WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Two for One Holiday Special! 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:28.480 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:36.559 In the air everywhere, and a happy happy Saturday to you. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:42.080 It is the day before the day before, a day 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.520 that many look forward to. This the twenty third day 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.960 of the great month of December. Happy Saturday to you. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.680 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:59.520 in the air everywhere worldwide, thanks to the power of 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.360 the pod. The power of the pod. And we'll jump 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.520 right into it. Danny. We had a spicy hot pod 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:11.360 on Friday, very sporty with Yamamoto, the news coming down 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.360 on Thursday leading into our Friday morning sojourn there with 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.480 Yamamoto going to the Dodgers and people up in arms. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.520 I did enjoy. I'm not gonna lie. I didn't consume 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.760 too much social media, but I was on there and 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.160 the people that were outraged by that, and just the 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.480 Dodgers in general. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it like 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.479 somehow that's a bad thing that the Dodgers spent a 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.360 sack load of money to get good players, like they 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.400 should be shamed for doing that. And I don't get that. Logic. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.200 Sports radio in the Bay Area I heard that it 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.960 was a shit show on Friday morning and all day 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:55.000 Friday with all the San Francisco Giants fans whining. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:02:00.520 Yeah, I've seen Yankee fans posting videos and Yankee fans 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:05.320 Danny the personification, the epitome of deep pocket baseball. The 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.360 New York Yankees and some of their fans are furious 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.400 right that the Dodgers now sit in the lap of 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.320 luxury and all that. But anyway, I just got to 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.280 kick out of this. I wanted to mention that at 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.119 the start. But on this the Saturday Pod, we've got 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:25.720 the poster boy Bennie's Big Board, Ho Ho Hospital, and 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.639 we'll have some other fun I'm sure Danny some things 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.280 you want to toss into the to the stew here. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.880 And by the way, since this is a holiday weekend, 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:39.280 the powers that be have informed us this podcast because 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:44.680 it is Christmas weekend, a two for one bonus pod. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:49.440 We are going to jam into this podcast two podcasts 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.240 for the price of one. You can't do that. You can't. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.200 That's wicked good is what that is? Right, I mean, 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:54.840 that's amazing. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.480 Nuts, that's a bargain. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.000 Normally you only have to pay US five ninety nine 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.360 to subscribe to this show. This is free this weekend, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.320 and it's two shows inside one day. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.960 Yeah. Yeah, it's a two for one special. Buy one, 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.280 get one free, and that's what we have going for it. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.120 And you're very lucky that you've stumbled. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.919 Perfect timing because I'm going to be at Disneyland tomorrow. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:22.840 Okay, well there you go. All right, So we have 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.760 we have the greatest supporters in all of radio land. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:30.760 Very blessed, the very blessed. I've been doing this a 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.960 long time, and yeah, the people that listen to the 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:38.320 Overnight Show have been so amazing, so wonderful. This week, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.400 I was blown away. It takes a lot for me 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.760 to be blown away. It happens every so often, and 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.240 usually it happens when you don't expect it happens. So 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:50.360 our friend Femi, who I actually met in Minnesota. He 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.000 lives in Minnesota. He's the number one Uber East driver 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.400 in the Twin Cities. He's become a brigadier general in 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.440 the mal Or Militia. And he dropped what I would 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.880 call a thunderbolt my direction. Just on a random night. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.160 I'm just doing the show, whatever people have sending comments 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:12.000 in nothing out of the ordinary, just normal radio night, 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.480 and then right out of left field, Femi posts the 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:19.480 message on social He informs me that I hadn't heard 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.400 from him in a while. Usually checks in every week 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.360 with some content. He informed me that his father had 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.440 passed away. I was like, well, that's sad, and he 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.800 said there was an elaborate funeral in his homeland in Nigeria, 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.960 and he attached a couple of photos. And in these 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.080 photos you might have seen them if you follow me 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.440 on social media. If not, they're available. We saw a 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:48.839 group of Nigerians holding up a poster that had my 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.720 ugly mug on it and the Ben mal show name 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:58.280 and the Fox Ports radio logo. As Femi the photo 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.960 journalist said he had I'd converted some of the locals 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.360 there in his native Nigeria into the mal Or Militia, 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:12.160 and he claimed in Nigerian culture, when someone dies, we 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.760 have the celebration of life everywhere, but in Nigeria they 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.560 do like a carnival thing for two days to celebrate, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:24.919 as Femi said, a life well lived. So this just 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.880 blew mey. So from La to Nigeria, we do the 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.719 show in La seven eight hundred and twelve miles to 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.080 get from where we are to Nigeria in the middle 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:41.279 of Africa, and they're promoting the show. Was it was 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:46.680 really cool, wild wild wild, So thank you, Femi. I 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:52.520 do appreciate that, and in honor of that, I was inspired. