The Fifth Hour: "Fathers Need More Shine" Mail Bag

a holiday weekend. It is a holiday weekend. Just this counts as a holiday weekend, right, Danny? It does. But Father's Day gets no shine the way Mother's Day gets. It's like kind of half forgotten. A lot of dad just get overlooked. I think, yeah, well, moms are more important. That true, very true. I love my mom more. I love my dad too, but I love my mom more. See what I'm saying exactly. But but anyway, so listen the deal on this. It's the mail bag. You know

how this works. And it's also this is June teenth, right? Is this today? Is that? I think that's today? Right? Yeah? I think that is yes. Is that federal holiday radio is like seven elevens were always open exactly. That's what I always say. I don't know holiday smaalilay, I don't know any holiday. Come on, man, I'm working and those holidays. As you know, Danny doing the holiday doing the holiday stuff. There's new people to tune in right as you can

give an audience there, you create new fans that way. Boy. It was a phenomenon during COVID when it first started and the lockdown happened. Oh god, radio is gonna go out of business. Instead, all of the ratings doubled. Yeah. That is one of the more fascinating things in my life and and your life as well. Doing sports talk radio without sports, doing sports talk radio for oh a half a year, well, I guess it was a third of a year. Uh. We went a hundred and thirty

four days without any lives sports. The industrial complex of sports shutdown in America. I remember that. I'm March eleventh. We were all remember that March eleventh. They played some NBA and NHL games and then that was a Wednesday, and then they didn't play again, no sports until Thursday, July. Yeah. Keeping in our business talk show host complain when there's no games around the baseball All Star break. What am

I gonna talk about? I don't know what I'm gonna talk about, so just put a socket us socking it. But without further let's get right to the mail bag. Here we go, strike up the band. Here it is thanks to our guy Ohio all yet again sending in that amazing tune. Good job by you, so mail bag. These are actual listener questions by listeners just like yourself. We took time out of their busy schedules to send questions in, and you too can send a question and

care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Spell it all out with letters, not numbers, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Or you can wait for Tuesday, sometimes Monday, but usually Tuesday. On the show Facebook page Ben Maller Show, I will post a link for you to fill up the mail bag and you can provide content. We have a lot of regulars, but we always love new names and people can tell their story and learning about new fans of the show. So I'd love to

have you part of the program. So with that said, we begin with this first email from Mason the Millennial in the Bay Area. He says, I was just riding in because I really enjoyed your trip to Chicago conversation with Danny G. I will be traveling there this weekend, and in fact i'm here right now. By the time that this podcast, the Sunday podcast gets released, I will re listen to the podcast of you talking about it. But what was some hidden jams perhaps we could check

out in the downtown area on our last day. I figure the Willis Tower and the Bean Thing. Love the podcast from Mason. Well, I recommend Mason, since you're a tourist and you're doing the tourist things in Chicago. They have a great architectural boat tour. There's a couple of different companies that do it, and they take you right down the Chicago River and you can see all the beautiful architecture in Chicago's one of the great visual cities in America. To you know, for our blind listeners just

imagine some really big skyscrapers. Is beautiful and it's it's really neat, uh. And so it takes you down. They tell you the history of Chicago, what's happened there, some of the old buildings, and I learned some interesting fun facts on that I enjoyed a lot. I don't know if you're into that kind of thing. Mason, I did not go to the We don't call up the Willis Tower, the Sears Tower. Did not do that. Did go to the Bean. And if you want Mason, about a block

away from the Bean is the Mallard Building. It's about a block away from the famous Bean in Chicago. And they have like a tourist there that you can go down a soldier field and check that out. It looks like a spaceship these days. I did goof on Wrigley Field because it's all corporate now, but if you've never been there, it's pretty pretty neat to walk around and think that that team has played on that field for a hundred years or something like that. At so and

even in Chicago, Danny any Chicago, No, No, Chicago. No, it's one of the great cities. I haven't got to visit. I've been there on a layover quick airplane. It wasn't quick, but it was an airplane change. But other than that, I haven't got to go as a tourist all right. And and by the way, Masson, if you want to visit my cousin. She lives in the kind of a North Burbs outside Chicago, so you can come over there

