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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the a ey way and a happy Sunday, kind
Speaker 1: of a big holiday today. It is Easter Sunday, but
Speaker 1: we're doing this anyway. What the heck. It's like an
Speaker 1: Easter egg hunt here because the beat goes on, it
Speaker 1: never stops. The Fifth Hour myself, Ben and Danny the
Speaker 1: Great Danny g Radio right there as we we hang
Speaker 1: out together. Get you through Easter Sunday. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: for some people it's Easter Sunday, but for us, it's
Speaker 1: Crayola Crayon Day. That is today, March thirty, first Crayola
Speaker 1: Crayon Day, which was a big part of my childhood,
Speaker 1: the Crayola cra There are other crayon companies, but they're
Speaker 1: not nearly as famous, right, They're not nearly as famous.
Speaker 3: Creola tasted better too, the green ones especially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the perfect meal. When I was in like second
Speaker 1: or third grade, was my main course was the Crayola crayon,
Speaker 1: and I had a side dish of Elmer's gluue.
Speaker 3: I knew you were going to say glue, and I
Speaker 3: let it dry on your fingers.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I'd pour it all over my fingers.
Speaker 1: The teacher me, ben Benji, Benji, you're making a mess. Benji,
Speaker 1: it is okay, all right, And then I'd let it dry.
Speaker 3: And then I just it's better than eating your own boogers.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many pre k and k's
Speaker 3: I had to stop from doing that and make them
Speaker 3: wash their hands.
Speaker 1: Hey, there are people I've worked with in radio Danny
Speaker 1: that would eat their boogers while on a remote chowd
Speaker 1: down and a little bite, little bite, little taste, little taste,
Speaker 1: little taste. What the heck. Yeah, So it's a big
Speaker 1: crayon day today. So it's also National tater tot Day.
Speaker 1: So that's that's big. I like the thoughts, that's uh.
Speaker 1: Some of them are too salty, though, Well, anything with
Speaker 1: potatoes is the proper. There's a sweet spot right, the
Speaker 1: proper amount of salt and all that and whatnot. Well,
Speaker 1: today is all about one thing and one thing only, Danny.
Speaker 1: It is Sunday, and we are the conduit to the people, right.
Speaker 1: We are here by the people, for the people, all
Speaker 1: about the people.
Speaker 4: And so you know what that means, the male bag, it's.
Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, thank you, ohio Al.
Speaker 1: We love our man, ohio Al. These are actual questions
Speaker 1: by actual listeners to the show. We thank you. We've
Speaker 1: been getting some new names pretty much every week. We
Speaker 1: love that. We love the people that are regulars as
Speaker 1: well and just being part of this. And you can
Speaker 1: send it a mail question in anytime you want Real
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour
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Speaker 1: on the Facebook page. And the first email we have
Speaker 1: is from Barry, formerly in Nashville but now in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: He says, yo yo ma, Benny. Sort of a sporto question,
Speaker 1: he says. But with the start of the Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball season this week, he says, I do not count
Speaker 1: the Korea Bowl crap, He says, Barry, it seems like
Speaker 1: Major League baseball is becoming more and more like senior softball,
Speaker 1: where to avoid any type of collision and injury, they
Speaker 1: have two home plates and double first bases. You don't
Speaker 1: have any tag plays at home, the fielders stay at
Speaker 1: normal at normal home the runner goes to the second
Speaker 1: home plate. If the ball beats you to home, you
Speaker 1: are out. And then Barry says, how long before Major
Speaker 1: League baseball becomes like a senior league with all these
Speaker 1: dumb rules, says.
Speaker 3: We heard this all week, but about the NFL, JJ
Speaker 3: Watt and other's saying NFL should just play flag football.
Speaker 1: Well, that NFL stuff is pretty the kick you see
Speaker 1: the kickoff the video, the kickoff, it looks like a glitch,
Speaker 1: like the XFL style kickoff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not denying that some of the rule changes the.
Speaker 1: Hip the hip rock. I thought our guy LeVar Arrington
Speaker 1: summed it up great where he said that this is
Speaker 1: the end of greatness, this is the end.
Speaker 3: And superstar defenders. Yeah, and I agree that was his point.
Speaker 3: That was his point. But we're not ever going to
Speaker 3: get to the point where they play flag football. Give
Speaker 3: me a break. No, it's not. It's not the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 3: Pro Bowl, I get it, regular season, in playoffs, in
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, No, it's going to be tackling.
Speaker 1: Hold on second if they can wear the helmets and
Speaker 1: the pads. But add a how about two hand touch?
