The Fifth Hour: "Sock in the Snout" Mail Bag

Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. As we have returned to the podcast, do Joe and we are ready for what I look forward to every week. Now. I'm not sure, like what podcast gets the most downloads. Is it the Friday one with the interview? Is it The Saturday Life of Mallard and Danny G? Or is it the mail Bag? As you know, Danny, I just keep my head down and keep marching on, hoping that the audience is there. And you know, it's it's an odd thing that the Mailbag.

I like it because I don't really know what we're gonna get on. The Mailbag literally is a mixed bag. I've told you before. One of my favorite segments working with you on the live show. Was asked Ben, because I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what questions we're gonna come up. And then we would learn something new about you and everybody on the crew. And most of the time it was something humorous that we'd

all be laughing about later. Well, it might be romantic or you know, and that's so sweet and hopefully not romantic. Nobody wants to hear about that. That's true, That's definitely true. You can tell some story about how you save somebody out of a burning car and the crowd went wild. Would you run towards a burning car to help somebody? You know? You don't know until you're in the moment. I would like to think I would, depending on the

level of fire. Depending on the level of fire, yeah, like smoke and you maybe you could see just a little bit of flames starting by the engine. Yea, in my head. I think we all have this and like

the cartoon bubble in our heads. Were the hero, right, we run over just in the nick of time, We pull the person out of the car, we get away, and then when we get like thirty steps away, kaboom, the thing explodes and and then we wake up and we realize that's actually not what happened, that none of that, none of that took place, and boom goes to dynamite. All right, let's get to the mail bag. It's all right. The first question on the mailbag comes from Kevin in Kansas.

He says, Dear Ben and Danny G. You both have odd sleep schedules. What's the longest you've gone without sleep and how un normal were you during that span or did you actually function decently? That is from Kevin, our buddy in Kansas who is a fellow teacher Danny G. And So I trying to think the longest way, I think it might have actually been when I had my gall bladder issues because I couldn't sleep. I was so uncomfortable that it was a nightmare. Uh So that might

have been it. Outside of that, when I was doing that television stuff at NBC and I was traveling and I had to get off the plane and immediately work. But the problem I have is I sound like I'm drunk. I start luring my words, which is when you're in the business I'm in and you're in, Danny, that becomes problematic. Except a lot of our favorite Mallard Militia members sound that way. That is true, Yeah, you just sound like

the leader. Yeah. But as far as the number of hours I without doing any kind of pharmaceuticals like Jet who fled that some of the other people that call the show, I would say, I've probably stayed up maybe three days. I think is the is about the limit on that. I've definitely done two days a lot where I've gone over forty right around forty eight hours where I have gone without sleep. So I've done that. But I'm getting older now, Danny, we're both getting older. I

don't know how much that I can do anymore. I need at least a few hours. I'm not a good sleeper, but it's at least a few There were some nights where I had to do the intricate parts of some projects. Now, mind you, that's sixty kids, sixty different projects. So I had the hot glue gun out here at home, and I had like an assembly line on my kitchen table encounters. I literally was up all night working on it, and then showered, went to work, stayed up working all day,

got home. I love science. You know, I guess that's doable because you don't sleep, You're up for two days whatever. But when I first started the podcast with you and I was moving here to where I'm at now, Ben, there was a three day span where I was moving, working at the network, working at the school, and I literally did not sleep for three straight days. It was just work, this shift, double shift, this move. And I remember being in my old place in Burbank with my

eyes just bugged out. I've never done drugs like cocaine or anything like that, but that would have been the time to start. I remember thinking to myself, how did people do this back in the eighties, you know, where they just worked around the clock and they never slept. And then it occurred to me they did not do

it on their own. They didn't do it sober. Oh yeah, I've heard stories about people we I think we know some of the people who have done television in l A who were skiing the mountains even when there was no snow on the mountains. They were they were riding the white Horse. Yes, yes, exactly, exactly so uh yeah, But I've never done that stuff either. I mean, people

get blown away. I've I've talked about this also in the past, but I I've never had a cup of coffee, and I can't have it at this point because that is my claim to fame, that is my conversation starter. I have crossed the rubicon of age where I can no longer discuss uh even having a cup of coffee because it's off the table. And sushi, right, I've never had sushi either, That is correct. I've never see. The

sushi part is amazing to me. The coffee, I kind of get it because I don't exactly like the smell of black coffee. Um, you know, I need like a lot of creamer, I need a lot of sugar, I need milk added. So I like the cold coffee. I would drink a cold latte way before I would drink any sort of hot coffee. So I kind of can understand that. But never having sushi and you live in southern California, that's just weird. I'm obviously weird. I'm in radio.