and eat a brisket or something like that. You have a grand old time, right, what what could possibly possibly go wrong with that? But now Chicago, I think the crime is obviously an issue in Chicago, but that's an issue in a lot of places. And I was there not that long ago, and I survived to tell about it. So he's gotta like anywhere any big city, you gotta be careful and try to avoid certain parts. Uh. You know, south side is not particularly great in Chicago, for example,

but you gotta picture spot. Maybe while you were there, you heard some stories about the history of the city, like San Francisco that was the early nineteen hundreds where they had to rebuild after the great earthquake there in Chicago. My dad was born there, so remember him and telling me a story about the late eighteen hundreds where a fire ran through Chicago for a day and left like a third of the city homeless. They had to rebuild the whole city the great fire. Mrs o'larry's cow that

it was from a farm. Yeah, yeah, Well, of those days, the Chicago is not. It wasn't a big city. It was a farm, you know, farming area. Yeah, they said that that story is bullshit about the cow. They said that on the boat tour. I remember I told us on the podcast that Chicago actually the name, the Indian name for Chicago is like smelly onion is what Chicago means,

which I think is hilarious. And they talked about on that boat tour if Mason the Millennial takes the boat tour, they talked about the fact they called it the I'm talking trying to trying to remember the term here that

they used, the balconation of Chicago. They called it the balconation of Chicago because they had all these old buildings with no balconies, a lot of these old warehouses, and they turned them into these marvelous apartment buildings, but in order to guss them up a little bit, they put these balconies. They just hung the balconies, these metal balconies, off the side of the buildings in Chicago. So they called it the Balkanization of Chicago, which I thought was interesting. Yeah.

Next up, Blind Scott in Boston, the North End of Boston, says Ben, are you worried about the wild fires this summer at your new home in the North Woods. Well, you're always cognizant. You're always cognizant of the wildfires. But am I worried? No, I'm not. I'm not worried, mainly because about uh many many other houses would have to burn to get to my house to burn. So, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. There have been fires where I'm living now, and this is an issue. But really,

fire seasons year round in California. It's not just during the summer. Right. People usually think, well July August is the big fire season, but it's year round. Now, have they gotten rid of the shrub around your guys homes in your area? Oh? No, Now we got cactus. Remember we talked about it. We probably plenty cactus. So you gotta burn through the cactus, is what you gotta do. So I did say your wife has a black thumb. Yes that is true. Yes, alright, come back, pay attention.

It's sign from now call balls fan Jimmy rites in from big Orange Country. He says, for both of you, with the cost of living so high in California, if you could move, where would it be? We can ask this question semi regularly balls fan Jimmy, and is there anywhere that she Wisconsin, North Carolina places I went where a lot of cheap Chicago was not, but as she

was compared to California l A. I don't know. I had opportunities to do radio in Boston, but that seems like it's just as expensive as l A. If I was just going based on cost of living, I would likely go below the Mason Dixon line, somewhere in the South. I would think, I'm not sure where, somewhere in Florida. What about you, Danny, where would you go if you wanted to save a couple of nickels? I mean, I

guess I would go somewhere near Sodona in Arizona. Maybe that area was was pretty like Flagstaff because it's more like mountains and forests. It's not desert. Uh huh, you're right. I mean I will go to Hawaii. It's not it's not it's cheap. That's expensive. But if I was gonna pay the same thing i'm paying now or close to it, I'd rather be there. In Maui, there are not a lot of affordable places, and I'm a West Coast guy like you. So yeah, yeah, yeah. The other thing too,

is I've heard this has been a thing. We talked about this sending on the show that a number of people are moving to Tijuana from l a in San Diego, moving to Tijuana, moving to Mexico save money. The pace so goes the dollar to the pace, so it goes a long way. In Mexico, you can live like a king there. We have a janitor who's retired and he comes to the campus to visit sometimes. He lives half the time in Mexico, and he tells these big stories

about how he's living like a king in Mexico. Yeah, like he's got all these girlfriends and he's got this big mansion. And I mean, and here in the United States he makes average money, or he did make average money, but in Mexico he is royalty. Yeah. And I know if I was from Mexico, I come to come to the States. He worked for a few years and it's hard labor, and then you can end up owning a bunch of apartment buildings in Mexico and you're geez, you're