Speaker 1: Maybe not flag football, but two hand touch.
Speaker 3: How about the oh man, we better be dead if
Speaker 3: they go to.
Speaker 1: The Eventually that will happen. But yeah, but as far
Speaker 1: as as far as Barr's questions concerned, So my favorite
Speaker 1: part of this, Barry, is that baseball has done all
Speaker 1: of this not because they want the game to be faster,
Speaker 1: because they want a better experience for the fans, not
Speaker 1: because it's a better product. It's not because that they
Speaker 1: did this because they want to keep the Golden goose happy.
Speaker 1: The television overlords and you know this probably already Beary,
Speaker 1: I'm preaching the choir, But the people that control the
Speaker 1: purse strings in television, they're the ones that said, hey,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you know we want a quicker product.
Speaker 1: We're not getting return on our investment. So over the
Speaker 1: last five to ten years, this actually predates rob manfraud
Speaker 1: goes back to bud's Selik because they got rid of
Speaker 1: the play at the plate while Bud Selik was still
Speaker 1: the commissioner of Baseball. They got rid of the play
Speaker 1: at second base with rob Manfraud as the commission But
Speaker 1: as I understand it, all of these rules were placed
Speaker 1: to make the product more appealing to television. And the
Speaker 1: kick in the nuts to baseball this week was the
Speaker 1: report that ESPN is looking to get out of a
Speaker 1: baseball business. Now Fox is the main broadcaster of baseball,
Speaker 1: but ESPN supplemented that they had a deal where they
Speaker 1: do Sunday night Baseball and they carried a couple of
Speaker 1: games throughout the week, and they're supposedly getting out of it,
Speaker 1: which is just the ultimate in your face, because Danny,
Speaker 1: they literally did this to appease, to pacify the people
Speaker 1: that do television, and some of them have already rejected
Speaker 1: and that they're like, we're good, we'll spend our money elsewhere.
Speaker 1: So pretty pretty well. But you are right, Barry, Like
Speaker 1: the most exciting plays in baseball the takeout play at
Speaker 1: home plate by far the most exciting. The anticipation will
Speaker 1: to throw make it in time? Will the catcher be
Speaker 1: able to block the plate? Is the runner going to
Speaker 1: take out the catcher? And you can see it when
Speaker 1: you're in the stadium. It was awesome, much like the kickoff, Dan,
Speaker 1: if you go to an NFL game and that excitement
Speaker 1: where you can see the blocking, you can see the
Speaker 1: path opening up for the kick returner. Will he see
Speaker 1: the hole? Will he get through the hole? And if
Speaker 1: he gets through the hole, will anyone be able to
Speaker 1: chase him from behind and get him? You know, all
Speaker 1: of that is just tremendous theater. And you know people
Speaker 1: like your son Cole will not experience that because it
Speaker 1: doesn't exist anymore. It's gone, which is disappointing. Disappointing anyway,
Speaker 1: Alf from the Wall of Sound rites and he says,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to get sporty, Ben and Danny, but I
Speaker 1: was wondering what Daddy Gee's position is. Daddy on which
Speaker 1: feet is more impressive? The Lakers Mickey Mouse ring in
Speaker 1: a bubble? He says, insert the bubble drop here? Or
Speaker 1: the hardest World Series ever? When the Dodgers won in
Speaker 1: a sixty game season. He says, that's the question you
Speaker 1: haven't answer.
Speaker 3: It's such a stupid question.
Speaker 1: Well, we know the Dodgers is I think the hardest
Speaker 1: actually is that.
Speaker 3: If it was even harder for the Dodgers to win
Speaker 3: that season. Then logical it was even harder for the
Speaker 3: Lakers to win that season as as well.
Speaker 1: It was easier again, let me explain, Let me explain.
Speaker 1: All right, So one sport you had three months to
Speaker 1: rest your body after the grind it get healthy.
Speaker 3: Only the three months off.
Speaker 1: Yea, they needed it more. They had the older, older rosters,
Speaker 1: they had the older rusherybody had level playing field covering
Speaker 1: and then and then the other one is a sport
Speaker 1: designed you go la la la, la la la. That's
Speaker 1: how the said, do you kicking, kicking their feet up,
Speaker 1: relaxing one hundred and sixty two games. But no, this
Speaker 1: is sprint. This is a sprint. You lose one player,
Speaker 1: it's over it, You're done. You're cooked so much harder
Speaker 1: in baseball that year than it was in basketball, and.
