Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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 sol 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 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1: The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler
Speaker 1: and Danny g Radio A Happy Sunday to you, the
Speaker 1: last Fifth Hour podcast for the month of June. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're almost into July, and that means NFL training camp
Speaker 1: will open up in a couple of days. We do
Speaker 1: have the mailbag. We'll get to that in a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. It is National Camera Day today, which means
Speaker 1: I fell down the proverbial rabbit hole with amazing factoids, shocking,
Speaker 1: mind blowing factoids about the camera. I am such a
Speaker 1: radio loser. For example, is it true that the ancient
Speaker 1: optics were invented the basis for the camera four hundred BC?
Speaker 1: That the Chinese? The Chinese provided the earliest known written record,
Speaker 1: written record of their exploration of the camera or pinhole
Speaker 1: imagery now wasn't until the eighteen hundreds, eighteen twenty five,
Speaker 1: so exactly you do the math on this, it's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, so that would be two hundred years ago
Speaker 1: the first image was printed. A French scientist invented the heliograph,
Speaker 1: a print that requid required eight hours of light exposure
Speaker 1: eight hours of light exposure to create and soon faded away.
Speaker 1: And then within fifteen years, less than fifteen years after that,
Speaker 1: eighteen thirty nine, the forerunner of filming was born as
Speaker 1: a gentleman in France was the first person to commercially
Speaker 1: successfully photograph, use that process of photography to create a
Speaker 1: permanent image on a metal plate. So that was in
Speaker 1: eighteen thirty nine, and then you advance a couple of
Speaker 1: years later, another gentleman patented the calotype process, the first
Speaker 1: negative positive process at the time, which made it possible
Speaker 1: to reproduce multiple copies of pictures. And over time you
Speaker 1: think about the evolution of the camera and where we
Speaker 1: have gotten where everyone has their own camera. But it
Speaker 1: was in the eighteen eighties George Eastman invented the first
Speaker 1: flexible photographic film and that follow up with another first
Speaker 1: in eighteen eighty eight when he patented the Kodak role
Speaker 1: film camera, and Kodak became one of the biggest companies
Speaker 1: in America. When I was a kid, Kodak was dominating.
Speaker 1: And if you're under the age of like forty, you
Speaker 1: probably no idea like Kodak. What the hell's Koda? I mean,
Speaker 1: you've heard the Kodak moment, but like, what is it?
Speaker 1: The first mass marketed camera went on sale in nineteen hundred,
Speaker 1: and then there was every couple of years there was
Speaker 1: a big, a big thing. The Wright brothers invented the
Speaker 1: airplane and then that created aerial photography, making it available
Speaker 1: to the military. Sorry, I was in nineteen oh three.
Speaker 1: You can advance it. Nineteen thirty five that Guy Eastman
Speaker 1: introduced the Coda Chrome the first and they claimed the
Speaker 1: best color transparency film nineteen thirty five. And then you know,
Speaker 1: every couple of years there was a big announcement, and
Speaker 1: it was up until the nineteen seventies when digital seventies
Speaker 1: of the nineties, digital started taking over in the eighties
Speaker 1: and the nineties. The first camera phone was in two thousand,
Speaker 1: built into a camera, though very few people had it
Speaker 1: and Kodak, which had dominated and again one of the
Speaker 1: biggest companies in America, they stopped making film cameras over
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. Twenty four was when they said ixnay
Speaker 1: on the film may were good. And I guess they're
Speaker 1: still around, but barely around, right, barely barely around. So
Speaker 1: that is it. In a nutshell, it is National Camera Day,
Speaker 1: so more than eight hundred years, all the way back
Speaker 1: eight hundred years. Uh. And dark chamber And even when
Speaker 1: I was in junior high school, you old had we
Speaker 1: had a class that it was an elective you could
Speaker 1: sign up for, and it was processing film, going into
Speaker 1: a dark room, putting the film under the end in
Speaker 1: the water and taking it and creating the image. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you don't have to obviously don't have to do
Speaker 1: that anymore. But in a split second you have what
Speaker 1: used to be movie quality film on your on your phone.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is wacky, wacky, wacky. In wheeling away
Speaker 1: from that, before we get to the mail bag, we
Speaker 1: have the two for one weekly special at the Malor
Speaker 1: Mad House. That's right, a two for one weekly special
Speaker 1: at the Malor Mad House. And you get first DIBs
Speaker 1: on this because you are a legit p one listening
Speaker 1: to the fifth hour podcast on a Sunday or whenever
Speaker 1: you end up listening to this, and you will have
Speaker 1: an advantage. Those other mere peons will not have. The
Speaker 1: people that only listen to the overnight show, we will not
Speaker 1: know this. So the two for one weekly special at
Speaker 1: the Malor Mad House, I will be in tonight, per normal,
Speaker 1: per normal, normal night overnight talk radio. I will then
Speaker 1: not be in. That would be the one. I will
Speaker 1: be off the radio Monday and Tuesday, so you will
Speaker 1: not hear my voice Monday and Tuesday. Have something I
Speaker 1: have to take care on that night, so I cannot
Speaker 1: attend the radio show. But then I will be back
Speaker 1: to normal the rest of the week. So four nights
Speaker 1: of overnight talk radio. But here's the two I mentioned
Speaker 1: a two for one weekly special at the Maler Matthouse.
