Speaker 1: Cut booms.
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 in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air every whey The Fifth Hour with me,
Speaker 1: Big Ben and in for Danny g Alex. I used
Speaker 1: to call him Alex the Vegan. I might have to
Speaker 1: call him something else. Give me a Ben from outer space.
Speaker 1: You're like a goblin or something like that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're amazing. I'm still trying to recover from yesterday's podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll get a lot of blowback from the
Speaker 1: Malard militia on that. What of that?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: What were you you're doing on that podcast? Let them
Speaker 1: I loved it. That was great, Thank you, Bren. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know what on that road.
Speaker 3: We should find a new nickname because I remember, and
Speaker 3: unfortunately I know that we did this because of your
Speaker 3: health condition. But I called you big gall bladder. And
Speaker 3: I loved the same for it because it's great, you know.
Speaker 3: I just love how we taken something that was life
Speaker 3: threatening but turned into something almost enlightening and like fun
Speaker 3: because it changed a lot of your health perspectives and everything.
Speaker 3: We got to think of something cool, like otherworldly ty.
Speaker 1: Shirt or something. I don't know, we'll find something, all right.
Speaker 1: If anybody has the suggestion, send that into the mail bag,
Speaker 1: which is what we're going to start here in a second,
Speaker 1: and you can contact this on the mail bag every
Speaker 1: Sunday as long as we have this podcast, and we
Speaker 1: do it on Sundays, we have the mail bag, you
Speaker 1: can send it Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com,
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com and send your
Speaker 1: name if you want credit on the show, and we'll
Speaker 1: read some of these random questions. We haven't open Ohio. Aw,
Speaker 1: so we need to start this properly. Yes, it's all right,
Speaker 1: Thank you the great Ohio. AL appreciate that as always.
Speaker 1: So these are actual emails, some actual listeners to the show.
Speaker 1: And I was debated there was I had like three
Speaker 1: or four that were of the conspiracy theory kind of email.
Speaker 1: I thought, well, when I originally put this together back
Speaker 1: on Friday, I was like, well, I probably won't use
Speaker 1: these because you know, you're more like the vegan guy
Speaker 1: and all that. But but after yesterday's podcast, I think
Speaker 1: that it's required that we go down this road. I
Speaker 1: think that we have to go down this road, and
Speaker 1: so we will. Mike writes in and he said, guys,
Speaker 1: I want to know what you guys thought of a
Speaker 1: Simpsons episode being pulled from television after President Trump's assassination
Speaker 1: attempt because it paralleled the incident. What do you guys
Speaker 1: think about that? Well, I don't know anything about this, Alex,
Speaker 1: this particular story, but my initial thought is the Simpsons
Speaker 1: has been on the air for like thirty years, right,
Speaker 1: at least thirty years. Oh, they've they've just thrown so yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, probably closer to forty years. Maybe it is
Speaker 1: forty years. But they've put so many different episodes together,
Speaker 1: so many different things that have taken place there that
Speaker 1: people there is a thing called patternicity, yes, where people
Speaker 1: look for patterns and things that aren't synchronicity, Yes, related
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So I know that's the case,
Speaker 1: but it is wild over the years, how many things
Speaker 1: that The Simpsons has put out there that have turned out.
Speaker 3: To too many be very similar to real life. So well, see,
Speaker 3: I've kind of looked into this a lot. And the
Speaker 3: Matthew Groining guy that's like the creator of it and everything,
Speaker 3: he trips me out because there's been interviews of him
Speaker 3: where he's asked pretty blatantly about future predictions or just
Speaker 3: kind of it's called like you're basically trying to lower
Speaker 3: the sense of shock factor, right, So there's a term
Speaker 3: for it where you put in front of people it'll
Speaker 3: come back to me. But they basically said that The
Speaker 3: Simpsons was created originally to be a fun show, a
Speaker 3: cartoon for families to enjoy, but since it's fame and
Speaker 3: it's following got so massive desensitized there, they wanted to
Speaker 3: use it to not only desensitize, but to predictively program
Speaker 3: individuals into what's coming because of mass belief and just
Speaker 3: basically creating a lifestyle behind it that it brings it
Speaker 3: to life. So per example, there's a thing called the
Speaker 3: Mendela effect, and so Mendela back in the day, there
Speaker 3: was this huge thing where everybody woke up and called
Speaker 3: the news station and was like, what happened to Mandela?
Speaker 1: What happened to him.
Speaker 3: We heard he died, like I heard he got shot everything,
Speaker 3: And the news station's freaking out. They're like, we don't
Speaker 3: know anything. So they're looking into it that Mendela was fine,
Speaker 3: he was just at home. But there was so many people,
Speaker 3: it was like hundreds, if not thousands, that all had
Speaker 3: the same quote unquote of him dying, and so they
Speaker 3: all woke up and specifically said they remember it happening,
Speaker 3: but they can't explain it. So to me, I have
Speaker 3: this theory that The Simpsons is almost like that, but
Speaker 3: more of a futuristic side, where they're predictively programming you
Speaker 3: into telling you, in a sense, what is to come.
