"I'm AD, You're LeBron!"

we do this on the weekend. Here eight days a week. This is the Saturday Podcast and the weight has ended. Now the new running mate side by side on the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, a blast from the past. Give it up for Danny g Radio. There is the man the mid I'm Anthony Davis, and you are Lebron James. No, no, I'm not Lebron. No No, I don't call me Lebron James. How dare you? How dare you? I am Kauai Leonard. You are Paul George. That's how that goes. I like

that you're wearing a Laker hat though. That's good. That's a solid You haven't changed your wardrobe. But I like that repping the Lakers even though they're not playing very well this year. And I like how you're wearing a Brooklyn nets hat. That is the great that is the b with the Ben Dodgers and not the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Ben Dodgers. Nice Nets hat. Yeah, so the question

I have been asked more than anything. Danny uh Gascon was the podcast for a while and then he bailed out, and then we were trying to find somebody and you were the first name that popped up. Uh said, Danny. J that's the guy. That's the guy that I want. But we had to convince you to do it, Danny, and there's not a lot in it. So how were we of a twist your arm to get you to join the Fifth Hour podcast? Was it a momentous It's

actually that I have insomnia. I have certain hours available that I was used to not only doing your show, but outkicked the coverage. I'm like, what do I do with these hours so I can stay productive? Yeah? No, no, and it's good because I have we record this podcast that really ungodly hours. If people when we recorded the Fifth Hour podcast, they would say, man, that's a crazy person. But it fits the schedule, and I'm glad it worked out, and I loved having on the show back in the day.

Then you know, I was upset when you left. I don't want you to leave the show and you yeah, you got promoter, which I'm happy about. And I'm glad we can do this podcast and play Grab Bass on the weekend. And you've been a radio a ton. We had you on a few weeks ago, and I want to point out at the time we had you on, this was not even in play. We didn't know that this was a possibility, right, This is kind of popped up. They didn't even want you on a fourth hour, let

alone a bit. Yeah, exactly, exactly exactly. So so anyway, this popped up right after that. It was I don't know what the word is you want to look for. It was synergy, it was serendipity, whatever it might be. But but you popped up here. But you've been been been on the show before for years. And as I always point out, I I obsessed during the day with

these dopey monologues that I do about sports. I spent a lot of time, a lot of blood sweat and tears and often, and you know this from working in the radio all these years, the thing that people like the most is none of that. They don't want to hear any of that. They don't care what I think about any of the sports teams. But what I had

for lunch on Wednesday is very important. Yeah, It's true when you pull back the curtain, it is more interesting your life in some of the lives of some of the hacks that we enjoy to listen to or watch on television, that is definitely more interesting than most of the burned out sports stories that we get fram down our air holes. When I tune on the radio or I turned on the sports shows on TV, I hear the same takes over and over again. Except I gotta

give our FSR line up some credit. I do hear some different takes on our network, but on some of the other networks it's just the same regurgitated takes over and over. Well. Part of the problem also is a lot of as you know, programmers in radio, they just play the hits Mama and not our guy, but do the same thing over and over again. Because they in the way that radio worse. People turn over the audience

turns over a lot. Although we're lucky on the overnight that people do because they work in factories and drive trucks or where they're up all night, they listen for more than ten minutes. If you get somebody during the day to listen for ten minutes, you've won the lottery. Uh. The people don't listen that long, and you're in the car you listen with half a year, So it's a whole it's a whole different to do. So we're gonna keep a similar format though, Danny on the fifth hour

practice so on this podcast. Uh, and you can add anything you want here, any stories you have. I know you just got back a few days ago from from Hawaii. I'm sure to travel because i've heard my wife. My wife wanted to go to Hawaii, and I've heard it was not there's a lot of restrictions traveling to Hawaii. But I will have Tarayaki Madness. That is an original story.

