Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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 sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 3: Wow, the Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 4: In the air everyway, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 4: Mahler and Danny g Radio on assignment. He'll be back
Speaker 4: later this weekend. It is the twenty seventh day of December.
Speaker 4: National Fruitcake Day today, so celebrate appropriately. Shouldn't that have
Speaker 4: been before the Christmas holiday? Yeah, it's National Fruitcake Day.
Speaker 4: I've never met anyone my entire life that likes fruitcake.
Speaker 4: I don't know any one that enjoys it. But yet
Speaker 4: it goes back to like five hundred BC. It's very bizarre.
Speaker 4: But anyway, on this edition of The Fifth Hour, we've
Speaker 4: got the home stretch, the PSA, the laughing gas, and
Speaker 4: we'll also toss in the Idiom of.
Speaker 1: The week, the Idiom of the Week.
Speaker 4: But we begin with a reminder, despite this being that
Speaker 4: dead zone between the Christmas holiday and New Year's Honik
Speaker 4: is still going on. Happy Honkah, So if you celebrate,
Speaker 4: if not, just have a good day. So with all
Speaker 4: that happen, With all that happening, we are in the
Speaker 4: home stretch of the NFL season. It started back on
Speaker 4: Christmas with the Netflix situation on Christmas Day, a game
Speaker 4: last night in Chicago, and it continues tomorrow, NFL on Saturday,
Speaker 4: also NFL on Sunday. But we're in the middle of
Speaker 4: week seventeen of the NFL season, which means that starting
Speaker 4: last night and then airing later today is a brand
Speaker 4: new episode of the Mellow drama that is Benny Versus
Speaker 4: the Penny, Benny Versus the Penny. We'll have the pregame
Speaker 4: show in Boston. That is the flagship of Benny Versus
Speaker 4: the Penn. It's syndicated all over the country, but it's
Speaker 4: produced out of NBC Sports Boston, so it'll be on
Speaker 4: prior to the Celtics Pacers game Tonight.
Speaker 1: We'll go live on tape, Live on tape.
Speaker 4: On NBC Sports Boston at six pm and then encore
Speaker 4: showings after the Celtics postgame show, we'll be on at
Speaker 4: eleven thirty pm and then for my night Owls twelve
Speaker 4: thirty am, a little late night after Celtics basketball, and
Speaker 4: airing all weekend all weekend on various NBC sports affiliates
Speaker 4: around the country. Will be on in La on the
Speaker 4: Lakers cable home starting tomorrow, and later on today there
Speaker 4: should be, assuming I hit the rate button here, another
Speaker 4: one of those behind the scenes videos. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 4: we have had so much fun meandering around the back
Speaker 4: lot at Universal Studios.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. And this week, since it's.
Speaker 4: The Christmas holiday and all that, not too much going on,
Speaker 4: so we pretty much have full range. Sometimes we're not
Speaker 4: allowed to go to parts of the back lot because
Speaker 4: they're actually working making movies and TV shows and things
Speaker 4: like that. And so this week pretty light, pretty light,
Speaker 4: you know, most people not doing anything production shut her down,
Speaker 4: shut her down. I assume they'll pick up even next
Speaker 4: week and then take some more time off for New
Speaker 4: Year's But there'll be a video up later today promoting
Speaker 4: Benny Versus the Penny, and you'll enjoy that.
Speaker 1: Hopefully, maybe not. I don't know. I get mixed reviews.
Speaker 4: Last week we had Back to the Future, which I
Speaker 4: thought was was pretty cool to be in Hill Valley,
Speaker 4: the stupidly named town there from Back to the Future.
Speaker 1: But Benny Versus the Penny all weekend long. Check it out.
Speaker 4: Please tell a friend. It's on Peacock. If you don't
Speaker 4: have cable television, it's on the streaming on Peacock.
Speaker 1: It'll be available all.
Speaker 4: Weekend, and then on TV it stops airing once the
Speaker 4: game's kickoff on Sunday, even though there are games on Saturdays.
Speaker 4: So depending on when you watch Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 4: you'll be like, oh, that's really smarter boy, that guy's
Speaker 4: really stupid.
Speaker 1: But either way, these shows will be available.
Speaker 4: Now turning the page on that a yearly public service announcement.