not kidding. He went on to tell us that he just bought his daughter a condo down there, talk about stretching your dollars and we have no idea what that's like here where we live. No, no, but we couldn't own anything in Mexico, right because we're not from Mexico. The even though you buy stuff there as an American. Yeah, you're renting the land basically. Yeah. Yeah, so you don't really get to own owning of that stuff. But a

good question from Balls fan Jimmy. All right, Next up Big Ben and Danny ge Neil from the Real Miami Here. The beef between the retired couple and the fake Miami Palm Bay, Uh, Miami Palm Bay and Queen of Gascon team started when for some reason, the retirees dug up some private info and on Gascon's family, specifically his sister, and we're not nice about it to Gascon and David. She called her the count and then it was on like donkey Kong, Neil says, So, I guess that sounds

about right. On the Origin stories topic, Ben, what was your impetus for the fasting? Did you hear the Joe Rogan podcast or something? I don't recall you talking in detail on when, why, how you got started on fasting guy was not because of Joe Rogan. I don't remember exactly what led me down this pad. I think my

wife had something to do with it. She had mentioned that some people were doing this at her work, and and even before I was officially fasting with an app on my phone, when I did lose a lot of the weight originally and I gained some back, and I've lost it again, I was doing it. I was intermittent fast againning. I was trying to go because there's there's a couple of there's million million different ways to diet. A lot of people eat like birds. I don't want

to eat like a bird. So I was like, if I eat once a day, I can eat a good meal, and then if I just don't think about it, I can then look forward to my next big meal. And then I read some stuff online. My wife had mentioned some stuff, and I read some stuff online about how for hundreds and thousands of years before the mass grocery stores and things that we have, and this this time to be alive, that people who had to go out and hunt for their food often didn't find anything, that

their percentage of success was like less than twenty. They'd go out hunting for something to eat, and they wouldn't always find something, and so a lot of the time they would just have to fast. They wouldn't have the proper food. They've beaten twigs and berries and things like that. So so that was like, Okay, that makes sense, and I fell in love with it. And then Neil says, for Danny g I may have missed this, but how, when and why why did you start the school gig

in general? So he wants to know your teaching move. Yeah, it's something that I started with. Fifteen years ago, I walked away from a program director job at a big radio station. I just had kind of had it with the corporate way they were running. They were starting to run things. There was a change in upper management and I was like, yeah, I think I'm done with this for right now and started working out of school. Once you have the radio bug, they always say this about broadcasters.

Even when you take a break, that's all it is. It's a break, You're gonna go back. I started working for NBC Sports Radio Friday Saturday Sunday, and I was on the school campus Monday through Friday. So I was working seven day weeks for four or five years, and then when Fox hired me full time to do your show and the Jason Smith Show. Originally I was able to drop the school gig and go back to broadcasting full time time. When the company moved Clay Travis to

Rush Limbaugh's chair, suddenly my week was open again. They're like, hey, give you a good salary whatever, just to do some three day a week stuff for the company. So I had days open during the week, and I'm like, well, let me go fill it with the education field work a kid. There you go, and the rest is history. Now he's the coolest summer school teacher around. Every kid loves him. He's a hero. You're an inspiration. Everyone wants to follow in your footsteps. Uh for that fatass, miss Norton.

That's right, that Karen. All right, let's see here when we're get next up, some Kevin in Kansas is his dear Ben and Danny g You guys are pretty wise. What are some of the worst team names in any pro sport that teams? What teams need to change? You should have changed upon relocating. I believe it's what he's saying here. I know the Minnesota Lakers made perfect sense at one time, but Los Angeles. What would be better names instead of the one for those teams that never changed?

Kevin says, well, the l A River. This is something that the early settlers of Los Angeles totally left up Los Angeles. The l A River at one time was an actual river, and they enclosed it in concrete. There if they had done it differently, think about how much different, how much better I think l A would have been. They had an actual river running through Los Angeles and they filled it in with concrete. Terrible, really stupid, same dumb decision to take the trains and trolleys out of

the city back in the day. Oh that's right, Yeah, for the oil companies and all that they had public great public transportation was the envy supposedly of many many cities. You can learn more about that in Roger Rabbit. If you want to learn more about that in the movie Roger Rabbit. It's a documentary on the the evil oil companies. We could say the same thing for your Clippers, right, they were the San Diego Clippers. What is still wrong

