WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Locker Room Balls" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.320 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.160 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:30.520 the air. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:36.519 Everyway you have stumbled on to the Fifth Hour with me, 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:41.040 Big Ben and Danny g Radio. You hear me during 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.159 the week on the overnight show. You hear Danny with 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:49.680 Covino and Rich during the coveted afternoon drive slot. Is 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.199 that what you call it, the afternoon drive slot. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.360 We actually call it the coveted afternoon drive slot. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:59.279 Yes, the very important coveted however you want to say 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.800 it there afternoon slot. So Danny's with them during the week, 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.839 and then we form Voltron here on the weekend. Happy 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.680 twenty fifth day of August. It is one of the 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.880 final Sundays without NFL real NFL football. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.679 I don't believe it, man, I can't wait. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.839 We got to get through today and then next week 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.240 and then the following week it's on. But more importantly, 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:30.479 you do not have to wait, because this Thursday, the 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.119 maiden voyage of season two of Benny Versus the Penny, 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.440 the TV show was renewed by NBC in a shocking move, 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.240 one of the great upsets in the history of television. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.440 Season of Benny Versus the Penny It'll begin on Thursday 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.200 of this week, and we're going national this year. If 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.720 you missed the Friday podcast with Looney Tunes, Benny Versus 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.160 the Penny not only on regional cable channels NBC Sports 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.440 all their regional affiliates, but will also be on Peacock, 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.080 so you'll have a chance. No excuses to miss Benny 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.680 Versus the Penny this year. It is available to every man, woman, 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.639 and child who has access to the Internet. And it's 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.280 fair to say, nanny, if you can get your hands 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.360 on the podcast, you're likely on the Internet. Therefore, you 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.320 have no excuse to not be watching Benny Versus the Penny. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.840 So excited about that. But the real NFL begins the 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.560 season actual games a couple of weeks away, and today 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.880 is also not only the twenty fifth of August, it 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:33.400 is national Banana split day. Now, I liked the bananas, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.840 so I don't love it. I've only eaten a few 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.560 banana splits in my life. I enjoyed them, but it's 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.239 not something I go out of my way to eat. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.679 Bananas are really filling. So my memory of the few 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.080 times I've had one as you feel sick after eating 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:49.360 in it. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.800 Yeah. My favorite dessert is from the chocolate shop that 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.880 your family owns, the Gia Delli's, which I love the 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.960 cookie Sunday, the Giri Delli cookie sound. Yeah, it's just 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.720 a wonderful dessert. It's the perfect dessert when I celebrate 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.680 a big achievement in my life, I go to get that. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.640 And there's one in Hollywood, obviously, all over the Bay Area, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.639 in San Francisco, there's one in San Diego. The one 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.440 in Orange County is at Disneyland, so you've got to 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.000 pay like three hundred dollars to go in there. So 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.560 I don't go to that one. I don't go to that. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.760 My family we call that store seventeen. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.520 That's right. Fun fact time, though, we got a fun fact. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.680 Are you ready for a fun fact? Of course you are, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:44.000 And all right, fun fact the banana split. What's the origin. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.880 The original banislet was not created in an ice cream parlor, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.280 but in a pharmacy. How about that. Banana splits were 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:59.360 the brainchild of someone named David Evans Strickler, a pharmacy apprentice. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:03:59.920 The great I never heard of him. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.360 You don't know who that. Come on, that's bad banana 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.320 split knowledge by you. Shame on you. So he was 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:11.280 a pharmacist apprentice who enjoyed experimenting with new soda fountain Sundays. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.080 It was just futsing around in his spare time. And 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.160 these things were so popular with the college crowd that 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:23.159 students in nineteen oh four paid ten cents double the 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:30.240 price of a normal Sunday, and the legend was born. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.600 So you can thank a pharmacist. I'm a doctor. I 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.120 don't know that he was able to patent that and 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.719 make any any real money, but yeah, the guy, Yeah, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.719 he's an alumnus of Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh. So 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.160 one of the great accomplishments. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.160 He was another great American hero. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.760 He was twenty three years old and he invented the 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.200 banana split. And without him, we would just have to 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.640 eat regular Sundays, not have that. And yeah, the fun fact. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.279 In addition, the bonus fun fact here the guy that 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:13.120 invented it. He has been honored by the University of Pittsburgh. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.880 The bananas but one hundred and twenty years old today 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.560 and they had a big ceremony years ago at Pittsburgh 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.320 to celebrate this guy. So I think that came from 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.920 somewhere in the Pittsburgh area, the pharmacy there. So anyway, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.000 there you go. Fun fact. Moving on, we have the 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.920 mail bag. Why don't we just jump rightding he want 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.600 to jump right in. Let's jump right into the mail bag. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:37.120 What do you say? 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:56.000 And first it's bang, Thank you very much, Ohioal Steve 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.960 in Maryland rights and these are actual questions by actual 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.040 listeners like yourself. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.000 If you would like to send a question in for 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:07.960 a future podcast, you can do that care of the 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.640 Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour, 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.520 no numbers. Just spell out all the letters R E A, L, 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.800 F I, F T H H O U R at 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:23.000 gmail dot com and put your name. If you want 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.960 some podcast love, put your name on there. This one 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.479 comes from Stephen Maryland, says Danny G and Big Ben. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.640 We know this is not a political podcast, however, did 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.680 you gents watch any of the d n C from 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:42.400 Chicago this week? Uh? I I did not. I saw 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.719 you know what I did, Danny. I I watched some 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.159 of the clips that were bouncing around of the more 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.320 outrageous moments. But did I watch. No, I did not 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.560 sit and watch. I'm not that into it. I'm not 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:00.400 I was watching ballgames. I'm a loser, I guess. But no, Steve, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.760 I did not watch. I did not sit down and 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.800 watch the speeches at the at the DNC, and nor 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.400 did I watch the Republican Convention that was in Milwaukee. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.840 I mean, I saw a little bit of Halkgan, just 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:16.280 because I like Hulk for brother my childhood. But I 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.880 just I don't care. Even if I agree with you politically, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.720 I just can't stand blowhearts, and every politician's a blowhards, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:29.040 so I I generally try to avoid watching those things. Yes, yeah, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:30.440 I don't know about you, Danny, but that's. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.080 My one hundred percent agree with you. We have that 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:33.560 in common. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:38.119 I didn't watch either politics, not really my jam. I read, 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.320 you know, every day, I read online articles about stuff 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.920 both sides are saying, and so I think I'm in 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.120 touch with what's going on. But those things remind me 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.600 of hype videos. You know, everybody's hyping each other up. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:53.720 Everybody's brilliant. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.600 Yeah, they have all the answers, right, we're gonna, you know, 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.920 make the world better and all this stuff, and yet 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.600 they never seem to actually make the world that much better, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.640 you know what I'm saying. Like they have all the antics, 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.880 and they've got all the escapades. They're like when I 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.360 was a kid and and we didn't have the internet, 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.800 you know, decide to watch just regular TV and everyone 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.440 so why I'd flip over to like Benny Hin and 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.840 the like the religious revivals, you know those like these 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.560 these political conventions in many respects are like religious survivals. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.840 Like yeah, you're you're on the right side and your 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.840 you know, this is like a worship service. We're we're right, 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.560 our dogma's right. And I don't know, just just a 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.760 little a little too much for me, but but thank you, Steve. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.200 I'm happy we're in sports, you know, as Looney always said, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.240 the Toy Department of Radio. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.720 Yes for sure. Alfie an Pineer writes, and he says, 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.319 fun fact, on your ride to the from Burlington too, 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.600 or from Burlington, you could have visited the MGM sports 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.720 book in Springfield, mass By adding a single hour to 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:03.280 your journey, Alf says, does Fullerton have a sports book? 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:08.720 I'm asking for a friend. See this is the rivalry 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:14.000 between Alf and Mike and Fullerton. But Alf, let me 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.600 point out that I would have loved to have gone 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.520 to Springfield. I've told the story before. My grandfather, my 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:25.959 mom's dad, was someone that grew up in Springfield, mass 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.800 And I would love to go. That the weather was 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.800 terrible today. We drove out to Vermont to see Arnie, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.280 and so I didn't want to spend any extra time 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.560 in the rain other than what we had to spend. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.840 But at some point, and hopefully they keep picking up 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.920 the TV show, and I'll make many more trips to 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.280 Boston in the Northeast, and as long as the show's 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.760 produced out of Boston, and I'll make my way to 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.080 Springfield if the weather's better. The idea of going to 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.400 a sportsbook, though, I think my wife probably would have 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.160 killed me. Say hey, let's just go to a sports book, 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.720 so I can I bet some baseball games here while 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.200 we're we're hanging out. Why not? That'll that'll go? 