El Scorcho Mail Bag

you know what, I gotta do it. We gotta do it here. Eight days a week, four hours a night or not enough. Plus I'm working all Thanksgiving weeks, so I might as well do the podcast as well. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio, who survived his maiden voyage on Saturday and his back for the dreaded mail Bag. Are you prepared, Danny? Do you have your hazmat suits standing by? Yes? The first show is a lot of fun. I'm ready for two thousand

seven d sixty more. Yes, that's right. The future. Oh my, just wait until we start doing interviews. Oh my god, this is gonna be out of control this podcast. There's no end date. And the great thing about podcasting, Danny, as I've realized, we might not have radio jobs when we're old, but podcasting, we can do this toward ninety five years old if we live that long, My god, right, come on, serious ship exactly all right, So the way this works not normally we play an open um, but

I can't, ohio all, I can't play her open. Hopefully next week we're gonna we're gonna work it out so we will be able to play your open again. But ohio all, did send a nice jingle that we play before this. And if you want to send a question in for a future edition of The Fifth Hour, normally Monday or Tuesday, I will post on the Facebook page Ben Maller Show on Facebook a plea begging you to help us out with questions. And then I also allow you to send questions in you can privately at Real

fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. And so these are actual questions sent in, and we will answer these questions with thorough, knowledgeable responses, nanny, unless that's not what we do, unless that's not how We're just gonna let it rip, right, just let it rip, and here we go. The first message comes from Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia. She says he

enjoys the dedication towards us all. She says, uh, likes the podcast in the show, Thank you Jennifer always good to suck a post there and says Marcel in Brooklyn is her fake caller. I'm gonna tell Marcel and he won't know who you are, but he'll be excited about that and probably say something witty. And anyways, Jennifer says, my two questions are this, have you ever done an escape room adventure? That's question number one? So why don't

we start with that? Then we'll get the question number two. So this is a relatively new thing, I believe, the escape room. I don't know much about it. My wife wanted me to do it. She said that would be a good fun activity for us to do. And I said, I don't really know what that is, and that was kind of it is it is? It? Just obviously, Danny, do you know what it is? They put you in a room and then you have to you have to escape like you're locked in there and be an action

hero and get out of the room. Is that what it is? Ben, There's only one thing in this world that I'm scared of besides Derek Carr fumbling the football, and that is closed spaces. I'm very claustrophobic, so even the thought of being locked in a small escape room does not sound fun to me. But yeah, these things have popped up, especially in tourist locations. I noticed them right out side of Disneyland. I noticed a couple in

Maui when I was just there. So anytime I'm out of the area, I see them in these strip malls now. So you just it's a tight room and you just have to kind of you're in there and you have to like amazing to get out of there. There's yeah, there's different rooms, different themes, and then you have to work as a team inside to break the code in order to get out. I guess you could also get arrested and go to jail and try to break out.

That would be like a real escape room. That would be like the next level, right, Yes, geez, No, I've never done that, but I think if you had kids or something, that would be that would be fun for the kids. But I'm actually you know, Jennifer, I'm gonna get dragged into doing this, so I assume you've done it, so yeah, and she says her second question is would you want your body cryogenically preserved so you could be walking around in two hundred years amongst the artificially intelligent

beings and see if radio is still kicking. I the way radio is going, I don't think we have to wait two hundred years. It might not make it to the end of my lifetime the way the business is going, I hope it does. I hope it lives long and prospers and all that. I actually thought about this, Jennifer, And I'm gonna say no on being cryogenically preserved. And I'll tell you why. First of all, to me, life is about your friends and your family and the people

that you're around. That's life. And if if you were frozen and you came back and you didn't know anyone, you didn't have a single friend, maybe you had fifth generation of your family they were still recreating children and spawning and all that stuff. But but how lonely would that be? Right? How how we I mean, there'd be the freak show thing that you're the guy that came back from the cryogenically preserved frozen brain thing, and that would be cool for a while. And there's there's some

media whatever it is two hundred years from now. But I think and I think that would be tough. And I talked to people get older, and one of the main complaints that I hear from older people is that their friends are all gone, that they're you know, their loved ones are gone, that they don't have, they don't have their their their infrastructure, their life, it's it's all gone,

and how how lonely they are. So I would think that if you came not to be a Debbie downer, but you would come back and you wouldn't really be It wouldn't be that fun. I don't everyone's dead besides my tender RONI. I don't think I would mind that everybody else was dead. My mom. I would miss my mom. But other than that, what came to mind when Jennifer asked that question, And as you learned on yesterday's show,

