The Fifth Hour: "Marconi Laugh" Mail Bag

marginal addition of the Fifth Hour. And Danny, it is Sunday and that means male male male male male male, always a good thing right now. Yeah, Whenever I think of Mail, I of this annoying lady who lives a few condos down. Whenever the male guy or a UPS truck shows up, or the Amazon truck, she waddles outside and talks the guy's air off because she needs company and the guy is stuck out there for a long time.

Feels so sorry for them. Ben. And sometimes I take the trash out and it's one of those awkward things where you gotta just kind of turn around and walk away. And say your final words as your back is turned, is that our future when we get old, that will just be so in need of human contact that the male person. My dad was the same way, Like he knew exactly when the mail was going to show up, and if the male person was there a few minutes late,

oh my god, this was such a big deal. Like he could not and he could not understand why they would be late. And and he also loved to talk to the checker at the grocery store. Oh yeah, classic, yeah, that's like I classic old guy move. My dad. My dad was really good at being an old guy. And he he also loved the waitresses and or the way, you know, the waiter, whoever is waiting on you at day, give them a hard time. I wanted to know all about him, give him a hard time, and then decide

whether or not to leave them. Hey, that's a big thing, you know, service here, and you want to senior discount and all that. And I'm over on the side and I'm like coming, oh, hell, now we have the mail bag. I always look forward to the mail bag, and let's get right into it. It's all right, thank you for that. The wonderful Dulcetne so Ohio all his musical ability, and that brings us to you've got mail. Yes, these are

actual letters send in by actual listeners like you. We always are growing the podcast audience and you don't have to be bashful. We always love when new people take the time out to send questions in. And if you want to send a question in right now, you don't have to wait till next week's mail bag. Send it in care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Or wait

until Monday or Tuesday. In fact, this week, I believe on Monday we will be posting questions, so try to get your questions in earlier. This week. There's some scheduling issues that we have, so the way we can get into the podcast studio and record the podcast canna be a little different, so we need to make sure we have everything lined up. So but that's just this week. But Monday Facebook page Ben Mallor Show. First question comes

from Nick in Wisconsin. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny g I'm sorry to inform you, but the podcast numbers for the radio show are going to go down by what and I am leaving a job that I get to listen live for about two hours to an overnight job to listen live for all four hours. That's from Nick. He says, it's been a while since I've worked overnights. What are some sleeping tips that you and Danny g

have for sleeping during the day. Thank you in advance. Well, Nick, before we get to the sleep advice, just because you're alive radio listener, does not mean you cannot still download the podcast. Okay, I am not Danny. Are we gonna stop someone from downloading a podcast? Is there a rule that says if you listen live, you can't download the podcast? I say no. In fact, it's even better the second time.

It's like left over something not only pizza. Think of it like pizza, Like that's the only left over I really pizza. At the very least, he can download the Fifth Hour podcast because these shows aren't live exactly, and you can't listen to this on any radio station anywhere, only alive in this ecosystem, I'm actually on the live are so your live show live? And then the Fifth Hour podcast downloaded? And you have to subscribe to the Fifth Hour because you never know there might be some

pop up episodes. Maybe Danny will feel like he wants to do his own episode one time, or I'll do something. You never know. You never know what's going on with that. I wanted to ask you. I should have asked you this off the podcast, but I am fascinated. I can't wait. I hope you get this animal podcast thing going. I think that would be wonderful. I would want to hear that. We gotta get that going. Yeah, the Animal Thunderdome. The last I heard, they were securing some things behind the

scenes and working on artwork and stuff like that. All the behind the scenes work that needs to be done before you launch a podcast is being worked on. WHOA alright, I like it. I like it. Next up on the mail bag, These are again actual letters from actual listeners to the podcast, like oh, that's right, that's right before we move on. So for me and I don't sleep well. Next you're probably you don't want to hear what I

have to say. I'm a terrible sleeper, but what I have learned over the years, you need a lot of I like a fan going. I like having some some white noise in the background. That's racist. I know, play the racist, but I like I like having noise in the background. I also blackout curtains, the thickest blackout curtains you can get. Walmart actually had some good ones. I don't know if they still do, but I'm talking about

double layer blackout curtains. Yes and uh. And then also in addition to that, I even go as far as to where it's sleep mask. I have one ear plug. I have a bad ear so I can't put an ear plug in that. So my one good year I put the ear plug in. So I go to extreme measures. You could wear a mask. I feel like that is very confining. And do you don't feel claustrophobic with a mask on your face? No, it's a soft, padded mask, So I don't. I don't. It doesn't really bother me