Speaker 3: And so there was like this one scene I'll remember
Speaker 3: that you're referencing with Trump where he's like going down
Speaker 3: an escalator. Oh he's waving, dude, and there's like this
Speaker 3: kid holding a sign and the same freaking thing plays
Speaker 3: out scene for scene, and it's like, dude, is it
Speaker 3: just telling us what's to come? Are they showing us
Speaker 3: what they'll make? I don't know the specifics, but to me,
Speaker 3: in an eternalized conversation, it really seems to me that
Speaker 3: there is some kind of validity there of maybe either
Speaker 3: they're predicting, showing or creating, because I do believe in
Speaker 3: the Boogeyman concept, Ben, or sitting in something so long
Speaker 3: and you believe it so much, Bloody Mary, bloody Mary,
Speaker 3: bloody Mary. You almost believe it's real because your mind
Speaker 3: gives it so much life. That's why I always say,
Speaker 3: be careful what you say. You could give it life,
Speaker 3: would doubt, Ben, there is something there with the Simpsons.
Speaker 3: And I even know this all references how you said
Speaker 3: they pulled an episode. There's a big show on HBO
Speaker 3: called The Boys. Have you heard of it? I have none, Okay,
Speaker 3: So it's a superhero show. And basically they just released
Speaker 3: a statement saying for the season finale, something along what
Speaker 3: happened to Trump happens in the season finale. So they
Speaker 3: just want to let everybody know it's all satire. It's
Speaker 3: it's just a show. It's not real or show. It's
Speaker 3: just wild. How so many things correlate. And I still
Speaker 3: will say this, Ben, I don't know if you've touched
Speaker 3: on it on the show. I don't think that was
Speaker 3: real at all. The whole thing that happened with Trump.
Speaker 3: I think it was set up, It was a plot. Everything,
Speaker 3: it was just it just doesn't seem real. Oh, Ben,
Speaker 3: how I'll just tell you this, who are the last
Speaker 3: two presidents to get shot at? Are they still alive?
Speaker 3: I'll just rest my case. It just doesn't seem because
Speaker 3: he's raising his fist and he's standing there like a martyr,
Speaker 3: like they just really want this guy to be the guy.
Speaker 1: I feel they're trying anything to make him that dude.
Speaker 3: Well, if it was so, you think that Trump people shot, No,
Speaker 3: I think it's deeper. I think the people who are
Speaker 3: in this, like the ones who choose presidents and stuff,
Speaker 3: I think they really want everybody to get behind him.
Speaker 3: That's why they chose Biden, made him just k in
Speaker 3: front of us. I think it's because where the world
Speaker 3: is going, Ben, they need somebody quote unquote crazy that'll
Speaker 3: do all this. That's why the Supreme Court passed that
Speaker 3: crap that literally makes him a king. Now he doesn't
Speaker 3: have to like there's no repercussions for shit he can do.
Speaker 3: It's just fucking wild how they're setting everything up to
Speaker 3: basically have it to where shit can pop off once
Speaker 3: he gets into office and everybody will back him and
Speaker 3: say like you know trauma is like, dude, I don't know,
Speaker 3: just from what I've seen listen to and see just
Speaker 3: heard from in front of us and went back and
Speaker 3: watched it. I don't know, Ben, Like, how do you
Speaker 3: set all that up and missed? Like, I don't know, dude,
Speaker 3: it's just it's too weird. The play out, how he
Speaker 3: showed himself secret Service reaction, people in the crowd.
Speaker 1: It just seemed like a scene to me. I don't know, personally,
Speaker 1: I can't prove it. Of course it was a scene. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I I'll leave that. He'll be on your own
Speaker 1: ar on that. I will. That's fine, that's why. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going there. But you mentioned the Mandela effective.
Speaker 1: I have used a lot over the years. It's a
Speaker 1: similar concept. There was this movie back in the nineteen
Speaker 1: sixties called The Man that Shot Liberty Van Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: And the line in that was when the legend becomes
Speaker 1: the fact, you print the legend right. And it's the
Speaker 1: same a concept. When enough people believe something, you go
Speaker 1: with this like the tinker Bell effect is another way
Speaker 1: to say that, right, that if people believe that fairies
Speaker 1: are real, fairies are real, right, I mean, if enough
Speaker 1: people put force into it. I mean even history Ben,
Speaker 1: who's his story? How do we know everything's real? We don't,
Speaker 1: all right, Next up on the mail bag, Well, this
Speaker 1: is right in your wheelhouse. And I wasn't going to
Speaker 1: use this one, but this is from Dave in southern California.
Speaker 1: He says, Hey guys, he said hi Danny, but he
Speaker 1: didn't know you were here. But this is better for
Speaker 1: you than Danny Alex. He says, UCLA is going to
Speaker 1: be they're trying to build a plant filled rooftop garden.
Speaker 1: He said, he read this this week. Okay, design specifically
Speaker 1: for psychedelic assisted therapy sessions at UCLA. Okay, would you
Speaker 1: guys be interested in this? Now? This was for me
Speaker 1: and Danny, not for you. It sounds like you've already
Speaker 1: taken part in some of these psychedelic assistant therapy sessions.
Speaker 3: Yes, and you enjoyed your time doing thousand percent. I
Speaker 3: think personally, not only this is a great idea, but
Speaker 3: there's been studies done now that are actually clinically done,
Speaker 3: studies with backing from majors colleges and actually different type
Speaker 3: of big known like I think even what is it
Speaker 3: called Kaiser's getting on this, but they're testing on people
Speaker 3: with like schizophrenia, they're testing on people with PTSD, they're
Speaker 3: testing with people with multiple personality disorders. Like there's so
Speaker 3: many things that they're testing these on. It's almost like
Speaker 3: it's opening some part of the cerebral in our brains
Speaker 3: that's letting us be more interjecting and opening to different
Speaker 3: things or healing certain things. So to me, I think
Speaker 3: it's the same concept of marijuana. I know, marijuana was
Speaker 3: illegalized and all that stuff because you know, the black
Speaker 3: man's gonna write people, but they like try to do
Speaker 3: this whole thing, because if you go back then, it
Speaker 3: was just because of the paper industry was scared of
Speaker 3: hemp could have taken over.
