October 3, 2025 • 31 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a great Friday for you! He talks: Niner Dawgs, Maller Mosquito Blood, the Celebrity Matrix (iShowSpeed, Tom Brady), & more!
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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
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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. A Happy Friday to you.
It is playoff Baseball weekend. No games today, but they
will resume tomorrow, Tomorrow, tomorrow, and we're here every weekend.
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If this is the first time you have listened to
The Fifth Hour podcast, welcome to our domain. Now. Occasionally
I have Danny g Radio with me, not normally on Fridays,
but hopefully he'll be able to join me at some
point over the weekend as we present to you a
different perspective than the overnight radio show. I did want
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to start though with this. We've got Tiger Blood's brother
from a different mother, the Celebrity Matrix, But I wanted
to start with last night's NFL game as I was
flipping at the beginning of the baseball game, and I
was watching baseball all day, so you don't have to
watch baseball. That is my dedication to do the talk show.
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I watch a bunch of baseball. I always have it
on the background, and I'm paying attention and I'm futzing
around with my laptop. I got my phone out. I'm
doing a lot of different things. It's called the multitasking.
I tell the wife, I'm spending lots of plates, lots
of plates. So with that being said, I'm watching the
Yankees in the Red Sox first couple of innings. There's
not much going on, and I'm flipping over the football game,
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and I love my al Michaels. You know, I'm going
back and forth, and like, the Niners just came out
out and kicked the Rams ass in that Thursday night.
Came at the beginning of the game. They were clearly
the better team. And I'm still recovering from the way
the game ended, where the Rams actually lost the game twice,
once in regulation. Then they got a reprieve from the
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forty nine ers, but they pretty much lost to give
Kyrie Williams fumbling with a little over a minute to
go inside the five yard line, and then the Rams
got the ball back in overtime after the Niners had
gotten a field goal because of that Fugezi special teams
play and I don't need to readjudicate the game. The
Rams drove down the field. I have no problem with
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Sean McVay going for it, but man, the Rams. They
have now gagged away two games, the Eagles game and
the forty nine Ers game. No longer riding high. Sean
McVay has stinkeye. That is a low water mark for
the Rams. And we handicapped the game on Beni versus
De Penny. Some of you idiots have been sending memo,
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well you got it, Wrongs are gonna win by at
least ten points. I can't believe that. Oh my god,
you were so bad about you. Okay, listen, the handicapping
was on point. The handicapping is on point. What you
do is you base your opinion based on what has
happened and the way teams have looked and the way
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they are performing and the injury report. You put all
these different variables in. It's like making a stew You
put in the carrots. You got to put in the
other vegetables. You got to put some chicken in there.
Whatever you put in your stew, you got to put
it in. So we handicap the game. And then that's
why they play the games. The Rams did not show up.
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How are you supposed to handicap whether or not a
team is going to be motivated. It always fascinates me
when there are some teams that go out there every
single week. They got a little spunk in them, right,
they a little spunk in there. There's other teams that
just don't give a damn. They have the I don't
give an f attitude and the forty nine ers, I
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give him credit. You know, it's the old line from
that guy, David Bennett, the Coastal Carolina coach, like be
a dog. We don't need no miows, all right, we
don't need no cats. We need more dogsf earf and
the Niners were hungry, hungry hippos, they were. They had
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a little spunk. The guys that played took advantage of it,
and the and the Rams just did not match that,
and yet still had a chance to win the game.
And with a little more imagination they would have been there.
They I mean. The fact they had to jump start
the team though and find some kind of spark at
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the beginning is in embarrassing. They went a wall in
the first half. Mac Jones hasn't looked that good since
he was back in Tuscaloosa. Holy crap. Forty nine ers
backup quarterback. And now, if you want to help me out,
by the way, subscribe to the YouTube channel for Benny
Versus the Penny YouTube dot slash at Benny versus the Penny.
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Do me a solid, help me out on that. It's
a startup. We just started it this year. Can watch
a full episode for week five, which is available now globally.
You guys were complaining, well, the TV shows only on
in America, I can't get Okay, all right, I got you,
all right. So we're doing this. We're fussing around with
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this and so we were trying to build the viewership,
viewership up and it isn't it exciting to watch this
thing grow from nothing to something. We'd love for it
at some point to be a monster. Man, would that
be cool. But we're doing it brick by brick, step
by step. I'm not sweating over it. I'm letting you
know it's available. If you want the product, you can
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have the product. I'm not shoving it down your throat.
If you want the product, you can get the product.
Help us climb the mountain, right go, Blood, sweat and tears,
stick to itness. I learned that in that nineteen eighties
baseball movie If you build it, he will come. Well,
in this case, you will come. And why the channel
today is also National Body Language Day. Yeah, body language,
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which surprisingly I did not think I would need to
know body language getting into sports talk radio. However, that
has become a pretty good tool as a talk show
host when you read the room because a lot of
times the people involved in sports they don't say anything.
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They you know, they're locked up and they don't they
don't mess around with verbal communications. So you can tell,
like you watch, it's just a lot in basketball, a
little bit in football on the sidelines, even in baseball.
You eye rolls, the slouching shoulders, the poudy lips, crossing arms,
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the bad posture, like all that stuff. There's like these
little tells, these little little things where you know you're
gonna have the icon Clint Eastwood, you know, the death glare,
all of that wonderful stuff. And so it's National Body
Language Day, a day to celebrate the form of communication,
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which is all about physical behavior, facial expressions, posture, gestures,
eye movement, touch and all that. Now, it is interesting
to know that smiles can be deceptive. There are over
nineteen different ways, over nineteen different ways one can smile. However,
according to the people that study this, these scientists believe
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there's only six that are for happiness. So there's thirteen
smiles that don't mean happy. Who goofed. I've got to know.
Eye contact can be good if it's the beautiful person
you're trying to hook up with, or it can be bad.
