January 5, 2025 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Here week ago. Welcome, It's the Fifth Hour with me,
Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. Because listen, five days
a week not enough, five nights a week not enough,
and I'm on every night late night. Danny G, who
used to be with me, is with Covino and Rich
(00:50):
during the afternoon hours, and we form Voltron here on
the weekends. We thank you for being part of the
pod and spinoff off of all those terrestrial radio shows,
but only available here in the podcast format. This is
the final NFL Sunday, the last one, the swan song
for the regular season. And then it gets real. It's
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on like Donkey Kong starting next week in wildcard round.
Excited about all that, but we've got the met back
Before we get to the mailbag. I did want to
mention here it's the fifth day of January. I wanted
to mention more plumbing issues of the Malord Mansion. More
plumbing issues.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I mentioned this is the reason I tune in.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah, you love to hear, you know, shit stories.
So we had mentioned in a previous episode there was
a clogged toilet. Someone stayed at the house cloged toilet.
So we had someone I will not name the guilty
watching our dog Moxie while we were in San Francisco,
house sitting and with a big giant gun in case
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anyone tried to come to the house anyway. So they
were in the house for a few days. Got back
all right, got back kind of late, little groggy. When
I got back to town, the person that was house
sitting was gone. And I'm gonna tell this story because
it's important to the story. So I go into the
lower bathroom here the Malor Mansion, downstairs bathroom. So I
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go in there, and I had to take care of business.
I'd been in the car all day driving back from
from Northern California. So I'm I'm on the throne, you know,
I'm doing my doing my thing with my squatty potty
and all that. And I go to flush, and I
hear the water filling into the bowl, but I don't
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hear the water going down the bowl. And then I
as I'm sitting on the throne, I am, I'm feeling
some some water kind of coming up near the Tukas
turns out Danny that the person that was watching the
house had clogged the toilet and did not did not
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let us know. Again it's a second time. Now, this
was not a number number one. This was the number two. Yeah,
that means it was brown town, if you know what
I'm saying. Right. But I'm like, okay, you know what,
I'm sure it's not a big stuff. I'm just gonna.
I mean, I have a plunger. I am, I'm gonna.
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I'll cover my eyes and my nose and I'll do it.
So I take the plunger out and it's not a
great plunger. My wife got these plungers that look good.
They're not really effective plungers, but they look good, so
that whatever. So I go to plunge the toilet and
a couple of thrusts. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's just the water is not going down.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
So so let me give you a little time, so
I know, because maybe the water pressure will put you know,
you know, sometimes just without doing anything, the toilet water
will go down, the clog will take care of itself.
So I waited about forty minutes. I come back. It's
exactly the same. It's I go to the plunger, I
grab the plunge and I start trying to fus around
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with the plunger and try to get the thing on stuffed.
And I'm really aggressive at this point. I'm really going
for it. I'm like a lumberjack with the plunger. So
I'm doing it and nothing. So now I'm starting to
freak out a little bit because it's like New Year's
Eve or like it was like the day before news
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and I was like, you know how much it costs
for a plumber over the holiday? Like they charge you extra, right,
it's like surge pricing. So I'm gonna take care of
this myself. I am hellbat. So I start going online.
I'm like, what are some tricks to get a toilet
unclogged without a plumber? The Internet's a wonderful place. It's
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also a very dangerous place. So I I read all
these home remedies involving boiling hot water. That boiling hot
water will loosen everything up. So I went and boiled
the pot of water. Now I'm standing over the brown
poop water and I'm pouring boiling hot water. The poop
is splashing around.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh, it's like you're making coffee.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So they said, the Internet said, just put the water
in there and leave it. And then they said, also
before you leave it, leave some some soap, some dish
soap in there as well. So I'm like, okay, boiling
hot water.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And then somebody was punking you.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Then I put dish soap over the boiling hot water.
So now just brown soup with bubbles soap bubbles is
what I have. Right, So it's like this is literally
a shit show. And so but it said again, it said, listen,
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just do this, it'll take care of itself, you know,
give it an hour. Okay, I'll give it an hour.
So I went away and I came back about an
hour later, and it was exactly the same, exactly same.
So I said, you know what, I'm giving up. I'm
giving up. I've tried the internet thing. I'm gonna go
to home depot. I'm gonna buy you know those plumbing
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tools you can buy at home depot to unclog a toilet. Yeah,
so I'll do that. So I get up the next
morning and I go down and look at the toilet
and the water had gone down, like overnight. The water
had gone down. So I'm like, all right, we're good.
