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 sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: We fix it up by Popular Man, the very popular
Speaker 1: listener driven Sunday edition of The Fifth Hour. Happy tenth
Speaker 1: day of December. It is week fourteen of the NFL.
Speaker 1: We had that little appetizer, which wasn't much of an appetizer.
Speaker 1: The game wasn't actually that bad, the Patriots and the Steelers.
Speaker 1: But now we can all pipe down because we got
Speaker 1: full action all day long today into the night. And
Speaker 1: and I I Danny, unlike most, I mean going to
Speaker 1: a lot of NFL games this year, you know, hanging out, media,
Speaker 1: free loading and all that. But that poppycock ends today,
Speaker 1: at least for now, as I am in recovery mode
Speaker 1: and I'm right now riding a vapor trail. Danny, it's
Speaker 1: not trying to make it through this edition of The
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with you and me, and we had.
Speaker 3: To get for drinking all that Kirkland brand alcohol last
Speaker 3: night at your party.
Speaker 1: Do what you gotta do, Danny, Yeah, you gotta drown
Speaker 1: the sorrows away. But here we are here, we are
Speaker 1: back at it again with it. We got the mail bag.
Speaker 1: And since we were supposed to get to this earlier
Speaker 1: on the weekend and whatever, we don't get too early
Speaker 1: in the weekend. We just jump right into it. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do small talk and dilly dally and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. We're just getting right into it. And
Speaker 1: that means pop goes the culture. We're gonna go a
Speaker 1: few of these stories because there's some good ones. And
Speaker 1: our guy ohio Aal strike up the band Tojohnjohn, Well,
Speaker 1: I've never been to Venice. You ever been to Venice,
Speaker 1: like the real Venice, not Venice in La I've been
Speaker 1: to that Venice. I'm talking like the real, authentic Venice
Speaker 1: where they have those Gonda gondola boats, you know those things.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've only been on a gondola in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've not been on those in Vegas, but I
Speaker 1: have seen those Invegas. So anyway, the real, the real
Speaker 1: McCoy in Venice, one of them capsized filled with taurus.
Speaker 1: Now why did it capsize? Danny want to take a guess.
Speaker 3: A shark bit the bottom of the boat.
Speaker 1: Completely reasonable, Completely reasonable. A lot of shark attacks in
Speaker 1: Venice or or the out of towners refused to sit
Speaker 1: down when instructed by the gondola captain and would not
Speaker 1: stop taking selfies, and they reached a tipping point where
Speaker 1: they fell into the Now I've heard the water. I've
Speaker 1: never been there, but I've heard the water and I've
Speaker 1: seen stories. The water is not the cleanest water. It's
Speaker 1: pretty filthy. Flint Michigan comes to mind. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: just not particularly particularly great there. And uh yeah. So
Speaker 1: then the problem is if you're taking all the selfish
Speaker 1: I assume if you fall into the water, you then
Speaker 1: have to get a new phone, which is a thousand
Speaker 1: bucks to get a new phone. By the time you
Speaker 1: get through everything right and all the charges and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Okay, whatever whatever works for you.
Speaker 3: Would you rather fall in that water or the Hudson?
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's I'd have to read more about the
Speaker 1: water and invests the water on the Hudson is disgusting.
Speaker 1: It's just but not the ugliest water. The ugliest water
Speaker 1: I've ever seen is in Lake Superior in northern Minnesota,
Speaker 1: because that water is it's brown.
Speaker 3: But that's just because of the dirt, right, well, it's.
Speaker 1: Not the dirt is some other term for it.
Speaker 3: I forget, but yeah, I remember you talking about this.
Speaker 1: The sediment of the water. It's the way it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be. It's like a coffee color, but it looks
Speaker 1: like shit and it's like shitty water, like you know,
Speaker 1: you had diarrhea, and the whole lake it's like the
Speaker 1: biggest great lake and it looks like it's just diarrhea
Speaker 1: water in the lake. Diarrhea exactly exactly. And somebody, can
Speaker 1: you convince Eddie Garcia that Ben Bishop did have the
Speaker 1: runs in that Stanley Cup final? He does not believe me.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, he definitely had diarrhea exactly.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. How about shut up? We have
Speaker 1: other oddities in pop Goo's the culture. Well here's here's
Speaker 1: a story. It warms your heart so a woman. I
Speaker 1: don't know if this came up on Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: this week, maybe it did, maybe he didn't. So this
Speaker 1: woman assaulted a fast food worker at Chipotlet, right she
Speaker 1: she kind of roughed up this employee and so she
Speaker 1: got her sentence. And this happened in Ohio. You want
Speaker 1: to take a guess what the punishment was for the
Speaker 1: person that roughed up the employee at the Chipotle.
Speaker 3: The judge made her chop up chicken at Chipotle for
Speaker 3: twelve months.
Speaker 1: Well, you're actually not far off. The woman who could
Speaker 1: not keep her hands to herself and assaulted the Chipotle
Speaker 1: worker has been sentenced. Her time is to work a
Speaker 1: fast food job for two months. What I mean, that's
Speaker 1: too much. He's thirty nine, thirty nine years old.
Speaker 3: Does she get to choose the fast food place?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I'm reading the story here and
Speaker 1: in Parma, Ohio, which I'm probably mispronouncing. But at first
Speaker 1: she was going to go. She had to pay a
Speaker 1: fine and serve one hundred and eighty days in jail
Speaker 1: with ninety days suspend. But then the judge had another idea.
