WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Dream Sell-Out" Mail Bag 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:01.600 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.520 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.320 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.640 of the Old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.640 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.760 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.640 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:30.840 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:37.120 In the air everywhere you're here. It's the Fifth Hour Me, 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:42.960 Ben Maller and Danny g Radio eight days a week. 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.800 I am such a radio loser. You don't have to 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.280 be crazy to listen to this podcast. But it does help. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.599 It does help unless it doesn't. But Danny, we are 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:59.280 back at it again on a Sunday, a foot Ball Sunday, 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.480 and the question before we get into this podcast. We 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:07.319 had our first NFL Sunday last week. Yep, how did 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.040 we do on the downloads? Did we do? Okay? 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.720 Danny, we did better than okay. I'm hurting myself as 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:19.520 I reached back to pat myself on my back. I 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:24.679 was able to get the show up two hours before kickoff. Nice. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.840 So the games kickoff at one o'clock Eastern, So the 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:33.160 podcast was up at eleven o'clock eastern, is that right? 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.839 And my math math is correct? 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.720 Right, so eight o'clock for once, your math is right? 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.679 Yeah, no, I'm good. I use malor math. Malor math 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.400 is very rarely wrong because it's malormth. It's always right. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.520 If I'm the one doing it, that's the way to go. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.280 So yeah, thank you for that, and that's why we're here. 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.600 If you guys did not download the Sunday podcast, we'd 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.080 be like, screw that, We'll just go watch football and 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.000 we're done. We're out of here. But the wheels are turning. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.280 Thousands of downloads for the first game kicked off, and 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.080 then I noticed a spike, a huge spike right after 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.560 the last afternoon game was over for us on the 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:12.120 West coast. So as we asked for you to use 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.560 it as a pre game in a post game, that's 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.160 exactly what our fifth hour podcast listeners did. So big 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:19.840 ups to you. You get golf collaps. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.839 Yeah, I don't know how to do that, So thank 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.280 you all day every day. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:31.680 You run across the room, your thighs can do that. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.080 That was uncalled for it. That's an old take by you. 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.040 That's an outdated take. That's a bad job. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.120 That was just a joke I used to use on 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:40.320 your live shows. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.840 All right, well, let's get into it. As Marcel and 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.480 Brooklyn would say, the Sunday podcast All about Pop goes 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.680 the culture and the main event the mail bag. But 0:02:55.000 --> 0:03:02.880 poppity poppity poppety we go, John. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:16.040 John, thank you, ohio al And I saw this earlier. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:17.840 This is not really a pop culture story, but I 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.840 did want to mention before we get into the pop culture. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:24.480 Aaron Rodgers has been called out by Batman snobs. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:25.920 Danny. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.080 Yeah, Batman fans are upset with Aaron Rodgers. What did 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.079 Aaron Rodgers do? Did he go into the bat Cave 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:37.480 and vandalize the bat Cave? Did he kick Alfred the 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:42.960 butler and the nuts? No? No, what he did was 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:49.000 he he conflated a couple of Batman quotes. He said 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.560 after the injury, he said, the night is darkest before 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.920 the dawn, and I shall rise yet again. And those 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.000 people that are really in the bat Man and I'm 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.360 not one of them, like I like Batman, but I'm 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:09.320 like the original Batman, the TV show that when Catwoman 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.720 would pop everyone you know, pop up every once in 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:16.000 a while. But yeah, so apparently he's conflating two different 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.400 quotes from Batman movies. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.960 You're totally a Michael Keaton Batman fan? 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.919 Yeah, one, unless I'm not. Uh. I was like, who's 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.320 your favorite? Is that like the Bond thing? Who's your 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:35.640 favorite Bond? James Bond? And who's your fan? Yeah? I 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.760 was a Christopher Reeve Batman or Superman? That was my 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:40.920 Superman Batman. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.680 I think Christian I think Christian Bale has been the 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:46.440 best Batman. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:51.120 Yeah. So the quotes for those that are into Batman 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.040 you probably know. But the the quote he used Rogers, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.920 part of it was from The Dark Knight and the 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.360 second one was from The Dark Knight Rises. And so 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.680 are you not allowed to do that? Is that illegal? 