WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Benny on the Red Carpet! 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Cutbooms. 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 soul 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 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.320 It's a clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.680 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.160 In the air everywhere. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.640 The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maller and Danny g Radio, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.720 who's producing this podcast on this Friday, our final podcast ever. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.000 We will never do another podcast in February of twenty 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:46.560 twenty five. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:47.120 This is it. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:51.120 This is It's all over. It is all over today. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:56.560 It ends right now. I know, I know. It's a 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.920 fun day today. It's a show that I always look 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.680 forward to. We do the show every single year, and 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.800 we're doing it on Friday. It's the red carpet event 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:09.200 for the twenty twenty five Benny Awards, the greatest night 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.720 in overnight sports talk radio, the night that we celebrate 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.800 the people that make the Ben Mahler Show a show. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.200 And we'll give you all the malarads. What we expect 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.800 to happen. Well we get any surprises, I don't know. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.880 The voting is still going on right now, and we're 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.360 excited about what's gonna happen, and we have no idea. 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.600 That's the magic of the Benny Awards. But as far 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.080 as today's concerned, it's the twenty eighth day of February 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.640 and it is National Chocolate sou Flay Day. So make 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.679 sure you celebrate because there's one thing we need is 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.160 an entire day dedicated to the chocolate sooo fley and 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:49.280 today is that day. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.880 It's National Pancake Day. Now. I don't know about you, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:54.720 but that's a day. Now. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.840 I don't eat breakfast food very often, but when I do, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.480 it's normally corn beef hash and some kind of pancakes, 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.360 because I'm all about all about the pancakes, also of 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.680 course known as Johnny cakes or griddle cakes or hot cakes, 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:14.600 and the famous lines selling like hotcakes. But the word 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.399 pancake first appeared in English in the fifteenth century. There's 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.160 a little fun fact for alf the alien opiner, so 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.560 it goes all the way back to the fifteenth century. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.919 And when you think pancakes now, the original pancake will 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:34.680 not call the pancake six hundred BC the first reference 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:39.040 in ancient Greece, and it came from a poet who 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.280 described warm pancakes in one of his writings. The first 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:48.120 breakfast was that was eleven eighty. Apparently no one ate 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:53.919 breakfast before then, never before nineteen thirty one, which was 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:59.360 like almost one hundred years ago. Biz Quick introduced the 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:04.119 Fluffy Eat pancake mix, and that was nineteen thirty one. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:10.760 And so there's some random factoids about delicious, wonderful pancakes 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.160 which are relatively easy to make and depending on what 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:20.040 kind of topping you put on them, simply amazing. It 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:25.160 is also car Keys and Small Change Day. That's right, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.160 car Keys a small Change Day. And let me point 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:33.480 out that this is something that we don't really do 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.160 much of anymore as far as the small change. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.440 Most people just use credit cards these days and that's it. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.120 But this day celebrating things that are stored in your 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:50.040 pocket and pockets. Here's a factoid. The history of pockets 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.360 goes all the way back to thirty three hundred BC. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.240 Gentlemen known as the iceman wore a belt with a 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.160 pouch sewn into it. The pouch is said to have 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:06.720 contained a scraper, a drill, a flint flake, some kind 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:11.880 of bone thing, and dried tender fungus. The word pocket 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.760 actually derives from the Old English word, which is p 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:21.240 o u q u e po q. I believe that 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.080 was during the thirteenth century. I put a question mark 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.000 out there just in case I am I am wrong. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.520 So that is the day to day. But let's get 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.440 to the Red Carpet Show, and we're looking forward to 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.800 Sunday night into Monday morning, eleven o'clock in the west. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:40.080 On Sunday night three am, actually two am rather two 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:44.080 am in the East. So we have a bunch of categories, 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.400 as you know, for the Bennies, the one that is 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.720 going on, and you got a couple of days to 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.680 vote on this, but I recommend doing it right now 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.440 because it is ridiculously close as we are doing this 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.880 in real time here early in the morning on this Friday, 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.240 after doing the overnight show last night. The final three, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:07.360 the three amigos of Social Media Influencer of the Year 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.600 for twenty twenty five. You got a little time left, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.920 but if you're on X the final three are Alf 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:21.680 the Alien, O, Piner, Fergnog, and Justin and Cincinnati. And 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.440 Justin is a legend who's won many awards on the 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.640 show over the years. It's really controversial though that he's 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.479 able to make it as a wild card. He did 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.960 not have a first round by, and Alf and Fergnog 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:41.200 were number one seeds, so as number one seeds they advanced. Now, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.480 if you look at the opening bracket that we did 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.159 on social Media Influencer of the Year, we had four 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.200 number one seeds. We had Fergnog, Alf, the Alien, Ol Piner, 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.479 Super Marcus, Steve, and mister Nice Guy. They all got 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.760 first round bys, and so Justin had to play. It's 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.160 like a team on wildcard weekend getting all the way 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:03.520 to the super Bowl. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:04.279 Now will he win? 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.719 I don't know, but it's controversial because of this, and 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:08.479 I love Justin. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.200 Justin has been a great supporter for the show. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.360 He had the famous incident when he was he got 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.840 a job at a morgue and he was picking up 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.159 bodies at the hospital. He lost the job because he 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.000 picked up the wrong body. I think he had told 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.120 the story of the air. He was supposed to pick 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:28.160 up a cadaver that was a white guy and he 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.440 ended up bringing like a black Guy or something like that. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.480 I forget, maybe vice versa. And he lost his job 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.279 at least that's the story that he told. And he's 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.800 done some crazy stuff on the show, but he hadn't 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.600 been that active. At the end of twenty twenty four 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.840 he took a little hiatus, and he's so powerful. He's 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.359 like the Kawhi Leonard or Street Closed Davis Anthony Davis. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.480 That he's continued his popularity. But then you got the Ogs, right, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.240 you got Alfie Alien Opiner, who has been loyal no 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.159 matter where I pop up, I fill in, I do 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.840 these guest spots on different radio stations. I fill in 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.080 sometimes the TV show and alf is there for all 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.440 of it. And then like Alf's apprentice, Ferdnog very similar, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.520 but a West Coast version of alf Fergie, who I 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:17.160 have heard rumors has been sending dms to Kooper Loop. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.200 I don't know what that's all about. There's some gossip 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.720 in the station, there's some stuff going on. But those 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.320 are the final three standing. And we had some great 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.600 names that we're in this thing, Robin Vegas, Robbie the Mariner, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:33.120 Fan Mall or prop Guy. You know, we mentioned Super Mario, 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.480 Steve Donkey Sausage, Manuel and Guardina late Night drug Tester. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.800 These are some heavyweights, and if you listen to the show, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.520 you know that I end up reading a lot of 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.240 the comments from feedback, real time feedback from all these 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.720 guys that are part of the problem. Ecan Roseville, Minnesota. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.720 How many times have I said Econ Roseville, Minnesota. I mean, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.280 I can't even count that high, because I really can't 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.320 count high at all. But congratulations everybody, It's to the 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.640 final three. We'd love for you to vote today so 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.280 you don't forget. But that category, I want to say 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.600 that I think Justin's a slight favorite, and I don't 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:13.760 know why because again, not that I don't despise Justin. Ay, 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.320 all these guys have been loyal minions and foot soldiers 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.880 for the Malad militia, but the fact that Justin was 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.280 away so much and is so popular as wild. But 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.520 it's really neck and neck as we are doing it 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.160 here again early in the morning on this Friday. It 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.720 is really just a couple of percentage points separating al 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:37.440 Fergdog and Justin and Cincinnati. Now, as for the rest 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.280 of the categories, you can vote. There is a link 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:44.600 on the Facebook page. There's a link also on x 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.320 which just be called Twitter, but it's pinned to the 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:51.280 top of the page. And we've already had hundreds and 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.400 hundreds of votes and there's still time to get in 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.400 the categories. For the twenty twenty five bettings, we have 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.719 Rookie Caller of the Year celebrating the new people that 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.200 started calling the show. Now they have done studies whoever 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.200 they are in talk radio over the years, and the 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:13.720 vast majority, like ninety nine point seven percent of people 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.280 that listen to the show will never ever call the show. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.440 Either they just are working and they can't call the show, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.200 or they just they don't like the sound of their voice, 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.199 I don't want to be part, or whatever. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:27.880 The reason they're not gonna call. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.360 So it's one of these weird things when we get 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.000 new people and it takes a while to kind of 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.000 let us know who you are, and you gotta it's 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.640 a lot of work. You got to stay on hold. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.520 It's not the easiest thing in the world to break 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.040 through as a caller. And so we've had a good 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.680 group of callers that are new callers to the show, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.640 and the nominees, as we said on the air, the 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.640 other day. You can vote for one of these gentlemen. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.720 We have Daniel in Fort Wayne, Daniel the Crossing Guard, 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.200 who's got a great personality, very he very positive guy 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.800 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Moe Joe Risen from the 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:10.040 Bay Area, also very positive, happy go Lucky. Tuna in Laguna, 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.960 the Great Tuna in Laguna. You can vote for him, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:19.199 and he's quite the character. Mike the Leprecaun who's called 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.720 on a regular basis. He normally does a dad joke. 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.559 Mike the Leprechaun. You've got Kelly in de Moines formerly 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:30.840 in Nashville, and she is now a couple. They're gonna 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.560 get married with Shane in the Moine. And you've got 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.959 the great Danny DeVito, my guy, Danny DeVito. How many 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:41.480 other shows have Danny DeVito as a nominee for an award? 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.720 The Ben Maller Show does. So I'm gonna say that 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.200 Kelly in the Moines based on the Mallarrods. I think 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:53.240 Kelly's a slight favorite, a slight favorite. And then behind Kelly, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.480 you've got Danny DeVito. And I would even say Mike 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.640 the leperkhn because he's been very active on the show. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.520 So I think they're the favorites, but there's talent all 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.240 over the place. Now we have game show Contestant of 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.400 the Year, and we played a lot of game shows. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.479 Were the last of the Mohegans that plays these game shows. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.360 And I like that have fun. I figure it's overnight. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:16.480 We don't have a budget. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.200 A lot of these radio shows pay for guests, and 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.680 there have been some other radio shows that are no 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.280 longer on at night that used to go in and 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.760 record a bunch of interviews and then play them back overnight. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.120 So we don't do that. We just have us and 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.560 we're the show and you tune in for us. And 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.320 so game show contests in of the Year. We've got 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:40.240 Coach Russell from Orlando who made quite the impact Lady 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:44.880 in the Year. Coach Russell a solid game show contestant 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.559 and he's a high school football coach in the Orlando area. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.520 Kelly in Des Moines again, Kelly formerly in Nashville. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:54.560 She's called a lot for the game shows. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.600 Manuel and Guardina, a legend who's been with me since 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.120 I did local radio in LA back in the day. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.520 Chris in the Commonwealth, Chris and Massachusetts, and also Chris 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.319 and Boston. So these guys both guys named Chris who 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:09.719 happened to be in the same area. But Chris is 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.800 out in the Commonwealth, out in the sticks. Chris is 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:18.080 in Boston proper, and Mitch in man Cato. So of those, Ah, boy, 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:25.400 that's tough. You got Chris and Boston, who's called for 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.960 a long time, loves the game shows. Kelly and des 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.760 Moines popular also, and then you got the og, Manuel 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.719 and Guardina, So I would say they're the favorites going 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.000 to that lame joke Contributor of the Year. We have 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.960 a lame joke segment. We actually did it this morning 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.320 in the third hour. And what do we have here? 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:53.720 We have Kurt from Earth Chip and Maine, Surfer, Todd 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:59.440 the comedian, Gordon Nick Tacoma, and Noah in Austin. So 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:06.199 those are the nominees. And of those, you've got the Og, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.079 a guy that won the Benny last year. Surf for Todd, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:14.160 the comedian who's quite the character. If you've met Todd, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.120 Todd's been out to a few of our Mallord meet 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.439 and greets. Surf for Todd. He was at the one 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.000 in Vegas last year with his lovely wife Todd also 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.160 came surf for Todd to the one we did in La, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.680 so he's he's like to me, he reminds me of 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.120 I've never met weed Man in person, weed Man hippie, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.120 but he reminds me of that kind of guy. So 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.319 I have Surf for Todd has a pretty big favorite here. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:40.240 But don't discount Gordon and Tacoma sneaky good joke writer. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.760 Gordon and Tacoma really good joke. I mean, all these 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:48.000 guys are talented, and I feel somewhat bad because we 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.440 can only nominate so many people. But Georgie and Uvaldi 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:57.599 for example, the horse guy that calls up or he 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.000 doesn't call up, he actually sends jokes in Butter Milk 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:01.920 Guide that's. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:02.880 Been been around lately. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.840 I mean, there's a lot of people to send jokes in, 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.679 and you guys have all been great, and so we 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.400 can only nominate so many people. 