Speaker 4: I was supposed to do this last week. Bad job
Speaker 4: by me. We did not get to it. I would
Speaker 4: like to remind you to be on guard as a
Speaker 4: consumer of audio content. Here late in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: We're about to flip the calendar in a few days
Speaker 4: to twenty twenty five. So even though we are past
Speaker 4: the Christmas holiday, we still have Honika going on, and then,
Speaker 4: of course, as you know, the New Year's Eve celebration
Speaker 4: and all that. So this is a public service announcement
Speaker 4: to be on guard for the lazy river, as we
Speaker 4: like to call it, of holiday radio. How to tell
Speaker 4: if your favorite sports talk radio personality is not putting
Speaker 4: any effort into their show. Consider this a good mitzvah
Speaker 4: of the day. So I've been doing this business a
Speaker 4: long time. I've been in the business a long time,
Speaker 4: and I've never one thing I've never done I probably should.
Speaker 4: I've been told by people I should is just take
Speaker 4: the easy road. I try to prepare for every show
Speaker 4: and make it as good as possible. But there are
Speaker 4: ways that you can do talk radio where you do
Speaker 4: not prepare that you just show up and do a
Speaker 4: generic yearly topic. For example, I know, Christmas just tapping
Speaker 4: the other day, but still it's the post Christmas weekend,
Speaker 4: so you'll still get some of those Christmas lazy river
Speaker 4: topics like who's been naughty?
Speaker 1: Who's been nice? In sports? What do you get? You know? Blank?
Speaker 1: What do you get? You know? Pick your fait Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers for Christmas?
Speaker 4: Or what is your what is your what is under
Speaker 4: your favorite athletes Christmas tree?
Speaker 1: This year? You know who gets a lump of colon sports?
Speaker 4: Oh, and then give out the number who in sports
Speaker 4: did you invite to your Christmas dinner?
Speaker 1: And then it keeps going.
Speaker 4: Some people even go the next level is like, if
Speaker 4: you're ultimately lazy, you'll do the Christmas draft, the Christmas draft,
Speaker 4: which is a version of the Thanksgiving Lazy River of
Speaker 4: talk radio. The Thanksgiving one is your favorite food items
Speaker 4: at Thanksgiving, you draft them. The Christmas draft would be
Speaker 4: like gifts, stockings, family dinner, Santa Claus, reindeer, you know
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff, Christmas, Carol, all that, and so
Speaker 4: that is the Christmas version of that. Now we're coming
Speaker 4: up on New Year's, so many of my colleagues in
Speaker 4: the business will pivot away. They will move away from
Speaker 4: the New Year. From Christmas, they'll move to New Year.
Speaker 4: So how does that work? How does lazy River radio
Speaker 4: work on New Year's? So I'm glad you asked. So
Speaker 4: after years and years of research, I've determined here's some
Speaker 4: of the topics that you will get if your talk
Speaker 4: radio host is lazy. One is tell me your New
Speaker 4: Year's sporting resolutions. For example, if you're a beaten and
Speaker 4: broken Raider fan, your new Year's resolution is to not
Speaker 4: care so much for the raiders something along those lines.
Speaker 4: Who needs to spend more time with family? That means
Speaker 4: that's code for lose a job, because in sport it's
Speaker 4: when people lose their job. They're like, well, I want
Speaker 4: to spend more time with my family. Of course most
Speaker 4: of us have families and we still have to work
Speaker 4: and we can balance that. How about this one? Tell
Speaker 4: me who in sports needs to work out more? Who's
Speaker 4: out of shape? Now, that's a spin on the yearly tradition.
Speaker 4: The yearly tradition when New Year's going to the gym,
Speaker 4: and I know in January the gyms are always always
Speaker 4: pretty busy, and then usually by Martin Luther King Day
Speaker 4: not so much. You could also do a who needs
Speaker 4: to quit smoking too much?
Speaker 1: Too much?
Speaker 4: We'd stay off the weed, stay off the weed, those
Speaker 4: kind of things. So again, those are all ideas. There's
Speaker 4: other possibilities. You guys have been so great over the
Speaker 4: years of reaching out to me and letting me know
Speaker 4: when people are doing.
Speaker 1: Lazy lazy talk radio. It's not that hard.
Speaker 4: It's pretty obvious between your eyes and all that. So
Speaker 4: check it out. Check it out now, turning the page
Speaker 4: on that. I got several emails this week from the
Speaker 4: Christmas Eve overnight show. Many of you were concerned, which
Speaker 4: I appreciate you pulled an all nighter with us. We
Speaker 4: were on Monday into Tuesday, our Christmas Eve show, a
Speaker 4: show that normally most regular weekday hosts do not take
Speaker 4: part in. But I was there because of the aforementioned
Speaker 4: TV show. I worked a good chunk of this week,
Speaker 4: good chunk of this week. I was not on last
Speaker 4: night because again Thursdays into Fridays a little tough with
Speaker 4: the schedule because we did the TV show on Thursday.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so back, let's go all the way back
Speaker 4: in the hot top time machine.