Speaker 3: No home court advantage. You don't take wins away from teams.
Speaker 3: That's just how it goes in all sports. You win,
Speaker 3: you win now.
Speaker 1: But I will concede though, Dan, and I'll be fair.
Speaker 1: You know I one thing about me. My middle name
Speaker 1: is fair Dight Ben Fair Mallar. And that seven game
Speaker 1: title the Lakers got at the end of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: that that impressive.
Speaker 3: That was so good.
Speaker 1: I mean that, what was it called the in season tournament?
Speaker 1: They hung their little banner. That was so impressive. I
Speaker 1: was impressed by that.
Speaker 3: Still more banners than your favorite.
Speaker 1: Team to have the Hootz, but a hag a banner
Speaker 1: after seven games. Now. Alf also says I just wanted
Speaker 1: to hear the bubble drop. It's my favorite and Roberto
Speaker 1: had mastered it. So that's from Alf. So he just
Speaker 1: wanted to hear Babo.
Speaker 3: I'll give him a drop right now, blank my blank
Speaker 3: and blank you all right?
Speaker 1: Next up, mister, I bet you will. Mister Luciana Wright
Speaker 1: said too the mail bag, he says, this question is
Speaker 1: for both Ben and Danny. Do you guys think they'll
Speaker 1: ever legalize gambling in California? Also, if they don't, do
Speaker 1: you think Nevada has something to.
Speaker 3: Do with it? That's from mister No, it's not Nevada.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been over this before in the past, mister Lusiano,
Speaker 1: but it's the Indian casino.
Speaker 3: The Indian casinos are controlling those prop measures, and so
Speaker 3: we've seen in the past that that would hurt their business.
Speaker 3: And then the major players that you mentioned last weekend.
Speaker 1: The big companies DraftKings and FanDuel. They wanted in a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, they had it on the ballot,
Speaker 1: and then the Indian casinos spent so much money, and
Speaker 1: this is proof it's kind of scary. If you spend
Speaker 1: enough money, you can win any kind of vote you want. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: they spent all this money showing these poor Indian people
Speaker 1: and how they you know gambling was going to be bad, which.
Speaker 3: Is they spent millions of dollars on this ad campaign,
Speaker 3: by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and they spent enough money they convinced the
Speaker 1: dumb voters in California to vote to ban sports gambling.
Speaker 1: But I was told that I think either later this
Speaker 1: year or early in twenty twenty five, there's supposed to
Speaker 1: be another round of legislation that'll be on the ballot,
Speaker 1: and this one is going to be by the Indian casinos,
Speaker 1: which means since they'll be getting a bigger piece of
Speaker 1: the pie, or control the gambling sports gambling market in California,
Speaker 1: that then they'll they're not going to spend money to
Speaker 1: vote against it, They're going to spend money to get it,
Speaker 1: and that means that it's more likely to pass unless.
Speaker 3: So, in other words, you can go in and legally
Speaker 3: they can legally have like a big sports book added
Speaker 3: to their casino.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like we're in La like a Commers casino or
Speaker 1: something like that. As I and I maybe I'm completely wrong,
Speaker 1: but as I was told the story, they would have
Speaker 1: these things around. They'd also have the mobile betting, so
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even have to go in, which is so
Speaker 1: nice when you have it on your phone, but also
Speaker 1: very dangerous. Yeah, very dangerous when you have your own
Speaker 1: I find set.
Speaker 3: A fan duel, it'll be shoemash duel on your phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, something like that, something like that. So that's
Speaker 1: the deal with mister Luciano. It should be the next
Speaker 1: couple of years. But the conspiracy for a long time
Speaker 1: was that Nevada did not want it. But it is
Speaker 1: interesting to note that there are only twelve states left
Speaker 1: that do not have legalized sports betting in America. Only twelve, right,
Speaker 1: most of them in the Bible Belt in California and
Speaker 1: a few other ones. And what they've found out is
Speaker 1: people still love going to Vegas though even though they
Speaker 1: can bet on sports in their backyard. That there's still
Speaker 1: people that make the pilgrimage to Vegas. It's like the
Speaker 1: adult playground. Now. Whether that'll continue in future generations, who knows.
