Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
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Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
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Speaker 1: of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air
Speaker 1: everywhere and it is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Speaker 1: and Danny g Radio. You have made it back into
Speaker 1: the audio, do Joe, as we are hanging out with
Speaker 1: you only in the podcast format eight days a week.
Speaker 1: Danny slaving away there on his radio show with Covino
Speaker 1: and Rich and I've got the overnight show your Boso
Speaker 1: we Oin Forces on the weekend for you for your
Speaker 1: entertainment pleasure. Danny, it's Sunday and that means it's mail.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of mail to get through. Are
Speaker 1: you ready? Are you gonna buckle up for the mail bag?
Speaker 1: Real quick? I got a mail bag question for you.
Speaker 1: Have you turned your attention to the NBA yet a
Speaker 1: little bit? I'm not fully in, but I I will
Speaker 1: tell you the trade deadline I gotta look excited. There
Speaker 1: were some big trades in the NBA that got me
Speaker 1: jones up a little bit, and then I have been watching.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to watch a little bit more every night,
Speaker 1: little by little as I'm getting ready for the show.
Speaker 1: But I'm not fully on board because we still have
Speaker 1: this obviously is an All Star weekend in the NBA,
Speaker 1: and then we've got another couple of months before the playoffs.
Speaker 1: The playoffs don't really they don't get going until mid April, right,
Speaker 1: so we've still got a ways to go. You know.
Speaker 1: Somebody sent me the Dodgers spring training schedule you terday,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know if I'm ready
Speaker 1: for baseball yet. Oh I'm ready. I'm more excited about
Speaker 1: spring training baseball than I've ever been. It is going
Speaker 1: to be such a ship show in baseball with all
Speaker 1: these new FUGHAISI rules that the weird scientist commissioners put
Speaker 1: in and all these hard old baseball people. I was
Speaker 1: talking to a guy that has worked in baseball for
Speaker 1: probably as long as I've been alive, maybe not that long.
Speaker 1: But this guy, he's like, you know, and he loves
Speaker 1: base but he works in baseball He's like, the players
Speaker 1: are so stubborn in our sport. They're so pig headed.
Speaker 1: It is going to be fascinating. It's a it's like
Speaker 1: a great science experiment when they tell the pictures they
Speaker 1: can't fidget on the mound or then the runner can
Speaker 1: steal second, and they can't throw, and you get called
Speaker 1: for a box and like all these weird rules and
Speaker 1: if you don't throw the ball fast enough, all of this.
Speaker 1: Because I mentioned this on the radio show this weekend,
Speaker 1: I don't know if people everybody, maybe you missed it.
Speaker 1: It's because because of the nerds. It's because they let
Speaker 1: the nerds in baseball, Danny. This is my theory, because
Speaker 1: baseball is like, we need home runs. So they juiced
Speaker 1: the balls up they had home running. But then everyone
Speaker 1: who runs these baseball teams, they all said, okay, we'll
Speaker 1: just play bare league softball and we'll try to get walks,
Speaker 1: and we'll try to hit home runs, and we won't
Speaker 1: give a shit about singles, and who cares about anything
Speaker 1: other than home runs or or walks, and and strikeouts
Speaker 1: don't matter. And so now baseball is like, well, we
Speaker 1: have to artificially make it like it used to be
Speaker 1: in the seventies and the eighties, where the stolen base
Speaker 1: is important and the goal is obvious. They want to
Speaker 1: they want to artificially create more action because there's not
Speaker 1: enough action in baseball. But how they're going about doing
Speaker 1: that is going to mess up the axis of baseball
Speaker 1: and it'll be it'll be fun to watch. How many
Speaker 1: spring training stadiums did you go by when you were
Speaker 1: in Phoenix for the last week at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I didn't see any. You didn't any. I went by
Speaker 1: the Angels facility and Tempe, the Chicago Cubs. I guess
Speaker 1: that's in Mesa. Uh. There were like three or four
Speaker 1: others that we just like randomly. We were in Uber
Speaker 1: and like, hey, look there's the spring training home or
Speaker 1: the Giants were in Fairness. I was traveling at night
Speaker 1: when it was dark, but we did fly over one
Speaker 1: of the stadiums. I don't know which one. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're every couple of miles. It's insane, and they're all
Speaker 1: within the greater Phoenix area. You can't go more than
Speaker 1: like eight miles from a spring training stadium in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: So all right, let's get to it. These are actual
Speaker 1: messages from actual listeners. But by the way, before we
Speaker 1: get the mail are you watching the NBA? Daniel you
Speaker 1: Jones up for the NBA? Are you're excited because more
Speaker 1: Bomba as a Laker. I'm halfway there. Bomba and the
Speaker 1: new Editions have looked pretty decent, so you know, they're
Speaker 1: like just a couple of games away from being a
Speaker 1: six seed all the sudd it's so exciting. I know
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens after the All Star break, but no,
Speaker 1: I mean they made some decent moves there. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: didn't get Bones though, Bones Highland, he's a Clipper. Bones
Speaker 1: Highland is a Clipper. What is still wrong with the Clippers?
