Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air every way a glorious football Sunday. It
Speaker 1: is on like Donkey Kong today and we're your pregame
Speaker 1: actor or maybe during the game.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You've listened to this podcast. Whatever you want, we do
Speaker 1: in the morning, but you can listen whatever you want.
Speaker 1: But it is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and
Speaker 1: Danny g. We thank you for following the podcast and
Speaker 1: actually listening to the podcast, which is the most important part,
Speaker 1: and we want you to listen every single second. But
Speaker 1: all we really need is what we need approximately two
Speaker 1: minutes of your time. Five minutes, all right, five goes
Speaker 1: five good minutes, and that's all we need. We're good,
Speaker 1: We're golden.
Speaker 3: I've listened back to these podcasts, been in like twelve
Speaker 3: fifteen minute increments. It's not hard to listen to your
Speaker 3: content for fifteen minutes. It's like your live radio show.
Speaker 3: I'll tune in for fifteen twenty minutes. You get on
Speaker 3: my nerves about something Clippers related and I turn it off.
Speaker 1: I understand why you would be jealous of the Clipper talk.
Speaker 1: It's the hottest team in the NBA, the people's team.
Speaker 1: They've got James Harden. Now they're just on an absolute
Speaker 1: as the kids say, they're on a burner.
Speaker 3: What tell me you're not distracted by that ugly ass beard.
Speaker 1: Though, Uh No, I'm fine. I'm distracted by the fact
Speaker 1: that I'm concerned he's going to puke all over himself
Speaker 1: in the playoffs like he's done for every other team
Speaker 1: he's played for. But the good news is the Clippers
Speaker 1: have enough guys where even if he has a crapper
Speaker 1: like we talked about yesterday, they should still be able
Speaker 1: to weather the storm. If you will.
Speaker 3: So, you think if they did forensics on his beard
Speaker 3: they would find food crumbs from ten years to goo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he can't get rid of the beard. Though he
Speaker 1: looks very odd without the beard. He looks very odd
Speaker 1: without the beard. We've seen photos of when he's at
Speaker 1: Arizona State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he looked alien like.
Speaker 1: Looks like a nerd. And with the beard, he looks
Speaker 1: like a tough guy. He's got that intimidating swagger as
Speaker 1: a tough guy. Wrong. Absolutely, all right, let's get to
Speaker 1: the Let's just get to the mailbag. Why waste time?
Speaker 1: People sent letters in They want us to talk about
Speaker 1: that what they said they wrote? So let's here we go, ohioal.
Speaker 4: It's let's get into it.
Speaker 1: First. One is from Dan in Cannes City. It says,
Speaker 1: guys like the podcast looking forward to the Chiefs game
Speaker 1: this weekend. He sent this the other day. He says,
Speaker 1: I just saw a story it's somewhat recent, of Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and he was asked a question what his favorite
Speaker 1: burger was between in and out five guys and What
Speaker 1: a Burger? And Mahomes said that the top burger was
Speaker 1: at What a Burger? What do you guys think about
Speaker 1: about Mahomes' favorite favorite burger? From Dan?
Speaker 3: What a guy? That's because he spent a lot of
Speaker 3: time in Texas. Right.
Speaker 1: Well, not only that, Danny, I believe he owns a
Speaker 1: bunch of water burgers. I think he brought some locations
Speaker 1: to Kansas City, so methinks the witness is biased, right,
Speaker 1: I compromised. I think he's compromised. I've been to Whataburger.
Speaker 1: They have some in Arizona, and I like.
Speaker 3: What a Burger.
Speaker 1: I've told the story, my what a Burger story because
Speaker 1: of the Sun's Phoenix Suns games, and they used to
Speaker 1: I'd listen late at night to Suns games on the
Speaker 1: radio on transistor radio because I'm a nerd. Got in
Speaker 1: a radio and the announcer, Al McCoy, when the Sons
Speaker 1: would hit a three point shot, he'd say, what a shot?
Speaker 1: What a burger? And I want to eat there? And
Speaker 1: I have family in Phoenix, so I'd go. We'd go,
Speaker 1: and I'd ask my mom to eat it.
Speaker 3: What a burger?
Speaker 1: And it was good, But it's not as good as
Speaker 1: in and out. It's certainly not as good as five guys.
Speaker 1: Those are better burger location. That's a bad job by
Speaker 1: my homes. Yeah, but he is from Texas.
