November 15, 2025 • 33 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a great Saturday podcast for you! He talks: MHOGA workshop, the Make Housekeeping-Olympics-Great-Again Movement. Turning vacuuming & cleaning dishes into a global TV Sport. Also, tales from being overwhelmed with interruptions while prepping for Maller Show while covering a recent Chargers game!
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Wow.
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The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio back in the podcast Sweatshop.
The audio does not stop all weekend long, as we
promote during the week on the radio show Fresh Audio,
Original recipe audio on the radio show Extra Crispy, Really Crispy.
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Here on the podcast on the weekends, and we celebrate
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day today today. And the
reason that we have National Cleanout Refrigerator ratar Day today
is it's right before the holidays. We're only a couple
weeks away from Thanksgiving, an opportunity to start fresh, and
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then you will have your refrigerator filled with Thanksgiving liftovers
and all the other nonsense that happens over the holidays.
So today National cleanout your refrigerator day, an invention that
when it came around was mind blowing, right, mind blowing.
They estimate that it goes back to seventeen fifty five
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artificial refrigeration began. Some Scottish professor used a pump to
create a partial vacuum in the first ever refrigeration machine.
Of course, you could argue that ice in rooms back
in the ancient days was the original refrigerator. But anyway,
seventeen fifty five the modern version began, and it wasn't
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until eighteen fifty four. Through the math on that almost
sixty years later, we are told the first ice making
machine came around. How about that? Yeah, and only took
about one hundred more years for the phrase on the
rocks to be ascribed to a Scotch by people work
at bars. Then in nineteen eleven, the first household refrigerator
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came around, produced by General Electric, and it was based
on a design from a French monk. So we can
thank a French monk for the first household refrigerator. And
it was designed to help ge sell electricity. So the
actually this is great. So the first refrigerator at home
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was just so they could get people to pay for electricity.
And then a little over a decade later, in nineteen
twenty three, the first frigid Air founded by these same
kind people who brought you General motors. The brand became
so popular. How popular was it that many Americans from
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what I was reading, I felt down a rabbit hole.
Many Americans called any refrigerator in the nineteen twenties and thirties,
any refrigerator by the name of the company is called
it a frigid Air. Then in nineteen forty the first
freezer came around, and that was a game changer of
the arrival of freezers large enough to make more than
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ice cubes, and that led to the frozen food industry,
TV dinners, frozen pizzas and all that. And now we
celebrate today National cleanout your Refrigerator Day. Will you be partaking? Okay?
On this podcast we have the Mahoga Revolution, not Yoga,
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Mahoga Revolution, Tilt a Whirl, and who knows what else.
But we're going to begin with this. So let me
tell you something right now. I'm an ideas guy. I'm
an ideas guy. We work in the creative shop, the
theater of the mind in radio and some men dream
of climbing mountains. Some men dream of winning the Daytona
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five hundred or the Indy five hundred. Some work in
medicine and strive to cure diseases. Me I sit up
and sit around in the middle of the night, imagining
a world where a mop relay has more TV drama
than the NBA playing tournament, and certainly more than what's
going on right now, the NBA Cup, whatever that fugazy
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thing is that's been going on in the regular season
in the NBA had some games on last night and
I was like, oh boy, yeah, yeah, they're still doing this.
They're still doing this ridiculous nonsense. What are they doing?
My God? That brings us to the future, the glorious, spotless,
streak free future, my newest get rich plan. This actually
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hatched late in the radio show on Friday. We were
yapping about the event and this popped into my head. Now,
as mentioned during the radio show this week, I know
that my guys Azzie Waz and Donkeys Sausage and Tammy
and Vegas and Eileen in San Francisco and all of
you know Eke and Roseville, Minnesota know the slogan. Unless
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you don't Mahoga make Housekeeping Olympics great again. That's the slogan.
Now Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas. Vegas just hosted the
thirty fifth Housekeeping Olympics. Now do and you saw it
or not. We talked a little bit about it. Maybe
not cute event, nice, wholesome, one day, couple of teams,
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Mandalay Bay where so many fights have taken place. You
got your bed, making your vacuum rate, this is your mop, relays,
your buffer pad. Toss all of that now. Congratulations to
the aria Vedara team. They won the whole Enchilada. They
are the kings of the vacuum and the mop and
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the buffer pad. So the dust warriors, good job by you. However,
I'm here on this podcast to tell you something America
refuses to admit. We're thinking way too small, way too small.
This isn't just a local event anymore. We're gonna help
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out these people. This is going to become the next
global sensation of the sporting nation. If pickleball, yes, pickleball
can take over the country, which it did for a
couple of years, If cornhole can get on ESPN two
or whatever the hell it's on, and if my guy,
Joey Chestnut, who we've had on this podcast before, If
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Joey Chestnut, the goosy guy Bobbler can turn hot dog
eating and earn a living from eating hot dogs like
a manufacturing plant, or he's just consuming everything more like
a woodship. Right, I guess, then we can turn cleaning
into an international blood sport. Who says no, Who says no.
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I don't see anyone anyone with their hand in the air.
And the reason no one has their hand in the
air is because this works international blood sport. So let
me workshop this. I'm gonna workshop at Mallar style because
it's the podcast and I'm on here. So the vision
is this. It's not yoga, it's not hot yoga. It's
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thehoga as in make Housekeeping Olympics great again. It's a movement.
It is a movement. We're giving the world competition. And
in order for this to work, you have to have consequences.
You must have consequences. So as we're kind of shopping this,
have you ever tried to make a bed in under
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sixty seconds? Wow? While there is a referee with a
stopwatch breathing down your neck. Yeah, that's pressure. Cameras in
the room. That's drama. There's some steaks involved. It was
a famous woman that was on television years ago named
Julia Child, and she gave one of my favorite quotes
when it comes to this kind of stuff. She summed
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up what I'm getting at, way before I was around.
Julia Child, the star of PBS cooking shows, said everything
can have drama if it's done right, even a pancake.
