"Essential Mic" Mail Bag

Are you ready for the mailback? In the Fifth Hour? Podcast presented as bonus content eight days a week at the radio show, The Restore Radio Show five days a week, the podcast three days a week. You're saying, hey, stupid, there's only seven days a week. No, there's not. We have more. We have more, We have an extra day in our little world here Danny G and excited for the mail bag. A great number of messages coming in here. So people have questions, questions, questions, questions, and some of

them will surprise us, surprise, motherfucker. Others of them will roll their eyes out and say, why did we use that question? So that's usually the way that's worse. Let's go, this is my second favorite day of the week. Yes, okay, alright, alright to it we go on the mail bag again. Actual listener letters sent in via the email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. It's f I F T H Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and also on our show Facebook page, Ben Mathers Show. So here

we go, Thank you very much. The great Ohio Al sent that in. First. One comes from Nick in Wisconsin. He says, I listen to all of the Ben Mallers shows and listen to the Pat McAfee show. But when I'm not listening to that in my commute, I listened to audio books. What is your guilty pleasure to listen to? Congrats Danny g and uh, he says, congrats on your Benny so Nick and Wisconsin happy that you won. Thank you, Nick.

I see you still have it there. You're holding it up and your I've been carrying it around with me all week. Yeah, it's very heavy, solid gold. Of course, can't wait to show it to Brian Finley. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Well, that dope he was. He claimed he won. He said there was some kind of voter fraud, that dingling. Yeah, so what is our guilty pleasure to listen to? So I do not listen to a lot of sports talk

radio because I want to do my own thing. And you listen to other shows, you have a habit of kind of what's the word, parroting, parroting some of the stuff that other shows do. So I try not to do that. Don't listen to much sports talk at all. And I have friends of mine. We we've been in the business long enough. Uh Danny g Where will tune in and listen? Uh? Tim Conway, I'll check him out on KFI here in l A. Does a great job

on the on the night show. They have a lot of news updates on that on that show and and whatnot. I'll listen to that. I have some some DJ friends. I'll tune in. The buddy of mine Striker used to work at k Rock in l A. He's now at ninety eight point seven, and so he's moved across the radio that. There's a few other people around the country that I will sample their show. My buddy Sports with Coleman, who does do a sports show, but he's in Baltimore

talking about the Orioles. Nothing. I want to nothing. I want to pair it about the Orioles and all that. So there's that. What about you, Danny G Yeah, I'm in the car for a short time on weekdays. In the morning it's k l OS, which is the rock station in southern California, Heidi and Frank in the morning, I hear them laughing for a few minutes. In the afternoon it's Petros and Money. Now I don't have to worry about parenting any of their takes been because like

this podcast, they're not really talking about sports. No, most of the time they're just playing grab bass. So I'll hear that. And our buddy Victor Brick, who you talked to on Friday, feeling you yes. And then on the weekends, on my way into the studios at fs ARE, I am listening to Power one oh six, usually on the freeway, just to get hyped up. So that's your rotation. Yeah, those three are in rotation. Got you all right? Well, thanks for the question, Nick, appreciate that. And the next

up come back attention. It's time from now I'll call Murray in Saskatoon, right, that's a good word to say, Saskatoon Canadian lads. Hello, King Ben. I love your incredible list of nicknames, but every time I hear the nickname Marconi Maller, I realized that I've never heard the story about the time that you won the Marconi Award. Can you please grace us with the story and don't be

afraid to leave out all the details? Thank you. Well, I'm glad you asked Murray, and I know there's some sarcasm in that, but I would never call myself Marconi Maller unless there was some truth in it. And so let me give you the backstory. A couple of years back, I was doing some satellite work before COVID. This is twenty seventeen eighteen, so two years I was working at w e I in Boston filling in on the night show. So that was my my extra on the side gig

before this podcast stuff started. So I was doing that talking Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, occasionally the Bruins, and while I was at w e I, filling in at night around Red Sox games, even doing the Red Sox postgame talk show from time to time, which was very bizarre. But w e I was named the Marconi Sports Talk Radio Station of the Year, and since I was on

that station, Mary you schmuck. Since I was on the station the year they won the award, by default, I was part of the award because I was on the station. So I had a small role, a very small role, and that's how I picked up the nickname Marconi Mallard. Now i'd like to win a different Marconi at Fox Sports Radio. That would be awesome, but I haven't and you have to be nominated, and I've been nominated. I know that Alf the Alien opiner a super fan end

of the show. Alf has been working on that, but typically somebody in the business has to do it. And the way this works, I am the low man on the totem pole. So if you're gonna nominate someone for a mar Coney road, it's gonna be somebody that's on the radio between six am and six pm, not somebody who's on the radio from six pm to six am. That's the dead zone. So I don't think you have

to worry about that. But I did have a small role in the Marconey So put that your pipe and smoke it, Murray in Saskatoon, because I know what you were doing, Murray. I am onto you, Murray, I'm aware of what you were doing. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, all right, And he writes in next he's still dodging the hobo insanity near Tommy's and Holly

Weird now and he's emailed a few times. I used to hang out at that Tommy's right off the one on one Freeway, Danny, when I was doing the weekend over that shows early days in Fox Sports Radio before I lost the weight. I'd go in there, cruise in there about three thirty in the morning, and I'd load up on double chili cheeseburgers and chili cheese fries, and I'd sit there and people watch I eat the parking lot because it was too scary to go out of the out of my car. Right. You said your mom

would worry about you being in that part of town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was was a sunset strip and the people would come off the Sunset Strip who had been boosting it up, having a great time, and then they'd come down there for a little post game party at that Tommy's in Hollywood anyway, and he says, glad to have Danny g on the pod. He says, but still hurting that you didn't use my little Benny co host idea from last year.

