Speaker 1: Cut booms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 3: The air ev rewhere the Fifth Hour be Ben Malor
Speaker 3: as we hang out together on this Sunday, the final
Speaker 3: Sunday of the NFL.
Speaker 1: We had a couple of games on Saturday and the
Speaker 1: full card. Today we have the mail Bag coming up.
Speaker 1: If you would like to send a letter in to
Speaker 1: a future edition of the mail Bag, you can do
Speaker 1: that care of Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: That's Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Would that
Speaker 1: being said, ohio al, please get me in the mood.
Speaker 1: It's in this mail bag. Very good. These are actual
Speaker 1: letters by actual listeners. We have not done the mail
Speaker 1: Bag in a couple of weeks, and we are back
Speaker 1: at it here today. So the first one up from
Speaker 1: Andy from South Carolina Wrights and he says, hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: Are you mourning that this is the last Sunday of
Speaker 1: the NFL regular season? Which is what I just said, Andy,
Speaker 1: but you're not listening because it's a podcast. No, to
Speaker 1: answer to the question, I am not mourning that this
Speaker 1: is the last Sunday of the NFL regular season. I
Speaker 1: have been around a couple of years, and while we
Speaker 1: love the NFL, it's exceptional for business, it's absolutely fantastic
Speaker 1: and all of that, the silly season is also exceptionally
Speaker 1: good and often often just as good, just as good
Speaker 1: because you have the I'm sorry to phrase it, in
Speaker 1: the offseason. No one really loses, right. People think that
Speaker 1: they might their team might be losing, but there's always
Speaker 1: this cock eyed optimism which has always been mind blowing
Speaker 1: to me. So No, and the NFL regular season ends today.
Speaker 1: We have the playoffs, which are fun, right, We like
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Those are always good. There'll be some breath
Speaker 1: taking moments in the playoffs, electrifying games, and there'll be
Speaker 1: a lot of bad games as we navigate our way
Speaker 1: through the playoffs, and some of the takes that we've
Speaker 1: had all year will be validated, which is always fun
Speaker 1: hot take validation, and then we'll slide into the coaching
Speaker 1: mary go round the coaching carousel, as we like to
Speaker 1: call it, and then the NFL combine, and then certain events,
Speaker 1: these pillars of the NFL offseason. So we'll be okay, Andy,
Speaker 1: we'll be fine. And the good news about this being
Speaker 1: the last Sunday in the NFL, you don't have to
Speaker 1: watch the Raiders play or the Jets play, not that
Speaker 1: we watch them play anyway any reasonable person, though any
Speaker 1: reasonable person would say, well, it's good not to have
Speaker 1: to watch, even by chance stumbling onto a Raiders or
Speaker 1: Jets gime. So but thanks for your concern, Andy, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that now there are people that do what I
Speaker 1: do for a living that are not on the same page.
Speaker 1: That they will not know what to do with themselves
Speaker 1: once the NFL winds down, and they'll be scrambling and
Speaker 1: trying to adjust and all of that. But we don't
Speaker 1: have that problem. We don't. Next up on the mail
Speaker 1: bag is Jade, a wingman from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: He says it was a bummer hearing that Big Sexy
Speaker 1: about Big Sexy on the fifth hour, he said, but
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you told the story as it was
Speaker 1: from before my time as a listener. JT says. The
Speaker 1: last several years have brought many great losses to the
Speaker 1: Valord Militia, and you are right, Overnight radio is different.
Speaker 1: JT says. The reason it's a militia is because we
Speaker 1: kind of have a bind together, even if we are
Speaker 1: all from different backgrounds and places. Yeah, that's the magic
Speaker 1: of it, right, We all kind of come together. We
Speaker 1: have one common goal, which is trying to stay awake
Speaker 1: at night and maybe even talk from sports. So the
Speaker 1: email continues from JT. So that being said, what else
Speaker 1: in your life gives you fulfillment like the time you
Speaker 1: spend talking into the microphone, be it live radio or
Speaker 1: a podcast, JT says, For me, even though I spend
Speaker 1: so many hours behind the wheel of a truck, I
Speaker 1: love to get out on my Harley and take on
Speaker 1: the open road, this time taking in God's beauty and
Speaker 1: enjoying the fresh air. That's wonderful. There you go, and
Speaker 1: he says he he says, a great Sunday. Look forward
Speaker 1: to listening to the live show when you return from
Speaker 1: a well deserved break. That's our buddy, JT. The wingman
Speaker 1: who's been to a bunch of Mallard meet and greets
Speaker 1: over the years. Hopefully we'll run into JT at some
Speaker 1: point here in twenty twenty six, with tentative plans to
Speaker 1: have several big Mallard meet and greets all over the place,
Speaker 1: depending on a few other things, but some of these
Speaker 1: will definitely happen, And whether all of them happen, my
Speaker 1: guess is based on past experience. Probably not, because people
Speaker 1: flake and things happen and whatnot. But we will get
Speaker 1: out and about and hang out with you, hopefully JT
Speaker 1: and some of the other guys. As far as what
Speaker 1: gives me fulfillment in my time, I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's any one thing. I spend so much of my
Speaker 1: time JT preparing for the radio show or podcasts or
Speaker 1: things like that, so I don't have too much free time.
