1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:01,600 Speaker 1: Kutbooms. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 10 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 11 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio back in the podcast Sweatshop. 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:43,279 Speaker 1: The audio does not stop all weekend long, as we 13 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: promote during the week on the radio show Fresh Audio, 14 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: Original recipe audio on the radio show Extra Crispy, Really Crispy. 15 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: Here on the podcast on the weekends, and we celebrate 16 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day today today. And the 17 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: reason that we have National Cleanout Refrigerator ratar Day today 18 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: is it's right before the holidays. We're only a couple 19 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: weeks away from Thanksgiving, an opportunity to start fresh, and 20 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 1: then you will have your refrigerator filled with Thanksgiving liftovers 21 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: and all the other nonsense that happens over the holidays. 22 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: So today National cleanout your refrigerator day, an invention that 23 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: when it came around was mind blowing, right, mind blowing. 24 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: They estimate that it goes back to seventeen fifty five 25 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: artificial refrigeration began. Some Scottish professor used a pump to 26 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: create a partial vacuum in the first ever refrigeration machine. 27 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: Of course, you could argue that ice in rooms back 28 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: in the ancient days was the original refrigerator. But anyway, 29 00:01:55,080 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: seventeen fifty five the modern version began, and it wasn't 30 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: until eighteen fifty four. Through the math on that almost 31 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: sixty years later, we are told the first ice making 32 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: machine came around. How about that? Yeah, and only took 33 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: about one hundred more years for the phrase on the 34 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: rocks to be ascribed to a Scotch by people work 35 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: at bars. Then in nineteen eleven, the first household refrigerator 36 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: came around, produced by General Electric, and it was based 37 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: on a design from a French monk. So we can 38 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: thank a French monk for the first household refrigerator. And 39 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: it was designed to help ge sell electricity. So the 40 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: actually this is great. So the first refrigerator at home 41 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: was just so they could get people to pay for electricity. 42 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: And then a little over a decade later, in nineteen 43 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: twenty three, the first frigid Air founded by these same 44 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: kind people who brought you General motors. The brand became 45 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: so popular. How popular was it that many Americans from 46 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: what I was reading, I felt down a rabbit hole. 47 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 1: Many Americans called any refrigerator in the nineteen twenties and thirties, 48 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 1: any refrigerator by the name of the company is called 49 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: it a frigid Air. Then in nineteen forty the first 50 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: freezer came around, and that was a game changer of 51 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: the arrival of freezers large enough to make more than 52 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: ice cubes, and that led to the frozen food industry, 53 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: TV dinners, frozen pizzas and all that. And now we 54 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: celebrate today National cleanout your Refrigerator Day. Will you be partaking? Okay? 55 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: On this podcast we have the Mahoga Revolution, not Yoga, 56 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: Mahoga Revolution, Tilt a Whirl, and who knows what else. 57 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: But we're going to begin with this. So let me 58 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: tell you something right now. I'm an ideas guy. I'm 59 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: an ideas guy. We work in the creative shop, the 60 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: theater of the mind in radio and some men dream 61 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: of climbing mountains. Some men dream of winning the Daytona 62 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: five hundred or the Indy five hundred. Some work in 63 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 1: medicine and strive to cure diseases. Me I sit up 64 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: and sit around in the middle of the night, imagining 65 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: a world where a mop relay has more TV drama 66 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: than the NBA playing tournament, and certainly more than what's 67 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: going on right now, the NBA Cup, whatever that fugazy 68 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: thing is that's been going on in the regular season 69 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: in the NBA had some games on last night and 70 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 1: I was like, oh boy, yeah, yeah, they're still doing this. 71 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 1: They're still doing this ridiculous nonsense. What are they doing? 72 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: My God? That brings us to the future, the glorious, spotless, 73 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: streak free future, my newest get rich plan. This actually 74 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: hatched late in the radio show on Friday. We were 75 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: yapping about the event and this popped into my head. Now, 76 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: as mentioned during the radio show this week, I know 77 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: that my guys Azzie Waz and Donkeys Sausage and Tammy 78 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: and Vegas and Eileen in San Francisco and all of 79 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: you know Eke and Roseville, Minnesota know the slogan. Unless 80 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: you don't Mahoga make Housekeeping Olympics great again. That's the slogan. 