Imagine the life of Mallard add ons. You have Hama toshing cooking outfit, updated costco greener uniform and a Clipper final four shirt. Well there you These people get so offended, they're so triggered by the Clippers making the Final four. It's not my problem, it's your problem. It is the Clippers were in the Final four. Deal with it, Okay, they were there. I didn't make it happen. They made it happen. I had nothing to do with it. But I did enjoy it. I did admit. What is still

wrong with the Clippers? And he says, question any big ben hacks to counter the pain from the outrageous Biden inflation, any fruit frugality tips, ways to save money, shortcuts to keep the wallet closed. Yeah, I'm feeling it. Andie, I guess you can get a radio show and never leave your house and not have to pay for gas. But my wife drives a lot, so she has to pay for gas. So that's the first thing that the no gas thing, and the other thing that I've done, And

he is, I don't eat as much. I fast a lot. So if you only eat one meal a day, you're saving money on two meals. Traditionally people eat three meals a day. I only eat one meal a day. Sometimes I skip meals all together. I'll go a couple of days without you, which I'm told starting in there'll be a food shortage, which we have. I was reading a story online about that, Danny. They said that there's issues with the food supply. Now we're going to be back to where we you can't get bread or meat. It's

through what a what a world? Where in it's crazy to me that the things are getting the opposite direction. Then you thought things always get better, like I've heard that, oh things get better things oh lately and that's so much. Growing up, we'd always hear stories about Hawaii, like, oh man, the milk is this much, and the peanut butter costs this much and because obviously all the food it needs to be shipped over. Yeah, now those prices we will

hear about Hawaii. That's what we're dealing with where we live in California. My tender rony, she got a little thing of peanut butter last week, eight dollars for the small one jelly nine dollars for the little small jelly. Now, so it is a man it is a quandary if I can use a five dollar word, somebody owes me five bucks because what do you do? Do you go out to eat? Because that is expensive drive to go out to eat, and for four people that's easily fifty bucks.

Even if you do fast going out food like a Chipotle or something like that were placed over the Arby's. Unfortunately that in the fast food category. You know, some people just won't eat fast food, and I get it, but right now we're trying to figure out the balance between grocery shopping and eating out. Yeah, and there's a sweet spot with the fast food, like there's a sweet spot where not all fast food restaurants in the same You've got your core four that are everywhere, like McDonald's

and what's on that list, Burger King. I'm trying to think of some of the ones that are every everywhere you go, everywhere. By's, Wendy's is a national operation. There's that, and then there's places that are a little different, like people that don't like fast food but they love Chick fil A. Right, I don't know if it's all over the country. But like we have Alpoo Loco. Yeah, I think I think here in the southwest. But yeah, that's like drough but healthier than like McDonald's type food. Is

a place that serves like Asian bowls of meat. There's a lot of meat. That is a lot of meat and chicken. What's it called this and that? I think it's a national change. Maybe it's just a Panda Express. No, not that uh orange. Yeah, it starts with a W. I'm having a mental block from it. But it's now we do have Panda Express in our rotation, and that's because my tender Ronie say, well, I get the veggie bowl from them, I get the vegetables and the rest of us eat all the orange chicken and get fat.

But Ben for three people at Panda Expressed, the bill was forts man. So it's just getting Yeah, the prices have gone up everywhere around us. All I have to say is, thank god. We've all been getting raises at our jobs, especially in radio. They monthly we've been getting raises. In fact, the boss of calls up sometimes you know, I hate to do this to body again, another raise,

another raise, and I know you're shocked. By that and surprised. Motherfucker. Yeah, there you go the best of luck, which means as good luck as everyone else has. Andy. Uh, we'll see what happens there, but I would advise not eating, uh, not driving anywhere. And other than that, I have a quick one for him. Take the stra patty off your burger at five guys, they put two nice patties in there. And what's great is they give you the burger in foil, so you already have the tin foil. So what I do.

I take one of the patties out, eat the burger, wrap the extra patty up in the tin foil, bring that home, and then with some bread at home, you can make a second burger later. So I thought you were gonna say, just eat the peanuts and eat one patty and then don't do the second patty. And just know that's something you would do. You're the go to the store to get the leftover old Valentine's candy the next day. That is a solid move for the frugal man. It has never failed. You say, I gotta work, and

I usually had to work on Valentine's Day. Anyway, Dandy, I go in there. I wasn't like doing it maliciously. I had to work anyway because I was like, I couldn't see the person until after Valentine's They said, I'll be like, all right, I go in there the day after by a couple of those hard candy things and some other stuffed animals stuff and then be good to go. And you were also single for twenty years longer than that.

A radioactive Ryan in Salt Lake City, Utah rights and says, hey, fifth hour fellas, thanks for making my work days much easier to tolerate. Ben. I was thinking about the time you were pulled over, and if you had been the officer's favorite Petro's Papa Vegas, you would have avoided getting a tick. You remember that story, Danny. This time I was on my way to work. I was running a little late. And this is when I lived in Lincoln Heights.

