Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in
Speaker 2: the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: It is week thirteen of the NFL season, the third
Speaker 1: day of December, and the Fifth Hour. All of those
Speaker 1: things are true. All of those things are true. We
Speaker 1: are in the air everywhere, Ben Maller with my guy
Speaker 1: Danny g As. We have a lot to get to
Speaker 1: Danny on this Sunday as I will be going to
Speaker 1: the La Rams game today, They're playing the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: My dream was to see Joe Flacco play one more game.
Speaker 1: I said, I want to see in my life Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco play quarterback, just one more chance to see the
Speaker 1: legend he's elite quarterback, Danny, Joe Flacco, elite NFL quarterback.
Speaker 3: I mean, they couldn't at least give the rookie from
Speaker 3: UCLA a chance to have a homecoming.
Speaker 1: Well, he's in the concussion protocol, right, the concussion protocol
Speaker 1: and all that. I guess I.
Speaker 3: Thought I thought he was better. I guess you're right.
Speaker 3: He's still hurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dtr But anyway, we'll see what happened.
Speaker 3: One of those concussions last a couple of weeks. Huh.
Speaker 1: It's amazing though. When we were kids, they did not.
Speaker 3: He just there was no such thing as concussions when
Speaker 3: we were kids.
Speaker 1: Nothing's changed more in my lifetime than the concussions we
Speaker 1: were a kids. Just put some dirt on it. You're
Speaker 1: good to go. Nothing about here.
Speaker 3: You you take some Madville, You're good. Don't be a woosk.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's that's just your brain telling you need
Speaker 1: to work harder.
Speaker 3: I have a huge basketball IQ.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. We'll start with pop
Speaker 1: goes the culture, and that means our guy, Ohio, Aljohn John,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you for that, Ohiol. This story it's
Speaker 1: a few days old, but I think it warrants getting
Speaker 1: a mention here because it's right out of a movie
Speaker 1: and the country of Paraguay an official there resigning signing
Speaker 1: an agreement after signing an agreement with a country that
Speaker 1: did not exist. A fake company was able to get
Speaker 1: an agreement with the country of Paraguay. How great is that?
Speaker 1: That is? That is wonderful? Didn't they make a movie?
Speaker 1: Borat right?
Speaker 3: I was just thinking that high five I was born at.
Speaker 1: Very nice. A Paraguayan government official has been replaced after
Speaker 1: it was revealed that he signed a memorandum of understanding
Speaker 1: with representatives of a fugitive Indian gurus made up country.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. There's a lot going on fugitive Indian
Speaker 1: guru fictional country and was duped by several other several
Speaker 1: other Apparently this guy was able to dupe several other
Speaker 1: big political figures. So that's just just wonderful. So this
Speaker 1: guy's got a website for the fictional country, because why not.
Speaker 1: He's a fugitive Indian guru. He established a cosmic country
Speaker 1: off of Ecuador. So if you just know how to
Speaker 1: talk to people, this guy's a self anointed god man
Speaker 1: and he's facing all kinds of criminal charges in India,
Speaker 1: but he established his own island off the coast of Ecuador,
Speaker 1: and that's wow.
Speaker 3: Well, we are self appointed Marconi Award winners.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well. I have worked at the sports hub that
Speaker 1: won the Marconi and Wei Marconio winning stations, and so
Speaker 1: we get I think the number is sixteen point six
Speaker 1: percent credit for the Marconi.
Speaker 3: I think they won in spite of you.
Speaker 1: How dare you? The most important time of the radio
Speaker 1: is between two and six in the morning. That is
Speaker 1: the That's the money making time right there. That is
Speaker 1: the money making time. Well you know it's not money
Speaker 1: making time sitting in traffic. A new list out for
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty three is it wraps up here?
Speaker 1: The top ten worst cities for congestion have been revealed.
Speaker 1: I have the top seven here. Who do you think
Speaker 1: is number one? For let's say we have the rankings.
Speaker 1: We have time in rush hour, traffic time and congestion,
Speaker 1: fuel price rank, last mile speed rank, and fatal crash rank.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing it's a three way battle between La Seattle
Speaker 3: and Chicago.
Speaker 1: Seeing the La Seattle and Chicago, I know.
Speaker 2: Not.
