The Fifth Hour - "On the Live Air" Mail Bag

Sunday Sunday Sunday. Because hey, four hours a night during the week enough, eight days a week, we do this podcast with me, Ben Maller and Danny G. Radio back for the very popular mail back. Do you have your battle armor ready to go? Danny G? I'm ready man mail bag time. I looked like one of the lacrosse players I saw in a field here in Ventura County last week. Big shoulder pads on and nowhere to go. Yeah, well, I listen, this is a very this is a dangerous territory.

We are trained professional broadcasters. Do not attempt answering listener questions unless you have years and years of training. It is a bad idea. You're risking your life don't do it. Do not do it. With that being said, here we go all right, come back, it's sign from mail call. Well, thank you, Ohio, I appreciate that. And into the mail bag we go, and we start out with all right, telling in Stu in Palmetto Bay, Florida, and they write

and they say, Ben Danny Gira Deli Deli. Yeah, you reveal the big reveal last week that Danny may Or may not be part of the famous Giadelli chocolate family. Yeah. And last week I checked in on one of our locations, which is inside California Adventure Park. Did you get what I say is the greatest dessert ever? The Sunday Cookie Sunday amazing, amazing, amazing, but really more for like two or three people than one person. But I thought of you when I saw Disneyland goers enjoining those. But um,

I didn't part take. I was just saying hi to the employees. They're doing a nice job there for the garat Delli Empire. Yeah, and they they love that, you know, as it says here in the email Helen and Stu. They say, Danny Chocolate. Uh, that's your one of your nicknames. They're good early morning to both of you, Stu and I the email rights are far more experts in real estate as we then we are as technology and all that.

But we saw this week an interesting article titled that radio dj a you here may already be a robot? About that for a plot twist surprise, motherfucker, Yes, very big surprise there. And I saw this story also anyway, says from music to now sports artificial intelligence is already being used to create andy artificial neutral disc jockeys using

real radio voices like yours. In a deeper dive by partnering with a Los Angeles based company, Fox Sports, and I heart will be using super WiFi in all new studios like your future Burbank location to create evil automated programming drama on this is through the roof, Danny, I mean, my god, and will be real. Ben Mallard Please stand up, Ben? Are you real? Or are you just a robot? The question asked. And let's see that's a beauty right there, Helen.

And still you never really know, you never really know. Yeah, Now I feel bad for my DJ friends because they are getting rid of the DJs. Well, there's already that format that hasn't really done that well, in most cities, Odyssey has it. That's Jack FM and l A Well. This is something band that they tested way back in the nineties nineties. A friend of mine was part of the founding radio station in Mantica, California. They had the

idea to put on a jockless radio station. Let's just play all music and see how it does in the ratings. It bombed big time because part of the comfortability of the radio and part of the enjoyment of listening to the radio is you feel like the DJ's talking to you, and that's your friend at two in the morning, you know, And so if it's missing at all parts of the day, it's just super generic. It was like an iPod back

then before there were iPods. Yeah, I agree, of course we are both biased because we make our living talking into microphones. But I I would absolutely agree with you that part of the charm to me, the magic of radio is I was a lonely, fat kid. I didn't have any friends, but the radio guy, the guy on the radio my friend. The guy in the radio talk to me and and I love that, and so I

had to lose that. I know, people change and stuff, but I think human beings that It's just it takes away life when you don't have somebody who's real there, and if you don't know what's real and fake, that's also a problem. And well also the entertainment in between the songs. I loved guys like Rick Chase from one oh six, K M E Out. He was amazing in between songs. His content was absolutely some of the best radio I heard as a kid. Umber six point one, j M, E M. This is Rick Chase four oh nine.

I got the solid jams, zero commercials. Don't know if this our controversy with right Chase pimony contest. Just have to judge for yourself sexist or is it fun? You know, I having a lovely birthday. Nobody remembers helly birthday. Damn it, thank you baby making Hey, this is getting not in California is not one music station. It drew me in

as much as the music did. I mean, they were playing really good hip hop and R and B in the late eighties throughout the nineties, but I wanted to hear the DJs just as much as the music, and also the callers and all the different things going on in the city. When you listen to that station. In those voices, you felt like you were tapped in. Yeah, you know, just to follow up on that. As a kid, you know, I love sports, but I remember it's just the way they talk though it was more than And

we've talked about this before on the Overnight Show. Like I, I spend a lot of time with these monologues and I'll go on and on about whatever, and when I meet listeners when I'm able to do that, they never want to talk about the monologue. They just want to talk about you know, I had a bad I dropped Karayaki sauce at the store or whatever. That knows. That's what people want to talk about. They don't care about

