Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now. We are in the air everywhere
Speaker 1: another Saturday. Additionally, Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny
Speaker 1: g back in the Magic Podcast Studio. I know you're saying, no, no, enough,
Speaker 1: hell no, oh, We're here anyway to dazzle you eight
Speaker 1: days a week, a spinoff of the Overnight Show, which
Speaker 1: is available as you know, five nights a week, typically
Speaker 1: five nights a week, and then the podcast Friday, a,
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday and Danny, I know we've got a
Speaker 1: lot to get to here in a limited amount of
Speaker 1: time on the Saturday Podcast, but I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: we've had some crazy people on this podcast. I've been
Speaker 1: doing this a few years now, and I'm talking like
Speaker 1: Lenny Dikstra, guys like that that are really out there,
Speaker 1: and my guy Scott Farrell who I've known for years,
Speaker 1: my radio brother from a different mother. I gotta tell you, Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to recover. This is one of the
Speaker 1: most amazing conversations I've had with Farrell. And if anybody
Speaker 1: missed that, if you if you're listening, is like I
Speaker 1: missed the Friday podcast, you gotta go back and listen
Speaker 1: to it, because Scott was in a hotel room in
Speaker 1: Atlantic City and it began with that. And I'm just
Speaker 1: happy we were on the podcast because Danny, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of that was consumption for
Speaker 1: like terrestrial radio, but but boy, Scott, he has a
Speaker 1: gift for gab. That guy. He was out of control.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. Been doing the post production on
Speaker 1: that episode. I think it's gonna be one of the
Speaker 1: most dreamed editions of the Fifth Hour. Yeah, because when
Speaker 1: I posted the photo, uh that you took of me
Speaker 1: and Farrell and then with with Pat McAfee, you would
Speaker 1: have thought that the biggest reaction would have been for
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee because he's the hundred million dollar guy in radio.
Speaker 1: He's the big name in the business right now. But no,
Speaker 1: I had much more reaction, not that you judge these
Speaker 1: things off that, but on social media people were like
Speaker 1: fired off Horrell Man. I grew up listening to him,
Speaker 1: and you know, I feel like I've I've inherited a
Speaker 1: number of Scott's listeners. And Scott finally retired from from
Speaker 1: just doing nighttime radio, and if you listen to the podcast,
Speaker 1: he goes into great detail about how that has impacted
Speaker 1: his life, doing a life of nighttime radio, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it was, it was, it was interesting. But
Speaker 1: people really love Scott. I think he's worked the last
Speaker 1: couple of years kind of a smaller place, a smaller shop,
Speaker 1: and so I think some people lost track of him.
Speaker 1: But to me, you should never really be able to
Speaker 1: lose track of people, Danny with social media, but people
Speaker 1: do people for whatever reason, Uh they don't follow certain
Speaker 1: guys or whatever. But but anyways, fun So on this
Speaker 1: edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben and Danny, we've
Speaker 1: got drive Time Benny, the Power of Fats, eating a
Speaker 1: ship sandwich. That'll be it'll be interesting, Survey says, and
Speaker 1: whatever else. We have a few other things that we
Speaker 1: might get to depending on the timing of it all,
Speaker 1: but we must start. I was very excited this week,
Speaker 1: a rare inappropriate opportunity to sit in for one of
Speaker 1: the big titans in the business, Dan Patrick. And when
Speaker 1: I got called by my boss and they said, hey, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're having some different people fill in for Dan,
Speaker 1: and your name came up and we were wondering if
Speaker 1: you're interested, I immediately thought I was being punked, and
Speaker 1: I thought that this was a joke and that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be like jokes on you, loser, But no, it
Speaker 1: turned out to be true, and I would like to
Speaker 1: thank Danny all of the p ones who crossed over.
Speaker 1: We had a great turnout of Mallard Militia foot Soldiers,
Speaker 1: and it was a rather hectic week. I'm still not
Speaker 1: quite over it as we are doing this podcast right
Speaker 1: now because um my sleep schedule. I've been a pretty
Speaker 1: good routine and I'm in a bizarro world where like
Speaker 1: up is down, right is left. It's just trying to
Speaker 1: trying to get back on track here. My bio rhythms
Speaker 1: are all messed up. But that's the first world problem
Speaker 1: to and you deal with that all the time, Danny,
Speaker 1: and you you do radio in addition to everything else
Speaker 1: you've got going on, you have like a real grown
Speaker 1: up job. I guess we can work with the kids,
Speaker 1: but but no. So it was it was fun to
Speaker 1: fill in for Dan and uh work with Rob Park
Speaker 1: A big fan of Rob. People said I kissed his
Speaker 1: ass too much. He kissed my ass a little bit too.
Speaker 1: So it was like a mutual admiration society. And that
Speaker 1: shows a big deal. That's a very profitable show for
Speaker 1: the company. They have big sexy sponsors like Mercedes Benz
Speaker 1: on that show, so you know that's not and that's
Speaker 1: not a chump show. You know, that's a big show
Speaker 1: for the company. And Dan's a Hall of Famer Dan Patrick,
Speaker 1: So getting a chance to fill in. It's morning Drive
Speaker 1: in the number one radio market Los Angeles in the
Speaker 1: country and a tremendous reach. The audience for that show
Speaker 1: is humongst I will argue though, and it's probably my
Speaker 1: head's going to explode. You. I think we have the
Speaker 1: the loyalty that we have in the Mallam militia, but
Speaker 1: I think we can get that because we're not as big.