She spot on just like Benny Versus the Penny, the
drama of man versus Coin Bennie Versus the Penn new
episode up right now on YouTube at Bennie Vspenny. Now
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we have proven this on a weekly basis on Benny
Versus the Penny, that even a coin flip can be
an absolute thriller. So the throw if you build enough tension, heck,
a parking ticket, a parking ticke. That is a one
act play. You've got the villain and the hero. Now
who is the villain?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The cop? Is the hero? The person that was speeding
because they had to get to the hospital because their
wife was pregnant about to have a baby. That's the question. Anyway,
get back to the point. Please, so imagine because This
is theater of the imagination. Just imagine the high stakes
drama when teams representing countries, companies, and regions go head
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to head, belly to belly, eyeball the eyeball. I think
some of the events we get at, we could have
the bathroom blitz, scrub rints, sanitize, then we bring out
then we bring out the black Light of truth sponsored
by Yeah, expose the grime, shame the users. Give the
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winners a medal and put them on a podium and
get the interview, and they'll get the respect of an
entire nation. Dishwashing by hand, No machines, No, that's steroids,
that's astros. Bang bang with's the whistle cheating as holes.
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We can say it on the podcast. No shortcuts, just
human willpower and those prune fingers. You know how you
put your hands in the water and they look like prunes. Yeah,
how about the Dust Devil Battle Royale. Bring on the
Dust Devil Battle Royale. Now. In this one, contestants go
room to room fighting off aggressive airborne dust storms, which
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are placed there strategically by the production team. On this
TV show, they're created by industrial size warehouse fans. Survival
of the cleanest, survival of the cleanest. What else can
we have? How about furniture polished sprint? Who can make
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the dresser shine like it's starring in an Ashley Furniture commercial.
Come on, now, you with me on that? We can
have the Ikea lowdown. Now, this is a spin off.
It's not necessarily housekeeping. However, who can build the Ikea
bookcase the fastest? And that can be a spin off
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of the You say housekeeping, Well you got to build
it before you can clean it. How about the vacuum
Grand Prix? People love racing, Get a little Nascar tie
in Nascar on carpet, drafting, strategy, suction technology. He blew
me off at a hotel near Lax How dare you Nascar?
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It's all about having the greatest engine and all the
things that go into a Nascar. Well, if you think
of a vacuum, it's similar to a NASCAR using ben logic.
So why not send the sponsorship checks directly to me? Yeah?
I just want to cut. I don't need the whole thing.
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This is work shopping. We're just work shopping on a podcast.
But I would be more than happy to take a
cut of the revenue. What else can we do about
lighting fixture, high wire. You've got chandeliers, ladders, no safety net.
Let me repeat that, no safety net for those in
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the back of the room. Absolute panic. You have a
giant ladder, a huge room, thirty feet in the air.
You're climbing the ladder. There's no safety net. One wrong
move and you could die. The plot thickens. And because
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this is America, America America, we're gonna bring in Danny Davite.
Not that Danny DeVito. We're talking about the Danny DeVito,
who is the trash man of the people and his
crew from the burbs of Boston who calls the show
and their sole job to verify the heavy lifting events.
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Trash can clean jerks right, couch deadlifts. The mattress maneuver,
not to be confused with the malad maneuver. We do
the malord maneuver on password. The word Game of the
Stars as Robbie the Mariner fans and knows and mister
nice guy and those guys. So this is prime time.
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It's prime time, baby. Now the steaks, right, Kyrie, and okay,
so he's aware of this. The steaks are this. Everyone cleans, everyone,
every man and woman has to clean, unless you are
pig Pen from the old cartoon the Peanuts, or if
you're an oligarch and can afford to have someone clean
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for you. But still you're paying someone to do a
job that you should be doing. This is the most
relatable competition since man discovered fire. It is. You think
about the Olympics. A lot of the events in the Olympics,
and we wrap ourselves in the flag and patriotism. That's
why we like the Olympics. A lot of the events
in the Olympics you're never going to do. You never did.
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They're not very relatable at all. But putting a vacuum
cleaner in someone's hand, or handing them a towel and
some water to clean a window or something along those lines,
now that is a relatable competition. But wait, there's more
cleaning companies. I'm telling you right now, I know a
little bit about advertising. We're in the advertising business and radio.
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You got to sell the soap. As the Great John
Sterling said on this podcast, cleaning companies will pay the bills. Commercials,
Are you kidding me? We're gonna have them lined up. Swiffer, Dyson, Clorox,
mister clean. They will literally be like groupies at a
boy band reunion tour. Wrapped around the block, Wrapped around
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the block, the wind Dex Index, brought to you by
Windex Money, Man of Many Money, Manu and Maney and
the build up. Okay, gotta hype it up, right, I'm
a hype man. Gotta hype this up. You do the
right marketing and this is on right. You can have
battle of the genders. I am women versus men. Who's
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gonna do a better job cleaning the dishes? Come on now, eh?
But the marketing part of it. You can make three
minute social media promo video about vacuuming. Sound like one
of those promos from Connor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. The
greatest hyped bull crap event in the history of mankind.
Your little weasel, look at you, your little f and weasel,
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Remember Connor McGregor, So good. I missed that drop. We've
had so many different board ops over the years. None
of them play the old stuff, and a lot of
them don't even know the old stuff because they're never
listened the show. But I missed that. That's one drop.
I missed you a little weasel, look at you, your
little eleven weasel was so good. McGregor was yelling at
the guy that was doing the television. God, was that great?
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All right? So the pitch is this becomes a global tour.
We're continuing to workshop the Housekeeping Olympics, taking the next
step as our goal here just for those of you
that are I don't know why you just be tuning in,
but to make Housekeeping Olympics great again. It's a movement
and that is what we're doing. That is what we
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are doing right here, you and I together. So it
would be a season long league people like leagues. We'd
have updated standings, weekly events, national rivalries, and we can
make this a global event. Wrap yourself in the flag,
Team USA versus Team Japan in the toilet seat Precision Slam.
Does the Japanese team have an advantage because their toilets
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have spray water to clean the tukas? Who knows? France
versus Germany in the Linen Fold Artistry Challenger? Come on now,
Canada versus Mexico in the Cross North America Dust Duel.
Yeah it works, Come on now, you know I'm right? Yeah,
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you feel me on that? All right, there we go.
We can bring everyone involved. We can have the communist
countries and they can chounge like New York the communist
city of Manhattan, and then go back and forth the Olympics.
