WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Cowherd-Like Meetings" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 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 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.120 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.640 the air everywhere. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:37.960 It is week thirteen of the NFL season, the third 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.760 day of December, and the Fifth Hour. All of those 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.320 things are true. All of those things are true. We 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.440 are in the air everywhere, Ben Maller with my guy 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.920 Danny g As. We have a lot to get to 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.720 Danny on this Sunday as I will be going to 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.000 the La Rams game today, They're playing the Cleveland Browns. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.640 My dream was to see Joe Flacco play one more game. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.920 I said, I want to see in my life Joe 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:08.319 Flacco play quarterback, just one more chance to see the 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:16.560 legend he's elite quarterback, Danny, Joe Flacco, elite NFL quarterback. 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.600 I mean, they couldn't at least give the rookie from 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.919 UCLA a chance to have a homecoming. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.440 Well, he's in the concussion protocol, right, the concussion protocol 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:27.560 and all that. I guess I. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.560 Thought I thought he was better. I guess you're right. 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:30.320 He's still hurt. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.760 Yeah, dtr But anyway, we'll see what happened. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.800 One of those concussions last a couple of weeks. Huh. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.800 It's amazing though. When we were kids, they did not. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.800 He just there was no such thing as concussions when 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:44.520 we were kids. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.200 Nothing's changed more in my lifetime than the concussions we 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:48.920 were a kids. Just put some dirt on it. You're 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:50.680 good to go. Nothing about here. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.760 You you take some Madville, You're good. Don't be a woosk. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.080 Come on, that's that's just your brain telling you need 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:57.680 to work harder. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.320 I have a huge basketball IQ. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.120 All right, let's get to it. We'll start with pop 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:18.960 goes the culture, and that means our guy, Ohio, Aljohn John, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.040 all right, thank you for that, Ohiol. This story it's 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.000 a few days old, but I think it warrants getting 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.160 a mention here because it's right out of a movie 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.720 and the country of Paraguay an official there resigning signing 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.360 an agreement after signing an agreement with a country that 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:46.240 did not exist. A fake company was able to get 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:53.239 an agreement with the country of Paraguay. How great is that? 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.600 That is? That is wonderful? Didn't they make a movie? 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:56.560 Borat right? 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.920 I was just thinking that high five I was born at. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:08.600 Very nice. A Paraguayan government official has been replaced after 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.720 it was revealed that he signed a memorandum of understanding 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:18.280 with representatives of a fugitive Indian gurus made up country. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.640 That's a lot. There's a lot going on fugitive Indian 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:29.320 guru fictional country and was duped by several other several 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.760 other Apparently this guy was able to dupe several other 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:38.320 big political figures. So that's just just wonderful. So this 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:43.360 guy's got a website for the fictional country, because why not. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:50.400 He's a fugitive Indian guru. He established a cosmic country 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.720 off of Ecuador. So if you just know how to 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.400 talk to people, this guy's a self anointed god man 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.920 and he's facing all kinds of criminal charges in India, 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.600 but he established his own island off the coast of Ecuador, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:09.960 and that's wow. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.800 Well, we are self appointed Marconi Award winners. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:18.200 Absolutely well. I have worked at the sports hub that 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:22.920 won the Marconi and Wei Marconio winning stations, and so 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.960 we get I think the number is sixteen point six 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.599 percent credit for the Marconi. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.520 I think they won in spite of you. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.640 How dare you? The most important time of the radio 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.400 is between two and six in the morning. That is 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.640 the That's the money making time right there. That is 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.200 the money making time. Well you know it's not money 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.680 making time sitting in traffic. A new list out for 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.520 the year twenty twenty three is it wraps up here? 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.720 The top ten worst cities for congestion have been revealed. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.840 I have the top seven here. Who do you think 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.679 is number one? For let's say we have the rankings. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:04.120 We have time in rush hour, traffic time and congestion, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:12.479 fuel price rank, last mile speed rank, and fatal crash rank. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.960 I'm guessing it's a three way battle between La Seattle 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:17.719 and Chicago. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.200 Seeing the La Seattle and Chicago, I know. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:22.640 Not. 