May 30, 2025 • 30 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a fun Friday for you! He talks: Celeb Wedding, Yoko Ono Effect, Phrase of the Week, Big Board of Bites, All About the Daylight, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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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 gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maler and Danny g Radio Happy Friday, the last fifth
Hour that we will do here in the month of May.
We'll have pods all weekend long as the Vancouver sojourn
rolls on the Big Malard Get Together last night. Details
(00:54):
on that. We're gonna save that for next weekend. Loser,
I know, I know you're excited. You have to wait.
I'm gonna make you wait for that for next weekend.
But we have a lot to get to, so I
thought we'd change it up a little bit on this
pod and just have a free for all if you will.
(01:14):
I don't know free for all it's the right term.
Now we will have the phrase of the week. We've
got that. But before we get to the Free for
All the round robin with some of the stories that
we did not get to on the radio show that
we should have gotten to, but they're not really sporty stories,
so we didn't get to them. And Yeah, we have
a celebrity wedding. I've been told this is a big deal.
(01:35):
Now for me, it's not a big deal because I
don't know the people in the wedding. I'm not going
to the wedding. I'm hanging out eating poutine all weekend
in Canada. But somewhere, likely in California, a big celebrity
wedding taking place involving the most valuable player in the NFL,
Josh Allen. I believe the wedding is tomorrow. Believe I'm
(01:59):
right on that. Believe I'm right on that the wedding
is tomorrow. Anyway that matter. Josh Allen's getting married, which
opens him up officially to a term that is saved
for athletes that get into high profile relationships and end
up getting married. Hailey Steinfeld I believe is the woman's name.
She's a big actress. I guess, not really familiar with
(02:22):
her work, but they're the big power couple there. I
guess and TMZ all over it, and so that means
Josh Allen is now eligible to be a member of
what is clinically known as the Yoko Ono phrase, the
yoko Ono effect. I guess it's the actual clinical term,
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which is not an official official thing, but it's something
that we have talked about for many, many years on
sports radio. And so Josh Allen, now that he is
signing on the dotted line, is eligible to join the
likes of Carmelo Anthony, who was with La La Anthony,
(03:08):
a high profile couple, and the relationship it was a
Yoko like situation that she was said to be a distraction.
Carmelo was not doing well at times, and he did
put up some good stats, didn't win anything, and that
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was called the Yoko effect. Many Kardashians have brought down
men Chris Humphreys. You might not even know who that was.
He was a basketball player, not a good one for
the Brooklyn Nets, and he ended up canoodling with Kim Kardashian.
They had a seventy two day marriage and then they
(03:50):
got divorced and that was about the end, about the
end of Chris Humphreys, and then the Nets were terrible
and he wasn't very good and he it was supposed
to be a breakout star. It never became a breakout player.
And that was that. And then they had Tristan Thompson
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who was with Chloe Kardashian that didn't go so well.
Lamar Odom who was also with Chloe Kardashian and ended
up in a brothel in Nevada, did not work out
so well. Theref was some NFL examples, The most famous
would be Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson, although people did
(04:32):
accuse Giselle of messing with Tom Brady. However, the problem
with that if you're gonna claim the Yoko Ono label
is that Tom Brady won multiple Super Bowls during their marriage.
So never let the facts get in the way of
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a good story. Anyway, Good luck to Josh Allen. I'm
sure things will go just great, just absolutely wonderful, and
we'll see it. The Yoko Odo effect going all the
way back to John Lennon and the end of the Beatles,
which was directly tied to Yoko Ono. And I know
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someone that knows Yoko owner. That would be the great
Padd O'Brien. I've told the story a few times over
the years, but I used to when Pat worked at
the company. It was someone who did shows with Pad O'Brien,
and so every once in a while I would talk
to Pat off campus, off work, and I remember one
(05:35):
time I called him up. I was on the one oh,
I was having the four or five going to the
one on one in La I was on the four
or five freeway going transitioning to the one on one freeway,
and I'm on the phone with Pat and I don't
remember what we were talking about. It was something ridiculous,
something stupid, and Pat says, hold on, Ben, I've got
another call. Yoko's on the other line. Now I don't
(05:57):
know whether that is true or not. He always he
drop two names, Yoko and Ringo Ringo Star. Those are
the names. I got Ringo on one line, I got
Yoko on the other. And like, okay, well whatever, good
for you. Good for you, Pat. But anyway, the Yoko
Ono effect and now time for this is exciting. Buckle
(06:19):
up the phrase of the week, that's right, the phrase
of the week on the Fifth Hour podcast. So a
lot of prices going up right now because of the
political climate, the tariffs, whatever, and this is not a
political podcast. It was for about a month, but it's
not a political podcast. So the phrase pay through the nose,
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which I think every man, woman and child knows, I
would argue that every man, woman in child with a
IQ above I don't know seven knows. The phrase pay
through the nose means to pay a ridiculous amount of
money for something that you think is a bit too much,
a bit too much. Is it true that that phrase
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goes all the way back, all the way back to
the Viking times? There's a popular theory by popular people
that study phrases and verbiage that that phrase goes all
the way back to the ninth century and the Viking's
invasion of Ireland. They imposed a tax called the nose tax.