I was running late, and I am on the five going to the one thirty four, and I get pulled over, and you guys like, you know, what do you do where you're going? And I had the chance that that was my opportunity to tell him finally I could say, without being a douche, well, I'm going to the radio station. And anytime you tell the police officer you're going to radio station, Oh, which one that you know that's coming. So then you're like, oh I Fox Sports Trading. Oh

really yeah? And I'm like, oh, yeah, it's on in l here it's a M five seventy and and then he yes, who I was, and he saw my driver's license, had no idea, but loved Petros. Loved Petros, big fan of Petros. Anyway, Radio actor Ryot says, another one of your great stories was the KFC manager who mistook you for a former high school student that defaced property in

his story. Yes, that was hilarious. That was so. I grew up in Irvine, California, and this guy who was living in Washington calls the show and he knew a little bit about me. He says, you go too high school? Like, yeah, I went there for a little bit. I went to a couple of different you know, yeah, I went to And this guy was the manager at the Kentucky Fried Chicken down the street from the high school where all

the punk high school kids would go. And he had accused me of some vandalism at the KFC restaurant and that was incorrect. I did not do that. I did not take part in that elicted activity. I did eat that KFC, but I did not take part in that activity. But he was convinced that I did. Did this involve a spray can? Because I mean, you're tall, so you could reach some spots where usually we'll look up see graffiti,

We're like, how did somebody get to that spot right there? Yeah? Well, where I grew up, the big vandalism was food fights. There would be people throwing, chucking French fries and whatever else at each other. That was the big vandalism when I was a kid. But he also says I was wondering if Danny g has any tales of brushes with the law or cases of mistaken identity. He signs off by saying, f out tube and screw Korea, blank my

blank and blank you radioactive? Ryan? Yeah? Well, former listeners about kicked the coverage will remember this during the peak of COVID, like when it was a ghost town out on all the roads, including the freeway. The staff had to have FEMA cards. Did they give us more money, Ben when we were government assistants? No, But I did learn about the was it the marshal something something that allows us to have access to the roads. That was

pretty cool. Actually, yeah, so we're driving around with these FEMA cards like big shots, and if we got pulled over, our bosses told us, we'll take out your paperwork and your FEMA card and you'll be good. Because nobody was supposed to be out on the roads unless they had to go to a job. That was what was it? Oh yeah, well it was what was the word they used? Crap? How how soon this leaves us like some jobs were

needed and others weren't. Remember, and we're like, well, who's to say that that job is needed and that one's not. There was that big discussion at the start of COVID. Yeah, that your sports talk radio host needs a FEMA card, but the pression that works construction does not, or vice versa or something like that. Anyways, I'm driving through the ghost town that was Burbank at the time. There were literally no cars on the road. I am driving to get onto the freeway to go to the studios to

produce Clay Travis Talk. I see sirens and I'm like, here we go. I pull over. I'm right next to a Chevron gas station, so I pull into the gas station officer did not like the fact that I pulled into the gas station, tears around really quickly and pulls in front of me, puts their brights on me, and I'm like, this doesn't look like this is gonna go well, gets out start screaming at me about why did I pull off the main road. I'm trying to explain I'm

on my way to work. This female officer wasn't having it. I'm looking for my female card, Ben, all of a sudden, I have no idea where the stupid card is. So for days I had this thing available, and I'm looking for this card. She puts her flashlight in my eyes, and she's like, I don't like the look of your eyes. Surely you can't be serious like your eyes like my eyes. And I'm like, all right, well, I'm not trying to date you, and don't call me. You didn't give her

the puppy dog eyes. You didn't give her those, No, you didn't. Then my eyes look glossy. I just woke up to get into the studio at two thirty am, so of course my fucking eyes look glossy. Man. But Ben, she thought I was coming home from drinking somewhere, so she thought I was a d U. I she had other officers show up. I'm quickly trying to text Clay because now I know I'm gonna be late for the show. And she yells at me for being on my phone.

She's like, drop your phone immediately immediately. What are you doing here? And I and I get later I found out that's because they're scared that maybe you're calling people to come help you. Um, so she made me. She took my phone after I told her what I did for a living where I was going. She's like, let me see your phone. Let me see this Clay Travis guy. You were texting. Who's there? So in the text, I had told Clay, oh boy, no one's on the roads

obviously because of COVID. I'm getting pulled over right now. I'm gonna be late. Your first guest is at seven am, and it's so and so she tells, me, h, seven am, you're not on your way to work. And I told her time zone situation. Yeah. I told her, ma'am, we're a network, we work on Eastern Yeah. And she just had this look on her face like, oh, she thought she had me. It wasn't it got your moment. Oh now. One of the male officers who showed up heard the story from her, came up to me and asked me

if Clay Travis could give him a shout out. Sweet, sweet, you're in now, you're in right, So they shipped me off. I got to tell the story on the air. Clay had fun with it. Um, but yeah, that was but as many officers that were there, there were five squad cars there at the end, they had nothing to do because no one was out, so everyone was sheltering in place to stay at home, orders and all that nonsense exactly. Now. One good thing that came from that a buddy of

mine who is a sheriff in Los Angeles. He sent me a family badge, family police badge for l A. It's gotten me out of two tickets so far. I got caught speeding through the desert last year. You open up to get your I d it shows a real badge and the officers like, are you off duty? And I said, oh no, no, I have family. Okay, do me a favorite slowdown? Wow? Yeah, boy, that's the move.