that much. Um, but I'd rather have that. I can't stand getting that light in your eyes and when you wake up, the first thing you see is the black mask. That doesn't freak you out. I'm used to it, but if it's not for you, you don't have to do it. But I I would buy. I find a room that only has one window, if possible, and I would buy. You can get those curtain rods that are double double crepit. Yeah, I'd put blackout curtains on both, and that's what I

would do. What about you, Danny, any tips? Yeah, blackout curtains, as you said, are a must. The noise is important because there's people outside. They don't give a shit that you're trying to sleep. They're slamming doors, they're screaming their mowing lawns. They have weed whackers in both hands. I would turn a TV on, I would turn rain noise on, turn on a voice that's soothing to you. That's one

thing that would always help me. Boy, we talked about it for days now about how soothing Vince Scully's voice was. Who's the famous chef ben who unfortunately killed himself. Yes, I loved his voice. I would actually play reruns of his show, his travels show, So that was one thing that helped me sleep in the daytime. I would find a really soothing voice to have on in the background. Yeah, Anthony Borden was very good at television and he left a lot of quotes behind and that was a shocker

when yeah, really was. I watched that documentary. Have you seen the documentary they made where they it was really well made. I think it was on Netflix. It was on HBO. I forget which one. They're all the same to me. But it was an Anthony Boordain documentary and they had a computer recreated voice, so part of it was actually it sounded just like him. It was wild. No, I haven't got to see that yet. It was really

well done. They did a good job. And one of his quotes, your body is not a temple at an amusement park, and enjoy the ride. Apparently the the ride went off the tracks there unfortunately at the end. Uh, let's see here come back. It's sim call Boss Fan Jimmy from Big Orange Country rights in for both you guys. Ben. Have you had any more gallbladder attacks or close calls? Danny G. What do you think about all the drill rapping personally? Uh? I hate it. Bring back the nineties

with dr dre that's from Walls Fan Jimmy. So I can't have any gall bladder attacks because I don't have my gall bladder. They chopped it out of me several years back, and so I don't have to worry about that. But I do have the effects of not having a gall bladder, which are very marginal, very marginal. I'm pretty used to it right now, and then you don't need the gall bladder, um and so, so yeah, I really have any issues. I know you're you're hoping for a

nice poop story cooped in a bathroom. I don't have one of those right now, but you never know, could could happen at any moment. Danny, your thoughts on the rap community as it stands here in One generation is always going to think that the next generation is not

as good as their's when it comes to music. I don't want to sound like that guy, get off my lawn, but there is something to say about eighties nineties music and movies and how much time and effort and perfection was put into those projects, whereas recently a lot of musical and movie productions. I guess you could say we're shipped out really fast, and you could tell on some

of the projects. Now, you do find some really good rappers of this generation, like Kendrick Lamar and j Cole and guys like that that still have beauty and the lyrics and their production. Um. So I would just lean on those guys, because yeah, there's a lot of mumble mouth rappers. They sound like they got marbles or rocks in their mouth, and the lyrics suck. They're not rapping about anything that's noteworthy. So I get what he's saying. But at the same time, I guess you've got to

find the standout guys that are out right now. We're also not in the demo per se, right, I mean, isn't that part of the problem. It's crazy to me that all of this stuff, which I think, I'm kind of there with you. I think a lot of this is crap app But twenty five years from now, this will be what people look back on and say this was the good stuff. But you know, it was only a few years ago, Ben that I still was having

my turntables on in a club. There were a lot of youngsters that also thought the dr DRE music was better than some of this crap that's out right now. It's one of the reasons why vinyl has made such a huge comeback, because vintage records and vintage artists are being appreciated more and more. So, Yeah, you're right about that. We're maybe we're not the demo, But at the same time, there's even some younger people that are looking back at the music like damn, how come we can't make some

classics like that right now? It's like when we were kids, we listened to music from the fifties unless we didn't, unless we did not. It's funny, though, what what was oldies? When we were kids? An oldie station played like you know, Elvis and like oldies music. Zach Ban on k Earth one oh one they play sugar Hill Gang Ye old. They play rappers delight on an oldies station. Pretty wild, He's really wild. If you want to feel old or you want to have a mind trip, think about that.

