The Fifth Hour: "Bread on the Table" Mail Bag

it again with the male bag. Never all right, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you will not be hearing the sound of that. No, no, no, not, not, not, not, not, no. As we bring the heavy R tillery and before we get into the mail bag, Danny G Ohio, all strike up the band. It's all right, very good, Danny. Any opening foster? Should we just go right to the mail bag?

What do you say? Let's attack this head on. All right, we are going to attack it one by one we go, and that's right, Kevin in Kansas, right, since this ne're Ben and Danny G, I like knowing how the sausage is made. Could you give some insider information about how to create your podcast or how you create your podcast, either the main show or the fifth hour? I listened to them all. Thanks, gentlemen. That is from Kevin in Kansas. Well, Kevin, there's a method to the madness. As Danny G has said,

you don't necessarily want to know how we make the sausage. Uh, but there is a routine that we have. As far as the podcast, it really depends on what part of the year it is. Right now it's football season and we're doing benny versus the penny on the podcast, and so much of my downtime around the radio show I spend I like to handicap the NFL Games. Like to

think I know what's going on in the NFL. So I spent a lot of time following the radio show be checking out stats and notes and information gambling numbers on the NFL Games and then we will record that at a certain point and then we've we've settled into this routine to anywhere. Normally on Saturdays we talk about things that are going on in our world, which is good and bad. Uh, it's good because it's it's something cool. But sometimes if there's nothing going on. You're like, wait

a minute, I didn't really do anything. And but fortunately there's always something that seems to happen, because we only really need one or two things, Danny. That happens during the week and we do live exciting radio lives rock stars, unless we're not. But Southern California provides a lot of content.

My tinderroni provides a lot of content, your wife provides you with content and you have, uh, serious injuries from time to time that come up like like you looked like Patrick Ewing walking around the studio the other day. I am sacrificing my body for the fifth hour podcast, for the life of Mallard podcast. I have injured my knee, my two I've burned my arm. I've still had listeners

asking me about the Marianera episode. Oh Man, I was back at trader Joe's last weekend and I walked down the aisle that has all the pasta sauce and I gave the Marinera the evil eye. I stared down the Marianera, but I did and I said screw you, Meranera. That's what I said. I can give you one little piece of behind the scenes for the podcast besides doing post production with the drops and imaging pieces and stuff like that, I also go through all of the wave files and

I wish I could show you. If it was TV, I could show you what those look like, but just google wave files. You'll see what they look like and I find wherever your voice really peaks and I control that with a filter. Talk now and then. That way it doesn't blow people's air drums out when they're listening

to the podcast. It reminds me of the reverse. When I was working in San Diego Lee Hamilton's hack saw he had a pedal under the studio chair, and so the way this would work is when he get into a screaming match with the caller, he would then press the pedal, and so therefore he would always be louder than the person he was getting into the I've never had that. I wish I could have that. That would be a lot of fun. That would be bad news. Pedal to the medal. Next up is Blake in Arkansas.

He says Ben Why is it that an NFL team jumps out to a ten point plus halftime lead? When that happens, you can almost gearantee that the losing team will make a comeback. College Ball seems to go the opposite direction. The better team get stronger, they get faster, they're better in the second half and they extend the lead. I'm to the point that if I like the favorite, I will just bet the first half. I'm not much of a conspiracy guy, outside of politics, of course, but

something stinks. Any thoughts? Well, I haven't spent too much time thinking about it, Blake, but it is a fair point. It's why, in the gambling world I've always been under the assumption, in what I was taught by older gamblers, is in college you bet the favorite. In the NFL you lean to the underdog if all things are equal, and it does seem like even when they don't come back and win, if a team jumps out to a big start, the other team will get back in the game.

They might not win the game, but they'll typically get back in the game. And in any given weekend maybe there's one game that's just a rat kill and a blowout, but other than that, at the most too in a given weekend, every other game is within ten points or less, and usually it's within seven points or less. So it's one of those things. If you bet those monster teasers where you get ten points, it's like, well, wait a

minute here, how can you lose? But you just gotta make sure you don't pick the one game that turns out to be a debacle, because there's always that one game. So you gotta avoid the one game, but other than that you should be all right. Come back. It's side. From now I'll call Pierre formally from Springfield now from West Warren. He points out narrowcasting, Pierre says, to either of you, gentlemen, pre record sporting events. Do you do?

