August 9, 2026 • 41 mins
The Sunday Mailbag is supersized because apparently nobody believes in portion control anymore, with Robbie the Mariners Fan returning to the No. 2 chair for another Odyssey through the warped mind of Maller. The fellas examine the mysterious power of Maller+, dig through the dusty archives of classic Maller Music, revisit the historic summit of Mr. T and Benny, and investigate the silent side hustle—because the best hustle is apparently one nobody knows exists. Plus, there’s a 162-year-old bottle of beer that somehow aged better than most of us, Super El Niño doing Super El Niño things, 306-year-old records getting smashed, and someone swimming across the Baltic Sea, which seems like an awful lot of effort when boats have been around for quite some time. It’s history, mystery, maritime stupidity and Mailbag madness—all stuffed into one ridiculous Sunday serving of The Fifth Hour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboobs boo.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maler,
As we slide into the mail bag on this Sunday,
the ninth day of August, reunited.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And it feels so good as we complete the circle.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We complete the circle.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The mail bag, and we pull out the old wheel
old fun.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
We spin the wheel of fun. Who is on the
mail bag?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Is gonna be marcell in Brooklyn, is gonna be just
In in Cincinnati, the Leprechaun Poppy who knows tradinas in Seattle?
Who's it going? He's gonna be Bree Big money, big money,
big money, Stop and Lucky. Looky there in the mail
bag number two chair. We say hello to the man,
(01:19):
the myth, the legend, Robbie the Mariner fan.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
What's going on? Everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Welcome in, Robbie, welcome in. You are a man of honor.
You are a man that actually returns messages and doesn't
take three hours to return messages. So I appreciate that.
It means a lot, and we love having you.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Robbie.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
We might have to start paying you. You've been on
the mail bag so much, Robbie, my god.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
But yeah, yeah, I don't know what to say about that.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
No, I do, thank you for being available, and we're
gonna we're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
A good time.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
And before we get started, ohio, alp, please get me
in the mood on this ninth day of August.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
It's alrighty, alright, so what do we got here?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Eenie meenie, miny mo pick a message from Alf the
Alien opinter from the commode in.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The leadoff chair.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Alf says, greeting's been and Mallard Plus sponsored Guest of
the week. Yes, the number two chair is made possible
by Mallard Plus and if you want to be part
of it, you have to sign up for Malard Plus.
And then we have a raffle for those that are
active members of Mallard Plus, like Robbie the Mariner, fan
(02:53):
Alf says, is it true that the only reason you
spoke of your colonoscopy so that you could label the
podcast as your shittiest episode ever? Acquiring minds want to know.
PS listeners act now. If you're not already a Malad
Plus subscriber, sign up today before the California podcast export taxes.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Subscription price will never be cheaper than it is today.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
That's good bullshit there from our buddy in the Commonwealth
Alf the Alien opiner. Yeah, I really wanted to embrace
the shittiest podcast ever.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I thought that would have been perfect.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
And so we did that and survived the colonoscopy, and
we'll do it again. Before you know, it'll be time
to do another tremendous colonoscopy, so freaking exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Cannot wait it.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Well, actually, wasn't that bad. It was not speaking of
the price difference. I was reading this story, and this
was not nobody emailed us in. But I was reading
a story earlier that some dude died a couple of
years ago, and there was this debate about where did
you live.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Do you live in Connecticut or Florida?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And the difference is a thirteen million dollar tax bill
from the state of Connecticut, and of course the estate's like, well, no,
you lived in Zero Beach, which is the Dodgers used
to train. We called it Zero Beach back in the day.
But I heard it's a lot better now than it
was back then. But anyway, Yeah, So imagine that you
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live your life in the same country. You're in Connecticut,
and you you go to Florida, and then it's thirteen
million dollars more to live in Connecticut. I've been to Connecticut.
I've been to a lot of Florida. I've been to
all of Florida've been to a lot of Florida. I
haven't spent any time in the Redneck Riviera, but other
than that, I've been around. And thirteen million dollars difference insane, insane, right, insane.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Of the Membran. It's like, come on, really, what are
we doing here. I've talked about this in the past.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I don't know if it with you, Robbie or not,
but we talked about when you make a lot of money,
and financial advisors will tell you the two things that
you do is first of all, most important is you
move to Florida or Texas.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But Florida is the one to move to.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And then the other thing is you want to start
a nonprofit because it's a way to money money launder, you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Know, essentially.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I mean you can hire your friends and family and
pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and
it's all because of the nonprofit, you know, because they're.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They're doing bookkeeping at the nonprofit.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
They had a zoom meeting on the nonprofit. So that's
worth like, you know, seventy five thousand dollars. So it's
a good way to do it. But that's insane, thirteen
million dollars, thirteen million. That's why people retire to Florida
because they getting they get to keep most of their
money or a lot more so.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Anyway, Oregon has some weird tax things too, with in
terms of if you die and they estimate your net
worth of everything you own and clean your house over
a million dollars, they take a ton of it that
you can't pass on. So like, that's one of the
reasons there's so few I think there's only like one
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billionaire left in the orgon is because they all move
when they get old because they don't they or they
want to be able to pass some of it along
to their relatives and their you know, like their kids
and everything.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
So oh yeah, you know it's it's crazy, like the
whole death tax thing, which is both federal and on
the local level. I didn't really know much about it,
so I lost my parents and it was in craziness.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It was like, you got to be kidding me.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
So you work your entire life and you try to
do it to help out the next generation. And Uncle
Sam's like, we're the next generation.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
We get exactly. You don't get that money. We get
that money. I'm like, well, wait, how the hell does
that work? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Outback John and Joanna write in says, hey, big Ben
and special guests. We know this is a little late,
and with all due respect to Dick and Dayton and
ohio Al, we thought Marcel in Brooklyn and Jay's scoop
song was.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The best malady.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
There have been so many songs written about the show,
especially holiday songs that we only get to hear during
the holiday season. So our question is, has anybody thought
about creating a channel or a podcast that collaborates all
of them so we can listen to them whenever we want.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's from Outback John and Joanne.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
We had this request when I was doing the podcast
with Danny g before he quit and at least quit
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But we we were.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Like, ah, I think we did a holiday special one.
I remember doing a year where we put all the
songs in for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I'd be open to it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
That's a lot of work, though, and yeah, so a
lot of putting this stuff together and tracking it down,
and a lot of the songs are older.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We had so many songs during the pandemic. It was crazy.
It was so much fun because everyone had free.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Time and they were bored out of their mind and
so people were putting songs together right and left.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And I mean it.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Were really good songs too. These were not like crappy songs.
These were solid and professionally done songs.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
No, I know some of the stuff during COVID there
was a couple that I was like, oh, that's going
to go viral. None of them really broke containment per se.
But yeah, the song the Jayscoop one, I missed sports.
If you would release that not right, if you would
released it back when sports was in its peak of
being absent in terms of I think he finally released
(08:48):
the song on your show like a week before baseball
came back. I still think that song would have gone
viral because it sounded just like a Blink one eighty
two song.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh yeah it was, Yeah it was. It was really good.
So yeah, well, well think about it and were always
looking for things over the holidays which will be here.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Before you know it, to try to get that going on.
Let's see what do we have? Kwang from Ho Chi Minh,
Vietnam guaranteed human and he says big Ben. On our
one of Tuesday's Original Recipe podcast, you mentioned that you
didn't have enough time to watch the loquacious about your
mister t story.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Do you have time now? We'd love to hear the
full story.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
That's Quang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, who still wants
me to eat that macaroni and cheese pizza, which for
some reason I thought I was going to eat last
week and then the address got messed up, so I
guess I'm not going to eat it.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I don't know what happened, but claying. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
So, when I worked in local LA radio, we had
a guy named Mike Thompson who was our program director,
and Mike loved to hire He loved the pulse stunts.
They don't really they don't really do radio stunts anymore.
