The Fifth Hour: "You Wanna Drop Battle" Mail Bag

It is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio and your dreams have come true eight days a week. Then Jam is in the house. So they called me back when I was in DJ Danny, they call me Ben Jammen back in the day, and wrong, you're not that guy pill Trust me, you're not that guy. That could be true. But it's the Sunday Podcast and that means, Danny, you know what that means. I got my toy. I gotta I gotta play with you. Trouble trouble, trouble,

trouble trouble. No, it's not where we say no, we're not saying bye bye because we we never we never say bye bye, right, we don't believe in that. No days off Dan, correct, correct, I'll add in my own drop right here. Next thing I know, I just saw this white thing flying at my face. Oh yeah, I'm gonna add mine right here. That's political bullshit, That's what I'm saying. Right there. A drop battle. It's a drop battle. You want to you want to drop battle? Okay? Oh yeah,

right there? Yeah, what is still wrong with the Clippers? Oh you better watch out. You're better not shout. That's right, you evil, evil man. Some people do dance battles, We do drop battles. Yeah. Yeah, And really, when you think about it's not that guy. I'll trust me, You're not that guy exactly. And with the first pick in the NFL draft, the Jacksonville Jag select Danny g Radio. I thought you were gonna say, Marcus Mariotto. Mariotto enjoyable there

and we also love we love the hits. We love the classics when it comes to the show, including the Star WARSNI does anyone enjoy this as much as I do? I don't know. I just sing hitting random buttons here. It's it's a lot of fun. Wow, I'm having a good time here. I don't know if you're listening is having a good time, but I'm enjoying. All right, let's get to the let's get to the star of the show, the main event, Danny. What do you say here? You ready to do this? Let's do it all? Here we go.

This is right, strike up the band. Well, thanks to our buddy ohio Al for making that male song long long ago, and here we are still playing it on the radio today because it's perfect. It's the perfect way to start the mail bag. And these are actual questions sending by actual listeners of the show. There were no made up questions here, no clowns at all. Got involves. So these are actual emails from actual members of the Malar Mush or postings on the Facebook page. And we'd

love to have you join the mail bag family. That would be really cool. And the way you do it, you can send a message in right now. You don't have to wait. You can email me right now, Real fifth hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's spell it out. R E A L F I F T h our h O you are at gmail dot com. Or you can wait till Tuesday. I post the message on Facebook and then we welcome in the messages you can post right. David mill Valley

kicks us off here. He says, Ben, as your wife ever listened to the radio show or the Fifth Hour podcast? If she has, what does she think and if she has it, would she be pleased or just made if she did the same question for Danny Gara Deli and his Tenderroni. So I'll go first out. We've talked about this dandy in the past when you were giving advice on the radio. Anybody that's worked in the radio business

knows when you first start dating a young woman. I assume what works the same way the other way, but I only know the women part. So when you date a young woman and all that, they're very excited when you they find out you're work in radio, and they listen to everything you have to say, and they want to hear every show. And then after a while they never listen to anything that you do. They want nothing

to do with that. Uh. And as far as my wife, she's the same way, although occasionally she does tell me that she listens to this podcast, actually this Saturday podcast. She likes the Saturday podcast because she says, it's the only time I talk about my life because, as you know, Danny, uh, I get a little burned out talking during the week, and I we record these podcasts near the end of the week, so by the time the weekend comes on,

I don't want to talk to anything. I just want to be like a magician and vanish and you, Dany, I'm gonna get out of here and not talk and take a valve silence and all that. But she does listen to Saturday podcast a little bit because I'll tell stories about her and the and the family and stuff that's going on in the house. But the radio show, he's got a big sports man. When I first met her, she told me she didn't like talk radio, and the other thing she said she hated because her dad used

to listen to talk radio. She's a little girl growing up. She didn't like. And then she told me she didn't like TMZ. At the time, I was in the running to run TMZ Sports and she told me she hated t MZ. So was it wonderful wonderful thing? Anyway? Anyway, Danny, what about your experience. I think you summed it up really well there, because I've had the same experience with my Tenderroni right now, except she does download the Fifth Hour podcasts automatically to her phone and on her Monday

commute she does listen. Now, I don't know how thorough. I don't know if she listens to the whole show.

