Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers.
Speaker 1: In the penthouse. Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g
Speaker 3: Radio and a Happy Friday Morning to you. Finished with
Speaker 3: the radio show a couple hours ago. I walked out
Speaker 3: of the studio and I said.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna come in here.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come back to the podcast studio, the remote
Speaker 3: podcast studio.
Speaker 1: And I had this big plan.
Speaker 3: I was going to tell all these stories about Santa
Speaker 3: Benny and all that stuff. And however, I've made an
Speaker 3: editorial decision on this edition of the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 3: I have decided that I need to get back on
Speaker 3: my bully pulpit. And even though I did four hours
Speaker 3: of talk radio last night and I used the soapbox
Speaker 3: to rant and rave about what happened in the NFL game.
Speaker 3: It was such a whack a doodle finish to the
Speaker 3: Rams Seahawk game last night in the beautiful Pacific Northwest
Speaker 3: that I have decided that I'm going to rant more
Speaker 3: about that. I have some more thoughts I want to
Speaker 3: share with the class. And you're part of the class,
Speaker 3: and we will give you the holiday schedule as promised
Speaker 3: later in this podcast, which includes Hanukkah, which is going
Speaker 3: on right now, so Lotka's Jelly Donuts and then with
Speaker 3: my wife's family Christmas cookies. She bought eggnog. I will
Speaker 3: not be partaking in that, the whole Norman Rockwell thing.
Speaker 1: We'll have that, But.
Speaker 3: Right now, in this moment, let's get the party started
Speaker 3: with a little audio therapy. Not radio therapy. This is
Speaker 3: podcast therapy. It's therapeutic. It's just what the doctor ordered.
Speaker 3: It's group counseling. It needs to be done because of
Speaker 3: the Seattle screw job that took place last night. Now,
Speaker 3: I don't work for the Rams. You know that I'm
Speaker 3: not a show for the Rams. You know that, although
Speaker 3: no Streudinis might disagree, I'm not. I don't make any
Speaker 3: money when the Rams win unless I bet on the
Speaker 3: game and I did a small bet, nothing major in
Speaker 3: that game, and Seattle was actually favored by one and
Speaker 3: a half to two by the time the game kicked off.
Speaker 1: I need to talk.
Speaker 3: About this because what we watched was not football. That
Speaker 3: was a magic trick. It was sleight of hand. The
Speaker 3: NFL pulled two points out of a hat like a
Speaker 3: street hustler with a bent deck of cards back in
Speaker 3: the old Times Square in Manhattan. Now let's say it's slowly,
Speaker 3: because I know there's some people there that might be
Speaker 3: listening on Park Avenue in New York wearing headsets. Now,
Speaker 3: if you're in the replay center in New York, you
Speaker 3: have the headset and then a blindfold. The referee blew
Speaker 3: the play dead whistle.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: The universal signed for stopped playing football. Now, that's it.
Speaker 3: And everybody did the Rams stop. The Seahawks stopped, even
Speaker 3: Zach Charmoneau, who came over there, and he slowed down
Speaker 3: like he hit rush hour traffic. And he wasn't in
Speaker 3: a hurry. The play was dead. He grabbed the ball,
Speaker 3: but he wasn't in any hustle. It was finito. It
Speaker 3: was done, and somehow the modern day Penn and Teller
Speaker 3: went abra kadabra. The NFL handed Seaheadle two points, like
Speaker 3: a complimentary mint at the end of a bad meal
Speaker 3: when they give you the bill. And by the NFL's
Speaker 3: own rule, I went back and I looked because I thought, well,
Speaker 3: maybe I got something wrong here by the NFL's own rule.
Speaker 3: And I know reading is hard for some spelling is
Speaker 3: hard for others. I learned that every week on the
Speaker 3: show and inadvertent whistles. According to the NFL's own rule book,
Speaker 3: an inadversive inadvertent whistle ends the play unless the action
Speaker 3: is a continuation already in progress. Key phrase already in progress.