81 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: Now Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas. Vegas just hosted the 82 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: thirty fifth Housekeeping Olympics. Now do and you saw it 83 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,799 Speaker 1: or not. We talked a little bit about it. Maybe 84 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: not cute event, nice, wholesome, one day, couple of teams, 85 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: Mandalay Bay where so many fights have taken place. You 86 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: got your bed, making your vacuum rate, this is your mop, relays, 87 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: your buffer pad. Toss all of that now. Congratulations to 88 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 1: the aria Vedara team. They won the whole Enchilada. They 89 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: are the kings of the vacuum and the mop and 90 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: the buffer pad. So the dust warriors, good job by you. However, 91 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: I'm here on this podcast to tell you something America 92 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: refuses to admit. We're thinking way too small, way too small. 93 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: This isn't just a local event anymore. We're gonna help 94 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: out these people. This is going to become the next 95 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: global sensation of the sporting nation. If pickleball, yes, pickleball 96 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: can take over the country, which it did for a 97 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 1: couple of years, If cornhole can get on ESPN two 98 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: or whatever the hell it's on, and if my guy, 99 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut, who we've had on this podcast before, If 100 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut, the goosy guy Bobbler can turn hot dog 101 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: eating and earn a living from eating hot dogs like 102 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: a manufacturing plant, or he's just consuming everything more like 103 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: a woodship. Right, I guess, then we can turn cleaning 104 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: into an international blood sport. Who says no, Who says no. 105 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: I don't see anyone anyone with their hand in the air. 106 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: And the reason no one has their hand in the 107 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: air is because this works international blood sport. So let 108 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: me workshop this. I'm gonna workshop at Mallar style because 109 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: it's the podcast and I'm on here. So the vision 110 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: is this. It's not yoga, it's not hot yoga. It's 111 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: thehoga as in make Housekeeping Olympics great again. It's a movement. 112 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: It is a movement. We're giving the world competition. And 113 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: in order for this to work, you have to have consequences. 114 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: You must have consequences. So as we're kind of shopping this, 115 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: have you ever tried to make a bed in under 116 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: sixty seconds? Wow? While there is a referee with a 117 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: stopwatch breathing down your neck. Yeah, that's pressure. Cameras in 118 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: the room. That's drama. There's some steaks involved. It was 119 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: a famous woman that was on television years ago named 120 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: Julia Child, and she gave one of my favorite quotes 121 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: when it comes to this kind of stuff. She summed 122 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: up what I'm getting at, way before I was around. 123 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: Julia Child, the star of PBS cooking shows, said everything 124 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: can have drama if it's done right, even a pancake. 125 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: She spot on just like Benny Versus the Penny, the 126 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: drama of man versus Coin Bennie Versus the Penn new 127 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: episode up right now on YouTube at Bennie Vspenny. Now 128 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: we have proven this on a weekly basis on Benny 129 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: Versus the Penny, that even a coin flip can be 130 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: an absolute thriller. So the throw if you build enough tension, heck, 131 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: a parking ticket, a parking ticke. That is a one 132 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,839 Speaker 1: act play. You've got the villain and the hero. Now 133 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: who is the villain? 134 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 2: Is it? 135 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: The cop? Is the hero? The person that was speeding 136 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: because they had to get to the hospital because their 137 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: wife was pregnant about to have a baby. That's the question. Anyway, 138 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: get back to the point. Please, so imagine because This 139 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: is theater of the imagination. Just imagine the high stakes 140 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: drama when teams representing countries, companies, and regions go head 141 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 1: to head, belly to belly, eyeball the eyeball. I think 142 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: some of the events we get at, we could have 143 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: the bathroom blitz, scrub rints, sanitize, then we bring out 144 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,839 Speaker 1: then we bring out the black Light of truth sponsored 145 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: by Yeah, expose the grime, shame the users. Give the 146 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: winners a medal and put them on a podium and 147 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: get the interview, and they'll get the respect of an 148 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: entire nation. Dishwashing by hand, No machines, No, that's steroids, 149 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: that's astros. Bang bang with's the whistle cheating as holes. 