Speaker 3: So I've never tasted that before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's better than a lot of the fast food
Speaker 1: play certainly better than what Travis Kelcey likes. His favorite
Speaker 1: burger is Burger King. He says, that's the top fast
Speaker 1: food bro who has Burger King?
Speaker 3: Not nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: I let it go, Okay, let it go. Like I'm
Speaker 1: glad Burger King's still around, but they got to reinvent
Speaker 1: themselves over there at the King. The King has fallen.
Speaker 3: You mentioned five guys. I sure wish that joint was
Speaker 3: more affordable. Yeah, it's really ricey. I ordered just for
Speaker 3: myself because my chick wasn't in the mood for a hamburger.
Speaker 3: She opted for what was next door, which was like
Speaker 3: a Mediterranean grill. So I was like, okay, will you
Speaker 3: go into the grill? I gave her my debit card
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I have a little bit of cash
Speaker 3: on me, I'll go in to five guys. That little
Speaker 3: bit of cash in my pocket was nowhere near enough,
Speaker 3: and all I got was a small fry and like
Speaker 3: one of their small cheeseburgers. Holy shit, it's expensive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's ridiculous. Did they have the peanuts of
Speaker 1: those back? I know they got rid of those during.
Speaker 3: They were in there. Yeah, because I filled my bag up.
Speaker 3: That's the only upside to spending that much money. You
Speaker 3: get free peanuts. But how much do peanuts really cost?
Speaker 3: A bag of peanuts is gonna cost you six bucks?
Speaker 3: Maybe a big bag, guess. I guess at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: A Dodger Stadium will cost you six hundred dollars because
Speaker 1: they got otani but at the store. But maybe more
Speaker 1: than that. The prices have gone so much. It's that
Speaker 1: putin price hike, Danny, that's it.
Speaker 3: I don't know you're right, because I bought a bag
Speaker 3: of pistachios last week fifteen dollars for a small bag.
Speaker 1: They really get you on the Macadamian nuts. Those because
Speaker 1: they're exotic from Hawaii and they stick it to you.
Speaker 1: And I love Macadamian nuts, but I don't get them
Speaker 1: very often because they're A they're not very good for you,
Speaker 1: and B they taste great, and see they gouge you.
Speaker 1: I've been making this brittle and I tried Macadamian ut
Speaker 1: bro which came out alright. The peanut brittle I think
Speaker 1: is better than the Macadamiant brittle.
Speaker 3: But I'll be the judge of that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, you're getting me a mug. I'll definitely
Speaker 1: just some brittle. A Lion's van Larry writes and says
Speaker 1: in He's in the Mutton state. He says, Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny Joy the pod while I'm cleaning up the house here, Ben,
Speaker 1: I heard you upset over something that happened at the
Speaker 1: start of the show the other night. You said you
Speaker 1: didn't say what it was. Can you let us fifth
Speaker 1: Hour stands know what happened? I don't know. What do
Speaker 1: you think, Dan, should I tell the tell the story?
Speaker 3: I don't know, tell the two minute version of it? Okay?
Speaker 1: So yeah, so the way this works, I'm very happy
Speaker 1: that the show has a lot of commercials. The more
Speaker 1: commercials the better, right, because we're in We're not doing
Speaker 1: commercial free We're not doing commercial free radio. We're doing
Speaker 1: like commercial radio. And it tells you that the show's
Speaker 1: doing well. The more commercials you have, to me, it
Speaker 1: tells you the show is doing pretty well. That there
Speaker 1: have been times I've been at Fox Sports Radio for
Speaker 1: over twenty years, there have been times we had no
Speaker 1: commercials that ain't good. So I'd rather have too many
Speaker 1: then not enough. But I do a lot of live reads.
Speaker 1: I haven't recently this the last year, I've started doing
Speaker 1: more live reads, which is fine. I don't care. I
Speaker 1: like doing live reides. I put my own touch on them.
Speaker 1: I put my own bullshit in them. Yeah, Ben Maler here,
Speaker 1: I know I always. I learned that from a guy
Speaker 1: early in my career, a seasoned radio guy back in
Speaker 1: the heyday of radio, and he told me, he said, listen,
Speaker 1: if they're going to force you to do these commercials,
Speaker 1: what is the most important thing for you? It's your brand.
Speaker 1: So every time the commercials play, if they play your
Speaker 1: name or you say your name, then that maybe somebody
Speaker 1: hears you and likes how you read the commercial and
Speaker 1: they want to hear your show. And I've always done that.