You do that? Personally? I don't watch, ever, ever watch anything. Pierre says that I already know the outcome of unless you count a rebroadcast of a historical game or an occasional replay of a throwback game, and our regional sports network any progress, he says, on landing the Great Karen Kay or. She's still bitter that you bend blew her off at the birthday party she had back in the day. It's Pierre Fan of earning the great opening. Yeah, I

screwed up. I for some reason Ernie's name popped into my head, not alf the grade oplaner. I said Ernie, it's a bad job by me. We we really haven't reached out to Karen Lately, but we can make that happen once things calm down with Benny versus the penny and all that. Will definitely have Karen Kaon, maybe sooner, who knows. And as far as the rebroadcast, I'll go first on that, Danny H if I know the score, I will not watch, but I do fall into rabbit holes.

I'll be on the treadmill back when I had a working knee and I'll be watching like they'll they'll show uh an NBC game of the week with Tony Kubeck, or they'll show Monday night baseball game on one of those old school baseball channels and as long as they don't put the score of the game in the description that I click on, I'm in. Like I'll turn on. I turned on a random like it was a Chicago White Sox match up with the Oakland athletics from like the early eighties, and I didn't know who won the

game and I didn't really remember. You know, maybe I watched it, maybe I didn't, but I was in because I didn't know the outcome. I didn't remember the outcome. What about you did. Even when the dvr became a thing, I didn't use it to record sports because that's appointment viewing. If I didn't see it live, then I would watch highlights,

but to watch an old game back. No, the only time I think I watched old game back is if my team destroyed another or had a really good showing and then there was a replay like on the NFL network.

I would watch some of it again, but I don't think I've actually taped a game as it was going since way back when I was a kid and we had VCRs and we would record classic Lakers Games, Raider Games at the l a coliseum and stuff like that, because at the time my mom would make us go to church or something like that and we would have to tape it. That way we could come home and see what happened and there wasn't social media ruining the

score for us. Yeah, exactly. It's very difficult, if you're plugged in, to not find out the score, even by accident. You might not be trying to get the score, but you'll see it somewhere, whether it's on your phone or you'll be driving and it'll pop up somewhere and it does ruin the experience and I will not watch a sporting event if I know who already won. What's the point? I'm right there with you on that. I got mail, yeah,

I got mail. Yea, Carlos from Bang Bang Houston says hey, Ben, I was wondering if I can get a birthday shout out. It's on the the twenty seconds, so it was earlier this week. I know you don't do birthday shoutouts on the radio, but it's a podcast. What are the rules, Danny? Do we are we allowed to do birthday shoutouts on the podcast? I thought I was more of a a one on one thing where you know, you know radio part. This is broadcasting still, right, podcast. I think they need

to pay you for one of those. Uh, be a cameo. You can do a cameo for you if you want and uh, but anyway, Carlos said, yeah, you've lived a tough life. Your heroes, the s strows, ruining all of Houston Sports, tarnished because of the cheating scandal. But you seem like a good guy and you're a fan of the show and I wish I could give your birthday shout out, but I can he also says, what's the most memorable and worst birthdays you guys have ever had?

Keep up the great work. What we've talked about this in the past and I don't know, do we want to go back down that road. Danny, do you wanna? You want to share memories? But I will say really quick on my twenty one birthday, instead of it being some amazing blowout, I went and there was this girl I was dating at the time time and she was dead tired because of her work schedule. Her roommate could not wake her up. She was dead to the world.