Back in those days, you know, that's thirty years ago almost,
we did a lot of radio stunts, and I love
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radio sh.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Stick and stunts. It's just so much fun. And so
he thought, well, to get attention for the radio station,
we should hire some were in LA. We were doing
only a local LA sports talk.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Why don't we hire some big entertainment people and we'll
give them like one hour a day to do a
midday show. How bad could that be? You know, they
can't really f that up, and we'll get a lot
of publicity. Keep in mind, this was in the days
before the internet really was a thing, and it was
much like AOL.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Was the internet, if you know what that is.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So it's a lot. So he's like, yeah, we got
one hour, call in a lunch with whoever. And so
there were two people that they originally brought in, as
I remember, to do the show. One of them was
this actor named Eric Estrada who played Pontarella on this
very popular nineteen seventies eighties TV shitt called Chips.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Which is before Robbie's time. Yeah, you have no idea
who that is. But I mean when I was a kid,
that was a popular show and it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And then after that there was a gentleman named mister
T who had been popular in the again in the eighties.
This is in the nineties, and mister T had had
some financial problems. It was in the tabloids and so
I forget exactly what happened as I remember it, and
then the boss is like, we're gonna have mister T.
(11:25):
So they brought in these guys, these two actors to
end up possibly doing the mid day show, and I guess.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
They didn't offer them enough money. It didn't work out.
They couldn't hammer out a deal, so they ended up
hiring well, there were two people they end up hiring.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
The first one we hired was Carl Malone, the NBA
player Karl Malone, who was playing for the Utah Jazz
at the time. So I did a show following well,
I was following Karl Malone.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I was doing the midday show.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And then that ended way longer than it was supposed
to be, and they hired this quarterback who had some
success in the NFL named Terry Bradshaw to do an
hour show, but mister T was originally the guy they wanted,
and so he was in the building. And you understand
you're younger than me, Robbie, but like for me, growing
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up like those, I didn't have the Interweb.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So we watched a lot of TV. And I love Chips,
which was what that Eric Destrata actor was on, and
I love The A Team, which is what mister T
was on. So for me, it was like, oh my god,
this is crazy. These guys are in the building.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And they were they're going to do a radio show,
and I was like, whoa, that's wild anyway, So there
is that.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
What else do we have? Let's see page down all right.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
This one is from Maddie from Parts Unknown. He says, Ben,
I saw your old morning guy Klay Travis is going
to a new website.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Are you going to be working for him? That is okay?
First of all, sign your name number two.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
No, I have a I have a deal with Fox
Sports Radio, so I do not believe I will be
leaving Fox Sports Radio to go.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Work for Clay.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Now, if he wants to offer me one hundred million dollars,
we can revisit that, but but no, I'm happy for Clay.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I guess he sold out Kick.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Yeah, I saw something about that, But then he still
like retweets their articles every day, so I don't know
if he's still involved with it. It was kind of confusing.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I have no idea. I'm not in that area. I
just try to get through the day. I wish I
had the business acimym of Clay, and Clay was great
when he's the morning show for us, and I got
nothing bad to say about the guy. I just don't
deal in that world like he deals in the corporate
world he deals with those people.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't really I wish I did.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I'd probably have a lot more money and all that,
and it would be great. And you know, stay in
your lane, which sometimes it's better off not to stay
in your lane.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Sometimes it's good to change lanes. So I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Good for Clay if he starts a new website, more
power to him. Bury from Tilton Head, South Carolina for now,
says Yo Yo, Ma Benny and friend. I am a
Tigers fan, so I thought I would watch the Dodgers broadcast.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Of school Bitching in his LA debut. If the Dodgers
are a world class baseball organization, how is it that Jessica.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Mendoza is the TV color commentator? My god, is she horrible? Yeah, well,
she's not a lot. I mean, there's a lot of
broadcasters that are absolutely objectively terrible.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Barry, I do not care for.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Jessica Mendoza's work on television. I do not watch when
she's on. I don't don't. I don't think the Dodgers
actually have very good broadcasters at all. Unfortunately, you know,
go from anybody after Vince Scully is a downgrade. I
just think they're pretty mediocre there with the Dodgers, so
I usually end up watching the other team. But then
these other teams are not there that good either. I
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was talking to a buddy of mine the other day
and we were like, well, there's probably like five out
of thirty teams, there's five of them that have really
good broadcast teams.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Five of them. That's it. Out of thirty, that's not good.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, there wasn't.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
There wasn't initiative both in the NBA and in baseball
and hockey all three, I guess, to get more women
involved in the broadcast. And so you'll see like these
token things like the Red Sox this week did an
all women broadcast, which I think they have the same
woman that comes to all these things and just does
the play by play.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Whatever it's it's still there. I if they're good, that's fine.
Anybody doing the broadcast.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
If it's good.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I just have not found it to be very for
my taste, it's not very good.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Robbie, you big. Jessica Mendoza fan a fan of these broadcasters.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Here.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
She was on Sunday Night Baseball a couple of years ago,
wasn't she? And I that's kind of yeah. No, I
mean I will say she's okay compared to everybody else,
but every but like you said, if you would have
told me, what's the number of like non of games
where I don't mute the TV for baseball anymore, it's
about five. So and she's definitely on the mutable list.
(16:04):
So yeah, I kind of agree with you.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah, Like I don't know the athletics. I don't know
what they're doing, Like maybe they just don't want.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
That, they don't want category of bad for anyone to watch.
I guess I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I mean, my god, the thing that blows me away
about this is that there's no quality control. Like you
think there would be some quality control. It just doesn't
seem like that's the case. Thank you, very good luck.
I feel like you've been saying you're looking to relocate,
looking to leave, and it's been years. Reggie from Detroit
writes in says, Ben, I haven't heard you fill in
(16:41):
much during any local shows in a while. What happened
to your side hustle? Thanks, I'll take my answer off there.
Yes you will, Reggie off the air. No, so I
am available.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You know, I don't like to do too much of
that stuff because of my sleep schedule.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Every once in a while I'll do it. I have
not been asked. Well, maybe I sucked at it. I
guess I don't know, but not just like La. I'll
fill in anywhere. I'll pop up. And I've done a
lot of hits like radio interview stuff I don't always
send out on X.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Radio. People and where was I?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I was on in North Dakota, a couple of places
in Canada, Guy in Edmonton, did a morning show in Florida.
There's a few things I've done, the hosting of the show. Yeah,
there's also politics involved in it, Reggie.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
People at the station.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Don't want some national guy filling in locally, so that
becomes a problem.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
But yeah, more than open. If somebody wants me to
fill in every once in a while, I'd be happy.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
To do it if I can work the schedule out
do ale. I don't want to do more than a
couple hours here and there. Matt from the Bay Right
since has been lots of drama O rama, as you
would say here in the Bay Area with k NBR
letting go of Greg Popa while he's in a battle
with cancer. I was disappointed you didn't talk about it
on your show. I figured you knew about it. What
(18:04):
did you think? That's from another very popular guy's named Matt.
So this guy said he's in the Bay Area. Yeah,
so ay, I did see the story.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
We are on the other station in San Francisco, so
I kind of stayed away from it for those reasons.
I don't know Greg Papa well. I met him a
few times way back. He used to be the voice
of the Golden State Warriors and a really good play
by play guy did the Raiders. I think he did
every Bay Area team at one point or another. The
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guy's a freaking legend. In northern California, as you know, Matt.
And it's a shame. I mean, you could not have
a worse look for a radio station. Like you wonder
how incompetent some of these people are that they're like.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Well, this is a good idea.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
We're going to fire one of the more popular people
in this recent two generations of Bay Area media while
he has cancer. What could possibly go wrong with that?
I mean, it's an awkward situation because how do you
handle that. They obviously wanted to make a change, he
had apparently been away. It's just a lack of human kindness,
(19:07):
which jame and it's it's just I A had a
bunch of my radio people, Robbie that were messaging me
about this, and it's it's just like you're so tone death,
you're so obtuse if you're in management that.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You don't even realize like this is gonna get out
and it's just not worth it. It's like, what do
you what do you.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Know now that there's other opposites of that, there's other
extremes like you don't need to go the other direction,
like the Dodgers who every year send out a press
release because one of their former players is schizophrenic and
they have to Oh yeah, they'll sign up for his
insurance and they make sure to send out the press.