Speaker 1: Every time I have to do a commercial, I always
Speaker 1: try to put my name in there.
Speaker 3: When I was producing your live show, I would email
Speaker 3: your spots off to sales, and sales would say, oh,
Speaker 3: he added his name. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Listen. That's the way it goes. You want me to
Speaker 1: do it, you want pay me a little extra, I
Speaker 1: won't do it, But they don't. They never every time
Speaker 1: I say, hey, pay a little extra, I'll take the
Speaker 1: name out. They never want that. They never say that's
Speaker 1: a good idea. So I'll give you the brief story.
Speaker 1: Larry thank you for listening. Good luck to your lions today.
Speaker 1: At least cover the spread. That would help me out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the other night I get again. We do a
Speaker 1: lot of commercials and I have a big stack of
Speaker 1: copy digital copy, mind you, but there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different commercials, and I am given the name of the
Speaker 1: commercial that I have to read at the end. We
Speaker 1: usually do a live read at the end of the monologue,
Speaker 1: and then we do a couple during the hour, like
Speaker 1: brief small reads, one at the bottom, sometimes when the
Speaker 1: last segment. So this other night, I'm beginning the show,
Speaker 1: the open to the show is on. I've got to
Speaker 1: present the monologue for the hour at the top of
Speaker 1: the hour, first hour of the show. And as the
Speaker 1: open is playing, as I'm turning my mic on, a
Speaker 1: voice in my head says, all right, here's the commercial
Speaker 1: you need to read. Here's the name of it, you know,
Speaker 1: on like, I don't have how am I going to
Speaker 1: get I have to do the monologue? And then I
Speaker 1: had to Yeah, it just the timing was a little
Speaker 1: log that. That's the thing, you know, Danny. The timing
Speaker 1: is important. You want to have time to have the
Speaker 1: copy and be prepared and all that stuff, and so
Speaker 1: it was a little a little upsetting, but I calm down.
Speaker 1: I calm down, and I did find the copy.
Speaker 3: Was it Coop talking in your air or Iowa Sam.
Speaker 1: Well, I will not I will not reveal who did that,
Speaker 1: but they are big fans of a woman's basketball player
Speaker 1: from Iowa. So I don't remember the person's name.
Speaker 3: There was. Can I tell you. I'll make this a
Speaker 3: thirty second story. But I was producing the great Steve
Speaker 3: Hartman on the weekend a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Homer Hartman come on and.
Speaker 3: By the way, on his show, I begged the Raiders
Speaker 3: to use their draft capital to go up and get C. J. Stroud. No, no,
Speaker 3: I would have been a genius general manager, though ben
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have been fired like Ziggler. But anyhow, Iowa
Speaker 3: Sam was running the board on those weekend shifts. Steve Hartman,
Speaker 3: who's a well tested veteran, does not like voices in
Speaker 3: his head as he's doing his show. So Iowa Sam
Speaker 3: asked me, hey, did did Hartman do that fifteen second
Speaker 3: live read? I was answering his phones. I'm not sure,
Speaker 3: but let's wait wait for him to finish the break.
Speaker 3: If he didn't do it. We'll make it good. We'll
Speaker 3: make it good. On the other side, I got into
Speaker 3: Steve Hartman's airpiece and said, blah blah bla blah blah
Speaker 3: live read Steve Hartman stops dead in his tracks on
Speaker 3: the air and said, what we have breaking news. Let's
Speaker 3: just say. Steve Hartman came in during the commercial break,
Speaker 3: furious inside. You don't never talk in my earpiece again
Speaker 3: unless it's breaking news.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I I'm not that extreme. I'm not this
Speaker 1: just the time could not have been worse. I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to do the monologue as good as I can.
Speaker 1: I got this stuff, fugazy camera on me because they
Speaker 1: want the Internet videos, which is fine whatever, that's their thing.
Speaker 1: I give them the videos. But I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: be like scrambling around and all that stuff. So I
Speaker 1: just all I need is like two or three minutes.
Speaker 1: Is that too much to ask? Dan? Like two or
Speaker 1: three minutes, and then I have time to find it
Speaker 1: and then I can get Oh.
Speaker 3: And you know what, Sam, He's got really good intentions,
Speaker 3: and he had good intentions trying to help Steve make
Speaker 3: sure he did that read. But it's just you gotta
Speaker 3: know the host. You got to know their tendencies and
Speaker 3: what they like and what they don't like.