And the poop was gone and it was like it
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was low. So I went to flush the toilet and
it got clogged again. It was it was not unclogged somehow.
I don't know this like a magic trick, like a
Houdini trick. The water had gone away, but yet I
flushed it and it filled back up in the water.
It wasn't draining. So I was like, oh, screw it.
So I went to home depot. I went to the
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plumbing aisle on home Depot and I'm looking around my Now,
keep in mind, my grandfather was a very successful plumber,
and so I feel like it should be in my
DNA second generation, you know, third generation whatever. He ran
up a plumbing company in LA and I feel like
I should be able to pull this off. So I
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go and go to the plumbing aisle. I get the
I forget what it's called, but you it's it's kind
of like a snake for a toilet. It's you know,
it's a big metal thing you twisted, it goes all
the way down the toy.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, call that a snake.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay, So I get that. Now there's three different options.
There's the professional grade plumbing option, which is like one
hundred bucks. There's the middle option, which is like forty
or fifty bucks, and then there's the basic option, which
is like twenty. So I, of course A bought the
twenty dollars one. I'm not gonna spend one hundred dollars
to unclog a thought. So I bought the twenty dollars
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and I came back and I watched a YouTube video
on how to do this thing, and I'd go in
the bathroom and very frustrated, and I used this thing
and I put it all the way to the very
bottom of the toilet. I pull it back up to
get everything out of there. And I do this like
three or four times, and nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. And
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so had we ended up having to call a plumber,
wasted the money on that, called the plumber, came out,
and we've determined now the plumber was here for like
ten minutes and fix the thing right away because he
had the professional one. So I could have spent one
hundred dollars Danny and gotten it fixed, but I chose
to spend twenty, which meant I had to spend another
you know whatever it was for the plumber. So that
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was that was my plumbing situation. But we've determined a
minute long mall of investigation that what has happened here
is that we have high end toilet the toilet paper.
The one thing I do not go cheap on is
toilet paper. I don't I go big on toilet paper.
I feel like that's that's something you don't go cheap on.
(09:09):
And what we've re term is when people come to
have my wife has a lot of parties at the
end of the year, and so we have see septic
issues here because of the fact that people are not
used to high end toilet paper. It's a bougie item.
So we made a decision in the future, when we
have people stay at the house, we are going to
get commercial grade toilet paper one ply toilet paper, and
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that is the toilet paper we're going to use for
when people come to the house because if you cannot stuff.
I think it's called marathon toilet paper. You know, I'm
talking about the really cheap.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Toilet paper because you buy the fancy stuff, it's thicker
and so, yeah, you just use too much of it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The Charman ultrasoft I believe is what it's or something
like that, and it's it's great, but you don't need
to use a lot of it because it's you know,
it's really good, right, mego roll and all that and
people touch, and we think that's the the issue there.
So we're gonna find commercial grade. We'll go to like uh,
I don't know, Smart and Final or something like that.
(10:11):
They probably sell it there, and we'll get the cheapest
toilet paper that everyone hates, sloppy, the whole thing, and
then we'll just.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Borrow something from our studio's bathroom.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well I could do it. Yeah, we have a horrible
toilet paper. It's just freaking horrible. All right, let's get
to the actual mail bag. It's I had to tell
(10:44):
my poopy story. But let's say the mail bag. Anonymous
rights in, Anonymous rites and says, So Jonas Knox comes
in before your show ends, Ben, did you do you
talk to him between breaks when he's preparing for the show,
and then when your show is over and the other
are coming in, like LaVar Arrington, do you talk to
those guys before they go on the air or out
(11:05):
of respect? Do you not bother them because you have
to prepare for a radio show and you have thoughts
in your head and you might understand that if you
talk to them, they might find it annoying because they
just really want to do their show and all that stuff.
What's the etiquette asking for a friend? Yeah, so the guys,
(11:25):
I mean, we don't really have anywhere to get ready
for the I get there early. I go to the
very back. I go to the old Fox Sports Radio
Updates studio, which is empty, and I go in there
and I finish up getting ready for the show. But
pretty much everyone else shows up at the very last minute,
I mean very last minute. And so it's not like
Jonas and LeVar are there an hour before the show.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well, Ben, to be fair, I think that's because Coop
gets there so early. He's asleep back in one of
the other rooms.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Well, that's true. I'man Coop is the model of preparation,
so he's really the personification of dedication. So he's there,
but the other people's you know, get there late and
all that stuff. So but I do I say hello
to Jonas. I've known Jonas for many years. I love Jonas.