150 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: We can say it on the podcast. No shortcuts, just 151 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 1: human willpower and those prune fingers. You know how you 152 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: put your hands in the water and they look like prunes. Yeah, 153 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: how about the Dust Devil Battle Royale. Bring on the 154 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,439 Speaker 1: Dust Devil Battle Royale. Now. In this one, contestants go 155 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: room to room fighting off aggressive airborne dust storms, which 156 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: are placed there strategically by the production team. On this 157 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 1: TV show, they're created by industrial size warehouse fans. Survival 158 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 1: of the cleanest, survival of the cleanest. What else can 159 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: we have? How about furniture polished sprint? Who can make 160 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: the dresser shine like it's starring in an Ashley Furniture commercial. 161 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: Come on, now, you with me on that? We can 162 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: have the Ikea lowdown. Now, this is a spin off. 163 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: It's not necessarily housekeeping. However, who can build the Ikea 164 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: bookcase the fastest? And that can be a spin off 165 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 1: of the You say housekeeping, Well you got to build 166 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 1: it before you can clean it. How about the vacuum 167 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: Grand Prix? People love racing, Get a little Nascar tie 168 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: in Nascar on carpet, drafting, strategy, suction technology. He blew 169 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: me off at a hotel near Lax How dare you Nascar? 170 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: It's all about having the greatest engine and all the 171 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: things that go into a Nascar. Well, if you think 172 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: of a vacuum, it's similar to a NASCAR using ben logic. 173 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: So why not send the sponsorship checks directly to me? Yeah? 174 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: I just want to cut. I don't need the whole thing. 175 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: This is work shopping. We're just work shopping on a podcast. 176 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: But I would be more than happy to take a 177 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: cut of the revenue. What else can we do about 178 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: lighting fixture, high wire. You've got chandeliers, ladders, no safety net. 179 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 1: Let me repeat that, no safety net for those in 180 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: the back of the room. Absolute panic. You have a 181 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: giant ladder, a huge room, thirty feet in the air. 182 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: You're climbing the ladder. There's no safety net. One wrong 183 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: move and you could die. The plot thickens. And because 184 00:12:53,240 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 1: this is America, America America, we're gonna bring in Danny Davite. 185 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: Not that Danny DeVito. We're talking about the Danny DeVito, 186 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: who is the trash man of the people and his 187 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: crew from the burbs of Boston who calls the show 188 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: and their sole job to verify the heavy lifting events. 189 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: Trash can clean jerks right, couch deadlifts. The mattress maneuver, 190 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: not to be confused with the malad maneuver. We do 191 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: the malord maneuver on password. The word Game of the 192 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: Stars as Robbie the Mariner fans and knows and mister 193 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: nice guy and those guys. So this is prime time. 194 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: It's prime time, baby. Now the steaks, right, Kyrie, and okay, 195 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 1: so he's aware of this. The steaks are this. Everyone cleans, everyone, 196 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: every man and woman has to clean, unless you are 197 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: pig Pen from the old cartoon the Peanuts, or if 198 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: you're an oligarch and can afford to have someone clean 199 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 1: for you. But still you're paying someone to do a 200 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: job that you should be doing. This is the most 201 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: relatable competition since man discovered fire. It is. You think 202 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,239 Speaker 1: about the Olympics. A lot of the events in the Olympics, 203 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: and we wrap ourselves in the flag and patriotism. That's 204 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,439 Speaker 1: why we like the Olympics. A lot of the events 205 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: in the Olympics you're never going to do. You never did. 206 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: They're not very relatable at all. But putting a vacuum 207 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: cleaner in someone's hand, or handing them a towel and 208 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: some water to clean a window or something along those lines, 209 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: now that is a relatable competition. But wait, there's more 210 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: cleaning companies. I'm telling you right now, I know a 211 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: little bit about advertising. We're in the advertising business and radio. 212 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: You got to sell the soap. As the Great John 213 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: Sterling said on this podcast, cleaning companies will pay the bills. Commercials, 214 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? We're gonna have them lined up. Swiffer, Dyson, Clorox, 215 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: mister clean. They will literally be like groupies at a 216 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: boy band reunion tour. Wrapped around the block, Wrapped around 217 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: the block, the wind Dex Index, brought to you by 218 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: Windex Money, Man of Many Money, Manu and Maney and 219 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: the build up. Okay, gotta hype it up, right, I'm 220 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: a hype man. Gotta hype this up. You do the 221 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: right marketing and this is on right. You can have 222 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: battle of the genders. I am women versus men. Who's 223 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: gonna do a better job cleaning the dishes? Come on now, eh? 224 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: But the marketing part of it. You can make three 225 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: minute social media promo video about vacuuming. Sound like one 226 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: of those promos from Connor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. The 227 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: greatest hyped bull crap event in the history of mankind. 