So thank you. Because of that story I got to tell on Clay Travis show a fine officer in l A sent me that in the mail and so I have a badge, Baby, I am l A p D service. If any officers would like to help me out, you're more than welcome. I would be receptive to that. I would not be against that at all. Uh. The only time I get I can use that my wife, but she's not a police officer, she's a what's it? Nine one one? So occasionally that will work. But if I'm

on my own, I'm done, I'm getting a ticket. It's gonna have. The word I think we were looking for was essential, right, not a sential essential? That was the big term, non essential or essential. Carlos in Houston is next the great Carlos in Houston. As we continue the mail bag, I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, Carlos and Houston says Ben, you mentioned that you knew the Andrea in impersonator. Who is it? He says? Also, will you have art though on your podcast to preview

the baseball season? Speaking of baseball, we need a wellness check on where's my baseball guy? So a lot of questions, Carlos, not a lot of answers. Now, I do know who the Andrea impersonator is and I think we've said this on there, so I'll go with it. It is Robin Vegas, the Great Robin Vegas is called up and impersonated Andrea in Berkeley and one of Benny for them. Yeah, that is a great impersonation of her. Hello, Ben, how are you doing? Uh? And Roberto, I don't know that Roberto's

booked for the podcast. We will do some baseball. I love talking baseball. The season beginning. You know what should get back on as a friend of the show. Lenny Dike Stronikester wants to come back on the podcast, and Eddie Garcia is scared him. Lenny, Yeah, Eddie is afraid. He would not allow Lenny wanted to come in studio and hang out back before COVID and hang out and just shoot the shoot the ship. And Eddie said no, no, he did not want him in the studio. He thought

he had cooties or something. He probably does have cooties. But Lenny's interested. Never boring with Lenny Dike's never boring with Lenny. Friend of the show, so we might get him on. And Rick Monday. Rick's a friend and he said he would do it. I didn't want to bother him in the off season. We get Rick on Dodger broadcaster man saved the American flag back in the day when the great moments in baseball history. He doesn't sound

like he'd be grouchy at all. No, No, Ricks. Ricky's great, but rich got you know, tremendous stories from back and then he was the first ever draft pick, first ever pick in Major League Baseball's draft. You know, he was the number one pick of the Kansas City Athletics, Rick Monday. Uh. And as far as the speaking of baseball, we need a Where's my Baseball Guy? Update? I believe he changed to a day shift, but we have not heard from the Where's my Baseball Guy? Have not heard that. And

the callers on the advice line change. It's not the same people. We've had different waves over the years. So that's just that's part of the deal. Very Nashville rights in on the mail back. He said, Yo, yo, mom, Benny, I love the Bennies this week, best one yet. See again the term best pops up. The greatest one ever? Yeah, the greatest, better than all the rest, he says. Tell us when did you start the Bennies and how did The idea come up with the Betty started a number

of years ago and we thought why not. Kind of it started as a as I remember it, Danny, the Bennies began as a way to mock award shows. The Spis was one we thought was just ridiculous and yeah, it's still could so we we like to coop on that. And then the Academy Awards. And I've never been a big fan of award shows. My mom used to love watching the Academy Awards every year, is you know, the typical cliches. She want to see what people were wearing

and all that stuff. And I was always bored out of my mind, like, who cares they're wearing a dress or they're wearing a tuxedo. It's not a lot of variety in this. But that's just my perspective on fashion. And so that's kind of how that began. The idea for it began that way, and over the years it's

taken a life of its own. I had a listener who contributes content to the show whose mother emailed me to say, and this is a grown ass human being whose mom emailed me to say, Hey, I think my son deserves a nomination for a bit doesn't have to win, it just deserves a nomination, And like, really, you gotta be kidding me, Okay, yeah, why not? What the heck? I think that was actually kind of cool, man. I said,

that's something like my mom would do, you know. But it's at the same time part of me was like, yeah, that's great. The other part of me, I don't know. But I did get to hear some of the Bennies. I didn't get to hear who One Drop of the Year though, you were up for a couci. Yeah, well Rachel and Monto Bello. Congratulations to Rachel. The boys enjoyed the Swallow drop. The swallows have returned and a big fan of that. Of course. Barry also says, you spoke

about tornadoes on last week's fifth Hour. I'll give you a firsthand account of an e F five tornado next week. So Barry's promises content for next week. Then nice, like a radio version of the movie Twister. He's teasing ahead to next week. And living in Nashville. Wasn't there a tornado that hit in the city of Nashville come long ago? Yeah? Yeah, not that long ago. It's crazy. I was reading a story about tornadoes, and there's this myth about tornadoes they

don't hit big cities. But they say that that that bullshit, because what really goes on is there's very few big cities in America. Most of America and tornado country is either farmland or just open land. It's not cities, just only a handful. So it's there were big cities there, they would get hit exactly. It's it's like hitting the middle of a bull's eye. To hit a city. To hit the middle of the bulls eye doesn't normally happen. Anyway, we'll hear what Barry has to say next week. Chris

from Falling Waters, West Virginia. It's a good name. Chris is next. He says, what was the funniest moment on the show that you remember? The biggest laugh I got from your show was when Justin and Cincinnati said that marcel ate a yummy snack for food foot picks. Eddie was dying laughing for over five minutes. There are some great moments. Typically they involved things that don't make it on the air. Yeah, yeah, there are things that get

dumped out. I have a clip of us laughing hysterically the very first time we ever heard Eddie Garcia sing that. I do remember that night now what it was his real talk back when he was on the show. He would make bets with some of us on the crew, and if we lost that bet, we would have to sing a duet with him. That's right, he did a duet with Eddie Garcia. I have a clip of it

that I'll insert right here on the way. We were gentlemen, scattered pictures but smiles, we laugh and as you can hear, we were just dying laughing because we didn't know Eddie was gonna take it so serious, and we didn't know Eddie was a songbird. Yeah, yeah, you figured Eddie. You don't. You look at Eddie. You listen to Eddie, You're like, this is not a guy that sinks at all. There's no music at all in it, but sure enough, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise.