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.240 Is Bruce Wayne going to come down and kick you 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:15.559 or punch you or I don't know, you're no longer 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:21.240 the Cape Crusader, I guess anyway, Well, here's a big problem, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:28.760 Danny America America America. We are facing supply chain shortages 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:37.080 on what laxatives? WHOA yeah, yeah, you know why. We 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:41.640 are likely facing supply chain issues because of the shortage 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.160 of laxatives. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.479 Because so many Americans are full of shit. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.320 Well that is true, but you know it's also full 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.040 of shit TikTok. How many people are actually on TikTok? 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:54.560 I don't know. 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.279 I'm not on it, but apparently a lot of people are. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.960 I guess, I don't know. The media seems to think 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.960 that's the case. So TikTok. There's a challenge on there, 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:12.520 and one of them does involve laxatives. Yeah, this is 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:17.279 a weight loss strategy. And they're claiming that because so 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.720 many people love the TikTok and they apparently want to 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:26.680 shit themselves to lose weight, they're buying up the laxatives. 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.440 And let me give you the details on it's the 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:38.240 Wall Street Journal. They had a report chronicling the national 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:44.520 shortage of laxatives, one in particular, the generic name which 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.400 I'm not going to even try to pronounce, and they 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.200 were like, well, there's multiple factors and all that stuff, 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:56.000 But there's a TikTok realm known as gut talk, and 0:06:56.279 --> 0:07:02.120 supposedly they health and wellness influences with no formal medical 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.160 training as far as we know, have been encouraging the mindless, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:11.880 brainless stooges who follow everything they say that they must 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:17.680 incorporate laxatives into their diet and this is going to 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:22.400 cause you to lose a lot of weight. And uh yeah, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:27.120 so it's not perfect though, right. You take laxatives and 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:32.280 you can be dehydrated, you lose electrolytes, and you might 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:37.120 have a poopy time when you least expect it. So anyway, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:38.480 that's the you have. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.480 To be leading a loser life because you'd have to 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.480 be standing near a bathroom at all times. How could 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.320 you go into a job like that? 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.600 It is, It's a crappy, crappy deal, Daddy. I don't 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:51.760 know what. I don't know what to tell you. I 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.760 don't know what you do. But there's other ways to 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.080 lose weight. You don't have to do that. But god, man, 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.559 does it actually work? Though you think it actually works, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.120 you probably would because I sold back in the nineties, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.160 I sold a product called body Shaper. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.400 Oh, I sold body Solutions. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.640 Oh that's what it became. They changed their name from 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.680 body Shaper to Body Solutions because of some lawsuits. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.560 That sounds about right, yeah. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.160 Yeah, nineteen nineties radio advertisers. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.800 Just take one teaspoon of this before bed. You don't 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.960 have to work out. You don't have to do anything. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.959 It works in your body overnight as you sleep. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.559 That's right, yes, take it. Yeah, stop eating three hours 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:41.800 before bed this And one of my bosses he heard 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.440 me do the commercials and he'd come in he said, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.160 you're still selling that shit begone, Benny, Yeah, you're still 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.040 selling that, you know. I was like, yeah, I didn't 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.080 sell it. You're the ones that sold it. I'm doing 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:57.040 the commercial copy on the air. But yeah, they were everywhere. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.760 They're the biggest advertiser in radio in the late nineties everywhere. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.720 Yeah, obviously you and I read the exact same live copy. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.040 Oh yeah, I remember those bullet points. I read that thing. Man, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:14.000 oh god, And there are so many stories that came 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.440 from those commercial reads back in the day. But anyway, 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.760 so that was the plant. Back then. They were like, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.280 the whole concept was don't eat. Well, then I figured 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.200 out that if you don't eat three hours before bet, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.360 just that alone will help you lose some weight, and 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.280 then the whole you know, this thing will make your 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:37.720 bowels explode. That also obviously helped. So anyway, the laxative shortage, 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.360 possibly because of TikTok, but who the hell, who the 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.640 hell know? Well, here's here's a fun story from the airlines. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.559 Now was it last week we had the vomit comment, 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:54.000 the diarrhea, die die diarrhea on the Delta Airlines flight 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.920 from Atlanta, Yeah to Europe? 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:57.720 Yeah? 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.559 Well, now we had another story this week involving airline 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:07.760 passengers up in arms demanding a refund wide. Did someone 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:13.240 poop right there in the plane? No? No, no, no 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.480 no no. It turns out that the cabin on the 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:22.440 plane stunk the high Heaven. According to a couple from 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.679 New Zealand, the flight was ruined because of an anxious 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.520 dog that kept farting. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.280 The thirteen hours of farting. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:40.839 That is a lot of gas. That is tremendous, tremendous. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.160 They did not turn back like the had the the 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:45.839 poop and the diarrhea and all that. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.920 Even Baby CoA was impressed by this story. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:56.160 Yeah, that's that's a lot of gas. Maybe maybe the dog. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:57.640 What kind of dog was it? Do we know what 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.640 kind of dog it was? Was it a ship too? 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.680 I dare you it's not a shit. We need to 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.400 take a shot at Bell. Although Bellet does stink. Bellet 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.720 does stink, and it might put Bell on a plane. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.400 The airline would have to give out gift vouchers and 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:19.560 things like that and whatnot. So, man, that is that 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:25.440 is wid And did the owner of the dog have 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.480 any problem with it or like, hey, well this is 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.839 what we gotta do. We gotta do what we gotta do. Yeah, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.240 well here's a story that I thought already existed back 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.120 years ago, but apparently it did not when I was 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:43.280 a kid. And when you thought of Columbia, what did 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.760 you think of Danny when you thought of Columbia. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:47.280 Drugs? 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.920 Yeah, cocaine, right, Colombian cocaine. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.240 Cocaine and coffee. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.439 Yeah, coffee. Also, that's true. Well, according to people over 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:03.240 at Bloomberg, economic estimates from Bloomberg claim that cocaine is 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:09.079 going to overtake oil and officially become Columbia's main export. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:10.560 Yeah. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.560 I thought it already was, but they say cocaine's going 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.079 to overtake oil possibly later this year. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.679 I thought cocaine was illegal, not everywhere. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.400 Well, I know in the Hollywood Hills you can do it, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.400 and I get that, and parts of Beverly Hills where 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:34.679 we are in La here. But yeah, there you go, wherever. 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.280 There's hookers, it's legal. A bunch of hookers and cocaine. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:43.240 Hookers and cocaine the way of the world. Well, that's 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:47.960 exciting the kids getting the cocaine business. That's the way, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.839 the way to do it. Well, I've met a lot 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.120 of stories in the last couple of years about homeless 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.000 people and people down on their luck and all that. Well, 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.640 how about this one. The police in Denver, Danny investigating 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:09.040 what they're calling a pop up bar for the homeless. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.520 This is this is great. I love the ingenuity. I 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:22.160 absolutely love it. Yeah, Colorado, Denver police say they're investigating 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.520 what appears to be an open air pop up bar 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.640 for the local homeless encampment on the north end of 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:35.320 downtown Denver. And I'm looking at this and the photo 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.640 is pretty crazy. It's got there's a tent, there's a 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.440 couple of tents. Somebody's got like a nice looks like 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.199 a leather chair with wood on the side. And then 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.720 there's a bunch of alcohol right there on like a dresser, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:54.960 like a kind of a medium sized dresser. And they're like, yeah, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.760 they're hearing that there was an open air bar sales 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.120 of alcohol. But here's the problem. It's a great business 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.720 idea because homeless people love to drink, that's why they're homeless, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.079 But how can they afford to actually pay for the drinks? 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.080 It says the cammic feature displays of liquor bottles. I did, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.000 I'm looking right here. It's got the lounge chair. They 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:20.200 got some Jim Beam there, Maker's Mark Malibu. Of course, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:21.360 rum you gotta have that. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:24.840 Maybe the bar takes medicare. 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:30.320 Yeah, there you go, that's wonderful. That's the ingenuity on that. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.880 I was like, yeah, you know, hey, go where they go, 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.440 where the customer is. Isn't that one of the slogans 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.280 in business, You got to go where the customers are. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:46.040 And if I'm selling alcohol, that's the place to go. Yeah. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.400 Wick is meant for milk, not for whiskey on the rocks. 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.040 Yeah, what is nice we do when pop goes? The 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.120 culture will do a few more. We got to get 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:56.800 to the mail bag. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:57.040 Though. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.400 Let's see here, page NN. Are these these dating stories 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.440 are as good? We're both married men. But a pole 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.080 has uncovered A survey has uncovered the biggest dating red 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:13.960 flags for gen Z and millennial women, and they include 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:19.640 listening to the Joe Rogan podcast is seen as a 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:25.040 bigger red flag than somebody that's like gun obsessed. According 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.920 to the young women who are out in the dating. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.440 World, what if you listen to that podcast while you 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:32.040 clean a. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.840 Gun, Now, that's then their heads would explode, Danny like 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.880 a melon being dropped off the top. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:38.320 Of a building. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.720 That would be that would be next level if that happened. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.440 And now the Joe Rogan thing is it the women 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.000 are not like in the UFC because he does a 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.920 lot of UFC podcasts. While he does a ton of podcasts, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.080 but and he's making a hundred million or whatever, so 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.880 he should do a lot of podcasts. But Rogan, I've 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:57.400 heard him a few times over the years, like he 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.320 does a lot of like comedians and but it's a 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.040 lot of m m A stuff too. Are they offended 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.080 by the mm A stuff? Like Rogan doesn't seem like 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.480 he's that out on the edge. To me, he's he's 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.120 got strong opinions. But I don't know he said he's 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.160 I think he said he's a Democrat. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:16.680 I don't know. 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:17.560 I don't know his politicans. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.200 Well, i'd be knocking all kinds of gen z boots 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.200 because I'm not sure why. But I've never listened to 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.720 one Joe Rogan podcast in my life, not intentional, but 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.440 just he's never really interested in me all that much. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.600 Well, I first learned of him when he was doing 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.280 news radio, remember that, and then I think it was 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:41.720 the nineties news radio. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.720 He was right. I liked him on Fair Factor. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:46.800 I remember Fear Factor. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:47.640 Yeah. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.640 I had a buddy of my one of my friends 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.680 is like a stand up comedian. He's like, not a 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.520 good one, not a good but he's a stand up 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.600 comedy so he knows the La comedy scene. And it 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.400 is so funny because I Joe Rogan's name came him up, 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.160 and you know, maybe the guy was just being a 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.040 dick because he didn't make it in comedy. But he said. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.240 Rogan was terrible when he was doing stand up comedy, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:12.240 like horrible, and now he sells out arenas and stuff. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.479 Is it because he's good? I've never really heard him 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.760 do stand up comedy. Is it because he's good or 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:22.000 is it because he's famous? Or is it both? 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:24.520 Yeah, maybe it's a little bit of both. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.680 I don't know. But my friend and I didn't see 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.520 Rogan when he did stand up comedy back in the 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.520 old days. But my friend swears that he was dreadful 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.440 at stand up comedy. So there's all kinds of numbers 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:38.119 from this study. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.520 If you want to is he a good interviewer? Ben? Like? 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.840 Why why did his podcasting take off the way it 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.520 did well? 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.320 He's got big names now, he's got big names because 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.359 he's like he's established. But I mean, it's fine. It 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.159 doesn't seem much different than any other interview It's not 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.719 like he's the greatest interviewer of all time. He's fine. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:00.320 It's pretty late back. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.879 Yeah, he just got in there early and made a 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:03.800 name for himself. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.840 Yeah. And I mean I don't listen all the time, 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.159 but I've heard it's fine. Some of them I like. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.600 And you know, I don't try not to listen too 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.520 much anything because I don't want to take other people's material. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:18.600 Let's get to the mail bag. What do you say 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:19.560 you want to get to the mail bag? 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.320 Let's go because this is not stealing from ask Ben. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.920 Now, this is original audio content that you can only 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:48.800 find on this particular podcast. It's right to the mail bag. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:54.640 Thank you, Ohio, al Alf says Agent to the Stars, Ben. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.479 Ever since your debut on Benny Versus the Penny, this season, 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.080 the Buzz around Tinseltown. Is that you're you rating is 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.959 through the roof? Is there any truth to the rumor 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.280 that Steve Harvey's production company is eyeing you to be 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.960 the next big game show host in prime time? Well, 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.000 alf I am not allowed to comment on that because 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.000 of some legal papers, so I'll just let that kind 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:19.040 of float out. 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.920 Next question, Well, Steve Harvey still doesn't know who you are. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.800 He absolutely knows who I am. He loved the Malamobile. 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.640 He said, look at that car. That's a good looking car. 