WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Mailbag Fun 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:01.680 Cut booms. 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.600 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:09.400 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.720 of the old Republic, a sole fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.720 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:17.680 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:18.560 Wow. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.520 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:29.560 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:36.040 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahlor 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.280 and in for the Flying Hawaiian Danny G Radio. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.680 We've got my buddy Alex Tyshirt, better known in my 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.720 world as Alex le Vegan, a fellow Inner Minute Faster. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.600 We are both members of the cult. Yes, and we've 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.880 talked about that a fair amount. But we're back at 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.880 it again and the Sunday Podcast on this tenth day 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.280 of March all about out the mail bag. But before 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.640 we get to the mailbag, we have to celebrate National 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:11.880 Landline Telephone Day because today is National Landline Telephone Day, 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:17.319 a big day's At one point, the phone company's made 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.840 so much money off those landline phones, right, that was 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.959 how they made their money. Yes, how many people have 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.800 landline phones? I don't have a landline? No, do you 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.000 does your does your mom have a We. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:29.080 Have nothing at the house. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.600 Yeah. But you know, if I remember when they when 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.800 the cell phone took over, they were like, well, if 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.800 there's an earthquake, the cell phones won't work and your 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.880 landline and it's a Yeah. It's also a terrible that 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.560 it is National ranch Day, which is a terrible day. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.280 The devil's blood well, a day to celebrate the demon 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.480 ranch dressing, which is absolutely horrific. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.720 I'm getting the vibrant not a ranch guy, ben uh. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:01.760 I made that pretty clear over the years, my disdain 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:07.400 for the rotting ranch addressing. Not not a fan. And 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:13.320 what else is it? Today's a National Pack your Lunch Day? Wow? Okay, yeah, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.639 it's a National pack your lunch Day. That's always a 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:20.600 big day. Check your batteries day, important, big day of 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.160 my house. Yeah. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.360 So some of the dopey holidays, so many just stacking 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:27.560 on every day. It's crazy. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:33.760 Every day is a dopey holidays. National Pretzel Sunday not 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.239 to be confused with National Pretzel Day, but its National 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.720 Prestel Sunday Pretzel Sunday today. So let's get to the 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.680 mail bag. These are actual questions by actual listeners to 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:50.760 the show, and here we go, here we go, here we. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:04.200 Go. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.240 Yes, all right, So the first one thanks to ohio 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:11.200 a who So anyway, the first one comes from Kevin, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.480 who is in Kansas, and Kevin says, dear Ben and 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.680 Alex Ben, I enjoyed your discussion on the radio about 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.400 Joe DiMaggio and how you snuck out through the kitchen 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.560 when you went to his hotel, or when he snuck 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.680 out through the kitchen when you went to see him 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.240 at his hotel in San Diego to get an autograph. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.080 I've never had to worry about doing something like that. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.920 But as you've become more famous and recognized, Kevin says, 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.760 have you ever had to sneak out of someplace to 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.320 avoid your fans or do you find yourself planning a 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.160 quick escape route when you go out in public. Well, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:55.560 I'm flattered, Kevin that you think the overnight radio guy 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:02.480 has to is being treated like Taylor Swift. I'm I'm 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:07.320 flattered that that that is the case. But yeah, fortunately 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.280 I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good in that department. Although 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.360 I do love that quote, and I've used this quite 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.600 a bit. It's an old Danny Kay quote. It's old 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.760 actor about sunglasses, and it says, the definition of a 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.680 celebrity is one who works their entire life to be famous, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:31.560 to be known, and then goes through backstreets wearing dark 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.080 glasses to avoid anyone recognizing them. Right, That's pretty much. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.200 But that's that's almost a dated quote because it's like 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.560 in the TikTok social media world, I don't see a 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:43.400 lot of people. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.480 Wearing dark glasses trying to be recognized, yeah anymore. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.960 Yeah, Like I'm guessing Taylor Swift probably does that when 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.320 she's out. She's not, you know, doing things. But the 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.240 only time I've had to get away from people, well, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:57.760 I shouldn't say the only time. The only time I 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:03.120 remember right now was the famous story at a Mallard 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:08.240 meet and greet in Boston in twenty nineteen. It was 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.040 in I think it was April of twenty nineteen, and 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:16.680 I was doing some filling stuff on Wei in Boston, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.800 and I went back there to do some shows and 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.240 I had a Mallard meet and greet. We did it 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:27.640 at the Cask and Flagging, which is to paint the picture, Alex, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.800 it's this really old bark is everything in Boston's Old 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.400 right across from the historic Finway poc oh poc where 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.360 the Red Sox play, and we had a great turnout. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.520 We had people from all over the New England States. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:43.159 David from Winter Park, Florida, I drove up from Florida. Wow, 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.160 for a two hour meet and greet. We had a 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.560 guy from Toronto that was there, but one of the 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:54.400 gentlemen who was a little over the top, bombastic and 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.839 in your face. And I liked the guy, but he's 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:04.520 he's a character. Wayne from Southey, Okay, Wayne, typical stereotype 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:11.280 guy from Southeye, Wayne, you know, just a playful, in 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:15.880 your face kind of guy. Southee is where Whitey Bulger's from, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.359 the famous Mobster. We talked about Mobster for this weekend. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.719 Whitey Bulger from south Man. Wayne's not the mob but 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.719 he's just a typical Boston guy. And he hadn't he 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.000 hadn't had a drink in seven years, the famous sound 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.719 by I hadn't had a drink in seven years. I 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.880 did it for Mallor And so he starts drinking and 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.440 buying me drinks and he's getting upset. I'm not drinking 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.280 enough because I'm trying to socialize. I'm an introvert, as 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:41.720 you know, and I'm trying to go out there and 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.440 I'm not a blabber mouth, but I'm trying to be 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.479 polite and people. People took time out of their lives 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.000 to come say hello to me. It's kind of a 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.200 cool thing, you know. I feel like that's a big thing. 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.080 The most important thing we have is our time, and 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:53.960 so for somebody to do that, it's a very important thing. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.359 So I try to be nice and hello and greet people. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.720 So Wayne, you know, he thought me and him were 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.440 now we were best friends, you know, because we've we've 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.640 had beers and we we were just buddies, you know, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.760 from the radio. And it was just it was just craziness. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.600 And so anyway, as the night went on, the event 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.280 was kind of winding down from my end my commitment 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.560 to be there. I had said I was going to 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.160 be there X amount of time, and we were getting 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.640 close to the end of the time and I was 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.440 going to remain for a little bit because there were 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.360 still people there that wanted to hang out. And I 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.080 was like, all right, that's fine. And you know, I'm 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.440 not the party guy. But Wayne's like, hey, I got 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.520 a night, let's go bar hopping. He wanted, and he 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.440 thought he was going to take me, right, I put 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.640 my my my goodie bag or maybe that's my my 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.360 my briefcase, whatever I had, and we just go bar hopping, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.520 you know, that party of the night away, right, And 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.520 so he's got this whole plant. Then it's like him, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.720 me and a couple of the other listeners that were there, 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.800 Blind Scott, there was the guy from Toronto, this couple 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.120 from Maine, and so we were all gonna go borropping, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.440 and so Wayne, I'll never forget it. It's a funny, 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.280 funny thing, Alex. So Wayne says, hold on, I gotta 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.600 go to the bathroom, right, Okay, So he goes to 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.280 the back where the bathroom is. The cask and Flagging 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.160 actually was kind of in the middle, but we were 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.440 in the front and so it looked like the back. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.400 And so he goes to the bathroom and then I 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.800 had this epiphany. I was like, this is my chance, 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.160 this is my jail. So I grabbed a couple of 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.920 the listeners. I said, let's get out of here before 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:36.040 before Wayne. Wayne gets out of the bathroom, and we 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.080 we took off We didn't even know where we were going. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.000 We just like started walking. Amazing. We had blind Scott 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:46.959 was leading us, uh you know, blind guy leading us. Smart. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.360 we didn't know. We had a guy from Toronto, a 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.760 couple from Maine. You know, they don't know the geography 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.680 of bo and so we we started walking around. We 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.440 actually went down. It was funny. We went to a hotel. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:03.079 This guy, Vinnie, a friend who was a listener. He 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.240 told me the hotel he was working out in Boston. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.559 So we walked. We saw the sign on you know, skyscraper, 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.480 big hotel had the name of the hotels, like a 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.680 Marriott or whatever. So we walked down to the hotel 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.440 and hung out with Vinnie for a little bit. So 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.040 it was an interesting night. But that's the only time 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.040 I've had to really get out of anywhere, and I 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.840 didn't necessarily have to get out of there. But yeah, 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.520 I'm not planning to go through kitchens like show Imagio 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.880 when I was when I was younger, trying to get 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.440 his autograph and he stuck through the kitchen at a 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.360 five star hotel in San Diego. Now you're a TikTok guy, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:39.400 You're a big social media influence. Yes, and have you 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.840 ever had to sneak out of anywhere? Maybe he didn't 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.840 have money for the bill. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.280 I will say, I'm very responsible and I'll make sure 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.480 that I can afford the things that I go to. 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.880 But the thing that's funny is so when the anime 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.800 stuff was really popping off, So this was probably two 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.839 years ago now or see me about a year ago 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.560 with SEMPI and everything. So the trickling effect we had 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.840 from we Nation and the crazy fanom we were growing, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.840 and it took us out to Texas. We went out 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.200 to Pittsburgh. We were going to all these events because 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.199 we're getting invited. I always had the recognition. People knew 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.480 my content, the show, they loved my stuff. So everybody 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.079 was really cool. We had great times. We would go 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.200 to karaoke out in Texas. We were singing, dancing and drinking. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.000 It's like soju. I don't know if you ever had 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.280 soju ben, but be careful. That stuff is deadly. It 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.960 tastes like a Capri sun, but it'll get you completely 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.720 fucked up, so just be careful about it. And so 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.440 I never had issues, right, but then when I started 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.880 doing SEMPI and started em seeing these events and being 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.520 the host and hosting these cosplay events. The anime community 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.560 has a lot of interesting people. They're all full of love, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.440 but a lot of them are more introverted and just 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.160 not sociably acceptable. You could say a lot of them 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.000 smell that's like a big standard in his like deodoran stuff. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.880 So I've never had a weird situation where I've ever 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.199 had to like duck out or go to a bathroom 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.080 or hide. But there have been situations where I'll get 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.280 so caught up with these combos with people because they 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.960 love my stuff that it actually like almost makes me 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.880 late to go to the next stage or something. So 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.400 I'd be like, oh, yeah, like come over here and 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.079 I'll introduce them to. What I would do is I 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.040 call it the pawnoff. So I would go to a 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.120 booth where I knew some of the vendors and they 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:09.720 had great stuff. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:10.840 I was like, Hi, I just met this guy. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.400 This is like Carrie and Caitlin or whatever it is, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.240 and I wanted to introduce you guys so they can 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:16.599 see some of your stuffy're time about. I got to 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.640 go to the stage, So I would do the pawn off. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.400 But I never had to duck, dip, dodge, or any 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.559 of the d's from dodgeball. So thankful these none of 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.760 the Thankfully, it was all good. Yeah, it was all good. 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.080 But a did move. I did have ben is for 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.959 when we would do some meet and greets. There's a 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.240 place out here in the City of Industry. It's called Frankinson's. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.480 It's like a giant convention area every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.720 and it's like over two hundred vendors. They sell trading cards, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.360 anime collectibles, sports cards, you name it. It's like a 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.920 giant place that's like a little mini convention. And so 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.559 what we would do is every time we would set 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.080 up a meet and greet, we would set it up 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.720 there because then at least it's a public setting. We're 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.559 all there enjoying ourselves and then say if it was 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.319 weird or if somebody was just a little bit off 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.040 or whatever it is, it was really easy to leave 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.120 because we'd be like, all right, guys, we had to 0:11:58.120 --> 0:11:59.960 go to record a podcast or some content or anything. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.160 So we would set it up to have an easy out. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.120 But thankfully, again, I never had to do a Taylor 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.360 Swift or duck you you know, in a kitchen or 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:06.840 something like that. 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.360 So no, no, I got Well, you mentioned Dodgeball and 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.400 one of my favorite quotes from Dodgeball patches o'halan. If 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:13.760 you can dodge a wrench. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:14.200 You dodgeball. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.120 It's a great quote. I love it. Dog quote. That's true, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.520 that is true, dodger wrench. That's not wrong, it's it's 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.920 factually correct. It's a factually correct statement. And I think 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.760 also in Dodgeball the quote that's a bold move cotton. Yes, 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.839 that's also yes, bold move cut. There's a couple of 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.520 big quotes that came out of it. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:35.240 It's a great movie. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.600 Am I wrong? Am I am? I being an old 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.200 man saying I don't think the movies these days are 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.760 as quotable. No they're not. Yeah, okay, trust so you 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.160 agree with you? Oh movie, young guy? 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.880 Yeah, Ben, seventies, eighties, nineties and some early two thousands 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.319 are best of the cinematography we had. It's crazy to 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.960 say most stuff now is just streaming. It's it's they 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.480 don't want to do movies because Hollywood. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.079 But well, yeah, I and even the streaming stuff is 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:03.600 like is it what? What are There's nothing? Everyone's watching? 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.160 You know what? I mean, like the thing about Dodgeball 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.200 is in those days, you had to go see the 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:12.600 movies because there was not much else. Everything's so spread 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.160 out across the piece of bread that you know, a 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.760 little bit here, a little bit there. But there's no 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.360 communal movies where you have to watch. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.360 There's too many options too, if you think about it, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:25.199 just too much. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.400 Yeah. I can't even stay awake in the movie a 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.360 movie theater. I fall. Do you knock out? Yeah? I do. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.880 My wife last movie I saw was like the Barbie 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.559 movie last year. Okay, w like, let's go see that. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.520 And I said, my deal is always get me a 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.280 popcorn or whatever and I'll, you know, I'll sit through 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.720 the movie. She gives me popcorn and within like ten minutes, 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.240 I'm just no kidding. Yeah, I'm just snoozing. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.120 That's incredible. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.840 Yeah, it's fall asleep like I don't. I'm a terrible 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.600 sleeper too. Really, Yeah, I don't sleep. Well, let's see 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:04.600 what's next, Pierre writes in from Springfield, mass He says 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.880 technology update says I do not know if this is 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.240 a result of the latest Apple iPhone update or if 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.280 this has always been an option, but he says that 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:20.440 on the podcast. Now they have a transcript which is 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:26.040 now available. You can read alongside listening to our podcast. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:27.800 That's kind of cool. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:32.240 AI integration Baby, that's AI my man, the world over 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:33.240 my mind. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.520 Oh yeah, he sent me a screenshot. That's pretty cool. Yes, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.800 that's pretty neat. It's my my bloviating and a Mallord 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.880 monologue is all written down and you can read along. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:51.360 See when I'm watching movies, my wife likes to have captions, right, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.160 get captions. I don't really like it takes away from it. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.280 I want to. I don't want to read it, you know, 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:58.880 I want to. I want to enjoy it. I want 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.880 to let it breathe in my had I want to 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:06.480 read it. I get book. Yeah, exactly exactly What is next? 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.000 Nick in Wisconsin rights and says, hey, Ben and Alex 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.120 when you are traveling, do you rent a car or 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.360 use uber to get around? Also, Ben, when is there 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.800 going to be a Benny Award for the Fifth Hour 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:23.120 contributor of the year. Oh, that's a great point, Nick, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.080 And that is an oversight. We have not had any 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.800 Contributor of the Year for the Fifth Hour. We'll have 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.360 to add that next year. I think that's a great 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.960 idea that's a bad job by the Blue Ribbon Panel. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.320 As far as traveling, yeah, we normally normally rant a car. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.120 What I like to do is rent a car and 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:47.320 drive around a region and kind of soak it all in. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:52.280 Like I've I've done. I've driven through Pennsylvania from Philly 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.640 to Pittsburgh, drove up to Buffalo, down to New York. 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.960 I've driven all the New England states. I've driven around 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.000 Wisconsin and all the way through Wisconsin up to Green 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:07.360 Bay down to Kenosha, Chicago. I got to me, that's 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.880 a lot of fun. I love just exploring places I 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.160 haven't been. So you can't really do that in an uber. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.600 So you got to have a rental car, right, And 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.560 they're very expensive and it's a pain in the ass, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.200 and but yeah, I prefer a car. What about you 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.880 when you've traveled a bunch recently. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.520 Right, Yes, So for me, which is fun is like 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.120 I love how I grew up been and my mom 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.120 always said, never get in a car with strangers. And 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.120 now I like call strangers all the time to pick 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:36.800 me up. It's hitchhiking and shiking Hitchhiker's guy to the Galaxy. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:38.160 But no, for myself. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:39.880 What I really love is if I go somewhere new 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.800 and I don't plan to do too much traveling outside 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.960 of just basically the event, or if it's just some 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.320 kind of podcasting gig or just visiting somebody, Right, I 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.480 personally like if I don't have somebody there to drive 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.560 me around and show me places that they enjoy to 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.800 do ubers or lyft or whatever, because then I can 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.680 ask the people there where I should go, what they like, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.760 what's their favorite spot, what's a good place to eat, 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.880 what's a good place to go, maybe just wander around. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.200 And I've always been very intrinsically like surprised with how 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.880 open these people are. They're always super pumped to talk 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.760 about their place they live and where they know. And 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.520 sometimes they even tell me like, yeah, just shoot me 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.040 a text, and I like, I'll bring you somewhere. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:13.520 Are cool? 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.359 I mean, it's it's always been a good time. I 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.240 like being part of the people, So it's been fun. 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:21.879 Yeah, people are generally proud of where Yes they live. Yes, 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.399 that's why they live there, That's what I'm saying. So 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:25.120 who better to ask? 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:26.840 Like if I ever go to a different country, bench 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.520 so like say Macedonia with my family, or like Bosnia, 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.000 hed Schlovina or Greece or whatever. I don't like to 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.600 go to touristy spots. I'll go right into the dead center 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.760 of town and just walk around and wherever I see 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.480 people going, I'll go there too. Have a bunch of 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.040 people are eating here, let's go see what's up. Like 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.520 I like just becoming a part of the aura. It's 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:43.160 so much fun. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.040 It's fine. I've had this conversation with my my wife, 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.400 who you know, she likes to goes. He actually wants 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:49.760 to go to Europe a lot with me. We haven't 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.320 been together. She went when she was younger, and you know, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.640 she likes the big city stuff. But I love just 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.640 like I could be as happy. I love Minnesota. Minnesota 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.880 was awesome, Theapoles was great, Milwaukee, you know, those nice 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.600 Midwestern cities just kind of cool, just you know, seeing 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.280 how people lived. But she's like, eh, they're they're all 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.520 the same, you know, No, they're not. The things are 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.119 different about the cities. And you know, I've been to 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:22.600 Indianapolis and it's different than you know, Detroit or whatever. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.880 So anyway, what's next, Mike in Fullerton? Right since says 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.119 Knetschiwa Ben and Alex. My question is more in Ben's 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.240 wheelhouse this weekend. But feel free to pitch that in 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.920 Alex if you have any ad uh And Mike says I, 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.320 I'd like you guys to settle the subs versus dubs 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:45.159 debate in the anime community once and for all. Should 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.119 all anime be watched in its original language with subtitles 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:53.359 or is it okay to watch it dubbed into English? Personally, 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.600 I watch a mix of both. Well, Mike, you've turned 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.400 to the right guy. I am missing your anime. Okay. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.160 Ben is my influence, let me tell you. Yeah, yeah 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:05.480 that Ben is my muse. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.720 Alex is just pretending to be in I've never watched 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.720 an a but yeah, these tattoos are fake. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.840 By the way, Ben, this entire sleeve event, it's all alive. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:19.240 It's all rus, it's all alie. So you want to 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:20.400 take that one. Yeah. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.600 So I'll say this, okay, as somebody who loves the 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:25.919 Japanese culture and has not been to Japan because I 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.280 will not come back, I will say when you watch 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:34.439 cultural entertainment pieces in their distinct language, it only increases 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.520 it that much more. For the enjoyment of what you're experiencing. So, 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.440 for example, why would I go to an Italian restaurant 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.400 and tell the chef how I want him to make 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.240 pastel zul or the fetichini alfredo. You you get what's 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:47.760 there and you enjoy it the way they give it 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.919 to you. So, from my aspects, and I've seen plenty 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.040 of sub and dub sub voice actors are just more 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:57.200 integrated with the characters and truly become the role, whereas 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.320 a lot of these English voice actors they're a always 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:04.240 trying to basically create their own persona and make it them, 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.840 which they shouldn't do. That's what's the difference between like 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.560 method acting and relacting, etc. That's why there's so many 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.119 different varieties of it. So I can just say this 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.399 in the most distinguisha ways. If you really want the experience, 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:17.639 you want to increase your reading ability, you want to 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.680 really indulge yourself into the culture and experience the show 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:22.480 as it should be. And to see how they get 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.919 so involved so descriptive. I mean, shoot, there's a new 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:27.920 show out right now that's taking over the world called 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.240