Speaker 1: Eric Gordon's back. I've always liked the Angelo, you know,
Speaker 1: when he was with the Wolves. When he was with
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves, I was watching him like, why couldn't the
Speaker 1: Lakers keep one of those young guys? So now it
Speaker 1: feels like speaking of artificial, feels like the Lakers never
Speaker 1: let him go even though he's played for every other
Speaker 1: team in the NBA, the ultimate basketball hobo. All right, So,
Speaker 1: as far as the mail bag is concerned, let's get
Speaker 1: right to it. OHIOO. It's first one is from Lee
Speaker 1: in Phoenix. He says, Ben, what happened? I was waiting
Speaker 1: to meet you and the Phoenix Mallard militia and nothing.
Speaker 1: Please tell us the whole story. Yes, Lee, I'd like
Speaker 1: to apologize on behalf of myself and and that's it.
Speaker 1: I will apologize on behalf of myself. So I was
Speaker 1: under the impression, Lee, that the NFL experience would include
Speaker 1: Radio Row. So my original plan was to have listeners
Speaker 1: come down to Radio Row and meet them. I thought
Speaker 1: this would be great, accomplished the daily double, I do
Speaker 1: the show, I'd meet listeners, they could watch me do
Speaker 1: the show. What great fun this would be. Well, then
Speaker 1: I didn't know until I got to the Radio Row
Speaker 1: that the NFL had segregated us. As I said, they
Speaker 1: put us away from everyone else private. It was a
Speaker 1: private thing. We had to take a bus to go
Speaker 1: back and hang out with the cool people, and it was.
Speaker 1: It was a mess, and so I was piste off
Speaker 1: by that. But then I was like, Okay, I'll find
Speaker 1: a restaurant and I put it out on social media.
Speaker 1: I was like, we'll go to a restaurant on Friday,
Speaker 1: and a listener there were two listeners that reached out
Speaker 1: that are big fans of the show. One of them
Speaker 1: he owns a restaurant in Phoenix. He was going to
Speaker 1: get back to me on specifics. The other one is
Speaker 1: this kid that works at Arizona State who's a very
Speaker 1: smart man, plays a lot of great trivia, very good
Speaker 1: at trivia. He gave me the name of his restaurant.
Speaker 1: So then I was like, Okay, well maybe I'll meet
Speaker 1: at that restaurant. UM. And then I got called in
Speaker 1: to work the extra show, The Odd Couple, and that
Speaker 1: was the time I was planning on meeting the listeners.
Speaker 1: So that got shot out of the water. And then
Speaker 1: by the time I got done, I was I just
Speaker 1: crashed and I didn't have I was unable to set
Speaker 1: something up. So I apologized Lee, I meet you, I
Speaker 1: still want to meet you, and all the other people
Speaker 1: that reached out that were bummed out. I feel like
Speaker 1: a total schmuck. I really thought it was gonna work out.
Speaker 1: I thought this would be easy. It turned out to
Speaker 1: be like the Rubik's cube. It was not easy to solve.
Speaker 1: It became problematic. UM, and I will be back and
Speaker 1: I it's on my list of things to do. I
Speaker 1: would like to meet a bunch of listeners this year.