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.080 Now I don't do list Danny. You know I'm not 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:56.320 a list guy, right. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.000 No, not at all. You do big boards, that's right. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:03.080 So I'm gonna do big board, which is not a list. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.000 It's not a checklist. It's not a watch list. It's 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.240 not a hot list, it's not a short list. It 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:14.279 is none of those things. Wrong. It is a big board, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.320 which is much different. And oftentimes people are confused by 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:23.120 big board. So don't be confused, right at all. It's 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.760 like the stock market. It's the Dow Jones, it's the 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.640 New York Stock Exchange, which is not a big board. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:29.520 It's not. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.640 It's just like how the mail bag is not anything 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:34.840 like ask Ben. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.840 Exactly exactly. See, you get it right. The mail bag. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.359 People confuse that all the time because people are stupid. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.040 It's nothing like the mail bag. The mail bag and Aspen, 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.520 they're not They're not the same. So on Big Ben's 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.800 Big board, this is the first time I've ever done this, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:56.560 the ten most memorable things at this time that a 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.760 p One has done as a super fan of the 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:04.120 Ben Malor Show over the years. And I guarantee you 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:08.400 I'm forgetting a bunch of stuff that's really good, stuff 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.440 that happened and it just slipped through my memory. So 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:16.080 I would like if Anthony and Anaheim here's this, or 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.800 Alf the Alien opineer, any of the guys that have 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.840 been with the show for a long time that have 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.640 listened chipping the cues, who's been with me since the 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.080 early days, if you can refresh my memory on some 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.520 of the stuff I forgot. So with that as the backdrop, 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.960 immediately admitting this is probably a terrible list, which is 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.080 not a list, it's a big board. So these are 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:40.040 the ten most memorable things that p ones have done 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.680 as super fans of the Ben Mahler Show at my 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.320 time at Fox Sports Radio. In no particular order. I'm 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.640 not putting these because that would make it a list, dandy. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.280 If I put them in a certain order, that would 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.240 be a list. But there are ten things in no 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.800 particular order that we can move around. We can put 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.640 one here and move one down and all that. I'm 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.000 fine with that. But the first one I want to 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.480 bring up is Doc Mike. Now, Doc has done a 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.920 couple of anythings with me over the years. The two 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.920 things that Doc Mike has done that I want to 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.520 mention for the Big Board. Uh. One of my favorite 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.040 memories of Doc is when Michael Vick was in prison 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:23.040 in Levenworth in Kansas and Doc Mike so delusional that 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.120 he was convinced that Michael Vick wanted to talk to 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.360 him and that he just had to travel to Levenworth 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:34.480 prison to meet with Michael Vick. So Doc got in 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:39.480 his car from Chicago, drove to Levenworth, Kansas, and every 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.880 day for a week he would go into Levenworth and 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:47.160 try to meet with Michael Vick, and the wardens would be, well, 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.640 you're not on the list. He doesn't you know, he 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.360 doesn't know you can't come in. And Doc would call 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.400 me from leven outside Levenworth. He's like, I'm here, I'm here. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:56.920 I'm waiting for them to open up. You know, it's 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.160 a few hours away. They're gonna open up. And it was. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.160 It was ridiculous. And then the other one, which is 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.680 doctored this several years. The most famous one was he'd 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.640 go to Wrigley Field every year and drop a goat 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.760 head off the Curse of the Billy Goat, and the 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.840 Cubs obviously won the World Series since this happened. But 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.200 this is a long time ago, and so he do 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.839 this every year. One year before a Cub Giant game, 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.640 he drops off the goat head. Now the game ends 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.079 up getting rained out. And since the Cub game got 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.719 rained out at Wrigley Opening Day, the sports writers had 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.880 nothing to write, so instead they wrote about this goatthead. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.480 I'm going to decapitate a goat, bloody goatthead that had 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.440 been dropped off by a lunatic fan, and I will 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:48.480 never forget. The then mayor of Chicago, rom Emmanuel was 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.920 his name at the time, and he held a news 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:57.360 conference announcing that no resource would not be used to 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.920 find out who put the goat head at Wrigley Field. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.240 He said the Chicago police were going to investigate this. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.240 They we're gonna get to the bottom of it, and 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.479 we doc Mike like he laid out the whole blueprint 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.040 on the air of what he was doing. It was, 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.920 and then the mayor of Chicagoo, We're gonna get to 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.280 the bottom of this. I think, well, I think we 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:19.880 know who did it. I think we know who did it. 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.160 Another name that popped up on my big board here 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.200 David from winter Park, Florida, along with Roscoe the Parrot. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.880 So David went above and beyond the call of duty here. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.679 He drove from winter Park, Florida, which is I'm told 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.400 I've never been to winter Park, Florida, but I've told 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.960 it's kind of not far from Orlando. And he drove 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.200 up I ninety five to Boston with Roscoe the parrot, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:50.320 a giant stuffed animal, Roscoe the Parrot and met me 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.600 at the Cask and Flagon in Boston for the Malor 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.040 Meet and greed and that that was just nuts it 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.080 and that was only I was for like a couple hour. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:01.600 He's meet and greets are a couple hours and he 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.120 drove all the way from Florida to hang out for 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.920 a couple hours at a random bar in Boston. So 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.000 that was that was pretty cool. And then at that 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.880 same event, Wayne from Southey is also on Big Ben's 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:18.480 Big Board the ten most memorable things that Pee Ones 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.640 have done as super fans in the show. Because Wayne 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.000 from Southee, this is a guy. I did it for Mallor. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.520 I did it for Malor and he claimed he had 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.240 been sober for a number of years and he kept 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.760 buying me alcohol and buying people shots in the bar 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.120 and he wanted everyone to toast me. And so he 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.480 and I've been sober, you know, we have the drop. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.080 And then I forget what exactly what he said, but 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.040 I did it for Mallor and that was hilarious. What 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.120 a great character Wayne from Southee is. And he didn't 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.160 call the show much anymore, but he was just wonderful. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.040 We love Wayne. It was great. Now, also on the 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.920 Big Board, we have Ed in Spokane. Now. Ed actually 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.559 makes a couple appearances on Big Ben's Big Board. This 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.480 one was from the Malor Man March in twenty nineteen. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.680 Wandering the streets of Seattle. Me and Ed and Jay 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.440 Scoop was there, and Robbie the Mariner fan, and we 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:22.480 had several other superstar listeners of the show from the 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.760 Pacific Northwest that had united for the malor Man March 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.600 from a certain point in downtown Seattle to the Seahawks Stadium. 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.199 They're playing the forty nine ers. It was like the 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.880 last week of the season the winner got in the playoffs, 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.480 and so it was a big deal, and of course 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.360 such a big deal they wouldn't let me in the stadium. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:46.080 But nonetheless, nonetheless we marched, and Wayne had his or 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.640 not Wayne ed ed excuse me, Ed had his bullhorn 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:55.640 and was doing chance and homeless people were yelling at 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.320 him to shut up. They homeless in Seattle because he 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.080 was so annoying. Ben Mahler Show. Listen to the Ben 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.280 Mahler Show. Also, as we continue Big Benny's Big Board, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.680 here the ten most memorable things that pe Ones have 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.480 done as super fans of the show over the years. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.200 And please add to this if I'm forgetting something, how 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.840 about Pete and Pittsburgh when the company laid me off 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:24.400 in August of actually was January's January of nine, January 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.560 twentieth o nine, I got laid off. I was rehired 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.280 in August, six months and twenty six days later, but 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.960 heat in Pittsburgh called into the King of All Media, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.600 Howard Stearn's radio show, to say how upset he was 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:45.360 that I had been laid off. And so Howard talked 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:50.400 about my situation with Pete and Pittsburgh and not just mine, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.760 but so many people, good hardworking radio people that were 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.439 whacked on that faithful day. And it was really funny 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.720 because I had a bunch of relatives that aren't sports 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.480 fans that were Stern fans, and I had people reaching 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.400 out to me. Did you see your name was mentioned? 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.120 Do you hear your name was mentioned on the Stern Show? 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.679 And so I want to thank Pete for that. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.360 That's cool. I never heard that story. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.679 Yeah, that was really it was really wild. And I 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.000 actually have the audio of somebody sent me a copy 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.520 of it. I haven't in my inbox. But that was 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.280 that was cool. Now, to be fair, I mean I've 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.840 ripped Howard. I think Howard lost his fastball, but only 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.560 recently within the last like five seven years. This was 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.960 this goes back about fifteen years now. Number number five, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.520 but again no particular order, But this is the fifth 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.640 name we'll put on the list, which is not a list, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.320 it's Benny's big board. So number five random Cleveland fan. 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.400 Now I don't have the name of this person. I 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.520 don't know whether they're actually a fan or not. But 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.560 what they did was what a p one would do. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.880 So we'll go back to the year twenty sixteen. I 0:14:54.880 --> 0:15:00.000 believe it was the Cleveland Cadavers had beaten the Golden State, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.600 or as they'd come back to beat Golden State. This 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.280 was the series. Raymond Green played the Nutcracker and got suspended, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.560 and that turned the series around, allowed Cleveland to get 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.680 back in the series so that they win. The Cavaliers 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.600 win the championship, and I'm whatever, I'm moving on with 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:20.040 my life. They have a massive parade, massive rally in 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:27.120 downtown Cleveland, and that evening I'm getting people sending me 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:32.880 photos that were taken by newspapers and news websites from 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.480 the parade, and a random person I don't know who 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.720 this is. I've never seen this person before or after 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:45.520 this incident, was walking around the parade with a giant 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.080 poster board and on the poster board were the photos 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.440 of Skip Bayless steven A Smith, Yours truly and a 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.640 couple of the random people, and they had listed all 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:05.160 of us as Lebron Halves, haters, trash who were picking 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.240 against the Calves and said they weren't going to win 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.600 the big championship. And so it was hilarious because I'm 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.000 like right next to stephen A and Skip Bayless, which 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.560 is our accountants. Actually, Danny say the same, You're right 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.440 in the same tax bracket as stephen A and Skip Baalis. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.280 But it was a great photo and I actually have 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.800 it up in my studio where I do a lot 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.480 of the work from here because it's it's like a 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.960 million people behind this guy. He's holding up a poster 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.320 with all of our photos on it. It was just 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.720 it was priceless. So it was just absolutely precious. Also, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.240 Femi's obviously on the list. We already mentioned Femi the 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.920 Nigerian funeral for his father, the Malor poster, which was great. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.800 I've got a few more on Benny's big board. How 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:54.240 about Fats from Philadelphia lighting himself on fire during the 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.360 COVID NFL draft of twenty twenty and screaming my name 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.600 that was that was amazing. He lit his chest on fire. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.160 He also later on he did the doc mic thing, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:13.119 drank some of the yellow juice, and he did it 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.240 right from the tap Danny, Oh yeah, well yeah, And 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.840 he ended up showing all of the internet little fats 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.080 which we didn't need to see. But the fats is 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:29.480 an all time great typical Philadelphia hardcore Eagles Neanderthal fan. 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.600 Also and in Spokane is on here again on Big 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:39.280 Ben's big board. This is arguably the funniest thing and 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.760 some would say the most controversial thing that anyone's done 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.000 for the show. This goes back again to the pandemic 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:49.119 in twenty twenty when the world was shut down and 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:53.199 all that they were protesters, the James Floyd situation and 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.640 all that that was going on as a wild time, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.359 and there was a Black Lives Matter ralegh is all 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.040 over the place and edin' Spokane, Washington showed up to 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:10.000 a Black Lives Matter rally protest in somewhere. I don't 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.520 think it was in Spokane, but somewhere, you know, in Washington. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.520 He shows up at the rally. People are all upset 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.159 and they're complaining and protesting and the whole thing, and 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.359 he's got a megaphone, listen to the Ben Mahler Show. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:24.560 You know he's. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:28.280 Oh man. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:34.720 The thing about Ed is he has no filter. Like 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.639 a lot of people would be like, I can't do that. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.639 I'd be so embarrassed, you know, I don't want to 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.879 do that. But edin' Spokane is like, no, screw it, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.680 I don't care. He's got no shame in his game. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.800 And it's just the video of him screaming to listen 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.960 to the Ben Mahler Show overnights you know, and see 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.399 you in Seattle, Washington, whatever, and the looks on the 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.719 face of the people there that are protesting is what 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:57.280 are you doing? 