Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maller and Danny g Radio,
Speaker 3: who's producing this podcast on this Friday, our final podcast ever.
Speaker 3: We will never do another podcast in February of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five.
Speaker 1: This is it.
Speaker 3: This is It's all over. It is all over today.
Speaker 3: It ends right now. I know, I know. It's a
Speaker 3: fun day today. It's a show that I always look
Speaker 3: forward to. We do the show every single year, and
Speaker 3: we're doing it on Friday. It's the red carpet event
Speaker 3: for the twenty twenty five Benny Awards, the greatest night
Speaker 3: in overnight sports talk radio, the night that we celebrate
Speaker 3: the people that make the Ben Mahler Show a show.
Speaker 3: And we'll give you all the malarads. What we expect
Speaker 3: to happen. Well we get any surprises, I don't know.
Speaker 3: The voting is still going on right now, and we're
Speaker 3: excited about what's gonna happen, and we have no idea.
Speaker 3: That's the magic of the Benny Awards. But as far
Speaker 3: as today's concerned, it's the twenty eighth day of February
Speaker 3: and it is National Chocolate sou Flay Day. So make
Speaker 3: sure you celebrate because there's one thing we need is
Speaker 3: an entire day dedicated to the chocolate sooo fley and
Speaker 3: today is that day.
Speaker 1: It's National Pancake Day. Now. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but that's a day. Now.
Speaker 3: I don't eat breakfast food very often, but when I do,
Speaker 3: it's normally corn beef hash and some kind of pancakes,
Speaker 3: because I'm all about all about the pancakes, also of
Speaker 3: course known as Johnny cakes or griddle cakes or hot cakes,
Speaker 3: and the famous lines selling like hotcakes. But the word
Speaker 3: pancake first appeared in English in the fifteenth century. There's
Speaker 3: a little fun fact for alf the alien opiner, so
Speaker 3: it goes all the way back to the fifteenth century.
Speaker 3: And when you think pancakes now, the original pancake will
Speaker 3: not call the pancake six hundred BC the first reference
Speaker 3: in ancient Greece, and it came from a poet who
Speaker 3: described warm pancakes in one of his writings. The first
Speaker 3: breakfast was that was eleven eighty. Apparently no one ate
Speaker 3: breakfast before then, never before nineteen thirty one, which was
Speaker 3: like almost one hundred years ago. Biz Quick introduced the
Speaker 3: Fluffy Eat pancake mix, and that was nineteen thirty one.
Speaker 3: And so there's some random factoids about delicious, wonderful pancakes
Speaker 3: which are relatively easy to make and depending on what
Speaker 3: kind of topping you put on them, simply amazing. It
Speaker 3: is also car Keys and Small Change Day. That's right,
Speaker 3: car Keys a small Change Day. And let me point
Speaker 3: out that this is something that we don't really do
Speaker 3: much of anymore as far as the small change.
Speaker 1: Most people just use credit cards these days and that's it.
Speaker 3: But this day celebrating things that are stored in your
Speaker 3: pocket and pockets. Here's a factoid. The history of pockets
Speaker 3: goes all the way back to thirty three hundred BC.
Speaker 3: Gentlemen known as the iceman wore a belt with a
Speaker 3: pouch sewn into it. The pouch is said to have
Speaker 3: contained a scraper, a drill, a flint flake, some kind
Speaker 3: of bone thing, and dried tender fungus. The word pocket
Speaker 3: actually derives from the Old English word, which is p
Speaker 3: o u q u e po q. I believe that
Speaker 3: was during the thirteenth century. I put a question mark
Speaker 3: out there just in case I am I am wrong.
Speaker 3: So that is the day to day. But let's get
Speaker 3: to the Red Carpet Show, and we're looking forward to
Speaker 3: Sunday night into Monday morning, eleven o'clock in the west.