Speaker 1: You can slide that in later in the show. And yeah,
Speaker 1: no harm, no foul, Everything's good, Mike, and Fullerton writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, happy New Car Smell Day? Is it
Speaker 1: New car Smell Day today? That's what he says. It's
Speaker 1: a national Oh.
Speaker 3: I love that smell. By the way, that should be
Speaker 3: a it is. Oh, it should be a cologne. It
Speaker 3: is wonderful. It's one of the great smells. It's one
Speaker 3: of the reasons to buy a new car.
Speaker 1: Is just for the smell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's National Kazoo Day. It's Lego Day. It was a
Speaker 1: huge lego guy back in the back in the day.
Speaker 1: I think, is he making that up? I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's a million Holidays today, a weird bugezia. He's probably
Speaker 1: making that up. Bad job by him anyway. Mike says, Uh,
Speaker 1: what's your opinion guys on people making a heart with
Speaker 1: their hands. I think it's just about the stupidest, lamest
Speaker 1: thing a person could do. Travis Kelsey doing it and
Speaker 1: a touchdown celebration was the last straw for me, all right, Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: wasn't that sarcastic?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 1: Didn't Kelsey say that was kind of mocking the Bills
Speaker 1: fans that were busting his balls?
Speaker 3: Supposedly. I'm not sure if that's true or not. Maybe
Speaker 3: he was embarrassed after the fact and it was like, Oh,
Speaker 3: let me pretend like I was poking at the Bills.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like what did Kelsey got all upset with the
Speaker 1: Bills fans? Like what did he expect? Like he's he's
Speaker 1: the playing for the other team, Like you got that?
Speaker 1: And with all the other stuff Kelsey's done to kind
Speaker 1: of enter the political conversation with the deal, the vaccine thing,
Speaker 1: and then the bud light like what did he think?
Speaker 3: And Buffalo it has been very very good to Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3: That area more than sells out, They sell out the
Speaker 3: parking lot when she performs there. So to me, I
Speaker 3: saw that heart flash towards the box. I think he
Speaker 3: was trying to proposed to her. That's what I think.
Speaker 1: Just go with it, Just just go with it.
Speaker 3: He is like, oh, the cute heart to my girl.
Speaker 3: And then people are like you pussy and he's like, no,
Speaker 3: no Ah, I met that was for the Bills fans
Speaker 3: that were all up on her. Yeah, no, no, we
Speaker 3: know what you were doing, dude. All right.
Speaker 1: Next up on the mailback Steve in La where we
Speaker 1: do this podcast from, and Steve says, Ben and Danny
Speaker 1: enjoy the podcast. Ben, you're a pretty cynical guy. I
Speaker 1: like your late night show. I think it's great. By
Speaker 1: the way, are compliments really genuine? I see what you
Speaker 1: did there, Steve. So here's my position on compliments. I
Speaker 1: want to see if you agree with me on this name. So,
Speaker 1: I believe that twenty percent of compliments are legit and
Speaker 1: eighty percent are bullshit? Do you think I'm right with that?
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people compliment stuff just to be
Speaker 1: not the polite, but they don't really believe it. I
Speaker 1: think about twenty percent a two hundred batting average is legit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say forty are legit? Forty sixty I
Speaker 3: would say, so pop.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: By the way, last Wednesday was National Give a Compliment Day?
Speaker 1: Oh? Is that is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It's nice.
Speaker 3: I'll give you one, but it's not Wednesday anymore.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's thank you. Yeah. I think only twenty percent.
Speaker 1: But and this depends there's a lot of variables, Steve,
Speaker 1: and you listening. I hope you're listening, Steve. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of variables because you not only have like location,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people at work who are who
Speaker 1: say nice things to try they think they're going to
Speaker 1: get promoted to certain people. Right, there's that I think,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, twenty I'm going I'm sticking with
Speaker 1: twenty percent. I think twenty percent of legit. And then
Speaker 1: there's because there's a lot of bullshit artists that are
Speaker 1: out there. So I think those those people, you got
Speaker 1: a factor that in where they're not sincere at all.
Speaker 1: They're using the compliment, they're weaponizing the compliments, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up, ask Alf writes in Alf, the alien o
Speaker 1: Pinery says, what are the odds that Eddie would listen
Speaker 1: to the uncensored tweet segment of the Fifth Hour podcast
Speaker 1: that he suggested? Yeah, if you missed this, Danny, Eddie.