I'm very much a nineties kid. Love the nineties. How about that movie Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes. You remember that I did see that, Yeah, bad guy that was frozen and a good guy who they thought was bad was frozen, and then they unfroze both of them so that they could fight against each other. And the one restaurant that made it through the apocalypse was Taco Bell. It was a waiting list to get into the Taco Bell. And when they had sex, they didn't

actually physically touch each other. They put on the head gear whol movie as a kid, and because of that movie, I would love to be frozen, Danny. There's Taco Bell all over you can go there's a Taco Bell just down the street. Then you can not fine dining like it was in Demolition Man. Yeah. Do you coath the hot sauce packets from Taco Bell? Do you are you that guy? Yeah? There's a pocket in my backpack that has catchup for McDonald's and hot sauce from Del Taco

and Taco Bell. Yeah. I love the El Scorcho sauce. Back in my big Del Taco days, I love the El Scorcho from Del Taco. Bet you l scorchoed a few radio station bathrooms, yes, yes, uh? And Taco Tuesday. When I lived in Hollywood, it which that Del Taco which was on Highland in in in Hollywood. It's gone now it's like a CBS. But I used to go there Taco Tuesday, three tacos for a dollar. Yeah, I guarantee they don't have that anymore. I'm sure that's that's

long gone. But I'd go in there, and it's kind of a bad part of town, and people be coming in there, and they'd be ordering like thirty or forty tacos for the for the rest of the week and then put them in their fridge and and that would be there their meal. But so I'm looking at Jennifer, we have two different answers. Dandy's all for leaving everyone behind. He has no friends that he really cares that much about, and he wants to come back in two hundred years

and then be the king of radio. Right, you'd be the king of friends. You just make new friends. It's hard for me to make good friends. I don't know, all right, Ozzy Momentum writes in from down Under. He says, Ben, what the hell is a captain of industry? Who of those you have interviewed can be considered a captain of industry? And why? I? All right, that's a good question. Nasi momentum. So the definition of captain of industry is someone who

owns or manages a large, successful business or company. That's what a captainive industry is. And the only one that I can recall we've had on here that would qualify that is Derek Hall, my old radio friend, who is the CEO. Heros on the Diamondbacks. Now we can debate whether they were successful or not because they were terrible on the field, but he's a major League baseball team and he's the CEO of the baseball team. So I think Derek Call would be the answer to the only

captain of industry and something. We had a lot of media people. We've had a lot of athletes, former rights radio, a lot of radio people. I don't think anybody in radio is a captain of industry? Would that be fair to say right now we're the captain crunch of industry. Yes, we're not. Robert Barron's I don't believe we qualify that, although we have hornswaggled a number of people. Blind Scott in Boston rights in next He said, you work with

the windscreen on your microphone. Howard Stern does not, but most broadcasters do. I guess you need the windscreen so you don't pop your peas. Can you do an example of this on the Fifth Hour podcast? I'd like to hear your take on. Yeah, so I have a windscreen on the microphone. I've always worked with a windscreen. I don't think it's that shocking. I think most people do. I don't know why Howard Stern doesn't use a wind screen. It seems I don't know what kind of he's got,

So maybe it's the type of microphone. I was gonna say he has a million dollars in compression equipment. That's true. Yeah, that's true. When you have the If you heard Stern off microphone, you say, who's that guy? That doesn't sound like I've never heard of you before? But it's all the technology. Um, and I don't. I don't think the windscreen really does much. The reason I where I use the windscreen is for hygienic reasons. Working in radio, and

it's a seven shop. It never closes, the kitchens always open, but unlike a restaurant, the kitchen in the radio station is never cleaned. Uh. It's it's as dirty as you can imagine. And people in radio. I love radio for some people in radio, the showers optional. You don't need a shower, and you don't need to brush your teeth and things like that. And so as when you do the radio show, you I come in and there's been you know, every few hours the there's a different person

talking into the same microphone. Now I do the show. I have a home studio, so it's different now. But I got I used to get sick because if anybody got sick at the radio station, they'd spit into the microphone and then everyone would have a cold. And this is way before COVID. But I a mic screen and it was like a bright colored one, so I wouldn't forget it, and I stopped getting sick. That was one of the things that helped stop my illness from that in garlic um. So it's it's really nothing to do

with popping the pie's anything like that. It's more for hygienic reasons. But again it's your Stern, as Danny said, You've got a lot of money invested in technology to make him sound good. And if the mic is any problem with the Mike Stern can just go out and buy seventeen different you know, Mike's the next day they're delivered, right, Yeah,

what's uplind Scott? I will say this. Clay Travis would pop his p's and I would get emails and tweets from some listeners saying that they just were, you know, not having it, that it bothered them so much they just wanted me to do something to stop it. And see he was wearing one of those headsets and set microphone so that there's nothing he could do. He couldn't