Speaker 1: He said, you didn't get your burrito bowl the way
Speaker 1: you like it, and this is how you respond. The
Speaker 1: judge said, this is not real housewives of Parma. This
Speaker 1: behavior is not acceptable, and so the judge said, he said, listen,
Speaker 1: you can cut off sixty days in jail if you
Speaker 1: agree to work at least twenty hours per week at
Speaker 1: a fast food restaurant for two months. The woman accepted,
Speaker 1: Oh took, She took.
Speaker 3: But if I was a judge, I'd be like, but
Speaker 3: it has to be at the hot dog on a
Speaker 3: stick inside our mall. Yeah, she yi put on that uniform.
Speaker 1: Man. She told The Washington Post that she was stepping
Speaker 1: in to protect a seventeen year old employee who was
Speaker 1: getting yelled at by this woman. This Emily Russell told
Speaker 1: the court she was traumatized. The food was hot and
Speaker 1: burned her face. She said, go fund me campaign in
Speaker 1: your face. I have a couple of questions, Danny, does
Speaker 1: this woman get paid while she's working or is this
Speaker 1: unpaid employment? And would you eat at a fast food
Speaker 1: restaurant this woman was making your food at because I
Speaker 1: would think that she might not. She knows it's only
Speaker 1: a two month job.
Speaker 3: On a court order. Though maybe she's being careful on.
Speaker 1: Her best behavior. I'd have a camera on her at
Speaker 1: all times, though, because she might slip something else in
Speaker 1: there she might slip a Mickey in in your tostata
Speaker 1: and you don't need that. What else do we have
Speaker 1: on Popco's The Culture Let's see here all Nick Cannon?
Speaker 1: This kind of relates to this past week going to
Speaker 1: Disney on a random night. Nick Cannon took a bunch
Speaker 1: of shit online this week. He revealed he has so
Speaker 1: many kids that in order to go to Disney with
Speaker 1: his twelve kids, it cost him two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year just to take the kids to Disney.
Speaker 3: Oh sah, dad goals.
Speaker 1: Two hundred thousand. Doesn't he get a deal because he's
Speaker 1: a celebrity. I thought Disney looks the other way for celebrities.
Speaker 1: I thought they'd give you the VIP treatment.
Speaker 3: Yeh, Disney doesn't do a lot of the VIP stuff.
Speaker 3: They don't do the media stuff anymore either. They used
Speaker 3: to let media members like us go into the park
Speaker 3: once or twice a year with our families. They stopped
Speaker 3: doing that like a decade ago. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and when Disney started, like Walt Disney, wasn't the
Speaker 1: whole idea affordable family fund? Wasn't that the whole concept
Speaker 1: of Disney?
Speaker 3: That was his mantra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and what happens, you know, it's like any
Speaker 1: I remember in school, I had a professor, not that
Speaker 1: I paid very much attention in school, but he was
Speaker 1: explaining to me how like things start out perfect and
Speaker 1: then over time it slowly gets worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like America started. Now. I love America,
Speaker 1: very patriotic, wrap myself in the flag. But America started
Speaker 1: with because there were too many laws and too much
Speaker 1: tax in Europe. Right, that's basically the origin story of
Speaker 1: how America started. So they just came and they said, well,
Speaker 1: let's just take you know, Native Americans land, and they
Speaker 1: did and they formed Formed America. So that started where
Speaker 1: they didn't want a lot of taxation, they didn't want
Speaker 1: a lot of rules and regulations. So fast forward a
Speaker 1: couple hundred years. How are things looking now, Danny? How
Speaker 1: are how are things.
Speaker 3: Those same forefathers they'd be looking for a new piece
Speaker 3: of land right now, it's.
Speaker 1: Just it's outseading and it's just people. You know, slowly,
Speaker 1: it's the boiling frog. You don't even notice. You start
Speaker 1: adding more and more stuff and before you know it,
Speaker 1: like you know, Disney it's like, well, we'll raise the
Speaker 1: prices a little bit. Then some of the original Disney
Speaker 1: people went away, and then so then they went they
Speaker 1: hired new people, and the new people want to make
Speaker 1: their you know, they want to make the stock market happy,
Speaker 1: so they have to raise prices, and they have to
Speaker 1: you know, cut the cost of paying the employees. And
Speaker 1: it's just a shit show.
Speaker 3: Just recently, you and I did that inflation calculator. Remember,
Speaker 3: oh yes, right, yeah, that's a fun bit. Yeah. The
Speaker 3: cost walking into Disneyland should be eleven dollars and fifty
Speaker 3: cents per person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's one hundred and fifty to two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars or something like that.
Speaker 3: Oh, two hundred and twenty five dollars to fifty on
Speaker 3: certain days, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Two fifty to wait in line for an hour.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, it depends on if you have one day
Speaker 3: or the park copper two days. All that plays into it.
Speaker 3: But the bottom line is you are paying hundreds and
Speaker 3: hundreds of dollars when it should be ten dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. But what are you complained?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you're gonna pay it because if you
Speaker 3: want to experience the park, then you got to part
Speaker 3: ways with that money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, for sure, New Jersey Police. The only
Speaker 1: reason I'm bringing this up is because the name of
Speaker 1: the pig they chased down, a pig named Albert Einswine
Speaker 1: is the name of the pig that was rather random.