But to answer you crushing christa further, they give you some more examples of that. Just a couple of weeks ago, Roberto tried to announce, he tried to pronounce he was doing a cooking segment and he tried to pronounce black pepper, but he didn't say black pepper, that's something else that starts with the P. And it was just funny, like Roberto, where do you get that ingredient? Roberto is that is that? It was hilarious. It's fun to add to the funny content.

But you blush and you feel so dumb when you say something thing like that. Because two weekends ago on Cavino and Rich on Sunday Afternoon, I was trying to say Westwood one, and I said Westwood, Come, well, it does happen over in Westwood, but I understand, but I don't know how to live there, so I don't know. Uh. And it was like a moment in time that gets paused. It was radio silence and then tons of laughter and

and me saying, dump that dump that dump that. There was one time, me and me and Looney we were doing the Blitz is like an eight hour show, right, So we're in a commercial period on the show, and usually during the commercials, and we talked about all the

gossip at the radio station. So we're going back and forth and we're going on and all the drama, and our engineers, Steve still Well comes hustling back and he turns the corner and he had forgotten to turn our mics off, so everything we had been saying was broadcast. But fortunately we were not on the microphone Danny's you know, those microphones are gonna be right on top. You gotta spitting into the microphone, so it was in the background.

But we were diing. We were we were upset initially, and then we found out that it didn't Actually nobody can understand it. We started laughing. That was the funniest thing, and uh, that was that was great? All right? What is next year? On the mail bag? Actual letters by actual listeners to the show. You can contribute one if you want in a future edition. We told you how at the beginning of this. And if you're saying, wait a minute, you're not that guy, trust me, you're not

that guy. Anybody can send a message. You don't have to have special powers anything like that. All right, come back, it's time from now call j C from Tennessee, writes in says, dear Ben, as a fan of the Tennessee Titans, I was pleased to hear you say that Baker Mayfield should be traded to the Titans. When I first heard that Baker wanted to be traded I immediately thought that

I would like to have Baker on the Titans. But I write you today not to talk about Baker Mayfield or the Tennessee Titans, but to inform you that you called Nashville the birthplace of country music, and that, sir, is incorrect. Nashville is the home of country music thanks largely to the Rieman Auditorium, the mother Church and country music and the mother Church of country music, while Bristol, Tennessee, is the birthplace of country music so as so recognized

by the United States Congress. He also says fun fact Danny G came to visit Nashville once he and I went on a tour of the Rieman Auditorium. Is that true? Danny J c to me there that building, Ben when they explained to you the history and how it started and where it's at today. Yeah. I want to get to Nashville. I have not been to Nashville. My wife actually has some relatives that live in that area. So I'd like to get down there and hang out and

check out. There's a Johnny Cash museum I understand in Nashville, which fan of Johnny Cash. I'd like to see that. The reason I said that j C. Though I'll pass the buck. I watched this great documentary years ago on PBS about country music, and I'm pretty sure that they had said that in the documentary. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but Nashville the birthplace of country music. But the Grand Old Opery and all that that took place there in Nashville,

the history of that tremendous. And so there you go. J C says, a proud Tennessee and a proud Tennessee and he just wanted to set the record straight on that. Yeah. Man, the food and the music in that city, it is a place to visit, that's for sure. It's one of the boom towns. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, alright. Next up is Adrian in the Mile Highest City, says Ben and Danny Gy. Is it possible to drop the weekend podcast at six am Mountain time or earlier? That

would be what are we looking at here? Five am? Pacific? I enjoy listening to them during early morning workouts. Thank you. It's been a while since I emailed the show. So do you guys dress up for Halloween? I usually don't, but this past Halloween my wife found me this white broncho head mask with white hooves to match. I was broncho man in my bronco jersey walking my kids around the neighborhood trick or treating that night. He actually sent a photo of this Danny. You can't see it, but

that's a good looking costume. He says. It didn't hurt that they be the team formerly known as the Redskins. Earlier that afternoon, as soon as the Mr Unlimited press conference was over here in Denver, I ordered my orange home number three Russell Wilson jersey. Unfortunately, it's not scheduled to be delivered until the beginning of May. I'll keep you posting on Wanted to Rise. It is wild. In the span of like a year and a half, two years, we had every. I know we've complained about this a

lot to any but it wasn't that long ago. We had too much. We had an abundance of everything, and now you can't even get a jersey. He didn't even get a jersey without waiting a couple of months. It's extra bothering people. Because we're such an on demand society now thanks to Amazon and on demand TV and movies and everything like that. That We're used to getting things the next day. If we order something, it better get here within a week, where I'm gonna be pissed. Yeah. Absolutely.