How about this child's play, child's play? The NHL All
Star Game, I've been there, not my thing. The NBA
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All Star Game a bigger joke than the NHL All
Star Game. So this is I'm talking skill, speed, focus, showmanship, drama,
ol rama, and the eternal battle against filth. So yes, yes,
the Ben Mathers Show or the Fifth Hour podcast. We
are a think tank. We are a think tank. And
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this isn't just an idea. I'm telling you, it's a
malar movement. Who's with me? Yes, you're with me, the
mal or militia. You're my foot soldiers, Justin and Cincinnati.
You guys, you're gonna lead the charge. You are barbecuing
when absolutely we will make cleaning great again. We're gonna
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bring in j Dot, He'll be in our Utah guy.
We will turn small scale Vegas housekeeping games, which go
on once a year, into an intercontinental battle royale, a
war of sponges, of vacuums and elbow grease. We don't
need hand grenades and bullets and guns and all that. No, no, no, no, no, no,
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we don't need that. No, We'll use the sponge in
the vacuum in the elbow grease. And that's it. I'm
thinking Amazon Video. I'm thinking Netflix, Pete Cock, Disney plus
two words bidding war, Bidding war. Ladies and gentlemen, present
to you, Mahoga trademarked the Housekeeping Olympics supersized, globalized and
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monetized and of course dramatized. Let get descrubbing. Yeah, okay,
I like that. Let's do it. Let's do it. Reach
out to the people, let them know, send them this
podcast the people over at the Housekeeping Olympics, and there
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we go. Think of all the cities that are built
on tourism. You could have Vegas. You'll start out with
the North American thing. You think New Orleans, You think
Anaheim because of Disneyland, Orlando because of Disney World. You
think of the great tourist cities in America. I mentioned Miami.
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You put all these cities. You'll start with that, and
then you'll work your way around. All right, turn the page,
turning the page. So the naked city does sleep, and
it sure is hell doesn't shut up, and that's a
bit of a problem, as we yapp here on the
Fifth Hour podcast. So that is the first thing that
you are reminded of when you're sitting in a press
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box on a Sunday, late afternoon, early evening in Englewood,
in the hood and up to no good, trying to concentrate,
trying to line up four hours of original content via
bullet points for Malard monologues on a fledgling overnight show,
while there are literally thousands of tiny conversations buzzing around
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you like fruit flies. So this is a tale from
last Sunday when I got to catch up with the
Godfather Eddie Garcia. But I spent most of my time
in the press box at SOFI Stadium, and it is
a hive. Everyone's got a story, everyone's got a theory,
and no one is listening. I promise you, no one
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is listening. The entire sports world insisted on having a
con conversation in my left ear, then my right ear,
and then across the table, then two rows behind me. Now,
back in the day, I was a staple in the
press box. Ever since the pandemic, it is rare and
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appropriate rare and appropriate that you will find me at
a sporting event. I just don't go out very much.
I have my routine. I like to cook at home
and then I feel like the foods I get what
I want. It's healthier and all that. Most NFL games
are where I'm at. I mostly go to NFL games.
I would go to Dodger games, but unfortunately, despite having
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a radio show on six hundred radio stations and broadcast globally,
we're not a local Tokyo operation. So they make me
jump through hoops to get out there. It's not worth
the headache. It's a total active disrespect. So I don't go.
And so when I here's the So, when I attend
events now, it used to be a daily thing back
in my twenties and my thirties and even my forties
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and early forties. So when I attend events now, everyone
wants to catch up with me because I'm not there
very often, and they all listen to our show at
least once or twice during the week. It is oh, yeah,
I heard your so and so monologue, I heard you
talking about this or that the other. And so people
think that going out to these these games is serene
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and covering a game, and you know, very calm composed.
You're at a perch which has windows, and you're protected,
you're insulated from all of the action. Not true, all right,
that's there's there's absolute friction there. The press box is
not a monastery. It's not even a library. The modern
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press box is a carnival without a ring master. You
think you're multitasking at these NFL games, but what you're
really doing is hanging on for dear life. As the
old radioheads, the ones who've seen and done everything in
the business, who survived every ownership change, format flip known
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to mankind, they start gossiping like Long Island yenthas at
a bagel shop. And I mean that lovingly, I in
case they happened to listen to this podcast. These guys
know things, They've heard things, and they will tell you
loudly and proudly, without pause over the hum of the
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air conditioner and the clacking of laptops and the tapping
of fork sun plates. So the Sofi Social Hour will
call it. You cannot focus because there's too much happening. Now,
this was an NBC game we're talking about last weekend.
The Steelers and the Chargers. There was Tony Dungee wandering around.
He was sitting on the sidelines. That became a story
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about Dungee playing back in the day in Pittsburgh. There
was Snoop dogg wandering around the concourse for and bees
getting paid more money than I ever made for Benny
versus the penny. Not that I'm bitter about that. Now,
someone mentions in the press box, that's the honorary mayor
of Diamond Bar. You probably even know where Diamond Bar is.
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It's a sleepy little suburb wedged between the Inland Empire
and Orange County in southern California, where Snoop Dog who
likes to pretend like he's from the hood. He's been
living there for years. And so that led to a
conversation about what it must be like to live in
Diamond Bar, property values, zoning laws, whether the fifty seven
Freeway is actually cursed or not at rush hour now, meanwhile,
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we're supposed to be watching the game. The Chargers were
doing their usual thing, being outnumbered in their own building
by a sea of yellow towels led by the Godfather
Eddie Garcia and second third, fourth generation Steelers fans who've
turned so far into Pittsburgh's satellite campus. Look and you
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realize that you could throw a broadwurst in any direction
and hit a yinser or at least an honorary parogi
lover in the crowd. The Los Angeles Chargers might as
well be the road team Home Division, road team Home
Division every week. So there's a rhythm to these late
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afternoon into evening NFL games. You have the pregame meal,
the halftime snack, which is another meal, and then you
have some postgame madness and all that and Sofi, which
is just a work of art. They absolutely nailed it
for all of its futuristic glory, it has not cracked
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the code on press box food. Now, my guy Sports
with Coleman in Baltimore is obsessed with press box food.
He loves it, loves it, loves it, loves it. Sofi.
I have noticed that the snacks are world class solid.
The actual meals, the Rams seem to have better food
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than the Charges, like the meals often are not Malard approved.