the sports. They listen. I guess for the sports stuff, but I just think of a world where all radio guys go away and it's just but hopefully that does not happen. But if it does, I'll be long gone by then. And they have done studies though that have indicated, as you referenced, Danny, that it hasn't gone well. When they've tried to have faceless radio stations. It just doesn't work. And people can get that content. There's a lot of streaming places. Even I the I Heart app which is

carries this podcast. If you want just music without DJs, you can get it. But if you know, if you're by yourself working late at night, or you can't sleep, you want to hear a voice on the radio, you should be able to hear that. Or if you're driving, you're stuck in traffic, you want somebody to talk to you so you don't have a nervous breakdown. It's the magic of all right. Next email from Tammy in Montana, and she's an enemy combatant of Helen and Stu. There's

been great rivalry the Mallar militia. They were very happy Helen and Stu left and now that they're back, there's anger. There's there's rage. There's a primal instinct, primal scream that takes off anyway, Uh, Tammy and Montana right, since she says classy Danny g Radio giving props to Gascon unlike that classless crocodile Helen, who is completely unaware of how many militia wish she would get ragged into a pond by a gator. Wow, that is vicious. God. Tammy is

very feisty. She's a very feisty woman. Uh. Stu is probably an alcoholic and heavily medicated to stay married to that nasty smelling old crow. Wow vicious. Uh, he keeps the paper sack company in business, buying so many to keep her ugly face covered. Wild Timmy, how do you really feel? Thanks for doing that, Stu, the world appreciates. Go go drink some prune juice, Medusa. Wow, try to. She says, you're trying to shift out some of your nastiness.

You your poor family. Wow, dammy, man, man, I'm so happy I came into this beef late so that I could just be the ultimate politician and say I love everybody. Yeah, you're much better off on that, because this is a you know what this is? This is like back and forth, is like flatulence. They're they're farting at each other. It's just terrible. It's torrible. J M writes in he says, what was the other name you said you used when you had a daytime local show. I never heard about

that before. And he says, ps, I think that beer drinking Brian is giving you a story about his power and heating being shut off. He talked about that on the show this week. JM Jam says, I am about nine percent sure that Missouri has a cold weather law that you are not allowed to shut off utilities in the winter months. Was he talking about when you were little Ben Mallett. No, No, that's how you've typed my name into Google. It comes up Ben Mallett. But no, uh,

this actually was pretty funny. So I was doing the show at eleven fifty, a young guy, and we got some positive pulp. And back in those days, it was very important to be on in the l a Times radio TV critic Larry Stewart, and that was the big deal. Like you knew you were of every one in the industry read that column. That was that was a sign you've made it. And Larry didn't write a lot about radio. He seemed to enjoy television more than radio, and so

he didn't write about radio much. But a few times a year he read right and maybe more than that, I'm exactly ate. Usually at the end of his column he'd have a little bit of radio news. So he wrote a really nice thing about me when I was a young guy. I was in my early twenties and he wrote a really nice thing. I thought, why this is I've arrived. My mom was impressed. My dad was impressed.

You know people, I used to work with this like a big deal, right the l a times, back when everyone read newspaper and uh, except he wrote my name, Ben Waller. How my name was in the so I on the air at that time, much like these days. They made it. I had to do the show, and I had to do updates, and I hated doing the updates.

I just wanted to do the show. I didn't want to worry about the updates, and they made me do the updates and so on the updates, I was Ben Waller, and I'd said I. I was like Phil Henry, like a mental patient. I was throwing to myself, all right, let's go to the news desk. Here's Ben Waller, you know. And then I, uh so, do you think about that anytime you watch a Las Vegas Raiders game? No Waller Jersey, oh oh the wall Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're

right the tight end there. Yeah, that's right. Uh. Do you do you ever use Danny any kind of fake radio names when you're a DJ back in the day, any kind of No? No, But you know, when I was at NBC Sports Radio, I would do updates half of the week for my salary. There. Part of doing the national updates at NBC Sports Radio was you had to do the sixty second sports updates live on Bloomberg News, which was really cool because you were live in New