228 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: Your little weasel, look at you, your little f and weasel, 229 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: Remember Connor McGregor, So good. I missed that drop. We've 230 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: had so many different board ops over the years. None 231 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: of them play the old stuff, and a lot of 232 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: them don't even know the old stuff because they're never 233 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: listened the show. But I missed that. That's one drop. 234 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: I missed you a little weasel, look at you, your 235 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: little eleven weasel was so good. McGregor was yelling at 236 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: the guy that was doing the television. God, was that great? 237 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: All right? So the pitch is this becomes a global tour. 238 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: We're continuing to workshop the Housekeeping Olympics, taking the next 239 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: step as our goal here just for those of you 240 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: that are I don't know why you just be tuning in, 241 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: but to make Housekeeping Olympics great again. It's a movement 242 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: and that is what we're doing. That is what we 243 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: are doing right here, you and I together. So it 244 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: would be a season long league people like leagues. We'd 245 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: have updated standings, weekly events, national rivalries, and we can 246 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: make this a global event. Wrap yourself in the flag, 247 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: Team USA versus Team Japan in the toilet seat Precision Slam. 248 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: Does the Japanese team have an advantage because their toilets 249 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: have spray water to clean the tukas? Who knows? France 250 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,880 Speaker 1: versus Germany in the Linen Fold Artistry Challenger? Come on now, 251 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: Canada versus Mexico in the Cross North America Dust Duel. 252 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: Yeah it works, Come on now, you know I'm right? Yeah, 253 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: you feel me on that? All right, there we go. 254 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: We can bring everyone involved. We can have the communist 255 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: countries and they can chounge like New York the communist 256 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: city of Manhattan, and then go back and forth the Olympics. 257 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: How about this child's play, child's play? The NHL All 258 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: Star Game, I've been there, not my thing. The NBA 259 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: All Star Game a bigger joke than the NHL All 260 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: Star Game. So this is I'm talking skill, speed, focus, showmanship, drama, 261 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: ol rama, and the eternal battle against filth. So yes, yes, 262 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: the Ben Mathers Show or the Fifth Hour podcast. We 263 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: are a think tank. We are a think tank. And 264 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: this isn't just an idea. I'm telling you, it's a 265 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: malar movement. Who's with me? Yes, you're with me, the 266 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: mal or militia. You're my foot soldiers, Justin and Cincinnati. 267 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: You guys, you're gonna lead the charge. You are barbecuing 268 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: when absolutely we will make cleaning great again. We're gonna 269 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: bring in j Dot, He'll be in our Utah guy. 270 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: We will turn small scale Vegas housekeeping games, which go 271 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,719 Speaker 1: on once a year, into an intercontinental battle royale, a 272 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: war of sponges, of vacuums and elbow grease. We don't 273 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: need hand grenades and bullets and guns and all that. No, no, no, no, no, no, 274 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: we don't need that. No, We'll use the sponge in 275 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: the vacuum in the elbow grease. And that's it. I'm 276 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 1: thinking Amazon Video. I'm thinking Netflix, Pete Cock, Disney plus 277 00:18:53,080 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: two words bidding war, Bidding war. Ladies and gentlemen, present 278 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 1: to you, Mahoga trademarked the Housekeeping Olympics supersized, globalized and 279 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:18,199 Speaker 1: monetized and of course dramatized. Let get descrubbing. Yeah, okay, 280 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: I like that. Let's do it. Let's do it. Reach 281 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: out to the people, let them know, send them this 282 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: podcast the people over at the Housekeeping Olympics, and there 283 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: we go. Think of all the cities that are built 284 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,399 Speaker 1: on tourism. You could have Vegas. You'll start out with 285 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 1: the North American thing. You think New Orleans, You think 286 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: Anaheim because of Disneyland, Orlando because of Disney World. You 287 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: think of the great tourist cities in America. I mentioned Miami. 