Speaker 1: Maybe that will not, but right now it hasn't hurt
Speaker 1: their business. There's still a bunch of out of towners, like, Hey,
Speaker 1: look at your Raiders, Danny. When the Raiders play the Eagles,
Speaker 1: there's a million dudes from Philadelphia who are making the trip,
Speaker 1: even though they can bet in the Philadelphia area, and
Speaker 1: they're coming over from Philly to go to Vegas to
Speaker 1: be part of the experience or any of those other
Speaker 1: stities around the country where gambling is legal. So interesting,
Speaker 1: Mike and Fullerton writes in on the mail bag. He says, Hi,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g last week you wanted to know
Speaker 1: who the new Brad Pitt is going to be. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if this is going to catch on or not,
Speaker 1: but Mike and Fullerton says, in my group of friends,
Speaker 1: at least our new go to name for a guy
Speaker 1: with Hollywood heartthrob looks is Fox Sports radio host Ben Maler. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Mike. I appreciate that. It's a fine tribute.
Speaker 3: That doesn't make any sense because your age is not
Speaker 3: far off from Brad Pitt's how dare you?
Speaker 1: Mike also says, I want to congratulate your Dodgers Ben
Speaker 1: on being Cactus League champions for twenty twenty four. Do
Speaker 1: you think they should hang a banner to celebrate? If not, why,
Speaker 1: I'd argue that winning the Cactus League is a whole
Speaker 1: lot more impressive than winning the NBA's in season tournament.
Speaker 1: And the Lakers hung a banner for that, Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: hang your little Where would they hang the banner?
Speaker 3: Who would that?
Speaker 1: Where would that go? At Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 3: Probably in one of the stalls, Put.
Speaker 1: That in one of the urinals. Yeah, at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: It'd be a good looking banner. I saw they pulled
Speaker 1: out this Japanese bell. Did you see that? This at
Speaker 1: home now for Dodger games? That was gifted to the
Speaker 1: Dodgers from Japan in like the nineteen sixties, and they
Speaker 1: this thing has been in storage since like the nineteen sixties,
Speaker 1: I heard, or whatever, and they're they're dusting it off
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium. Who else have Georgia and Uvalde, Texas
Speaker 1: rights into the mailbag, he says, with Otani going full
Speaker 1: blown Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes. What is the most
Speaker 1: inappropriate sitcom in history? Which sitcom did you watch in
Speaker 1: your youth that would never be remade today?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's easy. Threes company talking about phobia, and it
Speaker 3: was such a different time because it was so crazy
Speaker 3: to everybody that he would have a female roommate or
Speaker 3: two female roommates. Oh my god, he's not married to
Speaker 3: either of them, and so he had to pretend like
Speaker 3: he was gay so that he could have female roommates.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The one that would be easy to remake would
Speaker 1: be remember when Tom Hanks was it.
Speaker 3: Busom Buddies someboddies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's mainstream though back then it was taboo. But now,
Speaker 1: you know, dressing as a woman, you do whatever.
Speaker 3: You want because they could easily be transformers and accepted. Well,
Speaker 3: what was the Archie Archie Archie Bunker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was a bad one.
Speaker 3: It was satire, but yeah, I couldn't get away with it.
Speaker 3: Now people can't handle sat You could do that on
Speaker 3: HBO or one of the you know, one of the
Speaker 3: streamed platforms.
Speaker 1: But a certain percentage of people do not get sarcasm
Speaker 1: and satire. And you know, Danny right from doing what
Speaker 1: we do for a living. And those people now have
Speaker 1: a megaphone with social media. So it seems like.
Speaker 3: That why I can't play the Necro Brothers drop.
Speaker 1: Well, again, I don't know what you're talking about. There
Speaker 1: was Phil Nkro and Joe Nicro.
Speaker 3: But I want to play the drop. And I heard
Speaker 3: that iHeart says no to that drop, that it's outlawed.
Speaker 1: No comment? Next question? Uh, next, next one. How about
Speaker 1: the Jefferson's. You probably could make the Jeffersons Upper east
Speaker 1: Side Penthouse in the sky? Uh? Nick in Whiskey trying.
Speaker 3: To spin off from Archie Bunker's show by the way.
Speaker 1: Uh huh Nick and Wisconsin rights And he says, Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny, if you could own an exotic pet, what
Speaker 1: would you choose? When I was younger, I always wanted
Speaker 1: a monkey like they had on Friends.
Speaker 3: Shut up, you wanted wanted a monkey? Uh?
Speaker 1: If I could have one that wouldn't kill me, that
Speaker 1: I would would just have as a pet to impress people.
Speaker 1: It'd be kind of cool to have an alligator. That'd
Speaker 1: be pretty cool to have, like a pet alligat or
Speaker 1: a rhino or elephant, one of those. What about you?
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you're gonna go like some kind of like tigers.