York and San Francisco. But they would not let me say Danny g. For a news organization like Bloomberg, you can't use hip hop names. They told me that's a hip hop name, so according to them, So I had to come up with something. I didn't know what to do. I went Batman Ben Danny Grayson. Really you said, you went, you were full of Batman? Here we come. Yeah, batman sidekick, of course, but that's because the newsman would throw to me and then I'd be a sports sidekick. I didn't

know what else to do. I just came up with that, you know, the day before I had to be on Bloomberg. That's the only other alias I've ever had on the radio. Yeah, I've only done the Ben Waller thing I remember they had. You know, Fox Sports Radio has a news thing that they have for Fox News Radio. I don't know if they still do that or not, but they used to, and they had to come up with different different names. Uh and Uh, I forget Looney had a funny one. I forget what it was, but he had he was

obsessed with that. You want to come up with the perfect fake name, and uh, I don't remember. I wish I did, but I don't know. You we do have more, let's see. John in Colorado writes into the fifth Hour podcast. By the way, if you want to send us a question, I think next week Danny will be our last podcast of the year. They we're gonna will be dark on Christmas weekend and then the first weekend of the new year, and so that we'll be back. I think January tent

ish something like that with new podcast. Anyway, John in Colorado says, in the process of renovating the new Mallard mansion, where you tempted to add a hidden door or secret passage, Yes, John, I would have. I love the idea of a hidden room. As a kid watching those old shows from when I was a child, they always had like the bookcase, you pull out the book and the the thing open to speaking of Batman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, So I thought more

that would be outstanding right to pull that went off? Uh, and we we may still do it. But the the cause there's a problem. It is a problem. And so there's a staircase in the Mallard mansion here, and so there's a little storage room underneath the staircase. And so the plan was my wife's idea. She thought it would be great to kind of go Harry Potter and put a fake dummy bookcase where the storage room opens up, and then how you can pull a book out and

it opens up. And really, because you know, we have nieces and nephews and little kids, and like, how cool would that be if you're a little kid and you come over and you you have your own like private hideaway and you can open it up and then bam, you can put all kinds of stuff in there and knock yourself. I think that would be awesome. So and if any of her family members go missing, we know where to look first. Yeah, yeah, right, that's that's that

would be the spot. Uh, definitely, that would be the spot. But yeah, we we are thinking about that, John, But that's you know, shut up and eat your man a sandwich. Yeah exactly, you evil kids? How dare you sound proof the room? Chef Scott from New Orleans, right, So, and he says, holy crap, a podcast featuring all of the Christmas songs from the Mallets next Friday. No guest, I've decided these listeners keep sending these holiday songs in Mr

PC Jeopardy ah and Jack called Jeopardy Jeopardy out. That's a name from the past. Ohio. All I got my Al's mixed Ohio. All our our guy in Maine, Harry and Maine are buddy in Richmond. There's so many talented people, So I thought, since this is a very unique thing that we have, we have so many songs, we have enough songs to fill a whole hour that I can be like DJ Benny, I like you nothing but those

songs for the full hour on Friday. And because that's the week before Christmas, and I can't think of a better way to annoy your relatives at holiday parties by playing Mallard theme songs and and how wrong that would be and how annoying that would be. So I think we should do it so next Friday. Uh Chef's Guy talked about it on the show a little bit. So

these songs are so well done too. I was listening to you live on the radio when I was coming back from Anaheim on Wednesday night and one of the rejoined songs, I turned the volume up because I thought maybe it would be one of the p ones, and I was like, oh, no, this is a classic Christmas song. But then I heard the word Mallard being song and I was like, holy shit, no it's not. It's one of the Mallard songs. Man, these parody songs are legit. Yeah,

they're nuts. And this guy, Mr PC, I don't know a lot about him, but he even added this week his latest songs. He added a female lead, so it's a duet. It's a male female duet, which is unbelievable. And he's in a recording studio in Michigan. And so Coop told the story on the air that apparently what's on on is that the guy at the recording studios like, you shouldn't be doing this. You should you know. They got into a back and forth like a war, like

you shouldn't be doing this. These are professional songs, you should not do. Were doing this for free, And so that Mr PC is like, oh, I'll do what I want or whatever, and so he's like I like doing this, and it's you know, it's gotta be cool if you have an opportunity. We have a one good thing about The Overnight. We have a very big reach on that show because of the time we're on, we're cleared on over four hundred stations, and it's a pretty cool way to kind of cheat to the top and say you've

had your music played on all these radio stations. So America's most talented listeners for sure. Yeah. I mean it's crazy because we've done this in the past and we've had some good songs, but like one or two, not a whole c D s or not that they use CDs anymore any anyway, says that'll be podcast gold. Chef Scott says from the Bayou, absolute gold. The songs this year are epic. Uh, he says, thanks Ben and the

talent did Milicia songwriters. Happy birthday, Danny, g It says, But happy birthday, Danny, as you know that means we love you. Bro It says, here, welcome back to Mallard Town. So a big fan of yours there are, Buddy. I appreciate that. Yeah, and actually I will be celebrating a birthday during the break. Okay, well there you go, Altough,