Speaker 1: I have been called in out of the bullpen. I
Speaker 1: will be back doing the day night doubleheader double barrel
Speaker 1: talk radio day and night, burning the candle at both
Speaker 1: ends as I will be working with Fred Rogan, the dean,
Speaker 1: the Dean of La Sports, Fred Rogan on the Blowtorch
Speaker 1: AM five seventy and that'll be on Wednesday and Thursday
Speaker 1: of this week. So the dates on that, I believe
Speaker 1: our July second and July third. So I'll be on
Speaker 1: from noon to three pm Pacific. That's after noon Drive
Speaker 1: on the East Coast three o'clock in the afternoon till
Speaker 1: six o'clock. You can listen on the iHeart Radio appts
Speaker 1: on AM five seventy that is the home of the Doyers.
Speaker 1: So I'll be on there and talk a lot of Dodgers,
Speaker 1: LA sports, the usual stuff. I'll be forced to talk
Speaker 1: about the Lakers, but I'd much rather talk about the Clippers.
Speaker 1: The Rams you can ram it all day, you can
Speaker 1: ram it all night, and the Chargers as well. So
Speaker 1: that'll be coming up two for one special again for
Speaker 1: those of you a little slow in the back of
Speaker 1: the room. I will be on tonight Monday into Tuesday.
Speaker 1: No radio show for me, but then to make up
Speaker 1: for that, I will do six extra hours of talk
Speaker 1: radio spread out over two days. So you are warned,
Speaker 1: prepare accordingly. So if you guys on the payroll, like
Speaker 1: Alf and fer Dog and Terry in England, you guys
Speaker 1: are gonna have to work extra. You're you're also gonna
Speaker 1: have to work extra, but I will give you the
Speaker 1: one night off on Monday and Tuesday, I'll give you
Speaker 1: that night off. Now to the mail bag, and that
Speaker 1: means the one and only get me in the mood,
Speaker 1: ohio Al, you know what to do. Come on, ohio Al.
Speaker 1: Hit that button right there, Danny G it's all right,
Speaker 1: all right, Thank you very much, ohio Al. These are
Speaker 1: actual letters by actual listeners to the Overnight Show during
Speaker 1: the week and this fifth hour podcast. You have made time.
Speaker 1: You've taken time out of your schedule to write an email.
Speaker 1: I know it doesn't take that long, but you've taken
Speaker 1: a little bit of time to contact me. We do
Speaker 1: thank you for doing that. And yet again we have
Speaker 1: some new names here that have not popped up in
Speaker 1: the past, which means the podcast is growing, that it's
Speaker 1: in safe hands. And so I know we both appreciate
Speaker 1: Danny's not here on the mic this weekend, but we
Speaker 1: both we do appreciate the fact that you are taking
Speaker 1: time out and adding content, burning up the audio dance floor,
Speaker 1: if you will. Now, this is a name that we
Speaker 1: get quite often. He's a big fan of the show,
Speaker 1: although he's never called the show not this show. Or
Speaker 1: the radio show Reggie from Detroit. Reggie says Ben and Danny.