288 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: You put all these cities. You'll start with that, and 289 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: then you'll work your way around. All right, turn the page, 290 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: turning the page. So the naked city does sleep, and 291 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: it sure is hell doesn't shut up, and that's a 292 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: bit of a problem, as we yapp here on the 293 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast. So that is the first thing that 294 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: you are reminded of when you're sitting in a press 295 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 1: box on a Sunday, late afternoon, early evening in Englewood, 296 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: in the hood and up to no good, trying to concentrate, 297 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: trying to line up four hours of original content via 298 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: bullet points for Malard monologues on a fledgling overnight show, 299 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: while there are literally thousands of tiny conversations buzzing around 300 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 1: you like fruit flies. So this is a tale from 301 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: last Sunday when I got to catch up with the 302 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: Godfather Eddie Garcia. But I spent most of my time 303 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,239 Speaker 1: in the press box at SOFI Stadium, and it is 304 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 1: a hive. Everyone's got a story, everyone's got a theory, 305 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: and no one is listening. I promise you, no one 306 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: is listening. The entire sports world insisted on having a 307 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: con conversation in my left ear, then my right ear, 308 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: and then across the table, then two rows behind me. Now, 309 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: back in the day, I was a staple in the 310 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: press box. Ever since the pandemic, it is rare and 311 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: appropriate rare and appropriate that you will find me at 312 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: a sporting event. I just don't go out very much. 313 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: I have my routine. I like to cook at home 314 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: and then I feel like the foods I get what 315 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: I want. It's healthier and all that. Most NFL games 316 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: are where I'm at. I mostly go to NFL games. 317 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,360 Speaker 1: I would go to Dodger games, but unfortunately, despite having 318 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: a radio show on six hundred radio stations and broadcast globally, 319 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: we're not a local Tokyo operation. So they make me 320 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: jump through hoops to get out there. It's not worth 321 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: the headache. It's a total active disrespect. So I don't go. 322 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: And so when I here's the So, when I attend 323 00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,400 Speaker 1: events now, it used to be a daily thing back 324 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: in my twenties and my thirties and even my forties 325 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 1: and early forties. So when I attend events now, everyone 326 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 1: wants to catch up with me because I'm not there 327 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: very often, and they all listen to our show at 328 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: least once or twice during the week. It is oh, yeah, 329 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: I heard your so and so monologue, I heard you 330 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: talking about this or that the other. And so people 331 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: think that going out to these these games is serene 332 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: and covering a game, and you know, very calm composed. 333 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: You're at a perch which has windows, and you're protected, 334 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:39,479 Speaker 1: you're insulated from all of the action. Not true, all right, 335 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: that's there's there's absolute friction there. The press box is 336 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: not a monastery. It's not even a library. The modern 337 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: press box is a carnival without a ring master. You 338 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: think you're multitasking at these NFL games, but what you're 339 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 1: really doing is hanging on for dear life. As the 340 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: old radioheads, the ones who've seen and done everything in 341 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: the business, who survived every ownership change, format flip known 342 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: to mankind, they start gossiping like Long Island yenthas at 343 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: a bagel shop. And I mean that lovingly, I in 344 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: case they happened to listen to this podcast. These guys 345 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: know things, They've heard things, and they will tell you 346 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 1: loudly and proudly, without pause over the hum of the 347 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: air conditioner and the clacking of laptops and the tapping 348 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: of fork sun plates. So the Sofi Social Hour will 349 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: call it. You cannot focus because there's too much happening. Now, 350 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: this was an NBC game we're talking about last weekend. 351 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 1: The Steelers and the Chargers. There was Tony Dungee wandering around. 352 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: He was sitting on the sidelines. That became a story 353 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: about Dungee playing back in the day in Pittsburgh. There 354 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: was Snoop dogg wandering around the concourse for and bees 355 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: getting paid more money than I ever made for Benny 356 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: versus the penny. Not that I'm bitter about that. Now, 357 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: someone mentions in the press box, that's the honorary mayor 358 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: of Diamond Bar. You probably even know where Diamond Bar is. 359 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: It's a sleepy little suburb wedged between the Inland Empire 360 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: and Orange County in southern California, where Snoop Dog who 361 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: likes to pretend like he's from the hood. He's been 362 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 1: living there for years. And so that led to a 363 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,439 Speaker 1: conversation about what it must be like to live in 364 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: Diamond Bar, property values, zoning laws, whether the fifty seven 365 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: Freeway is actually cursed or not at rush hour now, meanwhile, 366 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: we're supposed to be watching the game. The Chargers were 367 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: doing their usual thing, being outnumbered in