You know that you're not even a California roll. See, that's like sushi par beginners. No, I've never. I've never. I don't like fish. If I don't like fish when it's cooked, why am I gonna eat sushi when it's not? When it's not cooked. We forgot, by the way, to mention our buddy ohio Aw. We thank ohio Aw. I just kind of slid it. We slid into that without giving him the proper credit. It's a bad job by us. But Ohio aw came up with the the jingle great Ohio.

All the mail continues, it does not end. I got mail yea, I got mail yea. The air from East of the Rockies rights and he says, I am writing in on the wild card line. He says, uh, I like that. Three quick questions, Hey, why did you save your bone breaking adventures for the Mallard Town podcast and not your own? And he says, credit to the Aussie guy for breaking the news. That's a great question, Pierre. I don't know why that that ended up that way. I never I never spent too much time, uh worried

about him. I just kind of, like I told, I told the story with him, and I guess it just didn't come up on the podcast. That's a bad job by me. He also says, can you share the cautionary tale of Ernie the Great oh Piner for the listeners. He says he wants to know the details. Ernie was you were on the show when Ernie was part of the show, right, Danny there, and Ernie was a big, big part of what we were doing and all that, and he quit the show like he was like a

major contributor in the show. And Ernie was a great fan of the show. And we had the Muppet remember the Muppets account and and and actually Pierre is alf the alien o Pineer and he was one of the guys that started that. And Ernie was getting so upset because he had Ernie from Burton Ernie as his avatar, and he was so annoyed by all these other Muppet accounts. It was hilarious, it was. But and that's part of the reason he went away. Uh, And I don't I

don't think we're gonna hear from Ernie again. Unfortunately, I think nothing. He's dead. I think he's moved on. But it sucks if somebody quits your live show, it's almost like a death. Yeah, these are people that are part of our family. I agree with you. It's a weird thing when they get traded, like like Chris and Houston, who was like a nemesis from Houston. Chris, but he doesn't call anymore because he's on the dreaded day shift. He's sold out for the day shift, and yah, you

miss him. You're like like, once in a while, I'd like to have a nice conversation with Chris so I could bust his balls about the Astros, the cheating as astros. Uh and Pierre also says, is Fullerton west of the four oh five? Asking for a friend, he says, uh no, uh no, no, no, it is west Uh it's actually east of the five, although I think the five goes through part of Fullerton west of Fashion Island. Yes, yes, that is uh let's it's not anyway, I thank you

for that. Next up, Ironically enough, I don't know how this worked out. Come back, pay a touch. It's time from now. I'll call Mike from Fullerton rights and he says, has USC and U c l A joining the Big Ten made you feel any different now that southern California is part of the Big ten country. It took me a while to adjust, but I'm really starting to appreciate

these Midwestern values since Mike from Fullerton. Yeah, when I was driving through Westwood this week to get to the Fox Sports radio studios, I was I took the dreaded four oh five to get over the hill and through bel air and all that nonsense. And so I'm driving and I'm looking at the u c l A Campus. I'm like, wow, I can't believe they get snow here.