He's a friend of mine, and so we'll know the
quick hello, the small talk. LeVar is a great dude.
Talk to LeVar with Penn State in the playoff LaVar.
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I saw him on TV the other day when I
was watching the Penn State Boise State game. There was
a play on the sidelines and LeVar is like a
big you know, he's big royalty at Penn State. So
he was on the sidelines there and and we were
chatting with you know, just small talk, chat with him
about whatever's going on and normally nothing to do with sports.
I'll say, hey, what's going on with the family or whatever,
(12:36):
and then we're done. You know, We'll make some sarcastic
radio comments and then we'll move on and that's it.
But there's there's no long, long conversation. I mean, maybe
once a year we'll socialize somewhere. There'll be an event
we have to go to and we'll socialize, but oh quick, quick,
Kello and I just like with Jason, Jason Smith and
Mike Harmon. I talked to Harmon more than I talked
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to Smith, but I.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I see it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Catch up, how's the kids, how's the wife, that thing
or the you know or whatever, and then we're done.
So all right. Next up, Mike from Shrewsbury, Mass Writes
in on the mail bag. He says, we we got
to get you the Central Mass here for a Mallard
meet and greet. Longtime listener, all the way back to
twenty five, back when Spokekane Gary was around. Yeah, I
(13:23):
remember that great Spokane he spoke kan Gary and Pete
and Pittsburgh arrivals, updates with Turk Stevens. You had another
two people, one from Philly and a guy with a
fake name. Anyway, a longtime huge fan. I'm curious as
to why you are so secretive of what town you
live in. No big deal, and I understand privacy, but
(13:44):
I'm always wondering the whereabouts of the Mallard mansion. Not
a stalker, just a curious question. I keep up all
the great shows. And then says he wants Eddie to
come back and all that, and it's any good vibrations.
So Mike yeah. So here's the deal. I I I
know that there's a lot of people on the Internet
that are fake tough guys, but over the years, I don't.
(14:06):
I don't think I'm abrasive in any way. I think
I'm pretty mellow and all that. I just have sports takes.
But I've had people send me some threatening things and
previous homes I've lived in. I had somebody got my
address at one of the houses I used to live in,
and they'd send me things with no return address on them,
kind of ominous things, and I know it's it's likely nothing,
(14:28):
but just out of what do they say to any
out of an abundance of caution, I just I don't
toss out where I where I reside. Now, I'm sure
if you want to find out where I live, you
can find out with the Internet. It's probably not that
hard to find out, but you might get it wrong.
I've moved several times in recent years, so you're probably
not going to find out exactly where I am. But
that's generally that's generally right. I was, I was on
(14:50):
a list. Some lunatic was sending weird snail mail to me,
and Adam Carolla with me and Adam Carole. It was
very odd. I've only met Adam Carolla a few times
in my life. I don't really know him. He didn't
really know me. You know, we're not friends. But it
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was very bizarre.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You know what's crazy is when you view the Malord
mansion from Google Earth, you have the nicest pool. It's
in the shape of dollar.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Signs Da da dalla. That's what I say. That's I said.
That's what I said. Come on, Pippin, get your tims on.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You say dollar dollar bill, y'all.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Zach from Columbus right sat in the mailbag, he says, Mary,
Christmas happy hanikah blah blah blah. Did you ever tell
the story about the horrible thing that happened? Or did
I ever tell you the story? Says the horrible thing
that happened to me in college involving human excrement and
a fridge full of beer. Yes, Sack, I think you
did tell us that stor if I remember correctly. A
while back, he said he's been busy with all the events.
(15:58):
He still listens, but usually weeks later, so Danny, he'll
hear this sometime in like February. Loves the show.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He says, let me know that Super Bowl is gonna
be awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
He says, let me know if you're if we're still
in play to drag your ass to Ah. Yes, Zach,
I don't know when, probably the spring, and you have
offered your establishment there Zach and Columbus and I actually
sent out an email this past week Danny to try
to try to figure that out. And one of the
scenarios would be to do a live podcast from that
(16:31):
bar in Columbus. So we'll see if that that happens,
but whether whether I do it or not. Normally on
these mallor meet and greets, I'm not doing that. But
if we happen to work it out logistically, maybe we'll
do it. But so I will, God willing, I will
be there once I start after football season. Usually wait
(16:52):
till March or April. And you really don't want to
go to Ohio in February or January, so Alf from
Realtor dot com writes, and so he says, as beautiful
and magical of a place that Fullerton sounds. Have either
of you too gotten as far as scouting future locations
to call home and get the hell out of the
People's Republic of California, says Alf from the Commonwealth. Danny,
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have you have you thought about you're getting a little
older there done with radio? Where you're gonna end up? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Me?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You know, I really liked Wyoming and Montana when I
went there, oh maybe a decade ago on a little
hiking trip. I could potentially see myself pulling a Phil
Jackson just going out in Montea.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, I could see you, like, well, we have the
budget in Montana, we could live like the Unibomber, you know,
a little shack in Montana right now. God's I've never been.