Speaker 3: Now Charboneau, the running back there does not stop to
Speaker 3: pick up the ball until way after the whistle after,
Speaker 3: not during, not simultaneous after. That's not continuation, it's not
Speaker 3: that's a sequel. Nobody asked for its. It's hilarious to
Speaker 3: me watching the replay, and I watched it, I don't
Speaker 3: know seven thousand times. The second that whistle blows, whistle, whistle, whistle,
Speaker 3: everyone freezes. It's like a middle school dance when the
Speaker 3: chaperone flips the lights on. It's also like musical chairs.
Speaker 3: The music stops game over. But the NFL said, nah, eh,
Speaker 3: I think we'll keep dancing. Well, Seattle, you're allowed to
Speaker 3: dance the Rams. No. And here's the kicker on this.
Speaker 3: It isn't even about the officials on the field. They
Speaker 3: actually got the call right in the stadium, the Seahawks
Speaker 3: were preparing to kick off to the Rams.
Speaker 1: They got the call right. They called the play dead.
Speaker 1: They did their jobs.
Speaker 3: The disaster was cooked up by the instant replay brain
Speaker 3: trust in the Big Apple, the Wizard of Oz behind
Speaker 3: the curtain, pulling levers and pretending this is all you know,
Speaker 3: this is all kosher, that it makes sense. And but wait,
Speaker 3: there's even more. Now, how about the absurdity of advancing
Speaker 3: a fumble ball on a scoring play. Now, that's supposedly
Speaker 3: banned in the fourth quart it's illegal for boton, it's
Speaker 3: against the rule, except apparently, when it's a two point conversion.
Speaker 3: The Seahawks need a little bit of a booster, a
Speaker 3: little booster shot.
Speaker 1: There you go. It's funny how the.
Speaker 3: Fine print always opens up like a trapdoor, the NFL
Speaker 3: handing the Seattle football team two points like a TSA agent,
Speaker 3: waving one guy through while everyone else gets friss like.
Speaker 1: What the heck? And this wasn't missed.
Speaker 3: It's manufactured, is the word I will use. And let's
Speaker 3: not ignore the snuffleufigus wearing stripes in the corner of
Speaker 3: the room. Who's chatting with the HeLa monster? Okay, they're
Speaker 3: having a conversation. And then over there, I believe the
Speaker 3: is that a giant oversized blue whale that just swam
Speaker 3: into the room. We already talked about the Puka Nicool
Speaker 3: horsehead in the bed on the radio show last night.
Speaker 3: The league sending a little bit of a message. You're
Speaker 3: gonna talk out of school, out of class, you're gonna
Speaker 3: talk about the referees. Well, suddenly the rule books can
Speaker 3: get flexed like a yoga instructor. The Rams should have
Speaker 3: won the game thirty to twenty eight in regulation, end
Speaker 3: the game, roll credits, that's it. Instead, we got a
Speaker 3: blown call that changed the outcome of a lot of stuff,
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: Whether it's the division, who knows.
Speaker 3: What's going to happen the final few weeks of the season,
Speaker 3: but the division, number one seed, number one in the NFC.
Speaker 3: A call so bad it belongs in the hall, not
Speaker 3: that hall, the Hall of shame. Right next to the
Speaker 3: infamous replacement referees, the past interference reviews that vanish into
Speaker 3: thin air. Now was this malfeasance? Was this incompetence or
Speaker 3: was this intentional?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: That's the question hanging in the air.
Speaker 3: Like Kim trails back on the old Coast to Coast
Speaker 3: with Art Bell and you know the spin is coming, right,
Speaker 3: and I've already started to see some of it. I
Speaker 3: cannot wait. I'm gonna go to bed here a little bit,
Speaker 3: and by the time I get up, it'll all be
Speaker 3: bouncing around the echo chamber the League press release, which
Speaker 3: will be a gigantic word salad. And by the way,
Speaker 3: I don't like salads. I don't like salad, but it'll
Speaker 3: be a word salad. Correct application of the rule as
Speaker 3: it is written in Phase seventeen of the rule book
Speaker 3: after a further review. Spare me, I'm gonna puke in
Speaker 3: my mouth. No justice, no peace. This one's going to
Speaker 3: echo for days. The Seattle screw job, the Rams got robbed.
Speaker 3: Case closed. Now you say the case is closed, but
Speaker 3: you think I'm done.
Speaker 1: Hell no, hell no.