with the Clippers? Well, I think about bad team names Charlotte has had, but the Bobcats, the Hornets, Yeah, the Hornets is kind of cool, like goofy teal logo, you get that. The one that always people bring up the Utah Jazz when you think of jazz, when you think of authentic jazz, you think as Salt Lake City. Unless you don't, that team could be called the Utah Salt the Zions saying, any of you can come up with

a local name. I'm a big advocate of locally. The one that's really lame is the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Of the Vegas Golden Knights and the NHL so paranoid they to stick up there took us. They would not allow any gambling theme nicknames. You're in Vegas. Think of all the different possibilities for a team in Vegas with a gambling theme name. The Blackjacks, the Ones, the One Armed Bandits, any of those things would have been a great nickname, But no. Golden Knights. Come on. The Devil

Rays also stunk from the start. Yeah that was that was never good. But there could have been a way better nickname for that team from the beginning. But Raise is stupid too. It's like a pizza place in Manhattan. Let's go to Raise and have a pie. Is what it sounds like to me, is a dumb name. I don't like Marlins either. They I think they whipped on both baseball teams there. But at least the Miami Marlins flows. It flows off the toll. But it didn't start as

the Miami Marlins. No, it was a Florida Marlins. For many many years it was the Florida Marlins. Um. And then let me think about teams. Now, would you ever name a team after like a sock, like the Red Sox and the White Side? Like? Who thought that was the way to go? Who said, you know what, we got a baseball team here and we don't know what to call them, so they're wearing white sox, so we'll call them the White Sox. The that went into that

fascinating to me. Yeah, the same with our Dodgers. I mean, ain't nobody dodging trolleys nowadays? No, No, it's it's absolutely correct. And l A King's that's the original. I was a team in l A the hockey team. But there's other teams named the King's. I I'm a big believer in having your own name. I don't like the teams that share the names. I had never the New York Giants the San Francisco Jans. I know why they did it because they were both in New York, but I like unique.

And what did you think of Washington's choice, Oh, the the Commanders of the Nationals. I hate both those names, and I actually hate every nickname of a Washington, d C. Sports franchise. They had the Washington Bullets. I know you can't use that name, but that was like that that was a cool name. That was a cool logo. Yes it was. And you know, I'm doing nostalgia, but when I was a kid, one of the first NBA games I went to the it was actually a Laker game.

They were playing the Washington Bullets, and I kept that ticket stub for a long time. I had a ticket stub and I was like, the coolest thing. I know, the Bullets logo, and it's like, oh, that's pretty neat. And then they of course get rid of that, and uh yeah, it's like the name that was great. That moved to Dallas. The north Stars and hockey perfect Minnesota north Star they go to Dowas now they're just the Stars. We're getting carried away on this, but a good question.

Kevin and Kansas. We can go on and on and on and on and on with that. For sure, You've got mail Mike from Fullerton Rights, and he says, I have a similar question for both of the ben Have you ever quickly hung up on a caller for having a very annoying voice? And for Danny g Wall screening calls, have you ever hung up on people for the same reason or do you write something down to warned the host about the caller's voice. So I'll go first on this, Mike uh No. I generally speaking, if I hear an

odd voice, I get excited. I think this is gonna be good. This is something again unique. I go back to the word unique, and that draws me to that particular person, and I want to hear their story. So I take the opposite nas I when I hear a really goofy sounding caller, I think this has a tremendous amountability to be good radio and I want to learn more about how this person, assuming they're not doing a fake voice and it's just a real voice. Hey man,

you might not notice, but I'm black. Yeah, I want it. Now? What about you, Danny? What? What what's your technique there? Yeah? I mean producing your show, and your show is super busy. You're spinning eight plates at once, so there's no time to sit there and type, Hey Ben, this dude's got a strange voice, and I would lean more like what you're saying. If it is a voice that really stands out, then that's really good for a radio show. Because you

don't want all the voices to sound similar. No you don't, you know, and all the guys to be Hello, it's Tim, It's Trim from Manhattan. No, you don't want that. You want a drag queen. You want a guy named Cowboy and windsor right, you need that. You need a hollering James in Minnesota. You gotta spice it up a little bit. You gotta keep it, keep it fresh, is what you have to do. And I like really good laughs too, people that have contagious laughs. That's one good thing about

your show. Like when you get Eddie to laugh, his laugh is very contagious. So that's one thing I listened for, or notice I should say when I'm on the phone screening, I'll talk with somebody. We're laughing a little bit. I noticed people that have good radio laughs. Absolutely, all right, let's see I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea. Very in music, he says, Yo yo mo, Benny, very right. You really wanted to have Ron pope Peel on the