Really it's like groundhog Day. Oh it's setting the announcement. See,
you don't need to do that either. There's a middle
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ground somewhere, like there's a middle ground somewhere.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So I wish all all goodwill, good vibrations to Greg Pop.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Although the guy was at amazing run as a broadcaster,
and hopefully he can beat this thing. And I guess
he's not going to be able to get back and
do the forty nine ers because of a situation. It's
hard to do play by play from home unless it's
a pandemic.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Apparently not a pandemic, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'm not shocked, knowing what I've known about my business
of radio, which I love. Unfortunately, there's a fair amount
of this kind of activity thanks that takes place. King
Roy writes in says, dear Big Ben and Blank, and
I guess you're blank.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Probably that's worse.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
He says.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
We all know how much the malad most loves BUCkies,
and apparently BUCkies is not one to mess with. BUCkies
has filed a trademark lawsuit over an Ohio convenience store.
In the nine page civil complaint, attorneys for BUCkies outlined
three specific elements they claim infringe on their brand, the mascot,
the color red, and the name. What are your thoughts
(21:00):
on that situation? I provided a link.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, so, King Roy, I saw this. You were not
the only person I chose your email. You were not
the only person to message me about this particular story. So,
from what I understand now, Bucky is apparently very lintigious
as a business, which I don't love.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I've read that too.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
However, from what I understand, this convenience store they attempted
to get like national branding rights for this mascot. So
I guess BUCkies is claiming we were we didn't care
about this mom and pop liquor shop, which is at
the one we went to, Robbie.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
This is the is in Ohio, the BUCkies we went
to in Dayton. Remember we were that great road.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yes, that was a wild, wild night. That was fun.
That was top five night for me for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I had a wonderful time with you in Roxanne til
she fell asleep in the back of the car and sheet.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Just to pull back the curt It was wild. She
will So we were listening with Talic on the way
back to the back to Cincinnati, and she was like
dead asleep yet still singing to the songs. Remember that.
It was so wild.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
It's like Robbie, no, not you. I was hollering James,
you know James exactly. James will say my name while
he's sleeping, like he'll be fast asleep. And then Ben
very odd, very odd. So yeah, that's Roy again. So
their claim, that's their argument. You know, you might position
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on this.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
There's the Bucky's side, there's the mom and pop convenience
store side, and then there's the truth somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So I like BUCkies. I enjoy going there.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I've only been a few times, so I don't know
what you want me to do with that, but yeah,
I've been like, you'd like that not to happen. It's
bad publicity for BUCkies. Although if you read the follow up,
it seems like it's reasonable if this guy was the
small mom and pop place was trying to take them.
You know, when the logo or win a similar logo,
(23:05):
I could kind of understand that but anyway, we'll see
how that plays out in court. Kevin in Kansas emails
and you can email the mailbag for next week's episode
care of Real Fifth Hour, Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
If you'd like to be part of a future mailbag,
(23:27):
put mail bag, put mail or mail bag in the
headline on the email, and make sure to sign your
name and help us out put a city down.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Otherwise, what's the point. What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
All right, Kevin says dear Big Ben and guest star.
I'm trying to figure out what to do with my cassettes,
CDs and record albums. It's been years since I've had
something to play them on, but they still have some
special meaning to me, or for me rather in this
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day of streaming everything.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Do you have any suggestions on what I should do? Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I like the physical stuff. It's very still, very odd
to me. I know it's been this way for a
long time, but there was a point, Robbie. If you
bought a movie, you owned the movie, or.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
A video game, you own the video game.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, they're not gonna make was it PlayStation?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I read oh both Now PlayStation's official that like in
two years they're stop gonna stop making discs in their
next console, the PS six, whenever that comes out, it
won't have discs at all. But there's like heavy rumors
that Xbox. Once people kind of just get used to
the fact that there's not gonna be Sony console discs anymore,
(24:49):
Xbox will do the same thing. So, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, it's it's just something about it. Like I've had songs.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I don't I'm not a big music guy, but I've
had songs so that I've had on my one of
the music streaming things that I have, and then I'll
buy it and then it'll be like it's songs no
longer available. Well I paid for it. Well you can't
just take it back. Well we don't have access to
it right now. Well no, that's not any that should work.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So you got to make that decision, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
If you don't have any way to play it, maybe
pick out a couple that are extra sentimental to you
and then get rid of everything else. You can't really tell,
you know, what are you gonna do with it? Shane
from Dallas writes in and says, hey, Benny and whoever, Okay,
Robbie or whoever are you excited about the almost two
hundred year bottle of old bottle.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Of Guinness that was found in a shipwreck.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
And Shane says they're going to try to recreate the
original recipe of Guinness.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
This is from the eighteen sixties.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Divers recovered a one hundred and sixty two year old
bottle off the coast of England. You mentioned that this
thing is sitting in the bottom of the ocean for
one hundred and sixty two years.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Holy crap.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Uh yeah, I don't it must not have been that good.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
They didn't write it down. Well, I guess they did
in this thing, but but uh, I guess no, they didn't.
They just found a bottle of it. They're gonna they're
gonna take it to a lab, right, that's what. Yeah,
so they didn't. There's no recipe, but it was that good.
They would have written a recipe now, I guess maybe they.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Uh. When Getet's first started, wasn't it it was like
I think they just made a dramatization on Netflix. But
it was like a group of brothers that did it.
So maybe they just kind of eyeballed everything, you know,
like when someone makes a homemade recipe and they didn't
ever write down the official official first Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, well I heard that. I think we talked about
on this podcast.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I either heard it or I found the story that
Kentucky Fried Chicken the secret recipe was written on either
a back of a napkin by Colonel Sanders or something,
not a real colonel, by the way, and they like
he put one of the spices down twice, like the
eleven herbs and spices were actually like it was one
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that was repeated.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I don't remember which spice.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
It was some kind of pepper or something like that,
but that's how they did it.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Wouldn't it be amazing?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Though, in a parallel dimension, Robbie, if the one hundred
and sixty two year old recipe of Guinness they recreate it,
they sell old old Guinness, and then that becomes a
top seller. Wouldn't that be wild? If that's like, oh
my god, of course, you imagine the alcohol content that
must have been in those They didn't you know, they
didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Hell, they were doing right, They're just yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I mean, it could go either way, I know, back
in like medieval times, they put alcohol in everything because
the water wasn't safe to drink just pure water. So
that's why everyone was always drunk. Apparently I read somewhere.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Well the Funny I talked about this. I think it
was a Friday podcast that Plymouth Rock. The reason they landed.
One of the theories is why they stopped at Plymouth Rock.
They ran out of beer. On the Mayflower, they ran
out of beer, and so they just stopped there because
they know they needed their beer.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And the reason is any I guess why not just
go with it?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Leo from Sweet Home Hit Cogo rites in and says, hey, guys,
I guess I'm one of the guys, and so are
you will Mike the Leprecaun be getting a cameo in
the remake of The Leprecaun. Apparently, Leo says, lions Gate,
which is still a thing, is going to bring the
(28:32):
Leprechaun back to life. The old horror franchises are coming
back and they're they're getting on the action reviving the Leprechaun.
Wouldn't that be great, Robbie, If we did a lions
we could write the script, all right, Mike the Leprechaun
horror character and he haunts people by calling overnight talk radios.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
That's great. Another idea would be like to use some
of the zanier characters the show, like Hollering James and
Mike the lever p Kaann and just use them as
like a horror creature fest type movie, you.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Know, like that when they're speaking, let's workshop this.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
So we'll have the different characters like Mark the full
Name Guy, Jadi Fled and all that, and they're they're
all part of a secret society that has had interaction
with extraterrestrials. And every time they get on the air,
there's a subliminal message that they use that freaks out
(29:33):
certain people and then triggers them into zombie mode where
they they are foot soldiers, zombie foot soldiers that do
the bidding of the Leprechaun, Mark the full Name Guy, Poppy,
all these cats, right, they're all creatures, things that go
bumping eat bumping the night.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
There's been worse indie movies or indie graphic novels than that.
So I say let's do it.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, let's make an apple come on now.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
I have no artistic ability in terms of drawing so
we're gonna have to outsource that part of it.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, it's wazy to make that stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
I was never a Leprechaun guy in terms of the
movie stuff back in the day, So I don't really
have much to add to that.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Leo.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
If you're if that's your thing, knock yourself out. George
from Vancouver.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Writes in I love Vancouver. What a beautiful sit Have
you been to Vancouver, Robie? You're not that far away
from there?
