WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Golden Eve Ticket" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.599 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the Clearinghouse of 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.479 Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:30.720 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:39.000 In the a everywhere, even on New Year's Eve, as 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.760 we say bye bye to twenty twenty three. It is 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.360 the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.479 Because five nights a week for me on the overnight, 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.120 five days a week for Danny with his buddy's Cavino 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:00.320 and Rich clearly not enough. So we unite together form 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.080 Voltron on the weekends. And this is our third pod 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.200 of the weekend. We had the podcast which was very 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:11.320 sporty back on Friday, very sporty podcast on Friday, Danny 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:11.600 a lot. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.760 Yeah, that's kind of been our new thing, Like Fridays 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.920 is sports related, and the rest of the weekend we 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:18.880 play grab ass. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:24.040 Yeah, we just know o nuts. It is the end 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.440 of twenty twenty three, and I don't know that I 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.119 need to do my normal rant that I do not make. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.640 I do not make New Year's resolutions. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.240 Neither do I. That stuff is so stupid. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.959 Yeah, I look at it like as Bill Belichick back 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.160 when he was a respected member of the coaching fraternity. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.760 Belichick would say, like the halftime adjustment thing, and other 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.479 people have said Peyton Manning has said this as well. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.120 I don't really I'm not very fond of Peyton Manning, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:55.000 but the halftime adjustments is bullshoy. It's nonsense, right. It's 0:01:55.080 --> 0:02:00.280 like you go to halftime, you take a whiz, maybe 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.960 you put a new jersey on, and you have some 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.600 orange slices, some gatorade, and you run back out in 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.679 the field. You're not making halftime adjustments. And as Belichick 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.800 likes to say, if you see a problem in the 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.120 middle of the first quarter, you fix the problem. You 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.080 don't wait till halftime, you know, So, all right, we're 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.280 gonna play the entire rest of the first quarter, the 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.800 entire second quarter, but then at halftime we're going to 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.280 make adjustments. It's one of those things that in sports 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.400 just gets repeated and people people just mindlessly repeat it, 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.640 like right. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.840 Like stay away from the gym. How many weeks in 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.360 ben do most people last when they go there? 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:48.000 This week today's obviously New Year's Eve, so tomorrow the 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.280 gyms are closed, but starting January second, the gym will 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:56.200 be back, and then by February first, it'll be half empty. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.000 It's just the way it goes. But it's it's a 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.640 halftime adjustment. It's one of those things Peyton Manning famously 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.119 said a couple of years ago. It's just a myth. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.919 It's an absolute myth. And I put it in that 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:13.000 same category as like momentum, right, I don't need to 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.600 get started on that ran again, there is no such 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:19.920 thing as momentum in sports. I do not believe in that. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.480 But I don't need to go down that road. But anyway, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.000 I just want to. I don't do the New Year's Eve. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:25.880 It feels like it's for suckers. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.200 And also, you know, not to rain on anybody's New 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.639 Year's parade, but going out on New Year's Eve is 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.400 kind of a sucker's bet also because you way overpay 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:41.840 for everything, and usually it's elbow to elbow with other people, 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.320 and it's hard to have a fun time like that 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.360 with spending so much money for you know, lots of 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:49.400 germs around you. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.640 I read this week and it's on the internet, So 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.240 who knows if it's true or not that it is 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.160 the most expensive night to go out in America, that 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.080 people spend the most money all year on just as 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.200 a night out on New Year's Eve, Because as you said, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.160 it's price gouging. It's like it's like getting a hotel 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:13.880 room after a hurricane or getting gasoline after a flood. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.600 You know, it's like a fifteen dollars water bottle. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.559 Yeah, yeah, exactly. I saw somebody sent me a link 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:25.200 to some hotel in Miami where a guy ordered a 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.479 cup of coffee and a couple of waters, and it 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:33.040 was like sixty seven dollars. What the hell's in the water? 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.560 It was in the coffee, vodka in that water. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.400 Yeah, And we don't do the list thing, you know, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:42.960 I don't know believe in the list. But as far as 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:47.280 Big Ben's Big Board, much different, much different, right, as 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.880 you know, right, we're not moving mountains here, we're not 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.440 shifting the balance of power. We're just doing a little podcast. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.839 But as far as the year, looking back at the 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:03.480 things that stood out, is there any any one thing, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.400 Like the Rangers winning the World Series was pretty wonky 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:13.040 in baseball. The Dodgers meekly going out and just sucker. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.680 But then they redeemed themselves getting Otani. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.560 Oh, they did win the offseason championship, so the balance 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.480 of power. They continue to have the greatest roster in baseball, 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.000 and they are certainly traveling down the Dodgers the yellow 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:25.560 brick road. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.920 For me, the highlight of twenty twenty three was the 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.320 firing of one Josh McDaniels. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.159 I had a feeling, you're gonna say that, Yeah, I buy. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:40.600 Josh hello twenty twenty four because Antonio Pierce imagined Ben 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.800 had he been hired or at least interim hired, three 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.920 games earlier, the Raiders wouldn't be trying to squeak into 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.039 the playoffs. I think AP would have had them already 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.360 squarely lined up for the wild card. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.719 Yeah, it's well, you know he's done well, but that's 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.200 also a miss. I want to be no gloomy gus here, Danny. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.080 But they did also lose a three nothing game to 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.080 the Vikings. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.920 Competitive game with both defenses. Both offenses sucked. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.919 Compared to Josh McDaniels, he is a mastermind, Antonio. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.120 Piers, Yes, you said it. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.360 And how long was I going to have to sit 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.160 there on Sundays and look at the camera go on 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.480 Josh McDaniel's constipated looking face. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.000 It was hard. It was hard sledding. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.920 Raider fans wanted that guy gone a year before that, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.280 and he had barely been there then, I mean didn't 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:39.920 want him hired in the first place. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.000 So when that happened, man, it was like an early Christmas. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.640 And then Antonio Pierce doing what he did and the 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.680 Raiders scoring sixty three points was another Christmas. And then 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:56.360 the final Christmas gift was trouncing the Chiefs, the defense 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:02.159 scoring two touchdowns in seven secs and watching Kelsey throw 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.400 his helmet, Patrick Mahomes crying to his O line on 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.800 the sideline. Then it was a beautiful thing because the 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.960 Chiefs have rubbed it in with their victories against the 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.600 Raiders often and so to see those merry go round 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.920 Chiefs lose to the Raiders on Christmas Day, that was 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:21.960 a beautiful twenty twenty three happening. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:32.240 And Antonio Peers is in the Dan Campbell, I guess 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.640 I don't think quilt's the right word but because like 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.119 when I remember Antonio Pierce took over and the Raiders, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.160 remember they won the first game. I think they played 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.960 the Giants. If I remember the Jets in one of 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.920 the New York teams and they won, and they were 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:45.800 smoking cigars in the locker room. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.040 That's right, Yeah, Max Crosby, Yeah yeah. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.640 I had a team attendant go out and get cigars 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.880 and put one in each locker prior to the game 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.520 that confident that ap would lead them to a victory 0:07:58.560 --> 0:07:59.400 over for the Giants. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.080 Yeah, that's the kind of stuff. If it doesn't work out, 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.080 it's like, oh, this guy's a clown. Dan Campbell, people 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.600 goofed on him because the kneecap thing with the Lions 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.720 one of the visions, So that's something, it's not nothing. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.760 And the other things that stand out on Big Ben's 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.040 big board the downfall, the trap door opening up for 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.240 the Patriots as they have fallen in to an over 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:29.720 abundance of bad bacteria. They've played like smelly farts all year. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.440 My Rams, who were supposed to be a total dumpster 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.760 fire with a roster filled with a couple of star players, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:40.439 surrounded by flotsam and jetsam, a bunch of bits and 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:46.760 odd ends and handy downs and second hand players mostly useless. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:51.200 And yet the Rams are for the moment. We'll see 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.040 what happens today. But the Rams at the moment we're talking, 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.600 they put the Giants today, so they should win that game. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:03.000 But you'd think with Tommy Cutt it's benched for Tyrod Taylor. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.079 But either way, the Rams have found a couple of 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.959 ball plays. And so I expected this to be a 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:13.520 miserable team that was just going to suck, and they 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.200 don't suck like they're not. You know, they played pretty 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.040 well the last couple of months. Last month and a half, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:18.920 they played very well. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.440 So you can ram it into the New Year all night. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.360 You can ram it all night, and many people apparently will. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.200 I'm told here on New Year's Eve you can ram 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:32.360 it all k me and ram it all night. But 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:37.440 that's a different topic of conversation. We have the mail bag. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:38.959 You want to get into that right now? Are you 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:40.040 ready for the mail bag? 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.199 Yeah, let's go. Last one of the year. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:59.560 It's bag. I said, we will not do another mail 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.719 bag on this show all year till next week and 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.040 then we'll do a new week. But anyway, here yeah, 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.440 first one off, Freigster writes in from Parts Unknown, didn't 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.560 not say where he's from. He says, Ben and Danny, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.040 how long does how low? How low? How low does 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:23.520 the temperature have to go in Socow for you to 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.000 put on a sweater or a coat? He says, thank 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.679 you for doing the show here over the holidays. It 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:34.400 is much appreciated. Well, thank you, Craigster. So we have 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.280 this thin California blood Danny, right, is that what we 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.679 have here because we're used to the not it's not 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.439 like Miami weather, but it's you know, usually it's around 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.000 seventy five degrees give or take. It's hotter in the summer, 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.440 closer to ninety five degrees most days, but mostly it's 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:51.480 in the seventies. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.480 I was only really put on big jackets when it's 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.200 raining a lot. When it's cold and raining, that's when 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.959 we'll take out a real jacket because I don't know 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.160 about you, but really I have like wind breakers and 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:06.800 really thin jackets. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:07.800 Yeah. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.679 I have a couple of winter coats because of my 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.160 travels and over the years where I've had to go 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:14.640 to the East Coast in the winter, but that I 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.240 don't they're like in the back of a closet. You know, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.199 it's like they're buried, like I'd have to search for 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:21.079 them to find them. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.920 It's that kind of And it's what it gets to 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:25.600 be around what forty. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.439 Yeah, I would say in anything under forty five. And 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:35.080 it does actually get down into the thirties occasionally at night, 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.840 depending on the January February, it'll get get pretty cold. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.360 So it was very foggy this week in the middle 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.840 of the night. Most people probably didn't notice it because 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.320 they were sleeping, but I was driving and. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.760 It was Oh I drove in that to the Dan 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.120 Patrick show. There there was a little bit of pea 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.280 soup fog going on. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.319 Yeah, that's not the greatest to drive it. That's a 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.680 little tough. That's a little or thank you craigster Mike 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:08.240 in North Hollerton, right, since that has a happy Kwanza, 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.040 Ben and Dan and g and the guys. I hope 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.360 Santa paid you both a visit back on Christmas, because 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.360 the Big Guy sure came through for me this year. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.240 Well I'm g I'm glad the Big Guy too. Curious 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.000 Is there any point is there? 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:22.320 He gave me a baby? 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.400 Yeah? Hello, Hello? Is there any point in going, well, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.600 he didn't have the baby, but my wife I would 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.960 hope not. Is there any point that in going all 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.360 out on presents for a baby's first Christmas? Or should 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.920 you wait until they're a little older? Can a zero 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.400 equal even appreciate presence? 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:47.520 I like this, Ben, because there are experts who point 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:55.400 out that baby's mind start collecting happy or sad memories immediately. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.000 So this whole myth of oh, you should wait until 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.800 till the kid is old enough to remember this before 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.560 you do this, that or the other, that's a bunch 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.720 of bullshit. You're supposed to put a baby, an infant, 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:14.199 or a toddler in really good, happy situations and travels 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.319 as soon as you can. You know, you hear that 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.079 a lot like I'm not going to do this or 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.559 that until the kid is old enough to remember. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.400 So I have read a little bit about this, and 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.120 as I understand it, I think you're referencing what many 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:33.240 of us have referenced, the Sigmund Freud term childhood amnesia. Yeah, like, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.880 and I don't remember things before I think my first 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:41.160 memory was I was around five or six. I don't 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.280 really remember anything before that. But it's one of those 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.719 weird things where it's like your brain resets. For some 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.679 people it might be at three years old. For some 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.000 people it might be like me five or six, or 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.480 maybe it's even later than that. But all that crap 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:01.400 gets filed away, even it's in your subconscience. Yes, yeah, yeah, 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:02.520 so you're the. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.559 Earliest file folder in your brain, even though you can't 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.199 go back and necessarily access it when you want to. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.120 For me, it's crazy because I have memories of things 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.160 that happened when I was like two, two and a 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.000 half years old, and my mom is like, how in 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.920 the world do you remember that? And I tell my 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.880 older brother things were like, I'm like, you don't remember this. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.120 You don't remember that. He's like, how the hell do 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.240 you remember that? He's like you his first memories are 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.440 from like preschool and kindergarten. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.000 Yeah, I don't. I don't remember anything before that. I've 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.080 seen photos, so I kind of like I could. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.480 Throw I was there. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.040 I mean, I obviously was there, but I don't really remember. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:45.560 So so those infant ears. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.320 Well, also, when I was two, my mom stabbed my dad, 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:54.400 so it was hard to forget traumatic incidents like that. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.920 It's quite the Thanksgiving dinner. Mike also says, Ben, I 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.160 hear Brian Only's choice for best man has been narrowed 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.400 down to you and me. Good luck and may the 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.080 best man get chosen. Well, I think it's going to 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.680 be you, Fergy. Somebody sent me a message that I 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.560 thought that was an April fool's. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.600 Joke that not Fergie, did you mean Corgy. I'm sure 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.440 the Corgi is going to be the best man. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.880 Oh my god, what a wedding that will be. What 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:23.120 a wedding that is. 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.119 Going to be like dog day at the ballpark. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.320 Oh my god, are they going to be in his 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.840 and hers UCLA year at that event? 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.480 Like gotta be a whole lot of dogs humping at 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:34.480 that wedding reception? 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:35.080 Oh? 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.440 Who let the dogs out? Who let the dogs out? 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:38.280 All right? 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.160 Next up on the mailbag, Jeff in Maine rights and 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.680 he says, Hey, guys, thank you for entertaining me. Ben, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.160 I've been listening for all of your twenty plus years. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:52.960 Way back to you doing weekend overnights entertaining me delivering 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:59.440 newspapers here in central Maine. Thanks guy, he's still doing it? 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:01.720 Is that str twenty years of you? 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.080 I dare you well Jeff, thank you very much. I 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.440 was in your fine state, although I'm told I wasn't 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.600 really in your state because I was only in Portland, Maine, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.720 but I bubbed out. I did not get a chance 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.680 to meet you when I was there. But hopefully, if 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.640 things go well we get another season of Benny Versus 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.880 the Penny, I might make my way back to the 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.800 great state of Maine, and maybe this time I will 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.720 drive up a little further to get to the heart 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.160 and soul where the real people live in the state 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:34.560 of Maine and experience the moose and the wild bears 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.600 and all that to get the full experience. But Jeff, 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.640 thank you for listening. I do I appreciate it. I 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.040 hope you have a great celebration. Here is this is 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.800 New Year's Eve, James writes in from so Kelly says, 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.000 what player hit? Oh see this is like this is 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.080 a sports nerd question, Danny, He says, what player hit 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.800 the second most home runs during the nineteen fifties and 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.160 hit at least twenty each season from nineteen fifty to 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:00.680 nineteen fifty nine. From James, I don't know. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.080 Do you know that I had his baseball card my 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.000 uncle gave it to me. It was an old one, rusty. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.320 Rusty, rusty knots Is that what you. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:15.720 Right? Yeah? 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:17.280 What do you want? 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:17.960 I don't know. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:22.800 I have no idea. Willie Mays, who the hell knows? 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.120 I have no I I had to be Willy May's 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.960 I would think. Actually, right, Willie Mays played. I don't 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.760 know that he played all of the fifties, though I 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:30.600 think he missed the year. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.359 Pretty sure it was Bob Horner Horny, good old horny 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:35.360 back in the day. 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.479 So James bat job by you Fred in Spring Texas? Right, 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.159 since says greeting guys, can you share with the class 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:48.440 any presence that you either gave or received over the holidays? Yeah? 