April 5, 2026 • 47 mins
Ben Maller has Mail Bag fun for your Sunday! Robbie the Mariners fan, a senior brigadier general in the Maller Militia, joins us on the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. It's a wild ride deep into the grand tapestry of the Mail Bag. This is the heavyweight edition!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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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):
It's in the.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me Ben Mallor,
and we have arrived at the Sunday mail Bag. Woo. Now,
as you know, Danny G said bye bye. He was
decommissioned from the podcast by his choice, not was forced
out or anything like that. So Danny G left the
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podcast and we are in the transition stage, which is
very popularly these days, trying to figure out what we're
gonna do, and eventually there will likely be someone who
will do the podcast with me on a weekly basis.
But in the meantime, we're gonna have some fun because
really the last like five months, Danny really hasn't been
very available for the podcast. So he's been occasionally on
(01:30):
the mail Bag or something like that, but hasn't been around,
so I pretty much done it by myself for the
last several months. I like having someone with me on
the mail bag to go back and forth, and so
I thought, who better. We need someone with muscle, We
need someone with power, We need someone that intimidates everyone
else in the Malord Militia. This is a guy that
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does not mess around. So we have gone to the
higher rank of the Malad Militia. A senior brigadier general,
a man who is beloved, who is a great character
in the show. People love to goof on him and
he loves to he loves to punch back. Give it
up for Robbie the Mariner fan.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Wait, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Welcome Robbie. Unbelievable. Look at that the biggest name. We
got the biggest name. And you know how upset Justin
and Cincinnati is going to be and Rob the goat
man and all the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I know, yeah, I don't know if I'm the biggest name.
But you could throw in, you know size joke so.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, you are part of the offensive line.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, I left tackle. I'd prefer to be left tackle
because they get paid the most.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So I don't know. I've met some some of the
boys in Minnesota and Kansas City. We got a pretty
good offensive line, Robbie. Yeah, we would the Mallard Militia.
If we put a football team, and you would obviously
be a senior member, you'd be like a captain of
the football team. We would have like the greatest offensive line.
We got some big boys. And I love it. Man.
I'm a big guy myself, so I love that, so
I'll stay it big.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Greg and I love that's right. Chat pretty frequently. And yeah,
he's he would be a hog Mulley in the line too.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We got you. We gotta have my buddy in Kansas
City who works at a gun factory.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Makes I remember him. That's the most masculine.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
What do you do bullets? What do you do? Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Hey, that's a job that you'll have for life, unless
unless say I replace it. Actually everything, I mean the
job security I'm making balls is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah. If you're working for a defense company, you're in shape.
You know, you got big time money and all that.
All right, So in order to do the mailbag properly, Robbie,
we need Ohio out to get us in the mood.
So get us in the mood.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's all right, let's get right to it now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
These are actual questions by actual listeners. And as always,
I'm very grateful when we started the podcast, I don't
even know how many years ago, I had to beg
people on Facebook and we called Twitter at the time.
We need questions, we need questions. Oh my god, we
need questions. And it was a paid every week. I
have not had to do that in forever, and I'm
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very grateful that the podcast is doing well and you
guys more importantly are sending in questions. So otherwise we
just get rid of the mail bag. It's been great,
so we're gonna try to rapid fire wrap it fire
mail Bag. Robbie, if you want to send a question
in for a future edition of the mail Bag, or
if you want to suggest someone to be in what
is the Robbie chair this week for the mail Bag?
(04:45):
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour
at gmail dot com. Before we get to the mailbag, though,
is it true, Robbie that you will be making a
rare and appropriate celebrity appearance later this month in the
state of Ohio. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yes, that is correct. The tickets are booked. Excited. There's
a couple of people that told me they're going from
also from House State, but I don't want to out
them in case they plans to change. But I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So yeah, I'm fired up to it. I have gotten
some emails from people. As I always say, with these things,
a lot of times people will say they're going to
be there and then life happens and they can't.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah. I was one of those those people once I
was dead, said I'm going to the San Bernardino meet
up and then something came up. So yeah, I've tried.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It happens, I got I'm excited, and I'm still in
the planning stages. I know we're what are we twenty
days away or whatever from this thing, and I'm still
in the planning stages. I'm thinking it should be earlier
in the in the like the midday. I'm thinking because
Dick work Dick and Dayton is you know, he's an
older guy and he doesn't listen to the podcast so
we can say what we want. But the Dixter, I
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think he's in his early eighties. I know, Wow, his
birthday is coming up. He has the same birth is
Pete Rose.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Which is yes, I know, that's so perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
He calls me every year on his birthday.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And that was always a great dick because the Reds
they fire their manager about as often as you watch clothes,
you know, and so you'd always ask, I believe you'd
always ask him who should be the manager. Either you'd
lead him into Saint Pete Rose or he would just
throw out Pete Rose until he died.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well that and the Browns.
Who should be Bernie? Uh yeah, I want Bernie.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I can't wait to meet him. That's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, I'm hoping he'll perform. You know, he's a noted
music he said, that's some bumps. When he's tried to
sing on the show, it's not. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, well but even if he did it perfectly, no
one will remember it though, So there's.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That exactly exactly. So I'm thinking like maybe a like
a three hour thing, maybe like midway through, like the
ninety minute Mark Dixter gets up there on stage. Yes,
and then I don't know, I'll run this by you, Robbie.
I'm and I don't I'm gonna throw this out. There's
nothing guaranteed. This might not happen at all, but I
think the Reds are in town that yep.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I was actually gonna DM you about that. I was like,
you know, the Reds play that evening. I was like,
I'm trying the Reds. It's the underrated stadium. It's not
like fancy, but the sight lines are good. I've been
the many Reds games, so yeah, I'm never.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Do a red game. So yeah, I was saying, maybe
we do it midday and we can go over to
the Reds at night. It can't be that expensive.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, I don't. I don't think. No, you know, tickets
any more expensive and relative, but in terms of like
anywhere else now, I'm not really I don't think.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So. Yeah, I think you also buy him on the
secondary market.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Game. It is a Saturday, so who knows. I think
who they playing.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Tigers are not bad. No, they have you know me.
I like my prospects. So yeah, that McGonagall guy will
be interesting watch.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We'll see, we'll see, all right. Reggie from Detroit is
in the leadoff chair. He says, man, I was looking
for the fifth hour podcast sidekick job opening on the
iHeart side. I could not find it. And then he says,
he says, how much does it pay? What are the benefits?
Does it have a four oh one k? Every funny, Reggie,
very funny, You get amazing banter. You get paid literally peanuts,
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unsalted peanuts, Robbie, unsalted peanuts. And no, there's no job posting.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It's I thought about looking just to see it because
but I was like, I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
No, No, it's just a part time it's a part
time thing, and it's really a labor of love. Even
even a mayan. I get paid a little more, but
it's still a labor. If we listen, we would not
be on our third podcast Sidekick. If it paid, well,
that's very good. People would not be leaving to go
work in an elementary school or whatever if that was.
(09:02):
But thank you for your concern, Reggie. I appreciate that.
And if you want anybody who you know, Robbie's obviously
here this week, but if you're if you're somebody we
know and you're a big support of the show and
all that. Uh, And I realized, Robbie, I just realized,
you know, we have the power. Through the way we
record this, we could actually have like multiple guys on
you know, fans of the show on the mailbag.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
We can do like oh yeah, yeah, I've been on
like a group chat with a bunch of mona which
people once we did for Christmas one year, so that yeah. No,
you can have a bunch of people on Zoom.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah yeah, so we could totally do that, but thank you, Reggie.
Next up is this dude, this guy, this guy, this
guy did not sign his name. He says, Benny, I
know you've used to collect stuff. Is this a scam
or worth it? And then he sent me a link
here Robbie from Panini revealing the biggest FIFA World Cup
sticker album ever. Oh it says it could cost over
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two thousand dollars to complete. I'm out, Robbie. You you
can do this, Robbie, I'm out. I'm not doing so.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
During the pandemic, I got in the cards and I
still kind of have that itch. But soccer isn't my thing.
But I do know I forget which I read way
too many books, and I forget which when I read
those sticker books to the World Cup are actually internationally speaking,
super super popular. So I bet you didn't make a
ton of money on that, But no, I'm I don't
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know how people spend as much as they do on
those things.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, the whole thing for me, and I'm obviously older
than you, but when I was a kid, it was like, hey,
you you can spend a little bit on a pack
of cards and then you could like win the lottery.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You know. Yeah, Now it's you have to spend a
lot just to win the lottery. It's there's no like,
uh racks the richest story in the cards game, the
card game really anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh, it's it's the thing that drives me nuts. And
I run into Mike Harmen every night. It's weird spend that.
Harmon's a huge collector, like a memorabilia stuff, and I've
got tons and tons of stuff, which is all like,
you know, forty years old at this point. Pretty much.
It's like sitting in my you know, secret location to
the Mala Mansion, and I was like, well, maybe I'll
(11:04):
sell some of it, you know, I don't really look
at it, just kind of sitting there. And I had
some really good stuff when I was doing stuff with
the Dodgers. I got like autographed stuff, I got team equipment,
I got a lot of cool you know, cool crap.
But Harmon is like, well, you got to get it.
You gotta spend money to get it graded.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh yeah, I don't know that I want to do
that because in the one thing, if they took a fee,
but what they do is they the fee is sliding
based on how much they think you'll sell the card.
It's such a racket. It's not like, okay, well grade
every one of your cards twenty five dollars a pop.
It's like, well, if this card sells for over one K,
then we're going to charge you more than if it's
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sold for under one K. And it's yeah no.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I was like blown away. Wait, so I I want
to sell this stuff and I gotta hold I So
I have to pay money just to okay.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, just to potentially make money, and you don't know
if you will because you never know with those auctions.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
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Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, Hank from Columbus rites in. Hopefully Hank will be
in Cincinnati. He says, Ben, you didn't mention the Washington
Wizards April Fools prank. Why not. I did see it,
and I'm amazed that a number of people And I
don't know how much of this is real. You know
how I feel about the Internet, Robbie.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, the matrix matrix and I used to think that
was a boomer take. I'm completely with you on that.