Speaker 1: That's the goal. We couldn't do anything during COVID. We
Speaker 1: had a meet and greet in l A last year
Speaker 1: that went very well. We had a great turnout for that,
Speaker 1: and so my goal is to do as many of
Speaker 1: these things as I can do. It's not cheap to travel,
Speaker 1: that is a problem, and you you gonna pay money out
Speaker 1: of my own pocket. The company's not paying for me
Speaker 1: to travel. They were actually at the super Bowl, but
Speaker 1: not normally, so we'll make it happy. Um. So that's
Speaker 1: that's what went down. Lee, it was Phoenix. You haven't
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'll be back. I will. I will be
Speaker 1: back there too to enjoy ay. Uh not Marley's. I
Speaker 1: won't be back at Marley's, but some of the other
Speaker 1: restaurants I'll be back in. Next up is Terry from England.
Speaker 1: He says, hey guys, hey, Ben, how long how long
Speaker 1: was the planning for the Super Bowl trip for you? Ben?
Speaker 1: How much advanced noticed did you get? That's from Terry
Speaker 1: from England? Uh? Not very much, Terry, first of all,
Speaker 1: and Danny knew you knew you were going for some time.
Speaker 1: I was in a holding pattern. Is the way I
Speaker 1: would describe it. I was told I probably will be
Speaker 1: able to go, but I did not know the weekend
Speaker 1: before I went. It was not completely confirmed and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to jinx anything. But it did not get
Speaker 1: completely green lighted until less than a week before I
Speaker 1: had landed in Phoenix. It was that close to not happen. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The way our boss explained it to me was the
Speaker 1: la piece of your puzzle he had been waiting on
Speaker 1: was whether or not security and all that would be
Speaker 1: in place for you to be able to broadcast live
Speaker 1: at your time. So once he got the thumbs up
Speaker 1: on that, that's when he confirmed it with you. And
Speaker 1: the bad news. The bad news from my boss is
Speaker 1: now that we know that security is there around the clock,
Speaker 1: that in future Super Bowls, there's no reason for me
Speaker 1: not to go because now we know that I will
Speaker 1: be the most protected man in radio that that there
Speaker 1: would be you know, seven thousand security guards from my
Speaker 1: fat asked at Radio Row. So there's nothing to worry about, um.
Speaker 1: But I hope that answers your question, Terry. So it
Speaker 1: was very last minute, and we mentioned the hotel issues
Speaker 1: and all that, but it was great to be there
Speaker 1: and a lot of fun. It was great to see everybody.
Speaker 1: I had a good conversation with our our big boss,
Speaker 1: Don Martin, who I don't get to see very often. Mom, Maya,
Speaker 1: come on down, Ma Maya and let me of them
Speaker 1: coming to my already here for you, Maya. What I mean?
Speaker 1: We had to pay him over time, but what to
Speaker 1: do for you? Because you're a legend, my man, You're
Speaker 1: worth it, my man, We're family. We're family here, my man. Anyway. Alright,
Speaker 1: So John from Peoria, Illinois emails in on the mailbag.
Speaker 1: He is next. He says, Hey, Ben, uh, this is random,
Speaker 1: he said, did Jerick mckinnons slide before the goal line
Speaker 1: screw yourself or Danny g out of a large sum
Speaker 1: of money like it did myself. I needed him to
Speaker 1: score for the final leg of my parlay. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that that was the famous play. Kansas City was trying
Speaker 1: to run out the clock and kick the game winning
Speaker 1: field goal. Philadelphia looked like they were allowing him to
Speaker 1: score the touchdown and McKinnon slid down and it was
Speaker 1: the right thing to do, Yeah, but it wasn't the
Speaker 1: fun thing to do with such a good game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it bothered me more than the penalty, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a penalty. Can call it if you want. But
Speaker 1: what bothered me was him sliding and then Mahomes dropping
Speaker 1: like a bag of potatoes a couple of times. It
Speaker 1: reminded me of the way the stupid Pro Bowl ended
Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins. You know the vibe I got from Mahomes,
Speaker 1: I got Lebron James, Steph Curry hamming it up, milking
Speaker 1: an injury, playing to the cameras. That's the vibe. I
Speaker 1: guy like Mahomes is a showman. Yeah, that last drive,
Speaker 1: because there's no way he was hurting that bad and
Speaker 1: he's able to run that well. Yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of embellishment going on. And I'm starting to think that
Speaker 1: initial high ankle sprain. I don't know what he was hurt,
Speaker 1: but it was It was not a high ankle sprayed.
Speaker 1: That's bullshit, because a high ankle sprains a six week injury.