Speaker 5 (30:21):
No, I feel guilty saying I haven't, because it's almost
within driving distance. I mean, it is kind of within
driving distance of me, but no, I have not.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
You got to take your pops go to Stanley Park
in Vancouver, beautiful, and I'll.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Hook you up with Nico.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Nico's like the Chamber of Commerce guy there in Vancouver.
He'll show you around and he knows everything and everybody there.
He's a made man in Vancouver, and it's just amazing.
I love that better than Central Park in New York.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Is Stanley Park.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Great skyline, big skyline. Guy got boat ferries, which is cool.
I don't have that. I live and good.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Things like Seattle on steroids, honestly.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Yeah, it's I did definitely get the Seattle vibe, the
Canadian version of Seattle.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
For Seattle's the US version of Vancouver or whatever. Yeah,
it's a really neat, really neat today.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
I'd like to get back there at some point anyway, George, George,
out of the question, He says, are you worried that
this super Elleno could trigger the highest sea levels ever
recorded on the California coast?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Says they're looking at a winner according to the weather models.
They're looking at a winner of.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Storm surge and coastal flooding. From George, Well, George, shouldn't
you be worried to You're on.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
The coast, the Pacific coast.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
In Vancouver, I'm not well of First, I don't live
that close to the ocean, so I'm not that worried
about that. And secondly, how many my life, we've had
a bunch of El Ninos. It's you know what I mean, Robbie,
Like this happens every so often, and it's it's one
of the most maddening things.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Like the weather hustle is next level. Yep.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
The amount of people that have been able to raise
money from all you know, global global warming, global cooling
back in the old days. Uh, it's it's a lot.
There's a lot of bullshit. Excuse my French. They're mixed
in with yeah, like I don't I'm not.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Worried about it. They always throw the word could in there.
I mean you could, yeah, sure could.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Could Anything could happen. They're like, well, if the if
the global temperatures go up like five degrees, well could
what's the percentage chance of that? Well, it's like a
one in one hundred chance. Well, it's like you get
there's a certain you know that people say, I just
want to live today, Like, yeah, it sounds kind of
what's like naive until you really think about Like it's
(32:48):
you can't worry too much about what's going to happen
in fifty and one hundred years when you should worry
what's happening where your feet are at the moment the most.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Maybe that's just me.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I genuinely agree with you, and remember the thing that
really got me there. There's a website and I don't
have it, or i'd give it out.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
It compiled.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
It goes back to the nineteen sixties and it compiles
scientists talking about end times because of weather.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
See something years.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
We're going to there was I remember one of the
headlines was We're going to run out of water.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And this is in the nineteen seventies. We're going to
run out of water.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
These are professional scientists from major universities who spoke politically.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
In most of these were from political forums. There was
the ice age that was upon us, the return of
the ice age that was happening.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
It was global cooling, then they went to global warming.
In between they had some other stuff and it was
all you look back on it now that we and
nothing worked or nothing they said happened actually happened. But
they made money and people see that stuff and they
donate money, and you know, God only knows what happens
to it.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And there you go.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Or all the people that bought that population bomb book
in the eighties and that they were convinced like a
billion people though that that'd be too many billion people
on the earth to survive, and we've well surpassed that.
Not to get political, but yeah, the weather in population
stuff is quite the racket.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Third rail on my own third rail exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Let's see ian Ian from the Valley of the Sun says, Ben,
do you think that this is oh, I sick you.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Put a word in here that you shouldn't be here.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
I think this is cool or the act of a fool,
and it says a Florida teenager. This is ian, says
a kid in Florida. Teenager broke a three hundred and
six year long record by becoming the youngest professor at
the age of eighteen, and you go, so, yeah, it
(34:58):
seems a little seems a little on the young side
to be an actual yeah professor.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
I don't know if this is bad of me, but
like I feel like depending on the what he's teaching,
it might not matter though, Like if you know math,
I don't feel like you need to be a wise
guy and have lived like a long life, Like if
you know the numbers, I'm there's probably twelve year olds
that are much better at math than me that can
teach me stuff. So it's to a certain extent, I
(35:26):
actually don't think it's that big a deal now in
terms of it feels like a philosophy professor you. I
don't know, maybe it's just me. I want gray in
the hair if you're going to be like a you
know what I mean, like a liberal arts professor.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
But yeah, uh Nathan. Uh what is the guy's name here?
Blah blah blah blah, Nathan Thomas. That's a generic name.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Uh my turned eighteen that the Nathan has already earned
both his bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering with honors.
Returned to Miami Dade College eighteen years, three hundred and
forty six days old, the officially became the youngest male
professor ever, breaking a record that stood for three hundred
(36:09):
and six years, previously held by a Scottish mathematician, Colin McLaurin,
who became a professor at nineteen years old in the
early seventeen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
How do they keep track of this stuff?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Nathan was also sixteen days younger than Eliyah Sober with
a question mark when she set the record for the
world's youngest female professor.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
That was in eight Let's see here, it doesn't I
mean it must say somewhere here. It's a long story.
I don't I don't know what exactly he's teaching that
would that would help, wouldn't it? Yeah? Yeah, I don't know.
I can't help you.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
I don't have time to go through it right now
because we're doing the we're doing this surreal time. Next
time you send the email there, pal Ian might want.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
To put what he's actually doing.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Corey from the Ie rights in just to fall a
with Ian. It's kind of like doing a talk show.
It's I started out when I was a kid in radio.
Generally to be a good talk shows you kind of
have to have some life experience. It's like one of
those things. Corey from the IE says, that's in southern California.
Robbie in the Inland Empire they called the Ie. He says,
(37:19):
have you seen Odyssey yet?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Ben? What's the Mallard food review?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Food review?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
What are you talking about? Food review?
Speaker 4 (37:28):
It's a movement popcorn. I guess anyway, I have not
seen Odyssey. That's Christopher Nolan. Have you seen this, Robbie?
Have you been there?
Speaker 5 (37:40):
So it's one of those things. I want to see it,
but I don't want to see it in one of
those inferior quote unquote inferior I guess formats because he's like,
you got to see it in Imax, But the nearest
Imax is like forty five minutes away from me. So,
and it's a three hour long movie, and that's a
lot of time, and.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, that is a lot of time.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
They say, this is gonna be the crossfol billion dollars,
is going to be the highest grossing film for Christopher
Nolan in his body of work. We got a few more,
Let's do one more. Let's get out on this one
from Ted in parts unknown. Ted apparently too busy Robbie
to sign his name. Thank you, Ted, I appreciate that.
(38:18):
So this blows me away. So you take the time
to email a question at real fifth hour at gmail
dot com and then you end up not you sign
your name, but you don't put where you're from. I don't,
I don't get anyway, it says Ben and friendly person.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Are you friendly, Robbie sometimes times?
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Okay, yeah, he says, well nobody, you know, nobody knew
you're gonna be here anyway. What's the longest you could swim?
He says, A gentleman just swam for fifty five straight
hours to cross the Baltic Sea.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
With no sleep. And that is the new record for
this I get.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Apparently this guy from Poland he became the first person
across the bar without sleeping or taking a break or
having any any sort of support staff.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Okay, how long could I swim? I could tread water
for a while. I haven't really tested it. I don't
not long, not long.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Once my my mom always taught me, once your fingers
turned into grapes, get out.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Of the pool.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
That's my mom told me. So I always follow her advice.
And so when my you know, the tips of your
fingers will be when they start turning off, Yeah, gotta
get out.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
It's one of those weird things with me where I
was a really good swimmer when I was young, to
the point where I was on a swim team, and
then like when I was fourteen, I developed an allergy
to chlorine and that was the end of me swimming.
So I can't, I know, want to swim, but I
don't know how long at all.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
But yeah, insert goat man, insert Justin in Cincinnati joker.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Oh no, yeah, I know there's gonna be AI photos
of me in a swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You're not good, Anda Hammock right there. All right, on
that note, Robbie, thank you again for being here. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
I plan on the guy. Have no scheduled days off,
no scheduled days off, so I should be in every
night doing the radio show this week.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
So I look forward to that and we'll do it.