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of free time the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks because of limited work, although I've still been
Speaker 1: doing Benny Versus the Penny, which is a labor of love,
Speaker 1: more so this year than in years past. Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny on YouTube you can still watch that. For
Speaker 1: the final Sunday of the NFL regular season, we'll be
Speaker 1: back for the playoffs next week. But I enjoyed looking
Speaker 1: and traveling around. I don't get out on the road
Speaker 1: and drive just to drive. I don't have a Harley.
Speaker 1: I'm not a Harley guy. JT the Wingman. But I
Speaker 1: do like traveling and seeing new places, and spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time in the last couple weeks catching up
Speaker 1: with some family. So that's been a lot of fun
Speaker 1: and it gives me some level of fulfillment. Ferg Dog
Speaker 1: writes in from the winter wonderland of Fullerton. He says,
Speaker 1: happy New Year, Ben and Danny G. This email might
Speaker 1: seem a little familiar, but last time I sent it,
Speaker 1: Danny G accidentally nuked the podcast, So just act like
Speaker 1: it's the first time you're reading it all. I will
Speaker 1: pretend that I have not seen this email, and hopefully
Speaker 1: this one will actually make the podcast. We'll see stay
Speaker 1: tuned developing hot dot dot dot. Ferg Doog says, you
Speaker 1: were not wrong, Ben, when you go on vacation, I
Speaker 1: go on vacation. The second I hear and sitting in
Speaker 1: for Big Ben in the intro, I immediately turn off
Speaker 1: the radio. I don't even stick around long enough to
Speaker 1: find out who's filling in, Ferg Dog says, like you
Speaker 1: always say, the most valuable thing people have is their time.
Speaker 1: It's not my money, it's your time. He said, h
Speaker 1: this is not money, it's your time. And I choose
Speaker 1: not to spend my free time listening to blank blank
Speaker 1: blank blank. I hope you understand you are free to
Speaker 1: do what you want. For a dog, you are free.
Speaker 1: Although I do think I still get credit, although it's
Speaker 1: kind of weird over the holidays, if people are listening. However,
Speaker 1: I would imagine that if the numbers go down when
Speaker 1: I'm not there, that's not a bad thing, meaning that
Speaker 1: the company knows the value of the person that normally
Speaker 1: hosts the show. But I have no idea how all
Speaker 1: that works, he says. Have you guys heard about this company? Heleon,
Speaker 1: they're great. I get all my Flintstone vitamins from them.
Speaker 1: Do you take a daily vitamin or do you think
Speaker 1: they're a total scam? Says Ferg Dog. Well, even if
Speaker 1: they don't work the way they're exactly designed vitamins. I
Speaker 1: know the placebo effect is a big thing. That there
Speaker 1: are certain vitamins that I take on a semi regular basis.
Speaker 1: But if you want me to go on a long
Speaker 1: rant about vitamins. This is not going to happen right now,
Speaker 1: not today. Maybe next week or the week after. It
Speaker 1: could happen, but not right now, Lucky Tony writes. In
Speaker 1: on the mail bag, he says, Hey, Ben and Danny
Speaker 1: g He says, if me going to blank blank on
Speaker 1: Veronica Leal, I guess that that must be like a
Speaker 1: porn star, right. Can someone help the Bears win it all?