I'll give you an example. So the pregame meal, they
had this grilled chicken mashed potatoes combo, which normally would
have been fine, but it looked like it was cooked
by a guy who learned how to season through some
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kind of zoom tutorial. So that didn't really look appetited.
So I gambled. I admit, this is a me problem,
not a Sofi problem. So I gambled the halftime meal
would be better. So I waited till halftime. I passed
on the pregame meal, and we get to halftime and
it brought a strange calzone adjacent creation. There were some
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chicken wings that looked like they had fought in the
first half of the game. You know, I don't do wings.
I'm not a wing guy. I'm not fingers. I believe
wings should be left alone. It's a complete crap. There
is a difference. So dinner, I didn't want the chicken wings.
I didn't want the whatever that cal'sone thing was it
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didn't loved very good. So I passed on all that.
And what I had for dinner was not one but
two uncrustables, grape and strawberry. I like to mix it up,
a bag of Cheetos, which is filled with every chemical imaginable.
And for dessert, I had a lemon bar that could
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have doubled as a some kind of building material. So
you look around and you wonder like when did the
press box stop being glamorous? And they're like, well, it really
never was. It never was, all right, So everyone is
yaping away. I mentioned they are all a bunch of ants.
Everywhere you turn, someone's working an egg. I'll give you
an example. So the story over the last like ten
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days has been UCLA leaving the Rose Bowl and they're
getting sued. There's lawyers involved, judges involved. So I always
got a theory on that, and people are telling me
that so and so who's in the athletic department at
UCLA was sold a bill of goods. That the main
reason they want to move out of the Rose Bowl
and into SOFI is because they can rent out all
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of those luxury boxes. And when the powerful big ten
schools come in like Michigan's, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State,
that have these huge fan bases and they always play
Notre Dame or USA doesn't but they play them every
so often. When those teams come in, UCLA will make
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a ton of money. In Reverend, we did we did
talk about if I mentioned you USC, we did talk
about Lincoln Riley. Is he happy at USC's he can
get a new contract? Is he going to leave for
Penn State or Auburn or somewhere like that? And then
we were talking about the rams up here. What's up
with Matthew Stafford? Is he going to stay heavy? And
then we went back to the Terrible Towels and how
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did they get here? It feels like there's more here
than at a terrible towel factory. What's going on with
Aaron Rodgers and his fake wife the Phantom? A Phantom
Rogers is their nickname, And so listen, I'm trying, like
I'm sincerely trying to prep my monologues. I have a
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drop dead date. When you get ready for the radio show.
You have to have it done by the time the
show starts, at least ninety nine percent of it done.
So I'm prepping for the show, trying to find the
perfect you know, the perfect connecting of the dots, and
trying to find the things that I'm most interested in
because it's the Ben Maller Show, and you know, I
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got to find a hook for the overnight consumer. Your
brain is a carnival, It's a tilta whirl of gossip,
well caffeine, half formed thoughts about offensive line play, round
and round on the tilta whirld, we go round and round.
You want silence, you want laser like focus, you want
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noise canceling headphones, the size of traffic cones. I've done that,
and I've noticed that people keep talking. Even when you
use the noise canceling headphones. They still tap you on
the shoulder or they'll go right to your face. So
instead of that, you get another conversation about the future
of college football and nil deals, a bad replay on
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the jumbo tron. Why are these commercial breaks so long?
It's Sunday night. You get the faint scent of buffalo
sauce wafting from the next row, and you chat again
about Aaron Rodgers playing terribly. It looks like he's in
seventies all the thing. So again, a lot of people
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think doing sports radio is just watching the game and
talking about it. That's a lie. The real job when
you go to these games is spinning plates, watching the
field while listening to your phone buzz with updates on
other stories, putting notes down about some blown coverage by
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the Steelers defense while someone leans over to show you
a photo of their cousins aunts dog wearing a Steelers jersey,
and you're trying to keep an eye on everything. You're
building out the monologue bullet points in your head while
juggling small talk, which we know as an introvert, not
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my jam, looking at box scores of other games, doing
all of this, and you're trying to be the social
butterfly that you're normally not. It's out of your DNA,
it's not baked into me to be a social butterfly
and an introvert. And so you're not only a social butterfly,
you're the sniper, friendly enough to stay in the loop,
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focused enough to find the angle of the story. Now,
some nights it works, some nights it's all noise, and
by the time the fourth quarter rolls around, the hum
kind of fades out. This game was pretty lopsided. The
old radio hands have stopped talking. The crowd below is
thinning out because they're mostly Steeler fans. The terrible towels
look like surrender flags at this point, and you yourself,
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you have to skid daddled because you have to get
to the radio station to beat the traffic because it
takes two and a half hours of traffic after the game.
So you pack up your laptop, you take one last
sip of that pink lemonade, you grab a couple of
candy bars, and then you're on your way. Well, this
is the job. The noise, the chaos, the bad food,
the gossip, the overload. It's exhausting, it's ridiculous, and it's
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it's also kind of glorious. And then it was off
on the yellow brick road to the radio station not
in the North Woods but in Shriman Oaks, just down
the hill from bell Air, to do the overnight show
under the bright lights, let's say, on air, because the
Naked City does not sleep again, and of course neither
(32:57):
do we doing overnight talk radio. All Right, we'll get
out on that. Have a wonderful rest of your Saturday.
We will have the mail bag on Sunday Sunday Sunday
and get you ready for an NFL Sunday. Don't forget though,
Benny Versus the Penny is up and streaming right now
on the YouTube channel. Also, if you missed yesterday's podcast,
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the Fifth Hour podcast with this one's when you listened to.
But yesterday's edition a bonus Malard monologue on the Doyers.
So we had bonus Malard monologue coverage only available for
those that are listening to this podcast right now. You
go back and download that yesterday. So we'll get out
on that. And as Danny G would say, asta pasta
(33:44):
now later beach skater, not my pause. Yeah, that's I
think that's it right, Yes, Danny, my Felicia
Kutbooms.
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto Cutter 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 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio back in the podcast Sweatshop.
The audio does not stop all weekend long, as we
promote during the week on the radio show Fresh Audio,
Original recipe audio on the radio show Extra Crispy, Really Crispy.