That's what it's gonna be wild. It's absolutely crazy. And I wonder what the U c A Hockey team is gonna be And when they take on Wisconsin in Michigan, it's it's gonna be cool, right man. Uh. And then Mike also says he's adding a few more to his interview wish list, and he's got Ralph Lawler, Don McLean, Jose Mode uh, and Donald Trump. He says Danny g has his number, and he says last, but certainly least

Brian Finley's on the list. So out of that list, not that we do list podcasting, but Ralph Lawler I believe will be on the podcast at some point. I'm friends with Ralph. He's retired now, he's he spend part of his time in Oregon, part of his time in Florida. But the reason I believe he'll come on the podcast, Danny he's got a book. Yeah, the books coming out, so he'll be on the pimp his book, and I

actually want to read the book. He's gonna tell Sterling stories, stories about Donald Sterling, his time with the Clippers, obviously his life. And so hopefully we'll get him on at some point. I know, I know all these guys except Trumps, Don McClean I know from the Petrols and Money Show, and Don I when he played in the NBA years ago and all that. He's been around forever, So hopefully we get him on. And Jose Moda known known Jose for for many many years. Also casually, you know we're

not best friends. Then would this be a good time to vent for a minute about Brian Billick? Is it now? Can we officially put the cover of the coffin down and say that's it? We're done? Are we at that point? Though?

I would like to because on a previous podcast we joked around, because we jumped through all these hoops with Brian Billick and his representative to get him on as a guest on the podcast Brian bill Brian Billick, they said yes to the interview, and then through email only, they would not give me cell phone numbers except we had one cell phone number. Remember that said this isn't

Brian's phone anymore. Oh that's right, yes, yes, And I got that number from somebody who that was the number that was Brian Billick pretended like his cell phone number wasn't his cell phone number. And in that text message, which was very odd, he said, Brian Billick doesn't use this cell phone anymore. You need to get ahold of his rep. And he gave the reps name and I'm like, well, if Brian doesn't use this phone anymore, how would this

person know who Brian Billicks rep is. So I'm like, okay, whatever, I'll play your stupid game. Brian Billick. I've been emailing back and forth with his rep. This is just amazing to me because back and forth, I'm talking ten emails. Ben, he doesn't come on the podcast. So you and I were like whatever, Brian Billick. I even I have a funny drop from that podcast because you're like Brian Billick,

Brian Billick, Brian bill Brian Billick. And it's just funny to hear your voice cracking because you're so piste off about dumb ass Brian Billy. Well, fast forward to Monday, I get email from the rep saying hey, Danny, it's been a while. I know you guys really wanted to have Brian on the show Good News. He's doing media tomorrow all day Tuesday. He's gonna go on TV and radio. So give me the time for Ben and we'll make it happen. I promise. And I'm like, well that's nice.

I mean, you know, it was a ship show last time trying to work with this guy. But he's trying to make it up to us. So I text you. I'm like, hey, Ben, what's your window? When can we take this guy? Yeah? I gave you two windows, right, do it a morning window in an afternoon window to completely f up my day for the podcast. Talk to Brian Billick, who is not coached in the NFL and over a decade. I immediately send this information back to him via email and I'm like, dude, we look forward

to it. Here are the two windows. Let me know what works for Brian. Got crickets, that's all we got. Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick. Nothing nothing back, nothing back, nothing back. I'm checking my email all day now. I'm interrupting my school job by trying to slightly check my email in between lesson plans and teaching these kids in the classroom. I'm like, all, are you guys cutting paste over there? I gotta check

my email. So I'm checking my email. Nothing from this guy. Nothing back. Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick. Day goes, day goes, nothing back. So that night I email him again and I'm like, dude, it's almost Tuesday. When are we gonna say? I wake up Ben? I set my alarm for Tuesday morning. I set it for four am, five am, and six am. That way I don't miss

any communication with this guy. I get one email from him Tuesday morning at five a m r. Time, and it said what time does Ben wanted to hype again? And and mind you Danny. In the afternoon, I'm texting my friend in Baltimore because he knows Billick and he's one of the people whatever so we're friends, and and he's like, hey, I heard Billocks on one of the stations in Baltimore right now doing an interview. You know, like, wait a minute, this is one of the windows that

I had given Danny and Billicks red interview. And then he popped up on a station in Denver like he did a bunch of like radio stuff and a few podcast things. But we were on the list and we didn't make the lid. What was that? Hi? I like the saint. That's that's fine, that's it. And next time and they need something to promote, I'll remember this, al right. Next time they had some crappy product they want to promote or whatever, some gambling thing, I'll remember. All right,