put a cover on that. Yeah, So I would tell him, could you please adjust your your mic arm on your headset to pull it back from your mouth a little bit? And he would get so frustrated with me. He's like, I'm so sick of audio guy telling me that my p's are popping like Clay. But it makes a difference. I'm the one cleaning up your podcast. I literally would go in Ben, I'm not kidding you, to make the podcast an easier listen. I would go in and fix every p that he popped in a break. Do you

know how many minutes that took. I can only imagine the nightmare. And you know, people think putting podcasts together are easy after a live show, No, they're not. Not if you want it to be a smooth sailing vessel that makes the listeners very happy, you have to spend a lot of time cleaning up the back end of a live radio show. So I did that for a long time. I finally got him to pull that mic uh back, but then it would get close to his mouth again and the problem would start all over again.

So there is something to be said about people popping their peas on a regular basis. And it was something I helped LaVar Arrington with just a couple of months ago. He was popping his pas really bad. So I had engineering get him his own microphone cover, and I put it in a bag and I put it in a drawer and I said, LaVar, every morning, we're gonna get this out and we're gonna put it on. And so LaVar has a mic cover now that he proudly uses every morning. I did see that. I did see the

mic cover. I've been in a few times sporadically over the last couple of months, and LaVar was was in there. And LaVar lives where I used to live in the which very odd because if I hadn't end up, if I hadn't ended up moving then me and LaVar. I'm sure he lives in a better house than I lived in, but would have been in the same neighborhood. We would have been in the same the same town, which kind of kind of cool. Tammy in Montana writes, and she's

very upset. Now you're gonna learn, Danny on this show. There's this couple in Florida, Helen and Stu. They're good people. They hated Gascon, they couldn't stand guests, and Tammy loves Gascon. So she, because of her friendship with Gascon, hates Helen and Stu. And she says, Wow, Helen and Student, they really think that they are so important and influential. They got David fired, bragging as usual. Maybe Helen should find out the real reason David left before she opens her

big mouth. Her email last week revealed what we all know. We all knew. She says, Tammy that she has been a wicked witch since her first breath of life. Wow. And then Tammy Wax is poetic about David Descon's banter, dedication, preparedness, sports, intellect, and sexy voice. I will be thoroughly missed on the fifth act. But Tammy, we have the great Danny g He's got that very white vibe to him, this guy,

Danny G Right. I mean how many back in the day, Danny, Just all you have to do is talk to these ladies and they'd be all over you. Right, you know, I go way back with Tammy and Montana, so I think she'll like our new vibe here. As far as Gascon, I'm longtime friends with him, so I'm friends with everybody. Ben. I think the common denominator with people getting fired at Fox Sports Radio as you Yeah, well, yeah, well that's true. I'm even on the list though. I got let go,

so I'm on my own list. I'm my own worst enemy there. Back in oh nine, January nine, Not that I remember that date specifically as an important date, but yeah, the second administration of Barack Obama. That day a mass mass firing, and my number came up on that day. Cliff from Nashville writes in says, Ben, thanks for being here for us on Thanksgiving? Absolutely, he says, do you fry? Do you want the wife fry at Turkey for Thanksgiving? Or does King Newsome forbid that? I haven't checked the

COVID protocols, do you now? Danny? Do we have to put a mask on the dead turkey. You have to put a mask on when we deep fried, when the turkey is outside of the oven, when the okay, yeah, you know what, you don't have the turkey to get COVID before, Yeah, the whole thing. No, I've never fried at turkey. I talked about this on the show Cliff

I'd love the fried turkey. My wife, though, is a nine on one operator, So every Thanksgiving there's inevitably one or two people that call nine one one where she works there because somebody screwed up the turkey and then the house is on fire. And so never never done that. Although one of our listeners in Buffalo, Mark the walker he's in Rochester. He said he gave me the secret.

He said, what you do is you fill the device you fried the turkey in with water first, and then that allows you to put the bird in and know the level that it needs to be. So that's a little cheap code from Mark the Walkers. So I don't think that'll cause me to do. Have you ever fried at turkey, Todny, have you ever done that? I have not. I've never made a turkey in my life. But I've obviously partaken in a lot of the leftover turkey sandwiches after other people have worked hard to make a turkey.

My favorite part of Thanksgiving, Ben is the leftover turkey sandwich. I was gonna ask. So some people are taken an anti mayo position. I am pro mayo. I don't really know what it is. I know it's made out of eggs, but I try to avoid thinking. Most of the foods I eat, Danny, if I knew what they actually were made with, I would not eat the try to avoid that part of it. You do best foods. You gotta go name brand Mayonna's Light Mayo, and then a lot of the mayo on the bread, just a touch of

mustard and there you go. Man slapped up that soft bread on there, Wrap it up in tinfoil, bring it to your job. You are set. I agree with you, and U FreeDOS maybe on the side, some kind of chip on the side, there, little bag of chips. That's the way to go. Uh Rick writes in from Parts on Known, he says, did I'm a pilot leave the show too? There you go a k gascon who slobbed his own knob. So Rick thinks this this other guy I'm a pilot who I can verify it's not Gascon.