(00:54):
Here on the podcast on the weekends, and we celebrate
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day today today. And the
reason that we have National Cleanout Refrigerator ratar Day today
is it's right before the holidays. We're only a couple
weeks away from Thanksgiving, an opportunity to start fresh, and
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then you will have your refrigerator filled with Thanksgiving liftovers
and all the other nonsense that happens over the holidays.
So today National cleanout your refrigerator day, an invention that
when it came around was mind blowing, right, mind blowing.
They estimate that it goes back to seventeen fifty five
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artificial refrigeration began. Some Scottish professor used a pump to
create a partial vacuum in the first ever refrigeration machine.
Of course, you could argue that ice in rooms back
in the ancient days was the original refrigerator. But anyway,
seventeen fifty five the modern version began, and it wasn't
(02:00):
until eighteen fifty four. Through the math on that almost
sixty years later, we are told the first ice making
machine came around. How about that? Yeah, and only took
about one hundred more years for the phrase on the
rocks to be ascribed to a Scotch by people work
at bars. Then in nineteen eleven, the first household refrigerator
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came around, produced by General Electric, and it was based
on a design from a French monk. So we can
thank a French monk for the first household refrigerator. And
it was designed to help ge sell electricity. So the
actually this is great. So the first refrigerator at home
(02:48):
was just so they could get people to pay for electricity.
And then a little over a decade later, in nineteen
twenty three, the first frigid Air founded by these same
kind people who brought you General motors. The brand became
so popular. How popular was it that many Americans from
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what I was reading, I felt down a rabbit hole.
Many Americans called any refrigerator in the nineteen twenties and thirties,
any refrigerator by the name of the company is called
it a frigid Air. Then in nineteen forty the first
freezer came around, and that was a game changer of
the arrival of freezers large enough to make more than
(03:32):
ice cubes, and that led to the frozen food industry,
TV dinners, frozen pizzas and all that. And now we
celebrate today National cleanout your Refrigerator Day. Will you be partaking? Okay?
On this podcast we have the Mahoga Revolution, not Yoga,
(03:53):
Mahoga Revolution, Tilt a Whirl, and who knows what else.
But we're going to begin with this. So let me
tell you something right now. I'm an ideas guy. I'm
an ideas guy. We work in the creative shop, the
theater of the mind in radio and some men dream
of climbing mountains. Some men dream of winning the Daytona
(04:16):
five hundred or the Indy five hundred. Some work in
medicine and strive to cure diseases. Me I sit up
and sit around in the middle of the night, imagining
a world where a mop relay has more TV drama
than the NBA playing tournament, and certainly more than what's
going on right now, the NBA Cup, whatever that fugazy
(04:40):
thing is that's been going on in the regular season
in the NBA had some games on last night and
I was like, oh boy, yeah, yeah, they're still doing this.
They're still doing this ridiculous nonsense. What are they doing?
My God? That brings us to the future, the glorious, spotless,
streak free future, my newest get rich plan. This actually
(05:02):
hatched late in the radio show on Friday. We were
yapping about the event and this popped into my head. Now,
as mentioned during the radio show this week, I know
that my guys Azzie Waz and Donkeys Sausage and Tammy
and Vegas and Eileen in San Francisco and all of
you know Eke and Roseville, Minnesota know the slogan. Unless
(05:27):
you don't Mahoga make Housekeeping Olympics great again. That's the slogan.
Now Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas. Vegas just hosted the
thirty fifth Housekeeping Olympics. Now do and you saw it
or not. We talked a little bit about it. Maybe
not cute event, nice, wholesome, one day, couple of teams,
(05:52):
Mandalay Bay where so many fights have taken place. You
got your bed, making your vacuum rate, this is your mop, relays,
your buffer pad. Toss all of that now. Congratulations to
the aria Vedara team. They won the whole Enchilada. They
are the kings of the vacuum and the mop and
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the buffer pad. So the dust warriors, good job by you. However,
I'm here on this podcast to tell you something America
refuses to admit. We're thinking way too small, way too small.
This isn't just a local event anymore. We're gonna help
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out these people. This is going to become the next
global sensation of the sporting nation. If pickleball, yes, pickleball
can take over the country, which it did for a
couple of years, If cornhole can get on ESPN two
or whatever the hell it's on, and if my guy,
Joey Chestnut, who we've had on this podcast before, If
(06:58):
Joey Chestnut, the goosy guy Bobbler can turn hot dog
eating and earn a living from eating hot dogs like
a manufacturing plant, or he's just consuming everything more like
a woodship. Right, I guess, then we can turn cleaning
into an international blood sport. Who says no, Who says no.
(07:20):
I don't see anyone anyone with their hand in the air.
And the reason no one has their hand in the
air is because this works international blood sport. So let
me workshop this. I'm gonna workshop at Mallar style because
it's the podcast and I'm on here. So the vision
is this. It's not yoga, it's not hot yoga. It's
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thehoga as in make Housekeeping Olympics great again. It's a movement.
It is a movement. We're giving the world competition. And
in order for this to work, you have to have consequences.
You must have consequences. So as we're kind of shopping this,
have you ever tried to make a bed in under
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sixty seconds? Wow? While there is a referee with a
stopwatch breathing down your neck. Yeah, that's pressure. Cameras in
the room. That's drama. There's some steaks involved. It was
a famous woman that was on television years ago named
Julia Child, and she gave one of my favorite quotes
when it comes to this kind of stuff. She summed
(08:27):
up what I'm getting at, way before I was around.
Julia Child, the star of PBS cooking shows, said everything
can have drama if it's done right, even a pancake.
She spot on just like Benny Versus the Penny, the
drama of man versus Coin Bennie Versus the Penn new
episode up right now on YouTube at Bennie Vspenny. Now
(08:50):
we have proven this on a weekly basis on Benny
Versus the Penny, that even a coin flip can be
an absolute thriller. So the throw if you build enough tension, heck,
a parking ticket, a parking ticke. That is a one
act play. You've got the villain and the hero. Now
who is the villain?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The cop? Is the hero? The person that was speeding
because they had to get to the hospital because their
wife was pregnant about to have a baby. That's the question. Anyway,
get back to the point. Please, so imagine because This
is theater of the imagination. Just imagine the high stakes
drama when teams representing countries, companies, and regions go head
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to head, belly to belly, eyeball the eyeball. I think
some of the events we get at, we could have
the bathroom blitz, scrub rints, sanitize, then we bring out
then we bring out the black Light of truth sponsored
by Yeah, expose the grime, shame the users. Give the
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winners a medal and put them on a podium and
get the interview, and they'll get the respect of an
entire nation. Dishwashing by hand, No machines, No, that's steroids,
that's astros. Bang bang with's the whistle cheating as holes.