Fifth Hour podcast. Now that you have a lengthy list of star studded guest that you've had on your podcast, do you think that Ron would accept your invite if he were alive? Uh? Sure, why not? Yeah, that's the famous story. Now, Ron Popeil was the guy that I wanted to get on the podcast. If you're new to the show, Ron Popeel was the set in and forget it guy, the rotisserie chicken guy, the whole thing infomercial

god and I I'm friends. I was friends with Ron Popeel on Facebook, which I didn't realize was just everyone was friends with Ron Popeil on Facebook. So I sent a message to the account. I said, listen, I do a radio show. I'm a big fan. I am a big fan of Ron Popeel and I really like to talk to him, and you know, why not let's give it a shot and have on the podcast. So the PR person for rom pope You rights back and says, uh, oh, yeah,

you know, tell me more about the podcast. We would love to get you on the infomercial legend and all that, I said it and forget it. Uh, And so I right back and she's like, well, when can you record the podcast? And so I wrote back, as well, I can record it this time on this day, blah blah blah blah blah, and it. She gets back to me one more time. She said, well, run one run, thinking about doing it, but he wants to know. He asked who you've had on the podcast? Who? So I'm like,

here we go. Yeah, it's no longer said it and forget it. It's said it, and let's circle back to that. But wait, there's more. As they say as that was his line, I think that was his line. But wait, there's more. So I know I right. I said, Well, we had Lenny Dike Straw on the Drug Addict from the Mets back in the day. We had him on, uh, and we you know, we had this guy, that guy with Tony Bruno was on. And and so this guy

think he is Brian Billick. Yeah, I think he thought he was going on the Tonight Show or something like oh yeah exactly. So anyway, the guy, you know, the woman's like, well, it's unfortunately spending time with his grandkids. He can't he's no longer interested in doing your podcast. And then he he died shortly after that, So I guess it's good he spent time with his grandkids and

not doing the podcast. But but anyway, Uh yeah, I think he I think once he heard Vernon Davison boy that but that was the lid lifter that pushed it over the top right there. Do you think Brian Billick is ever gonna call me back? Brian Billy, Brian Billick? Uh yeah, the NFL draft in't get back to you, all right. Yeah. Well the good thing about Bill because you ask him one question, he'll just give you twenty minutes.

So that's the thing about that. Barry says, have you have either there been any other guests that you wanted to have on but we're unavailable because of death or illness? Well? Sure, I got through my phone and I have a bunch of phone numbers from people, you know, a b cless celebrities that I've met over the years that I got their number, and a lot of them are dead, like Larry King, the CNN host. I have five phone numbers for Larry King not available, Uh to do the interview?

Not available to the interview go through? You want dead dead celebrities in my phone for a thousand? You want to do that? Let's see here, Tommy, I have Tommy Losorta's cell phone. I do have Tommy the Sorta's number in my phone. Let's see who else? Do I have? Page down? Page down? Some of these people? I am not sure if they're dead or alive, so I don't want to see their name, because then that's the worst when you say someone's dead and they're not dead, and

then you get crap thrown back at you. Let's see here, those are the big ones. Um scrolling through the phone. This is compelling podcasting. Billy Martin, do not have Billy Martin's number. Let's see here. I can't read that. Uh bucket. I wish i'd be a good one to get. No. Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay's number of his number not available. He checked out to have Genie and Medford's number. Genie, I got it all over me. Uh, I have jet Field George's number. I don't know why I have that number.