Speaker 3: On Sunday night three am, actually two am rather two
Speaker 3: am in the East. So we have a bunch of categories,
Speaker 3: as you know, for the Bennies, the one that is
Speaker 3: going on, and you got a couple of days to
Speaker 3: vote on this, but I recommend doing it right now
Speaker 3: because it is ridiculously close as we are doing this
Speaker 3: in real time here early in the morning on this Friday,
Speaker 3: after doing the overnight show last night. The final three,
Speaker 3: the three amigos of Social Media Influencer of the Year
Speaker 3: for twenty twenty five. You got a little time left,
Speaker 3: but if you're on X the final three are Alf
Speaker 3: the Alien, O, Piner, Fergnog, and Justin and Cincinnati. And
Speaker 3: Justin is a legend who's won many awards on the
Speaker 3: show over the years. It's really controversial though that he's
Speaker 3: able to make it as a wild card. He did
Speaker 3: not have a first round by, and Alf and Fergnog
Speaker 3: were number one seeds, so as number one seeds they advanced. Now,
Speaker 3: if you look at the opening bracket that we did
Speaker 3: on social Media Influencer of the Year, we had four
Speaker 3: number one seeds. We had Fergnog, Alf, the Alien, Ol Piner,
Speaker 3: Super Marcus, Steve, and mister Nice Guy. They all got
Speaker 3: first round bys, and so Justin had to play. It's
Speaker 3: like a team on wildcard weekend getting all the way
Speaker 3: to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Now will he win?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's controversial because of this, and
Speaker 3: I love Justin.
Speaker 1: Justin has been a great supporter for the show.
Speaker 3: He had the famous incident when he was he got
Speaker 3: a job at a morgue and he was picking up
Speaker 3: bodies at the hospital. He lost the job because he
Speaker 3: picked up the wrong body. I think he had told
Speaker 3: the story of the air. He was supposed to pick
Speaker 3: up a cadaver that was a white guy and he
Speaker 3: ended up bringing like a black Guy or something like that.
Speaker 3: I forget, maybe vice versa. And he lost his job
Speaker 3: at least that's the story that he told. And he's
Speaker 3: done some crazy stuff on the show, but he hadn't
Speaker 3: been that active. At the end of twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: he took a little hiatus, and he's so powerful. He's
Speaker 3: like the Kawhi Leonard or Street Closed Davis Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3: That he's continued his popularity. But then you got the Ogs, right,
Speaker 3: you got Alfie Alien Opiner, who has been loyal no
Speaker 3: matter where I pop up, I fill in, I do
Speaker 3: these guest spots on different radio stations. I fill in
Speaker 3: sometimes the TV show and alf is there for all
Speaker 3: of it. And then like Alf's apprentice, Ferdnog very similar,
Speaker 3: but a West Coast version of alf Fergie, who I
Speaker 3: have heard rumors has been sending dms to Kooper Loop.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that's all about. There's some gossip
Speaker 3: in the station, there's some stuff going on. But those
Speaker 3: are the final three standing. And we had some great
Speaker 3: names that we're in this thing, Robin Vegas, Robbie the Mariner,
Speaker 3: Fan Mall or prop Guy. You know, we mentioned Super Mario,
Speaker 3: Steve Donkey Sausage, Manuel and Guardina late Night drug Tester.
Speaker 3: These are some heavyweights, and if you listen to the show,
Speaker 3: you know that I end up reading a lot of
Speaker 3: the comments from feedback, real time feedback from all these
Speaker 3: guys that are part of the problem. Ecan Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 3: How many times have I said Econ Roseville, Minnesota. I mean,
Speaker 3: I can't even count that high, because I really can't
Speaker 3: count high at all. But congratulations everybody, It's to the
Speaker 3: final three. We'd love for you to vote today so
Speaker 3: you don't forget. But that category, I want to say
Speaker 3: that I think Justin's a slight favorite, and I don't
Speaker 3: know why because again, not that I don't despise Justin. Ay,
Speaker 3: all these guys have been loyal minions and foot soldiers
Speaker 3: for the Malad militia, but the fact that Justin was
Speaker 3: away so much and is so popular as wild. But
Speaker 3: it's really neck and neck as we are doing it
Speaker 3: here again early in the morning on this Friday. It
Speaker 3: is really just a couple of percentage points separating al
Speaker 3: Fergdog and Justin and Cincinnati. Now, as for the rest
Speaker 3: of the categories, you can vote. There is a link
Speaker 3: on the Facebook page. There's a link also on x
Speaker 3: which just be called Twitter, but it's pinned to the
Speaker 3: top of the page. And we've already had hundreds and
Speaker 3: hundreds of votes and there's still time to get in
Speaker 3: the categories. For the twenty twenty five bettings, we have
Speaker 3: Rookie Caller of the Year celebrating the new people that
Speaker 3: started calling the show. Now they have done studies whoever
Speaker 3: they are in talk radio over the years, and the
Speaker 3: vast majority, like ninety nine point seven percent of people
Speaker 3: that listen to the show will never ever call the show.