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with the actor named Emily Hirsh Are
Speaker 1: you familiar with that person? And you know, yeah, she
Speaker 1: made some big, big productions there in Hollywood. She claims
Speaker 1: this is actually kind of funny. She claims that Quentin
Speaker 1: Tarantino offered offered him. I say, bad job by me.
Speaker 3: He was in that movie where he wandered around the country. Yeah,
Speaker 3: see that one.
Speaker 1: I did not, but he So Quentin Tarantino offered this
Speaker 1: guy a Hollywood role on Facebook. The guy hersh thought
Speaker 1: he was being catfished. He thought it was a prank,
Speaker 1: so he didn't didn't respond. So let's get to the mailbag.
Speaker 1: What do you say, Dan, is it time for the mailbag?
Speaker 3: Yes, it's.
Speaker 1: This mail bag. Thank you, ohio al. These are actual
Speaker 1: letters sent in by actual listeners to the show. The
Speaker 1: first one says, uh, hey Ben and Danny G or
Speaker 1: Daddy G. This is Vahid. I believe I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that right. He's a cab driver. He's sent messages before
Speaker 1: now in a while, though he's been away for a
Speaker 1: long time. A cab driver from New Orleans, he says,
Speaker 1: longtime listener, legend, since the legend was alive. Genie and Medford,
Speaker 1: he says, and he then misspelled Genie's name, But I
Speaker 1: knew what you meant. You spelled Medford, right, So that's important,
Speaker 1: he says. I am still an active listener. But that
Speaker 1: must be interesting to drive a cab around New Orleans
Speaker 1: with all the drunks that are there, and the famous
Speaker 1: people that come through New Orleans, the mixing of the
Speaker 1: rich and the poor, the you know, it's just it's
Speaker 1: gotta be wild. This guy must have some amazing stories
Speaker 1: being a cab driver in New Orleans and also having
Speaker 1: to compete with the uber and all that. Right, that
Speaker 1: that world changed a ton a ton anyway, says question
Speaker 1: for you, my friend's favorite comedian, and he's got toss
Speaker 1: up question from hid the cab driver, he says, Jeff
Speaker 1: Dunham or Gabrielle Iglesias, that fluffy guy. Yeah, so this
Speaker 1: is this is kind of tall. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: a huge Dunham fan. He's okay. I kind of I'm
Speaker 1: leaning towards the fat guy. Is that a bad take
Speaker 1: or the proper comedic tape? Yeah, he's pretty he's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I've seen some of his stuff. Most of the comedians
Speaker 1: I like are kind of like dead at this point,
Speaker 1: but there's some some good guys still around. But of
Speaker 1: those two, I would go with Fluffy and what about you, Danny.
Speaker 3: I would go with Steven Wright.
Speaker 1: I would go with Ed Well, George Carlin.
Speaker 3: Richard spill Burr, Dave Chappelle.
Speaker 1: Sure, who's the who's that other guy? Of the comedian
Speaker 1: he got canceled though he was an actor, very funny,
Speaker 1: stand up comedian, did a lot of TV shows. Remember
Speaker 1: he was he was massaging the sausage of all the
Speaker 1: clues where you got that boom right or white right
Speaker 1: there mentioned sausage. You're good to go. My right hand
Speaker 1: was getting a workout. That's outstanding. That made me smile.
Speaker 1: That's great, all right, Craigster writes in Distress. Seattle fan
Speaker 1: Seahawks Fanny says, Ben, I've been listening to you since
Speaker 1: that time you filled into filled in for JT. The
Speaker 1: Brick when he was doing the Overnight Show. I suffered
Speaker 1: from CRS can't remember shit syndrome, so I don't remember
Speaker 1: when that was. Please enlighten me. That could have been
Speaker 1: at any point. JT worked at the network for a lot.
Speaker 1: She I was filling in for people. Before JT did
Speaker 1: the Overnight show, we had who do we have? Originally
Speaker 1: we had a couple of different overnight hosts. We had
Speaker 1: Silio Dan Silio who was an overnight host at one point,
Speaker 1: and there was a guy that went on. He was
Speaker 1: a former forty nine er player, Ryan Tim Ryan, I
Speaker 1: think did the Overnight show briefly or a night show.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 1: What's the guy he's he's like an ESPN sideline reporter.
Speaker 1: Now I forget his name. It's trying to think, but
Speaker 1: he did the Overnight that. There's a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: But it's a long time, probably been well since this
Speaker 1: iteration of the Overnight Show. I'm hitting. I think I'm
Speaker 1: in my tenth or eleventh year now, so it was
Speaker 1: before that probably I don't know, maybe fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: probably longer.
Speaker 3: Praikster, So yeah, I was going to say probably about
Speaker 3: twenty years ago. I remember my older brother. He was
Speaker 3: doing graveyard in northern California for Jelly Belly, and not
Speaker 3: only would he get to bring home awesome samples and
Speaker 3: stuff that the company would give him, but he would
Speaker 3: always tell me what JT the Brick was talking about,
Speaker 3: because as he drove in to his graveyard shift, he
Speaker 3: would listen to JT. And then at the factory where
Speaker 3: they made these jelly bellies, they would have JT on
Speaker 3: on the speakers.
Speaker 1: How about home off, Yeah, yeah, for sure, Jem he's
Speaker 1: still doing. He does the local stuff in Vegas. He's
Speaker 1: got the overnight, the overnight stuff and h or not overnight.