Adrian also says do you have any favorite Costco Kirkland brand items? My top three are Kirkland brand briefs, Kirkland Brand coffee, and Kirkland Trail Mix. The trail Mix comes in a box of twenty eight individual snack backs, which I like because it limits me too how much I eat. If I bought a giant bag of trail Mix, I might eat half the bag in one sitting. Amen on that, Adrian, I'm right there with you. So Kirkland brand products that I might go to Kirkland brand products. The batteries, they

are the name brand batteries without the name brand. I found out a couple of years ago that those are energizer batteries. They just put the Kirkland brand on them, so I was going with the Kirkland brand batteries. There are these Macadamian nut cluster things that I've been getting. They're a little pricing now, the price of everything's gone up,

but those are delicious. Those are wonderful. Um all about that, and I don't use the Kirkland brand toilet paper, although I have been told it got it got better, but I generally stay away from that any items you go two items Danny at Costco Kirkland brand. One quick thought on you. Talking about how the price of everything has gone up. A Trader Joe's cashier said last week that normally, before all this mess, they would have two to three price increases per week at the store. Yeah, last week

alone they had thirty six Wow. Why the hell is it a hundred and eighty three dollars for four bags of groceries? That's why. And it's one of those things, Danny. It doesn't go back once it goes up, that's it. That's the price. It's not like it works the other way. Let's say the price of fuel went down. Are they gonna lower the prices of everything? Are they gonna go through the store Trader Joe's and these other stores and say, okay, we're gonna lower the price of the peanuts by twenty

cents today? Yeah? I say no. I said, this is the price. It's never gonna go back. The price of gas will go down, maybe, who the heck knows, But this other stuff is not gonna go down. Yeah, Well the Kirkland brand gas gasoline. That's a good one. Sure. And then I'll go with your Ugly Sweater Party Kirkland brand alcohol. Yes, that's the staple, the Ugly Sweater Party, the vodka and other adult beverages on the Kirkland brand label. There you go, right, I'm right there with you all right.

Next up on the mail bag, mal Mike in Fullerton in Soko says, with the Will Smith slap being the talk of the town, when was your biggest slap in the face For me? It easily was the time that I was nominated for an award by a big time radio show that's on over four radio affiliates and they only got two measily votes. Yeah. Well that's what happens

for a dog. That was shocking for a dog. He was in the opening round of the Benny's online vote for Social Media in Fluencer of the Year and for the longest time he did not have a single vote. It was wild. He needs to market himself better. The only time I've ever seen him pop up on our FSR Twitter account is when he's complaining about one of the hosts. Well, there's a lot to complain about. As

you know, there's much to complain about, all right. Next up, As far as my slapping face, by the way, I don't know. I think doing doing the Ben Mather Show and having the company update the website and misspelled my name and then tell me they corrected it, and still having the name mess up. I think that would be

the biggest slap in the face. But who cames Miller I've made you were so excited to see your new section of the website and you click on and it says Bill Miller, yes, yes, and then they switched to it was I think it was Ben Miller. I think after that, I have a screenshot of one of those things somewhere around here on on the computer. I would love to see that, all right now. Next up is Grandma from Salt Lake City. I enjoyed the Benny Awards.

I enjoyed the Benny Awards. Marcel should have won, So some controversy from Grandma from Salt Lake listens every night, Christie the Grandma and then we're very big with the Grandma's And you thought, Danny and to this podcast as well. Listener Lorene chimed in and she responded she says, she's a granny from Lehigh, Utah. Think I'm saying that right, And and she listens every night also, so listen. A good grandma is a gift from the gods. A grandma that spoils you. I mean I had some some. I

had one grandma from from Russia kind of. Actually, both my grandma's were from from Russia, so now I think I went from Chernobyl and she was both kind of from the old country. Danny, so a little on the cold. But my my one grandma, she would always when we go over, she give us books, but the books were heading in the back of a closet and we had to like crawl through this little spot in their in their bed. It was it was really cool. I remember

it fondly. I lived in North Hollywood and we'd go there and hang out and it was a lot of fun and all that stuff. But yeah, grandma's are wonderful. How about the grandma that used to call our show and she would send us New Orleans style cake. Oh, Barbara from New Orleans? Yes, Barbara from New Orleans. You haven't heard from Barbara in a while? No, I think some other radio shows stole her away. Well the day. Hadn't heard from her in a long time either. Uh. Yeah,

I don't know. I don't know what happened. Barbara, very nice woman. That kink cake. Yeah, she sent us the Marty Grass stuff. Yeah. And then you had to find the little plastic guy in the cake. Yeah I got him. Yeah, Yeah, you got the little play you ate the little plastic guy. Yeah, that was a really good cake. Have you been in New Orleans? I have not been, the Norman. I have been to New Orleans two different times, both both times I was in my twenties. So that's kind of got you, alright.

I next up on the mail bag, the mail bag, I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea. Bill Billy Mike writes in from Virginia. He says, at the time of the auction is talking about this Tom Brady stories, trying to figure something out. He says, who actually owned the football that Leland's auctioned off as the last Brady touchdown past football? I remember they got the ball back from the fan in the stands to give back to Brady.