You will only here in the fifth hour, a little Shakespeare, a little unexpected Shakespeare, and whatever else pops up here on the fifth But I'm gonna start with the Tarayaki madness and then we'll get to Danny Gee's travel log, but the life of Mallard, which we discuss on this podcast every Saturday. So I don't really live in interesting life. For some reason, people seem to like me just telling

random stories about dumb stuff that happens to me. Um. So I had a few things happened this week that I have not shared radio for whatever reason, didn't have time for it. And so the other day I was doing some grocery shopping and you know, I picked my meal. I don't eat that much. I fast. I'm on this inter minute fasting diet. But it was one of the days I ate, and so I decided I wanted to have I mean cooking at home. Now the kitchen's done at the house I'm living, so I had, I said,

I want taryak chicken and rice. Now the Mallard palette. This is as close as I get the healthy Danny. So around seven am, I decide, I'm gonna go to the grocery store. I'm gonna buy all the ingredients to make karaoke chicken and like the slope. And so I go on a mission and the mission calls for me to buy chicken and to buy taryaki sauce. And rice. You know. That's basically it's very simple. And uh so I I don't have a preferred brand of karyaki sauce.

So what I did was I spent about ten minutes taking bottles of tarayaki sauce off the off the shelf, trying to find the perfect aryaki sauce. And I did not want to f this up. Looking at the sugar content on the back. Oh god, no, I don't care about that. Figure I cook it, most of that burns out. I think, I don't know, but I'm reading, and then I'm in my head, I'm thinking, well, some of the some of the taryaki sauce is a little low, so that means it's popular, So maybe I should get some

of that because that's popular. But then well maybe some of this other stuff people have been tried, and maybe that's good taryaki and people are missing out on it. So anyway, I'm looking. I'm really dumb, hey minutes looking for taryaki sauce at least. Uh and and so I finally find something that looks good, and I'm like, all right, this is great. I found found my magic sauce. Now I hate the fact in California. You can't get a

grocery bag at the checkout. You have to pay for it, And so I don't pay for it, Danny, I do is I bringing the bag from home? And I'm like, going to pay the tax to get a plastic bag at the grocery store. It's ridiculous. So I refused to pay. So I brought my own cloth bag. So again, after about what seemed to me like thirty minutes but probably was only ten, I put the tarayaki sauce in the bag. It was my Eureka moment. And then I'm like, Okay, I found the sauce. This is great. I'm right in

my goldilocks z And it was honey spicy tarayaki. Danny, that sounds good, doesn't It does sound good? Yeah. So then I put the bottom in the bag and I'm moving on to now get the rice. Now the rice and the chicken. The next thing up is the rice. So since I moved, I now go to a different store, so I don't know where it is. And at the old place where I used to live, I knew where

everything was, and so I'm educating myself. So as I'm walking around the gross store, and if you ever gone to the store in the morning, they're still putting stuff on the shelves. You know, it's there's a lot of things going on, and so bam, just like that, I end up hitting, uh, the side of the aisle and somehow I dropped the bag. I dropped the bag they're at bumping into the corner of the aisle in my haste.

And I told you it was a cloth bag. Well, it turns out the taryaki sauce I didn't realize this at the time, was in a glass container. Yeah, kaboom, you pulled a Jared Goff. Yeah exactly, I pulled a bumb bug on the rug um. So the club bag, I hear the I hear the glass break, and I'm like, oh boy, Now, fortunately it was contained to the bag. So they're they're all the broken glass and the delicious spicy honey tarayaki sauces right there in the bag. So then I'm at the point, well what do I do here.

I can't just walk out of the store because I didn't pay for it. I don't really want to pay for it because it's broken taryaki sauce, And so I made the walk of shame. Danny over to one of the employees there at the grocery store, and this woman was very nice. I think she felt pity on me because I'm such a loser. And I told her what happened, and she said, okay, And I was a spill on Aisle three, but there was no spill. It was in

the bag. And so I gave her the ba the bag and she took all the glass out, gave me back the bag, and I went on my way. And I had to I had to get a grocery cart because I didn't want to take I still didn't want to get a bag. So what I did I put everything in the grocery cart Danny and then and then moved moved out of the store, bought everything and that was it. So I had a tough time getting tarayaki sauce.