He called the show for a while, he disappeared again. I think he started stooping his maid or something like that. I don't know. He told some wild story. Oh oh, here's one that's said Darrell Hamilton. Remember Darrell Hamilton's baseball player. He was a ballplayer for the Brewers. He was murdered. I did TV with him at NBC and he was murdered by his lady friend. We turned out not to be his lady friend because she murdered got a murder. Uh, let's see who else do we have. Let's see Page

Dan here. Oh, my guy, Rodney, Rodney Hunt, the great TV camera man in l A. He died. I have his number. That's my trip. I never taken his number out of the phone. See who else we have? Page Dan? Page Dan, the big cod piece in there? Oh? I have Frank Pollock. Yeah, absolutely have Frank Pollock in here. Frank will be in my phone till I die, and then someone will delete the phone and then they'll disappear

it all vantage. See who else do we have? That's a that's a. There's a few others, but it's taking a dark turn here. Yeah, all right, I've Phil I Phil Henry's number. Should we have fill on the show? Do you want to get filled on it? It would be cool. How if you do it, it's a radio legend. It's a Hall of Famer, right there, Philip George. I'd love to get George knowing I would. I wonder if you do it, I'll send an email. Yeah, see, if you do it, it'd be fun. What is next? Cliff

from Nashville? Right, so, he says, been and Danny g Two weeks ago, Danny talked about how to check a watermelon for ripeness. Oh yeah, thumping is fine, Cliff says, looking for the brown spider veins suggests sweetness. Yeah, okay, I says. The best indication of ripened melon is by placing a broom straw on the watermelon. If it spins by it, you can thank me later. Would say what

he said. If you place a broom straw, all right, so you take a piece of your broom you put it on the watermelon, and if it spins by it, Why would I have a broom straw with me? Because you want a nice, delicious watermelon. That's why you would remember to put that in your pocket before you go to the groceries store, before you go to Costco or Walmart or whatever your store of choices. You gotta get

a little broomstraw. That must be a Southern thing. Cliff must have learned that that's like an old family thing. Either that or he's just bullshiting us and this is all scam and he just wants to punk us. You have a good laugh. Imagine us spinning something on a watermelon exactly. Van the one Legged Man or one legged Bama Man, This is a guy that has legs eating off by an alligator, has like bitten off by an alligator, and then his buddy killed the alligator and then they

ate it. It's a very masculine story. You don't get that story in Boston. You don't get that story in Seattle. You get that story in Alabama. Wait, though, if you eat the alligator that ate you, then you're eating yourself. Well no, they they they I guess the leg the way the way it worked, the way this works. So Van the one legged Bama Man, as I remember the story he told, he ended up having his leg bitten

almost off by the alligate. So the alligator kind of spit it out after chewing for a while, so they then it was hanging on by a thread. They had to cut off the leg. Look a piece of humba babba. It's only good for a few seconds exactly. Yeah, it was like, I don't I know, I liked it, but I don't like it that much. I'm gonna spit it back. But by the I mean he done at all the ligaments were destroyed and so the leg had to be chopped off, and so then they ended up killing the

alligator and then they had the delicious alley. Anyway, he says, Coop wouldn't put me through on on aspects, So I want to do this right now. Did you know that Dan Patrick's real name is Dan Pew. Yes, yes, we we know that. I think I've heard that before. Yeah, well his brother, Dan Patrick's brother, Bill Pew, was one of my bosses in San Diego and in l A. Bill Pugh, Dan Patrick the family in the radio business. The Dan Pew or Patrick is family in the radio business.

And Van the one Legged Bama Man says, do you think the one Legged Bama Man can kick Dan Patrick's ass? I can answer this, uh for you? Hell yes, all right. So fans would like to to have physical violence with Dan Patrick, good luck on that. What did Dan Patrick due to him? I don't know. Nick in Wisconsin right saying, we gotta pick up the pace. You're playing a game. Oh boy, I'll let you go. I'll let you play this one. Danny, Who are you going to choose? F

Mary Kill Lizzoh, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi? Good luck. Yeah, you're not touching that one. The third raild, I wouldn't touch that one with your pole. Hello. Uh, well, you definitely wouldn't. I don't think you'd do the Well, I can't say, but there's two of those you probably wouldn't do. In the third one you might want to do. But that's about it, all right. Haji from Roanoke, Virginia rights in and says, how did you originally meet your wife? And was it love at first sight or was there

some runway time before you send it a tie? They're not so, Haji. I met my my wife online. I was don online dating at the time and Christian mingled Dot. Yes, of course, uh. And I was on a swinger's website. No, but she way out of my league, way out of my league. And everyone says that way out of the league. And so I showed up disheveled, covered in sweat, smelling like disgusting, you know, human being, and somehow it all worked out. But I where'd you guys go on your

