"Need Clown Music" Mail Bag

days a week and uh. One of my favorite podcast to do, The mailbag. Danny always look forward. You never know what you're gonna get in the mailbag. See, normally I put the mail bag together, and I don't typically pay that close attention because I'm half asleep, you know, I'm kind of in a trance when I'm putting the email together. I'm just kind of cherry picking random email.

And so then when I when we do the podcast here, it's like all of these are new emails because I forget what's actually and I don't pay that close attention when I'm actually putting the mail back together from the random people and Remember we're replacing a multibillion dollar industry in the NFL. No pressure, but we are the Sunday

entertainment now. Yes, that's right. The NFL was taken away from our audience now, but we have nothing to compete against us on Sunday, especially those lazy kind of Sunday afternoons. And Baseball's got this labor crew fluffle thing, so who knows when they'll be baseball again on a regular basis during the regular season, So that's not waste any time. I want to get right to the mailbag, and so into it we go. Thanks every buddy Ohio Al who sent that little ditty in a while back, and we

play that every mail bag. That is the official beginning to the mail bag. If you like the podcast, you want to support us, you can always give a review. We talked about that on the Saturday podcast. We thank you for that. But also if you want to add content on the show here and help us out and send a question in if there's something you you're curious about it you just want to hear your name right on the radio because you want to ask a question, that's fine as well. You can send it in Questions

and comments are welcome in the mail bag. I normally post on Tuesday early in the day on the Facebook page and then I'll pin it to the top of the page. Ben Mallers Show is the official work Facebook page that we use for the show. And then we also have the email. You can contact me Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. It's F I F T H. Spell out fifth Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. And you can also send questions to Danny on Twitter.

Uh is Danny G Radio on Twitter? And to me, um, don't send it to me on Twitter, I get I don't want them to email me, send me an email or post a message on the Facebook page. So the email getting right into it? Do you have your hazmat suit on? Danny? Are you prepared for the for the email? What we're about to get here? Ready? Freddy? Alright? So here we've got Yes, we do. Jennifer from a Richmond, Virginia.

Our friend Jennifer writes, since its hey, Ben and Danny G. Have you ever been grocery shopping but in the middle of it, for any reason, you decided you were done over over it and you just want to leave whatever didn't make it into the car you justify how you don't really need it anyway and you'll get it later, or you grab just the priorities in rush to check out. And I'm not talking about the holiday season, just a normal day. Or Am I the only weirdo that does that?

Sometimes against Jennifer, our friend from Richmond, Virginia, I've never done that one, Jennifer. I am a meticulous grocery shopper. I go on. I'm a man on a mission when I go on and I want to get it. I do want to get out of the grocery store as quickly as possible. But I normally go at off hours because of the overnight schedule that I have, and I'll

go at some really weird times. The stores around where I live are not open twenty four hours, but I will go right when they open or just before closing time. And I usually do a big shopping trip to Costco me and the wife on the weekends. But during the week you know, there's always like random stuff you need from time to time, and so I'll just go in quick. But I've never walked out before my mission was done.

It's like running the New York Marathon and then getting to the thirteen mile mark and saying we're good, We're good. What about your Danny. Yeah, I've never abandoned ship at a grocery store, but inside a store like Target. And I think I learned this from my mom. You know, there's all the internet jokes all the time about went into Arget for one thing and walked out with two

hundred dollars worth of crap. I didn't. Well, she would go into Target, spend hours shopping, and then before she got to check out, she would, you know, start deducing, do I really need this? I really need that? No, and she'd start putting things back. By the time she

checked out, half the cart was emptied. Yeah. So she she goes in, she gets everything she thinks she needs, and then she's like, all right, let me do a cost benefit analysis here, and she'll thin the her She's like, I don't need that, you know, I don't I want to go do that, you know? And probably I mean smart for your budget, but not a good way to use time. Probably, No. And and they have done social experiments. The people that run these big stores like Target, Costco

and Gross just regularly big grocery stores. They know exactly where to place items to get your attention when you're walking through the store, and they've they've studied it's like an art. If you show an item a certain amount of times in the store, the person is more likely to buy it, and you have it at eye level. There's certainly it's crazy how much effort goes into that. And then we're just dumb consumers. We're walking through like, oh, oh wait a minute, here, Costco wants me to buy

that blender. I don't really need a blender, but it looks really good. Look at all the smoothies I can make if I had that blender. Well, I've read books. I'm a big fan of infomercials because in a late

night I fell asleep. That's what I'm competing against. And I remember when I was younger, I read a book about infommercials and they also they're even better than the big box stores because they have just a ten fifteen minute paid segment, uh to sell their product and and all the little mind hacks of you know, ratcheting up the drama, limited supply. You know, you don't want to miss out, and we're all wired like, oh, we don't want to miss out, you know, fall almoll right, fear