A rap song is now on an oldie station. But at the same time, that is forty year old music. So that's crazy to think that that's fourty year old music. But holy crap, where did it all go? Danny? Where has it all gone? I can't believe it. Man. That's that's great, all right? Kevin in Kansas right soon, says dear Ben and Danny ge With the passing of Vince Gully, I think about the other great voices of sports. I

have memories of Kurt Goudy, Merlin Olson, dick Enberg. I know you don't do Mount Rushmore's, but who are some of your favorite voices from radio and television. Uh yeah, we'll engage Kevin whye out. It's the podcast What the hell? Anything that brings you back to your youth. That's always I always go by that, like, there's only a few guys left Brett Musburger, who retired, who turned down our

podcast unfortunately, but Musburger. I watched a Musburger game and I had flashed back to when I was ten years old. The only guy left for me is al Michaels. I watch al Michael's call a football game, and I flashed back to when I was a kid. So that's a great thing. I don't think there's anyone else. Joe Buck. I was an adult when Joe Buck started. I remember Joe Buck's dad because I'm old Buck. We had a good and I chanced to talk to Joe Jack Buck

in in spring training years a going Florida. But um, anybody for you, Danny that pops out there that he's like, Oh, that's that's classic Dick Edinburgh's voice. That's a plump pussy right. Yeah. To me, that was football like any drive, any game. He made it sound exciting. I think about him. Was it him and Dan fouts together. Yeah, they worked. Remember Charlie Jones great voice. Great was some other old like nineteen eighties NFL broadcastes. Was it, uh Crumpy or Trum

What was the guy's name? Yes, yeah, yeah, I know who you're talking about. He was great, um Merlin Olson. I really liked watching him as a kid. Hanks Ram is another one, Hankstram, Hanksram. Yeah, there's some good voices man. For baseball, there was only two as a kid, and that was Vince Scully. And then when I would be in the Bay with family up north, it was Bill King, the late great Bill King. He called basketball, he called baseball, he called football. That dude was a baller. I had

a chance to meet Bill King, and I did. I Actually, when I was a stringer in the in the nineties, I was starting out, I took any gig I could get, and I had this gig with the Oakland Athletics. They did something called it was the Coca Cola road Report, and they'd go to a reporter at a different game and and I'd give the report and they in on the a's broadcast. I would like, let's go to Anaheim and get an update on the Angel game or whatever.

So I do the I do the update, and then when the A's would come to the Big A, I would do stats for the radio team, you know, hang out with the guys. And Bill King was still doing the games at that time the A's actually this was after they had their great run with LaRussa uh Fosse was doing TV. Was Bill King and kN Korak, who had just started. He's still doing the A's. Ken Corak a great guy, very nice man. He had done minor league baseball in Vegas and some other places, and um

just tremendously nice. But Bill King was doing the play by play. It was a very hot day in Anaheim. It was like near the end of the year. It was probably around actually was probably around this time, was like late August, early September. A sucked, the Angels sucked. I'm doing stats. It's a day game in Anaheim. I'm sitting now. Bill King's in the front row, the broadcasters in the front row. I'm in the bat I'm in the second row. And it gets to be like the

third inning and Bill King gets up. He walks behind where I'm standing and proceeds to take his pants off and and then he he walks back to the broadcast chair wearing boxers. Yeah, yeah, he had like briefs on whatever that's uncomfortable. Yeah, old guy and breeze and Ken Korak told me, he said, don't worry, this is just Bill.

This is what Bill does. You know. I guess he lived on a boat or something in the Bay Area and he took his freaking clothes off and sat there in the press box called the game and his underwear because it was too hot for him. But very nice man, very nice man, Bill King. And he had the great the Holy Roller, Right. Wasn't that his his call with the Raiders? He had a bunch of famous calls with Oakland? Didn't he do all? Did he do the Warriors too?

I think? And a lot of people to this day will tell you that he was best at basketball play by play, which is mind blowing because that's not what he was known for. Yeah, I didn't hear him do the NBA. I didn't I heard him do baseball. Obviously in football because the Raider games were broadcast. The Warriors stunk back when he was doing the play by play for them, So maybe that's why he didn't get a lot of attention while he was doing that. But yeah, a lot of people say that he was most gifted

at calling basketball games. Yeah I got I kept pretty lucky. I got to meet a lot of the guys I really wanted to meet when I was a kid I look up to, like Harry Callis, who was the voice of NFL Films and the Phillies. I met him at Dodger Stadium. I got to ride in an elevator with Harry Carey, of all people. I'll never forget this to my last breath on this earth. It was in the elevator Dodger Stadium. I got there. Harry showed up at

the same time. He didn't drive. He was near the end of his career, you know, the end of his life actually, and he had a driver he lived in when the Cubs. He didn't travel with the Cubs on the road at that point, but he came to l A because he had a place in Palm Springs, and so he would he would do the Dodger Cub games and getting the elevator and it's me Harry his driver, and they had and they still have this at Dodgers Daum.

