March 13, 2026 • 34 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a great Friday for you! Het talks: The 2026 Bennys! It's an Awards Show Preview! Plus, how he started the week as Benny Brightside, & more!
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Kabooms.
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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 sol 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
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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. We have this podcast on
Lockdown on this Friday, the thirteenth day of March, a
very special day. On this podcast, we have the Democracy
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of the Circus, fun Zone of mirrors and break lights,
and we'll see what else we have time for. But
we begin with this after doing a full week of
overnight radio, we're back here and on most nights. On
most nights in the sports radio overnight world, the stakes
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are rather modest. Right you play the numbers game, there's
a few sports takes, Malard monologues for those. There's some
Insomniacs commercials for we Bowl Tire, Rack Express Pros. There's
a handful of callers, some of them sound like they're
broadcasting from inside a washing machine. But you know what
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that means. Once a year. Once a year, somewhere between
the witching hour and the first time you pull over
to get a refill of coffee. I don't drink coffee,
but I'm told that many of you, you know who
you are, you gotta get that refill of coffee when
you're out there driving on the highways and the byways.
So somewhere between that, the circus tent goes up, and
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we asked the question, why is this night different from
all other nights? Well, you're about to find out. Welcome
to the twenty twenty six Benny Awards pregame show, the
overnight radio equivalent of the Oscars. If the red carpet
ran through a truck stop somewhere in Barstow and the
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nominees occasionally called up while doing a backstroke from the
Blagio fountain. If you know what I mean, the real
ones know what I mean. Yep. It is not just
the Ben Maler Show, No, no, no, no, no, It's
more than that, because on this night, it is the
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night to celebrate the things, the quirkiness, the wildness that
make the Overnight Show. What it is the annual awards ceremony,
a metaphorical black tie event, at least in spirit. No sobriety,
no sobriety. Somewhere in the dark corner of the night sky,
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under the cover of the moonlight, the Malard Militia, and
you say it's Friday, the things not until Sunday night.
The Maller Militia is buzzy. It's a beehive that just
discovered extreme caffeine. Now is that hyperbole, of course yes,
But then again, hyperbole is the oxygen. That's what we
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need late at night to do talk radio. The most
important Benny election of our lifetime. It is naturally, of course,
every year, every year the most important year until next
year when that's the most important, just like every election
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is the most important election, and every reality show finale.
It is the most shocking in history. Now, the people
that do a TV we do, obviously, but the people
that new TV learned long ago that if you don't
inflate the balloon, nobody notices it's floating. Nobody notices a
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Remember the late great Craig Sager sideline reporter for Turner Sports,
and it was very popular covering the NBA and he
wore these outrageous costumes when he was doing TNT. And
I ran into Craig a few times at the arena
called Staples Center which is now called something else, the
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crypt or whatever it's called. And Craig would show up
and do his pregame routine in just regular clothes, just
regular outfit, and go interview the coaches and go to
the meetings, the production meetings. He'd have dinner in the
chicken and press room, eating his food and wearing just
regular clothes. And then about half an hour, about half
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an hour before showtime, before the broadcast began, Craig Sager
would go into the to the powder room, and it
was like his phone booth. He came out dressed in
some kind of ridiculous over the top outfit, and he
was ready to go, and everyone knew who he was.
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He was good. But if he'd just been good wearing
regular clothes, nobody would have known he wore these outrageous outfits.
I also worked with a guy named Victor Brick, the Great.
We've had him on this podcast, The Great Victor Brig Jacobs.
Same situation, so same deal. Still the Benny Awards, which
is what we're here. This is the pregame show. Have
become something of a folk tradition with the p once.
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It is a carnival of characters, and you know a
lot of them, you know the names. They dial the
show up. They send messages from behind their smartphones from
every time zone. People internationally emotional. It's really the emotional
zip code, if you will, of the nocturnal audience and
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think of it as talk radios verse version of the
County Fair Talent Show. But that's it's also the Mallard Palooza.
This is more to celebrate celebrate good times. So it's
kind of like a talent show every night on the show,
except the livestocks sometimes will call up and argue about
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the Seattle Seahawks secondary or the Salary Cap or something
like that. Now, one of the night's more charming categories
is the Rookie Caller of the Year. Everyone loves a rookie,
which kind of reads like a scouting report from the
world's most eccentric draft board. We've got Anthony Louisiana, who
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has become synonymous as he calls up and tries to
flirt with Lorena Hey, Lorena, SpongeBob SquarePants. How are we
to know whether that's the real SpongeBob or not. The
cartoon character now apparently calling overnight sports radio from a
phone somewhere beneath the sea. Mikey and the Insomniac, the
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Pride of Tampa, whose brand is exactly what the name suggests,
Insomnia with commentary. There's d Block in Miami whose heart
is in Chicago. So a little bit of a riddle
when it comes to that. Quinzel from Oakland, another proud
member of the may I Flirt with Lorena Club, a
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Lorena super fan member. Dorkoh, the comedian from Hawaii, proof
that even Paradise has its share of lovable odd balls.
Absolutely and Bugatti the Trucker, a rolling legend of the
highways and byeways of the Northeast. You've got Snooker from
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North Las Vegas. We met him at the last mallor
meet and greet we did in Vegas. An Air Force
veteran who calls in and has a hot take. He
doesn't want to talk about the mainstream sports. He wants
to talk about the the oddball, the weird sports, the
non mainstream sports. So all of these people come together,
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they're all rookies, right, They're all rookies. And if Hollywood
had casting directors for overnight radio callers right out of
Central Casting, they could not assemble a lineup more colorful
than these characters. And that's just not just rookies, it's
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pretty much everything. The intoxication indexes through the roof. You've
got the Intoxicated Caller of the Year, and I'm not
going to go through every category because it's only a
thirty five minute podcast or something like that, but the
Intoxicated Caller of the Year, which sounds less like an
award and more like a public health advisory. Get somebody
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from the White House over here. So you got keg
drinking Steve from Kansas City who hasn't called in a while,
but he leads the field. A man whose relationship with
beverages is less casual and more of a contract rual agreement.