But for whatever reason, she has radar been because whenever you and I tell old stories about stuff we did in our twenties, maybe with other girls and things like that, for some reason she hears those stories and then I get comments back afterwards, and you told her, of course, I'm sure you're told your tenderon E that it is part of the creative process to occasionally mix intertwine nonfiction and fiction, and you don't know which part is fiction

or nonfiction. It's a mosaic. You're painting a word picture on the radio, in the in the air and all that stuff. And then she probably comes back and says, hey, Danny, shut the funk up. Okay, shut the fuck up. He's like, dud, you're never taking me there. I'm not ever going to that place with you. Yeah, well it is. You have certain places with someone you're dating, and then you can't. You can't. It's like Ghostbusters you don't cross the stream

away from those places anyways. And I always tell her, I'm like, you know what, from the very first kiss we had, it magically erased all the other women I ever kissed or had anything to do with. So you don't have to worry about that, because once we kissed, it erased everything. My memory erased. Yeah. It was like the neuralizer from Men in Black with agent. It was an agent, k right. You know, once you neuralize there, you freeze your eyes, you lose focus, and then all

of a sudden you were raised all the members. That Will Smith guy in that movie, he'll slap you. That's sorry that if they made Men in Black now, he would just come over. Will would just slap you across the face and you lose all your memory just like that. Man would all be awesome, it'll be so cool. Unfortunately there, I don't think they're gonna be making that movie now. Will Smith has been banned from the Academy words but he can still win? Is he still eligible to win?

How is that a bad thing? He doesn't have to get dressed up in a in a penguin suit and go out there. He pulled himself out though, remember, so maybe he can't be nominated then because of how he pulled himself out of the Academy. Remember, now, he's been pretty good at generating revenue for the movie studios. Does this help him or hurt him? Or will we hear from him again? I'm not a big movie guy, but you know, I know in the media business, any publicity

is good publicity and all that. In America, we love to see our stars crash and burn and then a little bit later down the road, we like a good comeback story. All on Tiger Woods. Is that still true though? I thought we're still I don't know about that. Is that stuff you think it's just it's just burn and stay burned? Yeah, I think it's now scorched earth. It's completely burn it, burn it up. Man, that's what you gotta do. I think, I don't. I hope I'm I'm

wrong on that. But Will Will would definitely have a future if they want to make a well he was what what was the boxing movie? He was in a boxing movie? What Muhammad? Yeah, the Muhammad Ali movie. So they could you can make like they made a Mike Tyson movie. Is that Is that a thing yet? With I think so so they could have him do that, that's an option. Yeah. So yeah, there you go. So

we'll keep any that all right. Now, next up on the mail bag, these are actual questions from actual listeners of the Fifth Hour podcast, and we answer these questions right here. It's amazing. All right, come back, pay attention. It's time from I'll call. That's right. Next up is Tammy and Montana, and Tammy says, hey, Ben and Danny g clarification on my Tommy's Chili dog experience. Yeah, we were wondering, like, there's no Tommy's in Montana, So what

the hell was that all about? Were we being horn swaggled, let astray by our friend Tammy in Montana? Well, she is here to explain that her friend purchased frozen hot dogs and frozen chili from tom his website and had them shipped to Montana. That was one of your guesses. Al right, So I got that right, and I I

am surprised. I wonder that tastes like that because there's a one of my favorite delis is in Manhattan and they send the pastrami around the country and I'm like, I don't know, this is gonna taste that good if I get it and I have to put it together and all that I don't I am I gonna say to that? I don't know? Uh, Tammy uh, says Ben. I was wondering what happened to hideous Hellen's childhood? Here we go again, Danny, here we go. You got warring

factions Montana versus the state of Florida. What is going on with this? People have never met each other, but they are very upset with each other. And it's a yeah. Uh so. The email goes, I was one ofing what happened to hideous Helen's childhood? That she is so delusional power couple, powerfully narcissistic. Yes, there is only one power couple. That's the humble Leslie and Jack. How delusional Helen is to think her favorite restaurant, Golden Corral is a fine

dining steakhouse. Shots fired. Helen is a narcissistic liar who needs to self enhanced to feel better about her pathetic, white trash life. Have a great weekend, you guys deserve it. Signed Dammy in Montana man. All right, well, thank you, thank you for that, Tammy man. All right. The next up is the rebuttal from Helen and Stu in Palmetto Bay.

