"Raw, But Honest" Mail Bag

as we yap all weekend long. It's the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio together here on a Sunday, Sunday Sunday, eight days a week, double barrel action. Back on the radio tonight at eleven o'clock in the west, two am in the east. But right now we have mailed to get to Danny. Are you prepared? Do you have the proper protective gear on for the mail bag, same head gear I had as a kid. Ben, you're prepared, you're all ready to go? All right? Well, this is

very exciting. Now we have Ohio all sent us the mail. Sorry now we were unable to play it last week, but we've worked out the technically definitely culties, so now this is going to be an authentic official mail bag because we have music so exciting. Now now we can get started with the festivities. So the first email Danny comes from Helen and Stu of Palmetto Bay, Florida. They're very controversial couple on the show, Helen and Stu. They are either loved or hated. They were at war with

the previous co host sidekick of the Fifth Hour. And uh here's the emails. It's been happy honaka as you know, and practice on Fox Sports Radio eight days weeknik is based upon the Hebrew word for dedication. Ironically, Helen and Stewright,

our festival spans eight days. To coincidence, we think, not, that's right, Helen and Stull, I'm eating a a nice, desisious, delicious meal of Latka's and jelly doughnuts right now, and she says, let's go to the man of the hour, Danny g Helen and stou Sy welcome home to Mallard Town a radio prose pro. The email writes a great voice with a raw but honest street edge to him, Well, this sounds like a movie, like a review of a movie, doesn't it. Danny man, I like, that's a good line.

You should put that on your resume there on a great voice with a raw but honest street edge to him. I like that mad really bad movie summary and bad skill, mad skills, not bad mad skills. And as stew and his golf pal refer to him as the Titan of Tendernes, look at that. You got a nickname there with Stu

out on the golf course in Florida. Uh. The email continues, Ben, by the sound of your voice, we know you are over joy to get rid of that piece of rotted out beach driftwood west of the four or five well, that is shots fired and replace him with Danny jo. I'm very happy to have Danny on the show, and I had no problem with the other show. The show was good, but scheduling wise it did not work out anyway.

Helen says, Stu and I the entire Mallard militia except for apparently, she says Stu and I the entire Malla militia except for the moose in Montana. Tammy Wow are equally excited with the news as his management and Fifth Hour advertiser moving forward, sell the soap boys. That is a reference, Danny. We had John Sterling, the voice of the yankees On and he told this story about how the most important thing in broadcasting is sell the soap. You gotta sell the soap and touched on that a

little bit. Last week, Ben, I want to say to the power couple there not in Braytonon, but the other power couple Palmetto Bay, which is in the Miami area. But people in Miami or they don't like Palmetto Bay. This Rivals of Palmetto Bay, thank you for the nice welcome. And on Twitter there were a few shots fired at Gascon. What I replied to those shots fired, Hey, you gotta give gags a lot of credit for getting the show started.

Salute there you go, and Helen and Stoopy where they did have some questions that they said housekeeping questions for Danny g Congratulations on your engagement. Once you're married, will you finally reveal your last name? Well, as you know, Ben, the last name was really never a secret. It was just kind of a radio bit we did to have some fun. Yeah, I don't mind letting everybody know that

I'm actually part of the Gara Deli chocolate Empire. That's why I have time to play around with kids after school. On the football field and sit around in the middle of the night and do podcasts with you. I mean, I look, Garri Deli, you know the name. You trust it. It's some it's some wonderful chocolate. And so I have to thank my great grandfather. Yeah, he comes from a long line of chocolate tears, the garat Deli chocolate family

and my favorite dessert, Danny. And one of the reasons I'm friends with you is the Gara Deli ice cream cookie Sunday, which is an amazing thing. And there's been many, many years of civil war between gar Deli's Chocolate in northern California and Sees Candy in southern California. And oh yeah, screw those these people. They tried to steal that idea from my aunt, uh years and years ago. So I'm glad you're a fan. Ben. You know, I've always been pro Gared Delli, which upset my mom. My mom was