first date? We went to Pasadena, were supposed to go to the movies, ended up going to a restaurant over there, and kind of walking around big shopping center in Pasadena and in Colorado Boulevard where the Rose Parade goes down, and so it was cool. So that's that's the way. I don't love it first. I think usually it doesn't that that's in those books love it first. I think usually what happens is, boy, that person is attractive. That's

you know what I'm saying. Right then, That's usually how that starts, right, It's more of that kind of thing. You're like, well, that's kind of there's a good looking person over there. Me and the tender rowning Man, we had sparks the first time she came over, got out her car and she was giggling. She couldn't look at me without giggling. And yeah, like from the time we got in and then she started making out with me, I was like, this is the one right here. Yeah, yeah,

and and and and it's a similar man. I On our first date, things went very well. Much better than I suspected, much better than I suspected. So, uh yeah, that was That was a good situation. Next up Eric and bingham to New York. Right, so and he says, Benn and dan Gy, I totally got the Crimson Tide reference to my question. I have seen the movie way too many times. Thank you for the answer. I am a comic book collector and seller as you can imagine. Eric says, I beat the ladies off with a stick.

I bet you do. My question for you guys is did you have a sacred collectible baseball card, comic book, etcetera. That you had as a child that you wish you kept it? Uh? He goes on to say that it it does. Let me see, I lost my place on this. He says, uh, see page down here. It does bow. But have to be based on value, doesn't have to be based on values what he said. I think there's a letter as far as money doesn't have to be like worth a lot of money, just worth something to you. Yeah,

from our guy. Eric and Binghamton says, you guys kick gas. He says he's listening. He listens on the radio on the radio show to fourteen thirty am W E n E one of the first FSR affiliates. I heard you mentioned them last week. Guess he launched Fox Sports Radio in the early days in Pittsburgh and Binghamton, New York. But I really think Binghamton was the first, the first affiliate, so Eric, I have pretty much my entire baseball card collection my mom had saved for me, and I don't

even know what to do it. There's so much stuff here. I don't know to It's the coolest collect people's I had were stuff I go to games and I got foul balls a couple of times. I mean those things were like that was like winning the lottery. Getting a baseball game, baseball and a ball game was like, oh my god, that was like the coolest thing in the world and all that. But I had a bunch of baseball cards. I love baseball cards. I have a massive collection.

The most valuable card I got was a Michael Jordan's Like it wasn't even his rookie card. It was like his second year Jordan card. But they didn't make a lot of basketball cards in those days, and that thing's worth a good amount of money. But I have fond memories of that what about you, Danny, any collectible that really stands out? A comic book, garbage failed kids? Oh I remember those? Yeah, I had those two. Yeah, we

were too broke for my mom to buy those. But yeah, people at school had him when I was a little Yeah, I mean you didn't get anybody. My mom thought that they were devilish too. They kind of were when you think about it, some of them were. But um, all my c d s and Cassette as a kid and Deejaying from a young age. I was able to save most of that music. I still have the one thing I didn't get to save, Like what you were just talking about, I wish I had my original baseball and

football and basketball cards. They did not make it with me to my adult life. Most of them I had to sell off to pay a bet on a Super Bowl when I was in high school and I bet on a super Bowl. I lost. I had to sell a lot of my baseball and football cards to get the money to pay off the bookie. And from that moment on, Ben, I have never gambled on sports again. It's a good life lesson. It really was. It really was a let's go quickly here. Pierre from Springfields has been.

I thought I heard you say you gotta girl. Yeah, we talked about it, we gave you credit. Pierre Slash, Alfhae, Alien Pinter And yesterday's show is it the outdoor Variety? And if so, does that mean that I could convince you to splurge for an outdoor wood or gas pizza oven. I just imagine the ugly sweater party was Chef Benny's garlic, onion and bell pepper pizzas flying out of the oven every two or three minutes. That is on my list. But I can only do one crazy thing a year,

so I'm gonna have to wait till next year. Pierre, I've got the griddle. I'm mastering the griddle. But we'll see what happens next year. Carlos in Houston, Texas Bang Bang says a long time, no talk. Ben. Like I said before, I'm always listening if I don't email the podcast anyway. My question for you guys is how did the sandstorm Fridays come about? Was this a Danny g idea or Ben Mallory idea? Also, what are the chances you get gascon on the podcast? Just to catch up?