Speaker 3: Either they just are working and they can't call the show,
Speaker 3: or they just they don't like the sound of their voice,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be part, or whatever.
Speaker 1: The reason they're not gonna call.
Speaker 3: So it's one of these weird things when we get
Speaker 3: new people and it takes a while to kind of
Speaker 3: let us know who you are, and you gotta it's
Speaker 3: a lot of work. You got to stay on hold.
Speaker 3: It's not the easiest thing in the world to break
Speaker 3: through as a caller. And so we've had a good
Speaker 3: group of callers that are new callers to the show,
Speaker 3: and the nominees, as we said on the air, the
Speaker 3: other day. You can vote for one of these gentlemen.
Speaker 3: We have Daniel in Fort Wayne, Daniel the Crossing Guard,
Speaker 3: who's got a great personality, very he very positive guy
Speaker 3: in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Moe Joe Risen from the
Speaker 3: Bay Area, also very positive, happy go Lucky. Tuna in Laguna,
Speaker 3: the Great Tuna in Laguna. You can vote for him,
Speaker 3: and he's quite the character. Mike the Leprecaun who's called
Speaker 3: on a regular basis. He normally does a dad joke.
Speaker 3: Mike the Leprechaun. You've got Kelly in de Moines formerly
Speaker 3: in Nashville, and she is now a couple. They're gonna
Speaker 3: get married with Shane in the Moine. And you've got
Speaker 3: the great Danny DeVito, my guy, Danny DeVito. How many
Speaker 3: other shows have Danny DeVito as a nominee for an award?
Speaker 3: The Ben Maller Show does. So I'm gonna say that
Speaker 3: Kelly in the Moines based on the Mallarrods. I think
Speaker 3: Kelly's a slight favorite, a slight favorite. And then behind Kelly,
Speaker 3: you've got Danny DeVito. And I would even say Mike
Speaker 3: the leperkhn because he's been very active on the show.
Speaker 3: So I think they're the favorites, but there's talent all
Speaker 3: over the place. Now we have game show Contestant of
Speaker 3: the Year, and we played a lot of game shows.
Speaker 3: Were the last of the Mohegans that plays these game shows.
Speaker 1: And I like that have fun. I figure it's overnight.
Speaker 1: We don't have a budget.
Speaker 3: A lot of these radio shows pay for guests, and
Speaker 3: there have been some other radio shows that are no
Speaker 3: longer on at night that used to go in and
Speaker 3: record a bunch of interviews and then play them back overnight.
Speaker 3: So we don't do that. We just have us and
Speaker 3: we're the show and you tune in for us. And
Speaker 3: so game show contests in of the Year. We've got
Speaker 3: Coach Russell from Orlando who made quite the impact Lady
Speaker 3: in the Year. Coach Russell a solid game show contestant
Speaker 3: and he's a high school football coach in the Orlando area.
Speaker 3: Kelly in Des Moines again, Kelly formerly in Nashville.
Speaker 1: She's called a lot for the game shows.
Speaker 3: Manuel and Guardina, a legend who's been with me since
Speaker 3: I did local radio in LA back in the day.
Speaker 3: Chris in the Commonwealth, Chris and Massachusetts, and also Chris
Speaker 3: and Boston. So these guys both guys named Chris who
Speaker 3: happened to be in the same area. But Chris is
Speaker 3: out in the Commonwealth, out in the sticks. Chris is
Speaker 3: in Boston proper, and Mitch in man Cato. So of those, Ah, boy,
Speaker 3: that's tough. You got Chris and Boston, who's called for
Speaker 3: a long time, loves the game shows. Kelly and des
Speaker 3: Moines popular also, and then you got the og, Manuel
Speaker 3: and Guardina, So I would say they're the favorites going
Speaker 3: to that lame joke Contributor of the Year. We have
Speaker 3: a lame joke segment. We actually did it this morning
Speaker 3: in the third hour. And what do we have here?