Speaker 1: We're going to go back to Monday. Monday, Monday, Monday,
Speaker 1: so Monday and a Tuesday. It's chrism Seve.
Speaker 4: And the show sounded a little a little off, sounded.
Speaker 1: A little off, and you're like, what is that about.
Speaker 4: So all I can explain is that I prepared for
Speaker 4: the show the same way I always prepare for the show,
Speaker 4: put the show together, spent most of my day getting
Speaker 4: ready for the show. I put the show to bed.
Speaker 4: I watched the Monday night game, which wasn't much of
Speaker 4: the game. The game was over at halftime, Saints did
Speaker 4: not score against the Green Bay Packers back on Monday night.
Speaker 4: So I'm preparing for the show. I'm doing my thing,
Speaker 4: and I cruise in and it was like one thing
Speaker 4: after another was upside down. It was bizarrero world, and
Speaker 4: it obviously sounded a lit literally that some people loved it.
Speaker 4: Some people thought, well that it's great, loved the new
Speaker 4: sound of the show, Little Goofy. There was a lot
Speaker 4: of laughing gas in the studio, So I don't know
Speaker 4: exactly what happened. I have no idea. I have some
Speaker 4: thoughts on what might have happened. There was a lot
Speaker 4: of laughing and a lot of joking. People were in
Speaker 4: very good moods on Christmas Eve, so you can put
Speaker 4: two and two together. But I did the show, and
Speaker 4: it's like a steeplechase. Sometimes it's like you're driving down.
Speaker 4: There's potholes over here, there's a sinkhole over there. It's
Speaker 4: like it's like a video game, an old school arcade,
Speaker 4: and you got to navigate with your joystick, try to
Speaker 4: get around everything, and just try to do as much
Speaker 4: as I can and possibly do, and make the show
Speaker 4: as possible, as good as possible, and all that and
Speaker 4: then the.
Speaker 1: Next day, so the day after.
Speaker 4: The good times, Oh what good times there were. So
Speaker 4: I go to bed, I wake up early afternoon and
Speaker 4: you know, I'll scan.
Speaker 1: The email, see what's going on.
Speaker 4: I'll check social media, normal things people that have this
Speaker 4: kind of job do. So I flip on the social
Speaker 4: media and it's like, UF an idiot, your podcast is
Speaker 4: screwed up. You know all these messages, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: Blank my blank and blank you who goofed? I've got it.
Speaker 4: Going on and on and on and on. I mean,
Speaker 4: just I don't want to be too dramatic. It wasn't everybody,
Speaker 4: but it was enough where it got my attention. So
Speaker 4: I apparently what had happened. The goofiness continued, right, the
Speaker 4: goofing iss continued. And the reason the reason the goofing
Speaker 4: has continued was because somehow the podcast, the hour four
Speaker 4: of the podcast had been yesterday's hours. It was like
Speaker 4: the day before. So people were complaining about it. I
Speaker 4: don't know how that happens. I have no idea, no
Speaker 4: idea how that happens. But apparently it did happen. We
Speaker 4: got it fixed. So anyway, that's love that. That's one
Speaker 4: thing I can't get enough of. I cannot get enough
Speaker 4: of the Hey you goofed? What's wrong with you? Bad
Speaker 4: job by you?
Speaker 2: This isn't that the number one station anymore?
Speaker 1: Is it? Right? Bad job by you? Now?
Speaker 4: I mentioned in passing on that I think it was
Speaker 4: that show might have been the show the other night
Speaker 4: about Jim Healy, Jim Healley, You've got a Horse Bleach show.
Speaker 4: Jim Healey was one of my radio inspirations. Listener Paul
Speaker 4: writes in he says, you mentioned Jim Healey the other night.
Speaker 1: Brought back some great memories. I worked at a.
Speaker 4: Pharmaceutical company in Coasta Mason, southern California. Make sure the
Speaker 4: radio was turned on at five pm, either at my
Speaker 4: desk or in my car for the slog home.
Speaker 1: He says, Yeah, So.
Speaker 4: Jim Healy did a half an hour shown. You imagine
Speaker 4: doing half an hour.
Speaker 1: That's it. Your entire work, the whole day is half
Speaker 1: an hour.
