WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Wooden Spoon" Mail Bag 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:01.640 Kabooms. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.560 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.360 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.680 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.680 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.680 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:18.599 Wow. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.520 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:28.640 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.839 In the end everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.640 and Danny G Radio, and it is a mail bag 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:41.320 kind of a day. But before we get to the 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.160 mail bag, Danny G we have some business to take 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:49.120 care of and that involves op goes to the culture. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.640 So we've got a little time for that. And why 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.520 don't we start out going right into the pop culture world. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:13.959 What do you say? Yes, John, John, thank you, Ohio. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.920 So these are some of the stories I most likely 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.840 did not get mentioned at least on on my show. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.360 But these are things in the real world and we 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:27.400 will react to them in real time. And here's a 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.400 new fad that is going around. This comes out of 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.520 New York, but apparently it's going on elsewhere. It's called 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:44.240 master dating, not master the other thing, master master. Have 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.120 you heard of master dating, Danny? 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:48.040 No? 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:54.639 Yeah, So this is a new phenomena, or at least 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.840 so it says. So the Internet says it is the 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:04.120 practice of lavishing ones with choice gifts, treats, and outings 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.160 in an effort to establish a healthy sense of self 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:13.560 sufficiency before entering into a serious relationship with someone else. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.320 So essentially, essentially what you're doing is you're taking yourself 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:18.480 out on dates. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:23.079 Yes, I have seen a few different girls on Facebook 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:27.320 and Instagram doing this, but they didn't have a title 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.959 for it. Also, you probably have seen this on social 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.960 media where it shows the guy or the girl and 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.720 they have two slips of paper in their hand and 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.160 they have their significant other choose one and like one 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.240 says Taco bell and the other one says five star restaurant, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.000 And based on whichever hand they pick, that's where they 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:49.480 lead them to on their date. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:51.040 Oh, I've seen. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.320 Girls doing this, but they're doing it for themselves. Well, 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.120 I don't need a man. I'm gonna take myself to 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:58.200 a five star meal. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:02:59.799 And I gotta tell you, this is one of those 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:01.959 things I was ahead of my time, Danny, and I 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:03.640 would like to thank all the women that would not 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.920 date me in my younger days. But I was a master, 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.400 the master dating thing. I had that down because I 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:15.000 had to lavish myself with gifts and food and outings 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:21.360 because the opposite sex had pretty much boycotted me for 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.160 a number of years. So I was ahead of the 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.360 curb on this one. I was out in front of that. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:26.880 I mastered that back in. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:28.919 The day you were, Chris Jackson. 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:36.160 Yeah, I was way out in front of that. Next up, 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.600 the only fans. This blows me away. The only fan things. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:45.040 I don't get it. I don't understand it, but I 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:49.280 guess I'm in the minority on this only fans users. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.560 You see this story bouncing around this week. Only fans users. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.280 You see how much they spent on the platform last year. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.080 They have the finance, so those only Fans had to 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.920 file their taxes, and so they have the amount of 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.360 revenue they brought in in the year twenty twenty two. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.400 And Only Fans is a It's a porn site. That's 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.520 mostly what it is. Let's be honest here. It's a 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:17.960 young one. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.960 No. When you click on it, it looks nothing like 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.560 a porn site. It looks like a lifestyle site, and 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.039 most of it looks like workout crap and stuff like that, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.800 where it's kind of like a video diary for a 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.760 lot of the people that make content. But then buried 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:40.799 underneath of that are couples and mostly singles, single ladies 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.039 who have content where you wouldn't mind paying your ten 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.720 dollars a month or whatever the subscription is because they 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:52.039 have exclusive content. Wink wink, if you know what I'm saying. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.320 Yeah, there's a lot of your click a link, it's 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.159 got the naughty thing on it, and then you're off 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.839 to the races. It's all right there. So anyway, listen, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.040 people love this. So you want to take you guess 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.800 how much money they brought in OnlyFans in revenue? Oh, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.440 total total revenue last year. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.039 Yeah, it's I mean it's got to be a billion dollars. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.000 How about five point six billion? 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.360 Only revenue? 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.480 Five point six billion. They tell you that is the 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:29.920 most valuable thing TNA people will pay for TNA. And 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:34.560 then they were and the revenue increased by sixteen point 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.119 six percent from the previous year. They made four point 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:43.120 eight billion the previous year. And the business model of 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.680 only fans, all the people that run Only Fans do 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.640 is set up the platform and allow people to distribute 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.760 their their naughty, their naughty videos, and they take a 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.320 twenty percent cut right off the top from the creators. 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:02.320 So that means that the people that run OnlyFans who 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.160 did not have to make a porn movie, they just 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.880 provided them and they went away with more than a 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:15.760 billion dollars. A billion dollars from OnlyFans. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:17.160 What a creation. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.159 And especially during COVID, you know, there were a lot 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:26.960 of different jobs that people were okay with at home, 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.040 staying at home. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:29.880 A lot of people are like, well, what are these 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:30.640 jobs where. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.880 People stay at home and they don't have to drive 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.320 into any office anywhere. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:35.400 This is one of them. 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.159 Yeah, you could, like, if you were one of these 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.960 really beautiful women, you could do a couple videos in 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.640 the morning and that's it. You're done, and you can 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.720 record them whenever and then you're on your way. 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.600 Well, remember there's no rule either about how much content 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.600 you have to post. I read an article last week. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.520 It was about a couple and they post like one 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.480 video a day and it was talking about how it's 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:06.000 changed their lives. And if you're good at marketing, you 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.840 can make it in this world nowadays, because. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.160 That's what a lot of that is. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.080 The article was pointing out that the ones who make 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.960 actual decent money on OnlyFans are the ones who know 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.040 how to promote themselves on other social media platforms. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.320 Well, it also helps if you have certain goodies that 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.400 you won the genetic lottery, if you know what I'm saying. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.600 Oh me Lebron won the Genetic Lottery, but some of 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.480 these women won the genetic Lottery also. I mean, my god, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.960 I got it all over me. It's wild, man, it 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.520 is wild. I saw this story on Popco's The Culture. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.240 I thought of you, Danny. The only reason I'm bringing 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.440 this up is you work in education addition to radio. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.200 See a teacher in Oklahoma this week the first day 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:56.880 of teaching at an elementary school and she got dinged 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:04.200 for drunk. Teaching was hammered, and she was confronted at 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.120 the end of the school day around three o'clock after 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.480 the school had let out. People were I guess kids 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:14.280 were complaining, and so they gave her the test and 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:22.080 she was completely intoxicated. And so in Perkins, Oklahoma, she 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.200 got thinks it's all been recorded on video, so she 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.320 must have been drinking in her coffee cup, right, that 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.800 would likely be what she was doing all day. Instead 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.200 of drinking coffee, she had some Irish coffee, shall we say? 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.160 I mean, think about it. You're doing a teaching job. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:41.320 And what's the name of. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.760 The town, Perkins, Oklahoma? 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.360 Perkins, Oklahoma. You might want to look that up. 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.480 But that sounds like a population of two thousand people. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.880 Yeah, I can leave it up. But Perkins is with 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:54.640 a restaurant. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.440 You've heard of the restaurant that was. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.679 Wasn't that part of the famous type wod story He 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:01.360 had a s Oh. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.319 Yes, the Perkins waitress. You're right, Yeah, well you're not wrong. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:10.240 Here I'm looking up Perkins, Oklahoma. Let's see here, Perkins, Oklahoma. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:16.440 The population Wow, okay, the population in the twenty ten 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:23.080 senses was two thy eight and thirty one. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.720 Oh wow. See that's the thing. Man. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.160 I don't know what grade she was teaching, but you know, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.240 she was having a bad week. She's probably like, F 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.920 them kids, F the dean here at the school, f 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.080 the principal, and you know, and then she's just tipping 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:40.559 it back. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:47.760 Fun fact about Perkins, Oklahoma. Frank Frank Boardman, better known 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:52.840 as pistol Pete is from the Frank Eaton. Frank Boardman 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:58.640 Eaton known as pistol Pete, is from from there, and 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:04.240 he was a cowboy and a sheriff back in the 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.360 eighteen hundreds. So there you go. Fun fact. Pistol Pete. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.760 Is that the original pistol pet because I when I 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.800 think of pistol Pete, I think of the basketball player 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:15.600 Pistol Pete. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.040 Yeah, it sounds like you're talking about the og one 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:19.680 who had a load of guns. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.840 With the sources and here's more information about pistol Pete. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.880 There is a statue of this guy at a college 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:33.680 in Oklahoma, and you know the symbolic figures the American 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:40.640 Old West and Oklahoma and whatnot, and there's a school 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:45.720 well it says here Oklahoma State. The Cowboys became the nickname. 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:50.080 But their mascot was based off a famous photo of 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.920 Pistol Pete and that's what their mascot, I guess, is 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:55.280 based on him. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.679 So wow, their version of Buffalo Bill. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:00.000 Yeah. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:00.400 Yeah. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.280 When I visited Wyoming, I went to the Buffalo Bill 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.960 Center of the West and it was a really cool museum, 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:07.800 lots of guns. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:09.199 I loved it. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.880 When I think of Buffalo Bill. I think of Prim, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.360 Nevada on the way to Vegas, Buffalo Bill's resort right 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.440 there in Prim right on state line, losers. That's what 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.640 I think of. All right, Next up, what do we have? 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.920 A woman in Springfield, Missouri was arrested this week first 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.959 degree arson. The fire department there claims she poured gasoline 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:34.320 on some clothes. She then lit a spicy tortilla chip 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:39.239 to start the fire. So, of all the ignition devices 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.800 eight I liked that she didn't just use a regular 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.320 tortilla chip. She used a spicy tortilla chip. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.720 Oh, so those chips are replacing bick. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.880 Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, you don't need matches or 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.400 anything like that or a lighter. You're good to go. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.360 You are absolutely good to go. Well, here's a story 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.600 that will warm your heart. Danny, I hate this now. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.160 Dodger Stadium got of the regular straws. They have paper 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.600 straws because take care of people. And I hate paper 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.520 strap Oh it's terrible, and you got to have like 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.680 seven of them. So now there's a new study out, 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.920 but we're saving the environment. Well, now paper straws are 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:20.960 being canceled. Scientists are saying that echo friendly utensils like 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:26.280 straws contain potentially toxic chemicals and they claim they're just 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.560 as bad for the environment as plastic versions. So now 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.199 we have to cancel the paper straw Also. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.040 This is one time we're happy that something is getting canceled. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:42.480 Bring back the plastic, Bring back the plastic straws. And 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.600 this is more mostly a California problem, I think, Danny, 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.720 and maybe a California New York thing, because in a 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.440 lot of other places they don't have to deal with 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.880 this kind of nonsense. But it's one of the great 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.600 things we have about living where we live. And good 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.959 news or bad news. The good news is if you 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:03.000 like radio act to waste, you'd be very happy with 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:04.520 this story. The bad news is if you want to 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.520 eat food, you're probably not gonna like it. The people 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:13.640 over in Japan have dumped one point three million tons 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:19.119 of radioactive waste from the famous nuclear power plant meltdown 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.480 into the Pacific Ocean. They have dumped one point three 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:29.400 million tons of radioactive waste, water and whatnot right out 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.600 into the mighty Pacific Ocean. What could possibly go wrong? 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.640 What is that like a five hundred dollars fine? 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.960 Yeah, exactly now. They claim, I love this. They claim 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:47.720 that they've they've followed all the guidelines and all the rules, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.760 and everything's good here. There's nothing to see and everything 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:58.000 will be all right. So they say, Danny, So they say, 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.320 and my theory. And Brian Bilick mentioned this on the 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.280 Friday podcast. You know, it's the theory of the world. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.600 Nobody knows anything. People think they know, and they can 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.800 give a masterclass about what they think they know and 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.280 give webinars and all that and give lectures, but ultimately 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.280 nobody knows anything. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.880 So yeah, says a guy who spent two years dodging us. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.440 Two years. Let's get to the mail bag. What do 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:41.360 you say? It's mail bag? Thank you, ohiol first one. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.240 And these are actual letters by actual listeners. If you 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.160 want to send a message in just do it right now. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:46.720 You don't have to wait for me to post something. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.200 You do it right now, Real fifth hour at gmail 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.080 dot com. All letters know numbers, Real fifth hour at 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:58.920 gmail dot com. And we may use your message on 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.280 on the show. We may do that. Dan from Durham, 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.040 North Carolina. Right, since so Helo, Ben and Daddy G 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:10.440 Daddy are people driving crazy fast on the interstate highways 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.560 there on the West coast post pandemic. Here in North Carolina, 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.520 if you're going less than ten miles over the speed limit, 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:23.720 you better be in the slow lane, says Dan, as 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.040 it's turning into the Autobahn. So Dan, I would like 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.480 to file a formal complaint, Dan, because I was in 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.480 North Carolina not that long ago, and the speed limits 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.640 are way too low. So I side with the drivers 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.280 going ten miles over the speed limit in North Carolina. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.720 In LA where we are, it is very difficult most 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:48.600 of the time to drive over the speed limit because 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.160 there's so much traffic. But when I go into work, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.200 I do the overnight show. So when I go into work, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.280 it is like people are in Fast and the Furious. 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.200 It is a life movie. Everyone's trying to outdo each 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.960 other and change lanes as fast as you can. It 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.000 is the Autobahn is what it is in many respects Dan. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:11.400 It's it's craziness. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:16.200 Yeah, I'm not gonna hate on driving fast because, as 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.480 you know, Ben, I have a need for speed. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.640 I drive, I drive. You know my Michi gos Danny, 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.400 I had a cop tell me one time seventy nine 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.520 a under, I won't give you a ticket. The only 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.800 time I've gotten a ticket since then is in Minnesota. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.640 But in California I haven't gotten a ticket. And the 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.760 other places I've been, I didn't get a ticket in 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.080 Boston or you know, any of those New England states 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.520 I drove through, so seventy nine another, but yeah, there 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.440 are people I go seventy nine and I get past, 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.040 like I'm going five miles an hour. 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:55.160 Crazy these cars nowadays, they'll tattle on you. Because I 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.080 was at Jiffy Loube a few days ago, and you know, 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.520 after they change the oil, they reset your dashboard for you, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.080 the electronic dashboard. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:06.960 Yeah, as I was stepping. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.160 On the gas pedal and the guy was looking through 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:14.520 my electronic dash it said highest speed recorded one hundred 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.680 and ten miles per hour. Oh really, that's in there 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.080 when I did that, or which day or night that was. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.439 But the guy kind of stopped and looked at it, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.760 and then he's like okay, and he kept moving up 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.560 seeing him, Well, you. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.320 Were trying to get your your wife to the hospital 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:37.720 for the baby. Wrong, clearly that was the move. Next 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.840 up Alf the Alien Old Pineer from week one of 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.680 the NFL season, says Ben you know me well enough. 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:47.919 That's correct. I know al very well. Alf's been one 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.159 of the great p ones of the show over the years, 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:55.960 and I would say the most loyal. He listened while 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.960 on a family vacation at a Disney resort in Orlando. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.679 He stayed up to listen to the live show. That's dedication. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:04.960 That is dedication. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.359 My evergreen question is what in the hell is going 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:14.080 on with Benny versus the Penny? Spill the tea and 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.919 he says, secondly, you know that I read between the 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.840 lines and listen between the words. So the breadcrumbs you've 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.080 been dropping about your Northeast barnstorming tour are killing me? 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.760 Would you like to expand on the subject. So, Al, 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.760 these are great questions. There is nothing to release at 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:36.480 this moment. I will tell you that if everything goes 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.520 the way it is going, there will be some kind 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:45.000 of Benny Versus the Penny announcement, probably on the upcoming 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.040 Friday podcast. Danny, I think that's next week's podcast. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:53.000 This sounds very similar to me teasing the Animal Thunderdome 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:54.000 with Klay Traviss. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.280 Well, it feels like that, and you were, of course 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.119 the Penny last year on this podcast. You did a 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.360 great job representing the penny and we've done this bit 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:09.760 for many, many years and there there may or may 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:14.240 not be something brewing. I don't know for sure, and 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.560 so we'll we'll see what happens. And as far as 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:23.160 the Northeast Barnstorming Tour, I am not able to disclose 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.800 exactly what that was about. But when the time is 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.440 right and when I get the green light and everything 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:30.920 is taking care of the way it's supposed to be 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.800 taken care of it, if it needs to be taken 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.760 care of, I will let you know. Alf of course 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.520 I will. Why would I not like what am I? 