Speaker 3: Let's address my coffee drinking seahawk loving friends. So I
Speaker 3: mentioned I did the radio show a little while ago.
Speaker 3: Oh I got done. I had a little bit of
Speaker 3: a down stretch, kind of reset the battery there for
Speaker 3: a little bit, and then I come back.
Speaker 1: Into the remote studio to do.
Speaker 3: The podcast, and I made the mistake of opening up
Speaker 3: my email, my inbox, and then also went on.
Speaker 1: Social media, some of the social media stuff.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to say this slowly, clearly, and I
Speaker 3: believe with perfectly polished, a perfectly polished golden hammer. For
Speaker 3: my friends and those that are regular fans of the show,
Speaker 3: some of you I met at the Seattle meet and
Speaker 3: greet we did in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: But those of you chiming in from.
Speaker 3: Seattle wagging your fingers and declaring that I've gone full
Speaker 3: tinfoil houtguy malor you boys think that I've lost my fastball.
Speaker 3: You're calling this a conspiracy rant that what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You're laughing at me.
Speaker 3: You're saying that it's like I've seen sasquatch wearing ram
Speaker 3: colors in the end zone. Listen, Regardless of all that,
Speaker 3: here's the inconvenient truth. You j'rer bronis. You jackwagons can't
Speaker 3: handle and all of you you fall on the spectrum
Speaker 3: of Mama Luke.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me explain the inconvenient truth.
Speaker 3: A lot of things feel true long before they're actually
Speaker 3: officially stamped approved by the people in charge. This is
Speaker 3: all stuff that comes out in books years later. History
Speaker 3: is littered with examples. This is not fringe, this is
Speaker 3: not outer space, this is not street level reality.
Speaker 1: It's not any of that.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing remote viewing what we witnessed in Seattle
Speaker 3: last night as we're doing this podcast early on this Friday,
Speaker 3: the nineteenth day of December. But you look last night,
Speaker 3: that was the metaphorical bloody knuckles is what that was.
Speaker 3: It was NFL street justice I get. In my opinion,
Speaker 3: it was payback with a smile for m wide receiver
Speaker 3: Pooka Nakua, who sent out a comment on social media
Speaker 3: and then deleted it after the game. But Pookah is
Speaker 3: the guy. He listened, he poked the hornets nest. He
Speaker 3: went out of two and twenty five yards receiving, two
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty five yards receiving and a couple of touchdowns,
Speaker 3: and yet the NFL is like, listen, you poked the
Speaker 3: hornets nest live on a live stream Internet stream and surprise, surprise, surprise,
Speaker 3: he got stung by the hornet's nest right there, Well,
Speaker 3: the hornets in the nest, you prod the hive, don't
Speaker 3: act shock when the bees come buzzing.
Speaker 1: And now I know the game. You know some of you.
Speaker 3: Are playing, not all of you, but some of you
Speaker 3: are playing. Some are just rage baiting.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, let's poke the mallor hoping to get
Speaker 3: a reaction so you feel alive. Right, you get five
Speaker 3: minutes in your sorry ass situation.
Speaker 1: I want to I'm gonna bust mallards chops, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. Okay, I'm not talking to you. Okay.
Speaker 1: I enjoy busting balls as much as anyone. I love
Speaker 1: hitting buttons. It's fun.
Speaker 3: I'm amazed how people get so upset over sports takes
Speaker 3: on an overnight show. However, here we are, it still
Speaker 3: happens all these years later. So I'm not worried about
Speaker 3: the rage baiting morons. Right, the ones I would like
Speaker 3: to address, and if this is you, you fall into
Speaker 3: this category, this basket, the ones that actually believe this
Speaker 3: nonsense about there's nothing to see here. And when you
Speaker 3: label anyone who questions it a conspiracy theorist. Congratulations, you
Speaker 3: have just won the booby prize. You are drinking the
Speaker 3: kool aid of the CIA.
Speaker 1: That's right, the CIA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went there. Buckle up, buccaroo. Now, while the
Speaker 3: CIA did not technically invent the phrase conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1: Didn't you know that?