He's an actual pilot and during COVID he listens to the show a lot, and he listens to the podcast. He download the podcast. He like flies to like China and Japan and like really like we far away place. He's a legit long distance pilot and he would listen to the podcast because he told us the story. We

actually read a whole email. We did a whole podcast dedicated I'm a pilot traveling to China during COVID and what that was like and being escorted people in these giant space suits that looked like they were, you know, to walking in the moon because he had the cooties who might have had the COVID and he was crazy. But I don't know what happened. I've not heard from I'm a Pilot in a long time. He lives in Texas. I know that, but I hope he's all right. I

don't I've not heard from him. And sometimes Chef Scott from New Orleans rights in the Bayou. He says, Hey, Ben and I'll fill in Danny g here, Benn and Danigy, how about an update or have you heard anything from that douche bag ask clown Real Talk. I thought it was really cool how the Bennett's uh stuck up for you in that situation and had your back. Yeah, we have not heard. I don't know what happened to Real Talk. I never had a way of contacting him. I never

had Real Talks number. I didn't have an email for Real Talk. A lot of the people that are on the show, I have some way of contacting them in case something happens and I get sick or whatever, I can check up on him. I Real Talk was a man of mystery from New York. I knew a little bit about him, but just vague stuff. And yeah, my my father had passed away and he made made some jokes about that, and then we banned him for six months and the band was up in July and he

never came back. So I don't know what happened to him. He moved on to something else. He said he got married, so maybe that's why he got a day job or something like that. And he says, by the way, everybody knows soft prets are best with mustard, nacho cheese is

a close second. I agree with that I agree with the nacho cheese the mustard, but I I like nacho cheese too, And I guess he's referring to a previous story, Like I go to Dodger Stating with something and they have a little cup of nacho cheese, and I'll usually get the little cup of nacho cheese. And because those mustard packets are painting the asta open up and all that, I'm not a big fan of that. The hot nacho

cheese makes everything better. A veteran move is when you take a date to the movies instead of getting that greasy butter all over the popcorn, leave the popcorn alone, no butter, or maybe lightly lightly lightly butter it, and then you get a cup of the nacho cheese hot on the side. Dip that popcorn into the nacho cheese. That's the way to go. That's a solbum. I've never done that. I've been in the movies in a while, but I'm usually extra butter on top of butter, on

top of butter. I got so much butter I can't talk. I can't touch my clothes or I won't be able to wear them anymore because of oil stains from the butter um. So that's that's how I go. Travis in Roseberg, I believe that's an Oregon. He's written the show before. He says, several years back, I switched over to making chicken ties for the Thanksgiving instead of turkey or ham. It's been quite a success. And then Travis says, do you guys have any non traditional food or beverage options

for any of the holidays? Well, I the last couple of years, I've not had a traderal Thanksgiving, so and I'll eat whatever. I'm it's a workday for me. I don't know. My family is kind of all scattered all over the place. I did go to the in laws for a while and maybe I get like a plate of a little turkey and a little mashed potatoes and things like that, but I didn't even do that this year. Um so yeah, I mean I eat like pizza. I

watched football and hate pizza on Thanksgiving. That's when I made the Mallard pizza with the garlic and the onions and all that. What about you, Danny, any family traditions and the any g radio family that go back that you when you were literally kind of weird stuff on the holidays when I was little and my mom was having some money issues. We had some government cheese. There you go, the cheese, the grilled cheese, but it was the cheese that wouldn't slice very well and it definitely

didn't melt very well either. Um. You know, later on, my mom started her own business and had some money. By then I was a freshman in high school. For the first time as a kid, she made a huge turkey. I didn't really enjoy the Thanksgiving meal maybe like some people do that day. I like the leftovers, I really do. I think the flavors set in best with that mash in in the gravy and the turkey. The flavors set in a day later, so I think I enjoyed heating

up a nice plate the day after Thanksgiving. And then, like we talked about earlier, the leftover turkey sandwich is We're really my big memory in high school of my mom making a really nice sandwich and kicking me out the door, and I'm like, cool, that's all I need to eat today. UM, as far as non traditional stuff, nah, but like you you've made a choice not to um

