Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny G Radio. A Happy Friday to you.
Speaker 1: It is playoff Baseball weekend. No games today, but they
Speaker 1: will resume tomorrow, Tomorrow, tomorrow, and we're here every weekend.
Speaker 1: If this is the first time you have listened to
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour podcast, welcome to our domain. Now. Occasionally
Speaker 1: I have Danny g Radio with me, not normally on Fridays,
Speaker 1: but hopefully he'll be able to join me at some
Speaker 1: point over the weekend as we present to you a
Speaker 1: different perspective than the overnight radio show. I did want
Speaker 1: to start though with this. We've got Tiger Blood's brother
Speaker 1: from a different mother, the Celebrity Matrix, But I wanted
Speaker 1: to start with last night's NFL game as I was
Speaker 1: flipping at the beginning of the baseball game, and I
Speaker 1: was watching baseball all day, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: watch baseball. That is my dedication to do the talk show.
Speaker 1: I watch a bunch of baseball. I always have it
Speaker 1: on the background, and I'm paying attention and I'm futzing
Speaker 1: around with my laptop. I got my phone out. I'm
Speaker 1: doing a lot of different things. It's called the multitasking.
Speaker 1: I tell the wife, I'm spending lots of plates, lots
Speaker 1: of plates. So with that being said, I'm watching the
Speaker 1: Yankees in the Red Sox first couple of innings. There's
Speaker 1: not much going on, and I'm flipping over the football game,
Speaker 1: and I love my al Michaels. You know, I'm going
Speaker 1: back and forth, and like, the Niners just came out
Speaker 1: out and kicked the Rams ass in that Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Came at the beginning of the game. They were clearly
Speaker 1: the better team. And I'm still recovering from the way
Speaker 1: the game ended, where the Rams actually lost the game twice,
Speaker 1: once in regulation. Then they got a reprieve from the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, but they pretty much lost to give
Speaker 1: Kyrie Williams fumbling with a little over a minute to
Speaker 1: go inside the five yard line, and then the Rams
Speaker 1: got the ball back in overtime after the Niners had
Speaker 1: gotten a field goal because of that Fugezi special teams
Speaker 1: play and I don't need to readjudicate the game. The
Speaker 1: Rams drove down the field. I have no problem with
Speaker 1: Sean McVay going for it, but man, the Rams. They
Speaker 1: have now gagged away two games, the Eagles game and
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers game. No longer riding high. Sean
Speaker 1: McVay has stinkeye. That is a low water mark for
Speaker 1: the Rams. And we handicapped the game on Beni versus
Speaker 1: De Penny. Some of you idiots have been sending memo,
Speaker 1: well you got it, Wrongs are gonna win by at
Speaker 1: least ten points. I can't believe that. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you were so bad about you. Okay, listen, the handicapping
Speaker 1: was on point. The handicapping is on point. What you
Speaker 1: do is you base your opinion based on what has
Speaker 1: happened and the way teams have looked and the way
Speaker 1: they are performing and the injury report. You put all
Speaker 1: these different variables in. It's like making a stew You
Speaker 1: put in the carrots. You got to put in the
Speaker 1: other vegetables. You got to put some chicken in there.
Speaker 1: Whatever you put in your stew, you got to put
Speaker 1: it in. So we handicap the game. And then that's
Speaker 1: why they play the games. The Rams did not show up.
Speaker 1: How are you supposed to handicap whether or not a
Speaker 1: team is going to be motivated. It always fascinates me
Speaker 1: when there are some teams that go out there every
Speaker 1: single week. They got a little spunk in them, right,
Speaker 1: they a little spunk in there. There's other teams that
Speaker 1: just don't give a damn. They have the I don't
Speaker 1: give an f attitude and the forty nine ers, I
Speaker 1: give him credit. You know, it's the old line from
Speaker 1: that guy, David Bennett, the Coastal Carolina coach, like be
Speaker 1: a dog. We don't need no miows, all right, we
Speaker 1: don't need no cats. We need more dogsf earf and
Speaker 1: the Niners were hungry, hungry hippos, they were. They had
Speaker 1: a little spunk. The guys that played took advantage of it,
Speaker 1: and the and the Rams just did not match that,
Speaker 1: and yet still had a chance to win the game.
Speaker 1: And with a little more imagination they would have been there.