Jadot in Utah. Now we lost Jay Dot, tragically forced
into the dreaded day shift, a cruel twist of fate
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for someone who thrives on the neon glow of calling
a radio show at one in the morning. My personal
favorite is Mouthwash Mike, who has swam Swamp Swam swam
speak that would help swam in the Bellagio fountains multiple times. Now,
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how do you know who mouthwash Mike is? Mouthwash Mike
is the guy that carries a bottle of yellow basic
mouthwash like a lucky charm. Then there's another one of
my favorites, Mike and Tucson, who once handed the phone
to his wife in a hospital. Right she's in the hospital.
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And even for late night Radio that we had to pause.
That was wild. Another wild moment happened from the Black
Irishman who is one of our nominees in Omaha. This
happened just a few weeks ago. If you were listening,
I'm pretty sure you know what I'm gonna bring up.
But the Black Irishman, he woke up his elementary school
age daughter at about four in the morning so she
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could say hello on the show Fast Asleep Daughter sleeping, Hey,
wake up, say hello to Ben. And then there's Jed
who fled from the Redneck Riviera, a man whose resume
of chemical adventures is so over the top he has
qualified to get a job at Walgreens or CBS. So
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if the Nobel Committee ever expands into the field of
questionable decision making, the Nobel Prize for Questionable decision Making.
The Bennies already have a short list of candidates. We've
already done that. There's the woman division, which is really
going away. I don't know what we can do to
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get more of the ladies to be involved in the show.
With the Female Caller of the Year category very straightforward.
You've got Andrea, the astrology insider who mixes sports talk
with planetary alignment and the horoscope and all that. And
then there's Robin in Ventura, a study voice who does
not like Mike the Leprechaun. And that's it, that's all.
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That's that's the big board, not a list Terry in England.
That's a big board in a carnival full of noise.
Full of noise. Sometimes the commis voices carry the carry
the first furthest And then there is the category every
award show secretly loves, and we're no different on the Bennies,
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we are no different. Worst Caller of the Year officially
branded the Beer Drinking Brian Memorial Trophy, another great character
on the show. Beer Drinking Brian from Minnesota lived in Missouri,
had half pint with him riding shotgun and there they were,
And this award the worst caller very competitive. This and
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the alcoholic category right near the top intoxic kitty category,
so the beer drinking Brian Memorial Trophy. Here are the nominees,
including e Dog from Long Island, who's become the master
of the non sequitur. It just is he talks about
things that are not related. Mike the Leprechaun, a man
whose controversial style combines a lot of sunscreen and dad jokes.
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No one else has this this slice of talk radio
sunscreen and dad jokes, Hollering James, whose snore score has
become its own form of performance art. Poppy in San Diego,
who thinks that you want to hear Poppy's picks when
really you want nothing to do with poppy picks. Right,
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You're like, oh my god, I need to hide. I
got to get out of here. Why did you crash
the party, Poppy. Then you've got Dorko, who returns for
a second nomination. Versatility like a human pocket knife. Dork O,
the comedian from Honolulu, Hawaii. Then there's Blind Scott, who's
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been with me all these years, a caller who's on
air personality can swing from brilliant to bewildering, and the
time it takes for him to clear his throat. There
are so many personalities in there. He's like the evil
Canieval of switching personalities. And it's a stunt show pretty
much every night for Blind Scott. And every circus needs
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its clowns. Radio simply gives you, guys, who are the
clowns the microphone, the big one, right, the big one,
the one that stands out head and shoulders above all
the rest, and just forget rookies are great, and the
booze crews and the lovable disasters. That's all the undercart
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and there's some other categories International Caller of the Year.
And we're not going to do everything here because I
want you to go and look and vote and all
that and vote on X on Facebook. There's links on there.
We'll send it out over the weekend so you can
keep voting. You don't have to be on social media too.
If you want it's not rolling upstream, just send me
a email at either Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
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That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, or send
me a message at Ben Malors Show. I'll try to
get back to you as quickly as I can, and
I'll give you the link so you can vote. You
need a Google account's free to get. Don't care if
you use Google or not. But we had some people
that were futzing around with this, so we needed some
way to limit the damage that you exceptional losers are
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doing by hacking our contest. So that's what we did.
That's what we did. So but anyway, the main event
is the Genie in Medford Caller of the Year, the
GENIEUM Medford Memorial Call of the Year. Now, to the
uninitiated in the Malad Militia, if you're relatively new to
the show, it's possible you just started working overnight and
you found the show and you're in earshot now, and
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I begged you to listen to this podcast. So you've
started listening to this podcast. To the uninitiated, genie and
Medford might sound like just another name on the big board.
To the faithful, she is something closer to folklore. Everyone
who was around in that era of the show has
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a Genie in Medford story, and they're all amazing, and
they all sound like they can't be true, and they're
all true. Just the gold standard right to the faithful again.
She is mythical. She's mythical, right radio has it does
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have some legends. It's theater of the mind. It's characters
who feel larger than the medium that it's there on.
Genie was one of those voices. And we have these
great debates when things get slow in the month of
June and sports radio, the eternal arguments is it Jordan
or Lebron, Brady or Montana? That certainly seems like it's
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been over. Some people are now trying to hype up
Otani versus Babe Ruth. So it's that level. The Mala
Militia has its own uncontested heavyweight chip theand of the world,
and that is Genie in Medford. There is no debate,
there is no recount needed. There is just reverence and
to put in perspective how beloved Genie was. And she
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didn't know this. And I tried to tell her. She
was on her deathbed and I talked to her and
she couldn't even talk. She'd lost her voice from all
the drugs and the booze and all that. It was
very sad, and I told her, I want you to
know how much people love you. And I didn't even
realize how much people loved Genie and Medford. It was
only after her death when she was by herself. She
was a lonely woman and she had some family, but
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they she was kind of black sheep or whatever, and
they forgot about her. So we raised some money for
a burial memorial for Genie and Medford, and we thought
we'd maybe get a couple bucks, maybe a couple hundred bucks,
and it was thousands. It was thousands of We were
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amazed we had so much money that was donated. We
were able to take care of the burial and the
funeral expenses, and we had money left over where We
have a plaque at Swan Boat Park. If you ever
get to La, if you're in La, go check it
out Swan Boat Park, where they've filmed a lot of commercials.