Speaker 3: Yah, dang, how'd you know? I know you?
Speaker 1: I know you, man, Come on.
Speaker 3: I grew up loving the movie Scarface, and of course
Speaker 3: he had a pet tiger. Mike Tyson had some tigers. Yeah, man,
Speaker 3: that would be so cool to have a tiger growling
Speaker 3: on a chain in your backyard.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, imagine imagine you're like a single guy with
Speaker 1: a tiger. You would do so well? Yeah, or maybe not. Maybe,
Speaker 1: like the women would be scared, come around, you.
Speaker 3: Be scared you were going to feed them to your tiger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that wouldn't go so well.
Speaker 3: That is cool.
Speaker 1: Did I hear somewhere that there are more it was
Speaker 1: a certain kind of dangerous animal, that there are more
Speaker 1: of them in captivity in Texas than there are in
Speaker 1: the wild. I think it was like tigers or lions
Speaker 1: or something like that, that that in Texas you can
Speaker 1: own them.
Speaker 3: Is it a tiger? Let me, I think I've heard
Speaker 3: this before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at uh, we'll do we'll do a google
Speaker 1: just google it. But I heard somebody was talking about
Speaker 1: it this week, and I was like, that is amazing
Speaker 1: that there are more of these things in captivity in
Speaker 1: Texas than in the wild in the world. And I
Speaker 1: know Texas is big and a lot of people have
Speaker 1: these big ranches out in the middle of nowhere. And
Speaker 1: people think of Texas with Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio,
Speaker 1: but a lot of Texas is empty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in Texas, tigers can be kept as pets. There
Speaker 3: are anywhere from two thousand to five thousand tigers living
Speaker 3: in the state of Texas.
Speaker 1: Damn, it was worried about the guns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're the second largest tiger population in the world.
Speaker 3: India is the only place ahead of Texas.
Speaker 1: I saw some videos out of India and it is insane,
Speaker 1: Like there's tigers like walking around the street in these
Speaker 1: little villages. Do you imagine, like we have bears here,
Speaker 1: and we have these brown bears in California that'll walk around.
Speaker 1: And if you live in the foothills.
Speaker 3: And I've seen bobcats in my neighborhood, and tell me
Speaker 3: you haven't seen the news story about the wildlife crossing
Speaker 3: they're building in my neighborhood, the freeway overpass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great use of resources.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you know how much that thing is costing?
Speaker 1: How much does that cost?
Speaker 3: It's ninety three million dollars right now, and it could
Speaker 3: be more.
Speaker 1: Why does it need to cost ninety three million? Couldn't
Speaker 1: you get a couple of guys at home depot and
Speaker 1: go out there on a weekend and get it done
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah. If you don't know what I'm talking about, google
Speaker 3: wildlife crossing Agora Hills, California. It's spectacular. I mean, hey,
Speaker 3: I love animals, I love the zoo. I was at
Speaker 3: the San Diego Zoo just last week, but last weekend.
Speaker 3: But one hundred million dollars for a bridge that I
Speaker 3: don't know, two bobcats might cross over in three months?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Did they realize the bobcats can't read and they
Speaker 1: don't like know, Hey, that's for us. They'll go where
Speaker 1: they want to go, Like, do they understand that concept?
Speaker 1: It's not a.
Speaker 3: Heard this complaint in the comments of uh well, I
Speaker 3: think it was Channel seven covering this story here locally
Speaker 3: in southern California, and somebody wrote bobcats can't read and
Speaker 3: then the person underneath said, hey, you big dummy. They're
Speaker 3: writing the signs in bobcat man, so if it's in
Speaker 3: their language, then duh.
Speaker 1: Well, these things cost so much money because it's just
Speaker 1: it's payoffs right by politicians, Like there's no reason this
Speaker 1: stuff should cost as much as it does. It's like
Speaker 1: we was it with you or it was the last week,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, we talked about that that
Speaker 1: building in downtown near Staples Center, the building they got
Speaker 1: tagged and they're gonna they're gonna clean it up, right,
Speaker 1: which is essentially just giving a blank canvas to the
Speaker 1: people that come back and to tag it again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like shaking an etcha sketch.
Speaker 1: Exactly, And it's gonna cost like tens of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars to get the graffiti off, and again you can
Speaker 1: hire a couple of guys, get a power washer, and
Speaker 1: get it done in a couple of days with the
Speaker 1: thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: All the uninformed people in the comments of these news
Speaker 3: stories about the overpass are like, great job, congratulations, hallelujah.