Speaker 1: I'll often not be able to read things on the
Speaker 1: radio as I can't read that on the air whatever
Speaker 1: because they're fowl, perverse, x rated, whatever, So I'll just
Speaker 1: skip over them as I'm going through social media with it,
Speaker 1: and we get a lot of jokes, the funniest jokes
Speaker 1: we get we can't read on the air because they're
Speaker 1: not radio friendly. So Eddie is like, well, just do
Speaker 1: it on your podcast. Just read the really foul jokes
Speaker 1: and do the X rated content and all that. I
Speaker 1: go for little taste and anyway, Alf says the answer
Speaker 1: of how the odds that Eddie was listen to the
Speaker 1: uncensored tweet segment zero percent? Alf says, who is he kidding?
Speaker 1: He says, he barely listen.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, wait, Alf, You're forgetting something. Though. All we
Speaker 3: would have to do is talk about Eddie's wife and
Speaker 3: the Chargers on the podcast. Eddie would tune into that one.
Speaker 3: So in the middle of that would be like, oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, Eddie's wife and the Chargers, did you
Speaker 3: see what she tweeted about the new head coach blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. And if you told Eddie about that, then
Speaker 3: Eddie would tell you, oh, happy wife, happy life, and
Speaker 3: he would tune in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your set up right? How about shut up? Wait
Speaker 1: all these Charger fans, Danny, I know, wow, man, they
Speaker 1: are on cloud nine.
Speaker 3: They are to This fixes everything, man, This takes the
Speaker 3: curse off of the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Hey, it is a good hire, I'll give him that.
Speaker 1: But I think Antonio Peers is a good hire with
Speaker 1: the Raiders. I think he'll do a good job with
Speaker 1: the Raiders. It's like it's going to be very interesting
Speaker 1: now in the AFC West to go to Sporto. But
Speaker 1: you got Sean Payton, who many boot liquors in the
Speaker 1: media think is amazing with the Broncos. You got the
Speaker 1: Raiders with Antonio Pierce, so I think she knew pretty well.
Speaker 1: You got Harball, Jim Harball with the Chargers, and then
Speaker 1: at the very top as Andy Reid, assuming he doesn't
Speaker 1: retire either later today or after the Super Bowl if
Speaker 1: the Chiefs win today, and that's a really loaded division.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not kidding. We went from Red Hackett, McDaniels
Speaker 3: and Staley to read Sean Payton, Antonio Pierce, and Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 1: It's an upgrade.
Speaker 3: It's an upgrade, just a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: Chargers no longer having their yoga coach doing the downward dog.
Speaker 1: They don't have him as the coach anymore. Staley, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, what a disaster. All right, next up on
Speaker 1: the mailbag, Thank you, alf But I'm sending me recipes too.
Speaker 1: He sent me recipes for blue blueberry cookie and a
Speaker 1: canoley cookie. I'm thinking about making the canola.
Speaker 3: Cookie Gnola cookie. That sounds good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got some cheese in it, and it's but
Speaker 1: it's a chocolate It's like a chocolate chip cookie, but
Speaker 1: it's got extra stuff in there because it's a canoli.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about making that. I might.
Speaker 3: I don't know, cream cheese or cheese involved in a dessert.
Speaker 3: I'm there. I mean I can't have it right now,
Speaker 3: but back in the big eating days, I'd be right there,
Speaker 3: front and center at the table.
Speaker 1: Rare in appropriate. Then you got to live your life right,
Speaker 1: rare and appropriate. Maybe, like do you have a cheat day?
Speaker 1: Of the rock has a cheat day? Like one day
Speaker 1: a month or something you go for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been doing our date day, me and my
Speaker 3: girl on Saturdays, which which, by the way, shouts out
Speaker 3: to you because for Christmas you gave me a CPK
Speaker 3: gift card. Yeah yeah, yeah. And a couple of Saturdays
Speaker 3: ago when Peacock was raping everybody with that app, we
Speaker 3: were there and we watched that first half hour for
Speaker 3: free of that game on NBC at our local CPK.
Speaker 3: While we had pea soup as the appetizer, and then
Speaker 3: what did we split? We had a great entree too.
Speaker 3: It was really good.
Speaker 1: Yess some pizza, I'm yessing pizza.
Speaker 3: Oh you're right. We did the tie the tie pizza.
Speaker 1: The tie pizza, all right?