Happy birthday day after Christmas, which means package them all together. Unfortunately, if somebody gives you, I don't know, say they give you a book for Christmas, that's a bad gift, right, But as a kid, you'd hear Merry Christmas and happy Birthday. Yeah that sucks. And Roberto's birthday actually just happened this week day. You know, guys in December, with the birthdays, you should pick a day where there's not much going on, like a June. Yeah, that's the day I'm going to

celebrate the birthday. I agree, because my chick's been trying to plan somewhere to take me and the rates are all jacked up because it's Christmas week. Yeah, I just wait. Told her, I'm like, let's postpone it. Yeah, because you can have the same experience and with half the price. Why would you you know, I'm a cheap I'm a cheap guy. So that's what I I would do. You know, you know what I want for for Christmas, Danny? You know what I want? A spider pig, right, pig spider

pinkus whatever spider pig. Guys, can you thwing from a web? You know we can't. He's a pig look he is. I really have no reason that. I just wanted to hear that. I thought that was funny. I don't really want a spider pig, but I just love that. So just like playing drops. Yeah, oh you know it's a toy. You know I like toys. Well, you know what I'll do. I'll play a couple of Genie drops right here, all right, I'll match your spider pig with a Genie. I have

a statin night Joune on my peach cobbler list. Oh Genie, Oh god, I miss her, Genie, I miss you. They've to play like four or five of her drops on last week's podcast, and the response was amazing. I I miss hearing her drops. Genie was great, man, she had so much fun with her on the show. Yeah. Remember the story she told us about how she was a stripper in Compton. Yes, really, and we looked it up and it check it out through. Yeah, we looked it up and we yeah, with some joint in Compton that

she really stripped at. Yeah, it's nuts. Were you were you with me the night this is not a Genie story, but the night that that mob guy knocked on the door. Were you were you working that night. I was working that night. Yes, yeah, that guy's from Good Fellows. Yeah, well he was the real guy from good Yeah he's dead now was the guy's name. We had so many crazy visitors bet and remember when Helmet Man would show up. Yeah, we we don't. We haven't heard from helmet Man. We

don't know if he's alive or not. He disappeared. We haven't since COVID started. Helmet Man went away. I it spawned that famous drop where Helmet Man said, I'm actually on the live air. Yes, you're on Yes, which was one of the great jobs of all time. Sitting in a radio station within on air, light pulsing on air, on air, on air, and me talking to him into a microphone in a different studio, and he had no

idea that he was on the air. My on the live air, Oh my, yes, exactly in our swamp, helmet Man, what's wrong with you out there? We'll have to do in the future podcast will go over in great detail the night one of the great mob guys of all time. That happens to be my favorite movie, Good Fellas. I love good my favorite mob movie, good Fellas. By the way, Henry Hill was like, yes, that's right, Henry Hill. Henry Hill drunk as could possibly be drunk, banging on the door,

you know, I we'll get tobies. And we wanted to get in the radio studio, and I of course walked out past the mob guy because I had to call the late great Joe McDonald, l a radio legend, did cross talk with him, and I was embarrassed because people would look at me when I talked. So I got outside and I'd walk around the streets of Sherman Oaks anyway, Vahed writes in from Sant's Country. He says, Danny g

a great hire for the part. Well, you know higher, uh, Danny, I think we're giving you a chicken feed for this. I think maybe, but the big money will come then, as you know, but you were already part of the company, so we didn't hire d money. Yes, yes, uh question. Could Danny G book William Shatner? We have heard about his booking skills, big names, former presidents and many more great people keep doing great big bend and Danny G from he there in New Orleans where that would be

the big get. I doubt Shatner would do it, but it you know, you could harass him. And it's always when he does a media thing. And I say that in the kindest way. When I say harass, I don't mean in like actually, I just mean a friendly message. He hates you with a passion. So the angle I would have to come at would be some sort of

contribution towards his favorite charity or something like that. Because back in the day, Clay Travis got into it with Peter King and the who hated each other, and we're sparring on Twitter, and I was able to book Peter King and get him on the air, which was a

classic interview on OutKick the Coverage. Clay agreed to pay I think it was five thousand bucks or something to Peter's favorite charity and maybe maybe a thousand dollars, but it was a pretty decent sum of money to convince Peter to come on, even though he hated Clay's guts. That's really the only workaround, I think when it's a guy that hates the guy you're trying to connect them with, so it has to be financial. There has to be a financial stake, and that's how Shatner ended up unblocking me.

