The Fifth Hour: "Letting It Rip" Mail Bag

air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny ge Radio available on demand everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and where you get your podcast, and we thank you well. That's really the only way the podcast can be heard is on demand. There's no other way to hear the parties. We don't stream it live. People have asked me, Danny, whether or not we would consider doing the podcast live

on Twitch. A lot of radio shows are also on Twitch, and I've told them I don't know that's a good idea because I don't think we get paid extra for it. B we have a lot of corporate people. We'd have to get get that through right. We couldn't just do that. We'd have to get that green lighted by somewhat at corporate, which is a pain in the paint in the behind. So yeah, plus all the famous Mallards show drops come

in post production. You pay me five hundred thousand dollars, I'll endorse a game magazine or it's kind of like George Norri said. And then we had George on the podcast, and George is, like I do radio. He doesn't want a camera in the Coast to coast studio. He wants to set the mood. I set the mood in the studio. Now. I do put a camera in for the monologues, but once the monologues are over, I turned the lights off and I turned the camera off, and it's just me

and the microphone. Because that's me and you, Danny, were old radio guys. That's how you do radio. Don't have a camera there. TV's a whole different world. I understand if we live in the era of internet streaming and all that stuff, But to me, doing radio the right way, you're not talking to a camera, You're talking to a microphone. It's a much different, organic experience. Yeah. The very first time they put the webcams in the broadcasting studios, I

remember it was so awkward. Because all these listeners were clamoring to see how exciting it was in the studio, and really it was just a couple of guys sitting around in there. We came up with clever ways to entertain the audience, but you're right, we're supposed to be doing that through content and our voices through audio, not dancing like chickens on an open flame. Generally not a good idea. So we are going to get to the mailbag. That is the main event. The mailbag is the main event.

But before we get to the mailbag, we did not have time for let's get scientifical. So let's get science. Go Danny a few science stories. There are some great science stories this week, and I was debating whether or not to do Let's get scientifical, and I was like, no, this is such a great week. Some weeks are a little slower than others. We've got to do this because these are hilarious stories and you might have missed some of these from the world of science this last week.

Did you see that scientists were able to grow mammoth flesh in a lab and they were able to make a prehistoric meat ball? Do you see it? Yeah? I think it's gonna be my new favorite tri tip. Think of the market for prehistoric meatballs when you go to the zoo and you can buy a prehistoric meat ball meatball. My favorite part of the story is so these scientists they grew this thing, and they're too scared to actually eat it. They're too scared in case the protein proves

to be deadly. So they're like, you know, I think we're good. I think they mixed and matched cells from these unconventional species to make the new meat from the mammoth and ten has been extinct for ten thousand years, this wild beast, the wooly mammoth. And they're like, no, we're good. You know what they should do. I bet you there's somebody out there that if they paid enough money, they would eat it, and you could make it like

a reality TV show. Oh, Cooper Loop would do it. Yeah, we's proven that he's eating stuff worse, worse, I should say, worse for you than a ten thousand year old mammoth flesh meat poll but I want to mount it. Well, here's good news if you're planning on living a long time. This actually relates to something we talked about in a previous episode of the podcast. The science community says now that we are not even close to reaching the maximum lifespan.

Human lifespans are capable of zooming, zooming past the record, the current record. You know how long the record is for living today in the in the world they recorded history of humanity. I'm gonna say, hundred and twenty seven. You're close, but you went over, so you do not win the showcase showdown. One hundred and twenty two years is the current record. Okay. They say that people reaching the age of one hundred and fifty will be very likely.

This according to researchers at the University of Georgia. He says we're not even close to reaching the maximum potential lifespan. Said. The findings are based on the analysis of mortality rates going back more than three centuries across nineteen countries, and they say for most of recorded to human history, the average life expectancy has been between twenty to forty years.

Today humans live around eighty years. And they say with improved nutrition, clean water, better sanitation, blah blah blah blah blah, medical science improvements experts suspect genetic manipulation calorie restriction could extend life to like one hundred and fifty they say, or so years and even past that. So here's the thing, though, Danny, would you allow them to mess with crap in your

brain if you were told you would live longer? But it's like those don't guarantee, But they could take certain things that are dying out of your brain and put things that will that are younger, that will live longer inside you, the genetic manipulation. Would you be down with that? I don't think so. Now it's just like the HBO show The Last of Us. Anytime there's brain surgery going on, you need to like check out of that hospital immediately before they take the saw to your skull. Yeah, that's