Speaker 1: We don't have as bigger reach because morn late at night.
Speaker 1: But but Dan obviously has his father and no danyants
Speaker 1: were there. I was bummed out. I was hoping the
Speaker 1: Danants would give me a manny and a petty while
Speaker 1: I was doing the Dan Patrick Show, but that did
Speaker 1: not happen. So I also would like to address a
Speaker 1: few of the members of the militia Danny have been
Speaker 1: belly ache that we were unable to do. I didn't
Speaker 1: do some of the usual bits that I do on
Speaker 1: the overnight show, and they were like, well why not.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. What do you do? You think you
Speaker 1: can't do that during the day, And that's not it
Speaker 1: at all. So when you fill in on a radio
Speaker 1: So this is all I was taught from people on radio.
Speaker 1: When you're the fill in guy, your house city like
Speaker 1: you wouldn't go to somebody's house and rearrange the furniture
Speaker 1: and bring in your own sofa. Say you just you
Speaker 1: can't do that. You are a guest. You have to
Speaker 1: honor that whatever that show has going. And they have
Speaker 1: a different Dan Patrick got a much different format than
Speaker 1: I have. If if I started doing the stick ala
Speaker 1: I do overnight on the Dan Patrick Show, I mean
Speaker 1: they would drag me off the studio and that would
Speaker 1: be it. It would be all over there. So you
Speaker 1: have to respect the boundaries. There's guard rails and that's
Speaker 1: part of it. And I was an interloper when in Rome.
Speaker 1: Act like a Roman Danny. That's what you have to do, right,
Speaker 1: You just gotta follow the rules. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: one thing about radio, and it is the pits. Is
Speaker 1: when you've been doing morning drive for year after year
Speaker 1: after year, busting your ass, waking up super early every
Speaker 1: single day, show prep, post production, pre production, and really
Speaker 1: you're burning your candle at both ends, and you get tired,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to take a vacation, because we
Speaker 1: know what happens to radio guys when they go on vacation.
Speaker 1: A lot of them don't get to come back because
Speaker 1: you are tired. When you finally get to leave, Inevitably,
Speaker 1: whoever fills in for you sounds nice and fresh, but
Speaker 1: they only have to do it for a few days,
Speaker 1: so you're right, they should just house it. There was
Speaker 1: a time at k c a Q where I've made
Speaker 1: the mistake of having my afternoon drive DJ fill in
Speaker 1: for me and my morning crew while we took one
Speaker 1: week off. When we got back then it was a
Speaker 1: ship show because this guy had created this whole morning
Speaker 1: zoo thing. That he did for a week with all
Speaker 1: these brand new bells and whistles and games and features,
Speaker 1: and people were blown away. They were like, that was
Speaker 1: one of the best things. Not that we don't like
Speaker 1: you guys, but what wasn't fair is obviously he did
Speaker 1: that for one week and then got to go back
Speaker 1: to sleeping at night like a normal human being and
Speaker 1: doing his afternoon show. So yeah, it's really hard because
Speaker 1: we've talked about it on your show a lot about
Speaker 1: how there is no way in hell you can take
Speaker 1: more than five days off as a radio host. No,
Speaker 1: And I've explained that to my wife several times. You know,
Speaker 1: we always wanted to go on these exotic vacations and
Speaker 1: she'd love to go to Europe and all that night.
Speaker 1: I never wanted to go to Europe before. But now
Speaker 1: as I've gotten older, what the hell? Why No, I'm
Speaker 1: becoming a softie here as I get older, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's do some things. We're gonna check out, you know,
Speaker 1: life before you know it. Anyways, you might as well
Speaker 1: enjoy the journey. But uh, yeah, it's really tough. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a tough part of the business. But that
Speaker 1: is that is so hilarious this story you told about
Speaker 1: the guy that filled in because he was a dick too.
Speaker 1: He told us behind the scenes in the hallway, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you guys are back. There's no way I could
Speaker 1: have kept up that energy for a second week. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well he admitted that he couldn't do it continually like
Speaker 1: we did for five years there. So yeah, it's not fair,
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do. I guess that's why
Speaker 1: they say some hosts purposely have boring guys on when
Speaker 1: they're gone. Oh yeah, well there's a famous host. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can say the person. Well, it's
Speaker 1: a podcast. Yeah. Uh, the great Jim Rome, a legend
Speaker 1: in sports radio. Jim for years when he was at
Speaker 1: the very top. Jim is not the very top anymore,
Speaker 1: but he was at the very top of the business.