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.320 According to this that I have in front of me, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:31.440 it says in terms of time in rush hour, New 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.240 York City was number on in their rush hour, which 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:36.479 I believe I've been stuck in that. 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.239 I was gonna choose them for the gas prices along 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:39.719 with LA. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.520 Washington, DC is number two in time in rush hour traffic, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:52.599 time in congestion, also New York number one, LA number three, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.480 But are those like regular streets. I'm thinking freeways. So 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.080 I guess if you're stuck in the middle of New 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:00.080 York on all those. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.600 They have highways, not good ones. 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.000 Yeah, true, but I guess there isn't their biggest congestion 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:08.640 right there in Manhattan. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.680 But yeah, they have like the West Side Highway. There's 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.960 a few, you know whatever. They have a few roads. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.440 But I hear what you're saying, not highways. Fuel price 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:21.480 rank corner to this, LA was actually number five. New 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.760 York was number two, Chicago number four, Boston number three. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.359 I don't see number one on it. I have the 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.359 top I have seven cities listed, but must be some 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.400 maybe Honolulu or something like that. Last mile speed rank 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:39.200 and that was a tie between New York, Chicago, Boston, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:45.960 and Washington, DC. And the fatal crash rank, congratulations to Houston, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.760 you lead in fatal crashes, So I'm sure that's an 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.440 anion one and LA is number two, Danny, so we're 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.120 number two in LA We've got a ways to go 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:53.799 to catch Houston. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.440 But next and that's where we just lost d J. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.720 Hayden and some of his former teammates. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.960 Yes, that's right. There was a massive accident there they 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:03.559 all yeah, they all got killed. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.360 Yeah, unfortunately on Houston. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.640 Slow down, yeah, slow down a little bit. 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:07.960 Now. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.680 I know they don't have any zoning laws, so they 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.000 have speed limit laws? Or did they get rid of those? Also, 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.160 just drive however fast you want. I don't know. Now 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:19.240 speak mention New York. They say New York drivers spent 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.800 at least two hundred and thirty six hours in traffic 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.000 last year and on average. But how about this. Now, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:31.320 my brother lives in Manhattan and soon New York there's lawsuits. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.280 But if the lawsuits go away, drivers would have to 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:41.560 pay a surcharge to enter Manhattan of fifteen dollars. Fifteen 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.520 dollars is how much you do just to have the 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.480 privilege of driving into Manhattan. Wow, what if you live 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.680 in Manhattan? How would that work? Every time you go home? 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.720 You have to pay fifteen bucks. Trucks would have to 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.880 pay more. Taxi drivers would They would not pay fifteen bucks, 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.720 but they paid dollar twenty five surcharge. They make the 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.679 passengers pay that, and Uber and Lyft drivers two fifty 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.560 surcharges that would ride to the would bounce over the 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:13.120 to the passengers. Screw them. That's what I say. You 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:18.920 should not pay to enter a part of a town 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.720 like that. It's it's stupid. I oh, you need the body. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.640 You find a different way to get the money, Okay, 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:29.440 find a different way to get the money. Well, Christmas 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.840 is coming up, Danny and people getting their Christmas trees. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.480 I didn't know this. Do you know? There are three 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.480 US National Forests that will allow you to go in there, 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.079 much like Chevy Chase did in that iconic movie back 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.000 in the day, and chop down a tree and make 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.160 it your own Christmas tree for ten dollars ten dollars 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:48.679 or less. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:50.640 Can you bring your own chainsaw? 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.280 Well, I'm not sure about that, but there are a 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.640 number of places that you can go to and get 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.240 you know, obvious most people go to Christmas tree farms 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.440 at Costco or home depot or wherever. But you do 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.240 need a permit, but cost anywhere between five and ten dollars. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.720 And there are actually more than forty US National forests 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.679 that encourage people to act like a mountain man and 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.200 go out there and knock the tree down and bring 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.599 it home. Nine of them. In where we do the 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:31.000 show from California on the east coast, you've got West Virginia, Vermont. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:37.000 Also in the Midwest, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Maybe when 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.800 Co is a little older, Danny, you can get the 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.960 station wagon and you can go out and show them 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.720 how masculine you are by cutting down the tree. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.800 I'm not a fan of all these people killing trees 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.080 now for Christmas. So I know that's not a hot 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.480 take or a take that people would like to hear 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.160 when they killed trees. But I learned that from my mom. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.000 She didn't like that part of Christmas. She's like, I 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.160 don't like people killing these trees. And then when they're 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.080 done with them, they throw them in their trash back 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.880 behind their house. In the alley where we were in Rialito, California, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.360 It's like, look at all the dead trees in the alley. 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.640 No here, I'm trying to I'm looking at the map here. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:21.480 The closest place for us would be in Three Rivers 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.240 Sequoia National Force that you can get a Christmas tree 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.840 permit you imagine going in there and cutting down one 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.960 of those three thousand year old trees. That's our Christmas 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:35.320 though obviously those are AWF limits unless they're not. But 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.560 most of them are in most of the locations here 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.800 are in either I don't see there's any in southern California. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:42.760 I don't see any in southern California. So they're all 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:49.320 in like northern California, up around Sacramento. There's some over 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:50.520 near Modesto. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.880 If you love Christmas, why not just get like a 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.960 nice fake tree with the built in lights. They even 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.040 come with remote controls. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.840 Now, now, are you not getting a Christmas tree? Danny? 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:04.400 As an active protest. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.840 My chick really likes Christmas trees and especially the gifts 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.000 under the tree and all that, and her stocking stuffers 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.960 is like a favorite of her kids. So she sets 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.480 all that up. But she has the fake tree with 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.240 the remote control lights. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:24.240 Okay, all right, there you go. Weird Al Yankovic, remember him, 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:25.320 Weird Al from back. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.200 In this Yeah, he just had a birthday recently. 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:32.960 Yeah, he's now attacking Spotify, says he got note he 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.360 got a notice from Spotify that in twenty twenty three, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:41.280 eighty million people streamed weird Al songs. And you want 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:42.960 to take a guess how much did you see this? 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:44.280 How much he got paid? 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.360 No, this is what I didn't see this. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.280 Okay, So he claims to have been responsible for eighty 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:56.520 million streams and this is actually this is not wold on. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.760 This is not even Spotify. I apologize. Hold on a second, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.199 I guess this is Spotify. It says the annual Spotify 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.559 blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, it is Spotify. I 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.200 thought it was maybe Instagram, but anyway, eighty eighty million. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.840 I usually put this on Instagram. Eighty million streams on Spotify. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.800 Take a guess how much that pays for a musician 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:16.520 like weird out. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:17.440 Wow. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.599 I would say maybe a nickel stream for him. I 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.000 don't even know what that math is, but should be 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.680 a one hundred thousand. But I'm gonna guess he only 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.080 got a fifty thousand dollars. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:34.280 Check well, Danny, according to Weirdo, maybe he's lying. He 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:41.240 said that he got paid twelve dollars. What. I'm not 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.360 a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to add up. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.840 He said enough to get myself a nice sandwich at 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:52.040 a restaurant. He said, twelve. How's that possible? 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.679 How much did they get paid per stream? Well, I'm 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:56.520 gonna look that up. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.000 I don't I don't know he's saying. He's talking all 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.319 kinds of you know, shit about Spotify and all that. 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:11.240 Theoretically, Oh yeah, I know people pay for Spotify, So okay, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.360 I was right, three to five cents per stream. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.920 Yeah. According to the interweb, the dark web here, the 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:24.120 world wide Web, one million streams on Spotify is worth 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.319 around four thousand dollars. So if you do the math 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.120 that a weird aw should have gotten it probably did 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.880 get eighty thousand dollars. But to him, that's twelve dollars. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:41.079 Okay, But he was having it, gotcha, And that's why 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:41.680 I was thinking. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.319 Instead of one hundred thousand, he got half fifty thousand, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:46.400 and he would be complaining. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.839 But twelve dollars. I wonder if he's just being sarcastic. 