really partake because you're working. So Ben, what are you saving those days for because you get those days at a later time, right, Are you gonna use that for a big vacation later. Yeah. So I usually when I do every years, I hit the reset button in mid December. I pick a date, some random date in mid December, and then I'm off for like the last usually the last two weeks of the year. I remember the week

before Christmas, and then I'll come back after whatever. The first Monday or Sunday night into Monday is on early January. But I have not made any points. I haven't traveled anywhere. I went to Seattle and we had a Mallard meet and greet and that was a great time with Jay Scoop and the guys in Seattle, Pacific Northwest. We had a good crowd, and then that was it. I've not flown anywhere. I haven't travel I've traveled around California a

little bit. I've been to I love going to see the Giant Forest in Sequoia, going up there and doing that, and in Diego or whatever. But there's a renovation of the house which is still going on on the rampage around the house. So I've got a lot of stuff to do around here. So I don't think I'm gonna really go anywhere per se. I remember that besides that little break, you do like to save your money, you put all your cheddar under your mattress. Yeah, no, I do,

and you know it's paranoid. I've told the story before when I worked in San Diego and I got into the business commercially. I worked in college radio, obviously, but that's not you know, college, and I worked at San Diego and I remember being shocked because guys would take vacation at the end of the year and they'd never come back. They just fired them. And I was like, holy crap. And the program direct to be like, oh yeah, I can go down to the train station to find guys,

do you know the whole thing? And uh So that that set me up. And I've had people that's better. You gotta be there. You gotta be there there. And because because radio is all about habits people or a podcast, right people, if it's there, they'll listen. If it's not there, they're gonna find something else to listen to. And so I try to be there as much as I can. But Thanksgiving is a great weekend to work because you have all the football, and I'd much rather take a

day off in June. Not that I normally do that, but I'd much rather take a day off in June then per se take a day off, and you know, Thanksgiving there's three NFL games and there's all kinds of stuff going on. I actually do have a trip. I will be traveling. I'm gonna have to take some time off, like a week in I think March or April. My sister in law is getting married, I believe, so I have to travel to North Carolina. Sounds like a made up story already. No no, no, no, no, no, no no

no no. I've been warned. My my wife has been warning me. She got to save the day. She says, you're taking time off to go to this wedding. I'm like, really, maybe I can. You know I can do the show from North Carolina. I've done it from other places. No, no, no, you gotta take the time off. So COVID weddings aren't bad, ben people save a lot of money, like businesses and restaurants. You can just blame all the bad changes on COVID. Yeah, well, I think this is in the south, right north, But

North Carolina. Where's the where does the South start? Where's the point of demarcation. I think of North Carolina as the South. I think of it as anyway. It's in the it's in North Carolinaish. I don't believe they have the draconian California COVID rules. I think people actually living their lives there. You have a large NASCAR track, that's where it starts. Whoever, well then Virginia, Yeah, I love you Nascar. Yeah. Alright, moving on, let's see who do

we have? Kevin in Kansas rights and he says, uh, dear Ben and friends, thanks for working this weekend. Uh. He says, uh blah blah blah blah blah. I'm I'm one of many. I appreciate you working. Blah blah blah blah blah. He says. Is there any Thanksgiving food that just doesn't sit well with you? All right? So this is a another Thanksgiving related question. And I don't eat yams. I don't like yams. I'm trying to go whatever. I whatever doesn't sit well with me. I don't eat. So

everything I eat, I'm pretty good with it. Danny, you just eat leftover, so you know what you like. So I think I don't think we can really answer this question, right. I am surprised, Ben, because yams are pretty good, especially when they are made to be like a sweet dish where you got the marshmallows on top and it's kind of a dessert. You know. I'm not a big fan

of stuffing. It's not I guess it depends who made it, because I've had different dishes of stuffing where they're decent and then other ones where it's like you could maybe hide the dryness with some gravy, mix it on your plate that way. But I've seen like my older brother loves stuff he would put a huge pile on his plate, go back for seconds, and put another big pile of stuffing on his plate. I'm like, bro, it tastes like dogs. I'm just I don't know. I'm not a huge fan

of stuffing. Yeah, stuffing, there's a there's a big spectrum when it comes to stuff Like stuffing can be great if it's got seasoning and all that, and it can be the worst thing you've ever eat and so it's really a it's a hidden miss dish. There's no consistency like the mash, but the mash properly made mashed potatoes. One of the great meals. It's a gravy on. I mean, it's it's just absolutely wonderful. But anyway, thank you Kevin

for that Craig in Camel City. You know where Camel City is, Nanny g No, It's in the Tobacco Road in North Carolina, and Craig says, formerly from St. Louis. I have asked this question before, but I believe it wasn't answered. Is there any way to get some Ben Mallow's show merch hats T shirts? I endorse the show, well, Craig, I don't have any new products. I did make some T shirts years ago, and I stumbled across those shirts recently. They're a little little dated. I mean, they're still in