Unbroken eye contact is considered aggressive confrontational. Now, this is
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based on different regions of the country, like in Asia, Africa,
Latin American countries. Unbroken eye contact is you're being you know,
you're being too pushy. Don't be pushy, don't do the
tushery pushy, don't do it. There's also a factoid about
the difference between men and women. And you know, typically
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men tend to touch their faces when they feel uncomfortable,
where women will choose to touch their necks, their jewelry,
or their hair. There's also if a you know, if
you're dating, and I was married, but if you're dating.
I heard this years ago that women if they're really
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kind of into the person they're with, like they're flirtatious,
they'll play with their hair while they're you know, kind
of kind of chatting and all that. Like that's supposedly
a dead giveawaya giveaway, that's a tael. That's a taell.
You don't need to be altola. And when people tilt
their heads they come across as more attractive some and yeah,
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and holding your arms behind your back. I remember rush
Limba had one arm tied behind my back. But holding
your arms behind your back indicates that you don't want
to be approached. Do not approach me. I can't have
to do that more. I'm gonna have to leave my
arms behind my back so people don't bother me. Flipping
the page on that it's story time on the fifth
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hour podcast story Time. So I was watching recently the
Netflix documentary about a fallen Hollywood star and reminded of
that great era about fifteen years ago, when Charlie Sheen
once proclaimed that he had tiger blood. The phrase that
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belonged to the early twenty tens, in the same way
that BlackBerry phones day. If you're old enough to remember
BlackBerry phones and frosted tips, which you look at the
phrase tiger blood. Tiger blood brash, absurd, kind of perfect,
kind of perfect for a drugged out Charlie Sheen. Tiger
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blood was supposed to mean vitality, power, living on a
manic cliff where the rest of us mere mortals dared
not tread. But here in twenty twenty five your favorite
radio gas bag. Well for some overnight rock on tour.
That sounds impressive. Well, I happen to be a brother
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from a different mother to Charlie Sheen in spirit, if
not genetics. Now, I don't have tiger blood. I do
not have tiger blood. I don't I checked in. I
don't have tiger blood. However, I have my own version,
which is like a spinoff version of tiger Blood. It's
Mosquito Blood. Mather's Mosquito Blood. It's the cheap knockoff. Now
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you can buy it if you go to CBS in
the back shelf of CBS on the right hand side.
It's tucked behind the bug spray. It's on that aisle
and there's a little container right there at CBS, and
it's Malar's mosquito of blood. Because this week I have
been I'm happy to report to you, my fellow minion
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and p one that is gonna above and beyond the
call of duty by listening to this podcast, I have
been a twenty four to seven all you can eat
buffet for the flying vampires of the Animal Kingdom. I know,
I know, Oh my god, Alf's freaking out over. It's
gonna be okay. For a dog, it'll be okay. JT.
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The Wingman, don't worry about it. It's all. It's all good. Yeah.
So anyway, it's just been wild mosquitos. Look at me
the way a fat guy looks at Golden Corral. Right,
I'm just human flesh, and that's all they want. The airbone, airbone,
the air airborne Ninja's right, the airborne ninjas of summer.
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The mosquitos lined up and some are supposedly over but
never ends really in Los Angeles, lined up in squadrons.
I'm convinced that right outside the house here there's squadrons,
and they plan their attack in convoys. So if Charlie
Sheen's Tiger Blood was supposedly an anabolic steroid. My mosquito
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blood is a clearance bin Malar's mosquito blood clearance bin
protein shake kind of mixed with tap water. And that's it.
And here's the craziest part. As you know, I am
not exactly Grizzly Adams over here, Like I'm not out
there chopping wood. It looks like I would be the
kind of guy with chop wood wearing a flannel shirt. No,
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my outdoors consists of going from this this studio. I'll
walk out of the studio, I walk down, I'll walk
down flight of stairs or two or three or whatever,
and I'll go out to the door or go out
the front door. I'll go to the car, I'll grab
some groceries, I'll pump some gas. I'll maybe haul out
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the trash once a week. And yet it doesn't matter.
Even though I live a sedentary lifestyle, the mosquitoes still
find me. They're like door dash drivers with wings. Right.
If you exist, they know where you are. Uber eats
our guy in Minnesota, he's I know where mallor is?
I know? Yeah? So call me Benny the Daredevil. Another
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nickname Benny the Daredevil, the modern day Evil Canevl, Although
you probably don't know who that is. If you're of
a certain age, you know exactly who evil Canevl is.
Except instead of jumping canyons on my harley, I am
daring nature's most efficient killer to make a meal out
of me, because I am Benny the Daredevil. Yeah, let's
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remember refresher course. Mosquitoes aren't just a nuisance. No no, no, yeah,
that's right. They're not gnats at a barbecue or you know,
you're flying around like a house fly, flying around, buzzing,
you're sa much in your chips. They are the deadliest
animal in the world. Sharks, overrated, overrated snakes, scary king kobra,
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scary black mamba, scary but manageable lions. They barely crack
the list. Mosquitoes are the grim reapers with wings. They
are responsible for an estimated seven hundred thousand deaths a year.
That almost one million people year exit this mortal coil
because of mosquitos and malaria, West Nile, a bunch of
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other stuff. Take your pick. They're dealing the cards, and
here I am just casually playing Russian Roulette every time
I take out the recycling. Now, the science of being
a snack. There's actual science here. Oh no, there's not.
Ben Yes, there is. I have no life, which only
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makes this whole saga funnier sadder a little bit of
both at the same time. So after a minutes long
Mallar investigation determined that mosquitoes apparently love blood, but a
special type of blood. Type Oh, that is their go to.
That is their fentanyl, That is their crack, That is
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what they love. They prefer it like the rest of
us prefer French fries to kale. We'd rather have a
big plate of cheese curds than a plate of broccoli.
They land on those with TYPEO nearly twice as often
as Type A. Now, if I've got old blood, oh well,
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I'm basically a Michelin star meal walking around in the
boondocks here and imagine imagine this way. I guess the
way I just have it. Some people are charcuterie boards,
others are gas station beef jerking. Now I happen to be.