Speaker 1: They I mean. The fact they had to jump start
Speaker 1: the team though and find some kind of spark at
Speaker 1: the beginning is in embarrassing. They went a wall in
Speaker 1: the first half. Mac Jones hasn't looked that good since
Speaker 1: he was back in Tuscaloosa. Holy crap. Forty nine ers
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. And now, if you want to help me out,
Speaker 1: by the way, subscribe to the YouTube channel for Benny
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Speaker 1: You guys were complaining, well, the TV shows only on
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Speaker 1: this and so we were trying to build the viewership,
Speaker 1: viewership up and it isn't it exciting to watch this
Speaker 1: thing grow from nothing to something. We'd love for it
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Speaker 1: Help us climb the mountain, right go, Blood, sweat and tears,
Speaker 1: stick to itness. I learned that in that nineteen eighties
Speaker 1: baseball movie If you build it, he will come. Well,
Speaker 1: in this case, you will come. And why the channel
Speaker 1: today is also National Body Language Day. Yeah, body language,
Speaker 1: which surprisingly I did not think I would need to
Speaker 1: know body language getting into sports talk radio. However, that
Speaker 1: has become a pretty good tool as a talk show
Speaker 1: host when you read the room because a lot of
Speaker 1: times the people involved in sports they don't say anything.
Speaker 1: They you know, they're locked up and they don't they
Speaker 1: don't mess around with verbal communications. So you can tell,
Speaker 1: like you watch, it's just a lot in basketball, a
Speaker 1: little bit in football on the sidelines, even in baseball.
Speaker 1: You eye rolls, the slouching shoulders, the poudy lips, crossing arms,
Speaker 1: the bad posture, like all that stuff. There's like these
Speaker 1: little tells, these little little things where you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna have the icon Clint Eastwood, you know, the death glare,
Speaker 1: all of that wonderful stuff. And so it's National Body
Speaker 1: Language Day, a day to celebrate the form of communication,
Speaker 1: which is all about physical behavior, facial expressions, posture, gestures,
Speaker 1: eye movement, touch and all that. Now, it is interesting
Speaker 1: to know that smiles can be deceptive. There are over
Speaker 1: nineteen different ways, over nineteen different ways one can smile. However,
Speaker 1: according to the people that study this, these scientists believe
Speaker 1: there's only six that are for happiness. So there's thirteen
Speaker 1: smiles that don't mean happy. Who goofed. I've got to know.
Speaker 1: Eye contact can be good if it's the beautiful person
Speaker 1: you're trying to hook up with, or it can be bad.
Speaker 1: Unbroken eye contact is considered aggressive confrontational. Now, this is
Speaker 1: based on different regions of the country, like in Asia, Africa,
Speaker 1: Latin American countries. Unbroken eye contact is you're being you know,
Speaker 1: you're being too pushy. Don't be pushy, don't do the
Speaker 1: tushery pushy, don't do it. There's also a factoid about
Speaker 1: the difference between men and women. And you know, typically
Speaker 1: men tend to touch their faces when they feel uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: where women will choose to touch their necks, their jewelry,
Speaker 1: or their hair. There's also if a you know, if
Speaker 1: you're dating, and I was married, but if you're dating.
Speaker 1: I heard this years ago that women if they're really
Speaker 1: kind of into the person they're with, like they're flirtatious,
Speaker 1: they'll play with their hair while they're you know, kind
Speaker 1: of kind of chatting and all that. Like that's supposedly
Speaker 1: a dead giveawaya giveaway, that's a tael. That's a taell.
Speaker 1: You don't need to be altola. And when people tilt
Speaker 1: their heads they come across as more attractive some and yeah,
Speaker 1: and holding your arms behind your back. I remember rush
Speaker 1: Limba had one arm tied behind my back. But holding
Speaker 1: your arms behind your back indicates that you don't want
Speaker 1: to be approached. Do not approach me. I can't have
Speaker 1: to do that more. I'm gonna have to leave my
Speaker 1: arms behind my back so people don't bother me. Flipping
Speaker 1: the page on that it's story time on the fifth
Speaker 1: hour podcast story Time. So I was watching recently the
Speaker 1: Netflix documentary about a fallen Hollywood star and reminded of
Speaker 1: that great era about fifteen years ago, when Charlie Sheen
Speaker 1: once proclaimed that he had tiger blood. The phrase that
Speaker 1: belonged to the early twenty tens, in the same way
Speaker 1: that BlackBerry phones day. If you're old enough to remember
Speaker 1: BlackBerry phones and frosted tips, which you look at the
Speaker 1: phrase tiger blood. Tiger blood brash, absurd, kind of perfect,
Speaker 1: kind of perfect for a drugged out Charlie Sheen. Tiger
Speaker 1: blood was supposed to mean vitality, power, living on a
Speaker 1: manic cliff where the rest of us mere mortals dared
Speaker 1: not tread. But here in twenty twenty five your favorite
Speaker 1: radio gas bag. Well for some overnight rock on tour.