of missing out. You don't want to miss out on the car wax. You can light on fire because your life will not be complete. You'll you'll go into the grave. You'll be like, oh, if only I had that, my life would be better. Anyway, we'll keep it going here. What do we have all right? Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia says, Hey, guys, love the Danny G Radio edition. Much better and cooler than gas can Al those shot

at gascn Uh was what I want to know. He's I've asked this before, so I guess this is really for Danny G. Have you ever been hunting or fishing? If so, give me the details. Love the podcast as always the great Jason Rocky Mount, who is one of the hat benefactors. He sent me a very nice hat back back in the day. It was last year, Danny. You ever been hunting, fishing any of that? Yeah? Actually I have. When I was a little kid, my uncle took me up into the woods in San Bernardino County.

Believe it or not, there is some willed and st up in that area and he would go deer hunting. He also had a bow and arrow, like one of those pro bows, and he would take us up there and let us shoot the bow and arrow, which I thought was cool. I have never done that since, but my dad fishes. In fact, he has invited me and my older brother for the second year in a row to a bass lake fishing derby where they tag some

smallmouth bass. They put like a ten thousand dollar tag on a few of the fish that they throw in the lake, A fifty thousand dollar fishes in there, and then like a hundred one dollar fish supposedly are tagged. Our joke is, how do we know that they really did what they say they did? Well, exactly right, finding a needle in a haystack, or have a bass in the middle of a pond. Look. It was really funny because on last year's boat, we're fishing, we're getting nothing.

We saw an eagle, which amazed us, but was even more amazing he swooped down and grabbed a bass out of the way and took off, and as everyone in our boat is watching in amazement, just dead band, I said, well, there goes the fifty dollar fish. Is that's outstanding? That is out Yeah. I've only been fishing a couple of random times, and it was one of those deals is like, need to laugh. Yeah, it was city slickers. I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I was out there,

it was a disaster and didn't catch it. Damn thing. I've never been hunting. I've never done that, so maybe at some point along the way, I'm not against it. I mean I feel like I would be. Uh, I'm much more testosterone danny if I went hunting. That's a you know, I live. I live a life like everyone else. If I want a piece of meat, I go to the grocery store and they have anything I need, burgers, steak, whatever I need, but that they have to to get it and to chop it up and all that. That's

that's old school. These years later, I want that bow. That uncle is still alive. I hope he leaves his bow and arrows to me and his will. You might be the beneficiary down the line. It's Barry and Nashville says yo yo mob Benny. What's the biggest challenge you face when you sit in for a different radio host show. Well, we addressed this a little bit yesterday, Barry. But the simple answer is to not funk up. That's the that's the simple answer. But for me, you know, typically it

is adjusting my sleep schedule. And I mentioned that I'm still all kind of wonky. Everything's backwards. It's gonna take a couple more days here for that to turn around. But that and also just you have to when when your house sitting, you have to act a certain way, and so that's always a challenge. I'm actually on the live are and there's a little more pressure when you're on during the day because the big corporate muckety MUCKs are listening and they're not usually listening to me overnight.

So it's a it's a hole. Different worlds uncharted waters is what it is when you're doing stuff at different times. But it's nice, rare and appropriate, Dan, That's what I was at. Rare and appropriate unless there is a gigantic

check associated with it, and then then we're good on that. Otherwise, I'm good at my little my little cubicle off to the side here, I'm good with that ringing every once in a while, like, oh, my guard, hold on second here, Now, this is a this is a take that will work at two in the morning, But will this work with the business crowd? You know, I could say this at two in the morning and I get around of applause. But during the day I might get that. You know,

I don't want that. So I am Carlos. You when your ship is floating through the night, it's called the Safe Harbor. Yes, so I am the captain of the Safe Heart. Got mail, yea? I got mail yea. Carlos in Houston, right, sinces I absolutely love when you guys talk about the behind the scenes stuff. And he then says, I think that see O see you next Tuesday. Old Hag from Florida should get in the verbal octagon with Tammy in Montana and uh, and then Carlos says, uh.

He wants to annoy Danny G. You know what he wants to annoy Danny G with What do you think Carlos wants to annoy you with? No? Not the nicknames? Yes, he says, sorry, Danny, I would like a nickname Rundown. So, as we say, you know the podcast, anything goes the listeners always right, Danny. So I am known as Carlos.

You're aware this. I'm known as the Baron of bald Dash, big gall bladder manas the Menace, Captain knee Jerk, the General of the generates, the tay Coon of tea is, the master of does Aster, the hustler of Philipbuster the

night light Life. No, we don't need any of that, puddler of producers, Benny Brightside, manity of Insanity, Marconi Mallard, money Line Mallard, emissary of embellishment, Weeknight wind Bag Wizard, a wacky slayer of naysayers, Grant Goober of gab screw you, Bill Miller, Tower of Babel, honest adonist, nocturnal Colonel, the underdog of monologue, and the Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope.