Speaker 1: It's cheaper, it's more durable, et cetera.
Speaker 3: They were terrified of it, and they didn't like how
Speaker 3: the stoners in the seventies and sixties were fighting back
Speaker 3: about like why are we numb? Like where are we
Speaker 3: just peace and love? They hated that crap. So to me,
Speaker 3: I think this is the same concept that since it
Speaker 3: has so much benefits to opening up people's minds and
Speaker 3: healing and having these abilities, people are scared of it.
Speaker 3: And that's why the whole merit. The narrative behind has
Speaker 3: been so negative because we didn't know any better. So
Speaker 3: I truly believe, just like marijuana, it has healing effects,
Speaker 3: but it is a double edged sword. Ben everything is.
Speaker 3: You can eat too much, you could drink too much water.
Speaker 3: I just believe if you do it for healing purposes
Speaker 3: and it's used in a clinical setting or a very
Speaker 3: safe setting, or something that people can be protected by
Speaker 3: or watch or observed kind of like a DD like
Speaker 3: a designated driver for people drinking, I think it can
Speaker 3: be a very enlightening experience if you're open to it,
Speaker 3: and something that could heal you and kind of kill
Speaker 3: your ego to think better of yourself. So I'm all
Speaker 3: for it, dude, I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I I don't know that I love it.
Speaker 1: I would like to see if there's ways. We have
Speaker 1: so many people that listen to our Overnight show that
Speaker 1: have a lot of veterans that were in the military. Yes,
Speaker 1: have really serious problems from stuff they saw that no
Speaker 1: human beings should see in battle, and they're they're really
Speaker 1: in tough shape and they can't sleep, they don't live
Speaker 1: normal lives. If there's some kind of magic mushroom that
Speaker 1: you could take, and that's what they're doing, like clinical trials.
Speaker 1: I'm totally for that. The problem, obviously, there's really no
Speaker 1: way to get around this is you go to places
Speaker 1: like La and San Francisco where there are people who
Speaker 1: are using psychedelic drugs walking around like it's a zombie
Speaker 1: apocalypse bobeah, And that's the that's what people think of
Speaker 1: when they think of those drugs. They think of going
Speaker 1: to San Francisco and you're wandering around and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, here is what is going on. Zombie
Speaker 1: apocalypse movie. Here, this is the Tenderloin district and everyone's
Speaker 1: walking around like they don't know where they are, who
Speaker 1: they are. Yeah, they're fried. I get you.
Speaker 3: And like, there's a big thing now that's called microdosing
Speaker 3: where people will take like a gram or less every
Speaker 3: single day for a week and live an entire week
Speaker 3: basically on a low dosage of a psychedelic adventure. And
Speaker 3: so I've seen that.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 3: And it's just like alcohol though, ben like people can
Speaker 3: drink every day. There's alcoholics and they're function functioning alcoholics.
Speaker 3: I see it with the same concept. But to me,
Speaker 3: I think it's all again about the direction and the
Speaker 3: focus and what you're using it for. So a lot
Speaker 3: of veterans and people who have been through some really
Speaker 3: mind altering and depleting and just disastrous things where you
Speaker 3: literally can't get it out of your head. What if
Speaker 3: it's possible to take something in a controlled environment where
Speaker 3: it makes you face these demons and have this better
Speaker 3: innerstanding of it to move forward from it that you
Speaker 3: were incapable of before. I think that's something at least
Speaker 3: of interest or investment to help people live better lives. Dude, Like,
Speaker 3: That's what I'm about. But again, Ben, you are right,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what we do. There's always going to
Speaker 3: people who harass it or overuse it or abuse it.
Speaker 3: I do know that, But I just think the positivities
Speaker 3: to it and the things that can help are so
Speaker 3: much more invested. And it just comes down to people
Speaker 3: being mature, Ben, like, just no one to do it.
Speaker 3: Don't drink every day. Maybe have it at like a
Speaker 3: wedding or something like, don't trip out on trooms every day,
Speaker 3: get together with good people, go to Joshua Tree and
Speaker 3: do it and just experience something, you know, like it's
Speaker 3: just it's simple to me, you know, I don't think
Speaker 3: it has that crazy go out to the woods.
Speaker 1: All right. Next on the mail bag, we have Reggie.
Speaker 1: He did not say worries from I think Reggie's the
Speaker 1: guy from Detroit that's emailed us a few times. Reggie
Speaker 1: with questions. He says, Ben, I know you love Costco.
Speaker 1: They are now selling emergency food kids that have a
Speaker 1: twenty five year shelf life. And is this something that
Speaker 1: you would be interested in when you go to costcom?
Speaker 1: So Reggie, I, A, I've never heard of that. Be Ah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He says. They have alex, they have pasta, alfredo, teriaki, rice,
Speaker 1: other food dishes that you can make up to one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty servings. Well, what happened? Here's my thing?
Speaker 1: Reggie's like, what happens when you get to you need
Speaker 1: serving one fifty one?
Speaker 2: What do you?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Then say that's it? We're done? Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't. Are you a doomsday pepper guy? You're not.
Speaker 3: So you do not go down there. No, because this
Speaker 3: is simple, Ben. If the entire society the grid crashes,
Speaker 3: no one's surviving. Nobody knows how to forest, Nobody knows
Speaker 3: how to forage. Nobody has like farming a nobody's prepared
Speaker 3: for it, dude, And especially in cities and where we live,
Speaker 3: we're all theft like it's there's no way to survive that.