Speaker 1: That sounds impressive. Well, I happen to be a brother
Speaker 1: from a different mother to Charlie Sheen in spirit, if
Speaker 1: not genetics. Now, I don't have tiger blood. I do
Speaker 1: not have tiger blood. I don't I checked in. I
Speaker 1: don't have tiger blood. However, I have my own version,
Speaker 1: which is like a spinoff version of tiger Blood. It's
Speaker 1: Mosquito Blood. Mather's Mosquito Blood. It's the cheap knockoff. Now
Speaker 1: you can buy it if you go to CBS in
Speaker 1: the back shelf of CBS on the right hand side.
Speaker 1: It's tucked behind the bug spray. It's on that aisle
Speaker 1: and there's a little container right there at CBS, and
Speaker 1: it's Malar's mosquito of blood. Because this week I have
Speaker 1: been I'm happy to report to you, my fellow minion
Speaker 1: and p one that is gonna above and beyond the
Speaker 1: call of duty by listening to this podcast, I have
Speaker 1: been a twenty four to seven all you can eat
Speaker 1: buffet for the flying vampires of the Animal Kingdom. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, Oh my god, Alf's freaking out over. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. For a dog, it'll be okay. JT.
Speaker 1: The Wingman, don't worry about it. It's all. It's all good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's just been wild mosquitos. Look at me
Speaker 1: the way a fat guy looks at Golden Corral. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm just human flesh, and that's all they want. The airbone, airbone,
Speaker 1: the air airborne Ninja's right, the airborne ninjas of summer.
Speaker 1: The mosquitos lined up and some are supposedly over but
Speaker 1: never ends really in Los Angeles, lined up in squadrons.
Speaker 1: I'm convinced that right outside the house here there's squadrons,
Speaker 1: and they plan their attack in convoys. So if Charlie
Speaker 1: Sheen's Tiger Blood was supposedly an anabolic steroid. My mosquito
Speaker 1: blood is a clearance bin Malar's mosquito blood clearance bin
Speaker 1: protein shake kind of mixed with tap water. And that's it.
Speaker 1: And here's the craziest part. As you know, I am
Speaker 1: not exactly Grizzly Adams over here, Like I'm not out
Speaker 1: there chopping wood. It looks like I would be the
Speaker 1: kind of guy with chop wood wearing a flannel shirt. No,
Speaker 1: my outdoors consists of going from this this studio. I'll
Speaker 1: walk out of the studio, I walk down, I'll walk
Speaker 1: down flight of stairs or two or three or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I'll go out to the door or go out
Speaker 1: the front door. I'll go to the car, I'll grab
Speaker 1: some groceries, I'll pump some gas. I'll maybe haul out
Speaker 1: the trash once a week. And yet it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Even though I live a sedentary lifestyle, the mosquitoes still
Speaker 1: find me. They're like door dash drivers with wings. Right.
Speaker 1: If you exist, they know where you are. Uber eats
Speaker 1: our guy in Minnesota, he's I know where mallor is?
Speaker 1: I know? Yeah? So call me Benny the Daredevil. Another
Speaker 1: nickname Benny the Daredevil, the modern day Evil Canevl, Although
Speaker 1: you probably don't know who that is. If you're of
Speaker 1: a certain age, you know exactly who evil Canevl is.
Speaker 1: Except instead of jumping canyons on my harley, I am
Speaker 1: daring nature's most efficient killer to make a meal out
Speaker 1: of me, because I am Benny the Daredevil. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: remember refresher course. Mosquitoes aren't just a nuisance. No no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. They're not gnats at a barbecue or you know,
Speaker 1: you're flying around like a house fly, flying around, buzzing,
Speaker 1: you're sa much in your chips. They are the deadliest
Speaker 1: animal in the world. Sharks, overrated, overrated snakes, scary king kobra,
Speaker 1: scary black mamba, scary but manageable lions. They barely crack
Speaker 1: the list. Mosquitoes are the grim reapers with wings. They
Speaker 1: are responsible for an estimated seven hundred thousand deaths a year.