And one last thing, I truly hate to see that your wish did didn't come true with the Astros being the dwellers of the division. But it's a long season. As you know, world series aren't one in June. Just keep up the Angels troll job. I get a kick out of it all. Yeah, well, no need to ask me to keep that up, Carlos, because the Angel PR staff made sure that I keep that up. But Sandstorm, that's all you, Danny. You had nothing to do with Sandstorm.

That's all your addition to the show. You added that to the show. Yeah, the radio stations I programmed throughout the years, I was always known for my Friday playlist festive Friday jams, and that one was great because I could even play drops from the show during that Sandstorm song. So that just became a classic on your show, and I passed it onto Roberto, who's kept it alive. Yeah, although you would play, you played many more sun drops.

I remember it plays a few, but Roberto, you know you, you would play like a bunch and mix them all and then that other song that you came up with that you found. I've had friends of mine that do radio shows around the country that have asked me, what is the name of that song, Lookout Weekend? Yes, yes, that is it. I'm sure there'll be people all on the podcast. What's the would give me more information? Lookout Weekend?

It's a It's a not a mainstream song, but perfect if you do a radio show going into a weekend. It's wonderful. Yeah, it was a freestyle artist from back in the eighties and nineties. Then we would always play that going into the weekend on my hip hop radio station. So I brought that to your show with me. Yeah, that's a that's a cool tune. I've had multiple people in radio who do shows at different places, morning shows like, Hey,

what's the name of that song? Alan and Akran says, did you file an insurance claim for your lost wedding ring? If you have, how how has it been working with the insurance? No, I did not. I didn't even know you could do that. Are you allowed to do that? Danny? Could you file? I didn't realize that was an option? Yeah, I think you can. Well. I did r J in San Antonio. What non California restaurant you enjoy the most?

Any deep dish Chicago pizza place? I don't go. I don't eat deep dish very often, but I love good deep dish. Chicago pizzas great. Any Chief Steak place in Philadelphia? Chris and marraccaa. Iowa right, so, and he says a few questions what we can't do all of them? Have you ever attended a high school reunion? And how did it go? I'm proud to say I've never been to any, and I don't want to. Yeah, because I've never been. I hated high school. I I only have a couple

of friends left from high school. I just it was very tough. I it was an awkward time. Everyone poked fun at me. I didn't do well in school. I was not a good student. I feel like I'm much better as an adult. Although you do radio, part of me wants to go back to goes ah see look at me now. But then people be like, were a radio guy? Who cares you doing overnights? So I've not been back. Have you been back to any to any high school reunions or anything like that? Yeah? One they

had me DJ the reunion. Okay, that's right, you told that story, right, Yeah, and it was good. I just kept my headphones on the whole time. Chris also says how far back can we hear episodes of the podcast? Right now? Only October? One would love to see an archive of all episodes? What say you? Well, I'm all for it. I don't control that content though, that's up for that's up for other people to determine. I don't

know when they decide. The point of demarcation is where you've crossed the rubicon on that uh, And so I'm not sure how that works. Fred also says a similar question from Chris. He says, what was your high school prom experience? Like? Good time or bad? Didn't go? So I had a great time? Uh? And Danny, you've you've talked about that too, right, you've I had somebody who asked me to go. She was really pretty. My mom

said no because it was all about drugs and fornication. Yes, and you said, mom, that's kind of what a life is like a bunch of hookers, and damn it. All right, we'll leave it on that note. So Jay Bone and UH and Steve and Mike and and all you know women this week it's all it's all dues. But that's fun. It's all that's fun. Uh. Anyway, So thank you all for sending your questions that we appreciate it. And again, if you want to send questions in next Sunday's mailbag,

send them right now. Don't have to wait. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour gmail dot com or on Tuesday the show Facebook page, Ben Mallard show, anything at all you want to promote here, Danny on a Sunday, I will be in the FSR studios for the very fun Covino and Rich show and then the lead into your show, which is Arnie Spaniard with Chris Plink outstanding, and then I will be back holiday or not, Father's Day or not. I will be back behind the

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