And thank you so much Robbie again. Promote you're on.
You want to hear more Robbie.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
He's got his own big time, amazing show that he
does every Sunday, right, every Sunday, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
And internationally in the evening, but it's always kind of fluctuates.
I believe we'll be on at six thirty am on
Sunday the United States and Australia. How's it go?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Is that Pacific time?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (40:40):
Yes, yes, nine Eastern six three am Pacific.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Sorry, all right, very good. Check that out.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
It'll change your life in amazing ways and you'll help
Robbie out. And a couple of guys who are friends
of the show. So on that note, as Dick and
Daton will say, you know what, Dick and Day says Robbie,
he said bye bye bye, bye bye.
Kaboobs boo.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maler,
As we slide into the mail bag on this Sunday,
the ninth day of August, reunited.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And it feels so good as we complete the circle.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We complete the circle.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The mail bag, and we pull out the old wheel
old fun.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
We spin the wheel of fun. Who is on the
mail bag?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Is gonna be marcell in Brooklyn, is gonna be just
In in Cincinnati, the Leprechaun Poppy who knows tradinas in Seattle?
Who's it going? He's gonna be Bree Big money, big money,
big money, Stop and Lucky. Looky there in the mail
bag number two chair. We say hello to the man,
(01:19):
the myth, the legend, Robbie the Mariner fan.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
What's going on? Everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Welcome in, Robbie, welcome in. You are a man of honor.
You are a man that actually returns messages and doesn't
take three hours to return messages. So I appreciate that.
It means a lot, and we love having you.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Robbie.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
We might have to start paying you. You've been on
the mail bag so much, Robbie, my god.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
But yeah, yeah, I don't know what to say about that.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
No, I do, thank you for being available, and we're
gonna we're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
A good time.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
And before we get started, ohio, alp, please get me
in the mood on this ninth day of August.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
It's alrighty, alright, so what do we got here?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Eenie meenie, miny mo pick a message from Alf the
Alien opinter from the commode in.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The leadoff chair.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
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And then we have a raffle for those that are
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(02:53):
Alf says, is it true that the only reason you
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Speaker 1 (03:20):
Subscription price will never be cheaper than it is today.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
That's good bullshit there from our buddy in the Commonwealth
Alf the Alien opiner. Yeah, I really wanted to embrace
the shittiest podcast ever.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I thought that would have been perfect.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
And so we did that and survived the colonoscopy, and
we'll do it again. Before you know, it'll be time
to do another tremendous colonoscopy, so freaking exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Cannot wait it.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Well, actually, wasn't that bad. It was not speaking of
the price difference. I was reading this story, and this
was not nobody emailed us in. But I was reading
a story earlier that some dude died a couple of
years ago, and there was this debate about where did
you live.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Do you live in Connecticut or Florida?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And the difference is a thirteen million dollar tax bill
from the state of Connecticut, and of course the estate's like, well, no,
you lived in Zero Beach, which is the Dodgers used
to train. We called it Zero Beach back in the day.
But I heard it's a lot better now than it
was back then. But anyway, Yeah, So imagine that you
(04:30):
live your life in the same country. You're in Connecticut,
and you you go to Florida, and then it's thirteen
million dollars more to live in Connecticut. I've been to Connecticut.
I've been to a lot of Florida. I've been to
all of Florida've been to a lot of Florida. I
haven't spent any time in the Redneck Riviera, but other
than that, I've been around. And thirteen million dollars difference insane, insane, right, insane.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Of the Membran. It's like, come on, really, what are
we doing here. I've talked about this in the past.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I don't know if it with you, Robbie or not,
but we talked about when you make a lot of money,
and financial advisors will tell you the two things that
you do is first of all, most important is you
move to Florida or Texas.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But Florida is the one to move to.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And then the other thing is you want to start
a nonprofit because it's a way to money money launder, you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Know, essentially.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I mean you can hire your friends and family and
pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and
it's all because of the nonprofit, you know, because they're.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They're doing bookkeeping at the nonprofit.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
They had a zoom meeting on the nonprofit. So that's
worth like, you know, seventy five thousand dollars. So it's
a good way to do it. But that's insane, thirteen
million dollars, thirteen million. That's why people retire to Florida
because they getting they get to keep most of their
money or a lot more so.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Anyway, Oregon has some weird tax things too, with in
terms of if you die and they estimate your net
worth of everything you own and clean your house over
a million dollars, they take a ton of it that
you can't pass on. So like, that's one of the
reasons there's so few I think there's only like one
(06:17):
billionaire left in the orgon is because they all move
when they get old because they don't they or they
want to be able to pass some of it along
to their relatives and their you know, like their kids
and everything.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
So oh yeah, you know it's it's crazy, like the
whole death tax thing, which is both federal and on
the local level. I didn't really know much about it,
so I lost my parents and it was in craziness.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It was like, you got to be kidding me.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
So you work your entire life and you try to
do it to help out the next generation. And Uncle
Sam's like, we're the next generation.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
We get exactly. You don't get that money. We get
that money. I'm like, well, wait, how the hell does
that work? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Outback John and Joanna write in says, hey, big Ben
and special guests. We know this is a little late,
and with all due respect to Dick and Dayton and
ohio Al, we thought Marcel in Brooklyn and Jay's scoop
song was.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The best malady.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
There have been so many songs written about the show,
especially holiday songs that we only get to hear during
the holiday season. So our question is, has anybody thought
about creating a channel or a podcast that collaborates all
of them so we can listen to them whenever we want.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That's from Outback John and Joanne.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
We had this request when I was doing the podcast
with Danny g before he quit and at least quit
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But we we were.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Like, ah, I think we did a holiday special one.
I remember doing a year where we put all the
songs in for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I'd be open to it.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
That's a lot of work, though, and yeah, so a
lot of putting this stuff together and tracking it down,
and a lot of the songs are older.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We had so many songs during the pandemic. It was crazy.
It was so much fun because everyone had free.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Time and they were bored out of their mind and
so people were putting songs together right and left.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And I mean it.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Were really good songs too. These were not like crappy songs.
These were solid and professionally done songs.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
No, I know some of the stuff during COVID there
was a couple that I was like, oh, that's going
to go viral. None of them really broke containment per se.
But yeah, the song the Jayscoop one, I missed sports.
If you would release that not right, if you would
released it back when sports was in its peak of
being absent in terms of I think he finally released
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the song on your show like a week before baseball
came back. I still think that song would have gone
viral because it sounded just like a Blink one eighty
two song.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh yeah it was, Yeah it was. It was really good.
So yeah, well, well think about it and were always
looking for things over the holidays which will be here.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Before you know it, to try to get that going on.
Let's see what do we have? Kwang from Ho Chi Minh,
Vietnam guaranteed human and he says big Ben. On our
one of Tuesday's Original Recipe podcast, you mentioned that you
didn't have enough time to watch the loquacious about your
mister t story.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Do you have time now? We'd love to hear the
full story.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
That's Quang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, who still wants
me to eat that macaroni and cheese pizza, which for
some reason I thought I was going to eat last
week and then the address got messed up, so I
guess I'm not going to eat it.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I don't know what happened, but claying. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
So, when I worked in local LA radio, we had
a guy named Mike Thompson who was our program director,
and Mike loved to hire He loved the pulse stunts.
They don't really they don't really do radio stunts anymore.
Back in those days, you know, that's thirty years ago almost,
we did a lot of radio stunts, and I love
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radio sh.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Stick and stunts. It's just so much fun. And so
he thought, well, to get attention for the radio station,
we should hire some were in LA. We were doing
only a local LA sports talk.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Why don't we hire some big entertainment people and we'll
give them like one hour a day to do a
midday show. How bad could that be? You know, they
can't really f that up, and we'll get a lot
of publicity. Keep in mind, this was in the days
before the internet really was a thing, and it was
much like AOL.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Was the internet, if you know what that is.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
So it's a lot. So he's like, yeah, we got
one hour, call in a lunch with whoever. And so
there were two people that they originally brought in, as
I remember, to do the show. One of them was
this actor named Eric Estrada who played Pontarella on this
very popular nineteen seventies eighties TV shitt called Chips.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Which is before Robbie's time. Yeah, you have no idea
who that is. But I mean when I was a kid,
that was a popular show and it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
And then after that there was a gentleman named mister
T who had been popular in the again in the eighties.