Speaker 3: We have Kurt from Earth Chip and Maine, Surfer, Todd
Speaker 3: the comedian, Gordon Nick Tacoma, and Noah in Austin. So
Speaker 3: those are the nominees. And of those, you've got the Og,
Speaker 3: a guy that won the Benny last year. Surf for Todd,
Speaker 3: the comedian who's quite the character. If you've met Todd,
Speaker 3: Todd's been out to a few of our Mallord meet
Speaker 3: and greets. Surf for Todd. He was at the one
Speaker 3: in Vegas last year with his lovely wife Todd also
Speaker 3: came surf for Todd to the one we did in La,
Speaker 3: so he's he's like to me, he reminds me of
Speaker 3: I've never met weed Man in person, weed Man hippie,
Speaker 3: but he reminds me of that kind of guy. So
Speaker 3: I have Surf for Todd has a pretty big favorite here.
Speaker 3: But don't discount Gordon and Tacoma sneaky good joke writer.
Speaker 3: Gordon and Tacoma really good joke. I mean, all these
Speaker 3: guys are talented, and I feel somewhat bad because we
Speaker 3: can only nominate so many people. But Georgie and Uvaldi
Speaker 3: for example, the horse guy that calls up or he
Speaker 3: doesn't call up, he actually sends jokes in Butter Milk
Speaker 3: Guide that's.
Speaker 1: Been been around lately.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of people to send jokes in,
Speaker 3: and you guys have all been great, and so we
Speaker 3: can only nominate so many people.
Speaker 1: But it's a it's a tough category.
Speaker 3: Surfer Todd is a professional I say professionally he's a surfer,
Speaker 3: but he f's around with the comedy and he's really funny.
Speaker 3: He's a really funny man. All these all these guys
Speaker 3: are best. Ask Ben question we do a segment every
Speaker 3: week ask Ben and Friends, and we've got Lady Sideburns,
Speaker 3: a fan favorite, Lady Sideburns, Late Night Drug Tester, and
Speaker 3: og on the show Cowboy Killer the King Rory making
Speaker 3: a name change to try to get more votes. I
Speaker 3: forty Ian gets a lot of play fer Dog and
Speaker 3: Alf the Alien Old Piner. So considering these guys, we're
Speaker 3: both number one seeds overall and social media influence year.
Speaker 3: I say that Alf and fer Dog are the favorites.
Speaker 3: I would not discount Late Night Drug Tester. I think
Speaker 3: if anyone other than those three wins, that would be
Speaker 3: a huge upset. That would be a massive upset for sure.
Speaker 3: So we also have best crew fill in and in
Speaker 3: this category you've got our friend Bree always Positive. I
Speaker 3: love Bree. Breeze great. She's wonderful, very positive young lady,
Speaker 3: and she's been with the company since she was an
Speaker 3: intern lover. She's great. She fills in for Coop sometimes
Speaker 3: she's on there. The Great Mark Mark Ramsey, He's from Chicago.
Speaker 3: He sits in for Loraina quite a bit. He's the
Speaker 3: White Sox fan. The Great Bernie Frato, my man Bernie
Speaker 3: from Vegas. Brian know who fills in for me more
Speaker 3: than anybody when I'm away. Lee to Lap who has
Speaker 3: stepped in for Coop many times. Lee's the morning Show
Speaker 3: producer and Milkman Mike as fake Weedman. Weed Man had
Speaker 3: spent a good chunk of twenty twenty four in jail.
Speaker 3: He kept getting arrested in Miami for just being homeless,
Speaker 3: and he didn't have a place to sleep. He can't
Speaker 3: sleep outside, so he kept getting arrested, and Milkman Mike
Speaker 3: stepped in and is the man of a thousand voices.
Speaker 3: He did the Leslie and Jack the Judge impersonation the
Speaker 3: weed Man. We used him for quite a bit and
Speaker 3: so his first time ever a non employee has been
Speaker 3: nominated for Best Crew Filling.
Speaker 1: So based on name.
Speaker 3: Value, I think that Milkman Mike because it's so unique.
Speaker 3: I think he's a slight favorite. But Brian No filled
Speaker 3: in a ton Bernie and people love Bree, so I
Speaker 3: would not be shocked which way.
Speaker 1: That goes at all now drop of the year.
Speaker 3: This is this is where I say get taken out
Speaker 3: of context and repackaged and other people We've got me
Speaker 3: saying give me a little taste of that, and then
Speaker 3: I mentioned a caller from Dayton. You can vote for that.