I'm moving on as we continue. You always exciting a fifth hour mail bag? Who is next here? All right? We have Neil from the real Miami, he says, A three hour long but scenic drive from Hemingway's Key West a great place for the Miami chapter of the Mallard

Militia to meet up. You can fly over to Miami or Fort Lauderdale twenty minutes away Gascon and Lawrence the Lawyer ak marlins Man can pick you up in a stretch Limo and we can swing by to get weed man, hippie and cantankerous COVID couple from pombay Uh And on the way to Key West, what do you say? Yeah, well, you name pretty much all the listeners, although we did have that that guy the dick from from Miami. Then I love you? Who calls up every once in a while.

He hasn't called up in a while. That would be great fun. I'd love to do it. I've I've been to Miami at once in my life. I was there for like a week years ago for a World Series and I've not been back, so that would be That would be great. And uh, I've friends that have moved there, and I know a lot of people in Florida. Over the last three years, a lot of people left California.

Many of them have gone not just to Miami, but Orlando and you name it, the Gulf Coast region where the what they call the redneck rivieria, I believe is the term some friends that are there. Uh. Neil also says pro tip for you and the Mallard militia. Best time to go to Miami is the end of the hurricane season, which is from Halloween when they have a Freaky Fantasy Fest and then followed by festival after festival, including some food festivals like seafood so you can pick

your own poison. That's great advice. Yeah, And that's a good time to go anyway, because the weather in Miami is always pretty much the same. It doesn't really get that cold doesn't get that hot. It's always kind of the same around the same temperature. So if you go there in October, I maybe wait till November, right because it gets a little colder in November. Where we are, it doesn't get all that cold. So thanks for the information, Neil.

And if I do end up having another one of my friends relocate to Miami, I guess I'm gonna have to go back to Miami. And sounds to me like there will be more people I know moving to Miami. Miami, Miami. You've got mail Tony in Seattle, write s this is somewhat related, he says. The next place you'd like to travel? Yes with Mrs Mallard and Mrs TINDERNI So any road trips? I know you You mentioned your car issues here, Danny, so she won't be going on any car trips. But

any any exotic locations that you'd like to visit. No, nothing exotic. We're actually gonna try to go to Disneyland next week. That's tost of going somewhere exotic. Are you gonna start robbing banks on the way? Um? I do have a few week days off in between this summer school job ending and the next school semester starting. That's gonna be nice to have a couple of week days off. Just gonna try to stay close by in southern California. No,

nothing long distance until November. A stay cation. Yeah, of course. We got Maui coming up in November. That's that's the big one. That's the big one. So we're saving. We're in that mode right now where we're like, get the one that's on sale. I hear you. Yeah, as far as me, Tony. Actually, I would like to get to the Pacific Northwest again, a lot of Portland. My wife's got a friend in Portland and we were talking about going up there and visiting her and her kid and

all that. Uh. And I want to get back to Minnesota. I was so close in Wisconsin, and I learned that people from Minnesota do not cross the Wisconsin Minnesota border. It's a point of demarcation. It's apparently the people in Wisconsin hate the people in Minnesota and vice versa. They think the other state is like a demilitarized zone. So I had a meet and greet in Appleton, and we had all these listeners in Minnesota like, oh yeah, I'm gonna drive over it's a long drive, but I want

to meet you. And then nobody showed up from Minnesota, but I we we do so well there on the radio show. I really would love to meet a bunch of the big fans of the show that listen on on CAFAN. One of the great sports talkers in the country, and it's very cool that they carry the overnight show. So I'd love to go in there and go to

some juicy lucy place. And if you're one of our p ones and you know a restaurant in Minnesota, like the reason I picked a Latin Fusion restaurant in Appleton because I was a friend of the family and so I it's much easier to do these things if you end up knowing someone or you have somebody's a fan

of the show at the restaurant. Uh. There has been some talk of a Mallard meet and greet sometime in August at a I cannot reveal the location yet, that's not finalized, so I don't want to say anything about it to jinx it Um. But to answer your question again, Tony Minnesota, possibly Portland's and that's that's about it. But whether I get to any of those places I can't can't say, what do you like? Burn it down? Like Bakersfield? How dare you that stadium still there although it should

be burnt down? I will say that Chris and Marracoca to Iowa, Right, since it's you and Danny G should start watching a TV series together and you can discuss the weekly episode on the pod. Yeah. I don't know that I have enough time, neither to you Danny, with our crazy schedules to dedicate every week to watch an episode.