This is in the nineties, and mister T had had
some financial problems. It was in the tabloids and so
I forget exactly what happened as I remember it, and
then the boss is like, we're gonna have mister T.
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So they brought in these guys, these two actors to
end up possibly doing the mid day show, and I guess.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
They didn't offer them enough money. It didn't work out.
They couldn't hammer out a deal, so they ended up
hiring well, there were two people they end up hiring.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
The first one we hired was Carl Malone, the NBA
player Karl Malone, who was playing for the Utah Jazz
at the time. So I did a show following well,
I was following Karl Malone.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I was doing the midday show.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
And then that ended way longer than it was supposed
to be, and they hired this quarterback who had some
success in the NFL named Terry Bradshaw to do an
hour show, but mister T was originally the guy they wanted,
and so he was in the building. And you understand
you're younger than me, Robbie, but like for me, growing
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up like those, I didn't have the Interweb.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
So we watched a lot of TV. And I love Chips,
which was what that Eric Destrata actor was on, and
I love The A Team, which is what mister T
was on. So for me, it was like, oh my god,
this is crazy. These guys are in the building.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And they were they're going to do a radio show,
and I was like, whoa, that's wild anyway, So there
is that.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
What else do we have? Let's see page down all right.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
This one is from Maddie from Parts Unknown. He says, Ben,
I saw your old morning guy Klay Travis is going
to a new website.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Are you going to be working for him? That is okay?
First of all, sign your name number two.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
No, I have a I have a deal with Fox
Sports Radio, so I do not believe I will be
leaving Fox Sports Radio to go.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Work for Clay.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Now, if he wants to offer me one hundred million dollars,
we can revisit that, but but no, I'm happy for Clay.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I guess he sold out Kick.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Yeah, I saw something about that, But then he still
like retweets their articles every day, so I don't know
if he's still involved with it. It was kind of confusing.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
I have no idea. I'm not in that area. I
just try to get through the day. I wish I
had the business acimym of Clay, and Clay was great
when he's the morning show for us, and I got
nothing bad to say about the guy. I just don't
deal in that world like he deals in the corporate
world he deals with those people.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't really I wish I did.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I'd probably have a lot more money and all that,
and it would be great. And you know, stay in
your lane, which sometimes it's better off not to stay
in your lane.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Sometimes it's good to change lanes. So I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Good for Clay if he starts a new website, more
power to him. Bury from Tilton Head, South Carolina for now,
says Yo Yo, Ma Benny and friend. I am a
Tigers fan, so I thought I would watch the Dodgers broadcast.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Of school Bitching in his LA debut. If the Dodgers
are a world class baseball organization, how is it that Jessica.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Mendoza is the TV color commentator? My god, is she horrible? Yeah, well,
she's not a lot. I mean, there's a lot of
broadcasters that are absolutely objectively terrible.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Barry, I do not care for.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Jessica Mendoza's work on television. I do not watch when
she's on. I don't don't. I don't think the Dodgers
actually have very good broadcasters at all. Unfortunately, you know,
go from anybody after Vince Scully is a downgrade. I
just think they're pretty mediocre there with the Dodgers, so
I usually end up watching the other team. But then
these other teams are not there that good either. I
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was talking to a buddy of mine the other day
and we were like, well, there's probably like five out
of thirty teams, there's five of them that have really
good broadcast teams.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Five of them. That's it. Out of thirty, that's not good.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, there wasn't.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
There wasn't initiative both in the NBA and in baseball
and hockey all three, I guess, to get more women
involved in the broadcast. And so you'll see like these
token things like the Red Sox this week did an
all women broadcast, which I think they have the same
woman that comes to all these things and just does
the play by play.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Whatever it's it's still there. I if they're good, that's fine.
Anybody doing the broadcast.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
If it's good.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I just have not found it to be very for
my taste, it's not very good.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Robbie, you big. Jessica Mendoza fan a fan of these broadcasters.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Here.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
She was on Sunday Night Baseball a couple of years ago,
wasn't she? And I that's kind of yeah. No, I
mean I will say she's okay compared to everybody else,
but every but like you said, if you would have
told me, what's the number of like non of games
where I don't mute the TV for baseball anymore, it's
about five. So and she's definitely on the mutable list.
(16:04):
So yeah, I kind of agree with you.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah, Like I don't know the athletics. I don't know
what they're doing, Like maybe they just don't want.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
That, they don't want category of bad for anyone to watch.
I guess I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I mean, my god, the thing that blows me away
about this is that there's no quality control. Like you
think there would be some quality control. It just doesn't
seem like that's the case. Thank you, very good luck.
I feel like you've been saying you're looking to relocate,
looking to leave, and it's been years. Reggie from Detroit
writes in says, Ben, I haven't heard you fill in
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much during any local shows in a while. What happened
to your side hustle? Thanks, I'll take my answer off there.
Yes you will, Reggie off the air. No, so I
am available.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You know, I don't like to do too much of
that stuff because of my sleep schedule.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Every once in a while I'll do it. I have
not been asked. Well, maybe I sucked at it. I
guess I don't know, but not just like La. I'll
fill in anywhere. I'll pop up. And I've done a
lot of hits like radio interview stuff I don't always
send out on X.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Radio. People and where was I?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I was on in North Dakota, a couple of places
in Canada, Guy in Edmonton, did a morning show in Florida.
There's a few things I've done, the hosting of the show. Yeah,
there's also politics involved in it, Reggie.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
People at the station.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Don't want some national guy filling in locally, so that
becomes a problem.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
But yeah, more than open. If somebody wants me to
fill in every once in a while, I'd be happy.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
To do it if I can work the schedule out
do ale. I don't want to do more than a
couple hours here and there. Matt from the Bay Right
since has been lots of drama O rama, as you
would say here in the Bay Area with k NBR
letting go of Greg Popa while he's in a battle
with cancer. I was disappointed you didn't talk about it
on your show. I figured you knew about it. What
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did you think? That's from another very popular guy's named Matt.
So this guy said he's in the Bay Area. Yeah,
so ay, I did see the story.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Greg.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
We are on the other station in San Francisco, so
I kind of stayed away from it for those reasons.
I don't know Greg Papa well. I met him a
few times way back. He used to be the voice
of the Golden State Warriors and a really good play
by play guy did the Raiders. I think he did
every Bay Area team at one point or another. The
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guy's a freaking legend. In northern California, as you know, Matt.
And it's a shame. I mean, you could not have
a worse look for a radio station. Like you wonder
how incompetent some of these people are that they're like.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Well, this is a good idea.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
We're going to fire one of the more popular people
in this recent two generations of Bay Area media while
he has cancer. What could possibly go wrong with that?
I mean, it's an awkward situation because how do you
handle that. They obviously wanted to make a change, he
had apparently been away. It's just a lack of human kindness,
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which jame and it's it's just I A had a
bunch of my radio people, Robbie that were messaging me
about this, and it's it's just like you're so tone death,
you're so obtuse if you're in management that.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You don't even realize like this is gonna get out
and it's just not worth it. It's like, what do
you what do you.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Know now that there's other opposites of that, there's other
extremes like you don't need to go the other direction,
like the Dodgers who every year send out a press
release because one of their former players is schizophrenic and
they have to Oh yeah, they'll sign up for his
insurance and they make sure to send out the press.
Really it's like groundhog Day. Oh it's setting the announcement. See,
you don't need to do that either. There's a middle
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ground somewhere, like there's a middle ground somewhere.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So I wish all all goodwill, good vibrations to Greg Pop.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Although the guy was at amazing run as a broadcaster,
and hopefully he can beat this thing. And I guess
he's not going to be able to get back and
do the forty nine ers because of a situation. It's
hard to do play by play from home unless it's
a pandemic.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Apparently not a pandemic, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'm not shocked, knowing what I've known about my business
of radio, which I love. Unfortunately, there's a fair amount
of this kind of activity thanks that takes place. King
Roy writes in says, dear Big Ben and Blank, and
I guess you're blank.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Probably that's worse.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
He says.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
We all know how much the malad most loves BUCkies,
and apparently BUCkies is not one to mess with. BUCkies
has filed a trademark lawsuit over an Ohio convenience store.