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The Vikings they were barbarians. And if someone did not
or could not pay the nose tax, what do you
think happened? That's right, ding ding ding ding ding. The
nose would be sliced off, chop, chop, No more nose.
It's all over for the nose. You're done. And so
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pay through the nose came to me in paying a
high price literally or figuratively, pay paying through the nose.
Another term pay through the nose appeared in English years
and years after the Vikings went around with their nose tacks.
This around the seventeenth century, although there are people that
(08:14):
are involved in the linguist world that believe it arrived
from the Norse practice. The practice the Viking practice and
survived orally through memory. So it wasn't written down, but
people talked about it. You know, it was such a
dramatic thing. And I would imagine it would be a
(08:35):
dramatic thing if you saw one of your friends and
they no longer had a nose, or they only had
part of a nose because somebody took a sharp object
and sliced the nose off. You would remember that, you
would tell other people about that. That would be a thing,
that would absolutely be a thing. The earliest written form
in English states to sixteen seventy it was written, they
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must pay through the nose for it. So the most
popular and the theory that we are going with is
the Vikings back in the ninth century invading Ireland and
having a nose tax, leading to the phrase of the week,
pay through the nose. We're going to go around now
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some stories that we should have probably talked about, but
we didn't talk about on the radio show over the
course of the week. And I thought these were interesting.
I thought these were interesting. I don't know how many
of you were gonna get too, might not get to
that many. So there's a story out that if you
are stuck in traffic, you are more likely to do
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what you are more likely to go to the drive through.
That's right. Traffic delays make people more likely to choose
fast food over going to the grocery store. A new
study out recently found that even a small increase in
can ingestion leads to a measurable rise a measurable rise
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in eating fast food. That's right, and it leads to
a rise in fast food a drop in supermarket trips.
The effect is strongest during evening rush hour congestion. They
says five to seven. They clearly didn't do this in
Los Angeles, where it starts at one in the afternoon
(10:26):
and goes all the way till eight o'clock at night. Anyway,
right around dinner time. That is the place on the
clock where the most impact is taken for food choices.
Although it does say or that they did do this
in Los Angeles, but if you think five to seven
is rush hour, my friend, you have not seen anything.
(10:48):
I say time loss to traffic. May that's a weasel word,
may be quietly shaping public health. And they estimate that
this adds up to one point two million extra fast
food visits per year. That's just in La County. So okay,
(11:09):
all you you health in us. Get rid of traffic
and then people won't eat fast food. Just get rid
of traffic and you're you're good to go. What's next here?
How about this one? How about this one? The dirtiest
area on a cruise ship is blank. The dirtiest area
on a cruise ship is blank. Do you have an idea?
(11:33):
Have you seen this? You did not see this. It's
not the toilets. It's not the toilets. It's not the
filth in the kitchen. It's not that. It's what And
I'm not a cruise guy. I know some people that
are sports with Coleman, some other people, big cruise people.
The dirtiest area on a cruise is the private balcony
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hot tub ding ding ding ding, ding ding ding ding
ning ning. Yes, the private balcony hot tub, which has
the trifecta. What do you mean by that. Let me explain. So,
according to this new study out the we used to
call it Chacuzi back in the day, and some people
(12:18):
still call it the Chacuzi. But the bacteria that is
out there is insane to the membrane and handle with care.
They claim that it is a three dimensional petri dish,
the hot tub. All bacteria needs is three things and
they have all three on the cruise ship, the private balcony. Chacuzi.
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They have a nice warm place to grow. That's what
bacteria needs. A nice warm place to grow, plenty of water,
ding ding, ding, ding ding, and organic material that they
can use for food. So that is the dirtiest place
on a cruise ship. So I'll remember that if I
ever get on a cruise ship. I have no plans,
(13:05):
no plans to get on a cruise ship. Meanwhile, exciting
news from the science world. And this could be really
really wild if people start doing this, and you know,
someone's going, what is this? Announce your announce what you're
talking about? So I thought I saw something like this
a while back. And there's another story out which has
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popped up here and it's following a similar, similar track
and it's more information about the there's a snack that
makes rodents see throw. There's a snack that you can eat.
And so there's another story out that I saw this
week about if you eat a certain amount of this,
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you can like your skin is transparent in rodents and
you can see right through. And it's the coloring of
a snack, which is the snack known as Cheetos. That's
Cheetos and Doritos. It's present in a lot of snacks.
But yeah, I mean, you gotta have the right amount.
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So there's some new information out about that. So I
thought that was mildly interesting. And how about this one?
The average American, as you're listening to the fifth hour,
the average American is fully healthy? How many days per month?
Now there is on average thirty days a month, thirty
one days a month on average, how many days does
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the average American feel fully healthy? According to a new
study out, Americans feel healthy a total of nineteen days
per month, with seventy two percent reporting moderate or poor
health at any given time. At any given time, So
I thought about this, and I was thinking, what about
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you when we're looking into the mirrors, like, what about you?