that's Frankenstein stuff. The oldest woman in all time in recorded history is Jane Clement of France. She lived to be one hundred and twenty two years and one hundred and sixty four days old when she finally died. The oldest known living person right now is a woman in Spain who is one hundred and sixteen. The oldest known living man is a guy named Juan Vincent Perez of Venezuela who's one hundred and thirteen. Women live longer than us. That, yeah,

get away from me. Remember that woman she lived to be one hundred and five and they asked her what her secret was. She said she had one doctor pepper every day. Yeah, makes sense to me. Yea, what's wrong with that? Oh, doctor's in the name of the product. Yeah, exactly. Hello, what do you what do you think they just put that in there for no reason? No, it's wrong with you. Let's see what else do we about. New research suggests that physical exercise has little mental benefit. So much for

the idea that that helps your mental health. New research says that is bullshit, that it does not help your mental health. That according to a story out in the science world. As we are getting scientifical on the podcast, and so that is the claim. I used to say that back in the day when I always at pe class. This is not going to help me. There's a no. No, you feel better if you know you run around? No, No, I'm good. Yeah, hasn't helped Andre Drummond. Hello, I saw that. Yeah,

he got changed his number and got rid of social media. Like, couldn't you do that without announcing to the world that you're doing it? You know what I mean? I guess it's easier a little bit easier to take time away from your team if people know what's going on for you. And nowadays bull are understanding about quote unquote mental health. When we were his age, people would have told us we were being a pussy. Yeah, and that is the bullet proof excuse, That is the silver bullet to get

out of any problem. Like Ben Simmons is a freaking disgrace for the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA. The guys in bezzling money out of the NBA. But he claims mental health issues, and so it's like, you know, we'll leave malone. You know, John Morant has a gun on camera. I need to take time away from my mental health. Well that's an all time top ten, I would say, top five bullshit story. The therapy job Morant got is listed on a medical quackery website, but nobody bothered to

read that part of the story. It's hilarious, It's absolutely hilarious. And the NBA media there's such such toadies for the NBA. They're sewing the bag. They didn't even bother to read the fine print. Hey told Stool I spent a couple of minutes digging around on this west. It's not it's this supposed ancient therapy, but it's from from Asia and it's it's said to be complete bullshit. But anyway, I think that's enough signs. I want to get to the mail bag. And I know we always run out of

time and all that stuff. So are you are you ready for the mail bag? Let's get it on Ohio Aw. It's I told Ohio Owl. He's pretty much producing everything about this party. Every every day there's something with Ohio Ow. There's a feature with Ohio Owl's music stylings in here. These are actual letters sent in by actual listeners to the mailbag. You can send a message in right now. You don't have to wait for me to post something

on the Facebook page, which is Ben Maller's show. You can send a question in courtesy of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's spelled that out, no numbers, all letters, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and we will use it name in city, name and city. First first message comes from Alf the Alien Opiner and parts unknown. He says, way back when when Benny versus the Penny was a breakout star on YouTube, there was a faithful day when a young Missus Maller was feeling

frisky and joined the unwashed in the chat. Now, during this time, I was able to ascertain that she is a fan of the devil's blood and has gone so far as to bring it into the confines of the Mallard mansion. Let's pause right there. Yes, many people think that my wife is wonderful, and I love my wife. I was at merit her. I think she's she's almost perfect. But one of her weak spots, Danny, one of her

blind spots is the devil's blood. She loves the devil's blood, and when we go to restaurants, she will thumb her nose at me and order a side of ranch dressing the devil's blood. And I believe she does it intentionally, as like a power move, like a flex just to stick it to me. Anyway, Alf continues, he says, I also have I also asked missus Garcia about pickles, and much to my surprise, she is a fan. Yeah, Eddie hates pickles. I'm not a big pickle fan. I like

the smell of pickles, I don't like the texture. I don't like the taste. They're too slimy. So anyway, alf says, my question to daddy, Gaddy, is there a food item that you absolutely detest that you're tinder ROWNI not only likes, but also has on hand in your home. I mean, I guess tomatoes would be the one thing where she has eating them before, right in front of me, her and her daughter, and they're like, look and they're taking a bite out of a fresh tomato. Yeah, and that

really makes my skin crawl. Hey, I'm allergic to fresh tomatoes because of fulic acid. That's what I'm allergic to. That stuff gets cooked out of tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, all that Marianara, a nice Marianera. Yeah, ketchup. I like all that stuff. The folic acid is out of it, so I can have it, thank God. But a fresh tomato, like my cousins when I was a little kid, they used to take the salt shaker and they would pour salt onto a fresh tomato and take a bite out

of it like it was an apple. You want to talk about horrible texture and a nasty taste. Yeah, Can anybody eat a tomato like that? That is disgusting? It really is as far as a pickle and a are you kidding me. I will dip a pickle into ranch any day of the week before I would touch or go nearer a fresh tomato. Now, are you concerned that your your spawn to be born to be named a later date here and all that will inherit that from your wife, that that will mock you by eating fresh tomatoes?