I've never been to Montana. Looks beautiful, though, so it
looks amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Really pretty.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Man.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Air is so crisp and so clean that if you're
a city boy like us, it hurts your lungs to
breathe the oxygen there. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, that's that's pretty neat. I don't know. I do, look,
alf sometimes I look at real estate and say, you know,
what would this be like? And but you know, my
wife loves California, so she's not leaving her job anytime soon,
So you know, I do. I do criick on the
(18:24):
real estate websites every once in a while and think
like if I bought a little place in New Hampshire
right on the ocean there, like near Portsmouth, I could
do that right the low taxes, I could kind of
handle that, Mike and Fullerton, right, since it is that
be New Year, guys. During The Ben Maller Show's extended
holiday break, I took Tony in the Bay Area's advice
and listened to a couple of show podcasts from early
(18:46):
twenty seventeen. The crew at the time was Eddie Garcia,
Justin Cooper, and some guy named Danny g. I've never
heard of him before. I really enjoyed your breakdown of
the twenty seventeen NBA trade deadline. Anyone who hasn't heard
it yet should check that out as soon as possible. Yeah,
that's classic. Now, Mike says, I have a couple of
questions from that show. You bet Eddie Garcia that Colin
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Kaepernick would not start five more games in his career,
and Eddie was stupid enough to take it. Did he
ever pay off the bet or did he try to
weasel out of it? I know, Mike and Fuller and says,
I know if things turned out differently, you definitely would
have paid off your bet. Rocky Mountain Oysters anyone. That's right,
(19:30):
Mike ear high five. And my other question is you
were concerned at the time that your male was getting
jacked off by someone. Did you ever find the culprint
very funny, very very funny?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I remember that bet. But when you make long term bets,
Danny on radio, no one actually remembers them.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
A good thing for you because you also bet me
and Coope that the Lakers and Lebron when they first
signed it, that they wouldn't even sniff the NBA playoffs,
let alone a final. And you said the Clippers. You
said the Clippers would win a championship before the Lakers
even got to one.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
What's wrong with your Clippers? Hold on buckeroo, hold on buckeroo.
Number one, the Lakers did not win a championship with
Lebron James wrong and number two the clip Here we
go the final four. That's okay. Go Kawhi Leonard, you
know right, Kawhi back? Come on?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh did you see that? Did you see the recent
lawsuit I did?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, Clippers are dealing with a former Clippers employee spilling
the dirt.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It's one of Kawhi's buddies, who was like, wants a
big check and good luck. Maybe you know, maybe he'll win.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
The way the story was written did not paint him
in the in the greatest picture. But yet early on
that Kaepernick story twenty seventeen, that was every day, it
was a new revelation.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
If I had to hear Clay talk about Kaepernick one
more time talk, he was great on the radio, But
I had to hear Kaepernick talk every single morning, without
a doubt, Kaepernick was going to come up in the conversation.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It was gold.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
There was low hanging fruit, which is the most delicious fruit.
And we'd never seen anything like this in modern NFL.
And then the people were boycotting the NFL. They were
very upset and it was patriotism and stuff, and then
you had everything was just Nutso in the mid that
mid decade, that from like twenty fifteen the election and
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twenty sixteen Trump.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Some people predicted that the NFL would fold and go
out of business.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Remember, yeah, Mark Cuban, didn't Mark Cuban say the NFL
was going to go they were going to kill themselves
or whatever. Yeah, yeah, you had. So you had all
that in with this span of a couple of years,
and then you topped it off. The cherry on top
of this was the COVID in twenty twenty, twenty twenty
one into twenty twenty two in California. Of course, I
still see people. I still see people wearing masks, so
I think it's still going on in parts of California.