It's really a cool thing. I think they've cleaned it up.
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I know they did. I don't know if it's back
to being skid row at the park, but it's just
a wonderful place. And right near the playground there's a
park bench, there's frogs, and there's water and the whole thing.
And there's a plaque dedicated to Genie in Medford and
I thought, boy, that's really cool, and that was with
the money. That's just because she was so beloved. So
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the nominees for the award that bears that woman's name,
the late great Genian Medford, the mount Rushmore of show regulars.
You've got Lucky Tony always have to have your finger
on the dump button, Blind Scott another a multi dimensional
performance by Blind Scott, he can win multiple Bennies. Marcel
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and Brooklyn multi time Caller of the Year, Jed who
fled from the Redneck Riviera, Rick and Maryland who's known
for his catch phrase morning time weed Man, Hippie who's
become a regular on the show, and Mike in New Hampshire.
And each of them, each of these dudes has spent
countless nights dialing in to our little audio circus, hoping
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to land a couple of minutes of airtime under the
big top. Right, and that leads us to the Democracy
of the Circus Award. Shows like the Bennies, Love Grand
Language and the Bennies we really lean into it. The
democracy of the audio circus is on the ballot. The
soul of the maul or militia is at stake. History
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is watching. One can almost picture the political slogans going up. Now.
Is it exaggerated? Of course? Of course, of course, of course. However,
exaggeration is the currency of entertainment. Without it, what are
you doing. I had this guy, Chris called up a
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couple weeks ago, and he was ranting and raving like
the loser that he is, and he seemed to be
upset that we try to do an entertaining show. He
wanted some boring people to do the show. And I'm
always blown away by that, Like, why would you bother
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listening to somebody who's so bogged down with ball I
don't understand. I don't get that. It's all about entertainment,
it's about show business and all that so and without it,
you know we're in trouble. So in truth, the Benny
Awards are something simpler and stranger. It's a reminder that radio,
especially late nighty that's one of the reasons I loved
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as a kid radio. And they've got cameras in here,
and I got to promote the YouTube thing. But at
its core, however, at its core, radio is the greatest
meetum because you use your imagination and everyone's got an imagination.
Some people forget to use their imagination and they become
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jaded and old, and they don't be that person always
enjoyed the imagination. You wonder, what does Jed who fled
look like? You know, what's this SpongeBob guy? What's that
all about? It calls a radio show at four thirty
in the morning to be SpongeBob? What is that so? Again? Listen?
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Late night radio one of the last places where the
ordinary person becomes a character and can make that happen
as well. The Internet. Yeah, you're on the Internet and
there's a gazillion body counts, and you know, there's so
many people on there. It's like being a piece of
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sand on the beach. Well, yeah, you're on the beach. Congratulations. However,
you're one of a gazillion little specks of sand and
you don't stand out, and it doesn't really matter what
you do. On our show, abracadabrajocus pocus, you've got truck drivers, janitors,
trash men, crossing guards, insomniacs, gamblers, drug dealers, police officers,
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arresting drug dealers, night shift workers, and factories. Every voice
gets a moment if they want, if they want, they
don't have to call you know, nobody has to call in.
We're fine. We can run the show perfectly fine without
having anyone call in. We can do that, and we'd
done it. We've done entire hours or shows without calls.
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So some things happened, though, right, something's happened where there
are these moments that just are brilliant and they're unscripted
and it just happens. Some are ridiculous, like when we
mentioned the black irishman woke his daughter up in the
middle of the night to say hello. Few were unforgettable,
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just completely unforgettable, like the night weed man hippie was
calling in during a hurricane and was giving us updates
all night as the hurricane made landfall on a lifeguard
tower in Miami. Could have died, and I would have
been blamed if they had figured out why he was
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on the lifeguard tower during a hurricane in Miami. I digress.
And so you just know, somewhere out there, in a
kitchen lit only by the glow of a radio dial,
someone is rehearsing their next phone call, whether it's Cowboy
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John Brad or whoever. Because in the Malar circus, this
particular Mallar circus. Anyone can grab the chrap piece, even SpongeBob,
which makes a good sideline reporter. I think SpongeBob would
be a really good sideline reporter. All right, Meanwhile, I
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want to share a brief story. Some of you notice this,
many of you did not notice this. But the other night,
it began with the illusion that it was normal. This
was normalcy, right, normalcy and all that. And when you
live in Los Angeles is usually the first warning sign
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and it's something abnormal is about to happen when you
have the illusion of normalcy. So here here, I was
just random overnight talk show dude and professional insomniac performing
the normal pregame ritual, the routine on all creatures of
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habit to get ready for work and to be prepared.
So I could provide you with a marginal overnight show
as most people are sleeping, and you got the TV flickering.
I got the World Baseball Classic on. I've put my
notes together for the Malard monologues, the Forbidden Fruit real
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this is real hard luck story, by the way. Yeah,
so just normal, normal, normal, normal, normal normal. I packed
up my bag with my headphones and my mic condom
and just another routine pilgrimage from the north Woods to
the glowing citadel of sports chatter, the mothership in Sherman Oaks,
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the Fox Sports Radio compound, the compound there that we
have in Sherman Oaks. Right at the four h five freeway,
Get off there, Ventura and Sepulvida. Routine, dependable, like clockwork, which,
as it turns out, is precisely the problem in a
place where the clock had just changed, it had just changed.