And that is only part of the nickname Rundown. And as for you, Carlos my man, one of the few good guys in Houston, a wretched place where they supported cheaters back in the day. And the Astros, though I haven't had to worry about them, the cheating Astros in a while, not on my radar right now now they are not anyway. Move By the way, remember last weekend's mail bag, a listener asked about that drop. You got to be kidding me, yes, And that Eddie and myself

would play whenever you did. Those stupid nicknames. Well, I found that. You have got to be kidding me. A ha, it's from your boy, Hawk Harelson, Hawk Carrolson. Yeah, the White Sox. He retired the old White Sox Hall of Fame broadcaster, Hawk Carrolson. I've met him a few times that you know. They called him the Hawk. He used to play for the White Sox and they called him Hawk because his nose is like a beak of a hawk.

His name. Well, I have that drop now, so anytime you try to pull that, I'm gonna keep playing that drop on you, all right, and you can go ahead and knock yourself out there, big guy, I'm I'm prepared. You have got to be kidding me. I also, finally, and it took two weeks, I found the Negros drop. No, no, yes, don't do that. HOWB tried to hide it? Somebody tried to hide it in the puter system. It says do not play. Well, I think we know why that is on the do not playlist. But all those negroes look

the same. Why wouldn't you just delete it? Right? Like? What is the mindset of do not play? Why not just click the delete button? Probably we need it for evidence. When the FCC files they're complaining before. Yeah, I can't wait for that. I mean, I'll be so excited for that. All right, let's see what do we have here? Is? Yes, we do. Next email comes in from Tammy in Montana.

I guess I can I cleaned I cleaned this word up the last time, but we're on the podcast, so I could say I could say this word right, I can. Anything kind of goes on the podcast right now for the most part. Uh, this is from Tammy and Montana. Very polite, very charming woman, the patron saint, the mother

Teresa of the Mallams. She she always looks out for some of our more interesting characters on the show that a little down on their luck, and Tammy and Montana right since he says the podcast is great as it has been from inception from the point of inception. Helen. Now this is Helen and Stu. These two, Helen and Steu, very controversial, these two in Florida. So Helen wrote a nasty message last I think it was last week about Tammy and Montana. So now Tammy is giving her rebuttal

and this really is like a heavyweight boxing match. It is absolutely like that. So I'm gonna read this verbatim, and I'm not going to clean it up because we read what Helen said, and I will read now what the rebuttal from Tammy and Montana. So says Benny, Danny g the podcast is great. Helen is another Karen. She is a canue out jealous, is what it says here. Her anger comes from having dildo denial. I've never heard that one, Danny. Have you ever heard that one? I

don't know, I've never heard that. Will you be adding? Danny, will be adding bleeps to this? Are you? And when we play this back, are we gonna? I think what I'm gonna do is bleep it? But you could still tell what the word. That's the way. That's the way to do it. Yeah, yeah, that's uh. I used to listen my favorite radio show as a kid, the Jim Healy Show, and that's what he would do. He would play like the Lee Elia Drop, but just put the

bleep in. It's just a little late. So it was like this and I was like, yeah, yeah, you could still hear the and the but yeah, you get a little bleep. In one of the reviews I read, the listener said he liked it better when it was like that rather than just hearing us curse. So once in a while, if you or I drop an F bomb, I'll do the Healy trick on it. Yeah, and I'm fine with that. I'm five. If you want to bleep what I say, you know, I say, for example, let's

do this right now, let's do a test rating skills. Uh, what are the seven deadly words? Cooksucker? I think those are some of the deadly words. And so I just said them, but you won't actually hear them. Can you say asshole? Uh? You can say ass and you can say whole. You gotta pause for one second. You have to say asked one as a whole like that, because God forbid you know, you just say asshole? Got it? You can't you can't. You can't say somebody was taking

a ship because that's a bodily function. You can't say I went outside and took a bit because the bodily function. Yeah. Who decided that we can't hear bodily functions? Somebody that wanted to be able to eat their lunch while they listen to the radio without getting an upset stomach, I guess. Remember Carlin did the famous bit to seven deadly words. And it's actually it's like more than seven because it's a lot of phrases, right, there's a lot of phrases

you can't you can't say. I think he parodied that. Wasn't Carlin took that off? The seven Deadly Sins, right, wasn't that is? Yes, it was like a parody. And of course those were all famously read to Howard Stern in his movie Oh Yes, Yes. Well, we had another reference to the podcast on Friday, but we had Farrell

on who worked for Howard Stern. He told some some interesting stories about Howard who would show up the parties for like ten minutes of these massive Galla parties and and then he would, you know, show up for ten minutes to have a drink and then leave and everyone where'd he go? And and that? So I think he's I think I'm wired the same way because that's how I would want to do that. I'd be like, oh, everyone have a great times and I'll get out of it.