Speaker 1: He would have the worst people possible filling in for
Speaker 1: him because he never wanted to be upstaged by the
Speaker 1: fill in guy, you know, and then because then you
Speaker 1: get that, and you don't you want to avoid that,
Speaker 1: So he'd bring in boring people. And but there there
Speaker 1: are some guys, and I've noticed this over the years
Speaker 1: in radio, they're are there are guys that are sprinters
Speaker 1: and they're not marathon and it's part of the hard
Speaker 1: part of the business to me is just doing it
Speaker 1: every day and showing up. If anybody could do this
Speaker 1: like what we do sports radio, when there's like a
Speaker 1: big story and there's a lot of stuff going on,
Speaker 1: I feel like anyone could come in here and do
Speaker 1: this and be Okay, maybe we won't have the formatics down,
Speaker 1: but where we earn our money is when we're just
Speaker 1: throwing spaghetti against the wall and we've got to make
Speaker 1: it sound like there's a lot going on. Guys that
Speaker 1: have the great tape that I call them the sprinters,
Speaker 1: and they get hired because programming people in consultants here
Speaker 1: these guys and they go, Wow, this guy is great.
Speaker 1: He's got the razmataz. You know, man, oh man, this
Speaker 1: is this is true. It's like hiring Rick Flair. You know,
Speaker 1: it's great, and then yeah, higher and then after one
Speaker 1: or two shows they got nothing, and you're like, wait
Speaker 1: and shut the funk up. Okay, shut the funk up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I but I would again back to the damn Patrick.
Speaker 1: I would like to thank I'm gonna name people and
Speaker 1: to miss some I love that blind Scott called in
Speaker 1: immediately annoyed Rob Parker because anytime Robs's Boston on the screen,
Speaker 1: his eyes light up. Facts from Philly called in Antony
Speaker 1: and a. I'm among others and a number of the
Speaker 1: Mallard Militia holding up the social media platforms Alfa at Piner,
Speaker 1: Justin and Cincinnati just Josh, and I said this on
Speaker 1: the Overnight Show during the week. Some of these guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're real or not. They I
Speaker 1: have some really wacky hours and whenever I'm doing something, Uh,
Speaker 1: these guys, it's like it's like Star Wars. They march in,
Speaker 1: you know, all right, Mallard Militia Hostyle take over. There
Speaker 1: were job I was like, they do some of that also.
Speaker 1: But it's great. I mean, it's wonderful. These guys have
Speaker 1: followed me around all the different nonsense that we've done,
Speaker 1: so it was fun. I don't know that we'll ever
Speaker 1: do they I'll ever do the damn Patrick Show again.
Speaker 1: But I heard that management liked it, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe they were and they probably told that to everyone,
Speaker 1: so who the heck knows, But we will certainly fight
Speaker 1: out soon enough now as far as the power of
Speaker 1: fats and this again goes back to facts in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: So I had a very odd thing happened this week.
Speaker 1: Out of thin air, Danny. I get contacted by a
Speaker 1: producer of the w i P Morning show in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, we want to have you on.
Speaker 1: And I've never been on this show before. I don't
Speaker 1: know any of these people on this show. It's hosted
Speaker 1: by Angelo Cataldi, who's a Philadelphia radio legend. This guy
Speaker 1: Angelo Contaldi. You're not from Philadelphia, but Tony Brunois to
Speaker 1: work with Tony Anthony Gargatto. Gargonald's also a Philadelphia legend,
Speaker 1: but that but this guy, Angela Cataldi has been on forever.
Speaker 1: He's about to retire. He's been in the business for years.
Speaker 1: He's an old sportswriter, gossip guy. He's done some amazing bit.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I get called by are you a contact email?
Speaker 1: By his producer out of thin air and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: would you like to come on that We're doing a
Speaker 1: segment about Doc Rivers because there you know, they rip
Speaker 1: all the Philadelphia coaches and players pretty much, so they
Speaker 1: were they knew that I, uh, they that I hate
Speaker 1: you despise what Doc did with the clippers blowing the
Speaker 1: both the lobb City era and the beginning of the
Speaker 1: Kalai era, and he was there for both of that,
Speaker 1: and I was very upset by all of the disappearing
Speaker 1: acts they went to full who Dany. Yes, they vanished
Speaker 1: very quickly there. And so anyway, I was like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I love doing it. I very rarely turned down those
Speaker 1: things if I have time. I I love making random
Speaker 1: pop up appearances on different radio shows. It's fun to
Speaker 1: do if I have the time. I like to do
Speaker 1: it because I know I would like people to come
Speaker 1: on my show or my podcast. So if they asked me,
Speaker 1: it's very nice. It's a courtesy. You should do it.
Speaker 1: And so I didn't get paid for anything like that.
Speaker 1: But the reason I went on the Angelo Cataldi show
Speaker 1: was because of Fats in Philadelphia. Fats loves Cataldi apparently,
Speaker 1: and he reached out and so you gotta get Malaron
Speaker 1: and he bugged these people so much that they put
Speaker 1: me on the show with It was Angelo and Billy King,
Speaker 1: the old general manager of the Philadelphia seventies sixers. So
Speaker 1: I am bashing Doc Rivers. What is and a former
Speaker 1: NBA executive is on the show listening to this. He
Speaker 1: actually agreed with a lot of the points that I
Speaker 1: was making, which which made me feel pretty good. But Angelo,
Speaker 1: just give you a brief thumbnail recap of Angelo's career,
Speaker 1: and I'm probably missing most of the stuff. But the
Speaker 1: most famous things that Angelo Cataldi has done in radio
Speaker 1: the wing Bowl. You are you familiar with the wing Bowl?