How many days do you feel pretty good? And the
answer is, despite my lack of sleep and terrible schedule
at work, working overnight, I don't really feel like I'm
in bad health at all. I get occasionally I had
a sinus thing, which was an annoyance. For the most part,
(15:19):
I don't think I'm in poor poor health. I don't
feel like I'm in poor health. Let's put it that way.
It's how you feel, right, It said nineteen days per month,
them feel pretty good pretty much every day. I mean
there's times I don't get a lot of sleep, and
it's even worse on certain days, and I got a
million things I gotta do and it's a nightmare and
all that stuff. They say the top health thieves are
(15:43):
fatigue twelve point nine days monthly. With the fatigue, get
the fatigue, but it's mostly because I feel like I
don't have enough time to get everything in Mood change
is ten point one days, digestive shoes nine point eight days,
and headaches seven point five days. They say poor health
(16:06):
creates a domino effect. Sixty five percent of workers say
it hurts job performance well. Nearly half have gut issues
that avoid making whoopee, so they've got all that in
a nutshell, in a nutshow. So there's also a lot
of people love to complain about everything. There is people
that are all about complaining, So what do you do
(16:30):
with that? And there's other people like I've been accused
that I do not I do not complain enough, that
I am not in touch with my complaints when it
comes to my health and all that stuff that I
need to complain more. But I digress. I digress, all right. Meanwhile,
a news story out this week says, in honor of
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the very public relationship which has gotten a lot of
airtime on our show of Bill Belichick and the Much
Younger Lady, a new study says that it's not just dudes.
It's not just dudes that are all about the younger partner.
It turns out that both men and women showed a
modest but equal preference for younger partners during blind dates,
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and this challenges the popular opinion by popular people the
it's only men that are drawn to youth. It turns out,
accord to this random study that was done No no, no,
there's more to it, participates stated age preferences had little
to no effect on actual attraction even when dates exceeded
their maximum age limits despite equal attraction to younger partners.
(17:39):
These study reads long term matches still skewed older male
younger female, suggesting there are some other factors like matchmaking practices,
societal norms, etc. Etc. Etc. That study done by UC
Davis researchers that you see Davis. They track down over
(18:04):
six thousand people on more than forty five hundred blind dates.
Bring back Roger Lodge with blind date, and that is
what they they came up with. So but I'll tell
you this. You get the massive age gap. It's all
over the tabloids. People can't get enough. They can't They
want to hear every detail. So I've told some stories
(18:26):
on this podcast about my beloved dog, Moxie, and we
got some good feedback on that. Moxie very very popular,
very popular dog. So I don't know, seems to be
based on the feedback. I sit here every weekend and
the feedback I get for what I say is not
so good. But you tell a story about Moxie, all
of a sudden you find people send a lot of
(18:50):
messages anyway, So this is not a list. In case
Terry and England happens to you, This is not a list,
it is a big board and the most dangerous dog.
A new study reveals the ten breeds most likely to
land your ass in court. If you're lucky, and if
you're not lucky, send you to the hospital. Send you
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to the hospital. And this is according to a new
study out. The data revealed several patterns, several patterns which
we will share in Gloria's fashion. Here of the dog
breeds that will mess you up. The dog breeds that
will mess you up. Number ten on the big board,
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Labrador retriever, Labrador retriever, number ten. Mastiff is number nine.
That's the massive, giant, huge dog. Doberman Pincher is number eight.
The cane corso, I have no idea what that is.
The Australian cattle dog. Shout out Ozzie Waz. The German
shepherd dog, the German shepherd, the Rottweiler, the boxer, the
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shepherd and number number one leading the way with over
twenty six point seven percent of all bites and the
most fatalities in an evening close and the severe bite
rate which is pretty high but not the highest. The
danger score off the charts. The answer, that's right. The
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pit bull every time someone sees a headline a pit
bull eats the toddler in the neighborhood, a pitbull, a
pit bull attacks grandma. There are the pit bull apologists
that will immediately run, well, it's disproportionate, it's not right,
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the numbers are wrong, and they're good dogs and all
that stuff. And now you know what you didn't see
on that list, which is a big board. You didn't
see at all one reference to the English bulldog. And
the reason why is they're lazy and they it would
take a lot of work to bite someone. It would
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take a lot of work to do all that. They
don't want to do that. They want no part of that.
They just want to lay around and eat and drink water.
And that's it. That's all they want. They want nothing else,
that's all they want. So why not there you go,
all right, turn the page on that, and what is
next year? How about this one? And I thought this
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was obvious. I don't know that you needed a study
for this. It's all about the daylight, something that those
of us that work the overnight shift do not want
to hear. They say the immune system's ability to fight
infections is driven by daylight. Baby. It's all about the daylight.
(21:49):
They go into detail on this and the information this
is according to a new study out. This has been around.
It's kind of common that there's a weakened immune system
if you don't get a lot of sun. And this
is what we deal with doing the overnight your body
(22:10):
rhythms you work late at night is negative stuff that happens,
and supposing that you can't fight infections and all that stuff.