Speaker 3: Way back in nineteen sixty seven, so we're talking almost
Speaker 3: sixty years ago, the internal CIA the Dispatch, recommended using
Speaker 3: the term conspiracy theorist to discredit critics of what the
Speaker 3: time was a very big report, the Warren Commission, and
Speaker 3: so the memo from the CIA, it actually helped popularize
Speaker 3: the term as a weaponized slur designed to shut down
Speaker 3: any kind of debate. You cannot question anything.
Speaker 1: Because you will be given cooties.
Speaker 3: You're going to be called a conspiracy theorist and shutting
Speaker 3: up a lot of people. You shut them down any
Speaker 3: kind of debate by making skeptics sound unhinged.
Speaker 1: How dare you?
Speaker 3: And no, I am not wearing tinfoil headphones. It is
Speaker 3: documented history. It's the same playbook as the NC double
Speaker 3: a years ago.
Speaker 1: They were facing their ruin.
Speaker 3: People were suing them, people were players, were dying, their girlfriends, their.
Speaker 1: Wives, were suing the NCED double A.
Speaker 3: It was called something else, but they came up with
Speaker 3: the term student athlete, just pulled that out of thin air.
Speaker 3: It was a phrase cooked up to avoid paying workers
Speaker 3: comp a cute combination of words ugly motive, ugly motive.
Speaker 3: And they did that for so long that people thought
Speaker 3: it was legit. They didn't realize it was a hustle
Speaker 3: by the nc Double A, and they kept repeating it
Speaker 3: even to this day. While players are being paid wads
Speaker 3: of cash, more money than Alf and Fergdog get paid.
Speaker 1: To do the show, which is not much, not much.
Speaker 3: But they just give them wads of cash and say, here,
Speaker 3: play football for us, play basketball for us. And they
Speaker 3: still people still use the term student athlete. And here's
Speaker 3: the malor money line. It's not a conspiracy theory in
Speaker 3: terms of the NFL stuff or really anything, if it's true.
Speaker 1: It's not a conspiracy theory if it's true. So let's
Speaker 1: talk some football.
Speaker 3: What do you say, because the NFL has already released
Speaker 3: the hounds, it's gonna get worse. Later I mentioned the
Speaker 3: word salad is coming from the NFL. They'll be sending
Speaker 3: it to Pro Football talk. And then Florio will post
Speaker 3: it and he'll go nutso and all that stuff. So
Speaker 3: we know that's coming, but it's already started. Like suddenly,
Speaker 3: out pop the rules experts, right, the rules experts like
Speaker 3: jack in the box lawyers.
Speaker 1: And as they pop up.
Speaker 3: And you know, spin the thing in the jack in
Speaker 3: the box, they spin themselves dizzy trying to spit polish
Speaker 3: a rusted broken call now one of my favorites, and
Speaker 3: I wanted to share with you here on the Fifth
Speaker 3: Hour podcast, and I quote, this is somebody that worked
Speaker 3: for the NFL.
Speaker 1: I don't think they worked for the NFL anymore. They're
Speaker 1: former referee.
Speaker 3: The quote was, whether a whistle is blown or not
Speaker 3: is completely irrelevant to the two point conversion that was
Speaker 3: given to Seattle. Completely irrelevant was the line, so the
Speaker 3: whistle is blown or not, it's completely irrelevant. That is
Speaker 3: higgely piggly nonsense, is what that is. That's not analysis.
Speaker 3: That's called gas lighting. One oh one call him the
Speaker 3: gas man whoever said that. And for those that are
Speaker 3: playing along at home or at the gym, or at
Speaker 3: work or in your car, gas lighting, I think we
Speaker 3: all know what that is, but some of you might
Speaker 3: not know. Gas lighting is the manipulation of people into
Speaker 3: questioning their own reality, into doubting what their eyes saw
Speaker 3: and their ears heard, and what we all heard, every man, woman,
Speaker 3: and child, clear as a church bell whistle, whistle whistle,
Speaker 3: And so that might be the dumbest thing ever spoken
Speaker 3: by a human with some kind of credentials to their name.
