The Fifth Hour: One NFL Legend & Two Dopes

but we're hanging out on radio road. Is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g All weekend long as we are part of the machine, the football machine, the hype up super Bowl fifty seven and Danny g I'm looking around here and I'm still seeing a lot of people who are who are trying to sell it has a swap meat feel to it. It does feel like a swap meat like I have the magic beans that will make it rain. Put me on your radio show, Put me on your podcast for ten minutes, and I'm

gonna make magic. What do you see right now? Look? The Great LaVar Arrington is posing with fans for photos. You know how, on the Friday Penning podcast, you mentioned that you saw the fake Andy Reid. I did. I was blown away by that guy. Well, all week long there has been the older version of a LaVar Arrington walking around. He looked spinning image of LaVar, but he's walking with a cane and his goatee is white. And every time he goes by, I tell CNR, I'm like, look,

there's LaVar Arrington. Yeah, that is your future. That is going to happen to you down the line, wild and crazy. So on this the Saturday edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny g we are gonna have I can't even say who this is. This is such a big name. Danny, Oh my god, I'm gonna make I'm gonna make you wait for this name. It is like it is going to break the podcast. It's my

favorite line all week long from Radio row here. Oh boy, and the big names walking around You'll never you never know who's gonna stop. You have big names plan for you. Uh uh. Some some observations. But we're better liars than you,

by the way. Oh yeah, I'm a terrible liar and I I was actually texting a couple of guys that do radio shows back East, and we were like, man, like so many of these guys who are like total hard old guys, like they are really about it, and I'm like, I can't be that guy, Like I love kind of like mocking all of this. But I was walking around after I did the Overnight show and and these guys are like breaking down the XS and those, you know, They're like really into it, and I'm like,

what are you doing though we're talking about football? Who wants to hear that? You know, come on speaking. I'm attached to the two Perfect shows because earlier in the week there was this junket upstairs here at the convention Center. It was all the Fox TV personalities and announcers that we're gonna be doing the Super Bowl. So you had everybody from Grant to Charles Woodson to that was the one Terry dropped, dropped the dirt on Sean Payne. He

spilled the beans. So so we're trying to get in there with the Covino enriched microphone ben and all these uh, you know, TV stations from around the country. We're asking these stupid, hard old football questions. What do you think about Patrick mahomes health? What percentage would you put them at?

And and and Covino Ritz were trying to ask a Casey barbecue or or a Philly cheese, and we were looked at us if we were aliens, and like, you guys can get out of And the thing that's amazing, Like and I noticed when I was doing the website. I haven't on the website in a long time. The things that people actually want to hear about are about barbecue and cheese. They could nobody wants to hear about breaking down the four three defense or the three four defense.

Who the hell wants to do that? Maybe if you're a high school football coach, But if you're just a fan, you wanna you wanna make these people human beings. You know, it's ridiculous. Um. Anyway, so before we we bring in big name this again, download record, download record here someone related to the Super Bowl, Massive name right around the corner.

I'm hoping it's it's it's story time. It's story time on the fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g And who doesn't enjoy a good travel log A Mallard travelog, And we have a doozy. So this kind of happened at the last minute coming to the Super Bowl. I'm very happy to be here. It's been great, it's been fun. I hope to do this again next year Danny in Vegas in sin City, hopefully that will we'll take place. And so to kind of set the scene here that

the travel arrangements were not made far in advance. I did not realize up until shortly before I came here to Arizona that I would be coming. I heard rumors that it might happen, but you don't know what you don't know, and you don't know it's gonna happen until it happened. And so I didn't say anything on the radio show, and I didn't tweet anything out. And the reason I didn't is because I was worried it might not happen. I didn't want the Mallard jinks to be

in effect. I was trying to avoid the Mallard jinks. Yeah, so there is that. But well, Bennett turns out that you didn't lie about Yeah, we're gonna interrupt you right now. And it was just it was just telling a story about I was in the middle of a story and what happened. We're gonna get back to your story in just a moment. Here, you see, we're gonna We're gonna get miked up here. Let me see we got two mikes there you go. All right. See you thought I

was I was false advertising. You thought I was full of crap. I was not. I was not. This is very important podcast. Well we can turn your mind on here. This is very important here. We're live on it's a fifth hour, live on tape here, the fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio as we hang out with Scott podcast dojo. Oh, they're bringing up plate. There's a plate of food. Is that food over there? What do we have? We've uh, you don't want to eat that? Bai?