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.280 He liked the car. That was the blue Malamobile, which 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.439 is not really more than just a round town car 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:39.119 at this point. Next up is the real Neil, the 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.000 real deal Neil who used to live in Miami, but 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.600 now he moved. He's in the Carolinas, if I remember correctly, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:50.160 says Mazotov. Ben on taking it or making it Hollywood's 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.840 Sports Talk becoming his star. By the way, did you 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:59.760 ever mention on how Looney became the choice? Or was 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:04.760 your choice or was it the NBC executives a big 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.600 fan of the Blitz back in the day. On XM radio, 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.080 he says, I do remember you and Looney were talking 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.560 like me and my buddies on the couch and that's 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.240 what resonates today. Allah. And then he says, Joe Rogan, 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:25.320 there you go. So not bashing Looney, just wondering the process, 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:29.679 if he was the orchestrator of the whole thing or not. 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:35.040 And he says, by the way, I'll cough up on 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.280 your podcast listening while hiking. He says he catches up. 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:40.240 I think he said cough up, but I think he 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.320 might catch up. I would hope. I don't think he's 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.520 going to cough at every podcast. But he says he'll 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:48.120 catch up on the podcast listening while hiking. And then 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.600 he sent some photos. He said he ran into my doppelganger. 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.160 That guy does not look like me. If you think 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.639 I look like that, Neil, then you need to go 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:58.280 to the eye doctor. And if I look like that, 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.960 I need to go to the eye doctor. I don't 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:01.760 think I looked like that. 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:03.560 You send a picture of big bird. 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:09.440 Man. It's like it's like job of the hut mixed 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:14.119 with snuffleophagus. Second, it's like, wait a minute. But as 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.280 far as the Looney deal, how we make the hot 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:19.919 dogs and all that. So I had been talking to 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.600 NBC people for years about doing it something with them, 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:30.320 and nothing ever happened. It was gonna happen, possibly in 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.320 twenty twenty, and then the whole world went nuts and 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:38.280 we had a pandemic and there were all kinds of fires, 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.439 cities were burning up. It was ridiculous anyway, so it 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.560 didn't happen then, and then I kind of it was 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:47.200 on the back burner and we started putting the show 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.359 together and they were interested in that, some of the 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:53.800 executives NBC. And then they're like, should I do it alone? Well, no, 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:55.600 it's Penny versus the pennies, so there's got to be 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:57.080 somebody there with the penny. And then we were going 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.560 over options, and then one of the big executives NBC 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.479 actually happened to be a fan of The Blitz and 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:08.119 liked the shenanigans that I had with Looney, and so 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:10.119 thought it would be a pretty good fit because we 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:13.280 already know each other, and I've known Looney for a 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:17.440 long time. We go back to the nineties. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:18.080 Me and Looney. 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.440 We did radio together a long time ago, so anyway, 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:21.680 we've known each other a long time. So it just 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:26.280 kind of seemed like a something they wanted and anyway, 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.840 he sent a bunch of other stuff here. He says, 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.840 Mazel Tov to Danny G for the healthy and handsome 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:38.000 king baby g Daddy, And then he asked for the studio. 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.600 He's gonna send us some hats, Danny, Oh nice. Yeah, 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:43.520 he says, they're boxed up, ready to go. So I 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.480 sent him the address and the way the mail works 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:48.760 at Fox Sports Radio. I think we might get that 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:50.639 about a month from now right. I don't even know 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:52.960 where the mailroom is. They got rid of the mail room, 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:53.360 didn't They. 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:55.480 Got rid of the mail room, so they put our 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.919 mail down by that white circle table in our breakroom. 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:02.120 Yeah, but the mail doesn't just go there. It goes 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:04.280 somewhere else. I don't know where it goes. There's got 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:06.240 to be somewhere the mail goes, and then they filter 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:07.000 it down there. 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:10.280 Anager Adrian brings it down to that white table. 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:14.200 And most of the male we get is just from 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:17.359 Andy Furman. Without Andy Furman, there would be no mail. 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:22.000 Andy single handedly gives Fox Sports Radio mail. Without Andy, 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:22.800 no mail. 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:27.440 What you know, the mail room stayed open after COVID 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:31.800 because of Andy's mail. Yeah, if there was no Andy 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.479 Furman mail, that would have been a victim of COVID. 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:37.040 They had to keep it open due to his mail. 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:40.359 And if only Andy had been around when the Pony 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:43.719 Express was around, we'd still have the Pony Express because 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:46.600 he just would have kept sending things on the Pony Express. 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:51.359 Anybody thinks you're just being funny. No, there's this cardboard 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:56.320