to seize candy woman. And I love Geared Delli. And in fact, I've been to San Francisco in downtown there in the financial district, there's a Geared Dellis. As you know, because you run the company. Are you related through blood? The Gara Delli's chocolate right there, Danny Amazing. I grew up in that shop. Yeah, it's great. You were a little boy and you were making ice cream Sundays as

a child. Pierre from Springfield rights in and says, Ben, now that you've successfully had the elitist boil removed from your tourkis, is there any truth to the rumor that he's moving to Vermont to form a supergroup with Arnie for those that have been permanently emotionally scarred by the Mallard militia? Yeah, there's probably like, Uh, they meet every Thursday at two o'clock and they trash Justin in Cincinnati, just Josh, who else? Uh? Flexis and Buffalo and the

whole group. Poor Artie. Did you see how his Twitter got hacked? I wondered what had been because Arnie started following me again randomly, and I thought, well, why did you stop following me? He I didn't realize he had gotten hacked. You got followed, I got blocked, and it's some company trying to sell PS five's. It's like, Uh, it's weird. It's like some video game company hacked him. Fan your Yeah, and Arnie lent me a text called me. Buddy called me. I got locked out of my Twitter.

I got hacked. I need help. Arnie. That's great funny had followed me. But maybe it was the other people that followed me. Maybe he didn't actually follow me. I don't I don't know anyway. Pierre and Springfield, also a friend of Alfie Indian Or Piner says, has Danny g been permanently excommunicated by the suits at fs ARE or is there hope that he can fill in for Roberto and resurrect some classic Genie drops. Uh, now you're you're a producer. Now you're not an engineer anymore. You've moved

on to producing. But people do miss that Danny, the Genie and Medford drops. The old fans of the show, Roberto, Roberto was not around for Genie and you were there in the glory days of Genie and Medford. An amazingly gifted caller that sports radio and one of my favorites, the greatest caller in the history of the show. And we had so many jobs. She was a drop machine, she really was. She was. I missed Genie a lot.

Always would call with a story about her neighbor. Yes, yes, and she tells stories about like random dating people that being at the liquor store and a Raiders fan and a Chargers fan, and she would tell me, I love you because you're a Raiders fan. And uh, you're right though about the drops, I would be cutting up at least five Genie drops a week. I got it all over me. God bless truly the paper Boy's security guards

and drivers. That's true, Dawn. When I write my book someday, Danny, I'm gonna have a chapter on Genie and Medford, at least part of a chapter on Genie Medford. Because this woman. I thought I was getting punked when she started calling the show. I thought, this is not a real this is a fake. I'm getting cat fished or something. This is not a real one. And it turned out she

was real. And the story is she was little down her lock, I think it's fair to say, and she was self medicating herself, and she was a lonely woman and she started I just wanted somebody to talk to, and she called one to talk to nine on one, and then it became problematic because you're not supposed to do that unless you have an actual emergency. So they arrested Genie and Medford and then they told one of the police officers told her, hey, you should your lonely

listen to the radio call the radio show. And for some reason, all the radio shows on the dial in Medford, Oregon. She found our show and started calling the show, and a legend was born. And when she passed away, Danny, they raised the fans of the show raised so much money because she was by herself, she was a you know, a lonely old woman, and paid for her funeral expenses

and they had enough money left over. There's a plaque at that Swan Boat Park near Dodger Stadium with j name on it, unless the unless the people that live there have ripped that sign down. But assuming it's I assume it's still there. It's not the greatest part of l A. But it's a beautiful park. Well it's there. Somebody's camping permanently on the bench, but it's there. Someone's home right now, but somebody's floorboard, but it's there. Yeah, were you Were you on the show when we had