Speaker 4: How great is that? That's how radio used to be.
Speaker 4: They had hour shows, half an hour shows. Now everything's
Speaker 4: three or four hours. I used to do five. I
Speaker 4: did six hours at one point overnight. But anyway, who
Speaker 4: cares so in terms of Paul's reference, Jim Heally was
Speaker 4: a big inspiration.
Speaker 1: We've talked about him.
Speaker 4: I was on the Jim Heay thirtieth anniversary show of
Speaker 4: the last broadcast of The Jim Healy Show and was
Speaker 4: on with Patrick Heey Jim he ley Son ted Sobel
Speaker 4: put that together, which was which is very, very cool,
Speaker 4: And Jim Heally would have loved, loved the show the
Speaker 4: other night with all the errors, because Heally would screw
Speaker 4: up on his half hour radio show.
Speaker 1: He hit the wrong SoundBite, but you had to roll
Speaker 1: with the punches. Do it live.
Speaker 4: We'll do it, I'll do it, I'll write it, I'll
Speaker 4: talk about it, We'll do it live.
Speaker 1: And it was that kind of deal. And yeah, Heally
Speaker 1: half an hour.
Speaker 4: It was a vignette from like the late seventies onto
Speaker 4: the early to mid nineties.
Speaker 1: I think he died in the mid nineties.
Speaker 4: Or so, but play all these ridiculous soundbites from people
Speaker 4: in sports and there's it's so much easier to do
Speaker 4: that kind of show now, but nobody does it. You know,
Speaker 4: it does that exact type show. But it was a
Speaker 4: very popular show at the time.
Speaker 1: Time. Now four, the.
Speaker 4: Idiom of the week, the idiom of the week.
Speaker 1: Now, let's say phrase.
Speaker 4: You've heard it, I've used it, and maybe you've used
Speaker 4: it as well. It's cut to the chase, cut to
Speaker 4: the chase. So what the heck does that mean? Cut
Speaker 4: to the chase? Well, cut to the chase. The phrase
Speaker 4: cut to the chase it originates from.
Speaker 1: What do you think cut to the chase? Well, that's
Speaker 1: the film industry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, early Hollywood, they were still trying to figure out
Speaker 4: what people liked and what people didn't like in movies.
Speaker 4: And oftentimes, when the big movie studios were putting movies together,
Speaker 4: if there was a lot of dialogue blah blah blah
Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Blah, that kind of thing. If that was going on
Speaker 1: for a long time, they would lose the audience. People
Speaker 1: wouldn't be into it.
Speaker 4: And so the people that ran the studios they would
Speaker 4: watch the not the final before the final edit. They
Speaker 4: would watch the film, and if things were getting a
Speaker 4: little barring in the movie, the film studio would say,
Speaker 4: cut to the chase. Cut to the scene in the
Speaker 4: movie that is the most exciting part, and that means
Speaker 4: you cut down on that conversation. Nobody needs that. What's
Speaker 4: wrong with you in this? This in the early days
Speaker 4: of Hollywood. So this is in the nineteen nineteen twenties
Speaker 4: during the silent film era. And it makes sense, right
Speaker 4: because in the nineteen twenties it was silent, so you
Speaker 4: had to read the dialogue. I get to read the dialogue,
Speaker 4: and nobody wants to sit there and read. Even in
Speaker 4: the nineteen twenties, nobody's like, I don't want to sit
Speaker 4: there and read. And here we are one hundred years later,
Speaker 4: but that goes back to the silent film era. And
Speaker 4: one of the earliest printed references to cut to the
Speaker 4: chase was in a script direction from the nineteen twenty
Speaker 4: nine Hollywood film Hollywood Girl. That was one of the
Speaker 4: first times documented in nineteen twenty nine. But here we
Speaker 4: are almost one hundred years after that, and still to
Speaker 4: this day people say, cut to the chase, get to
Speaker 4: the point please. That was on the Jim Healy Show
Speaker 4: and he said get to the point, please, please, get
Speaker 4: to the point please.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, anyway, I'm moving on from that.
Speaker 4: I did see I got an email from I know
Speaker 4: the mail bag is supposed to be on Sunday, but
Speaker 4: I thought this was it was rather interesting that there
Speaker 4: is now going to be a battle for teachers. You've
Speaker 4: got of all the jobs?
Speaker 1: I thought this. I work in radio, right, A lot
Speaker 1: of radio jobs are being taken.