The elevator operates and they had this cute uh latina elevator operator and Harry starts like flirting with him in the I'm like, I'm having this surreal moment with Dani. Like Harry Carey is probably close to eighty at this point. He's in an elevator and he's like, hello, y'all Whitey. It was the funniest thing. It was about Harry carry getting his mac on. Yeah, we'll try and trying, And then I I also, uh, was it all the Ernie Harwell? I met Ernie Harwell at one point. That was a

cool one. I feel like paddle Brian, I'm just dropping him. These are people that were legends and broadcasting. Ernie Harwell called the Tiger Games for a gazillion years. And you gave me a good idea. You mentioned uh Musburger. I'm gonna text him again because when he was in the middle of the Raiders playoff run last season, he big time does But now he's probably got some free time

on his hands. Yeah, I'm sure that one thing that Brent Musburger wants to do in retirement is talk to us, right, Yeah, that's that's the one thing that he wants to do. Alright. Moving on, with the mail bag. I know, I come back. It's sign from now call al Rights and he says, hey, who sings the you wanna Golden Ticket jingle? He says, is it Eddie? No, it's not Eddie. Oh my gosh, come on, come on. It's a classic movie. Man. We even have to answer that the Willie Wanka chocolate factory,

google the original Willy Wonka piece. Jean, I was gonna say, Geene Simmons, definitely not Jean Simmons. Jean Gene Walderan Wilder. Yeah, how soon we forget Tom Looney reported his death prematurely. That's right. I remember that. It's very embarrassing. I was loving with Looney and Looney somehow before he had died, he wasn't dead. Wow, you get nothing. Gave the performance

of his life in that movie. He's so sarcastic and does everything with this is straight face, Like when the little kid falls into the Chocolate river and he says, hell, somebody call the police. Was that an eighties movie? That had to be eighties? Right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, interesting all right? Next up from Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia. He says, for both you guys, I asked about the move to Burbank many months back. In the beginning, I thought the

move was taking place around this time. Now I'm hearing the process has been slowed. So either one of you know why it's taking longer and is there a new target time for the big move? Why is this person going to bring us a basket? I like that Jason is very concerned about our move to the new studios because they've decided not to repair the old studios. So Jason, I don't know when we're moving. I was in Burbank.

I had some meetings with some people in Burbank a couple of weeks ago, and I was given a tour of where the Fox Worts radio studios are going to be. And let's just say it ain't happen anytime soon. How about that. Let's let's say there's a lot of stuff that needs to happen before those things are done. Just blame it on all the wiring that needs to be done, miles and miles of wires and really quick. By the way,

Ben Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. You and I saw it in the eighties, but it came out in nineteen seventy one. Oh wow, is that all right? Yeah? I saw it in the eighties. I thought, yeah, you and I saw it as a VHS rental tape from a video store. Wild alright. So yeah, just we there's wiring. They're gonna they have to move the local l a cluster of radio stations. They're they're moving those stations around,

So you have to move all of that wiring. Then you have to add new wiring or not just Fox Sports Radio, but the premier network shows which include Coast to Coast with George Nori and all the other Premier properties and the Knock Yeah, and Master Control operations and all that networate Network Operations Center. So it's a big pain in the behind. Let's see here. Mark writes in from Waverley, Iowa, and Mark says, what's the strangest thing a listener has sent? Well, this is an easy question.

I have received not one, not two, but three bloody goat heads in the mail from Doc Mike, who still calls the show from Chicago. I'm going to DeCamp tap a goat, you know. He said, I'm gonna send you a goat. Hey. This is when the Cubs couldn't win the World Series and the Curse of the Billy Goat. And so he sent a bloody goat head to the studio and I was banned from getting mail because for several months they would not take any mail for me because this thing leaked blood in the mail room. They

thought it might be human. They didn't realize they didn't know what it was. They like, if you if you get a package and there's blood dripping out of it, you don't know what to make of it. And so I had to explain I did not tell Doc Mike to send me a bloody goat head. He did it on his own. It wasn't my doing. And Annie Z who you know, Danny, Oh my god? Did I have to go through hoops and there shouldn't be blood in

the mail room. Yeah, you can't do that. Ben, You've got to tell your crazy listeners they can't send that stuff here. And like as like z Dog, I didn't. I didn't tell him to send it. What do you want me to do? They send it, I give out the address they sent it. And so then Doc after that, Doc every package he sent he wrote in large black marker, no goat products, no animal products. Thank god. He has moved on to mailing urine. Yeah. Now he just sends

me you're in related books. That's the that's the big thing that he sends now. But that's the answer mark. And that's a good name for a town. Waverley, Iowa. I feel like I've heard that over the years, Chris in Alaska. Right. So, and he says, can we buy autographed merchandise? No, I've tried merchandise before. I'll tell you what, Chris. If enough people say, hey, we want to buy a shirt or a hat or something like that, let me know.