Speaker 1: I don't think they do it anymore in Philadelphia, but
Speaker 1: it was like the weekend before the Super Bowl, that
Speaker 1: dead week they had a chicken wigging and contest in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has become a national story and it was a
Speaker 1: big deal in Philadelphia. Also, Angelo led a group of
Speaker 1: listeners of his radio station to the NFL Draft. They
Speaker 1: drove up to New York and this was when Ricky
Speaker 1: Williams was in the draft and the Eagles and that
Speaker 1: show wanted Ricky Williams to be drafted by the Eagles.
Speaker 1: They ended up drafting McNabb Donovan McNabb, and they famously
Speaker 1: booed me yeah. And it was his listeners that had
Speaker 1: driven up from from Philadelphi. He's done a bunch of
Speaker 1: crazy other things and he's gotten in a bunch of trouble,
Speaker 1: So it was it was cool to talk to him,
Speaker 1: and he's had a great run in radio, and here
Speaker 1: I come on as a total uh clown, ranting away
Speaker 1: about him. So what about this this ship sandwich? Here?
Speaker 1: What what is this all about? Danny g Now, this
Speaker 1: is never a good thing when I hear that in
Speaker 1: the headline. So what happened here? A week ago? While
Speaker 1: you were busy chopping it up with fur Ball? Andy Furman,
Speaker 1: I had a rare day off, so I took my
Speaker 1: tender roney to Santa Barbara. She's been great about how
Speaker 1: many days I've been working my crazy radio hours. So
Speaker 1: I thought, let me spoiler. I got a hotel. I
Speaker 1: have a statin night. John On had some bells and
Speaker 1: whistles on it, like they let you take the by
Speaker 1: makes out on the waterfront there on the bike path.
Speaker 1: So we were getting some exercise. It was a beautiful
Speaker 1: day there. Uh. We get down at the towards the
Speaker 1: end of the bike path and we pull the bikes
Speaker 1: over lay them down on the grass. She runs across
Speaker 1: the bike trail, goes up the stairs of a lifeguard station. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm resting. I'm like, I wonder what she You know,
Speaker 1: I kind of had an idea of what she was
Speaker 1: doing up there. Ben Our women love to use their
Speaker 1: iPhones to do some makeshift photo sessions. So she's taking
Speaker 1: pictures up there. There was a breeze blowing, her hair
Speaker 1: is blowing in the wind. She's doing glamour shots up
Speaker 1: on this lifeguard station. So she hops down from the
Speaker 1: stairs and sees that I saw what she was doing,
Speaker 1: and she was embarrassed. So she runs across the bike
Speaker 1: path back towards me, and there's some green grass right
Speaker 1: there next to the bike path, but it was super uneven.
Speaker 1: How do I know that because she put her arms
Speaker 1: out trying to look cute like running towards me. The
Speaker 1: soundtrack if one had been playing, because this was a
Speaker 1: rom com movie, it would have been Whitney Houston run
Speaker 1: to you and her arms are open. Problem, she lost
Speaker 1: her balance when she hit the uneven grass man. You
Speaker 1: know the famous YouTube clip of bar Tolo Cologne losing
Speaker 1: his balance. Yeah, yeah, and everything, all the everything's kind
Speaker 1: of floating around there. It's like it's like he's an
Speaker 1: outer space. Now, she's not the size of bar Tolo Cologne, obviously,
Speaker 1: but the way she lost her balance and the way
Speaker 1: it looked like she was sliding head first into second base,
Speaker 1: she bounced. She hit the grass so hard that she
Speaker 1: bounced and then slid towards me safe. Now what did
Speaker 1: she do that? Now, because there's a couple of ways
Speaker 1: to get up from that, there's a okay, dust it off.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna laugh and it's all funny, the jokes on
Speaker 1: me or oh my god, I need to go to
Speaker 1: the doctor. Well, it was a busy day in Santa Barbara,
Speaker 1: because remember this was the first day of a long
Speaker 1: President's Day weekend. Well, there were a lot of people
Speaker 1: around on this bike path and on the beach there.
Speaker 1: So she hopped up super fast because of all the
Speaker 1: eyes that were on us. Then she had a look
Speaker 1: of pain on her face, thinking, oh now she's hurt.
Speaker 1: She gets up to me. You could tell her hands
Speaker 1: are stinging. She heard her knee. She had stinging hands,
Speaker 1: and she sat next to me and I saw tears
Speaker 1: welling up in her eyes. And this was like me
Speaker 1: working with the kindergarteners. This has happened several times during
Speaker 1: freeze Monster, where I say it's all right, it's okay,
Speaker 1: you're a tough cookie. When she heard those words, she
Speaker 1: stopped crying. It works. Those are magic words. Yeah, whether
Speaker 1: you're five or thirty five, those words are magic. So
Speaker 1: she ducked it up. I gave her a lot of
Speaker 1: props for that, but I told her, I said, that
Speaker 1: was God punishing you for taking that selfie. That is
Speaker 1: that is right. This should have been playing in the
Speaker 1: back of the Benny Hill music right, and she's running
Speaker 1: down there. You could have played played that man oh man. Anyway,
Speaker 1: have a great story. That's tremendous from Twitter that night.