What is like chicken? Those are cold? Right? Those are cold chicken cold? The legend it's like Smith, the all time leading Russia's son, nice enough to join us. Welcome, Thank you guys, thank you. Yea a fun week so far, of course, I mean, I'm with my wingmen right, any better than that? How many how many of these? How many of these have you done, by the way at this point through the week and all that, I mean,

I only did it today. Um, but yeah, maybe around like what, Yeah, we've been to a couple of so as your as your old man like schooled you on the process. He back in the day, he did all these things forever, so as he taught you like ten years ago, it's kind of hard to school him on the process. He's just join the moment now, he's now he's seeing how all of it comes together when you when you're in college and so forth, and now you're around the big game itself officially. Now it's it's becoming

more real. Yeah, I mean I've done my due diligence, and i mean he's a great mentor. So I've always watched him since I was the kids. So now what was it like, because like I've heard stories from like your dad was like a big time deal, Like did you like love your dad or did you're like like did you like other guys because your dad was like you know you all you knew it was your dad, right, I mean, yeah, he was my he was my pop. So like I've never really saw him as you know,

the m smith that you guys see. Yeah, so I've always had other people that I've always looked at or even him telling me who to look at, um. And so with that, I mean, yeah, he's just my pops, you know, I hear you. That's great. Well, well, it's great to have you guys on and and and but I want to ask you now, these athletes today, it's it's not so much you need well that this generation though,

that's like load management and all that. You know that's going on and all that, Like, uh, when you you were playing and one of the reasons you have the rushing record, you know you played, you kept playing, you were banged up, you keep going on. What do you think about this new generation the guys that and it's not so much in football, but it's coming to football that are kind of cutting to me. I think it's exactly, um,

what the the game. It's somewhat requiring because of a lot of the concussion protocol issues that's been been talked about, and where the probably the a lot of the the hits are coming from. And so I think it's also part of the marketing scheme also to devalue certain positions for whatever reason. Um, And I think most of those reasons are are related to high scoring games. What's not fun, it's not fun to see the clock, tik tik tik tik,

take away through the run game. But it's fun to see the ball in the air, catching the balls and guys performing in the end zone. That's great, but uh, you know, it's it has taken away the essence of what the game, how the game was actually made, and how the game was meant to be played. In the beginning, I'm okay with the forward pass, but at the expense of the game itself, I'm not. Uh. That's why I mean, dbs don't have a chance right now. Uh, and big

hitters don't have a chance right now. I saw um a Twitter feed this morning. I believe Ryan Clark knocked a living breath out of West Walker this morning on something the way we use to play football that doesn't exist. That hit right now will get you kicked out of the world. So so it's different what young running backs in the league right now? Do you kind of admire?

You see some of yourself and them maybe uh, not many, because I mean, when I see myself, I'm looking at a style, uh not necessarily performance wise, how you look in the uniform, how he moves in uniform, and mark ingram to me has come become the closest to me. Um, I can't really see too many other guys in that light. Yeah, what was the Lebron James this week? Broke the story? Right? Do you have the rushing record? Do you think that

you think about unbreakable records? The way the games played these days, do you ever think about somebody breaking your mark for rushing yards? I don't think about it, But do you think it will happen? I believe if a human data before another human can do it again. I mean this, this is very cyclical right now. That might be that might be a technology that develops that nobody can get a concussion and you might be able to protect bodies a lot better now, and then gods can

just go for it. And if that happens, you never know what might happen. And so I'm a firm believer that if a man did it before a man can do it again, will I be around to see it? I don't know, But until then I'm gonna stay where I'm at on top of the very top. Was speaking of basketball? Is your family have a favorite basketball team? I mean, we don't really watch basketball. That was ever bolting growing up? Was it only football? And what other

stuff we're growing up? What's the what's a growing up with that? In that house? Was it all sports or were you guys were like, I mean, we could do whatever we wanted say. I mean he was really open minded about that. I mean I I played, I played basketball, I mean I would played golf, played tennis, played soccer, track. I mean I did everything, and I mean it swim

better than me. The worst punishment you ever got a little boat when here and there had to yeah, exactly, Uh, and you guys are here because uh, I see you said not do not eat the chicken wings. But it's not about the chicken wings? What is it about. I'm gonna just saying this as we in pro approached this weekend. This is a weekend of festivities for a lot of people. There's gonna be family members coming over, other folks, house,

friends coming over, people house. Super Bowl party is gonna be a galore, and every Super Bowl part is always gonna be a mess, some type of mess. Somebody's gonna have to clean up something, and everybody's gonna have their pick of food. Wings is gonna be part of it, Ribs can be part of it, Sauces can be part of all kinds of things. And wherever there are wings and sauces is always going to be a mess. And for us, you cannot play. You cannot have wings without football.