And this email starts ben in Danny hold on, I say, see, I don't want Helen to send me a nasty message, Danny, because I didn't give her the proper the proper salute. So let me let me take care of that. Right now, here we go. I got mail, yea, I got mail, yea. All right, here we go. It says a few comments and the question about your glue couple, cam Newton laid a few eggs this week, preferring his women know how to cook and know when to keep quiet. Why was

that such a big deal? Like? Who cares if Cam Newton wants women to certain I like what, I don't understand that sexist. I saw a lot of comments saying, hey, this dude has like seven kids out of wedlock, maybe he should get married if he wants traditional he likes to pretend, you know, the marriage, probably likes the relationship process. He enjoys the stooping part of that. He's a big fan of that. And apparently, uh, there's a lot of

empty nets there for him. He's put the the biscuit in the basket multiple times there anyway, Helen says Mr Newton, you sexist, free agent clown ship as a sports savvy woman who knows how to bake and cook and not keep quiet like now, if it's the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl and you're down one score and you fumble and the balls bouncing around at your feet like my home cooked roast, You're not supposed to react like a Beverly Hills housewife who just saw a mouse run

into the kitchen, fall on the damn ball. No risk it, no super Bowl biscuit. That's a good line, shot line. That is the defining moment of Cam Newton as an NFL player. That's it for me on the show. Though there were so many funny things that Cam Newton did on our radio show, but during the early years there he had maybe had the Rosie the riveter ran there. There was a game he played also in Nashville, and

some woman wrote a letter to the newspaper. They're complaining about Cam Newton's chest puffs, pelvic thrust and arrogant struts. I sold that line. I used that line about a lot of people over the years. And my favorite Cam Newton story of all time. You remember this dandy from working on the show was when Carolina was struggling in twelve and with a seemingly straightfits. Can't believe it's been

ten years since has happened. But cam Newton decided that the key to the Carolina Panthers turning things around at that time was a suggestion box in the locker room that you could blindly leave suggestions on how to prove improve the team. That was That was a ten. That was one of the funniest things that I have ever seen, because I have my own experiences. We've talked about this in the past. If you knew the show with the suggestion box. I worked at a radio station. Program director

came in said, hey, I don't care. You know, you guys can write whatever you want. I'm not gonna judge you. I'm not gonna I don't want to know. I just want to know what you're upset about with the radio station. So of course some of the producers who were making ship money and did not like the programming on the radio station wrote letters in and then it was it was on, and it was exaggerated, how come I'm not on the schedule this week? It was so still it's

still going. And finally died. But no, the point is the guy said, do whatever you want, we don't care. And then he was a police interrogation. He brought everyone in one by one at the radio station until he found out who sent the letter in and the guy got let go, and that he he ended up selling real estate. I think a lot of money in real estate. Uh was the guy that was one of the producers. So, speaking of Star Wars, it's that famous line. Yeah, oh, totally,

totally it was. It's hilarious. Helen's email continues. Boys, speaking of NFL quarterbacks, Eddie do just enough work to get paid. Garcia Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins died this Wow, you would think in a perfect world a garbage time quarterback would be hit and killed by wait for it, a garbage wall. Helen, come on, it's not right here, taste. That's how dare you? Anyways, she says from last week's mail bag, if there is one woman who knows hot dogs, it's Tammy and Montana.