Speaker 1: He says. He says, if blah blah blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: I will take one for the team. Go Bears. And
Speaker 1: he says, what does twenty twenty six have in common
Speaker 1: with twenty twenty five? Lucky Tony ass He says, David
Speaker 1: Veasse can eat a plate of blank? All right, very nice,
Speaker 1: you're one of my favorite Lucky Tony. Happy New Year
Speaker 1: to you, Lucky Tony, outstanding, wonderful. Next up, mail bag, Eddie,
Speaker 1: not that Eddie, not Eddie from Charlotte, not the guy
Speaker 1: that used to work on the show, Eddie from Tampa, writes,
Speaker 1: and he says. Scientists have claimed a new dark matter
Speaker 1: theory that could explain the existence of a hidden universe.
Speaker 1: It says, Ben, can you please give me some insight
Speaker 1: on this. That's from Eddie in Tampa. So I read
Speaker 1: the story. I wonder how much of this is bull
Speaker 1: crap and how much of this is legit. But the
Speaker 1: story said that dark matter, which is a invisible substance
Speaker 1: that makes up for five to six of the universe.
Speaker 1: But until now scientists assumed it was created during the
Speaker 1: Big Bang, but they have now theorized it could have
Speaker 1: very well followed days after the universe again, so like
Speaker 1: there's a second there were two big bangs, bang bang
Speaker 1: like that, you know. And this is a going to
Speaker 1: a University of Texas Austin physicist, So Eddie, the key
Speaker 1: part of this is theorized theorized. That's like me giving
Speaker 1: an opinion. This is a theory on what may or
Speaker 1: may not have happened, the new dark big Bang theory
Speaker 1: and all that. And I continue to go by my
Speaker 1: theory that there is a whole lot of other stuff
Speaker 1: out there, a lot of things out there. Now. My
Speaker 1: belief is a lot of these critters and creatures that
Speaker 1: are flying in the sky at night, and these unidentified
Speaker 1: flying objects are things that are living deep in the oceans.
Speaker 1: That's been my theory, My recent theory. I've had that
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years, actually longer than that,
Speaker 1: longer than that. So there you go. Do they have
Speaker 1: to remake Eddie The Big Bang theory to the Two
Speaker 1: Big Bangs? Sounds like a movie that Lucky Tony would
Speaker 1: watch in his spare of time, The two Big Bang,
Speaker 1: And Lucky Tony's like, well, I'll watch that as long
Speaker 1: as the Bears win the Super Bowl. Reggie from Detroit
Speaker 1: writes in Good to Hear From Reggie, a regular email
Speaker 1: contributor to this podcast. Reggie says, boys, welcome to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. I wanted to get your thoughts on no
Speaker 1: Stradamus and his big predictions for the new year. That's
Speaker 1: from Reggie from Motown. I did see this story, Reggie,
Speaker 1: although much like the previous story from Eddie the guy
Speaker 1: from Tampa who sent a story from a professor or
Speaker 1: a psychia psychiatrist, a physicist, there we go, dummy, a
Speaker 1: physicist from the University of Texas talking about two Big Bangs.
Speaker 1: It was that theorized, which is a bit of a
Speaker 1: weasel word, theorized. Well, this story, Reggie about Nostradamus, not
Speaker 1: nostro genus. He lives in Seattle, but no Damas, and
Speaker 1: it says that even though Nostru Damis is known as
Speaker 1: the prophet of doom, that he never explicity explicitly wrote
Speaker 1: predictions for the year twenty twenty six, which is amusing.
Speaker 1: This is in the now full disclosure. Reggie sent me
Speaker 1: a story which is from the New York Post, and
Speaker 1: Reggie sent me the story and he explained that these
Speaker 1: are the big headline here is you know, Nostra Damas
Speaker 1: writes predictions for the year twenty twenty six. However, it
Speaker 1: says in the fine print, if I'm reading this properly
Speaker 1: and it is rather early while we're recording this podcast,
Speaker 1: it says that Nostradamis never explicitly wrote predictions for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. However, however, a cousin of but however true
Speaker 1: believers in the bat blank which means bat shit, they
Speaker 1: looked to the number twenty six and they saw the
Speaker 1: following disasters. So this is again much like the previous story.
Speaker 1: This is a theory, a theory Reggie that says we
Speaker 1: are going to have rivers of blood, plagues of bees,
Speaker 1: and death by lightning. Ooh, do do do do do
Speaker 1: do do do Do Do do do do do do
Speaker 1: do Yes. Well, they call them the prophet of doom.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna have rivers of blood? I'm gonna go know.