But from I'm the time I I did this with with Gascon back in the day west of the four oh five, where if there was a cool documentary or something, and we could both watch it and give our like book report or movie review like Siskel and Ebert, there's an outdated reference thumbs up or thumbs down, you know, on the on the documentary. Have you been watching the Jeter documentary? God? No, I'm not a Yankee fan, and I I don't want to overdose on athlete worship, so

I've not I've not checked it out. I have heard, I've heard some things. The Yankee fans, of course love it. They think it's the greatest thing ever. But I'm not a Yankees fan by any means, But I like it. But I like most sports documentaries. Yeah, like I'm I'm hit and miss on the sports documentary thing, like some of them. I love the one about the baseball cards. I thought was fascinating. But I'm on the age of where I grew up in that world, so I see that.

I'm like, oh, man, well I was. I was a Mark and they took advantage of me as a kid. Rat bastards. Me and my older brother. Man, I've told you before paper Chase, our goal in life was to get some little bit of coin and get our butts to paper Chase to buy some more plastic sheets. Oh yeah, I got a whole wing filled with cards and I still have to get rid of. But a part of me's like, no, it's nostalgia. But then the other part of me is taking up space. I gotta get rid

of this stuff. What a pain in the behind. That was? All right, let's keep it going on the mailbag. Next up is Mark. He says, how did Marcel completely fool you? Ben? That dude is the biggest fake ever. Ben. He's making you look really weird, Ben? Is that really him? On Twitter? Yeah? Yeah, that's Marcel. I didn't know he was black, not to sound like that famous Ben Mallard drop. Famous man. I don't know if you know this, but I'm black. That's right. That.

Oh that was the guy that sounded like Bill Cosby. I used to Arizona have that drop in my hard drive. Here. Hey man, you might not notice, but I'm black. Yeah. He just readily starts and it was hilarious. Marcel is African American, and uh, all these people think we're getting punked. And he's a character. And this is another one of those cases where Danny people seem to think we have a much bigger budget than we do and that we're

much more creative than we are. Neither one of those things is true, because Marcel is a kid who lives in the projects in Brooklyn. I've said it before. We'll say it again for those of you that haven't heard. Marcel's got issues. He's got problems. He loves the radio. It's his outlet to the world. He doesn't get out of his home, he doesn't see the world. He's stuck in this little apartment in Brooklyn, and Uncle Dynamite comes by and gives him food and and so there's only

a couple of things he eats. But Marcel, for him, this is like the greatest thing in the world that he gets to be on the radio. And he likes being a character. From what I can tell, he likes being a character on the show, and he likes to play along with us and all that and so. But he's not somebody we're paying and he's not punking us. I've trust me. It's his version of Ham Radio, big antenna on his roof, and he's reaching out to everybody

around the country. Yeah, he's in his own little world and it's he's on the Internet and he's able to call our show. He's a He was a correspondent on the Big JAB in Maine in Portland, Maine, I think the PM JAB, but I mean it was the AM JAB. One of the more either the AM or the PM show they had him on. And he's my favorite is when he contacts Australian news anchors like he somehow tracked

them down. So it's weird because he's he's got some mental issues, but he's able to find these these broadcasters and and so in some parts of his his mind, Okay, he's a savant when it comes to investigative reporting. He is the man that broke the Titanic, that the Titanic could hit the iceberg. Nobody else had reported that as breaking news. I heard that that morning breaking news sounder

the Titanic sunk. He hasn't fallen for that ruse much anymore. So. I think he has figured out that when somebody sends him a breaking news story, you might want to double check it. You might want to check into a little more, all right. Next up on the you know what You've got? Mail mail back, Mr Luciano from Southgate and Sokel says, this question is for Ben and Danny. G Are you guys exciting that the NFL is almost back? And how much betting, if any? Will you guys do? Keep up