Speaker 1: He does like serious x M. He's got some of
Speaker 1: that stuff going on.
Speaker 3: At the beginning of the Raiders season, I saw him
Speaker 3: on a panel kissing McDaniels.
Speaker 1: Oh I heard about. Somebody sent me an email that.
Speaker 1: Even right up until the day McDaniels was fired, JT
Speaker 1: was advocating for Josh McDaniels, but just to I mean,
Speaker 1: he works for the team, so it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: this is one of the problems, right, I mean, you
Speaker 1: work for the team, it becomes a problem. You become
Speaker 1: a shill for the team. It's it's an issue. That's
Speaker 1: one of the problem. When I people this is really funny.
Speaker 1: But when I did Dodger Talk, and this is a
Speaker 1: long time ago before social media. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: long time and people think of me as Dodger honk,
Speaker 1: that I'm just a Dodger. I've got my knee pads
Speaker 1: with the Dodger logo on it. But when I did
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk and the team didn't play well, and in
Speaker 1: that time when I did it, this is an era.
Speaker 1: They had all these high priced players. Kevin Brown was
Speaker 1: on that team, Gary Sheffield. They had all they spent
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and the team's team was like middling.
Speaker 1: They were middling team. They were underachieving. And I was
Speaker 1: not the most compassionate person because.
Speaker 3: Dodgers fans faxed in their complaints to the radio station
Speaker 3: pretty much.
Speaker 1: Oh hell, Bill Miller, and so I took some flak
Speaker 1: because I was like, well, it seems underachieving and they're
Speaker 1: not playing well.
Speaker 3: And then I remember hearing you being a dick on
Speaker 3: AM five seventy. Yeah, after certain games were over, I
Speaker 3: thought it was funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they the Dodger people did not find the humor
Speaker 1: in it. For some reason. I don't know why. Maybe
Speaker 1: they lost their funny bone. Oh as George Sadana is
Speaker 1: who I how don't I can forget Sadanna?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah shoo. I believe he's on one of
Speaker 3: the other stations in southern California.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know, are there any other stations in
Speaker 1: southern California.
Speaker 3: I yeah, he's a couple, but they're not as listened
Speaker 3: to as AM five seventy the blowtorch.
Speaker 1: Right, the mighty AM five seventy. What is next year?
Speaker 1: On the mailbag? We have Mike in Fullerton. He says,
Speaker 1: happy Honikah, Ben and Dangey, Well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: When is this? We started Honkkah on Thursday, so we
Speaker 1: went through Friday, Saturday. Today, today is the fourth night
Speaker 1: of the Festival.
Speaker 3: Of Lights, the fourth night of Honic. Time to hear
Speaker 3: the clip of Smokey Robinson saying what's chanooka?
Speaker 1: Yes? Happy? That was outstanding? Yes, that was that was
Speaker 1: a ten ten out of ten U Ben, Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: Mike says, I didn't really get an answer last time.
Speaker 1: Is Benny versus the penny going to the standard of
Speaker 1: the playoffs or is it a regular season only show. Well,
Speaker 1: you'll be happy to know, Mike that NBC has picked
Speaker 1: up Benny Versus the Penny all the way through the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, all the way through the Super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: think there's one all off week, which is obvious because
Speaker 1: there's a there's a bo there's a week where there's
Speaker 1: no football, so we're obviously not doing a show that week.
Speaker 3: You're not going to pick the flag football game?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're the the Pro Bowl games were don't
Speaker 1: avoid that. But but other than that, we will have
Speaker 1: Wildcard Benny Versus the Penny, Divisional Round Benny Versus the Penny, Championship,
Speaker 1: Sunday Benny Versus the Penny, and then Super Bowl edition.
Speaker 3: Any versus super Bowl where you will you wear a
Speaker 3: bow tie for the Super Bowl Edition?
Speaker 1: Well, as you know I have. It's like like the military.
Speaker 1: When you do a TV show, a syndicated TV show
Speaker 1: on regional sports cable television, you have to have a uniform.
Speaker 1: You have to have it. So I have my my
Speaker 1: wardrobe picked out by the people over at NBC and
Speaker 1: I've won the same thing every week, so there will
Speaker 1: be no bow tie. But if I do win, I
Speaker 1: would like to wear a crown. I would like to
Speaker 1: wear a crown on the on the final episode. He says, Also,
Speaker 1: do you have any nuggets you can share about this
Speaker 1: week's episode? Well, that's on the Friday show, Mike, that's
Speaker 1: on the show. You can hear that. I get a
Speaker 1: couple of good lines on the show. And if I
Speaker 1: haven't watched yet, still on today, few viewings on Sunday
Speaker 1: the Big Ones in New York in Manhattan on s
Speaker 1: n Y the Mets Channel, but a good time. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think I've slipped a ferdog mentioned in there.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll have to get that in there one of
Speaker 1: these weeks. I know Marcel and Brooklyn's demanding a a.
Speaker 3: Reference because he's good. These guys need to get in line.
Speaker 3: I'm still waiting for mine.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I gotta I gotta work you
Speaker 1: into the mix as well. But the Raiders Vikings game
Speaker 1: was not a featured game this weekend of the show.