Speaker 1: According to this that I have in front of me,
Speaker 1: it says in terms of time in rush hour, New
Speaker 1: York City was number on in their rush hour, which
Speaker 1: I believe I've been stuck in that.
Speaker 3: I was gonna choose them for the gas prices along
Speaker 3: with LA.
Speaker 1: Washington, DC is number two in time in rush hour traffic,
Speaker 1: time in congestion, also New York number one, LA number three, Chicago, Chicago, Chicago.
Speaker 3: But are those like regular streets. I'm thinking freeways. So
Speaker 3: I guess if you're stuck in the middle of New
Speaker 3: York on all those.
Speaker 1: They have highways, not good ones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, true, but I guess there isn't their biggest congestion
Speaker 4: right there in Manhattan.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they have like the West Side Highway. There's
Speaker 1: a few, you know whatever. They have a few roads.
Speaker 1: But I hear what you're saying, not highways. Fuel price
Speaker 1: rank corner to this, LA was actually number five. New
Speaker 1: York was number two, Chicago number four, Boston number three.
Speaker 1: I don't see number one on it. I have the
Speaker 1: top I have seven cities listed, but must be some
Speaker 1: maybe Honolulu or something like that. Last mile speed rank
Speaker 1: and that was a tie between New York, Chicago, Boston,
Speaker 1: and Washington, DC. And the fatal crash rank, congratulations to Houston,
Speaker 1: you lead in fatal crashes, So I'm sure that's an
Speaker 1: anion one and LA is number two, Danny, so we're
Speaker 1: number two in LA We've got a ways to go
Speaker 1: to catch Houston.
Speaker 4: But next and that's where we just lost d J.
Speaker 4: Hayden and some of his former teammates.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. There was a massive accident there they
Speaker 1: all yeah, they all got killed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unfortunately on Houston.
Speaker 1: Slow down, yeah, slow down a little bit.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I know they don't have any zoning laws, so they
Speaker 1: have speed limit laws? Or did they get rid of those? Also,
Speaker 1: just drive however fast you want. I don't know. Now
Speaker 1: speak mention New York. They say New York drivers spent
Speaker 1: at least two hundred and thirty six hours in traffic
Speaker 1: last year and on average. But how about this. Now,
Speaker 1: my brother lives in Manhattan and soon New York there's lawsuits.
Speaker 1: But if the lawsuits go away, drivers would have to
Speaker 1: pay a surcharge to enter Manhattan of fifteen dollars. Fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars is how much you do just to have the
Speaker 1: privilege of driving into Manhattan. Wow, what if you live
Speaker 1: in Manhattan? How would that work? Every time you go home?
Speaker 1: You have to pay fifteen bucks. Trucks would have to
Speaker 1: pay more. Taxi drivers would They would not pay fifteen bucks,
Speaker 1: but they paid dollar twenty five surcharge. They make the
Speaker 1: passengers pay that, and Uber and Lyft drivers two fifty
Speaker 1: surcharges that would ride to the would bounce over the
Speaker 1: to the passengers. Screw them. That's what I say. You
Speaker 1: should not pay to enter a part of a town
Speaker 1: like that. It's it's stupid. I oh, you need the body.
Speaker 1: You find a different way to get the money, Okay,
Speaker 1: find a different way to get the money. Well, Christmas
Speaker 1: is coming up, Danny and people getting their Christmas trees.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this. Do you know? There are three
Speaker 1: US National Forests that will allow you to go in there,
Speaker 1: much like Chevy Chase did in that iconic movie back
Speaker 1: in the day, and chop down a tree and make
Speaker 1: it your own Christmas tree for ten dollars ten dollars
Speaker 1: or less.
Speaker 3: Can you bring your own chainsaw?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure about that, but there are a
Speaker 1: number of places that you can go to and get
Speaker 1: you know, obvious most people go to Christmas tree farms
Speaker 1: at Costco or home depot or wherever. But you do
Speaker 1: need a permit, but cost anywhere between five and ten dollars.
Speaker 1: And there are actually more than forty US National forests
Speaker 1: that encourage people to act like a mountain man and
Speaker 1: go out there and knock the tree down and bring
Speaker 1: it home. Nine of them. In where we do the
Speaker 1: show from California on the east coast, you've got West Virginia, Vermont.
Speaker 1: Also in the Midwest, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Maybe when
Speaker 1: Co is a little older, Danny, you can get the
Speaker 1: station wagon and you can go out and show them
Speaker 1: how masculine you are by cutting down the tree.