good shape. They've been in a box for a while, and I was debating whether to put them up and let people try to get them. I might give some away, but I do. I have two different versions of shirts. We sold them. And the reason I don't sell merchandise, Craig, is because every time I've tried to sell something, all I get is people complaining it's too expensive, it doesn't fit right, and so I don't. I didn't want to

deal with it Danny. So I don't even bother the ship the hassle too, because people don't like to wait, and I don't either, especially nowadays. We're also spoiled with Amazon. If that, if that merchandise isn't on their door the next day, then you're you're not hippo. Yeah, exactly. So that's that's another problem on top of everything. The hat thing. Like I I've always tried to spend a little my make it, make it good material, and then that costs more and then you gotta pass that on to the

consumer and then becomes a big big to do. So stay tuned, Craig. I might have something for you. One piece of merchandise I still have been. I don't know who made this. I don't know if you remember, but the Raider hats that were sent to us, and it was your face. Oh yes, yeah, that is a that is and most people don't even notice that my face is the Raider logo on because it looks the same.

It's just my face, super imposted. I think what had happened with that, if I remember some dude on Twitter had made that and then somebody else made that into a hat, and that was the year I was a Raider fan and they were not good that year, Daddy, So it's when's the last time the Raiders had a good team. It was when they were gonna go into they were gonna go deep into the playoffs that season. I don't think Derek Carr would puke like he does

in most games. And then no, because for whatever reason, he was unstoppable that season, even in big games. He came through. Which is why there's so much division between Raider Nation right now because a lot of Raider fans remember that teen Derek Carr, So you know he's got it in him, but he hasn't really shown it since here and there at the beginning of seasons, but then it fades away. Well, that is the definition though, of

greatness is doing it week after week. You're not only doing it for seven weeks, but then you gotta do it the whole year. Yeah, he's not, he's not. He's not that guy. Pal not that guy that whole year. And then he got his leg broke. It's broke, it's broke. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's who's gonna coach the Raiders? Danny, Are You're gonna leave the podcast to coach the Raiders next year. Oh man,

I'm hoping for Bill Parcels. Bill Parcels, come on, he's hanging out getting sunt tans on the beach in Hawaii. Bill Parcels know it was like a thousand years old at this point. You need a true Parself's grandson to coach the Raiders. Okay, Bill Cower, Then let's go Bill Cower. There you go, Bill ca the chin. He's got such a cooshy job on CBS. He's never leaving leaving CBS. I say Mark would hire Gruden back if he was just gonna say that. You have everybody a middle finger.

H Gruden wins his lawsuit, and part of that is he gets to come back to the team. There you go, there you go, and then live happily ever after. Yeah, you can bring back what's the guy? Was it? Guys? And he coached the Browns? Also? Was that Jackson? I know what Gruden thinks about my heritage even and I don't care as long as he wins on the field. Man,

there you go. It's football, all right, it's football. J from de Louse, Just win, yes, right, just win baby J J from Luther Right, since it's Ben I Podcast every day, all four hours. He says he's been doing it since Tleven. I used to get all four hours the show in about two hours and forty five minutes, but the last month has really messed up my day. He says that marathon fat commercials over seven minutes. Then there is a couple of commercials after it ends up

being three hours and twenty minutes. Now, so I missed the end of the show or the beginning of the noon to three k fan show. Jay says, I want to listen to the I want to listen to that commercial and Mike, he says, he doesn't. He misspelled the word here. I have been changing the channel when it comes on and sometimes forget to switch it back, missing part of your podcast. There, he goes, is uh, please

have the commercial go away? Well listen, Jay. What it sounds like to me is you are complaining because the podcast is successful, that people are advertising on the podcast, that this is a nam of revenue for the company, that they're making money. And just imagine how much that company paid for the seven minute commercial that we have

on the podcast. Think about the amount of revenue coming in which means I can keep doing these podcasts and uh, and the company is very happy and they will continue to employ me and all that. If I choose to continue to work here, they will continue to give me money and all that stuff. So you gotta look at it that one. Anytime somebody complains, and then any time somebody complains about commercials, I'm like, listen, we're really just

the filler between the That's really why we're there, right. Well, you have to remember any time you tune on PBS on your TV, they always have the people on there in between the couple of shows they might play saying your contribution is what makes things run around here, and now we could do that. Radio could just be an infomercial with us asking for people to send some money in.