Speaker 1: He says, I hope your weekend is going well. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed hearing from Dick in Dayton. He sounds in
Speaker 1: a he sounds like he's in a bad mood. Reggie says,
Speaker 1: he's not that happy with his living situation. Hopefully you'll
Speaker 1: be able to get to Ohio and cheer him up.
Speaker 1: As for my question, Reggie says, I know you guys
Speaker 1: are not soccer fans, However, do you have any hot
Speaker 1: takes on Ronaldo and his deal in Saudi Arabia? All right,
Speaker 1: so obviously Danny cannot answer this because he's out here,
Speaker 1: but I will answer this Reggie. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: let's start with Dick and Dayton. And he's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite people. You know that if you listen to
Speaker 1: the Overnight show. I am a huge fan of Dick
Speaker 1: from Dayton. He has provided so many great drops. Then
Speaker 1: I'm relatively confident he does not even realize how funny
Speaker 1: he is. Dick from Dayton and he's just a treasure.
Speaker 1: He's been calling me for god at least twenty years.
Speaker 1: We've had a radio relationship. Caller host and he called
Speaker 1: me when I was working on Thanksgiving probably twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: and a sweet, fun guy. He was going to get
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner by himself in Dayton, Ohio, and he was
Speaker 1: bragging he paid five dollars for Thanksgiving dinner. And he's
Speaker 1: called me ever since. He calls me once or twice
Speaker 1: a week, and I would love to get there. I'm
Speaker 1: efforting to get there, Reggie. That is the plan. Some
Speaker 1: of you reached out, I need a venue for the
Speaker 1: meet and greet. Based on the feedback that we're getting,
Speaker 1: a lot of you are like, hey, he should come
Speaker 1: to southern southern Ohio. I don't know, like Cincinnati, Dixon
Speaker 1: in Dayton obviously, and he can't really leave there, so
Speaker 1: I might just have to go to Dayton. I might
Speaker 1: just say, effitt and I'll just go to Dayton. And
Speaker 1: if I have to pick Dick in Dayton up in
Speaker 1: an uber or something, well we'll make it happen. But
Speaker 1: as far as the other part of that, I did
Speaker 1: see the Ronaldo contract. I read the Sun, which is
Speaker 1: a tabloid in London. I don't read it. I scan
Speaker 1: it and this thing up. So Ronaldo and you can
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong, Reggie. As I understand it,
Speaker 1: Ronaldo is going to earn two hundred and forty three
Speaker 1: million dollars per year on his new deal. You talk
Speaker 1: about getting some of that Saudi oil money. He will
Speaker 1: be paid four point seven million dollars per week. But wait,
Speaker 1: there's more. He also gets an ownership stake in the team,
Speaker 1: and he's got performance bonuses in there as well. He'll
Speaker 1: get was it ten grand per goal? That's that's ten
Speaker 1: extra thousand. That's like a startup fee for a tech company.
Speaker 1: Ten thousand dollars he'll get oh no, wait, one hundred.
Speaker 1: I say one, one hundred and ten grand. I said ten, No,
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten grand, My god, ten grand. He
Speaker 1: wouldn't even get out of bed. One hundred and ten
Speaker 1: per goal, Now that is more like a tech startup.
Speaker 1: He'll get fifty five thousand per assist. So whether he
Speaker 1: passes for a goal or scores a goal. Man. Now,
Speaker 1: my friend Nico, who's got his son who's a soccer prodigy.
Speaker 1: Now Nico, please remember me, Nico when your son ends
Speaker 1: up getting that Ronaldo money from Saudi Arabia. Holy crap.
Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. So, Reggie, the story says that
Speaker 1: essentially Ronaldo has been given not only the two hundred
Speaker 1: forty three million dollars, but he's been given an entourage
Speaker 1: like he's the president, which includes chef's gardeners, private security
Speaker 1: around the clock. And does he get a new pair
Speaker 1: of underwear every day like Floyd Mayweather. My got two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty three million, and he gets a thirty
Speaker 1: three percent ownership stake in the club. He'll he'll get
Speaker 1: up to twenty five million dollars in team incentives and
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, sixteen full time staff members for Ronaldo. Man,
Speaker 1: they have so much money because of you and I
Speaker 1: buying gas in Saudi Arabia. My god, that can you imagine.
