WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Rip Van Maller 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.440 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.319 Wow. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.320 It's a clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:28.080 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:35.320 It the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me Ben 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:40.560 Mahler and Danny G Radio hanging out with you all 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.839 weekend as we talk in circles. It's a podcast. It's 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.120 so simple. This is not the original recipe Ben Mahler 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.479 show that you hear overnight. No, no, no, this is 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.920 the Extra Crispy, Extra Spicy Fifth Hour Podcast. As we 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.000 are here every Friday, Saturday and Sunday to provide you 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.760 with weekend entertainment in the audio Sweatshop. Now, Danny G 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.360 is not with me yet again here on Friday. He'll 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.080 be back for these Saturday and Sunday podcasts as we 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:17.520 attempt to kick butt. Now, normally we have a certain routine. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:19.680 If you've listened to this podcast, you know that We 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.880 typically start out by looking at some dopey holidays that 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.680 are taking place. Now we've been doing this for many, 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:31.280 many months, and today would be the worst day that 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:36.200 I can remember for cheeseball holidays. I was trying, I 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.800 was just trying to find something that seemed fun, something 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.600 that seemed interesting, and there's just nothing there. Like the 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:48.080 one that stood out is National Sausage Pizza Day. Does 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.640 sausage pizza need its own day? Isn't there just a 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.560 there's a pizza Day and that should be fine, but 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.360 there's a sausage Pizza Day, and then there's like a 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:00.800 bunch of other stuff just aren't any good that are 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.560 just kind of dumb. So bad day for holidays. But 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.560 the show must go on. The show must go on 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:13.240 for us peasants, the common man, the hoi POLOI, the 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.320 rank and file. Everyone to say it. And on this podcast, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.720 the Friday edition, the eleventh of October, we've got does 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:29.080 anyone have a watch? Mayor Aura? Foody fun and the 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.840 phrase of the week. The phrase of the week, But 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:38.160 as always we start with the shameless promotion for the 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.520 number one TV show that you're gonna watch this weekend, 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.960 and it still amazes me that my name is on it. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.520 It is Benny versus the Penny, and I am a 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:54.600 proud papa, if you will. Many of you have taken 0:02:54.639 --> 0:03:00.720 time out and sent me photographs of you watching the 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:05.280 show and not only watching it at home, and those 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.000 are great. Those are wonderful. Are our friend in the 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:14.360 Minneapolis area, she's got a nice cabin, just just awesome, 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.960 and some of the other photos. But people have been 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:22.079 sending me photos from restaurants, which is awesome. One guy 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:27.920 in New Hampshire was at a sports bar, which I 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.920 didn't even know they had sports bars in New Hampshire. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.840 It's not very big. I know they have a nice 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.560 little Portsmouth is a nice little tourist town, but I 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.760 haven't really sport New Hampshire too much. But anyway, the 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.800 guy sent me a photo at some sports bars said yeah, 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.480 they have it on there. You're on the tv there 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:42.960 in the sports bar. I said, well, that's pretty cool, 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.360 so thank you for that. My email, you neither send 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.400 it to benmalorshow at gmail dot com or the Fifth 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.680 Hour podcast email. We have our own email, which is 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.600 probably better that way because that's what I use for 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.720 the podcast when I'm getting ready for the podcast. I 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.400 normally go going through the email and it's kind of 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.400 my routine. So if you want to send something in 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.600 real fifth hour at gmail dot com and it is 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:13.480 available starting today all over the place. Benny Versus the Penny, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.040 the first episode of Benny Versus the Penny will air 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:22.560 at six pm today Boston, NBC Sports Boston, right after 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:26.400 the simulcast of Felger and Maz It ends at six 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:31.520 and then our show begins handicapping as I analyze all 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.240 the big games and we go head to head against 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:39.320 the Penny. Now, I have not seen the episode this 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:43.159 weekend's episode. We were doing it yesterday at Universal Studios. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.559 We were taping it and it was a fun, fun 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.560 show to tape. I'm not sure what the final product 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.680 is going to be. I'm hoping there is a Looney 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.640 blooper that made the show. There was a debate in 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.640 the control room among the the boys that work on 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.000 the show. Vinnie and John I think was part of that, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.640 and a couple of the other big guys there that 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.839 are involved in trying to put together and then we 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.680 do a couple of takes and then normally we try 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.080 to just do one take but typically we end up 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.040 having to do a couple and so we don't know 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.640 what you don't know, so we'll find out. I will 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.000 find out with you. And on NBC Sports Boston, the 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.960 show will air a bunch. Not only is it air 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.719 at six o'clock, but also at eight thirty. There's another 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.040 showing at nine to thirty. So three showings of Benny 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.720 Versus the Penny in Boston tonight, and that's the flagship 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.679 of the show because it's produced out of NBC Sports Boston, 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:45.640 but it is also on in many many other locations, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:50.160 some I don't even know about. It's on in Philadelphia, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.120 Home of the Fight in Phills. That'll be at six 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.360 point thirty if you're in Philly on NBC Sports Philadelphia 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:03.360 six thirty tonight, right after Birds Huddle with Barrett Brooks 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.359 and Birds Huddle. I think I know what that's about 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.400 being in Philadelphia. But anyway, that's available Benny Versus the 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.000 Penny six thirty in Philadelphia. Check your local TV listings 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.120 for the time in your area. And if you don't 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:20.279 have an NBC Sports regional cable channel or affiliate near you, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.760 I know we're on in La on the Laker station, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.880 for example, which is partnered with NBC but not a 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.960 technical NBC station, not run not operated by NBC, so 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:38.440 there is that. And also on Peacock streaming nationally, you 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.000 can always get your hands on Benny versus the Penny 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:46.640 every single moment, all weekend long, starting later today. It 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.800 might not be up right now if you're listening early. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.320 This podcast goes up relatively early in the day. I'm 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.680 not even really sure exactly when the podcast or the 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.960 TV show rather goes on Peacock, but it's available once 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:05.160 it goes up, usually late afternoon, sometimes early evening on Friday, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.240 which is today, and then it'll be all Saturday and 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.080 then you can watch it. And I don't think old 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.320 episodes are available, so you really have to watch it 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:20.440 when the newest episode is available. So with that as 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:25.920 the backdrop, let's go back to last Friday. You might 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.800 remember I was still recovering from a tongue injury. This 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:34.840 job is not that easy. I had bitten my tongue, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.200 which is not as bad as burning your tongue, but 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.600 in the same family. So I'd bitten my tongue the 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.840 left side of my tongue, and it was causing me 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.600 a whole lot of problems. I was able to do 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.960 the show, but it was very uncomfortable. It wasn't fun. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.840 It's still not all the way back to where it 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:57.600 needs to be because I'm still talking a lot, and 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.680 so it's getting better. I'm almost where I want to be, 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.680 but still off a little bit little whacky, a little bit, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.160 a little bit of whacking. And it's going on. But 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:10.680 my schedule, I have first world problems. My schedule is 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:15.280 one where I'm very very busy for several days during 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:24.120 the week. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are not not good 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.040 good days. Now they are good days because I love 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:28.800 what I do and I like my job, and so 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:34.240 it's fun. But I am burning the midnight oil and 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.760 then some. And I'm not doing it at lavish parties, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:42.320 these extravagant upscale shin digs. No, I'm not doing it 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.200 at private meetings. I am doing it with my face 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:51.000 either buried into a microphone or buried into my laptop 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:56.240 as I try to put together the handicapping for the 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.600 weekend's NFL games. And so that's my routine, and it's 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:05.480 the malor O rama. And really it starts on Tuesday, 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.560 you know, I wait for the Monday game day. And 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.040 that's something new that I did last year. I'd start 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.920 doing it on Monday, and I was like, I need 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.000 to get the final numbers. So I wait till the 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.080 Monday night games are over, and then I see whether 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.520 or not my picks collapsed or not, and which games 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.319 laid an egg and where I whiffed and all that, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.640 and then try to figure it out. But I typically 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.560 wait till Tuesday. Right after the show on Tuesday morning, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.480 I go right to it and I spend a good 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.440 amount of time handicapping on Tuesday. And then Wednesday's the 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.599 big big day. You start getting injury reports, which is 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.440 a big part of this. Who's playing, who's not playing, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.839 and so that's that's a big part of it. But 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.880 I'm up a lot. I don't get a lot of sleep. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:55.000 And then Thursday we do the show and we record 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.160 the TV show and then I've got to deal with 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.080 rush hour traffic from Universal Studio, and I have to 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.680 get ready for the other show, the radio show, the 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.800 live show, and so I end up getting maybe two 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.120 to three hours maybe. Now usually I'm a four to 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.840 five hour sleep guy. So you say, well, that's not 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.760 that big a deal. You're only getting a little bit less. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:22.520 But apparently anything under four problematic, right, I'm on vapors. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:27.240 I am on absolute vapors by that point. And so 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:32.520 what ended up happening is last Friday, after I recorded 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:38.080 the podcast early Friday morning, I then send it to Danny, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.480 who is the producer of the podcast as well as 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.000 my right hand man, and then Danny futses around with 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.640 it and makes it sound pretty and makes it sound 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.680 like I know what I'm doing, and then we put 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.560 that up and then that's it. I'm done for the day, 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.920 and so I go And this day I was like, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.719 I want to kind of relax and meditate, so I'm 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.640 gonna go the bathtub. So I went to the bathtub, 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.760 the Mallard tub. I took about a twenty five minute 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:09.560 bath with that bubble soap. Everyone was great, loved it. 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:13.080 My right hand was getting a workout. Don't do that 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.199 very often. Don't do it very often. And I just 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.040 needed to decompress from the week, and my mind was 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.719 spinning and all that. You know what it's like, right, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.560 We've all been there, whether you have a job like 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.360 mine or you have a different job, but we've all 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.040 got stresses in our lives. So I took a sleeping 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.400 pill the only way I will get more than four 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.360 hours sleeping. Now keep in mind, I probably didn't need 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.839 one because I was so tired from what had happened 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.880 the last couple of days. But I was like, listen, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.360 I want to make sure I get a deep sleep, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.400 and so I'm going to take this this Kirkland brand 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.760 sleep aid. So I did, and I went to bed 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.960 way after the sun came up, and I woke up, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.559 and I wonder if you've ever had this happen. It's 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:59.000 happened to me a few times, especially doing overnights, and 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.240 chances are you probably do work overnight. Most of the 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.520 people that listen work overnight, although we have people that 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.040 graduated that are in good spirits because they work the 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.960 dread to day shift. But you go to bed after 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:17.280 the sun comes up, and you wake up discombobulated, you 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.880 know what I'm saying, Like you you're so zonked out, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.160 and then you wake up, and you know there's a 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.120 normal period of time when you wake up you just 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.120 kind of gotta get going. I'm typically get out of 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.800 the bed quick, guy, get it over with guy. That's 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.280 me because once I'm up, I'm up, I don't I 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.400 don't go back to sleep. I don't. Once in a 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.800 blue moon, I'll go back to sleep, and I don't 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:45.599 sleep with a sound sleep. So I'm wake up and 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.560 I'm discombobulated as groggy feeling. It's kind of like the 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.640 Twilight Zone. It's like the Twilight Zone. I'm not really 0:12:53.679 --> 0:13:00.000 sure if I'm alive, if somehow I'm dead and I'm 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:06.200 I'm in a parallel dimension. I mean, I'm not exactly sure. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:10.320 Maybe I'm in the outskirts of reality picture if you 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.920 will a world, or you wake up and you're not 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.960 sure what time it is or where you are exactly. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:24.120 You're confused, and I'm thinking, does anyone have a watch? Well, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.840 who uses watches? I have a watch. I have an 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.960 Apple Watch. I don't have a Walker Bueller one hundred 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.960 thousand dollar watch. But I ended up grabbing my phone 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:39.400 and eventually I realized that I had slept through almost 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:44.080 all of the daylight hours. My alarm clock went off, 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.760 and I kept sleeping. I was not tired, and I 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:55.360 awoke with about thirty minutes of sunlight and the sun 0:13:55.480 --> 0:14:00.480 was starting to go down. It was starting to go down. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:05.560 So it's that bizarro world situation. You're like, oh man, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:11.320 I am literally living in the darkness, right. You're traveling 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:15.240 through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.680 but of mind, a journey into a wondrous land whose 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.440 boundaries are that of imagination. The sign posts up ahead 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.800 your next stop the twilight Zone. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.560 Do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.120 Do Do Do Do Do do do do do doo. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.200 So I was like, who goofed? I've got to know? 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.040 And then I'm like, this is I mean, I didn't 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.480 plan on sleeping that long. I mean I only get 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.080 like a day and a half off. I want to 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.240 enjoy my time, and I got the podcast to do 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.840 still over the weedend anyway, so I woke up, me 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.760 and the wife. We quickly drove to my favorite taco 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.280 place now my I love Tacos delrado is what it's 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.040 called tacos dorato, which is crunchy tacos. I used to 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.080 go to Tito's Tacos in La Here. I love Tito's Tacos. 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.240 I was a loyal Tito's Tacos customer for over twenty years, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.480 and I will not go back because I say I 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:12.400 will not go back unless somebody drags me there because 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:17.320 it's too expensive. It's ridiculous. The same thing that I 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.600 got for like two dollars or a dollar fifty is 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.040 now like six dollars. It's insane. It's a tourist trap. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.960 Don't do it. So I found I did a little 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:32.280 intel opposition research and I went down some taco deep 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.840 state rabbitos. There's like a whole deep state network of 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.520 taco shops. So I was on a rampage. I'm like, 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:42.160 I got to find a new taco shop, and I did, 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:47.320 and I went there on the day that I slept 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:52.080 all day. They have three dollars crunchy tacos. Now, there 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:56.520 is a catch. The catch is it's on the wrong 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.920 side of the tracks. If you will, okay, it's not 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.400 the greatest neighborhood. As long as you are there during 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.720 the day, you're fine. However, I had woken up. There's 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.960 only thirty minutes a daylight. It's more than a thirty 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.600 minute drive with traffic. You don't want to be there 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.000 after dark because there's a lot of you know, thugs 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.000 and losers and criminals or whatever. They'll kick you in 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.600 the teeth so who wants it? But I made the sacrifice. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.280 I risked my life for crunchy tacos. I did, and 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.560 I dragged my wife with me. We went there and 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.920 nothing happened. Nothing happened. We got there just as the 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:36.600 sun sun was setting, and I got my tacos Dorado's 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:41.120 and a plate of chips, and was smiling from ear 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.080 to ear. I the spice of life, enjoying life, and 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:50.960 just wonderful. App solutely wonderful. So that's how I spent 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:56.080 last Friday. And then I watched Benny Versus the Penny, 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.560 and then I watched some of the nonsense going on 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.040 in college football. Were a couple of games, as I remember, 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.159 on Friday. The baseball playoffs did not start until Saturday 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.000 last week, so there was no baseball on Friday. Now 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:15.359 turning the page, Mayor Aura, A couple of you sent 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.439 me this and we didn't talk about it on the 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.760 Overnight Show, the original Recipe Overnight Show. So I thought, well, 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.280 it's a fifth hour podcast, and I saw it. I 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.040 didn't mention it. That's a third rail all my own. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.160 That's the third rail. What are you doing? It's kind 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.760 of a political storyvice not a political story. But it is, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.119 but it's not because it's kind of a goofy story. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.000 So beast mode marsha On Lynch. You know who that is, right, 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:42.240 the old NFL player, Marshawn Lynch. I'm ay doon't get fined. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.640 So he showed up to the Super Bowl media day 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.520 and said all the ridiculous stuff that he said. He's 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.520 a bit of a space cadet and so he played 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:51.919 in the NFL for a long time, a bunch of 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.840 teams known as the Seattle Sehawk. And he has now 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.560 hinted and you have sent me the story. I didn't 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.080 see that you sent it to me. He's on the 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:06.760 political blogs the blogosphere that Marshawn Lynch is thinking about 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:11.399 running for political office. He is considering becoming the mayor 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:17.960 of Oakland. Say what huh? What kind of back room 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.520 politics is this going to be? Yeah? He said on 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:26.240 his Pledgling podcast that he co hosted a co host 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.679 with the agent that he has and the worst governor 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.880 in America, the incompetent Gavin Newsom. So he's on that 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.800 with him, and he said it might be a possibility. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:43.360 Now might is a weasel word. I might make ten 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.600 million dollars this year. I'm not, but I might so. 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:53.960 According to this, Marshawn Lynch is considering it, and he 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.520 was being encouraged by the two hacks that he does 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.320 his podcast with to do it. You might remember Marshawn 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.840 when he was a cow golden Bear. He was spinning 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.359 in the golf cart around, driving around the field and 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:09.200 all that. And anyway, apparently, and I don't follow Oakland politics, 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:13.280 but if you're an Oaklander, you know that the mayor 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:18.160 of that city is in the middle of a scandal 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:23.880 right up to their chinny chin chin and the city 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:29.200 is a great example of how you let criminals take 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:34.040 over your town. It's so bad. How bad is it? 