Who screws up getting taryaki sauce? Seriously? Now, let me ask you would a younger Mallard you had your wheels back in the day, would you have ran out of the store. You know, I did debate running out of the store. I did consider just leaving, like one are the odds that anything's gonna happen? And I was like, you know, just in case I don't, and it was really I didn't. I was gonna get caught. But my thought, Danny was, wait a minute here, I don't want to

think about this for the next, like the next two days. Well, maybe somebody's gonna come knocking on my door because I broke a bottle of taryaki sauce and walked out of the grocery. How embarrassing would that be? Can you imagine? Sorry, we've decided to press charge, although in California I don't think they press charges on anything these days, but but but still, so that was my my Terrioca story. So you got back, why Danny, Now, that's much better than

me going to buy teryaki sauce? And how many days were you there? Give me that. I want all the details because I've heard horror stories of traveling during the Even though COVID's winding down, it's not winding down in many states, including Hawaii. So what was that like? Yeah, at first I gotta shout out my Tinder rowning because

she did the leg work. She downloaded the applications that you have to fill out, and then they give you like a QR code That code is important because then they need your vaccination cards and you gotta take a picture of the front and the back of it and enter it into the website for Hawaii and and and then this code you have to present at the airport along with your reservation to go. And it's it's you know, it is jumping through hoops, but in the end it's

worth it because they give you a clearance bracelet. It's almost like you're going to a club, like waiting to get into the club, which was actually a couple of kids kicking us in the back of our airplane seats. Um it was. It was a long flight there, and it was packed going to Maui, but it was it was well worth the trouble. Um once we got there and landed, obviously, you feel that nice, warm, humid weather. You're right in the face. As soon as you step

out of the airport. You're like, wow, I'm somewhere tropical all of a sudden. And then it used to be that they would give you Mustangs there in Hawaii. You remember that every rental car was a Mustang or a Jeep. Now it's just a fleet of Camaros. For some reason, Camaros they've moved up to the camaro in that Now. I've never been to Maui, so what's what's it like? I've been to and I have been to Kauai. I usually go to Kauaii the Garden Islands. Not much. There's

like forty miles of roads in Kauai. That's it. But Maui, I've heard people that have been there said it's kind of like much nicer Orange County, where it's like beaches everywhere and all that way. How would you describe Maui? West Maui is super beautiful and yeah, pictures San Clemente without all of the buildings all up and down the beaches stacked all the way to the inland. They've done a really good job there in Maui. Over the past

fifty years. They've had an explosion there with the resorts and everything, but they've been very strategic with where they put the buildings so that you still get all the beautiful views. And the water is pristine, man. I mean when you step into that water, it is so warm and you could see your feet and obviously, you know, we were lucky here on the West coast to have the Pacific Ocean, but you're you're not looking at your

feet there in that water. No. In fact, I following up on that, Danny, I refused to go in the ocean. I have an anti ocean unless I can see my feet because I was spoiled like you. I've been to Hawaii a few times and I will not go now. I've heard in Mexico there's places in me so you can see your feet, and so maybe by the water there, but in the West coast here in California, the water is thick and kind of murky and you can't you can't see me. But that is awesome. And did you

go snorkeling at all? Did you see any seat turtles or any of that stuff. We did, so it's the first time I've ever been snorkeling, which was really cool. And we went out to what was a volcanic rock. It's not an active volcano, although that would have made it more exciting. Um and the boat pulls up and actually before we got to that rock, there was just the middle of the ocean where the dude was like, Okay, look, we know a spot where there's lots of sea turtles

and we're gonna take you there first. So they give you the gear and you are literally just in the middle of the ocean. And I'm not gonna lie, you know, after doing all of the animal thunderdome stories I've done over the years, I'm like, well, wouldn't this be ironic if I get taken out in the middle of the ocean like some sort of sea creature. Um, So they give you like a floaty some of the diving gear. Looking down into the reef, there were tons of these

turtles just swimming. And these turtles, I mean, obviously you're in their territory. They don't care that the humans are there. As long as you're not splashing hard and making lots of noise, they swim right up to you. So we literally were looking at these turtles like right in front of us, which was really crazy. And the water was so salty that you float super easy. So even if you're big guys like us, you're still just there's really no way to sink. Yeah. The nicest place I've ever