Speaker 1: Will there be a river that is dyed red? Eh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Likely around February according to my crystal ball, right around
Speaker 1: the time that we have fun, fun fun in Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: A plague of bees. I'm sure at some point there'll
Speaker 1: be a bunch of bees that attack someone and they
Speaker 1: will die this year because of bees. Death by lightning. Yes,
Speaker 1: people will die. They will be hit by lightning. Someone
Speaker 1: probably already has been hit by lightning and died. My
Speaker 1: grandfather was hit by lightning. He lived, though he didn't die.
Speaker 1: He lived a long life and made it all the
Speaker 1: way to the age of ninety and then that was that.
Speaker 1: But he did get hit by lightning. Kevin from La
Speaker 1: rights in and says exciting news. Ben, I know you
Speaker 1: like UFOs. I'd like to hear you host Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast sometime for George Norie. Well from your lips to
Speaker 1: God's Ears, Kevin, I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't do it. If they asked me, I
Speaker 1: would do it. I would love to sit in and
Speaker 1: talk about extraterrestrials and chemtrails and the underworld and all that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Kevin wanted to get our thoughts on an Air Force
Speaker 1: nuclear specialist claiming that Donald Trump could release bombshell UFO
Speaker 1: pictures soon. This guy named Jean, a national security expert,
Speaker 1: and well, I says former ex Air Force nuclear protection
Speaker 1: specialist said that the public may at the very least
Speaker 1: be given enough to satisfy the collective. Itch is the
Speaker 1: way the story was written here. So first of all, Kevin,
Speaker 1: thank you of thinking of me when you think of
Speaker 1: UFOs or unidentified flying objects whatever I mean, whatever they're
Speaker 1: calling UFOs these days. Donald Trump was president for four years.
Speaker 1: He then took a four year break for the weekend
Speaker 1: at Bernie's Experience in the White House, and now he's
Speaker 1: back and he's heading into another year and so far
Speaker 1: nothing And as I understand it, based on watching a
Speaker 1: bunch of documentaries and reading some stories on the dark web,
Speaker 1: that not only Trump, these photos have been around. Let's
Speaker 1: put it that with these photos of whatever that stuff is,
Speaker 1: whatever those things are, has been around since at least
Speaker 1: the nineteen forties and so Trump had access to all
Speaker 1: that stuff and didn't release it. So I am a
Speaker 1: bit skeptical, a bit skeptical that we're gonna see any
Speaker 1: any real photographs. And plus with the age of AI,
Speaker 1: good luck everyone. So well, that's just AI. And the
Speaker 1: same theme continues Kevin, as we had with Reggie from
Speaker 1: Detroit and Eddie Getty's in Tampa. Those guys sent stories.
Speaker 1: There's a weasel word right here. It's a fun game.
Speaker 1: I should I should just do a podcast, spot the
Speaker 1: weasel word? Where's the weasel? Pop goes the weasel? Well
Speaker 1: in this one, Kevin could is the weasel word? Could?
Speaker 1: I could get a daytime show in twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: and make legitimate money. I could do that. I'm not,
Speaker 1: but I could. I could wake up one morning, get
Speaker 1: a phone call from some corporate muckety muck and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we want you to go to the Dreda. So I
Speaker 1: don't want to go to the day ship, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll pay you what coward's making. Okay, I'm there, sign
Speaker 1: me up. I'll change my entire schedule around Rob from
Speaker 1: the six one nine. For those who don't know that,
Speaker 1: Sundaye go beautiful Sunday A go, Rob writes, and he
Speaker 1: says from my old radio stomping rounds, he says, Ben,
Speaker 1: I was reading this week about a castle that was
Speaker 1: uncovered in France under a hotel, and it made me wonder,
Speaker 1: what do you think is under the Malor Mansion? From
Speaker 1: your radio friend Rob in the six to one nine. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Rob, appreciate that. And so what do I
Speaker 1: think is under the Malor Mansion? I'm going to go
Speaker 1: out and a limb here and say, a lot of dirt,
Speaker 1: a lot of dirt, and if you dig all the
Speaker 1: way down, you'll find a willy mammoth. And then if
Speaker 1: you keep digging, you'll get to the core of the
Speaker 1: earth and there'll be a lot of heat, so we
Speaker 1: are told. Although I still get emails every once in
Speaker 1: a while from the Hollow Earth Society. So it is possible,
Speaker 1: Rob from the six to one to nine, it is
Speaker 1: possible that if you go down far enough, there's a
Speaker 1: whole world in the middle of the planet little knowme,
Speaker 1: people that live there and live their lives and all that. Now,
Speaker 1: as far as the story Rober was referencing, this is
Speaker 1: kind of cool. So there was a fourteenth century castle
Speaker 1: that was discovered in the middle of a town, which
Speaker 1: is not like a small town, it's a decent sized
Speaker 1: town in France. It was situated under the courtyard of
Speaker 1: a hotel. The six hundred and forty year old castle.