I've had people say, what about a coin like a Mallard Show coin, Like, if there's something you guys are jones and for I would be willing to do it. Every time I put a deal together to make shirts, it's just been a pain in the ass because, as you know, Danny, people love things for free, and it's not You've got a charge for this stuff and people don't like to pay for it, and then they complain it's not perfect and all that. So you've got to deal with shipping and all that. And it's better to

just do a shirt as a giveaway. That way, some he gets it for free, and can you really complain about something you got for free. Yeah, I guess you can, right. We used to give stuff away at the radio station and at the FM radio stations, and people would still complain about stuff they got for free. It was pretty amazing. We had a joke at the station. We'd be like, if we gave away a free car, the person would complain that it wasn't a full tank of gas in

the car. Oh for sure. Oh yeah. I remember doing giveaways back in the day and the same thing. And there's always those people only call for the giveaway the hotline fright hors. Yeah, and I saw firsthand because I worked at Kiss AM, but Kiss FM, Holy crap. They would say I were giving away something at the ones. I think it was like one of the type shows did a special on people that just do that as their job. They just have all the radio stations on

speed dial and they just win everything. Yeah, it's hard to do now. A lot of those contests have become national contect. Wasn't the case years ago, though. Yeah, we were giving crap away. We were giving I remember oh man in San Diego, Holy crap, I got so fat. They had to deal with Nestley. This is a bad situation. So I'd go to San Diego to work at the station, and the FM X I think it was called. Is that the you know, I don't know if you're familiar, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

the alternative rock station. Yeah X, really popular station in San Diego. So they had with six ninety they had some kind of Nestle promotion. So there were crates of Nestley candy bars and the guys were like, you know, just eat whatever you want, and we got I can't give all these away, you know, we're giving away. But that was just keep sending more in. So I had the green light eat as many Nestle candy bars as I could, and I just kept eating. It was like

double fisting. It was like it was terrible. I was more concerned about him giving me a double fish. You just reminded me of a funny memory. Mountain Dew loved my FM station that I programmed in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and they would send us palettes of Code Red. Do you remember Mountain Dew Code Red? I do remember that. Yeah. Man, we had Code red coming out of our ears. I mean everyone, the staff drank it like it was water. We had the little Code Red refrigerators in every room

at the business offices and studios. And I had DJ's take it home, take some of that home, get it out of here. We couldn't get rid of it. That's funny, that is Uh yeah, well those are the old days. That's not like that anymore though, you know they put that lock and key these days. No, no, no, no no, alright, what is next year? On The Good Old Fashioned Male? All right, come back, it's sign from now Call Neil and Jasper Indiana rights in can't close the deal O'Neil legend.

On the show, he says, what is your favorite moment receiving something from a fan? Uh? Yeah, so my favorite moment. People have been very kind. I've done these Mallard meat and greets all over the country, from Seattle to Boston, and it's really neat when you meet people and they bring something for you, like a book or a shirt or a hat, and and it's it's great because it's something special from them. And I've I've kept a lot of that stuff over the years, and people in Seattle

were very kind, brought a lot of stuff. Boston, I've gotten some random and very unique hats and things like that. That are pretty pretty cool. Uh, he says. Also a second question, favorite memory from a caller living or deceased. Uh yeah, I mean I remember a lot of actually

remember a lot of the callers that have died. Random I'll be like driving and I'll remember something funny Genie and Medford did, or how when she was having the party at her house in Medford, just randomly, and then that guy gets on at the very end, and you're like, what's going on. There's a party in Medford. This is weird. What's going on right now? What is going on in Medford, Oregon? Well, there's a guy. There's there's a guy there now. Also

that's Joe. They're having a party in Medford and they're listening to our show. It's a party in Medford. Hello, Joe Hi, I like the Saint. Yes, I remember that was hilarious. It's Joe Hi. I like the Saints. Uh yeah, I remember that. I remember Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay, who was like the male version of Genie and Medford. I I beer drinking. Brian obviously is fresh in my mind because he passed away earlier this year, so remember some of the craziness with him and Uh, spoken Gary

who used to be one of my regular guys. Uh. There was our kid caller from Virginia who died in a car accident at a young age. I remember some of the calls we had with him, and so so yeah, I probably remember more of the deceased callers than the living, which is I guess good and bad at the same time. The callers, Danny that you remember that well. And first of all, I wanted to shout out Tammy and Montana because over the years she sent us some really cool