And the circadian rhythm a part of life on Earth
right evolved two point five billion years ago, and it
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allows organisms to adapt based on the twenty four hour
solar day. Those of us that work the graveyard shift,
and that's most of us. If you're listening to this,
some of you have sold out and go to the
day shift. But it's a little different, you know. In
the lab, they used a zebra fish, a small freshwater
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fish commonly sold in pet stores, as a model organism
to understand our immune response and bacterial infection. So they
they compared us to a zebra fish to figure it
all out. To figure it all out, cells can tell
if it's daytime, according to the study, so they know
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in this daytime and they know when it's nighttime and
there you go. So it's it's all about so another
story that we're screwed, another story that things are not
going well. Well, we need to move on to the
alien world. Do do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do do do do Well scientists have delivered
(23:41):
a rather scary message for the future of humanity. You
get a lot of attention considering the impact of the statement.
It is all about words, well, actually not words, more images,
more images. And there have been so many of these
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UFS stories over the last couple of years, and it's
continued into twenty twenty five. I know we're already into
the last weekend in May, and it's going to be
in before we know it, we're going to be into
June and all that. Well, scientists, and this comes from
the world of I think this is in South America, Columbia, Columbia,
(24:27):
a UFO researcher with a ominous message to the rest
of the world, and they have new information as scientist,
a neuroscientists and researcher of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena UAP trying
(24:48):
to figure out whether that's more upsetting or Major League
Baseball getting rid of the disabled list for the injury
list as opposed to just what it had been, which
seems ridiculous me and the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena UAP, which
has replaced UFO. So I get to the point, please.
(25:08):
So scientists in Columbia recovered a mysterious spear shaped object
that many believe is a piece of UFO technology. And
so we're in this weird period, this time space thing,
where there's stories coming out trying to numb us down
(25:30):
about this that and the other thing, about some kind
of random visit by so and so, goblins and lizard people, whatever,
these different stories out. So anyway, this scientist, this neuroscientist
who studies how humans think and also attended a congressional
hearing on UAPs better known as UFOs, and what did
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all that? One of the mistakes, according to this scientist,
one of the mistakes we make is saying, because I
think I understand this, everything I think today is true.
That was the argument. Now let's get to the meat
of the matter here. So let's get to that spear
in Columbia, and they're looking at this thing, they're analyzing it,
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and they said there is a direct connection to the
video and also the metal object. There was a video
of this thing flying around apparently, and the so called
UFO was originally spotted in March and it was zigging
(26:36):
and zagging through the sky and it defied all movement
conventional aircraft can make.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The story here, though, is what's on the spear. It's
not one thing. They have the spear, an item that
they didn't really know how it was able to move
like that, But the spirit displays symbols and the team
compared the writing on the sphere to ancient scripts, including
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the ruins in various places, the ancient things that are
left from previous societies back in the day. And they
used AI to assist in deciphering the design, and they
interpreted the message to read the origin of birth through
union and energy is the cycle of transformation meeting point
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of unity, expansion and consciousness, individual consciousness. So they interpreted
that to mean a message to humanity encouraging a collective
shift in the consciousness to help mother Earth. So they've
determined that the aliens are environmentalists. That's what it sounds
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like to me, right, They're like, Hey, we need to
clean up the oceans. We need to clean everything up,
and you have to stop pollution into all that. So
shouldn't they be sending those orbs rather than the US,
which spends a lot of time and resources to clean
up the environment. Shouldn't they be sending those I don't know,
China or India, which we are told are saying screw you.
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And it's all about the cold, it's all about that
auction action boss and all that stuff. So anyway, that's
the latest on that. And there were a couple other
stories that I thought were worthy of mentioning. According to
a report out of Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
(28:45):
of Vladimir Putin, one of his one of his minions,
Vladimir Putin has figured out a way, figured out a
way to brainwash toddlers.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
What.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, that's the that's the story. And then they're making
a big making a big deal about it. Now that's
the headline. Anyway, here's the thing. Is it really a
big deal? Aren't kids in general? I don't know about toddlers,
I don't know about that young, but just in general,
I know being around being a kid and then being
(29:23):
around kids, they're so influenced by commercials. If they watch
you know, television, or if they're on the on the internet,
on the YouTube which have those little ten second commercials
and all that stuff. So of course, like, do you
really need to take credit and say, oh, we have
figured out Vatamir Plutin his guy has figured out how
(29:46):
exactly to brainwash kids. Again, I'm like, okay, it's not
that hard. It just give them candy, give them cookies,
let them know they can play with some game they
want to do. But anyways, putin guy. He apparently got
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it all all figured out, all all figured out, no
question about it. The propagandas are finding a way to
brainwash toddlers and then bragging about it. We'll get out
on that. Have a wonderful weekend here. We'll have episodes
dropping on Saturday and Sunday. Danny g putting all of
(30:31):
this together over the weekend, and we'll be back in
La La Land on Sunday. From Vancouver here back to
La for a full week of new shows. Very exciting
that'll be coming up on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, have a wonderful,
(30:51):
wonderful rest of your Friday. We will talk to you
next time. Got a murder I gotta go,
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maler and Danny g Radio Happy Friday, the last fifth
Hour that we will do here in the month of May.