their own building 368 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: by a sea of yellow towels led by the Godfather 369 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: Eddie Garcia and second third, fourth generation Steelers fans who've 370 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: turned so far into Pittsburgh's satellite campus. Look and you 371 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: realize that you could throw a broadwurst in any direction 372 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: and hit a yinser or at least an honorary parogi 373 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 1: lover in the crowd. The Los Angeles Chargers might as 374 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: well be the road team Home Division, road team Home 375 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 1: Division every week. So there's a rhythm to these late 376 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: afternoon into evening NFL games. You have the pregame meal, 377 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 1: the halftime snack, which is another meal, and then you 378 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: have some postgame madness and all that and Sofi, which 379 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: is just a work of art. They absolutely nailed it 380 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: for all of its futuristic glory, it has not cracked 381 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: the code on press box food. Now, my guy Sports 382 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,640 Speaker 1: with Coleman in Baltimore is obsessed with press box food. 383 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: He loves it, loves it, loves it, loves it. Sofi. 384 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: I have noticed that the snacks are world class solid. 385 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: The actual meals, the Rams seem to have better food 386 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: than the Charges, like the meals often are not Malard approved. 387 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. So the pregame meal, they 388 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: had this grilled chicken mashed potatoes combo, which normally would 389 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 1: have been fine, but it looked like it was cooked 390 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: by a guy who learned how to season through some 391 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: kind of zoom tutorial. So that didn't really look appetited. 392 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: So I gambled. I admit, this is a me problem, 393 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 1: not a Sofi problem. So I gambled the halftime meal 394 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: would be better. So I waited till halftime. I passed 395 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: on the pregame meal, and we get to halftime and 396 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: it brought a strange calzone adjacent creation. There were some 397 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: chicken wings that looked like they had fought in the 398 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 1: first half of the game. You know, I don't do wings. 399 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm not a wing guy. I'm not fingers. I believe 400 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: wings should be left alone. It's a complete crap. There 401 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: is a difference. So dinner, I didn't want the chicken wings. 402 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: I didn't want the whatever that cal'sone thing was it 403 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,880 Speaker 1: didn't loved very good. So I passed on all that. 404 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: And what I had for dinner was not one but 405 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,719 Speaker 1: two uncrustables, grape and strawberry. I like to mix it up, 406 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: a bag of Cheetos, which is filled with every chemical imaginable. 407 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: And for dessert, I had a lemon bar that could 408 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: have doubled as a some kind of building material. So 409 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: you look around and you wonder like when did the 410 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,880 Speaker 1: press box stop being glamorous? And they're like, well, it really 411 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: never was. It never was, all right, So everyone is 412 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: yaping away. I mentioned they are all a bunch of ants. 413 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: Everywhere you turn, someone's working an egg. I'll give you 414 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 1: an example. So the story over the last like ten 415 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 1: days has been UCLA leaving the Rose Bowl and they're 416 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: getting sued. There's lawyers involved, judges involved. So I always 417 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: got a theory on that, and people are telling me 418 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 1: that so and so who's in the athletic department at 419 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: UCLA was sold a bill of goods. That the main 420 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: reason they want to move out of the Rose Bowl 421 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: and into SOFI is because they can rent out all 422 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: of those luxury boxes. And when the powerful big ten 423 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: schools come in like Michigan's, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, 424 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: that have these huge fan bases and they always play 425 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 1: Notre Dame or USA doesn't but they play them every 426 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: so often. When those teams come in, UCLA will make 427 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: a ton of money. In Reverend, we did we did 428 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: talk about if I mentioned you USC, we did talk 429 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: about Lincoln Riley. Is he happy at USC's he can 430 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: get a new contract? Is he going to leave for 431 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,479 Speaker 1: Penn State or Auburn or somewhere like that? And then 432 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: we were talking about the rams up here. What's up 433 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford? Is he going to stay heavy? And 434 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: then we went back to the Terrible Towels and how 435 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: did they get here? It feels like there's more here 436 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: than at a terrible towel factory. What's going on with 437 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and his fake wife the Phantom? A Phantom 438 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: Rogers is their nickname, And so listen, I'm trying, like 439 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: I'm sincerely trying to prep my monologues. I have a 440 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: drop dead date. When you get ready for the radio show. 441 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: You have to have it done by the time the 442 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: show starts, at least ninety nine percent of it done. 443 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: So I'm prepping for the show, trying to find the 444 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: perfect you know, the perfect connecting of the dots, and 445 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: trying to find the things that I'm most interested in 446 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: because it's the Ben Maller Show, and you know, I 447 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: got to find a hook for the overnight consumer. Your 448 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: brain is a carnival, It's a tilta whirl of gossip, 449 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: well caffeine, half formed thoughts about offensive line play, round 450 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: and round on the tilta whirld, we go round and round. 