That's gonna be the Ben Mallard super Bowl party in Glendale, Arizona. Yeah, we're gonna be there early. So allright, have I have in front of me? Dowd Danny through the magic of the Internet the seven Deadly words as were written Carlin in nine two. So it's a pitch fuck cockers. Those are the those are the magic words, according to I guess if somebody said tits what about what Mike North used to say, he used to say orioles, Yeah, I

would be running. I'd be running the board on daybreak and We'll be talking about his neighbor true Story on the Area's Live and he's like my neighbor. He's a nice fella for an oriental well the studio or like what did he just say? Oh my god, Yeah, for sure,

and it's you. I love my We've had Mike on the podcast, but Mike's from the old school, right, and we've all, we we guys around our age, we've all had the uncomfortable uncle or grandpa who just doesn't give a sh and uh, and you know, there's it's very awkward. You know it's and you're you're sitting in a restaurant u and you know, not that I'm the word please, but I I don't want to make people feel uncomfortable. But I have no control over what my relatives say.

And there's a there's many different ways to say certain ethnicities that the some are acceptable on applied society and others or not. And you never know. I was at a part of this guy was not related to me, but this guy Vinny who showed up to the Christmas party. I got COVID at the Christmas Eve party and that guy was, Oh my god, he was like he was like from that Benny Hill show. Not Benny, it was the Uh Archie Griffin. Was that the one all in

the family? Yeah, exactly. It was like that old sitcom from Archie Bunker, I said, I say, Archie Griffin the cartoon? Hell was that? Where the hell did that come from? I was that in my head? Uh? Insane? You're right though, our fame drop the computer, the CPU voice that we've used for years. I wish I could have a speaker connected to my belt and be able to play that racist drop on some of these older folks. Oh it's that is the most I would say, the most popular

drop that's regularly used. People love that, they love it. But what I've noticed, Danny over the years with with you and then Roberto playing the drop, is they love it when it's out of context, When when you're not saying anything remotely racist, and you play that, that gets the biggest laugh. I love to play it. Whatever you would say, like imagine the coach riding out on the white board, it's gonna be black Friday anytime sounds like it could be racist, but it's definitely not. That's when

you play that drop Yeah. And the funny thing about that is when you started doing that on the show, that was just a funny. But now in society now it's kind of like that where everything is racist, like, you know, you can't do anything. It's all racist, which is fascinating that we did that as a cheesy bit on the radio. And now society well, and I say society, I think there is social media society and decorum and then there's like real world society. I don't think the

two of them aligned. You know, it's I often talk about it being the matrix. But anyway, that is a we got carried well. I don't think I finished reading the email from Tammy and Montana. She's probably like, what the hell you stopped at dildo denial? What's wrong with you? Email continues, She says, if she wasn't talking about Helen, if she wasn't such a bragging, negative, narcissistic, cold hearted prude.

People would like her, and Stu may want to bend her over Wow a position that he doesn't have to look at her hideous face. Hideous Helen hides behind her keyboard. Usually people that bragg are notorious for being wires. Tammy and Montana says anytime she wants to do a verbal octagon on the show, I will take the night off from work, and she signs it Tammy and Montana, Let's

go bitch Wow. I would like to get all these folks together in the same room, serve them some Kirkland brand alcohol, give him some Benny the bobble heads that we're gonna have made from our promotions department, and have them sing some Kumbayas together Ben and see if we could change the world. They get very fired up. It's it's just a dopey weekend podcast. You don't need to get all worked up. Oh my god, the hell? And Tammy she is amazing because Tammy is like the sweetest woman.

She helps out all these people, but then she turns into this like raging, insane, angry I am going to take down the world woman, it's a wild, wild wild right. Moving on, I got mail, yea, I got mail ya, it's not that exciting. Pierre from Springfield, home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where you can see Muffin McGraw and shrine there says some hot radio talk for you, Ben. How often do you record commercials between breaks? And is

this why your extra salty on some days? You mentioned that you don't like to talk during the breaks, and I remember not long ago you had a tough time recording a spot in the allotted time, only to have Coop tell you it didn't matter because it was for the podcast. Yes, Pierre, I record usually once every couple of weeks. We'll have a recording session that's typically during the show. Sometimes I have to do it after the show,

which I don't like. And it's a network radio show, so the commercials have to be either thirty or sixty seconds, depending on how much the advertiser pays for and uh, they typically give you about two minutes of copy, about two minutes of copy to get a thirty second commercial. And I'm not a fast I'm not a fast reader, so it becomes problematic and I like to put my