I've determined a Vegas buffet ninety nine cents with a coupon,
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with a coupon, and mosquitoes aren't really picky about like
the zip code. It's not well, you live in a
neighborhood with mosquitoes. They are global, they have a global operation.
They are forget about the mob or terrorist cells. No, no, no,
They're found everywhere but Antarctica. They're like Starbucks, ubiquitous, annoying
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and popping up in places you didn't think needed one there.
They thrive in jungles and swamps and apparently the driveway
at the Malor Mansion very popular. They have conventions there,
they get together. It's like the Shriners. That's the Moose Lodge. Now.
Their goal is to cause havoc and they're very good
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at it. Their global reach makes them to use the
sports analogy the Lebron James of pest. Many of you
tell me Lebron James is a pest. Yeah, usually in
the playoffs, always somewhat relevant. And no matter how much
you wish Lebron would go away, like you wish mosquitos
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would go away, they are never quite going away. They're
just not now. In the end, maybe mosquito blood is
the perfect metaphor for the year twenty twenty five. We
only got a few months to go here. You gotta
get through the rest of October November December and then
that's it, see you later, bye bye. Right, But it's
pretty good metaphor because tiger blood back in the day
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was about being untouchable, unstoppable, and immortal, at least in
your own head. Mosquito blood, Mather's Mosquito Blood. It's about
being relentlessly nibbled, eaten, alive, one little bite at a time,
fighting off nature's smallest assassin while still I just, you know,
dragging out the trash of the curb and again going
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back to the nickname here, Benny the Daredevil, who knew
that taking trash of the curb would make you a daredevil,
and yet, like Evil Canevil flying a motorcycle over buses,
I wear this as a merit badge I do. I
do the Daredevil of the driveway, Benny the Daredevil. Every
welt of battlescar. You know, women are impressed by that.
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I think. I don't think my wife is. But every
itch a reminder that I'm still alive, baby, Because I
don't know that Mosquito's kind of bite dead people. I
don't think. Maybe they do. That's a good question. I
have no idea, But I'm still standing for now, still
talking into a microphone with you on this podcast and
overnight when the rest of the world is fast asleep.
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So Charlie Sheen had his tiger blood, I've got the
mather of mosquito blood, and in twenty twenty five. Let's
be honest here, mosquito blood feels a lot more relatable,
doesn't it. I'm more relatable to you because I am
one of you and all we're all together in this.
We're all together, all right, flipping the page quickly. We
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have the celebrity matrix. Now. I mentioned this briefly in
passing on the air, and I got a lot of
feedback on it, and so I wanted to expand on
it here on this platform that I have with the microphone,
which is I gotta come up with the name of
It's like, it's not the bully Pulpit, because the bully
pulpit's the radio, because it's everywhere. You know, you have
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to track down this podcast. You have to find the
fifth hour podcast. It's not omni present. It's something you
have to track down. So it's not the bully Pulpit.
So if you guys want to send me a suggestion
on what we should call the podcast, the baby pulpit.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That sounds kind of weak. We got to do something
better than the baby pulpit. I'll think about it too.
I'll see if I can come up with something for
the weekend. So the Saturday and Sunday. The greatest quarterback
of all time. This is what led me down this path.
So the greatest quarterback of all time dropped a name
the other day. Caught my attention because I thought it
was bull crap. Not a Hall of Famer, not a
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head coach, not a new business partner selling leafy greens. No, no, no,
Tom Brady. Tom Brady said he knew I show speed.
And if you're asking yourself, who, congratulations, you live in
the real world. And I'm going to give you a
high five. I am. I'm giving you an air of
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high five right now. You live in the real world. Now,
let's be honest about this. So Tom Brady, my opinion,
does not know I show speed. He didn't know who
this person was. He's pretending to know I show speed.
Who's a YouTuber and TikToker and all that. Brady's forty
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eight years old. He's the father. I think he's got
three kids. He's divorced. He's got a TV gig on Fox.
He's semi retired from football, he's permanently retired from gluten.
And he's not pulling all nighters watching YouTube streamers and
watching gamers like that is not happening. It is not.
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He's eating his avocado ice cream, he's wearing his therapeutic pajamas.
He's he's using his vibrating foam rollers. He's got his
loop bands, he's got all that stuff, a lot of electrolytes,
and that's it. That's all he's not. He's not futzing
around with his other stuff. He's not watching people wearing
headsets while they're playing video games. He's not scrolling Twitch.
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He's not smashing subscribe buttons. He's my friend, you know,
he's my eight not my friend, but he's he's parroting
something a handler or an agent. Somebody said, Hey, Tom,
this guy's really hot right now on the socials, So
why don't we do a We'll do a get together,
a meet and greet, and then you'll be cooler and
the you know, these other people that aren't normally fancy
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or they'll be into it. And so it's like some
social media manager, some moderator whispered into Tom Brady's ear
to make him look plugged in. Right, you're Tom Brady,
you're plugging. This is the new currency of fame, and
that's really my point. And I got some angry emails
from people that I guess know who this guy I
show speed is, and they're like, you're you're such an
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old man. I can't believe you said that. Listen again
to me. You are famous if you are known by
a large amount of people, thus fam like you don't Nowadays,
you don't have to be universally recognized anymore to be
considered famous. And it's just something that's changed in my lifetime.
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You can be what I call algorithm famous, silo famous. Right,
You're very famous in a silo famous inside one bubble
where you draw tens of millions, some of them real,
some of them not. But outside of the bubble you
do not exist. Your fame is not there. Now when
I think of fame, I think of Taylor Swift. You
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don't have to google Taylor Swift. You don't have to
ask three friends, what does that woman do? Everyone knows, like,
even if you've never heard of a full Taylor swift
song and you're not a fan of that music. You
know the name, you know the deal. That's real to me,
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that's old school, that's fame. I show Speed. I had
to google him. Then I asked people in my circles.
I said, listen. I started sending messages on my phone.