Speaker 1: You don't come back and play at that level. I
Speaker 1: don't care what kind of pharmaceuticals they shoot you up with.
Speaker 1: I'm not buying that. I I've injured my ankle, I've
Speaker 1: had a high ankles, but I know I'm not a
Speaker 1: professional athlete, but I'm not back. Hell, I hurt my knee.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm a middle aged man. I hurt my knee.
Speaker 1: It took me like three months for that thing to
Speaker 1: heal my knee. You know, I I was, I was
Speaker 1: hurting all right. Next up, you have a Hutch from Richmond, Virginia,
Speaker 1: the Great Hutch Rights and he says, hey, Ben and
Speaker 1: Danny g do you guys ever sleep? And Ben, did
Speaker 1: your wife come with you to the Radio Row festivities? Yes?
Speaker 1: I was very happy that my wife was able to
Speaker 1: join me with a good time hanging out and she
Speaker 1: got to Actually I didn't know this was even possible.
Speaker 1: And I told her as, I, I can't really get
Speaker 1: you in, you know, you're gonna have to be at
Speaker 1: the hotel. And she's like, okay, I'll do my own thing.
Speaker 1: And then I showed up on that Thursday and I
Speaker 1: ran into Jonas and onus at his wife with him
Speaker 1: and his his kid, and I was like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: how'd she getting here? And Jonahs is like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you talk to this person and that person and you
Speaker 1: get a pass and so so that was pretty cool
Speaker 1: and up big thanks to to Jade. She she was
Speaker 1: able to to take care of that. So that was
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool. She she visited, and as I
Speaker 1: said in the previous podcast, touch, I think the whole
Speaker 1: time I was in Arizona, which was like three days,
Speaker 1: I got about an hour's sleep per day, so I
Speaker 1: got like three hours told, I think I got to
Speaker 1: I got one hour of sleep going there, and then
Speaker 1: two hours of sleep and then that was it while
Speaker 1: I was there. So not not an ideal situation. Next
Speaker 1: up on the mailbag, Kyrie, our guy Kyrie, he's the
Speaker 1: Kyrie we like in Okay. See. He says, Hey, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: my wife has been watching football for with me, rather
Speaker 1: for two years now. It's freaking us. I can't believe
Speaker 1: she's sitting down watching games with me. The question is,
Speaker 1: do your wives watch any sports with you, guys, or
Speaker 1: maybe attend some sporting events live? Since sports are your
Speaker 1: job and very important to all of you guys and
Speaker 1: all of us. I just wondering anyway, As always, much
Speaker 1: love from Kyrie in Okay See. So I'll go first.
Speaker 1: Any Um, my wife does not have the sports gene.
Speaker 1: She's not a sports fan. She will not watch games
Speaker 1: on TV with me. She claims that it's hard to
Speaker 1: keep track of where the ball is. No matter what sport,
Speaker 1: the ball could be the size of the moon, you know.
Speaker 1: But she does like going to games, which seems like
Speaker 1: a good idea until you realize the cost of going
Speaker 1: to the games and it. Does she like watching the
Speaker 1: game in her seat? Or does she like shopping at
Speaker 1: the little memorabilia stands and the food stands? No, my
Speaker 1: wife likes the vibe. She enjoys the you know, the
Speaker 1: energy of the cry out, and she likes the different
Speaker 1: foods you can get that her price gouging you and
Speaker 1: things like that. She's into that as far as the
Speaker 1: actual being a purist of the game and that kind
Speaker 1: of it. Not what about you did your your lady,
Speaker 1: she's into it or no kinda you know. I have
Speaker 1: something similar to Kyrie with football. So my girl really
Speaker 1: loves the Dodgers. She's a baseball fan, so we connected
Speaker 1: with that when we first met baseball with her kids,
Speaker 1: they all grew up on the baseball diamond, so she's
Speaker 1: a baseball mom and her family the Raider fans. But
Speaker 1: she didn't know the ins and outs of NFL football.