Speaker 3: I have a pickle in my box right now. That
Speaker 3: was a Lorena Lorena one we also have because I
Speaker 3: had to chew the and then some kind of I
Speaker 3: forget what else for me? And you also have hollering James,
Speaker 3: who snored and farted at the same time. So to me,
Speaker 3: hollering James is the favorite here. That is an unbelievable
Speaker 3: talent that I didn't know is possible for the human
Speaker 3: body to snore and fart at the same time. OMG,
Speaker 3: So that's my guy hollering. Just my vote goes to James.
Speaker 3: I have him as the favorite. I'd also put Loraina
Speaker 3: in there. I think Loraina because people love Lorrain. I mean,
Speaker 3: you dudes, you know who you are, some of your dudes.
Speaker 3: I mean, she's getting stuff in the mail all the time.
Speaker 3: You've showed her a lot of love the Mallard militia,
Speaker 3: and that's great and I'm happy for her, and you
Speaker 3: guys love her and that's wonderful. But I think because
Speaker 3: of her popularity, I would put her as the favorite,
Speaker 3: and then nobody I'd say stupid things all the time.
Speaker 3: Nobody wants to hear me winning a Benny Award. That's silly.
Speaker 3: So that's the drop of their Blind Caller of the Year.
Speaker 3: We have more blind callers than any other radio show,
Speaker 3: any of them. So the nominees for Blind Caller of
Speaker 3: the Year. As we prepare for the Bennies on Sunday,
Speaker 3: this is our Benny Red Carpet Show.
Speaker 1: You've got the great Stevie Meatballs. Quite a character.
Speaker 3: Stevie Meatballs lives in Florida, and he's very angry a
Speaker 3: lot of the time. He says a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: that can't be read on the air. But enjoy his work.
Speaker 3: The Blind Seahawk fan love Emmett Young dude loves the show.
Speaker 1: We love him.
Speaker 3: He's got his own podcast. He's hustling. I love guys
Speaker 3: that are putting the work in there. Legally blind Christopher
Speaker 3: from the Carolinas, but as hard as from Michigan. You've
Speaker 3: got the legend Inca Terror and Blind Scott, the og
Speaker 3: of blind callers, And on this one, I'm gonna set
Speaker 3: the odds. To my knowledge, it's got to be somebody
Speaker 3: with name value. These all these guys are known in
Speaker 3: the blind community. They're stars in the blind community. They're
Speaker 3: famous people because we know who they are, that we
Speaker 3: know their history. I will say that Inca Terror based
Speaker 3: on the mallarodds inco Terror and Blind Scott name value.
Speaker 3: They've been with the show a little bit longer than
Speaker 3: the other guys.
Speaker 1: So I have.
Speaker 3: Blind Scott and InKo Terror as the favorites now International
Speaker 3: Caller of the Year.
Speaker 1: Very competitive category. I was told by.
Speaker 3: One of the people that have seen the numbers, the
Speaker 3: early numbers on the voting, this is the most competitive category.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's true or not. The nominees.
Speaker 3: One of these people will be winning the Benny. We
Speaker 3: have Otto bon Butch who called us many times from Germany.
Speaker 3: He's actually just moved back to the States he was
Speaker 3: living abroad.
Speaker 1: Hank in Tokyo who's a great character on the.
Speaker 3: Show, Ozzie Wiz Ozzi Momentum, Terry in England, and mister
Speaker 3: Hurt from Montreal, who's a kind of a newer caller,
Speaker 3: certainly as a newer caller compared to some of those
Speaker 3: other guys. So I'm gonna basically odds again on name
Speaker 3: value on the show. Who's been with the show, who's
Speaker 3: made the biggest impact So of these international callers, I've
Speaker 3: got Terry in England is the favorite. Terry is He's
Speaker 3: a spicy dude and he likes to throw down, likes
Speaker 3: to get my face and challenge me, which I appreciate.
Speaker 1: A lot of you guys are boot lickers. Terry's not
Speaker 1: a boot licker.
Speaker 3: So Terry in England, I'd say, Ozzie Waz and Ozzie
Speaker 3: Momentum are the favorites. Well, let's not discount Autobon Butch.
Speaker 3: But of that again, you know you only pick two.