It's I bet you, like eighty percent of X is
either box or people that are pushing an artificial agenda.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, like, I've you know, I have heard this to say,
I've heard some things from people that work in the
business that some of the manipulation and that's just in
like the media world. I can only yeah, politically and
it's got to be insane. But anyway, Yeah, I did
see the story, Hank. I've I've been around those bits.
I've seen. I used to go cover the NBA all
the time, and I saw them practicing those skits before
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the game, like they'd go over it and so the like,
I can't imagine people people think, well, I can't believe
this guy got suckered into you know, forty one, ten
thousand dollars. If you missed it, the Wizards on April Fools,
they did a prank you know, take a half court shot.
If you make it blindfolded, you'll win ten thousand. The
guy missed it. They said he won it easy and all.
(13:26):
That was just a joke. But it's no different. Like
I loved magic when I was a kid. I lived
near Disneyland growing up. We used to go to the
I'd go to Disneyland and my mom would get so
upset because I didn't want to necessarily go on any rides.
The first place I wanted to go is the magic shop.
I loved the magic job, and I've always loved magic.
And then maybe fifteen years ago, so I was in
Vegas at a magic show. We're sitting off to the
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right side, me and the wife. We're sitting off to
the right side and right near the emergency exit. And
midway through the show, the guy's on stage, the magician's performing,
and somebody comes in out of emergency exit, oh no,
and sits in front of us. There were a couple
of open seats, sits in front of us. About five
minutes later, Robbie says, I need someone to come up
on stage. Randomly. Just happened to pull that guy who
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just walked in five minutes earlier onto the stage to
do the trick. The guy went back, he sat down
in front of us, and then five minutes later, Robbie,
what do you think the guy did? He walked out, Robbie,
he out, he left. He was part of the gig.
He was, he was in on the ruse. That's how
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that went.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I've heard that. Yeah, it s all that and then
angles like Dennis Miller was saying one time. I heard
him say something like he was at a pent sellar
and he let him backstage and it ruined it for
him because it's just all angles, like so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Oh yeah, I didn't know. No, it is, it's and
I've read some books on this, and essentially what it
is is there are blind spots that we all have.
Things like there's it's very odd to think about this,
Like you think of all the great magicians in Houdini
and uh, you know Penn and tell I love a
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huge pen and teller Fan and all that, like they're
like right in front of you, off it. You will
not even notice something right in front of you. It's
very odd. Uh. And the secret to magic is you
get your attention isn't focused on something you don't notice it. Essentially,
that's I believe that's the it's it's a misdirection thing.
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So when your attention isn't focused on something, you don't
necessarily notice it. So your your eyes still receive all
the visual input, but your brain does not process it.
And that's really what magic. Magic is. But if you
can do it, like the close up magic these guys
do is amazing, Like yeah, it's you know, I know
it's a magic trick and all that. The up close
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card tricks are just great.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
So to go off of the tangent, but how do
you feel about those like the Owes, the mentalists? Do
you consider that magic.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Or what's Yes, it's not really my uh uh he he.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
He was everywhere for like six months, like from every
show and everything. I haven't seen him, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, did you see oh man. There was a great documentary,
The Amazing Randy. It went a little off the ledge
in the middle of it, but I heard about it
is it's a pretty good documentary. I if you're into
magic and his whole thing. He was a magician who
spent his life trying to expose because he knew magicians
were con artists and there was this guy that used
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to bend spoons way back in the day, and he
would go on late night TV when that was popular,
and the amazing Randy was like, Hey, I'm gonna expose
this guy. It was, it was, it was interesting, then
went a little off the off the ledge in the
middle of it. Let's see out back John and Joanna
in SoCal right, and he says, this email is a
thank you to Danny g Radio. He entertained us so
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much when he was on the show and for the
last year or so when we discovered the Fifth Hour podcast.
Understand that he has other things in his life that
he needs to tend to, but please tell him if
you can that outpack. John and Joanna loved appreciated his work.
Joanna loves ranch where I do not. Oh my god,
(17:26):
Oh Robbie, what's your position on ranch dressing? Robbie?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
My position is I loved when you had to try
it because that do you remember why you had to
try ranch in studio on pariscope that one time? No?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
What was what? I must have lost the bet? What
did Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You lost the bet with me? It was you were
convinced Kyler Murray wouldn't be a first round pick. Yes,
and this is like I want to see the season
was still going. It wasn't even both seasons, like, not
only will he the first first round pick, will be
the first overall pick. And it was a fat styles bet,
but the if I won, or you know, if Kyler
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went first, you had to try the ranch. And yeah,
that was and that's when I finally realized. Is much
as GM say, oh, we don't look at media mock
drafts or we don't pay attention to what the media says,
the media completely brainwashes these gms who are idiots, and
they'll just fall for the Cinderella storyline and then draft
a guy who's like five seven and looks like a
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video games first overall pick.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I would like to point out Rubbie that that take
that has aged well. I was right about Kyler.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
No, you were, you were? You were?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He's no good. I the moment I was convinced that
this guy is not cut out for the NFL. He
did an interview with Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I don't know why I remember that.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
He's like it was very awkward, like his dad. He
like checked his dad to talk. It was very easy.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, I have when interviews go sideways I get, like,
really that secondary embarrassment, and that was one of those
ones where I kept like muting and like, no, I
gotta hear what's gonna happen in the muting, No, I
gotta hear what's going to happen because it was so awkward.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, well, a lot of these guys and sports will
tell you it's a TV show, it's entertainment, and so
I want the storyline. It's a good story. People get
excited about the story and as you figure it out.
I love the fact that the Vikings GM, according to
what I read, was just picking players based on Pro
Football Focus, which is outstanding.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Well, I mean you have the Jets owner's son allegedly
picking him off Madden scores, So I guess that's a
step up.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
What a world? What a world?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, heyway, Thanks to Outback John and Joanna and you guys.
I appreciate that. I might have to get out to now.
Outback John. He runs like an outback, so I might
have to go out there and hit him up for
a blooming onion. I might have got there.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Take Anthony Le and Louisiana with.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You, haillain all right, Joe from Magnolia Texas Rights into
the Fifth Hour podcast. He says, I was listening to
the podcast of your show a few weeks ago. You
talked about the throwback broadcast of the NBA. Yeah, I
love that. You know, old guy TV old broadcast. It
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was great. Jim Gray was on there. We just talked
to Jim at the Super Bowl. That was Anyway, says
it got me thinking, Joe says about something I've wondered
about for years. I think I can lay claim to
the invention of throwback uniforms. Once upon a time. Check
this out, Robbie, once upon a time back in the eighties.
I just loved the fact, he said once upon a time,
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because that's how all great stories start, once upon a time,
long and long ago.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Exactly so.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Back in the eighties, he said, I was an equipment
manager for Eddie Garcia's old stopping grounds at Fresno State.
Look at that wow. In the nineteen eighty six eighty
seven season, Ron Adams took over as the head coach.
It did not go very well during the first his
first season in eighty six, after losing many many games,
I asked him if he wanted to use the uniforms
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they wore when they won the NIT Championship several years
prior that I had recently found stuffed in a cabinet.
Since there was nothing to lose, he went along with
it and they did win that game. Joe justays, this
got the rather wild eyed attention of your old buddy
Vic the Brick. Jacob was the sports guy at KMPH
(21:10):
Channel twenty six at Fresno at the time. Vic went
absolutely nuts about it, and he often did about almost anything. Anyway.
My question is do you know of any previous use
of throwback uniforms? If not, do I have a legitimate
claim to the invention or should and should I seek
royelties Yes, Joe, hire a billboard lawyer, yes, and demand money.
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It's twenty twenty six. That's a great story, and it
really the thing I love about that story, Robbie, is
that is the I'm trying to think of the word here.
That is the epitome of what it used to be like,
where it was just like a everything was mom and pop.
I remember when I was a kid, the umpires sometimes
their uniforms wouldn't show up to the stadium because they
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traveled obviously separately. They didn't travel with teams and so
they'd go out to like Big five s Boarding Goods
or something and buy buy shirts to wear for the
game or whatever. Or you know. I just love stories
like that, So why not and you can do it.
You imagine today if a team will pick your sport.
I don't know, Baseball, your Mariners, Robbie. Let's say the
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Mariners just randomly decided, all right, we're not gonna have
We're just gonna go buy some old nineteen eighty seven
Mariner uniforms with the stripes down the side, and we're
just gonna wear those, and we're gonna buy them from
some gift shop. Like Major League Baseball marketing would lose
their mind, right, you can't do that. We have to
promote it, we have to, like okay, So it's just
it's obviously a different world. I love that.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Gotta do the manufactured leak and then the actual official
uniform reveal with the smoke and everything else.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, you gotta leak it on Reddit and then see
if it's good or not, and then it's probably too late.
At that point, you still have to go with it.
And yeah, that's I'll have Next time I talked to
Vic the brick I'll have to run that by vix
se if he remembers that, Thank you, Joe. How about
Joe in Magnolia, Texas? Is that where that there's some
show on HGTV. I think that it's filmed in Magnolia, Texas.
(23:06):
I believe anyway, it's Middle aged Life. Robbie. You'll be there,
sa Ryan writes in he says, Hey, Ben, this is
Ryan from Wooster. He says, I'm said said here about
Danny g Leaving. However, I'm excited to see what the
future holds for the pod. My question this week, I
know you're a big fan of words. So are you
(23:26):
a wordle guy or are you into something else? I
have been doing wordle much more recently and was wondering
what your thoughts or what fun word games do you play? Yeah,
so the only thing I'm really into I I futched
around with wordle and it really you know, it was fine.