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So before departure the ritual, I get a text from Sager,
who's my liaison with social media. He's the one that
rides the waves, jumps through hoops to put the social
media stuff up. So he's my guy, and he's the
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digital town crier and the Mallard militia. And every week
my week begins the same way. I get a text
from Sager, who has the devotion of a monk, and says,
you're gonna be in studio tonight. What's your schedule now?
The answer was immediately and confidently, yes, normal week. This
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is in hindsight, it was very optimistic. I was being
Benny Brightside. So I climbed into the malormobile and I
began the journey to the studio, and La, if you've
never been, is a place where travel is less about
distance and more about emotional endurance. And you don't drive
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here so much as you participate in a civic obstacle
course filled with potholes, people walking on the highway, people
riding bikes that's not allowed by the way on the highway.
You got asphalt in patience and some kind of existential
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crisis that's going on. So I get in the car.
I'm stopped at the light, and I did what every
modern driver does. I looked at the phone, and now
I also made a decision. I decided to type in
my route or route on the GPS. I summoned the
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oracle the maps app on my phone. The address for
the Fox Sports radio compound was punched, a mirror formality,
a ceremonial nod to technology, and then the number appeared
estimated time of arrival three hours, a three hour tour.
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That's a dated reference. Does anyone get that three hours
to travel? What is normally? I kid around about how
long a community is. It's it's like get a little
over an hour. This was double that and then some
three hours. Sherman Oaks three hours to what should have
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been a very straightforward late night glide down the web
of freeways that Angelino's recite like multiplication tables. He got
the five over here, the four O five, the one
oh one, the six oh five, seven ten, the one ten,
the one oh five, fifty five fifty seven? What about
the ninety one? Do I hear the ninety one? How
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about the sixty? Do I get the sixty? Okay? Good?
I got the sixty? Do I see a ten? Is
there a ten? Can the man in the back? Okay?
For a moment? So again I typed this in said
three hours. So I thought this was some kind of
clerical error inside the app. The oracle. Surely, the what
you might call it the mysterious digital brain guiding the map,
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had suffered some kind of malfunction. The dow Hickey wasn't working.
There was a hiccup, a technical sneeze. The app was closed, reopened,
and refreshed. Tutta, guess what the result? Identical? Three hours?
Three hours. At this point I made a executive decision,
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an executive decision. The calculation became philosophical. A three hour
drive from the north Woods to Los Angeles suggested this
was some kind of cataclinic, some kind of some kind
of tragic thing or something. I mean, I'm trying to
put a words here. It's early. Bear with me, we're
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recording this. But one could clearly fly from Lax to
Seattle in that time about three hours. I've made the
flight a couple of times. It's been a Seattle a
few times. About three hours. One could watch an entire
baseball game and then postgame show as well. Alf could
watch a Red Sox game and watch the nests in
postgame it he'd be good to go. Ferk Dog could
watch an Angel game and sleep for two and a
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half hours and then wake up and the game would
be over. Yeah, and you'd also age visibly. So the
freeways turned into this grotesque civic board game was more
like a funhouse, like Welcome to the Funhouse of Mirrors
and break lights. Freeway Bingo played with Rex instead of numbers.
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Accidents on the five, A stall on the four H five,
I'm a congested on the one oh one, back up
on the one ten, and a ripple effect spreading through
the asphalt nervous system of southern California. Now somewhere in
the distance I'm imagining a bunch of news helicopters hovering
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like vultures, police helicopters. There's some kind of accident there.
The mind begins grasping and trying to find explanations. Now,
this was the day of the LA Marathon. The Marathon's
a daytime event like that couldn't have been it was
there a rogue UFO that landed on the seven to
ten freeway. Not probably not the creeping crud of post
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weekend commuters returning from San Diego to go face the battlefield,
or perhaps the simplest explanation of all, just the clocks
had changed, daylight savings time, the annual social experiment that
our fearless politicians will not change, A collection of people
that were confused, that apparently had quietly turned the freeway
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system into a sleep deprived pinball situation, bouncing through traffic,
and all that. So, face with the available evidence that
I had a reasonable suspicion that I would not make
it to work on time. The clock was ticking tic
tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic
tic tic tic tic tic dick. So I made the
only logical move one could make. I made a U turn.
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In the elguant vernacular, very elegant vernacular of southern California motoring.
We like to say we flipped a bitch. That's right,
pointed to the car and said, all right, do your thing.
Cart flipped the bitch and headed back towards the north Woods.
Retreated to the subterranean broadcasting bunker, Benny's bunker, this remote studio,
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which I'm in right now, in the bowels of the
Malor mansion. The pilgrimage to Sherman Oaks was abandoned mid quest.
The malordmobile retreated Northwood. We went up to the north
Woods like a general pulling the troops from an unwinnable battle.
If only General Custer had done that, the legend would
not have would not have ended or been that way. Rather,
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the legend would have been, Hey, this guy's a hero,
and that there you go, safely removed from the asphalt purgatory.
Saved myself three hours of commute time at least, and
the show conduct was conducted. And because in La the
traffic is not merely transportation. It is theater. It's sociology.
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It's the drama, o rama performed by millions of men
and women who are just reluctant actors trapped inside these
metal boxes, and that's it. And on this particular evening,
the Freeways had won. However, I consider a win because
not only did I do the show per normal, and
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very few of you noticed that I was not in
the mothership and there were no gremlins. I did not
get attacked once by gremlins. That is a win win
is that's how that goes. That's a win win. On
that note, we will get out of here, have a
wonderful rest of your Friday, enjoy that World Baseball Classic,
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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 sol 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
Mahler and Danny g Radio. We have this podcast on
Lockdown on this Friday, the thirteenth day of March, a
very special day. On this podcast, we have the Democracy
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of the Circus, fun Zone of mirrors and break lights,
and we'll see what else we have time for. But
we begin with this after doing a full week of
overnight radio, we're back here and on most nights. On
most nights in the sports radio overnight world, the stakes
(01:13):
are rather modest. Right you play the numbers game, there's
a few sports takes, Malard monologues for those. There's some
Insomniacs commercials for we Bowl Tire, Rack Express Pros. There's
a handful of callers, some of them sound like they're
broadcasting from inside a washing machine. But you know what
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that means. Once a year. Once a year, somewhere between
the witching hour and the first time you pull over
to get a refill of coffee. I don't drink coffee,
but I'm told that many of you, you know who
you are, you gotta get that refill of coffee when
you're out there driving on the highways and the byways.