I'm futzing around my phone. I'm saying, listen, do you
know who this is? And a few of the people
in my circles said, I've heard the name, but I
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don't really know what they actually do. I just know
that there's somewhat famous because I've heard about and that
is my point. That's me dotting the ie like the
Ohio State Marching Band. If you're truly famous, somebody in
the room should be able to explain explain it without
pulling out a search bar, like this isn't a knock on,
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I show Speed. I don't know the guy. He's a
young guy. He's doing very well for himself. I wish
him well. I hope he makes a fortune. Apparently he is,
according to the Internet, he's making a lot of money.
But I don't care about that, you know, because you
can't take it with you, and you only have it
for a little bit and you can all go away.
It doesn't matter. You know, money's great to have. I
would love to have more of it, but you know,
so be it. The point is, again, his kind of fame,
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I show speed is compartmentalized. It's engineered by the social
media matrix and where relevance is manufactured and then sold back.
And I've seen it. I've seen how they make the
hot dogs. I've ranted about it all the time on
this podcast. It just it's not typically organic. It is
the land of manipulation. It is a vortex where people
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get sucked in and can't tell what's real and what's not.
We've talked about over the last couple months the people
that went famous in music on TikTok and then they
got signed to go on tour and do concerts, and
it turns out that he didn't really have many real fans,
at least people that didn't want to buy tickets because
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they the people were the followers, were being paid for
and bought and all that stuff. So that's that's the point. Listen,
Brady knows the game. He's trying to stay relevant. It
gets harder the older you get, and the world keeps
moving and then eventually it moves on from you. Even
Tom Brady, as the great Terry Bradshaw told me when
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I did radio with him back you know a million
years ago, that every day that goes by, from the
moment you stop playing a sport, your relevancy goes down.
There's a direct correlation. I don't need to get a
ven diagram, but Terry explain it now. To Terry's credit,
he's had thirty years on Fox something along those lines,
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maybe longer breaking NFL games down at all, which is
good to him. But there's people that don't even know
Terry played in the NFL and they have no idea anyway,
The point is about Tom Brady. So Tom Brady's not
competing with Peyton Manning anymore. He's not playing in the
super Bowl. He's competing with Fox on Sundays. He's competing
with the algorithm. And the algorithm doesn't care that you
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threw six hundred and forty nine touchdown passes or whatever
it was. It cares whether you know the hot streamer
of the week, the flavor of the week. And my
position is Brady doesn't know. He's just pretending because that
is how you survive in the matrix. That's it. That's
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how you play the game. It's like the red carpet.
Just pretend that's entertainment. There's the other kind of fame,
the kind I prefer. It is smaller, yes, however more authentic,
overnight sports talk radio fame. There's a guy named Hollering James.
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So I met a couple years back at a mallor
meet greet in Minnesota. It was a brief get together,
and every single time Hollering James, every single time Hollering
James calls up. Inevitably, if he's on the air for
more than ninety seconds, we'll mention I met you at
the Mermaid. It is flattering to me, right, But overnight
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sportshalk for radio fame. It is not glossy. It doesn't
trend on TikTok, and it will not get you a
Cryptos sponsorship. But it's real. It's the cult classic version,
the cult classic version of celebrity. A gathering of insomniacs
right from different backgrounds, different financial classes, all that stuff,
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different backgrounds, religiously, but we are united. We are creatures
of the night. Truck drivers, fry cooks, people making donuts,
night shift cops, night shift robbers, full time weirdos who
call themselves the malor militia, my homeboys, and my cult.
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That's fame you can't trust, right, can't trust The people
who call at three seventeen am Eastern are not pretending.
They know you, They quote you. They live in your
corner of the world, not because of an algorithm telling
them to no no, no, no no, because they chose
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to right. And so yeah, Tom Brady can say, hey,
I know I show speed and you could play in
the NFL, and maybe some people will believe them. There's
always a gullible percentage of people. But fame that requires
pretending isn't fame requires pretending isn't really fame, all right.
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I mean, I don't know if I'm saying this right,
but fame that needs google isn't really fame. Let me
say it that way. So again, this is my personal preference.
You give me the other kind, give me your tie,
your poor, your huttle masses yearning to breathe free. Lukewarm
sports takes overnight. To me, that's real, that's lasting, right,
That's the kind of fame that Tom Brady doesn't have
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anymore because he's not playing and I show speed. We'll
never have because of the way that the matrix is
set up. So fame is not dead, it's not, it
just is different. It got trapped in the algorithm and
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the only way, the only way out is at two
or three or four in the morning on AM talk radio.
Although we are on FM in many cities now some
of the bigger cities we're on FM Sports Talk radio,
which is which is pretty cool. All right, we'll get
out on that. I have a new podcast tomorrow. Danny
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g will check in. We'll have I think i'll check it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I'll find out. I'll see his schedule, but I'll be here.
Whether he's here or not, he'll be producing it one
way or another, or somebody else will. But I will
be here doing the podcast all weekend, right all weekend,
and I will follow the line. Victor Brick told me
years ago that a samurai uses a toothpick even if
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he hasn't eaten the meal, meaning that you live with
honor despite poverty and all that. You just whatever your
situation is, you live with honor. All right, there you go.
That's just a random thing that popped in my head
from an old radio friend, Victor Brigg Jacobs back in
the day. Anyway, have a great rest of your Friday.
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I am going to go to bed and I will
wake up and we might even do an ask ben.
So if you want to subscribe, I don't know if
it subscribes the right word, but if you follow me
on social media, I haven't decided whether we're doing it
on X we might do it on Facebook. Haven't done
one on Facebook in a while. Maybe I'll even do both.
Maybe I'll even do both. Who knows, uh, but check
that out sometimes to do. I think I'll have some
(31:02):
time tonight and we'll chat with you then, and as
Danny likes to say, later, skater asta pasta riva, dj heloha.
I don't know what else to say. I'm getting out
of here, Bye Dandy. By Felicias
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
Mahler and Danny G Radio. A Happy Friday to you.
It is playoff Baseball weekend. No games today, but they
will resume tomorrow, Tomorrow, tomorrow, and we're here every weekend.