Speaker 1: So she's watched football. She's chaired on the Raiders, but
Speaker 1: she doesn't understand all the rules of football. Until two
Speaker 1: years ago she started sitting down watching the games with
Speaker 1: me and I started explaining all the rules to her
Speaker 1: that she wasn't familiar with. And now, Ben, this year,
Speaker 1: this past season was the very first season where she
Speaker 1: watched all the games from the beginning of the season
Speaker 1: until the Super Bowl, and she was really proud of herself.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of her. That's cool, that's great. And you
Speaker 1: took her to the game. You guys went to veg
Speaker 1: see a game, so that was neat. She got to
Speaker 1: see the famous Chandler Jones ending one of the great
Speaker 1: games that we've seen. Amazing ending to an NFL game.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get much better than that, certainly not
Speaker 1: for a regular season game. Next up, John from Dallas,
Speaker 1: Texas writes in he says, hey, Ben and Danny g
Speaker 1: when downloading the Fifth Hour podcast, does it benefit you
Speaker 1: guys more to download it from the Fifth Hour page
Speaker 1: or the Ben Maller Show page or does it not
Speaker 1: make any difference. That's a great question. I do not
Speaker 1: know the answer to that. Do we get the same
Speaker 1: credit whether it's the Fifth Hour page or the Ben
Speaker 1: Mallard page. We do get the same credit, Okay, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. They go as long as you listen.
Speaker 1: And how many minutes do we need? Dan is at
Speaker 1: one minute? Are we the one minute man? Here? I
Speaker 1: think it's five minutes If I'm not taking five minutes.
Speaker 1: If you give us five minutes, even if you find
Speaker 1: us boring and repulsive and dreadful, we just suck. Five
Speaker 1: minutes is all we need. You give us five minutes.
Speaker 1: We're good, That's all we we. We asked just five
Speaker 1: good minutes. And you know once you do that, you
Speaker 1: know it's it's you're good to go. Yeah, speaking of wives,
Speaker 1: that's all they ask as well. Uh. Next up is
Speaker 1: Mike from Fullerton, he writes, and he says, a great
Speaker 1: job from radio role last week. Guys, would either of
Speaker 1: you be able to handle four days in a darkness retreat? Allah?
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, do you think eating or using the bathroom
Speaker 1: would be a problem in pitch blackness? Uh? He says,
Speaker 1: that's the first party says also, I'd like to thank
Speaker 1: Danny g for drawing my name out of a hat
Speaker 1: for Caveno and Rich Bribery balls. Now I really need
Speaker 1: some Ben Mallard merch to go with it, Please consider
Speaker 1: selling a Ben Mallow Show themed pog set. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: just what I need, you know. Maybe I'll do that
Speaker 1: as a gag for Mike friend of fur Dog. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll do that. But the darkness retreat, I'm good on that.
Speaker 1: I don't need that, And I do think going to
Speaker 1: the bathroom would be a problem as far as the
Speaker 1: aim is concerned. And it's hard enough aiming when the
Speaker 1: lights are on. I can't imagine trying to aim without
Speaker 1: without any lights on. And the eating, I kind of
Speaker 1: like to look at what I'm eating, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If I'm Aaron Rodgers, in other words, I
Speaker 1: have his kind of money. I'm going on an ocean retreat,
Speaker 1: a five star ocean retreat. That's what I'm doing. Five stars, baby,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the four seasons. I'm getting room service,
Speaker 1: I'm getting massages, I'm getting happy endings, and that is
Speaker 1: going to clear my mind. Well that's a fair But
Speaker 1: wouldn't you not get the same experience being away from
Speaker 1: civilization if if you were in the middle of the
Speaker 1: Mighty Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean and there's no land
Speaker 1: for hundreds and hundreds of miles. Wouldn't that be the
Speaker 1: same environment You are away from the world, you're on
Speaker 1: your own. I know, you know it's different because the
Speaker 1: lights up a lie, but the concept of being away
Speaker 1: from civilization and caught up in your own thoughts. If
Speaker 1: I'm sitting on a yacht looking out at the ocean,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I'm wondering what's going on? Or just sit
Speaker 1: on a private beach with his money again, he could
Speaker 1: have your level of security you had at Radio Row
Speaker 1: and have that slice of beach to himself. Just stare
Speaker 1: out at the ocean and make up your mind on
Speaker 1: where you want to go next. John from Northern Colorado
Speaker 1: is next, he says. Guys, have either of you sat
Speaker 1: through a never ending chick flick on a date? I
Speaker 1: thought the bridges of Madison County would never end, John says,
Speaker 1: and I had terrible gas the entire time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Plus, we've all done it as men. We've
Speaker 1: all we've all taken one for the team here and
Speaker 1: attempted to impress a young lady that we were dating. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. I don't, I don't. I blocked
Speaker 1: it all out. I don't remember a specific chick flick.