Speaker 3: And if you want a hermit and live in your
Speaker 3: house for years, to say, how does that sound fun?
Speaker 3: How is that enjoyable? If you're not prepared living off
Speaker 3: grid already and have your own land that's ten twenty
Speaker 3: miles away from all of society, you're not gonna survive.
Speaker 3: And if you try to, it's not gonna be like
Speaker 3: these fun movies, like a quiet place or a zombiepot.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be fun. You're gonna be in hell.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be terrifying. Everybody's gonna lose their shit. There's
Speaker 3: no civil anymore. It's gonna dude. It's just preparing for
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. It's just a propaganda of selling
Speaker 3: you shit you're not gonna use, because trust me, when
Speaker 3: shit pops off like that, Ben, you're not to survive.
Speaker 3: You're not even gonna get to one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: Like you said, it's impossible. You don't know how to
Speaker 3: clean water. You don't know how to prepare yourself from
Speaker 3: radiation client. Like, dude, I just say, if you're gonna
Speaker 3: be like somebody like that Ben, you better do all
Speaker 3: of it right. Like, I don't want to see you
Speaker 3: tip your toes in the radium. Oh yeah, I worked there,
Speaker 3: you know, on the weekends. But I'm gonna be a
Speaker 3: coast to coast hot. You better live and breathe it
Speaker 3: every day, you know what I'm saying. Like, I think
Speaker 3: it's just such a stupid concept. And if you're not
Speaker 3: really doing all of it, don't waste your time. Although, Reggie,
Speaker 3: from what you describe here, like one hundred dollars for
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty meals. If it's not bad, You're
Speaker 3: luck is not bad.
Speaker 1: It's not I mean, forget waiting for an emergency. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a pretty good value, right. I don't think
Speaker 1: it tastes very good. I don't know. Maybe it tastes fine,
Speaker 1: But these are these meals probably where you just had water,
Speaker 1: I would guess, r yes, yes, So what if there's
Speaker 1: no water? What if there's no clean water? You go?
Speaker 1: How do you make your pasta alfredo? If there's no water?
Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do no idea. I want
Speaker 1: my pasta Alfredo. What's wrong with you? Come on, I
Speaker 1: need my Terryoki Rice. Shame on you. I'm just telling you. Ben.
Speaker 3: I'm on TikTok a bunch and I see all these
Speaker 3: doomed Today pressers. They're like, you need to have this generator,
Speaker 3: you need to have this book. Nobody's gonna survive. Okay,
Speaker 3: stop it stop just you're not prepared. Okay, Like stop,
Speaker 3: all right, there you go.
Speaker 1: What is next? It's the mail bag, Alex. We're doing
Speaker 1: coast to coast audition weekend here on the show. I
Speaker 1: think we're doing damn good on this. Ryan from Shrewsbury
Speaker 1: in mass writes in in the Commonwealth says, Hello, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to become a regular emailer to the show.
Speaker 1: I've sent emails before, but this is the first email
Speaker 1: as an engaged man. Wow, congratulatives. Congratulations Ryan. He says,
Speaker 1: I proposed back on July fourth, and it was a
Speaker 1: perfect day in time to propose, and I'm I'm very
Speaker 1: excited for the future. See that's a smart move, because
Speaker 1: you'll never July fourth, You'll never forget. You don't have
Speaker 1: to work unless you're work in radio, and then you
Speaker 1: might be forced to work. Yeah, exactly, But if you
Speaker 1: have a real job outside of the business, you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that, and so you don't work
Speaker 1: on the fourth July. You know what it is? Every year,
Speaker 1: it's always like a big event, and so that's wonderful.
Speaker 1: My niece was actually born on the fourth of July,
Speaker 1: so she'll never have to go to school on her birthday.
Speaker 1: A little kid. She's eight years old, but she'll never
Speaker 1: have to go to school on her birthday. And Ryan said,
Speaker 1: very excited about the future. My question is, how do
Speaker 1: you guys think. Who do you guys think is the
Speaker 1: greatest TV character of all time? I personally think it's
Speaker 1: Tony Tony Sperano or Sporrano. Soprano soprano. I'm confusing him
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, he says, Tony Soprano or Walter White.
Speaker 1: He says, very close. Second, Wow, that's going to Ryan. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm old school. I love like mcgiver. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: I thought mcgiver could fix everything with a Swiss army
Speaker 1: knife and some duct tape. I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Homer Simpson, Yes, very relatable to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Homer Simpson, Right, what about you? Do you consume boo entertainment?
Speaker 1: Alex Is. I don't feel like you consume a lot
Speaker 1: of the entertainment. I don't think this is really in
Speaker 1: your wheelhouse. Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Well, you are correct as to now, this present me
Speaker 3: does not consist of movies, television, any of that stuff.
Speaker 3: I've been very inner growth of inderstanding my own thoughts
Speaker 3: and stuff. Right, but I will tell you through my
Speaker 3: escapade of entertainment watching when I was younger, high school, college,
Speaker 3: et cetera. I'm such a LOYALISTIL kind of like mold
Speaker 3: this question. I love so many of Jim Carrey's roles,
Speaker 3: Like I mean, you can go through any of them,
Speaker 3: from The Mask or from ace Ventura or even when
Speaker 3: he plays what's the one where he's in the Truman Show. Like,
Speaker 3: he has such an interesting ability to become these characters
Speaker 3: that are so engaging to me because it shows the
Speaker 3: ability of depth of being everything right, like no holding back.