Speaker 1: Think about that has been confirmed as the Chateau de Hermin.
Speaker 1: It was built in the thirteen eighties. Think about that
Speaker 1: for a second, by John six the Conquer, John six,
Speaker 1: the Conquer. Between these spring in autumn of last year, they
Speaker 1: say that the archaeologist, the excavation people carried out an
Speaker 1: excavation by the National Institute of Preventative Archaeological Research. That's
Speaker 1: a mouthful in rap is what they're called in rap
Speaker 1: And they uncovered it. So my question, and I did
Speaker 1: not read the whole story, maybe it's in here rob
Speaker 1: and if somebody knows the answer is like, how does
Speaker 1: that stuff happen? Like how does that much dirt? Did
Speaker 1: they just bury the castles back in the like the
Speaker 1: fifteen hundreds they say, all right, we're done with this castle,
Speaker 1: let's just put a bunch of dirt on top of it.
Speaker 1: Or did land just move around that much? Was there
Speaker 1: massive earthquakes or something like? How does that much dirt
Speaker 1: get on top of a chateau. I'd love to know that.
Speaker 1: I guess I could go down a rabbit hole and
Speaker 1: figure it out myself, but it's more fun just to
Speaker 1: have you do the work for me. It is crazy, though,
Speaker 1: And then what do you do with it? Do they
Speaker 1: just leave it and then have like a doorway where
Speaker 1: you can go down and check out the chateau of
Speaker 1: John six the Conqueror. Good nicknames? Good nicknames they had
Speaker 1: back in the thirteen hundreds, John six the conquer I wonder, though,
Speaker 1: did they call them by those names or are those
Speaker 1: names that were given to them long after their death?
Speaker 1: Did you have to address John six the Conqueror? Please
Speaker 1: hello John six the Conqueror. Could you call them John?
Speaker 1: I don't know. A guy named Dallas writes in on
Speaker 1: the mailbag on the fifth hour. Dallas is from Ohio,
Speaker 1: which is rather odd because he's named Dallas. Anyway, he says, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I know Danny's a big fan of these I'm assuming
Speaker 1: you are too as well, Ben, but they're dead. He's
Speaker 1: talking about leggings story here says sales overall are dropping
Speaker 1: for the leggings very popular with the ladies. Lulu Man
Speaker 1: laid off one hundred and fifty people in June, I say,
Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons. However, these sales of leggings
Speaker 1: have gone down to the point now according to this
Speaker 1: story that Dallas sent that if you're spotted wearing leggings,
Speaker 1: that you're considered a boomer. So Dallas is Ben and Danny,
Speaker 1: are you mourning the loss of these leggings? Well, Dallas,
Speaker 1: first of all, boots on the ground, traveling around, going
Speaker 1: around to different locations. This story is bull pucky. Bull
Speaker 1: Pucky is what I don't buy it. I don't buy it.
Speaker 1: Lulu Man, the overpriced clothing store. Have they laid off people?
Speaker 1: It's possible, possible people aren't spending the money on their product.
Speaker 1: In terms of seeing leggings, I see them all over
Speaker 1: the place. I don't what has replaced the legging because
Speaker 1: when I go out, I notice it's hard not to notice.
Speaker 1: In certain locations there's a lot of people wearing leggings.
Speaker 1: So I don't buy it, at least not where I am.
Speaker 1: Maybe in Ohio or Arkansas or Kentucky or Tennessee. I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not there. I just know based on my experience.
Speaker 1: This is seems like total nonsense. That's what it sounds
Speaker 1: like to me. All right. Next up, Louis from k
Speaker 1: C rights in and he says, it's a new year, Ben,
Speaker 1: and that means new names. Are you on board with
Speaker 1: the TikTok name game? All right? So Louis sends, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of words. Louis, there's too many words. Just
Speaker 1: sum it up in a couple of sentences. My man,
Speaker 1: let me skim through this, blah blah. So this story
Speaker 1: claims that, according to a baby naming website, the young
Speaker 1: young people in their twenties having kids are dumping the traditional.