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.800 You know, I just can't. I can't talk about a 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.440 lot of this stuff right now, obviously because of there's 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:45.600 certain reasons I can't. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.800 Boy after that explanation, we all need fifth Hour podcast 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:51.080 to Cooder rings. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:51.119 I know. 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.280 I know. Well. The problem too is I'm definitely in 0:19:54.320 --> 0:20:00.600 the closet. Yeah, I mean, there's a method the madness, 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:02.680 that's all I'll say. There's a method of the madness. 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.600 But there's nothing bad. It's not bad. It might be 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.119 really good, or it might be the status quo. Maybe 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.560 you'll hear Danny G and me back on the Fifth 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.879 Hour podcast doing Benny versus the Penny or maybe not. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.439 I don't know, but I'll get some clarity on that, 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:23.000 hopefully very soon. Alf So fingers crossed. Keep the fingers 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:27.280 crossed on that. And next up, let's see who wrote 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.600 this one in I didn't write the name now, I says, Hi, 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.520 Ben and Daddy Og sorry to not oh oh this 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:40.480 is this is Mike. No relation to ferg Cat, no 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:42.720 relation Mike and Fulloton. He says, sorry. I did not 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:44.680 make it to the meet and greet last week. Ben. 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:50.800 I was convinced that crooked Hurricane Hillary would flood the 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.479 entire state of California. So I spent the weekend building 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:57.720 a boat out of tennis balls with my roommate. Well, 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.560 very impressive, he says. Were you guys worried about the 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.679 hurricane at all or did you know it was just 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:08.600 going to be a little rain. Well, I was mildly 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:13.359 concerned because Iowa Sam, Danny g the Great Iowa Sam 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.320 was convinced that we were all going to die. So 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.800 he was up selling the storm at work. And then 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.120 I went on the internet and I saw some stories. 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:26.399 I was like, worst story, worse storm, since nineteen thirty nine, 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.600 and that that got me a little riled up. But 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.200 the problem is the media. Danny and I guess we're 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:38.119 part of the media, but the news media, their instincts 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.960 are to scare the shit out of everyone, and then 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.479 they're like their whole business models, Well they'll watch longer 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:49.240 if they're scared, and then they just think there's no 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:54.800 fallout for being completely wrong, Like people don't grasp the 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.320 people in television news don't seem to grasp the fact 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:02.399 when you're completely wrong, you lose credibility, and people don't 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:04.680 pay attention the next time, and maybe the next time 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.040 they actually need to pay attention. 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.200 Yesterday's podcast on Saturday, make sure you download that. We 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:15.600 went into detail about the really funny coverage of the 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:18.240 local LATV news stations. 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.520 Yeah, what's your favorite TV news station? Are you a 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:24.840 Channel five guy? Are you a Channel four? Channel two, 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.120 Channel seven? Nine? Were you eleven? 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:32.359 They're all kind of just vanilla to me. Honestly, there's 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:34.560 not one channel where I'm like, oh, they do it 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:35.480 so much better. 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:37.359 It's all bullshit coverage to me. 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.879 Yeah, I missed the big over the top ron Burgundy 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.920 like anchor. We don't really have much of that anymore. 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:51.520 That era of television is gone. But at one point 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.960 in Los Angeles we had the greatest local television news. 0:22:56.280 --> 0:23:00.080 It was amazing with Hal Fishman at Channel five, and 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:04.000 and Paul Moyer and all the other big names. Jerry 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:10.879 Dumphy just just wonderful TV people that were were great. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:13.960 And you know, I don't watch too much local TV 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:18.400 news these days, but when I do watch it, it's lacking. 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.720 Its lacking a little bit. But remember Jerry Dumphy. His 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:28.000 famous line was, was it from from the desert to 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:33.640 the sea to all of southern California? Now, when there's 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:35.480 a car chase or something like that, I got one 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:37.919 of my buddies, Jay sends me every time there's a 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:40.080 car chase. I don't even need to watch he watched. 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:42.800 He must watch local TV news all day because I'll 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:45.960 get messages at one o'clock in the afternoon while I'm sleeping. 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:51.159 I'll get messages at nine o'clock at night early in 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:53.800 the morning. Hey, there's a chase on Channel nine. You 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:55.679 gotta turn it around. I'm all right. Whatever. 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:59.600