WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Dawgs, Mosquitos & Goats 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:02.200 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.320 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.440 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:30.720 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:35.240 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.000 Mahler and Danny G Radio. A Happy Friday to you. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:44.159 It is playoff Baseball weekend. No games today, but they 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:49.479 will resume tomorrow, Tomorrow, tomorrow, and we're here every weekend. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.600 If this is the first time you have listened to 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.520 The Fifth Hour podcast, welcome to our domain. Now. Occasionally 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.720 I have Danny g Radio with me, not normally on Fridays, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:01.720 but hopefully he'll be able to join me at some 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.360 point over the weekend as we present to you a 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:11.400 different perspective than the overnight radio show. I did want 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.880 to start though with this. We've got Tiger Blood's brother 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.880 from a different mother, the Celebrity Matrix, But I wanted 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.480 to start with last night's NFL game as I was 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.760 flipping at the beginning of the baseball game, and I 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.760 was watching baseball all day, so you don't have to 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.399 watch baseball. That is my dedication to do the talk show. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.520 I watch a bunch of baseball. I always have it 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.080 on the background, and I'm paying attention and I'm futzing 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.920 around with my laptop. I got my phone out. I'm 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.560 doing a lot of different things. It's called the multitasking. 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.520 I tell the wife, I'm spending lots of plates, lots 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.640 of plates. So with that being said, I'm watching the 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.400 Yankees in the Red Sox first couple of innings. There's 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.600 not much going on, and I'm flipping over the football game, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.360 and I love my al Michaels. You know, I'm going 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:00.000 back and forth, and like, the Niners just came out 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.000 out and kicked the Rams ass in that Thursday night. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.040 Came at the beginning of the game. They were clearly 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.079 the better team. And I'm still recovering from the way 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.880 the game ended, where the Rams actually lost the game twice, 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.520 once in regulation. Then they got a reprieve from the 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.000 forty nine ers, but they pretty much lost to give 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.639 Kyrie Williams fumbling with a little over a minute to 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:26.320 go inside the five yard line, and then the Rams 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.840 got the ball back in overtime after the Niners had 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.400 gotten a field goal because of that Fugezi special teams 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.519 play and I don't need to readjudicate the game. The 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.760 Rams drove down the field. I have no problem with 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:42.040 Sean McVay going for it, but man, the Rams. They 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.160 have now gagged away two games, the Eagles game and 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.800 the forty nine Ers game. No longer riding high. Sean 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:53.720 McVay has stinkeye. That is a low water mark for 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.239 the Rams. And we handicapped the game on Beni versus 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:57.919 De Penny. Some of you idiots have been sending memo, 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.120 well you got it, Wrongs are gonna win by at 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.840 least ten points. I can't believe that. Oh my god, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:09.280 you were so bad about you. Okay, listen, the handicapping 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.320 was on point. The handicapping is on point. What you 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.359 do is you base your opinion based on what has 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.520 happened and the way teams have looked and the way 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.840 they are performing and the injury report. You put all 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:25.360 these different variables in. It's like making a stew You 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.560 put in the carrots. You got to put in the 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.919 other vegetables. You got to put some chicken in there. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.520 Whatever you put in your stew, you got to put 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.040 it in. So we handicap the game. And then that's 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.960 why they play the games. The Rams did not show up. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.440 How are you supposed to handicap whether or not a 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.880 team is going to be motivated. It always fascinates me 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.120 when there are some teams that go out there every 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.560 single week. They got a little spunk in them, right, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.320 they a little spunk in there. There's other teams that 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.280 just don't give a damn. They have the I don't 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:02.080 give an f attitude and the forty nine ers, I 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:03.960 give him credit. You know, it's the old line from 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.640 that guy, David Bennett, the Coastal Carolina coach, like be 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:12.600 a dog. We don't need no miows, all right, we 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:18.120 don't need no cats. We need more dogsf earf and 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.160 the Niners were hungry, hungry hippos, they were. They had 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.720 a little spunk. The guys that played took advantage of it, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.600 and the and the Rams just did not match that, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.360 and yet still had a chance to win the game. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:37.640 And with a little more imagination they would have been there. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.599 They I mean. The fact they had to jump start 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.320 the team though and find some kind of spark at 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.960 the beginning is in embarrassing. They went a wall in 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.400 the first half. Mac Jones hasn't looked that good since 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.720 he was back in Tuscaloosa. Holy crap. Forty nine ers 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:54.800 backup quarterback. And now, if you want to help me out, 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.520 by the way, subscribe to the YouTube channel for Benny 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.240 Versus the Penny YouTube dot slash at Benny versus the Penny. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.400 Do me a solid, help me out on that. It's 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.400 a startup. We just started it this year. Can watch 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.480 a full episode for week five, which is available now globally. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.719 You guys were complaining, well, the TV shows only on 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.840 in America, I can't get Okay, all right, I got you, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.880 all right. So we're doing this. We're fussing around with 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.080 this and so we were trying to build the viewership, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.960 viewership up and it isn't it exciting to watch this 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:33.360 thing grow from nothing to something. We'd love for it 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.359 at some point to be a monster. Man, would that 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.400 be cool. But we're doing it brick by brick, step 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.359 by step. I'm not sweating over it. I'm letting you 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.280 know it's available. If you want the product, you can 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.120 have the product. I'm not shoving it down your throat. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:46.919 If you want the product, you can get the product. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.640 Help us climb the mountain, right go, Blood, sweat and tears, 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.440 stick to itness. I learned that in that nineteen eighties 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:58.120 baseball movie If you build it, he will come. Well, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.440 in this case, you will come. And why the channel 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:06.760 today is also National Body Language Day. Yeah, body language, 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.720 which surprisingly I did not think I would need to 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:15.640 know body language getting into sports talk radio. However, that 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.040 has become a pretty good tool as a talk show 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:24.039 host when you read the room because a lot of 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.400 times the people involved in sports they don't say anything. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:33.080 They you know, they're locked up and they don't they 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.920 don't mess around with verbal communications. So you can tell, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.960 like you watch, it's just a lot in basketball, a 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.240 little bit in football on the sidelines, even in baseball. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:50.800 You eye rolls, the slouching shoulders, the poudy lips, crossing arms, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.880 the bad posture, like all that stuff. There's like these 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:58.800 little tells, these little little things where you know you're 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:04.000 gonna have the icon Clint Eastwood, you know, the death glare, 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.839 all of that wonderful stuff. And so it's National Body 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:13.200 Language Day, a day to celebrate the form of communication, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:19.000 which is all about physical behavior, facial expressions, posture, gestures, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.240 eye movement, touch and all that. Now, it is interesting 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.800 to know that smiles can be deceptive. There are over 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:32.960 nineteen different ways, over nineteen different ways one can smile. However, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.640 according to the people that study this, these scientists believe 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.880 there's only six that are for happiness. So there's thirteen 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.800 smiles that don't mean happy. Who goofed. I've got to know. 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:50.360 Eye contact can be good if it's the beautiful person 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.600 you're trying to hook up with, or it can be bad. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:08:00.080 Unbroken eye contact is considered aggressive confrontational. Now, this is 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.640 based on different regions of the country, like in Asia, Africa, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:09.200 Latin American countries. Unbroken eye contact is you're being you know, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.600 you're being too pushy. Don't be pushy, don't do the 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:18.080 tushery pushy, don't do it. There's also a factoid about 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.000 the difference between men and women. And you know, typically 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.560 men tend to touch their faces when they feel uncomfortable, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:30.480 where women will choose to touch their necks, their jewelry, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.920 or their hair. There's also if a you know, if 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:40.200 you're dating, and I was married, but if you're dating. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.760 I heard this years ago that women if they're really 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:48.720 kind of into the person they're with, like they're flirtatious, 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.960 they'll play with their hair while they're you know, kind 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.840 of kind of chatting and all that. Like that's supposedly 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.760 a dead giveawaya giveaway, that's a tael. That's a taell. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.480 You don't need to be altola. And when people tilt 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:08.160 their heads they come across as more attractive some and yeah, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.720 and holding your arms behind your back. I remember rush 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.920 Limba had one arm tied behind my back. But holding 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.680 your arms behind your back indicates that you don't want 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.679 to be approached. Do not approach me. I can't have 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:22.800 to do that more. I'm gonna have to leave my 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.280 arms behind my back so people don't bother me. Flipping 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.880 the page on that it's story time on the fifth 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:34.600 hour podcast story Time. So I was watching recently the 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:39.920 Netflix documentary about a fallen Hollywood star and reminded of 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.160 that great era about fifteen years ago, when Charlie Sheen 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:50.360 once proclaimed that he had tiger blood. The phrase that 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.880 belonged to the early twenty tens, in the same way 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.920 that BlackBerry phones day. If you're old enough to remember 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:01.400 BlackBerry phones and frosted tips, which you look at the 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:06.800 phrase tiger blood. Tiger blood brash, absurd, kind of perfect, 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.520 kind of perfect for a drugged out Charlie Sheen. Tiger 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:15.240 blood was supposed to mean vitality, power, living on a 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:20.800 manic cliff where the rest of us mere mortals dared 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.360 not tread. But here in twenty twenty five your favorite 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:29.240 radio gas bag. Well for some overnight rock on tour. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.640 That sounds impressive. Well, I happen to be a brother 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:39.280 from a different mother to Charlie Sheen in spirit, if 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.720 not genetics. Now, I don't have tiger blood. I do 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.800 not have tiger blood. I don't I checked in. I 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.800 don't have tiger blood. However, I have my own version, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.400 which is like a spinoff version of tiger Blood. It's 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:57.520 Mosquito Blood. Mather's Mosquito Blood. It's the cheap knockoff. Now 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.400 you can buy it if you go to CBS in 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.120 the back shelf of CBS on the right hand side. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.200 It's tucked behind the bug spray. It's on that aisle 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.760 and there's a little container right there at CBS, and 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:14.520 it's Malar's mosquito of blood. Because this week I have 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.560 been I'm happy to report to you, my fellow minion 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.320 and p one that is gonna above and beyond the 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.000 call of duty by listening to this podcast, I have 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.440 been a twenty four to seven all you can eat 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:30.720 buffet for the flying vampires of the Animal Kingdom. I know, 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.920 I know, Oh my god, Alf's freaking out over. It's 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.880 gonna be okay. For a dog, it'll be okay. JT. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:42.880 The Wingman, don't worry about it. It's all. It's all good. Yeah. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.760 So anyway, it's just been wild mosquitos. Look at me 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.559 the way a fat guy looks at Golden Corral. Right, 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:55.480 I'm just human flesh, and that's all they want. The airbone, airbone, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:01.480 the air airborne Ninja's right, the airborne ninjas of summer. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.760 The mosquitos lined up and some are supposedly over but 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:11.000 never ends really in Los Angeles, lined up in squadrons. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.360 I'm convinced that right outside the house here there's squadrons, 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.600 and they plan their attack in convoys. So if Charlie 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:25.719 Sheen's Tiger Blood was supposedly an anabolic steroid. My mosquito 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:30.079 blood is a clearance bin Malar's mosquito blood clearance bin 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.760 protein shake kind of mixed with tap water. And that's it. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:39.320 And here's the craziest part. As you know, I am 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.960 not exactly Grizzly Adams over here, Like I'm not out 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.040 there chopping wood. It looks like I would be the 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.640 kind of guy with chop wood wearing a flannel shirt. No, 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:57.640 my outdoors consists of going from this this studio. I'll 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.920 walk out of the studio, I walk down, I'll walk 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.440 down flight of stairs or two or three or whatever, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.640 and I'll go out to the door or go out 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.040 the front door. I'll go to the car, I'll grab 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.319 some groceries, I'll pump some gas. I'll maybe haul out 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.080 the trash once a week. And yet it doesn't matter. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.480 Even though I live a sedentary lifestyle, the mosquitoes still 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.160 find me. They're like door dash drivers with wings. Right. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.000 If you exist, they know where you are. Uber eats 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:32.520 our guy in Minnesota, he's I know where mallor is? 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:37.200 I know? Yeah? So call me Benny the Daredevil. Another 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.880 nickname Benny the Daredevil, the modern day Evil Canevl, Although 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.400 you probably don't know who that is. If you're of 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.880 a certain age, you know exactly who evil Canevl is. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:52.559 Except instead of jumping canyons on my harley, I am 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.800 daring nature's most efficient killer to make a meal out 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:01.160 of me, because I am Benny the Daredevil. Yeah, let's 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:07.560 remember refresher course. Mosquitoes aren't just a nuisance. No no, no, yeah, 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.960 that's right. They're not gnats at a barbecue or you know, 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:16.920 you're flying around like a house fly, flying around, buzzing, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.920 you're sa much in your chips. They are the deadliest 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:28.840 animal in the world. Sharks, overrated, overrated snakes, scary king kobra, 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:35.560 scary black mamba, scary but manageable lions. They barely crack 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.000 the list. Mosquitoes are the grim reapers with wings. They 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.160 are responsible for an estimated seven hundred thousand deaths a year. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.960 That almost one million people year exit this mortal coil 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:54.520 because of mosquitos and malaria, West Nile, a bunch of 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.800 other stuff. Take your pick. They're dealing the cards, and 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.920 here I am just casually playing Russian Roulette every time 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:09.000 I take out the recycling. Now, the science of being 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.600 a snack. There's actual science here. Oh no, there's not. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:17.040 Ben Yes, there is. I have no life, which only 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.680 makes this whole saga funnier sadder a little bit of 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.720 both at the same time. So after a minutes long 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:31.880 Mallar investigation determined that mosquitoes apparently love blood, but a 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.520 special type of blood. Type Oh, that is their go to. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.400 That is their fentanyl, That is their crack, That is 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.680 what they love. They prefer it like the rest of 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.160 us prefer French fries to kale. We'd rather have a 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.040 big plate of cheese curds than a plate of broccoli. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.880 They land on those with TYPEO nearly twice as often 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.200 as Type A. Now, if I've got old blood, oh well, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.920 I'm basically a Michelin star meal walking around in the 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.920 boondocks here and imagine imagine this way. I guess the 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.240 way I just have it. Some people are charcuterie boards, 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.760 others are gas station beef jerking. Now I happen to be. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:20.560 I've determined a Vegas buffet ninety nine cents with a coupon, 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.960 with a coupon, and mosquitoes aren't really picky about like 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.760 the zip code. It's not well, you live in a 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.680 neighborhood with mosquitoes. They are global, they have a global operation. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:35.280 They are forget about the mob or terrorist cells. No, no, no, 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:41.680 They're found everywhere but Antarctica. They're like Starbucks, ubiquitous, annoying 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:46.520 and popping up in places you didn't think needed one there. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:52.720 They thrive in jungles and swamps and apparently the driveway 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.400 at the Malor Mansion very popular. They have conventions there, 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:01.760 they get together. It's like the Shriners. That's the Moose Lodge. Now. 