things in the mail. Oh the cake thing that was amazing. We had the cake year of cakes from the cake Benefactor as you called her. And also, you know this, some people may not realize that I'm the back to back NFL book. I'm champion on your show back to Back Here's and she sent me an actual trophy for the book that has the back to back years on the trophy. Is that displayed at the Danny Ga. You know it is when people look at that, They're like, oh,

did you win a title in high school? And I'm like, nope, back to back book, I'm champion baby board on board. Um, let's see, as far as callers, we talked about this just last week. Actually, that duet that Eddie did on the air where we heard Eddie sing for the first time the way we were lazy gentlemen, scattered pictures, the smiles we left. When you laugh uncontrollably, Ben, that is radio gold. That's Marconi worthy. And you can't stop. Once

you start, you can't stop. Yeah, it is true. I when I get oh and it's and Eddie, it was all you know, Eddie's all button up, serious guy and all that. Lets see him singing. Yeah, I mean that's happened a few times, like when coupe ate the vassiline eate that seventy old hot dog and you just hear all of us genuinely losing it with laughter in the background, and you hear your high pitched giggle happening. I think those were the moments I remember the most on your show. Yeah,

those were good times. Next up, I didn't get the name on this one. I don't think they put their name. He says, what is your fasting schedule? Look like I try one or two days a week, but usually fail and do the last five or seven days of the month to make up for it. Yeah, so you have to. First of all, you find out what works for you. All right, everyone's different. I'm different than you. But the one thing we all have in come, right, is that to form a habit, it takes I think the numbers

like sixties six days or something like that. It takes a there's a finite amount of time, but you have to be committed to the fasting cult. And I eat most of the time one meal a day. Now on the weekends, i'll have a lunch and dinner, but I usually during the week one meal. I'll skip a day during the week, I'll go forty eight hours. Actually that

we're doing this right now in real time. Let me check my I'm gonna check my fasting app here Danny here live on the podcast on delay, and let's see here, I am at thirty eight hours and twenty six minutes of a fast and I will I haven't been to bed yet, so I'll probably the time I eat, it'll probably be forty forty six hours before I eat. But I do that once a week. And is it only water? Uh? Yeah, I can I only drink water. I don't. I don't. I still drink water. I don't eat any kind of food.

Or anything like that, but no other liquids, no other kind of drink or soup or anything like that. Yeah, because you want to go into catosis. Is that how you say it? I think that's it. Whatever, the big fancy word is where you burn fat and all that. But you gotta find out what works for you. But I would say you gotta stick with because if you only make it one or two days, you try the one day. We think I would start out with like a thirteen hour fast because that's really most people sleep it.

I don't sleep in hours, but a lot of people sleep in hours. So that's just don't eat a couple hours before bed, and don't eat a couple hours after you wake up, and then boom, it's thirteen hours. That's nothing. And then slowly work your way up bit by bit by bit, and you know, if this is your thing, and go for knock yourself out, have a fine. Next up is Buried from Music City, says yo Yo mob Benny. I had to take a few weeks off contributing to

the show. I had to consult with the Saudias for a few million, But now I'm back, he said, Uh, you have been at the podcast for a bit over two years. I think my question is are you surprised that you still get original, unique questions asked of you and Danny on the Sunday edition. Yes. I always get concerned Danny that, oh, this is the week that nothing's

gonna happen, no questions. And people have been very good. Barry, you've been great, and Alf and so many Ohio, al, so many super fans of the podcast on the radio show. And we want to get new voices also, we want new people asking questions. But it's been a lot of fun. Who would have thought, man, that that's a talent that our parents didn't want us to have as kids, but would come in handy as an adult because when we were kids, we wouldn't shut up. We asked so many questions, Mom,

why is this? Dad? Why? Mom? Why? Why? Why? Question after question. I remember my mom at one point saying, if you ask one more question during this car ride, I'm gonna pull the car over and slap you. Why. By nature, people are inquisitive, so that really helps, al right. Next up on the mailbag, we have Pierre from halfway between Springfield and Wooster. He says, now that the NFL

preseason is kicked off. I feel that it is okay that you spill the beans about the top secret, high level negotiations that you have been having behind the scenes regarding Benny versus the Penny. All of us are sitting on the edge of our seats, hanging on every word. Please tell me that there won't be any time restraints, because the best part of the show was when you interacted with us the common man in the chat, regardless

of what happens with Benny Versus the Penny. I hope that you have some outlet that you will allow us to interact with you in real time outside of the show. Maybe you can do play by play of marble racing on Twitch when we get locked down again, says Pierre. So Pierre, I would love to spill the beans. I thought I would have some information by now. I have been awaiting green light, yellow light, red light. I have not gotten a green light. I have not gotten a