Speaker 4: I'm not a fan of all these people killing trees
Speaker 4: now for Christmas. So I know that's not a hot
Speaker 4: take or a take that people would like to hear
Speaker 4: when they killed trees. But I learned that from my mom.
Speaker 4: She didn't like that part of Christmas. She's like, I
Speaker 4: don't like people killing these trees. And then when they're
Speaker 4: done with them, they throw them in their trash back
Speaker 4: behind their house. In the alley where we were in Rialito, California,
Speaker 4: It's like, look at all the dead trees in the alley.
Speaker 1: No here, I'm trying to I'm looking at the map here.
Speaker 1: The closest place for us would be in Three Rivers
Speaker 1: Sequoia National Force that you can get a Christmas tree
Speaker 1: permit you imagine going in there and cutting down one
Speaker 1: of those three thousand year old trees. That's our Christmas
Speaker 1: though obviously those are AWF limits unless they're not. But
Speaker 1: most of them are in most of the locations here
Speaker 1: are in either I don't see there's any in southern California.
Speaker 1: I don't see any in southern California. So they're all
Speaker 1: in like northern California, up around Sacramento. There's some over
Speaker 1: near Modesto.
Speaker 4: If you love Christmas, why not just get like a
Speaker 4: nice fake tree with the built in lights. They even
Speaker 4: come with remote controls.
Speaker 1: Now, now, are you not getting a Christmas tree? Danny?
Speaker 1: As an active protest.
Speaker 4: My chick really likes Christmas trees and especially the gifts
Speaker 4: under the tree and all that, and her stocking stuffers
Speaker 4: is like a favorite of her kids. So she sets
Speaker 4: all that up. But she has the fake tree with
Speaker 4: the remote control lights.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, there you go. Weird Al Yankovic, remember him,
Speaker 1: Weird Al from back.
Speaker 3: In this Yeah, he just had a birthday recently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's now attacking Spotify, says he got note he
Speaker 1: got a notice from Spotify that in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: eighty million people streamed weird Al songs. And you want
Speaker 1: to take a guess how much did you see this?
Speaker 1: How much he got paid?
Speaker 3: No, this is what I didn't see this.
Speaker 1: Okay, So he claims to have been responsible for eighty
Speaker 1: million streams and this is actually this is not wold on.
Speaker 1: This is not even Spotify. I apologize. Hold on a second,
Speaker 1: I guess this is Spotify. It says the annual Spotify
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, it is Spotify. I
Speaker 1: thought it was maybe Instagram, but anyway, eighty eighty million.
Speaker 1: I usually put this on Instagram. Eighty million streams on Spotify.
Speaker 1: Take a guess how much that pays for a musician
Speaker 1: like weird out.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: I would say maybe a nickel stream for him. I
Speaker 4: don't even know what that math is, but should be
Speaker 4: a one hundred thousand. But I'm gonna guess he only
Speaker 4: got a fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Check well, Danny, according to Weirdo, maybe he's lying. He
Speaker 1: said that he got paid twelve dollars. What. I'm not
Speaker 1: a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to add up.
Speaker 1: He said enough to get myself a nice sandwich at
Speaker 1: a restaurant. He said, twelve. How's that possible?
Speaker 3: How much did they get paid per stream? Well, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna look that up.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know he's saying. He's talking all
Speaker 1: kinds of you know, shit about Spotify and all that.
Speaker 4: Theoretically, Oh yeah, I know people pay for Spotify, So okay,
Speaker 4: I was right, three to five cents per stream.
Speaker 1: Yeah. According to the interweb, the dark web here, the
Speaker 1: world wide Web, one million streams on Spotify is worth
Speaker 1: around four thousand dollars. So if you do the math
Speaker 1: that a weird aw should have gotten it probably did
Speaker 1: get eighty thousand dollars. But to him, that's twelve dollars.
Speaker 3: Okay, But he was having it, gotcha, And that's why
Speaker 3: I was thinking.
Speaker 4: Instead of one hundred thousand, he got half fifty thousand,
Speaker 4: and he would be complaining.
Speaker 3: But twelve dollars. I wonder if he's just being sarcastic.