Auction houses don't generally own the merchandise. They just they're just in the middle of the middleman taking the money, So who was the owner? If Brady owned the ball and had Leland auction and off, then turns around and announced, as he's unretiring, he's got to be the biggest douche tag in the world. He would make Eli Manning look like a saint. Also, how about making some virgo sounds even better than Baba good news? Well Hill Billy Mike.

As I remember it, Danny wasn't in one of the Bucks receivers that gave the ball away, not realizing that that was gonna be Brady's last game. Yeah, it was Mike Evans. Okay, So Mike Evans gave it to a fan and at that time the assumption was Brady was gonna keep playing. It turns out that assumption was right, but at somewhere along the way he said stopping. And now we had the great bruce Arians conspiracy this week that Brady came back, didn't like bruce Arians and said, hey,

you gotta get rid of this guy. So they said, okay, give us eighteen days, we'll make it happen. Give us a little time there and they're sure enough. One thing led to another, and I ye, I'm done with what a scandal. All right. Next up, balls fan Jimmy from Big Orange Country says, for both of you, gentlemen, what is your favorite dish that your wife cooks and what is hers that you cook? Yeah, so I've really gotten into cooking and mostly desserts and whatnot. My wife's does

gluten freeze, so she's a neat most of that. Every once in a while I'll get her eat gluten. I've been making burgers, like smash burgers. That's my my thing. I've been pretty good at that. My wife makes really good tacos. She does a rip off recipe. She said, what kind of food do you like? I said, like Tito's tacos. She has like a rip off of Tito's tacos, which is really good. And she makes a lot of good stuff, very very talented in that department. She she cleans.

She makes everything dirty and I cleaned it up. I do the dish. I'm a dish guy, but on the weekends it's it's a hobby I've picked up. You know you're getting all Danny when your hobbies cooking and bacon, you know you're getting old, old man, And that's a sign you're in middle age. A middle aged person. But I am I love I really loved it. And dabbling. My mom was very good in the kitchen. Start kind of honoring her memory by dabbling in the kitchen and whatnot.

And what about you, Danny, you'll cook it all? Are you all about going out fast food? All that? I wish my tender Ronie was as easy as I'll take you to fast food. But she has a good palate, so I would say the best thing I've ever cooked for her is Q Sushi, expensive sushi place that I bring her to from time to time. If I'm ever in the doghouse, R take her to Q Sushi. That's to go to. But you cannot walk in there without

spending at least a hundred bucks. Now, if you spend a hundred bucks, are you full after you've eaten it? Because sushi I've never I'm not a sushi guy. Don't like seafood, but it's usually pretty small. Does it fill you up? If you go to their happy hour, you'll get full and the bill will be about a hundred and ten bucks happy hour. That's happy hour. That doesn't

seem happy to me. Now, my girl does cook. She does a wonderful taco night, Leo, Leo, Leo, And it reminds me of my mom's taco nights, which is why I'm a huge fan of it. Do the turkey meet with the great seasoning, all the sides you could ever dream of, and she lines them up across the kitchen counter, and then you go in and you can make the hard shell or the soft shell vago and you put whatever ingredients your heart desires into the tacos. Ten out of ten. So what kind of taco do you go to?

My go to taco? I like the green goat taco. My buddy of Mexican get passed away years ago, Alex, and he goes, that's the green goat taco. That's not the real that's not the taco you get in Mexico. That's a fake taco. As I like it, I don't care. That's what I like. I like what I like. Yeah, even in California, a lot of us grew up with the green goo tacos as well as the authentic ones.

You know, Hey, you go out to get a street taco from a taco truck here where we live, but at home you get some of the green goo tacos. But I'll do I'll do a soft taco, so I'll do one flower and then I'll do one hard show. So you get a little bit of the crunchy and a little bit of the soft taco. Little taste got you all right. And Jimmy also says, by the way, Tennessee Balls baseball team at the time he sent this and one rank number one, number one in the nation,

leading in almost every offensive category in the nation. So Jimmy, Jimmy's pivoted over the years. He used to be all about Tennessee volunteer football. Gave up on that for a while. He liked Tennessee basketball, gave up on that. Now he's pivoted to baseball. He's he's desperately trying to find a Tennessee athletic team that doesn't stink. And he's like, I'll go to baseball. Well, where are where we lived, Danny,

in southern California, there's some tremendous college baseball programs. U c l A has has some really good teams over the years, cal State Fullerton, Pepperdine, USC. Occasionally there's some really good baseball where we are. But congratulations to the balls, And I don't check out the College World sirs, the ping of the College World Series. I checked that out.

Watch a couple of games now and again. Fred in Spring, Texas is next, He says, Hi, guys, what city or state have you not visited and would like to any special site or a vet you would like to experience. Oh, yes, Frank, yes, I've always been lucky enough, other than six months in twenty six days to be gamefully employed in the radio business, so I've never had enough time to travel. I think it would be great to just casually drive across the country and see all the nooks and crannies and off

the beaten path. I think that would be a ton of fun. I'd have a great time. But I want to see everything. And mostly been to the big cities in the Northeast, in the Midwest and on the West coast. And I'd like to explore a little more and go off the beaten path and that bad lands you have you seen that? I'd be cool. There's places in Utah Zion National Park looks amazing. I've been there. That is amazing.