(10:21):
We can say it on the podcast. No shortcuts, just
human willpower and those prune fingers. You know how you
put your hands in the water and they look like prunes. Yeah,
how about the Dust Devil Battle Royale. Bring on the
Dust Devil Battle Royale. Now. In this one, contestants go
room to room fighting off aggressive airborne dust storms, which
(10:43):
are placed there strategically by the production team. On this
TV show, they're created by industrial size warehouse fans. Survival
of the cleanest, survival of the cleanest. What else can
we have? How about furniture polished sprint? Who can make
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the dresser shine like it's starring in an Ashley Furniture commercial.
Come on, now, you with me on that? We can
have the Ikea lowdown. Now, this is a spin off.
It's not necessarily housekeeping. However, who can build the Ikea
bookcase the fastest? And that can be a spin off
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of the You say housekeeping, Well you got to build
it before you can clean it. How about the vacuum
Grand Prix? People love racing, Get a little Nascar tie
in Nascar on carpet, drafting, strategy, suction technology. He blew
me off at a hotel near Lax How dare you Nascar?
(11:51):
It's all about having the greatest engine and all the
things that go into a Nascar. Well, if you think
of a vacuum, it's similar to a NASCAR using ben logic.
So why not send the sponsorship checks directly to me? Yeah?
I just want to cut. I don't need the whole thing.
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This is work shopping. We're just work shopping on a podcast.
But I would be more than happy to take a
cut of the revenue. What else can we do about
lighting fixture, high wire. You've got chandeliers, ladders, no safety net.
Let me repeat that, no safety net for those in
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the back of the room. Absolute panic. You have a
giant ladder, a huge room, thirty feet in the air.
You're climbing the ladder. There's no safety net. One wrong
move and you could die. The plot thickens. And because
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this is America, America America, we're gonna bring in Danny Davite.
Not that Danny DeVito. We're talking about the Danny DeVito,
who is the trash man of the people and his
crew from the burbs of Boston who calls the show
and their sole job to verify the heavy lifting events.
(13:14):
Trash can clean jerks right, couch deadlifts. The mattress maneuver,
not to be confused with the malad maneuver. We do
the malord maneuver on password. The word Game of the
Stars as Robbie the Mariner fans and knows and mister
nice guy and those guys. So this is prime time.
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It's prime time, baby. Now the steaks, right, Kyrie, and okay,
so he's aware of this. The steaks are this. Everyone cleans, everyone,
every man and woman has to clean, unless you are
pig Pen from the old cartoon the Peanuts, or if
you're an oligarch and can afford to have someone clean
(13:57):
for you. But still you're paying someone to do a
job that you should be doing. This is the most
relatable competition since man discovered fire. It is. You think
about the Olympics. A lot of the events in the Olympics,
and we wrap ourselves in the flag and patriotism. That's
why we like the Olympics. A lot of the events
in the Olympics you're never going to do. You never did.
(14:18):
They're not very relatable at all. But putting a vacuum
cleaner in someone's hand, or handing them a towel and
some water to clean a window or something along those lines,
now that is a relatable competition. But wait, there's more
cleaning companies. I'm telling you right now, I know a
little bit about advertising. We're in the advertising business and radio.
(14:39):
You got to sell the soap. As the Great John
Sterling said on this podcast, cleaning companies will pay the bills. Commercials,
Are you kidding me? We're gonna have them lined up. Swiffer, Dyson, Clorox,
mister clean. They will literally be like groupies at a
boy band reunion tour. Wrapped around the block, Wrapped around
(15:03):
the block, the wind Dex Index, brought to you by
Windex Money, Man of Many Money, Manu and Maney and
the build up. Okay, gotta hype it up, right, I'm
a hype man. Gotta hype this up. You do the
right marketing and this is on right. You can have
battle of the genders. I am women versus men. Who's
(15:25):
gonna do a better job cleaning the dishes? Come on now, eh?
But the marketing part of it. You can make three
minute social media promo video about vacuuming. Sound like one
of those promos from Connor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. The
greatest hyped bull crap event in the history of mankind.
Your little weasel, look at you, your little f and weasel,
(15:48):
Remember Connor McGregor, So good. I missed that drop. We've
had so many different board ops over the years. None
of them play the old stuff, and a lot of
them don't even know the old stuff because they're never
listened the show. But I missed that. That's one drop.
I missed you a little weasel, look at you, your
little eleven weasel was so good. McGregor was yelling at
the guy that was doing the television. God, was that great?
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All right? So the pitch is this becomes a global tour.
We're continuing to workshop the Housekeeping Olympics, taking the next
step as our goal here just for those of you
that are I don't know why you just be tuning in,
but to make Housekeeping Olympics great again. It's a movement
and that is what we're doing. That is what we
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are doing right here, you and I together. So it
would be a season long league people like leagues. We'd
have updated standings, weekly events, national rivalries, and we can
make this a global event. Wrap yourself in the flag,
Team USA versus Team Japan in the toilet seat Precision Slam.
Does the Japanese team have an advantage because their toilets
(16:56):
have spray water to clean the tukas? Who knows? France
versus Germany in the Linen Fold Artistry Challenger? Come on now,
Canada versus Mexico in the Cross North America Dust Duel.
Yeah it works, Come on now, you know I'm right? Yeah,
(17:17):
you feel me on that? All right, there we go.
We can bring everyone involved. We can have the communist
countries and they can chounge like New York the communist
city of Manhattan, and then go back and forth the Olympics.
How about this child's play, child's play? The NHL All
Star Game, I've been there, not my thing. The NBA
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All Star Game a bigger joke than the NHL All
Star Game. So this is I'm talking skill, speed, focus, showmanship, drama,
ol rama, and the eternal battle against filth. So yes, yes,
the Ben Mathers Show or the Fifth Hour podcast. We
are a think tank. We are a think tank. And
(18:00):
this isn't just an idea. I'm telling you, it's a
malar movement. Who's with me? Yes, you're with me, the
mal or militia. You're my foot soldiers, Justin and Cincinnati.