Tomato right in front of my fad like dad, look, yeah, yeah, exactly, take a bite out of one. Oh man, I'll slap the taste out of his mouth if he does that. Son, I'm gonna teach you what we did back when I was a kid. I would live in a softer time these days, but I'm gonna go old school, is what I'm gonna do. But I hear you can't slap kids these days, so I'm not sure how I'm even going to a parent. You got a flashback? He's like, yeah,

you know anyway, all right. Next up, we have Neil from the Real Miami says back in the fifth hour Digital Dojo, and Neil says, we wondered what happened Neil. He says his pops died suddenly at the beginning of the year. He says, both my grandparents died in January. Also, he says, what the f He says, you're pops too. Yeah, Yeah, I lost my father a couple of years ago, and it happened in the middle of the whole COVID stuff.

And I don't need to get into it here, but he likely would have been okay if it hadn't been He didn't die of COVID, but we couldn't take him to the doctor, and he died because we didn't get him to the doctor fast enough. By the time we got him there, the infection had spread. And there you go anyway, says in his father, and Neil says he died in his van in the parking lot of a Russian store with a fried pastry in his hand, which

he didn't even get. Oh, that's terrible. It would have been better if he had had like a final nice pastry. Du Yeah, but you never know when it's gonna end. So Neil says he sat shiva for a month, which was essentially being like weed man hippie. That's a great description of sitting ship. And he got that final aroma of a bakery. Though. Is there anything better than walking into like a donut shop? Yeah, that's pretty good. The smells from that. He says he is back by the way,

sitting shiva. He points out no personal hygiene, entertainment anything, and as a result, he fell off the podcast bandwagon and all that. But he says he is back now. He's been catching up on old episodes. God bless you, and he says, I have a question for you two utes on the topic of food. How come you never mention any food trucks in the age of food truck rallies.

You always talk about your favorite spots like Tito's Tacos or the Italian style restaurants with badass pasta for Danny Gee, But what is your go to food truck or not. First of all, Neil, my condolences to your father. I know what that's like. I went through that and it's a terrible thing. We all know that. My condolences. Hopefully you've you've continued to honor your father, your life's going on.

I understand it's one of the terrible things. But you gotta continue to live your life in honor of your parents. That's what I always say of us, both my parents. So with that set with that said, my problem with food trucks, I have eaten at food trucks. There's tons of those food trucks that are all trendy in Los Angeles like every other big city. Problem is, Danny, I grew up in the age where we called food trucks. You don't remember what we called food trucks when we

were kids. Danny roach coaches exactly exactly. So I still have the heebie geebs at these food trucks that have all these amazing foods. And I've been on the freeway the highways out here, and I've been driving around. I see this food trucks. Oh man, that looks like maybe like a cheese steak truck. I'm like, that's the greatest cheese steak truck of all time. And then I won't actually end up going there. I have eaten at a

few of them. There was a big food truck festival when I lived kind of near Santa Anita Race Track. I used to live right near there, and they had on the weekends during the summer, they would have this outdoor carnival thing and it was all food trucks and it was awesome. But I don't have a go to food truck. What about you, Daddy g Yeah, we pretty much stay away from the roach coach, as you say, because of the way we Yeah, I grew up. It was like I wasn't a first choice. It was a

last resort. It's kind of like coming out of the La Memorial Coliseum as a kid. Those hot dogs wrapped in the bacon. They smelled so good. But my mom would like slap my hand when I would walk over wanting to buy one. She'd be like, get away from that cart. Do you know how many germs are in that cart? And so it's kind of how we were just you know, we all kind of were raised like

that here in this area. But the one thing my wife he does like and she'll stop for it is the fruit carts where they make the fruit cups yeah, okay popular, And you could kind of there's just one guy manning the fruit and he puts the gloves on and you can tell that the hygiene is being met. And also the elote man, the guy that does the corn. Yes, that's another stand where it's just one guy and you could check it out with your own eyes to make sure that he's clean. If they're clean, go for it.