Genie versus Pete and Pittsburgh. Oh my god, that was unreal. Genie starts talking like a gangster and yeah, she channeled Goodfellas was then. And then there was Genie versus Tammy, remember yes, the towel. That was a stunner that we we all anticipated that Jennie would just destroy Tammy and Montana who knew that Tammy had the kind of verbal boxing skills to Bob and we verbally in that kind

of theater and it was like Tammy took out Muhammed Ali. Yeah, he was an imaginable upset on the show and that was that was great, and I remember we were all stunned and Tammy's got some bulldog in her. Jennie ended that verbal octagon by basically saying, whatever I'm out of here, you're a poopoo head. Yeah, like no mos no moss, no moss. Essentially all right, Matt from Mansfield, Texas, right, sinces Ben. I recall when I first started listening to the show that Danny g was still on then, but

I don't recall much about it. And you give us some of the history and notable mom it's well Genie and Metford was a big part of it. Yeah, we had we had some great times. We had a lot of listeners stopped by met a lot of listeners back before the whole COVID thing shut that down at the building, and we got to throw out the first pitch at a game in Baker's Field, which was a lot of fun. And we had Coope eat that's a lean live there, Yes, yes,

it was great. We had him eat a seventy two hour old sitting out in the break room hot dog from Burger King, yes, from the Jay Moore show that Jare had had a burger King partnership and they left food and we was half rotted with a relish, yes, and the relish is what almost made Coope puke up the bet, but we pulled money and Coop would eat

random things. We would periscope on the show often, which was a lot of fun because the listeners loved to see behind the scenes because at that time, pre COVID, we were all in the studios together. Yeah, it was fun, a a good time. And remember I'd bring in the DJ lights Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was wonderful. Let me tell you it was. It was a discothech, it was not just a radio station. So yeah, there were a lot of great, great moments in that time. And there

you know, now you're back on the podcast. So we'll have even more and once we can actually go out and meet people, we're gonna have a podcast get together only for the fifth hour. Quinn in Colorado springs rights in he's a big p one in the Malamusci says, yes, then we were around the same age. He says. My favorite comedian of all time is George Carlott says his ability to put the crowd in the palm of his hand was impeccable. His delivery, timing, setups, philosophy and wit

are timeless. For Christmas this past year, my wife bought me the DVD career collection of every one of his live special One could correlate the art of stand up comedy into hoasting radio with the parallels and then he was very kind here says, as you do blah blah blah blah blah. He says, you have a favorite comedian

growing up or now? While I was a huge George Carlin fan, and I've told the story before, Quen, I don't know if you heard it, but George Carlin was a sports talk radio fan in Los Angeles and occasionally called in the greatest comedian of all time, which I believe is George Carlin called in. He's he's he's on the the top for whatever. I don't amount Rushmore, but anybody's list of top comedians, if you don't have George Carlin,

something's wrong. But Carlin was a fan. He was a huge sports fan, and he was an old radio guy from Dallas. He worked in the radio in Dallas, and he always appreciated radio and sports radio. And he called in and he actually became friends. He was George from Venice, that was his name, George from Venice. Venice Beach is where George Carlin lived, or at least that's where he

said he was from. And he would he would call up and he became friends with one of my friends, Lee Klein, who you've had it back and forth with over the years, Danny. But Lee became friends with Carlin. And I was a huge Carlin fan, and I was like, I want to meet George Carlin, and Lee like would not. He would not. He kept saying, I'm gonna introduce you to Carlin and all, and they would. Lee and Carlin like went out to lunch and they became buddies. And

Carlin invited him to his comedy shows. It was insane. I was so jealous and Lee would not. He kept saying, I'm gonna set you up. I I got to do it the right way. And then it never actually happened, and unfortunately Carlin passed away suddenly. It was a big surprise. But yeah, back in two thousand and eight, I think it was. Has it been that long? Yeah, Carlin man one of the greats, and also grew up with Cosby before he was evil, before he was enemy number one,

public enemy number one. Yeah, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, David Pryor, Chris Rock. Bernie Mack was one of my favorites. Ben Bernie was good Bernie Mack and and then you know, we also grew up with guys like Rodney Dangerfield and Sam Kennison. Yeah, They're just been some great comedians over the years. It's it's almost becoming a lost art because these guys are scared to say anything now or they don't want to be But because of the temperature in the room, we can't do comedy the way we used to.