the great work, guys. Well, we hope to have on some platform Benny versus the Penny to be back. So we'll pick every game against the spread as far as the games were actually gonna bet, I'm gonna I'm gonna pick my spots as I usually do. I don't bet every game. You shouldn't bet every game. But if I got a pretty good vibe on a team or a player that going into a game, I will obviously bet it,

but I usually only bet. I try to bet three games a weekend, sometimes five, but I try to keep it to three and if perfect scenario would be only one and just let it roll. If you have, really it's it's hard enough to win one game, and then you gotta win two out of three, or three out of five or four out of seven, or if you do a parlay, you gotta win them all, which is a pain in thee or a teaser pains. But yeah,

we're obviously excited. Mr. You knew we're excited. Man. I saw a video the other day of Car throwing a long past two Adams in double coverage and him snatching it, and I stood up Ben and celebrated as if it was a tough down in the regular season. Now, are you gonna make the pilgrimage to Vegas for Are they having any opening, any open practices at that massive air hanger radar facility that I drove by last time I

was in Vague. That's a good question. I've been so busy between the network and school that no, I haven't even looked into it. The prices are astronomical, Like Disneyland. I did the stadium tour, but I haven't been there for a game yet, So I'm gonna try to go this season for one game. Now, is it a regular season game or an exhibition? Which one are you? I would rather go to a meaningful game like in in

the middle of the season or down the stretch. I would rather go sometime in November or December, all right, So I'm looking at the secondary market. I just punched it up on my computer here in the studio, and I have are you sitting down? Are you YEA? Which game were you thinking of? Should I just go through all the games? Or you want me to pick one

or two that you're thinking about. I go towards the middle of the season, so you're looking like October November something like seven, the week twelve, all right, So after the bye week, so the Raiders will be rested. They have their bye week. In week six, the Raiders will play the Houston Texas. Now the Texans are a dog

food team. That game will cost you their tickets as low if you want to sit near the purly gates for a hundred and fifty two dollars okay with an oxygen mask voll setor the Indianapolis Colts will visit November. That's week ten. Oh, that's gonna be pricey. It's a hundred and seventy one bucks for the cheaper that's not too bad, I guess. But for something good. What's a good ticket costs for that? Oh boy, lower bowl right

at the fifty yard line behind the Colts bench. Yeah, that's gonna cost you minimum one thousand and fifty three dollars. Now all I say now in the end zone is still expensive. Section one oh one at Allegian Stadium three hundred eleven dollars, still very pricey. But you are in the lower bowl, so that would be six plus for a pair. Yeah. Yeah, there's a reason they made the most money off of tickets last season. Oh yeah, and that's a destination situation. People are dying Jones. And again,

let's see the the cheapest ticket. Where is the cheapest Wow, this is this compelling podcasting. The cheapest ticket is at the hotel across the street with the binoculars. The funny thing about that, the cheapest I'm looking at all the games for the Raiders, the cheapest ticket. This is surprising to me. Well, no, no, it's not. That makes sense

raiders stealers in pits Burg. But the reason it's the cheapest ticket it's Christmas Eve, Saturday, December Christmas Eve is the people are busy with family dollar ticket, so you could probably fly to pitch. It would be cheaper to fly to Pittsburgh and see that game and fly back home. You are damn right. I went down a rabbit hole. Here's what happened. Uh, next time we all watched you go on YouTube. I know, I know, I'm like, what is what the hell is? This falls fan Jimmy Wrights

and from Big Orange Country. He says for both of you, in your opinion, why is college football so much more popular in the South then on the West coast? Myself, I would walk to Knoxville. I would rather walk to Knoxville than drive to Nashville. Who is your favorite college football team? Well, it's it's just really a product of

the way I read that college football is. Popularity in the South is provincial, and people in the West are There's a lot of transient people that have moved from other parts and so they might like college football, but they're fans of whatever school they came from. And in the South, I just feel like, it's more people that are that are locked in and loaded, that are from their generations of families and things like that, and they grew up fans of Alabama or Auburn, Georgia, L s U,