Speaker 1: Then I moosted the pictures she took right before she
Speaker 1: ate ship like the final acted. At any moment now,
Speaker 1: because everyone's got a professional camera. Like when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, I'm we're on the same age, Danny, we
Speaker 1: had like the polaroid cameras. Remember that you have to wait.
Speaker 1: Now we have professional cameras. At any moment, you could
Speaker 1: have a flash mob photo shoot anywhere, any place, anytime.
Speaker 1: And I love Santa Barbara. I try to go there
Speaker 1: once a year. I love one of the vacations. I
Speaker 1: love going on like a little weekend getaways driving up
Speaker 1: the California coast Central can I always usually get to
Speaker 1: northern California because I too far. But central California, the
Speaker 1: Hearst Castle area, righting around their Santa Cruz and then
Speaker 1: on the way back, stopping in Santa Barbara's beautiful because
Speaker 1: you have Solving Pismo Beach, Beach, San Luis Obispo, Morrow Base,
Speaker 1: and Simion Pass the Robos. You're right, it's beautiful up
Speaker 1: the coast. And every time I drive through Central California,
Speaker 1: I am I'm just blown back by the fact that
Speaker 1: all that land around the Hearst Castle is owned by
Speaker 1: the State of California's donated. Otherwise there would be massive cities,
Speaker 1: amazing real estate right on the California coast, picturesque and
Speaker 1: and instead you have like a beach where seals lay
Speaker 1: out in fart. I fell asleep. No, that's yeah, on
Speaker 1: the California coast. But it is just wonderful. And uh,
Speaker 1: and my my wife loves the Madonna And I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've been to have you been to the
Speaker 1: Haunted Haunted? Is it haunted? Really? I've been there a
Speaker 1: few times because she loves it, so I I have
Speaker 1: to take one for the team on that for sure.
Speaker 1: And did you eat at the famous Santa Barbara ice
Speaker 1: cream shops at McConnell's. I believe it's called there that
Speaker 1: everyone's like eat mcconals there the ice I know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Well, we didn't, but we did get
Speaker 1: some good food. We went to the famous Santa Barbara
Speaker 1: Fish House, okay, and they have that pier you can
Speaker 1: drive on in Santa And then we had some wonderful
Speaker 1: eggs Benedict in front of the water. We got fortunate.
Speaker 1: We had really good weather, really good food. Just not
Speaker 1: so good on the bike path. Yeah yeah. And uh,
Speaker 1: whale watching, great whale watching in Santa bar I've gone
Speaker 1: on whale watching boats in like Orange County in l A.
Speaker 1: And I've not had much luck Santa Barbara though. I
Speaker 1: mean you you're just surrounded by wales everywhere. Me laying
Speaker 1: on the beach during the summer. All right, Well, moving
Speaker 1: on from that, the and the survey says Danny, Now
Speaker 1: this is right out of the old hokey baseball movie
Speaker 1: Field the Dreams that we the quote I've changed and
Speaker 1: everyone changed with the quote if you build it, they
Speaker 1: will come. That's not the actual movie quote that's been
Speaker 1: twisted for everyday use and so we asked. We said, listen,
Speaker 1: we need positive reviews for this podcast. We demand positive
Speaker 1: reviews to this podcast, and if you ask for it,
Speaker 1: they will come. And so the survey says, we shamelessly
Speaker 1: begged for people to post reviews on the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1: And one of the deals we've made here is that
Speaker 1: if you take time out of your busy life, away
Speaker 1: from your family and friends and away from work, even
Speaker 1: though it takes five minutes to do this it's busybody work,
Speaker 1: we will take time out of our schedule and our
Speaker 1: podcast to thank you tit for tat. You scratch my back,
Speaker 1: I will scratch your back capeche, as my late grandfather
Speaker 1: in law would say. So. Uh. These are some of
Speaker 1: the actual reviews we've gotten over the last last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks or so last. I guess it's actually more
Speaker 1: like the last ten days. I think. Rabbi Mallard posted, Uh.
Speaker 1: This is on the middle of February. He says, hey, uh, Rabbi,
Speaker 1: I left you five stars. I guess that was for me.