Speaker 3: We need more of these. There should be dozens of
Speaker 3: these in southern California. And I'm like, dozens of these,
Speaker 3: you idiot, it's one hundred million dollars, no.
Speaker 1: Concept, and how many of those are like real? Are
Speaker 1: those special interest groups that have hijacked in social media.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to be fair, not all of it is taxpayers money.
Speaker 3: There's some you know, gift from some artsy person that.
Speaker 1: Get some How about this, Danny, it's gonna be an
Speaker 1: unpopular opinion, right, unpopular opinion. How about we spend that
Speaker 1: money on mental health for the people that are walking
Speaker 1: around our cities like zombies and breaking into cars. Yes,
Speaker 1: and cut by, thank you.
Speaker 3: I'll say heymn, hallelujah to that. Or how about the
Speaker 3: potholes that I bumd my tires into every single day
Speaker 3: on that damn freeway that's going underneath the new overpass
Speaker 3: for the wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the potholes. We uhlude we didn't get rain in
Speaker 1: LA for about ten years, and everyone said, oh, we're
Speaker 1: never going to get rain again. And the last couple
Speaker 1: of years we have had this al Nino thing which
Speaker 1: has been tons of rain and it's absolutely destroyed and
Speaker 1: those giant trucks have destroyed. Yes, the highways and byways
Speaker 1: of California.
Speaker 3: I cannot tell you how many damn huge potholes I
Speaker 3: hit on the one on one freeway every day.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's ridiculous. I drive there as well to go
Speaker 1: in and and I all over the Hollywood Freeway. I
Speaker 1: go on there, ridiculous.
Speaker 3: If I saw Bobcat in the freeway, I would slow
Speaker 3: my car down and stop and let it pass. Use
Speaker 3: that money to fix the damn potholes. How about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And plus the traffic never goes fast enough during the
Speaker 1: day the bobcats are in danger. It just doesn't.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they would weave through it, bumper to bumper traffic,
Speaker 3: just like the motorcycles do.
Speaker 1: Exactly, all right, cup fan Mike from Fort Wayne, Indiana writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, what is your favorite board game? Guys?
Speaker 1: Board game? When your kid? I played all the big Ones,
Speaker 1: I played Shoots and Ladders, Monopoly. I don't know if
Speaker 1: this counts as a board game, but I love Checkers.
Speaker 1: I love playing Checkers.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Smart, It wasn't smart enough for chess, but I love
Speaker 1: checking Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say it's not a board game either.
Speaker 3: But we loved Uno. We could know we could play
Speaker 3: Uno for an hour straight.
Speaker 1: A game I did not like as a child, but
Speaker 1: I play a ton when I'm trying just to chill
Speaker 1: out in my downtime. Is the game of scrabble, like
Speaker 1: I like. I love words and I have a good
Speaker 1: time with Scraby, a scrabble game on my phone that
Speaker 1: I play probably more than any other game.
Speaker 3: My drunk uncle taught us how to play dominoes.
Speaker 1: Oh did he he drinking dominos?
Speaker 3: He was drinking Saint Id's Saint.
Speaker 1: I's man back in the day. All right. Next up
Speaker 1: Ozzie Wise from Western Australia. A loyal minion, He says,
Speaker 1: I live in Western Australia, about five hours of a
Speaker 1: drive east of Perth, the capital of Australia. He said,
Speaker 1: I got some fun facts for you about Australia. So
Speaker 1: he sent me a lot of fun facts. Danny, I
Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna have time to get to all these.
Speaker 1: He sent me fifty fun facts. But I'll just cherry
Speaker 1: pick some of these and then we'll go through. How
Speaker 1: about that that sounds good, right, We'll cherry pick some
Speaker 1: fun facts.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Ozzie Wah says the Australian Alps get
Speaker 1: more snow than the Swiss Alps. But that I didn't
Speaker 1: even know there was an Australian Alps. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: I had no idea this one. I did No.
Speaker 1: Ninety percent of Australians live on the coast. I was
Speaker 1: aware of that. I watched a documentary Ozzie was on
Speaker 1: Your Fine Country and they explane that there's not enough water.
Speaker 1: If they can figure out a way to get fresh
Speaker 1: drinking water into the middle part of Australia, there would
Speaker 1: be a massive boom of population. But it's got like
Speaker 1: the kind of the same deal that we have here
Speaker 1: in America. You know how you there's that that point.