But the truck, you don't know, Ben, because you can't go inside the coach and inspect it. Every once in a while in life, you have to be a daredevil, like the people that eat the bacon wrapped hot dogs outside the stadiums and all that. I love the smell of those things, but the assumption can only imagine where those carts go when the people are not using them

to bake the hot dogs. You don't imagine, like we had Opening Day the other night, Opening Night at Dodger Stadium and outside Dodger Stadium, as every Opening Day, there were lines of those carts with people selling the hot dogs outside the stadium, and people were buying them as they were walking away from the stadium. But no, you should have the nervous harms. Yikes. Next on the mailbag Marcus Insane Antony all Rights, and he's excited about the

start of the baseball season. He says, always look forward to listening to the stories from back in the day when you worked around baseball in the big leagues or even the miners. Ben and the boys were reminiscent on some of their favorite timing, the sort of moments ballpark food and talk of the old ice cream in the mini helmet. Immediately brought me back to my childhood. Marcus points out that one of my favorite memories growing up when my father would bring us to Colorado Sky Socks

minor league games. He says, his brother and I would visit my father during the summer, and watching baseball on a warm summer evening was always at the top of the list. My favorite moment was the first time I got an autograph on a baseball that I still have in a case to this day. Max Hatkin, the clown Prince of baseball. I know who that is. Have you seen the photos and there's video. This guy was one of the early mascots in baseball, the clown Prince of baseball. No,

I'll have to look that up. Yeah, yeah, And he says. My question for you guys, Benn and Danny Gee is who was the first autograph you ever received and do you still have it to this day? Thank you for the time. Let's play ball, Marcus in San Antonio, Marcus, thank you for downloading the podcast. Appreciate that. Tell a friend. So I don't remember the first autograph I got. You

gotta understand, though, Marcus. When I was in high school, I grew up in Orange County, not far from the Big A where the Angels play, and to make extra money and mainly to get into the games for free

because people would pay for my ticket. I would go out after school and during the summer, when I didn't have to worry about going to school, I'd go out to the ballpark and I was an autograph found I'd collect autographs and then I'd just give them to my boss, who would then give me money or food or whatever. And I got to hang out and see all these legendary baseball players when I was a kid, a high school kid. However, the autograph story that popped in my head.

Marcus one of my heroes when I was kid, because I loved in home runs and the guy was a big personality even though he killed the Dodgers. Reggie Jackson the eyes of a child, Reggie Jackson was like amazing, mister October, the whole thing. And so I had a chance to get Reggie Jackson's autograph as a kid. He was signing some autographs at a game, but I did not have a photo of Reggie Jackson. I did not have a Reggie Jackson baseball card with me, which is

what people were getting signed. So I had Reggie Jackson autograph a one dollar bill that I happened to have in my wallet and Danny Gee, Reggie Jackson child to a hero of mine. I gave him the dollar bill. I told him the autograph it. He gave me a look like, what the fuck are you doing? Like? He gave me this look like what are you serious? Like why would you want me to know it was? But I still had that. It was in my house when

my dad passed away. I found I found that. What about you any autograph stories, anything you remember getting autographed Danny back in the day? Well, really quick. Your dollar bill story sparked a memory for me. I had the great Eddie Money sign a dollar bill back in the day. Yeah, I have that somewhere in my collection now. He didn't give me the side eye because his last name being Money, he was used to signing dollar bills. Oh sure, that's

a Nasturville for baseball cards. I went to a Modesto A's game and Mark McGuire was on the club and he was a rising star, and I remember having him sign. I don't think I have that anymore. I haven't seen that in forever. So that was the first autograph I ever got it as a kid. That's pretty cool. Let's do some rapid fire. We'll try to go as many of these in as we can. We don't have tons of time. Burry in Nashville rights, and he says, yo

yo mob. Benny, the Nashville contingent of the Mallem Militia is very disappointed that you selected Minnesota over Nashville for your next meet and greet. We have way more things for you to do and see and way more p ones in Minnesota. Bad job by you. Ben sucks. He says, what is the last thing you bought with cash? And when was that? For me? It was a lottery ticket, because you have to pay cash for lottery. But other

than that, I hardly ever use cash. I do not remember, Barry, the last thing I spent cash on other than tipping to actually buy a product. Go to the airport, you go somewhere, you travel somewhere. When I went to the Super Bowl, I had to tip people in Arizona with cash. But other than that, I cannot recall the time I just broke out a water cash and it's like here