You cannot have football with out wings, and cannot have wings without bounty. And so bounty is there to help you clean things up. I mean, who not who's not trying to eat good and have a good time, but yet who don't want to clean up? I don't want to clean up after all that cooking, But if I'm gonna clean up with something, I want to clean up with something that's gonna help me get it out the way fairly quickly and not have things stick to my hands and enjoy the moment as we're enjoying the game

and watching Rihanna do things. I didn't know what you guys we're gonna be talking about, but we have bounty. So I want you to know my house, we have bounties. You try some of that other stuff that just you wrapping, steal sticking on the things, and every bounty just cleans it off. You do not need that. Listen, guys, I know you gotta go, you gotta go do some more of this, But thank you for stopping by. Thank you, guys, appreciate it. Appreciate it, and thank you, and I want

your dad's watch. By the way, hanging out with us, you're as back, but you weren't lying. That was a big name, No, the all time leading rusher in the NFL who just like, I'm I'm in mid stance, I'm about to tell a story about me staying at a crappy hotel. And I turned around and there's the all time leading rusher in NFL history who's sitting down, like what the hell? And and of course his son was

carrying a thing of wings. Yeah, And because you had mentioned you were hungry and you were trying to get some food, so I thought, well, look somebody must have brought wings for Danny g And I was like, well, maybe I'll have a wing. I'll break my fast for with a wing. And I'm like, well, no, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna break my fast with a wing. And they were like emmitting his son were like you probably probably shouldn't do that, but that was that was

kind of cool. That was good to have mmin on. So now you don't have to wait and see when I say something. When I say, we're gonna have a big name. Boom. It happened just like that. And now I'm gonna because now the next interview they give us, it's gonna be somebody. I don't know what you're talking about, but but I do have I actually do have the the paper towels that he was pitching, so I happen

to have that at my house. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. So travel Stories. Everyone loves a good travel story, So I'll pick up where we left off before we were interrupted by the all time leaning rusher in the NFL, the great Emmitt Smith in his son. So traveling here, I didn't know until kind of before, right before we were coming, I was

I was gonna be here. So the travel was booked at the last minute, and I flew an airline where you don't get a reserve seat. Um, it's an airline that had some major problems back in December. The weather, it did not go so well for them. Their stock wanting to toilet. But Tim, fine, I don't, I don't

I've flown that airline before. I have no problem with it. Um. But we got there and we were in group C, and I was the next last person getting on the plane, which guaranteed I had to do the awkward excuse me, I need that middle seat, which was the next to last seat that was available. So I had to sit on the middle seat, which but unfortunately it's a very short flight from from l A to Phoenix, so it didn't take that long. But then the next layer, Danny, we get into the Valley of the Sun and we

take the uber to the hotel. Now again this was all last minute. There's a massive golf tournament going on this weekend, the waste management whatever it's called, which I'm not really familiar with. I kind of goofed on it. But like if you're a hard old golf fan, this is like awesome. It's like a big party scene. And they estimate the uber driver said, there's like two hundred thousand people that are coming into this area for that. Yeah,

bringing one billion dollars Phoenix. And it's like one of those things too, because you you go into Arizona and like a lot of these people, I'm not going to the super Bowl. You're not going to the super Bowl because you can't afford it? Are you? Are you from? I think my man Don Martin back there, he's got a stack of tickets. Tickets, man, but they're clients and exactly no. So but like the waste management thing, you can get in for a few owner bucks or whatever,

so you can go hang out. And I guess the way they were explaining, they're all drinking. So anyway, a point of this, all the good hotels were booked. So I was on the phone with our boss and we were trying to make travel arrangements. And originally I was just gonna come by myself. Uh and uh. He had a couple of options for hotels, and so I picked. I don't know these hotels, so I picked one of the hotels, and my wife decides, well, she wanted to come with me because I we have some family here.