I didn't hate it, it just did not become part
(23:47):
of my routine. And so I'm a big scrabble guy.
I love scrabble. I've gotten pretty good at it. And
so that's and I used the scrabble app. Let's see
if I canna find it. It's called scrabble Go and
I did this a while back and there were a
few guys that fans of the show that I would
play against unscramble and then I killed them so much
they quit so they couldn't handle it. I embarrassed them.
(24:10):
But if you want to play, I am on there
Scrabble Go. And I'm not getting paid to promote this.
It's just my own michig. So you check it out.
And my name is is Benny on there, so check
that out. And I have a Dodger cap on. So
if you want to play anyway, I look forward to
(24:31):
seeing you, Ryan says on the ninth, May ninth in Worcester. Yeah,
I'm gonna be at a WU Socks game, Robbie.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Take lots of pictures. I want to see what that
looks like.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, I definitely will have a good time. And the
rumor is I am I may be throwing out the
first pitch at the.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That that is a bucket list side of my doubt
we'll ever come true, but yeah, that would be.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're Robbie the Mariner fan. The man should have you. You
know you you supported them when they sucked, Robbie.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, did my uh my first ever tweet to your
show is when you and were you were still on
weekends and Sager was in with you, and I said,
the Mariners will win or will make the World Series
or make the playoffs within two years. And it took
roughly six years after that. And I remember just Tager
(25:19):
just bursting out laughing, and you started laughing too, and
I was like, oh that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, when I when I met you the first time,
Robbie in Seattle and I walked around downtown Seattle, was
by the the Mariners team shop. Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I remember I saw that that tweet came across, Like I.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Thought, this is the most depressing thing. Yes, but now
that you bore now they're good, See Robbie.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I don't know. Let's hope it wasn't a one hit
wonder that scared me.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, we'll see. It's early in the season, you know.
I was like, yeah, wait, forty games. I was the
baseball people, Yeah, wait forty games to figure out what
you have.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You know, I always hated that. That's what's the one
thing I don't like about the Daughters is the way
they didn't take the regular season seriously at all. Now,
people are just gonna be like, oh, it's early. All
we have is today.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You got it exactly? I can't. It tries me bonkers.
That mindset is just ridiculous anyway.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It's what's ruined the NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
But sorry, you're absolutely right. I just saw the other day.
I saw a stat percentage of star players that have
played in national televised games, and I think the number
I read was like in the thirty percent. Oh my goodness,
seventy percent of the stars seventy percent of the time
the stars don't play Wow. JT. The Wingman from Let's
(26:34):
see here Severeville? Am I saying that? Right? He's gonna
keep correcting me here he's in near Knoxville.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh. JT.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
The wing Ma, says Ben. Since the weather has really
improved in my neck of the woods, I have noticed
a lot of people have been out and about on bicycles.
This has given me the itge to possibly buy one
for myself. They are really good for exercise and pretty
fun to write as well. I have a two part
question for you. When did you last ride a bicycle?
(27:05):
And do you still own a bicycle? Uh? Yeah, so
I probably about boy ten years ago. Maybe with the
kid and the wife. We went out and we were like, oh,
we're gonna ride bicycles. That lasted about two weeks and
that was it and we gave that up. I still
have a bicycle if you can find it buried a
bunch of other bunch of other stuff. Now, Robbie, I
(27:27):
would think if you can get those electric bikes, I've
seen low rider electric bikes, have low rider electric bikes.
How crazy is that?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, my answer is about ten years too.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
People always well I shouldn't say that, they shouldn't be surprised,
but yeah, I do know how to ride a bike,
and uh, yeah, it's been about ten years and I
think I still the framed tires probably all messed up.
It's buried under stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
So all right. Well the other thing too, about that
when you're a big guy like we are, Robbie, Yeah,
it just had the basic bicycle seat. You have to
get to me, you have to get the wider seat.
Otherwise it's it's just a wedgie the whole time.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh, it's like a torture device, like enhanced interrogation. Yes, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So there are larger seats that you can get to
accommodate yes, a person of our size and my God anyway.
Kwang from Ho Chim in Vietnam rights in on the MIDI.
He says, guaranteed human. He says the idea of introversion
and extroversion first came from a Swiss Swiss psychiatrist, Carl g.
(28:35):
Jung in the early nineteen hundreds. He believes some people
were energized by the external world extroverts, and other people
were energized by the internal world introverts. An extrovert is
someone who draws energy from being around people. They like
to be out and about, attending social events and engaging willers.
An extrovert may be called a people person. An introvert
(28:56):
is someone who draws energy from a quick reflection. They're
happy spending time alone with one or two people they
feel close to often blah blah blah blah blah. Then
he says amberverts are in the middle. They may lean
towards extroverted or introvert behavior depending on the situation. So
(29:17):
Quang says, with all that said, my question, are you
and m pervert? Ben? Yeah? I don't. I don't think
I would rather be around one or two people. I'm
more comfortable in that environment everyone. So I think the
meet and Greece, I'm okay with that because it's it's
rare and appropriate. So Robbie rare and appropriate, I'm okay
with that. Yeah, and it's bouncing around it's I don't
(29:41):
I don't mind those. But if I did that every
every week, I would lose my mind.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, I've never I'm saying with you, I've never understood
the people that like actually want to host parties stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, yeah, that seems insane to me. Uh, I do
like like once or twice a year a big gathering
will be fun, but I don't and then I don't
want to host it. But yes, uh one or two people's.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah we do. We do one big holiday party, the
mal or Ugly Sweater party.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We're done with it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
That's it. Get that in and uh yeah, there's other
small social events that I am required to attend. But
the ferg dog from the Hannah Montana House right, since
says hey man and insert phill In's name, are you
guys as devastated as Robbie? The Mariner fan is over
chat GBT canceling plans for an erotic chat.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
The odds.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You recover from that, Robbie everything, Okay, Have either of
you spent time chatting with other bots out there, like
Grock or Lorena. It's shinny how lifelike they can be
at times? Or do you both limit your use of
AI to absolute minimum? Making picture sure for the who
am I gamer? Uh? He says also good news, I
(31:05):
already found the perfect permanent replacement for Danny g Brian Finley,
oh Boy, said he'd be thrilled to do it anytime.
You're welcome, Ben, you two are going to be great together. Well,
I haven't talked. I haven't talked to numb Nuts in
a while. I don't I don't know what he's up to.
H Yeah, well there you go. Uh. I can bring
(31:28):
back you know, I could rotate like I get listeners.
I could bring back some old people that used to
work on the show. Like there's a lot of there's
a lot of wiggle room here. There's a lot of
wiggle room. Although I think the people I used to
work with robbyr gonna the man money, which is a problem.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, there's no.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Budget, so that's the problem, or they would still be
working with you, you know exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Alf from the Big Board Rights and says Benjamin, as
a purveyor of such sanctioned nicknames like Benny Bingo and
Benny beat Down, can I get a rubber stamp on
the nickname Benny Brackets. Well, let's wait until. Let's wait
till after the game on Monday night, before we go
Benny Brackett. Now, if this does turn out, well, absolutely,
(32:10):
alf Benny brackets will be added. Benny Brackets will be added.
So it's very, very exciting. What else do we have?
A Frank from Jersey rights in? He says, ben is
there an end to the madness? And he says, there's
a gas station in California. You're in Jersey. What do
(32:31):
you care about that? Frank? He says, A big sir
that is charging nearly ten dollars per gallon premium gas
costs nine at a place called It's Gorda Buy the Sea.
I've been to, big Sir. I don't remember Gorda by
the Sea. I must not stay in my memory, he says.
The only reason it's nine ninety nine, it would be higher.
(32:54):
But check this out right, the pumps only go up
tone digit old pumps only up to nine ninety nine.
That is just from what I understand that Big Sir
is very remote. It's you get to it. There's not
(33:14):
a lot around there. So if you're the only gas station,
you can charge whatever you want. You can charge whatever
the bleepity bleep, and so that's the way that is.
But yeah, I I paid where was I somewhere out
in the desert on the way back from Vegas And
it was like close to seven dollars and wow, god,
(33:37):
oh this is I usually just go to Costco and
it's not that bad compared to everything else. A Shane
from Dallas writes in says, Ben, I know you often
say you like to spend ninety minutes at parties because
that's what shows and movies are. Are you going to
have to adjust based on the story that came out
this week? And then he sent me a story here, Robbie,
(33:59):
They said that feature films, all right, it's not your imagination.
Movies are longer. The runtime of average major release films
has ballooned. I know in recent years they say that
Marvel movies are the main culprit here. So they came
back in the nineties and the early two thousands, films
(34:23):
were about one hundred and fourteen minutes. Oh no, they
were one hundred six menutxcuse me a hundred and six minutes,
So that's yeah, that's what I say. Usually ninety minutes,
so you can see the nineties, so it was a
little longer than that, but ninety minutes, and then one
hundred and six minutes, and then early two thousands one
hundred and fourteen minutes, and now they've added even more time,
(34:45):
and they say that they've also expanded the trailers, the advertising,
the movie theaters expanded to an average around twenty to
thirty minutes. So that's do the math on. That's that's
two and a half hours plus. Man.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
It was when movies that were pure action flicks, you know,
the ones that you could always like, oh, it's only
like a little over an hour, it'll be good time,
it'll be trashed, but it won't be too long. When
those started pushing two hours and forty five minutes, that
was when I was like, it's something going on here,
Like are they intentionally trying to bloat all these movies?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
So yeah, it's it's great, and I missed the days
where they had original movies.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Yeah that's a boomer take right right, Yeah, I know
but like they're remaking movies for the third or fourth time.
