WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Security & Hard Drive Space?" Mail Bag 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:05.520 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.720 a week was enough, I think again. He's the last 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:12.440 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.520 He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.600 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.360 of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:30.840 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:36.479 everywhere and it is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.280 and Danny g Radio. You have made it back into 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:45.479 the audio, do Joe, as we are hanging out with 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:50.000 you only in the podcast format eight days a week. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.920 Danny slaving away there on his radio show with Covino 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.000 and Rich and I've got the overnight show your Boso 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:03.120 we Oin Forces on the weekend for you for your 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.559 entertainment pleasure. Danny, it's Sunday and that means it's mail. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.120 We got a lot of mail to get through. Are 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.200 you ready? Are you gonna buckle up for the mail bag? 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.399 Real quick? I got a mail bag question for you. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:19.040 Have you turned your attention to the NBA yet a 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:24.360 little bit? I'm not fully in, but I I will 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.479 tell you the trade deadline I gotta look excited. There 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.880 were some big trades in the NBA that got me 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.959 jones up a little bit, and then I have been watching. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.080 I've been trying to watch a little bit more every night, 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.560 little by little as I'm getting ready for the show. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.399 But I'm not fully on board because we still have 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.360 this obviously is an All Star weekend in the NBA, 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:51.480 and then we've got another couple of months before the playoffs. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.400 The playoffs don't really they don't get going until mid April, right, 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.840 so we've still got a ways to go. You know. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.920 Somebody sent me the Dodgers spring training schedule you terday, 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.960 and I was like, I don't know if I'm ready 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.520 for baseball yet. Oh I'm ready. I'm more excited about 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.320 spring training baseball than I've ever been. It is going 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.560 to be such a ship show in baseball with all 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.760 these new FUGHAISI rules that the weird scientist commissioners put 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.840 in and all these hard old baseball people. I was 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.440 talking to a guy that has worked in baseball for 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.320 probably as long as I've been alive, maybe not that long. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.240 But this guy, he's like, you know, and he loves 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.519 base but he works in baseball He's like, the players 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.560 are so stubborn in our sport. They're so pig headed. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.560 It is going to be fascinating. It's a it's like 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.480 a great science experiment when they tell the pictures they 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.440 can't fidget on the mound or then the runner can 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.760 steal second, and they can't throw, and you get called 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.360 for a box and like all these weird rules and 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.560 if you don't throw the ball fast enough, all of this. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.680 Because I mentioned this on the radio show this weekend, 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.520 I don't know if people everybody, maybe you missed it. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.720 It's because because of the nerds. It's because they let 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.800 the nerds in baseball, Danny. This is my theory, because 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.800 baseball is like, we need home runs. So they juiced 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.440 the balls up they had home running. But then everyone 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.240 who runs these baseball teams, they all said, okay, we'll 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.639 just play bare league softball and we'll try to get walks, 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.560 and we'll try to hit home runs, and we won't 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.720 give a shit about singles, and who cares about anything 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:27.440 other than home runs or or walks, and and strikeouts 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.680 don't matter. And so now baseball is like, well, we 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.000 have to artificially make it like it used to be 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.480 in the seventies and the eighties, where the stolen base 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.320 is important and the goal is obvious. They want to 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.040 they want to artificially create more action because there's not 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.240 enough action in baseball. But how they're going about doing 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.520 that is going to mess up the axis of baseball 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.960 and it'll be it'll be fun to watch. How many 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.040 spring training stadiums did you go by when you were 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.320 in Phoenix for the last week at the Super Bowl. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.200 I didn't see any. You didn't any. I went by 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:08.680 the Angels facility and Tempe, the Chicago Cubs. I guess 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.520 that's in Mesa. Uh. There were like three or four 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.040 others that we just like randomly. We were in Uber 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.200 and like, hey, look there's the spring training home or 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.360 the Giants were in Fairness. I was traveling at night 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.680 when it was dark, but we did fly over one 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.160 of the stadiums. I don't know which one. Yeah, I mean, 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.200 they're every couple of miles. It's insane, and they're all 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.200 within the greater Phoenix area. You can't go more than 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.599 like eight miles from a spring training stadium in Phoenix. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.600 So all right, let's get to it. These are actual 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.920 messages from actual listeners. But by the way, before we 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.240 get the mail are you watching the NBA? Daniel you 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.560 Jones up for the NBA? Are you're excited because more 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.800 Bomba as a Laker. I'm halfway there. Bomba and the 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:55.039 new Editions have looked pretty decent, so you know, they're 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.400 like just a couple of games away from being a 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.480 six seed all the sudd it's so exciting. I know 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.560 we'll see what happens after the All Star break, but no, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.080 I mean they made some decent moves there. Yeah, you 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:11.839 didn't get Bones though, Bones Highland, he's a Clipper. Bones 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:16.000 Highland is a Clipper. What is still wrong with the Clippers? 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:22.359 Eric Gordon's back. I've always liked the Angelo, you know, 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.240 when he was with the Wolves. When he was with 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.640 the Timberwolves, I was watching him like, why couldn't the 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.880 Lakers keep one of those young guys? So now it 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.599 feels like speaking of artificial, feels like the Lakers never 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.599 let him go even though he's played for every other 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:44.400 team in the NBA, the ultimate basketball hobo. All right, So, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.640 as far as the mail bag is concerned, let's get 0:05:46.720 --> 0:06:04.400 right to it. OHIOO. It's first one is from Lee 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.680 in Phoenix. He says, Ben, what happened? I was waiting 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.040 to meet you and the Phoenix Mallard militia and nothing. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.520 Please tell us the whole story. Yes, Lee, I'd like 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:20.120 to apologize on behalf of myself and and that's it. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.760 I will apologize on behalf of myself. So I was 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:28.000 under the impression, Lee, that the NFL experience would include 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.760 Radio Row. So my original plan was to have listeners 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.000 come down to Radio Row and meet them. I thought 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.200 this would be great, accomplished the daily double, I do 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.880 the show, I'd meet listeners, they could watch me do 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:45.760 the show. What great fun this would be. Well, then 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.800 I didn't know until I got to the Radio Row 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:53.520 that the NFL had segregated us. As I said, they 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:58.680 put us away from everyone else private. It was a 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.480 private thing. We had to take a bus to go 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.840 back and hang out with the cool people, and it was. 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.839 It was a mess, and so I was piste off 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.440 by that. But then I was like, Okay, I'll find 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.800 a restaurant and I put it out on social media. 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.480 I was like, we'll go to a restaurant on Friday, 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.680 and a listener there were two listeners that reached out 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.200 that are big fans of the show. One of them 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.400 he owns a restaurant in Phoenix. He was going to 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.160 get back to me on specifics. The other one is 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.960 this kid that works at Arizona State who's a very 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.880 smart man, plays a lot of great trivia, very good 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.400 at trivia. He gave me the name of his restaurant. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:38.840 So then I was like, Okay, well maybe I'll meet 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.320 at that restaurant. UM. And then I got called in 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.000 to work the extra show, The Odd Couple, and that 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.240 was the time I was planning on meeting the listeners. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.880 So that got shot out of the water. And then 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.840 by the time I got done, I was I just 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.000 crashed and I didn't have I was unable to set 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.160 something up. So I apologized Lee, I meet you, I 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.119 still want to meet you, and all the other people 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.320 that reached out that were bummed out. I feel like 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.560 a total schmuck. I really thought it was gonna work out. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.800 I thought this would be easy. It turned out to 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.080 be like the Rubik's cube. It was not easy to solve. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.320 It became problematic. UM, and I will be back and 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.280 I it's on my list of things to do. I 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.320 would like to meet a bunch of listeners this year. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.800 That's the goal. We couldn't do anything during COVID. We 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.480 had a meet and greet in l A last year 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.720 that went very well. We had a great turnout for that, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.720 and so my goal is to do as many of 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.360 these things as I can do. It's not cheap to travel, 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:42.960 that is a problem, and you you gonna pay money out 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.320 of my own pocket. The company's not paying for me 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.960 to travel. They were actually at the super Bowl, but 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.880 not normally, so we'll make it happy. Um. So that's 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.040 that's what went down. Lee, it was Phoenix. You haven't 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.320 Oh no, I'll be back. I will. I will be 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.319 back there too to enjoy ay. Uh not Marley's. I 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:03.880 won't be back at Marley's, but some of the other 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.480 restaurants I'll be back in. Next up is Terry from England. 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.640 He says, hey guys, hey, Ben, how long how long 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.320 was the planning for the Super Bowl trip for you? Ben? 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.079 How much advanced noticed did you get? That's from Terry 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:22.000 from England? Uh? Not very much, Terry, first of all, 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.880 and Danny knew you knew you were going for some time. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.959 I was in a holding pattern. Is the way I 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.680 would describe it. I was told I probably will be 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.760 able to go, but I did not know the weekend 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:43.600 before I went. It was not completely confirmed and I 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.319 didn't want to jinx anything. But it did not get 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:52.600 completely green lighted until less than a week before I 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:57.240 had landed in Phoenix. It was that close to not happen. Yeah. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.679 The way our boss explained it to me was the 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.719 la piece of your puzzle he had been waiting on 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.120 was whether or not security and all that would be 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.280 in place for you to be able to broadcast live 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.880 at your time. So once he got the thumbs up 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.440 on that, that's when he confirmed it with you. And 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.400 the bad news. The bad news from my boss is 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.319 now that we know that security is there around the clock, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.760 that in future Super Bowls, there's no reason for me 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.439 not to go because now we know that I will 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.880 be the most protected man in radio that that there 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.679 would be you know, seven thousand security guards from my 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.880 fat asked at Radio Row. So there's nothing to worry about, um. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.280 But I hope that answers your question, Terry. So it 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.120 was very last minute, and we mentioned the hotel issues 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:46.679 and all that, but it was great to be there 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.280 and a lot of fun. It was great to see everybody. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.480 I had a good conversation with our our big boss, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.000 Don Martin, who I don't get to see very often. Mom, Maya, 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.080 come on down, Ma Maya and let me of them 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.440 coming to my already here for you, Maya. What I mean? 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.800 We had to pay him over time, but what to 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.480 do for you? Because you're a legend, my man, You're 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.880 worth it, my man, We're family. We're family here, my man. Anyway. Alright, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:17.240 So John from Peoria, Illinois emails in on the mailbag. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.680 He is next. He says, Hey, Ben, uh, this is random, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:25.040 he said, did Jerick mckinnons slide before the goal line 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.760 screw yourself or Danny g out of a large sum 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.680 of money like it did myself. I needed him to 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.640 score for the final leg of my parlay. Yeah, so 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.400 that that was the famous play. Kansas City was trying 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.319 to run out the clock and kick the game winning 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.199 field goal. Philadelphia looked like they were allowing him to 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:50.160 score the touchdown and McKinnon slid down and it was 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.040 the right thing to do, Yeah, but it wasn't the 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.320 fun thing to do with such a good game. Yeah, 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.880 it bothered me more than the penalty, you know, Yeah, 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.400 that's a penalty. Can call it if you want. But 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.959 what bothered me was him sliding and then Mahomes dropping 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.840 like a bag of potatoes a couple of times. It 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.360 reminded me of the way the stupid Pro Bowl ended 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:19.000 with Kirk Cousins. You know the vibe I got from Mahomes, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:26.960 I got Lebron James, Steph Curry hamming it up, milking 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.240 an injury, playing to the cameras. That's the vibe. I 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.120 guy like Mahomes is a showman. Yeah, that last drive, 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.440 because there's no way he was hurting that bad and 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.400 he's able to run that well. Yeah, there's a lot 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.079 of embellishment going on. And I'm starting to think that 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:49.680 initial high ankle sprain. I don't know what he was hurt, 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.000 but it was It was not a high ankle sprayed. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.680 That's bullshit, because a high ankle sprains a six week injury. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.040 You don't come back and play at that level. I 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.880 don't care what kind of pharmaceuticals they shoot you up with. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.880 I'm not buying that. I I've injured my ankle, I've 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.240 had a high ankles, but I know I'm not a 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:11.360 professional athlete, but I'm not back. Hell, I hurt my knee. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.360 I know, I'm a middle aged man. I hurt my knee. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.840 It took me like three months for that thing to 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.880 heal my knee. You know, I I was, I was 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:26.880 hurting all right. Next up, you have a Hutch from Richmond, Virginia, 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.679 the Great Hutch Rights and he says, hey, Ben and 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.760 Danny g do you guys ever sleep? And Ben, did 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.640 your wife come with you to the Radio Row festivities? Yes? 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.439 I was very happy that my wife was able to 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.880 join me with a good time hanging out and she 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.920 got to Actually I didn't know this was even possible. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.520 And I told her as, I, I can't really get 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.080 you in, you know, you're gonna have to be at 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.559 the hotel. And she's like, okay, I'll do my own thing. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.480 And then I showed up on that Thursday and I 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.280 ran into Jonas and onus at his wife with him 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.200 and his his kid, and I was like, wait a minute, 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.840 how'd she getting here? And Jonahs is like, yeah, yeah, 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.599 you talk to this person and that person and you 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.800 get a pass and so so that was pretty cool 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.719 and up big thanks to to Jade. She she was 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.320 able to to take care of that. So that was 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.080 that was pretty cool. She she visited, and as I 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.440 said in the previous podcast, touch, I think the whole 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.160 time I was in Arizona, which was like three days, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.960 I got about an hour's sleep per day, so I 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.760 got like three hours told, I think I got to 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.360 I got one hour of sleep going there, and then 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.480 two hours of sleep and then that was it while 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.560 I was there. So not not an ideal situation. Next 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.160 up on the mailbag, Kyrie, our guy Kyrie, he's the 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.160 Kyrie we like in Okay. See. He says, Hey, gentlemen, 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.920 my wife has been watching football for with me, rather 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.720 for two years now. It's freaking us. I can't believe 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.120 she's sitting down watching games with me. The question is, 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.800 do your wives watch any sports with you, guys, or 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.480 maybe attend some sporting events live? Since sports are your 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.480 job and very important to all of you guys and 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.520 all of us. I just wondering anyway, As always, much 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:23.440 love from Kyrie in Okay See. So I'll go first. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.400 Any Um, my wife does not have the sports gene. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.200 She's not a sports fan. She will not watch games 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.280 on TV with me. She claims that it's hard to 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.880 keep track of where the ball is. No matter what sport, 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.440 the ball could be the size of the moon, you know. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.480 But she does like going to games, which seems like 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.880 a good idea until you realize the cost of going 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.160 to the games and it. Does she like watching the 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.760 game in her seat? Or does she like shopping at 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.560 the little memorabilia stands and the food stands? No, my 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.800 wife likes the vibe. She enjoys the you know, the 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.200 energy of the cry out, and she likes the different 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.320 foods you can get that her price gouging you and 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.320 things like that. She's into that as far as the 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.680 actual being a purist of the game and that kind 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.120 of it. Not what about you did your your lady, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.120 she's into it or no kinda you know. I have 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:22.160 something similar to Kyrie with football. So my girl really 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.040 loves the Dodgers. She's a baseball fan, so we connected 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.840 with that when we first met baseball with her kids, 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.320 they all grew up on the baseball diamond, so she's 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.840 a baseball mom and her family the Raider fans. But 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.920 she didn't know the ins and outs of NFL football. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.720 So she's watched football. She's chaired on the Raiders, but 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.800 she doesn't understand all the rules of football. Until two 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.200 years ago she started sitting down watching the games with 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.200 me and I started explaining all the rules to her 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.600 that she wasn't familiar with. And now, Ben, this year, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.080 this past season was the very first season where she 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.400 watched all the games from the beginning of the season 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.679 until the Super Bowl, and she was really proud of herself. 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.320 I'm proud of her. That's cool, that's great. And you 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.320 took her to the game. You guys went to veg 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.760 see a game, so that was neat. She got to 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.000 see the famous Chandler Jones ending one of the great 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.840 games that we've seen. Amazing ending to an NFL game. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.639 You're not gonna get much better than that, certainly not 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.760 for a regular season game. Next up, John from Dallas, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.600 Texas writes in he says, hey, Ben and Danny g 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.560 when downloading the Fifth Hour podcast, does it benefit you 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.479 guys more to download it from the Fifth Hour page 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.280 or the Ben Maller Show page or does it not 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.359 make any difference. That's a great question. I do not 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.000 know the answer to that. Do we get the same 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.400 credit whether it's the Fifth Hour page or the Ben 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.080 Mallard page. We do get the same credit, Okay, so 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.000 it doesn't matter. They go as long as you listen. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:55.639 And how many minutes do we need? Dan is at 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.200 one minute? Are we the one minute man? Here? I 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.240 think it's five minutes If I'm not taking five minutes. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.000 If you give us five minutes, even if you find 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:09.960 us boring and repulsive and dreadful, we just suck. Five 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.240 minutes is all we need. You give us five minutes. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.119 We're good, That's all we we. We asked just five 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.720 good minutes. And you know once you do that, you 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.679 know it's it's you're good to go. Yeah, speaking of wives, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.840 that's all they ask as well. Uh. Next up is 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.040 Mike from Fullerton, he writes, and he says, a great 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.359 job from radio role last week. Guys, would either of 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:38.159 you be able to handle four days in a darkness retreat? Allah? 