Her brother actually is visiting the Phoenix area just but he's not a football fan. He just happened to be here. So my wife's like, well, I want to come and hang out and whatever. So I was like, well that's great. You know, I'm gonna be there working most of the time, but you know, and I didn't even realize we could kind of let her in a little bit to see how we do things. Uh, Jonas, Actually I learned from Jonas the other day that that was an option. I

didn't know that was an option. So so anyway, we get in the uber. We go to a hotel and you know, my wife a little bit. She dresses much better than me. She wears nice clothes, dresses, jackets, jewelry. So we get out of the uber and we walk into the hotel and as we are walking in, it's like the zombie apocalypse. I don't know what kind of drugs these people are on at this hotel, but that was the first sign. Boy, this is probably not good. But maybe he's leaving. Maybe the guy's leaving and he's

not staying there. So we thought, maybe that's that, Uh a bad part of town. I don't know what a bad but I've been here a lot over the years, but it didn't look like the greatest part of town. But I've been in worse places. So anyway, and I walk in, there's a guy walking out. He looks like he's been doing math or whatever. He's been up for like a week, and so I'm like, oh, this is not good. So I'm like, we go into the front of the desk where you gotta get the key and

check in. There's bulletproof glass of the person. Always that's always a good sign. And for me, Ben, that takes me back to home, that makes me feel at home. Yeah. Yeah. Then I'm like, well that's not a good sign. So now we've got two strikes. Um, then we got the key. I'm like, well, maybe it's you know, maybe this rooms are nice. You know, it's nice. You know, it's like it's tell me they did not have the nineteen seventies style comforter on that ugly golden kind of color. So

then we keep going. We now have to get in the elevator to go up to the floor we're staying at. As we're getting into the elevator, uh, and I feel bad, but a family with groceries was coming in. They were living, they were living at the hotel. So it now it's like a homeless shelter with people doing drugs and bulletproof glass, and and it's like, oh, boy, did your wife make you leave and find another hotel? Well it gets better,

So we didn't. I'm like I'm trying. I'm Benny bright Side, I'm trying to be optimistic, like, oh, it's gonna be okay, don't worry. Okay, we can make sandwich with that family. Now, remember, my wife's all dressed up, you know, and I'm dressed like a radio slob, and she's all dressed up, and so I fitted I could have stayed there. So we get to the room. The room looked like it hadn't been cleaned since the eighties, right, So there's dust, there's

the doors. Had you know that black electrical Yeah, oh it was terrible. No, it didn't really smell like there was like cracks in the floor in the bathroom. It was unbelievable. And so my wife starts freaking out. She's like, well, what you're going to do the over night show? I'm gonna be here by myself. You didn't look at the Yelp or the ratings or anything on this place before

you ordered into national hotel chain? It is it doesn't I would assume that if it's a national chain that they would have some you know, like if you're always should go to Yelp to get the real photos whatever. I was getting ready for the show, so I find I gave it. I mean I felt like I was in Afghanistan or something like that. I mean it was like a demilitarized zone at this point. And uh and I just I was like, you know, what reminded me of like an old school comedy, Like that's the scene

from an old comedy. I was living a movie. Like I walk in my wife all dolled up, dressed up, we walk into like I feel like I was in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco, you know, one of those places. And uh, so we did end up and the guy at the hotel this out. This how crappy a hotel this is? And I'm not gonna rip the hotel because the guy couldn't have been great. My wife calls up, she has me call up actually, and we

had just gotten where. We were in the room for maybe fifteen minutes, and she says, well, I'm you know, I'm like, I'm giving the guy the story, the sob story about how we can't stay here and all this stuff, and the guys the guy's like, Okay, what roomor in and he's like uh and my my wife she jumps in. She's like, well, it's not it's not the room. It's

just you know, it's she's she's. The guy was like, total, apparently this happens all the time, and uh and so he gave us a full refund and we were out the door and we went to another hotel and odd, Yeah, it was pretty it was pretty Nutso, man, on a scale of one to tend, how much better was the next hotel? Well, we're gonna talk about that because there's a funny story about it. We're gonna save that for the next podcast. There is a funny tale about that

next hotel. The Tales of Travel. You've had a pretty good week, right, Dady, as far as the travel stuff, you've you've been here since. But Sunday, you guys got in the only the only problem we had on the flight over. We me, Covino and Rich you guys all flew togainst Spot Yeah, and and j Stu from the Gottleip Show. We all flew out of Burbank together last Sunday afternoon. So we board the flight. I won't say the name of the airlines, but we are you know,

we're in our chairs, we're we're cool. But as soon as we get up in the sky. The flight attendant comes on and says, there is probably gonna be some turbulence and then use the word severe, severe turbulence in fact, so keep seat belts on. And because of those turbulence, no drink service, no snacks. I'm surprised to even have

that on such a short flight. Well, you know, on a flight to Vegas out of l A, you'll you'll get a little bag of you know, trail mix or checks mix or whatever, and then they'll just give you like a cup of soda with ice. They won't give you the whole can maybe, but they'll pour you a cup of something. So we kind of expected that, and we were all hungry because we were in between meal times, so we're like that snacking a cup of soda is