Is that a Trekky a star trek NERD was so bothered by the warring Mallard militia and all that that this guy Shatner had on his one of his charity things. He had the whole to do about how you know, you wanna you don't want to end this and I'll follow ben I don't think followed me. He doesn't follow me, but donated dollars and some dude did. I don't even know the guy. And then the guy just he was tired of the whole thing and he's like, hey, let's

let me settle this right now, and he did. And Shatner followed through and saved a horse's ass or something like. Now you guys are best friends on Twitter. I didn't matter. He didn't check in on me before he went to outer space. We did have a brief interaction on on the Twitter machine, but it's it's been a while. So

I love how the militias celebrates his birthday every year. Yeah, yeah, Well, there's so many good Foot soldiers that met their demise at the hands, you know, the Twitter demise at the

hands of William Shatner. It was it was interesting. That was a fun time though that that night, when spats with shots originated, and that there was that one night he was flying to Germany, and because he was up the whole night on a plane, and I guess they had WiFi because he's William Shatner, so he's not sitting in the cheap seats, and he kept replying, and he was trying to block everybody, and he was in such a hurry, and he was so flustered. He started following

security guards and guys cleaning toilets. And you know, the the hardcore me of the Mallard Show, the people that are working busting their ass all night and they're getting a follow from William Shatter. Joe Blow, who's got three followers, has William Shatner clicking follow trying to block him? Insane? Absolutely insane. But Shatter still doing pretty since ninety or something wrong that none William Shatter and he's still he's still going. He hasn't had the old Donkey coom anyway. Uh,

let's see what is next here. Kevin and Kansas rights in on the mail back, says, dear Ben and Danny g Or, both of you have seen and visited a lot of stadiums over the years, which ones were so horribly awful that everyone was glad when they got a new place. Well, the first one I will bring up is the l A Memorial Sports Arena, which I spent a lot of my life at. The Clippers played there in the nineties and late eighties, and that place was a total, uh, tear down, destroy what ever you want

to say. And I the last time I ever went in the l A Sports Arena was at a USC Notre Dame game and they put the overflow parking on the floor of the sportsmen So I parked at a big four f one fifty truck and I parked my truck on the floor of the l A Sports Arena and somewhere I took pictures of it. I haven't been

able to find the photo, but it was crazy. That's a place that it had NBA All Star Games, NBA Finals, That's where the Lakers had played when they moved to l A, you know, in the early days, and I saw the Candy Man play there. Yeah, I mean it was that was amazing hockey that all kinds big events. They had political uh what do you call it conferences or whatever? The conventions conventions were held there, lots of

rap concerts. I saw West Side Connection performed there. Yeah, but by the time that place was you know, the Clippers had moved out of there. The USC was kind of planning there. Then they got a new arena. That

place was a dump. And how did they fill the seats for Clipper games back then, Ben, Well, Yeah, at halftime they would open up the doors and they were there would be more people in the second half in the first half and they were actually just a lot of homeless people or people down on their luck trying to get out of the cold. Yeah, and den you know, not that it gets that cold in l A. But December and January and they'd come in there and it was Boy, the stuff I saw at the sports are

holy moly. That is it will be in your book, Yeah, it'll be in my tell Bucking. I'd say. Shay Stadium is another one. I don't know if you ever went there, but I was with the Dodgers and we went to Shaye Stadium and that place was a complete rat hole. Uh, just horrible at And I know what you're thinking. The Oakland Alameda Coliseum, which is still there, hasn't They have not torn that that things that dump too. I have been there but some historic NFL and Major League Baseball

games took place on that field. Unfortunately, the building around the field was crumbling or is crumbling still. A few years ago, I think it was ten season, I got to go in the bowels of that stadium as a stringer to get the star of the game to call into fs R. There were hanging live wires like you could see sparks from, you know, these electrical wires that were hanging down almost touching people's heads. The popcorn machine up in the media area where the broadcasters were that

wasn't working. The soda machine wasn't working. That Mackenzie d that used to be the general manager was mumbling and grumbling as he walked over the stained carpet. He was bitching about how stuff wasn't working. And that's pretty much in a nutshell that place. Obviously, all the stories about the urinals not working and floods with what I guess, muddy water. Just take a guess what's in the water. It's what can brown do for you? I mean, the

stench coming out of those bathrooms. But and the home field advantage at that place was insane. Now you look at Vegas, it's obviously a great destination if you want to see your favorite NFL team. So you just don't have that same home field advantage anymore as a Raider. So that's the bad part. But that building, oh my god, Ben, they need to honor it and show all those great memories there and then bulldoze the place and give the

Oakland A's a brand new stadium. It's like the area around Chernobyl there's that zone you can't enter in and just get rid of that thing. And have you ever seen that creek water around the coliseum there. I mean, it's toxic. If you overthrow a NERF football and it goes down there, you're not getting a whole NERF back. And I remember watching games when I was a kid on TV when the A's when the Raiders were in l A And that place looked for baseball, was beautiful

with the backdrop and all that. And then they built Mountain they us and that was a disaster. I was also I'm trying to think some other stadiums. A county stadium in Milwaukee, qualcom alcome yeah, Jack Murphy Stadium. Yeah, that's that's gone now right. They got rid of that for they're building the San Diego State Stadium. There I was told, yeah, they blew that building up. Yeah, I spent a lot of time there. And that's another one. But that that one never, to me was really that beautiful.