Speaker 3: Well good yeah, good with a peanut sauce.
Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah. They have some interesting exotic things, the California
Speaker 1: Pizza Kitchen, for sure. And if you ever need a link, Danny,
Speaker 1: I can I know a guy, you know, if you
Speaker 1: need a link for any of that stuff, I can.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I can. I can hook you up.
Speaker 1: I know. Guy. Let's see Georgia and you ball the
Speaker 1: Texas rites. And he says, which will be more effective
Speaker 1: the chargers defense under Jim Harball or the electric vehicle
Speaker 1: chargers when temperatures are under thirty two degrees? Wow? Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go. I'll go Harball. I'll go Harball. I'll go
Speaker 1: Harball because I've seen some of those those clips. The
Speaker 1: other thing's wild about those like Tesla's, is that when
Speaker 1: they aligne on fire, how do you put it out right?
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot of It's not like a normal
Speaker 1: car fire because you can't use the water. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: got use something else.
Speaker 3: Have you seen any of those? Is it pronounced rivion rivion?
Speaker 1: I have seen some of those. Yeah, I have.
Speaker 3: The light goes all the way across, so it looks
Speaker 3: like a spaceship is behind you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Those are really expensive too, right.
Speaker 3: I see some futuristic cars in this area, but that
Speaker 3: is next level. Man. The way those lights look at
Speaker 3: night especially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks pretty good. There's a Tesla dealer not
Speaker 1: far away from the Malor mansion, and they I heard
Speaker 1: a rumor that the Tesla people have been loaning out
Speaker 1: those you know, those weird looking trucks that they've got.
Speaker 3: Now. Colvino said he saw one for the first time
Speaker 3: last week and he bugged out. He said it is
Speaker 3: the most futuristic looking vehicle he's ever seen in his life.
Speaker 1: What does the inside of it look like? Though I've
Speaker 1: not seen the I don't Yeah, I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 3: Oh, but he said he was just blown away. He
Speaker 3: had seen pictures, obviously, but he said seeing it in
Speaker 3: person was a whole different thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm a big guy. I think it's more important
Speaker 1: to have a nice, comfortable inside of the car, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't obviously want to look decent, but I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about how much it looks on the outside. I
Speaker 1: want to because I don't see the outside. I'm on
Speaker 1: the inside, so I want a comfortable seat. I'm the
Speaker 1: most comfortable car I ever drove in was a Lincoln
Speaker 1: Town Car in Cleveland that we rented, and it was
Speaker 1: like sitting on your sofa. This is years ago, driving
Speaker 1: while you're sitting so comfortable.
Speaker 3: That's classic grandfather material right there.
Speaker 1: Like, hey, I was in my twenties, man, I was
Speaker 1: in my early twenties.
Speaker 3: I was like this. My grandpa had this big long
Speaker 3: Caddie when I was a kid, and he drove that
Speaker 3: thing around like he was a pimp.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, those I'm gonna get one of those
Speaker 1: things again down the line, and if I can afford him,
Speaker 1: I'll do that. I heard. I don't know if I finished
Speaker 1: the story. They're loaning out the Tesla trucks to like
Speaker 1: social media influences so they can do videos. So they
Speaker 1: do they think these people who watch the videos go, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll go out and spend one hundred thousand on a
Speaker 1: Tesla truck or whatever. How much are those things? Are
Speaker 1: they one hundred thousand?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're more than that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Next up, Chet from Henderson, Nevada. Hey, we talked
Speaker 1: about Henderson the good restaurants, says Bended. Dang, will you
Speaker 1: guys be coming to town here for the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Would love to meet you. Well, you'll be there, Dan,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm gonna be. I've not heard
Speaker 1: from anybody, so the fact that management has not contacted
Speaker 1: me would lead me to leave. Chet, I didn't make
Speaker 1: the list this year, but I could still go. Vegas
Speaker 1: is like a suburb, as you know, check because you
Speaker 1: live in a suburb of Vegas, like la is pretty
Speaker 1: much a suburb of Vegas anyway, So I am considering
Speaker 1: making And I haven't even talked to you about this, Danny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad this came up because I asked our
Speaker 3: boss last week. I said, is any of the Fifth
Speaker 3: Hour going to be recorded there again? And he said, honestly,
Speaker 3: I haven't heard from Ben about any of it this year,
Speaker 3: so I think he was waiting to hear it from you.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I'll message him, but yeah, I would
Speaker 1: like to go that Friday and just kind of hang
Speaker 1: out like we did last year. We had Emmitt Smith on,
Speaker 1: which was pretty cool. And the only problem is with
Speaker 1: the logistics of this year with the TV. I had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do the TV show from Vegas, but
Speaker 1: it would have absolutely killed me and I didn't want
Speaker 1: to die. So yeah, I think the plan tentatively will
Speaker 1: be to go just drive do the overnight show, and
Speaker 1: then drive out and hang out all day and try
Speaker 1: not to pass out from lack of sleep. I think yeah,
Speaker 1: because that worked out pretty well last year. I had
Speaker 1: a great time. It was fun. We had a really
Speaker 1: good time. We had some cool people we got to
Speaker 1: talk to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was fun recording the fifth hour there. Oh
Speaker 3: in ps, I looked up the Tesla truck. You're right,
Speaker 3: it's around eighty thousand dollars with the upgrades, though, I
Speaker 3: guess you could. What would you do put a machine gun?