been water wise was the Napolyi coast of Oahu. Was unbelievable. It's like the side there's nobody living there, It's just all rocks and ocean, and they filmed a bunch of TV shows and movies on that side, because it's just it's it's like you're out in the middle of nowhere and it's beautiful, bright blue water. It's really, really, really awesome. How is the food? My only complaint with Hawaii is

the food's terrible. It's not big guy friendly food. I had the worst Asian meal I've ever had there, which is odd. I was confused by they everything was fried. Normally things fried are good, but I couldn't really make out what it was it was. It was terrible whatever. I went to this Chinese restaurant I don't remember the name of it's probably gone now. There was only one restaurant that I liked. It was an Italian restaurant. It was pretty good. But how how was the food in Hawaii?

I would say that you probably should stay close to your resort. The restaurants at the resort, although they're overpriced, it's worth it. That's why you save up to go on vacation. Um. But we had man there's a place called the Monkey Pod restaurant five stars. It was expensive, but it wasn't one of the more expensive ones that we saw. The appetizers, the flavors, the drinks pretty amazing. And then we were at the West End because we cashed in all of our Marriott points. The restaurants they

had right there at the resort were just unbelievable. So yeah, we really got lucky with the food on on the trip. So you weren't eating at Mickey D's. You were not eating there was you know, when they took us out. And by the way, we also saw some whales, which was pretty cool. Through the whale watching and there wasn't people looking at me through binoculars. We saw some humpbacks and then the boat docked and they gave us sandwiches and acts of doritos and we're like, okay, well, you

know whatever, we're out here on the water. We were so hungry though from all the snorkeling. Even those generic sandwiches tasted amazing. So yeah, I mean we avoided, uh, you know, the tourist traps, except for right there at the resort where you're stuck at the trap. So what are you gonna do, right, as long as you can park your car, you know, you got a budget. The fact that they're gonna just rape you with that daily fee to park your car, and let's just eat here

at the resort. Let's pretend like we're very, very wealthy for a few days, and then when we get back to the main land, then we'll go to the value menu. Well that's a smart, that's a smart normally. Well, they do say that the best spice is is hunger, right, that everything that takes everything says better when youre hungry. But yeah, that the parking fees of the hotels, Oh what a ridiculous I mean, just build it into the cost of who's going. How many people are going to

Hawaii and not renting cars? I mean maybe that happens a lot. I don't I don't know the numbers on that, but most people I would think, you're going on vacation, you save up, as you said, for vacation, You're gonna rent a car so you can drive around. It's convenient. Now, is there a Costco in Maui? Because then there is all right, because uh in Waho there or not a wah who Kawaii there's one? And I did eat at

Costco several times because the meals are so outrady. I was like, you know, I'm a I'm a tight water. I was like I'll like and the Costco had views of like beautiful green mountains. It was amazing, like, yeah, you eating free samples while you have a view. That is a vacation in itself. That's dream territory. Now. I had heard that when you go to Hawaii they you have to give your itinerary where you're going to be every day. Is that? Is that still a thing or

did you not have to do that? No, we didn't have to do that, but we did have to keep filling out these questionnaires about if we were feeling well. They want to make sure you have no symptoms, and they were very strict about your mask being on. In fact, a couple of times we went into those ABC stores. Yeah, for chips and water and stuff like that. I got yelled at several times because of my mask wasn't up over my nose. Uh. It felt very Disneyland like pre

lowering their restrictions down. We got yelled at and chase there at the park because the mask wasn't up over our nose completely and it's like a school teacher running after you scolding you. We caught that on several occasions there. So they're very very strict about the masks being fully over your dome. Yeah, I'll probably wait until they didn't

knock off that nonsense. I've read too many studies. We had John Zigler on the podcast couple of weeks ago, and he pointed out the data indicates that the mask doesn't do much of anything, that it is more for. It's like mask theater, and he's given many examples on has and I've read other people that have studied it

and looked at the actual science. You're supposed to follow the science, and I know it makes people feel good that you wear the mask, but uh, if you know, if you can smell the cigarette smoke of somebody smoking near you, chances are stuff is gonna get in there.