Speaker 3: The NFL wants to have it both ways. Heads they
Speaker 3: win tails. You are cuckoo for cocoa puffs. You're crazy,
Speaker 3: crazy crazy. You're on the chew crazy trade. You are
Speaker 3: when players from both teams let me repeat this for
Speaker 3: those of you a little slow. For players from both things,
Speaker 3: maybe you're on the spectrum. When players from both teams
Speaker 3: stopped playing at the sound of the whistle, including the
Speaker 3: numb nuts who casually strolled over to bend down to
Speaker 3: pick up the ball. Two full mississippi seconds, one mississippi,
Speaker 3: two mississippi after the whistle, that is no longer a
Speaker 3: clear recovery by any reasonable definition known to humanity.
Speaker 1: Beast or zebra or lizard, person or the grays. I
Speaker 1: don't care. If whistles and rules are now.
Speaker 3: Open to interpretation, then congratulations, Come on down, We've got
Speaker 3: ourselves a rule change. So from here on out, the
Speaker 3: lesson is ignore the whistle. It's not just play to
Speaker 3: the whistle, it's played through them. Pretend they are hood
Speaker 3: ornaments and they're there for decoration. In fact, why even
Speaker 3: bother having officials save money. Just let some guy from
Speaker 3: Long Island who's in New York blow an airhorn when
Speaker 3: the play is over like a monster truck rally, watch
Speaker 3: out for the grave digger. By the way, and to
Speaker 3: everyone parroting the rule book, because I have seen this
Speaker 3: already too this morning. They're parroting the rule book like
Speaker 3: it's this scripture. And welcome to the oldest argument in sports.
Speaker 1: It's really in.
Speaker 3: Life, the spirit of the law versus the letter of
Speaker 3: the law. By the letter of the law, I'm sure
Speaker 3: you can futs around and find something there, find something
Speaker 3: that the NFL got right.
Speaker 1: But by the spirit of the law.
Speaker 3: NFL players are trained from Pop Warner on up.
Speaker 1: We're talking Pop Warner.
Speaker 3: That's when they hear a whistle, the play is dead, period,
Speaker 3: end of sermon. The play is dead if the whistle
Speaker 3: doesn't blow. And we'll just look at the game last night.
Speaker 3: If that whistle doesn't blow, multiple ram players dive on
Speaker 3: all of They all dive on the ball be a dogpile,
Speaker 3: and you know they're like seagulls dive bombing, drop French
Speaker 3: fry on the beach.
Speaker 1: So did that happen?
Speaker 3: No? No, you know, have we gone bonkers?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Have I joined the Flat Earth Society? No, I've not
Speaker 3: joined the Flat Earth Society, although they still send me
Speaker 3: emails every once in a while because I blamed Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 3: We did a thing about the flat earth and then
Speaker 3: the or the Actually, the flat earth people do not
Speaker 3: send me stuff.
Speaker 1: It's the hollow earth people. Excuse me. The flat earth
Speaker 1: people don't bother me.
Speaker 3: The hollow earth people who were a subset when we
Speaker 3: talked about Kyrie Irving and the flat Earth.
Speaker 1: Those people reach out to me every once in a while.
Speaker 3: But I'm just refusing to pretend that water isn't wet
Speaker 3: because some rules analysts told me it's dry.
Speaker 1: Carrying the water for the NFL. The whistle has to
Speaker 1: mean something.
Speaker 3: It has to or the whole thing, the whole operation
Speaker 3: for Gayzy, which is the word of the week for
Speaker 3: Gayzy seems to be.
Speaker 1: The word of the week.
Speaker 3: I feel like I've used it a lot and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of things. I'm not rushing to conclusions. I'm
Speaker 3: just selling you. I'm telling you that there's a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff going on in sports.
Speaker 1: Right now that is for gazy is what it is.
Speaker 3: All right now to the holiday radio schedule, by demand,
Speaker 3: by demand, I have waited to This is not the
Speaker 3: end of a podcast, but it's getting closer to the
Speaker 3: end of the podcast, and we will, for ratings purposes,
Speaker 3: push back the Santa Benny version of this podcast until Saturday.
Speaker 1: I have some things I want to share with you.
Speaker 3: About my experience, which I love so much, of climbing
Speaker 3: to the top of a fire truck and playing Santa. However,
Speaker 3: you know, I would assume, because you're listening to the podcast,
Speaker 3: you're a high level p one that I by nature
Speaker 3: a worker bee. I don't like time off. I don't
Speaker 3: trust time off. Time off is it's like a suspicious
Speaker 3: relative who shows up unannounced to your house, double parks
Speaker 3: in the driveway, and somehow still complains about parking while
Speaker 3: also eating all of your food.