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, yeah, we'll pay. We're gonna pay Ronaldo.
Speaker 1: We'll give them two hundred and forty three million dollars. Wow,
Speaker 1: that is next level. Is obviously obviously what it is.
Speaker 1: And if they start I remember we talked about this
Speaker 1: when there was some Middle East money that went into golf,
Speaker 1: and if they wanted to there's so much money, you
Speaker 1: know a couple of these countries, you know, the Saudi
Speaker 1: Wellness Fund, We talked about that. How much money they
Speaker 1: have they could destroy if they wanted to the NFL,
Speaker 1: the NBA, and Major League Baseball. If they woke up
Speaker 1: and got to bug up their ass and said, we
Speaker 1: just want to take down the NFL, they would be
Speaker 1: able to do that within a year. They have so
Speaker 1: much money that they would just cherry pick Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and they'd get Josh Allen and the top coaches, Sean
Speaker 1: McVay and all these other guys whoever they wanted, because
Speaker 1: you could pay them all one hundred million or two
Speaker 1: hundred million per year and they would still not It
Speaker 1: wouldn't even make a dent in how much money they have,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up on the mailbag, we have Hwang,
Speaker 1: who writes us from Vietnam. He says, Big Man and
Speaker 1: Daddy g Radio. A woodpecker's tongue loops around its head,
Speaker 1: helping to protect its brain from the force of repeated pecking. Says,
Speaker 1: are the rumors true that are you smarter than a
Speaker 1: tech queen? The bit was canceled due to the lack
Speaker 1: this lack of protection. Wow, well, Quang, the bit is
Speaker 1: on hiatus right now. It has not officially officially been canceled.
Speaker 1: It just was not up to the standard, Like I know,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of standards on the show.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't good. The people that were calling to
Speaker 1: play were not good. Lorena, I love her, but she
Speaker 1: didn't take it seriously and it just wasn't good radio.
Speaker 1: And so why would we do it? Why would we
Speaker 1: continue to do it if the quality was just not there?
Speaker 1: It makes no sense now, Tommy. Since he Tommy writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, greeting's Big Ben, Benny the Brazen and
Speaker 1: Danny g Money, he says, quote, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: smarter than the FSR Tech Queen game was not going well. However,
Speaker 1: since he Tommy writes it in I think it should
Speaker 1: be retooled instead of shell. If I may touch up
Speaker 1: your work. Just to Tad sir, here we go, Tommy says,
Speaker 1: consider changing the rules. Alternate picking the category. Lorena and
Speaker 1: the challenger must say their first name and answer the
Speaker 1: question alone like the other games. Says, allowing contestants and
Speaker 1: Lorena to piggyback their answers doesn't work and makes the
Speaker 1: game easier and longer. Please consider don't let my legacy end. Benny.
Speaker 1: Much love and a little skyline to you both. Well,
Speaker 1: there you go Daniel skyline chilly. So this is where
Speaker 1: you play the fart sound effects right here? Yep, that's
Speaker 1: about right, all right? So that was Tommy. Listen, Tommy,
Speaker 1: I'm not as I told Kwang, and I'll repeat it
Speaker 1: if you weren't paying attention two seconds ago. At this point,
Speaker 1: the game is on pause. Will I consider bringing the
Speaker 1: game back at some point? Sure, I'll consider bringing the
Speaker 1: game back. I want to say we can come up
Speaker 1: with something else. I want to try some other things
Speaker 1: and see I've had some bits floating around in my
Speaker 1: head that we haven't done, So we'll see where that goes.