So Helen getting a shot in at Tammy. She says, rest in peace, Gilbert Godfried a funny jew that is true. Ben, In closing a quick three part follow up question for Danny G. Danny Helen writes, per you're entertaining Donald Trump. Story Number one, did you get the raise? Number two? Since Trump called the show on his personal cell phone, did you capture his phone number on caller I D and number three? If so, have you ever drunk dialed the number? Let's see peace out? Helen and Stu palmetto

Bay floors. Well, no, yes and no, I haven't drunk out. Wait, wait, you have Donald Trump's personal cell phone number. I have the number. I have the number had a former president's phone number. I don't know if it's working or not right now. I could try it. I guess we could get your Trump on the podcast. Wait a minute, here, you could sit down interview with you, he Mr former President, it's Danny G. You told me I'd get a raised. I didn't get a raised, but I want to have

you on think yes, no, our boss. I remember after the first interview he told me, man, that was awesome. I got emails congratulating me in Clay and Uh from both bosses. I thought, well, this, I guess, is the raise right here? Wrong? And then after the second interview, where Trump admitted that he said I should get a raise, I thought, well, this will seal the deal. I'm definitely gonna get a raise, and it didn't happen. Well, it's

in the mail. It's in the mail. It might have been lost in the mail, but it's in the mood. That's cool. I did not realize you had Donald Trump's phone number. That's that's next level. Maybe the phone he was using belong to the White House. I'm not sure, but it like it seemed like his personal phone, the way he was, the way he was just kicking it

on the phone. Yeah. I went through my contact list the other day randomly, and I was like, wow, there's a lot of people in here that aren't alive anymore. That was that was the eye opener here. That's always there. I never I never take anyone's number out of my phone when they die. Yeah, I feel like that's my tribute. I saw the Great Frank's number in my phone. Yes, yeah, the big cod piece Frank. You know, there's still his memorial um like the program or whatever, the program, the remembrance,

we still have that hanging in the studio. And so every right around the Super Bowl every year we talked about Frank. Oh yeah, I love Frank. And I mentioned Frank this week on the air. We were talking about John Sterling totally botched a home run call and Frank. I love Frank because he was it was so quick catlike reflexes. Every weekend when Frank was my guy, we

would place the Yankee roll call. We called it yes that Yeah, it was great, and we'd go through all here's the Yankee lineup, and we played John Sterling home round calls and Frank had all of them at that at his fingertips. I mean, it was good to go on that. It was. It was pretty cool. Back in a day. I'm trying to think dead people. I have Tommy the Swords number. He's Larry King. He's in here, the late Larry King. Let's see here, page Dan, page Dan.

I have some I guess he's still alive, this guy, but he's dead to me. The guy we're supposed to have last week, he didn't. He didn't get back to us. See who else is checked out? Oh, Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay, the caller for the show. I have his number. I don't know how I got Yeah, I got his number when he got sick. I did some some calls to try to cheer him up, and then he passed away. Let's see, I got Holler and James in there. I do not have Halloween James phone. I do not women

white women. You d add that to my list. Darrell Hamilton's I have his. Remember Daryl baseball player Daryl. I did TV with him briefly. He was murdered by a woman. Murder, murder, suicide in Houston. Great guy, starting to get dark. Yeah, I probably should stop. Probably, there's a few others in here that are not going down murder memory lane. I feel like Cowboy in Windsor. I'm doing all right. Here's the death report. This guy died. That guy died. My

dentist died. I have Johannes John's number. Not the terrorist, the guy that used to call the radio show and he quit. He retired from the show Rain, which was very bizarre. I still don't understand quite how that happened, but it did. And uh whatever, what even? Good luck? All right? Moving Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts, rights and he says this pandemic has spawned the birth of online ordering. An in store pickup or curbside pickup. An East Coast

competitor of Costco is called b J's Wholesale Club. While b J's offers online order and same day pick up, Costco here does not. While I'm sure you would not partake and rubside pickup because you wouldn't be able to grab your samples. Does Costco on the West Coast offer online ordering and in store pick up or do you utilize the service at other store? So I've never used that, Like, well,

I do know the Costco near the Mallard mansion. They have a bunch of lockers in the front where they leave orders, so they do have in store pick up, And I'm not sure about the online I don't know how all that other stuff works. I've I've really not partected that if you bought anything in that area, Danny, are you familiar with that? No. Costco for us is one of those stores where half the experience is going

in and walking all those big aisles. Yeah, for sure, and you you want to see stuff you haven't seen. They usually have products that aren't there that long. They have temporary things that come in and so and the samples which are kind of back, but it's not the same. They're back like on a small time basis. Yeah, I mean before garry hitting mass and and it's really sad man, because as you know, you could, you know, kind of

make at least an appetizer run at Costco. Back in the day, Back in the old days, I would go there and that was before I was fasting all the time. And I would go there and I'd make the rounds. I'd be fighting my My wife would be so upset with me because I'd be fighting like old Asian women, old dudes and uh, fighting these grandmothers and grandpas to try to get samples at Costco. And she's like, what are you doing? Oh my god, who the hell can stop?