Speaker 1: And I had this happen. I've had this happen a
Speaker 1: few times.
Speaker 3: I've had people over and they've just gone wild, right,
Speaker 3: just absolutely gone wild, and it's maddening. Absolutely maddening is
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 3: Every once in a while, even the most stubborn awks
Speaker 3: has to leave the plow in the field and walk
Speaker 3: back to the barn. You know, this is my passion.
Speaker 3: The overnight show, what we call the Ben Mallor show.
Speaker 3: It's not really a job. It's not a paying job
Speaker 3: at Pizzo.
Speaker 1: Okay, but not.
Speaker 3: I could be making more money if I did a
Speaker 3: daytime show, I'd be making a lot more money. But
Speaker 3: it's an audio sweatshop, right, It's a nightly assembly line
Speaker 3: of piping hot takes, crazy calls from people like hollering
Speaker 3: James and blarn Maine and Lucky Tony rants, Mallard metaphors, mallarisms,
Speaker 3: all that stuff. It rolls off the conveyor belt in
Speaker 3: the factory of hot takes while most of the world is,
Speaker 3: at least our side of the world is drooling in
Speaker 3: a pillow, or at least auto pillow. Now I like
Speaker 3: it that way. I have more editorial freeman freedom at night.
Speaker 3: I don't have people my boss is harassing me. I
Speaker 3: thrive under the cover of darkness. Think of me like
Speaker 3: an audio raccoon with a microphone, rummaging through the sporting
Speaker 3: news trash at three am and loving every second of it. However,
Speaker 3: here we are, I have stacked up comp days the
Speaker 3: old fashioned way by working holidays most people don't even
Speaker 3: know have names. And I have worked the big ones
Speaker 3: as well. Thanksgiving, fourth of July, you name it, those
Speaker 3: like President's Day.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if that's a company hall. I
Speaker 1: think it is this federal holiday.
Speaker 3: But while on the fourth line, well, you're lighting fireworks
Speaker 3: or carving a turkey on Thanksgiving, I'm carving up monologues
Speaker 3: like a Deli slicer on full blast.
Speaker 1: And those receipts add up.
Speaker 3: And so this is the the malor math hours in
Speaker 3: hours ode on those holidays. And then there's real life
Speaker 3: like my wife, who runs a tighter operation than most
Speaker 3: NFL front offices, and she is a social butterfly occasionally occasionally,
Speaker 3: and so she has us hosting multiple holiday parties. One
Speaker 3: of them will take place this weekend, another one the
Speaker 3: following week which means that I have to take part
Speaker 3: in actual human interaction. I have to get plates, napkins,
Speaker 3: I have to smile, I have to pretend like I'm
Speaker 3: interested in people telling me stories. I don't care about
Speaker 3: eye contact. I am waving the white flag. As a
Speaker 3: result of that, I will become Benny the Baker this
Speaker 3: week Extreme Baking. I will also be taking the rare
Speaker 3: and appropriate time off, which for me feels like skipping
Speaker 3: leg day after a decade long streak, or more like,
Speaker 3: I guess intermittent fasting, which I have this ridardulous streak going.
Speaker 3: But here's the Malar scoreboard, and yes I'm I'm giving
Speaker 3: you the information slowly. For the people in the cheap
Speaker 3: seats here, it is the big payoff here, the moment
Speaker 3: of truth. Plan your vacations accordingly. The Ben Mahlor Show,
Speaker 3: not the podcast. The Ben Malor Show, has not one,
Speaker 3: but two more live shows in twenty twenty five. We'll
Speaker 3: be recapping the NFL Sunday into Monday, and we'll be
Speaker 3: recapping the NFL Monday into Tuesday. Now after that, we
Speaker 3: go into what's known as suspended animation, kind of like
Speaker 3: a sci fi movie, not a good one, not a
Speaker 3: good one, where the hero is frozen in a pod,
Speaker 3: dreaming of bad officiating and phantom replay reviews and giving
Speaker 3: Puka Nakouah, the business and all of that and breaking
Speaker 3: down all of this like government spreadsheets. But fear not,
Speaker 3: loyalist foot soldiers, you know who you are, My most
Speaker 3: ardent supporters that would die on Mount mallor in the
Speaker 3: Mallard Militia. The podcast should still be there. Now there
Speaker 3: is a chance I make a little road trip. I
Speaker 3: will not be flying. I'll be driving somewhere to an
Speaker 3: the state, which in the West is a whole endeavored
Speaker 3: to go to another state. So if that happens, that
Speaker 3: might delay the podcast. I don't know that that will
Speaker 3: be the case.