Speaker 1: That almost one million people year exit this mortal coil
Speaker 1: because of mosquitos and malaria, West Nile, a bunch of
Speaker 1: other stuff. Take your pick. They're dealing the cards, and
Speaker 1: here I am just casually playing Russian Roulette every time
Speaker 1: I take out the recycling. Now, the science of being
Speaker 1: a snack. There's actual science here. Oh no, there's not.
Speaker 1: Ben Yes, there is. I have no life, which only
Speaker 1: makes this whole saga funnier sadder a little bit of
Speaker 1: both at the same time. So after a minutes long
Speaker 1: Mallar investigation determined that mosquitoes apparently love blood, but a
Speaker 1: special type of blood. Type Oh, that is their go to.
Speaker 1: That is their fentanyl, That is their crack, That is
Speaker 1: what they love. They prefer it like the rest of
Speaker 1: us prefer French fries to kale. We'd rather have a
Speaker 1: big plate of cheese curds than a plate of broccoli.
Speaker 1: They land on those with TYPEO nearly twice as often
Speaker 1: as Type A. Now, if I've got old blood, oh well,
Speaker 1: I'm basically a Michelin star meal walking around in the
Speaker 1: boondocks here and imagine imagine this way. I guess the
Speaker 1: way I just have it. Some people are charcuterie boards,
Speaker 1: others are gas station beef jerking. Now I happen to be.
Speaker 1: I've determined a Vegas buffet ninety nine cents with a coupon,
Speaker 1: with a coupon, and mosquitoes aren't really picky about like
Speaker 1: the zip code. It's not well, you live in a
Speaker 1: neighborhood with mosquitoes. They are global, they have a global operation.
Speaker 1: They are forget about the mob or terrorist cells. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: They're found everywhere but Antarctica. They're like Starbucks, ubiquitous, annoying
Speaker 1: and popping up in places you didn't think needed one there.
Speaker 1: They thrive in jungles and swamps and apparently the driveway
Speaker 1: at the Malor Mansion very popular. They have conventions there,
Speaker 1: they get together. It's like the Shriners. That's the Moose Lodge. Now.
Speaker 1: Their goal is to cause havoc and they're very good
Speaker 1: at it. Their global reach makes them to use the
Speaker 1: sports analogy the Lebron James of pest. Many of you
Speaker 1: tell me Lebron James is a pest. Yeah, usually in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, always somewhat relevant. And no matter how much
Speaker 1: you wish Lebron would go away, like you wish mosquitos
Speaker 1: would go away, they are never quite going away. They're
Speaker 1: just not now. In the end, maybe mosquito blood is
Speaker 1: the perfect metaphor for the year twenty twenty five. We
Speaker 1: only got a few months to go here. You gotta
Speaker 1: get through the rest of October November December and then
Speaker 1: that's it, see you later, bye bye. Right, But it's
Speaker 1: pretty good metaphor because tiger blood back in the day
Speaker 1: was about being untouchable, unstoppable, and immortal, at least in
Speaker 1: your own head. Mosquito blood, Mather's Mosquito Blood. It's about
Speaker 1: being relentlessly nibbled, eaten, alive, one little bite at a time,
Speaker 1: fighting off nature's smallest assassin while still I just, you know,
Speaker 1: dragging out the trash of the curb and again going
Speaker 1: back to the nickname here, Benny the Daredevil, who knew
Speaker 1: that taking trash of the curb would make you a daredevil,
Speaker 1: and yet, like Evil Canevil flying a motorcycle over buses,
Speaker 1: I wear this as a merit badge I do. I
Speaker 1: do the Daredevil of the driveway, Benny the Daredevil. Every
Speaker 1: welt of battlescar. You know, women are impressed by that.
Speaker 1: I think. I don't think my wife is. But every
Speaker 1: itch a reminder that I'm still alive, baby, Because I
Speaker 1: don't know that Mosquito's kind of bite dead people. I
Speaker 1: don't think. Maybe they do. That's a good question. I
Speaker 1: have no idea, But I'm still standing for now, still
Speaker 1: talking into a microphone with you on this podcast and
Speaker 1: overnight when the rest of the world is fast asleep.
