you, Denny. You've been on the radio a long time. Anything you say that, you're like, oh, I wish I could have that back. Well, I'm like you, I don't think so. I had a run in with rapper mac Chen when I was doing that FAM radio also boxer Fernando Vargas. Those both turned

out okay in the end. And then I guess staff members, like we talked about this on the podcast one time, how you and I talked about another staff member and got in trouble. Yeah, but it's just all in fun. When you do radio, you know, sometimes you get in a groove. And I think that's one good thing about your show is that it's its own little world, and you almost forget that you're broadcasting too. You know, almost

five hundred affiliates across the country. You don't think like that, You're you're just in the moment and you're in your little bubble, your little world, and so we're talking to you, we're talking to one person. We're not thinking about all the people listening. And I think that's how we could get into trouble sometimes. Yeah, I know, I completely agree with you. You're just you're like, oh, we're just doing this in fun, even though we're busting balls. That's what

we do. We're men. We bust balls. That's when the women on the show do the same thing. The bust balls. That's how we operate there. It's fun to listen to. So to us, we're not doing anything wrong. We're doing what people want well. And then you've got people that come in from the outside that aren't regulars and they're like stop it. You know, they get very upset. Yeah, they get complain and all that. I'm like, well, we're

just having a good time. We're just having being so sensitive. Yeah, it's like the drop that we used to play about the the knuckleball pitchers Joe and Phil forget their last name, and people would hear that, but all those negroes look the same. And I would get angry emails from people who meant well and they were convinced that I had said, uh, something I didn't say, because it sounded kind of like that.

And people, as we know Danny from being in the business a long time, even the most engaged listener is only hearing about of what we're saying and and the rest of it's just kind of going away and and all that. And so people listen with half in the year and they think they hear or something, and then I get the nasty email. So he didn't stop playing that because people were calling up complaining because they were convinced that I had said the thing that I didn't say.

God bless unfiltered podcasting because I could play it on this show and get no blowback. I don't know about that. And all it takes is one person. All it takes is one person. But the FCC doesn't regulate podcasting. Oh that is true. It's like cable television. It's radio's version of cable television. I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea. Next one's from Adrian in the Mile High City. He's back Ben and Danny G has been a while, Yes

it has. Adrian. I wonder what happened. I thought you were offended or something like that, but it sounds like you're not. I'm happy to return to the Sunday Sunday Sunday mail Bag. The last few months have been busy at my job, so, as my man Marcel says, let's get into it. Adrian rights. First off, Danny g has been a breath of fresh Mountain air, compre heir to that narcissist West of the four oh five guy. How's Gascon doing? By the way, nice, he's the same West

of the four oh five snotty. I was texting him last night. We were texting about something and he's I guess he's doing some good play by play jobs. He was telling me he's doing some FS one stuff and even working some games. He's a freelancer, so we'll do some games for ESPN, and he was very braggadosh just West of the four oh five. He's talking about travels he's gonna make, going to different parts of the country to do play by play gigs. So he seems very

happy about that. He's doing well, Adrian continues. In November, my wife and I made the trip to Dallas to watch the Broncos take on the Cowboys at Jerry's World. The stadium is huge, and we were like a couple of peacocks strunning out out of there with the w Yett. I was one of the great surprises of the NFL season, the Broncos beating those Cowboys, and that set the Cowboys

on a sideways stretch of games. He says. The Ben Mallard T shirt made the trip to Dallas, and I was walking around a T n T stadium repping the show before putting my Bronco jersey over it at game time. Good job, thank you, thank you, appreciate that. Marketing Guerilla marketing, Adrian says, bring Benny versus the Penny back this fall. A lot of good advice and good money to be made. We'll see what happens with Benny versus the Penny. I had to stop doing it because I had the COVID.

It seems like something always pops up, something life always gets in the way of your plans. Danny, It's it's always something. The year before, my pops passed away, so I had to stopped doing it, and this past year it was the COVID. Anyway, says Ramad all day, ramadall night. Congrats Ben on the Rams Super Bowl Championship in February and Rama Night and how far can Mr Unlimited take the Broncos in the highly competitive a f C West.

The In and Out Burger and Raising Canes are both open for business in the city I live in here in Colorado. They are next door neighbors to each other. The double double, no onion can nat combo, no slaw extra fies are might go tibes. What about the animal style fries with the double double? What about that? Have

you gone that direction? Adrian? Answer that question. I've noticed that the people that run the Raising Canes franchise they're very smart, shocking most at least where I am, and I've been to Raising Canes in multiple cities around the country. It always seems to be the Raising Canes location is right next to Chick fil A and In and Out like they're those three. It's like the the axis of food is uh, the access of great food right there.

And it's really smart to put a chicken joint next to Raising cans because you'd say that would be dumb, But one day a week you have a competitive advantage over Chick fil A if you're raising canes because they're not open on something so anyone that's going out. A lot of people forget that Chick fil A is not open on Sunday, and they go to get their Chick fil A on Sunday. They can't get there. They're fixed. So they wait a minute. There's a raising canes right here.