That would be an going because I know we have some favorite radio stations where every now and again you tune it on in the morning show has changed formats to be a telethon, and those days are hard to listen to because even though they're doing something really good and for a good cause, you're not tuning in for a radio a thon or telethon. So just imagine it could be that, but instead it's sixty second commercials. Usually

thirty second commercials, in this case a longer commercial. But what I always tell listeners, if you love the programming, take advantage of the fact that you don't have to pay a subscription. You don't have to pay for satellite radio, you don't have to pay for Ben Mallor's entertainment. You put a lot of time and effort in Ben, but the way you and I get paid is through the sponsors paying the network. So I always tell listeners the best thing you can do to help support us is

support those sponsors. When you say, uh, you know, what do you say? You always say forward, slash Mallard or whatever the code might be. Man put that code in because when they see the Mallard name, that means people are listening to you and they're gonna keep spending money, exactly. And we had John Sterling on the Voice of the Yankees.

He was great on the podcast, and he had a wonderful line because I've the Yankee Broadcast if you think you don't like our podcast because commercials the Yankee Radio Broadcast begins, it's almost like satire. There's so many spots at the beginning of the Yankee Radio Broadcast with every high end car dealership and you know Wall Street moguls, and it's just insane. And John, I wasn't been in New York a few times. I've heard the broadcast. Be in New York to year the broadcast and it sounds

like a skit, like it doesn't sound real. There's so many commercials. And John said, the most important thing in all these jobs is sell the soap. You gotta sell the soap. And if you can't sell the soap, you don't have a job. And so I love all the advertisers and anybody that's willing to spend money and these things. Let me tell you something, these commercials are not cheap. Okay, uh,

these are pretty pricey commercials to buy at time. I was shocked when I found out I had some people that wanted to buy us commercials like mom and pop shops on the podcast. And then I found it. Once I found out how much the rate was, they said, well, we can't really afford that, and they they it's a national audience. Jerry writes in with One Good Eye from

Warwick Roade. I've actually met Jerry. She won a contest when the Dodgers played the Red Sox in the World Series in twenty eighteen and they flew her out from Boston to the game's at Dodger Stadium and it was really cool. I she was on local TV news in Rhode Island and they Boston as well, the local you know, New England stations were there to tell her story. Has she you know, she was she's going blind and she got to see the Red Sox and was her dream. And I was really cool and she met like Big

Poppy was really nice to her and all that. She says, what's the funniest or strangest awkward Turkey Day moment you can remember family related anything related to Turkey Day. Well, I've told this story before, Jerry. It's one of the great stories of the Mallard family, and my mom and

dad rest in peace. But we were having Thanksgiving dinner many many years ago, and my mom had said everything up and we put everything on the table and we were eating and then we we noticed there was no gravy, and so we needed the gravy and so my my brother Mike went to get the gravy and somehow in transporting the gravy back to the table, there was an accident.

The gravy was dropped from the bird, and gravy went splattering all over the roof of the kitchen, the walls of the kitchen, the entire fucking kitchen of it and gravy. It was unbelievable. I had no idea Gray he could travel as far as the gravy traveled, Danny. And so that was very memorable because me and my brother and my dad, and my mom as much as she could because she was in a wheelchair, we all cleaned up the gravy. That's how we spent Thanksgiving night, cleaning up

gravy to try to get it off the walls. Sounds like you and Tarry, Yeah, well your point, we get all together. If you listen to the Saturday podcast, the Tarryaki, Me and sauces don't go together. It's very saucy Danny. At least it wasn't ranch. Well, that's the devil's blood, you know that, Danny. That ranch dressing is the devil's blood. It is disgusting, it's rotting, it's terrible. It's almost as bad. Well, it's worse than blue cheese, but blue cheese is like

the cousin of ranch dressing. So it's all in the scene. Throw, but you're wrong about Ranch. We've already established that is incorrect. I am right. I have taken a strong anti ranch position. I have won many elections. The electorate says that I am correct. Danny Uh any weird, any weird, awkward. There's a theme that I've done podcasting. I don't want to do a Thanksgiving young cheesy things. Everyone's asking the questions about Thanksgiving, which I appreciate. This isn't cheesy. It's a

little r rated. Um not awkward, well, maybe awkward. It was definitely memorable as a young broadcaster, always worked the holidays because that's where you could pick up Morning drive. Uh. Suddenly I'd be on afternoon Drive and I was just a sixteen seventeen year old kid at the time, and you know, I'm on Morning Drive fifty thou watt station. And they handed the staring wheel and the car keys over to me, and they're like, here you go, kid, We're all gonna be at our homes with our families

and me. I'm just a single guy trying to make it big in radio. So I'm driving the big car. And afterwards, a radio buddy of mine met up with me at a I'm trying to think of the restaurant up in northern California. Happy Steak was the name of it. So we're we're eating, uh, you know, their Thanksgiving special. And at the other booth were strippers. Nice. We had a booth of strippers and a booth of DJs, and and my radio friend invited them over, and so you