In the nine page civil complaint, attorneys for BUCkies outlined
three specific elements they claim infringe on their brand, the mascot,
the color red, and the name. What are your thoughts
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on that situation? I provided a link.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, so, King Roy, I saw this. You were not
the only person I chose your email. You were not
the only person to message me about this particular story. So,
from what I understand now, Bucky is apparently very lintigious
as a business, which I don't love.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I've read that too.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
However, from what I understand, this convenience store they attempted
to get like national branding rights for this mascot. So
I guess BUCkies is claiming we were we didn't care
about this mom and pop liquor shop, which is at
the one we went to, Robbie.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
This is the is in Ohio, the BUCkies we went
to in Dayton. Remember we were that great road.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Yes, that was a wild, wild night. That was fun.
That was top five night for me for sure.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I had a wonderful time with you in Roxanne til
she fell asleep in the back of the car and sheet.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Just to pull back the curt It was wild. She
will So we were listening with Talic on the way
back to the back to Cincinnati, and she was like
dead asleep yet still singing to the songs. Remember that.
It was so wild.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
It's like Robbie, no, not you. I was hollering James,
you know James exactly. James will say my name while
he's sleeping, like he'll be fast asleep. And then Ben
very odd, very odd. So yeah, that's Roy again. So
their claim, that's their argument. You know, you might position
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on this.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
There's the Bucky's side, there's the mom and pop convenience
store side, and then there's the truth somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So I like BUCkies. I enjoy going there.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I've only been a few times, so I don't know
what you want me to do with that, but yeah,
I've been like, you'd like that not to happen. It's
bad publicity for BUCkies. Although if you read the follow up,
it seems like it's reasonable if this guy was the
small mom and pop place was trying to take them.
You know, when the logo or win a similar logo,
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I could kind of understand that but anyway, we'll see
how that plays out in court. Kevin in Kansas emails
and you can email the mailbag for next week's episode
care of Real Fifth Hour, Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
If you'd like to be part of a future mailbag,
(23:27):
put mail bag, put mail or mail bag in the
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Speaker 1 (23:37):
Otherwise, what's the point. What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
All right, Kevin says dear Big Ben and guest star.
I'm trying to figure out what to do with my cassettes,
CDs and record albums. It's been years since I've had
something to play them on, but they still have some
special meaning to me, or for me rather in this
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day of streaming everything.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Do you have any suggestions on what I should do? Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I like the physical stuff. It's very still, very odd
to me. I know it's been this way for a
long time, but there was a point, Robbie. If you
bought a movie, you owned the movie, or.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
A video game, you own the video game.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, they're not gonna make was it PlayStation?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I read oh both Now PlayStation's official that like in
two years they're stop gonna stop making discs in their
next console, the PS six, whenever that comes out, it
won't have discs at all. But there's like heavy rumors
that Xbox. Once people kind of just get used to
the fact that there's not gonna be Sony console discs anymore,
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Xbox will do the same thing. So, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, it's it's just something about it. Like I've had songs.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I don't I'm not a big music guy, but I've
had songs so that I've had on my one of
the music streaming things that I have, and then I'll
buy it and then it'll be like it's songs no
longer available. Well I paid for it. Well you can't
just take it back. Well we don't have access to
it right now. Well no, that's not any that should work.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
So you got to make that decision, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
If you don't have any way to play it, maybe
pick out a couple that are extra sentimental to you
and then get rid of everything else. You can't really tell,
you know, what are you gonna do with it? Shane
from Dallas writes in and says, hey, Benny and whoever, Okay,
Robbie or whoever are you excited about the almost two
hundred year bottle of old bottle.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Of Guinness that was found in a shipwreck.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
And Shane says they're going to try to recreate the
original recipe of Guinness.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
This is from the eighteen sixties.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Divers recovered a one hundred and sixty two year old
bottle off the coast of England. You mentioned that this
thing is sitting in the bottom of the ocean for
one hundred and sixty two years.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Holy crap.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Uh yeah, I don't it must not have been that good.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
They didn't write it down. Well, I guess they did
in this thing, but but uh, I guess no, they didn't.
They just found a bottle of it. They're gonna they're
gonna take it to a lab, right, that's what. Yeah,
so they didn't. There's no recipe, but it was that good.
They would have written a recipe now, I guess maybe they.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Uh. When Getet's first started, wasn't it it was like
I think they just made a dramatization on Netflix. But
it was like a group of brothers that did it.
So maybe they just kind of eyeballed everything, you know,
like when someone makes a homemade recipe and they didn't
ever write down the official official first Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yeah, well I heard that. I think we talked about
on this podcast.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I either heard it or I found the story that
Kentucky Fried Chicken the secret recipe was written on either
a back of a napkin by Colonel Sanders or something,
not a real colonel, by the way, and they like
he put one of the spices down twice, like the
eleven herbs and spices were actually like it was one
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that was repeated.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I don't remember which spice.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
It was some kind of pepper or something like that,
but that's how they did it.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Wouldn't it be amazing?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Though, in a parallel dimension, Robbie, if the one hundred
and sixty two year old recipe of Guinness they recreate it,
they sell old old Guinness, and then that becomes a
top seller. Wouldn't that be wild? If that's like, oh
my god, of course, you imagine the alcohol content that
must have been in those They didn't you know, they
didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Hell, they were doing right, They're just yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I mean, it could go either way, I know, back
in like medieval times, they put alcohol in everything because
the water wasn't safe to drink just pure water. So
that's why everyone was always drunk. Apparently I read somewhere.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Well the Funny I talked about this. I think it
was a Friday podcast that Plymouth Rock. The reason they landed.
One of the theories is why they stopped at Plymouth Rock.
They ran out of beer. On the Mayflower, they ran
out of beer, and so they just stopped there because
they know they needed their beer.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And the reason is any I guess why not just
go with it?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Leo from Sweet Home Hit Cogo rites in and says, hey, guys,
I guess I'm one of the guys, and so are
you will Mike the Leprecaun be getting a cameo in
the remake of The Leprecaun. Apparently, Leo says, lions Gate,
which is still a thing, is going to bring the
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Leprechaun back to life. The old horror franchises are coming
back and they're they're getting on the action reviving the Leprechaun.
Wouldn't that be great, Robbie, If we did a lions
we could write the script, all right, Mike the Leprechaun
horror character and he haunts people by calling overnight talk radios.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
That's great. Another idea would be like to use some
of the zanier characters the show, like Hollering James and
Mike the lever p Kaann and just use them as
like a horror creature fest type movie, you.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Know, like that when they're speaking, let's workshop this.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
So we'll have the different characters like Mark the full
Name Guy, Jadi Fled and all that, and they're they're
all part of a secret society that has had interaction
with extraterrestrials. And every time they get on the air,
there's a subliminal message that they use that freaks out
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certain people and then triggers them into zombie mode where
they they are foot soldiers, zombie foot soldiers that do
the bidding of the Leprechaun, Mark the full Name Guy, Poppy,
all these cats, right, they're all creatures, things that go
bumping eat bumping the night.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
There's been worse indie movies or indie graphic novels than that.
So I say let's do it.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, let's make an apple come on now.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
I have no artistic ability in terms of drawing so
we're gonna have to outsource that part of it.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, it's wazy to make that stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
I was never a Leprechaun guy in terms of the
movie stuff back in the day, So I don't really
have much to add to that.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Leo.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
If you're if that's your thing, knock yourself out. George
from Vancouver.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Writes in I love Vancouver. What a beautiful sit Have
you been to Vancouver, Robie? You're not that far away
from there?
Speaker 5 (30:21):
No, I feel guilty saying I haven't, because it's almost
within driving distance. I mean, it is kind of within
driving distance of me, but no, I have not.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
You got to take your pops go to Stanley Park
in Vancouver, beautiful, and I'll.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Hook you up with Nico.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Nico's like the Chamber of Commerce guy there in Vancouver.
He'll show you around and he knows everything and everybody there.
He's a made man in Vancouver, and it's just amazing.
I love that better than Central Park in New York.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Is Stanley Park.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Great skyline, big skyline. Guy got boat ferries, which is cool.