Speaker 1: Ferg Dog in Fullerton that Winter Wonderland writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: simpify Ben and Danny g. In response to Alf's question
Speaker 1: from last week, I don't think there's anything wrong with
Speaker 1: listening to a throwaway podcast on two times the speed,
Speaker 1: like The Herd or the Puck Podcast. But if you're
Speaker 1: listening to a good podcast like The Fifth Hour or
Speaker 1: The Animal Thunderdome, you shouldn't alter it in any way.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't listen to a classic song at two times
Speaker 1: the speed, would you? Question Mark? He says, what's your
Speaker 1: guy's least favorite ride at Disneyland. For me, it is
Speaker 1: the Haunted Mansion. I went on it once and I
Speaker 1: had nightmares for weeks. Never again, never again. So for
Speaker 1: a dog my least favorite ride at Disneyland, let's see,
Speaker 1: I guess I would go Space Mountain. I think I'm
Speaker 1: too tall. I'm too big a guy now. I used
Speaker 1: to go on it when I was a kid, and
Speaker 1: I've heard stories that people if you're a little too
Speaker 1: tall there, like there have been people that have been
Speaker 1: hurt on it, and I don't think that'll happen anymore.
Speaker 1: There's enough people that ride it that doesn't really do
Speaker 1: much for me, And I'm trying to think, like I
Speaker 1: usually just avoid the rides I don't like. I don't
Speaker 1: bother to go on them. So if they don't look
Speaker 1: interesting to me, unless I'm being forced to go on
Speaker 1: them because I'm with my niece or nephew or something
Speaker 1: like that, I'm like, eh, I'm good. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be partaking if it doesn't look good,
Speaker 1: because the most important thing we have is our time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I go Space Mountain. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: what other rides are like, pretty lame? I guess the
Speaker 1: the submarine ride. I think they still have that. I
Speaker 1: think they changed the name of it though I used
Speaker 1: to like Splash Mountain. They change that. But you get soaked,
Speaker 1: so I'm not not going on that. My wife hates it.
Speaker 1: She's can't ah, you get so wet. It's discussing anyway.
Speaker 1: Paul from Oregon rights and says, Ben and Danny, you
Speaker 1: guys calling your travel agent about the big travel news
Speaker 1: this week. And Paul says that North Korea Kim Jong
Speaker 1: un has opened a new beach resort. Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: think we're allowed. Uh yeah, that'd be a tough one.
Speaker 1: Although I have been sent by some of you idiots
Speaker 1: travel blogs on YouTube of people that have gone to
Speaker 1: North Korea, Like they're a lot if you're like British.
Speaker 1: I mean they allow some people to go. And I'm
Speaker 1: guessing they don't show you the whole picture. They only
Speaker 1: show you a part of the picture, if you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, that's I'm good on that. I
Speaker 1: saw some of the photos. Look looks fine. I don't
Speaker 1: think the food's that good. Frankie from Philadelphia Adjacent Frankie
Speaker 1: says he says, hey, bandon Danny. You guys proud of
Speaker 1: your baby talk. I think this is more for Danny
Speaker 1: than for me. But Danny is not here. And Frankie says,
Speaker 1: this story he found this week is that baby talk
Speaker 1: is believed to be the reason humans are the only
Speaker 1: speaking species on Earth baby talk. And he sent me
Speaker 1: a story here. According to the story, and I don't
Speaker 1: know where Frankie got this from. He says, human infants
Speaker 1: receive up to four hundred up to a weasel term,
Speaker 1: up to four hundred times more direct vocal communication then
Speaker 1: baby bontabos, and nearly seventy times more than baby chimpanzees.
Speaker 1: The suggestion is that talkative parenting is unique among the
Speaker 1: great apes. So the human beings talking and they say
Speaker 1: that well, background chatter around the children infants similar across humans,
Speaker 1: chimps and all the other ape species. It is only
Speaker 1: only the human caregiver that is focused on speech directly
Speaker 1: at the baby, and so that helps encourage learning. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Obviously, Frankie is like, yeah, we do that,
Speaker 1: but are you You're born doing that right, because some
Speaker 1: human beings didn't start out with me. Somewhere along the
Speaker 1: way the first humans, I do the math on that
Speaker 1: they didn't you know, where did they come from? Etc?
Speaker 1: Evolution all that. Those are some deep conversations, but the
Speaker 1: early kids were their parents talking right away like how
Speaker 1: did that work? I don't know, but thank you, Frankie,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Danny he'll address that at a later date.