Speaker 1: But I did spend a lot of time. And I
Speaker 1: love going to the movies on dates because I didn't
Speaker 1: have to talk. It was great. I could just sit
Speaker 1: there and watch the movie. I didn't have to talk
Speaker 1: to her and all that. It was wonderful. What about
Speaker 1: your Yeah, and the Hallmark movies come to mind, especially seasonal,
Speaker 1: you know, and November and December roll around. You know
Speaker 1: that your girl is going to have some of those
Speaker 1: easy and corny Christmas movies on, and they expect you
Speaker 1: to cuddle with them and watch the movies. But if
Speaker 1: you do your part, they will give back for the
Speaker 1: you know, the season of giving the end of the yang.
Speaker 1: Is that that works? Okay? I got you. You scratch
Speaker 1: my back, I'll scratch something else or whatever. You all right? Gary,
Speaker 1: the instigator writes, any this is from Valentine's Day the
Speaker 1: other day, but I think it still holds up. He said,
Speaker 1: would either of you guys be up to this Valentine's
Speaker 1: Day challenge swap your phone with your spouse for a
Speaker 1: day If anyone says they would accept, with the others
Speaker 1: on the show called b So, I guess between me
Speaker 1: and you, I don't know why what would you accomplish
Speaker 1: by that? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that exciting going on in my phone. Once
Speaker 1: you're in a serious relationship and you're not a douche bag,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that exciting on your phone, and that would
Speaker 1: you know, trigger some sort of fight. Now, when you're
Speaker 1: in your twenties, maybe your thirties, and you're kind of
Speaker 1: immature and you are unsure about commitment and maybe you're
Speaker 1: juggling a couple of different people in your phone or
Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, you can't let someone borrow your
Speaker 1: phone because they're gonna be getting text messages from Rando's.
Speaker 1: But you know, once you're married, you're not living that
Speaker 1: lifestyle any longer. You don't have to be a ding
Speaker 1: dong there and all that. I'm looking at my phone.
Speaker 1: I mean, my wife took my phone. You'd be talking
Speaker 1: to mostly Doc Mike and weed Man Hippie and people
Speaker 1: like and Fred Dryer. That's about. That's about. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at my calls. Here, at my my recent call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see, Yeah, that'd be good. Name your last six
Speaker 1: text messages? Oh yeah, my last six, your last six,
Speaker 1: let me see here my last six wife got you
Speaker 1: on there the microphone throttler. I've got my wife, Cooper Loop,
Speaker 1: I want to mount it. My friend Bob Fesco does
Speaker 1: the radio show in Kansas City, my buddy j who
Speaker 1: is the old newspaper guy, and gag on R. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the list. What about you? You got on your
Speaker 1: I just pulled mine up right now. It got you
Speaker 1: up at the top there. Very nice. Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: in a group chat for the show Solid my girl
Speaker 1: is third on there. My wife's number two, and uh,
Speaker 1: Jade from our network. Who are you just talking about? Uh?
Speaker 1: My cousin Chris Scott Shapiro not sure. Oh, look at
Speaker 1: that ball's on there? How about that? And then a
Speaker 1: group chat from John Morrossi, Oh, the great John Paul Morrossi. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by John Paul Morossi. Is it just John Morrossi? Now
Speaker 1: John morros eats to us. Now his old school name
Speaker 1: was JP Morossi. Yeah, he used to be John John Paul.
Speaker 1: He's just John Morrossi. Okay, he says, good morning. I'll
Speaker 1: be at spring training in Florida for the next two days.
Speaker 1: If there's any interest in any MLB segments, for your shows.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. Yeah, all right, what up John, John
Speaker 1: MOROSSI check it in. So this next email is rather
Speaker 1: odd and uncomfortable. I have been getting people asking in
Speaker 1: the mail bag. I haven't read these on the here,
Speaker 1: but they've been like, Hey, what happened to the couple
Speaker 1: in Florida? What happened to the couple in Kentucky? What
Speaker 1: happened to these people that used to email? I'm a
Speaker 1: pilot used to email? That's right. We think that was gagon.
