WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Dummy Run! 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 sol 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 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.480 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:30.840 with Ben Mahller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.160 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:39.559 Mahler and Danny g Radio, who is away producing this 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.960 podcast but not not cracking the powerful microphones of the 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.960 Fifth Hour Podcast. On this Friday, we have made it 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.640 to another weekend. The talk does not stop, as you 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.040 know from the shameless promotion by Bill Miller, who gives 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.520 us more promotion than anyone else for the Fifth Hour Podcast. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.200 This podcast only available right here. It's not broadcast on 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.520 terrestrial radio like the Overnight Show. As we celebrate a 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.720 very important holiday for me. I don't eat this very often, 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.479 but when I do, I have a smile from ear 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.680 to ear. It is National Sticky Bun Day. That's right, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:24.080 an entire day to celebrate the sticky bun, which is 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.520 one of the great things about being alive. The sticky 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:33.960 bun a confection that is Philadelphian of nature. It was 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.399 brought to the United States by German immigrants in the 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.399 eighteenth century. And one of the producers on Benny Versus 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.160 the Penny, this guy John Good. Dude, dude, good like 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.480 lifetime TV dude, you know, old school TV guy. And 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.760 so John lives in Philadelphia and he helps on the 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.400 TV show during the you know, the football seasons. Obviously 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.480 we don't do it now. And John loves to talk 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.520 about Philadelphia pretzels. He loves talk about pretzel. But the 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:05.440 sticky bun also a Philadelphia treat from the German settlers 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.880 back in the eighteenth century. Normally you think you have 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.400 the sticky bun with breakfast, but you know, sometimes the 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.359 cinnamon rolls, but carmel rolls, monkey bread and all the 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:24.200 different names. But the sticky buns originally were known as Schnannecken. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.800 I think I'm saying that properly. I think I believe 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.560 I'm correct on that. They go back to the eighteenth century, 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:37.799 but German settlers in the Dutch Pennsylvania area brought them 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:43.400 over and the rest, as they say, is history. So 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:49.560 celebrate appropriately a very important day, the sticky Bun Day, 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.120 which I can go for the walnut ones. You know, 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:58.080 last time I ate one was at the airport where 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.840 was I was in South Carolina, I believe, at a 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:06.239 small airport and they had the cinemon. I hated the 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.959 cinebun place there, which is the only time I eat 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.520 cinnamon is at the airport. And liked it. Liked it. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.480 How do you not like it? I mean, that was great. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.040 It was a great way. You get on the plane. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.680 You're good to go. It's outstanding, outstanding. So on this 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.959 edition of the Fifth Hour podcast, on this Friday, we 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:32.000 got the dummy run, political theater, foody fun, and the 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.360 word or words of the week. That's right, all of 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.520 that coming your way right now, and we begin with 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.160 the week that was on the Ben mal Show, the 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.360 original Recipe show. As it has come to an end, 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.040 the radio program. It was not like pulling teeth there 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.400 and all things consider. I got this email from Blind 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.320 Scott Who's like, well, this is the greatest time of 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.760 the year because it's all about the callers now there's 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.440 not much sports going on. And I got all these 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.200 these people who are like he wasn't the only one. 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:07.880 There were several other people who reached out to me. So, oh, 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.000 this is great because you don't really have a lot 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.640 to talk about. And this is the part that I 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.120 kind of like because I've pointed this out before. First 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.240 of all, anyone can do sports talk radio. It's not 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.520 that hard, right, It's not that difficult. Now the question 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.520 is can you do it well? Can you put the 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.320 work in and master the craft, And there's not that 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.000 many people that can do it. I'm still trying to 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.919 master the craft. But this time of the year I 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.800 think is more fun because there's a lot of people 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:41.440 that get exposed and it's neat because if you don't 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.479 put the work in, it's like the vampire exposed to garlic, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:51.240 right or sunlight. You know, under normal circumstances, daylight can 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.919 be very harmful to vampires. If vampires were real, it 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.960 would be a big problem. And for sports talk show hosts, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.320 this time of the year when things slow down in 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:06.440 the NFL is a problem. It's an issue, right, And 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.320 so you got to kind of work your way through it. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:13.800 And I laughed because when I first started, I mean, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.479 I've been doing it for a while now, but when 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.520 I first started in the radio business, we got almost 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.200 all of our sports news from these things called newspapers. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.080 And I remember when I worked at the station in 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.359 San Diego, we had an AP sports wire and a 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.880 sports ticker and they would update breaking news bulletins and 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.000 all this stuff, and we had that. That was the 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.160 way we got our news. Lee Hacksaw Hamilton, it was 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.640 my mentor in radio. He would get a bunch of 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.120 newspapers delivered and he'd scroll through them and cut out 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.520 different parts, and that's how we got the information. But 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:53.320 now there's never a slow that you might not like 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.920 the inventory, but there's always inventory. You might say, there's 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.760 not a lot of meat on the bone, but we've 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.159 got potatoes, and we have really good potatoes. You have 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:05.960 country fried potatoes, We've got potato wedges. Those are outstanding. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.840 So maybe you don't like the meat's not really there, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.040 but we've got the potatoes. And then we have dessert. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.640 We've got some apple pie, and the apple pie is good. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.680 Who doesn't like apple pie? So the point listen if 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:25.400 you if you want it varies because every day there 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.960 are self promoting athletes that go on social media and 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.640 do stuff. For example, this week, I squeezed out parts 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:39.640 of Mala monologues on Vladimir Guerrero Junior of the Toronto 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:45.120 Blue Jays, and he liked a photoshop of him as 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.080 a Yankee. Boom right there. That's part of a Mala monologue. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.080 But this is only something that could happen in the 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:55.240 modern era. A story like that would not have possibly 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.279 happened back in the olden days, but in modern times, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.160 those kind of things happen all the time. There's or 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.960 that I didn't mention on the show that I had 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.839 considered it was under review to be part of a 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:11.960 mal monologue, but did not reach the threshold to be 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.880 a Mala monologue or in it. And that was the 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:20.960 random emoji that was sent out by the Cheetah, the 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.559 random emoji sent out by Tyreek Hill. And he's having 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.320 a mid career crisis, or maybe a late career crisis. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:36.520 It certainly seems he's a bit miserable in Miami. So 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.720 that did not end up as a mologe. So there 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.440 is stuff that we didn't even get to that would 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.080 have been pretty good, would have been pretty good now. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.560 The stuff that we normally have during the NFL season, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.520 which creates a primal scream, you know, that visceral reaction. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.000 Not too much of that. The story though, that we 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.040 did just last night, Friday, the Friday, overnight, Thursday and 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:10.200 a Friday a perfect example of the zeitgeist. And I 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.480 call it the I call it the hockey cult. I 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.120 call it the hockey cult. So I get message. There's 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.040 two or three people that have consistently emailed me over 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:25.400 the years who listen. For some reason. I don't have 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.160 the foggiest inkling why they listen, because all they do 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.640 is complain. You know you should when Eddie was working, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:33.880 you should give Eddie more time. Why don't you give 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.079 any more time? Eddie's the hockey guy. Eddie should talk 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.920 he knows hockey. And then they'll be like, there's a 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:40.840 big story you should have talked about hockey. Why didn't 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.120 you do a monologue about hockey? So they get all upset, 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.520 and anytime there's a hockey story that they think should 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.600 have been on the show, they get very upset. Their namored. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.000 They love hockey, they worship hockey, right, they're the hockey cult, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:58.040 Hockey forever, hockey truthers, whatever. So I usually don't even 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.400 write back I'm like, okay, whatever, you're complaining yet again. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:07.680 So I decided, since everyone's joned up about the four 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:12.080 Nations tournament that took place over the last ten days 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.120 or so, I was like, all right, you know what 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.200 I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I'm gonna dust off the 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.560 cobwebs and I'm gonna settle in here and do a 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.120 little hot hockey. And I watched the game. And it's 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.200 not like I don't watch hockey. I do. But we 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.400 point out and this really annoys the hockey cult. Boy 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.920 do they get upset. They do not like what I'm 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:38.160 about to say. And this, this really is a tinderbox comment. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.199 What I'm about to say. I point out that we 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:46.079 do broadcasting, not narrow casting, and that right there is 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.040 a powder keg and it's a When I bring that up, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.600 it's an explosive combination. People get very upset and they 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.960 start blubbering and bursting into tears, and you get all emotional. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:58.920 I love my hockey. I can't believe it. I'm like, 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.280 oh yeah, yeah, So I just want to tell you 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.760 behind the scenes, right behind the microphone, what goes on. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.440 But behind the scenes, and so I watched the hockey game, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.160 and it was a competitive game where I went to overtime. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:17.040 Connor McDavid scored the overtime game winner for the Canadians 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.680 and they win the game. And so that was a 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.240 buzzkill for those of us here in America. And so 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.400 I did my monologue in about fifteen sixteen minutes on hockey, 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.280 and of course what happened the hockey cult the same 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:36.559 people that send me messages saying I should have talked 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.720 about this, that and the other thing. These people are 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:45.800 in a total meltdown. My theory is it wasn't because 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.600 of anything that I did. They were upset because they 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.320 really believed that Team USA was going to win and 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.040 that was a reality check for them, and they had 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.240 anger because they expected the American team to win. And 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.599 so rather than just eat Humble Pie, they said, you 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.560 know what we're gonna do. We're gonna weaponize and attack 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.800 the idiot on the radio, and they did. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:08.080 So. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.440 They were sending me nasty messages in that the hockey 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.960 cult did not enjoy the dummy run, and I felt 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.559 like I should have said somewhere I don't think we're 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.040 allowed to. But the you know, the test I don't 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.200 think they use this anymore. But this is a test. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:26.000 For the next sixty seconds, this station will conduct a 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.760 test of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.600 I want to say, this is this, I'll change the words. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.800 This is the Ben Malor Show. This is a test. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.360 For the next sixty seconds, the Ben Maler Show will 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.880 conducted test of the emergency hockey broadcast system. This is 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.640 only a test. And then that's it. And so like 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.960 people want to throw me into the the penalty box 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.680 and admonish me, and I thought, I was fine, this 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.680 is not It was a hockey monologue. I talked about 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.760 the game. I mentioned some of the storylines around the game, 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:04.199 which to me were pretty interesting. I don't believe that's 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.680 a game misconduct penalty or anything like that. Is it's fine, 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:13.720 and we move on. So I will talk hockey if 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:19.280 something happens that I feel rises up to the level 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.440 of a malad monologue about hockey. The bar is very 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:28.400 high because it's again, it's broadcasting, not narrow casting. That's 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.640 the thing that triggers triggers many who are in the 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.000 hockey cult. And I don't even know how you end 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.920 up in the hockey cult. I would imagine it starts 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.920 in childhood, and it's really non negotiable. You're inflexible when 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.480 you're part of the hockey cult and you love the 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:50.880 hockey dogma, and you evangelize about hockey and you try 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.000 to convert people. But yet when they talk about hockey 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.960 and they come over to your beliefs, you're annoyed by them. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.960 That troubles you even know your life's mission is to 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:07.439 get people who aren't hardcore hockey people to follow your teachings. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.400 And when that happens and you've converted someone at least 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.560 for a night, and you've done that, it's still not 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.840 good enough. It's still still not good enough. But I 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:24.880 digress now. That dummy run I thought went pretty well. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.400 The people that are the hockey cult people didn't like it. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.040 I did have the most calls I've ever had. I've 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.680 been doing this show for a long time, and maybe 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:33.959 you've been listening for a long time. I don't know 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.800 how long you've been with me on the show, but 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.280 we're kind of a weird family here. Some people have 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:39.839 been with me a long time, a short time. It 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.560 doesn't matter. We're in this together, right work in the 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.560 third shift. So I bring this up because we had 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:51.040 more calls from Canada in that first hour, really first 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:55.679 couple hours of the show than I have ever had 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.760 in many I mean, I've noticed again many years, I've 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.400 never had that many cous and Fox Sports Radio is 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:07.839 a absolute blow torch. It is a supersonic missile in terms 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:13.240 of clearance, and we're very lucky to have that bully pulpit, 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.520 if you will, and we're cleared everywhere late at night. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.600 So we're on like six hundred radio stations or something 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.520 on that number, and we're on all over Canada obviously 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.640 from coast to coast. In America, we're on the American 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.960 Forces Network, and so it's available for those at ships 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:35.320 at sea and whatnot, and you can hear the show. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.640 So that's that's pretty cool. I think that's that's pretty 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.640 neat that people can hear it all over the world. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.800 And we have a lot of military people that call 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:51.360 the show, usually are military contractors that live on bases 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.720 or around bases. I'm not sure how all that works. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.000 I'm not a military person, but based on what I've 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.520 gotten feedback wise over the years, a number of the 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.240 people maybe their former military and they bring their family 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:09.680 to Germany or somewhere in Asia, in Korea or whatever, 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.800 and so they listened to the different radio shows from 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.920 back home. Now, the calls we took in Canada, there 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.280 was a common theme from the calls that we took 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.320 in Canada. I don't know if you noticed the common 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.560 theme or not. It was hard not to notice pretty 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.160 much every single person from Canada that called up, and 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.720 very nice people, very very nice people from Canada, but 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.840 they all were ready to hit the panic button because 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:47.320 of President Trump talking about making Canada the fifty first date. Now. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.960 I heard what he said, and I chuckled, because a 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.840 lot of what President Trump does is to just try 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.520 to get headlines and kind of goof around with people. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.360 And you know, we minded people freak out over everything, right, 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.720 they just freak out, and mostly media dopes. They just 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.320 lose their mind over everything he does because they're convinced 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.920 everything is legit and all that stuff. And so the 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.560 fifty first state thing, I couldn't believe how many people 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.160 from from Canada were like, that's what they brought up. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.240 They're like, oh man, just like thegit and I thought 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.560 it was a joke. I don't foreshadow in the next 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:32.600 four years, Canada becoming part of America. Not that stranger 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:37.640 things haven't happened. I get that, it's it was amusing 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:42.920 to me. I found it amusing and somewhat troubling that 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.840 that volume of people are like, hey, I kind of 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.760 think this is gonna happen. And then you had that 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:54.520 true dog character, that that dope, and he was prodding 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.360 the story, trying to get some headlines even though he's 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.160 out right he's resigned. I thought, when you resign, you 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.400 gotta leave radio. When you said I'm leaving, you don't 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.480 really get that final couple of the shows. That's it. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.639 You're pretty much done at that point. But it was 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:15.399 great to hear I fro McCall's we're on all over Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.959 where else are we on there? We've been on and 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.560 off in a lot of these places. Ottawa, we are 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:29.400 on in Toronto, all over Ontario, Montreal, so we've got 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:34.080 some good clearance on Fox Sports Radio all over Canada. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.760 And all it took was me to do a mala 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:41.359 monologue about hockey, and they were raising up the Canadian flag, 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:46.200 loving it and in honor of Canada. This is not 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.919 a This is not a list for Terry and England. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.200 This is a big board. It's Big Ben's Big board 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:57.119 of amazing factoids from Canada. Is it true that the 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:05.199 Vikings visited Canada several hundred years ahead of Christopher Columbus? 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.639 That is true. Legend has it the Vikings arrived in 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:14.040 Canada in one thy twenty one. How about that? Yeah, 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.320 there you go. They settled on the northern side of 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:24.400 Newfoundland and just passed Greenland and they said, we've arrived here, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:28.639 we are now. The first explorer to reach Canada was 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.840 in fourteen ninety seven some Italian dude. He was born 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:37.639 in Italy and he traveled to England and secured the 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.160 ships there and ended up traveling around. He was trying 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:45.399 to find a shorter route or route to Asia, and 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.679 he landed in Newfoundland and that's where he was. The 0:18:49.880 --> 0:19:00.360 coldest recorded temperature in Canada in snag Yukon it is 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:08.040 sixty three selfies celsius. So what does that mean in 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:16.360 American terminology? Meaning fahrenheit? So that's just some malord math here, 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.439 I mean type this in here Malard math. You're listening 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.119 Live to the Fifth Hour Live on tape to the 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:27.200 fifth hour. So let's see if it's if it's sixty 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.600 three minus sixty three, selfies, I'm using this is big 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:36.960 time broadcasting. Metric conversion is what I'm doing. This is 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:42.320 big all right. So if it's minus sixty three, that 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:47.600 would be minus eighty one fahrenheit. Wow, minus eighty one 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:51.879 point four fahrenheit. And that's the coldest temperature. And is 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:56.120 that not worthy Terry in England of being on Big 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.719 Ben's Big Board of Canadian fun Facts. I believe it is, 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.359 I believe, and this is in honor of our many 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.760 Canadian listeners as we are blatantly sucking up to our 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.920 friends in Canada. Now, Canada has two national sports. We 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:10.960 all know hockey because that's the big one, that's the 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:16.800 bigin But in the summer, lacrosse is the official sport, 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.520 although it hasn't been the sport for that long in 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.840 my lifetime. When I was a kid, they didn't have 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.520 a summer sport. But the Parliament in Canada made it 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:30.679 the official summer sport in nineteen ninety four. In nineteen 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:35.640 ninety four, what else? Canada has the fourth longest highway 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:41.360 in the world. We're number four the Trans Canada Highway, 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:45.080 which is four eight hundred and sixty miles. It takes 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.720 about one hundred and six hours of non stop driving, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.760 and so you can enjoy that. Canada has the record 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:58.000 for the most lakes in the world, eight hundred and 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:04.080 seventy nine thousand lakes. Many of them are undiscovered and 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.359 unresearched because a lot of Canada is changing because of 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:15.240 the Glacier melts, and most of Canada is non human friendly, 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:21.440 non human friendly. Quebec is the most, well, not the most. 