That's just food, you know, I you look like you've never eaten before that whole Uh. But I love the people who pretend like they're going to buy the product. Yeah, well there's that. There's that move, like you start engaging the sample person like, well, tell me more about the product, and then they have all the talking points so then they're like, okay, so this is the the way you know, the products started to hear blah blah blah and know that whole thing, and you're like, well, what what the

what you come on? And you really just want the food. But The cool thing is when somebody does engage that distracts the sample person, so then you can come in for the kill shot and get more of the food. Yeah, so you're not even paying attention to the fact that you're there for thirds. It's like magic. The key to magic is distraction. You must distract the eye. And once you distract the eye, you're good to go on that and so that's that's the key. Anyway, thank you Pierre

for that. I am looking forward when I go on my Midwest East Coast sodiurn. I do plan I don't think my wife knows this yet, but I do plan on going to costcos in every city I visit, because I have heard and our guys in Canada. I think it was in Vancouver. A listener in Vancouver pointed out that they have chicken fingers in the the food area at Costco. So I was like, Oh, I gotta see what they have, Like maybe in Wisconsin they have cheese curds or something like that, or poutine or something like

So I'm looking forward to seeing what they are. I'll be there. Wow. All right. Next up, we have Barry from Nashville, says yo Yo Mob Benny is there any line where Dave Roberts would allow a picture who had a perfect game to continue pitching, Like if he was in the eighth and had a twenty pitches, does he still pull him? And he says sorry if my tornado story was too dark. No, your tornado story was not not too dark. But you know we have no tornado experience.

We're not you're the tornado veteran. We're not the tornado veterans here at all. Your opinion of Dave Robert's performance, Danny g Well, I like that spott he was in there, Ben, I like that spot he was in. Um he did this to rich Hill, and I remember we hated on him on the air for doing It's a rich back then because you only have maybe one two tops opportunities like this in your entire career. If you're Clayton Kershaw.

And what There's been thousands upon hundreds of thousands of baseball games over the years, and there's only been twenty three perfect games, and there's been like four hundred no hitters. There's a lot of no hitters, but perfect game twenty three of those and there should be twenty four. But Gallarago, the Tigers got hosed by Jim Joyce, the umpire there in Detroit. But the thing that was I mentioned this

on the show the other night. I did a rant about it, is that there are so many young fans, like you're younger than us, Danny, that this is all they know. They they expect their players to be lazy. They expect their players to be soft. That's what they know.

And they genuinely believe this is the way. And you hear the old timers and they just roll their eyes at this, and they're like Reggie Jackson, Mr. October a nemesis of the Dodgers when he was at the Yankees in those years, And Reggie Jackson is goofing on the Dodgers and what are you doing? This is where I would love Nolan Ryan to get in a room with Dave Robertson just slap him across the face. Yeah, can we get We should get Nolan Ryan on the show.

We should track down Nolan Ryan and see if he would come on and explain pitching and that that or or if you know, we should Mike Marshall is another guy, the pitching Mike Marshall. If he's still around, I think

he's still around. He's getting up there in age. I believe he's still around, and he's talked about this in the past and stuff, so and some of those old times, and we'll just doing a point by point on there would make like a ven diagra, an audio ven diagram of why it is for Gazzy what is going on right now? And the people running baseball, our Mama Luke's and all of sports. This disease has infiltrated all of

sports laziness. It's the mindset had always been go above and beyond the call of duty, that it was a badge of honor. Now it is a badge of honor to be like the cliche of a d m V employee, a government worker doing the bare minimum and nothing extra. And that's it saying we have worked until we literally have laryngitis. Can you imagine if you were on a word count with your voice. Yeah, and you know, Ben, you hit words on yesterday. Sho, I'm gonna have to