Underrated comic. He died also Richard Jenny may See Richard, Yes, very good. Stephen Wright another one that Steve favorite of his dead pan I don't know who's who the top comedians are now. I have not been to comedy club in a while, and you're right with everything, the wokesters and all that. I don't know if you can really to me, comedy is supposed to be stereotypes and and goofing and then everyone it's like a roast and then

at the end you'll hug it out. You're like, that's good, it's all for the joke, and then we move on. But nowadays it's obviously not like that. People are very what's the word. I'm like, yeah, touchy, there you go, touchy. The Sheila writes, and she says formally from Orange County, relocated to the free state of Arizona. What good for you? Sheila, Yeah, Arizona. Man, enjoy you, enjoy yourself. There, she says, she has some random thoughts. I don't know if she wants me to

read this on the air. She says, the non Mallard Militia. She's not part of the militia, Danny, but she is a loyal listener over the years. She said she randomly found the show about ten years ago. She was picking up her daughter from work a like eleven PM. Or teenage daughter and heard the Mallar monologue and she became a fan, and so thank you. She says. She's glad that Danny g is on the fifth Hour. She says, she loved you Danny on the show back in the

day with the tinderronis and all that. And she sucked up to me by ripping Kyler Murray. Thank you for that taking a shot at Lebron James. I appreciate that as well. How about Sheila lives in Arizona taking a cheap shot at Kyler Murray. Good for you, she says, if you are inclined for the mailbag, how did you and the misses me because I am a girl, she says, and I I like that stuff. Thanks for the show as there you go makes me laugh in some dark

times in the world. Well, thank you Sheila for listening. So yeah, I met my wife online. I had been doing a lot of online dating, uh, and I met her. God has it been about ten years, eleven year or something like that. It's been a long time, it was. I got on a lot of dates and they were all failures. It was a disaster. So I I went

into every date not expecting any of them to work out. Uh. And I was just convinced it was gonna be a waste of my time and they were gonna hate me and uh and there gonna look at me and say, this is man's disgusting. I want nothing to do with this man. And so that was always my mindset going to dates. But this one, Uh, this, I mean, my wife is way out of my league. As Clay would say, out kick coverage on that one. But um, but to me, i met her or whatever, I was like, fine, she

just we hit it off. You know, you hit you meet online, you talk your text whatever, talk on the phone, you hit things off, and then you got a meet in person. It's always different when you meet in person. It's always awkward at first because you already know the person. And uh. And this one was bad because I was living in Lincoln Heights and I took the gold Line up to Pasadena if you're familiar with l A and I took the gold Line up to Pasadena. The gold Line was late. I was late for the date. I

was freaking out, so I start running. Problem is, by the time I get to the place I met the now my wife, I was covered in sweat. So what a great first impression. Show up covered in sweat. We were supposed to see a movie. You were the white Patrick Ewing. I was, yeah, exactly, I'm like a big pig. I'm a hog. You know, I'm just sweat. And we were supposed to see a movie. We couldn't agree on the movie, so we just went and hung out at a bar and talked, and so it worked out. And

then you took her windows shopping right at the Dollar Tree. Yes, yes, I took her anything you want, and the dollar didn't, didn't I read? I think we do we talk about this on this I don't know. I talked so much I don't even write. We didn't talk about it on the podcast last week, but it is a news story that I read, and it caught my eye because it's a dollar twenty five and up. Now, that's the great thing about what's what's your name is known? You don't

ever have to change your name. Don still be called dollar Tree or dollar store or whatever it is. Well, it's like America Online, but it was people in other countries were on America Online. But it's online. They're living alive, man, Yeah, they're living a false, false And now appearance. We can no longer take our kids in there and say you can have five things. It's like five, really five things? You have five things? Now we're gonna have to say