own touch on the commercials. I like to add things that aren't in the copy, which sometimes I get in trouble usually when I do that, but I I feel like it. You know, maybe it's just me, but I feel like that makes it more enjoyable for the listener and for the advertiser that you personalize the commercial. But not everyone wants the commercial personalized. I turned in one of your commercials one time and sales kicked it back to me and they're like, we don't want Ben to

say his name and that commercial. I was told by a guy when I first got in the business, and this guy had made a lot of money as an older guy. He's not in the business anymore. He told me said, man, you know they're gonna have you do these commercials, and sometimes they're not gonna pay you for these commercials. So you take advantage of this. Every time they give you a commercial, you put your name on that.

That way you are promoting your brand. You're not getting paid, so the only money you're getting is your promotion for your name, and make sure your name is in there. So every time some listener here's that commercial, they put your name in there. And that way, while you're not getting paid money. You're getting paid with promotion. You're promoting

your brand. And so I've always done that. I've always thrown my name in either the first name or the last name, and I've always I will continue to do it, and if anybody doesn't want me to do that, then you can pay me a ton of money and then I will not put my name in it. That I'm steal that. That's how I do it. Danny and I was Mercedes Benz. But that wasn't weird. They're they're gonna that. Yeah,

that was an id one, but that answers that. Pierre Also, he says, PS, since you often spin your roll the decks of the FSR Alumni Association, Is there any chance of getting KK on the Friday Podcast someday the Great Karen k Oh? Yeah? Uh yeah, you know, I've tried. I've tried to get Karen on a few times, but

our schedules haven't worked out. But now just and this was years ago, but now that I do the most of the recording in my home studio, I can record anytime she's available, so which has got to be annoying to her because there's no way for her to get out of this because I can say when whenever you're available,

I'll record it, and she wanted to do it. She loves the fans of the show, and she says I talked to car In a while back and she said she's still getting messages on Twitter and Facebook from fans of the show remember the old days, And so I'm gonna added to my list right here. Brian Billick, Karen, Yes, Uh, we were the only show that has been turned down by Brian bill Like multiple times. Brian bill Brian Billick, I'd like to talk to Brian, but I don't want

to beg to talk to Brian alright. Uh, moving the playoffs drop voice instead of playoffs. There's nothing better as a guy doing a podcast or you Danny, who's you're doing the show and producing the podcast from getting an email on a Saturday saying we're excited to do the interview campra do it, and then on a Monday you ask a follow up question and no response. On a Tuesday, you send an email and they say, oh, no, I'm not We're not doing that. Yeah. They're like, no, Um,

we'll let you know a future date. You just told me you look forward to joining the podcast this week. Yeah and uh. And normally when that happens, that's a sign that you don't need to book anyone else. That's a sign you've booked a guest. Your job is done right, you've done your job, You've got your guests for the podcast, and you're ready to move on. When someone says, yes, I do a victory lap and you're right, it's like a load of bricks has been lifted off my shoulders.

See this Billick email saying we're good for next week, excited to join the podcast, and I'm like, yes, I do the Tiger Woods fisch pump, Sure, and then yeah, to be kidding me. Then it turns out you're you're you're visiting a place that that's the dark side, don't know the side. Yes, I thought Michael Jordan's was the big fish to get for an interview, but it turns

out it's Bill Yeah, Brian Billick. Of all people the the we've had bigger not that Brian is not a big name, but we've had bigger names on the podcast. I've also noticed there's some snobbery with the podcast that there's certain people that are they believe the podcast is below them, but they'd come on the radio show like they come on the Ben Maller Show if I booked them as a guest. But the podcast, they feel like it's listen. I don't think they understand how many people

listen to this podcast. It's a very popular podcast. Like most podcast now, you know, Danny, there's of the podcast no one's listening to. Not that we have a Joe Rogan audience, we don't, but we have a good loyal following and this podcast does as well, and sometimes it does better than the radio show podcast because it's only available on the podcast. You can't hear this on terrestrial radio. You can only hear it on the podcast. I literally think it's just the words. Sometimes you did the seven

words earlier. Yeah, add past, not pussy for p p for podcast, because I swear to God, there'll be times where I stay away from using the word past in my interview request because normally a yes will come back following that because you say podcasts, and in somebody's mind immediately they think of some dude in his underwear with his balls hanging out in his garage. And most of the time that's true. All right, Kevin in Kansas, Moving on, here.