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If this is the first time you have listened to
The Fifth Hour podcast, welcome to our domain. Now. Occasionally
I have Danny g Radio with me, not normally on Fridays,
but hopefully he'll be able to join me at some
point over the weekend as we present to you a
different perspective than the overnight radio show. I did want
(01:11):
to start though with this. We've got Tiger Blood's brother
from a different mother, the Celebrity Matrix, But I wanted
to start with last night's NFL game as I was
flipping at the beginning of the baseball game, and I
was watching baseball all day, so you don't have to
watch baseball. That is my dedication to do the talk show.
(01:32):
I watch a bunch of baseball. I always have it
on the background, and I'm paying attention and I'm futzing
around with my laptop. I got my phone out. I'm
doing a lot of different things. It's called the multitasking.
I tell the wife, I'm spending lots of plates, lots
of plates. So with that being said, I'm watching the
Yankees in the Red Sox first couple of innings. There's
not much going on, and I'm flipping over the football game,
(01:54):
and I love my al Michaels. You know, I'm going
back and forth, and like, the Niners just came out
out and kicked the Rams ass in that Thursday night.
Came at the beginning of the game. They were clearly
the better team. And I'm still recovering from the way
the game ended, where the Rams actually lost the game twice,
once in regulation. Then they got a reprieve from the
(02:16):
forty nine ers, but they pretty much lost to give
Kyrie Williams fumbling with a little over a minute to
go inside the five yard line, and then the Rams
got the ball back in overtime after the Niners had
gotten a field goal because of that Fugezi special teams
play and I don't need to readjudicate the game. The
Rams drove down the field. I have no problem with
(02:36):
Sean McVay going for it, but man, the Rams. They
have now gagged away two games, the Eagles game and
the forty nine Ers game. No longer riding high. Sean
McVay has stinkeye. That is a low water mark for
the Rams. And we handicapped the game on Beni versus
De Penny. Some of you idiots have been sending memo,
(02:58):
well you got it, Wrongs are gonna win by at
least ten points. I can't believe that. Oh my god,
you were so bad about you. Okay, listen, the handicapping
was on point. The handicapping is on point. What you
do is you base your opinion based on what has
happened and the way teams have looked and the way
(03:18):
they are performing and the injury report. You put all
these different variables in. It's like making a stew You
put in the carrots. You got to put in the
other vegetables. You got to put some chicken in there.
Whatever you put in your stew, you got to put
it in. So we handicap the game. And then that's
why they play the games. The Rams did not show up.
(03:39):
How are you supposed to handicap whether or not a
team is going to be motivated. It always fascinates me
when there are some teams that go out there every
single week. They got a little spunk in them, right,
they a little spunk in there. There's other teams that
just don't give a damn. They have the I don't
give an f attitude and the forty nine ers, I
(04:02):
give him credit. You know, it's the old line from
that guy, David Bennett, the Coastal Carolina coach, like be
a dog. We don't need no miows, all right, we
don't need no cats. We need more dogsf earf and
the Niners were hungry, hungry hippos, they were. They had
(04:22):
a little spunk. The guys that played took advantage of it,
and the and the Rams just did not match that,
and yet still had a chance to win the game.
And with a little more imagination they would have been there.
They I mean. The fact they had to jump start
the team though and find some kind of spark at
(04:42):
the beginning is in embarrassing. They went a wall in
the first half. Mac Jones hasn't looked that good since
he was back in Tuscaloosa. Holy crap. Forty nine ers
backup quarterback. And now, if you want to help me out,
by the way, subscribe to the YouTube channel for Benny
Versus the Penny YouTube dot slash at Benny versus the Penny.
(05:02):
Do me a solid, help me out on that. It's
a startup. We just started it this year. Can watch
a full episode for week five, which is available now globally.
You guys were complaining, well, the TV shows only on
in America, I can't get Okay, all right, I got you,
all right. So we're doing this. We're fussing around with
(05:22):
this and so we were trying to build the viewership,
viewership up and it isn't it exciting to watch this
thing grow from nothing to something. We'd love for it
at some point to be a monster. Man, would that
be cool. But we're doing it brick by brick, step
by step. I'm not sweating over it. I'm letting you
know it's available. If you want the product, you can
(05:43):
have the product. I'm not shoving it down your throat.
If you want the product, you can get the product.
Help us climb the mountain, right go, Blood, sweat and tears,
stick to itness. I learned that in that nineteen eighties
baseball movie If you build it, he will come. Well,
in this case, you will come. And why the channel
today is also National Body Language Day. Yeah, body language,
(06:07):
which surprisingly I did not think I would need to
know body language getting into sports talk radio. However, that
has become a pretty good tool as a talk show
host when you read the room because a lot of
times the people involved in sports they don't say anything.
(06:28):
They you know, they're locked up and they don't they
don't mess around with verbal communications. So you can tell,
like you watch, it's just a lot in basketball, a
little bit in football on the sidelines, even in baseball.
You eye rolls, the slouching shoulders, the poudy lips, crossing arms,
(06:50):
the bad posture, like all that stuff. There's like these
little tells, these little little things where you know you're
gonna have the icon Clint Eastwood, you know, the death glare,
all of that wonderful stuff. And so it's National Body
Language Day, a day to celebrate the form of communication,
(07:13):
which is all about physical behavior, facial expressions, posture, gestures,
eye movement, touch and all that. Now, it is interesting
to know that smiles can be deceptive. There are over
nineteen different ways, over nineteen different ways one can smile. However,
according to the people that study this, these scientists believe
(07:36):
there's only six that are for happiness. So there's thirteen
smiles that don't mean happy. Who goofed. I've got to know.
Eye contact can be good if it's the beautiful person
you're trying to hook up with, or it can be bad.
Unbroken eye contact is considered aggressive confrontational. Now, this is
(08:00):
based on different regions of the country, like in Asia, Africa,
Latin American countries. Unbroken eye contact is you're being you know,
you're being too pushy. Don't be pushy, don't do the
tushery pushy, don't do it. There's also a factoid about
the difference between men and women. And you know, typically
(08:22):
men tend to touch their faces when they feel uncomfortable,
where women will choose to touch their necks, their jewelry,
or their hair. There's also if a you know, if
you're dating, and I was married, but if you're dating.