Speaker 1: For baby Ka. Joe from New York, New York, right Sin,
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, since you have talked about your spitting
Speaker 1: loogie fascination on the show, I thought you'd appreciate this story.
Speaker 1: Have a great day, enjoy the radio show and the podcast.
Speaker 1: You better not stop doing either. That is from Joe
Speaker 1: in New York. And Joe sent a story about what
Speaker 1: to do with flem and he wrote this like Shakespeare,
Speaker 1: he wrote, to spit or to swallow flem. So I
Speaker 1: read the story, Joe, and it's pretty funny because the
Speaker 1: story concluded going it's a very worthy story, and it
Speaker 1: concluded you're fine doing either either you spit that big
Speaker 1: wad of mucissi flem out or you swallow it back
Speaker 1: into your stomach. The story says spitting can help some
Speaker 1: people feel better, especially if their cough is associated with
Speaker 1: thick flem. That's causing distress. But for most healthy people
Speaker 1: there is no need to force a cough or spit
Speaker 1: out flem. Swallowing flem is completely safe. Okay. Now, one
Speaker 1: thing about this story, Joe, My favorite part is that
Speaker 1: if you go back to the eighteen twenties, so a
Speaker 1: couple hundred years ago, there was a French physician who
Speaker 1: invented the guy that invented the stepiscope, and in his
Speaker 1: office he had a spitting pot, he said, a spinning
Speaker 1: pot he considered an essential part of the bedroom apparatus.
Speaker 1: So not only his office, but like in the bedroom,
Speaker 1: near the bed, you had to have a thing just
Speaker 1: to spit flem into. How do you like that? Put
Speaker 1: that in your pipe and smoke it. Carl from Vegas
Speaker 1: rights and Carl says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I enjoy
Speaker 1: the mail bag. I thought this would be good for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's all we need. Send me more, guys,
Speaker 1: if you see stuff that you think we would be
Speaker 1: good for the show. It's real fifth hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. That's real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: All all letters, no numbers, Carl says, is this guy
Speaker 1: the cowboy John brad of magic? So he sent me
Speaker 1: a story here. A magician was on the Today Show
Speaker 1: this week and has memori every zip code in America,
Speaker 1: every single zip code in America. This guy has has
Speaker 1: gotten his head. So Carl a couple things. Number one, number,
Speaker 1: one number. It's obvious this guy has some kind of
Speaker 1: photographic memory, right, certain people have that. I don't have that.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you don't have that, right, otherwise you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have sent this in, Carl, So we don't have that.
Speaker 1: Number two. Yeah. The beauty of Cowboy John Brad is
Speaker 1: he does not own a computer, he does not have
Speaker 1: a smartphone, he does not have any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: But yet he remembers everything, like every day of his
Speaker 1: life he remembers. And he started to call the show again.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know particularly, I didn't see the
Speaker 1: segment with the guy that knows every zip code in America.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. However, it doesn't really like shock
Speaker 1: me because if you have that ability, I get it.
Speaker 1: I totally get it. Tony in the Bay Area rights in.
Speaker 1: He says, did Jinks May's ask for my five five
Speaker 1: five number? Not yet, Tony, We'll let you know, And
Speaker 1: he says, Danny g I'm guessing you have judged many
Speaker 1: verbal octagons. He says, I was wrongly disqualified recently, and
Speaker 1: I want your decision if I won by the vowel
Speaker 1: being thrown in after me saying a cross between William
Speaker 1: Shatner and David Vassey is what my dick looks like. Wow. Well, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Tony Danny's not here to answer your questions. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's laughing right now as he listens to it. Ryan
Speaker 1: from Shrewsbury, mass writes and he says, big Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny g Since it seems like you're a tacco expert, Ben,
Speaker 1: can you please settle the great debate between me and
Speaker 1: my wife? Absolutely, we will do that, Ryan, He says,
Speaker 1: I like hardshell tacos and she is more of a
Speaker 1: soft shell taco fan. Oh which is better in your
Speaker 1: professional opinion? Well, Ryan, first of all, these are the
Speaker 1: kind of questions that are perfect, absolutely perfect for the
Speaker 1: male back. So thank you for that. We appreciate that. Now,
Speaker 1: with all due respects, I'm sure your wife doesn't listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast. She could not be more wrong with
Speaker 1: her love of soft shell tacos. That is a bad answer.