yellow light. I have not gotten a red light. And as you can attest Danny, in this business, waiting is a lot of what we end up doing when these these opportunities present themselves. So I'm not as optimistic as I was that this is going to happen because it hasn't happened. But I'm also I'm feeling somewhat decent because I haven't been told no. So until you're told no,

there's a shot. So that's where I am on that, and I promise you, Pierre, depending on scheduling issues, I will do something, whether more, asked Ben on on Twitter. Maybe I'll strike up the twitch thing and give that a shot and and do a bit, but we'll we'll

do something. We'll do something for sure. Next up, John writes, and he says, do you recall when Don Drysdale passed away suddenly on a road trip to Montreal Scully Ben Scully came on and was very emotional and shocked but said something along the lines that we still have to go to this game, We have to do. This game had to be tough. John said, Yeah. In fact, we had a Ross Porter on on this podcast not that

long ago and loss. I think that was the same weekend in Montreal where it might maybe it was around that time he did the longest game for a single play by play guy, and it was because Vin had left to go do a network game for NBC and Drysdale was obviously it passed away, and so Ross had to do entire like twenty six inning game by him by himself. But Scully was the master. Vin was the master of that. And as so many people have given universal tributes, I caught your on air tribute and it

was really good. What a guy. Oh thank you. I I and I didn't even tell that scratched the surface on some of those stories from from back in the day, but I I still remember working up the courage to ask him if he listened. I thought he listened to Dodger Talk on the way home, and Vin just pointed out very politely, and he listens like classical music. Ben Ben is one of those guys where we had talked about it on a past podcast where I told you, I'm not sure how we're gonna be able to deal

with it when Vin passes away. He's one of those guys where he felt like our real grandfather, and we've actually talked about it that we can't even think about losing him, and so when it actually happened, it's just, yeah, it was such a sad night and day after, and still right now it feels like a loss in the family. And the thing about the timeline of Vince Killy's career. He was a broadcaster of baseball for two and a half generation. Actually more than two and a half generations.

Generation A generation is twenty five years rough from the time of child's born until they become an adult. Shall we say most people around the age of twenty five, give or takes, start they have their own cell phone plan. Finally they get off the cell phone plan, off the insurance, they start their own families and things like that, and so roughly twenty five years. So he did sixty seven

years of Dodger basement. So the math on that, that's two generations plus seventeen years on top of that, which is only eight years away from a totally different generation. And uh, it was very cool and could have been a complete a whole. And he loved hanging out in the press box. He loved having a conversation with the scouts.

He would always talk to the scouts. I remember there was a table in the press box at Dodger Stadium where the scouts would mingle and you know, shoot the bullshit about what was going on with their particular teams. And they would always welcome Vin over, and Vin love

to trade stories with those guys. And of course a lot of those guys were old baseball players that had some of that had played for the Dodgers and knew who Vin was, and he would he would sit there and they'd go back and forth, and then picked up a lot of antidotes from that, and he shared a

lot of things with those guys. And uh and and I also I remember one time I didn't tell the story on the show the other day, but uh my, I don't know, how's the relations So my brothers, my brother was in l a from New York with he was at a Dodging game with his my nieces, his two daughters and his father in law. And so I at the time, this is I had access to the press box. So I was like, you know, showing off little girls. Didn't give a shit about the press box.

But the father in law, this guy was like, this is cool, right, And so we happened to walk through the press box and I gave him a tour. I showed him everything. And it was the seventh inning stretch. And at the seventh inning stretch then would go out and walk around the press box to get some steps in while the seventh inning stretch was going on, and everything lined up in a road. This it was a

day game, everything lined up in a row. So I'm taking the girls and the father in law, Scully, walks out of the press box and he sees these two little my two nieces, and you know, then when he sees kids, he lights up, you know, and he smiled the way you know. The kids didn't know the hell he was, but the father was like father was like thought I was like the coolest guy in the world, because Van of course was very nice to him and said hello, how are you doing, and all that stuff.