You know. It was like I go to Padre games and I went a few Charger games and the people were cool. The tailgating and Charger games is kind of eating the parking lot, but the stadium was was brutel, brutel and similar qualities to Oakland. Yeah, thank you, Kevin. That inspired some hot talk. Hot talk. We do have more mail. Terry from New Franklin, Ohio. Right since says choose one A. You can keep your Holiday Derek decorations

up all year long. Be you never decorate for the holidays again and see to me, the outcome would be the same. And I'll tell you why. Because if you keep the holiday day decorations up year round, it loses its wild fact. You become used to it. It's like my theory. Now. Mr West of the four oh five, who was on the podcast before you, I used to fight with him by like everyone talks about, you want to live near the ocean, you wanna have ocean front views.

You wanna have skyline views of Miami or New York or Chicago. But once you live there after a while, it just becomes normal. It's not like you sit there and stare out the window, you know what I'm saying. And so that's always been my theory, Like you want to live in a good part of town, but you don't know, you don't necessarily need to have great views because you're just not You're not gonna look after a while. It's maybe your friends will be impressed when they come over,

but you're like, let's just that's home, you know. It's like that's the way it is. So I actually I called the Queen tender owning a mini Mallard last week because she had lights go out on the top half of her fake Christmas tree that she's had for years, and then she found this thing eight years ago on sale for thirty five bucks. It's a good move. I

told her, you'd be proud of her. Do you think a she threw the tree away and finally bought a new one or be she bought thirty five dollars in lights and strong new lights on the top half of it. That's a solid move, Listen, that's a good job by you, and that's the way to do it. Listen, things are expensive, everything is more expensive these days. Why not? And he's saving the environment at the same time, right, saving the environments. I like that. That's good. Yeah, we haven't done any

holiday decorations because the house is a absolute mess. But my answer, I think the answer, Terry to answer your question is it wouldn't really matter because if you keep them up all year, they come used to him, and I think it would be no fun never to decorate. So is that the worst most political answer of all time? Danny? Is that Bella has been leaving some holiday treats around. Yes, shell over your floor, by the way, it's hit and miss.

You know, someday she's good. The other day she decided to hellttle rain in l A so that she did not enjoy that. We need update she's yeah, well, yeah, she leaves. We don't call him poop Danny. We call him little cups of clumps of coal is what we called him. There And alright, Pierre from Springfield, mass home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where Muffett McGraw is Enshrine, says Ben and Danny Gee have either of you performed the Costco food court Marcel food Pick de Luxe.

What is that you ask? It is rolling up a slice of pizza around a Costco hot dog And he sent some video here Danny of someone on TikTok doing this. Wow, that's a veteran, veteran move. Also, I I have never done that. I usually what I'll do is I will get the hot dog and the pizza. I get the I eat the hot dog first because I feel like once that gets colder, it's not as enjoyable to eat pizza. You can eat when it's a little cool. That's a good move, yeah, but I've never done them. At the

same time. I separate them because I'd rather have two big slices of pizza and maybe two hot dogs, but in separate sittings. I don't like the pizza and the hot dog together. One of my goals is to go to Canada to not only eat the poutine. But we had a listener in Vancouver that used to send me screenshots every time you go to Costco because at the Costco in Vancouver at least a few years ago, they had chicken fingers and fries on the menu, And I'm like, Wow,

that's like next level. Yeah, they streamlined the menu during COVID. They got rid of a lot of stuff at Costco for a while. They got rid of the Barry Sunday. That's blasphem. You can't give rid of the Barry So, like, what the hell is that getting rid of the Barrys sign? They brought it back. People complained they brought back the Barry Sunday. James in Greensboro writes, and he says, why is Muffett McGraw always mentioned when you mentioned the Hall

of Fame? Uh, there's two reasons for that, James A. It's a funny name to say, Uh, and that's the main thing. And Muffett McGraw, that's just kind of it sounds like it sounds like a mistake or something like that. Uh, there's that. And then also the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame. It's to make a point, the NBA doesn't actually have a Hall of Fame. Technically Baseball, Major League Baseball doesn't.