So I sat in the living room. A couple of the roommates gave me a bear to pop open and I sat there on the couch watching a TV show. What a wonderful memory, great twenty first birthday, but you were you weren't totally alone. There were other people there. There were other people and she felt bad when she woke up. So she's like, Oh, I'm gonna make it up to you tomorrow. I'm so sorry about my schedule, but my actual twenty first birthday sucked because of her. Wow,

all right. Next up, as we continue further and further than the mid back now if you want to be part of the mailback. Some weeks we get a ton of mails, some weeks we don't get that many. It's really a hit and miss. But if you would like to be part of it, we can't guarantee we're gonna use your question on the air, but I can guarantee we won't use it if you don't send it. So send it care of real fifth our real fifth out the email we use for this podcast. Real fifth hour

at email dot com. Spell it all out. No numbers. Real fifth hour at GMAIL DOT com. And I post on usually Tuesdays, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, requesting questions. So there's a couple of different ways you can do it. You can post it online or email it privately and we may use your question on the air. You've got mail Chris and Marracca to Iowa. He sent an email and he says Ben, I'm putting at Ben

in Dannergy. I'm putting a resonant lot up for sale after my wife and I decided we don't want to build on the land anymore. And Uh, and Chris says I have I have it listed in facebook marketplace right now. Did you use a realtor when you sold the Mallard Mansion, and do you have any other advice for me trying to sell it myself? To have some some sweet dough? Uh. He also says ps go raiders. That cardinal game hurt bad. So, Chris,

first of all, we use a realtor. You can do it without a realtor, although I don't know much about facebook marketplace and I'm not sure what the real estate market is in that platform. And so my advice, if you really want to go cheap and you really wanna you want to go by the by the cheapest route possible. What I would do, since apparently there's no property, it's just land, but there's still a lot of legal bullshit

you gotta fill out. So my advice would be too pay a small amount by the hour to a realtor rather than giving them a commission, a flat commission on land. You could probably find somebody that would do it for a nominal amount of money where they have to do

the paperwork. Had A buddy of mine I worked with in Radio, he actually became a realtor and he's one of the most successful realtors in the San Fernando Valley here in L A and it always blew me away because I was like, you guys, it's a radio guy and he doesn't really know a lot about the numbers

and all that. And he told me he hired uh, this assistant, this woman who's really good with the numbers, and he hired this guy that helps him out with the paperwork, and so he doesn't do any of the bullcrap. He just has to worry about making the deal, and so there are ways you can do that. I would advise that Chris any tips Danny G on real estate dealings for Chris and Marraccata Iowa who wants to save a couple of shekels. Be careful, watch out for squatters.

My mom and Stepdad had a piece of property in Montana for years. It had nothing built on it. When they finally went to check out the land, you know, it was a while they hadn't been there. There was somebody squatting and living on the land and it turned up to be a nightmare to get the squatter off the property. Yeah, we've heard that it's it's it's certain states. I don't know what it's. Obviously Montana you're talking about. I don't California. It's it's like the squatter has more

rights than the people that actually own the property. It's really messed up how they do that, but good luck to you, Chris. I would attempt to get on the real estate websites. That's uh, that's the way to go on and make sure you forward us that address. I'm gonna bring my tent over there for vacation. Yeah, Danny G'S gonna have his hunting moon right there in Iowa

and Marracca, Iowa. Come back. It's time from now. I'll call Mike from fullerton rights and he says, following up on an answer from last week, you are right not to read the really offensive land jokes on the fifth hour. The Guy who was chosen to host jeopardy after Alex Trebek passed away was quickly fired, Mike points out, after people dug up old comments he made on a podcast.

And as much as I like the fifth hour, if you ever read a joke that personally offended me, I still wouldn't think twice before starting an online petition to shut your podcast down, Mike. Mike says. Now to my question. How many people have each of you gotten canceled? If none. Who would you like to cancel in the future? So I'll go first. I have not really gotten anyone canceled, although I did get an NBA player find a game check of over sixty thousand dollars because of my website,

Ben Mallard Dot Com. Years ago. I've told the story a few times on the PODCAST, on the radio show. There was a basketball player named Matrell Sprewell. Pretty good player, very angry player. He's most known for choking his coach when he played for the Golden State Warriors, but he was on the Minnesota Timberwolves. They were playing the clippers. It was on a Saturday night and the fans were

heckling latrell spree. Well, there was one woman that was heckling latreill and La Trail decided to scream out when the crowd was quiet and explain what the woman could do to Latrell. It involved kneepads and a tongue bath and needless to say, uh, that that did not go over well. It got picked up on the live television broadcast and, uh, let's just say, somebody I know, who may or may not have been working on the broadcast,

let me know about it. I wrote a story about it on my website and uh, the N B A was there were fans of my website. They read about it on my website and ended up finding it. They originally suspended him for a game. Latrell spree well and they ended up taking the suspension away, but they find him a game check because of that and it would not have happened. It would not have happened without that story.