We'll have pods all weekend long as the Vancouver sojourn
rolls on the Big Malard Get Together last night. Details
(00:54):
on that. We're gonna save that for next weekend. Loser,
I know, I know you're excited. You have to wait.
I'm gonna make you wait for that for next weekend.
But we have a lot to get to, so I
thought we'd change it up a little bit on this
pod and just have a free for all if you will.
(01:14):
I don't know free for all it's the right term.
Now we will have the phrase of the week. We've
got that. But before we get to the Free for
All the round robin with some of the stories that
we did not get to on the radio show that
we should have gotten to, but they're not really sporty stories,
so we didn't get to them. And Yeah, we have
a celebrity wedding. I've been told this is a big deal.
(01:35):
Now for me, it's not a big deal because I
don't know the people in the wedding. I'm not going
to the wedding. I'm hanging out eating poutine all weekend
in Canada. But somewhere, likely in California, a big celebrity
wedding taking place involving the most valuable player in the NFL,
Josh Allen. I believe the wedding is tomorrow. Believe I'm
(01:59):
right on that. Believe I'm right on that the wedding
is tomorrow. Anyway that matter. Josh Allen's getting married, which
opens him up officially to a term that is saved
for athletes that get into high profile relationships and end
up getting married. Hailey Steinfeld I believe is the woman's name.
She's a big actress. I guess, not really familiar with
(02:22):
her work, but they're the big power couple there. I
guess and TMZ all over it, and so that means
Josh Allen is now eligible to be a member of
what is clinically known as the Yoko Ono phrase, the
yoko Ono effect. I guess it's the actual clinical term,
(02:45):
which is not an official official thing, but it's something
that we have talked about for many, many years on
sports radio. And so Josh Allen, now that he is
signing on the dotted line, is eligible to join the
likes of Carmelo Anthony, who was with La La Anthony,
(03:08):
a high profile couple, and the relationship it was a
Yoko like situation that she was said to be a distraction.
Carmelo was not doing well at times, and he did
put up some good stats, didn't win anything, and that
(03:29):
was called the Yoko effect. Many Kardashians have brought down
men Chris Humphreys. You might not even know who that was.
He was a basketball player, not a good one for
the Brooklyn Nets, and he ended up canoodling with Kim Kardashian.
They had a seventy two day marriage and then they
(03:50):
got divorced and that was about the end, about the
end of Chris Humphreys, and then the Nets were terrible
and he wasn't very good and he it was supposed
to be a breakout star. It never became a breakout player.
And that was that. And then they had Tristan Thompson
(04:10):
who was with Chloe Kardashian that didn't go so well.
Lamar Odom who was also with Chloe Kardashian and ended
up in a brothel in Nevada, did not work out
so well. Theref was some NFL examples, The most famous
would be Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson, although people did
(04:32):
accuse Giselle of messing with Tom Brady. However, the problem
with that if you're gonna claim the Yoko Ono label
is that Tom Brady won multiple Super Bowls during their marriage.
So never let the facts get in the way of
(04:52):
a good story. Anyway, Good luck to Josh Allen. I'm
sure things will go just great, just absolutely wonderful, and
we'll see it. The Yoko Odo effect going all the
way back to John Lennon and the end of the Beatles,
which was directly tied to Yoko Ono. And I know
(05:13):
someone that knows Yoko owner. That would be the great
Padd O'Brien. I've told the story a few times over
the years, but I used to when Pat worked at
the company. It was someone who did shows with Pad O'Brien,
and so every once in a while I would talk
to Pat off campus, off work, and I remember one
(05:35):
time I called him up. I was on the one oh,
I was having the four or five going to the
one on one in La I was on the four
or five freeway going transitioning to the one on one freeway,
and I'm on the phone with Pat and I don't
remember what we were talking about. It was something ridiculous,
something stupid, and Pat says, hold on, Ben, I've got
another call. Yoko's on the other line. Now I don't
(05:57):
know whether that is true or not. He always he
drop two names, Yoko and Ringo Ringo Star. Those are
the names. I got Ringo on one line, I got
Yoko on the other. And like, okay, well whatever, good
for you. Good for you, Pat. But anyway, the Yoko
Ono effect and now time for this is exciting. Buckle
(06:19):
up the phrase of the week, that's right, the phrase
of the week on the Fifth Hour podcast. So a
lot of prices going up right now because of the
political climate, the tariffs, whatever, and this is not a
political podcast. It was for about a month, but it's
not a political podcast. So the phrase pay through the nose,
(06:41):
which I think every man, woman and child knows, I
would argue that every man, woman in child with a
IQ above I don't know seven knows. The phrase pay
through the nose means to pay a ridiculous amount of
money for something that you think is a bit too much,
a bit too much. Is it true that that phrase
(07:05):
goes all the way back, all the way back to
the Viking times? There's a popular theory by popular people
that study phrases and verbiage that that phrase goes all
the way back to the ninth century and the Viking's
invasion of Ireland. They imposed a tax called the nose tax.
(07:28):
The Vikings they were barbarians. And if someone did not
or could not pay the nose tax, what do you
think happened? That's right, ding ding ding ding ding. The
nose would be sliced off, chop, chop, No more nose.