And they've improven that there's really no different effect in southern California, as John pointed out, in Orange County where they don't have strict mask mandates, and Los Angeles, there is no real difference between those that are wearing masks and those people. Don't like to hear that, but that's the reality. A right, Um, moving on this Shakespeare story, I want to tell this, so this is something that happened and into the dropping of the honey Spicy Karayaki Sauce.

So the past week I had an awkward moment. I'm doing the show. I get a d M from Marcel in Brooklyn. First of all, that's odd because Marcel never sends me d M and I normally I don't even check during the show. I normally just I don't want to deal with that bull crap, and I don't I don't have me to do it. However, this one caught my attention. I just happened. It happened come in at the right time, and I was looking at my direct messages,

and so Marcel told me, he said call me. It was very upset about something that Blair in Maine had done or something like that. And so I wrote back, I said, Marseille, I am doing the show. I can't. I can't call you back. And then so he wanted me to call him, and he said again, he said call me, So I said, and I said, but I don't have your number. I can't. I can't guess. I probably could guess your number, it would take a long time. So Marcella actually sent me his phone number on direct message.

Now I had no intention of actually calling him. I just thought, you know, i'd be nice. And so at that point he gives me his number and he wants me to come. So I'm debating in my head, like do I call this guy or not? And much like Shakespeare was to call or not to call? Right into the Shakespeare line and uh So, as you know, I've had some bad experiences with Doc Mike from Chicago, who still calls me, called me for twenty years. I gave

him my number he was going to jail. I said call me when you get out, that's it, and don't call me after that. And he's called me every week, sometimes three or four times a week, sometimes even more than that. So I was like, all right, I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do the Star sixty seven. I'm gonna block my number, but I'm gonna call Marcella because I said I would call him. So I'm gonna I'm gonna Star sixty seven keep him a call. So the show ends and I decided, you know, flip the

old coin. In my head, I'm like, all right, let's do it. Here we go, we're on, and call Marcella. So I work up the courage and I dial the number. It's a Brooklyn number. I looked it up online to make sure it was legit. It was Brooklyn number and ring ring ring, ring, wing wing wing wing. Answer. I hear a cloud and not a cloud, A clear, a clear, well spoken I would voice hello, and I'm thinking more of that does not sound like Marcel. Marcell doesn't sound

anything like that. He's not loud, he's not clear, he doesn't say hello the way that anyway, So it doesn't sound like Marcell. So I then have a character. I knew it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. He's on the payroll. So I I had a decision to make game. Do I hang up at that point and just pretend it didn't happen, or do I engage whoever this person is. So for some reason I decided to engage. I should have just hung up because there's nothing they could attract me down.

It was an unlisted that blocked my number, So I say, it's oursel. They're thinking that maybe this is somebody that lives with Marcel in the projects of Brooklyn. The voice on the other side, very clear, spoken, well, punctuation great. All that says no, he does not live here, So like, oh crap, you know, Marcel gave me the wrong number. This is terrible, and then he asked who is this and then I explained, I was trying to get a hold of Marcel, you know, he's a caller to my

radio show. And this guy gave me the number, and I apologize, and then the guy stops me said, wait a minute, don't hang up, don't hang up. He says, this is my this is so as he gave his name and I didn't recognize it. And then I said, wait, my uncle Dynamite, which is Marcelle's. Yeah, he says, I'm Uncle Dynamite, and it was Uncle Dynamite, the famous Uncle Dynamite. And so I talked to him on the phone for a couple of minutes and he's like very concerned. He's like,

was Marcell causing your problems? What's going on here? You know that he's taking yeah exactly. So you know, he was like, no, Marcell's you know, he's I said, he's fine. He's the character on the show. We have fun with him, and he has fun on the show. And uh, he says, okay, just let me know if there's any problems with Marcel, right like that. So it was very brief and we I said, have a good Thanksgiving whatever, and he hung up and then that's it. So then I messaged Marcella,