I heard this years ago that women if they're really
(08:43):
kind of into the person they're with, like they're flirtatious,
they'll play with their hair while they're you know, kind
of kind of chatting and all that. Like that's supposedly
a dead giveawaya giveaway, that's a tael. That's a taell.
You don't need to be altola. And when people tilt
their heads they come across as more attractive some and yeah,
(09:08):
and holding your arms behind your back. I remember rush
Limba had one arm tied behind my back. But holding
your arms behind your back indicates that you don't want
to be approached. Do not approach me. I can't have
to do that more. I'm gonna have to leave my
arms behind my back so people don't bother me. Flipping
the page on that it's story time on the fifth
(09:29):
hour podcast story Time. So I was watching recently the
Netflix documentary about a fallen Hollywood star and reminded of
that great era about fifteen years ago, when Charlie Sheen
once proclaimed that he had tiger blood. The phrase that
(09:50):
belonged to the early twenty tens, in the same way
that BlackBerry phones day. If you're old enough to remember
BlackBerry phones and frosted tips, which you look at the
phrase tiger blood. Tiger blood brash, absurd, kind of perfect,
kind of perfect for a drugged out Charlie Sheen. Tiger
(10:10):
blood was supposed to mean vitality, power, living on a
manic cliff where the rest of us mere mortals dared
not tread. But here in twenty twenty five your favorite
radio gas bag. Well for some overnight rock on tour.
That sounds impressive. Well, I happen to be a brother
(10:33):
from a different mother to Charlie Sheen in spirit, if
not genetics. Now, I don't have tiger blood. I do
not have tiger blood. I don't I checked in. I
don't have tiger blood. However, I have my own version,
which is like a spinoff version of tiger Blood. It's
Mosquito Blood. Mather's Mosquito Blood. It's the cheap knockoff. Now
(10:57):
you can buy it if you go to CBS in
the back shelf of CBS on the right hand side.
It's tucked behind the bug spray. It's on that aisle
and there's a little container right there at CBS, and
it's Malar's mosquito of blood. Because this week I have
been I'm happy to report to you, my fellow minion
(11:17):
and p one that is gonna above and beyond the
call of duty by listening to this podcast, I have
been a twenty four to seven all you can eat
buffet for the flying vampires of the Animal Kingdom. I know,
I know, Oh my god, Alf's freaking out over. It's
gonna be okay. For a dog, it'll be okay. JT.
(11:38):
The Wingman, don't worry about it. It's all. It's all good. Yeah.
So anyway, it's just been wild mosquitos. Look at me
the way a fat guy looks at Golden Corral. Right,
I'm just human flesh, and that's all they want. The airbone, airbone,
the air airborne Ninja's right, the airborne ninjas of summer.
(12:02):
The mosquitos lined up and some are supposedly over but
never ends really in Los Angeles, lined up in squadrons.
I'm convinced that right outside the house here there's squadrons,
and they plan their attack in convoys. So if Charlie
Sheen's Tiger Blood was supposedly an anabolic steroid. My mosquito
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blood is a clearance bin Malar's mosquito blood clearance bin
protein shake kind of mixed with tap water. And that's it.
And here's the craziest part. As you know, I am
not exactly Grizzly Adams over here, Like I'm not out
there chopping wood. It looks like I would be the
kind of guy with chop wood wearing a flannel shirt. No,
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my outdoors consists of going from this this studio. I'll
walk out of the studio, I walk down, I'll walk
down flight of stairs or two or three or whatever,
and I'll go out to the door or go out
the front door. I'll go to the car, I'll grab
some groceries, I'll pump some gas. I'll maybe haul out
(13:13):
the trash once a week. And yet it doesn't matter.
Even though I live a sedentary lifestyle, the mosquitoes still
find me. They're like door dash drivers with wings. Right.
If you exist, they know where you are. Uber eats
our guy in Minnesota, he's I know where mallor is?
I know? Yeah? So call me Benny the Daredevil. Another
(13:37):
nickname Benny the Daredevil, the modern day Evil Canevl, Although
you probably don't know who that is. If you're of
a certain age, you know exactly who evil Canevl is.
Except instead of jumping canyons on my harley, I am
daring nature's most efficient killer to make a meal out
of me, because I am Benny the Daredevil. Yeah, let's
(14:01):
remember refresher course. Mosquitoes aren't just a nuisance. No no, no, yeah,
that's right. They're not gnats at a barbecue or you know,
you're flying around like a house fly, flying around, buzzing,
you're sa much in your chips. They are the deadliest
animal in the world. Sharks, overrated, overrated snakes, scary king kobra,
(14:29):
scary black mamba, scary but manageable lions. They barely crack
the list. Mosquitoes are the grim reapers with wings. They
are responsible for an estimated seven hundred thousand deaths a year.
That almost one million people year exit this mortal coil
because of mosquitos and malaria, West Nile, a bunch of
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other stuff. Take your pick. They're dealing the cards, and
here I am just casually playing Russian Roulette every time
I take out the recycling. Now, the science of being
a snack. There's actual science here. Oh no, there's not.
Ben Yes, there is. I have no life, which only
(15:17):
makes this whole saga funnier sadder a little bit of
both at the same time. So after a minutes long
Mallar investigation determined that mosquitoes apparently love blood, but a
special type of blood. Type Oh, that is their go to.
That is their fentanyl, That is their crack, That is
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what they love. They prefer it like the rest of
us prefer French fries to kale. We'd rather have a
big plate of cheese curds than a plate of broccoli.
They land on those with TYPEO nearly twice as often
as Type A. Now, if I've got old blood, oh well,
(15:59):
I'm basically a Michelin star meal walking around in the
boondocks here and imagine imagine this way. I guess the
way I just have it. Some people are charcuterie boards,
others are gas station beef jerking. Now I happen to be.