Speaker 1: That is a party foul. There is only one excit answer.
Speaker 1: There is no great taco debate the taco and I
Speaker 1: know because you're living in southern California. It's essentially northern
Speaker 1: Mexico right where we live here in southern California. There's
Speaker 1: a great Mexican food. It's it's wonderful. Oh, there's no question.
Speaker 1: Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it,
Speaker 1: love it, love it. The acceptable answer tacos Dorado's tacos dorados.
Speaker 1: That's the answer. And there are some tacos snobs out
Speaker 1: there and these a holes. It's like the people that
Speaker 1: get upset that that are low low IQ people, the
Speaker 1: dumb of the dumb. I can't believe you like your
Speaker 1: steak butterfly cut, well done. Heah, yikes. Yes, it's my steak,
Speaker 1: you schmuck. I'm gonna eat it the way I want it.
Speaker 1: You lose it, and.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to complain because there's blood dripping off
Speaker 3: your pink climey discussing steak.
Speaker 1: I don't care how you meet your steak. But it's
Speaker 1: the same brain, Rod, It's the same brain, Rod, Ryan.
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate to hear your wife has it the
Speaker 1: soft taco Illuminati. That's what I call. They're like an illuminati. Okay,
Speaker 1: they are assholes, I said it. Ah, give me tacos dorado,
Speaker 1: the gringo taco, which, oh, by the way, if you know,
Speaker 1: the history of Mexico is as authentic as it gets. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not everywhere in Mexico, but if you look at
Speaker 1: the northern parts of Mexico, like Sonora, Mexico, Chihuahua. I
Speaker 1: mean there's some other towns too. I don't I can't
Speaker 1: forge of the name of them, but there's there's several
Speaker 1: northern outposts, several northern outposts in Mexico where the local
Speaker 1: taco is tacos dorado. So don't do not back down. Ryan.
Speaker 1: The soft taco is more like a burrito. It's not
Speaker 1: a taco. The proper taco is crunch it's fried. It's wonderful,
Speaker 1: and don't forget when you're having Mexican food. Ryan, the
Speaker 1: crunchy gringo taco, the cousin of the gringo taco, also wonderful.
Speaker 1: The taketofact last night for dinner, homemade crunchy tacos, gringo tacos,
Speaker 1: the tacos dorado and taketos from scratch. We made them
Speaker 1: from a scratch, and we've mastered that menu item. We've
Speaker 1: mastered that menu item. It's just absolutely great. Alf writes
Speaker 1: in the Alien Opiner from Columbia Pictures. He says, I
Speaker 1: figured there's no better way to put a ball on
Speaker 1: three Stooges a week on the Ben Mathers Show than
Speaker 1: to give you a bunch of fun facts about our
Speaker 1: favorite trio. So hit the music, all right, So Alf
Speaker 1: sent me, we won't do all of these Alves. I mean,
Speaker 1: let me pick and choose some of these the Three Stooges.
Speaker 1: The Three Stooges lineup was not always the same. There
Speaker 1: were six different Stooges from nineteen twenty two to nineteen seventy. Wow,
Speaker 1: you talk about a run. Holy, that's forty eight years
Speaker 1: of I mean a little bit younger than I am
Speaker 1: right now. That is wild Curly's hair. His shaved head
Speaker 1: was not natural. He cut his hair short because he
Speaker 1: thought it looked funnier. What else? The physical comedy was real.
Speaker 1: The actors often were injured while filming on set. Larry
Speaker 1: Fine broke a finger during a stunt. There you go.