So somewhere between that, the circus tent goes up, and
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we asked the question, why is this night different from
all other nights? Well, you're about to find out. Welcome
to the twenty twenty six Benny Awards pregame show, the
overnight radio equivalent of the Oscars. If the red carpet
ran through a truck stop somewhere in Barstow and the
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nominees occasionally called up while doing a backstroke from the
Blagio fountain. If you know what I mean, the real
ones know what I mean. Yep. It is not just
the Ben Maler Show, No, no, no, no, no, It's
more than that, because on this night, it is the
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night to celebrate the things, the quirkiness, the wildness that
make the Overnight Show. What it is the annual awards ceremony,
a metaphorical black tie event, at least in spirit. No sobriety,
no sobriety. Somewhere in the dark corner of the night sky,
(03:03):
under the cover of the moonlight, the Malard Militia, and
you say it's Friday, the things not until Sunday night.
The Maller Militia is buzzy. It's a beehive that just
discovered extreme caffeine. Now is that hyperbole, of course yes,
But then again, hyperbole is the oxygen. That's what we
(03:26):
need late at night to do talk radio. The most
important Benny election of our lifetime. It is naturally, of course,
every year, every year the most important year until next
year when that's the most important, just like every election
(03:47):
is the most important election, and every reality show finale.
It is the most shocking in history. Now, the people
that do a TV we do, obviously, but the people
that new TV learned long ago that if you don't
inflate the balloon, nobody notices it's floating. Nobody notices a
(04:10):
Remember the late great Craig Sager sideline reporter for Turner Sports,
and it was very popular covering the NBA and he
wore these outrageous costumes when he was doing TNT. And
I ran into Craig a few times at the arena
called Staples Center which is now called something else, the
(04:30):
crypt or whatever it's called. And Craig would show up
and do his pregame routine in just regular clothes, just
regular outfit, and go interview the coaches and go to
the meetings, the production meetings. He'd have dinner in the
chicken and press room, eating his food and wearing just
regular clothes. And then about half an hour, about half
(04:52):
an hour before showtime, before the broadcast began, Craig Sager
would go into the to the powder room, and it
was like his phone booth. He came out dressed in
some kind of ridiculous over the top outfit, and he
was ready to go, and everyone knew who he was.
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He was good. But if he'd just been good wearing
regular clothes, nobody would have known he wore these outrageous outfits.
I also worked with a guy named Victor Brick, the Great.
We've had him on this podcast, The Great Victor Brig Jacobs.
Same situation, so same deal. Still the Benny Awards, which
is what we're here. This is the pregame show. Have
become something of a folk tradition with the p once.
(05:34):
It is a carnival of characters, and you know a
lot of them, you know the names. They dial the
show up. They send messages from behind their smartphones from
every time zone. People internationally emotional. It's really the emotional
zip code, if you will, of the nocturnal audience and
(05:57):
think of it as talk radios verse version of the
County Fair Talent Show. But that's it's also the Mallard Palooza.
This is more to celebrate celebrate good times. So it's
kind of like a talent show every night on the show,
except the livestocks sometimes will call up and argue about
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the Seattle Seahawks secondary or the Salary Cap or something
like that. Now, one of the night's more charming categories
is the Rookie Caller of the Year. Everyone loves a rookie,
which kind of reads like a scouting report from the
world's most eccentric draft board. We've got Anthony Louisiana, who
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has become synonymous as he calls up and tries to
flirt with Lorena Hey, Lorena, SpongeBob SquarePants. How are we
to know whether that's the real SpongeBob or not. The
cartoon character now apparently calling overnight sports radio from a
phone somewhere beneath the sea. Mikey and the Insomniac, the
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Pride of Tampa, whose brand is exactly what the name suggests,
Insomnia with commentary. There's d Block in Miami whose heart
is in Chicago. So a little bit of a riddle
when it comes to that. Quinzel from Oakland, another proud
member of the may I Flirt with Lorena Club, a
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Lorena super fan member. Dorkoh, the comedian from Hawaii, proof
that even Paradise has its share of lovable odd balls.
Absolutely and Bugatti the Trucker, a rolling legend of the
highways and byeways of the Northeast. You've got Snooker from
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North Las Vegas. We met him at the last mallor
meet and greet we did in Vegas. An Air Force
veteran who calls in and has a hot take. He
doesn't want to talk about the mainstream sports. He wants
to talk about the the oddball, the weird sports, the
non mainstream sports. So all of these people come together,
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they're all rookies, right, They're all rookies. And if Hollywood
had casting directors for overnight radio callers right out of
Central Casting, they could not assemble a lineup more colorful
than these characters. And that's just not just rookies, it's
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pretty much everything. The intoxication indexes through the roof. You've
got the Intoxicated Caller of the Year, and I'm not
going to go through every category because it's only a
thirty five minute podcast or something like that, but the
Intoxicated Caller of the Year, which sounds less like an
award and more like a public health advisory. Get somebody
(08:47):
from the White House over here. So you got keg
drinking Steve from Kansas City who hasn't called in a while,
but he leads the field. A man whose relationship with
beverages is less casual and more of a contract rual agreement.
Jadot in Utah. Now we lost Jay Dot, tragically forced
into the dreaded day shift, a cruel twist of fate
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for someone who thrives on the neon glow of calling
a radio show at one in the morning. My personal
favorite is Mouthwash Mike, who has swam Swamp Swam swam
speak that would help swam in the Bellagio fountains multiple times. Now,
(09:30):
how do you know who mouthwash Mike is? Mouthwash Mike
is the guy that carries a bottle of yellow basic
mouthwash like a lucky charm. Then there's another one of
my favorites, Mike and Tucson, who once handed the phone
to his wife in a hospital. Right she's in the hospital.