Speaker 1: So Charlie Sheen had his tiger blood, I've got the
Speaker 1: mather of mosquito blood, and in twenty twenty five. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest here, mosquito blood feels a lot more relatable,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. I'm more relatable to you because I am
Speaker 1: one of you and all we're all together in this.
Speaker 1: We're all together, all right, flipping the page quickly. We
Speaker 1: have the celebrity matrix. Now. I mentioned this briefly in
Speaker 1: passing on the air, and I got a lot of
Speaker 1: feedback on it, and so I wanted to expand on
Speaker 1: it here on this platform that I have with the microphone,
Speaker 1: which is I gotta come up with the name of
Speaker 1: It's like, it's not the bully Pulpit, because the bully
Speaker 1: pulpit's the radio, because it's everywhere. You know, you have
Speaker 1: to track down this podcast. You have to find the
Speaker 1: fifth hour podcast. It's not omni present. It's something you
Speaker 1: have to track down. So it's not the bully Pulpit.
Speaker 1: So if you guys want to send me a suggestion
Speaker 1: on what we should call the podcast, the baby pulpit.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That sounds kind of weak. We got to do something
Speaker 1: better than the baby pulpit. I'll think about it too.
Speaker 1: I'll see if I can come up with something for
Speaker 1: the weekend. So the Saturday and Sunday. The greatest quarterback
Speaker 1: of all time. This is what led me down this path.
Speaker 1: So the greatest quarterback of all time dropped a name
Speaker 1: the other day. Caught my attention because I thought it
Speaker 1: was bull crap. Not a Hall of Famer, not a
Speaker 1: head coach, not a new business partner selling leafy greens. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Tom Brady said he knew I show speed.
Speaker 1: And if you're asking yourself, who, congratulations, you live in
Speaker 1: the real world. And I'm going to give you a
Speaker 1: high five. I am. I'm giving you an air of
Speaker 1: high five right now. You live in the real world. Now,
Speaker 1: let's be honest about this. So Tom Brady, my opinion,
Speaker 1: does not know I show speed. He didn't know who
Speaker 1: this person was. He's pretending to know I show speed.
Speaker 1: Who's a YouTuber and TikToker and all that. Brady's forty
Speaker 1: eight years old. He's the father. I think he's got
Speaker 1: three kids. He's divorced. He's got a TV gig on Fox.
Speaker 1: He's semi retired from football, he's permanently retired from gluten.
Speaker 1: And he's not pulling all nighters watching YouTube streamers and
Speaker 1: watching gamers like that is not happening. It is not.
Speaker 1: He's eating his avocado ice cream, he's wearing his therapeutic pajamas.
Speaker 1: He's he's using his vibrating foam rollers. He's got his
Speaker 1: loop bands, he's got all that stuff, a lot of electrolytes,
Speaker 1: and that's it. That's all he's not. He's not futzing
Speaker 1: around with his other stuff. He's not watching people wearing
Speaker 1: headsets while they're playing video games. He's not scrolling Twitch.
Speaker 1: He's not smashing subscribe buttons. He's my friend, you know,
Speaker 1: he's my eight not my friend, but he's he's parroting
Speaker 1: something a handler or an agent. Somebody said, Hey, Tom,
Speaker 1: this guy's really hot right now on the socials, So
Speaker 1: why don't we do a We'll do a get together,
Speaker 1: a meet and greet, and then you'll be cooler and
Speaker 1: the you know, these other people that aren't normally fancy
Speaker 1: or they'll be into it. And so it's like some
Speaker 1: social media manager, some moderator whispered into Tom Brady's ear
Speaker 1: to make him look plugged in. Right, you're Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: you're plugging. This is the new currency of fame, and
Speaker 1: that's really my point. And I got some angry emails
Speaker 1: from people that I guess know who this guy I
Speaker 1: show speed is, and they're like, you're you're such an
Speaker 1: old man. I can't believe you said that. Listen again
Speaker 1: to me. You are famous if you are known by
Speaker 1: a large amount of people, thus fam like you don't Nowadays,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be universally recognized anymore to be
Speaker 1: considered famous. And it's just something that's changed in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: You can be what I call algorithm famous, silo famous. Right,
Speaker 1: You're very famous in a silo famous inside one bubble
Speaker 1: where you draw tens of millions, some of them real,
Speaker 1: some of them not. But outside of the bubble you
Speaker 1: do not exist. Your fame is not there. Now when
Speaker 1: I think of fame, I think of Taylor Swift. You
Speaker 1: don't have to google Taylor Swift. You don't have to
Speaker 1: ask three friends, what does that woman do? Everyone knows, like,
Speaker 1: even if you've never heard of a full Taylor swift
Speaker 1: song and you're not a fan of that music. You
Speaker 1: know the name, you know the deal. That's real to me,
Speaker 1: that's old school, that's fame. I show Speed. I had
Speaker 1: to google him. Then I asked people in my circles.