It's a National Baseball Hall of Fame. But I just point out that it's people go to Basketball of Fame and you think like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan's you know, and then you see Muffett McGraw and the Russian coach from nine two or something like that, and you're like, what is it. That's just just having some fun, Jane,

just having some fun. Calm down. I love filling in for Coop on the Ben Mallard Show, on the Live Radio show, because when you do the NBA Pick them, I go back and I find the best nineteen eighties NBA player names, and those are the picks I give for Coop. Board has Hell, Danny g for Cooper. I'm gonna go with a dark Alley guy, Charles Oakley, solid good pick, eighties Nicks bowls good pick. Yeah. And that's

the proper way to do it. And sometimes there are people that sit in there and they actually try to They get competitive and they try to win, and that's that's when it becomes a problem. And we say, listen, pal, don't be rude. Knock that off. Okay, knock that off. Terry in England listening and uh, well he's listening to this. Eventually when we put it up, he says, when you started listening to a m radio, Ben, did you do it to be a d xer or just for sports?

You know what d xer means danny. That that jargon, that lingo, that means d xer as I understand, it means to try to listen to far away like a Ham radio nerd. Almost yeah, exactly that Terry's a Ham radio guy like my old man may rest in peace, and so I Terry did. That's part of the magic. That to me, that's part of the magic. But living in the West, I did not Western part of the United States. We did not have as many far away

stations to get. But I've told the story before. I as a kid, my mom listened to Art Bell, who was on Forever. Actually it was even I think it was even Art Bell, but somebody else. And they had a commercial for this antenna that would get far away AM radio stations at night. And I begged my mom for this. What a nerd? What a loser? And my mom it was pretty expensive at the time. I don't remember how much. It was pretty pricey. My mom kept reminding me about how expensive it was, but she finally

got it. I remember you talking about this gadget before. What did it look like? It was brown? It was. It was pretty big. It was like the size of it was the size of a laptop. But it was round. It was round, you know, like those look like a little satellite almost kind of, but it had a knob in the middle, some more like rabbit airs. Yeah, I mean it was shape. It was round, kind of like you know those ring lights, kind of like that. And it really worked. Yeah, it actually did work. I was.

I thought when I first got all this ain't gonna work. This is just a cheap plastic thing, and it actually did. I don't know the technology behind it, but I got stations, you know, living in l A. I got stations in St. George, Utah. I got a station from Portland, Oregon. San Francisco comes in. There's several stations in San Francisco to come in the l A market. Suddenly you were probably listening to Suns

basketball games. I was. I listened. In fact, I've told the story about Al McCoy, the voice of the Suns, who was still alive. I had the chance to meet him and I told him, I said, beside family in Arizona. And when I was a kid, I told al McCoy of this story. When we went to Arizona, I told my mom, I said, we got to eat at what a burke and she said, we didn't have how why would you want to eat? What? Do you don't even

know what that is? I said, well no, But I listened to the Son's game on the radio and they when the Suns would make a three point shot, Al McCoy's call would be what a shot? What a burger? That was his his tag, And he told me All McCoy told me that that was one of the first product placements in the NBA broadcast that hit that kind of thing, that they were the first ones to kind of do it, and so he got a kick out of that story on their jerseys. Yeah, now it's all

it's ridiculous. H And then I got Utah Jazz Games hot Rod Huntley out of St. George, Utah. It was a station I got that was a lot of Vegas. I listened to the Stardust line that I got my gambling fixed, Lee Pete. This old radio legend in Vegas. Every Sunday night, kind I think it was tend to midnight was the Stardust Line, and they'd give out the latest lines for the next week. That was like a big deal. You got the lines for the next week in the NFL, so I could go on and on.

But did you do any of that, Danny when you were literally you were too cool for that. You didn't. You weren't doing that. Maybe it was too cool supposedly because I was at the hip hop slash Rap and we didn't even call it R and B. We call it soul. At the time. It was the best in hip hop and soul for the nineties, and that station was cool. But that same instructor, he was the electronics

teacher at my high school. Man he would tell the class at the beginning of the semester, he would say, you could either do the book work and bore yourself to death, or you could get a Ham radio license and get an automatic A and A class. I'm not doing bookwork. Screw that. So I actually got a technicians license and I passed the Advanced Morse Code test to get an A. Wow. That was always my hang up. My dad wanted me to become a Ham radio operator, but that damn Morse Code thing, I just was. It

was hard. I had to take that test three times. I had to pass the last time I took it, and I did. The pressure was on. The trick was just staying ahead of yourself because if you fell behind a couple of letters, you were screwed. It's like, what is it, wheel of fortune. You kind of put things together if you just stay on track. So I would miss a letter here and there, but you could make out what the word is do that Morse code would go so fast. Now, I never used this radio license.