It's crazy because they don't want to take any risk,
you know, you have to, you don't want to put
their neck out there the studios, and plus they have
to appeal to a global audience. So if they make
like some of those those movies they made in the
in the seventies and the eighties, they could never make.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Today because people would lose their freaking mind to be like,
oh my god, Ted from the Bay Area, we're going
a long Robbie. Look at they're having so much fun. Robbie, Yeah,
that's great, all right, Ted for the Bayer, he says, Ben,
I'm gonna miss Danny g However, I tune in for
your nonsense. Uh so I'm still here. Well, thank you, Ted, Uh,
he says the tiger talk says Tiger Woods was Uh.
(36:12):
I was obviously in trouble. He's going to rehab on
all this stuff. And then he he says, what do
you think of the story going around? This is I
guess a psychologist whom that now And Tiger Woods is
the symbol of this He's called the public symbol of
a broader American habit using explanation to delay accountability. Uh
(36:33):
is the way it's described, and there's some psychobabble jargon
and all this stuff, and so essentially to give you
the thumbnail version of this that when something bad happens
to a celebrity, the setback itself matters less than the
promise of it's going to be better. I'm gonna bounce
(36:54):
back from this. They like they have a permission slip.
When I was a kid, we'd say that was a
bad decision, moron. Now it's well, he's going through some
tough times. It's a struggle.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, I already saw I somehow got signed up for
like an athletic newsletter list and I'm trying to unsubscribe
to all those things. But anyway, it was, it was
they're already pivoting to like, well, what you did was bad,
But think of the redemption arch he's going to have
and how much he can teach younger people to you know,
(37:25):
not do what he's done for like time after time
after time. And it's disappointing because I was a huge
Tiger fan as a little kid. Back I remember I
was like one of my first fourth memories watching him
just destroy everyone winning by like eighteen strokes or something
at one of the majors.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And yeah, it was a master's It was like Secretariat
of Golf.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yes, yes, exactly that.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, it was insane, but yeah, that's you know, things change.
I get it. It's uh, it's from this podcast and
from the radio show. There was one of our listeners
in Colorado. She works for the weather operation there in
Colorado and pointed out that a few years ago they
changed all the terms for storms. Oh yeah, people were
(38:06):
numb to them. So they made for social media. The
weather people made word. They made new phrases that caused
people to react. You know, they panicked.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
They Oh my god, yeah, just throw the word atmospheric here,
bomb there, you know, atmospheric river bomb, cyclone.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Bomb, oh, the bomb, the bomb dot com We still
we called that the jet stream back in the day,
Robert exactly. But that's not cool anymore. So you got
to change it up. And that's it. I'll do a
couple more here. I'm having a good time. Uh it's
Xavier from Seattle. That's your well, you're in your organ
But closing it says, do you approve the NASA diet
(38:46):
for our loved astronauts, and this is going on right now,
Artemis two, the ten Artist two Mission to Space. Well,
this is perfect. This is right in our wheelhouse. Robber food,
all right, this is great. I don't think Xavier knew
that you were gonna be on, but this is freaking perfect.
All right. So here's the Artemis two menu. Okay, artist
who menu? It features The dishes include let's see here
(39:07):
we go thumbs up thumbs down on each dish. Are
you ready? Robbie thumbs up, thumbs down, barbecued beef brisket
two thumbs up, Yeah, thumbs although, how could could it?
How good could it be if it's in space?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Vegetable kisheh two thumbs.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Down, Yeah, one thumb down. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Broccoli al grotten? Eh? Is that cheesy? Broccoli? Is what
that is?
Speaker 3 (39:35):
I hope? So, because then that's a one thumb up,
it's not. I actually this is gonna shock people. I
actually like broccoli.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
But yeah, you're gonna lose your rep man, I lose
your street cred. Robbie rob the goat Man, and Justin
and Cincinnati and those guys and Ferg Dog or wait
a minute, this is new material. Uh. What else? They have?
Macaroni and cheese. Who could say no to macaroni and cheese?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, that's I'm not a great And now I think
even I can make that space withouting it up so that.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
You are a great cook, Robbie. It's called YouTube, man,
just watching.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
It's true. I've been doing that there, fry and stuff. Well,
it's slow progress.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Oh, I know you can do it, man. Let me
tell you. It's the way to do it. I've been
fussing around with that, and you master it. The main
reason I've started cooking so much is because food's so expensive.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
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Speaker 1 (40:35):
What else they have on the menu they have, let's hear.
Beverages include mango peach smoothie, not the pineapple fruit smoothie
which Doc Mike likes. They have chocolate and strawberry breakfast drinks, coffee,
and green tea, and they say all together NASA. They
said the four astronauts are expected to go through forty
(40:55):
three cups of coffee on their ten day so and
they don't have refrigeration. I guess they don't have a
lot of options to the capabilities to keep the food
fresh and so every meal, you know, they the whole
that has to be shelf stable and all that.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Is that forty three cups per person. Not to play
on this bock because that would be a lot.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
But no, it says just forty three cups three or
four people. I think how many astronauts are there? Three
or four? I think four?
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Right, yeah, four? Usually it's a even number.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Don't they have to pee into a tube or something
like that?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I heard there was a momentary panic that the the
toilet system wasn't working once they got to space. There
was actual concern they weren't have to like turn around
or however you want to phrase that, until they fixed.
But they fixed the issue.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
So yeah, just call Roto Ruter and they'll be Craig
from cansa city home of the Ben mal or chicken figures. Robert,
you got to get the Kansas city.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
That is actually probably on my most wanted list of
cities in the US. It's probably like number three because
there's a military history museum there too. In the Negro
League Museum.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and you gotta get the Royals
probably will be moving to a new stadium at some point. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
I've actually been to a Royals man, but it was
like I was five years old.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
It doesn't count. But Kansas City School great food. You
get the Mallard chicken fingers that you gotta have, the
z Man sandwich, my favorite barbecue sandwich, and lined up
at it used to be called Oklahoma Joe's, called Kansas
City Joe's. They have a World War One memorial in
downtown Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
If you're in the military history, I know your family's
a military family, so it's pretty cool. Uh yeah, it's not.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
A military family, just military. I guess straight. I don't
want to stolen. I don't want any stolen anything.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
You got a bunch of books there. I thought, I
don't know whatever you're.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
I'm sorry, Well he does. Yeah, anyway, go.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
On, all right, anyway, Craig says, Ben, wasn't this a
horror movie when we were kids in the nineteen eighties,
And he then he's got this biotech startup, wants to
grow headless human bodies scientific testing and organ farming.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
So yeah that I mean, like ten years ago there
was a story of they made zombie ants at Oregon
State University, which is near me. And I always feel
like we're pushed. I mean, didn't we learn our lessons
with the coronavirus, you know, like maybe we don't need
to test on everything.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah, no, uh yeah. I have a feeling Robbie that
this stuff's already going on in China and other places that.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Oh, I have no doubt that they they probably do
testing on the prison you know, the political prisoners in China. Yeah,
I don't. I've seen some articles that are pretty depressing
about what well they can do there.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Yeah. Like a lot of the technology that comes out,
I think that has been around for years and it's
just released to the public after many, many years. That's
just my mind.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
No, I hear you, Like, once it becomes platable to
the general society, stuff like yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Like the I'll give you example, there was that stealth bomber,
which is not I guess it's old now, but they
the people would see it every once while flying in
the desert out in Mexico or Nevada, and the government's like, oh,
there's nothing here, and then eventually they announced it and oh, yeah,
we have we have this, you.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Know, yeah, they did that with I believe Elon must
named those kids after the s R. Seventy one Stealth,
one of the stealth planes. So yeah, yeah, I got you.
I always confirm it.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Just later our last one, Robbie, last one, George from
El Paso. There's a great is it salso no, there's
a seasoning on El Paso seasoning Taco season anyway, Uh, George,
hey say it says Ben, is this proof that we
have had interaction with aliens? And this comes from former
Congressman Matt Gates, Oh boy, who claimed that the government
(45:02):
briefed him top secret alien human hybrid program. Uh. And
this guy was he was supposed to Gates, you know,
you know he's Robby. Yes, yeah, he's on the spectrum.
But he was gonna be like Trump wanted to be
the attorney general.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Suppose he was very close to There is multiple universes
where he became the attorney general. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
He says that he was informed by a member of
the United States military that the government was developing alien
human hybrids. The purpose of the program was to allow
officials to interact with extraterrestial beings. So that also sounds
like a movie.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah, like body snatches or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
do agree with your take that if there are extra thresholds,
it's not that they're coming from space. It's most likely
that they're coming from the deep parts to see like
the Mariana Trench. I know I'm butchering the first sword
on that, but it's so much the ocean has never
been explored because you just can't sit anything down there.
(46:03):
It'll collapse under the pressure.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
So yeah, no, I think there's some wild stuff. You
look at those oceans. You've ever flown over the ocean, Robbie,
it's pretty wild, man, It's a whole they think of
all those things in the ocean. They have no idea.
We're here, right, We're yeah for them? What are we?
All right? It's been fun. Thank you so much, Robbie.
I appreciate you. Have anything you want to promote, Robbie,
(46:25):
anything at all, anything you want to promote here.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yeah. I do a show with the Assy Guy on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
I remember Ozzie Guy.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
I remember, Yeah, he senses regards. He actually wants to
I'll talk you off there about it. But the United
States of Australia. We just kind of shoot the breeze
Sundays and we're going to be doing more stuff, hopefully
like comedy news stuff. But yeah, we do that every
Sunday at nine thirty am Eastern on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
On YouTube, and you gotta sell it. It's the greatest
hybrid show between Australia and the United States. There's no
show that's it's you know what it is, Robbie. It's
the best.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Yes, it is the best.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
It's the best Australian US hybrid in the world. And
again give the name again.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
People can find it in United States of Australia.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
All right, type that into YouTube, follow that channel and
thank you, Robbie. We'll see you in Cincinnati later this month.
Thanks Robbie.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
Wait
Cutbooms.