sit you. Brian Knows coming in tomorrow. Yeah, Ben, you've done three podcast You've done three monologues and three podcasts. That's enough. We want to save you for the football season. So we're gonna gonna rest up a little bit. We don't once you get laryngitis. It's it's free And Kershaw what I know. Kershaw was towing the company line to a point, Well what do you do? Owing in his

line there that it would have been selfish. One of the most outrageous quotes I've ever heard from a professional athlete. A Hall of Fame picture Clayton Kershaw saying it would have been selfish to throw a perfect game. I'm Kershaw. I would have shook Roberts off. I would have told him to get off my mound. Dude. By yeah, I really like myself in this spot. Take that for data. Put that in your pipe. And the thing about it, too, is Kershaw saying it's selfish. That's another thing. In the

old days, it was. It was something. It was a feather in the cap for starting pitchers to go all the way because you saved the bullpen. And one of the biggest problems with baseball today, and something that the geniuses that are running Major League Baseball have not figured out, is these teams burned through their bullpen. They usually relief

pictures too much. There's a certain amount once the league season and they become less effective, and then at the trade deadline there's a mad dad has to get relief pitchers because you've burned through your bullpen and now you've got to bring relief pitchers in from somebody else, somebody else's team, and that it's it's trickled down because the starters don't go long in the game, they're not expected

to go along in the game. They believe it's now just like the NBA players believe it's their birthright for load management starting pitchers. How how dare you? How dare you want me to to throw over eighty pitches? I mean, oh my god, who the hell? Stop? Stop moving on? Who else do we have? Here? A Radioactive Ryan in Salt Lake City, Utah, this podcast blowing up in He says, Hey, fifth hour, Fellas, I was wondering what your favorite underdog

sports event is. I was too young to remember the Miracle on Ice, so I am going with the Giants spoiling the Patriots undefeated season. Please tell us your selection, f L Tube and screw Correa. So the one that pop into my head here Radioactive Bryan, involves the Patriots, but it was before the Patriots became good in the

early days of Fox Sports Radio. To me, the greatest upset I had seen had been the Patriots with Tom Brady and nobody a backup, beating the greatest show on turf, the Mighty St. Louis Rams and Kurt Warner and all those Bazukas that the Rams had. The Rams were the baddest ass team in the NFL. And the fact that the Patriots, who had a water gun, knocked out a

team that had seventeen Buzukas is stunning. So I have that Patriots, who were not at that point of dynasty by any means, beating the Rams, the greatest show on turf. What about you, Dan, anything pop into your head there? Yeah. The first thing that pops in my mind is when I was a kid watching the Tumbo on the floor. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Sonics? Was it the Sonics? They it was a Nuggets and the Sonics with a number one seed. I think, okay, I'll have to look that up.

But Dad, that was a big underdog moment. And there's that great shot of him crying on the floor lifting the basketball up with both arms. Yeah, that that is that is great. I think it was Nuggets against George Carl, Shawn Kemp, Gary Payton in the SuperSonics. That's the memory

I have in my head. And then the more recently those are old, and more recently would be the University of Maryland Baltimore beating Virginia first and only sixteen seed to bet the number one seed a Virginia was not like an all time great number one seed, but still you talk about a surprise motherfucker. That was one right there,

that that was it. Absolutely Yeah. The Nuggets made NBA history with a shocking upset over the SuperSonics in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs thirty years The victory marked the first time a number eight seed at one a series against the number one seed in the NBA playoffs. And George Carl is going to the Hall

of Fame now the coach of that Sonics team. Yeah, Ozzy Momentum says a couple of questions, guys or lads as they say in Australia, who is your favorite movie assassin Spy John Wick, James Bond, Jason Bourne or Ethan Hunt. So I'm a traditional I'm gonna go with James Bond, who's been around, although the Bond franchise has taken a couple of turns here recently that I don't know that's right. I don't agree with it, but but overall, for a lifetime achievement, James bond uh And then I would have

Jason Bourne on there. What what about you, Danny g Yeah, I think I would go with Matt Damon in this spot the board identity. I kind of always liked that storyline where he didn't exactly remember or no why he was doing what he was doing, or how he got trained to be such a badass killer. That was always a nice element to that movie. Yeah. He also says who would win a fight? Ozzy Momentum of the Tasmanian Devil and Marvin the Marsha all right, so who would

have a competitive advantage here? So that I think the Tasmanian Devil. In the name of the character it has devil, So I am going to go with the Tasmanian Devil over the iconic Marvin the Marshall. The speed and the verocity of the Tasmanian Devil would take out Marvin the Marshall. I was more concerned about him giving me a double fish.