It's all over for the nose. You're done. And so
(07:53):
pay through the nose came to me in paying a
high price literally or figuratively, pay paying through the nose.
Another term pay through the nose appeared in English years
and years after the Vikings went around with their nose tacks.
This around the seventeenth century, although there are people that
(08:14):
are involved in the linguist world that believe it arrived
from the Norse practice. The practice the Viking practice and
survived orally through memory. So it wasn't written down, but
people talked about it. You know, it was such a
dramatic thing. And I would imagine it would be a
(08:35):
dramatic thing if you saw one of your friends and
they no longer had a nose, or they only had
part of a nose because somebody took a sharp object
and sliced the nose off. You would remember that, you
would tell other people about that. That would be a thing,
that would absolutely be a thing. The earliest written form
in English states to sixteen seventy it was written, they
(08:57):
must pay through the nose for it. So the most
popular and the theory that we are going with is
the Vikings back in the ninth century invading Ireland and
having a nose tax, leading to the phrase of the week,
pay through the nose. We're going to go around now
(09:22):
some stories that we should have probably talked about, but
we didn't talk about on the radio show over the
course of the week. And I thought these were interesting.
I thought these were interesting. I don't know how many
of you were gonna get too, might not get to
that many. So there's a story out that if you
are stuck in traffic, you are more likely to do
(09:43):
what you are more likely to go to the drive through.
That's right. Traffic delays make people more likely to choose
fast food over going to the grocery store. A new
study out recently found that even a small increase in
can ingestion leads to a measurable rise a measurable rise
(10:06):
in eating fast food. That's right, and it leads to
a rise in fast food a drop in supermarket trips.
The effect is strongest during evening rush hour congestion. They
says five to seven. They clearly didn't do this in
Los Angeles, where it starts at one in the afternoon
(10:26):
and goes all the way till eight o'clock at night. Anyway,
right around dinner time. That is the place on the
clock where the most impact is taken for food choices.
Although it does say or that they did do this
in Los Angeles, but if you think five to seven
is rush hour, my friend, you have not seen anything.
(10:48):
I say time loss to traffic. May that's a weasel word,
may be quietly shaping public health. And they estimate that
this adds up to one point two million extra fast
food visits per year. That's just in La County. So okay,
(11:09):
all you you health in us. Get rid of traffic
and then people won't eat fast food. Just get rid
of traffic and you're you're good to go. What's next here?
How about this one? How about this one? The dirtiest
area on a cruise ship is blank. The dirtiest area
on a cruise ship is blank. Do you have an idea?
(11:33):
Have you seen this? You did not see this. It's
not the toilets. It's not the toilets. It's not the
filth in the kitchen. It's not that. It's what And
I'm not a cruise guy. I know some people that
are sports with Coleman, some other people, big cruise people.
The dirtiest area on a cruise is the private balcony
(11:57):
hot tub ding ding ding ding, ding ding ding ding
ning ning. Yes, the private balcony hot tub, which has
the trifecta. What do you mean by that. Let me explain. So,
according to this new study out the we used to
call it Chacuzi back in the day, and some people
(12:18):
still call it the Chacuzi. But the bacteria that is
out there is insane to the membrane and handle with care.
They claim that it is a three dimensional petri dish,
the hot tub. All bacteria needs is three things and
they have all three on the cruise ship, the private balcony. Chacuzi.
(12:44):
They have a nice warm place to grow. That's what
bacteria needs. A nice warm place to grow, plenty of water,
ding ding, ding, ding ding, and organic material that they
can use for food. So that is the dirtiest place
on a cruise ship. So I'll remember that if I
ever get on a cruise ship. I have no plans,
(13:05):
no plans to get on a cruise ship. Meanwhile, exciting
news from the science world. And this could be really
really wild if people start doing this, and you know,
someone's going, what is this? Announce your announce what you're
talking about? So I thought I saw something like this
a while back. And there's another story out which has
(13:26):
popped up here and it's following a similar, similar track
and it's more information about the there's a snack that
makes rodents see throw. There's a snack that you can eat.
And so there's another story out that I saw this
week about if you eat a certain amount of this,
(13:49):
you can like your skin is transparent in rodents and
you can see right through. And it's the coloring of
a snack, which is the snack known as Cheetos. That's
Cheetos and Doritos. It's present in a lot of snacks.
But yeah, I mean, you gotta have the right amount.
(14:12):
So there's some new information out about that. So I
thought that was mildly interesting. And how about this one?
The average American, as you're listening to the fifth hour,
the average American is fully healthy? How many days per month?
Now there is on average thirty days a month, thirty
one days a month on average, how many days does
(14:34):
the average American feel fully healthy? According to a new
study out, Americans feel healthy a total of nineteen days
per month, with seventy two percent reporting moderate or poor
health at any given time. At any given time, So
I thought about this, and I was thinking, what about
(14:55):
you when we're looking into the mirrors, like, what about you?
How many days do you feel pretty good? And the
answer is, despite my lack of sleep and terrible schedule
at work, working overnight, I don't really feel like I'm
in bad health at all. I get occasionally I had
a sinus thing, which was an annoyance. For the most part,
(15:19):
I don't think I'm in poor poor health. I don't
feel like I'm in poor health. Let's put it that way.