I'm hate Marcelle. What the heck you gave me Uncle Dynamites something? You didn't give me your number? What do you expect me to call you? You gave me Uncle dynamites him. Then he writes back in a very angry like for Marcella's saying, do not call Uncle Dynamite. Do not call Uncle Dynamite. I wrote back, I said, too late, Marcel,

too late, too late. Why did he give you the number? Then? Exactly, Well, you know, Marcel's got a few issues, and one of his issues, Danny is he I don't think he keeps really good track of numbers, but he does know the number to call into Fox Sports Radio. He's memorized that he gets that one right all the time. I remember we tried. There was a listener. I think it might have been Tammy and Montesa. Somebody wanted to send him a gift, a care package because he has a terrible diet.

And so Cooper Loop was trying to get Marcel's address. That's a hard get, Dan, That's that's a hard get. And finally he trackeded that and we learned Marcel does not like to leave his apartment in Brooklyn to get the mail, so that became another issue. We had to explain to Marcel, Hey, there's like food waiting for you, but you can't. It's gonna go bad if you don't get so that that was the whole thing. Uh, interesting times, interesting times, not to love them. Militia, man, I missed

the militia. You know, after all these years, I still get tons of direct messages and have longstanding friendships with so many. Your audience definitely is the most fun out of any radio show in the country. Thank you, Danny. Be prepared because I did not announce this before the mail bag. We're gonna the mailbag on Sunday's podcast, but you will be peppered questions. You might have to bring

back Tenderni tips. I know you are now you found the Queen Tenderroni at this moment, but you still might have to give about advice. You have a lifetime of experience in the the war zone that is dating. Yeah, and I met her online. The proof is in the pudding. Yeah, and I met my wife online, but a long time ago. And I I've been out of the game for over a decade now, so I've lost my I've lost my way. I thought I ever had I didn't have any when

you had to do a dial up connection. Yes see, I did die a o L I had my I was an aight old chat back in the back in then, you know, I stumbled into when I called Uncle Dynamite. I didn't realize it was called Uncle Dynamite, but and he said hello, and then I said hello, and I was like, why do we say hello? I stumbled down a rabbit hole on do you know the story? The backstory of Hello, Danny? Do you know why we say hello? Yeah?

I don't, but it's kind of interesting because I was wondering about the whole Aloha thing, because obviously I heard that for a few days NonStop, as it's hello and goodbye and mahallow m. That's the extent of my Hawaiian and those ABC stores. I've seen him in Vegas, but that's it. I've seen in Vegas and Hawaii, and that seems to be the number one travel destination for people in Hawaii. They love going to Vegas, love the get and listening to the radio in veidu in in Hawaii.

Like a lot of the commercials like travel packages to go to Vegas at least years ago. When I was there, it's like a big to do. Then the locals were commenting on my raiders gear NonStop and showing me pictures of a special Raider paint job that one of the valet guys had on his truck. I heard more than uh five times from locals. They're saying, I can't wait to get to the stadium. So you're right, they love Las Vegas with a passion, and now that there's pro

football there. Yeah. So when you're in Hawaii, you can either go back to the States, which is a five hour fight, or you can go to Guam. How far away is Guam from Hawaii. It's got to be at least another three hours, I would think, right. I know when I when I've tried with to Hawaii that people stop and on the way to Guam. You'll stop off and Honolulu or something like that for a few hours and then keep going to Guam. So it can't be

that long long a flight. Looking every time I go to Hawaii, I see the Guam and I think of Vic the brick you've gotta get on this podcast. At some point. Vic works when we normally record the podcast, or sleeps. But I've known Vic for years. But Vic got his start Victor Brick and legend in Guam. He's a waiter in Guam. It's one of the great he's told me the story before. It's a great story. Working a waiter. He didn't really know what he wanted to