Speaker 1: It's in the middle part of the country around the
Speaker 1: Rocky Mountains, where the Rocky Mountains block the water from
Speaker 1: coming over the Rocky Mountains. There's a lot of dryness
Speaker 1: and not a lot of people. Like in Wyoming, in
Speaker 1: places like that, no one lives there.
Speaker 3: It's like a rock block.
Speaker 1: Eighty percent of the population lives on the east coast
Speaker 1: and the rest live on the west coast because that's
Speaker 1: where the water is. And in that weird middle zone
Speaker 1: where there's Wyoming, Nebraska, you know those those states kind
Speaker 1: of in the mill Kansas is there. There's just not
Speaker 1: enough water, as I understand it, because of the geography,
Speaker 1: and that's why there's not people living. The same thing
Speaker 1: in Australia. It says Tasmania has the cleanest air in
Speaker 1: the world. Is that true Tasmania. The only reason I
Speaker 1: know that is the Tasmanian Devil. That's that's it. The
Speaker 1: Great Barrier reef, the world's largest ecosystem. Was it Eddie
Speaker 1: that went? There's somebody I know went Eddie went to
Speaker 1: the Great Barrier reef. I don't think he was that
Speaker 1: impressed because there's no hockey game.
Speaker 3: Mean bring back like some kangaroo jerky.
Speaker 1: He actually did bring back a couple of weird things
Speaker 1: in Australia. They are like local, local delicacy. What else
Speaker 1: is here? Australia has over sixty separate wine regions. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see. The Fraser Island is the largest sand island
Speaker 1: in the world. According to this from Ozzi waz page
Speaker 1: down here, page down, eighty percent of Australian animals are
Speaker 1: unique to Australia. Oh, how does that happen? Like the
Speaker 1: kangaroo and those the different things that are only there. No,
Speaker 1: you think somewhere else they would have popped up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously they have a very tight screening as you
Speaker 3: enter and leave their country.
Speaker 1: Australia's home to twenty one of the world twenty five
Speaker 1: most venomous steaks, So you got that going for you
Speaker 1: as well. Perth. We do very well in Perth. This
Speaker 1: show does very well in Perth, Australia. The Overnight show
Speaker 1: end this podcast and he says Perth is the only
Speaker 1: city in the world which can have aircraft land in
Speaker 1: its CBD. Interesting. What else It would take take around
Speaker 1: twenty nine years to visit one new Assie beach every day.
Speaker 1: There are ten tho six hundred and eighty five beaches
Speaker 1: in Australia. Holy it seems like a bit too much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is like a little bit too much. Australia is
Speaker 1: the sixth largest country in the world. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: These are all fun? Fact? I can go on and on,
Speaker 1: but thank you Ozzi Wise. See what you should have done,
Speaker 1: Ozzi was in the future if you just sent us
Speaker 1: a few of those every week, we would have probably
Speaker 1: read them all. But you set them all in one
Speaker 1: big dump here. Like you said, there's six hundred riders
Speaker 1: of a eucalyptus trees in Australia.
Speaker 3: It's pretty wild. I got one for you. On Netflix.
Speaker 3: There's a show called The Tourist and it's an Irish
Speaker 3: man who is stuck in the outback and he thinks
Speaker 3: he committed a murder, but he has amnesia from a
Speaker 3: car accident. He can't remember who he killed or who
Speaker 3: he is. Yeah, the whole thing takes place in Australia.
Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. That's cool.
Speaker 1: Did you know the most deadly marine animal in Australia
Speaker 1: Daddy the box jellyfish responsible for more deaths per year
Speaker 1: than snake, sharks and saltwater crocodiles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, crocodile, not a gator. Huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got the crock They got the real saltwater crocs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks for that, Ozzi Wa was a bone
Speaker 1: from Portland, main right sand He says, what is the
Speaker 1: worst sunburn? You CALLI? Boys can ever remember having? I
Speaker 1: will never forget mine. I was in high school, went
Speaker 1: to the outdoor music festival in Boston, no sunscreen, Young
Speaker 1: and dumb and thanks for the content, he says. Don't
Speaker 1: stop rocking, says ps Ben. He had a suggestion for
Speaker 1: the phrase of the week. I'll consider that Jbone for
Speaker 1: next week for the phrase of the week. Worst sunburn,
Speaker 1: the worst sunburn, Danny. I had a bunch when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. We had when I was going up,
Speaker 1: they opened a water park in the area, and so
Speaker 1: i'd go there and it was called Wild Rivers a
Speaker 1: water park, and we had no My mom got me
Speaker 1: a season pass during the summer and she would give
Speaker 1: me like suntown Loceans, but you know where's alf after
Speaker 1: a while, and so I ended up. I was like
Speaker 1: a tomato. I was like a red delicious apple. And
Speaker 1: the worst part. And i've over the years when I
Speaker 1: do get some burn, you just don't want to get
Speaker 1: sunburned in your elbow joints, your neck, or your knees.