Speaker 1: And we're the same way by the way here with
Speaker 1: the podcast, and we cross a million downloads, we get
Speaker 1: about four thousand. I think that's get you know, give
Speaker 1: it take yep, maybe not, but yeah, I think we're
Speaker 1: more than twelve dollars. Actually, I think we're the real
Speaker 1: twelve dollars. That's where we find ourselves and this part
Speaker 1: of the math here. I'm doing this story for Jascoop,
Speaker 1: who listens Jayscoop helping the Ukrainian military as he is
Speaker 1: embedded as a person giving aid US ex military Jay
Speaker 1: Scoop and he downloads this podcast and listens out there
Speaker 1: on the front lines fighting the Russians. A story bouncing
Speaker 1: around says a Russian dude who joined the army because
Speaker 1: he needed some money. Says that he was trained by
Speaker 1: the Russian army and the training consisted of picking things
Speaker 1: like picking up sticks, and right after he got done
Speaker 1: with the training of picking up sticks, they sent him
Speaker 1: to the Ukraine to fight.
Speaker 3: In the Ukraine.
Speaker 1: I'm not in the military, Danny. I don't know that
Speaker 1: that's a good strategy for the Russians. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's a particularly good strategy. But I might
Speaker 1: be wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that's the way to go.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like up a big stick for a weapon.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know the story said the guy he had
Speaker 1: tasked like picking up picking up sticks. I don't think oh,
Speaker 1: or a weapon. This Russian soldier said he received almost
Speaker 1: no training, and he was sent right to the front
Speaker 1: to fight.
Speaker 4: So they could build a bonfire and draw attention in
Speaker 4: themselves with the smoke he was.
Speaker 1: He was given a task of picking up branches and
Speaker 1: theoretically first aid classes. This guy, of course, was what
Speaker 1: do you think captured by the Ukrainian forces?
Speaker 3: See he started a bonfire with those sticks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he's probably feeling pretty good. If your choice
Speaker 1: is to be shot and killed or to be captured,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you choose on that. Most people
Speaker 1: might go that direction, but who knows.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: He said he signed up in October because the army
Speaker 1: wouldn't would pay him more than his as a factory worker.
Speaker 1: The job had paid him thirty thousand rubles three hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three dollars a month. The guy was making
Speaker 1: in Russia. So hey, if we go by rubles, we're
Speaker 1: making a lot of money. Oh yeah, we're ballers when
Speaker 1: it comes to the rubles. Anyway, the guy said the
Speaker 1: army paid one hundred thousand rubles a month. That's eleven
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month. He also pointed out since he
Speaker 1: joined the Russian Army, his family has not received any
Speaker 1: money that he was promised by, he claims, Russia.
Speaker 3: I'm all about the rubles, baby.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he can go to HR and they'll take
Speaker 1: care of that right away, right, No problem in the
Speaker 1: Russian military HR.
Speaker 3: Sure they have a great HR.
Speaker 1: You're good to go on that. You got nothing to
Speaker 1: worry about, nothing to worry about, Elon Musk having a tough,
Speaker 1: tough couple of weeks here. I don't really care. He's
Speaker 1: super rich. He doesn't care. The cyber truck thing. So
Speaker 1: when the cyber truck, have you seen? These don't look good?
Speaker 1: To me? Am I bad person? That's an unpopular opinion.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not impressed.
Speaker 3: They don't look I'm kind of with you on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the cyber truck came out. Now, if he
Speaker 1: wants to send me one for free, I might change
Speaker 1: my opinion. But the cyber truck, when he announced it,
Speaker 1: he said the price point for the cyber truck would
Speaker 1: be thirty nine thousand dollars I believe was the number
Speaker 1: that he had given out. And now he is actually
Speaker 1: almost doubled. It turns out he's actually almost doubled the
Speaker 1: asking price from what he originally said, and people.
Speaker 3: Are pto triangular looking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just doesn't look like something that's all that
Speaker 1: great to me. And it looks like a video, like
Speaker 1: a computer diagram from like the early nineties of what
Speaker 1: a truck should like look like. Remember those old cars
Speaker 1: we used to play around with those things back in
Speaker 1: the or the computer programs that would would show that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, he announced the man behind Tesla Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: He announced all his big fanfare. They had a big event.