Speaker 3: Is the co favorites I would go, I guess Ozzie
Speaker 3: was was very active.
Speaker 1: And Terry in England. So there you go.
Speaker 3: Intoxicated call the Year the Benny's Red Carpet Show. You're
Speaker 3: on the fifth hour Intoxicated Caller of the Year. Very
Speaker 3: competitive category. You've got Keg drinking, Steve the over the
Speaker 3: Top Chiefs fan, j Dot in Utah.
Speaker 1: Mouthwash Mike in Vegas. What a character.
Speaker 3: Mouthwash Mike is the black irishman who called the Overnight
Speaker 3: Show last night and said he doesn't understand why people
Speaker 3: bet on games before they're played. His idea is we
Speaker 3: should bet on after they're played. What a wonderful idea.
Speaker 3: I'd win so much money. I have the greatest TV
Speaker 3: show in the world picking games, if only I could
Speaker 3: just pick them after the games are done. Nobody else
Speaker 3: has that take by way, only the black Irishman of
Speaker 3: this category and talks to kid and Call of the Year.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give Jed who fled and keg drinking Steve
Speaker 3: and advantage my vote. I'm not eligible to vote, but
Speaker 3: my vote goes to Mouthwash. Mike, what a character. Tammy
Speaker 3: and Vegas and some of your other cats who were
Speaker 3: into Vegas meet and greet this guy.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Okay, he's drinking mouthwashed. I feel bad for the guy.
Speaker 3: We tried to help him, but he's got issues. And
Speaker 3: some people just got to live their best life or
Speaker 3: their worst life, and that's that. And he's quite the character,
Speaker 3: and surprisingly living on the streets of Vegas, he's actually
Speaker 3: in decent condition considering how hot and cold it gets
Speaker 3: in Las Vegas. Female Caller of the Year the Ladies.
Speaker 3: It's Ladies' night. You've got Tammy in Montana and Tammy's
Speaker 3: the og. She's been with the show a long time.
Speaker 3: We love Tammy. She's like the mother Teresa the show.
Speaker 3: She looks after some of the wackadoodles that are part
Speaker 3: of the Malard Militia, and she hasn't called as much,
Speaker 3: but she's got lifetime status in the Malard Militia. Andrea
Speaker 3: the Astrology Lady from Berkeley, Kelly in des Moines, and
Speaker 3: Leslie in Bradenton, Florida. I've got Andrea as the favorite.
Speaker 3: She is the most active caller of these ladies. Leslie
Speaker 3: and Bradenton calls up one day a week and so
Speaker 3: if you don't listen that day, you don't know who
Speaker 3: she is. And Leslie and Jack the Judge, Kelly and
Speaker 3: des Moinese also very active. So it's neck and neck
Speaker 3: between Andrea and I'll have her as the favorite. The
Speaker 3: Malarads and then Kelly in des Moines formerly in Nashville.
Speaker 3: The twenty twenty five Beer Drinking Brian Worst Call of
Speaker 3: the Year. The most competitive category by next to international
Speaker 3: caller is this one. So we have the nominees. You
Speaker 3: can vote for this all these awards you can vote for.
Speaker 3: The votings open until Sunday night. Gunner in Minnesota. Gunner
Speaker 3: is a young guy works at a Walmart in northern Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Way past to Luth and I thought the Luth was
Speaker 3: like the end of Minnesota. But there's a whole other
Speaker 3: world I didn't visit when I was in Minnesota. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Gunner in Minnesota, he is.
Speaker 1: He's terrible.
Speaker 3: Hollering James, who has won this award in the past,
Speaker 3: quite the character hollering James. The problem with him winning
Speaker 3: is we have to give him golden tickets. Nobody wants
Speaker 3: us to give James golden tickets. Mike d Leprechaun from Boston,
Speaker 3: Poppy in San Diego, and Jerome and Charleston bringing home
Speaker 3: Jerome in Charleston. Malarads, Man, this is tough Gunner. Early on,
Speaker 3: I thought Gunner was gonna win it. But he doesn't
Speaker 3: call as often. And I'm basing the malarads on how
Speaker 3: often you call, so based on the odds, how often
Speaker 3: you call. I have Poppy in San Diego as the
Speaker 3: favorite to go back to back and Belly to Belly
Speaker 3: as the beer drinking Brian worst call of the year
Speaker 3: back to back? Do we have to call him a
Speaker 3: dynasty of suck? If he wins now, he might not
Speaker 3: win because you look around and hollering James. There's a
Speaker 3: Love Hate Relationship. I was told by several of you
Speaker 3: that Marcel and Brooklyn should have been nominated for this category.