There was no reason or nothing to use it for except for that guy's class. He had a set up huge radio setups with the antenna on his roof there at the school. Yeah, and you know, it was more of like the find of Oh my god, I'm talking to somebody in Canada. So they would mark the map and it was I guess it was cool. It was better than doing the bookwork. But yeah, man, that Morse code. Ben. I had nightmares about that because it was really hard to pass. And they told us that if there was

ever an emergency, it would become useful to us. Even today. My dad, you know, just passed away at the beginning of this year. He was a Ham radio He was in the city he lived in. They had an emergency communications team in the Ham Radio group. My dad we used to buy. I used to bust my dad's balls because he always said, it's could be a big earthquake, and you know, and you know, he loved Ham radio. It was his passion. It was his hobby. And he always told me, said, been someday there's gonna be a

big disaster and everyone's gonna love this hammer. We're gonna be the heroes, you know, and then we're gonna say, everyone's gonna turn to Ham radio. And then because he used to teach Ham radio, and I was very upsetting because you know, it would be there'd only be a couple of people that would sign up for his class, and then you know, sometimes they had to cancel the class, and so it was very upsetting to him because he

loved the hobby. But he said he always said, if something bad happened, the Ham radio operator is gonna save the day. And that was his big shoutouts to Mr Hoskins was his name, and my stepdad, we have this in common. He was a Ham radio dude, and he used to on his hand set, used to do repeater sites. Before everybody carried cell phones around, he would make phone calls off his little Ham radio. Wow that's pretty cool. Yeah, pretty neat. That's pretty neat. Um anyway, thank you, Terry.

Let's see here, Matt, moving man, Matt says, why did Danny g abandoned the coveted overnight slot? He says, it's moving man, Matt. However, when Danny was on, I was still known as Matt from the Cape. So he said, well, you got promoted, Danny. That's happened on that right, Yeah,

for sure. At the time, Jason Martin was given his own radio show in Nashville, doing Morning Drive locally, and so I got to step into his spot because I was already co producing the show and engineering it, but I got to take over the executive producer role, which was a promotion, and the hours were a little bit better, but I was still waking up at one thirty am every day. Yeah. That's uh, that's a no go h the one thirty wake up call. Yeah that is I'm good.

I am. I'm good on that, all right. Valls Fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes in that's right, this is the last piece of mail we will use it. This is it. This is the final one. That's it was the last one. This is no more after all right, Valls Fan Jimmy says, I'm glad to hear Danny J back on the airwaves. Best choice you could make, could have made well. Best means as good as all the rest. Anyway, for both of you. Have you ever taken a girl out on a date and the service was so bad

you got up and left? M h uh, so I'll go first. I don't recall that happening. I have gone on dates. I was meeting a date and then she bailed out early and I was left. That one sucks. I have left a movie early because my now wife hated the movie so we had to walk out. But I don't think I've ever left. I've had really bad service. Um, but I don't leave. I won't leave a tip, or I'll leave a two dollar tip or something like that

if your services. What about you, Danny, anything at a restaurant on a date where you just bailed out and said, let me get the heck out of here. This is this is not good. Yeah. Just a few months ago, I was with my tender Roni at a diner in downtown Burbank. In Burbank, the table was sticky, I'm hoping from syrup, and uh, service was bad, the water cups were dirty. It just didn't feel right from the start, and I looked at her and I was like, we

need to leave before we order anything. The waiter, though, you could tell he was maybe part owner. The way he wasn't yelling at the staff. It was like he knew we wanted to leave. He could sense it. And so that made the dash hard because he already had his radar on. So I told her, I said, I'm gonna pretend like I take a call, pretended like I was talking to the radio station. And she then she followed me and she was laughing, and I'm like, what's so funny, And She's like, oh my god. He totally

knew what we were doing. He told me, if you want to leave, just tell me you're leaving. Oh man. Yeah, So he took it very personal surprise. All Right, it's been fun, Danny, but we've got to run, right. We've got places to go, things to do, people to see. That kind of thing on a Sunday, and I'll be back on the radio tonight. Good luck to your favorite NFL team, thank you? Yes, yes, that's right. Well, my my favorite NFL team is not playing until tomorrow. Yeah,

we're not yours. I was talking to the listener yours. You finally got better because you played Jacksonville last week. Whatever it takes, and uh, we'll see the Rams will be ramming it all day and ramming it all nights and the value of the sun. Have a wonderful rest

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