Speaker 1: I'd put a gun rack on the back of it,
Speaker 1: you know. No, I just put like a sofa in
Speaker 1: there in the Middle's sit.
Speaker 3: On, build a little man cave in the back seat.
Speaker 1: Do a couple more Nick in Wisconsins as Ben and Danny.
Speaker 1: When you were younger, were there any jobs other than
Speaker 1: radio that you did, and if so, what were they?
Speaker 1: We both went to radio very young. Da, I was nineteen.
Speaker 1: How old were you when you got red?
Speaker 3: You were younger than me, right, fifteen years old?
Speaker 1: Well, I pretended like I was in radio when I
Speaker 1: was fifteen, but I went in. I think I might
Speaker 1: have been even eighteen. Well the first like, I think
Speaker 1: nineteen was the sweet spot. Yeah, trying to do the math.
Speaker 1: I think I was just before I turned nineteen, So
Speaker 1: I was like eighteen. I say nineteen because that's when
Speaker 1: it really I was an intern at eighteen, and I
Speaker 1: got my first paid gig at nineteen. But I did
Speaker 1: I did like random. I did it as a newspaper
Speaker 1: delivery goes that count. I delivered newspapers when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, and I worked at my mom. My mom
Speaker 1: ran a mailing service. I bulked mail place, so I
Speaker 1: put a lot of labels on envelopes, did that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff post office, went to the post office a lot.
Speaker 1: My mom made a lot of money on junk mail
Speaker 1: like that. Really, back before the Internet, you had to
Speaker 1: spend a lot of money real realtors and whatnot on mail,
Speaker 1: and my mom managed a lot of that stuff. So
Speaker 1: I helped out out with that. What about you, Danny?
Speaker 1: Is it all radio all the time?
Speaker 3: Almost? But you know, when you're starting out as a
Speaker 3: kid in radio, you're just doing weekends, like weekend overnights.
Speaker 3: So I had to find something to do during the
Speaker 3: week when it was the summer, you know, for a
Speaker 3: summer job. During high school, I worked at a place
Speaker 3: called Baker Brothers. It was an auto parts warehouse and
Speaker 3: the owner operator lived on the property. Well, he had
Speaker 3: a young, blonde, botty daughter. On my work breaks, she
Speaker 3: would come over and chit chat with me. One day
Speaker 3: she told me, Hey, tomorrow, I want you to come
Speaker 3: over for lunch. And I was like, you sure your
Speaker 3: dad will be all right with that? And she's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: he likes you. I remember getting home and I told
Speaker 3: my mom about this, and she was, you better be careful.
Speaker 3: He'll fire you. He's not gonna fire me. She even
Speaker 3: said he likes me. So the next day at work,
Speaker 3: then I wander over on my lunch hour, knock on
Speaker 3: their door. She lets me in. I sit down. She
Speaker 3: made lasagna, by the.
Speaker 1: Way, nice.
Speaker 3: And boom goes to dynamite. Guess who walks in? Oh no,
Speaker 3: and he gives me the dirtiest. Look what are you
Speaker 3: doing in here?
Speaker 1: It's not trigonometry. I'll eat lasagna.
Speaker 3: Man. I was mysteriously laid off for my position a
Speaker 3: week later.
Speaker 1: But that had nothing. Those things were not related at all, right, No,
Speaker 1: in the next at all, not at all. Did you
Speaker 1: go back from more lasagna after that?