four four items. Yeah. I love dollar, dollar, tree, dollar general, all those things. Uh, Barry in Music City, says yo Yo Mo Benny. He says, I enjoy hearing, the hearing the origin of hello, But I think you missed the few years when yo yo ma was the primary method of hello. He says. When you make your world famous Mallard pizza, do you make your own pizza crust or do you buy an off the shelf cross. That's a great question, Barry. Really depends if I have planned out

the pizza, I will make the dough. I have my mom, as you rest in peace, bought me a nice mixer, so I'm able to mix the flour and all that. It doesn't take that long to make. The problem is you have to let it sit for a while so it tastes good. And that's the only only issue. But usually I'll do it on the weekends if I make pizza, But during the week sometimes I'll go to like Trader Joe's. You can buy the dough at a trader Joe's and I'll do that if i'm if I'm saving saving time.

Derek in Parts Unknown says, why is it that Fox is playing some FIFA tournament on the serious feed instead of your show? Uh, he says, I transition from list thing to your show in the house to the car at the start of the last hour the past few days serious as the damn football on this is insanity

must be stuffed. Well, Derek, the problem is, and you know this day, we share that that Fox Sports Radio channel is a joint venture between Fox Sports Radio and they carry Fox Sports television programming like Skip Bayliss's show and some other those debate shows are on there. So um, we're pretty much, you know, if it's between radio and television, what television wants and what radio wants to Fox, I

think we know who's gonna win that battle. I think we know who's gonna and and then and rightfully, so, I'm not saying that shouldn't be the way is so occasionally we get covered up. The good news is on I Heart there's a twenty four hour stream. You can hook your phone up to your car. I know it's a bit of an inconvenience, but you can listen that way, and there's also terrestrial radio. We're on most cities, so you can hear the show that way, on the old

fashioned way with the static in the background crackling. So yeah, I use Apple. I used the iTunes for your podcast, and then I use the I Heart Radio app for whenever I stream FSR Live. Yeah, I listen to the I Heart app. It's really good. I remember when you had when you booked Trump on the On Clay show. I listened to that interview. Somebody tipped me off because Trump is gonna be on today, and so I I ended up listening on the I Heart app to that. Clay.

It's an honor. You have a great show. Did you tell my producer Danny g that he deserved a raise when you called last time? Absolutely? I said, you get the president, but you really do. You have a great show and he's a nice guy. I said, you get the president of the phone, you deserve a race. I haven't done too many of these goals. That was great, Kevin from Rockford Right, since this next week, I will be making my way back to Colorado for the sixth

time this year. How about that? The reason I'm going is to High Game Mountain. My goal is to hike all fifty eight of Colorado's fourteen thousand foot mountains. How about this guy, Kevin says, I've done quite a few so far, but this next one will be my first winter hike. I plan on planting a flag on top of the next mountain that says Mount Mallard. Where would I post the pictures so you and the crew can see it? Also, I I wrote a Christmas song. He says you better watch out. I think he's a lady.

I ain't quite sure, but something seems shady. Brian Finley's coming to town. Uh, that's that's pretty funny. I'm loving the Christmas songs. By the way, I heard those on your overnight show. Yeah, isn't that great doing the show Thanksgiving? And I Uh, one of the engineers, Chris, was like, hey, I was starting at midnight. We got to play the Christmas songs? Was no, because we have all these great mother theme songs that we couldn't we wanted to play

him because they're not holiday songs. And so I was like, wait a minute. We got a lot of talented people that listen to the show. Why don't I get some free content, And so I asked. People are very kind, and we've got a number of songs. Uh, Mr pc in in Michigan, Harry and Maine, our buddy and Richmond, Ohio, al. So many talented people sending in songs and they're pretty funny. Yeah. Those mixed in with the classic comedy Christmas songs that I taught Roberto how to play years ago. Yes, yes,

that was your that was your work around. It really was because I didn't like you. You probably remember, if you're a longtime Mallard follower, the restrictions that were put on us with it can only be Christmas music. So I said, all right, if that's the case, then I'm gonna bust out funniest Christmas songs I could find, Police stopped my car, chipmunks roasting over and open fire, all the greats, all the funny stuff instead of all the

old Christmas songs you hear everywhere during the holiday. Yeah. That was a great addition, and so this is another layer to that. So I think we've got enough songs. We can always submit more because we have a month of programming. If we can play goofy songs and then original tunes written by fans of the show, so As and Kevin. As far as the flag, that is awesome that you are You're You're gonna plant a Mount Mallard flag.