451 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: You want silence, you want laser like focus, you want 452 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: noise canceling headphones, the size of traffic cones. I've done that, 453 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: and I've noticed that people keep talking. Even when you 454 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: use the noise canceling headphones. They still tap you on 455 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: the shoulder or they'll go right to your face. So 456 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: instead of that, you get another conversation about the future 457 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: of college football and nil deals, a bad replay on 458 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: the jumbo tron. Why are these commercial breaks so long? 459 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: It's Sunday night. You get the faint scent of buffalo 460 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 1: sauce wafting from the next row, and you chat again 461 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers playing terribly. It looks like he's in 462 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: seventies all the thing. So again, a lot of people 463 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: think doing sports radio is just watching the game and 464 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: talking about it. That's a lie. The real job when 465 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: you go to these games is spinning plates, watching the 466 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 1: field while listening to your phone buzz with updates on 467 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 1: other stories, putting notes down about some blown coverage by 468 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: the Steelers defense while someone leans over to show you 469 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: a photo of their cousins aunts dog wearing a Steelers jersey, 470 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: and you're trying to keep an eye on everything. You're 471 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: building out the monologue bullet points in your head while 472 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: juggling small talk, which we know as an introvert, not 473 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: my jam, looking at box scores of other games, doing 474 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: all of this, and you're trying to be the social 475 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: butterfly that you're normally not. It's out of your DNA, 476 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: it's not baked into me to be a social butterfly 477 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: and an introvert. And so you're not only a social butterfly, 478 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: you're the sniper, friendly enough to stay in the loop, 479 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 1: focused enough to find the angle of the story. Now, 480 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: some nights it works, some nights it's all noise, and 481 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: by the time the fourth quarter rolls around, the hum 482 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: kind of fades out. This game was pretty lopsided. The 483 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: old radio hands have stopped talking. The crowd below is 484 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,719 Speaker 1: thinning out because they're mostly Steeler fans. The terrible towels 485 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: look like surrender flags at this point, and you yourself, 486 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: you have to skid daddled because you have to get 487 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: to the radio station to beat the traffic because it 488 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: takes two and a half hours of traffic after the game. 489 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: So you pack up your laptop, you take one last 490 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: sip of that pink lemonade, you grab a couple of 491 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: candy bars, and then you're on your way. Well, this 492 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: is the job. The noise, the chaos, the bad food, 493 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: the gossip, the overload. It's exhausting, it's ridiculous, and it's 494 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 1: it's also kind of glorious. And then it was off 495 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 1: on the yellow brick road to the radio station not 496 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: in the North Woods but in Shriman Oaks, just down 497 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 1: the hill from bell Air, to do the overnight show 498 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: under the bright lights, let's say, on air, because the 499 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 1: Naked City does not sleep again, and of course neither 500 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: do we doing overnight talk radio. All Right, we'll get 501 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 1: out on that. Have a wonderful rest of your Saturday. 502 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: We will have the mail bag on Sunday Sunday Sunday 503 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: and get you ready for an NFL Sunday. Don't forget though, 504 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny is up and streaming right now 505 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel. Also, if you missed yesterday's podcast, 506 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast with this one's when you listened to. 507 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: But yesterday's edition a bonus Malard monologue on the Doyers. 508 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: So we had bonus Malard monologue coverage only available for 509 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: those that are listening to this podcast right now. You 510 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: go back and download that yesterday. So we'll get out 511 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: on that. And as Danny G would say, asta pasta 512 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 1: now later beach skater, not my pause. Yeah, that's I 513 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: think that's it right, Yes, Danny, my Felicia