It's how you feel, right, It said nineteen days per month,
them feel pretty good pretty much every day. I mean
there's times I don't get a lot of sleep, and
it's even worse on certain days, and I got a
million things I gotta do and it's a nightmare and
all that stuff. They say the top health thieves are
(15:43):
fatigue twelve point nine days monthly. With the fatigue, get
the fatigue, but it's mostly because I feel like I
don't have enough time to get everything in Mood change
is ten point one days, digestive shoes nine point eight days,
and headaches seven point five days. They say poor health
(16:06):
creates a domino effect. Sixty five percent of workers say
it hurts job performance well. Nearly half have gut issues
that avoid making whoopee, so they've got all that in
a nutshell, in a nutshow. So there's also a lot
of people love to complain about everything. There is people
that are all about complaining, So what do you do
(16:30):
with that? And there's other people like I've been accused
that I do not I do not complain enough, that
I am not in touch with my complaints when it
comes to my health and all that stuff that I
need to complain more. But I digress. I digress, all right. Meanwhile,
a news story out this week says, in honor of
(16:52):
the very public relationship which has gotten a lot of
airtime on our show of Bill Belichick and the Much
Younger Lady, a new study says that it's not just dudes.
It's not just dudes that are all about the younger partner.
It turns out that both men and women showed a
modest but equal preference for younger partners during blind dates,
(17:15):
and this challenges the popular opinion by popular people the
it's only men that are drawn to youth. It turns out,
accord to this random study that was done No no, no,
there's more to it, participates stated age preferences had little
to no effect on actual attraction even when dates exceeded
their maximum age limits despite equal attraction to younger partners.
(17:39):
These study reads long term matches still skewed older male
younger female, suggesting there are some other factors like matchmaking practices,
societal norms, etc. Etc. Etc. That study done by UC
Davis researchers that you see Davis. They track down over
(18:04):
six thousand people on more than forty five hundred blind dates.
Bring back Roger Lodge with blind date, and that is
what they they came up with. So but I'll tell
you this. You get the massive age gap. It's all
over the tabloids. People can't get enough. They can't They
want to hear every detail. So I've told some stories
(18:26):
on this podcast about my beloved dog, Moxie, and we
got some good feedback on that. Moxie very very popular,
very popular dog. So I don't know, seems to be
based on the feedback. I sit here every weekend and
the feedback I get for what I say is not
so good. But you tell a story about Moxie, all
of a sudden you find people send a lot of
(18:50):
messages anyway, So this is not a list. In case
Terry and England happens to you, This is not a list,
it is a big board and the most dangerous dog.
A new study reveals the ten breeds most likely to
land your ass in court. If you're lucky, and if
you're not lucky, send you to the hospital. Send you
(19:11):
to the hospital. And this is according to a new
study out. The data revealed several patterns, several patterns which
we will share in Gloria's fashion. Here of the dog
breeds that will mess you up. The dog breeds that
will mess you up. Number ten on the big board,
(19:33):
Labrador retriever, Labrador retriever, number ten. Mastiff is number nine.
That's the massive, giant, huge dog. Doberman Pincher is number eight.
The cane corso, I have no idea what that is.
The Australian cattle dog. Shout out Ozzie Waz. The German
shepherd dog, the German shepherd, the Rottweiler, the boxer, the
(19:57):
shepherd and number number one leading the way with over
twenty six point seven percent of all bites and the
most fatalities in an evening close and the severe bite
rate which is pretty high but not the highest. The
danger score off the charts. The answer, that's right. The
(20:21):
pit bull every time someone sees a headline a pit
bull eats the toddler in the neighborhood, a pitbull, a
pit bull attacks grandma. There are the pit bull apologists
that will immediately run, well, it's disproportionate, it's not right,
(20:42):
the numbers are wrong, and they're good dogs and all
that stuff. And now you know what you didn't see
on that list, which is a big board. You didn't
see at all one reference to the English bulldog. And
the reason why is they're lazy and they it would
take a lot of work to bite someone. It would
(21:04):
take a lot of work to do all that. They
don't want to do that. They want no part of that.
They just want to lay around and eat and drink water.
And that's it. That's all they want. They want nothing else,
that's all they want. So why not there you go,
all right, turn the page on that, and what is
next year? How about this one? And I thought this
(21:26):
was obvious. I don't know that you needed a study
for this. It's all about the daylight, something that those
of us that work the overnight shift do not want
to hear. They say the immune system's ability to fight
infections is driven by daylight. Baby. It's all about the daylight.
(21:49):
They go into detail on this and the information this
is according to a new study out. This has been around.
It's kind of common that there's a weakened immune system
if you don't get a lot of sun. And this
is what we deal with doing the overnight your body
(22:10):
rhythms you work late at night is negative stuff that happens,
and supposing that you can't fight infections and all that stuff.