whoever it might be, and just just keep it going. Uh, Danny, any theory on the love of college football in the South, I would tend to agree with what you just said, because like Clay Travis, for instance, his grandfather played for Tennessee. And you hear that a lot a lot of guys that I met when I visited Tennessee, their family history runs deep like that with whatever school, whether it be Auburn or Tennessee, they have family ties. I don't have

that here in California. My family spread out. One person went to Santa Cruz, one person went to U C. Davis, one person went to school in the o C. It's so spread out for us here that we just don't have that family tie the way people do in the South. Yeah. Now that being said, if U C. L A and USC both have good football teams, it's popping at the colisseum of the Rose Bowl for sure. When's the last time that happened where they both had good Bush Bush.

It's been a long time. When USC was going off with Liner and Bush, I remember people crowding the sports bars here. Oh, it was massive I at that time, and I I was around those USC teams when Pete Carroll was there and I was in an elevator, was Spike Lee and Rick Fox who was still playing at the time. They were in the end, and I want to point out Spike Lee looked at me like he

thought I was gonna mug him and kill him. And when the when the elevator doors ows, there's a thing when you're a celebrity you don't like being in an elevator with other strangers. And he Spike Lee. I can still close my eyes on the look that he gave me in the elevator at the Polissey And before they renovated it, you thought you were debot from Friday. Why are you in here my bike? You're not supposed to

be an area and all that stuff. Carlos in Bang Bang Houston says, hey, Ben, good job in installing the Mallard riddle into the show. I love hearing the funny answers from the Mallem militia. Also, I'm an Astros fan, and I enjoy listening to you every day. So you can't really say the Astros fans don't like well, I could say that Carls. I can say that not all Astro fans dislike me, but many do, and it's still blows me away. We were on seven ninety in Houston,

which is the Astros radio station. So every once in a while, all of the stars will aligned Danny and Astro Talk will end and my show will come on, our show will come on, and I will be in the middle of the rant the cheating astro's and did you have it take? Did you get to go rail on Jose Altuve conveniently being hit by a pitch so that he didn't have to come here to the All Star Game in l A. Yeah, that's now two years

in a row, I believe it is. And because in he there was no All Star Game, so at least three years he's avoided the All Star Game. But this was the big one in in l A. And and the only cheating Astro that was there was Joe Musgrave or Musgrove rather the Padres. But that doesn't people. Once you change the laundry, they kind of forget about forever, Jose Altuve will be booed, correct, Bregman, George Springer and

Toronto should be booed everywhere he goes all those cats. Uh, Carlos says, My question is, do you guys like the flat build hats or the curved build hats? Keep up the great work. And so I'm a curve guy. I like much like my women, I like curves. I'm a fan of the curves. And uh, what about I'm looking at the hat you're wearing. You appear to be team curve. Also, this was a hybrid, and I kind of like those the ones that are a cross between the flat and

the curve. They're not quite curved down all the way. Those those ones that are curved down too much, I'm not a fan of. And most of the totally flat bills don't look right on your head because they'll pop up, they'll do a wheelie. Yeah, I do not like the flat build hats. Could I agree with you? Look you look like a dork. You know, you hard It's hard to look good in those kind of hats. So, but I'm I'm team curved hat all the way. Next up is Paul from Great Falls. He writes in on the

mail bag, I got mail, yeah, I got mail. Yeah. Allsos who will be the next Pack twelve team to ditch their conference? And which conference will they join? So I'm gonna vote Big ten. I believe the Big ten comes back and starts poaching some more teams from the the Pack twelve. And if I was a betting man, which i am, I would look to northern California. You you go by the media market, it's all about eyeballs, It's all about qum, as we say in the radio business.