Speaker 1: They had to showed a video of truck racing a
Speaker 1: portion and winning and it was a big deal and
Speaker 1: all that stuff and yeah, and now it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be over sixty thousand dollars after Originally he was like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be thirty something, but now yeah,
Speaker 1: so good times. Anyway, let's get to the mailbag. What
Speaker 1: do you say, Danny, mailbag? Time you ready for the mailbag?
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: It's this mail bag. Thank you, ohio al. These are
Speaker 1: actual letters, by actual listeners. We could do as many
Speaker 1: of them as can alf the Analytics Department. Rights In
Speaker 1: from the Analytics apartment says, the question may be a
Speaker 1: little too inside radio, but I'll ask because I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm doing my duty to the
Speaker 1: fullest as a member of the malimlitia. Is it better
Speaker 1: to download the Fifth Hour and listen download and listen
Speaker 1: to the Fifth Hour podcast from the feed that piggybacks
Speaker 1: on the Ben Mahlor show podcast stream. Obviously listening to
Speaker 1: both would help your numbers twice as much, But I've
Speaker 1: always listened to the Fifth Hour feed somehow, thinking management
Speaker 1: would be more impressed by an additional audience. Does it
Speaker 1: even matter what are we doing here? That's from alf
Speaker 1: in the analytical department, the analytics department.
Speaker 3: I think it all goes to the same total.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but sometimes the key you do need to subscribe
Speaker 1: to the fifth Hour page because sometimes stuff doesn't get set.
Speaker 1: We might do an extra podcast that doesn't get sent
Speaker 1: to the main Mallard feed.
Speaker 3: Well, the other thing is too you want to give
Speaker 3: Ben's live show a review on Apple podcast, and then
Speaker 3: the Fifth Hour podcast it's own separate review on this
Speaker 3: page right here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's a lot of work. It's not easy
Speaker 1: to be in the Mallad militia. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: busy body work.
Speaker 4: Noway, it takes about five minutes of your life unless
Speaker 4: you're one of the crazy p ones who listens for
Speaker 4: a whole day and doesn't even sleep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Jed who fled but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or the nother year end review Remember those guys.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the twenty six days and the.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure walking aimlessly in a forest for twenty
Speaker 4: six days with your headphones on listening to Ben Mallard like.
Speaker 1: Wayne from Soufee. I did it for mallor Wayne, the
Speaker 1: all time great radio callers. Great Wayne from Southee. ALF
Speaker 1: also sent me a cooking hack. I thank you for that. Alf.
Speaker 1: A way to make this is cool. You can turn
Speaker 1: a muffin pan upside down to make cookie bowl Sundays.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a pretty good hack. I might try that one.
Speaker 1: I love eating the cookies just the way they are,
Speaker 1: but putting a scoop of vanilla ice creaming there wouldn't
Speaker 1: go that bad. Fred from Spring Texas right, Since it says, greetings, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: what age do you both employ to keep track of
Speaker 1: you're very full schedule? You have a paper wall, calendar,
Speaker 1: iPad as, smart watches, planners, some other device.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: That's from Fred in Spring Texas, who's been very consistent
Speaker 1: with the email thank you for that. Fred. So I
Speaker 1: do have an Apple Watch that I use, but I
Speaker 1: mostly use it for timing. In fact, when I'm doing
Speaker 1: the podcast, we try to stay around a half an
Speaker 1: hour and I usually have a little timer that keeps
Speaker 1: track of everything. At least in theory it keeps tracking everything.
Speaker 1: But as far as like the schedule, my schedule is
Speaker 1: pretty consistent with the radio show. I know Sunday through
Speaker 1: Thursday I have that. I have the TV show, so
Speaker 1: I know what days I have to work on that,
Speaker 1: and then I obviously this podcast on the weekend. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty insistent. Don't changing. Sometimes I'll go to games,
Speaker 1: It'll change up the timing a little bit. Like today
Speaker 1: I'm going to the Rams game, so it's gonna change
Speaker 1: things up a little bit the way I get ready
Speaker 1: for the show, but not too much. And Danny, what
Speaker 1: about you?
Speaker 3: Stamen's you.
Speaker 4: I'm part of a routine that's very busy, but I
Speaker 4: know exactly where I'm supposed to be and when I'm
Speaker 4: supposed to be there, and when I can sneak in
Speaker 4: a little nap in between all of the.
Speaker 1: Fire Between two fires, yepres Mike and Fullerton rights into
Speaker 1: the mailbag, he says, tis the season. Ben and Danny G.