We gotta get a speed up the process here, Kevin and Kansas is dear Ben and Danny g You You went from sidekick guest onto Danny g Ben. I see a pattern here besides the obvious Doug Gottlieb. What other d G sidekicks would you like to work with down the road? Who's d d G initials? Who are some other famous d G s. Gottile is the only one, but you mentioned him Kevin in the email. I have to think famous d G s. You're a d G Danny g Any Yeah, I can't think of any others

off the top of my head. It's a brain twister, Kevin. How dare you? How dare you would mess with our minds? Uh? Let's see who is next on the mail bag? Come back? It's sign from mail call. Scott from Northern Kentucky says a couple of questions for you. In all your years around the Dodgers, did you have an opportunity to have conversations with Vince Scully? Did he ever swear? He says, I'll answer that first. You have a couple more, but yes,

I actually knew casually Vince Scully. It's one of the cool things, the coolest things I could say that I've accomplished, if it's even an accomplishment. But I I started out covering the Dodgers. I was nineteen years old. I was I was a green bananas. And I really through my formative, you know years, as a young adult in my twenties and thirties, I pretty much spent five, six, seven nights

a week at Dodger Stadium in the press box. And I really I knew Ven a little bit, and I had dinner with him a few times on the road, which was awesome. And I'll never forget one of the greatest nights with Vin was at Chase Stadium, and this was like the one of the last years. Vin didn't usually make the road trips the last few years of his career with the Dodgers, but he he would try to go back to New York. He would make selective trips because he grew up in New York, and he

he'd go back. And so we're having dinner and and and Vin was regaling us with stories about when he was a kid and there was a a strike. The trash men in Manhattan in New York went on strike, and he told this story and I still remember the detail the style that Ben told the story about how people were so desperate when the sanitation workers in New York went on strike to get rid of the trash.

And it was around Christmas time. And so back in those days they had these massive televisions, you know, those huge TVs, the tube TVs, and so there were some people that had tube TVs and what they were doing, at least it happened at one time. Anyway, Ben remembers they would get the big box that the TV came in, like the wooden crate, and they'd fill it with trash and then wrap it in wrapping paper and put a

bowl on it. And so obviously the sanitation workers wouldn't take it, but somebody would steal it, thinking it was a TV or something like that, and so they'd have their trash taking care of somebody would steal it. And then Ben told this, so I never heard him curse. Um. You know, I have I have many Vince Scullies stories. I don't know that we want to get into that

right now. We're limited time. But very nice man. And when he would say hello Ben, and I was like, oh man, because as a little kid, I grew up watching Vin do the Doctor, and my mom was a huge Fence Scully fan. So I was like, wow, man, that's all right. That's like, uh talking to the Pulp. And I was like, oh my god, the pulp knows your name. And I was like, holy Canoli. But anyway,

you're not kidding man. Being a little kid in southern California, hearing his voice on a transistor radio during the summer, everyone shut up and they listened. And he was a big part of the soundtrack of our Lives. Oh. Absolutely. I never heard him curse. I did ask him one time.

I'll get more to this later, but I asked him if he you know, I thought I was doing Dodger talk after the game, so I thought Vin would be listening on his way home, and I said, hey, Vin, you know you what are you doing after the game? What do you listened to when you're driving back to the valley. He said, classical music. He was like Jojo on the radio, kiss FM. Not you not you man. Yeah, that would have been That would have been even better

if he had said that. But anyway, he says, uh, are you do you ever see yourself going back into the studio full time. Here's another question about that. Are you going Howard Stirred on us and hiding away? Uh? Yeah, No. I will go back to the studio occasionally. I don't think I'll ever go back. I mean, I spent a lot of money building the studio out here, so I feel like it would be a total waste of my money to then not use the studio. And I have

to use it for the podcast anyway because the schedules. Ah, I will go in. I'm excited to see what the new studios look like. We're building in Burbank, right where they used to do the Tonight Show, right across the street from where Johnny Carson did the Night Show in Burbank back in the day, and Jay Leno and those guys. So I'm excited to see that, and I'll go in occasionally. And one of the one of the things that you

know this Danny from doing the Overnight show. One of the advantages if you're on during the days, you can play, grab bass and schmooze with executives and salespeople. I have none of that. I can schmooze if I go and do the show, I you know, shooes with the guys and all that, But I can also hang out with the guys cleaning the toilet and cleaning. Not that those are bad people. I probably probably talk to them the management people, but it's just not I'm not really getting

anything extra out of it by going in uh. And then he asked a question about Helen and Stu. He says, who the hell are Helen ste It was mildly funny when they fought with Gascon, but the last email just showed that they are mean and nasty people, probably the old grumpy couple that go to dinner at three pm, complain about everything and don't tip their serve. I have a feeling they are lonely and bitter people whose families