we go, what about you, Danny? Yeah, I was gonna they don't forget about maybe a service because I got it to Shaun Watson Special a couple of weeks ago. It does that? Remember you were you in the Happy Baby yoga post? Were you? I would think that cash would be used for something like that, like you said, maybe a parking Oh, I know when I used cash last Remember when I went to beautiful Stockton, California. Yes, I needed to pay for a parking lot. I needed

cash for that. I'm really bad at carrying cash though, even when I travel, it's a last minute thing where I'm like, damn it, don't forget the ATM. Don't forget the ATM because I never pull cash out any longer, so I don't either what I have done though, I have a finite amount of cash in my wallet which has been in my wallet collecting cobwebs. It's been collecting cobwebs for some time. So if I ever actually have to spend the money the cash that's in my wallet,

it then becomes problematic because it exactly exactly there. Oh, it's been in there for a couple of years. Literally, I have not had any new cash that I've gone out and gotten and added for a couple of years. Kevin in Kansas writes and says, dear Ben and Danny, Gee, there are a lot of mysteries in the world, like Bigfoot and the Lockness Monster. If you could solve just one of those mysteries and fors sake knowing the truth about all those other mysteries, Which of these world wonders

would you like to know the truth about? This is easy for me. I'll go quick. Kevin, Thank you. I know you sent this email. Actually last week you missed the cut off. But it's a great generic question, so we can use it this week. But to answer your question, Kevin, a dedicated p one in the Mallard Militia and Brigadier general. The answer, Kevin is Roswell, New Mexico. What the fuck happened in Roswell, New Mexico? Were those actually aliens? I want to know? That's the one. That's the one I

want to know. What about you, Danny? I would say Lockness Monster. I would love to know the truth on that. So here's my problem with that. Wouldn't there have to be multiple creatures? Because whatever creature is, how old would that creature have to be? It would have to procreate and create little baby creatures to continue. Maybe it's from the dinosaur family. Those things lived for hundreds of years. It is before the deep fake those photos are before

the deep fake age. Yeah yeah, what about Bigfoot? Now we have that classic movie we grew up with. Harry and the Henderson's pretty much explained everything. Ozzy was is. Next says Hey Daddy, ge Radio and Big Ben. My question this week is if you could replace your boss for the week, what would you like to do or what changes would you guys make for that week? And no, Ozzy was points out from Western Australia, you cannot give anyone a pay raise, including yourself, or take extra time off.

So to answer your question, Ozzy was, what I would do is promote the entire network going to Hawaii to broadcast from the Hawaiian Islands higher network for a month. We're going to go to Hawaii and do our radio shows from each show will be on a different island in Hawaii, and that is what we are going to do. He also says, PS Daddy, G Daddy, can you say end a Covino and rich nerf ball As Ben does not have any merchandise yet that's from us, Danny, what

would you do. You're replacing Don Martin, You're running Fox Sports Radio, replacing Scott Shapiro. What are you gonna do? I would do a flip flop. Producers and the hosts would trade places and trade paychecks for that week. Yeah, oh, I got an idea. This is an old you're an old radio program director. This is an old bit. I think they still do this in Boston. They have reverse e day where the the afternoon guy goes in the morning the morning got oh yeah, yeah, we did that

before at my FM station. Yeah, the midday guy goes to eating. It was a freaky Friday. Yeah, yeah, something like that. So what I would do, in addition to going in Hawaii for a month, all expenses paid on the company because I'm the boss, I would also I'd flip and I'd have Colin Cowherd do the overnight show with my staff and I would get Cowherd staff and I would I would like to see how Cowherd would

handle that. I think he would do very well. I'm sure there would be no problems, there would be no disagreements, and I like it though, I don't think because Cowherd staff would try giving you the topics and he'd be like, no, no, no no, I have my own topics. Well, Wednesday, it's possible. On a Wednesday, I might just put my feet up and show up and say, okay, we're good. I can't imagine you mailing it in and letting the producers produce you, but that would be cool. And I would like to

hear Covino and Rich during the safe harbor. So if you put them on late at night, I feel like you'd get the old Maxim radio guys back dropping words that they can't drop an afternoon drive, letting it rip, letting it rip. Mike and Fulton writes in says, I just saw even more rain, and so Cow's forecasts. So I want to know if all the rain has caused any problems at the Mallard mansion or the Danny g Dome. Are your fruit and vegetable gardens holding up? So it's

been great. I turned off the sprinklers. I've just let God water the lawns and the mother nature and all that, and so that's been been wonderful. It's I hate driving in the rain. Well it's usually it's light rain, so I don't mind the light rain. We had some real hum dingers some Pineapple Express like storms, and I hate it. I almost I thought I was gonna die on the Hollywood Freeway driving into the studio. Nuts one weird thing