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.240 Their goal is to cause havoc and they're very good 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.080 at it. Their global reach makes them to use the 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.320 sports analogy the Lebron James of pest. Many of you 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.720 tell me Lebron James is a pest. Yeah, usually in 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:21.400 the playoffs, always somewhat relevant. And no matter how much 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:26.119 you wish Lebron would go away, like you wish mosquitos 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:30.320 would go away, they are never quite going away. They're 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.280 just not now. In the end, maybe mosquito blood is 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.040 the perfect metaphor for the year twenty twenty five. We 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:38.600 only got a few months to go here. You gotta 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.240 get through the rest of October November December and then 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.600 that's it, see you later, bye bye. Right, But it's 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.840 pretty good metaphor because tiger blood back in the day 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.760 was about being untouchable, unstoppable, and immortal, at least in 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.560 your own head. Mosquito blood, Mather's Mosquito Blood. It's about 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:58.919 being relentlessly nibbled, eaten, alive, one little bite at a time, 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:04.560 fighting off nature's smallest assassin while still I just, you know, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.760 dragging out the trash of the curb and again going 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.880 back to the nickname here, Benny the Daredevil, who knew 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.040 that taking trash of the curb would make you a daredevil, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.080 and yet, like Evil Canevil flying a motorcycle over buses, 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.960 I wear this as a merit badge I do. I 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:26.840 do the Daredevil of the driveway, Benny the Daredevil. Every 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.159 welt of battlescar. You know, women are impressed by that. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.000 I think. I don't think my wife is. But every 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.159 itch a reminder that I'm still alive, baby, Because I 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:42.119 don't know that Mosquito's kind of bite dead people. I 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.680 don't think. Maybe they do. That's a good question. I 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.600 have no idea, But I'm still standing for now, still 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.040 talking into a microphone with you on this podcast and 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.159 overnight when the rest of the world is fast asleep. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.239 So Charlie Sheen had his tiger blood, I've got the 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.240 mather of mosquito blood, and in twenty twenty five. Let's 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.560 be honest here, mosquito blood feels a lot more relatable, 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.480 doesn't it. I'm more relatable to you because I am 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.800 one of you and all we're all together in this. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.720 We're all together, all right, flipping the page quickly. We 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:19.000 have the celebrity matrix. Now. I mentioned this briefly in 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.000 passing on the air, and I got a lot of 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.280 feedback on it, and so I wanted to expand on 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.399 it here on this platform that I have with the microphone, 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.480 which is I gotta come up with the name of 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.879 It's like, it's not the bully Pulpit, because the bully 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.000 pulpit's the radio, because it's everywhere. You know, you have 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.720 to track down this podcast. You have to find the 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:41.360 fifth hour podcast. It's not omni present. It's something you 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.280 have to track down. So it's not the bully Pulpit. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.280 So if you guys want to send me a suggestion 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.000 on what we should call the podcast, the baby pulpit. 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:49.439 I don't know. 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:50.960 That sounds kind of weak. We got to do something 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.000 better than the baby pulpit. I'll think about it too. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:54.359 I'll see if I can come up with something for 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:59.280 the weekend. So the Saturday and Sunday. The greatest quarterback 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.879 of all time. This is what led me down this path. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.080 So the greatest quarterback of all time dropped a name 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.919 the other day. Caught my attention because I thought it 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.959 was bull crap. Not a Hall of Famer, not a 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:17.160 head coach, not a new business partner selling leafy greens. No, no, no, 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:22.000 Tom Brady. Tom Brady said he knew I show speed. 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:29.679 And if you're asking yourself, who, congratulations, you live in 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.960 the real world. And I'm going to give you a 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.639 high five. I am. I'm giving you an air of 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.119 high five right now. You live in the real world. Now, 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:43.200 let's be honest about this. So Tom Brady, my opinion, 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.360 does not know I show speed. He didn't know who 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.560 this person was. He's pretending to know I show speed. 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:56.159 Who's a YouTuber and TikToker and all that. Brady's forty 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.200 eight years old. He's the father. I think he's got 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:03.199 three kids. He's divorced. He's got a TV gig on Fox. 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:07.000 He's semi retired from football, he's permanently retired from gluten. 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:12.760 And he's not pulling all nighters watching YouTube streamers and 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:18.320 watching gamers like that is not happening. It is not. 