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 sol 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):
It's in the.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me Ben Mallor,
and we have arrived at the Sunday mail Bag. Woo. Now,
as you know, Danny G said bye bye. He was
decommissioned from the podcast by his choice, not was forced
out or anything like that. So Danny G left the
(01:08):
podcast and we are in the transition stage, which is
very popularly these days, trying to figure out what we're
gonna do, and eventually there will likely be someone who
will do the podcast with me on a weekly basis.
But in the meantime, we're gonna have some fun because
really the last like five months, Danny really hasn't been
very available for the podcast. So he's been occasionally on
(01:30):
the mail Bag or something like that, but hasn't been around,
so I pretty much done it by myself for the
last several months. I like having someone with me on
the mail bag to go back and forth, and so
I thought, who better. We need someone with muscle, We
need someone with power, We need someone that intimidates everyone
else in the Malord Militia. This is a guy that
(01:51):
does not mess around. So we have gone to the
higher rank of the Malad Militia. A senior brigadier general,
a man who is beloved, who is a great character
in the show. People love to goof on him and
he loves to he loves to punch back. Give it
up for Robbie the Mariner fan.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Wait, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Welcome Robbie. Unbelievable. Look at that the biggest name. We
got the biggest name. And you know how upset Justin
and Cincinnati is going to be and Rob the goat
man and all the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I know, yeah, I don't know if I'm the biggest name.
But you could throw in, you know size joke so.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, you are part of the offensive line.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, I left tackle. I'd prefer to be left tackle
because they get paid the most.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So I don't know. I've met some some of the
boys in Minnesota and Kansas City. We got a pretty
good offensive line, Robbie. Yeah, we would the Mallard Militia.
If we put a football team, and you would obviously
be a senior member, you'd be like a captain of
the football team. We would have like the greatest offensive line.
We got some big boys. And I love it. Man.
I'm a big guy myself, so I love that, so
I'll stay it big.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Greg and I love that's right. Chat pretty frequently. And yeah,
he's he would be a hog Mulley in the line too.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We got you. We gotta have my buddy in Kansas
City who works at a gun factory.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Makes I remember him. That's the most masculine.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
What do you do bullets? What do you do? Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Hey, that's a job that you'll have for life, unless
unless say I replace it. Actually everything, I mean the
job security I'm making balls is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah. If you're working for a defense company, you're in shape.
You know, you got big time money and all that.
All right, So in order to do the mailbag properly, Robbie,
we need Ohio out to get us in the mood.
So get us in the mood.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's all right, let's get right to it now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
These are actual questions by actual listeners. And as always,
I'm very grateful when we started the podcast, I don't
even know how many years ago, I had to beg
people on Facebook and we called Twitter at the time.
We need questions, we need questions. Oh my god, we
need questions. And it was a paid every week. I
have not had to do that in forever, and I'm
(04:23):
very grateful that the podcast is doing well and you
guys more importantly are sending in questions. So otherwise we
just get rid of the mail bag. It's been great,
so we're gonna try to rapid fire wrap it fire
mail Bag. Robbie, if you want to send a question
in for a future edition of the mail Bag, or
if you want to suggest someone to be in what
is the Robbie chair this week for the mail Bag?
(04:45):
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour
at gmail dot com. Before we get to the mailbag, though,
is it true, Robbie that you will be making a
rare and appropriate celebrity appearance later this month in the
state of Ohio. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yes, that is correct. The tickets are booked. Excited. There's
a couple of people that told me they're going from
also from House State, but I don't want to out
them in case they plans to change. But I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So yeah, I'm fired up to it. I have gotten
some emails from people. As I always say, with these things,
a lot of times people will say they're going to
be there and then life happens and they can't.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah. I was one of those those people once I
was dead, said I'm going to the San Bernardino meet
up and then something came up. So yeah, I've tried.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It happens, I got I'm excited, and I'm still in
the planning stages. I know we're what are we twenty
days away or whatever from this thing, and I'm still
in the planning stages. I'm thinking it should be earlier
in the in the like the midday. I'm thinking because
Dick work Dick and Dayton is you know, he's an
older guy and he doesn't listen to the podcast so
we can say what we want. But the Dixter, I
(05:54):
think he's in his early eighties. I know, Wow, his
birthday is coming up. He has the same birth is
Pete Rose.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Which is yes, I know, that's so perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
He calls me every year on his birthday.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And that was always a great dick because the Reds
they fire their manager about as often as you watch clothes,
you know, and so you'd always ask, I believe you'd
always ask him who should be the manager. Either you'd
lead him into Saint Pete Rose or he would just
throw out Pete Rose until he died.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well that and the Browns.
Who should be Bernie? Uh yeah, I want Bernie.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I can't wait to meet him. That's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, I'm hoping he'll perform. You know, he's a noted
music he said, that's some bumps. When he's tried to
sing on the show, it's not. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, well but even if he did it perfectly, no
one will remember it though, So there's.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That exactly exactly. So I'm thinking like maybe a like
a three hour thing, maybe like midway through, like the
ninety minute Mark Dixter gets up there on stage. Yes,
and then I don't know, I'll run this by you, Robbie.
I'm and I don't I'm gonna throw this out. There's
nothing guaranteed. This might not happen at all, but I
think the Reds are in town that yep.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I was actually gonna DM you about that. I was like,
you know, the Reds play that evening. I was like,
I'm trying the Reds. It's the underrated stadium. It's not
like fancy, but the sight lines are good. I've been
the many Reds games, so yeah, I'm never.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Do a red game. So yeah, I was saying, maybe
we do it midday and we can go over to
the Reds at night. It can't be that expensive.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, I don't. I don't think. No, you know, tickets
any more expensive and relative, but in terms of like
anywhere else now, I'm not really I don't think.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
So. Yeah, I think you also buy him on the
secondary market.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Game. It is a Saturday, so who knows. I think
who they playing.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Tigers are not bad. No, they have you know me.
I like my prospects. So yeah, that McGonagall guy will
be interesting watch.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We'll see, we'll see, all right. Reggie from Detroit is
in the leadoff chair. He says, man, I was looking
for the fifth hour podcast sidekick job opening on the
iHeart side. I could not find it. And then he says,
he says, how much does it pay? What are the benefits?
Does it have a four oh one k? Every funny, Reggie,
very funny, You get amazing banter. You get paid literally peanuts,
(08:25):
unsalted peanuts, Robbie, unsalted peanuts. And no, there's no job posting.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It's I thought about looking just to see it because
but I was like, I doubt it.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
No, No, it's just a part time it's a part
time thing, and it's really a labor of love. Even
even a mayan. I get paid a little more, but
it's still a labor. If we listen, we would not
be on our third podcast Sidekick. If it paid, well,
that's very good. People would not be leaving to go
work in an elementary school or whatever if that was.
(09:02):
But thank you for your concern, Reggie. I appreciate that.
And if you want anybody who you know, Robbie's obviously
here this week, but if you're if you're somebody we
know and you're a big support of the show and
all that. Uh, And I realized, Robbie, I just realized,
you know, we have the power. Through the way we
record this, we could actually have like multiple guys on
you know, fans of the show on the mailbag.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
We can do like oh yeah, yeah, I've been on
like a group chat with a bunch of mona which
people once we did for Christmas one year, so that yeah. No,
you can have a bunch of people on Zoom.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah yeah, so we could totally do that, but thank you, Reggie.
Next up is this dude, this guy, this guy, this
guy did not sign his name. He says, Benny, I
know you've used to collect stuff. Is this a scam
or worth it? And then he sent me a link
here Robbie from Panini revealing the biggest FIFA World Cup
sticker album ever. Oh it says it could cost over
(09:54):
two thousand dollars to complete. I'm out, Robbie. You you
can do this, Robbie, I'm out. I'm not doing so.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
During the pandemic, I got in the cards and I
still kind of have that itch. But soccer isn't my thing.
But I do know I forget which I read way
too many books, and I forget which when I read
those sticker books to the World Cup are actually internationally speaking,
super super popular. So I bet you didn't make a
ton of money on that, But no, I'm I don't
(10:25):
know how people spend as much as they do on
those things.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, the whole thing for me, and I'm obviously older
than you, but when I was a kid, it was like, hey,
you you can spend a little bit on a pack
of cards and then you could like win the lottery.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You know. Yeah, Now it's you have to spend a
lot just to win the lottery. It's there's no like,
uh racks the richest story in the cards game, the
card game really anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh, it's it's the thing that drives me nuts. And
I run into Mike Harmen every night. It's weird spend that.
Harmon's a huge collector, like a memorabilia stuff, and I've
got tons and tons of stuff, which is all like,
you know, forty years old at this point. Pretty much.
It's like sitting in my you know, secret location to
the Mala Mansion, and I was like, well, maybe I'll
(11:04):
sell some of it, you know, I don't really look
at it, just kind of sitting there. And I had
some really good stuff when I was doing stuff with
the Dodgers. I got like autographed stuff, I got team equipment,
I got a lot of cool you know, cool crap.
But Harmon is like, well, you got to get it.
You gotta spend money to get it graded.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh yeah, I don't know that I want to do
that because in the one thing, if they took a fee,
but what they do is they the fee is sliding
based on how much they think you'll sell the card.
It's such a racket. It's not like, okay, well grade
every one of your cards twenty five dollars a pop.
It's like, well, if this card sells for over one K,
then we're going to charge you more than if it's
(11:39):
sold for under one K. And it's yeah no.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I was like blown away. Wait, so I I want
to sell this stuff and I gotta hold I So
I have to pay money just to okay.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, just to potentially make money, and you don't know
if you will because you never know with those auctions.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
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Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, Hank from Columbus rites in. Hopefully Hank will be
in Cincinnati. He says, Ben, you didn't mention the Washington
Wizards April Fools prank. Why not. I did see it,
and I'm amazed that a number of people And I
don't know how much of this is real. You know
how I feel about the Internet, Robbie.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, the matrix matrix and I used to think that
was a boomer take. I'm completely with you on that.