Speaker 3: He's like one of a kind like Robin Williams to me.
Speaker 3: So those type of actors and the roles they play,
Speaker 3: they're so iconic to me. I feel like there's just
Speaker 3: something that can't be done again, if that makes sense,
Speaker 3: And there's so many people who try to emulate it.
Speaker 3: It's insane to me. But I think that that's the
Speaker 3: best way to answer it, because I can't think of
Speaker 3: a specific character that really just stands the test of time.
Speaker 3: For me, that's just that above the rest.
Speaker 1: Right, are you? Like you're talking about the the remakes
Speaker 1: of these old like Indiana Jones they've yeah made with
Speaker 1: different characters, or Star Wars. Right. I watched the first
Speaker 1: three episodes of Star Wars and then I haven't seen
Speaker 1: any of them since they're terrible. Now, don't waste your time.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: They're so bad. When Disney bought it, we got out.
Speaker 3: It's bad.
Speaker 1: They went woke, right, it's so bad. Yeah, like Ghostbusters
Speaker 1: another one, you don't need to make a female Ghostbuster.
Speaker 1: Of course nobody watched it, so they lost a ton
Speaker 1: of money.
Speaker 3: But see, like that's what shows me how bad that
Speaker 3: stuff is been is they're literally trying to get you
Speaker 3: from nostalgic reasons and then push in a political agenda
Speaker 3: into you for money. It's like, dude, just make something new.
Speaker 3: I'll go watch something new. Like I just yeah, It's
Speaker 3: the other thing is people go for entertainment. They don't
Speaker 3: want I have no things shoved down the I'm good
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: You just don't need it. Just go there and have
Speaker 1: you know, you think of the movies even before you
Speaker 1: were alive, and the old comedies like in the eighties
Speaker 1: that could never be made.
Speaker 3: Like oh god, yeah, dude, good luck. I mean you
Speaker 3: could even go to recent things like American Pie.
Speaker 1: Good Luck.
Speaker 3: Now that'd be misogynistic and stuff like dude, like what
Speaker 3: happened is this comedy?
Speaker 1: Ben?
Speaker 3: If you can't laugh at yourself, I don't want to
Speaker 3: hear you say one joke in your lifetime, seriously, Like
Speaker 3: that's just crazy to me.
Speaker 1: No, exactly. I agree. Well, the other there's there's a
Speaker 1: couple of problems. I have some friends that work in
Speaker 1: that that ecosystem in Hollywood, and they they tell me,
Speaker 1: they're like, well, listen, it's like the problem is it
Speaker 1: takes a ton of money to make the movies, right,
Speaker 1: So they have to get the budget, so they have
Speaker 1: to prove to the people that invest in the movie
Speaker 1: they're going to make a profit. So the way they
Speaker 1: do that is they go to all these old franchises
Speaker 1: that they know, have been tested and people like them.
Speaker 1: The other problem is they have to they have the
Speaker 1: global audience, right America is the biggest consumer of movies yet,
Speaker 1: but they sell the movies to other countries and to
Speaker 1: get a movie cleared in certain parts that have very
Speaker 1: strict conservative rules, like in parts of the world the
Speaker 1: Middle East or in China, it is a very difficult thing.
Speaker 1: So you can't have anything racy or over the top
Speaker 1: because it will you will not make any money in
Speaker 1: those countries. Right, So there's a lot, a lot of
Speaker 1: spinning plates going on. It's a lot of spinning plates.
Speaker 3: It's too much to worry about, Like why not just
Speaker 3: focus on making a good product, Like that's the stuff
Speaker 3: I care about. I don't care who's the leading actor.
Speaker 3: I don't care if it's a male or female. I
Speaker 3: don't care about the race. I just want a good movie.
Speaker 3: That's all. I want to leave and think about something. So,
Speaker 3: for example, Ben one of the recent movies I've actually
Speaker 3: seen because I just was interested. I don't know how
Speaker 3: much of m Night Shamalama Dingong stuff you've watched. Have
Speaker 3: you ever seen any of his work like the Village
Speaker 3: and different stuff? Signs and stuff like that. No, I
Speaker 3: don't think it has okay, so he kind of has
Speaker 3: like the deeper concepts of things outside of perception.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So we had this new movie called The Watchers, and
Speaker 3: so I wanted to see it because I was fascinated
Speaker 3: of this concept of people trapped in this in the woods,
Speaker 3: in this little house and they're being watched by something.
Speaker 3: So like those type of things I'm into because it
Speaker 3: challenges your perception of what you think is real. And
Speaker 3: also it keeps you at the edge of your seat
Speaker 3: with plot twists and turns, and like, that's the stuff
Speaker 3: I'm into. I don't care about objectives. Just give me
Speaker 3: something to where I leave the movie or the new one,
Speaker 3: the Quiet Place, like the prequel that takes you to
Speaker 3: Day one showing how these aliens come from space, and
Speaker 3: like maybe it's a government. That's the stuff I like.
Speaker 3: Is make me think. I don't want to sit there
Speaker 3: and be like, oh, okay, maybe I'm not a good citizen,
Speaker 3: you know, like a I don't like that, dude, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: Or it feels like I'm of course you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree with you. The mayor of Fulton,
Speaker 1: Mike writes in he says, Conetchiua, Ben and Alex. I'm
Speaker 1: as I am sure you already covered it on an
Speaker 1: earlier episode, but I hope you had a great time
Speaker 1: in Fresno. Ben, I hear it's beautiful this time of
Speaker 1: your Fresno wonderful, that nice heat that never leaves the ground,
Speaker 1: and just you're you're like sitting in a rotisseri. You're
Speaker 1: like a chicken rotating around in fresh No. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Mike says, I probably should have waited until Danny g
Speaker 1: was back for this question, but I'll ask anyway. Are
Speaker 1: you guys fans of two D or three D animation?