Let me give them a try, and boom, you got a new customer. Just like that. Good marketing it is. Adrian also says, lastly, I still say, how about that when my wife and I get into a friendly argument about chores about the house, says I swept the floors and took out the trash. How about that if the kids are down one, two or all three, yell out Ben Maller in the house. How about that you got the kids trained. My wife gets so annoyed, but I

think it's the funniest thing. Well, thank you, Adrian, very kind, appreciate it. Just keep the podcast coming and good to have you back on the long email. And I have big plans to travel. I don't have any time to do it, but I'd love to get to Denver and meet you Adrian and have the Ben Mallard chicken sandwich. Of course that's available there. Next up, as we continue the mails. Carlos in Bang Bang Houston says, I've been listening to you since and I remember Coop eating the

scoop of vasoline, probably the best segment on radio ever. Anyways, when are the Bennies whether this weekend? We've already talked about in the NFL Book, the NFL Book him, I keep pushing back. I don't know why we haven't done it. It's not like it's been postponed. Nobody's told us we can't do it, but something always seems to come up, a big NFL story or something like that, and we forget to do it. So I have it on my list of things to accomplish. Maybe I'll finally get around

to it this week. He says. Also, third Rail Friday should definitely be a staple of the show. And what is the origin story of Jet who Fled And how did he get his nickname? Well, Carlos, Jet who Fled had a different name when he called the show originally, and he was in the octagon and I think it was against what's his name, the guy in New York that we talk real talk, Yeah, real talk in New York. Go to hell, Back up, back up, Get Jack Up. Jack up really got himself man from the show, and

so we had promoted that octagon. It was a big deal on the show. And then Jed just he fled. He didn't show up. We couldn't get a hold of him. We were, well, what happened, and so his new nickname, we changed his nickname to mock him Jed who Fled, and that's been his nickname ever since. Hasn't changed. That's the deal on that and Ozzy momentum. Right, so we got time for uh. The clock is uh, the clock is not our friend. The clock is not our friend. Unforce.

We we'll do. Uh'll do at least one more. All right, come back, it's time from now call Ozzy. Bomenhow says. So the other day I was watching one of those Russian slapping competitions. If you haven't seen them, check out the link. He sent a link. Yeah, I've seen those. Those are a while anyway. My question is what is the craziest type of competition to evant that you'd be prepared to enter into, I e. A slapping, slapping competition, running with the bulls, cheese wheel, et cetera. I would

love to be in a eating contest, competitive eating. I'm fascinated by the art of competitive eating. I've interviewed a few of those guys. In fact, Danny Market down right now. I want to get Joey Chestnut on this podcast when we get closer to July, I want to get him on. I had the guy last year, the promoter of the Coney Island staple, and he was great. But eating contests, I don't really run that much, so I probably would be bull food. I'd get gorged by a bull. I

just run off the side and hide. What about you did anything jumping out of a plane, anything weird you would be willing to do. Man, I still have some decent footwork. So log rolling log where you do log rolling? Competitive log rolling? Remember the early days of ESPN when they would put strongman competitions on That was like all their programming, and it would like people cutting wood, chopping

down trees and lumberjack stuff. It was one. It was really good, actually looking back, and I don't know that I enjoyed it as much then as I do now. I'm fascinated by those things. At this age, when I was younger, I was like, what they have no programming where they putting this ship on for But now I'm like, wow, those guys are like real men. That's like the modern version now is like the cornhole Championships. Yeah, but let's come on, anyone can do that? Who can take a

saw and uh cut through it first? And remember the guys you're calling the big Rig. Remember the guys called the big Rig? That was awesome? Yea, that that's Wild Berry in Music City last morning. He says, yo yo, Mom. Benny Berry says hold on, saying I gotta give you the property. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, totally enjoy your new toy, the sound drop Machine. How many drops can that thing hold? Now? Went up to three billion? Yeah? I have not counted how many drops.

And I have a weird collection that I have put together that I have hands selected from the sound and I don't know, I haven't counted them, but there's a lot. I have a lot here. I mean, I can, you know, go through all of them if you want to smoke. If you talk about the Vikings, any reference to Borat and I get that going nice. You're talking about baseball, How about Britney Spears. You're talking about Britney Spears. Well, I could drop battle you. Here's one I pulled last week.

I was more concerned about him giving me a double fish. Oh hot, dare you how about this one? That's a classic. That was classic? Yeah, alright, and if you're a Howard Stern fant that as well. Anyway, we gotta get out of here. Thanks to everyone else, we didn't get to a lot of the emails. I apologize for that. Hill Billy Mike's and a nice letter in Radioactive Ryan in Salt Lake City. Mike from Fullerton. John wrote in also t love all you guys, say you, thank you, thank you.

We apologize we're not getting your messages, but send another one in next week. Hopefully we'll have more time in the mailbag and we will be able to get to it. And Danny, thank you. You'll be back at Fox Sports Radio today right producing. Yeah, I'll be on Coveno and Rich Sunday afternoon into plankin Spaniard Sunday night leading into the Bennies. Yes, big night on the show. Tell a Friend and Tell a Friends to be one of the most downloaded podcast I know, but you gotta hear it live.

The winners of the Bennies have a wonderful glorious rest of your Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, last Sunday of March. Right, this is it, last day March, and before you know, it's gonna be April, April fools Day. Have a wonderful day. We'll talk to you next time. Osta pasta gott a murder, gotta go.