It's I bet you, like eighty percent of X is
either box or people that are pushing an artificial agenda.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, like, I've you know, I have heard this to say,
I've heard some things from people that work in the
business that some of the manipulation and that's just in
like the media world. I can only yeah, politically and
it's got to be insane. But anyway, Yeah, I did
see the story, Hank. I've I've been around those bits.
I've seen. I used to go cover the NBA all
the time, and I saw them practicing those skits before
(13:04):
the game, like they'd go over it and so the like,
I can't imagine people people think, well, I can't believe
this guy got suckered into you know, forty one, ten
thousand dollars. If you missed it, the Wizards on April Fools,
they did a prank you know, take a half court shot.
If you make it blindfolded, you'll win ten thousand. The
guy missed it. They said he won it easy and all.
(13:26):
That was just a joke. But it's no different. Like
I loved magic when I was a kid. I lived
near Disneyland growing up. We used to go to the
I'd go to Disneyland and my mom would get so
upset because I didn't want to necessarily go on any rides.
The first place I wanted to go is the magic shop.
I loved the magic job, and I've always loved magic.
And then maybe fifteen years ago, so I was in
Vegas at a magic show. We're sitting off to the
(13:49):
right side, me and the wife. We're sitting off to
the right side and right near the emergency exit. And
midway through the show, the guy's on stage, the magician's performing,
and somebody comes in out of emergency exit, oh no,
and sits in front of us. There were a couple
of open seats, sits in front of us. About five
minutes later, Robbie says, I need someone to come up
on stage. Randomly. Just happened to pull that guy who
(14:13):
just walked in five minutes earlier onto the stage to
do the trick. The guy went back, he sat down
in front of us, and then five minutes later, Robbie,
what do you think the guy did? He walked out, Robbie,
he out, he left. He was part of the gig.
He was, he was in on the ruse. That's how
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that went.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I've heard that. Yeah, it s all that and then
angles like Dennis Miller was saying one time. I heard
him say something like he was at a pent sellar
and he let him backstage and it ruined it for
him because it's just all angles, like so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Oh yeah, I didn't know. No, it is, it's and
I've read some books on this, and essentially what it
is is there are blind spots that we all have.
Things like there's it's very odd to think about this,
Like you think of all the great magicians in Houdini
and uh, you know Penn and tell I love a
(15:12):
huge pen and teller Fan and all that, like they're
like right in front of you, off it. You will
not even notice something right in front of you. It's
very odd. Uh. And the secret to magic is you
get your attention isn't focused on something you don't notice it. Essentially,
that's I believe that's the it's it's a misdirection thing.
(15:33):
So when your attention isn't focused on something, you don't
necessarily notice it. So your your eyes still receive all
the visual input, but your brain does not process it.
And that's really what magic. Magic is. But if you
can do it, like the close up magic these guys
do is amazing, Like yeah, it's you know, I know
it's a magic trick and all that. The up close
(15:56):
card tricks are just great.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
So to go off of the tangent, but how do
you feel about those like the Owes, the mentalists? Do
you consider that magic.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Or what's Yes, it's not really my uh uh he he.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
He was everywhere for like six months, like from every
show and everything. I haven't seen him, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, did you see oh man. There was a great documentary,
The Amazing Randy. It went a little off the ledge
in the middle of it, but I heard about it
is it's a pretty good documentary. I if you're into
magic and his whole thing. He was a magician who
spent his life trying to expose because he knew magicians
were con artists and there was this guy that used
(16:40):
to bend spoons way back in the day, and he
would go on late night TV when that was popular,
and the amazing Randy was like, Hey, I'm gonna expose
this guy. It was, it was, it was interesting, then
went a little off the off the ledge in the
middle of it. Let's see out back John and Joanna
in SoCal right, and he says, this email is a
thank you to Danny g Radio. He entertained us so
(17:03):
much when he was on the show and for the
last year or so when we discovered the Fifth Hour podcast.
Understand that he has other things in his life that
he needs to tend to, but please tell him if
you can that outpack. John and Joanna loved appreciated his work.
Joanna loves ranch where I do not. Oh my god,
(17:26):
Oh Robbie, what's your position on ranch dressing? Robbie?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
My position is I loved when you had to try
it because that do you remember why you had to
try ranch in studio on pariscope that one time? No?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
What was what? I must have lost the bet? What
did Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You lost the bet with me? It was you were
convinced Kyler Murray wouldn't be a first round pick. Yes,
and this is like I want to see the season
was still going. It wasn't even both seasons, like, not
only will he the first first round pick, will be
the first overall pick. And it was a fat styles bet,
but the if I won, or you know, if Kyler
(18:02):
went first, you had to try the ranch. And yeah,
that was and that's when I finally realized. Is much
as GM say, oh, we don't look at media mock
drafts or we don't pay attention to what the media says,
the media completely brainwashes these gms who are idiots, and
they'll just fall for the Cinderella storyline and then draft
a guy who's like five seven and looks like a
(18:22):
video games first overall pick.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I would like to point out Rubbie that that take
that has aged well. I was right about Kyler.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
No, you were, you were? You were?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He's no good. I the moment I was convinced that
this guy is not cut out for the NFL. He
did an interview with Dan Patrick.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I don't know why I remember that.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
He's like it was very awkward, like his dad. He
like checked his dad to talk. It was very easy.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, I have when interviews go sideways I get, like,
really that secondary embarrassment, and that was one of those
ones where I kept like muting and like, no, I
gotta hear what's gonna happen in the muting, No, I
gotta hear what's going to happen because it was so awkward.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, well, a lot of these guys and sports will
tell you it's a TV show, it's entertainment, and so
I want the storyline. It's a good story. People get
excited about the story and as you figure it out.
I love the fact that the Vikings GM, according to
what I read, was just picking players based on Pro
Football Focus, which is outstanding.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Well, I mean you have the Jets owner's son allegedly
picking him off Madden scores, So I guess that's a
step up.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
What a world? What a world?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, heyway, Thanks to Outback John and Joanna and you guys.
I appreciate that. I might have to get out to now.
Outback John. He runs like an outback, so I might
have to go out there and hit him up for
a blooming onion. I might have got there.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Take Anthony Le and Louisiana with.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You, haillain all right, Joe from Magnolia Texas Rights into
the Fifth Hour podcast. He says, I was listening to
the podcast of your show a few weeks ago. You
talked about the throwback broadcast of the NBA. Yeah, I
love that. You know, old guy TV old broadcast. It
(20:00):
was great. Jim Gray was on there. We just talked
to Jim at the Super Bowl. That was Anyway, says
it got me thinking, Joe says about something I've wondered
about for years. I think I can lay claim to
the invention of throwback uniforms. Once upon a time. Check
this out, Robbie, once upon a time back in the eighties.
I just loved the fact, he said once upon a time,
(20:21):
because that's how all great stories start, once upon a time,
long and long ago.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Exactly so.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Back in the eighties, he said, I was an equipment
manager for Eddie Garcia's old stopping grounds at Fresno State.
Look at that wow. In the nineteen eighty six eighty
seven season, Ron Adams took over as the head coach.
It did not go very well during the first his
first season in eighty six, after losing many many games,
I asked him if he wanted to use the uniforms
(20:47):
they wore when they won the NIT Championship several years
prior that I had recently found stuffed in a cabinet.
Since there was nothing to lose, he went along with
it and they did win that game. Joe justays, this
got the rather wild eyed attention of your old buddy
Vic the Brick. Jacob was the sports guy at KMPH
(21:10):
Channel twenty six at Fresno at the time. Vic went
absolutely nuts about it, and he often did about almost anything. Anyway.
My question is do you know of any previous use
of throwback uniforms? If not, do I have a legitimate
claim to the invention or should and should I seek
royelties Yes, Joe, hire a billboard lawyer, yes, and demand money.
(21:34):
It's twenty twenty six. That's a great story, and it
really the thing I love about that story, Robbie, is
that is the I'm trying to think of the word here.
That is the epitome of what it used to be like,
where it was just like a everything was mom and pop.
I remember when I was a kid, the umpires sometimes
their uniforms wouldn't show up to the stadium because they
(21:55):
traveled obviously separately. They didn't travel with teams and so
they'd go out to like Big five s Boarding Goods
or something and buy buy shirts to wear for the
game or whatever. Or you know. I just love stories
like that, So why not and you can do it.
You imagine today if a team will pick your sport.
I don't know, Baseball, your Mariners, Robbie. Let's say the
(22:16):
Mariners just randomly decided, all right, we're not gonna have
We're just gonna go buy some old nineteen eighty seven
Mariner uniforms with the stripes down the side, and we're
just gonna wear those, and we're gonna buy them from
some gift shop. Like Major League Baseball marketing would lose
their mind, right, you can't do that. We have to
promote it, we have to, like okay, So it's just
it's obviously a different world. I love that.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Gotta do the manufactured leak and then the actual official
uniform reveal with the smoke and everything else.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, you gotta leak it on Reddit and then see
if it's good or not, and then it's probably too late.
At that point, you still have to go with it.
And yeah, that's I'll have Next time I talked to
Vic the brick I'll have to run that by vix
se if he remembers that, Thank you, Joe. How about
Joe in Magnolia, Texas? Is that where that there's some
show on HGTV. I think that it's filmed in Magnolia, Texas.
(23:06):
I believe anyway, it's Middle aged Life. Robbie. You'll be there,
sa Ryan writes in he says, Hey, Ben, this is
Ryan from Wooster. He says, I'm said said here about
Danny g Leaving. However, I'm excited to see what the
future holds for the pod. My question this week, I
know you're a big fan of words. So are you
(23:26):
a wordle guy or are you into something else? I
have been doing wordle much more recently and was wondering
what your thoughts or what fun word games do you play? Yeah,
so the only thing I'm really into I I futched
around with wordle and it really you know, it was fine.