Speaker 3: Or no? But anytime I've ever had lasagna since I
Speaker 3: think about you fired.
Speaker 1: I bet uh Tillo writes in he says, Ben, you
Speaker 1: always keep me entertaining the Wee Hours with the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour podcast with you and Danny g. I enjoyed this one,
Speaker 1: which one hold on, I didn't write down. Let's see,
Speaker 1: I took this off the interweb. See. Of course it's
Speaker 1: not opening. I'm gonna click one button. Not that it matters,
Speaker 1: Like do you think we're gonna remember the pod that
Speaker 1: he's talking about here? But he did write this this week,
Speaker 1: so it must have been one. He says, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to listen to today's show. He liked the Muppets
Speaker 1: and Mangoes podcast. Oh that was that was the one
Speaker 1: when I was talking about the the I own a Muppet?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah you yeah, you got the Muppet and then
Speaker 3: the Mango Sauce was all over that h pop. I
Speaker 3: was calling it a hip hop bouncer. It's really called
Speaker 3: a skip pop bouncer. Right, Yeah, that was a good story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a good story by you. Tila says
Speaker 1: Baba Gohole is what he ain't signed out, Baba Gohol.
Speaker 1: Last we'll get out on this last one. Shane. He
Speaker 1: didn't say what city is from parts Unknown says I
Speaker 1: got one question big band and Danny g The backscratcher
Speaker 1: portion of the Fifth Hour is on Snooze Pajol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't done it recently because we haven't had any reviews.
Speaker 1: So the question.
Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, Ben, back to your muppet. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what a great video you posted last week.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, video with the Mummy.
Speaker 1: I should do that more often. People like muppets.
Speaker 3: They love Yeah. I thought you had hired a voice
Speaker 3: artist and then the camera went to you. I was like,
Speaker 3: oh shit, that was Ben doing the voice.
Speaker 1: We spare no expense here, Danny, no expense, No expense
Speaker 1: is spared on this.
Speaker 3: Let's be the faith of our podcast that muppet should
Speaker 3: be the mascot of the Fifth Hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, he says the Backstress reportions the fifth hours
Speaker 1: of the Stews Patrol. He says, which of these two
Speaker 1: things Shane says will occur first, A y'all hit five
Speaker 1: hundred reviews on the podcast or b Bill Belichick since
Speaker 1: the all time NFL wins record. All right, so I
Speaker 1: we're ahead of Belichick because we still can get reviews. Belichick,
Speaker 1: unless he gets hired by another team, cannot get the
Speaker 1: all time wins record. So I'm betting on us, Danny,
Speaker 1: I am betting on this podcast. I just looked. We
Speaker 1: have four hundred and twenty eight reviews. Now, last year
Speaker 1: we were averaging two or three a week, right, one
Speaker 1: to three a week we were averaging, but starting in
Speaker 1: like December, that like went away. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We're getting more people in the mailbag. There's different names
Speaker 1: that are sending questions in, which is great. Not that
Speaker 1: we don't love Pierre and Mike and you know all
Speaker 1: the guys that normally write in. So we're getting some
Speaker 1: new but we just need to cultivate them, Danny, to
Speaker 1: put reviews in. That does help us out on the
Speaker 1: podcast page. So that would that would be big. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm betting on it. I'm betting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, we're going to hit that mark first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it might take six years, but we're going to
Speaker 1: get there. All right, we'll get out now, Danny. What
Speaker 1: do you got Sunday? I'll be black on the radio
Speaker 1: tonight breaking down the championship games in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: say tonight on the West coast, but two am in
Speaker 1: the East and eleven pm late night here in La
Speaker 1: La Land. We'll have a fresh edition of the radio
Speaker 1: show and we've got that to look forward to. And
Speaker 1: the TV show if you're listening this morning s n Y,
Speaker 1: New York, it's on at eleven thirty this morning, depending
Speaker 1: on how early you're listening to this podcast, So that's
Speaker 1: New York time. And what do you got going on? Danny?
Speaker 3: I will be eating some of that healthy Himalayan popcorn
Speaker 3: yew with the championship games on. It's all about NFL
Speaker 3: playoffs today.
Speaker 1: Playoffs, playoffs outstanding. All right, have a great.
Speaker 3: Day and I'll.
Speaker 1: Talk to you tonight back on the radio. On the radio,
Speaker 1: on the radio, Austa pasta got a murder.
Speaker 3: I gotta go