don't even talk to them. While shots fired from Scott in Northern Kentucky, Tim from Augusta, Maine rights in and again limited time. He says, Ben, do you think that this is the time you break out of Overnight's number eighteen show? Showing great listener growth and seem to be promoted a lot more? Is it time for a promotion? Well? That's not enough to meet him, and I'm very happy during the Overnight show and I like it. I have

a good cult following a good niche following. Not that I don't think I could do a great job on a morning show or an afternoon show and dominate and kick ass, but it would be a much different show. And I know from experience when I do these other shows and I go out and I don't do the standard bull crap that we do on the overnight show, Uh yeah, I get a lot of Hey, what's wrong with you? You're a selloutler and I want to be called to sell it. Scott Farrell told the story on

the Friday Podcast. He got hired by the Atlanta Thrashers. He sold out to become an NHL play by play guy. He lasted one year. They then had to pay him the rest of his contract for like three years. He said he just sat around, smoked weed, drank and got checks, uh from the NHL team. That's kind of the dream, right, Isn't that that? I mean in some way, not that I want to fail, but to have that kind of

set up, my my god. But you know, Tim, I don't I don't see anything in the horizon unless unless the company gets cheap on me or something like that, and I have to go somewhere else. But other than that, I see no evidence of that being the cases. They've been very good to me. They help me pay my bills for a long time. And uh and I think I've provided them with marginal overnight sports talk radio. Emmett the Blind Seahawk fan rights in, that's hey, that's a kid.

You can't say that word around emmy, emm it's in high school. How dare you? It's wrong with you again? And I'll bleep it, all right, you gotta bleep that here, Yeah there, all right. Mt the Blind Sea Fan Olympia says, what is the most awkward phone call you guys have had to deal with on the radio? I could write a book, Emmett on this. Two of them that pop in my head right now. I had a caller from Phoenix named Monty from Phoenix who was using a different name.

And then I was doing a show over Thanksgiving weekend. And as I remember the story, which is probably not actually what happened, but in my head, as I remember it, it was like Thanksgiving. He starts, he's clearly he had something to drink, more than something. He's passing the phone around, and then he has this big admission that he's been living a lit that he used a fake name, He's not who he says he was, and it was very bizarre and it was like out of completely out of

the twilight Zone. And then the other famous call, I think you were with me on this? I think you were with me, Danny. Were you there when we had the guy that had the heart attack? Oh yeah, on the show? And Coop did not handle that very well. Neither did I. Neither did I My my my response was the guys like he was talking about Chris Collinsworth or something. As I remember, he was calling from Cincinnati,

Cardiac Stanley. We named him cardiac, Yeah, cardiac stant And so he calls up and he was on hold for a while and he starts huffing and puffing and he wants to get his point in and I forget exactly what he said. It was something I having. I think I'm having like a heart attack or something like that, and so I was like, whoa. And it didn't sound like he was having some kind of heart issue. His arm went numb and he was breathing really crazy, and

he's like, I think I'm having a heart attack. Right now, everybody was daring headlights. You didn't know what to do. Yeah, you don't expect that. So I think I said, Coop, it may put you on hold, Coop will take care of it. We'll get you some help or something like that. But I didn't know how to how to handle that one. That was a weird one. There was also there was the guy that proposed to his his girlfriend proposed marriage.

I kept the guy on hold for a long time because he wanted to talk about Duke, and I was like, it was like Duke college basketball. It wasn't really the tournament time, so I thought, that's a terrible call. And then I put him on eventually and he was like

half he was like half sleeping and uh. And and then it was so funny because he he had to wake up the lady that he was proposing to for marriage, the lovely woman, and then right after she said whatever she said, I think she said, yes, they're now divorced. He told me a couple of years ago. He wrote me and said they got married, but they're divorced. But he hey, can I still talk about Duke? Was that was that? We used that as a drop I think that the show for a while. I was, uh, that's

very funny. Who is next year? He's amazing, amazing questions one is better than the next. Come back, It's time from now, I'll call all right, he'll Billy Mike, and Richmond Virginia says, uh, let's see this one's for Danny G. First Lee butt kissing. It sucked when you left Ben show. He'll Billy writes in you had a way of hitting the perfect spot with a relevant drop. Uh And man, I sure miss genies drops because of all all but

one of hers disappeared overnight. You never had a problem talking smack to Ben when you disagreed with his takes, and things just flowed. And then he then he'll Billy take shots at Roberto. He does not like the way that Roberto plays the drops, and I'll skip over that, but I take some shots there at Roberto, and he says, with you back in studio from time to time, is there anyway you can share your drop wisdom Danny G with Roberto, and he says, because the drops are an

art form and while you are Picasso. He then says that my guy Roberto is a finger painting shots fired by hill Billy Mike. But there is a there is a technique and I think Roberto is fine. I think he does get up. Some days are better than others, but that's how everything is. I have better days than others. Some days I suck at radio, other days I'm okay, and some days I'm pretty good. And that's just life