The other part of that which was great, I had a buddy of mine who was an NBA executive for for a team and I explained the situation and he told me, because this happened on a Saturday, he said, Ben, nothing's gonna Happen on Sunday. Nothing ever happens in the NBA, the NFL or Major League baseball on Saturday or Sunday. All the executives go out to Long Island, they go out to the Hampton's, they go upstate, they go downstate, but they're not at the office. And he's right. Nothing

happens on the weekends. All these decisions are Monday through Friday. The League offices shut down in the NBA on it was a Monday evening. They announced the punishment for Spreedwell, Danny, have you gotten anyone canceled or would you like to get someone canceled? I have never gotten anybody canceled. Not your style. I can write a kid yellow detention for him, but even that was hard. Yeah, alright, so, yeah, you punished the kids. Yeah, kids have to explain to their parents. Well,

you Gott what did you do? Shame on you. I'm smiling and having fun there at the school way more than I'm writing tickets. I got mail, yea, I got mail. Yea. Oh, we sailor to George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, Vancouver, British Columbia. Ever been to John Cole? That's right, Vancouver is beautiful. I've never been there, but I've seen lots of photos and videos and looks like an amazing place. Van. I would love to go there as well. Yeah, I

would like to get there. He says he's been listening for five plus years. George, you guys are the best, as you know, George, the best means as good as all the rest of all, except that, as a compliment, I would say a Good Friday guest for the fifth hour would be sean the Hood Guy. He is a beauty, George says. Well, I'm a fan of Sean the Hood

Guy as well. I'm bummed out we didn't get to meet him at that Mallard meet and reet, but hopefully next year when we do another one in L A, in the L A area, we'll be able to meet Sean the Hood Guy, says. This past Sunday into Monday, the First Hour Baltimore Crows. Maybe that's why they didn't cut the check. Beautiful, he says. I love it when you bust looney's, Arnie's and Jonas balls. Signed George, go hard on a guy in Van coouver. Well, George, thank

you for listening. Five years, where does the time go? Goes by pretty quick and I still attack Looney, even though he does not work for the company anymore. And I am still fascinated the fact that Arnie, Arnie Spanier, a veteran talk to your host, is afraid of the Mallard militia. That fascinates me about Arnie. Uh and Jonas, now a big morning host. Love, love goofing on Jonas and it's good to see him now that I'm back

in studio. Half the time I see Jonas half the week and I see him and Lavar Arrington and those guys, and so it's nice to see them as we are ships passing in the middle of the night literally. Why don't we do one more and uh, I know you have places going, things to do, Danny G. is that accurate? Is that correct? Would that be fair? Yeah, it's another day at the studios today. Alright. So last one, nick in Wisconsin. Right, so he says Benn and Danny G.

So let's play start, bench cut food edition. I actually like this. I say this as my closer, because this is a version of F Mary kill, the food version, and this is a good, good deal by Nick. Good job by you, nick. I give you a gold star next to your name. Thumbs up. So Nick in wisconsins is Benn and Dang. Let's play start, bench cut food edition. China, these Mexican and Italian food. You make the call. What

do you do? All right, start means you get that food whenever, bench means you get it only sometimes, and cut means you can never consume the food again. Holy Cannoli. Alright, so this is very difficult. These are tremendous food groups, cultural food groups, Chinese food, Mexican food and Italian food. But I have decided in this game of start bench and cut my starter, Viva Mexico. I'm going with the Mexican food. That is my starter. I love Mexican food.