Speaker 1: Pixar movies are great and all, but I prefer more traditional.
Speaker 3: Two D anime. Wow, Mike, and perfect question for me,
Speaker 3: unless it's come on then hear the anime SEMPI, I
Speaker 3: know you know this, Come on, well, are you.
Speaker 1: Still in the anime World's still your jam? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: I would say. I like his take.
Speaker 3: I think that personally, I prefer hand drawn animation over
Speaker 3: digital tron like all this stuff on websites and stuff now,
Speaker 3: because I feel it's really authentic and you can see
Speaker 3: the human element to it. So I do see his
Speaker 3: belief in two D. It's more simplistic, it's more human,
Speaker 3: and it's more real because of the time and effort.
Speaker 3: So for somebody to make a show back then, Ben,
Speaker 3: it took weeks, dude, weeks of drawing, if not months,
Speaker 3: And now they can do it in a week because
Speaker 3: of how easy it is to consist this stuff. And
Speaker 3: so to me, like it's like the whole concept of
Speaker 3: movies in parlay, this is the last one. It just
Speaker 3: takes away the authenticity, the human element and the true
Speaker 3: nature touch of being individualistic, like unique. It's it's getting
Speaker 3: watered down. So that's why I've kind of moved away
Speaker 3: from anime because it's just become popularized here in this show.
Speaker 1: Oh you have all yeah news, I know tough. You
Speaker 1: were like fully into it. You were all you were
Speaker 1: going to anime convention. I was hosting stuff. I know, Yes,
Speaker 1: from anime.
Speaker 3: I just know when to stop gambling. Like I've never
Speaker 3: had an issue in Vegas where I'm up a thousand,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh wit, no, I'm good, Like this is
Speaker 3: more than I should win. I'm walking away. So it's
Speaker 3: like the same with anime. COVID changed everything Hollywood got
Speaker 3: invested when I start seeing anime shows now like Crunchy Role,
Speaker 3: which is basically the Netflix of anime, having their own
Speaker 3: award show and having like Megan the Stallion like I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good. I don't want to be PC.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be Hollywood. That's why anime was dope.
Speaker 3: It's because it was a niche. It was something nobody liked.
Speaker 3: But now that everybody likes it, Like the stupid superhero movies.
Speaker 3: When I was in high school, Ben, like you getting
Speaker 3: picked on for wearing a superhero shirt. Now those same
Speaker 3: guys are taking their kids wearing Captain America's shirts.
Speaker 1: I hate that shit.
Speaker 3: It's like I don't like when it's inclusive because it's popularized. No,
Speaker 3: suck it, go out of here. I want authentic nature
Speaker 3: and truly people doing it because they love it. That's
Speaker 3: why we love radio. People are getting the radio for money, Ben,
Speaker 3: they do it because they love it. That's why it's dope. Yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I hear it.
Speaker 1: It reminds me when I first started in radio in
Speaker 1: the in the Stone Age in San Diego, and they
Speaker 1: hosted Comic Con. Yes every year they still do, but
Speaker 1: comic con was just where the nerds got together. Yes,
Speaker 1: and then people in like big entertainment companies realized, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, this is an audience that will buy our product,
Speaker 1: and so then they commercialized it and made it this
Speaker 1: massive conglomerate. It's it's kind of like what we're dealing
Speaker 1: with in sports. I know you're not a sports guy,
Speaker 1: even though you're you're one of the big big shots
Speaker 1: in boxst radio, but it's what we deal with in
Speaker 1: our sports, where it was just you know, mom and
Speaker 1: pop businesses that owned they were mom and pop owned teams.
Speaker 1: It was no nerd territory. It was all jocks in
Speaker 1: the field of the game. Now it's it's analytics, it's nerds.
Speaker 1: Its ivy league guys that have taken over and hijacked it,
Speaker 1: and it's it's an invasive species, is what it is.
Speaker 3: Then you even talked about it like or I know
Speaker 3: it was mentioned before and other things. It's like, now,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, we're WNBA fanatics and we're all
Speaker 3: about it all of a sudden, what.
Speaker 1: Kind of bullshit is that?
Speaker 3: And now there are all these shows and hosts talking
Speaker 3: about Oh, you know, about three years ago, I knew
Speaker 3: she was, what the you don't even know who she is? Like,
Speaker 3: I just it's the same shit, Ben, It gets into everything.
Speaker 3: It just pisses me off.
Speaker 1: It's like God's not being fake to be accepted be
Speaker 1: you dude, Oh yeah, that blows me away. There are
Speaker 1: guys I know, I've known in radio for twenty years
Speaker 1: that have just slayed the WNBA what terrible it is,
Speaker 1: or just ignored it. And now I hear them and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what am I listening to? Like they're like
Speaker 1: breaking these games down, like people are actually care about
Speaker 1: them and know who these teams are and these player
Speaker 1: other than Kaitlyn Clark. I will give Caitlyn clarker due.
Speaker 1: She's sure a very well known female basketball player. Nobody
Speaker 1: knows ninety nine percent of these other players. And yet
Speaker 1: I'm hearing on my sports radio people breaking it down
Speaker 1: like this, we're doing broadcasting. We're not doing We're narrow casting.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, that you're doing narrow casting when
Speaker 1: you're doing it, it's because I don't understand. I do
Speaker 1: not get it.