that we've been dealing with in our neighborhood. I don't know what kind of trees they are, but I guess there's a lot of them here because this yellow pollen has been coming off of the trees, and it makes a nice layer on your car paint, and then that mixed with the rain, it's like a sticky, yellowish goop that's on our pain. A few times a week, I've been going to do it yourself, car wash, spray the

yellowish crap off my car. Is it true? Is it true, Danny g Radio that the owner of the local car wash went out and planted those trees all over your neighborhood knowing they were going to get an amazing, amazing amount of customers. Because that's what I would do if I owned a car wash. It doesn't rain that much, but when it does and that pollen gets everywhere, chiching, chaching, chitching,

that becomes a money tree. You ain't lying. There was about six cars lined up at that car wash waiting their turn, and every single one of those cars had the pollen on it. Crazy crazy Crazy Mike and Fullerton no relation to ferg Dog says also Ben, does it put a smile on your face whenever someone calls the show after not calling for a while, like monotone, Matt and Gunner pencil next one. First of all, it depends on the caller, but it does make me feel pretty

pretty good. It's nice to hear from some of these cats that call the show. We run a well oiled machine unless we don't wait at night, and these callers become part of the show. They're in the fabric of the show. And when someone calls for a while and then all of a sudden goes off the beaten path, and you always wonder in the back of your head, did they stop listening because they hate the show? Did they get a shift change, did they have some kind

of medical problem. Did they die? You never know, you know, you almost never know unless someone tells you what happened. So it's it's kind of cool when people check in. Gunner is one of the worst callers I've ever had, but he thinks he's good. That's the beauty of Gunner. Gunner works at a Walmart in Minnesota, but not Minneapolis, out the sticks of Minnesota, and he calls when the

Timberwolves win. I know, looking at the schedule, if the Timberwolves one, if Gunner is working, he's going to call in. And he's just horrible. He's so bad. I gotta think he's gonna win Worst Caller of the Year this year. But it is cool when guys that haven't called in a while. Generally speaking, as a rule of thumb, it is cool. If you're a regular, please put it in your will to contact our show. That way, we know what happened to you. That should be standard in all wills.

Right now exactly now. Certain legends, Genie and Medford, we found out because Genie had been very sick. We found out about her. Spokane Gary another one of the great callers of a different era. He passed away. We had a young listener in Virginia who unfortunately passed in a car accident at a very young age. Well, we found out about that, But others just kind of van shouldn't you never really know? Next up, Fred in Spring, Texas writes in he says, Hi, there, do you and Danny

ge have any lucky numbers. Really enjoy the show, keep up the good work. At this time, I don't. When I was younger, I had a few numbers that were my go to related to my birthday. Now I have like a lucky pen. That's my thing of lucky. What about you, Danny? Yeah, I've always used the numbers thirty two and thirty four. I'm sure you can guess why. Thirty two being Marcus Allen yep, and thirty four being bo knows numbers, Yes, Sir Jackson, the greatness of therators.

Jack put baby next up Nick and Wisconsins As Ben, I am flattered. You thought I was calling the other night, But sadly the warehouse I work in is too loud unless I went into the bathroom. But I was listening, like every night, onto the question. Ben and Danny, g if you were forced in to having plastic surgery, what would you choose? None is not an option. What counts as plastic surgery is? I'm not from I know that you can go your lips, your nose, that kind of stuff. Yeah,

like facelift, nose job, you have hair? Is that plastic surgery? That's cosmetic surgery? Um, it's an easy one for me. I need a surgery on my nose and my sinuses because I have some cartilage that's in my nose from back when I was a youngster boxing. The last air nose throat specialist I saw, he wanted to cut me open and he wanted to clare my nostrils and sinuses out,

so while he had me under the knife. I haven't done it yet, but if I ever do that procedure, hey, while you're while you're at it, make my nose look better. Two for one special the doctor said, I wouldn't answer me nose me if I kept my finger out of here. Are you concerned though? If they do that, will that change the sound of your voice? Are you worried about that? That is a concern from all radio people. In fact,

on Facebook, I'm part of a radio group. Recently, there was a guy asking that question because he needed to have a sinus surgery and he was very scared and worried about it changing his voice. Most of the comments underneath from people that have had some similar procedures said not to worry too much because all it really does is open up your airwaves. We are sure that's covered by insurance. They'll take care of Yeah, right, Well, if