Speaker 1: He calls me Rabbi mal It's very polite to say
Speaker 1: that I'm not a rabbi. He says, I left you
Speaker 1: five stars. Hopefully corporate gives you the much needed rays. However,
Speaker 1: I must bemoan the fact that you're no longer in
Speaker 1: studio during the week. I know that you can't see
Speaker 1: the crew, but I feel the difference. Hopefully that changes anyhow,
Speaker 1: keep up the great, awesome work. I get this question
Speaker 1: a lot. Danny and I don't understand it because they
Speaker 1: are studios at the mother Ship are set up. Even
Speaker 1: when I'm there, I can't see anybody. Like, literally, Eddie's
Speaker 1: down the hall. You've got to go down the hall,
Speaker 1: make a left turn and then another left. Roberto. I
Speaker 1: can kind of see Roberto, but there's TV monitors and
Speaker 1: there's computers between me and Roberto and Cooper. Loop is
Speaker 1: far back and off to the side. So literally it's
Speaker 1: no different. People seem to think there's a huge difference
Speaker 1: with everything that's going on with me in the home
Speaker 1: studio the remote studio. Yeah, you guys have all been
Speaker 1: together for so many years. You know how to take
Speaker 1: turns talking, whether you're looking at the person or not, right,
Speaker 1: Because we also learned that early on in broadcasting is
Speaker 1: if you're doing a two man show, we should be
Speaker 1: looking at each other. That way, we know you know
Speaker 1: when to stop talking, and you don't step all over
Speaker 1: each other. But when you have good chemistry with somebody,
Speaker 1: you don't even need to see them. Yeah, And the
Speaker 1: way the show's formatted, typically the first twelve thirteen minutes
Speaker 1: of the hour, I'm just barking by myself anyway. And
Speaker 1: then we, you know, do a segment. We'll take a
Speaker 1: couple of calls, and then I'll mix the guys in
Speaker 1: and will we have the bits that we do. And
Speaker 1: so there's a certain cadence to the show. But I
Speaker 1: do appreciate that you think the show sucks because where
Speaker 1: I'm not in studio, that does mean a lot. Uh
Speaker 1: hermal dude, right, since says and not your typical this
Speaker 1: is a review he wrote, Danny, not your typical sports Takes.
Speaker 1: Whether you're a hardcore sports fan or not, you will
Speaker 1: enjoy this show does not just regurgitate the normal, boring
Speaker 1: sports takes, has original thoughts that aren't your run of
Speaker 1: the milk PC takes. That's a very flattering, very entertaining
Speaker 1: spinoff from his radio show. I highly recommend giving this
Speaker 1: podcast and his radio show listen. You won't be sorry. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's that's almost like my mom wrote it, but she's
Speaker 1: not alive anymore. But if my mom was alive, that's
Speaker 1: something she would probably have written in her own words.
Speaker 1: A Juice from Dallas wrote review, Well, he says actually
Speaker 1: from Orlando, so I guess he's in Orlando, but it
Speaker 1: says Dallas originally a longtime listener Big Band. One thing
Speaker 1: I like about is you won't always agree with his take,
Speaker 1: but he gives you a good perspective on both sides
Speaker 1: of his takes. I also love the whole crew and
Speaker 1: all the drops and callers that participate in the Malle motion.
Speaker 1: So glad that guests scan or guest scan got s
Speaker 1: can and Danny G is backed behind the boards and
Speaker 1: Mike with Big Ben. So there's a vote for Danny
Speaker 1: G Radio from Juice from Orlando. Ronda from Fort Worth
Speaker 1: Road In she wrote a review on the podcast. You
Speaker 1: actually posted this. I didn't notice, Danny. Some people were
Speaker 1: mistaking the Ben Maller Show Apple podcast page for the
Speaker 1: fifth hour. And not that I don't want good reviews
Speaker 1: on the Ben Mallery Radio Show, but we have a
Speaker 1: lot of those. We need reviews over here is what
Speaker 1: we need on the fifth out because this is a
Speaker 1: newer show. I've done the radio show for a long time.
Speaker 1: The podcast is only a few years old, so it's
Speaker 1: confusing though, right, you know what? They all look the same? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, I gotta think Linda's boyfriend now, I
Speaker 1: don't know his name, but somebody I work with during
Speaker 1: the week, Man, I just happened to mention your name,
Speaker 1: and a couple of days later she told me my
Speaker 1: boyfriend looked up his name. He listened to your guys
Speaker 1: podcast and he loved it. He subscribed to it. No nice, ye, man,
Speaker 1: love that. Now all we need is click the subscribe
Speaker 1: button on the podcast and give us what was it
Speaker 1: take Danny? One minute? Do we need one minute of
Speaker 1: download listening time and we're good. Yeah. Rhonda from Fort
Speaker 1: Worth wrote a review of the podcast. He says the
Speaker 1: Ben Mallay Fifth Our podcast is amazing. Rhonda said, well,
Speaker 1: thank you, it's a great word amazing. I found the
Speaker 1: Ben Mallaw show when I started working overnight. I was
Speaker 1: so pleased to find entertaining content to help time fly.
Speaker 1: Four hours a night truly aren't enough, and I am
Speaker 1: always checking the app to see when the fifth Hour
Speaker 1: podcasts are available so I can listen. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: for that. I appreciate it. Rona. She says, Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny G are great to get. I'm so glad to
Speaker 1: hear Danny G was joining the Weekend podcast. And she
Speaker 1: also points out here Rondo that started learning about interminute
Speaker 1: fasting by listening to my me Betton stories after starting
Speaker 1: the lifestyle and says lost thirty pounds, so that's great. Wow.