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:26.959 It's the only walled city left in North America and 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:31.560 it's been around now for four hundred almost four hundred 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:38.400 and twenty years. And Charles Dickens, the Great Charles Dixon Dickens, 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:42.680 rather Charles Dickens, called it the Gibraltar of North America. 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:48.720 So there you go. There's a fun fact. And Hawaiian 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:54.600 pizza was invented in Canada by a Greek dude. Yeah, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:22:01.640 the great Hawaiian not from Hawaii, from Canada. Oh, come 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:05.879 my home and native but to me. We mentioned this 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:10.200 in a previous episode. The most important contribution our friends 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:15.280 in Canada have given us poutine. Poutine which was invented 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.560 in the nineteen fifties in Quebec. Now, if things go 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:23.439 well later this year, I plan on visiting Montreal, and 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:25.919 if I'm in Montreal, I am going to try to 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:31.359 find the birthplace of the poutine. And it started in 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.639 the nineteen fifties. It was not until the nineties that 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:39.400 the rest of Canada got on the gravy train, literally 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:44.280 the cheese curd potato gravy train. So it took about 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:49.480 forty years for that to become a big old deal, 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.720 a big old deal. Moving on from that, we turned 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:56.800 the page and it is now time for a staple, 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:02.040 an absolute staple of this show. And what is that? 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:08.360 That would be the word of the week, the word 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:11.760 of the work. That's right, the word of the week, 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.520 and the word of the week. This week, fraz was 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:17.000 sent in, let me get the name here, la la l. 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:23.399 That would be Eric. Eric is a p one, he says. 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:27.720 He listens most of the time to the podcast, but 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:32.040 usually once a month he's up late. And Eric lives 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:36.360 in Atlanta, or he says outside Atlanta. Well, Eric, thank 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:40.360 you for listening. God bless you great airport there in Atlanta. 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:43.280 I know Sports with Coleman gets annoyed when I say 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:45.520 great airport. I've had good experiences there. I've not been 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:47.160 there when the weather's bad, but I've had always good 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:49.760 experiences when I've been to the Atlanta Airport. So thank 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:55.879 you for having a good airport, Eric, And he said, Hitchcockian. 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:58.399 He want to know more about the word HITCHCOCKI, in 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.120 which I think is raph. They're obvious, Eric, it's a 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:05.280 word that is taken from the last name of Alfred Hitchcock, 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:10.280 the famous you know in Hollywood back in his day 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:12.919 in the nineteen I said, go back to like the 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:18.440 nineteen thirties. Really the early domination of Hollywood. Alfred Hitchcock 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:22.200 was a big deal, a really big deal, and such 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:26.720 a big deal that his last name, a legendary Hollywood 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:29.119 director from the nineteen thirties, almost one hundred years ago, 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:34.439 ended up in the Oxford Dictionary. And it's, you know, 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:43.560 a thriller, suspense story, it's Hitchcockian or a Hitchcocky in drama, 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.200 I believe, is what I usually say, Eric when I 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:49.320 when I reference it. And it's just really anything described 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:55.679 as Hitchcockian is of that genre. And it started popping up. 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:59.000 The term actually goes back to the nineteen thirty I 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:00.960 guess so, Hitchcock, I must have been doing stuff in 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:05.639 the nineteen twenties. It was just around the release of 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:12.439 his third movie, a silent thriller called The Lodger, the 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:16.400 Story of the London Fog, and it started popping up 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:20.200 and it ended up as a word in the dictionary. 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:24.960 And while I was researching that Eric who lives in 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:31.160 the suburbs of Atlanta, I noticed the phrase Orwellian, which 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:34.800 is also named after It's somebody's name that became a thing. 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:38.119 So I think we've had this in the past, but 0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:39.560 I just saw this and I wanted to bring it 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:42.280 up again because it's come up a lot, certainly in 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:44.879 the last five years. During the pandemic, there was a 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:47.040 lot of stuff going on and people said was Orwellian. 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:51.560 The government overreached, the police state that was going on 0:25:51.640 --> 0:25:56.159 in America and still going on, was Orwellian. And so 0:25:57.560 --> 0:26:04.159 that phrase is a tribute to George Orwell's name because 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:10.200 it's synonymous with the dystopian authoritarian society that he would 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:15.320 write about in nineteen eighty nine. And Orwellian has been 0:26:15.359 --> 0:26:21.760 around since around the nineteen fifties and there was a writer, 0:26:22.040 --> 0:26:26.520