WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: People Are Strange 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:01.600 Kabooms. 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.520 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.280 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.600 of the Old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.640 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:17.599 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:18.480 Wow. 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.440 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:29.720 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now in. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.640 The air everywhere. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.440 The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.280 Radio celebrating World Pasta Day as we broadcast from the 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:44.240 remote studio somewhere in the bowels of the iHeartMedia Building, 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:49.159 unless it's not. As we're yapping away here celebrating pasta, 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.000 which has been around for five since five thousand BC 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.240 and came to America. We've talked about this before in 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.280 the podcast because I think we've been on during World 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.640 Pasta Day in the past. But President Jefferson was in 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:07.560 Perie back in the day and somebody served him some pasta. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.880 He called it macaroni. He loved it so much. How 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.000 much did he love it? He brought back a ton 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.520 of it and He's like, I got to bring that 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:16.520 to America. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.200 I mean, I love this macarona. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:19.720 Of course it might not have actually been what we 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.760 call macaroni today, but he returned with a couple of 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.440 cases of this stuff, and then that helped spread the 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:33.120 joy of pasta. The big bumpety bump in mass production 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:39.600 of pasta was oh, you know the rest. Campbell's Soup 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:48.440 Company invented the canned pasta known as Spaghettio's, Oh Spaghettio, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.960 and that became a big deal. Now as a kid, 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:59.360 it was in my rotation, and they determined the people 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.000 that may the pasta determined that kids could eat the 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:07.320 O shape rings without making a mess, and that was 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.880 bull crap. I was able to make a mess. My 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.799 mom's not here, but she would tell you she was 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.240 still around that I did make make a mess. Some 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.680 of the other ideas when they were making Spaghettio's, they 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.720 were like, well, let's make a little cowboys or you know, 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.280 coo cowboys. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:25.880 And Indians racist. Well, they would have had to cancel 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:27.160 Campbells if they had done that. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.240 They thought about maybe spacemen or stars, or shapes of 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.480 footballs and baseballs, but they determined that the oh was 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.639 good and it rhymes spaghetti Oh kind of flows and 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.519 the whole thing. And then a few years after Campbells 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:47.040 came around the chain restaurant, the Old Spaghetti Factory opened 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.000 its first location in Portland and they're still around. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.560 There's still a few in my area. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:03:01.839 So it is World pasta day celebrate appropriately on this podcast, 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.000 The Fifth Hour with Me and Danny g on this Saturday, 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.000 we've got in honor of National Past today we have 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.320 the Spaghetti Western, a story that has never before been told. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.200 What you're about to hear the first time ever. This 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.840 story will be told on any microphone anywhere. And also 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.200 the odd ball Corner, which is our corner. It's our corner, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.920 is what it is? Yes, all right, so listen. There 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:33.639 is a moment somewhere between the second Margarita and the 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.560 fourth rendition in your head of friends in low places, 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.760 when life stops pretending to be complicated, right, and you 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.040 just kind of tip your hat and you say, how 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.880 do partner and let the absurdity trot on through. So 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.680 that moment happened again recently in my life this past weekend, 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.320 a story that I've saved for this podcast. On the 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:02.600 far edges of Los Angeles County, a little place called Norco, California, 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.279 a town that has more saddles than Starbucks. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.240 It does have a Starbucks, but it has more saddles. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.560 They have wide things near the road, a little like 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.360 dirt things to walk your horse. There's more livestock than Tesla's, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.200 which is odd in California. And the concept of an 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:25.480 HOA a homeowner's association likely involves actual horses, a stampede 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:26.040 of horses. 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.599 Now, I was not there as a gas bag. I 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:29.280 was visiting. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.080 I was there by marriage, as we have pointed out. 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.880 And you know this if you're also married. That is 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.760 how these things work. When you say I do and 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.240 you sign the contract. At some point in the journey 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.040 of life, you find yourself in a newly purchased cowboy hat, 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.159 standing next to three goats, a fluffy cow named Jet 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.640 and timing a mechanical bull that people are riding on 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.599 like a man auditioning for some kind of endorsement deal 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.160 with a stopwatch company. We were there for my my 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:06.240 wife's longtime co workers fiftieth birthday bash. Nice Woman, Good House. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:11.200 It was her home Western theme. It was a fandego, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.080 as they said in the Old West. A shindig, a 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.640 real gudea up and go kind of party, and so 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.760 it's kind of walking through this. So I don't own 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.840 cowboy boots. I have very big feet. I don't own 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.440 cowboy boots. I don't own spurs. I have watched the 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.200 San Antonio Spurs play, but I don't own spurs. However, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.760 I do own what can only be described as a 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.800 Canadian tuxedo. We've talked about this in the past, a 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.720 full denim ensemble acquired on my somewhat recent trip to Vancouver. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.560 We talked about yesterday I did this love note to Toronto, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.000 but I talked about Canada because the Dodgers and Blue 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.520 Jays playing, and I mentioned Nico and here we are again. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.719 I got that when we went to Vancouver, the Canadian tuxedo, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.000 when Nico rolled out the red carpet, and you know, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.520 the red carpet in Canada is covered in maple syrup 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.680 and hospitality. But that outfit, I didn't think I'd ever 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:02.960 wear it again. I thought, well, this is the only 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.320 time I'm in Canada, I'm gonna wear the Canadian tuxedo. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.000 And I had the bolo tie, the whole thing, and 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.040 I said, oh no, I want to do it. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.359 And it's the kind of an outfit that makes you 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.640 feel like an extra and a B list spaghetti western, right, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.240 the kind that ends up face down in a saloon 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.160 after the first scene that was me okay in the 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.560 spaghetti western on World pasta Day. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:25.799 So I put on the tuxedo. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.400 I topped it with the authentic cowboy hat which still 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.040 had the label on it, and just like that, poof, 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.039 I was no longer Benny from Benny versus the Penny 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.039 and the radio. No no no, I had a nickname change. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:43.680 I was Benny Buckeroo Bennie Buckero, a man who, in 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:49.360 theory could lasso a calf, in reality could barely lasso 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.799 the TV remote control. That's just the reality. So Benny 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.120 Bucco Buckaroo or Buckeroo, Benny, whatever you want to call me. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:04.440 So every true great party eventually involves a bad idea. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.640 I'm not a big party guys, you know, I'm an introvert. 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.040 I try to limit it to mallard meet and greets, 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.800 and that's for bonding. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:13.360 With you, the listener. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.320 So I just don't go to too many parties. But 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.360 I do know from the times I've been to parties 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.400 that normally there's a bad idea that becomes a good thing. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.880 So some involve trampolines, some involve karaoke. This one involved 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:30.960 a mechanical bull, the great equalizer of bravado and machismo 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:32.360 and balance. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.320 Now, I last was at a bar. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:36.840 There's a place and I don't even know it's still 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.040 there on Sunset in Hollywood. I used to go to 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.360 when I was younger, and they had a mechanical bull 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.080 and it was it was fun. I mean, most of 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:46.600 the people were there just to look at the hot 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.080 girls that would go on the mechanical bull and go 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.600 flying off the mechanical bull. But the mechanical bulls are 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:57.480 a fascinating invention. They were first introduced in the nineteen thirties. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.840 Right the nineteen thirties. I thought, that's almost one hundred 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.800 years at an amusement park in New Jersey. And how 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.200 do I know that? Because I was like, I was 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:07.880 sitting there at this thing, and I was like, I 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.200 have mechanical bulls. I wonder how long they've been around. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.360 So I guess since I started a Jersey, which I 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.840 guess means the original version likely tossed men in three 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.360 piece suits and women in floral dresses into the dirt 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:23.680 around Atlantic City. But the true pop culture coronation, as 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.080 I understand it, came in nineteen eighty when Urban Cowboy 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:32.160 turned this contraption at Gilly's Bar into a cinematic icon, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.439 and that was John Travolta. Sissy Spacek was in that 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.720 movie Legends of that Era. However, the real star was 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.839 this rotating, bucking, ridiculous piece of machinery that has spent 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:51.880 the last four decades separating cowboys or fake cowboys from 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:52.720 their dignity. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.079 Now, yours truly did not ride the ball. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.080 I'd like to alert all the podcast affiliates there are 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.320 none that I did not ride the bull. So this 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.280 was not out of fear, well, not only out of fear. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.880 My lovely wife, knowing full well that I could trip 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:15.880 over a cordless phone, benched me pre eminently, your klutz, 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.880 You're gonna hurt yourself. I'm not spending the night in 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.480 the er that kind of stuff. You know, need your 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.560 healthy now. She also announced that she wasn't going to 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.560 ride the bull either. She let me know right away, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.720 I am not planning on riding the bull. But here's 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.719 the funny thing about declarations made before a few margaritas 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.800 at a party filled with friends. There's this thing called 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.920 peer pressure. You mix that with alcohol, and by the 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.840 end of the night, my wife had gone on the 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.560 mechanical bul not one, not two, not three, not four, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.720 not five, how about six rides later, and you could 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.600 nickname her Calamity Jane reincarnated, clinging to the bull like 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:57.520 a rodeo legend. If mechanical bull riding ever made the Olympics, 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.520 and why not? They have all these other food, gazy 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.600 things in the My wife is bringing home the gold 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.760 and she'll wrap herself in the flag. It's gonna be great. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.840 It canna win a gold medal. So there, I was 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.079 not riding the bull, but I was at the party 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:13.920 and I was socializing. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.000 And I had my. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.520 Apple watch trapped on like some futuristic sheriff badge in 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.480 the Old West, Like what is that thing? And my 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.400 job I didn't know this when I showed up to 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.280 the party. My job was the timer. I was timing 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.520 each bull ride fifteen seconds here, thirty seconds here, one 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:32.080 minute there. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.199 The crowd would go wild. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.720 Is if someone was storming Normandy with a pair of 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.560 boots and a stubborn spring. So the mechanical bull riding 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:48.440 is an underrated metaphor for adulthood, like nobody actually looks 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:49.480 very good doing it. 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.040 You can't look graceful on a bull. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:58.000 You're flailing away, you're trying to grip, you're making weird faces, 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.200 you know, and people are recording it with their phones 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.600 to use against you at future points in time. And 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.280 everyone's getting thrown off. No one survives the bull. Everyone 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.000 gets thrown off, and in many ways that's life. You 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.480 hold on you get tossed around in life, and if 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.920 you're lucky, someone's laughing with you and not at you 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.080 by the time it's all over. And there was something 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.000 almost cinematic about Norco. I haven't spent much time there. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.760 It's just want to be clear, it's not la as 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.280 I said. There's no skyline, there's no bums over there, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:38.080 there's no trash. It's just different. It's a California where 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:45.080 people have space. There's goats, there's pigs, there's turkeys, there's chickens. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.880 The whole thing a fluffy cow named Jet that was 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:53.800 the birthday gift to my wife's friend. Beautiful black, fluffy 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.720 cow that seemed to be a little scared of all 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.120 the attention the cow was getting. Jet was running around 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.760 its little cage there, and he was the star though. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.200 Jet was the star of the livestock show. And it 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:11.120 reminded me that some people's daily existence is so different 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.080 than mine. It's like a petting zo These people live 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:17.440 in like a petting zoo. Mine involves a microphone and 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.760 my bulldog named Moxie, who, by the way, I'm gonna 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.920 post some photos at some point today, so check out 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.360 the social media pages for the show, the Facebook page 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.520 and the Instagram page. I'm gonna post some photos. And 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:33.280 you gotta see this photo of Moxie, ourf who let's 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.560 just say she put it on thick when I put 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.559 on my cowboy costume to go to this event, and 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:44.520 she really really nailed it. Listen that these people that 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.640 live at this place, their morning involves like chicken feeds sunrises. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.240 That's not my life. I go to bed when the 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.000 sun comes up. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:57.080 And there's a particular sound of mechanical bull makes when 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.720 someone hits the ground around the bull, that thud, and 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.680 then there's little laughter and the clapter, and then there's 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.319 there's a groan and there's more laughter, and for this night, 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:10.520 that was the soundtrack. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.679 Like, that's what we got, right, We got these people say, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.080 I know there's people casually. These are my wife's friends. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.719 I know them casually. They're nice people. They're good, they're 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:20.400 nice seeing. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.440 Them, they always smile. They're nice to me. Even if 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.040 they don't like me, they pretend to like me. And 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.679 I imagine the next the next morning for these people 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.800 was less laughter and more pharmacy grade ibuprofen. Like alcohol 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.080 has a marvelous way of delaying pain, it does not 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.199 have a marvelous way of canceling it. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.600 But in that moment under. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.599 The string lights, you know, the old Western themed the 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.439 set up there, the cowboy hats, as the bull bucked, 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.000 the turkeys gobbled off to the side, the chickens were 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.040 doing their thing, and it just it was like the simplest, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:56.840 dumbest night. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.439 It was fun, you know, the moment just kind of 0:13:59.480 --> 0:13:59.920 stuck there. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.679 There people drinking margaritas, there was plenty of food. They 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.280 had a taco guy there because you think Old West, 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:06.239 you think tacos. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:11.280 It was just good and anyway, maybe this was what 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.880 we're we're all doing. Think about it. 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.960 As I was leaving and I was kind of like 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.480 processing everything that happened, and I wrote a few. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.720 Notes down as I was leaving this. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.880 This party, and in some way writing a mechanical bull. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.680 We obviously didn't build it, it just showed up. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:28.240 You rent it. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:29.960 It's like a couple grand to rent. They didn't even 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.640 can rent these things. Imagine the liability on that. And 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.560 so I think, wow, we you know, we got this 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.720 under control. And you know, trying to last just a 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.320 few more seconds before gravity wins, and you want to 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.760 impress everyone, and you cling to it and you wobble 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.680 and wobble, wobble, wobble, and you laugh and people clap 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.880 and cheer, and then people dust you off and somebody 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.480 hand you a drink, and you. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:54.520 Know that's it. Here you go. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.560 You almost made it. You almost survive right right there. Congratulations, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.720 And if you're lucky, someone's there like me with an 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:06.160 apple watch keeping time, not to measure how long you 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:11.480 stayed on, but to remember, for a brief, ridiculous moment 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.240 in time, we were both in the arena, and I 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:15.960 was the man in the arena. I was the timekeeper 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.240 in the arena, but I was in the arena. So 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.120 if you need a timekeeper. If you're planning on having 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.600 a Western party, I will travel, I do weddings, I 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.000 do bar mitzvah's, I do birthday parties obviously, and I 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:31.600 do Western theme events. So saddle up, my friend. Life 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.640 does not stop. It does not stop. It does not stop. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.880 Bucking the whole thing. I am Buckeroo, Benny or Benny 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:38.600 the Buckeroo. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:39.840 Now turning the. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.880 Page on that, we had a great mitzvah that took 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:44.600 place on the radio show this weekend. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.400 I want to I want to share it with you. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:47.920 It happened the other day and I don't know if 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:48.360 you were listening. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.560 I think this goes way back to We debuted it 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.000 on Monday into. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.200 Tuesdays, so I guess it was early Tuesday. And this 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:56.880 is one of those things. 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.640 There's moments when you do this job, when the universe 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.640 gives you the thumbs up. It just does not the 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.240 corporate memo. You're not allowed to talk about. That not 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.560 the engagement metrics that are you must be in the 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:13.920 twenty five to fifty four demo. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.840 Got to be in the twenty five to fifty four demo. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:17.880 Wink wink. 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:22.240 Now I'm talking about the real thing, the out of nowhere, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.880 middle of the night, lightning in a bottle, kind of 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.760 a sign from the gods, and it happens quite a bit. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.720 It happened again, a little audio care package sent from 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.520 the Buckeye State. A man who is well known in 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.240 the mal Ard Militia. One of the great songwriters. You 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.400 think of the legends and the Malam Militia, he's right 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.560 up there with Jay Scoop and Just Josh and all 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.000 the others are Buddy and Richmond that have sent songs in. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.280 We're talking about Ohio Al and Ohio Al. If you 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.440 listen to this podcast, you know he has often featured 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.400 here with the little vignettes that we use Ohio Al. 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:01.880 I don't know much about what. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.640 Makes him working all about IIOWI often spends his nights 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:10.160 in my head, futzing around in his garage with his guitar, and. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:10.880 He's got all his toys. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.280 He's got, you know, kind of a raspy voice at times, 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:20.080 and he's got this supernatural understanding of a very particular, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.080 very strange community of radio listeners and callers. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:24.840 Not listeners. The listeners are normal. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.040 The callers are a little on the edge on the spectrum, 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:29.160 as we like to say. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.840 And so he sent in a song and I'm gonna 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:32.240 play it. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.440 I want to talk about it here first and set 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.879 it up as a DJ one oh two point seven 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.320 kiss f M or something like that. So I'm gonna 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.159 play it, I promise you. And you guys have been 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.120 say employed some of these songs. All right, we're gonna 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.960 play this on the podcast, and we've got it cued up. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.960 This is not just any song. Okay, I'm gonna set 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:53.520 this up and then you're gonna hear it and you'd 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:54.360 be like, oh, that was. 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:55.640 You know, that's everything. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.520 So this is a Doors knockoff that would make Jim 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:03.920 Morris and sit up from wherever leather pants wearing poets 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:04.879 go when they leave. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.520 Us behind the pearly gates. You know what I'm saying. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:11.679 I don't know. Just the tune was people are Strange, 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.119 which is perfect. I don't know if I said this 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:15.840 on the air or not. Maybe I did. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.600 I know that I was talking to some friends about 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:21.960 the show and I think this was off. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.160 The air, and they're like, well, what song sums up 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:25.480 the show? 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.600 And I was like, oh, the Doors people are Strange 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.720 and this is people are strange, but it's reimagined, repurposed, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:37.920 and rebranded into a malar militia anthem. It's catchy, it's clever. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.000 I think you'll agree, but you'll be the judge of that. 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.840 It will become for my purposes the Halloween theme soundtrack 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:49.280 of overnight sports talk radio, the oddball corner of the 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.199 American media landscape, which is not mainstream because we're on 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.119 at night. If we were on during the day, that 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.400 would be different. Not on six am to six pm. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.399 Those are mainstream shows, those of corporate shows. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.160 We are the afterthought. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.440 We are where insomniacs, the night shift workers, the degenerates, 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:12.200 the dreamers, and we're there for things that go bump 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:16.359 in the night when the goblins are out running around 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:20.119 and their spaceships were on. So this was not just music. 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.240 This was us and that's why I'm excited to play 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.560 it for you. Over the years, the Ben Malor Show 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.880 has become less and less of a sports show and 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.160 more and more of it's a radio program, but it's 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.520 kind of more just a late night speak easy where 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:41.520 the weird and wonderful show up in full technicolor, and 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.560 the way each hour starts out Normally we start out 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.440 with a Malard monologue, which is typically sporty, normally complaining 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.000 about something that is ridiculous or ripping someone that lost 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:54.600 the game. And then we open up the phones in 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.520 the B block and the B blocks about the calls, 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.560 and then we have a game or something goofy. We'd 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.560 be in we do in the C block. That's normally 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.919 how the show goes. And you know the characters in 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.440 the show. You got blind Scott from Boston, Hurricane who's 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.000 in a Red Sox cap unless he's not because he 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.840 doesn't know he's wearing. You got Marcella and Brooklyn with 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:17.679 his morning food picks, who thinks he's reinventing radio. My 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.359 man Lucky Tony, who's been dumped more than anyone on 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.000 the show the last couple of years. He was always 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.800 got a jab at that hater of the show, David Veasse. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.360 You've got hollering James, whose nickname is as literal as 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.480 a nickname cats. You've got Jet who fled Dick and 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.879 Dayton weed Man who's the big star now with Asco 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:39.280 weed Man, Mike the Leprechaun, obviously, the characters that work 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:40.639 on the show behind the scenes. 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:41.800 You've got a rogue gallery. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.480 There's some other names as well, but it's a Vaughtvillian 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.360 act as what it is. It's like a midnight opera company, 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.800 and I love it. I didn't start out trying to 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.399 do this kind of show. It just kind of morphed 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:58.359 into that in Ohio, al somehow, some way fit nearly 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.760 all of those characters, the big stars on the mallad Militia. 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.880 Right now into the song that I'm about to. 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:09.160 Play, like a musical role call of your audio family 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.680 that doesn't quite fit anywhere else, and you don't really 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:15.000 want anyone to know about them. They're just for your 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:19.760 late night alone time. And that's one of the cool 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.959 things about people are strange. When Jim Morrison wrote it 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:28.200