Speaker 1: I was talking to our fine engineer, the Detroit Lion
Speaker 1: fan there. What's his name, I'm forgetting, yell the great Joel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bad job by me, John, I saw. I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: Joel said he's doing the interminute fasting thing. And we
Speaker 1: both agreed that we wish we had known about this
Speaker 1: when we were a little bit younger. Could we could
Speaker 1: have started the lifestyle a little bit younger, and but
Speaker 1: you know, you live and learn right, you live in
Speaker 1: and and plus the other thing about it is, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure when I was a big large ass in
Speaker 1: my younger days, if somebody had said, hey, he just
Speaker 1: won meal the day, you'll be good, I would have said,
Speaker 1: you're full of crap, you loser, Because everyone who's below
Speaker 1: a certain age thinks they have all the answers to
Speaker 1: life's mysteries, and you don't take advantage of the wisdom
Speaker 1: of those that have lived and experienced all that. But
Speaker 1: it is I'm part of the cult. It's not for everybody.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'll give you this story real quick. A
Speaker 1: little sidebar. So I had a buddy of mine from Dallas,
Speaker 1: one of my best friends. I've known this kid since
Speaker 1: elementary school. We grew up together, we lived, we used
Speaker 1: to hang out with are kids. He's lived in Dallas
Speaker 1: for like twenty years and he comes out to visit
Speaker 1: every year. He wants to move back to l A.
Speaker 1: But you know whatever, it was far away. So he
Speaker 1: comes out on a Monday, and I was fasting and
Speaker 1: I was waiting to eat my meal with him to
Speaker 1: have lunch. So he lands at l a X. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't hear from him. So then I sent him
Speaker 1: a text what's going on? And then uh, I call him.
Speaker 1: I guess there was a problem with the rental car.
Speaker 1: So it took him a little while to get the
Speaker 1: rental car. So I was like, all right, so you know,
Speaker 1: what do you want to eat for you know? And
Speaker 1: he he says, oh no, no, I'm I'm hungry right now.
Speaker 1: I'm going I'm going to eat and about you, but
Speaker 1: I'm here. You know we're gonna you. No, No, I
Speaker 1: want to eat by myself. I just want to eat
Speaker 1: right now. I'm really hungry. I can't I'm starving. I said,
Speaker 1: He's I haven't eaten since like last night, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my, that's early and certainly in the day. And
Speaker 1: that really pissed me off day and I was like that,
Speaker 1: I felt like, am I wrong? I felt like I
Speaker 1: was rude, you know, like traveled to see somebody, and
Speaker 1: I realized he's the one traveling. Yeah, you know I was.
Speaker 1: I was piste off. Yeah, it's not a good look. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Fur Dog wrote a review he says, pretty pretty good.
Speaker 1: I see what he did, quoted the great Larry David.
Speaker 1: I give the show five stars. I almost gave it
Speaker 1: four stars for the hassle it took to write this review.
Speaker 1: That's fair. I would only give you one star if
Speaker 1: I was doing it. Ben. There you uh the Craigster
Speaker 1: right since says no ball washing. I love that Ben
Speaker 1: gives us the real story, not the popular narrative. That's
Speaker 1: exactly right. There you go, the real story, not the
Speaker 1: popular narrative. That's what we do right here. Uh now,
Speaker 1: I would want one other before I forget it. We're
Speaker 1: limited time here because we've got things to do. It's
Speaker 1: the weekend. I'm gonna go out and live our life
Speaker 1: on a Saturday. But uh, this past weekend, speaking of
Speaker 1: living our lives, we had a first party. I called
Speaker 1: it the first party at the Mallard mansion. Danny, my wife,
Speaker 1: we got a little disagreement kerfluffle, me and my wife.
Speaker 1: We had the in laws over to enjoy a nice
Speaker 1: night of family time, and my wife informed me that
Speaker 1: this was not an official party. She told me, I said,
Speaker 1: it's a party we're having. You know, your your parents
Speaker 1: are coming over, your sister, your brother, the kids that,
Speaker 1: my nieces and nephews, everyone's here. It's a part of
Speaker 1: She said, no, that's wrong, Ben, this is a family
Speaker 1: get together, not a party. I said, what's the it's
Speaker 1: a it's a damn party that it's we're having. We
Speaker 1: got a clean up the house, make it seem like
Speaker 1: we don't live like pigs. It's not a pig sty
Speaker 1: and she's not. She had a party is when you
Speaker 1: have people that you don't really know that. Well over
Speaker 1: these are people that we know, And I said, I disagree.
Speaker 1: A party is when you have more than one Kirkland
Speaker 1: brand items exactly. Well, speaking of that, I I had
Speaker 1: provided the menu. We decided to have a nice meal
Speaker 1: in the house, and I was the cook Danny g
Speaker 1: and I had the the Dean Martin tune in my
Speaker 1: head when the moon hits your eye like a pizza pie.
Speaker 1: That's samar Yeah, we made pe I made pizza, made
Speaker 1: five pizzas, five pizzas, three pepperoni to cheese pizzas for
Speaker 1: the non meat eating members of the family there. And
Speaker 1: uh it was. It was a little hectic. I even
Speaker 1: made so I'm a good uncle Uncle Ben. They got
Speaker 1: rid of my rice. But I made cookie dough for
Speaker 1: my niece and nephew so I can hang out and
Speaker 1: they want to decorate. My niece wanted it. She want
Speaker 1: to decorate your little kids. You want to decorate the cookies.