you go to Mexico, have it done. If you go to Tiahuana for the weekend, go down for the weekend. What could go wrong? By doctor said, how many times were you punched in your nose? The Doctor's like, aren't you supposed to do the one throwing the punches? Aren't You're not supposed to the one that's the punch flag? What's going on with that? I would hate to see the other guy Cliff in Nashville, right sin, says Ben and especially Danny g with the expecting wife craving in

and out. We're going to have an in and out, but not until twenty twenty six. Is it worth the way from Cliff in Nashville? You say yes, Danny, you're all about oh yeah, yeah. I was shaking my head up and down. Yeah, dude. There's a reason why there's a lot of hype surrounding it. What I would say, not to sound too much like Matt Lafleur, but temper your expectations just a little bit, because I know, going into it, some people think it must be like a

religious experience. It's not that. It's just really really good quality, especially at the price point, but make sure you eat it. They're hot at the restaurant. Do not take in and out to go once their fries get even slightly cold. They're garbage, barbage. Once the burger gets cold, it's not nearly as good as it is hot. That is the golden rule of consuming all fast food. Doesn't matter McDonald's, burger,

king wind, these Arby's. You gotta eat that shit as fast as you fucking can't because if you don't, yeah, you've wasted your money. The bread becomes like rubbery, it's nasty. We've tried bringing in and out home in every single time it's a miss. But the times we eat it there at the restaurant, we leave with big smiles on our faces. I hope my wife is listening to this,

because this is the argument. She loves to go to in and out and take the food home, and she's like, you don't even like in and out because every time she goes to in and out to bring the food home, I don't want any and she she thinks I don't like in and out, which is false. That's a lie, Danny. I like my in and out, but I got to eat it at the restaurant, and then a few times we've been there and I've eaten it, just like, oh see, we gotta go to and we gotta eat at the

restaurant because you're here, and I'm like, yes, yeah. The last time I proposed in and out, which was maybe a week and a half ago, my wife he said, yeah, but do not go there to the drive through and bring it home. I'm going to meet you there. So she actually met me there at the Inn and Out so we could sit and eat it straight out of the oven. That's the proper way to consume in and out.

And if you order animal style fries, and you don't know this yet because you don't have in and Outcliff, but animal style fries is that that hidden in and out menu and they just put the sauce and the onions on top of the fries. It's good. Yep. Yeah, it's called their special spread and it is delicious. But a veteran move order that alone, eat that, then order the burger because that way they're both fresh. Anyway, Next up, Terry in England says, hey, Ben, will you pass my

number onto Jay Scoop. I'm a lot closer to the Ukraine, if he needs help, then the West coast of the United States. Terry, I will be more than happy to send Jay Scoop a message. I did not get your number. I looked through my email that I have public emails that are out there Ben Maller's show at Gmail Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and I did not get an email. I might have missed it. Maybe I went to my spam folder. But Terry, send me your number again via email, and I promise I will let

Jay Scoop. No, I can't guarantee he's going to contact you because I got to imagine that those phone calls from the Ukraine are insane or the text messages. I'm imagining those are not very cheap. Next up, we have Sarah from Minnesota. She writes in and she says she actually recommended a spot in Minnesota and near Lake Minnetonka Excelsior, Minnesota, and I looked at this place, Danny, it looks really promising. We're still trying to find a venue for the Mallard

meet and greet. She says her brother is a made man knows the owner of this spot, so that might be the spot. And you know what, Lake Minnetonka's famous for in sports. Oh that boat scandal, not just the boat scandal, the love boat. It was like it was like nine or ten Viking players. I'm trying to do this off memory. It's like nine or ten Viking players, like a hundred women, including prostitutes, bunch of hookers and

cocaine who they flew in from different states. And the ladies were earning some money there on the boat and we're a little side hustle and it all went public. That was probably seventeen years ago, now seventeen eighteen years ago, but that was Lake Minnetonka. So, Sarah, this place looks The restaurant you sent me looks really good. I appreciate you doing that. I will let you know whether or not that's the place. We have about two weeks to play with here. I got it decide. We have to

decide on a location of venue. The Mallard meet and greet is May twentieth. This is April second, so I got about two weeks. I want to give people a month notice to let everyone know exact location that we're gonna do. And I have no idea how many people are gonna show up. That's one of the problems, Danny. The feedback I've gotten has been amazing. The people of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul and all the other places around Minnesota.