Speaker 1: I believe I think.
Speaker 3: Will be good on that, and so Benny versus the
Speaker 3: Penny should still be breathing on YouTube as well. As
Speaker 3: we wind down the regular season in the NFL. The
Speaker 3: pantry will not be bare. However, the original recipe, the
Speaker 3: full overnight Grind will be put on.
Speaker 1: Ice Ice Ice Baby.
Speaker 3: We officially returned from hiatus on Sunday night into Monday,
Speaker 3: January fourth into January fifth, and we'll flip the switch
Speaker 3: back on like the Frankenstein Monster and minus of course
Speaker 3: the neck bolts will mix in extra sarcasm. I'll try
Speaker 3: to get some sleep over the next couple of weeks
Speaker 3: and then come back recharge. Think of it as our
Speaker 3: brothers and sisters in the NBA say, load management, load management.
Speaker 3: I'm not retiring. I'm not retiring.
Speaker 1: And if I end up getting fired, it was not
Speaker 1: my decision.
Speaker 3: I'm kidding, but no, this is a strategic time strategic
Speaker 3: time out, not a two minute warning. And even the
Speaker 3: most reliable workhorse, whatever you think that is, needs a
Speaker 3: pit stop, an oil change, maybe a fresh set of tires.
Speaker 3: You need all that stuff before getting back on the
Speaker 3: overnight highway where the things go bumpity bump at night.
Speaker 1: So my message to you is thank you.
Speaker 3: And we have two more podcasts this weekend, and I've
Speaker 3: got two more ratorships.
Speaker 1: I just want to thank you now. I'll thank you again.
Speaker 1: I want to thank.
Speaker 3: You for supporting what we do here. And it's been
Speaker 3: a transitional period of time.
Speaker 1: We lost I.
Speaker 3: Say lost at He's not dead, but he was like
Speaker 3: go by the company. Eddie Garcia is a big part
Speaker 3: of the show. And the show's continued on and it's
Speaker 3: different than it was and the characters changed. But the
Speaker 3: show's popularity has been pretty good because of you, and
Speaker 3: so I want you to enjoy the holidays, whatever you celebrate.
Speaker 3: If you don't celebrate anything, just have a great day,
Speaker 3: enjoy your life.
Speaker 1: I want you to eat too much food. I want
Speaker 1: you to gain ten pounds. I want you to argue
Speaker 1: with in laws that you don't like.
Speaker 3: I want you to argue with your relatives that are
Speaker 3: blood relatives that you also don't like. I want you
Speaker 3: to miss me just enough, just enough where you come back,
Speaker 3: just enough where you come back, because soon enough it'll
Speaker 3: be lights, camera action. The lights will come back on,
Speaker 3: the phones will start ringing, We'll be breaking down things
Speaker 3: with Marcella and Brooklyn and hollering.
Speaker 1: James and all.
Speaker 3: The characters on the show will return, and the Audio
Speaker 3: Sweatshop will reopen for business.
Speaker 1: So we have much to get to.
Speaker 3: I will put the baby to bed right now, but
Speaker 3: we'll have no podcast on Saturday. I will give you
Speaker 3: the Santa Bendi podcast on Saturday. That is my plan,
Speaker 3: unless something crazy happens later today that requires another emergency
Speaker 3: Mallard monologue like this ridoculous play in Seattle on Thursday night.
Speaker 3: So Danny putting this thing together. Danny g hopefully will
Speaker 3: join me at some point over the weekend. And later
Speaker 3: skater aasta pasta gotta murder, I gotta go