A very lucky to live in California, which is really just like northern Mexico, uh, and they have a tremendous Mexican food here. So somebody talented cooks and chefs and whatnot, and restaurants and just wonderful. So I go and this you can eat tacos one day, burritos the next. There's so many different options with the Mexican food, Spicy and get mild. So I'm going to Mexican food now the

number two. See that this is where it gets really hard, because you can never eat one of these foods again, Damn. But I'm gonna put it. I'M gonna put Italian as my as my bench, and Italian is gonna be my my bench, and that means I'm gonna say bye bye to Chinese food. And I love the Chinese food, but I gotta say goodbye to it. And the reason I'm gonna say goodbye to it, Danny, is because when I eat Chinese food, it often does not fill me up, and so when I eat a hearty Italian meal or

a nice big Mexican meal, I feel full. Uh. And and also, I go to a Mexican restaurant, free chips. I go to an Italian restaurant, they've got bread on the table and if they don't, I walk out. I go to a Chinese restaurant. What do they have on the table? Nothing, they got like soy sauce or something like that. So I'm taking the Mexican food as my ace, I'm taking the Italian as my closer, occasional closer, and then I say bye bye to the Chinese food. What

about you, Danny? Play the game now. What a great game this is. Start Bench or cut Italian, Mexican Chinese food? Wow, great question. This is a tough one and I like that we have different lineups here. I'M gonna have to start Chinese food. Yeah, and the reason why is because panda express is in our rotation almost every week. But is that actually really Chinese food? Americanized Chinese food, American Chinese food, but I think it's still counts because also

we love Thai in Japanese. I would include that in that category. But but I would like, uh, some good Sushi Rolls, good Japanese restaurant, a good Thai restaurant. That's gotta be in the mix. Mexican food, I would just bench for a little while. Taco night at our Casa is one of the best nights there is. I can't imagine living without that. And I hate to kill my heritage, my Siciliano heritage. You can't, you you have relatives turning over in their grave. Danny, you can't do this. But

here's the thing. I've eaten enough Italian food to last two lifetimes. So I've already had my fill of its, starting from when grandma g used to make the pasta from scratch and the bread from scratch and have get togethers every Sunday. Oh the smell insider kitchen ben I mean I saw relatives I hadn't seen in weeks and they would come over just for the food. Dating back to when I was a little kid, I've had real Italian food. So I think because of that I could

kill it and maybe not killed myself. She died of a heart attack, unfortunately, and you know why. She had Marinara sauce in her vein. You got rid of the blood with the BARONET. Well, that's a fair point. You have eating a lot of Italian food, but you think of the diversity the Italian lineup, with the Raviolie, the different pastas, the beef dishes. I mean you can go any direction with that. What's your go to? It at Panda Express? What's your go to? Because I was an

orange chicken guy with Beijing beef. That was my ya. I love that Beijing beef as well. I like the chicken and green beans, the good one, and I love the orange chicken, like a lot of people. But the key, Danny, as you know, is you gotta make sure it's fresh. You don't want to go when it's like the last couple of pieces of orange chicken it's sitting around, it get soggy. Who wants that? No veteran move. You tell them all wait until you bring out another hot dish. Yeah,

that's the way to do it. And John Real quick says, do you ever think Kyler Murray is just waiting for the moment to kick your ass for what you say? I'm not not too worried about Kyler and even if he tried to kick my ass. I don't think you could reach my ass uh, and and he doesn't even know about me because I'm not on twitch and I'm not playing video games. So I don't think Kyler even knows who I am. So I think we're good on that, although I understand he does go on twitter. It's probably

seen some of those videos. All right, we'll get out on that, Danny G. Sunday, Sunday. I know I'll be back after all these NFL Games, after that Sunday night forty nine or Bronco game, back in the radio studio. What do you have going on today? How can people follow you? Danny g? This is where I always say I'm gonna go in for the very fun Covino and rich show. This is gonna be the last Sunday Covino

and rich show, so that's gonna be awesome. Of course, the new weekday show for them starts tomorrow on Monday at two PM west coast time, and Rich Fox foot all Sunday. That should be a cool show because they're going to direct their regular audience to their new Monday program and then right after that to lead into your first show of the week, which is Chris Plankett, Arnie Spaniard, awesome and and I'll be back, as if we said

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