Some small towns I've never heard of, have been amazing. But as you know, Danny, and you've been to some of these things, the people that say they're gonna show up and then something happens, and then you know, your kid gets sick or they have to work extra and they don't end up showing you up. So I'm inside I'm really excited, but part of me is like, don't don't be that excited because a lot of these people are not going to show up. Stuff's gonna happen. Life

gets in the way. But if everyone shows up, it's contacted me. This will be an amazing turnout. This will set the record for out of town turnouts, which currently is held by Boston at the Cask and Flagging across from Finway in Boston. So I'm still waiting for my email reply from iHeart because I put in a request

to cover my flight. I'm sure they'll be replying any second. Yeah. Well, and the company's giving me a bunch of stuff to give out prizes to give out the people because they love that kind of stuff and the big budget, you know, unless unless I just Pat O'Brien notepads from back in the day. Yes, some Jay Moore comedy books, so I'll get some of those. You get that Bob Goldick autographed memorabilia from Money He's doing a show there. Speaking of old Fox Sports Radio people, were you at Fox Sports

Radio when Anna roll Wright worked at Fox Sports Radio? Yeah, right at the tail end of his career there, Yeah, fanneral Wright popped up on Awful Announcing the sports blog this week. He is now a golf caddy. What. Yeah, he's found happiness. He lost apparently everything while he was working at Fox Sports Radio. On Fox TV LA, he developed a habit of going skiing. Danny. He liked the ski the mountains even when there was no snow. There's always snow in the Hollywood Mountains, if you know what

I'm saying. Oh wow, And because of that, he lost his family and as Jonas Knox calls it, booger sugar. Oh, there's a whole lot of that up in those Hollywood hills and nobody seems to mind. They have a problem with the people selling those celebrities the drugs, the people that use the drugs up in the Hollywood Hills. They got no problem with those people. It's wild anyway, I digress. Wow, So he's just doing golf then, yeah, he says he's living a minimalist life and he enjoys it. He's got

an RV, travels around to high end golf courses. Sometimes people recognize him from the radio and the TV. He says he's very happy. He's found some quality of life. That's good. Good for him. I knew Vanerol had some issues because there were some things that happened you kind of. He was always nice to me, so I'm not knocking him, but you could tell there were some things that he

had issues. He had some issues going on, and it did affect his performance, which is unfortunately on the air, Angelina writes in she says, I've heard a couple of callers on the weeknight show lately who want more hockey talk,

and she says I am not one of them. Eddie's weekly hockey segment is plenty unless there is a rare and appropriate story you would deem appropriate for all those Yes, she says she's looking forward to the Mallard Meet and greet says, the hops or state of Minnesota shows itself very well. I'm sure it will. And Angelina is also offering to do some scouting. She's gonna look at a couple of locations, a couple of venues. So I got multiple people. I got boots on the ground here, Danny,

I got boots on the ground. And these are people that offered. I didn't even ask them. They've gone out and found locations that are possibilities and we've got to kind of thin the herd here get down to one location. But thank you so much, Angelina, I appreciate that. And Sarah, the women, no no dudes by there. It's all ladies in Minnesota that are like, hey, we'll help you out. I think that's turned on and it scared me so good for good for that. Let's see I will do

one more. Jennifer in Virginia says that she actually sent some great travel tips here that her son used to get express VIP service at Hurt's rental car. So, I feah, this was a hack that you gave out recently. Yeah, she gave out one as well. This is different and this is there's a free VIP thing you can sign up for and they'll it doesn't cost you any money and they get your car right away. You get to the front of the line and all that stuff. So

that's pretty cool. And she says she's trying to get to Minnesota money permitting her sons in Minnesota going to school there, and so maybe we'll meet Jennifer. That would be awesome. But don't break the bank on my behalf, Jennifer, do not break the bank on my behalf. It is expensive to travel, trust me, we all know that. So I'll meet you at some point down the line. If it doesn't work here, we'll get out on that, Danny, anything you want to promote. It is Sunday. Baseball is underway.

We got all day baseball all day long and then that one night game tonight and it's final four weekend, the championship game tomorrow, tomorrow, sorrow. Do you have any TWIB notes for us this week in baseball? Yeah, I'm just gonna Chell watch some baseball today. A big thank you to everyone who participated in the mail bag. Thank you, Thank you for downloading all the podcasts this weekend. Outstanding.

Thank you guys. And I'll be on the radio tonight eleven o'clock in the West, two am in the East, a brand new week of shows. We will fight the good fight in sports radio. Have a wonderful, wonderful day. We'll catch you next time. Later. Skater gott a murder, Gotta go.