gonna be great. Well that was out the window because now we're all scared for our lives because they're using the words severe. So Cavino's turning pale because I don't think he's a good flyer, and at least from what I could see on this flight, and he's like, did you hear what he said? And he's like shifting in his his seat, and you know, the guy loved to

hear himself talk. I think because he came on ten minutes later and said it again, and so now I'm thinking, oh my god, we're in for the worst turbulence of our lives. Here was it, Ben. There was not one bump in the sky on this It was smooth sailing, no issues, no problems. I swear to god. I think they did this just so they didn't have to serve us a drink or snack. But maybe they ran out

of something, Like they ran out of drinks. They're like, I know what, They'll just say, there's turbulence and that's how that we won't give out the drinks and all that stuff. Yeah. I think here's my theory on pilots. I think at the beginning of every flight, they should say, this is gonna be the worst flight of your life. We're lucky if we land, and then you'll feel great, you'll feel wonderful. You'll be like, this is this is absolutely outstanding. When I get on the plane, I'm like,

that's out of my hands. If anything happens, you know, that's it. You know, what are you gonna do? You know, if that's the worst thing that happened on a flight then you know it. You can't complain, you know. But he didn't to use the words severe. It's a bad words. You're good with words. You're a wordsmith. Occasionally, yes, occasionally. It's not a great not a great choice. Have you

have you been on a flight with really terrible we have? Yeah, we've talked about right, And I had drinks and snacks on that flight. By the way, did you were people throwing up? I didn't see it. I didn't see any bars. You didn't see not remember the story. We didn't serve a full meal. It's not like back in the day where they'd give everybody a TV dinner. Remember we talked about that, that story that there was those kids, I think it was. It was it in Vegas or somewhere.

They got food poison and they were all throwing up outside the elementary school. And it's just like it's like a scene out of a horror horror movie or the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrahs, Like, what is going on here? Brutal? Brutal, brutal. But we will continue this in a future. The Sunday edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Now are you gonna read any questions? Is there gonna be any You know, I did not post because I figured we'd have a guest, the great EMMITTT. Smith.

I didn't think we have em Att Smith on. I know we're gonna have another big name, hopefully on the Sunday Podcast, which we no, no, no, no, antell it's gonna be massive, which we're we're looking forward to. But we will. I will have the conclusion because there's more hotel shenanigans that are taking place, and we do have some loyal minions who do not wait for me to post, send questions in for the mail bag, and so we

did have a few people who wrote questions in. So we'll have some a very small hybrid version of the Sunday mail Bag on the fifth hour with Ben Maller and Danny g and anything to promote here, Anything you would like to promote, Danny, anything you wanna be selling. Do you have any paper, towels, toilet paper, bottle of water you would like to promote here? No, but to

be a company man. It is Saturday right now as you listen to this podcast, and what better way to prepare for the Super Bowl than to have Fox Sports Radio on NonStop, in your car, your phone, headphones, wherever you're going. And I gotta tell that, for years I did the Super Bowl show with Looney Remember shocked. Every year we say, no one's listening, everyone's watching the super Bowl and there are so many people out who are

making food runs or people the living food. We would give out the phone and we have full phone lines. We had we were cleared everywhere because just about everywhere I can't get past. I keep looking at the again. I'm in a trance state looking at that cube spinning around here. This is the perfect weekend. That's like in Brazil they have the Jesus statue atop the mountain. It's

it's unbelievable. It is is amazing. This is the perfect weekend to use that I heart app and just type in FS are for Fox Sports Radio and take the live shows with you. Shouts out to everybody who are busting their butts, not only tearing down the stage and everything back in Phoenix getting ready for Sunday, but also back in Sherman Oaks, California, running the show from behind the scenes and on the main microphones. Yes, and I

do listen. I feel the agony. Not everyone gets to go to these things, so it does you know, it sucks. I wish everyone could go, and I didn't get to go for a long time, so it's cool. The last couple of years have been awesome, and hopefully next year in Vegas also crazy and wild and all that. So I have a great rest of your day. Remember we'll have a hybrid mail bag on Sunday. And I don't think we can trap the or we we can trump the all time leading rusher in the NFL, but you

never know, we'll find out you're right about that. We might have the Andy Reid look alike. I would like to talk to that guy. I gotta get a photo of that guy, and he's still here. I'm gonna track that guy down anyway. I have a great rest of the day with catching next time and see you Austa Pasta