I've determined a Vegas buffet ninety nine cents with a coupon,
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with a coupon, and mosquitoes aren't really picky about like
the zip code. It's not well, you live in a
neighborhood with mosquitoes. They are global, they have a global operation.
They are forget about the mob or terrorist cells. No, no, no,
They're found everywhere but Antarctica. They're like Starbucks, ubiquitous, annoying
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and popping up in places you didn't think needed one there.
They thrive in jungles and swamps and apparently the driveway
at the Malor Mansion very popular. They have conventions there,
they get together. It's like the Shriners. That's the Moose Lodge. Now.
Their goal is to cause havoc and they're very good
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at it. Their global reach makes them to use the
sports analogy the Lebron James of pest. Many of you
tell me Lebron James is a pest. Yeah, usually in
the playoffs, always somewhat relevant. And no matter how much
you wish Lebron would go away, like you wish mosquitos
(17:26):
would go away, they are never quite going away. They're
just not now. In the end, maybe mosquito blood is
the perfect metaphor for the year twenty twenty five. We
only got a few months to go here. You gotta
get through the rest of October November December and then
that's it, see you later, bye bye. Right, But it's
pretty good metaphor because tiger blood back in the day
(17:46):
was about being untouchable, unstoppable, and immortal, at least in
your own head. Mosquito blood, Mather's Mosquito Blood. It's about
being relentlessly nibbled, eaten, alive, one little bite at a time,
fighting off nature's smallest assassin while still I just, you know,
dragging out the trash of the curb and again going
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back to the nickname here, Benny the Daredevil, who knew
that taking trash of the curb would make you a daredevil,
and yet, like Evil Canevil flying a motorcycle over buses,
I wear this as a merit badge I do. I
do the Daredevil of the driveway, Benny the Daredevil. Every
welt of battlescar. You know, women are impressed by that.
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I think. I don't think my wife is. But every
itch a reminder that I'm still alive, baby, Because I
don't know that Mosquito's kind of bite dead people. I
don't think. Maybe they do. That's a good question. I
have no idea, But I'm still standing for now, still
talking into a microphone with you on this podcast and
overnight when the rest of the world is fast asleep.
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So Charlie Sheen had his tiger blood, I've got the
mather of mosquito blood, and in twenty twenty five. Let's
be honest here, mosquito blood feels a lot more relatable,
doesn't it. I'm more relatable to you because I am
one of you and all we're all together in this.
We're all together, all right, flipping the page quickly. We
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have the celebrity matrix. Now. I mentioned this briefly in
passing on the air, and I got a lot of
feedback on it, and so I wanted to expand on
it here on this platform that I have with the microphone,
which is I gotta come up with the name of
It's like, it's not the bully Pulpit, because the bully
pulpit's the radio, because it's everywhere. You know, you have
(19:35):
to track down this podcast. You have to find the
fifth hour podcast. It's not omni present. It's something you
have to track down. So it's not the bully Pulpit.
So if you guys want to send me a suggestion
on what we should call the podcast, the baby pulpit.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That sounds kind of weak. We got to do something
better than the baby pulpit. I'll think about it too.
I'll see if I can come up with something for
the weekend. So the Saturday and Sunday. The greatest quarterback
of all time. This is what led me down this path.
So the greatest quarterback of all time dropped a name
the other day. Caught my attention because I thought it
was bull crap. Not a Hall of Famer, not a
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head coach, not a new business partner selling leafy greens. No, no, no,
Tom Brady. Tom Brady said he knew I show speed.
And if you're asking yourself, who, congratulations, you live in
the real world. And I'm going to give you a
high five. I am. I'm giving you an air of
(20:34):
high five right now. You live in the real world. Now,
let's be honest about this. So Tom Brady, my opinion,
does not know I show speed. He didn't know who
this person was. He's pretending to know I show speed.
Who's a YouTuber and TikToker and all that. Brady's forty
(20:56):
eight years old. He's the father. I think he's got
three kids. He's divorced. He's got a TV gig on Fox.
He's semi retired from football, he's permanently retired from gluten.
And he's not pulling all nighters watching YouTube streamers and
watching gamers like that is not happening. It is not.
(21:18):
He's eating his avocado ice cream, he's wearing his therapeutic pajamas.
He's he's using his vibrating foam rollers. He's got his
loop bands, he's got all that stuff, a lot of electrolytes,
and that's it. That's all he's not. He's not futzing
around with his other stuff. He's not watching people wearing
headsets while they're playing video games. He's not scrolling Twitch.
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He's not smashing subscribe buttons. He's my friend, you know,
he's my eight not my friend, but he's he's parroting
something a handler or an agent. Somebody said, Hey, Tom,
this guy's really hot right now on the socials, So
why don't we do a We'll do a get together,
a meet and greet, and then you'll be cooler and
the you know, these other people that aren't normally fancy
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or they'll be into it. And so it's like some
social media manager, some moderator whispered into Tom Brady's ear
to make him look plugged in. Right, you're Tom Brady,
you're plugging. This is the new currency of fame, and
that's really my point. And I got some angry emails
from people that I guess know who this guy I
show speed is, and they're like, you're you're such an
(22:20):
old man. I can't believe you said that. Listen again
to me. You are famous if you are known by
a large amount of people, thus fam like you don't Nowadays,
you don't have to be universally recognized anymore to be
considered famous. And it's just something that's changed in my lifetime.
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You can be what I call algorithm famous, silo famous. Right,
You're very famous in a silo famous inside one bubble
where you draw tens of millions, some of them real,
some of them not. But outside of the bubble you
do not exist. Your fame is not there. Now when
I think of fame, I think of Taylor Swift. You
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don't have to google Taylor Swift. You don't have to
ask three friends, what does that woman do? Everyone knows, like,
even if you've never heard of a full Taylor swift
song and you're not a fan of that music. You
know the name, you know the deal. That's real to me,
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that's old school, that's fame. I show Speed. I had
to google him. Then I asked people in my circles.
I said, listen. I started sending messages on my phone.