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:38.399 As I understand it, the FBI raided the mayor's home, 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:45.160 and there was an intervention of state law enforcement and 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:49.000 a bunch of political muckety MUCKs that were sent by 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.399 the state of California. You imagine if the State of 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.600 California that doesn't care about criminals anywhere, they'll just allow 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.360 you to steal whatever you want, as long as under 0:19:56.359 --> 0:20:01.480 one thousand dollars, tack whatever you want. Oakland has has 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.440 lost all their pro sports. The A's are now gone, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:11.080 and so the mayor is likely going to be kicked 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:15.000 out right, and that's it. See you later. There's gonna 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:20.600 be an opening for the mayor and Marshawn's flirting, he said. 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.960 He said it would be like that Chris Rock directed 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.600 movie Head of State, the late Bernie Mack bought. Bernie 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.040 was a funny man. Bernie Mack died way too soon, 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.280 but Bernie Mack was in there, and Marshawn said it 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.400 would be like that. He'd be slapping the shit out 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.320 of everybody and all that. Now, a couple of things, 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:41.959 all right, The question is what do you make of 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:48.000 Marshawn Lynch running for the mayor's office in Oakland? So 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:53.440 I got the big P and spending golly, and we'll 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.320 combine all of these things together and we're gonna make 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:02.560 a cushy number number on all right. So, first thing, a, 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:08.520 Marshawn Lynch is not actually going to run for political office. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.720 Let's get that out of the way, okay. And just 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.760 because he's trying to get that the capital P P 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:20.280 word publicity, it's a publicity stunt for his fledging the podcast. 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.960 I believe that to be true. I see no evidence 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:27.880 at all that Marshawn is going to run for office. Now, 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.840 there are a couple of reasons for that. The first 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:36.200 one is he's rich, and typically if you're rich, the 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:40.080 only reason you run for office is if you are 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.840 you're an attention wore. Marshan doesn't seem like that kind 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:50.280 of guy. I know that fame and celebrity and cloud 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:54.600 are contagious things. They're highly contagious, and it is a 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:59.200 communicable disease if you will spreading rapidly around society because 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:04.160 social media that said, I don't buy it. I don't 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:07.680 buy it. He's also got a fair amount of baggage, 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:09.960 not that that would stop you in twenty twenty four 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.520 to run or twenty twenty five for political office. And 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:18.520 then and b Marshawan, here's the catch twenty two because 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:19.919 I don't think he's gonna run. I think this is 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.200 just he's just talking out of his tooks. Is badonka 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.320 dounk and all that. But the other part of it 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.720 is if he were serious, and again I do not 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:32.520 think he is serious. I think this is just a 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.399 sideshow attraction. Hey put my name out there, and it 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:37.320 looks like based on what you guys have sent me 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:42.160 that the bloggisphere the political world is like, oh, man 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:45.280 Marshan could enter this and man a lah. Now if 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:49.240 he does actually enter, he would win. He would absolutely 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:55.040 become the mayor of Oakland. He would he two reasons. 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:59.119 He would run as a Democrat in a state that 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:04.200 is a one party state, and he's famous and that 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:10.440 whole celebrity thing. Marshawn, in a very odd way, has 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:14.399 this spngali effect. At least he did as a player. 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.639 Now I don't listen to his podcast. I have no 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:21.199 interest in hearing his podcast. I want nothing to do anything. 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.679 Gavin Newsom is a part of I want nothing to 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:29.119 do it. So I will not listen to that at all. 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:33.800 But he would win, Marshawn would win and all that. 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:39.600 So we'll see what happens. Foody fun, reay for food, 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:43.440 he fun, hooray for food he Fun. I know that's 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:50.320 the song that our guy, our guy in Fullerton, Bergdog loves. 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:53.679 He actually listens to that fun fact Bergdog listens to 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:57.120 that when he's with his personal trainer and he does 0:23:57.240 --> 0:24:02.320 jumping Jack's while eating donut holes. Wow, it's really cool. 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.840 Not as cool as when Alf the alien Opiner jumps 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:11.280 rope with cats. He uses cats as the jump rope. 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:14.840 That's even more impressive. But these guys are talented. 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