Speaker 1: It was not we need the Raiders to be featured
Speaker 1: to really slide Danny g in to the show. Anyways,
Speaker 1: says I wanted to know who the guy was who
Speaker 1: spent a whole podcast just advertising the show. I doubt
Speaker 1: you've heard of him. His name is Bill Miller. A
Speaker 1: real piece of work. Bill, Yeah, Bill Miller, terrible person,
Speaker 1: horrible host, god awful Alf from the ideas Department. Now,
Speaker 1: Alf has been providing me with tips on cookie making
Speaker 1: because Alf's cool. He's a young, hip guy and he's
Speaker 1: on TikTok and so he's been helped me out. And
Speaker 1: I actually tried a couple of these hacks when I
Speaker 1: made my new cookie creation this weekend. We'll have more
Speaker 1: on that next week. But he says, Ben and Danny
Speaker 1: g what are He says, Yeah, you're what we call
Speaker 1: in the business hot. Right now, now that bright lights
Speaker 1: of Hollywood are shining upon you, the bright lights of Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and you are branching into all forms of entertainment, I
Speaker 1: would like to pitch you a totally innovative idea the
Speaker 1: likes that no one has ever come up with. As
Speaker 1: I am positive that your food vlog will be wildly successful,
Speaker 1: how can it not. Here's an idea blow hards in
Speaker 1: buses exchanging recipes. Just think, Ben, you and Roberto can
Speaker 1: pick up andp off the future of America and then
Speaker 1: you can pull into the Costco or Walmart parking lot
Speaker 1: and exchange his Mexican andre recipes for your dessert recipes
Speaker 1: or some other food knockoff recipe. Then the two of
Speaker 1: you could bust out a gas grill or griddle and
Speaker 1: cook up some fantastic East. Not only would it be
Speaker 1: a home run on the TikTok Alf points out, but
Speaker 1: you would could also you could also use some of
Speaker 1: the audio as guest segments. When Iowa Sam is away,
Speaker 1: so Alf the ideas Guy and I am play.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do.
Speaker 1: That that food vlog. We'll see how that goes. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get that started.
Speaker 3: I thought you fired Iowa samh well for some reason.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you're you're fired and you don't leave,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you just stick around.
Speaker 3: You fired.
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes that happens. Bury from South Carolin all right
Speaker 1: and says yo yo ma Benny. As we do the
Speaker 1: mail bag and we do it good. He says, who
Speaker 1: do you think would win a verbal octagon between Jed
Speaker 1: who fled and Marked the full name Guy. I know,
Speaker 1: I know Mark the full name Guy quit the show,
Speaker 1: but he will be back. Now, why do you assume
Speaker 1: Barry that Mark will be back? Because every other time
Speaker 1: he's quit the show. He's come back. Maybe this time
Speaker 1: will be different, but usually what happens is Mark. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Mark was on Covino and Rich Oh yeah, Oh that's great.
Speaker 3: They were talking about jerseys and he called up and
Speaker 3: he shared that his very first jersey that he ever
Speaker 3: bought was Mark Gastino.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny. So Mark got into a fight with me.
Speaker 1: For those that missed, I explained this on the radio show.
Speaker 1: But Mark got into a fight with me about Geno
Speaker 1: Smith and it got a little heated. There were some
Speaker 1: mean things exchanged. I much like the Seattle Seahawks safety
Speaker 1: when they go low, I go lower. When you get
Speaker 1: into a dust up with me, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: mister Lewis there? I think his name of it was right?
Speaker 1: The safety I'm picking up? Is it Jamal Lewis? Is
Speaker 1: that what I'm thinking of? I don't know, maybe not.
Speaker 1: It's early, but anyway, so me and Mark got into it.
Speaker 1: Mark sent me this email and he sent me his
Speaker 1: entire life's resume, pointing out that he had accomplished more
Speaker 1: than me and I was just a loser and how
Speaker 1: dare you?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: And Mark, it's just a sports radio battle. Everything's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm never listening to you again. Blah blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. But to answer your question, if it was
Speaker 1: a physical confrontation, my vote would go to Mark the
Speaker 1: full name guy, because he's a he's a big burly
Speaker 1: guy from New York, but he's an older guy's bodies
Speaker 1: at You know, you're starting to fall apart from what
Speaker 1: I understand. But if it's just a verbal sparring match,
Speaker 1: as you said, verbal octagon, Barry Jed who fled? Jed
Speaker 1: who fled? In that thirty seconds will provide ten minutes
Speaker 1: of content.
Speaker 3: Were you talking about Jamal Adams? By the way, Oh?
Speaker 1: Is it Jamal Adams? Yeah? Jamal Adams, I said Jamal Lewis.
Speaker 1: That's a different guy. Isn't that a running back? An
Speaker 1: old running back?
Speaker 3: I think that is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jamal Adams who was with the Jets and then
Speaker 1: he got in everybody. He goofs on the sports writer
Speaker 1: h his wife and not only Fred in Spring Texas. Right,
Speaker 1: since says greetings, gentlemen, do either of you have any
Speaker 1: Christmas slash holiday customs or traditions? You have continued into adulshood, Well,
Speaker 1: isn't that the way it works, Danny, Like the stuff
Speaker 1: we learned as kids, we just kind of keep doing,
Speaker 1: isn't That's kind of what happens with me. I assume
Speaker 1: that happens with everybody, right, Just kind of certain things
Speaker 1: that are nostalgic that bring you back to your childhood.
Speaker 1: You want to do, I'm sure with Coha, right, you
Speaker 1: want to do certain things that you remember fondly as
Speaker 1: a kid. Maybe going to grocery outlet and dropping kans
Speaker 1: of soup on the floor to save a couple of.