Speaker 1: Thank you for keeping new episodes rolling all Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 1: Ben nailed it Friday on how lazy shows get this
Speaker 1: time of the year. It is ridiculous. On another pod,
Speaker 1: this guy must have spent half an half an hour
Speaker 1: just advertising his fledgling TV show. Talk about mailing and
Speaker 1: in yeah, who would do that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well bad radio. Yeah, nobody wants to hear that. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of TV shows. As a huge fan of Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny, Mike, Mike writes in I'd like to
Speaker 1: know if it'll continue into the playoffs. If it won't,
Speaker 1: you should do Manny Benny Versus the Penny on the
Speaker 1: fifth hour for all Sunday Games with Danny G reprising
Speaker 1: his role as the Penny. Well, Mike, thank you for
Speaker 1: that suggestin and let us know in the in the
Speaker 1: next week here who that person was, that douchebag, that
Speaker 1: complete schmuck who spent a half an hour promoting a
Speaker 1: ledgend TV show.
Speaker 4: And I'm putting my foot down right now. I am
Speaker 4: no longer the Penny unless I am paid a TV check.
Speaker 1: Completely understandable, Completely understandable. I can get you into the
Speaker 1: NBC commissary if you want, Danny, I can take you
Speaker 1: over there. You can get like a potato or something
Speaker 1: from the commentsary over there on Universal. Oh no, hell,
Speaker 1: Bill Miller. No, probably not Angeline. You know our friend Angeliae.
Speaker 1: I met her. I met her in Minnesota. Anyway, she says, Ben,
Speaker 1: your brisket looked amazing and your homemade cookies always looked delicious.
Speaker 1: No matter what Eddie says, Danny, it is so sweet
Speaker 1: to see pictures of your little guy and great to
Speaker 1: hear that he took to the water on your mini vacation.
Speaker 1: And so that's Angelina. She I just wanted to check in, Danny.
Speaker 1: She's a big fan of the show. She listens every week,
Speaker 1: and we think her and she is a huge I
Speaker 1: met her. She's a big p one like, big fan
Speaker 1: of the show. And she I really do. I appreciate her.
Speaker 4: She's been great because of how windy Palm Springs was.
Speaker 4: Still don't know how co is going to do when
Speaker 4: I throw him into the pool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you don't even blown away.
Speaker 3: By the.
Speaker 4: I need well that one thing we've noticed that he
Speaker 4: really hates. He doesn't like when it's windy outside, Like,
Speaker 4: if the wind is hitting his face, he makes a
Speaker 4: weird noise and he like buries his head.
Speaker 3: He doesn't he doesn't like the wind.
Speaker 1: I wonder what the hell is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he does not like it.
Speaker 4: So when it was really windy that day, we covered
Speaker 4: him up and had him in his stroller and we're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: he probably wouldn't like it.
Speaker 3: If we pull him into a cold pool right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want him to enjoy the water, not grow
Speaker 1: up hating the water where he wants to then destroy you,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Because you yeah, exactly the way we were all scared
Speaker 4: of Jaws when we were growing up.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, Well, if you take the Universal Studios tour,
Speaker 1: don't they have the Jaws area at the Universal Studios Tours?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How long will they keep that? At some point they
Speaker 1: have to get rid of it, right, They have a
Speaker 1: little pond there and the robot shark.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been the same since we were kids.
Speaker 1: That's an old movie.
Speaker 4: Now, different parts of that tour have changed, obviously, but
Speaker 4: there are a couple different areas that have always remained
Speaker 4: the same, and that's one of them.