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.879 He's eating his avocado ice cream, he's wearing his therapeutic pajamas. 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.840 He's he's using his vibrating foam rollers. He's got his 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.560 loop bands, he's got all that stuff, a lot of electrolytes, 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:32.280 and that's it. That's all he's not. He's not futzing 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.960 around with his other stuff. He's not watching people wearing 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:38.959 headsets while they're playing video games. He's not scrolling Twitch. 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.720 He's not smashing subscribe buttons. He's my friend, you know, 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.200 he's my eight not my friend, but he's he's parroting 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.880 something a handler or an agent. Somebody said, Hey, Tom, 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:52.080 this guy's really hot right now on the socials, So 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.439 why don't we do a We'll do a get together, 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.520 a meet and greet, and then you'll be cooler and 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.840 the you know, these other people that aren't normally fancy 0:21:59.920 --> 0:22:01.840 or they'll be into it. And so it's like some 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:07.360 social media manager, some moderator whispered into Tom Brady's ear 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.879 to make him look plugged in. Right, you're Tom Brady, 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:14.159 you're plugging. This is the new currency of fame, and 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:16.359 that's really my point. And I got some angry emails 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:18.040 from people that I guess know who this guy I 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.480 show speed is, and they're like, you're you're such an 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:24.439 old man. I can't believe you said that. Listen again 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:31.840 to me. You are famous if you are known by 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:35.399 a large amount of people, thus fam like you don't Nowadays, 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:38.520 you don't have to be universally recognized anymore to be 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.400 considered famous. And it's just something that's changed in my lifetime. 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:45.280 You can be what I call algorithm famous, silo famous. Right, 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:48.600 You're very famous in a silo famous inside one bubble 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:51.280 where you draw tens of millions, some of them real, 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:54.000 some of them not. But outside of the bubble you 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:58.560 do not exist. Your fame is not there. Now when 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:02.840 I think of fame, I think of Taylor Swift. You 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:06.960 don't have to google Taylor Swift. You don't have to 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:12.439 ask three friends, what does that woman do? Everyone knows, like, 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:16.240 even if you've never heard of a full Taylor swift 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.560 song and you're not a fan of that music. You 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:24.159 know the name, you know the deal. That's real to me, 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:30.240 that's old school, that's fame. I show Speed. I had 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:34.360 to google him. Then I asked people in my circles. 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:37.400 I said, listen. I started sending messages on my phone. 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:40.240 I'm futzing around my phone. I'm saying, listen, do you 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:42.919 know who this is? And a few of the people 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:44.919 in my circles said, I've heard the name, but I 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:48.119 don't really know what they actually do. I just know 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:52.680 that there's somewhat famous because I've heard about and that 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:55.840 is my point. That's me dotting the ie like the 0:23:55.840 --> 0:24:00.119 Ohio State Marching Band. If you're truly famous, somebody in 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:04.080 the room should be able to explain explain it without 0:24:04.240 --> 0:24:08.320 pulling out a search bar, like this isn't a knock on, 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:10.679 I show Speed. I don't know the guy. He's a 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:12.800 young guy. He's doing very well for himself. I wish 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:15.480 him well. I hope he makes a fortune. Apparently he is, 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:17.200 according to the Internet, he's making a lot of money. 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.040 But I don't care about that, you know, because you 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:20.679 can't take it with you, and you only have it 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:22.120 for a little bit and you can all go away. 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:24.800 It doesn't matter. You know, money's great to have. I 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:26.919 would love to have more of it, but you know, 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:30.960 so be it. The point is, again, his kind of fame, 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:35.000 I show speed is compartmentalized. It's engineered by the social 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:39.960 media matrix and where relevance is manufactured and then sold back. 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:41.560 And I've seen it. I've seen how they make the 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:44.679 hot dogs. I've ranted about it all the time on 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:49.679 this podcast. It just it's not typically organic. It is 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:52.959 the land of manipulation. It is a vortex where people 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:57.120 get sucked in and can't tell what's real and what's not. 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:01.879