had it. Then you had a booth of strippers and DJs together all breaking bread and telling stories about each industry. And I remember the server just shaking her head like who are these people? It was very memorable Thanksgiving. That's outstanding. I had back in the day on the weekend show before you the company I used to go to when I was single. I had nothing to do, I had

no life. I ate a lot at weird times. I had a regular diet, and I would go to the Denny's on down the street from the Fox Sports Radio studio. I think it's in technically it's in Van Eyes. I

think it's it's a little north of the studio. And we'd go in there and it was great because you'd have the crowd come in when the club kind of ended, and then you'd have the strippers come in there and sometimes you'd have the hookers in there because it was right near a hotel, and it was a very interesting crowd. Very interesting crowd. There's something here. It was not some of the things that happened there. Easiness. How late did those meals go? Ben? Oh, I would stay out. I

would come back. Sometimes the sun was already rising and I would be on my way back. I'd be driving back bleary eyed, it's been three hours in the Denny's. In fact, Chris Plank, one of the hosts at Fox Sports Radio, is a respected broadcaster in Oklahoma. He actually when he came lated everybody we went to Denny's, we asked when we we hung out and bonded and broke bread and I eat the chicken strips and he he had I think he had the breakfast food, if I

remember correctly. But yeah, nice r J. Last question. R J in saying in Tonio, this is very awkward, Nan, I don't know if I should answer this one. He says, what's your sleep higher shirt, no shirt, socks, no socks, birthday suit, et cetera. Doesn't that sound like an invasion of our privacy? Danny, Yeah, a little bit. I mean, I don't even want to picture you in your bed or your bad I don't want to think about big band in his bed. I put on my MUMU and I go to bed. I mean, come on, you have

your clippers, pj's. Yes, I have my my Chuck the Condor onesie. I put on there and I knocked the logos all over it. Yeah, I knocked myself out. But that's that's what I have. One socks. Socks is a weird thing. I've only worn socks to bed when it's really really cold, but I don't I usually don't get that cold. I'm usually pretty musually pretty warm. I don't really worry about that. I would argue that with you, man, I'm a socks dude, because that's where it just keeps

your entire body warm. If I have socks on, then I just need boxers. But if I don't have socks on, I need sweats, I need a shirt. I feel like your heat. It's like a furnace down at your feet. It generates your body heat. Yeah, no, I've heard that, but I liked I get really nice sheets and then feel like my toes. I like my toes to feel the bottom of the bed. That's what I enjoy here we go exactly. But lately my wife is she's a pro heating blanket. She's into the heating blanket. So that's

been an addition to the to the house. And I tell her it doesn't even get cold. I took her to Boston. We went to Boston one time. It was in the winter. It wasn't even really the middle of the winter. It was like it was in November, and it was starting to get cold. And we happened to be there and it was snowed a little bit. It was kind of cold on the weekend. And man, she she was so frozen. She's we had to leave a

Red Sox game. The Red Sox was playing the Blue Jays, so what it was a late oct over and uh, it was very cold at Finway and and I'm like, listen, I don't go to very many Red Sox games. I don't want to leave. And she's like, no, we gotta get out of here. I'm too cold. I gotta you know,

here's a hot tip for all the men. And and don't get Bill Cosby thoughts here, okay, but get iron pills, get a spoon, crush it up, stir it in your girls orange juice, give her some iron supplements, Ben, because they say that that's why most women are so cold. They have an iron deficiency. So there you go. Yeah, there you forced feet of iron and then they'll bitch less about being cold. That is anything that gets less complaining. I'm all about. I do enough planning on the radio.

I don't need to hear complaining. I complain about every athlete and team out there for for twenty hours a week or whatever it is. Anyway, all right, Danny will put the baby to bed here on a Sunday and welcome. I'm glad you're here, Danny. I've been looking forward to doing future podcast with you and we'll have a good time in the Magic podcast Box. You can hit me up on cameo. It's at Ben Mallard on Cameo just search my name out. It's not free, but it's not much.

And also the Facebook page, Ben Maller on Instagram, Ben Maller on Fox and of course the original way on Twitter. Many ways you can contact me and Danny. How can people get ahold of you? Yeah, you're at Ben Maller on Twitter and I'm at Danny G Radio on Twitter. Alright, have a wonderful rest of your NFL Sunday. I will be back behind the microphones of FSR tonight on the radio show as a wind bag that I am. Yeah, eleven PM Sunday night in the West. That will be

of course three am. Now two is it? Two am? I can't even mat two am and I don't even know. We'll catch you then. Take care,