WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Upward Bound 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:02.240 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.160 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 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.439 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.280 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:30.680 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.720 In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.800 Mallor and Danny g Radio. He's on assignment. He'll be 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.640 back on Saturday and hopefully Sunday as well. But it 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.800 is the Fifth Hour. Happy Friday, the seventeenth day of 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:54.720 January in the Bonus Weekend podcast on National Bootleggers Day 0:00:54.760 --> 0:01:00.880 today every January seventeenth to mark the start of prohibition 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.200 in the US. What a great idea that was, What 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.880 a wonderful idea that was. It's also the birthday of 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.680 al Capone. How much money did al Capone make as 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.520 a bootlegger? Now here's a fun fact to begin the 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.760 Fifth Hour podcast. When I was a little kid, I 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:25.160 remember hearing my grandfather on my mom's dad tell a 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:31.000 story at dinner when he was growing up in Massachusetts. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:37.120 At one point he did some bootlegging. There's some bootlegging 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.680 in the Malar family, which was a different name. But 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.920 back in the day, he went up to Canada. Prohibition 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.960 started on January seventeenth, nineteen twenty, so one hundred and 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:54.640 five years ago. And the gangsters and mafioso the underworld. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:02:00.720 They made a fortune, right, they made for you think 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:06.360 about the Roaring twenties with jazz and booze and all 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.400 of that, all of that. But the bootleggers in the 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.840 south went to Mexico obviously in the north they went 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.480 to Canada and they made an absolutely. I don't think 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.880 my family, my grandfather, I don't think he made that much. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.800 Otherwise I'd be in a better situation than I am. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.960 But you know, it buzzed around with it, why not. Yeah, 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.519 it's also there's a bunch of these other dopey holidays. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:34.360 It's Benjamin Franklin Day today. No, I am not named 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.680 after Benjamin Franklin. I am not. Yeah, but one of 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:43.480 our founding father this is he the greatest founding father. Yeah, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:48.399 this is the anniversary of his birth. So I can't 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.280 say happy birthday because he's dead. But Benjamin Franklin who 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:59.920 made so many contributions, including the science the famous story 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:06.720 of Ben Franklin inventing the lightning rod nineteen well non 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.880 nineteen seventeen, it was like seventeen fifty something. And he 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.200 coined the term battery. How about that? That was a 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.560 Benjamin Franklin to when we say battery, I need some 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.359 new batteries. He also came up with the term charge 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:29.880 conductor and electrify. Those are all Benjamin Franklin terms common 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.400 terms that he came up with that we still used to. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.680 What a legacy for Benjamin Franklin also founded the first 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:46.360 subscription library in the seventeen thirties, the Library Common in Philadelphia, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:51.040 and in nineteen I keep saying nineteen, it's the seventeen hunderies. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.640 Seventeen forty one. Ben Franklin. His pamphlet on the Need 0:03:55.680 --> 0:04:00.200 to Educate Youth in Pennsylvania resulted in the founding of 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:05.400 the modern day University of Pennsylvania, penn that to this 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:11.520 day remains one of the bougie institutions in America. That 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:16.000 was all because of Benjamin Franklin. But wait, there's more. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.760 Benjamin Franklin in the seventeen seventies, became the first American 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.760 ambassador to France. Now, I remember reading stories years ago 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.840 that he really enjoyed the ladies in France and they 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.200 enjoyed him. He really went for it when he went 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.680 to France. But he was born on this day, seventeen 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:40.040 o six, Benjamin Franklin born to an English soap and 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:46.640 candle maker that was his pops in seventeen six, and 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.920 when he was twenty three years old he purchased a 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:56.040 newspaper and made a fortune the Pennsylvania Gazette, made a 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:01.600 fortune publishing. He used a fake name, pseudonym, and you 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.240 didn't use Benjamin Franklin's embarrassed by that. So interesting life, 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.000 but it's about Benjamin Franklin day today as well. On 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:13.800 this podcast, we have The Wanderer, the postgame Palooza, upward Bound, 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.159 or we'll get to that, maybe have a little foody 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.000 fun if we have time in the idiom of the week, 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:25.640 but we begin with the Wanderer and it is back it, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.039 What is it? What is it? Well, that would be 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.839 Benny versus the Penny in studio. Now, we talked about 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.160 last week having to do the show from home. We 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.400 were chased out of our main studio because of the 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:43.479 wildfires here in the LA area, and they closed down 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.080 the studio, so we were not able to get us 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.600 so we did the show from home. Before we get 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.880 into the return of Benny Versus the Penny, I do 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.640 have to point out I thought for a show that 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.880 was put together at the last minute, Vinnie and the 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.719 