do after school. And a guy that came in that owned like I think, one of the radio stations, and somehow he ended up getting offered a job. And you guys been in radio and television for forty fifty years or whatever. It's crazy. Flight. By the way, eight hours are you sing from from Hawaii? It's eight hours to Guam. Wow, that's crazy. Uh So as far as the Hello thing, I spent a minute long investigation minutes long here investigation and just the facts. I needed an answer. So here's

what I found, Danny, according to my internet research. Minutes long investigation. Now, Alexander Graham Bell, who is credited with inventing the phone all those some debate whether that actually happened. He had suggested that we should say ahoy when we answer the phone, ahoy, And during the sevente century in America, pilgrims would typically say good Morrow instead of hello or how now. That's weird. That sounds like something Marcel would say, how now? Or how do you fare? Or what year?

They didn't say hi and say how are you any of that stuff. But Alexander Graham Bell wanted ahoy, which is a maritime greeting. We've all seen pirate movies, right, AHOI maybe right, it's a classic line. I kind of like that, ahoy. I might have to do that. I might have to when I answered the whone, Now, AHOI would I be a nerd or cool? Which would I be? Danny? I think you know the answer to that, all right, but I was hoping maybe you'd you'd give me what

the answer I wanted. Anyway, So it was Thomas Edison who equipped the first telephone exchanges. Now originally when Alexander I didn't know this until I fell down this rabbit hole. So when Alexander Graham Bell came up with the telephone, when he was the original telephone, it was a direct hard line connection, so there was no need to ring because the line was always open, and so you don't need to say hello, you just talked down the line

you need to. But it was Thomas Edison who in eighteen seventies seven, during an experience experiment, he shouted the first audio ever said into what became the telephone. Hellou or hallu was what he said, hallou h A L l O hallou, And that term was used in the eighteen seventies for inciting dogs on a hunt. So if you wanted to I guess the dogs to hunt, you

said hello and they got in hunting. Period, the legend was born that hallou turned into Hello, Hello, and that turned out to be the the way that But just think if it had been ahoy, we'd have instead of Hello, kitty, we'd have Halloi Kitty doesn't sound as good? Or what are some other Hello products we've had? There's the Adele song, right, the Adele song that Lionel Richie's famous song. And also it made me think of that movie I just looked it up. Is from Crazy People. Remember that old dadly

Moore movie with Daryl Hannah. You know I probably did see that. That's right in my wheelhouse for movies when I did see a lot of movies. So I'm gonna say that I did see that YouTube poemork the Hello song. There was a crazy guy got on the piano and he did a Hello song. Is that okay? All right? I have to check it. I'll go on YouTube when the podcast is done, and I will I will check

it out. Now speaking of YouTube, Danny, as a fellow radio guy yourself who started even younger than me, we learned that on the podcast a couple of weeks ago before you were part of the podcast, when you were just hanging out schmoozing with us. So I recommend anybody that loves radio, and we have a lot of people that are p ones Danny, that love radio, talk radio, any kind of radio. And we're a couple of old radio guys, nerds whatever. The greatest piece of television on

radio w k RP and Cincinnati that's we Drop. Yes, Yes, this is the weekend to go back and watch the Turkey drop on too. There's like a four minute clip from the nineteen seventies eighties w KRP man I thought they could fly uh less Nestman less Nestman the newsman covering the turkey promotion at the mall and uh that was outstanding And d J DR Johnny Fever back in the studio and all of that Venus fly Trap those Uh, I mean, we're doing old guy podcasting here, Danny. But

that show. Yeah. I grew up watching reruns of that show and was just mesmerized by the radio equipment and the fact they could push one button and walk away for five minutes and then come back and do a live break on the mic anytime they felt like it. And then once in a while you'd see him like you up a wreck. Heard the dynamics that took place inside the sales office in the front desk, and everything that happened with that radio station. It did make a

lot of people curious about broadcasting until this day. That is definitely the show when it comes to radio stations. Absolutely if if you have, I promise you were. If you've not seen it before, somehow you're like missed it. Check it out. Even if you've seen it before the turkey drop w k RP typing into YouTube and you will You'll love it. I think you'll love it. And the great thing about all my years in radio now pretty much everywhere I've worked there's a version of the