Speaker 1: All right, Kevin and Kansas, very since sys you're Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny g high school basketball kicks off tonight in Kansas,
Speaker 1: and that means pep bands play fight songs and the
Speaker 1: crowd sings a long about how their school is the
Speaker 1: greatest and their team is the toughest. You either of
Speaker 1: you remember the worst your high school fight songs? Did
Speaker 1: your yours go along with the college tune like on
Speaker 1: Wisconsin or the Notre Dame Victory March? What were your
Speaker 1: school's mascots? And he says, go midgets. He says that
Speaker 1: was and still is Kevin in Kansas's mascot. So there's
Speaker 1: a little bubble there, Danny, where you're able to have
Speaker 1: the midget as the mascot, and the Wokesters have not
Speaker 1: found that part of Kansas.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's where that little Kansas City Chiefs fan probably lives.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was quite the start face. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: red and black face of blackface racist according to certain
Speaker 1: according to dead Spin, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: I didn't What was your mascot?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't remember the fight song. I remember having
Speaker 1: to sing it, but I I just mumbled, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we were just kind of mumbled, like I
Speaker 1: knew what I was saying, and I didn't really know
Speaker 1: what I was saying. But I went to a couple
Speaker 1: high schools. I went to high school where the mascot
Speaker 1: was the Volcaros, which is a Mexican cowboy, and then
Speaker 1: the other one was the truck yes right, yes, right,
Speaker 1: and then the Trojans. He was the trophy. That's kind
Speaker 1: of whatever. There's a bunch of Trojans.
Speaker 4: Let's see high school Bulldogs. And then where I did
Speaker 4: college radio Warriors.
Speaker 1: Oh well, at Saddleback it was the Gauchos, but they
Speaker 1: got rid of that because that's offensive. I didn't know
Speaker 1: a gaucho was offensive, and I didn't learn that until
Speaker 1: some idiots at Saddleback College decided to change the name
Speaker 1: a few years ago. I think they're called the Bobcats now,
Speaker 1: which is who cares. I'm good on that. Enjoy I know,
Speaker 1: enjoy watching the midgets there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't remember the fight song either. I
Speaker 4: do remember being in the gym and mumbling half of
Speaker 4: the song exactly like what you did. I think that's
Speaker 4: what most of us did.
Speaker 1: That was my nickname, Mumbles Mallar. I don't know how
Speaker 1: I got in the radio Mumbles Mallard. This guy from
Speaker 1: masshole Mickey. Speaking of mumbles, masshole, Mickey says, Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny heath bar or score bar. That's a to I
Speaker 1: go heath bar.
Speaker 4: You, Oh yeah, that's easy heath bar. When I did
Speaker 4: eat sugar, or if I ever get to eat it again.
Speaker 3: I love toffee, Yeah, toffee solid.
Speaker 1: It's hard to go wrong with toffee. So masshole Mickey there,
Speaker 1: he says. In the Commonwealth in Massachusetts, the Marina chef
Speaker 1: haven't heard from him in a while, He says, do
Speaker 1: you slowly push everything? You start to finish at the
Speaker 1: last second. By the way, Marina chef says he is
Speaker 1: no longer on X. I don't know why, but he
Speaker 1: is no longer on X. So I try to get
Speaker 1: stuff done early. But normally what happens is if I
Speaker 1: have extra time, I just keep working, which is a
Speaker 1: bad habit I had. So I really should start things
Speaker 1: later and get things done right on time, but I
Speaker 1: usually just work up until the point, like when the
Speaker 1: show starts and things like that.
Speaker 3: Danny, well, for Covino and Rich.
Speaker 4: I do the show prep every morning because I do
Speaker 4: not like the feeling of driving into the studios unprepared.
Speaker 4: I already have sponsor scripts and game show notes and
Speaker 4: trivia and all that stuff prepared well in advance so
Speaker 4: that I can feel comfortable driving into work.
Speaker 1: I do way too much preparation for the radio show.
Speaker 1: It's much better to go that way than the other way,
Speaker 1: where you don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Can you imagine a producer ben like getting your
Speaker 3: Mountain of Money trivia board ready during the show.
Speaker 1: Oh, that would never That would never happen. And my
Speaker 1: guys always get there at least two and a half
Speaker 1: hours before the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And if it's too like Cowherd type show meetings, right,
Speaker 4: show meeting after words too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And what will happen is I'll get sent the
Speaker 1: scripts the monologues, and then I'll send them back and
Speaker 1: they'll have to rewrite certain parts of the monologue. And
Speaker 1: then I'll roll in there and I'll have the teleprompter
Speaker 1: and I'll be.
Speaker 4: And what's really nice is I'm busy, like your busy
Speaker 4: TV day. They do all that prep work so you
Speaker 4: can just roll in after your production.
Speaker 1: No, it's really kind of them, and I didn't think
Speaker 1: they would do it. And they said, yes, whatever you need,
Speaker 1: we love you, we really want to help you out.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, we'll just do all that extra work.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Murray in Saskatoon, just love san Saskatoon.