I don't have that. I live and good.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Things like Seattle on steroids, honestly.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Yeah, it's I did definitely get the Seattle vibe, the
Canadian version of Seattle.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
For Seattle's the US version of Vancouver or whatever. Yeah,
it's a really neat, really neat today.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
I'd like to get back there at some point anyway, George, George,
out of the question, He says, are you worried that
this super Elleno could trigger the highest sea levels ever
recorded on the California coast?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Says they're looking at a winner according to the weather models.
They're looking at a winner of.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Storm surge and coastal flooding. From George, Well, George, shouldn't
you be worried to You're on.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
The coast, the Pacific coast.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
In Vancouver, I'm not well of First, I don't live
that close to the ocean, so I'm not that worried
about that. And secondly, how many my life, we've had
a bunch of El Ninos. It's you know what I mean, Robbie,
Like this happens every so often, and it's it's one
of the most maddening things.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Like the weather hustle is next level. Yep.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
The amount of people that have been able to raise
money from all you know, global global warming, global cooling
back in the old days. Uh, it's it's a lot.
There's a lot of bullshit. Excuse my French. They're mixed
in with yeah, like I don't I'm not.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Worried about it. They always throw the word could in there.
I mean you could, yeah, sure could.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Could Anything could happen. They're like, well, if the if
the global temperatures go up like five degrees, well could
what's the percentage chance of that? Well, it's like a
one in one hundred chance. Well, it's like you get
there's a certain you know that people say, I just
want to live today, Like, yeah, it sounds kind of
what's like naive until you really think about Like it's
(32:48):
you can't worry too much about what's going to happen
in fifty and one hundred years when you should worry
what's happening where your feet are at the moment the most.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Maybe that's just me.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I genuinely agree with you, and remember the thing that
really got me there. There's a website and I don't
have it, or i'd give it out.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
It compiled.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
It goes back to the nineteen sixties and it compiles
scientists talking about end times because of weather.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
See something years.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
We're going to there was I remember one of the
headlines was We're going to run out of water.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And this is in the nineteen seventies. We're going to
run out of water.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
These are professional scientists from major universities who spoke politically.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
In most of these were from political forums. There was
the ice age that was upon us, the return of
the ice age that was happening.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
It was global cooling, then they went to global warming.
In between they had some other stuff and it was
all you look back on it now that we and
nothing worked or nothing they said happened actually happened. But
they made money and people see that stuff and they
donate money, and you know, God only knows what happens
to it.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And there you go.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Or all the people that bought that population bomb book
in the eighties and that they were convinced like a
billion people though that that'd be too many billion people
on the earth to survive, and we've well surpassed that.
Not to get political, but yeah, the weather in population
stuff is quite the racket.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Third rail on my own third rail exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Let's see ian Ian from the Valley of the Sun says, Ben,
do you think that this is oh, I sick you.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Put a word in here that you shouldn't be here.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
I think this is cool or the act of a fool,
and it says a Florida teenager. This is ian, says
a kid in Florida. Teenager broke a three hundred and
six year long record by becoming the youngest professor at
the age of eighteen, and you go, so, yeah, it
(34:58):
seems a little seems a little on the young side
to be an actual yeah professor.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
I don't know if this is bad of me, but
like I feel like depending on the what he's teaching,
it might not matter though, Like if you know math,
I don't feel like you need to be a wise
guy and have lived like a long life, Like if
you know the numbers, I'm there's probably twelve year olds
that are much better at math than me that can
teach me stuff. So it's to a certain extent, I
(35:26):
actually don't think it's that big a deal now in
terms of it feels like a philosophy professor you. I
don't know, maybe it's just me. I want gray in
the hair if you're going to be like a you
know what I mean, like a liberal arts professor.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
But yeah, uh Nathan. Uh what is the guy's name here?
Blah blah blah blah, Nathan Thomas. That's a generic name.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Uh my turned eighteen that the Nathan has already earned
both his bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering with honors.
Returned to Miami Dade College eighteen years, three hundred and
forty six days old, the officially became the youngest male
professor ever, breaking a record that stood for three hundred
(36:09):
and six years, previously held by a Scottish mathematician, Colin McLaurin,
who became a professor at nineteen years old in the
early seventeen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
How do they keep track of this stuff?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Nathan was also sixteen days younger than Eliyah Sober with
a question mark when she set the record for the
world's youngest female professor.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
That was in eight Let's see here, it doesn't I
mean it must say somewhere here. It's a long story.
I don't I don't know what exactly he's teaching that
would that would help, wouldn't it? Yeah? Yeah, I don't know.
I can't help you.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
I don't have time to go through it right now
because we're doing the we're doing this surreal time. Next
time you send the email there, pal Ian might want.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
To put what he's actually doing.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Corey from the Ie rights in just to fall a
with Ian. It's kind of like doing a talk show.
It's I started out when I was a kid in radio.
Generally to be a good talk shows you kind of
have to have some life experience. It's like one of
those things. Corey from the IE says, that's in southern California.
Robbie in the Inland Empire they called the Ie. He says,
(37:19):
have you seen Odyssey yet?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Ben? What's the Mallard food review?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Food review?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
What are you talking about? Food review?
Speaker 4 (37:28):
It's a movement popcorn. I guess anyway, I have not
seen Odyssey. That's Christopher Nolan. Have you seen this, Robbie?
Have you been there?
Speaker 5 (37:40):
So it's one of those things. I want to see it,
but I don't want to see it in one of
those inferior quote unquote inferior I guess formats because he's like,
you got to see it in Imax, But the nearest
Imax is like forty five minutes away from me. So,
and it's a three hour long movie, and that's a
lot of time, and.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, that is a lot of time.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
They say, this is gonna be the crossfol billion dollars,
is going to be the highest grossing film for Christopher
Nolan in his body of work. We got a few more,
Let's do one more. Let's get out on this one
from Ted in parts unknown. Ted apparently too busy Robbie
to sign his name. Thank you, Ted, I appreciate that.
(38:18):
So this blows me away. So you take the time
to email a question at real fifth hour at gmail
dot com and then you end up not you sign
your name, but you don't put where you're from. I don't,
I don't get anyway, it says Ben and friendly person.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Are you friendly, Robbie sometimes times?
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Okay, yeah, he says, well nobody, you know, nobody knew
you're gonna be here anyway. What's the longest you could swim?
He says, A gentleman just swam for fifty five straight
hours to cross the Baltic Sea.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
With no sleep. And that is the new record for
this I get.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Apparently this guy from Poland he became the first person
across the bar without sleeping or taking a break or
having any any sort of support staff.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Okay, how long could I swim? I could tread water
for a while. I haven't really tested it. I don't
not long, not long.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Once my my mom always taught me, once your fingers
turned into grapes, get out.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Of the pool.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
That's my mom told me. So I always follow her advice.
And so when my you know, the tips of your
fingers will be when they start turning off, Yeah, gotta
get out.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
It's one of those weird things with me where I
was a really good swimmer when I was young, to
the point where I was on a swim team, and
then like when I was fourteen, I developed an allergy
to chlorine and that was the end of me swimming.
So I can't, I know, want to swim, but I
don't know how long at all.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
But yeah, insert goat man, insert Justin in Cincinnati joker.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Oh no, yeah, I know there's gonna be AI photos
of me in a swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You're not good, Anda Hammock right there. All right, on
that note, Robbie, thank you again for being here. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
I plan on the guy. Have no scheduled days off,
no scheduled days off, so I should be in every
night doing the radio show this week.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
So I look forward to that and we'll do it.
And thank you so much Robbie again. Promote you're on.
You want to hear more Robbie.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
He's got his own big time, amazing show that he
does every Sunday, right, every Sunday, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
And internationally in the evening, but it's always kind of fluctuates.
I believe we'll be on at six thirty am on
Sunday the United States and Australia. How's it go?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Is that Pacific time?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (40:40):
Yes, yes, nine Eastern six three am Pacific.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Sorry, all right, very good. Check that out.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
It'll change your life in amazing ways and you'll help
Robbie out. And a couple of guys who are friends
of the show. So on that note, as Dick and
Daton will say, you know what, Dick and Day says Robbie,
he said bye bye bye, bye bye.
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