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.520 Well? Sure? 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.120 What could go? Wrong. What else do we have? Let's 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:14.080 see this one is from from Mike and parts unknown. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.959 Did not say we got a lot of guys named 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.280 Mike that listened to He did not say where he 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:23.240 is listening from anyway, says Benny and Danny. A guy 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.480 from Vegas. You see the story. He had a hair 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.080 transplant that went wrong, and he tried to get on 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.080 a plane in Miami and they kicked him off because 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.760 he had He sent me a photo here there's like 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.199 did you see this? There's like blood from the guy's scalp. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:42.200 It looks a lot. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.439 No, I haven't seen this. I was going to insert 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:46.320 soul glow. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:49.120 Yeah, that's all old. 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.120 I thought it was going to be some sort of 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.080 product or you know, maybe he had to rub like 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.240 some healing bomb on there. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:56.600 I didn't know it was going to be blood. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.000 He says. How could someone Mike says, how could someone 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.920 board a plane in that condition? Well, yeah, well that 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.040 actually relates to what you talked about I think on 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.800 yesterday's podcast, right, Danny, about the offer up guy that 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:13.719 he wanted you to drive to Santa Monica. Right, Yeah, 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.840 like just common like yeah, exactly, you would think if 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.000 you got up and according to the story that this 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:23.560 guy said, the guy had has some some work done 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.960 on his hair and he was supposed to have a bandage, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.360 and the bandage like came off and so there was 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.880 like blood dripping down from the top of his head. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.559 He didn't have another bandage to put on his scalp, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.960 but he boarded the plane anyway, and it was a 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.520 bio hazard. So the people that work on the plane 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.240 were like, we got to get this guy out of here, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.040 so they kicked him off the plane. But yeah, you 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:49.520 do question like what do you think. I know that, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.200 you know it's not easy. You got the life's tough, 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:57.839 but common courtesy like who wants to sit next to 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.200 some guy with his scalp bleeding because of God only 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.600 knows what he had done to the top of his head. 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.319 It's really gross. It reminds me of the old guys 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.080 at the gym in the locker room who either aren't 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.560 self aware, don't care, or see also don't give a 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.640 shit because of their age and they think they own everything, 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.400 including the locker room hair dryer on their balls. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.280 Oh yeah, God, that is so. I don't know who 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.280 the first guy to do that was, but that guy 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.120 should be taken out. And he's probably dead, but just flogged, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.600 just ripped upon. I mean, what are you doing? 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.400 Yeah, man, common courtesy for the people around you. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:41.199 You don't need to shove your nuts into the blower 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.560 thing in the bathroom. You don't need to do that. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:50.040 And I never ever use those things because of what 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.400 you just said, Danny, because of what you just said. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.600 And I've seen it. I've seen enough. Usually even really 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:04.280 old guys or college guys shoved their you're twigging berries 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.360 in there to dry it all. I don't want any 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.160 part of that. I'm not gonna put my hands in 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.440 front of that thing, Are you kidding me? I was 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:16.400 attracted to the giant metal cock. No way. There is 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.520 another reason we should have paper towels, right, We should 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.800 have paper towels at these things. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.520 If you had to, you were forced to make that choice. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.080 A old wrinkled balls or b the guy's blood scalp 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:31.680 on his airport chair. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.400 I guess you gotta go old the old balls. I 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.360 guess you gotta go that direction. Mike another Mike, Mike 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.599 and Fullerton. It's all Mike, all the time, Mike and 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.400 Fullerson says, hey, Ben or Hey, Moneyball Mallard and Danny 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.520 g I still remember when Ben got that nickname after 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.480 he broke the record for most three pointers in a 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.840 game at Saddleback House. Well, thank you for that, Mike, 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.760 one of the great moments in the history of Juco basketball. Wrong, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.079 he says, Ben, Why is it that people only ask 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:07.160 negative questions about your show? Like how mad are you 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.480 when the crew messes up on a clip or when 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.400 they are are not paying attention? He says, Why can't 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.320 they ask more positive questions like how great do you 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.360 feel after delivering an award winning Mallard monologue? Or about 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:27.200 after dominating your personal punching bag Eddie Garcia in a show, Or. 