Speaker 1: As you can be sunburned as long as those areas
Speaker 1: are not sunburn and it's manageable. But when you have
Speaker 1: to bend your arm and your arm sunburn, it's a
Speaker 1: freaking nightmare. Or your knee, it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I have one for you. I took a
Speaker 3: week off from a radio station, like one of my
Speaker 3: FM radio stations I worked for back in the day,
Speaker 3: and I went out to Oxnard Shores, Hollywood Beach there
Speaker 3: and it was like an overcast day. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: get burned. I don't need any sunscreen. I got the
Speaker 3: worst burn on my back of all places, that is
Speaker 3: horrible because obviously you lean against your chair, you try
Speaker 3: to sit in your car. It was really bad. I
Speaker 3: went up and visited family in San Jose during my
Speaker 3: week off, and my aunt heard me complaining. She's like,
Speaker 3: your big baby, take off your shirt. Let me see it.
Speaker 3: And I took off my shirt. She looked at it
Speaker 3: and she went, oh, oh my gor She's like, she's like,
Speaker 3: I would be crying if I had that on my back. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you a pass, and she rubbed alo
Speaker 3: Vera on it, and I just remember being a wreck
Speaker 3: the whole rest of that week.
Speaker 1: The Olivera is one of the most wonderful things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're God for that point.
Speaker 1: Slobber that all over and then do it again fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes later, and just keep doing it, just over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over and over again
Speaker 1: and again and again. Let's see. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: that's it. I think we all we don't have any time.
Speaker 1: We're out of time here. We're gonna get kicked out
Speaker 1: of the I'll get kicked out of his studio, and
Speaker 1: I think I was self destruct in four minutes. If
Speaker 1: I do not end this right now, so thanks to
Speaker 1: let's see Mike. So, I'm Mickey from the Commonwealth, our masshole,
Speaker 1: Mickey from the Commonwealth, Bob from Bowling Green Lee in
Speaker 1: the Valley of the Sun, my guy from the used
Speaker 1: to work at the liquor store and Cliff and Nashville.
Speaker 1: We did not have time unfortunately this week to get
Speaker 1: to your questions, but you can send them in for
Speaker 1: next week. Hopefully we'll have time next week. With thanks
Speaker 1: to everybody, it's been great. If you want to send
Speaker 1: a question in again. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. It's Easter Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight eleven o'clock in the west and
Speaker 1: two am in the east and we'll be hanging out
Speaker 1: and we'll have a grand old time on the Overnight Show.
Speaker 1: And you're off today, Jonas, but you'll be back tomorrow, right.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, And don't call me Jonas.
Speaker 1: I call you Jonah. Why would I call you Jonas?
Speaker 3: No? No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh, Mike, where did that come from?
Speaker 3: I don't know. We both have beards. We don't need
Speaker 3: to bring Jonas in.
Speaker 1: But who But I've never done a show I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever.
Speaker 3: Worked for what I've done a show with Jonas before.
Speaker 1: Where did that come from?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a sign this podcast we're too long.
Speaker 1: That's a sign from above that we end this podcast
Speaker 1: immediately for real. Jonas, go hard on a guy that
Speaker 1: is I didn't usually I call you Eddie or something
Speaker 1: like that, I call you Eddie.
Speaker 3: But Jonas, Wow, boy, the next thing, you know, you're
Speaker 3: gonna call me j T Man Brick.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's go Brick, come on.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So we're gonna be back in the studios tomorrow
Speaker 3: for Covino and Rich fresh out of Vegas. We'll be
Speaker 3: back in Sherman Oaks, where more cars are being broken
Speaker 3: into than ever before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, car capital of California.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll talk about that next weekend on the show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but we're gonna be on from two to four pm
Speaker 3: Monday afternoon, that is five to seven pm. And beautiful Springfield, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. My grandfather was.
Speaker 3: From back in the Mama Mama from look at that.
Speaker 1: We both got family from there. Have a wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 1: Easter Sunday here and we'll talk to you on the
Speaker 1: podcast next weekend, but catch our radio shows. See we'll
Speaker 1: catch you next time.
Speaker 3: Later. Skater gotta murder, I gotta go.