I'm futzing around my phone. I'm saying, listen, do you
know who this is? And a few of the people
in my circles said, I've heard the name, but I
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don't really know what they actually do. I just know
that there's somewhat famous because I've heard about and that
is my point. That's me dotting the ie like the
Ohio State Marching Band. If you're truly famous, somebody in
the room should be able to explain explain it without
pulling out a search bar, like this isn't a knock on,
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I show Speed. I don't know the guy. He's a
young guy. He's doing very well for himself. I wish
him well. I hope he makes a fortune. Apparently he is,
according to the Internet, he's making a lot of money.
But I don't care about that, you know, because you
can't take it with you, and you only have it
for a little bit and you can all go away.
It doesn't matter. You know, money's great to have. I
would love to have more of it, but you know,
so be it. The point is, again, his kind of fame,
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I show speed is compartmentalized. It's engineered by the social
media matrix and where relevance is manufactured and then sold back.
And I've seen it. I've seen how they make the
hot dogs. I've ranted about it all the time on
this podcast. It just it's not typically organic. It is
the land of manipulation. It is a vortex where people
(24:53):
get sucked in and can't tell what's real and what's not.
We've talked about over the last couple months the people
that went famous in music on TikTok and then they
got signed to go on tour and do concerts, and
it turns out that he didn't really have many real fans,
at least people that didn't want to buy tickets because
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they the people were the followers, were being paid for
and bought and all that stuff. So that's that's the point. Listen,
Brady knows the game. He's trying to stay relevant. It
gets harder the older you get, and the world keeps
moving and then eventually it moves on from you. Even
Tom Brady, as the great Terry Bradshaw told me when
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I did radio with him back you know a million
years ago, that every day that goes by, from the
moment you stop playing a sport, your relevancy goes down.
There's a direct correlation. I don't need to get a
ven diagram, but Terry explain it now. To Terry's credit,
he's had thirty years on Fox something along those lines,
(25:56):
maybe longer breaking NFL games down at all, which is
good to him. But there's people that don't even know
Terry played in the NFL and they have no idea anyway,
The point is about Tom Brady. So Tom Brady's not
competing with Peyton Manning anymore. He's not playing in the
super Bowl. He's competing with Fox on Sundays. He's competing
with the algorithm. And the algorithm doesn't care that you
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threw six hundred and forty nine touchdown passes or whatever
it was. It cares whether you know the hot streamer
of the week, the flavor of the week. And my
position is Brady doesn't know. He's just pretending because that
is how you survive in the matrix. That's it. That's
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how you play the game. It's like the red carpet.
Just pretend that's entertainment. There's the other kind of fame,
the kind I prefer. It is smaller, yes, however more authentic,
overnight sports talk radio fame. There's a guy named Hollering James.
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So I met a couple years back at a mallor
meet greet in Minnesota. It was a brief get together,
and every single time Hollering James, every single time Hollering
James calls up. Inevitably, if he's on the air for
more than ninety seconds, we'll mention I met you at
the Mermaid. It is flattering to me, right, But overnight
(27:24):
sportshalk for radio fame. It is not glossy. It doesn't
trend on TikTok, and it will not get you a
Cryptos sponsorship. But it's real. It's the cult classic version,
the cult classic version of celebrity. A gathering of insomniacs
right from different backgrounds, different financial classes, all that stuff,
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different backgrounds, religiously, but we are united. We are creatures
of the night. Truck drivers, fry cooks, people making donuts,
night shift cops, night shift robbers, full time weirdos who
call themselves the malor militia, my homeboys, and my cult.
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That's fame you can't trust, right, can't trust The people
who call at three seventeen am Eastern are not pretending.
They know you, They quote you. They live in your
corner of the world, not because of an algorithm telling
them to no no, no, no no, because they chose
(28:28):
to right. And so yeah, Tom Brady can say, hey,
I know I show speed and you could play in
the NFL, and maybe some people will believe them. There's
always a gullible percentage of people. But fame that requires
pretending isn't fame requires pretending isn't really fame, all right.
(28:49):
I mean, I don't know if I'm saying this right,
but fame that needs google isn't really fame. Let me
say it that way. So again, this is my personal preference.
You give me the other kind, give me your tie,
your poor, your huttle masses yearning to breathe free. Lukewarm
sports takes overnight. To me, that's real, that's lasting, right,
That's the kind of fame that Tom Brady doesn't have
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anymore because he's not playing and I show speed. We'll
never have because of the way that the matrix is
set up. So fame is not dead, it's not, it
just is different. It got trapped in the algorithm and
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the only way, the only way out is at two
or three or four in the morning on AM talk radio.
Although we are on FM in many cities now some
of the bigger cities we're on FM Sports Talk radio,
which is which is pretty cool. All right, we'll get
out on that. I have a new podcast tomorrow. Danny
(29:54):
g will check in. We'll have I think i'll check it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I'll find out. I'll see his schedule, but I'll be here.
Whether he's here or not, he'll be producing it one
way or another, or somebody else will. But I will
be here doing the podcast all weekend, right all weekend,
and I will follow the line. Victor Brick told me
years ago that a samurai uses a toothpick even if
(30:19):
he hasn't eaten the meal, meaning that you live with
honor despite poverty and all that. You just whatever your
situation is, you live with honor. All right, there you go.
That's just a random thing that popped in my head
from an old radio friend, Victor Brigg Jacobs back in
the day. Anyway, have a great rest of your Friday.
(30:41):
I am going to go to bed and I will
wake up and we might even do an ask ben.
So if you want to subscribe, I don't know if
it subscribes the right word, but if you follow me
on social media, I haven't decided whether we're doing it
on X we might do it on Facebook. Haven't done
one on Facebook in a while. Maybe I'll even do both.
Maybe I'll even do both. Who knows, uh, but check
that out sometimes to do. I think I'll have some
(31:02):
time tonight and we'll chat with you then, and as
Danny likes to say, later, skater asta pasta riva, dj heloha.
I don't know what else to say. I'm getting out
of here, Bye Dandy. By Felicias
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