And I can't wait to see the photo. I imagine like snow in the background, high and the beautiful peak in Colorado looking out at the great wilderness in the West, and um, I can't wait for that photo. Send me an email, uh and and contact me and send it on Twitter if you want, and I'll make sure to post that. If you want to email it to me, I can post it on the social media pages for the show. And I wonder his age, Ben, because ten eleven, twelve years ago, I would go on some really nice

hikes with my cousin. He would take me through Vegas to Zion and to all these different national parks. He would say, Okay, I mapped it out, I planned it out. This is a beginning hikes, so don't worry. So we get on this trail. Turned out it was nine miles. Oh my god. Yeah, And I'm like, this guy is crazy, man, this is not for beginners. And he would go off

the trail. He would follow like dried up creeks. Yeah, my cousin was crazy with the hiking, so I would just have to keep up with him, right, So I got into really good shape just following him on these trails. But now fast forward ten years, I swear to God, walking up two flights of stairs, my legs are like, dude, can you sit down for a minute? What at what age?

At what point? And and maybe you know, I'm just starting to get out of the studio because what I was in a six seven year pattern there where my job was to just sit or stand in a radio studio. Now that I have another job where I have to move around a lot and hustle and walk and run, I'm just getting my legs warmed up again. At what point, Ben, do you have to sit down and retire from hiking? Yeah?

I used I loved hiking around l A. I used to hike all attempt But I I've been This has been a tough year because I moved and I had a gym shut down in and so then I got a treadmill. I bought a treadmill and I actually used the treadmill, and then we had to move and we had to put it in storage, and it's still in storage and I have not been able. And I go on walks occasionally and things like that around here, suburban hiking. But I used to walk around the studios during I did.

I used to time out the brakes and walk around because I was obsessed with getting ten thousand steps. So I love the fact that starting after midnight, it's a new day, so I have like an advantage. I get some steps in during the show and get my exercise. You actually patrolled the building better than the comic book loving security guards, right, yes, And I became friends with all the crack addicts in the around the studios there

that live in that neighborhood. Um. But anyway, send me an email, Kevin Ben Maller show at gmail dot com. Put make sure you put in the headline there Mount Mallard or something like that so it gets my attention. Carlos in Houston and good luck, Kevin. Be safe out there, Carlos and Houston. Says Ben. I want to hear your take on all the noise that Ennis cantor Freedom is making with his shoes. Uh. Yeah, I haven't seen the story.

I haven't done a monologue on it, you know, And I I obviously am more in line with Ennis Cancer's politics than I am Lebron James. But I just, you know, I'm a little over the whole politics and sports thing, and I just kind of I'm a little tired of the whole thing on either side, right. I know the argument is always you love your you love politics and sports if you agree with it. But I'm like, you know, I just I'm in it for the games and all that stuff. But I wish Ennis can't her Freedom. Well.

I think it's cool that he changed his name to Freedom, but aside from that, I'm on his side. But I don't and I don't really have a strong opinions on on that whole whole deal. But he is set up now. Cantor Is career with the Celtics isn't going that well. So he's not playing particularly well this year. He's got a future in politics if he wants, right, you can

be run for political office anyway. Uh Valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, writes in for both of you, when y'all were little, did y'all, because he's from Fayettville, Tennessee, did y'all ever go skinny dipping? With some hot chicks. Let's clear something up. We were never little. No, we never little uh and uh two things on this a Uh no hot chicks would get near me. So that's

number that's number one. Number two. H. Even as an adult, I don't like to get naked, so I can't imagine as a child skinny dipping thinking that would be a good idea. I wanted to wear as many clothes as I could. And then he also says, you and Arnie in the hot tub does not count. Yeah, we had the great hot tub escapades in Indianapolis back in the day, but but no Danny growing up at you know, the