Speaker 4: Names like Mike and Dave and I don't know, Samantha
Speaker 4: or Cindy or whatever names you think are normal names,
Speaker 4: and they're choosing names that sound magical, mythical, nostalgic, or
Speaker 4: from TikTok.
Speaker 1: They're using big words, mixing together romancey, ancient epics, pop
Speaker 1: star lore and all kinds of nonsense. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of big words here that I don't know
Speaker 1: how to say. I don't know how to say. So
Speaker 1: they say there's two waves of names they have noticed here,
Speaker 1: and some of the names are Emery's cassion Aslan Ambrose.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've heard that before, Ali Staire. You've
Speaker 1: got names that are also popping up from let's see here.
Speaker 1: You've got Coda, kaya Jinu, I don't, I don't know
Speaker 1: whatever it is. You know, you called the name a kid,
Speaker 1: and then you hope the kid likes the name, and
Speaker 1: if not, they'll change the name and they'll call them
Speaker 1: they'll be called by nicknames. But I will tell you
Speaker 1: it's a curse to put on a kid. When you
Speaker 1: give a kid a name that is not a standard name,
Speaker 1: that's got a weird spelling, it becomes a huge issue
Speaker 1: in school, you know. You know what I'm saying. Louis
Speaker 1: you feel me on that. Yeah, Like you know, because
Speaker 1: I don't say it, I don't spell it, you know.
Speaker 1: And then also when you go on vacation with the
Speaker 1: family and you try to get one of those do
Speaker 1: they still have those little license plates or the key
Speaker 1: chains with your name on it? And then you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: can I can I get a key chain with my
Speaker 1: name on it when I go to Disney World? Well, no, no,
Speaker 1: you can't, because you've got like extra vowels in there,
Speaker 1: and there's extra thing Ama Jigs and the dew Hickeys
Speaker 1: and all that. They don't have that. So okay, Adam
Speaker 1: from Viva Las Vegas. Adam writes in he says, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny, I know it's this is not a sporty podcast,
Speaker 1: he says, but I had a sports question. So what
Speaker 1: is your take on the Micah Parsons versus Jerry Jones battle?
Speaker 1: All right, so I did see this, Adam. I'm not
Speaker 1: completely blocked off from the sporting world, and we'll be
Speaker 1: back tonight doing the radio show live for the first
Speaker 1: time in twenty twenty six. And so Micah Parsons was
Speaker 1: laughing because Matt eber Flews, the defensive coordinator at least
Speaker 1: for today of the Dallas Cowboys, made some comment about
Speaker 1: how one of the reasons I'm paraphrasing this, Adam, So
Speaker 1: I know I'm not getting exactly right, but as I
Speaker 1: understand it, Michah Parsons was goofing on Matt Eberflus, who
Speaker 1: made it seem like, well, if I only had Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense would have been much better this year.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, blah blah. And then Parsons came out
Speaker 1: and says, you want me to feel bad, and then
Speaker 1: he said Jerry Jones slandered his name to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: media and national media for months, and then he went
Speaker 1: on and said a bunch of other stuff. So now,
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, I believe he confirmed this on one of
Speaker 1: his radio shows that he does this week, this past week.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that Jerry confirmed this, and Jerry's excited.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys play their final game of the season today
Speaker 1: and that means that tomorrow they become the top story again.
Speaker 1: That it's no longer about the games, It's about will
Speaker 1: Jerry keep Dak Prescott, Will Jerry fire this guy? Well,
Speaker 1: you keep the coaching staff and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: in terms of Michael Parsons, yeah, I mean that's how
Speaker 1: all of this works. I learned this years ago with
Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. Whenever
Speaker 1: they got rid of a popular player, they would always
Speaker 1: conveniently leak stories trashing the player. And this goes back many,
Speaker 1: many many years and the Dallas Cowboys. All these teams
Speaker 1: do the same playbook. You have a popular player, why
Speaker 1: would you get rid of a popular player? The fan
Speaker 1: base loved Micah Parsons. He loved playing video games and
Speaker 1: doing cheesy podcasts with the fan base, and so like
Speaker 1: you get rid of that guy. He's been productive, although
Speaker 1: a stat bandito, as we have pointed out on the
Speaker 1: radio show, if you're gonna get rid of a guy
Speaker 1: like that, you have to I ans some stories to
Speaker 1: make it look a little little shady, and so they
Speaker 1: all do it. Everyone is doing it, Timothy from Boca.