Speaker 1: So I made. I spent a lot of time making
Speaker 1: sugar dough. You know, they kind of especially kind of
Speaker 1: cookie dough shape. And I could have had these kids
Speaker 1: just I could have pulled out a paper plate and
Speaker 1: just had them put food coloring on the plate. They
Speaker 1: had no interest in eating the cookies. They just wanted
Speaker 1: to squeeze all the blue and pink and all the
Speaker 1: different nonsense that comes out of the baking products all
Speaker 1: over the place and make a total mess. And they
Speaker 1: sure they sure did that. But it was it was.
Speaker 1: It was a fun good night, A lot of cooking,
Speaker 1: a lot of random stuff. I still gotta get my
Speaker 1: griddle day. That's my next thing. I gotta I love
Speaker 1: the griddle. That's my new Michigas. I gotta find a
Speaker 1: good griddle. So anybody wants to recommend a great griddle
Speaker 1: for the backyard, I'm all ears. I want someone that's
Speaker 1: that's used it, that knows the ins and outs, the
Speaker 1: good and the bad, and can help me out on that.
Speaker 1: What a good week it was because I had some
Speaker 1: family time. On Monday, we took the kids to Universal Studios. Awesome.
Speaker 1: I hadn't been I hadn't been to that park in
Speaker 1: ten years? Have you been there since they had How
Speaker 1: long has Harry Potter lay had been there that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it opened. Okay, so you hadn't been there
Speaker 1: since they added Harry. But that castle is insane, but
Speaker 1: not fat guy friendly, not fat guy friendly. I do not,
Speaker 1: at least back in the day when I went, I
Speaker 1: was a big, bigger guy, but I couldn't fit on
Speaker 1: the Harry Potter right, Yeah, I thought you meant because
Speaker 1: that butter beer has so many calories. Well listen that.
Speaker 1: And they've got that little Simpsons land with most tavern
Speaker 1: and all the different you can get a giant did
Speaker 1: you see they sell those giant doughnuts the pink top? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: from the Simpsons. It was a good time. You know that.
Speaker 1: It had been a long time for me not being
Speaker 1: there because I was like, where's Backdraft? At what happened
Speaker 1: to Backdraft? I mean they took it out? Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so a lot of obviously a lot of updates no
Speaker 1: longer Jurassic Park the ride, Jurassic World the Ride. I
Speaker 1: love the updates. I love how they metched the old
Speaker 1: with the new. So yeah, that was a fun time
Speaker 1: and a really good week for radio and personal life. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is one of those guys. Not every week is
Speaker 1: like that. This was a cool week for for that.
Speaker 1: And just when I used to live in Hollywood, I
Speaker 1: would take the Gold Line up and I changed trains
Speaker 1: and I I'd go across the city walks sometimes just
Speaker 1: kind of hang out and people watch, which is you
Speaker 1: don't have to pay to get in city walks right
Speaker 1: next to Universal Studios, and you just stare at all
Speaker 1: the tourists as they walk around. Ask you, Ben, Mike
Speaker 1: SIDRONI did not believe me that there used to be
Speaker 1: a peanut butter and jelly sandwich shop. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: remember that, yes, yes, y, I know every I used
Speaker 1: to know every store they. Oh yeah, well, we'd go
Speaker 1: to concerts there when they had that venue, and after
Speaker 1: the concert we'd be buzzed and we would get peanut
Speaker 1: butter and jelly sandwiches. That's awesome. Yeah, why would peanut
Speaker 1: butter and jelly? That doesn't even make sense. That's a
Speaker 1: that's a that's an all time no. Peanut butter and jelly.
Speaker 1: You can make it. You can put it on burgers,
Speaker 1: you can put it on all kinds of stuff. It's yeah.
Speaker 1: They had like all different kinds of breads. They would
Speaker 1: cut the crust off, even you would choose what kind
Speaker 1: of jelly. It was an amazing store. Obviously didn't last,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that was it. Lights out all right, we
Speaker 1: gotta get out of here. We have the mail bag
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Sunday Sunday, cannot wait for that. Amazing questions
Speaker 1: as always, and remember if you give us the review,
Speaker 1: we will read. I promise you, bye bye. I'll check
Speaker 1: every every couple of days. I'm gonna check the reviews.
Speaker 1: And if you give us a review, even if it's bad,
Speaker 1: I don't We'd rather have good reviews. But I'll read
Speaker 1: it on the podcast. And you're gonna start mailing your
Speaker 1: bubblehead collection to everybody who sends a review. Benny Bobbleheads?
Speaker 1: How much with that costing? Benny? And have I got
Speaker 1: Benny energy like mini bobbleheads? Oh, I'm gonna look into that.
Speaker 1: We should we should get that going to promote the
Speaker 1: fifth hour and we have a great rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 1: And don't forget Scott farrell wild conversation with Scotty on
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