Speaker 1: So I said, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna reach out to these people. I wonder what they're
Speaker 1: up to. Some of these people have an email this
Speaker 1: in three years. Oh so you reached out to them.
Speaker 1: I did. I was curious who would right back? So
Speaker 1: Helen hell and in Stu did not right back. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened to them. They didn't write back.
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot did not right back. So then I
Speaker 1: reached out to Kentucky Jay and Kay, and much to
Speaker 1: my surprise, they responded. And I am now going to
Speaker 1: read I'm not gonna read all of it because some
Speaker 1: of it was not for on air consumption. This is
Speaker 1: the response I got again. These people used to email
Speaker 1: us when Gascon Gagon was West of the four or
Speaker 1: five was on the show, email us like pretty much
Speaker 1: every other week for a year year and a half.
Speaker 1: Sent me a hat that I wear Western Kentucky hat
Speaker 1: that I still wear from time to time. It's in
Speaker 1: my rotation. And the response said, hey, guys, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately it's just Jay Now we got a divorce. Oh uh,
Speaker 1: he said, we are friends and cordial. Tell the fans
Speaker 1: on the show the Kentucky power couple are powerless. Uh
Speaker 1: so that's unfortunate, but life come fast. Yeah, these things
Speaker 1: do happen. What are you gonna though, you know? And
Speaker 1: presentiment not every marriage last forever. And um, I appreciate
Speaker 1: Ja riding back, and good luck to J and K
Speaker 1: and both of them. And I know they've got there's
Speaker 1: kids involved here, so hopefully everything goes okay with that.
Speaker 1: You guys can be grown ups when you have to
Speaker 1: be grown ups and all that stuff and and make
Speaker 1: it work out a couple more. Pierre, friend of alf
Speaker 1: the alienal Piner rights and he says, Ben, given that
Speaker 1: a single big Mac in Lee, Massachusetts cost a whopping
Speaker 1: eight dollars and nine cents. What would you and Daddy
Speaker 1: g Daddy spend at the most for a single fast
Speaker 1: food order. I try to stay on what used to
Speaker 1: be the one dollar menu, so I can't imagine even
Speaker 1: paying eight dollars total for a meal at somewhere like McDonald's.
Speaker 1: But now the minimum wage is fifteen dollars here in
Speaker 1: the Commonwealth, this will only get more expensive. Yes, I
Speaker 1: don't eat as much fast food as I did back
Speaker 1: in my big eaten days. Pierre the meals I go
Speaker 1: to Raising Keynes occasionally once a year on Christmas. I'll
Speaker 1: usually eat Panda Express because that's what Jewish people do
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day, eat Chinese food. Um. But I have
Speaker 1: not been able to get out of a fast food
Speaker 1: restaurant for without spending fifteen to twenty dollars for what
Speaker 1: for one meal? Like I get the combo, but then
Speaker 1: you add the upside the drink and it's usually like
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks. It seems like what about you, Danny. I
Speaker 1: do the life hack where you do not get the
Speaker 1: drink from the fast food restaurant, and if I'm working
Speaker 1: at our network, I'll get the cent can of soda
Speaker 1: or a bottled water from our vending machine and then
Speaker 1: get the food by itself. That's one way to keep
Speaker 1: your your budget at Bay. Do not pay for those
Speaker 1: two dollar eighty nine cents three dollar eighty nine cent
Speaker 1: drinks at fast food. What a rip um? The other thing, Ben,
Speaker 1: he's talking about fast food burgers. Get the McDonald's app
Speaker 1: in your phone. It's one of the apps it's actually
Speaker 1: worth using because every day they have deals and they
Speaker 1: also give your rewards points like all the other ones,
Speaker 1: but their deals every day are actually pretty good. Save
Speaker 1: you a lot of money just ordering ahead on that
Speaker 1: app for curbside pickup. Yeah, I've heard the the apps.
Speaker 1: But there's a pain. He's paying one restaurant. You gotta
Speaker 1: have an app for every restaurant. Want to pain in
Speaker 1: the ass? Well, just put the couple in there that
Speaker 1: you go to the most often, and it's pretty convenient,
Speaker 1: especially like on your way into work or something like that.