in general. But that is. It is the timing, especially me because I I don't pause that often, so You've got to really pick your spots. When I'm bloviating. You have to have a lot of windows open on the computers in front of you. It's kind of like being a gun slinger, Ben, because those are your bullets. You gotta know exactly where every bullet is for every occasion and then fire them at the perfect time. I got

a thing about dead bodies. I mean, it's far from easy. Hell, even on post production of the podcast, it's not easy. So shouts out to anybody that tries it and does it on a regular basis. I give love to all the tech producers that give it their best. I will say that, you know, when I'm in there filling in, it's filling in for Coupe. So my head spinning with answering all the calls coming in from the Mallard militia, putting together the podcast, putting together the games and the

features that go on during the live show. So there's so much going on in the producer chair, there's no way in hell I could lean over and tell Roberto, Hey, pull a couple of these drops I want Yea and hill Billy Mike. I mean, but I promise you some of the drops you miss, especially from back in the day, I will definitely insert into the Fifth Hour podcasts. You pay me five dollars, I'll endorse a game magazine. Yeah,

we're here to spread we love you. Were very special and Roberto was really nice last week three or four drops I had been looking for. He helped me find and I was able to load them in and email them to myself and get him into this weekend this podcast. So your staff is great, dude, because anytime I asked the Mallard staff for something, they are usually on top of It. Might take a day or two because there's some weed involved, but results happen and they're really nice

about it. Yeah. Yeah, he's gotta. They put a lot of work in and make everything sound good. Well, we've got time for one more Ozzy momentum from Downer says, hey, Ben and Danny G. Have you guys ever been water skiing or wakeboarding? It is a pastime here in Perth, the part of Australia that Ozzy Momentum lives in. If so, how did you go? He also says, Danny G. Can you please set Ben right and tell him that Cincinnati, Ohio is not in the south and only chumps think so.

I love a guy that from Perth, Australia is trying to teach me about American geography. How what is wrong with you? What is wrong? You are? You are? I don't think of since as the South. I do I do. I've been to the airport in Cincinnati, and it's the Cincinnati Kentucky. It's in actually in Kentucky. I think of Kentucky as the South, so I think of Cincinnati. There's like the point of demarcation. You crossed the Rubicon border though, that's right where the time changes. I feel like I

feel like that makes sense a different part of the country. No, it's it is the this I believe it is in the south. I'm going south on that and I will travel at some point to Cincinnati to meet people, shake hands, kiss babies, and all that and uh, and we will have a country jamboree and sounds like you're gonna count teeth while you're there, and no comments. So the water skiing and wakeboarding, none of that. I love body boarding

here in the Pacific Ocean. That's how the cool. The bodyboards are fun, but I've never been pulled by a boat. They go so fast and when I see people fall, that doesn't look fun at all. Yeah, you have to do a cost benefit analysis. Is it worth it? Because there are it doesn't get talked about. There's a lot of people that die every summer doing that stuff on lakes and ponds and whatnot. And one thing goes wrong.

That water is like a brick wall and it looks fine and all that, but you make a couple of missteps and game over. You have not done done too much water stuff. I like, you know, swimming in the pool, going to the ocean and whatnot. But not done. I'm not I'm not a Perth guy. I'd have to come visit you assi momentum in Perth. You have to give me the we can see some assy rules football. We'll do that and uh and go around. I think that's it. That's all we have time for you. Thanks that John

uh from Parts Unknown, Chris and Marrit Cocoa, Iowa. It has been a big supporter of the podcast, Nick and Wisconsin as well. Big fan. We didn't have time to get your questions and a couple of other people who I did not. I did not write your names down unfortunately, but again, thank you for supporting the podcast. Give us to review. We will read your review on a future episode, the Saturday episode of the podcast. And again thanks to Scott Farrell. Thank you Danny for booking that and getting

a hold of Scott. And it was wild and crazy and zany and if you're a fan of radio, dudes, Scott the first like thirty minutes of that interview and first twenty minutes of any rather, whoa, what is going on here? This is like next level. I've known Scott Farrell for years. I know he does crazy stuff on the radio, but I'm like, whoa. It was bare I barely said anything. It was just him. He was bouncing off the walls. It was wild on fire. What a great week of radio at Fox Sports and with you

and the shows you did. Just a fun, fun week, good times, good times. I'll be back in the magic radio box tonight Terrestial Radio, eleven p m. Sunday night in the West. That's two am Monday morning in the East, two to six Eastern Time on Monday morning, eleven to three in the West. And we'll be yapping about all the big stories here that took place over the weekend. And be safe, live long, and prosper, and we'll kitch you next time. Gotta murder, gotta go, Gotta murder, gotta go.