You guys, you're gonna lead the charge. You are barbecuing
when absolutely we will make cleaning great again. We're gonna
(18:20):
bring in j Dot, He'll be in our Utah guy.
We will turn small scale Vegas housekeeping games, which go
on once a year, into an intercontinental battle royale, a
war of sponges, of vacuums and elbow grease. We don't
need hand grenades and bullets and guns and all that. No, no, no, no, no, no,
(18:42):
we don't need that. No, We'll use the sponge in
the vacuum in the elbow grease. And that's it. I'm
thinking Amazon Video. I'm thinking Netflix, Pete Cock, Disney plus
two words bidding war, Bidding war. Ladies and gentlemen, present
to you, Mahoga trademarked the Housekeeping Olympics supersized, globalized and
(19:09):
monetized and of course dramatized. Let get descrubbing. Yeah, okay,
I like that. Let's do it. Let's do it. Reach
out to the people, let them know, send them this
podcast the people over at the Housekeeping Olympics, and there
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we go. Think of all the cities that are built
on tourism. You could have Vegas. You'll start out with
the North American thing. You think New Orleans, You think
Anaheim because of Disneyland, Orlando because of Disney World. You
think of the great tourist cities in America. I mentioned Miami.
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You put all these cities. You'll start with that, and
then you'll work your way around. All right, turn the page,
turning the page. So the naked city does sleep, and
it sure is hell doesn't shut up, and that's a
bit of a problem, as we yapp here on the
Fifth Hour podcast. So that is the first thing that
you are reminded of when you're sitting in a press
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box on a Sunday, late afternoon, early evening in Englewood,
in the hood and up to no good, trying to concentrate,
trying to line up four hours of original content via
bullet points for Malard monologues on a fledgling overnight show,
while there are literally thousands of tiny conversations buzzing around
(20:34):
you like fruit flies. So this is a tale from
last Sunday when I got to catch up with the
Godfather Eddie Garcia. But I spent most of my time
in the press box at SOFI Stadium, and it is
a hive. Everyone's got a story, everyone's got a theory,
and no one is listening. I promise you, no one
(20:55):
is listening. The entire sports world insisted on having a
con conversation in my left ear, then my right ear,
and then across the table, then two rows behind me. Now,
back in the day, I was a staple in the
press box. Ever since the pandemic, it is rare and
(21:17):
appropriate rare and appropriate that you will find me at
a sporting event. I just don't go out very much.
I have my routine. I like to cook at home
and then I feel like the foods I get what
I want. It's healthier and all that. Most NFL games
are where I'm at. I mostly go to NFL games.
I would go to Dodger games, but unfortunately, despite having
(21:40):
a radio show on six hundred radio stations and broadcast globally,
we're not a local Tokyo operation. So they make me
jump through hoops to get out there. It's not worth
the headache. It's a total active disrespect. So I don't go.
And so when I here's the So, when I attend
events now, it used to be a daily thing back
in my twenties and my thirties and even my forties
(22:02):
and early forties. So when I attend events now, everyone
wants to catch up with me because I'm not there
very often, and they all listen to our show at
least once or twice during the week. It is oh, yeah,
I heard your so and so monologue, I heard you
talking about this or that the other. And so people
think that going out to these these games is serene
(22:26):
and covering a game, and you know, very calm composed.
You're at a perch which has windows, and you're protected,
you're insulated from all of the action. Not true, all right,
that's there's there's absolute friction there. The press box is
not a monastery. It's not even a library. The modern
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press box is a carnival without a ring master. You
think you're multitasking at these NFL games, but what you're
really doing is hanging on for dear life. As the
old radioheads, the ones who've seen and done everything in
the business, who survived every ownership change, format flip known
(23:09):
to mankind, they start gossiping like Long Island yenthas at
a bagel shop. And I mean that lovingly, I in
case they happened to listen to this podcast. These guys
know things, They've heard things, and they will tell you
loudly and proudly, without pause over the hum of the
(23:30):
air conditioner and the clacking of laptops and the tapping
of fork sun plates. So the Sofi Social Hour will
call it. You cannot focus because there's too much happening. Now,
this was an NBC game we're talking about last weekend.
The Steelers and the Chargers. There was Tony Dungee wandering around.
He was sitting on the sidelines. That became a story
(23:51):
about Dungee playing back in the day in Pittsburgh. There
was Snoop dogg wandering around the concourse for and bees
getting paid more money than I ever made for Benny
versus the penny. Not that I'm bitter about that. Now,
someone mentions in the press box, that's the honorary mayor
of Diamond Bar. You probably even know where Diamond Bar is.
(24:13):
It's a sleepy little suburb wedged between the Inland Empire
and Orange County in southern California, where Snoop Dog who
likes to pretend like he's from the hood. He's been
living there for years. And so that led to a
conversation about what it must be like to live in
Diamond Bar, property values, zoning laws, whether the fifty seven
Freeway is actually cursed or not at rush hour now, meanwhile,
(24:38):
we're supposed to be watching the game. The Chargers were
doing their usual thing, being outnumbered in their own building
by a sea of yellow towels led by the Godfather
Eddie Garcia and second third, fourth generation Steelers fans who've
turned so far into Pittsburgh's satellite campus. Look and you
(25:01):
realize that you could throw a broadwurst in any direction
and hit a yinser or at least an honorary parogi
lover in the crowd. The Los Angeles Chargers might as
well be the road team Home Division, road team Home
Division every week. So there's a rhythm to these late
(25:25):
afternoon into evening NFL games. You have the pregame meal,
the halftime snack, which is another meal, and then you
have some postgame madness and all that and Sofi, which
is just a work of art. They absolutely nailed it
for all of its futuristic glory, it has not cracked
(25:47):
the code on press box food. Now, my guy Sports
with Coleman in Baltimore is obsessed with press box food.
He loves it, loves it, loves it, loves it. Sofi.
I have noticed that the snacks are world class solid.
The actual meals, the Rams seem to have better food
(26:07):
than the Charges, like the meals often are not Malard approved.