Speaker 1: I said, listen. I started sending messages on my phone.
Speaker 1: I'm futzing around my phone. I'm saying, listen, do you
Speaker 1: know who this is? And a few of the people
Speaker 1: in my circles said, I've heard the name, but I
Speaker 1: don't really know what they actually do. I just know
Speaker 1: that there's somewhat famous because I've heard about and that
Speaker 1: is my point. That's me dotting the ie like the
Speaker 1: Ohio State Marching Band. If you're truly famous, somebody in
Speaker 1: the room should be able to explain explain it without
Speaker 1: pulling out a search bar, like this isn't a knock on,
Speaker 1: I show Speed. I don't know the guy. He's a
Speaker 1: young guy. He's doing very well for himself. I wish
Speaker 1: him well. I hope he makes a fortune. Apparently he is,
Speaker 1: according to the Internet, he's making a lot of money.
Speaker 1: But I don't care about that, you know, because you
Speaker 1: can't take it with you, and you only have it
Speaker 1: for a little bit and you can all go away.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. You know, money's great to have. I
Speaker 1: would love to have more of it, but you know,
Speaker 1: so be it. The point is, again, his kind of fame,
Speaker 1: I show speed is compartmentalized. It's engineered by the social
Speaker 1: media matrix and where relevance is manufactured and then sold back.
Speaker 1: And I've seen it. I've seen how they make the
Speaker 1: hot dogs. I've ranted about it all the time on
Speaker 1: this podcast. It just it's not typically organic. It is
Speaker 1: the land of manipulation. It is a vortex where people
Speaker 1: get sucked in and can't tell what's real and what's not.
Speaker 1: We've talked about over the last couple months the people
Speaker 1: that went famous in music on TikTok and then they
Speaker 1: got signed to go on tour and do concerts, and
Speaker 1: it turns out that he didn't really have many real fans,
Speaker 1: at least people that didn't want to buy tickets because
Speaker 1: they the people were the followers, were being paid for
Speaker 1: and bought and all that stuff. So that's that's the point. Listen,
Speaker 1: Brady knows the game. He's trying to stay relevant. It
Speaker 1: gets harder the older you get, and the world keeps
Speaker 1: moving and then eventually it moves on from you. Even
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, as the great Terry Bradshaw told me when
Speaker 1: I did radio with him back you know a million
Speaker 1: years ago, that every day that goes by, from the
Speaker 1: moment you stop playing a sport, your relevancy goes down.
Speaker 1: There's a direct correlation. I don't need to get a
Speaker 1: ven diagram, but Terry explain it now. To Terry's credit,
Speaker 1: he's had thirty years on Fox something along those lines,
Speaker 1: maybe longer breaking NFL games down at all, which is
Speaker 1: good to him. But there's people that don't even know
Speaker 1: Terry played in the NFL and they have no idea anyway,
Speaker 1: The point is about Tom Brady. So Tom Brady's not
Speaker 1: competing with Peyton Manning anymore. He's not playing in the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. He's competing with Fox on Sundays. He's competing
Speaker 1: with the algorithm. And the algorithm doesn't care that you
Speaker 1: threw six hundred and forty nine touchdown passes or whatever
Speaker 1: it was. It cares whether you know the hot streamer
Speaker 1: of the week, the flavor of the week. And my
Speaker 1: position is Brady doesn't know. He's just pretending because that
Speaker 1: is how you survive in the matrix. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: how you play the game. It's like the red carpet.