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And even for late night Radio that we had to pause.
That was wild. Another wild moment happened from the Black
Irishman who is one of our nominees in Omaha. This
happened just a few weeks ago. If you were listening,
I'm pretty sure you know what I'm gonna bring up.
But the Black Irishman, he woke up his elementary school
age daughter at about four in the morning so she
(10:13):
could say hello on the show Fast Asleep Daughter sleeping, Hey,
wake up, say hello to Ben. And then there's Jed
who fled from the Redneck Riviera, a man whose resume
of chemical adventures is so over the top he has
qualified to get a job at Walgreens or CBS. So
(10:37):
if the Nobel Committee ever expands into the field of
questionable decision making, the Nobel Prize for Questionable decision Making.
The Bennies already have a short list of candidates. We've
already done that. There's the woman division, which is really
going away. I don't know what we can do to
(10:58):
get more of the ladies to be involved in the show.
With the Female Caller of the Year category very straightforward.
You've got Andrea, the astrology insider who mixes sports talk
with planetary alignment and the horoscope and all that. And
then there's Robin in Ventura, a study voice who does
not like Mike the Leprechaun. And that's it, that's all.
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That's that's the big board, not a list Terry in England.
That's a big board in a carnival full of noise.
Full of noise. Sometimes the commis voices carry the carry
the first furthest And then there is the category every
award show secretly loves, and we're no different on the Bennies,
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we are no different. Worst Caller of the Year officially
branded the Beer Drinking Brian Memorial Trophy, another great character
on the show. Beer Drinking Brian from Minnesota lived in Missouri,
had half pint with him riding shotgun and there they were,
And this award the worst caller very competitive. This and
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the alcoholic category right near the top intoxic kitty category,
so the beer drinking Brian Memorial Trophy. Here are the nominees,
including e Dog from Long Island, who's become the master
of the non sequitur. It just is he talks about
things that are not related. Mike the Leprechaun, a man
whose controversial style combines a lot of sunscreen and dad jokes.
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No one else has this this slice of talk radio
sunscreen and dad jokes, Hollering James, whose snore score has
become its own form of performance art. Poppy in San Diego,
who thinks that you want to hear Poppy's picks when
really you want nothing to do with poppy picks. Right,
(12:49):
You're like, oh my god, I need to hide. I
got to get out of here. Why did you crash
the party, Poppy. Then you've got Dorko, who returns for
a second nomination. Versatility like a human pocket knife. Dork O,
the comedian from Honolulu, Hawaii. Then there's Blind Scott, who's
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been with me all these years, a caller who's on
air personality can swing from brilliant to bewildering, and the
time it takes for him to clear his throat. There
are so many personalities in there. He's like the evil
Canieval of switching personalities. And it's a stunt show pretty
much every night for Blind Scott. And every circus needs
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its clowns. Radio simply gives you, guys, who are the
clowns the microphone, the big one, right, the big one,
the one that stands out head and shoulders above all
the rest, and just forget rookies are great, and the
booze crews and the lovable disasters. That's all the undercart
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and there's some other categories International Caller of the Year.
And we're not going to do everything here because I
want you to go and look and vote and all
that and vote on X on Facebook. There's links on there.
We'll send it out over the weekend so you can
keep voting. You don't have to be on social media too.
If you want it's not rolling upstream, just send me
a email at either Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
(14:19):
That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, or send
me a message at Ben Malors Show. I'll try to
get back to you as quickly as I can, and
I'll give you the link so you can vote. You
need a Google account's free to get. Don't care if
you use Google or not. But we had some people
that were futzing around with this, so we needed some
way to limit the damage that you exceptional losers are
(14:43):
doing by hacking our contest. So that's what we did.
That's what we did. So but anyway, the main event
is the Genie in Medford Caller of the Year, the
GENIEUM Medford Memorial Call of the Year. Now, to the
uninitiated in the Malad Militia, if you're relatively new to
the show, it's possible you just started working overnight and
you found the show and you're in earshot now, and
(15:05):
I begged you to listen to this podcast. So you've
started listening to this podcast. To the uninitiated, genie and
Medford might sound like just another name on the big board.
To the faithful, she is something closer to folklore. Everyone
who was around in that era of the show has
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a Genie in Medford story, and they're all amazing, and
they all sound like they can't be true, and they're
all true. Just the gold standard right to the faithful again.
She is mythical. She's mythical, right radio has it does
(15:49):
have some legends. It's theater of the mind. It's characters
who feel larger than the medium that it's there on.
Genie was one of those voices. And we have these
great debates when things get slow in the month of
June and sports radio, the eternal arguments is it Jordan
or Lebron, Brady or Montana? That certainly seems like it's
(16:11):
been over. Some people are now trying to hype up
Otani versus Babe Ruth. So it's that level. The Mala
Militia has its own uncontested heavyweight chip theand of the world,
and that is Genie in Medford. There is no debate,
there is no recount needed. There is just reverence and
to put in perspective how beloved Genie was. And she
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didn't know this. And I tried to tell her. She
was on her deathbed and I talked to her and
she couldn't even talk. She'd lost her voice from all
the drugs and the booze and all that. It was
very sad, and I told her, I want you to
know how much people love you. And I didn't even
realize how much people loved Genie and Medford. It was
only after her death when she was by herself. She
was a lonely woman and she had some family, but
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they she was kind of black sheep or whatever, and
they forgot about her. So we raised some money for
a burial memorial for Genie and Medford, and we thought
we'd maybe get a couple bucks, maybe a couple hundred bucks,
and it was thousands. It was thousands of We were
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amazed we had so much money that was donated. We
were able to take care of the burial and the
funeral expenses, and we had money left over where We
have a plaque at Swan Boat Park. If you ever
get to La, if you're in La, go check it
out Swan Boat Park, where they've filmed a lot of commercials.