Bay area there and Shenanigans with the skinny dipping. In my early twenties, there was a gal who brought me to the Sycamore Mineral Springs. Dad is a spot to check out, Ben, because I had never been in one of those big wooden tubs before. H And that was just use your imagination. But that was a very memorable night. Um, you grew some hair on your chest that night. Danny

became a man. But I hear, yeah, that was a date planned by her, and all these years later, that is one that's stuck that's he is still You're You've been on a lot of dates, but that's one that you remember. Cliff from Nashville rights in on the mail back. He says, Ben, since Danny g announced his engagement, have you explained in the Facts of Life of Marriage that she controls half the money and of the fun box? That is from from Cliff? Well, no, Danny, you do

you understand how this this wor and you're engaged? You're still everything's great? Right? Things are going well? Everything's good. Yeah, everything is amazing because my tender Roni, my Queen tender Roni, is pretty amazing. The thing with her, Ben, the only way I was gonna stay committed with somebody if it was better than being single. And I finally found a woman where everything is better than it even was when I was single. Good, that's awesome. Now does she big question?

Does she listen to this podcast? She is a fan of Ben? Now, will will the Tenderroni, the queen tendernis you call her? Is she going to continue? Because I think we've You've been in the business a long time, and you know what usually happens is there's the goldilocks zone when you first you're with a woman, and she you'll find out, you know, she finds out you're in broadcasting and you've got a big podcast, a radio show,

and they want to listen to everything. But then after a while it kind of weans a little bit, Like like my wife would listen to every single show. She wanted to hear everything, and and now she listens maybe once a month if I'm lucky. If I'm lucky, should listen with them once. But that's like the natural circle

of life, I think. Right, Yeah, you know, my girl has a long drive, a big commute during the week, so she does listen to podcasts, and this is one of the ones that she has in her phone that automatically downloads, is what she told me. So when I was just a guest on this podcast, she listened to it. I think she'll probably continue to listen until I say something that turns her off and she says, you dirty,

rotten scoundrel, How could you talk about that, suh. For at least one day, you'll be in the doghouse and I'm not ever listening to you on that show again. Yeah, well, and you have a lifetime of that to look forward to. You have and Uh, you know, it happens. You live with somebody, you're gonna be at each other's next from time to time. So it uh, she is a good sport. She understands at least a little bit about radio. As far as us needing to share a lot of personal

things that usually people would not share, yes, exactly. And we both like to think no one's listening and we can share these things because no one's actually paying. Sometimes I forget and then like I said something last week and she made a comment and I was like, oh crap. But but this is the best way to go about doing podcasts, Ben is You're right, Just forget that the masses are listening and it's just you and me having a conversation, and whatever goes goes. Just let her rip,

Let her rip. That's the way to do it. Iron the Hole exactly exactly. Brandon from how writes in he says, guarantee this has been asked. But you talk about stocks a lot. Do you do any day trading or swing trading or are you a buy it and leave it type of guy? All right, Brandon, So we do not give stock advice. You should never take stock advice. Financial advice from someone who does a podcast or a radio show, because if we had a lot of money, we would

be doing that full time and not doing this. Um. But I do have one of the apps that you can trade daily, but I am really bad at the date trading thing because what I do is when I buy a stock, I like the whole launcher. I'm not a buy and sell guy, and I wish I was, because I got in on that doze coin thing, and if I had sold, I would have made a decent amount of I held onto. It's worth nothing horrible. But my my new michiganas Brandon is I've I've talked about

this in the past in the podcast. I love buying stocks that are cheap, that pay a dividend that that those are the two things I like for I used to buy. I was all into gambling and weeds box, and then blind Scott gave me the one weed stock that failed. Every weed stock's gone up except the one that blind Scott recommended, and that's gonna toilet. But uh so I moved over to these a lot of like real estate companies and stuff, and they paid dividends every quarter,