I didn't hate it, it just did not become part
(23:47):
of my routine. And so I'm a big scrabble guy.
I love scrabble. I've gotten pretty good at it. And
so that's and I used the scrabble app. Let's see
if I canna find it. It's called scrabble Go and
I did this a while back and there were a
few guys that fans of the show that I would
play against unscramble and then I killed them so much
they quit so they couldn't handle it. I embarrassed them.
(24:10):
But if you want to play, I am on there
Scrabble Go. And I'm not getting paid to promote this.
It's just my own michig. So you check it out.
And my name is is Benny on there, so check
that out. And I have a Dodger cap on. So
if you want to play anyway, I look forward to
(24:31):
seeing you, Ryan says on the ninth, May ninth in Worcester. Yeah,
I'm gonna be at a WU Socks game, Robbie.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Take lots of pictures. I want to see what that
looks like.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, I definitely will have a good time. And the
rumor is I am I may be throwing out the
first pitch at the.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That that is a bucket list side of my doubt
we'll ever come true, but yeah, that would be.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You're Robbie the Mariner fan. The man should have you. You
know you you supported them when they sucked, Robbie.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, did my uh my first ever tweet to your
show is when you and were you were still on
weekends and Sager was in with you, and I said,
the Mariners will win or will make the World Series
or make the playoffs within two years. And it took
roughly six years after that. And I remember just Tager
(25:19):
just bursting out laughing, and you started laughing too, and
I was like, oh that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, when I when I met you the first time,
Robbie in Seattle and I walked around downtown Seattle, was
by the the Mariners team shop. Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
I remember I saw that that tweet came across, Like I.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Thought, this is the most depressing thing. Yes, but now
that you bore now they're good, See Robbie.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I don't know. Let's hope it wasn't a one hit
wonder that scared me.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, we'll see. It's early in the season, you know.
I was like, yeah, wait, forty games. I was the
baseball people, Yeah, wait forty games to figure out what
you have.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You know, I always hated that. That's what's the one
thing I don't like about the Daughters is the way
they didn't take the regular season seriously at all. Now,
people are just gonna be like, oh, it's early. All
we have is today.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You got it exactly? I can't. It tries me bonkers.
That mindset is just ridiculous anyway.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It's what's ruined the NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
But sorry, you're absolutely right. I just saw the other day.
I saw a stat percentage of star players that have
played in national televised games, and I think the number
I read was like in the thirty percent. Oh my goodness,
seventy percent of the stars seventy percent of the time
the stars don't play Wow. JT. The Wingman from Let's
(26:34):
see here Severeville? Am I saying that? Right? He's gonna
keep correcting me here he's in near Knoxville.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh. JT.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
The wing Ma, says Ben. Since the weather has really
improved in my neck of the woods, I have noticed
a lot of people have been out and about on bicycles.
This has given me the itge to possibly buy one
for myself. They are really good for exercise and pretty
fun to write as well. I have a two part
question for you. When did you last ride a bicycle?
(27:05):
And do you still own a bicycle? Uh? Yeah, so
I probably about boy ten years ago. Maybe with the
kid and the wife. We went out and we were like, oh,
we're gonna ride bicycles. That lasted about two weeks and
that was it and we gave that up. I still
have a bicycle if you can find it buried a
bunch of other bunch of other stuff. Now, Robbie, I
(27:27):
would think if you can get those electric bikes, I've
seen low rider electric bikes, have low rider electric bikes.
How crazy is that?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, my answer is about ten years too.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
People always well I shouldn't say that, they shouldn't be surprised,
but yeah, I do know how to ride a bike,
and uh, yeah, it's been about ten years and I
think I still the framed tires probably all messed up.
It's buried under stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
So all right. Well the other thing too, about that
when you're a big guy like we are, Robbie, Yeah,
it just had the basic bicycle seat. You have to
get to me, you have to get the wider seat.
Otherwise it's it's just a wedgie the whole time.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh, it's like a torture device, like enhanced interrogation. Yes, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So there are larger seats that you can get to
accommodate yes, a person of our size and my God anyway.
Kwang from Ho Chim in Vietnam rights in on the MIDI.
He says, guaranteed human. He says the idea of introversion
and extroversion first came from a Swiss Swiss psychiatrist, Carl g.
(28:35):
Jung in the early nineteen hundreds. He believes some people
were energized by the external world extroverts, and other people
were energized by the internal world introverts. An extrovert is
someone who draws energy from being around people. They like
to be out and about, attending social events and engaging willers.
An extrovert may be called a people person. An introvert
(28:56):
is someone who draws energy from a quick reflection. They're
happy spending time alone with one or two people they
feel close to often blah blah blah blah blah. Then
he says amberverts are in the middle. They may lean
towards extroverted or introvert behavior depending on the situation. So
(29:17):
Quang says, with all that said, my question, are you
and m pervert? Ben? Yeah? I don't. I don't think
I would rather be around one or two people. I'm
more comfortable in that environment everyone. So I think the
meet and Greece, I'm okay with that because it's it's
rare and appropriate. So Robbie rare and appropriate, I'm okay
with that. Yeah, and it's bouncing around it's I don't
(29:41):
I don't mind those. But if I did that every
every week, I would lose my mind.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, I've never I'm saying with you, I've never understood
the people that like actually want to host parties stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, yeah, that seems insane to me. Uh, I do
like like once or twice a year a big gathering
will be fun, but I don't and then I don't
want to host it. But yes, uh one or two people's.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah we do. We do one big holiday party, the
mal or Ugly Sweater party.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We're done with it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
That's it. Get that in and uh yeah, there's other
small social events that I am required to attend. But
the ferg dog from the Hannah Montana House right, since
says hey man and insert phill In's name, are you
guys as devastated as Robbie? The Mariner fan is over
chat GBT canceling plans for an erotic chat.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
The odds.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You recover from that, Robbie everything, Okay, Have either of
you spent time chatting with other bots out there, like
Grock or Lorena. It's shinny how lifelike they can be
at times? Or do you both limit your use of
AI to absolute minimum? Making picture sure for the who
am I gamer? Uh? He says also good news, I
(31:05):
already found the perfect permanent replacement for Danny g Brian Finley,
oh Boy, said he'd be thrilled to do it anytime.
You're welcome, Ben, you two are going to be great together. Well,
I haven't talked. I haven't talked to numb Nuts in
a while. I don't I don't know what he's up to.
H Yeah, well there you go. Uh. I can bring
(31:28):
back you know, I could rotate like I get listeners.
I could bring back some old people that used to
work on the show. Like there's a lot of there's
a lot of wiggle room here. There's a lot of
wiggle room. Although I think the people I used to
work with robbyr gonna the man money, which is a problem.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, there's no.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Budget, so that's the problem, or they would still be
working with you, you know exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Alf from the Big Board Rights and says Benjamin, as
a purveyor of such sanctioned nicknames like Benny Bingo and
Benny beat Down, can I get a rubber stamp on
the nickname Benny Brackets. Well, let's wait until. Let's wait
till after the game on Monday night, before we go
Benny Brackett. Now, if this does turn out, well, absolutely,
(32:10):
alf Benny brackets will be added. Benny Brackets will be added.
So it's very, very exciting. What else do we have?
A Frank from Jersey rights in? He says, ben is
there an end to the madness? And he says, there's
a gas station in California. You're in Jersey. What do
(32:31):
you care about that? Frank? He says, A big sir
that is charging nearly ten dollars per gallon premium gas
costs nine at a place called It's Gorda Buy the Sea.
I've been to, big Sir. I don't remember Gorda by
the Sea. I must not stay in my memory, he says.
The only reason it's nine ninety nine, it would be higher.
(32:54):
But check this out right, the pumps only go up
tone digit old pumps only up to nine ninety nine.
That is just from what I understand that Big Sir
is very remote. It's you get to it. There's not
(33:14):
a lot around there. So if you're the only gas station,
you can charge whatever you want. You can charge whatever
the bleepity bleep, and so that's the way that is.
But yeah, I I paid where was I somewhere out
in the desert on the way back from Vegas And
it was like close to seven dollars and wow, god,
(33:37):
oh this is I usually just go to Costco and
it's not that bad compared to everything else. A Shane
from Dallas writes in says, Ben, I know you often
say you like to spend ninety minutes at parties because
that's what shows and movies are. Are you going to
have to adjust based on the story that came out
this week? And then he sent me a story here, Robbie,
(33:59):
They said that feature films, all right, it's not your imagination.
Movies are longer. The runtime of average major release films
has ballooned. I know in recent years they say that
Marvel movies are the main culprit here. So they came
back in the nineties and the early two thousands, films
(34:23):
were about one hundred and fourteen minutes. Oh no, they
were one hundred six menutxcuse me a hundred and six minutes,
So that's yeah, that's what I say. Usually ninety minutes,
so you can see the nineties, so it was a
little longer than that, but ninety minutes, and then one
hundred and six minutes, and then early two thousands one
hundred and fourteen minutes, and now they've added even more time,
(34:45):
and they say that they've also expanded the trailers, the advertising,
the movie theaters expanded to an average around twenty to
thirty minutes. So that's do the math on. That's that's
two and a half hours plus. Man.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
It was when movies that were pure action flicks, you know,
the ones that you could always like, oh, it's only
like a little over an hour, it'll be good time,
it'll be trashed, but it won't be too long. When
those started pushing two hours and forty five minutes, that
was when I was like, it's something going on here,
Like are they intentionally trying to bloat all these movies?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
So yeah, it's it's great, and I missed the days
where they had original movies.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Yeah that's a boomer take right right, Yeah, I know
but like they're remaking movies for the third or fourth time.