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.400 But it's a it's a tough category. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:16.400 Surfer Todd is a professional I say professionally he's a surfer, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:20.440 but he f's around with the comedy and he's really funny. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.440 He's a really funny man. All these all these guys 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:28.480 are best. Ask Ben question we do a segment every 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.840 week ask Ben and Friends, and we've got Lady Sideburns, 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:38.280 a fan favorite, Lady Sideburns, Late Night Drug Tester, and 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:44.720 og on the show Cowboy Killer the King Rory making 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.280 a name change to try to get more votes. I 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.800 forty Ian gets a lot of play fer Dog and 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:57.160 Alf the Alien Old Piner. So considering these guys, we're 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.320 both number one seeds overall and social media influence year. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.000 I say that Alf and fer Dog are the favorites. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.600 I would not discount Late Night Drug Tester. I think 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.120 if anyone other than those three wins, that would be 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.840 a huge upset. That would be a massive upset for sure. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.320 So we also have best crew fill in and in 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:26.040 this category you've got our friend Bree always Positive. I 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.600 love Bree. Breeze great. She's wonderful, very positive young lady, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.560 and she's been with the company since she was an 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:35.119 intern lover. She's great. She fills in for Coop sometimes 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:39.400 she's on there. The Great Mark Mark Ramsey, He's from Chicago. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.720 He sits in for Loraina quite a bit. He's the 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.840 White Sox fan. The Great Bernie Frato, my man Bernie 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.640 from Vegas. Brian know who fills in for me more 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.480 than anybody when I'm away. Lee to Lap who has 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.800 stepped in for Coop many times. Lee's the morning Show 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:02.840 producer and Milkman Mike as fake Weedman. Weed Man had 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.320 spent a good chunk of twenty twenty four in jail. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.360 He kept getting arrested in Miami for just being homeless, 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.400 and he didn't have a place to sleep. He can't 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.040 sleep outside, so he kept getting arrested, and Milkman Mike 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.440 stepped in and is the man of a thousand voices. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:23.080 He did the Leslie and Jack the Judge impersonation the 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.360 weed Man. We used him for quite a bit and 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.240 so his first time ever a non employee has been 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.440 nominated for Best Crew Filling. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.720 So based on name. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.480 Value, I think that Milkman Mike because it's so unique. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.600 I think he's a slight favorite. But Brian No filled 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.640 in a ton Bernie and people love Bree, so I 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.840 would not be shocked which way. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.520 That goes at all now drop of the year. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.240 This is this is where I say get taken out 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:05.919 of context and repackaged and other people We've got me 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.520 saying give me a little taste of that, and then 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.520 I mentioned a caller from Dayton. You can vote for that. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.000 I have a pickle in my box right now. That 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:23.199 was a Lorena Lorena one we also have because I 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.480 had to chew the and then some kind of I 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.160 forget what else for me? And you also have hollering James, 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:36.520 who snored and farted at the same time. So to me, 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:41.160 hollering James is the favorite here. That is an unbelievable 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.000 talent that I didn't know is possible for the human 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:50.080 body to snore and fart at the same time. OMG, 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.520 So that's my guy hollering. Just my vote goes to James. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.040 I have him as the favorite. I'd also put Loraina 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:02.040 in there. I think Loraina because people love Lorrain. I mean, 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.520 you dudes, you know who you are, some of your dudes. 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.240 I mean, she's getting stuff in the mail all the time. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.000 You've showed her a lot of love the Mallard militia, 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.399 and that's great and I'm happy for her, and you 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.440 guys love her and that's wonderful. But I think because 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:22.240 of her popularity, I would put her as the favorite, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.240 and then nobody I'd say stupid things all the time. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:30.400 Nobody wants to hear me winning a Benny Award. That's silly. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.600 So that's the drop of their Blind Caller of the Year. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.520 We have more blind callers than any other radio show, 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.879 any of them. So the nominees for Blind Caller of 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.879 the Year. As we prepare for the Bennies on Sunday, 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:46.920 this is our Benny Red Carpet Show. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.359 You've got the great Stevie Meatballs. Quite a character. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:54.720 Stevie Meatballs lives in Florida, and he's very angry a 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:56.520 lot of the time. He says a lot of stuff 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.600 that can't be read on the air. But enjoy his work. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.920 The Blind Seahawk fan love Emmett Young dude loves the show. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:05.960 We love him. 