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.160 And we're the same way by the way here with 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.480 the podcast, and we cross a million downloads, we get 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.800 about four thousand. I think that's get you know, give 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:05.400 it take yep, maybe not, but yeah, I think we're 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.480 more than twelve dollars. Actually, I think we're the real 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.760 twelve dollars. That's where we find ourselves and this part 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:15.359 of the math here. I'm doing this story for Jascoop, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.560 who listens Jayscoop helping the Ukrainian military as he is 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:24.880 embedded as a person giving aid US ex military Jay 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.040 Scoop and he downloads this podcast and listens out there 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.360 on the front lines fighting the Russians. A story bouncing 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:35.080 around says a Russian dude who joined the army because 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.040 he needed some money. Says that he was trained by 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:44.240 the Russian army and the training consisted of picking things 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:48.080 like picking up sticks, and right after he got done 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.720 with the training of picking up sticks, they sent him 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.280 to the Ukraine to fight. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:53.320 In the Ukraine. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.800 I'm not in the military, Danny. I don't know that 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.160 that's a good strategy for the Russians. You know, I 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.880 don't think that's a particularly good strategy. But I might 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.040 be wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that's the way to go. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.600 You know, it's like up a big stick for a weapon. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.400 Uh, you know the story said the guy he had 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.960 tasked like picking up picking up sticks. I don't think oh, 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.240 or a weapon. This Russian soldier said he received almost 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.760 no training, and he was sent right to the front 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:21.440 to fight. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.840 So they could build a bonfire and draw attention in 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.720 themselves with the smoke he was. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.560 He was given a task of picking up branches and 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.720 theoretically first aid classes. This guy, of course, was what 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.280 do you think captured by the Ukrainian forces? 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.760 See he started a bonfire with those sticks. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.560 Yeah, well, he's probably feeling pretty good. If your choice 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.200 is to be shot and killed or to be captured, 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:53.000 I don't know what you choose on that. Most people 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.720 might go that direction, but who knows. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:55.680 Uh. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.960 He said he signed up in October because the army 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.200 wouldn't would pay him more than his as a factory worker. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:06.200 The job had paid him thirty thousand rubles three hundred 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.480 and thirty three dollars a month. The guy was making 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.200 in Russia. So hey, if we go by rubles, we're 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.840 making a lot of money. Oh yeah, we're ballers when 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.720 it comes to the rubles. Anyway, the guy said the 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:22.520 army paid one hundred thousand rubles a month. That's eleven 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.680 hundred dollars a month. He also pointed out since he 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.680 joined the Russian Army, his family has not received any 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:34.320 money that he was promised by, he claims, Russia. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.480 I'm all about the rubles, baby. 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.440 I'm sure he can go to HR and they'll take 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.080 care of that right away, right, No problem in the 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:41.720 Russian military HR. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:43.480 Sure they have a great HR. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.000 You're good to go on that. You got nothing to 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:51.120 worry about, nothing to worry about, Elon Musk having a tough, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.120 tough couple of weeks here. I don't really care. He's 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:58.120 super rich. He doesn't care. The cyber truck thing. So 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.520 when the cyber truck, have you seen? These don't look good? 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.840 To me? Am I bad person? That's an unpopular opinion. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:03.880 I don't I'm not impressed. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.880 They don't look I'm kind of with you on that. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.600 Yeah, So the cyber truck came out. Now, if he 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.359 wants to send me one for free, I might change 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.960 my opinion. But the cyber truck, when he announced it, 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:18.119 he said the price point for the cyber truck would 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:24.720 be thirty nine thousand dollars I believe was the number 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.719 that he had given out. And now he is actually 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.080 almost doubled. It turns out he's actually almost doubled the 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:37.200 asking price from what he originally said, and people. 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:38.639 Are pto triangular looking. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.159 Yeah, it just doesn't look like something that's all that 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:47.080 great to me. And it looks like a video, like 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.439 a computer diagram from like the early nineties of what 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.080 a truck should like look like. Remember those old cars 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:55.879 we used to play around with those things back in 0:17:55.920 --> 0:18:00.280 the or the computer programs that would would show that. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:05.960 So anyway, he announced the man behind Tesla Elon Musk. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.520 He announced all his big fanfare. They had a big event. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:12.159 They had to showed a video of truck racing a 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.159 portion and winning and it was a big deal and 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.399 all that stuff and yeah, and now it's it's gonna 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.320 be over sixty thousand dollars after Originally he was like, 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.960 you know, it's gonna be thirty something, but now yeah, 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.639 so good times. Anyway, let's get to the mailbag. What 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.760 do you say, Danny, mailbag? Time you ready for the mailbag? 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:33.640 Let's go. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:50.040 It's this mail bag. Thank you, ohio al. These are 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:51.879 actual letters, by actual listeners. We could do as many 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:56.359 of them as can alf the Analytics Department. Rights In 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.399 from the Analytics apartment says, the question may be a 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.440 little too inside radio, but I'll ask because I want 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.879 to make sure that I'm doing my duty to the 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.040 fullest as a member of the malimlitia. Is it better 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:11.880 to download the Fifth Hour and listen download and listen 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:17.320 to the Fifth Hour podcast from the feed that piggybacks 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.960 on the Ben Mahlor show podcast stream. Obviously listening to 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.280 both would help your numbers twice as much, But I've 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:28.159 always listened to the Fifth Hour feed somehow, thinking management 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.879 would be more impressed by an additional audience. Does it 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.680 even matter what are we doing here? That's from alf 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.960 in the analytical department, the analytics department. 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:42.600 I think it all goes to the same total. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.560 Yeah, but sometimes the key you do need to subscribe 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.919 to the fifth Hour page because sometimes stuff doesn't get set. 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.800 We might do an extra podcast that doesn't get sent 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.160 to the main Mallard feed. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.520 Well, the other thing is too you want to give 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:03.200 Ben's live show a review on Apple podcast, and then 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.639 the Fifth Hour podcast it's own separate review on this 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:08.080 page right here. Yeah. 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.359 Yeah, So there's a lot of work. It's not easy 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:11.760 to be in the Mallad militia. There's a lot of 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:12.560 busy body work. 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.359 Noway, it takes about five minutes of your life unless 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.159 you're one of the crazy p ones who listens for 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.840 a whole day and doesn't even sleep. 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.120 Yeah, like Jed who fled but. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.919 Yeah, or the nother year end review Remember those guys. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.480 Oh yeah, the twenty six days and the. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.320 Yeah for sure walking aimlessly in a forest for twenty 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.960 six days with your headphones on listening to Ben Mallard like. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:39.840 Wayne from Soufee. I did it for mallor Wayne, the 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:44.280 all time great radio callers. Great Wayne from Southee. ALF 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.960 also sent me a cooking hack. I thank you for that. Alf. 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.960 A way to make this is cool. You can turn 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.639 a muffin pan upside down to make cookie bowl Sundays. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.040 Oh that's a pretty good hack. I might try that one. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:01.560 I love eating the cookies just the way they are, 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:04.240 but putting a scoop of vanilla ice creaming there wouldn't 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.840 go that bad. Fred from Spring Texas right, Since it says, greetings, gentlemen, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.520 what age do you both employ to keep track of 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:14.120 you're very full schedule? You have a paper wall, calendar, 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:19.159 iPad as, smart watches, planners, some other device. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:20.600 There you go. 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:23.000 That's from Fred in Spring Texas, who's been very consistent 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:24.960 with the email thank you for that. Fred. So I 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.960 do have an Apple Watch that I use, but I 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.560 mostly use it for timing. In fact, when I'm doing 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:34.560 the podcast, we try to stay around a half an 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:39.000 hour and I usually have a little timer that keeps 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.880 track of everything. At least in theory it keeps tracking everything. 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:44.720 But as far as like the schedule, my schedule is 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:48.960 pretty consistent with the radio show. I know Sunday through 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.320 Thursday I have that. I have the TV show, so 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:53.840 I know what days I have to work on that, 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.680 and then I obviously this podcast on the weekend. So yeah, 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:02.159 it's pretty insistent. Don't changing. Sometimes I'll go to games, 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.280 It'll change up the timing a little bit. Like today 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:07.440 I'm going to the Rams game, so it's gonna change 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:08.880 things up a little bit the way I get ready 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.840 for the show, but not too much. And Danny, what 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:11.280 about you? 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:12.600 Stamen's you. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.879 I'm part of a routine that's very busy, but I 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.600 know exactly where I'm supposed to be and when I'm 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.080 supposed to be there, and when I can sneak in 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:23.840 a little nap in between all of the. 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:28.440 Fire Between two fires, yepres Mike and Fullerton rights into 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:30.800 the mailbag, he says, tis the season. Ben and Danny G. 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:36.360