Mike from Fullerton says, what do you think is more impressive, the more impressive street the Clippers eleven straight winning seasons or the King's sixteen straight the sacrament Of Kings sixteen straight losing seasons. Well, this is easy, you understand. I was a Clipper guy when they would never make them. But they had the longest street. I think they ever made the playoffs in San Diego. They left Buffalo, had

made the playoffs in Buffalo. Uh, And they went to Santigo, never made the playoffs, went to l A, never made the playoffs. They were the ones that had the record before the King. So the fact that the Clipper franchise came from Matt and now they are a playoff team just about every year, wrong, wrong again, it blows me away. The Clippers are every year they have a shot, they have a shot, they have a spin of the roulette wheel.

And I know firsthand that if you suck at your job, the Sacramento Kings you it's it's actually not that hard to miss the playoffs if you don't know what you're doing year after year. So I it's become more difficult lately because of the playing tournament. You get a second chance, and there's ten teams that get in kind of. But now I'm gonna go with the Clippers. You got crickets, that's all we got. What is still wrong at the Clippers? How dare you? Danny g You get nothing, you lose.

Travis in Roseberg, Oregon says, knowing your affinity for mascots is Dylan the Pickle your alter ego slash sight ego. I would love to meet Dylan the Pickle. And my wife has a friend that lives in Portland's one of her girlfriends, so I might I might have to make him. I was offered. I don't know if it was a fake offer. I was offered a chance to go out and throw out the first pitch of a pickle game, So I might have to take them up on that.

If I end up in Portland, I have to look at their schedule and I can hang out with Dylan the Pickle. That'd be great. Uh, when you've got to travel a little bit with the Dodgers, did you ever have any run ins with the Philly fanatic? No, I'm I'm Billy Lemarlin Mr met Uh. Those mascots, Bernie Brewer, those are some of the ones I hung. I did not hang out the Philly f Fanattic is the gold standard, the greatest of all time, the goat, But I did

not get to hang out with the Philly Fanatic. One of the coolest nights with mascots the Clippers when they unveiled Chuck the Condor, the great mascot Chuck the Condo. And so they had a mascot birthday celebrations. So they had the mascots of these other NBA teams and random teams that popped up. So I have photos with the Memphis Grizzlies mascot, the Sacramento Kings Lyon, like all these

random masks. It was the funniest thing, Danny, because I'm walking around the bowels of Staples Center and these guys in these mascot costumes are sweating like pigs and these so they're on break in the back and I'm like, hey, can you put your help can you put your hat on? Because I want to take a photo? Uh and and so I got a bunch of a bunch of random Speaking of the Denver Nuggets, how about that time they're lying, oh yeah, that was great, was lowered down from the

ceiling and fainted inside the costume. Yeah, dead corpse on the floor and the dancers still did their dance routine around the dead corpse. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was like out of a devil movie or something like that. Like the women, the beautiful young women are shaking their ass and and the mascot body is limp and it's it's being bot down. The music's playing, fireworks are going off. It's a great YouTube clip. Walky the Mountain Lion was dead.

Just google. Oh, that was hilarious. That was an all timer. That was that's right up there. That's better than when the remember the Mariner moose got bitten by uh or no, broke his leg. We broke his leg? Was that the one? The guy in the ground screw in Seattle got bitten by something cat or something a feral cat. But the the mariner moves like broken leg. It's funny because when you when you're a mascot and you get hurt, people don't realize. They think it's an act. They don't think

you're actually hurt. They're laughing. Yeah, they think the routine it's hilarious. That's funny. Our next one is from somebody I didn't send the name, says Ben Maller. H what the fs up, comrade? Do you think we need to limit the amount of money on American can have or make? No? No, I don't want somebody limiting how much I can make. I don't want to limit how much somebody else can make. I don't believe in that. And it's been proven in many, many countries over the years that have tried that it