Speaker 1: The Stooges were among the first American comedians to satirize
Speaker 1: Hitler and make fun of the Nazis, so they did
Speaker 1: that in their first film, Women Haters, was a musical
Speaker 1: comedy with rhyming dialogue and jokes. I was in nineteen
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four. The ipoke inventor Shemp Howard credited with
Speaker 1: inventing the three Stooges ipoke, which is when you think Stooges,
Speaker 1: that's one of the first things you think of. Curly's
Speaker 1: signature sounds U U and woo woo woo woo woo
Speaker 1: first appeared in Women Haters, though the woo woo woo
Speaker 1: woo woo was borrowed from another comedian. And the most
Speaker 1: amazing fun fact of them all is that they were unaway.
Speaker 1: They were unaware that they were popular. They didn't realize
Speaker 1: that Columbia Pictures was making tons of money based on
Speaker 1: their ability. Their salaries were kept low, they didn't get royalties,
Speaker 1: they didn't get residuals from the films and the TV stuff,
Speaker 1: so they were not They were not rich, They were
Speaker 1: not wealthy because the evil movie studios screwed them over.
Speaker 1: A guy named Harry Cohen, the Columbia Pictures President kept
Speaker 1: their salaries pretty low, and they made more money and
Speaker 1: more money, and more money, and more money and more money.
Speaker 1: So there you go. It's from alf. I think I
Speaker 1: did do all the fun facts off. I think I
Speaker 1: got pretty much all of them. I think so all right,
Speaker 1: our last one, well, this is not really worthy of imagine.
Speaker 1: Patrick from San Diego DJ Spin. He wanted to apologize.
Speaker 1: He was on Jeopardy the other night, and he says,
Speaker 1: no excuses, and then he gave an excuse. He said,
Speaker 1: no excuses. I couldn't hear everything clearly, he says. That's
Speaker 1: on me. He says, after I listened to the questions
Speaker 1: on the podcast, I knew the answers. He says. I'm
Speaker 1: not a usual caller. He says, By the way, I'm
Speaker 1: still blocked by William Shatner on X and he is
Speaker 1: going to beat me at scrabble. Now, well, I give
Speaker 1: you credit. I will give you credit, Patrick, because unlike
Speaker 1: most of the other listeners that have played me on Scrabble,
Speaker 1: You're still going and a lot of the other guys
Speaker 1: have given up. They've thrown in the towel. They're like, ah,
Speaker 1: we can't. We can't compete with this. You know, you
Speaker 1: know you can't beat me. Now I have lost. I
Speaker 1: lost to Noah. I lost to Noah alf. I don't
Speaker 1: think I lost to alf He's one one of the
Speaker 1: guys that has stopped to stop playing. But if you
Speaker 1: want to play me on on Scrabble, it's it's on
Speaker 1: iPhone and Android, and I don't get paid for this,
Speaker 1: and they're not not a sponsor, but it's I love
Speaker 1: playing Scrabble. And if you want to go against me
Speaker 1: on Scrabble, it's the Scrabble Go app. It's a free
Speaker 1: app and you can test yourself against me. My name
Speaker 1: on there is Benny uh and so you know it's
Speaker 1: my name, and just search for the Benny's. I have
Speaker 1: a Brooklyn Dodger cap, the bet cap on my avatar. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. All right, we'll get out on that.
Speaker 1: And thank you for listening all weekend on the podcast
Speaker 1: and really testing the boundaries of the human voice. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I mean, I think the company is
Speaker 1: just trying to trying to get my voice to be
Speaker 1: completely destroyed. They on the Overnight show, I used to
Speaker 1: have have Eddie and then they got rid of Eddie,
Speaker 1: so I talked for four hours a night by myself.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm leaving. Goodbye. Remember tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight.
Speaker 1: I will be on normal off on Monday, but it's
Speaker 1: a two for one special, so I'm off on Monday
Speaker 1: and Tuesday, but then back double barrel Action. I will
Speaker 1: be on locally in LA, but you can listen on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app on AM five seventy it's the Dodger station.
Speaker 1: I will be on from noon to three Pacific that's
Speaker 1: three to six Eastern Time on Wednesday and Thursday. And
Speaker 1: we will have a live show on the fourth of July,
Speaker 1: heading in to that overnight the July third into July fourth.
Speaker 1: So I have a wonderful a rest of your Sunday.
Speaker 1: We will catch you later on tonight on the radio.
Speaker 1: Asta Pasta got a murder.
Speaker 2: I gotta go