Speaker 3: You really despise Marcel in Brooklyn. He was not not
Speaker 3: dominated for this award this year. So congratulations to all
Speaker 3: of the callers that are absolutely terrible and continue to
Speaker 3: call the show.
Speaker 1: We do appreciate it. And now we have reached the crescendo.
Speaker 3: The highest honor for the twenty twenty five Bennies and
Speaker 3: another very competitive category, very very competitive, the highest honor
Speaker 3: in overnight talk radio, the twenty twenty five Genie and
Speaker 3: Medford Caller of the Year. Yes, this is the prize
Speaker 3: of prizes, This is the masterpiece. It is an absolute
Speaker 3: neck and neck battle here down the stretch in this
Speaker 3: category as well. And the nominees are Andre from the Commonwealth,
Speaker 3: a regular in our one, Marcel in Brooklyn, who's very
Speaker 3: polarizing because some of you dope so like he's the
Speaker 3: worst caller.
Speaker 1: Other people think he's good.
Speaker 3: Whoopee Pie Blair from Maine. Blair is on TikTok Now
Speaker 3: he doesn't call the show that much anymore. He checks
Speaker 3: in every once.
Speaker 1: In a while. Jed, who Fled, is a fan favorite.
Speaker 1: I'm actually on the live air helmet Man.
Speaker 3: I'm a big helmet man guy. I love helmet Man.
Speaker 3: I rotate nuts. He loves to talk about being from Baltimore.
Speaker 3: He hasn't been to Baltimore since the early eighties. Weed
Speaker 3: Man Hippie is also a previous winner of the Caller
Speaker 3: of the Year, Manuel in Gardena. We love Manuel, Yes,
Speaker 3: had a tough run here of late, but we love
Speaker 3: the contribution Manuel and Guardina makes the show. And one
Speaker 3: of my favorites is Tony in the Bay Area. I
Speaker 3: might be the only one. I laugh every time Tony calls.
Speaker 3: I love his delivery, sense of humor, the whole thing.
Speaker 3: He's just a very funny man toning the Bay Area
Speaker 3: and I enjoy his work. Now is that enough to
Speaker 3: win the highest honor on the Ben Malor Show, the
Speaker 3: highest honor in overnight sports talk radio.
Speaker 1: Probably not? Probably not, But listen, this is too close
Speaker 1: to call.
Speaker 3: I'm told also, and based on the information I have
Speaker 3: in front of me here, this is actually now the
Speaker 3: closest category, not International Caller of the Year. It is
Speaker 3: the Genian Medford Caller of the Year, not the International caller.
Speaker 3: So congratulations to everybody the favorite based on name value.
Speaker 3: You got to put weed Man, Hippie, Marcel helmet Man,
Speaker 3: Jed hu Fled. I mean, all these guys call a lot,
Speaker 3: so good luck to all of them. And I'm told
Speaker 3: that this is separated by less than one percent first
Speaker 3: to second place and first to third place is separated by.
Speaker 1: Three point four percentage points. That's how close.
Speaker 3: This is the highest honor and overnight Sports Talk Radio
Speaker 3: the Genie had meant for Caller of the Year award.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll get out on that. Have a wonderful Friday.
Speaker 3: We thank you for supporting the show and being loyal,
Speaker 3: and we're let this kind of breathe all weekend long
Speaker 3: here and then make sure to vote. If you want
Speaker 3: to have other people vote, let them know, send them
Speaker 3: a link. It's on my x page at the very top.
Speaker 3: It's also on the Facebook page on the Ben Malor
Speaker 3: Show Facebook page.
Speaker 1: And good luck to everybody.
Speaker 3: We hope you guys enjoy the Bennys and we'll have
Speaker 3: a new show. Hopefully Dany'll be with me, I don't
Speaker 3: know his schedule on Saturday, and then we'll have the
Speaker 3: mail bag on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go sleep is what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I have a wonderful, wonderful day later, skater who
Speaker 3: that's how you do it right, Danny wrong, Asta pasta,
Speaker 3: got a murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go.