And so San Francisco, Stanford the private school, Cal the state school, and get that market covered. Although Stanford has been good at football that last couple of years, I feel like that that program has gone the wrong direction. But they were very good for a number of years. Cal hasn't been good more than a couple of years

my entire life at football. But it's the market. But if you if you're just going by raw power, you'd say, if they could skip Cal goes Stanford and then the Oregon football program because of the Nike money, yeah that would be one. But what do you think, Danny about teams that are gonna ditch the Pack twelve for another conference. Uh. I don't know about ditching that conference, but I think the next major move that will rock the world will

be Notre Dame finally picking aside. Well, they gotta go big ten though, right, That's what I would assume, And if Notre Dame went Big ten, then talk about a super conference that would end the USC Notre Dame thing every year anyway, though they wouldn't be able to hear from in the same conference unless they just said, screw it, We'll make up our own rules as we go. They would have to do that, right, because at that point they throw everything out the window. Yeah. God, that that

would be. That would be something touchdown. Jesus would be very unhappy with that. I think it would be bed Lum speaking of a bar area is Steve in San Francisco Rights, and he says, did you see this story been about the lockness monster. I want to know your thoughts that you and Danny g Yeah, this was the story the other day, Danny we mentioned it briefly on

the show. I guess Steve was not listening that scientists now are saying the existence of the lock nest monster is plausible because they found some fossils that they believe indicate that that is a thing. So yeah, but that's one of those things. I grew up when I was a kid with the Lockness Monster, and then I learned later on, although there's no such thing as the Lockness Monster bogus. So yeah, I think why not? People have seen that thing for years? I think that in Bigfoot,

let's let's have all these things be real. Yeah, why couldn't the Lockness Monster be a leftover dinosaur? Your tortoises on Earth that have been alive for hundred and eighty five years? The Yeah, the blue whale? Right, how long has the blue whale been around? So it's not outside of the realm of possibility that there could be some sort of dinosaur like that left on earth. Yeah, Maddie in Boston writes, and he says, hey, Benn and Danny Gee,

any chance you guys can bring the animal Thunderdome? Is that what you called it? Annimal Thunderdome? Oh? If he wants to, he wants to have that on this show. He said, well, actually, I heart our bosses have been working on making that a podcast for months and months and months and months. Oh is that are you gonna hosting if it happens. Yeah, it is something that they've been trying to put together behind the scenes. Now, can

you find enough animal stories every week? Shockingly yes, because there's a lot of stupid people that do a lot of stupid things around animals. I still have listeners tweet animal stories to me weekly, so there are some weeks that are, you know, busier than others. But yeah, we used to do that on OutKick the Coverage once a

week and there were plenty of stories. Yeah, Maddie says he he sent a link here to a story about I guess in South Africa there were some lions that ate a crocodile, a pack of pride of lions attack. I saw that. I saw that. Yeah, there was that elderly lady recently who fell into the water and a guy jumped in trying to save her and the alligator eight or oh oh yeah, and what a way to go right alligator food? Yeah, that's man, like, how long are you alive while it's eating you? That's got a

shitty way to die. Well, you're feeling pain and then that, yet you're feeling nothing after a while. Man, that's nuts. I think we'll get out of there. On that note, that wonderful note. Well, animals choke out? Could you choke out a crocodile bed if one came after you? No? I always thought you had to run in a zigzag line because they can't can't deal with the zig zag They get off balance. Yeah, it's hard for them to

shift their body that quickly. If it was right up in your face, though, would you just give it a good sock? And its nose? I guess it's not a nose. What is it? I don't know what is that called? Is it a snout? What is that on a crocodile? The snout the mouth? I don't know. I call a snout with sharp te Imagine how shocked the crocodile is though when the lion eats it, Because the crocodile must think it's invincible, and then it gets eaten by the lion. And then that's what they call it. The king of

the jungle. What they call it the king? All right, we'll get out of here. I think you have a great rest your Sunday. What are you going on here, Danny? G anything to promote it is Sunday, So gonna have some fun with Covino and Rich on the air this afternoon, and then right before your show it is Chris Plank and Arnie Spaniard and I will be in the God Willing I will be back in the amazing radio station and all that. So it's it's not really so, it's

not really, it's just uh, just exactly. It's a second thing. I mean, great, rest your Sunday. I'll hopefully talk to you tonight eleven pm in the West, two am Monday morning in the East on my show, and Dani will be in many many hours before that, and we'll catch you then later. Skater population