I'll give you an example. So the pregame meal, they
had this grilled chicken mashed potatoes combo, which normally would
have been fine, but it looked like it was cooked
by a guy who learned how to season through some
(26:28):
kind of zoom tutorial. So that didn't really look appetited.
So I gambled. I admit, this is a me problem,
not a Sofi problem. So I gambled the halftime meal
would be better. So I waited till halftime. I passed
on the pregame meal, and we get to halftime and
it brought a strange calzone adjacent creation. There were some
(26:51):
chicken wings that looked like they had fought in the
first half of the game. You know, I don't do wings.
I'm not a wing guy. I'm not fingers. I believe
wings should be left alone. It's a complete crap. There
is a difference. So dinner, I didn't want the chicken wings.
I didn't want the whatever that cal'sone thing was it
(27:12):
didn't loved very good. So I passed on all that.
And what I had for dinner was not one but
two uncrustables, grape and strawberry. I like to mix it up,
a bag of Cheetos, which is filled with every chemical imaginable.
And for dessert, I had a lemon bar that could
(27:32):
have doubled as a some kind of building material. So
you look around and you wonder like when did the
press box stop being glamorous? And they're like, well, it really
never was. It never was, all right, So everyone is
yaping away. I mentioned they are all a bunch of ants.
Everywhere you turn, someone's working an egg. I'll give you
an example. So the story over the last like ten
(27:53):
days has been UCLA leaving the Rose Bowl and they're
getting sued. There's lawyers involved, judges involved. So I always
got a theory on that, and people are telling me
that so and so who's in the athletic department at
UCLA was sold a bill of goods. That the main
reason they want to move out of the Rose Bowl
and into SOFI is because they can rent out all
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of those luxury boxes. And when the powerful big ten
schools come in like Michigan's, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State,
that have these huge fan bases and they always play
Notre Dame or USA doesn't but they play them every
so often. When those teams come in, UCLA will make
(28:35):
a ton of money. In Reverend, we did we did
talk about if I mentioned you USC, we did talk
about Lincoln Riley. Is he happy at USC's he can
get a new contract? Is he going to leave for
Penn State or Auburn or somewhere like that? And then
we were talking about the rams up here. What's up
with Matthew Stafford? Is he going to stay heavy? And
then we went back to the Terrible Towels and how
(28:59):
did they get here? It feels like there's more here
than at a terrible towel factory. What's going on with
Aaron Rodgers and his fake wife the Phantom? A Phantom
Rogers is their nickname, And so listen, I'm trying, like
I'm sincerely trying to prep my monologues. I have a
(29:19):
drop dead date. When you get ready for the radio show.
You have to have it done by the time the
show starts, at least ninety nine percent of it done.
So I'm prepping for the show, trying to find the
perfect you know, the perfect connecting of the dots, and
trying to find the things that I'm most interested in
because it's the Ben Maller Show, and you know, I
(29:41):
got to find a hook for the overnight consumer. Your
brain is a carnival, It's a tilta whirl of gossip,
well caffeine, half formed thoughts about offensive line play, round
and round on the tilta whirld, we go round and round.
You want silence, you want laser like focus, you want
(30:03):
noise canceling headphones, the size of traffic cones. I've done that,
and I've noticed that people keep talking. Even when you
use the noise canceling headphones. They still tap you on
the shoulder or they'll go right to your face. So
instead of that, you get another conversation about the future
of college football and nil deals, a bad replay on
(30:23):
the jumbo tron. Why are these commercial breaks so long?
It's Sunday night. You get the faint scent of buffalo
sauce wafting from the next row, and you chat again
about Aaron Rodgers playing terribly. It looks like he's in
seventies all the thing. So again, a lot of people
(30:44):
think doing sports radio is just watching the game and
talking about it. That's a lie. The real job when
you go to these games is spinning plates, watching the
field while listening to your phone buzz with updates on
other stories, putting notes down about some blown coverage by
(31:05):
the Steelers defense while someone leans over to show you
a photo of their cousins aunts dog wearing a Steelers jersey,
and you're trying to keep an eye on everything. You're
building out the monologue bullet points in your head while
juggling small talk, which we know as an introvert, not
(31:28):
my jam, looking at box scores of other games, doing
all of this, and you're trying to be the social
butterfly that you're normally not. It's out of your DNA,
it's not baked into me to be a social butterfly
and an introvert. And so you're not only a social butterfly,
you're the sniper, friendly enough to stay in the loop,
(31:49):
focused enough to find the angle of the story. Now,
some nights it works, some nights it's all noise, and
by the time the fourth quarter rolls around, the hum
kind of fades out. This game was pretty lopsided. The
old radio hands have stopped talking. The crowd below is
thinning out because they're mostly Steeler fans. The terrible towels
look like surrender flags at this point, and you yourself,
(32:11):
you have to skid daddled because you have to get
to the radio station to beat the traffic because it
takes two and a half hours of traffic after the game.
So you pack up your laptop, you take one last
sip of that pink lemonade, you grab a couple of
candy bars, and then you're on your way. Well, this
is the job. The noise, the chaos, the bad food,
the gossip, the overload. It's exhausting, it's ridiculous, and it's
(32:35):
it's also kind of glorious. And then it was off
on the yellow brick road to the radio station not
in the North Woods but in Shriman Oaks, just down
the hill from bell Air, to do the overnight show
under the bright lights, let's say, on air, because the
Naked City does not sleep again, and of course neither
(32:57):
do we doing overnight talk radio. All Right, we'll get
out on that. Have a wonderful rest of your Saturday.
We will have the mail bag on Sunday Sunday Sunday
and get you ready for an NFL Sunday. Don't forget though,
Benny Versus the Penny is up and streaming right now
on the YouTube channel. Also, if you missed yesterday's podcast,
(33:19):
the Fifth Hour podcast with this one's when you listened to.
But yesterday's edition a bonus Malard monologue on the Doyers.
So we had bonus Malard monologue coverage only available for
those that are listening to this podcast right now. You
go back and download that yesterday. So we'll get out
on that. And as Danny G would say, asta pasta
(33:44):
now later beach skater, not my pause. Yeah, that's I
think that's it right, Yes, Danny, my Felicia
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