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.399 He's got his own podcast. He's hustling. I love guys 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.520 that are putting the work in there. Legally blind Christopher 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.880 from the Carolinas, but as hard as from Michigan. You've 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:22.359 got the legend Inca Terror and Blind Scott, the og 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:26.280 of blind callers, And on this one, I'm gonna set 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.119 the odds. To my knowledge, it's got to be somebody 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.760 with name value. These all these guys are known in 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.360 the blind community. They're stars in the blind community. They're 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.520 famous people because we know who they are, that we 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:43.640 know their history. I will say that Inca Terror based 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.840 on the mallarodds inco Terror and Blind Scott name value. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.359 They've been with the show a little bit longer than 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:50.119 the other guys. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:51.400 So I have. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:57.080 Blind Scott and InKo Terror as the favorites now International 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:58.240 Caller of the Year. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.760 Very competitive category. I was told by. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.439 One of the people that have seen the numbers, the 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.800 early numbers on the voting, this is the most competitive category. 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.920 I don't know if that's true or not. The nominees. 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.359 One of these people will be winning the Benny. We 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:17.280 have Otto bon Butch who called us many times from Germany. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.959 He's actually just moved back to the States he was 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:22.120 living abroad. 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.960 Hank in Tokyo who's a great character on the. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:34.159 Show, Ozzie Wiz Ozzi Momentum, Terry in England, and mister 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:39.280 Hurt from Montreal, who's a kind of a newer caller, 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.080 certainly as a newer caller compared to some of those 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.400 other guys. So I'm gonna basically odds again on name 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.760 value on the show. Who's been with the show, who's 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:54.120 made the biggest impact So of these international callers, I've 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:59.200 got Terry in England is the favorite. Terry is He's 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.239 a spicy dude and he likes to throw down, likes 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.040 to get my face and challenge me, which I appreciate. 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:07.520 A lot of you guys are boot lickers. Terry's not 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:08.160 a boot licker. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.760 So Terry in England, I'd say, Ozzie Waz and Ozzie 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:17.560 Momentum are the favorites. Well, let's not discount Autobon Butch. 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.560 But of that again, you know you only pick two. 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.160 Is the co favorites I would go, I guess Ozzie 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:25.880 was was very active. 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:27.520 And Terry in England. So there you go. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:32.320 Intoxicated call the Year the Benny's Red Carpet Show. You're 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.439 on the fifth hour Intoxicated Caller of the Year. Very 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:41.159 competitive category. You've got Keg drinking, Steve the over the 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.000 Top Chiefs fan, j Dot in Utah. 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:49.159 Mouthwash Mike in Vegas. What a character. 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.200 Mouthwash Mike is the black irishman who called the Overnight 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:55.720 Show last night and said he doesn't understand why people 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:59.280 bet on games before they're played. His idea is we 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.720 should bet on after they're played. What a wonderful idea. 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.440 I'd win so much money. I have the greatest TV 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:08.160 show in the world picking games, if only I could 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.680 just pick them after the games are done. Nobody else 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.520 has that take by way, only the black Irishman of 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:15.720 this category and talks to kid and Call of the Year. 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.240 I'm gonna give Jed who fled and keg drinking Steve 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.680 and advantage my vote. I'm not eligible to vote, but 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:29.040 my vote goes to Mouthwash. Mike, what a character. Tammy 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:32.040 and Vegas and some of your other cats who were 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:34.760 into Vegas meet and greet this guy. 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:35.919 Unbelievable. 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:40.920 Okay, he's drinking mouthwashed. I feel bad for the guy. 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:44.040 We tried to help him, but he's got issues. And 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:46.399 some people just got to live their best life or 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.520 their worst life, and that's that. And he's quite the character, 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:53.680 and surprisingly living on the streets of Vegas, he's actually 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:58.159 in decent condition considering how hot and cold it gets 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:03.120 in Las Vegas. Female Caller of the Year the Ladies. 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:09.399 It's Ladies' night. You've got Tammy in Montana and Tammy's 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:12.160 the og. She's been with the show a long time. 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:14.320 We love Tammy. She's like the mother Teresa the show. 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:19.160 She looks after some of the wackadoodles that are part 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:22.399 of the Malard Militia, and she hasn't called as much, 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:27.119 but she's got lifetime status in the Malard Militia. Andrea 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:32.640 the Astrology Lady from Berkeley, Kelly in des Moines, and 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:38.520 Leslie in Bradenton, Florida. I've got Andrea as the favorite. 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:42.600 She is the most active caller of these ladies. Leslie 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:46.159 and Bradenton calls up one day a week and so 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.120 if you don't listen that day, you don't know who 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:51.320