And the circadian rhythm a part of life on Earth
right evolved two point five billion years ago, and it
(22:32):
allows organisms to adapt based on the twenty four hour
solar day. Those of us that work the graveyard shift,
and that's most of us. If you're listening to this,
some of you have sold out and go to the
day shift. But it's a little different, you know. In
the lab, they used a zebra fish, a small freshwater
(22:55):
fish commonly sold in pet stores, as a model organism
to understand our immune response and bacterial infection. So they
they compared us to a zebra fish to figure it
all out. To figure it all out, cells can tell
if it's daytime, according to the study, so they know
(23:17):
in this daytime and they know when it's nighttime and
there you go. So it's it's all about so another
story that we're screwed, another story that things are not
going well. Well, we need to move on to the
alien world. Do do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do do do do Well scientists have delivered
(23:41):
a rather scary message for the future of humanity. You
get a lot of attention considering the impact of the statement.
It is all about words, well, actually not words, more images,
more images. And there have been so many of these
(24:02):
UFS stories over the last couple of years, and it's
continued into twenty twenty five. I know we're already into
the last weekend in May, and it's going to be
in before we know it, we're going to be into
June and all that. Well, scientists, and this comes from
the world of I think this is in South America, Columbia, Columbia,
(24:27):
a UFO researcher with a ominous message to the rest
of the world, and they have new information as scientist,
a neuroscientists and researcher of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena UAP trying
(24:48):
to figure out whether that's more upsetting or Major League
Baseball getting rid of the disabled list for the injury
list as opposed to just what it had been, which
seems ridiculous me and the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena UAP, which
has replaced UFO. So I get to the point, please.
(25:08):
So scientists in Columbia recovered a mysterious spear shaped object
that many believe is a piece of UFO technology. And
so we're in this weird period, this time space thing,
where there's stories coming out trying to numb us down
(25:30):
about this that and the other thing, about some kind
of random visit by so and so, goblins and lizard people, whatever,
these different stories out. So anyway, this scientist, this neuroscientist
who studies how humans think and also attended a congressional
hearing on UAPs better known as UFOs, and what did
(25:54):
all that? One of the mistakes, according to this scientist,
one of the mistakes we make is saying, because I
think I understand this, everything I think today is true.
That was the argument. Now let's get to the meat
of the matter here. So let's get to that spear
in Columbia, and they're looking at this thing, they're analyzing it,
(26:16):
and they said there is a direct connection to the
video and also the metal object. There was a video
of this thing flying around apparently, and the so called
UFO was originally spotted in March and it was zigging
(26:36):
and zagging through the sky and it defied all movement
conventional aircraft can make.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The story here, though, is what's on the spear. It's
not one thing. They have the spear, an item that
they didn't really know how it was able to move
like that, But the spirit displays symbols and the team
compared the writing on the sphere to ancient scripts, including
(27:06):
the ruins in various places, the ancient things that are
left from previous societies back in the day. And they
used AI to assist in deciphering the design, and they
interpreted the message to read the origin of birth through
union and energy is the cycle of transformation meeting point
(27:30):
of unity, expansion and consciousness, individual consciousness. So they interpreted
that to mean a message to humanity encouraging a collective
shift in the consciousness to help mother Earth. So they've
determined that the aliens are environmentalists. That's what it sounds
(27:54):
like to me, right, They're like, Hey, we need to
clean up the oceans. We need to clean everything up,
and you have to stop pollution into all that. So
shouldn't they be sending those orbs rather than the US,
which spends a lot of time and resources to clean
up the environment. Shouldn't they be sending those I don't know,
China or India, which we are told are saying screw you.
(28:19):
And it's all about the cold, it's all about that
auction action boss and all that stuff. So anyway, that's
the latest on that. And there were a couple other
stories that I thought were worthy of mentioning. According to
a report out of Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
(28:45):
of Vladimir Putin, one of his one of his minions,
Vladimir Putin has figured out a way, figured out a
way to brainwash toddlers.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
What.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, that's the that's the story. And then they're making
a big making a big deal about it. Now that's
the headline. Anyway, here's the thing. Is it really a
big deal? Aren't kids in general? I don't know about toddlers,
I don't know about that young, but just in general,
I know being around being a kid and then being
(29:23):
around kids, they're so influenced by commercials. If they watch
you know, television, or if they're on the on the internet,
on the YouTube which have those little ten second commercials
and all that stuff. So of course, like, do you
really need to take credit and say, oh, we have
figured out Vatamir Plutin his guy has figured out how
(29:46):
exactly to brainwash kids. Again, I'm like, okay, it's not
that hard. It just give them candy, give them cookies,
let them know they can play with some game they
want to do. But anyways, putin guy. He apparently got
(30:08):
it all all figured out, all all figured out, no
question about it. The propagandas are finding a way to
brainwash toddlers and then bragging about it. We'll get out
on that. Have a wonderful weekend here. We'll have episodes
dropping on Saturday and Sunday. Danny g putting all of
(30:31):
this together over the weekend, and we'll be back in
La La Land on Sunday. From Vancouver here back to
La for a full week of new shows. Very exciting
that'll be coming up on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, have a wonderful,
(30:51):
wonderful rest of your Friday. We will talk to you
next time. Got a murder I gotta go,
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