So I like that. I feel I'm making money making money. When you go to Vegas, you play quarter slots. Uh No, I bet on red or black on roulette and what the or otter even is? Uh? You know? And fantasy I'm no, I'm no fun. I used to be in fantasy leagues and I I draft what I thought was the perfect team. So I wouldn't trade anyone because I loved my team, and that would annoy the people in the league, because what's the point of playing fantasy baseball

if you're not gonna trade anybody. But I'm like, no, I did a great draft. My team's perfect. I don't need another picture, you know. I was like, now, what about this Safe Moon because my older brother is huge into Safe Moon and he's been trying to enlist me. Is this something that I should dabble in? I don't know. Let me what is? It's called safe Mo. Yeah, I'm looking it up here. Hit us up on Twitter if

you're a Safe Moon fan. But it's something I guess they've just created a wallet and he's trying to or something. Is that like a crypto thing? It is? Okay, So if you're a fellow crypt keeper, let me know. I'm I'm intrigued. I'm interested. I just don't understand all of it yet. I have dose coin that was a disaster, something a little skeptical, and I got burned. As you know. I had a chance to buy bitcoin at a hundred dollars a bitcoin when it was early on. I said

it was a scam. I turned it down. I am the biggest asshole. Our buddy over at bar stool, I guess did some videos about it, and it got some backing and some traction. And it's not showing up here, showing up but on my mean, they don't have everything on this the app that I use, so it might be elsewhere. All right, Kevin in Kansas, right, since it's dear banded, Danny g Late. I've seen Joe Namath, Jimmy Walker, and Bill Shatner pushing Medicare enrollment a few decades from now.

Can you see yourselves hawking products on air? Oh god, yes, of course, come on, right, we do that right now. I do. Hey, this is Ben Malloy for Medicare. I do it right now. Seconds of copy. Oh my god, don't yeah, I'm still better, still bitter about that, Oh my god. Oh that's for the podcast. Do whatever you want, Greg, Writeson says, did they say the option would never work in the NFL? Have Lamar Jackson and the Ravens proven

them run? The Ravens don't run an option offense. That's too sporty a question, Greg, But the Ravens don't run an option office. And when Lamar Jackson won the m v P, he won it because he became a good thrower that year, not not his legs. The legs as a bonus. And I saw a stat in the month of November, Lamar Jackson has these. He had the second lowest quarterback rating in the NFL O behind Tyrod Taylor.

So he's not throwing the ball particularly what at that four interception game last week, So he's not exactly like in the world on fire. Yeah, he said, I played like a rookie Uman. He can spin the ball pretty good when he's on, but he was off for sure last week. He still won the game through four inception. How often do you you lose a game? Uh, if you're the team that throws the four interception? How many one game? If the other team throws it's crazy. It's

a testament to the vomit he was playing against. Yeah, j Bone we've got a couple more j Bone in Portland that I'll do. One more j Bon in Portland, says Portland, Maine. Not a question, he says, But Danny G come on, perfect, let's go. Danny G's a legend, he says. I'm glad you guys are bumping heads again and making his laugh. So J Bone is excited Danny

that you're partner. Let's go. And I know you also read some nice comments earlier in the hour, and so I just want to thank everybody for the nice welcome. Being up early early in the morning to do this is a labor of love. But you know what, Ben, you're probably the only host where When I got that call from Fox Sports Radio management and they were like, are you interested in this? You were the first name that came up. I was like, Hell, yeah, I'm interested

in that. That's Ben Mallory you're talking about. You're very kind. I appreciate that. I'm glad I'm listening. It's wonderful. It's been fun, and uh, we got places to go and things to do. I know that. So we're gonna get the heck out of here. But have a great rest your Sunday. We'll have another edition. If you want to send a question in for a future mail bag, you want to ask me a question, Danny g both of us questions. You can contact the show on Facebook the

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