It's crazy because they don't want to take any risk,
you know, you have to, you don't want to put
their neck out there the studios, and plus they have
to appeal to a global audience. So if they make
like some of those those movies they made in the
in the seventies and the eighties, they could never make.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Today because people would lose their freaking mind to be like,
oh my god, Ted from the Bay Area, we're going
a long Robbie. Look at they're having so much fun. Robbie, Yeah,
that's great, all right, Ted for the Bayer, he says, Ben,
I'm gonna miss Danny g However, I tune in for
your nonsense. Uh so I'm still here. Well, thank you, Ted, Uh,
he says the tiger talk says Tiger Woods was Uh.
(36:12):
I was obviously in trouble. He's going to rehab on
all this stuff. And then he he says, what do
you think of the story going around? This is I
guess a psychologist whom that now And Tiger Woods is
the symbol of this He's called the public symbol of
a broader American habit using explanation to delay accountability. Uh
(36:33):
is the way it's described, and there's some psychobabble jargon
and all this stuff, and so essentially to give you
the thumbnail version of this that when something bad happens
to a celebrity, the setback itself matters less than the
promise of it's going to be better. I'm gonna bounce
(36:54):
back from this. They like they have a permission slip.
When I was a kid, we'd say that was a
bad decision, moron. Now it's well, he's going through some
tough times. It's a struggle.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, I already saw I somehow got signed up for
like an athletic newsletter list and I'm trying to unsubscribe
to all those things. But anyway, it was, it was
they're already pivoting to like, well, what you did was bad,
But think of the redemption arch he's going to have
and how much he can teach younger people to you know,
(37:25):
not do what he's done for like time after time
after time. And it's disappointing because I was a huge
Tiger fan as a little kid. Back I remember I
was like one of my first fourth memories watching him
just destroy everyone winning by like eighteen strokes or something
at one of the majors.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And yeah, it was a master's It was like Secretariat
of Golf.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yes, yes, exactly that.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yeah, it was insane, but yeah, that's you know, things change.
I get it. It's uh, it's from this podcast and
from the radio show. There was one of our listeners
in Colorado. She works for the weather operation there in
Colorado and pointed out that a few years ago they
changed all the terms for storms. Oh yeah, people were
(38:06):
numb to them. So they made for social media. The
weather people made word. They made new phrases that caused
people to react. You know, they panicked.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
They Oh my god, yeah, just throw the word atmospheric here,
bomb there, you know, atmospheric river bomb, cyclone.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Bomb, oh, the bomb, the bomb dot com We still
we called that the jet stream back in the day,
Robert exactly. But that's not cool anymore. So you got
to change it up. And that's it. I'll do a
couple more here. I'm having a good time. Uh it's
Xavier from Seattle. That's your well, you're in your organ
But closing it says, do you approve the NASA diet
(38:46):
for our loved astronauts, and this is going on right now,
Artemis two, the ten Artist two Mission to Space. Well,
this is perfect. This is right in our wheelhouse. Robber food,
all right, this is great. I don't think Xavier knew
that you were gonna be on, but this is freaking perfect.
All right. So here's the Artemis two menu. Okay, artist
who menu? It features The dishes include let's see here
(39:07):
we go thumbs up thumbs down on each dish. Are
you ready? Robbie thumbs up, thumbs down, barbecued beef brisket
two thumbs up, Yeah, thumbs although, how could could it?
How good could it be if it's in space?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Vegetable kisheh two thumbs.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Down, Yeah, one thumb down. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Broccoli al grotten? Eh? Is that cheesy? Broccoli? Is what
that is?
Speaker 3 (39:35):
I hope? So, because then that's a one thumb up,
it's not. I actually this is gonna shock people. I
actually like broccoli.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
But yeah, you're gonna lose your rep man, I lose
your street cred. Robbie rob the goat Man, and Justin
and Cincinnati and those guys and Ferg Dog or wait
a minute, this is new material. Uh. What else? They have?
Macaroni and cheese. Who could say no to macaroni and cheese?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, that's I'm not a great And now I think
even I can make that space withouting it up so that.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
You are a great cook, Robbie. It's called YouTube, man,
just watching.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
It's true. I've been doing that there, fry and stuff. Well,
it's slow progress.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Oh, I know you can do it, man. Let me
tell you. It's the way to do it. I've been
fussing around with that, and you master it. The main
reason I've started cooking so much is because food's so expensive.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 1 (40:35):
What else they have on the menu they have, let's hear.
Beverages include mango peach smoothie, not the pineapple fruit smoothie
which Doc Mike likes. They have chocolate and strawberry breakfast drinks, coffee,
and green tea, and they say all together NASA. They
said the four astronauts are expected to go through forty
(40:55):
three cups of coffee on their ten day so and
they don't have refrigeration. I guess they don't have a
lot of options to the capabilities to keep the food
fresh and so every meal, you know, they the whole
that has to be shelf stable and all that.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Is that forty three cups per person. Not to play
on this bock because that would be a lot.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
But no, it says just forty three cups three or
four people. I think how many astronauts are there? Three
or four? I think four?
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Right, yeah, four? Usually it's a even number.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Don't they have to pee into a tube or something
like that?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I heard there was a momentary panic that the the
toilet system wasn't working once they got to space. There
was actual concern they weren't have to like turn around
or however you want to phrase that, until they fixed.
But they fixed the issue.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
So yeah, just call Roto Ruter and they'll be Craig
from cansa city home of the Ben mal or chicken figures. Robert,
you got to get the Kansas city.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
That is actually probably on my most wanted list of
cities in the US. It's probably like number three because
there's a military history museum there too. In the Negro
League Museum.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and you gotta get the Royals
probably will be moving to a new stadium at some point. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
I've actually been to a Royals man, but it was
like I was five years old.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
It doesn't count. But Kansas City School great food. You
get the Mallard chicken fingers that you gotta have, the
z Man sandwich, my favorite barbecue sandwich, and lined up
at it used to be called Oklahoma Joe's, called Kansas
City Joe's. They have a World War One memorial in
downtown Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
If you're in the military history, I know your family's
a military family, so it's pretty cool. Uh yeah, it's not.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
A military family, just military. I guess straight. I don't
want to stolen. I don't want any stolen anything.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
You got a bunch of books there. I thought, I
don't know whatever you're.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
I'm sorry, Well he does. Yeah, anyway, go.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
On, all right, anyway, Craig says, Ben, wasn't this a
horror movie when we were kids in the nineteen eighties,
And he then he's got this biotech startup, wants to
grow headless human bodies scientific testing and organ farming.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
So yeah that I mean, like ten years ago there
was a story of they made zombie ants at Oregon
State University, which is near me. And I always feel
like we're pushed. I mean, didn't we learn our lessons
with the coronavirus, you know, like maybe we don't need
to test on everything.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah, no, uh yeah. I have a feeling Robbie that
this stuff's already going on in China and other places that.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Oh, I have no doubt that they they probably do
testing on the prison you know, the political prisoners in China. Yeah,
I don't. I've seen some articles that are pretty depressing
about what well they can do there.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Yeah. Like a lot of the technology that comes out,
I think that has been around for years and it's
just released to the public after many, many years. That's
just my mind.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
No, I hear you, Like, once it becomes platable to
the general society, stuff like yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Like the I'll give you example, there was that stealth bomber,
which is not I guess it's old now, but they
the people would see it every once while flying in
the desert out in Mexico or Nevada, and the government's like, oh,
there's nothing here, and then eventually they announced it and oh, yeah,
we have we have this, you.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Know, yeah, they did that with I believe Elon must
named those kids after the s R. Seventy one Stealth,
one of the stealth planes. So yeah, yeah, I got you.
I always confirm it.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Just later our last one, Robbie, last one, George from
El Paso. There's a great is it salso no, there's
a seasoning on El Paso seasoning Taco season anyway, Uh, George,
hey say it says Ben, is this proof that we
have had interaction with aliens? And this comes from former
Congressman Matt Gates, Oh boy, who claimed that the government
(45:02):
briefed him top secret alien human hybrid program. Uh. And
this guy was he was supposed to Gates, you know,
you know he's Robby. Yes, yeah, he's on the spectrum.
But he was gonna be like Trump wanted to be
the attorney general.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Suppose he was very close to There is multiple universes
where he became the attorney general. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
He says that he was informed by a member of
the United States military that the government was developing alien
human hybrids. The purpose of the program was to allow
officials to interact with extraterrestial beings. So that also sounds
like a movie.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah, like body snatches or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
do agree with your take that if there are extra thresholds,
it's not that they're coming from space. It's most likely
that they're coming from the deep parts to see like
the Mariana Trench. I know I'm butchering the first sword
on that, but it's so much the ocean has never
been explored because you just can't sit anything down there.
(46:03):
It'll collapse under the pressure.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
So yeah, no, I think there's some wild stuff. You
look at those oceans. You've ever flown over the ocean, Robbie,
it's pretty wild, man, It's a whole they think of
all those things in the ocean. They have no idea.
We're here, right, We're yeah for them? What are we?
All right? It's been fun. Thank you so much, Robbie.
I appreciate you. Have anything you want to promote, Robbie,
(46:25):
anything at all, anything you want to promote here.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yeah. I do a show with the Assy Guy on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
I remember Ozzie Guy.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
I remember, Yeah, he senses regards. He actually wants to
I'll talk you off there about it. But the United
States of Australia. We just kind of shoot the breeze
Sundays and we're going to be doing more stuff, hopefully
like comedy news stuff. But yeah, we do that every
Sunday at nine thirty am Eastern on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
On YouTube, and you gotta sell it. It's the greatest
hybrid show between Australia and the United States. There's no
show that's it's you know what it is, Robbie. It's
the best.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Yes, it is the best.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
It's the best Australian US hybrid in the world. And
again give the name again.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
People can find it in United States of Australia.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
All right, type that into YouTube, follow that channel and
thank you, Robbie. We'll see you in Cincinnati later this month.
Thanks Robbie.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
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