does not work. It's a bad road to go down. We talked about Nick Saban this week getting a monologue. Nick wants everyone at Alabama to get the same name image like this. That's a bad idea. It's a bad idea, and it's been proven in countries that have done that, they've had like a flat a flat rate salary, for example. What it leads to is corruption because the only way to get more money is to use corruption to get

more money. It's political eruption is what always happens d percent of the time because the people are like, well, I need more money. I can't make more money because I'm capped out. Uh and and so you should make more depending on what you do and things. I have a big believe of that. Jennifer and Virginia writes in Oh she had I don't think this was for the air. She says, Uh, when I'm in Virginia, if we can do a Mallard meet and greet before you fly home,

give me a tight schedule with the wife. Yeah, I'd like to make that happen, Jennifer. I was talking about just down from you in in the northern part of North Carolina, which is just below the Virginia boarder there doing something, but I have no where. I don't really know that area. I don't know any restaurants to go to anything like that. So I was asking some of

our guys in North Carolina about that. I think I will have a car, a rental car, so I will be able to drive around a little bit, and I might want to get away for a couple of hours. The problem is, I'm out in the boondocks, and so if I spend three hours driving over to a big city, I don't know that that's gonna work because then I'll get in trouble because then it turns out to be like an eight hour trips. Three hours there, two hours at the event, and three hours in the way back.

I don't want to do that because that's that is a recipe for Uh, exactly for marital strife is what that is a difficulty for Valls fan Jimmy says from Big Orange, Big Orange Country, He says, how old were you when you quit trick or treating? And what was your go to costume? I feel like we've been asked this before. I was somewhere around junior high school, I would say seventh grade, six or seventh grade, somewhere around there, and I had many different costumes. I had a variety

of costumes depending on the year. My mom was very good was sewing, and she she showed me a clown costume, which was appropriate because I gotten rate you. One year I was a bum honoring weed man, even though I didn't know it as a police officer, when a little good. All kinds of random stuff. What I what about you, Danny, Well, I'll tell you the one costume that I waited and waited on forever. My grandmother promised me when I was in kindergarten that she was gonna sew a spiky costume

together for me Man spider Man dud. She never did. She never did every year, every year with her damn sewing machine, which was basically her version of a treadmill that was a clothes holder. Yeah, she just threw stuff on top of her sewing table. She never made anything, though. She tortured me and my older brother by dragging us into those stupid stores that sell patterns and yarn and all that crap. We wanted to kill ourselves, shoot ourselves in the head with a nail gun anytime she took

us into those stores. It's not a place for kids. That's you know, no kid wants to go to a store like that. Yeah, let's go look at patterns kids for things I'm never gonna sew. Yeah, make it stop, Make it stop. There, you stop. That's the one costume I wanted as a little kid that I never got. So instead, I remember my mom dressed me up as a gingerbread man. A gingerbread man. Yeah, and I'm like why,

Like it's easy because it sucks. What's your problem? So all the other kids can point at you and say, look at that loser. It goes to gingerbread man. Thanks, we shock again. All right, We'll end on that note. Anything to promote here, Danny. You're back at Fox Sports Radio later today on this glorious Sunday. What are you going on today. That's right. We are gonna stare shut up with Coveno and Rich this afternoon, and then the warm up to your show is gonna be Plank and Spaniard.

I'll like your bad Let's I'll see you this afternoon this evening, right before the Ben Mallor Live show. Yes, the gang will be assembled for the late night radio fun in the broadcasting do jo Smoke Weed every day. He will be there, I understand, and everyone else on the show as well, and we'll all at many athletes who failed to accomplish what they wanted to accomplish this weekend, the human drama of athletic competition. All right, have a

great rest of your Sunday. Thanks for supporting the podcast. I do mean that a lot. It's awesome, it's wonderful. It's great, and we'll keep doing the podcast. You guys listen. I think we're not gonna do it, Danny if nobody listens. But the numbers are up, right, the numbers have gone up. People are liking the podcast, so our bosses are very happy, so we would like to keep them like that. All right, have a great rest your Sunday and we will catch

you on the radio, terrestrial radio, the old fashioned. I will tonight, Danny all day and me all night. We'll catch you, then asked the pastor Bofolation