Speaker 1: Just pretend that's entertainment. There's the other kind of fame,
Speaker 1: the kind I prefer. It is smaller, yes, however more authentic,
Speaker 1: overnight sports talk radio fame. There's a guy named Hollering James.
Speaker 1: So I met a couple years back at a mallor
Speaker 1: meet greet in Minnesota. It was a brief get together,
Speaker 1: and every single time Hollering James, every single time Hollering
Speaker 1: James calls up. Inevitably, if he's on the air for
Speaker 1: more than ninety seconds, we'll mention I met you at
Speaker 1: the Mermaid. It is flattering to me, right, But overnight
Speaker 1: sportshalk for radio fame. It is not glossy. It doesn't
Speaker 1: trend on TikTok, and it will not get you a
Speaker 1: Cryptos sponsorship. But it's real. It's the cult classic version,
Speaker 1: the cult classic version of celebrity. A gathering of insomniacs
Speaker 1: right from different backgrounds, different financial classes, all that stuff,
Speaker 1: different backgrounds, religiously, but we are united. We are creatures
Speaker 1: of the night. Truck drivers, fry cooks, people making donuts,
Speaker 1: night shift cops, night shift robbers, full time weirdos who
Speaker 1: call themselves the malor militia, my homeboys, and my cult.
Speaker 1: That's fame you can't trust, right, can't trust The people
Speaker 1: who call at three seventeen am Eastern are not pretending.
Speaker 1: They know you, They quote you. They live in your
Speaker 1: corner of the world, not because of an algorithm telling
Speaker 1: them to no no, no, no no, because they chose
Speaker 1: to right. And so yeah, Tom Brady can say, hey,
Speaker 1: I know I show speed and you could play in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and maybe some people will believe them. There's
Speaker 1: always a gullible percentage of people. But fame that requires
Speaker 1: pretending isn't fame requires pretending isn't really fame, all right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if I'm saying this right,
Speaker 1: but fame that needs google isn't really fame. Let me
Speaker 1: say it that way. So again, this is my personal preference.
Speaker 1: You give me the other kind, give me your tie,
Speaker 1: your poor, your huttle masses yearning to breathe free. Lukewarm
Speaker 1: sports takes overnight. To me, that's real, that's lasting, right,
Speaker 1: That's the kind of fame that Tom Brady doesn't have
Speaker 1: anymore because he's not playing and I show speed. We'll
Speaker 1: never have because of the way that the matrix is
Speaker 1: set up. So fame is not dead, it's not, it
Speaker 1: just is different. It got trapped in the algorithm and
Speaker 1: the only way, the only way out is at two
Speaker 1: or three or four in the morning on AM talk radio.
Speaker 1: Although we are on FM in many cities now some
Speaker 1: of the bigger cities we're on FM Sports Talk radio,
Speaker 1: which is which is pretty cool. All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: out on that. I have a new podcast tomorrow. Danny
Speaker 1: g will check in. We'll have I think i'll check it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'll find out. I'll see his schedule, but I'll be here.
Speaker 1: Whether he's here or not, he'll be producing it one
Speaker 1: way or another, or somebody else will. But I will
Speaker 1: be here doing the podcast all weekend, right all weekend,
Speaker 1: and I will follow the line. Victor Brick told me
Speaker 1: years ago that a samurai uses a toothpick even if
Speaker 1: he hasn't eaten the meal, meaning that you live with
Speaker 1: honor despite poverty and all that. You just whatever your
Speaker 1: situation is, you live with honor. All right, there you go.
Speaker 1: That's just a random thing that popped in my head
Speaker 1: from an old radio friend, Victor Brigg Jacobs back in
Speaker 1: the day. Anyway, have a great rest of your Friday.
Speaker 1: I am going to go to bed and I will
Speaker 1: wake up and we might even do an ask ben.
Speaker 1: So if you want to subscribe, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it subscribes the right word, but if you follow me
Speaker 1: on social media, I haven't decided whether we're doing it
Speaker 1: on X we might do it on Facebook. Haven't done
Speaker 1: one on Facebook in a while. Maybe I'll even do both.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll even do both. Who knows, uh, but check
Speaker 1: that out sometimes to do. I think I'll have some
Speaker 1: time tonight and we'll chat with you then, and as
Speaker 1: Danny likes to say, later, skater asta pasta riva, dj heloha.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. I'm getting out
Speaker 1: of here, Bye Dandy. By Felicias