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:43.119 Aaron Rodgers, do you think eating or using the bathroom 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:49.840 would be a problem in pitch blackness? Uh? He says, 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.760 that's the first party says also, I'd like to thank 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.920 Danny g for drawing my name out of a hat 0:18:55.160 --> 0:19:02.080 for Caveno and Rich Bribery balls. Now I really need 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:06.040 some Ben Mallard merch to go with it, Please consider 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:12.399 selling a Ben Mallow Show themed pog set. Yeah, that's 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.480 just what I need, you know. Maybe I'll do that 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.920 as a gag for Mike friend of fur Dog. Maybe 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:24.200 I'll do that. But the darkness retreat, I'm good on that. 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.000 I don't need that, And I do think going to 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.240 the bathroom would be a problem as far as the 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.879 aim is concerned. And it's hard enough aiming when the 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.520 lights are on. I can't imagine trying to aim without 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:42.919 without any lights on. And the eating, I kind of 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:44.639 like to look at what I'm eating, you know what 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.199 I'm saying. If I'm Aaron Rodgers, in other words, I 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:52.040 have his kind of money. I'm going on an ocean retreat, 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.800 a five star ocean retreat. That's what I'm doing. Five stars, baby, 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:01.720 I'm going to the four seasons. I'm getting room service, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:06.000 I'm getting massages, I'm getting happy endings, and that is 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.960 going to clear my mind. Well that's a fair But 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.959 wouldn't you not get the same experience being away from 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.200 civilization if if you were in the middle of the 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:18.639 Mighty Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean and there's no land 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:23.119 for hundreds and hundreds of miles. Wouldn't that be the 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:27.160 same environment You are away from the world, you're on 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.680 your own. I know, you know it's different because the 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.360 lights up a lie, but the concept of being away 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:38.600 from civilization and caught up in your own thoughts. If 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:40.919 I'm sitting on a yacht looking out at the ocean, 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.760 I'm thinking I'm wondering what's going on? Or just sit 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.120 on a private beach with his money again, he could 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.040 have your level of security you had at Radio Row 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.879 and have that slice of beach to himself. Just stare 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.080 out at the ocean and make up your mind on 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:01.320 where you want to go next. John from Northern Colorado 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.240 is next, he says. Guys, have either of you sat 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:08.200 through a never ending chick flick on a date? I 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:13.119 thought the bridges of Madison County would never end, John says, 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:19.040 and I had terrible gas the entire time. So yeah, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.240 I mean, Plus, we've all done it as men. We've 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.760 all we've all taken one for the team here and 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:32.240 attempted to impress a young lady that we were dating. Um, 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.399 I'm trying to remember. I don't, I don't. I blocked 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:36.800 it all out. I don't remember a specific chick flick. 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:39.040 But I did spend a lot of time. And I 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.000 love going to the movies on dates because I didn't 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.040 have to talk. It was great. I could just sit 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:44.560 there and watch the movie. I didn't have to talk 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:46.560 to her and all that. It was wonderful. What about 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:53.200 your Yeah, and the Hallmark movies come to mind, especially seasonal, 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.840 you know, and November and December roll around. You know 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.720 that your girl is going to have some of those 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:04.679 easy and corny Christmas movies on, and they expect you 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:07.520 to cuddle with them and watch the movies. But if 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:11.399 you do your part, they will give back for the 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.960 you know, the season of giving the end of the yang. 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:18.399 Is that that works? Okay? I got you. You scratch 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:23.760 my back, I'll scratch something else or whatever. You all right? Gary, 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:27.119 the instigator writes, any this is from Valentine's Day the 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.560 other day, but I think it still holds up. He said, 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.840 would either of you guys be up to this Valentine's 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:36.560 Day challenge swap your phone with your spouse for a 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:40.880 day If anyone says they would accept, with the others 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.480 on the show called b So, I guess between me 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:47.240 and you, I don't know why what would you accomplish 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.280 by that? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I mean, 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:53.000 there's nothing that exciting going on in my phone. Once 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:56.520 you're in a serious relationship and you're not a douche bag, 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:00.560 there's nothing that exciting on your phone, and that would 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:04.000 you know, trigger some sort of fight. Now, when you're 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.000 in your twenties, maybe your thirties, and you're kind of 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:12.000 immature and you are unsure about commitment and maybe you're 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:14.639 juggling a couple of different people in your phone or 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:18.479