Speaker 1: You just pull into one of those curbside UH spots
Speaker 1: that they have available to the app customers. I will
Speaker 1: do one more. We'll get out on this. It is
Speaker 1: from and all the other people that email them. Sorry,
Speaker 1: but we'll just submit another email for next week. Real
Speaker 1: fifth hour at gmail dot com. Hopefully we'll get it
Speaker 1: on the air next week. Danny from Darry writes in
Speaker 1: and says, hey, Ben and Danny, g. I've enjoyed your
Speaker 1: podcast immensely. Thanks for that. I was thinking about all
Speaker 1: of the wonderful original and parody songs that have been
Speaker 1: created for the Ben Mallor show. I've heard some in
Speaker 1: their entirety, but when they play as rejoins, we get
Speaker 1: just a tantalizing snippet. It would be great if you
Speaker 1: could play them fully on the Fifth Hour podcast, perhaps
Speaker 1: just one each week, maybe at the end of the
Speaker 1: Friday show. Call it something like the Fifth Hour Friday
Speaker 1: fan Fest, and give it a lean in with some
Speaker 1: details and background about the song. People would love hearing it,
Speaker 1: and it might even encourage some more to send them in.
Speaker 1: Just the thought. That's from Danny From Danny. We did
Speaker 1: do a podcast two years ago with all the holiday songs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was Oh yeah, they're still taking up a lot
Speaker 1: of memory space in my computer here. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: that sounds like the kind of show if we did
Speaker 1: them all at once. Danny wants one a week, but
Speaker 1: we could do that as an evergreen podcast. Sure, And
Speaker 1: then if we want to take a day away where
Speaker 1: we don't do a new podcast, we can just play
Speaker 1: that the once a week may actually be a really
Speaker 1: good idea something I can look into, because the problem
Speaker 1: right now is disk space. We record a lot of podcasts.
Speaker 1: I have hundreds of your show drops, your audio drops
Speaker 1: from over the years in my computer. You pay me
Speaker 1: five dollars, I'll endorse a game magazine. I actually don't
Speaker 1: have much room left in this this Apple computer. I
Speaker 1: need a bigger memory bank, man, because in order to
Speaker 1: like have tons of songs like that in store them,
Speaker 1: it would say take up too much space. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I actually had the same problem on my end because
Speaker 1: I also have a bunch of stuff here for the
Speaker 1: podcast that I've got, And every once in a while,
Speaker 1: usually it's once every couple of months, my phone will
Speaker 1: blow up and my computer, you know, you can't download anything,
Speaker 1: you can't get any ill and I'm like, oh crap,
Speaker 1: And then I gotta spend like half an hour an
Speaker 1: hour the leading files to clear space off. These are
Speaker 1: first world problems. These are first they are they are,
Speaker 1: But if you think about it, we don't have endless
Speaker 1: space in our computers that we edit these podcasts on unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but you know, Ben, one of the goals is to
Speaker 1: get the company to pay for more hard drive space. Um,
Speaker 1: all about that action, boss, that would be great. From
Speaker 1: your lips to the big boss's ears fired and on
Speaker 1: that man, you want security and now you want hard
Speaker 1: drive space. Well, man, what do you think you're calling?
Speaker 1: Calher Mo? Man? Come on man? Anyway, this has been great,
Speaker 1: had a fun weekend, Danny. I love the super Bowl
Speaker 1: stories and the the life and times on Saturday, and
Speaker 1: I'll be back on terrestrial radio tonight, All Star Weekend
Speaker 1: in the n b A and I will be blabbing
Speaker 1: away yapping through the overnight. God only knows what we'll
Speaker 1: be talking about, but we will have an original show
Speaker 1: for you and for you only from eleven pm to
Speaker 1: three am in the West Sunday night in the Monday
Speaker 1: on the East Coast two am, two six a m.
Speaker 1: Bright and early. We'll be hanging out. And Danny, you're
Speaker 1: off today, right back tomorrow. Yeah, have the rest of
Speaker 1: this Sunday off after post production of this fine podcast.
Speaker 1: So I guess I will be watching some NBA All
Speaker 1: Star action saying thanks again, five stars on the podcasts
Speaker 1: send us an email to let us know what you're
Speaker 1: doing while you're listening to the podcast. I'm curious what's
Speaker 1: going on on the other side of the podcast. So
Speaker 1: have a great day and we'll talk to you next time. Later.
Speaker 1: Skater gotta murder, I gotta go.