WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Menu of Doom" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 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 sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.680 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.040 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:40.960 Maler and Danny g Radio and a very happy Sunday 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:41.319 to you. 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:43.160 The NFL Weekend continues. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.320 We had games back on Thursday and Friday, and now 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:52.199 here we are again with mostly a full card. A 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.520 lot of the glamour teams have already played. There's only 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.720 a couple of games that you really circle and said, boy, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.640 I want to watch that game today. I will be 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.080 at a game. I'll beat the Raider Chargers game, which 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.920 I don't necessarily want to be at, but I will. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.080 I will well, I'll be there for media purposes. I 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.720 will be there Chargers and Raiders. I'll hopefully see Eddie 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.280 if he's at that game. The Bills Steelers game, though, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.920 that's a big one, the Bills Steelers game. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:21.360 That's a big one. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:26.119 And then the other game that it's kind of got 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:33.039 my interest that is somewhat acceptable, would be the Texans 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.360 and the Colts. To see what happens in that game. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.600 Is the Texans have that great defense, the Colts starting 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.600 to show signs of falling apart. So those are the 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.680 two games that really stand out. And then Monday Night tomorrow, 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.240 Giants and Patriots. You've got the Giants, who are terrible, 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.200 but Jackson Dart supposed to. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:58.440 Play in that game. And the Patriots, we're not completely 0:01:58.480 --> 0:01:59.760 in on them. They've got ten. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.440 Wins and that's great. Let's see what they do against 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:04.800 a bad Giants team. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:05.480 But enough of that. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.040 On this podcast today the fifth hour, you have me 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.440 Ben Danny g Away this weekend for the holiday, but 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:17.120 you have the menu of Doom and also the mail 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:22.400 bag will start though with this. So sometimes you see 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.400 it coming. Sometimes you see it coming and you walk 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:27.880 through the door and that. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.480 Feeling hits you instantly. You shouldn't be here. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.000 You've ever been in a place where you're like, I 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.400 really don't belong here. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:35.919 Why am I here? 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.960 It's just something's off. Everyone else in the building is 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:45.720 fluent in a language you never learned. They know the customs, 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:51.600 they know which fork to use. Me Na, NA, I 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.680 know how to make a pastrami sandwich at home. If 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.400 you want me to make gringo tacos, I can do that. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.200 I can make the mouther arl Pete's I can do 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.880 that as well. So this past weekend, my wife said, Hey, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.680 we're going going out to a dinner. This was not 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:15.080 a suggestion, this was a decree, and through marriage, I 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.919 was contractually obligated to attend this dinner. It was a 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.680 birthday celebration for someone that she works with, a co worker, 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.640 a bright, caring, lovely woman who is a social worker 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:35.960 and drug counselor who's helped hundreds find sobriety. And she's 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.200 done more good in the world than I've done, taking 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:44.360 seventeen thousand calls from hollering James Marcel in Brooklyn and 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:45.760 Blair in Maine. 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:47.600 So just just has. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.720 And when it was her time to celebrate, we were 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.800 celebrating her. She got to choose her restaurant, and she 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.640 chose her favorite restaurant. And this restaurant a think of 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:05.440 it like a white tablecloth seafood sanctuary with all kinds 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:11.720 of snotty, elitist rules, rituals, the dress code that might 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.640 as well have been written by the Queen of England 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:16.960 might as well have been written by the Queen of England. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.640 So the kind of place that you don't normally find me. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:21.080 I don't. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.720 I'm not that kind of guy. I'd rather hang out 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.040 at a truck stop. This is the kind of place 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.480 where they give you a look, not a menu, and 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:32.039 the look says, sir, you better behave yourself. It's like 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.919 they stand there and make sure you put your napgun 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.680 on your lap, like they know you're a neanderthal. You 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.039 have to sit up with the proper posture. Your back's 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.480 got to be straight, no jokes, no jokes until dessert. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:50.840 It's culinary church fashion. Well, food is the fashion. It's 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:55.000 not fashion, it's food, and it forks with more attitude 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.560 than your high school principle. And this is where the 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.159 trouble begins. There are two kinds of people in this world, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.040 those that eat the fish and those who don't eat 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.680 the fish. And I am firmly stationed in the second camp. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.440 I'm dug in. I got my helmet on, my trench mentality. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.000 I'm in the trenches. I do not eat fish, sam 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:16.320 I am. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:16.880 I do not. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.480 I do not negotiate with fish. I do not bend 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.000 the knee to the fish kingdom. I don't get with 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.680 big fishy. I only despise two things about seafood. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:29.960 I've told people this for years. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.280 There's only two things I don't like about seafood, the 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.280 smell and the texture. Other than that, I'm fine, I'm 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.920 a fan other than that. And yet there I was 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:46.240 a fish atheist in a seafood cathedral, the Tabernacle of Fish. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.720 Here I was, And then like. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:55.320 Que the Evil Star Wars music, the menu of doom. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.880 Now you go stand when I go to a restaurant 0:05:59.000 --> 0:05:59.919 that I don't normally go to. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.080 I'm a planner. I'm a person like many many of us. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.280 Maybe you're like me. I like to have things kind 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.760 of mapped out a little bit. I certainly want to 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.480 go to restaurants. I like to script out my meal, 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.880 think about what I'm gonna eat, kind of get a 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.000 little excited about. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.400 That, think about I only eat once a day. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.680 So I'm like, okay, I want to plan I want 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.480 to plan this out, so I script my meals. It's 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.960 like a military operation and all of that. Right, I 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.840 need a road map. It's a game plan, a culinary 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.040 game plan. Now, unfortunately the men you read like a 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:38.040 hostage note written by Poseidon himself. I stopped counting any 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:42.640 There about one hundred and seventy nine seafood dishes, lobster, razuto, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:48.800 pan seared halibit, Chilean sea bass, something called on the 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.320 side caviare foam. I don't know what that is. It 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.080 sounds expensive. Crab legs, now, this was the big thing. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.560 Crab legs, bigger than some national landmarks. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.440 That's what they're known for. And these people withou deep 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:00.000 fry a wall. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.520 If given permission, they would literally take a walrus and 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.159 just deep fright and people would eat it. They'd serve 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:12.480 jellyfish on brioche buns and call it summer inspired coastal fusion. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.280 You just want to puke in my mouth. Now, there 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.600 were a few steaks. If it's a high end seafood place, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.400 but they had a few steaks. Think of these like 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.920 the lifeboats on the Titanic seafood vessel. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.600 I didn't want steak though. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.080 I didn't want and the reason I didn't want it 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.280 you know, I'm being totally honest here. It would have 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:39.000 been the wrong move because if you walk into a 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.000 high end restaurant, this case of seafood place, but they 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.920 also have expensive steaks, and you go in there and 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.120 ask them for a steak, say, I'm gonna have the 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.400 I'm gonna have the steak and the mashed potato. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.560 Okay, how would you like that? Cook? Well, I would 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:53.920 like that. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.720 I would like that like the color of the tires 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.360 on your car when I get it, and I can, I. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.880 Have you please burn the steak. That is a felony. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:09.160 That is a culinary felony, class a felony, maximum sentence felony. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:14.320 Gordon Ramsey would personally drop through the ceiling like a 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:19.240 British swat agent and arrest you with a garnish of 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.400 Parsley if you go into that place and say I 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.480 want a steak and I want it all done now. Meanwhile, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.200 I'm staring at the kiddy menu at this point. I 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.560 don't like seafood, but I'm like, I gotta save myself here. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.160 I don't want to order the steak because I can't 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.720 get it well done. All these food dishes look terrible. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.560 So then I'm like, okay, let me look at kiddy menu, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.480 and I'm like, they gotta have chicken fingers. Everyone's got 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.920 chicken fingers on the kiddy menu. So I'm looking. I 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.040 don't see I don't see chicken fingers. I'm like, okay, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.960 I know I don't like seafood. I'm willing to take 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.320 one for the team, just so I don't get weird looks. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.719 I'll take these kids beer battered fish sticks. I'll get 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:57.000 two orders crinkle cut fries, a gallon of tartar sauce. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.679 I'll pour a two gallons of vinegar. I'll make it 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.280 rain vinegar from the heavens, and I won't even be 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:10.280 able to taste the fish. So okay, like divine intervention. Unfortunately, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.600 no Bueno or in this case, no kiddy menu at all, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.040 no dice. They didn't have a kiddy menu. This is 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.320 not for kids. This is a high end steak place. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:27.200 No Lifeline, nothing. So I finally landed on Terioki chicken, 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.720 which I consider the witness protection program of entrees. The 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:37.640 chef sent out half a chicken, breast coated and Tarioki syrup, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.480 sitting next to a thimble of rice. I feel like 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:46.520 they counted each piece of rice and one lonely pineapple 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:51.960 chunk that looked ashamed to be there, and that meal, 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.960 that meal, half a chicken breast coated in syrup, a 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.640 thimble symbol of thimble of rice rather and one lonely 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:07.600 pineapple chunk that was forty bucks. Forty American dollars for 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:12.839 a meal that I know I could make better blindfolded 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.640 on a humid Tuesday with one spatula and one arm 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.839 tied behind my back and a broken stove. And I 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.200 could have made it better, but I didn't do it. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:25.520 And I did it. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.160 I showed up, I paid the bill, and everyone's plates 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:35.199 looked like art. Okay, everyone's got these vibrant, colorful, obviously 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.120 expensive plates of food, and the food I got looked 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.160 like room service, but it was like it was room 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:43.960 service at Guantanamo Bay. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.880 Forty dollars for half a chicken breast. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.480 Again, I mean, just I can go through the whole 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.640 thing if you want, but I'm like, my god, it's 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.840 absolutely crazy. And this wasn't even the worst part. The 0:10:55.880 --> 0:11:00.880 worst part. The worst part was watching everyone else at 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.640 the table and they love their food. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.920 They're oh, this is like the greatest thing ever. Oh 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.480 my god, this is better than sex. And I'm like, 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.880 oh my god, I would disagree. 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:15.719 There were people smiling and nodding like the full body reactions. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.240 There were a few people who closed their eyes. Meanwhile, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:26.680 I'm gnawing on just disappointment, poultry disappointment. And I knew 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.199 then I had lost the night. I had lost the night. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.320 And we live just miles from the mighty Pacific Ocean, 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.360 the giant provider of seafood for the world. There are 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.840 estimates that claim there are roughly three and a half 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:46.040 trillion fish in the waters of the ocean trillion, three 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.000 and a half trillion. The ocean is basically a swimming 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:53.640 costco and over seventy percent of the world's fish catch 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.280 come from the Pacific. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:57.880 Tens of thousands. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.480 Of species exist, with new ones being discovered all the time. 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.320 And I want none of them on my plate. Not one, Sam, 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.080 I am not one. Not because I hate fish, not 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.760 because I'm trying to make a stand or be a troublemaker. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:11.800 I just can't. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.680 Again, I can't take the smell or the texture. Other 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.040 than that, I'm okay, I'm okay with it. So when 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.920 the night was over, we said our goodbyes from. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:29.600 This bougie bougie fish place, and everyone thanked the people 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.880 at the restaurant there thinking the thanking the chef like. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:37.320 This person intured disease. And I walked out, knowing I 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.720 played the wrong position. The entire evening, I was the 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.480 guy trying to run the triple option offense at a 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:48.120 seafood banquet. The out of place one was me, the 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:52.760 land mammal in a room full of ocean devotees. Uh 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.640 and listen, that was okay, because what I learned is simple. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.000 If the pride of your meal is a punt chunk, 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.400 you did not eat dinner, you survived it. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:04.719 Right. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.160 If that's the highlight, a little chunk of pineapple that 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.920 was better than the chicken and the rice, you just 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.240 happen to survive. And next time I will I will 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.200 have to do the same thing because I was a guest. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.800 But if I picked the spot, there will at least 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:23.000 be ketchup. There'll be chicken fingers on the kiddy menu, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.920 They'll be fries, they'll be all of that. There will not, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.600 under any circumstances if I'm picking, be crab legs, not 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.240 gonna happen not gonna happen. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:33.480 All right. 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.000 Now, of that, let's get to Ohio Al. Can you 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.240 get me in the mood for the mail bag? The 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:58.000 great Ohio aw, It's bag all right, very good. These 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.960 are actual questions by actual listeners. If you would like 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.559 to send a question in care of Real fifth Hour 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.560 at gmail dot com. That's all letters, no numbers, Real 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.360 fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Put jokes in the headlines. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.800 Now sign your name and city if you want credit 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.320 after every joke. Some of you don't do that, so 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.800 all you have to do is submit the joke and 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.320 then under each joke put your name in city. Otherwise 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.840 you likely won't get much credit for writing said jokes. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.200 First up on the mail bag, thanks again to Ohio Al. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.080 And again it's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.360 Jokes in the headline. Reggie from Detroit says Ben and 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.960 Danny G. Ben, you had a fill in boardop. You 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.160 had a couple of different producers this week, and your 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:49.360 radio show sounded as good as always. You've become like 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.760 McDonald's Big Mac Ben consistently good. How are you able 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.400 to put it off with all these filling people? That's 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.120 from Reggie in Detroit, well, first of all, thank you, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.000 Reggie for comparing the radio show to a Big Mac. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:05.880 Does that mean we've got a lot of bread like 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:06.480 the Big Mac? 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:06.680 Right? 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.240 You get the bread piece in the middle, is at it? Yeah? Okay, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:10.240 maybe not. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.840 So to get to the point, Richie, yeah, I do. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.320 I do take pride that the show is about the same. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.400 It really is a blessing. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.240 And a curse though in many ways. And yeah, I've 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:20.680 talked to this. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.720 I do about ninety eight percent of the work for 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:28.600 the show ninety eight percent, and so it really is 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.040 something that takes up my entire day and night. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:33.440 And it's it's. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.920 My baby, right I put when you put the baby 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:37.440 to bed at night, get the show ready. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.600 But I do all that. I am the monologues. I 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:40.520 get no help on that. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:45.240 You know, anything that is done on the show is 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.600 you know, something that I've I've put together. So you know, 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.800 it's a blessing that I have that kind of editorial control. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.640 It's also a curse because it would be a lot 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.280 easier on me if I had some people that would 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.640 help do some of that stuff. But it's just the 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:00.960 way it is, you know what. I It is really odd, Reggie, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.040 because I fill in. I did stuff at Wei and Boston. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.720 A couple of years back. I filled in LA Radio, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.560 and it's much different When I fill in. There's a 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.080 lot of like people that do that stuff. But when 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.120 I'm on my own at nine on the Ben Malor Show, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:16.040 I just I. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:16.760 Just do everything. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.080 And so therefore, you know, people can go out and 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:23.000 go comedy clubs and movies and do whatever they're doing 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.120 during the day and they don't have to worry about 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.400 the show. I'm the one worried about the show, so 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.240 you know. But in terms of as you said, I'd 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.240 like the Big Max. So it's it's kind of cool. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.200 In that regard that I don't really worry. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:35.560 You know, some people say, oh my god, you're what 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.240 are you gonna do if this this person's off for 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.000 that Parson. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:38.400 Like, I don't care. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.280 It doesn't really affect the quality of the product, and 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.560 that's the most important thing is the quality of the product. 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.960 Thank you, Reggie. I appreciate that. Steve from Ohio Rights 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:51.080 in Steve's got to complaint. He does not say what 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:51.880 part of Ohio. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:53.520 I'll just assume he's in Dayton. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:58.600 He says, Ben, why didn't you bash producer Bree on 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:05.639 Friday's show doing a Thanksgiving side dish list on your show. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:07.639 That's Steve. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.160 So Steve, First of all, I am a big fan 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.959 of Brie. She's got some work ethic to her. She 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.919 works hard, she really does a good job, and so 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:22.040 that was the first thing I dodn't want to crush her. Secondly, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.920 it's a tell that she doesn't listen. She used to listen, 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.000 but she's busy. She got lot of stuff going on, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.600 so she's not a consumer. Otherwise she would have never 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:31.320 brought that up. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:31.640 Right. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.280 Anybody that has listened to me ranted all over the 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:39.720 years about my disdain for lazy talk radio knows that 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.920 that just drives me nuts. So yeah, Steve, if I 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.600 could have just bashed her and just ripped her apart, 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.080 I chose to take a higher plane on that one, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.400 and I did not. I was gonna do my whole 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.760 rant about the holidays. I did not do that, and 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.760 I didn't do it because alf can plane is all. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.840 You're gonna I know you're gonna do the rats about 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.880 Thanksgiving radio, and I do what I hear, Oh my god, 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:07.200 whatever I want to do it. 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:08.199 Uh. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.680 Next up, Kwang from Ho Chi Minh Vietnam, says Benny 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:18.800 the dishwasher. He says, what happened to Nuby Knight? What 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.240 the heck happened to Nuby Knight? Well, Ben, let me 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.040 tell you. Let me tell you, Benny, nothing happened to 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:26.639 Newby Knight. We just haven't done it. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.200 We were supposed to do it. We forget other things 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:30.880 pop up. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:31.760 Uh. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.400 And then also what happens. 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.439 When we do Newby Knight? The regular callers don't know 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.200 what to do. They're besides themselves. They start freaking out. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:40.639 They're like, oh my god, I don't know how to 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.880 handle this. It's a big nightmare. Now. 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:48.359 He also says Quang. Since Coop doesn't seem to have 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:54.240 any more offensive lame jokes, why not incorporate Lorena. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:56.280 Uh? 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.000 Yeah, So I'm willing to incorporate anyone that wants to 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:00.520 be part of it, but you have to show some 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.080 initiative and they if they want to be part of it. 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.480 If Leno wants to be a part of it, I'm 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.919 more than happy to include these people in it. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.679 But I'm not going to force you to do it. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:11.639 And you have to. 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.280 Kind of want to be into it. And if you're 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.320 not into it. It just doesn't It doesn't work. And 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.840 he also says, could you interview your wife on the 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.760 fifth hour? I think your listeners would love to hear 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.600 how y'all met et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Well, 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.560 we don't really do interviews right now, quayg. If we 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.280 get back to that at some point. The holidays are 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.440 upon us. We said Thanksgiving this past week, and Christmas 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.920 is coming up here at the end of the month, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.680 obviously the end of the year, and so we'll start 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:44.200 doing some of those guest type podcasts. I think as 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:45.760 we get closer to the end of the year. They're 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:50.480 evergreen podcast. Next up, Barry from South Carolina says Yo 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.080 Yo Ma Benny and Danny g. 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:54.680 He says, how long did you date. 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.240 Your woman before you knew you were going to propose 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.560 to her? You know right away that there's there's there's 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.560 some interest there. You know right away that this has 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.439 got a shot at being something more than just a 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:07.600 run of the mill situation. 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:13.919 But normally it's not your call. You know. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:18.320 I'd been on dates with people in the past, Barry, 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.679 where I thought, well, that's that could be something, but 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.520 they didn't agree, right, So it takes two two to tango, 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.840 as they say, and you also have to you have 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.439 to make sure the jigsaw puzzle pieces fit together and 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:31.760 all that. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.680 So you know how long, I don't know exact time. 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:35.520 It wasn't very long. 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.439 I mean it was probably a couple months in and 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.960 then then it was like, okay, then you're trying to 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:42.800 get confirmation. 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:45.720 You know how it is. You know, you know what 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:46.280 I'm talking. 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.359 About, Barry, You feel me on that. When are you 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.560 leaving South Carolina? I thought you were leaving South Carolina. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.919 You're waiting for the housing market to go back up, 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:55.679 the interest rates to go down more, Is that right? 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:56.200 Yeah? Okay. 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.160 Next up on the mailbag, Alf from the Good Old 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:05.160 Write Sin. He says, it's that time of the year 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:08.920 when we reflect on and give thanks. As each year 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.119 turns and we get another year older, I find myself 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.919 getting jaded and more impatient with people and the state 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.560 of the world. Alf says, Now, as you read this, 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.359 I'm guessing you've already produced your annual. 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:24.760 Lazy radio podcast. 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.960