character on the show. Like they really nailed it like there's there's the the guy that runs the station, Mr Carlson, who's there's always that Mr. Carlson type character. Uh, there's the Johnny Fever, doctor DJ veteran radio guy kind of have been around less nestman, the person that takes things way too seriously. Like all of those things, all of those things are accurate even to this day. That they

totally got that part right. It was great. Yeah. Shout out to Scott Mahalak, who was my general manager slash program director of k a t M Modesto Stockton, Sacramento

in the mid nineties. I was a kid and was one of my first radio stations and he was like a real life character, like one of those guys on that TV show because instead of getting a turkey sound effect for the station, he brought in on a rope a live turkey to the radio station and he kept it on the patio right outside of the conference room.

There was a closed off little patio where some of the broadcasters would go smoke their cigarettes, and we had a turkey tied up out there for a week and they would parade it into the studio once a shift and let it gobble live on one of the microphones. Oh, that's outstanding. That is wonderful. I've never done I've never done a live turkey. I don't think I've ever had Parker the snow dog. That's as deep as we when you were there for that, I think when he came in,

that was the only I think the only animal. We used to have Auto the drinking dog, but not in studio. The craziest thing I've done, I had an eating contest years ago on the weekend show. We had Major League eating sent in this guy, big Sexy, who actually became a radio guy. He became a radio guy after that. And he came in and I thought, and we had paramedics there in case he choked on one of the dogs. We had a representative to keep time, you know, track

of the time. Was crazy. It was so ridiculous. But I've never had a live turkey. That's that's pretty cool. The other thing about Thanksgiving we think about it. For me, it's w k RP the turkey drop. But every every music guy I've ever talked to, not that I know many in radio Thanksgiving Weekend, if you have a classic rock format, you know what song always gets played Thanksgiving weekend, Danny. You know it's in. Let me see here now it's

I'm putting on the spot here it's in. If I give you the time of the song, I think you'll get it right. It's an eighteen minutes song something Alice's Something Something. Uh. It's an old song from the nineteen sixties about these guys got arrested on Thanksgiving because something you did on Thanksgiving and it's Alice's. It's on YouTube all so I've had guys say, oh yeah, we play

that every Thanksgiving. It's like a tradition. Thanksgiving night will play the song, which has to be a DJ's friend. Now everything is automated, but the old days, you actually had to play the music, and so you had to be where you're supposed to be to play the music. Now everything's kind of it's a lot easier for a lot of people to do it. But in the old days to have an eighteen minute song, Danny. I worked out a rock station as a kid, and I would

play November Rain from Guns and Roses. One of my first girlfriends would come to the radio station. We would make out by her car as and she would have the station on in her car, so I could hear and monitor what was happening, and we'd be you know, uh doing a Bible study out in the parking lot, and I would run in when I knew it was the last thirty seconds of the song. So yeah, back back in my day, it was guns and Roses. November Rain.

That was the long song to play. My program director when he would have his meetings with us about what we were doing on the air, he would tell me, and don't think I haven't noticed how you play November Rain every single night. That's great. When I when I was brief d at a smooth jazz station, there was a Brantford Marsalis song that was really long and that was always we had to go to the bathroom. That would be the song that we think that that just

I just looked it up here Alice. His restaurant is in the name of the song, so I guess you haven't heard that. But it's r Low Guthrie. It's an old song from the sixties. It's like eighteen minutes, eighteen miss It's like folk I'm gonna gets played on classic rock stations. So that's another check out over the weekend. The speaking of checking out, I think we are going to check out on these Saturday podcasts. Uh. You can email us if you want the email that I used

for this podcast. If you want to send a question in is Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com, on Twitter at Ben Maller and Danny. How can people contact the Great Danny G Radio to say hello? Very easy? At Danny G Radio on Twitter. All right, at Danny G Radio on Twitter, And I'm on cameo as well if you want to personal video shout out. It's not free, but I'll do a minimal or monologue for you whatever you want over there on Cameo. Have a wonderful day

the rest of your Saturday. We'll catch you on Sunday. Aloha