Speaker 4: Over by AI. And there are music stations that don't
Speaker 4: have DJs anymore. It's all being programmed by the supercomputer
Speaker 4: and all that. So I bring this up because there's
Speaker 4: a gentleman Mike sent me this week where there's a
Speaker 4: news school that will teach children.
Speaker 1: Via AI. The teachers will not be there, will not
Speaker 1: be there. It's a charter.
Speaker 4: School in Arizona, according to the story that I've got
Speaker 4: in front of me, And so the kids will be
Speaker 4: learning via via AI. Uh, and that the selling point
Speaker 4: is say, non traditional human instructors and the bulk of
Speaker 4: the lessons will be handled by an AI program.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh, what could possibly go wrong with that? The school
Speaker 4: is initially teaching kids in fourth through eighth grade. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And one thing kids do not need is human interaction.
Speaker 4: They do not fourth a grade. And I know from
Speaker 4: my experience back when I was in school, one thing
Speaker 4: us kids do it did was always pay really good
Speaker 4: attention and we never had to.
Speaker 1: Be told to focus. Will AI be able to tell
Speaker 1: them on the on the focus thing?
Speaker 4: They?
Speaker 1: Will AI be.
Speaker 4: Able to to tell them that everything's everything's good.
Speaker 1: You needn't your focus? Do your thing? Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, yeah, I don't know, but I don't know about
Speaker 4: that anyway. That's one message I got. Oh, and I
Speaker 4: did want to mention this. I don't know if you
Speaker 4: were affected by the Christmas chaos this week with there
Speaker 4: was a glitch with American Airlines the late a bunch
Speaker 4: of flis. I had a buddy of mine, radio friend
Speaker 4: of mine back east, was going to Hawaii for Christmas,
Speaker 4: had a trip planned for a year, going to Hawaii.
Speaker 1: The morning of Christmas Eve, He's supposed to.
Speaker 4: Fly through Dallas, changed planes in Dallas heading to Hawaii,
Speaker 4: and weather it was bad.
Speaker 1: There was this glitch in American Airlines. Never made it.
Speaker 4: Never spent all year, lives in a cold weather city,
Speaker 4: spent all year looking forward to going to Hawaii, and
Speaker 4: the morning of the trip, all packed up, spent several
Speaker 4: days getting ready, getting all their affairs in order, and
Speaker 4: then call boom, Yeah you can't go.
Speaker 1: You're stuck. Enjoy the cold weather. You're screwed. Yeah, good good.
Speaker 4: Times unless it was not unless it was lacking in
Speaker 4: the good times department.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, all right, well we'll get out on that. Remember
Speaker 4: Benny Versus the Penny. I know it's a shorter podcast,
Speaker 4: but it's a holiday weekend. It is a fresh podcast.
Speaker 4: So if you want to check out, Benny Versus the
Speaker 4: Penny will be on again tonight all weekend long. There'll
Speaker 4: be a new video up on the Facebook and the
Speaker 4: Instagram page later today, so you can interact with that
Speaker 4: and help you have.
Speaker 1: A great, weird weekend. It's that weird time.
Speaker 4: It's like it's not a holiday this weekend, but it
Speaker 4: kind of is, because that week between Christmas and New
Speaker 4: Year's it's a dead period and we have Honick. You
Speaker 4: celebrate the Honick. We got the honk a going on
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: Danny G. You'll be back with me tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We'll have a new podcast on Saturday and Sunday as well,
Speaker 4: and kind of a weird schedule over the next few
Speaker 4: days after that because of the end of the year stuff.
Speaker 1: As we wind down the year.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty four, and it's been been a good and
Speaker 4: crazy and sad year. On the show, it's been a
Speaker 4: little bit of that, a little bit of this, a
Speaker 4: little bit of everything on the show. So we will
Speaker 4: have some look backs this weekend. We'll look back at
Speaker 4: some of the things that happened and whatnot, because people
Speaker 4: love that kind of stuff. At least one thing in
Speaker 4: particular by request. We will get to it at some point,
Speaker 4: I think on the Saturday Pod. Anyway, have a wonderful,
Speaker 4: glorious rest of your Friday. Thank you for listening, even
Speaker 4: on a holiday weekend here and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 4: On the fifth Hour's Danny Say, Danny g said later
Speaker 4: skater no, no, no, no, I think what Danny would
Speaker 4: say here is asta pasta?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 4: Se la vie? No no, no, no riva device? Who
Speaker 4: did I get it right?
Speaker 1: I did? I didn't get it right? All right, Well,
Speaker 1: just have a good day. Got a murder. I gotta go.