It's really a cool thing. I think they've cleaned it up.
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I know they did. I don't know if it's back
to being skid row at the park, but it's just
a wonderful place. And right near the playground there's a
park bench, there's frogs, and there's water and the whole thing.
And there's a plaque dedicated to Genie in Medford and
I thought, boy, that's really cool, and that was with
the money. That's just because she was so beloved. So
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the nominees for the award that bears that woman's name,
the late great Genian Medford, the mount Rushmore of show regulars.
You've got Lucky Tony always have to have your finger
on the dump button, Blind Scott another a multi dimensional
performance by Blind Scott, he can win multiple Bennies. Marcel
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and Brooklyn multi time Caller of the Year, Jed who
fled from the Redneck Riviera, Rick and Maryland who's known
for his catch phrase morning time weed Man, Hippie who's
become a regular on the show, and Mike in New Hampshire.
And each of them, each of these dudes has spent
countless nights dialing in to our little audio circus, hoping
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to land a couple of minutes of airtime under the
big top. Right, and that leads us to the Democracy
of the Circus Award. Shows like the Bennies, Love Grand
Language and the Bennies we really lean into it. The
democracy of the audio circus is on the ballot. The
soul of the maul or militia is at stake. History
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is watching. One can almost picture the political slogans going up. Now.
Is it exaggerated? Of course? Of course, of course, of course. However,
exaggeration is the currency of entertainment. Without it, what are
you doing. I had this guy, Chris called up a
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couple weeks ago, and he was ranting and raving like
the loser that he is, and he seemed to be
upset that we try to do an entertaining show. He
wanted some boring people to do the show. And I'm
always blown away by that, Like, why would you bother
(19:57):
listening to somebody who's so bogged down with ball I
don't understand. I don't get that. It's all about entertainment,
it's about show business and all that so and without it,
you know we're in trouble. So in truth, the Benny
Awards are something simpler and stranger. It's a reminder that radio,
especially late nighty that's one of the reasons I loved
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as a kid radio. And they've got cameras in here,
and I got to promote the YouTube thing. But at
its core, however, at its core, radio is the greatest
meetum because you use your imagination and everyone's got an imagination.
Some people forget to use their imagination and they become
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jaded and old, and they don't be that person always
enjoyed the imagination. You wonder, what does Jed who fled
look like? You know, what's this SpongeBob guy? What's that
all about? It calls a radio show at four thirty
in the morning to be SpongeBob? What is that so? Again? Listen?
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Late night radio one of the last places where the
ordinary person becomes a character and can make that happen
as well. The Internet. Yeah, you're on the Internet and
there's a gazillion body counts, and you know, there's so
many people on there. It's like being a piece of
(21:25):
sand on the beach. Well, yeah, you're on the beach. Congratulations. However,
you're one of a gazillion little specks of sand and
you don't stand out, and it doesn't really matter what
you do. On our show, abracadabrajocus pocus, you've got truck drivers, janitors,
trash men, crossing guards, insomniacs, gamblers, drug dealers, police officers,
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arresting drug dealers, night shift workers, and factories. Every voice
gets a moment if they want, if they want, they
don't have to call you know, nobody has to call in.
We're fine. We can run the show perfectly fine without
having anyone call in. We can do that, and we'd
done it. We've done entire hours or shows without calls.
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So some things happened, though, right, something's happened where there
are these moments that just are brilliant and they're unscripted
and it just happens. Some are ridiculous, like when we
mentioned the black irishman woke his daughter up in the
middle of the night to say hello. Few were unforgettable,
(22:32):
just completely unforgettable, like the night weed man hippie was
calling in during a hurricane and was giving us updates
all night as the hurricane made landfall on a lifeguard
tower in Miami. Could have died, and I would have
been blamed if they had figured out why he was
(22:54):
on the lifeguard tower during a hurricane in Miami. I digress.
And so you just know, somewhere out there, in a
kitchen lit only by the glow of a radio dial,
someone is rehearsing their next phone call, whether it's Cowboy
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John Brad or whoever. Because in the Malar circus, this
particular Mallar circus. Anyone can grab the chrap piece, even SpongeBob,
which makes a good sideline reporter. I think SpongeBob would
be a really good sideline reporter. All right, Meanwhile, I
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want to share a brief story. Some of you notice this,
many of you did not notice this. But the other night,
it began with the illusion that it was normal. This
was normalcy, right, normalcy and all that. And when you
live in Los Angeles is usually the first warning sign
(24:00):
and it's something abnormal is about to happen when you
have the illusion of normalcy. So here here, I was
just random overnight talk show dude and professional insomniac performing
the normal pregame ritual, the routine on all creatures of
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habit to get ready for work and to be prepared.
So I could provide you with a marginal overnight show
as most people are sleeping, and you got the TV flickering.
I got the World Baseball Classic on. I've put my
notes together for the Malard monologues, the Forbidden Fruit real
(24:45):
this is real hard luck story, by the way. Yeah,
so just normal, normal, normal, normal, normal normal. I packed
up my bag with my headphones and my mic condom
and just another routine pilgrimage from the north Woods to
the glowing citadel of sports chatter, the mothership in Sherman Oaks,
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the Fox Sports Radio compound, the compound there that we
have in Sherman Oaks. Right at the four h five freeway,
Get off there, Ventura and Sepulvida. Routine, dependable, like clockwork, which,
as it turns out, is precisely the problem in a
place where the clock had just changed, it had just changed.
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So before departure the ritual, I get a text from Sager,
who's my liaison with social media. He's the one that
rides the waves, jumps through hoops to put the social
media stuff up. So he's my guy, and he's the
(25:48):
digital town crier and the Mallard militia. And every week
my week begins the same way. I get a text
from Sager, who has the devotion of a monk, and says,
you're gonna be in studio tonight. What's your schedule now?