guys in Boston did a wonderful job making the show 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.600 as seamless as possible, and we had all of the 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:08.280 bells and whistles that we needed doing the show from 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.799 our homes. I have this studio which I'm actually broadcasting 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.880 in right now, which is the podcast studio, which I 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.880 do the radio show from occasionally, and I do the 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.120 podcast out of here. So I built this own, my 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.400 own little studio, which I actually I want you to know, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.480 I built this before COVID. I've talked about this a 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:29.279 few times on the podcast, but before COVID. In twenty seventeen, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.960 the year the cheating Astros cheated their way to the 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.599 World Series. They didn't win the World Series, but they 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.640 cheated their word of the World Series. But in twenty seventeen, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:44.360 I did fill in work remotely for Wei out of Boston, 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.120 and so I built this studio and it was at 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.719 the last house that I lived in and moved it 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.640 and bought all the equipment and everything, and so I 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.760 still have all of the nonsense here to do radio. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.120 And I only started doing the Fox Sports Radio show 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.520 from the home studio during COVID. Before that though, I 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.679 only did the Boston stuff. But I had everything ready 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.160 to go, and I did the podcast and all that. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.680 So I had all the equipment and had a green screen. 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:22.840 Cause years ago we fetched around on YouTube with a 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.440 version of Benny Versus the Penny. On the YouTube, we 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.480 had a live chat going. Some of you guys participated 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.120 in that. I know Alf was part of that, and 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.120 that was before Ferd Dog was a member of the 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.480 Malord militia, and there were some others just Josh and Cincinnati, 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.480 our friend from the Bay Area who passed away at 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.280 the end of last year. He was on there as well, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.520 and a bunch of the other regulars were participating in that. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.200 So I had this green screen, so I dusted that 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.000 off and I had everything I needed. I was ready 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.400 to go. It was good to go, So I thought 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.480 the show looked pretty good. All things considered, but we 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.200 were back this week. He was a regular Scot. Little 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.600 different because there's not as many games Benny Versus the Penny, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:10.800 more of myself and Looney Tunes on the TV show, 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.680 so we were able to get back in the studio 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.520 a normal routine. Went over there after the overnight show 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.720 on Thursday morning and hung out by myself in the 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.600 back room across the hall from the studio and put 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.600 the finishing touches on my notes, which I have to 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.600 memorize because unlike teleprepter Tom, I do not have a 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:37.559 teleprompter and I was there for many many hours. Tom 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:42.120 shows up. We have the infamous table read in the 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.200 back and then we go sit and get miked up 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.439 and put the makeup on and all that stuff and 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.760 do Benny Versus the Penny Show. We'll be on tonight 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:58.160 on in b see Sports Boston you can check it 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.719 out and three shows now. The Celtics play the Orlando 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.679 Magic as division leaders get together in Beantown. That game 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.280 in Boston. Game starts at seven o'clock. The Celtics hosting 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:15.640 they lead the Atlantic. They're hosting the Southeast leading Orlando Magic, 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:20.120 and Orlando actually has a chance tonight to clinch the 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.960 the season series. But we're not really worried about that. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:27.400 We're worried about after the game, the Celtics postgame show 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.200 will take place, and then we go on after that. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.079 I think the first airing schedule, depending how long the 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.800 Celtic game goes for eleven o'clock, but then it's going 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.160 to air again at eleven thirty again at midnight. So 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.880 three showings on NBC Sports Boston very important if you're 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.200 in the Boston area. If you have NBC Sports Boston, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:50.080 please check that out. That is the originator of the show. 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.240 That is where the show comes from, and it's produced 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.760 out of NBC Sports Boston, so it's very important we 0:09:55.800 --> 0:10:01.440 do well in Boston, and it'll be on there tonight 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:06.640 late after the Celtic game. And then also NBC Sports Philadelphia. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.840 You'll be able to get Benny Versus the Penny as well. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:16.080 That'll debut tonight at ten thirty tonight at ten thirty 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.160 NBC Sports Boston, NBC Sports Philadelphia. Rather you can catch 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.800 the first running of that at ten thirty and it 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:28.360 will air throughout the weekend, so there'll be other opportunities 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.920 you're not able to watch it or not record it, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.880 and then the Bay Area, which it's already aired in 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:37.320 the Bay Area several times. It's going to air this morning. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.000 In fact, by the time you get this podcast, it 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:43.959 will probably already have been broadcast, and three o'clock, three 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.120 point thirty it'll be on six o'clock tonight on NBC 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.760 Sports Boston nine o'clock, so a lot of showings in 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.920 the Bay Area. The Warriors are not playing today, so 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.400 that means they need to fill time, and there's no 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.320 better filler of time than Benny versus the PA. And 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.120 it'll be on Peacock all weekend, so check that out. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.400 I also have a video up later today of my 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.040 wandering and they call me the Wanderer, Me and Looney Tunes, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.000 who was back for the promotional video, as we walked 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.920 around the back lot at Universal Studios, and it was 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.400 a little different this week in the sense that I 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.120 do not believe Universal Studios, Hollywood the actual amusement park 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.480 which is right above the back lot, I do not 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.000 think it was open. The reason I do not think 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.200 it is open when we're walking around back there every 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.880 twenty minutes or every thirty minutes, I think it's every 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.000 twenty minutes, there's a shuttle, you know those famous Universal 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.720 Studio shuts, and they go by, and then there's like 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.959 the VIP shuttle where the people are able to get 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.160 out and walk around and stuff, and they have tour 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.600 guides explaining what everything is. So we didn't see any 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.880 of that. There were some people working on the sets, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.560 and these are like the guys that are blue collar workers, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.400 you know, the people that fix everything and make it 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.960 look all all pretty and take care of the plumbing 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.760 and move the stuff around. The prop people. We saw 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.000 a lot of those guys. There were signs up around 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.280 Universal saying red flag warning, no smoking, things like that. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.560 Because of the fire its Universal Studios is at the 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.679 base of some mountains, and so obviously that's that's an 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:21.600 issue here in southern California with everything going on, so 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.160 we had a lot of that. I just want to 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.160 jump to the upward balance. As we're talking about the 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.559 TV show Benny Versus The Penny, got some really good 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.920 I mentioned very important, very important. The show does well 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.320 in Boston, and the way I approach these things, the 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.479 radio show and the TV show, I never worry about 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.000 the ratings. I don't now somebody, So it doesn't matter 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.360 you're on overnight, We'll trust We always are getting judged, right, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.600 We're always getting judged, even doing the overnight show. I 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.200 have people at other networks that are doing overnight shows. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.200 Can I keep the audience more than them? Can we 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.400 can we add to the audience? Can we grow the audience? Now? 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.600 Because of podcasting, we not only have the live version, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.400 but we have the podcasting version. And so we're lucky 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.400 that a lot of you have been loyal. When you've 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.800 listened overnight and you've worked the third shift, and then 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.040 you go to the day shift, the dreaded day shift, 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.440 you still enjoy the show, which is great, which is awesome, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.200 and it helps us out a lot that something about 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.360 this show radiates with you that you want to be 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.959 part of it. And so that's awesome, and it's great 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.480 for us because I can go to the corporate weasels 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.760 and point all that out. But I never worry about it. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.240 I always my position has always been since I used 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:37.880 to worry when I first started. I'm not gonna lie 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.199 to you. When I first started, I was like when 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.000 I did like mid days, I used to freak out. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.000 But as I've gotten older, I spend so much time 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.720 on this crap. I get to the point now I'm like, well, listen, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.679 I put all the effort in and if people are 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.600 gonna listen, they're gonna listen. I'm going out there. I'm 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.080 gonn tear up the dance floor. If people like it, 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.160 that's great. If they don't like it, that's fine, and 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.240 that'll the listener, the viewer in this case on TV, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.160 will explain to me the issues. Now. I don't know 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:05.480 if I'm allowed to say this or not, but what 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.320 the hell, I'll say it anyway. I'm very excited. We 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.520 got the ratings for last week. I very rarely get 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.719 the ratings update because I don't really know. I don't care. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.480 They'll tell me if the show's not bad. But we 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:21.160 did very well last week in Boston, and we were Yeah. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:22.200 I don't know how much I can say and how 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.040 much I can't say, but let's just say we were 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.560 one of the top shows on TV in our demographic, 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.760 the demographic we need to get to keep the show 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.240 on the air. We were awesome. We did very well. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.200 We were on late last week too, and we killed it. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.440 When I say kill it, I'm like, top five in 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.760 the market, top three in the market. We destroyed the 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:48.840 ratings in Boston, which is awesome and thank you. I 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.680 think it was all Alf making. All of his relatives 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.400 and all of his friends and enemies watched the show, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.640 and a few of you other people, you know who 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.280 you are in Boston. But we did very well. So 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.440 in the demos that we need to get to watch 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.840 the show to keep the show going, we did very well. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.600 That's only one week, and I don't really worry about it. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.240 I'm not gonna worry about it this week. I'm not 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.960 gonna worry about it the coming weeks. That'll be sorted 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.640 out by other people who make more money than me, 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.280 who will figure out they'll crunch the numbers and all that, 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.000 and that's on them. But I was very happy to 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.080 hear that, because you know, I didn't ask for it 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.800 and just get that kind of news. It's like, hey, 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.320 that's that's pretty neat, that's pretty cool. All right. Now, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.120 turning the page on that, we have the postgame polus. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.680 If you heard last night's overnight show, it was on 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:41.160 a Royal Rumble and the Audio Jungle, the first octagon 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:46.360 of twenty twenty five Bad Blood as they did the tango. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.200 Who are they? Well, we have a big playoff game 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.400 on Sunday. The main event this weekend the Ravens traveling 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:58.080 to Orchard Park, New York. Or the forecast for the 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:02.360 that particular game, it is a picture perfect day, a 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:07.720 picture perfect day at Orchard Park, New York on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.840 the updated forecast anywhere from nine to nine degrees to 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:17.720 thirteen degrees with a chance of snow in that game, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.440 Lake effects snow for the Bills and Ravens. But leading 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.640 into that game, my friend, a longtime supporter of the 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.520 show and one of the great podcasters and broadcasters Sports 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:32.200 with Coleman, he did an interview he covers the Ravens 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.280 and he did it in with John Harbaugh, and there 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.480 was a comment made about Bill's fans, and John Harbaugh 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.120 asked him about what he said to get in trouble 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.520 with the Bills fans. He then answered the question and 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.560 this was like a hotspot that started a wildfire and 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:55.240 led to Bill's Mafia weaponizing that and forming Voltron or 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.240 Bill's Tron and going after my guys Sports with Coleman, 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.920 and he had Malard Militia on Malarn militia crime. What 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.560 is Malard militia on malardlussa crime? Makesually so Andy the 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.080 comic book guy who's from Buffalo but lives in La 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:15.840 now and runs a comic book shop. He unloaded on 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.720 sports with Colman. So I'm getting feedback and I'm not 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.440 involved in this. I stay off X during the day. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.639 I'm not on there. I've learned my lesson for my 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.639 health and my perspective on life. It's just better I 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.440 stay off there. I go on there at night during 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.200 the show, and that's enough for me. I'm very popular 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.960 with the porn bots. The bots that are trying to 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:40.760 get me to sign up for their only fans account 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.440 love me. If you send comments out late at night 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.920 to the live show, you're going to get a lot 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.320 of that. Also, it's all over the map. You get 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.639 a lot of gambling, a lot of fake accounts, a 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.840 large crevacous women who want you to pay for their 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.639 only fans And I'm like, God, it's good. I'm sure 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.439 you're up listening to a sports radio show in the 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.720 middle of the night, in the middle of the night, 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.920 unless unless you are not. But the octagon I thought 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.600 it went pretty well. There were mixed opinions on the octagon. 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.320 You can still vote if you're listening and you didn't 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.040 hear the overnight radio show, It'll be up all day today, 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:22.760 all day long, all day long. You can vote. There 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.960 are three options. Just go to my ex page Ben 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.879 Maler on x and you click on the profile there 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:35.639 and my cartoon drawing avatar will come up and you 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:40.520 can check that out and right there, many many hours 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:45.439 to go, you can vote Sports with Coleman, Andy the 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.560 Comic Book Guy, or draw Those are the three options, 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.680 and Sports with Coleman at the time we are doing 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.639 this podcast is leading. I am concerned though, because once 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.080 we're doing this very early in the morning here on 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:06.080 this Friday, but once the Bill's mafia start to get 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.040 on their phones later today, once they're done pretending to 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.520 work any the Comic Book Guy is circling the wagons 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.679 of the Bill's stampede attempting to get votes here. So 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.439 I have a feeling there'll be some shenanigans here, not 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.240 that that ever happens, But if you want to answer 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.119 the question who won the twenty twenty five Malard Verbal 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.720 Octagon between Sports with Coleman, Andy the comic book guy. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.080 You can vote on that. Check that out. It'll be 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.360 up throughout the day today and we'll see what happens 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.000 with that. With that foody fun, let's get to a 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:47.760 little foody fun, foody fun, let's do it. You're excited, 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.200 not too much, I think early in the year it's 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.520 a little slow foodie wise. They want to get through 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.800 the Super Bowl and then the deals will start popping up. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.600 People eat out more once we're through the really cold 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.000 months of January and February and part of March, and 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.200 then it starts to warm up. But Taco Bell doesn't 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.760 care about all that. They've launched a new item, steak 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:15.040 garlic nacho fries. Now, this sounds wonderful. It might be 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:16.960 because I'm on a fast. It might be because I'm 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.960 on a fast, but it sounds wonderful. It's available for 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:24.479 a limited time. It started yesterday, on the sixteenth day 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.280 of January. But what's not to like about that. You 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.479 got the fries, you got the garlic, you got the cheese, 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.520 the whole thing. The steak sounds good to me. A 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:38.320 Dominoes on Foody Fun fifty percent off pizza deal back, 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:41.160 but for a limited time, and like every deal now 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.560 there are no deals. If you walk into a fast 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.679 food restaurant like Dominoes and you buy food off the menu, 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:53.439 you are a rube. You are a sucker. You gotta 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:55.760 get the apps. Now I realize the apps are tracking you, 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.119 but you gotta get the apps all of the deals 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.880 like fast food. We've talked about this in previous episodes 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:07.040 of The Fifth Hour, but fast food is still pretty 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.440 cheap if you use the apps. If you don't use 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:15.119 the apps, you were paying a premium on all of 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:19.520 that food. Right, you are the sucker in the room. 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:24.560 You are the sucker in the room. I'm just saying. 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:27.800 I'm just saying. I mean, you look at that, it's like, 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.560 what all right, what in the world, What in the 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.879 world are you doing? Little Caesars Pizza, Pizza Pizza. They're 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.720 offering free crazy bread with any pizza purchase. That is 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.640 through February eight, so that's actually through the Super Bowl, 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.879 So you got some time to do that. And I 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:46.840 saw this story and I thought this would be perfect 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:48.399 for FOODI Fund, so I wanted to share it with you. 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.639 It's from one of the food websites that I occasionally 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.560 check out. This was the other day. It's from eat this, 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.520 not that, eat this, not that I think, it's eat 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.879 this dot com. So they had seven ways fast food 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:06.840 chains get you to spend more money, and the I 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:09.400 guess I'll go from seven to number one right now. 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.439 This is not a list terry in England. This is 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:14.640 a big board. It's not what I came up with. 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.359 So it's not you can't say you're doing list podcast. 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:22.760 I'm not you, jackass. Number number seven on the Big Board. 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:29.719 Number seven. Celebrity endorsements. The power of the celebrity. I 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:36.679 often wonder why why fast food restaurants partner with celebrities. Well, 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:42.000 turns out, sure enough, because people buy more fast food. 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:48.480 The Travis Scott meal with McDonald's was so successful that 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:52.199 they ran out of ingredients because people wanted to have 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:57.000 that connection with Travis Scott. So, celebrity endorsements they get 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:58.960 you to spend more money because you see the celebrity 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:05.400 and you're a sucker. First, celebta not you, but other people, toys, 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:13.480 toys and collectibles. Bob Bernstein, the guy that created the 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:19.760 Happy Meal in the late nineteen seventies, he said, big 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:25.960 advertising executive, he said, we were losing our endorsements of 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:29.560 the kids. He said, we wanted to re establish ourselves 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:33.240 with kids and the family and say we were kid friendly. 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:39.399 So they came up with that, and McDonald's ever since 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:41.760 it's like one of the top toy producers and all 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:45.280 we know the story about that. So these fast food chains, 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:50.400 Burger King and Wendy's have had issues trying to get 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:53.840 families because they don't give crap away, and McDonald's has 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:56.480 always been way ahead when it comes to giving the 0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:02.439 crap away. Third party livery places like uber eats. Some 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:06.399 of you boys deliver Uber eats or it's not just 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:09.800 Uber Eats, but you do that kind of stuff, and 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:13.760 that is a way to drive up the price of food. 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:16.639 And this is what I don't get, Like, I'm glad 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.560 a lot of people pay for the food. And because 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:24.080 there's fellas that listen. I know FAMI and Minnesota for example, 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:25.800 and some of the other guys that are big fans 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:28.680 of the show aren't delivering Uber eats late at night. 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.560 So I'm glad you guys have employees, or not employees, 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:34.840