WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "THIS IS a Holiday" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kabbooms. 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 sol 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 --> 0:00:19.440 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.680 Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:33.400 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:37.879 Mahler and Danny G Radio. It's NFL sign. We had 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:43.919 those appetizers back on Thursday with the hour rain lightning 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.440 delay in Philadelphia where the Dallas Cowboys covered but lost 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.320 to the Philadelphiagos and then on Friday night that YouTube 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.680 thing with Rich Eisen where the Chargers score a win 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.240 in Brazil against the Chiefs. But now, Danny G. Now 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.680 it's on today, the seventh day, year of September. We've 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:06.920 got triple barrel action starting at the one pm Eastern 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.400 ten am Pacific TV window with a bunch of games 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.160 kicking off all at the same time, and then the 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.000 late TV window, and then tonight the game of the 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.319 day the Ravens and the Buffalo Bills, which will be 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.720 played in upstate New York. So a full day of 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.560 activity here on this seventh of September. And this is 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:32.880 your pre pregame show. Your pre pregame show is what 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:33.320 this is. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.080 So it will been in a couple of hours. There 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.959 is going to be the smell of bacon in the 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:43.480 G household. It is special day because there's only bacon 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.160 on holidays and this is a holiday. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.720 Yes, it is a glorious, wonderful day so far on 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.600 Benny versus the Penny. I know you're very concerned about that, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.960 unless you're not. But I'm one and one. I did 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.880 have the Cowboys, I took Kansas City, I laid the 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.920 and that was a bad, bad situation back on Friday night. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.320 But anyway, listen, well we'll get into some great storylines 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.239 in the NFL, but this is not about that. It's 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.839 all about you. It's all about the letters. So let's 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.680 get to Ohio and get us in the mood. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:33.200 Ohio. It's all right, very good. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:38.880 So these are actual messages from actual listeners. Real fifth 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.240 Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.280 gmail dot com. If you'd like to participate, FERG Dog 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.360 is in the leadoff chair here from Fullerton, that winter Wonderland. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.440 I know Ferg's excited as we get into football season. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:59.519 That means the copy is going to change for tire rack, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.200 and good chance we'll get some winter tire rack commercials 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.079 coming up here in a little bit, so we look 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.360 forward to that. But a furd dog in Fullerton says 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.840 hey Ben and Danny G after hearing about the crazy 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:15.640 parking prices in Vegas into last week's podcast. I've never 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.440 been happier to live in Fullerton. I don't know if 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.680 I told you this before, but Fullerton's downtown has over 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.520 twenty five hundred free public parking spots. You can enjoy 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.720 all the shops and restaurants without worrying about running back 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.840 to put more coins in the meter. That's a home 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:36.320 run in your mouth right there. And he says also 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.360 in Daddy G, if you want to. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.920 By the way, he's referring to a drop at one 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.640 point several times on last weekend show. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.320 Yes, he also says, and Daddy G, if you want 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.160 to spend less on daycare, you should try free range parenting. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.840 It won't cost you a dime to drop little co 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.200 off at a farm and then just let him wander around. Daddy, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.840 you'd have to put him in overalls. I guess right. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.880 Put him at overalls and a little little hat there, and. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.440 Benny, we're doubly pissed. Now he might be able to 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.480 hear in my voice. But I'm sick and this is 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.200 as well. Last Saturday, I told the story about how 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.200 poor CoA and foot and mouth disease from that f 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.520 and Montsory school. We took the tour of whatever CoA 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.400 had he passed on to us, and we have the 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.040 adult version of that bug. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.360 Wonderful, wonderful. When I get sick and I doesn't have 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.960 a very offense is I found the magic of garlic. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.039 But I still every once in a while, I will 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.680 forget to take the proper amount of garlic, or I'll 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.000 do it too late, and I'll get sick and it 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.240 just lingers. That's the worst part, especially when you do 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:46.919 this kind of stuff. We have to talk for a living, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.600 and it seems like it takes three months to fully 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:51.159 get back. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.000 At one point on Thursday's Covino and Rich show, my 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.120 voice just completely went out. Yeah, and it sounded funny 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.320 like a Greg break moment. But it was when we 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.440 were celebrating a listener winning a game, so there were 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.440 other people making noise and you couldn't really hear it. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:08.680 It's buried, thank god. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:10.560 Yeah, it's. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.640 It's hard. You're right, because there is no we're open 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.760 like seven to eleven. There's really no time to recover 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.080 and there there's no cortazone shot or there's no training 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.480 room table we can lay on to get fixed up. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:30.400 Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, it's pretty wacky. Hey, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.520 Alf from the interweb says, happy week one of the 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:38.200 NFL football schedule. Gentlemen, have you Hey says have you 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.920 heard of any good Russian websites lately? Definitely not the 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.599 kind that broadcast football, because that would be wrong. Well, Alf, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.640 as you know, a big brother is always listening, and 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.040 I know that the Chat, GBT and Grock and all 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.320 those are listening to everything we say, Danny right, everything 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.440 we It's wild they I don't know how they do it, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.520 but they are listening to everything We're doing. Wrong of 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.320 us to give out any websites? A lot of the 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:07.040 boys upset them any because I guess I've heard conflicting reports. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:12.080 Now Stream East, which was the number number one pirated website. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.960 That's where all the boys would go to watch games 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.880 and not have to pay for them, and supposedly that 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:23.040 got shut down, although I got a message saying it's up. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.520 I have not been on that in a while because 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.240 it would be wrong Danny to use a pirated website 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:33.320 like stream East. But there are others. It's it's kind 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.719 of like whack them All, ALF, where you knocked one 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.800 down and two others pop up, and it's just kind 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.760 of one of those deals. It's kind of one. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.320 I have no idea what you're talking about. My VPN 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:46.600 says I live in Orlando. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:48.640 I might live in the Czech Republic. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:49.080 I don't. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.520 I don't know, but maybe I'll fire you off an 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.240 email or ALF and try to try to help you 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:56.720 out on that. But I think we'll leave that off 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:01.159 the podcast. A Reggie from Detroit writes in He says, Ben, 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:05.000 do you think Screaming Steven and that homeless guy from 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.960 Tempe will become regular characters on the show. I like 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.720 both their calls. It's from Reggie. I'm gonna go definitely 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.760 know I'm the homeless guy from Tempe. That's a couple 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:22.160 time caller. That's it. And then the screaming Steven. They're 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.640 screaming Steve. I think he's got a shot. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.640 I've heard him on your show. I like that team. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.040 Yeah, yeah, he's got that thing of a jig that 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:31.680 you're looking for. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.560 He's got the it factor. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.800 Yeah, he's there's something there. So I'm going to go 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.680 and say yes, Reggie, Scream and Steve will be part 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.280 of the show for a while. I don't think our 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.600 homeless guy in Tempe will. Although the other homeless guy 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.200 who's now got a player, Buddy in Vermont, who started calling, 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:51.680 I think he can be a regular on the show. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.280 I think he'll be part of the show. But between 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.800 those two, because that's what you asked, Scream and Steve 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.880 I believe will be be part of it for a while. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:00.360 Anyway. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.920 Ryan writes in and says on the mailbag, Hey benon 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:08.680 Danny Boys last weekend, I had my bachelor party at 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.920 the Red Sox game Friday against Paul Skeens and the Pirates, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.720 and also went to an Encore casino on Saturday, went 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.720 on cor casino on Saturday. Ryan says, at the time 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.440 you read this, it will be exactly twenty eight days 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:29.040 from the wedding. Oh man, he says, I remember emailing 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.880 you guys a while back talking about it, and now 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.680 it's less than a month. I was pumped to see 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.920 Paul Sken's pitch in person, which makes me want to 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.160 ask both of you, have you ever been to a 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.520 game where the opponent had a player you wanted to see? 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.120 Mine was Paul Skeens. He was incredible mowing the Red 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.400 Sox players down. Can you can be any sport at 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.559 any point in both your guys' lives from Ryan? 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:55.080 Well? 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.559 Absolutely, Ryan. I mean when I was a younger lads, 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.680 as a kid, I got to watch Nolan Ryan pitch. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.520 That was ridoculous. 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:03.959 You know. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.000 Even at the time, I remember going to basketball games. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.480 I saw Charles Barkley play for the Sixers against the 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.280 Clippers at the LA Sports Arena. That was pretty cool. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.240 Larry Bird, Magic Johnson. I mean, those kind of guys 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.840 back then were iconic and not football not so much. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.040 I didn't go to a lot of football games I 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:30.679 did see in the late eighties. I saw Joe Montana 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.920 slay my Rams, but that was more of an annoyance 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.720 than something that I wanted to see. At the time. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.480 I did not did not embrace that, but there have been. 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.280 They've been much. But Paul Skaines is pretty cool. That's 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.880 the phenom Ryan obviously of this era. And Danny from 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.360 Orange County. I went to Eltoral High School in South 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.280 Orange County, so I played against Eltori High School I 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.280 was in high school. But anyway, anybody remember Danny back 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.520 Maybe were watching the back in the day. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.160 Yeah, Well I got to see plenty of famous players 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.640 for other teams, Torch the Raiders. Like the night Brett 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.600 farre went off in Oakland. I was there for that 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:14.680 right after his dad last. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:16.040 Remember that. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.760 Yeah, it was like one of those things where you're 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.840 like happy for the player, but it sucks that it 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.439 happened against your team. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:23.120 Yeah. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.560 No, And then for baseball. You know, I split my 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.319 time as a kid between LA and the Bay. When 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.320 I would be at my aunt's house in the summertime 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.320 in Oakland, we got to go to an Oakland A's 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.200 game one day against the Brewers and I got to 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.720 see an aging Robin Yount and Raleigh Fingers. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:42.800 That's cool. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.640 Raleigh Fingers was like larger than life. I just wanted 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.360 to see that mustache in person, because you know, when 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.760 we were little kids. We had all his baseball cards. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.000 Yeah, you always knew where he was because it's hard 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:56.960 to miss him with them with the mustache. And I 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.480 love that whole thing. If Raleigh Fingers hadn't played for 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.960 Charlie Finley and and been challenged right the whole facial 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.520 hair thing, how he started doing that, like, he would 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.080 have been a great picture and all that, but it 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.120 wouldn't have had the same staying power because you right away, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.439 you can imagine even our blind guys, Danny can imagine 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.000 Roley Fingers with a handleball or mustache. But if he 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.640 had just had a regular mustache or no mustache, like 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.520 it's like James Harden without the beard. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.479 It's like, oh, you know, it's like a superpower. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:32.240 Yeah, it's Samson's hair, you know what. Anyway, congrats you're 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.240 getting close there. Good luck Ryan on the wedding. I 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.800 hope all the plannings don't remember whatever the planning is, 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.720 just agree to it. Just let the wife take care 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.760 of it, the wife to be, and you're you're okay. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:47.600 Let's see who's next. See page down. Let's see I 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.280 didn't get a name on this one. See this guy's 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.240 gonna get upset. Well, let me type this in. I'm 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:53.920 gonna take the what you might call it out of this, 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.160 and I'm gonna put this over here on the male. 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.440 You listen to our live coverage right now, and I'm 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.160 going to find out who this is. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.040 Like to notify all the affiliates down the line that 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.160 Ben Mahler is searching for a name. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.160 Well, I didn't write the name down, and then I 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.320 see this. I believe it's Scott, not blind Scott, but 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:19.240 Scott from Things in Florida. He thinks we're just buddies, 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:20.920 so he doesn't have to put his name, but I 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.000 had to go back and check anyway. He says, Hey, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.560 Ben and Danny, what's the dumbest series of choices you 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.760 have made without really realizing it, when maybe after thirty 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.600 minutes or a few hours you thought to yourself, how 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.840 did I get in this situation and how do I 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.679 get out of it? So it's kind of an open 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:44.520 ended question from Scott, not very specific. I like, we've 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:52.840 all made dumb decisions and dumb choices. What he's looking 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:58.400 for specifically? I could tell you that there's some jobs 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.120 that I've done, some fillings, or I was like, what 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.600 am I doing here? You know, there was a point 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.520 in my life where I would take every fill in 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.679 gig anybody offered me. I was like, hey, it's an 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.400 opportunity to get some reps in. And you know, I 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:17.760 did gigs in Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Denver where you you 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.960 know you're talking. It's not I don't I like doing it, 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.040 But sometimes you get on there it's like, what am I, 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.920 you know, breaking down the trailblazers here? This is it's 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.000 a little awkward, but that's like, that's not a terrible decision. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.160 Like I'm trying to like maybe going to a movie 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.120 and you're like, well, this is a you think maybe 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.000 the movie's gonna be Okay, it's like a terrible terrible 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.960 movies anything. Danny, can you make sense of the nonsensical. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.160 Mistake you made that you realized while you were in it? 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.240 Yeah, he said, what's the dumbest series of choices that 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.800 you have made without really realizing it when maybe about 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.560 after thirty minutes or a few hours, you thought to yourself, 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.040 how did I get myself in this? 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.439 Yeah? Yeah, okay. So when I was in my twenties, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:05.079 I hosted nightclubs on the weekend Thursday through Saturday, and 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.680 one of the nights in downtown Ventura, I followed a 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:12.800 girl back to her place and it seemed like a really, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.680 really great idea at the time, but as I was 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.199 in her living room kicking it with her, I realized 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.280 just by looking around that she did not live alone 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.320 and her dude, her dude must have also been out 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.920 with his lie friends, because he showed up. Oh oh, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.720 he quite the scene. He had a couple of his 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:38.120 friends with him. Yeah, that didn't end smoothly, but I 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.840 realized it was a bad situation as I was in it. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.240 Yeah, it was that. And then that one time he 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.360 went to ditties and that was a little odd. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.280 But now I can honestly say I didn't like that guy, 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.880 even when I was doing that format back in the day. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.160 We interviewed him. We interviewed him on our radio station 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.520 a couple of times on my morning show, and he 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.680 was a dick. Like off the air, he was okay 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.320 on the air, but off the air he was just 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.800 really short with you and just kind of like a dick. Yeah, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.000 And so I didn't like that guy. I got bad 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.520 vibes from him right away. So when I met his 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.440 record company in person. I didn't really get along with him, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.960 and he is one of those dudes. You've heard it 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.000 now from people saying that when they were around him, 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.800 they got like a bad vibe from him. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.920 Yeah. Well, there's a lot of people in sports like that, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.440 where they're they present themselves one way when the cameras 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.520 are on they're doing interviews, and then privately they're complete douchebags. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.000 And just he was like that. And I hate to 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.480 say it, but jay Z it was also like that, 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:41.120 is that right? 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.120 Seen it? That's it's the old cliche about Hollywood entertainment 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.440 anything like that. You just you got the public and 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.560 then there's the private persona. I remember covering the NBA 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.040 there was a guy at one point, this is one 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.760 of the big stars in the nineties, and. 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:57.360 He was. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.000 Beloved, had commercials, the whole thing, and then but privately 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:07.880 was just a total total dickhead. I mean, it's just 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.880 I don't know how to say it, but uh, and 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.680 I witnessed it, and but people in the public they don't. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.720 He's one of these things you fight this like we 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:19.640 get a little glimpse standing because we get to be 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.400 kind of behind the curtain a little bit and see 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.000 a little bit how they make the hot dogs. But 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.880 the rank and file don't see that. And so then 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.840 you said, you bring something up like that and you're 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.200 the bad guy. You're like, oh, you're the bad guy. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:30.840 Why did you bring. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.400 All? Right? H Next up on the mailbag. These are 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.760 actual letters by actual listeners to the show. If you'd 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.680 like to send a question in for next week's mail 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.800 bag next week's Mailbag, send it care of Real Fifth 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.480 Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:53.560 gmail dot com. H Next up is Andy from Bottaul Rouge, Louisiana. Now, 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.760 I've never been about Tom Rouge, Louisiana. I used to 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.120 work with a guy named Chris Landry who was the 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.880 Fox Football scout, one of the great talk show hosts 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.160 in the history of Fox Sports Radio, who was on 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.120 the Cleveland Browns coaching staff with a guy named Bill 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:11.960 Belichick and Nick Saban was a scout for that Browns 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.199 team and had quite the rolodex Chris Landry. I did 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.000 show with him on Saturdays during football season for a 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.320 couple of years, And that was so long ago. Aaron 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:27.000 Rodgers was at cal Berkeley and Roger Rodgers would pop 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:33.520 on our show. And also we had this young coach 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.240 at the University of Utah named Urban Meyer who popped 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.639 on Semi Regie because they were friends with Mandy. Anyway, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.680 and when I see botan roofs, oh, I get another 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:43.520 Bathtown roofs store. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:43.720 Wait. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:50.040 The former coach of the LSU basketball team for back 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.720 when Shack was there, Dale Brown, hired by Fox Sports 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.520 Radio to cover the NCAA tournament. I did shows with 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.680 Dale Brown. One of the nicest human beings I've ever met. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.200 Great guy, not really that into basketball at that point 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:04.760 in his life. He was kind of over it, even 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.080 though he got hired to commentate on basketball, but it 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:08.920 was it was fun. 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:09.200 Anyway. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.560 Andy's get to the point, please, and he says, hey, Ben, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.520 one of our senators this week said people who eat 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:19.199 imported radioactive shrimp will turn into an alien, or at 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.560 the very least cause them. It'll cause them to grow 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.760 an extra ear. Andy says, are you guys. 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.399 Will you grow eight nine feet and have big eyes? 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.120 There's like an a fool person and it has big 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:34.119 guys that's looking at us. He says, are you guys worried? Well, 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.320 I don't have to worry Andy, I don't eat trimp. Danny, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.600 you're concerned about eating radioactive shrimp that will turn you 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.280 into an alien? Is this something that. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:45.000 You stay up because steam food is so freaking expensive. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:46.880 I don't get to eat it very often. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.600 Yeah, I don't. I don't eat it because I don't 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.360 really like it. But even if I did, I eat 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.959 like once a year. I've talked about this like I 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:58.240 eat beer battered fish once a year. That's about it. 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:02.479 And so really good shrimp and really good lobster that's 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.280 just like bacon. It's holiday food. 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:10.280 I gotta tell Andy, though, I did love that that guy. 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:14.240 I guess John Kennedy, the senator from Louisiana. So apparently 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.399 he's trying to protect the fishing industry of Louisiana and 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.400 there's a lot of seafood that's being imported. So that's 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.199 why he went on that rant. The fact that it 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.960 made no sense at all, it's it's so stupid anyway. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.560 Jim from Michigan writes in he says, hey, Ben and Danny, 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.080 I like that. He says, just Michigan, you know, God 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.040 forbid you say the actual city. He says, man break 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:43.240 Man broke broke broke dance. He was break dancing, Jim says, 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.640 during a town hall meeting to protest. I saw this 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.240 property tax. I guess this happened in New Jersey. Ye, 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.320 this appears to be Danny, a middle aged man. Is 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:55.480 that accurate? Would that be a? 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.560 Oh? That's accurate? He doesn't die? Is here? You could 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.320 tell this guy how he looks like he's in his 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:03.120 mid to late fifties. 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:04.440 Okay, all right? 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:09.520 So he was great dancing days in the eighties. Sure, sure, 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.480 And so that's when he learned to get down to 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.639 planet rock and he was showing off those moves to 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.439 everybody there in the town hall. Ye. 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.040 Jim wanted to know if we've ever been to a 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.680 town hall like city council meeting. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:25.159 I have not. 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.240 Have you, Danny, been to a city council meeting in 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:29.680 your local? 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.320 No. One of our AM radio stations asked to me 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.400 and morning show co host to attend something that had 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.199 to do with like a concert venue in our city, 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.880 and they wanted us to go over this town hall 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:46.800 meeting about it because it had to do with our format. 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.159 And we pretended like we were going to do it 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.159 because our general manager asked us to go, but we 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.440 played hooky. We didn't really go attend because who wants 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.960 to go to one of those boring frickin' things? And 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.760 what really happens that changes anything? 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:08.359 Yeah, nothing changes, Although I have seen some really hilarious videos. 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.440 There's some comedians that was popular during COVID, remember. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.439 Yeah, yeah, they'll go to the because anybody can speak 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.879 at these things. You just get like two minutes to 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.119 speak in city council so you can do a stand 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:25.960 up comedy routine. Yeah, the guy out of Texas? Is 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:27.719 that the gay you're talking about? The guy? I think 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:31.000