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The Fifth 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:30.840 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.280 In the air everywhere. 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.519 The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.360 Radio A Happy Sunday to you. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.520 It is the eleventh day of May. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:47.920 We are recording this podcast live on tape, Live on tape. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.680 I told you Madison Square Garden was going to be 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.360 rocking yesterday. The Knicks probably wanted a better outcome. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.320 Yeah yeah, yeah, Well you spend that kind of money, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:00.840 I guess you got. You know, I go out and 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:01.440 have a good. 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.400 Time, loser. Yeah. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.840 Well, here's the thing about the New York Nick fan, Danny. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.480 People talk about the cowboy fan, and they talk about 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.960 how the cowboy fan has an elitism and all that 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.560 the New York Nick fan to be in Midtown Manhattan, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.559 the Mecca, and that Nick franchise now. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:21.520 Maybe this will be the year. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.039 Maybe they'll end up figuring things out against the Celtics 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:24.720 and all that. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.679 That's a maybe I've been I'm getting old, Danny. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.600 The Knicks have not won a championship while I've been alive, Okay, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.000 and I've been around for a while, they have been. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.160 Now you're to the age where you're limping around like 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:38.839 Willis Reid. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.720 I guess I'm having my Willis Reid moll But but 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.200 but it's it's wild the new and not listen, we 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.000 have I have family from New York. I'm one of 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.880 my cousins we had on here is a Knicks fan 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.000 a few weeks back. And I have other cousins that 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.840 are Knicks fans and whatnot. But the arrogance of the 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:00.800 Knick fan is wild, considering all the resources they have 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:06.400 in New York, and they are just so blah so often, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:07.720 and but hey. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.000 You know, here we are. They're they're feeling good about 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.160 themselves and they're celebrating having a great time. And we'll 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:14.960 see if they actually end up beating the Celtics here 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:16.400 early they end up screwing this thing up. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.080 I mean, this feels like probably their best chance since 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.000 Carmelo Anthony, who that was sarcasm. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.160 Yeah, I remember when they got mellow. 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.600 I was on the air when the trade happened, when 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.920 the Nicks got mellow from the Nuggets, and a lot 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.919 of people forget they actually had a ticker tape parade 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.519 through the Hero of Canyons before he had even played 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:37.880 a game. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:39.000 He got he was. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.320 It was like he was in the popemobile going down 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:42.520 there midtown Manhattan. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.280 Uh and uh and just having a great time. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.919 So we have the mail bag, Ohio, Al, we'll get 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:48.880 it started properly. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.600 So Ohioow, you know what to do. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:03:06.480 It's all right, all right, let's get into it here. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.840 These are actual questions by actual listeners. If you'd like 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.320 to send a message to the mail bag for next week, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.640 send it care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.920 That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.480 The first letter of the weekend comes from Dave in 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.240 New Hampshire. Dave does not say where he is from 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.800 in New Hampshire, but one of my favorite cities to 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.480 visit is in New Hampshire. Portsmith, New Hampshire, which is 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:39.360 a small pretty much just a tourist town between Maine 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.080 and Boston. And it is awesome because I've only been 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.080 there when the weather's good. I'm sure it probably sucks 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:46.880 most of the year when the weather's bad, but it 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.200 is amazing in the summertime. One of the great places 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.839 I've been to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. So, Dave, I don't 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.360 know if you're from there. Obviously not. You didn't say 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.040 you just said from New Hampshire. There's only a couple 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.120 of cities in New Hampshire, so maybe you are. Anyway, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.840 Dave says, this is the pod on I semi regular basis. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.480 He said, Ben, I heard you talk about this in 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.480 a show a while back. Did you know this was coming? 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.720 How do you feel about it? He then sent a 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:14.600 link Danny to a story from and we see. NBC 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.920 Sports announced with the return of the NBA, they will 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.800 be having Jim Fagan beat the voiceover guy. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:22.600 I saw this. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:28.680 He died in twenty seventeen, AI generated voice announcer. They 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.280 say it's because of nostalgia. So he died at age 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.120 seventy two and twenty seventeen, which means he would have 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.960 been what like eighty I guess this year. And he's 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.120 going to be part of the coach he was the 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.080 guy that did the voiceover stuff back in the in 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.320 the nineties for NBC. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:45.240 Dave. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.760 I did not know about this. I nobody told me 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:52.440 about this particular story. I think I can say what 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.760 I mean. I know I have the TV show We 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.960 Hope Comes Back, which is on NBC Sports, But. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.240 I don't wait say it right Ben your keV, Well, I. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.480 Don't like it. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:08.960 How about that your TV shows on wa an NBC yes, WC. 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:10.200 No, I don't. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.440 I don't like it. I listen, this guy had a 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:14.080 great run. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.240 And I know they're claiming nostalgia and all that, and 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:19.600 it's fun and cool. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.800 Now does his family get paid? 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.360 I don't know about that. I mean, this guy did that. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.800 He did it from ninety nineteen ninety to twenty oh 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.360 two for twelve years. He was the voice of the 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.520 NBA for the Jordan years and. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:36.680 All that. I mean. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.839 I know they're bringing back round Ball Rock from John Tesh, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.440 so that that'll be back, but John Tesh is still 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:49.680 still alive, so the way the story goes here Jim. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.920 Jim's daughters provided a statement. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.240 They said, we're deeply grateful that NBC Sports had the 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.480 vision to honor our father's legacy and such a meetingful. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.960 It took great pride in his work, all that stuff. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.880 I don't see where he where the family's getting any 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.080 money out of it. But but here's my but, whether 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:13.719 you're getting paid or not, Danny, I think the whole 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:18.279 point is we all have our time. Somebody else should 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.479 become the next Jim, you know, Jim Fagan. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.360 Somebody else should have the opportunity to have that job. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:29.200 And so that's their voice blocking, their voice blocking the 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:30.719 next voiceover generation. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.960 Yeah, I mean there's the next wave. You know. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.000 We all have our time, and you know, hopefully it 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.120 goes on for a long time, but at some point 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.680 we need to have a different distinguished voiceover. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.680 I don't think the Malord militia is gonna agree with you, though, 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.239 if Heaven forbid anything happened to you down the road, 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.920 I think the militia is gonna scream and and call 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.200 our bosses. Scott Chaparro will probably still be running things, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.560 and he'll throw a big party when he replaces you. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:03.560 But then he'll then record scratch moment because he's gonna 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.840 have to do Ben mallor Ai and he'll have to 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.640 type it out in program it to where or maybe Coop, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.280 because Coop does a lot of your writing now, so. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:13.960 Yes, many of the monologues. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.240 Yes, so I'm sure Coop could just write out what 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.679 he wants your voice to say. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.840 Yeah, it's funny because I Coople. He'll write the monologues 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.720 and I'll just have like dinner and watch movies and stuff, 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.840 and I'll roll into the studio. Sometimes they even show 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.840 up after the show starts and he'll just hand me 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.880 the copy because he's been working all day on the 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.400 show writing the monologues. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.000 And I said, well, that's great, Coop, thanks for putting 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:35.680 the work in there. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.160 Through the heck is justin Cooper? 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.960 I don't know, but I. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:43.000 Want to mount it. 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.200 Yeah, And I technically have been replaced by AI. I 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:48.679 got let going nine. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.760 God that's a long time ago now, but got let 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.120 go and was replaced by a can of. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.880 Soup, the Fox Sports soup replace me. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.120 So I'm on a steamer. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.840 Okay, Well, yeah, I think there's websites you can get that. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:08.040 Smitty Smitty writes in from Hartford to we are dominating. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:13.040 The first two emails from New Hampshire and Hartford, Connecticut. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.480 We dominate the northeast anyway. Smitty from Hartford writes, is 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.360 Ben Danny, I listen as much as I can. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:19.960 Ben. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.440 I heard lead a Lap producing your show this week. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.040 It sounded like you and him were having some issues 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.400 with the call screening. Can you let us pe ones 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:32.720 know what happened? Thank you, Smitty from Hartford. Well, no, 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.360 there were no there were no issues. The only thing, 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:42.880 which is a rather small thing, is the spelling is 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.920 not the greatest, and so it becomes a bit of 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:52.120 an issue. And we had some funny moments. We had 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.760 some funny moments because I just read off the call 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.679 screen who the next caller is, and sometimes we were 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.320 completely off. Sometimes it wasn't even close. There was one 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.120 caller who said on the call screen that said Pete 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.480 oh on the call screen, so I was like, all right, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.520 let's go to Pete O. Pete, what's going on? You're 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.280 on the Ben Mather Show. And the guy it was, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:19.760 his name was Tito, so you know, but hey, that's fine. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.400 But I don't think that was any It's not it's 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.280 not anything to get all worked up all that. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.880 It's crazy though. I didn't realize that Lee to Lap 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.000 graduated from saddleback. 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.360 No, I actually think he went to cal State Northridge 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.040 or something like that. I don't know which is which 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:35.960 is lower than Saddleback. I think where did he Where 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:36.600 did he go to school? 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.440 I don't even know. I have no idea. I think 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:39.280 he's a valley guy. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.920 Reggie from Detroit writes and says, Ben and Danny you 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.000 mentioned Ben you had a visitor to the show who 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.960 threatened you over a photo? Can you give us more 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.320 information on that? Says Reggie love the show, thank you 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.160 on the podcast. Boo, Yeah, there's really nothing to that. 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.320 There was a visitor that we had add to the studio, 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.680 was very cordial, very nice visit, and there was a 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:11.199 photo taken. There's a saying that no good deed goes unpunished. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.240 So I attempted to spread some goodwill. I attempted to 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:19.520 be Benny brightside Reggie and was sent several threatening messages 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:25.120 demanding that the photo be deleted. There was threats of 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:29.960 government intervention that were mentioned. It was really ridiculous, but 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.319 it was just an overreaction and all of that has 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:34.080 been worked out. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.760 That person is not invited back to the studio ever. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.720 Again, these are the actions you should have taken. Back 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.240 in the day when Eddie Garcia took that really horrible 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.800 photo of you upstairs where the bright light was shining 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:47.720 on top of your dome. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.120 No one will ever compare Eddie Garcia to Ansel Adams ever, 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.760 my God. But yeah, so that was it, Reggie mean, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.959 there was just a little incident and got really blown 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.120 out of proportion. Is very just disappointing that that happened. 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.280 I was very upset by that. But we move on, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:08.040 and I, you know, lesson learned, lesson learned, and that's that. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.600 Kevin and Kansas, right, since thisys dinner Ben and Danny 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.480 g one of the one of radio's best segments is 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.640 Math of the Third Degree, which Ben should win every 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:18.319 time if I were judging, God bless you. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:18.640 Kevin. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.480 Does your prowess at responding under pressure come from your 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.679 parents grilling you when you were younger? 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:24.360 Uh? 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.440 And as adults, have you had any head to resort 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.000 to being the third degree interrogator very often? 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:31.280 Any? 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.559 Wait, wait, wait, I'm sorry I was going to say, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.600 I thought we already established Coop writes the questions and 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:37.679 the answers. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.560 Yes, and everything is done by Coop, And I just 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.439 smoke a lot of weed, eat a lot of food, 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.480 and watch movies and then just show up when I want. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.080 That's usually the dynamic of the show. But he was 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.680 asking you, Danny, Now, you're your child, your your son, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.720 very still a young man, you know, baby, so you 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.640 don't really have to beat He doesn't look like a baby. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.320 He's the size of a man. But you know, it's 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.079 like Roger Rabbit or whatever, the kid. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.640 Remember we get the cigar in his mouth, but there's 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:09.920 an old movie anyway. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.400 Anyway, Yeah, Kevin's asking if you have to interrogate your 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.120 kid there at all, but probably not yet. What's the 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.559 worst thing Co is into at this point, probably, you know, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.160 taking extra cookies or something. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.960 He's a pretty well behaved kid. He he's at the 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.120 age though, where when he can't grab something that catches 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.240 his eye because he'll just see something random on a counter, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.840 Like yesterday, there were a pair of scissors on the 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:39.000 counter and he looked at him and he said mine, mine, mine, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.160 reaching his arm out and I said no, no, no, 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.840 those aren't yours. And he's like, yeah, dad, mine. I'm like, no, bro, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.040 you're not gonna hold scissors. They're not yours. So that's 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.959 really it. At this age. He wants what he wants, 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.319 and if I don't give it to him immediately, he's 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.120 gonna let me hear about it. But I put my 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.880 foot down because obviously I'm not gonna let this kid 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.840 run around with scissors until he's at least three years. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.120 Old, maybe three and a half. You might even have 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.120 to wait till three and a half on that for sure. 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.960 As he is the incredible hulk, Boat rides in and says, Hey, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:15.200 Ben and Danny, what do you guys have planned for 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.760 Mother's Day? Which is, by the way, today, Today's right, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:19.679 Today's Mother's Day. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.160 Yeah, you're reminding me and a lot of people right now, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.559 because it's not the first thing I thought of when 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.520 I woke up either. But as as soon as Brenda 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.640 wakes up, I'm gonna be like, oh, yeah, it's Mother's Day. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.560 I better go to the garage and get her gift out. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.440 Oh you have it hidden? Is it embargaining? 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.520 I always hide my gifts downstairs in the garage, and 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.720 I put like a blanket on top of the gifts, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.000 and I'm like, hey, nobody's gonna go through my garage stuff. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.080 Yeah, that's a smart move, But you've just announced too. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.720 If she happens to stumble onto this, you've just announced 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:54.280 where you're hiding place is so thus ruining the situation. 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.520 But my gift to my wife is that I will be. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.840 I was going to a wedding life last night. That 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.880 was its wedding weekend. So that's that's the gift. My 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.080 presence at a family wedding for her. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.080 Family is the gift. How was the conga line? Did 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:11.959 you take my advice? 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:13.680 Yeah, I hit the. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.559 Open bar, That's what I as soon as the open 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.480 bar ended the timer. Now you know my position on this, Danny. 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.240 What do I always say at social events? I say 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:27.520 social events are like Broadway shows or Vegas shows, ninety minutes, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:28.920 ninety minutes. 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:29.800 That is the time. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.400 You go to a Vegas show, they're all ninety minutes. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.760 You go to a Broadway show ninety minutes, it's forty 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.880 five minutes or so, maybe a fifteen minute intermission and 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.160 then another forty five so it's the total time, say 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.560 two hours, but the actual show is ninety minutes. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:46.520 That's it. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.720 Ninety minutes of content. And I feel like these appearances. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.640 You go to a wedding, bar, mits, for birthday party, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.960 any kind of party ninety minutes. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:57.080 That's it. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.640 In say hello, don't even say goodbye, dode the Irish goodbye. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.600 Just where did Ben go? I don't know where did 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.320 Danny g go? I don't know where Danny g is. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:06.240 That's it. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.160 Well, when we go over our lifelogs next Saturday, I'm 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.160 sure you'll have a couple of stories to tell us. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.320 Uh yeah, definitely, definitely will. What's next year? 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:17.200 Yo yo ma? 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.440 Ben is some Barry in South Carolina. Met Barry at 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:22.640 the Charleston Meet and greet. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.080 Hey, yo Berry, living in the life. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.960 He says, hey, hey, yo yo ma, Benny. I love 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.880 the Fifth Hour with Mike North. That guy is just 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.480 so upfront and uncensored. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.280 I loved it. Oh, there's no question. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.600 I used to listen to North and Furman during the 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:39.880 early morning weekdays. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:40.800 One day I woke up. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.240 I used to produce that show, remember I do. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.880 One day I woke up early, turned on the radio 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.200 in preparation for their show, and I heard this guy 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.240 that was on the radio before their show, Ben Maller, 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.520 and I said, this is a guy I need to 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.640 listen to regularly. Been downloading your podcasts ever since. So 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:02.680 this goes back seven or eight years from Barry, so 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.520 thank you, thank you. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:05.720 Very much, Barry. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.440 It is an odd deal on the overnight show because 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:14.200 that last hour, the five am hour, is early morning 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.160 drive on the East Coast. There's a lot of people 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.320 that get to jump on the traffic and they'll get 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.080 up ridiculously early, get in the car about like five thirty, 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:26.160 so they'll hear the end of the show and picked 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.400 up a lot of listeners because of that. And we've 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:34.000 also done very well in Boston recently because of blind Scott. Well, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.200 I don't know if it's just blind Scott, but we've 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:42.040 become a talking point Danny on the Morning show in Boston, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.320 which is the number one morning show in all of 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:47.240 Boston radio. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.800 Is it like a gag? It's like a Is it 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:50.320 like a bit? 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.080 Well, it started because blind Scott kept mentioning Fred Toucher, 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.320 who's the host. It's Toucher and Hardy in the morning, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.520 and so Scott would mentioned Fred Toucher, and it got 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.439 to the point where I ended up. I ended up 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.880 being a guest on there in the Morning Show in Boston, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.840 and we've been picking up a pretty good numbers in Boston. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:13.960 We always have done pretty well there, but it's gotten 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.919 even better now because people are like, hey, what's what 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:18.960 is this show? Everyone's why are they talking about this 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.400 stupid overnight show? And then some people have gone over 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.199 to listen to it, so it's it's actually worked out 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.880 pretty well. But thanks Berry for listening, and uh look 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.199 at that. And Mike North. I love when when I 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.280 brought up Jonas Knox with Mike North on the Pie, 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:33.800 He's like, oh, yeah, Jones does a good show. We 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:34.520 had a better show. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.960 I did yeah with Douber stay no, no disrespect, but 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.280 our show was better, much better, And he was jacked 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:42.920 up about it. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.040 I'm jacked up about it. I know, I know. And 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.320 remember North also was upset. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.960 He was still bitter because there was a battle we 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:55.320 had the company had with the satellite radio people where 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.399 the shows were off satellite radio for a couple of 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.520 years because of a dispute. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:01.040 Yeah. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.720 I don't know all the details, but it was it 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.119 was corporate bull crap app and we ended up getting 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:11.159 caught in the middle of it, and North still remembers 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:11.960 he's still. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.840 Upset about it. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.399 Do you know that there was one morning where Andy 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.639 Furman couldn't make it to the show. So it was 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:24.560 Mike North by himself. Oh boy, now Mike with a 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.480 co host or you know, a team of people on 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:33.479 the air, amazing radio. Mike North by himself, he didn't 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.440 know what to do. He was reading baseball box scores 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:41.800 on the air. It was it was, it was awkward. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.199 Yeah, well he's a playoff. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.840 Other people got exactly That's what I was saying. Yeah, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:51.199 he needs somebody to interject with him. Uh, you know, 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.200 it's kind of kind of like you. Ever since Eddie 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.240 got whacked, you've been on your own and your ratings 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:57.040 have been cutting half. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.520 That's clearly what thing that. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.879 This just triggered a memory and it's it's hilarious. And 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.800 only a few of us know about this. But Stephen A. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:12.200 Smith was a columnist in Philadelphia when I first became 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.720 aware of him, and one of his first jobs in 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.119 radio was on Fox Sports Radio. 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:17.639 Steven A. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:23.600 Smith hosted a Saturday morning show with John Ireland, who 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.880 is now the play by play voice of the Lakers. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:26.960 Wow, I didn't know that. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.480 Yeah, they did a show together in the early days 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:35.160 of Fox Sports Radio, and so I was doing updates 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.480 at that time. This is in the early early days 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.200 and I was doing like an overnight show on the weekend, 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.880 studied updates, and so John was the at that time, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.399