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.840 So I'm of the age don't get don't get presents 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.960 really anymore, not not really presents. I just I need stuff. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:56.359 I buy it. 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.960 I have money, not much, but I have some. So 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.919 if I need something during the it's much like halftime 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.720 adjustments we talked about. I don't wait till the holiday 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.440 to get something. But a lot of people were kind 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.960 of a family gave like they want to get me 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.200 fat again, so they gave candy and stuff like that, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.040 which I already make. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:13.480 So I don't. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.880 I don't really need it. There are some holiday gifts 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.560 which I still have not I'm very late, Dandy. I 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:23.280 have a little something for you, and I have not 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.199 been able to give it to you because I keep forgetting. 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.120 I worked only a couple days last week and did 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.399 not bring the goods. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:30.880 But I will. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.879 I will make sure I do that, but not too much. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:35.920 I think I'm past Fred the age. I get a 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.480 lot of cool stuff. Anything great for you, Danny, anything 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:39.200 wonderful there? 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.840 Well, for Christmas we did the trip to Disneyland. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:48.160 We did do stockings for the kids, and I gave 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.680 one to my better half in there was. I gave 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.800 her a gift that made her cry. That's when you 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.080 know you're doing good. There's this jewelry company. You upload 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:02.560 a digital photo and they cut it out with sterling silver. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.280 Looks just like the picture. So I sent in a 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:10.040 picture of baby CoA and the jewelry came back to me. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.720 It's dependent on a necklace in it's Coa's face. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.960 Wow, there's a face there a fan. 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:19.800 Wow. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:24.200 That's cool. Well, thank you, Fred, you're there every week. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.560 We appreciate that. Alf from the Witness Protection Program right 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.840 since says Ben, do you have a good relationship with 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.879 these suits over there at NBC and are they very litigious? 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.719 The reason I ask is that my wife just got 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.080 me the greatest gift ever, second only to the birthday 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.320 cameo that my daughter got me from a radio gas 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:44.560 bag a couple of years ago. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.920 Howard stern On cameo, I dare you. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.479 I'm afraid that someone in the knoll over there at 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:55.240 NBC may have my address now because of said gift 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.040 and might want to put the kebash on the whole 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:02.119 ALF the Alien Opiner bit due to legal reasons. If 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.920 you don't hear from me again, you'll know why. Peace 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:10.080 and love possibly the Alien Opiner formerly known as ALF. 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.159 It's funny you bring that up out because I have 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:16.920 been wandering the hallways of the NBC studios there the 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.080 place we do Betty versus the Penny from there, the 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:24.679 West Coast Hub, and I've yet to find an ALF poster. 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:26.880 I was trying to find one because I thought I'll 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.440 take a picture for at He Loves Out, and I've 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.840 not found. What I found there's like a Cheers poster. 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.720 All these old NBA NBC shows from back in the 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.960 day is Howard Stern on cameo. God, No, there's no 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.320 way he doesn't. He barely shows up to his satellite show. 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:43.840 Why would he do? 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:45.080 No chance? 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.479 Yeah, how much would he charge for a cameo if 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:48.120 he was on there? 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:48.639 You know who? 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.280 I bet you who's on there is like the whack 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.080 pack guys from the Stern Show are on there. 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.480 They're the ones that like, yeah, the rest of the crew, yeah. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:57.960 And the old guys like I bet Stuttering John's on 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.920 there probably. I bet you can get a stuttering John. 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.280 Yeah, that's a good call. Yeah. 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.720 Or I bet you even Baba Booie's not on there, 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:08.960 Gary Dellabody, he's made a ton of money. 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:10.920 I bet you he's It was a good deal. I 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.399 saw you on there. Yours is reasonably priced, and I 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:15.800 know you put your all your effort into it. 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.560 I got in trouble. I got in trouble with Cameo 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.679 because I was doing like mini monologues. I was doing 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.560 like five or six seven minute monologues, and the people 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.359 of Cameo sent me a message like, what the what 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.000 the fuck are you doing? These are supposed to be 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.960