Speaker 3: I'm with you, but I think it's because of the child,
Speaker 3: the media, child of TV and big following TV shows
Speaker 3: all getting on board with it, so everybody feels if
Speaker 3: I don't get on board, I'm a part of the problem.
Speaker 3: Just like everything else in society. When social things happen,
Speaker 3: they feel like they need to be out there. Like
Speaker 3: they weren't even flying on commercials, they were getting their
Speaker 3: own tickets. Ben, the WNBA. Now everybody's like, yeah, they
Speaker 3: need to have their own play. Where were you two
Speaker 3: years ago? Where were you now? You want to fight
Speaker 3: for them because everybody else is back with BLM Ben,
Speaker 3: Everyone's like, oh, let's put a locked out Tuesday posts
Speaker 3: on my Instagram?
Speaker 1: Where were you two years ago? Now?
Speaker 3: Like, I just hate when people follow the bandwagon bend
Speaker 3: because it's not real.
Speaker 1: It's fake. You show me who you are.
Speaker 3: That's why Again with the anime scene, I kept seeing
Speaker 3: these fake fans come up to me like, oh, I
Speaker 3: love your animal you show you don't even watch anime.
Speaker 3: Let's stop it.
Speaker 1: How do you really feel? How do you I feel good?
Speaker 2: Ben?
Speaker 1: Thank you for try to let yourself go a little
Speaker 1: bit out. Thank you. Let it rip. I We'll do
Speaker 1: a few more on the mail bag. Alf in the
Speaker 1: powder room says, gentlemen, have you ever in the light
Speaker 1: or dark? Either? Sat down to take a number two,
Speaker 1: bare ass on the seat seat lid, presuming that it
Speaker 1: was up, or on the toilet rim because someone left
Speaker 1: the seat up. Also, have you ever been clothed attempting
Speaker 1: to sit down on aforementioned toilet to put your shoes on,
Speaker 1: thinking that the lid was closed and you actually almost
Speaker 1: fell in? So, he says, to summarize a bare ass
Speaker 1: on seat down, be bare ass on rim seat up
Speaker 1: or closed cloth on a toilet close on toilet seat
Speaker 1: thinking lid was down. Wow, so uh yeah, I have
Speaker 1: I see I would be the one for me. I've
Speaker 1: sat down on the toilet thinking the lid was down,
Speaker 1: and much to my surprise, it was. It was not
Speaker 1: he says, I'm asking ALP says, I'm asking for a friend.
Speaker 1: And none of these events have ever happened to me
Speaker 1: when getting up in the middle of the night to
Speaker 1: listen to the Ben Maller Show. Of course not of course,
Speaker 1: not understandable. Yeah, any of any of those problems there
Speaker 1: with the toilet I'm trying.
Speaker 3: To think because I'm like the weird guy who thinks
Speaker 3: like putting just a roll like a four plies of
Speaker 3: toilet paper on a seat protects me from germs. I
Speaker 3: don't know why. It's like that makes no sense to me.
Speaker 3: But I have done that before where I'm so tired
Speaker 3: and I go in there and sit and I share
Speaker 3: a house like well, you know, with my sister and
Speaker 3: it bought one for my mother living and stuff. So
Speaker 3: like there's been times where I'll forget to put the
Speaker 3: lid down and you know, you get scolded and.
Speaker 1: Stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, so I've like I've never fell into a toilet,
Speaker 3: but I have had those moments where like it's just
Speaker 3: like I get a download and just like my ringing
Speaker 3: in my ear and I'm bare asked about to go
Speaker 3: in the shower, so I just sit down on the
Speaker 3: toilet on the top. Let it just sit there kind
Speaker 3: of like cross like I'm about to be a statue painter.
Speaker 3: And I just think to myself, So, yeah, I've done
Speaker 3: that before, but never fallen in or never you know,
Speaker 3: thankfully myself.
Speaker 1: All right, Fred Fred and Phoenix's Ben and Ben and Alex.
Speaker 1: We lost Richard Simmons and doctor Ruth on the on
Speaker 1: the same day last weekend, and nobody really talked about
Speaker 1: them because of what happened with President Trump. Do you
Speaker 1: have any favorite memories of these two here? So I
Speaker 1: would think these are before your time, Alex. I do
Speaker 1: know both those.
Speaker 3: I know that she was the one that had like
Speaker 3: the accent and giving like advice about sex and different
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, she's an old Jewish woman, yeah, Germany who
Speaker 1: was like I read a oh bit on doctor Ruth
Speaker 1: that she was during World War Two. She was like
Speaker 1: a sniper. Yeah, look that up. I don't think I
Speaker 1: believe I read that my accurately. Yeah, and she you know,
Speaker 1: her family had to escape Germany because the Germans didn't
Speaker 1: like the Jews and so uh anyway, so she, yeah,
Speaker 1: she was like a sniper, and then she came a
Speaker 1: sex a transition, you know. She she became famous in radio.
Speaker 3: Did you know That's what I heard, like late night
Speaker 3: over with callers and stuff, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: She had sex advice late at night and that's where
Speaker 1: she became a star, and then crossed over into television.
Speaker 1: And then Richard Simmons when I was a kid, all
Speaker 1: these yeah, yeah, he was a very feminine fitness. Yes,
Speaker 1: did a lot of video VHS tapes and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: he was for his time.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Wow, both both of these were tremendous characters. I wonder
Speaker 1: if they ever met. I wonder if Richard Simmons and
Speaker 1: doctor rug I'd say no, I'd say no, I did.