Like to check that out, all of it. There's places in the South, some of the history of America, Civil War I was in Gettysburg. I was at the Gettysburg site and that was really cool to see that the history of America. But I'd like to do more of that stuff for sure, and I go all kinds of places before we check out. We might as well see as much as we can before the show is over, before its lights out. Might as well do it, right. Yeah, I've never been to the Virginia's I think that would

be a nice trip. And also Clay used to talk about summers in Michigan because that's where his wife is from, So I'd like to check out their legs there and see that. Well. I am scheduled to go on a Mallard World tour and I believe I will be stopping in the state of Michigan and in Virginia. I will be going to I've been to kind of been the Mission Detroit, Like I don't know, I'm going to like the real part of Mission where the people live outside Detroit.

How about a major city. I've never been to Chicago. Chicago's awe, I'll be in Chicago to actually, I would love I would love to go to Chicago and and also Philly. I've never been to Philadelphia. Philadelphia is cool, although every time I've been to Philly it was nasty, rain and horrible and all that like, and I know it doesn't rain all the time there. I just had bad luck, I guess. I did go to a Phillies Dodgers game at Citizens Bank Park. That's a pretty cool

ball But that's a band box that ballpark. That's what I should do. I should plan a trip for Dodgers. Yeah. Yeah, love seeing Yeah, I love seeing ballparks across the country. Yeah, I'm right there with you. I'm right there to go to Toronto, and it's not in the US, but right across the border there. Not now, I don't want to go to Canada, but maybe when they come to their senses in like seven or eight years, maybe then we can go to Canada and check it out. Next up here,

let's see page Dan page. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. Yeah, He'll says, who in the Mallard militia do you want to go? Will Smith on Angry Bill is at the very top of the list, and occasionally christ and Houston. What about a nine year old girl? Okay, But other that, most of it's just fun. We just have a good time. Why not next up on the mail bag Angelina right soon. And I don't know if she wants us to be read on the air now, but I do appreciate the sentiment. She praised me, Danny

body attacking one of our colleagues. I don't know that we want to put that on the podcast, because, yeah, trying to be professional here, and I like the people I work. I could bleep out their name if you say it. Yeah you don't, you know, whatt me say it? Yeah? All right? She pretty much ship all over. Okay, yeah she attacked. Yeah, that's fine, but but anywaynyways, she's just trying to support me because you know, some guy called up and said they liked that person more than me

or whatever, so she was defending my honor. Calm down on that Sunday morning, and Angelina says, I love the show on the podcast. I just heard yesterday all the Benny Award nominations blah blah. So she said a few days ago, uh, and she enjoys the program. So sting, thank you, Angelina, and we'll get out on one more, Danny, one more. I think we've made it through the entire mail bag hiro mail back. First time we've done this months.

I got mail, Yeah, I got mail. YEA John in Kentucky says, why are most men, including you, on radio and television jealous of Deshaun Watson receiving so many rubbing tugs and continue to debase a man that is simply being sued by a bunch of horrors who went to the job under the cover of a professional masseus. I love the show. There you go usually spot on epic

fail on this one. Well, I know you're being funny, John, that's tongue in cheek, But if you actually did your homework on this, you would know these are not professional masseuses. I just hope this isn't all too good to be true. He he, These are just people DeShawn met on the internet on Instagram and wanted to stoop and did end

up shooping many of them and brought a towel. That that clip that got online where he brought a towel and drove thirty miles out of town and made sure to bring his own towel not to leave any evidence behind someone incriminating. But hey, he's only gonna face civil lawsuits, which he's facing right now. We've all done that in our twenties in the NFL, doesn't did you do the volume though? I thought, if you're the quarterback, you don't

have to do that, dandy. I thought, if you're the star quarterback, doesn't everyone want to be the star quarterbacks, So you don't have to be that guy. You're the quarterback, you don't have to worry about that. You're talking about, Ben. If you were on FM radio and you kind of were, you worked right next door to Kiss FM, that's right, Rick D's in the morning, the D's lease. One of the funniest things about that. When I was working across the all of them. Kiss FM, they had the living

member of Millie Vanilly. They hired as a bit to be a DJ during the day because that was one of the great music scandals. Just google it if you're too young to know what that is. But these guys became big stars in music and they were lip sinking. They didn't sing me and they didn't sing any of it. They were frauds. Which one died, Fab or Rob I don't remember, but whoever lived was a DJ Kiss FM. They had a brief show during the day. Hey, we gotta get out of here, my god, we gotta wait too,

what what are we doing? Goodness any day coverage, baby bonus covered. That's right, An, let's see it is Sunday morning right now. I will get the podcast out as fast as I can after post production. Then I'll take a little nap and then I will be on Covino and Rich this afternoon on FSR, and then your boy Arnie Spanier along with Chris Plank as the warm up to The Ben Mallor Show, the first one of the week, the pregame show show with Arnie. Oh, look, gerfas is

he's still picking Arizona to win the championship? Is he sticking with the Wildcats as he says it's his only winning team. Yeah, it's going very well. It's going very well clearly for Arnie. And I'll be back on terrestrial radio tonight. We'll have a new week of The Ben Mallen Show. Original audio content Baseball beginning next weekend on Friday Friday, Friday opening night, some day games, but opening night in baseball. Looking forward to that getting settled in.

We have the championship game on Monday night in college basketball, so we have a lot to discuss and we'll get to that have a wonderful rest of your Sunday, and remember go and support the podcast, send us emails in future shows, questions and future shows, and be part of the content. And thank you. Have a have a have a really good day. Thank you later. Skater gott a murder. I gotta go.