So that was just one added story that I recall from many many years ago. These little both girls are about ones in college and the other one is about to be in college, so they're growing up now. So yeah, uh do a few more. Here on the mail bag, John in Colorado writes, and he says, when traveling, do you guys keep the unused soap and shampoo? So I I used to do this all the time, and then I realized I never actually end up using it, So

what's the you know, what's the point. I have my own shampoo and soap at home, but I for years and I used to travel a fair amount in my younger days, and I would keep that. I'd have a whole suitcase full of uh soap and shampoo, and I never ended up using. What about you, Danny. If it's spans see and they just use amazing, fancy, expensive products, then it's worth taking. If it's just standard average hair products, nah, you're out. Yeah. And I think they put that into

the charge of the hotel room. They don't. They like, you're you're paying for the soup, whether you take it or not. They throw it in there. Uh, let's do one more. Mike from Fullerton rights in. He says, first off, to Pierre from East of the Rockies who asked if Fullerton is west of the four oh five last week, all I have to say is keep my city's name out of your damn mouth. Um, Mike. This guy, Mike's

pretty funny. This guy fur Dog, and he's he's getting a lot of airtime, Danny, and I've noticed some of the other fans of the show are jealous, getting jealous of fur Dog because he's getting a lot of attention and and they don't like it. And Mike says, I'm a big chicken finger guy, like you Ben, they are my face. Every thing to order at Marie Calendars, even with their chicken finger combo being called a summer picnic. I also used to like the drink called the Shirley Temple,

but there's no way I'd order that anymore. My question to you guys is, have either of you ever been embarrassed for ordering something with a dumb or girly sounding name to it? So, yeah, what I would do, Mike or fur Dog, my move would be, even if they call the chicken fingerplate as you say here at Marie Calendars, the Shirley Temple, my move would be, I just want the chicken fingers. I wouldn't call it the goofy name I'd I'd call it the more masculine more like chicken

fingers is a masculine name. But I that's what I would That would be my move. And I'm trying to think, I don't know there's anything that off the top of my head that I order that's got a really kind of ridiculous name to it. So I would say, no, Danny, anything on your plate. I mean, you order anything from the Starbucks drive through, and you sound pretty silly because of the long girly names. A lot of the drinks have. But here's a life fact for you, because I like

the taste of that Shirley Temple drink as well. There's a male version. It's the Roy Rogers. Oh there you go. Yeah, you sound like a Western cowboy. Just order a Roy Rogers, same thing. And if they don't know what it is, then I guess you have to say, oh, it's like a Shirley Temple. So you still have to say those words maybe, but hopefully wherever you're at they know what a Roy Rogers is. Hey, ma'am, I'd like a Roy

Rogers on the rocks. Yeah, it's a coking grenadine. When I was a kid at bar Mitzvah's and weddings, I felt like I was ball because I had the Shirley Temple. Everyone else was drinking alcohol, but I got to get the Shirley Temple and that was a big deal and I bragged about that to all my friends. I had the Shirley Temple. That was wonderful. Ohio Out. He did not send a question, and I all got upset because I was taking pot shots at the browns. Ohio Out. Listen,

I know you're a Browns fan, I understand. It's it's really at the neanderthal Browns fans that have been going over the top, like dismissing everything Deshaun Watson did. Those are those are the people that I'm taking shots at. I realized there are plenty of people that love the Browns that think that this whole situation is a hot mess. But I had people emailing me who claimed to be Browns fans who were like, see, he only got six games. You did all these motalogues and he didn't do anything.

The federal judge said it, he's gonna be playing your loser like stuff like that. So I'm like, my point is that that type of fan makes everyone else look bad that because people that aren't sports fans see that, and they said, we're all Neanderthals, and we're not all Neanderthals. So that that was my point. So as you know, Ohio, we have to take create, we have artistic freedom. We have to exaggerate from time to time to make a point. So that's all that one. Yeah, he didn't mean to

rub be the wrong way. Yes, I didn't need a tug or rub or touch or feel or smell or whatever. You didn't mean to tug on his emotion, yes, exactly, and to keep your ranch dressing to yourself. That's the lesson. All Right, we gotta get out of here, Danny. It's Sunday. I'll be back in the Magic Radios studio tonight and we have in studio guest j Scoop is supposed to pay a visit to the Hallowed Hallways. What do you

have going on today, Danny? I'll be in there a few hours before you first having fun with a Coveno and Rich show and then the lead up to the Ben Mallard Show, which is Chris Planket Arnie Spaniard outstanding and remember five stars in the podcast. Subscribe to the Fifth Hour podcast. It's different than the Ben Mallor Show podcast. I know a lot of people listen to this show from what I understand, and on the Ben Mallard feed.

This is a separate feed, and I can't guarantee that this podcast is always going to be on that feed. Sometimes it won't be. There might be some other things that pop up on the Fifth Hour feed that you're only gonna get if you subscribe to this feed. That I would recommend it and we're gonna get out on that. Have a wonderful rest of your day. I'll be on the radio tonight eleven in the West, two am in the East on Monday morning, and Danny's got his thing

going on all day. We'll talk to you then later. Skater make funny. What's the pop up Wizard?