Speaker 1: But I don't feel bad for Micah Parsons. He wanted
Speaker 1: to get the bag. He got the bag. Now he's
Speaker 1: got to live in northern Wisconsin. I hope he enjoys
Speaker 1: visiting with my brother eating cheese curts. Timothy from Boca
Speaker 1: writes in another sporty question, says, my Dolphins have hired
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman as a consultant to try to find their
Speaker 1: new general manager, Ben and Danny. Should I trust Troy Aikman?
Speaker 1: All right? So, Timothy, my response is this is one
Speaker 1: of the great empty gigs of all time. I've worked
Speaker 1: in radio and broadcasting my entire adult life, and every
Speaker 1: once in a while I will get an email from
Speaker 1: a consultant or I'll get dragged into a meeting with
Speaker 1: a consultant. Now it doesn't happen very much anymore, so
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm allowed to just unload. I want
Speaker 1: to be a consultant. It is like the job that
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard had where he didn't have to do anything
Speaker 1: and he's got paid a bunch of money to talk
Speaker 1: about green stuff. It's a no show job. It's a
Speaker 1: no show job. There's no price to pay. It's like
Speaker 1: consultant comes in like treeatman comes ins. All right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna interview candidates. I would assume talk to people, recommend
Speaker 1: people for the dolphin job, Timothy, and then he'll hire
Speaker 1: the the boob. Some boob comes in there. I'll hire
Speaker 1: that person and then it's like, okay, that's that's fine.
Speaker 1: And then the person sucks and Aikman's back on Monday
Speaker 1: Night football and there's no accountability. There's none of that's
Speaker 1: I'd love to be a consultant. It would be great.
Speaker 1: Sign me up for that. You'll pay me a lot
Speaker 1: of money and I'll give you advice. I give advice anyway.
Speaker 1: I get paid, not tons of money, but I get
Speaker 1: paid enough. I'll take a big check and I'll be
Speaker 1: your consultant. What a gig that is. Mike from so
Speaker 1: Cal Right saying on the mail bag questions, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: If you want to send questions in for a future
Speaker 1: edition of the mail Bag, you can do that real
Speaker 1: fifth hour at gmail dot com. That's real fifth hour
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. And Mike says, Ben, I voted
Speaker 1: for you as the national sportscaster there. I did a
Speaker 1: write in ballot. Unfortunately, Sean McDonough won the award. How
Speaker 1: come you never win these things? Well, congratulations to Sean
Speaker 1: McDonough for winning the award. I saw him call the
Speaker 1: which game was that? Old miss? And Georgia Georgia saw that. Well,
Speaker 1: the reason, Mike, is that I don't win these things
Speaker 1: is I don't really think about them. I don't know
Speaker 1: about them, and I'm not part of the cabal of
Speaker 1: sports media. You have the haves and the have nots.
Speaker 1: You've got the cool kids and the non cool kids,
Speaker 1: and typically it's the same five to ten people that
Speaker 1: win these awards. They just rotate it. They just rotate it,
Speaker 1: and that's how that goes. That's how that goes. So
Speaker 1: Kirby from Phoenix Rights and I was actually in Phoenix
Speaker 1: I talked about that the other day on the podcast
Speaker 1: Kirby from Phoenix Rights and it says, Ben, have you
Speaker 1: you have some let me do that over. Kirby says, Ben,
Speaker 1: you have said you have issues sleeping? Will you be
Speaker 1: turning to micro dosing. So this is a term that
Speaker 1: seems to be becoming very popular recently, micro dosing. This
Speaker 1: is according to Kirby here says microdosing psychedelics improves the
Speaker 1: quality of sleep. Small amounts of psychedelics could assist individuals
Speaker 1: sleeping and creating a healthier lifestyle. Yeah, sure, sure, Kirby.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to my doctor Jed who fled. I'll get
Speaker 1: him to send me some stuff or hollering James and
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be good to go on that. I
Speaker 1: want to thank who else cash JJ from the Bay
Speaker 1: And there's a few other emails we did not have
Speaker 1: time to get to. However, I got things to do.
Speaker 1: I gotta watch football today and then be back in
Speaker 1: the Magic Radio Box tonight for a little radio fun.
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Speaker 1: unless you're listening to this after the fact, and then
Speaker 1: I've already done that. But you get the deal, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, got a murder. I gotta go.