Speaker 3: Bucksh my mom didn't do Christmas, so oh okay, then no, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: no for me.
Speaker 1: But we're going down to the super kitchen.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Kids.
Speaker 3: I did my adult life obviously. I've had girlfriends who
Speaker 3: love Christmas and do the whole winter wonderland thing. And
Speaker 3: my girl right now is no different. She put up
Speaker 3: that tree I talked about last weekend with a remote control,
Speaker 3: and she's big on stockings. So CoA has this big
Speaker 3: stitch stocking that's up hanging on the tree actually right now.
Speaker 3: And it's huge. You could actually fit the toy dump
Speaker 3: truck into his stocking. That's that right, Yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 3: And I told you, why don't you just get him
Speaker 3: a big Santa Claus bag while you're at it.
Speaker 1: Just put him in the bag. What's in the bag.
Speaker 1: It's the kid. The kid's in the bag. It's a
Speaker 1: baby in the bag. Marina chef in Omaha rights and
Speaker 1: he says, have you ever come close to hitting a
Speaker 1: pedestrian on a crosswalk? I have a time or two. No,
Speaker 1: not hit one came close, That is from the Marina chep. Yes.
Speaker 1: In fact, I've had a couple of incidents in my
Speaker 1: years driving that what I will not get into now
Speaker 1: because I don't think these statute of limitations is worn't
Speaker 1: out on that. But the famous one I was in
Speaker 1: San Jose. I was in college. We were doing a
Speaker 1: junior college state basketball championship tournament. I was working for
Speaker 1: the college radio station and we had brought all this
Speaker 1: at the time very expensive radio equipment, which you can
Speaker 1: now buy an eBay for about twenty bucks, but at
Speaker 1: the time it was very expensive. And we were in
Speaker 1: San Jose at San Jose State and the tournament. We
Speaker 1: couldn't find parking. I couldn't find parking, and then we
Speaker 1: found a spot was kind of far away, so then
Speaker 1: we had to carry the equipment up up to the
Speaker 1: to the to the arena, and we were walking. We
Speaker 1: walked several blocks. This was heavy equipment, old radio equipment.
Speaker 1: So then we got closed. We found a spot near
Speaker 1: the arena. So then we had this idea, well, let's
Speaker 1: just save the spot. I'll stand here, I'll put the
Speaker 1: radio equipment in the spot, and then well we'll be
Speaker 1: good and then and then anyway, it ended up there
Speaker 1: was a woman who wanted said parking spot, who got
Speaker 1: to the spot before my buddy who had the car
Speaker 1: that we drove from southern California, San Jose. And this
Speaker 1: woman really wanted the spot, and she started backing in
Speaker 1: to the spot. Now, mind you, all of our equipment
Speaker 1: is in the parking place, which was probably not the
Speaker 1: best idea, but that's what we did. And she starts
Speaker 1: backing up. So I, of course, Danny, I defending, not
Speaker 1: wanting to explain to my boss at the college radio
Speaker 1: station how I had all the equipment run over by
Speaker 1: a mid sized sedan and unable to broadcast the game.
Speaker 1: I then stood and the woman's backing in. She's yelling,
Speaker 1: this angry woman, she's screaming at me, get out of
Speaker 1: the way, get out of the way, and with profanity,
Speaker 1: and so I slapped the back of her car, yeah,
Speaker 1: which I guess is not the same as hitting someone
Speaker 1: across the road. But this woman called the cops on
Speaker 1: She called the cops on me for damaging her car,
Speaker 1: which was a big as. Fortunately we got a cop
Speaker 1: that was like, you know, come on, you know, there's
Speaker 1: no there's nothing, he just hit the car. There's no dent,
Speaker 1: there's no damage. So I mean, I was like, a
Speaker 1: what are we doing, Danny, Anything involving pedestrians, crosswalking, hitting anyone,
Speaker 1: maybe a parking lot.
Speaker 3: No. But I actually had something crazy happen on the
Speaker 3: fruit not crazy, it's kind of normal in southern California.
Speaker 3: But it hasn't happened to me in a while. I
Speaker 3: guess it's the holidays getting to people right now, Ben,
Speaker 3: because when I get to Woodland Hills, that's where I'm like,
Speaker 3: finally the bumper to bumper traffic is over. I can
Speaker 3: move through Calabasas now smoothly. But that exit for the
Speaker 3: mall there in Woodland Hills spills onto the one to
Speaker 3: one freeway. It's been a big mess going through there
Speaker 3: every single night, right now Ever, since we hit the
Speaker 3: beginning of December, I've noticed people driving like crazy people.
Speaker 3: On Friday evening, I leave the network and as I
Speaker 3: get onto the one oh one where it crosses with
Speaker 3: the four h five, somebody does that thing. Has this
Speaker 3: ever happened to you where somebody gets right behind you
Speaker 3: and they start flicking their lights on and off really fast?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, asshole, move for a long But then this
Speaker 3: person was doing this for like it had to have
Speaker 3: been twenty seconds long. I've never had somebody do their
Speaker 3: lights to the back of my car like that for
Speaker 3: that long. And the crazy part was I didn't cut
Speaker 3: him off. I don't even know why this guy was
Speaker 3: doing this at first. I was so confused when he
Speaker 3: was first doing it. I thought maybe he was being
Speaker 3: courteous to let me know my lights were off, because
Speaker 3: I didn't do anything wrong. If this guy thought I
Speaker 3: was somebody else.