The answer was immediately and confidently, yes, normal week. This
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is in hindsight, it was very optimistic. I was being
Benny Brightside. So I climbed into the malormobile and I
began the journey to the studio, and La, if you've
never been, is a place where travel is less about
distance and more about emotional endurance. And you don't drive
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here so much as you participate in a civic obstacle
course filled with potholes, people walking on the highway, people
riding bikes that's not allowed by the way on the highway.
You got asphalt in patience and some kind of existential
(26:56):
crisis that's going on. So I get in the car.
I'm stopped at the light, and I did what every
modern driver does. I looked at the phone, and now
I also made a decision. I decided to type in
my route or route on the GPS. I summoned the
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oracle the maps app on my phone. The address for
the Fox Sports radio compound was punched, a mirror formality,
a ceremonial nod to technology, and then the number appeared
estimated time of arrival three hours, a three hour tour.
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That's a dated reference. Does anyone get that three hours
to travel? What is normally? I kid around about how
long a community is. It's it's like get a little
over an hour. This was double that and then some
three hours. Sherman Oaks three hours to what should have
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been a very straightforward late night glide down the web
of freeways that Angelino's recite like multiplication tables. He got
the five over here, the four O five, the one
oh one, the six oh five, seven ten, the one ten,
the one oh five, fifty five fifty seven? What about
the ninety one? Do I hear the ninety one? How
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about the sixty? Do I get the sixty? Okay? Good?
I got the sixty? Do I see a ten? Is
there a ten? Can the man in the back? Okay?
For a moment? So again I typed this in said
three hours. So I thought this was some kind of
clerical error inside the app. The oracle. Surely, the what
you might call it the mysterious digital brain guiding the map,
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had suffered some kind of malfunction. The dow Hickey wasn't working.
There was a hiccup, a technical sneeze. The app was closed, reopened,
and refreshed. Tutta, guess what the result? Identical? Three hours?
Three hours. At this point I made a executive decision,
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an executive decision. The calculation became philosophical. A three hour
drive from the north Woods to Los Angeles suggested this
was some kind of cataclinic, some kind of some kind
of tragic thing or something. I mean, I'm trying to
put a words here. It's early. Bear with me, we're
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recording this. But one could clearly fly from Lax to
Seattle in that time about three hours. I've made the
flight a couple of times. It's been a Seattle a
few times. About three hours. One could watch an entire
baseball game and then postgame show as well. Alf could
watch a Red Sox game and watch the nests in
postgame it he'd be good to go. Ferk Dog could
watch an Angel game and sleep for two and a
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half hours and then wake up and the game would
be over. Yeah, and you'd also age visibly. So the
freeways turned into this grotesque civic board game was more
like a funhouse, like Welcome to the Funhouse of Mirrors
and break lights. Freeway Bingo played with Rex instead of numbers.
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Accidents on the five, A stall on the four H five,
I'm a congested on the one oh one, back up
on the one ten, and a ripple effect spreading through
the asphalt nervous system of southern California. Now somewhere in
the distance I'm imagining a bunch of news helicopters hovering
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like vultures, police helicopters. There's some kind of accident there.
The mind begins grasping and trying to find explanations. Now,
this was the day of the LA Marathon. The Marathon's
a daytime event like that couldn't have been it was
there a rogue UFO that landed on the seven to
ten freeway. Not probably not the creeping crud of post
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weekend commuters returning from San Diego to go face the battlefield,
or perhaps the simplest explanation of all, just the clocks
had changed, daylight savings time, the annual social experiment that
our fearless politicians will not change, A collection of people
that were confused, that apparently had quietly turned the freeway
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system into a sleep deprived pinball situation, bouncing through traffic,
and all that. So, face with the available evidence that
I had a reasonable suspicion that I would not make
it to work on time. The clock was ticking tic
tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic
tic tic tic tic tic dick. So I made the
only logical move one could make. I made a U turn.
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In the elguant vernacular, very elegant vernacular of southern California motoring.
We like to say we flipped a bitch. That's right,
pointed to the car and said, all right, do your thing.
Cart flipped the bitch and headed back towards the north Woods.
Retreated to the subterranean broadcasting bunker, Benny's bunker, this remote studio,
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which I'm in right now, in the bowels of the
Malor mansion. The pilgrimage to Sherman Oaks was abandoned mid quest.
The malordmobile retreated Northwood. We went up to the north
Woods like a general pulling the troops from an unwinnable battle.
If only General Custer had done that, the legend would
not have would not have ended or been that way. Rather,
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the legend would have been, Hey, this guy's a hero,
and that there you go, safely removed from the asphalt purgatory.
Saved myself three hours of commute time at least, and
the show conduct was conducted. And because in La the
traffic is not merely transportation. It is theater. It's sociology.
(33:01):
It's the drama, o rama performed by millions of men
and women who are just reluctant actors trapped inside these
metal boxes, and that's it. And on this particular evening,
the Freeways had won. However, I consider a win because
not only did I do the show per normal, and
(33:22):
very few of you noticed that I was not in
the mothership and there were no gremlins. I did not
get attacked once by gremlins. That is a win win
is that's how that goes. That's a win win. On
that note, we will get out of here, have a
wonderful rest of your Friday, enjoy that World Baseball Classic,
(33:44):
and we'll have new podcasts for you tomorrow on Saturday,
and then the mail bag on Sunday. If you would
like to be part of the mail bag on Sunday,
you can right in. And how do you do that, Well,
you send an email to Real fifth hour at gmail
dot com, all letters, no numbers, Real fifth Hour at
(34:04):
gmail dot com. I have not yet seen an email
from Reggie from Detroit yet he normally emails me very
early in the week. I'm going to assume that he's okay,
and we'll send an email between now and Sunday. And
I don't see anything new from alf or Ferdog so
there's opportunity if you want to get your letter read
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth
(34:25):
Hour at gmail dot com. Have a again, a great day,
and keep that grind going and we'll talk to you
next time Later. Skater Asta Pasta got a murder. I
gotta go.
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