0:18:59.359 --> 0:18:59.760 It was. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.760 It was absolutely priceless, and I would be remiss if 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.120 you do it. Benny's big board and not mentioning the 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:13.080 greatest advertising anyone could ask for from a listener. Moving 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.760 Man Matt from Boston with his mobile Mallard billboard. Yeah 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:22.119 that he's got two trucks, moving trucks. He goes from 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:28.680 coast to coast moving thousands of pounds of product, and 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.479 he has the very bottom on each side of his 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:36.000 truck promotion of the Ben Maler Show, and so that 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.719 that's just amazing. So thank you Moving Man Matt. I'm 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:40.840 sure I'm missing a bunch. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.639 I got a couple really quick. What do you okay? 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.240 How about the cake benefactor? 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.480 Oh yeah, we were getting cake every other week. And 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:55.600 not just cake Dandy. These were designer cakes. These were 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.800 luxury cakes every single week. These were pieces of art 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.640 that we were getting. I want a camel. 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:04.560 It was so amazing. 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.320 And then also I got to add to that list 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.600 Rod and Bakersfield. He brought steak to the studio and 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.560 he also had us out for a steak dinner when 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.040 we were at the baseball game there. 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.480 Oh that's right, Yeah, we're in Bakersfield. Closed the whole 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:28.120 team down. Yes, the Bakersfield Blaze. They were a blaze, Yeah, exactly. 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.199 Mallard burned it down. Yeah, we were. The curse of 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.800 the Ben Bino was in effect there. Yeah, that was 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.040 very kind of rot. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.159 And there's been a few listeners Ben that treated us 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.959 to fat sALS. I'm thinking of Big Lou who treated 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.720 us a few times, and a couple others. Thank you 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:47.679 when I was on your live show. Thank you for 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.639 the extra ten twelve pounds I gained while I was there. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.800 I'm working so hard even now to get rid of 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:54.240 that weight. 0:20:55.560 --> 0:21:00.359 No, absolutely, and everyone's been been amazing and people have 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.199 been so kind. I know, when the pandemic was going on, 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.440 people were just like sending us random stuff in the mail, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.640 like just you mean so much, just like so important. 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.680 Here's here's a hat, here's a shirt. 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.719 From mugs to stickers to that woman that sent us 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.440 the Boston hot Dogs. 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.400 Oh that's yes, I completely that's a that's another one. 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.720 I I had a guy in Boston who was a 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:31.399 big fan, and I love the Finway Monster Dog, which is, 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.879 to me, the greatest ballpark hot dog I've ever had, 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.920 and you can buy them in the grocery stores around Boston. 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.480 I don't live in Boston, and so this guy every 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:45.600 year would overnight a giant and I say giant. This 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:50.280 thing was massive. There were probably fifty hot dogs or 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:55.360 more in this thing, and he just overnighted and there 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.840 you go. We had Finway Monster Dogs, Finway Franks and 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.280 I would grill those things up during the summer and 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:05.040 it was just awesome. So a wonderful gesture for sure, 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:09.080 And thanks to everyone else, and really really really cool, 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.640 really really really cool. I know there were some other stuff, 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:14.840 Danny Ray, you had some things on your mind. You 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.320 wanted to share with the class this week and things 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:21.320 that have happened as we wind down heading in this 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:23.680 is a two for one special this holiday weekend. 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:26.840 Yeah, I wanted to ask you a fun question that 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.920 we covered on Old School and fifty Hits. 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:31.119 This past Thursday. 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:35.680 On Covino and Rich it was National ba Humbug Day 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:40.040 and the question was what's one thing that everybody else 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:44.840 loves but you hate. We got some great calls, really 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.040 good stories from the guys dumb for my answer, but 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:53.120 they laughed because I said soup. Not a fan of soup, No, 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:57.680 because my mom used to serve tomato soup and I'd say, 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:00.480 what's for dinner and she'd say the soup that's on 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:02.320 the table, and I'm like, that's not dinner. 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:05.960 Yeah, Soup's not dinner. It's an appetizer. 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.359 Yeah, I agree with you, unless it's a hearty like 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:12.760 a thick chicken soup with lots of chicken. But for 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:16.399 the most part, ninety eight percent of soup is not 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:18.359 It's just it doesn't fill you up. 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:19.720 Yeah. Yeah. 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:22.720 And then after if you can think of one, well, 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:26.320 I tell you this lady called in Amber from Dallas. 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:28.960 She called in and she ranted in a fun way, 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:32.639