Speaker 1: Your lights were on though you were Yeah.
Speaker 3: Once I saw that my lights were on, and then
Speaker 3: he did it again a second time. How do you
Speaker 3: think I reacted?
Speaker 1: Bird?
Speaker 3: No, I made sure I followed him on the four
Speaker 3: oh five I could do my lights back on him.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, you had a road rage.
Speaker 3: And maybe it was because ice Cube was playing on
Speaker 3: Sirius XM while I was driving bach. I ruined his
Speaker 3: night with my brights on the back of him. And
Speaker 3: then I circled back around and got on the one
Speaker 3: on one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, driving in LA, most of the time you
Speaker 1: can't drive fast at all because it's just a nightmare.
Speaker 1: There's too much traffic. But the times you can drive fast,
Speaker 1: it's like fast and the furious. Everyone thinks they're in
Speaker 1: the movie and they're they're a nasty car driver, you know,
Speaker 1: open wheel driver. It's it's ridiculous, stunt driver. It's nuts.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I see, I've seen so many fatalities.
Speaker 1: Driving home from the Overnight show in fect this week,
Speaker 1: I got delayed to go extra you know, a bunch
Speaker 1: of extra time get home. There was a a duy
Speaker 1: drunk as teenager with to his buddies in a Honda Honda.
Speaker 1: They drifted off to the side, hit a big rig
Speaker 1: truck that was parked on the side of the road. Boom,
Speaker 1: two kids dead, and and of course it takes forever
Speaker 1: for the corner to come pick up the remains, and
Speaker 1: the freeways the highways completely shut down. Then they opened
Speaker 1: up one lane, which is great and was able to
Speaker 1: get through, but then you have to look at the
Speaker 1: remains of the you know, the car with the people
Speaker 1: that died with the blankets.
Speaker 3: And that's why you have to be careful. I didn't
Speaker 3: crash the back of his car hard. I just bumped
Speaker 3: it gently.
Speaker 1: Okay, like you were in Autopia.
Speaker 3: The pills you learned when you were a kid doing
Speaker 3: bumper cars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Marcus from Bruceville, Eddie in Texas's I have a
Speaker 1: two part question. Oh, this is a sporty question for
Speaker 1: you and Danny. He says, I'm a Bucks fan. They
Speaker 1: are fighting for first place in the NFC South at
Speaker 1: five and six. That's right, Bucks play Atlanta today. If
Speaker 1: they make the playoffs, what do they what do they do?
Speaker 1: What is the best scenario? I think is what he's saying,
Speaker 1: to win a game? Or would you rather your team
Speaker 1: lose out for a better draft scenario or make the
Speaker 1: playoffs and get pummeled the in the first round? All right,
Speaker 1: So I want to answer this first. My answer is
Speaker 1: always I would what's rather be in the playoffs? I
Speaker 1: know it doesn't happen very often. Usually it's once in
Speaker 1: a generation where a shit team just finds some kind
Speaker 1: of higher power and plays out of body for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, not momentum. They just happen to play
Speaker 1: really well. It all comes together like it right now.
Speaker 1: If the playoffs started, Atlanta would play Dallas or Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: If they get in, they would play Dallas in that
Speaker 1: four or five NFC matchup. So the formula, and I
Speaker 1: think you kind of know this, Marcus, you're a smart guy.
Speaker 1: The formula would be Dallas would be Dak Prescott getting
Speaker 1: food poisoning because he ate some bad eggs the morning
Speaker 1: of that playoff game and then went out and literally
Speaker 1: not only ran the vomit comet, he had die die
Speaker 1: diarrhea and then he couldn't play and then you'd win
Speaker 1: the game, you know, And maybe he shared those eggs
Speaker 1: with Michael Parsons and Michaeh also had a situation, right
Speaker 1: and then at the same time another key Cowboy player
Speaker 1: came over there and he happened to have you know,
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing can happen, or just Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott playing like Dak Prescott in the playf game. But
Speaker 1: Dak last year he showed he can play well in
Speaker 1: the playoffs against an inferior team, which was your Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: and if they play again, the same thing would happen.
Speaker 3: Because Tampa's not very good. And we've covered this on
Speaker 3: your live show a lot. So many teams waste their
Speaker 3: draft picks. Anyways, you're better off. Don't be negative. Just
Speaker 3: get to the dance. Don't just assume there's a bunch
Speaker 3: of blocker moores there at the party. There might be
Speaker 3: some fine heina who actually likes you. Get to the party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not about the almighty all powerful first
Speaker 1: round pick. The Rams have the top young receiver in
Speaker 1: football right now who was a fifth round pick who
Speaker 1: no one had ever heard of, Puka Nakua. The guy's
Speaker 1: been a revelation. He wasn't a first round pick or
Speaker 1: a second round pick. They got him in the fifth round.
Speaker 1: They took a flyer on the guy, and the guy's
Speaker 1: been better than Cooper Cupp.
Speaker 3: Lebron has been tweeting about him.
Speaker 1: Oh me, yeah, yeah, I know. Lebron always tries to
Speaker 1: jump on all the bandwagons. Ohio Al sends an angry email.