Speaker 3: I know you do, Saskatoon. Just get it out of
Speaker 3: your system.
Speaker 1: He had a question about the radio show, so he says,
Speaker 1: is there internal discussion on the Mallor radio show to
Speaker 1: change the name of the Iowa Minute to the Iowa Hour.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to bring the hammer down soon
Speaker 1: on Iowa Sam. I think we're going to cut back
Speaker 1: on the Iowa Minute being thirty minutes. I think it's
Speaker 1: gotten too carried away with ads.
Speaker 3: I don't want.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're talking about that on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll talk more about it next week. But I think, Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm going to become a death spot. I'm going to
Speaker 1: become a hard oh and I am not going to
Speaker 1: allow Iowa Sam to hijack the very valuable overnight hours
Speaker 1: with his nonsense about Iowa and the Iowa Minute and
Speaker 1: all that. I'm going to go draconian. I Am going
Speaker 1: to become an authoritarian, a tyrannical is what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do. Danny, I got to go. I got a
Speaker 1: cut back on the Iowa Minute.
Speaker 4: I have to pummeler up producers Ben Mallor, I feel
Speaker 4: you on that, and I warned you about Iowa Sam.
Speaker 3: You were warned, he.
Speaker 1: Did tell me at least thirty minutes. At least thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: But I'll be the drill sergeant. I will be the
Speaker 1: drill sergeant. All right, that's it. We have other meal,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we've gone pretty long. Anything you want to
Speaker 1: promote here, Danny Jeep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be a stress free Sunday for me
Speaker 4: because to guaranteed we're not going to lose day for
Speaker 4: the Raiders.
Speaker 3: So that's awesome on a podcast.
Speaker 1: And actually lose the Ask the Buffalo Bills about that
Speaker 1: they lost me.
Speaker 3: I need every team in the AFC to lose today,
Speaker 3: how about that?
Speaker 1: Just need people to keep their hands to themselves is
Speaker 1: what you need.
Speaker 4: That's what you need in AFC versus AFC teams ended
Speaker 4: a tie.
Speaker 1: Please, Yeah, just have a bunch of ties and that
Speaker 1: helps the Raiders out. If everyone ties, we're good to go.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday again. I'll be
Speaker 1: back tonight break down that classic Eagle forty nine er game.
Speaker 1: What a great matchup that is going to be and
Speaker 1: I'll be at the Rams game. Not a great matchup,
Speaker 1: but I'll be free loading and watching the Eagles game
Speaker 1: on my computer, hoping the RAMPR people don't get upset
Speaker 1: with me when they walk by. And I'm not paying
Speaker 1: attention too much the RAM game. But what I do
Speaker 1: is I'll have it on my laptop. I'll watch the
Speaker 1: game I really want to watch, but then I'll when
Speaker 1: they go to commercial between plays all then watch the
Speaker 1: RAM game. So I'm able to multitask that way. And
Speaker 1: of course I'm sure we'll a lot about the Sunday
Speaker 1: night game here with the Chiefs and the Packers tonight
Speaker 1: from lombou Field Dave Frozen Tundra. So there's a couple
Speaker 1: of good games on the card today, even though your
Speaker 1: Raiders aren't playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are.
Speaker 4: And in fact, Rich Davis is a big Niners fan
Speaker 4: and invited us over for that game, so he and
Speaker 4: his wife can meet Coha be over at Rich's house
Speaker 4: watching that, and then of course Monday afternoon, the Afternoon
Speaker 4: Show is back in full effect from two to four
Speaker 4: pm on the network and five to seven pm in Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Oh me, It's beautiful Cleveland Ohio, where that Ramsey guy
Speaker 1: who gave us the great drop did give it? Did
Speaker 1: give it. That's a famous neighbor from Cleveland. I right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. Have a wonderful day. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening all weekend of the podcast. If you
Speaker 1: missed any of the Friday Saturday pods, obviously go back
Speaker 1: and listen to those right now. Give us a nice
Speaker 1: review and we will read it on the air in
Speaker 1: the apple Pot podcast review page on our next Saturday podcast.
Speaker 1: We will do that, but we put the baby to bed.
Speaker 1: I gotta go watch some football and all that. Danny
Speaker 1: will talk to you next week. Have a great weekday
Speaker 1: you too.
Speaker 3: Austa pasta gotta murder. I gotta go