Speaker 1: I told my I told my wife when Richard Simmons
Speaker 1: died that he spent as far as I know, most
Speaker 1: of his life constantly working out, eating well right, worrying
Speaker 1: about fitness and all that. And my dad, who passed
Speaker 1: away back in twenty twenty one, early twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: did none of those things and only lived two years less.
Speaker 1: So I I mean, you know what, I didn't really
Speaker 1: believe working out too much. Yeah, didn't eat all that healthy,
Speaker 1: and yet they still lived about the same life. Wow.
Speaker 3: It really comes down to jeanetics and the type of
Speaker 3: food you eat and what's inside of it. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Last one's Zach in Ohio. He's offered to host the
Speaker 1: Mallard Meet and greet at a future What a copy
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, He's got to follow. Now, you
Speaker 1: were not with us last week, Alex, So he gives
Speaker 1: a recap. He says, the first incident of me exposing
Speaker 1: myself to one of my wife's blood related family members
Speaker 1: was on her his wife has a identical twin. Wait,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what Yeah, yeah, his wife has an identical twin.
Speaker 1: If I remember the story Zach was telling us, He's like,
Speaker 1: it was late. It was late. He didn't realize his
Speaker 1: sister was at the house. He went to the I
Speaker 1: think he went to the bathroom maker or whatever, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and his twin and his wife's oh my god. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he said, she never told me her twin was coming over. However,
Speaker 1: the second time was on me. It was my fault,
Speaker 1: Zach says. What he says, So the day after I
Speaker 1: presented my my penis to her sister, her mother, my
Speaker 1: mother in law, whom has a key to our townhouse,
Speaker 1: was supposed to come by and pick up our dogs.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he Zach then says, his wife, Sarah was
Speaker 1: going out of town for the weekend to stay at
Speaker 1: her sister's house in Cayoga Falls in Ohio. There and
Speaker 1: I had I had back to back events at the bar.
Speaker 1: He's a big, big shot. He manages a big bar
Speaker 1: there in Columbus. And he says, as Zac says, and
Speaker 1: I was going to be putting in fourteen hours for
Speaker 1: both Friday and Saturday. I was informed I forgot. After
Speaker 1: she left, I took an early afternoon nap, naked, of course,
Speaker 1: on the couch. At around three pm, I was woken
Speaker 1: by a gentle nudge on the shoulder. Oh God, by
Speaker 1: my sweet mama in law. She said, Zach, I'm here
Speaker 1: to pick up taffy. Do you want me to get
Speaker 1: you some shorts? Zach now says there's only her dad,
Speaker 1: uncle and grandma now that have not seen his twig
Speaker 1: and berries there, So.
Speaker 3: Oh that's from Zach. Well one good family barbecue. You
Speaker 3: cannoll get all three in the night?
Speaker 1: So wow about that, Zach Man, oh man, get a
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: What I'm wonder bed, Like what kind of evil doings
Speaker 3: could like identical twins get into, Like really think about that,
Speaker 3: Like if you look so similar, you could literally wife
Speaker 3: swap and nobody would know, Like if you really wanted
Speaker 3: to do it, Like, how would you tell the difference
Speaker 3: is there? What if they're like aneurysms are the same,
Speaker 3: the way they talks the same, Like I've been seeing
Speaker 3: so many things of these studies, how identical twins can
Speaker 3: finish each other's sentences, like they think the same. Like
Speaker 3: it's it's kind of wild. To think of the power
Speaker 3: they hold if they really wanted to be evil.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Well, but we might as
Speaker 1: well have to put a ball on this weekend. We
Speaker 1: might as well put a ball on this. That the
Speaker 1: the theory that everyone has an identical twin, that's somewhere
Speaker 1: in the world, there's someone that looks justice You're dog.
Speaker 1: I believe. I believe that. I've seen I've seen people
Speaker 1: that look almost not to me per se, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's somebody out there that looks like me, and
Speaker 1: I feel bad for that person. They're not doing very well.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, no, Sair, I mean, I think there's
Speaker 1: there's definitely I do buy that theory that there's someone
Speaker 1: that you weren't born from the same mother or whatever,
Speaker 1: but there's somebody out there that has a very similar or.
Speaker 3: Sat It has to like. I mean, I've played enough
Speaker 3: video games when I was a kid. With your customization
Speaker 3: for characters, there's only so many options. Eventually you're gonna
Speaker 3: run into a character that looks like yours. I have
Speaker 3: no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll leave it. There been a fun weekend. Either,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the coast to coast job or the
Speaker 1: podcast will be canceled. I don't know, but either way,
Speaker 1: it's been fun. Alex, thank you your podcast. How can
Speaker 1: people find you and follow you on social media all
Speaker 1: that stuff if you want.
Speaker 3: Yes, so just look me up on anything Shallow Oceans podcast.
Speaker 3: The catchphrase is so simple in a world that seems
Speaker 3: so vast, it's really not as deep as you think.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna actually reach out the coast of ghast too, Ben.
Speaker 3: Why not let's have some fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's make some make some magic. Absolutely all right,
Speaker 1: have a wonderful rest of your Sunday, and we will
Speaker 1: have a full week of shows, no days off, no
Speaker 1: schedule days officely so I'll be back starting tonight eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock in the West, two am early Monday in the East,
Speaker 1: and I'll be with you all week on the overnight.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful Sunday. We'll talk to you next week
Speaker 1: on the podcast and tonight on the radio.