Speaker 1: He's upset with me. I think, he says. I've sent
Speaker 1: multiple emails to your Gmail account over the past couple
Speaker 1: weeks with three updated Malor holiday songs y'r Overnight Show
Speaker 1: plus a brand new Honka song. I am perplexed that
Speaker 1: I've not heard any of them played on the podcast
Speaker 1: or the show which I listened to faithfully. Did you
Speaker 1: not get my emails? Or is Iowa Sam anti ohio Al?
Speaker 1: If my work is not appreciated anymore, I'm fine with that,
Speaker 1: but that's surprising since my song half Pint got run
Speaker 1: over by her. John Deere won the Benny Award last
Speaker 1: year for best Holiday Mallard Song, and my Talent Show
Speaker 1: entry this year was runner up, says Ohio. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I apologize, ohio Al. I've been bad about I'm getting
Speaker 1: a lot of email. I've been trying to trying to
Speaker 1: dig through it, and that's probably my fault. It's not
Speaker 1: Iowa Sam's fault, although he would probably ignore your music anyway.
Speaker 1: He's also upset because Iowa Sam plays mister PC's songs
Speaker 1: a lot. So yeah, Sam wasn't on the show, and
Speaker 1: you know, who knows what the future holds for Iowa Sam.
Speaker 1: No announcements yet. But the thing about the Io Sam thing,
Speaker 1: he's not really familiar with a lot of the music
Speaker 1: that we've had, and so he can plays some of
Speaker 1: it that he knows, but it seems like most of
Speaker 1: that's from mister PC. You are correct, But if you want,
Speaker 1: you can email Ben Mahler Show. Well, let me skiet
Speaker 1: the right address is it? Ben Mahler producer, Ben Mahler
Speaker 1: Show producer. Let me check here, Hold on a se
Speaker 1: because there one of them is important, the other one
Speaker 1: is not that important, and one of them will go.
Speaker 3: I think it's temporary Ben Mahler producer at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it should be. Let me see you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna type this in Ben Mahler. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of Ben Mahler's on there. Oh bet Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: Ben Mahler, producer at gmail dot com. So, Ohio, If
Speaker 1: I'm a schmuck, If I'm a I'm a douche canoe
Speaker 1: and I don't get back to you quick enough because
Speaker 1: I'm digging through email and fighting with you know, different
Speaker 1: idiots that email me all the time, then just just
Speaker 1: send a message to Benmallard producer at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Now I have no access to that account. I have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with that account. That's justin. Justin Cooper
Speaker 1: checks that email from time to time, so check, you know,
Speaker 1: send that to him and you'll be you'll be good
Speaker 1: to go. Let's see here, guy writes in no name
Speaker 1: on this favorite hot sauce, and then he lists a
Speaker 1: bunch of Texas Pete's Louisiana, Tabasco, Frank's red hot Tapatillo.
Speaker 1: Uh some I've never heard of. I like, you know,
Speaker 1: on tacos. I like that tapatio that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Did he listla I.
Speaker 1: Do not see? Oh yeah he did listen. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's on here too.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I like that one.
Speaker 1: That's your go to. Yeah, all right, I think that's it.
Speaker 1: We'll get out on that.
Speaker 3: Danny.
Speaker 1: It is Sunday. Anything you want to promote here on
Speaker 1: a beautiful, glorious Sunday, Week fourteen in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: know I'll be back tonight, back in the magic radio
Speaker 1: box as we yap all night long here with Marginal
Speaker 1: Overnight Sports Radio. Of course, Benny, this is the pending
Speaker 1: this morning. If you're listening early in the day here,
Speaker 1: what do you have going on?
Speaker 3: Danny? I'm dreaming of a dude with no eyebrows to
Speaker 3: throw three interceptions. Can Joshua Dobbs please have another terrible.
Speaker 1: Game please, which Dobbs will show up? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Of course, the Vikings get Justin Jefferson back just in
Speaker 3: time to play against the Raiders shocker. But I hope
Speaker 3: that Dobbs struggles again so that the Antonio Pierce sled
Speaker 3: Raiders can get back into the W column.
Speaker 1: I saw a stat that the Raiders the last twenty
Speaker 1: years have the worst record in the NFL after a bye,
Speaker 1: worst record in the NFL. Which that is what has happened.
Speaker 1: That doesn't guarantee it's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was some bad coaches too, that is true.
Speaker 3: Hopefully this dude can prove that he's different.
Speaker 1: It is tough because you go into the game without
Speaker 1: a quarterback, but at least the Vikings don't have a
Speaker 1: quarterback either. I've got the Rams playing the Ravens today
Speaker 1: and that Looney worships Lamar Jackson. So I need the
Speaker 1: Rams to win so I can harass Looney on next
Speaker 1: week's TV show. Can Tom Looney? I need that to happen.
Speaker 1: But have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Thank you
Speaker 1: for continuing to follow follow the fifth Hour podcast and
Speaker 1: the Ben Maler Show podcast and Danny's work with Covino
Speaker 1: and Rich all of the podcasts. We do need you
Speaker 1: to listen on the semi regular otherwise we won't get
Speaker 1: any credit. And so just you know, five ten minutes here,
Speaker 1: you know what, say, Monday, Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Friday, twenty minutes here, half hour there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three hour of.
Speaker 3: Our podcasts on one day on a Monday while you're driving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just take a four hour drive for no reason
Speaker 1: and just listen to podcasts. That's all you gotta do.
Speaker 1: So anyway, thank you for that and help us out
Speaker 1: and we will catch you next time.
Speaker 3: Later. Skater got a murder. I gotta go,