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.400 How do you feel after you blast the entire neighborhood 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:31.840 with your new high powered hose? 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.720 He says. Also, Mike says, speaking and Mike and phos 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.680 and says, speaking of Eddie, remember to drink plenty of water. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.720 That was the big revelation this week on the show, Danny, 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.520 Eddie revealed that he does not drink water. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.080 You know what he's setting himself up for. What's that stones? 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.320 Not the rolling stones though, not. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.000 The rolling stones. He's gonna get kidney stones. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.560 Yeah, so we were shocked by this. We're like, how 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.800 can you be a middle aged man and not drink 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:06.160 water water? A, it's healthy. B. It's gotten no calories. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.680 We're all worried about our weight getting fat, and it's 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.520 got no calories. You can drink as much water as 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.120 you want, you'll get some water weight, but you can 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:13.880 burn that off with the gym on the treadmill. So 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.440 who cares? And it came up in conversation because one 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:23.080 of the great upgrades, the FSR water machine. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.280 You finally that old water tasted like garbage. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.080 I didn't realize how bad the old water was until 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.440 we got this new I called the Rolls Royce of Water. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.920 This thing, oh wonderful. It makes me want to just 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.640 keep walking over and getting more and more water. It 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:47.560 is delicious, there's no aftertaste. It's perfect. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.520 The only bad part is we're all drinking more water 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.320 there now, but there's only one damn restroom for the 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:55.000 men to share. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.360 Yes, there are maybe three women that work in the 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.240 building and eight hundred men, and there's one women's room 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.960 and one men's room. So you can do the math 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.520 on that advantage if you're a woman. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.240 Yeah, where's my bullshit dropped bullshit. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.320 Yeah. Yeah, and they had it the way it should 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:22.360 have been, where it's unisex right, first come, first serve. Yeah. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.560 And then there were some filthy animals that work there 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.440 on the weekend who ruined it for everybody. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:33.160 Yeah, it's not cool. Not cool. Barry from South Carolina, 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.360 I writes, and met Barrett that maler meet and greet 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.800 in Charleston. Wonderful time there. Good to meet Barrett, originally 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.280 from Nashville, but he's been in Charleston for a bit. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.880 He says, Yo, Yo, Ma, Benny and Danny g To 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.320 answer your question about the food in London from last week. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.840 As the saying goes, back in the day, England made 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.800 all their money off of the spice trade, but they 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.560 don't use any of them in their food pump. There 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:05.760 you go, rimshot here. But Barry says, I did sample 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:10.119 fish and chips at a pub close to Herods. I 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.520 believe that's what he said. That that store is scary, 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:18.040 expensive and unbelievable. He said, have you ever heard of 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.919 that store? You ever been to London? Have you? No? 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:21.240 No? 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:26.000 Yeah, we look the store up. We have a little 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:35.840 music here. I look up this store here Rods. Oh 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:40.600 it's a British luxury department store located on Brompton Road 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:48.879 in Knightsbridge, London, England. Hmm, three thousand brands, and my 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:53.840 guy Berry says, very expensive. Let's see what the prices 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:58.919 are here. They got everything. They got home furniture, they 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:03.879 got clothing. I'm looking at their website and I don't 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:08.320 see I don't see prices here, so oh oh, here 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:12.000 we go, Here we go. Oh wow. You can get 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.960 like a lamp on the side of your table, you 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.679 know those lamps, A little whatever lamp, nothing special. Yeah, 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:23.199 thirteen hundred dollars thirteen for a lamp and it's not 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.119 it's just like a regular lamp. You get one at 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.240 Walmart for like one hundred bucks. Let's see they have 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:38.080 Cajmere throw blanket for twelve hundred. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Barry 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.199 continues the email. He says, I had what they call pie. 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.960 It's similar to what we would call a pot pie. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:46.960 They were both good, he said, the fish and chips 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.600 and the pie. But London is extremely diverse. You can 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:56.239 get any type of food there, Thaie, Chinese, Indian, you 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.679 name it, and they are everywhere, particularly right close to 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:04.200 an underground station. There are all types of pubs and restaurants. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:11.840 It is a must see city in my humble opinion. Okay, yeah, 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.080 I bet you can get some great chicken shwarma in London, right, 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:20.040 There's been a lot of migration there. Yeah. I love 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.399 chicken sharma by the way. Ah, so good. And some 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:28.720 rice that's solid. Anyway, let's see what is next year. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:30.520 It's the actual mailbag. This one. 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:32.720 It just made me hungry. I want that for lunch today, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:34.040 little chicken shwarma. 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:40.159 Yeah, that's good. I have since since we recorded the 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.760 bumps and the different things for Benny versus the Penny, 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.680 I have gone back to eating once a day. I went. 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.800 I talked to Looney about this the other day. I 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.879 went six days without eating, almost an entire week without eating. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.520 What because I was worried about being fat on camera 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.600 for the show, because that's the only I'm during the 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.359 show that I'm seen from head to toe. So I 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:05.760 want was like, I gotta lose a lot of weight, 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:07.239 even though I didn't really have to lose a lot 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:15.040 of weight. Next one is from Gary in Pittsburgh. He says, Hey, Ben, 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:17.800 I was listening to another show a few days ago, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.639 but only after consuming all three hours of the Real 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.000 Fifth Hour podcast with You and Danny G. I heard 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.680 a phrase you use from time to time. They were 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:33.119 talking about this player's salad days. I get the gist 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:38.720 of the phrase, but shouldn't it be called their steak days? 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.439 To me, a salad is the warm up. The steak 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.679 is the pinnacle or peak of the meal, unless you 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.320 butterfly and cook it until the shoe leather, as a 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.720 certain bloviator has been known to do. How dare you? 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.840 How dare you? Gary? And I want you to know 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.920 that that high end restaurant in Austin where I got 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:06.399 my butterfly cut steak delicious, I gave a chef's kiss 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.520 when I ate it. Anyway, he says, do you think 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:13.639 this is worthy of a minute's long Mallard investigation? Thank you? Gary? 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:17.639 In Pittsburgh, PS make that Columbus Meet and Greet happen. 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.399 I'll be there with bells on. That's an easy drive 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:25.959 from Pittsburgh. Well, we're working on it. We're working on it, Gary, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.200 and we'll keep you posted on that. Sometime in twenty 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.359 twenty five, probably the spring, I would guess the spring 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.960 of twenty twenty five. I have done a deep dive 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.439 though for you. Gary. So this is the phrase of 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:46.080 the day, buried in the mailbag, the phrase of the day. 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:47.720 We don't usually get this on Sunday. 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:52.120 Bonus content. It's bonus content, Denny. Phrase to day is, 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:59.000 according to GARYT salad days. This actually originated with William Shakespeare. 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:03.959 Say what, yeah, the phrase salad days. There's so many 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.320 parts of our language that go back to Shakespeare. You 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.119 probably knew that, Gary, But for the other people listening, 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:16.080 for you listening, yeah, William Shakespeare sixteen oh six Anthony 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:20.920 and Cleopatra was the play Cleopatra there, and in the play, 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:25.360 Cleopatra says, my salad days when I was green in judgment, 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:32.240 cold in blood to say as I said. Then now 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:37.040 we are told that Cleopatra is referring to her youthful 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.280 days with Julius Caesar right back in the in her 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:42.800 younger days which he now considers foolish, when she was 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.240 hanging out with Julius Caesars. I wonder if Julius Caesar 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:47.240 knew that his name would be used on a hotel 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:51.560 in Vegas. Anyway, the phrase salad days is a metaphor 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:58.280 that compares the fresh greenness of a salad the vigor 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:01.440 and the recklessness of your youth and all that stuff, 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.720 and so that's kind of obviously. The phrase, though, did 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:06.919 not become popular, even though it dates back to the 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:11.120 sixteen hundreds, it did not become popular until the mid 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:15.960 nineteenth century. And now it's used to describe a period 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:22.639 of youth and inexperience and innocence in all those things. 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:28.840 So salad days. According to Gary, the phrase. 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:31.920 Is all. 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:38.640 The week. So thank you very much. Gary. Appreciate that 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:43.360 I did get a rather lengthy my guy Zach sent 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:47.119 a long, lengthy emails like you're gonna have to resubmit that. 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:49.520 I don't know. We don't have time to get to 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.439 that at this point, but we will get to it 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:55.440 in a future episode. Nick and Wisconsin quickly said, Ben, 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:58.680 because you talked about moving on last week's mail bag, 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:04.119 I am now curious. Have you put the Moutherard treadmill 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:10.960 back back together yet? I'll take your answer off there. No, Well, 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:14.840 it is back together, but it does not work properly. 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:20.240 It does not work properly, and it does frustrate me 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:23.760 greatly because I bought years ago, actually just before my 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:29.240