(22:09):
But anyway, all right, thank you Mike for listening to
old podcasts. Do we get credit, Danny? Does the company
still say, hey, people are listening to your podcast even
if it was eight years old, we still get credit?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I know. That's what sucks is if this was a
TV show, you and I would see a payment, even
if it was thirty cents or thirty dollars, we'd get
something in our mailbox. But when you do radio, as
you've talked about before, in one air out the other
literally because there are no residuals.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, it sucks. It sucks. It's like music. You make
a song. How many bands, how many musicians, they're nineteen
or twenty years old, they do a song, it's a hit,
and they're still doing that song when they're fifty and sixties,
you know, sixty in their fifties and sixties, they're still
doing the same song they did when they were nineteen,
and they're making money off it. And you imagine you
(23:02):
doing what if?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Like you, I remember you did this really great Lob
City monologue one night, and what if For years people
called in requests and said, Ben, do your Lob City
monologue again.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh yeah, I would. I would nail it every time,
would get better, it would be better, it would be amazing,
and uh yeah, but no, it's a disposable form of
entertainment unfortunately. All right, thank you, Mike, Kevin and Ohio. Right,
so we're not sure where. It's kind of a big state,
he says. Ben and Danny. I wanted to get your
(23:38):
thoughts on this new wrinkle in fraud and I did
not say. Did you see the story this week that
the the new there's a surge in cryptocurrency fraud led
by young Nigerian men, that they've found a way to
rip people off with cryptocurrency.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh, I thought this was going to be that stupid
fast track thing. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I don't know how these pirates are doing it, But
when you drive anywhere near those fast track lanes. There's
some in Orange County. So when we were going through
Orange County to go to the San Diego Zoo, there
was an option, you know, to get in those fast
track lanes. Didn't get in there, but I did go
into like a carpool lane. And then later I get
(24:27):
a text saying that I went into the fast track
lane and I owed six dollars in ninety nine cents.
Maybe it wasn't a carpool lane. I click on the
stupid thing and it goes to the California fast Track page.
Whatever I put in my card to pay the six
ninety nine, it just spins and spins and it says
it couldn't process my card. The very next day, I
(24:50):
find out that my card has been flagged by my
bank for fraud.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You're an ass hat. It's a fake.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Fast track thing. They have put in your information so
they could rip off your info and then they try
to add you to their Apple Wallet to use your card.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Uh you know. I Actually it's funny you bring that up,
because I had when I was in the Bay Area,
we had the option of taking the Bay Bridge, which
they had to use. You have to use the like
the Northern California fast track thing, or you could go
the long way into San Francisco. So we went the
long way because I wanted we didn't have the fast track.
And I did get a text. Actually, now that you
bring it up, I got a text. But I text
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my wife. I said did She drove part of the
way and I drove most of the way, and I say,
I know I didn't go in the carpol in. Did
you go in the carpool in? Because I don't. I
don't remember you doing that. She said, Oh, no, it's
a scam.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Because yeah, there's been reports of this all over the country. Now,
first of all, they won't text you. I read that,
and if you look closely at it, it's fast track.
The tea is missing, so it's fas track. So just
be aware of that and hit the report spam button
on it.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
All right? So were they like, how do they get
your number? They're just they're fishing.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
That's the part where Brenda was saying, that really creeps
me out that they were able to find out that
we were going through that area. How do they do that?
How do they scan the phone? Is it through Apple Someway?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah? Here it is It says, please pay fast track
lane on December thirty first, in order to avoid excessive
late fees and potential legal action on the bill, Please
pay the fee in time, thank you for your cooperation,
and wish you a happy holiday. And then has a load.
It has a link. Please reply Yet why then exit
the text message and open it again? Blah blah blah
(26:36):
blah blah. Uh yep, got that. I got the same thing.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, see, and I felt so stupid. The reason that
I didn't even think twice about it was because, like
I said, I knew I had just passed one of
those lanes. So that's how they got me.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, everyone who drives goes through one of those lanes
at one point or another, even if you don't go
in the lane you're.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I don't have any of those around where I lived.
I just happened to drive past one in Orange County
that day. Yeah, how the hell did they know where
I was?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah? That's craziness, man, That is uh not so uh.
Let's see Mike in Sacramento rites and says Benny and
Danny guh, he said, I heard you talk about your
trip to northern California on the show. I only mentioned
it once, Mike, I didn't mention the whole thing. He says,
a self driving Waymo cab, did you take one? And
(27:28):
then he sent me a video of a cab smashing
into a delivery like robot, like a Wayne. I guess
there's a you. It's not YouTube. It's like a TikTok
of Waymo's gone wild. Have you seen this?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I have seen this?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, like Waymo's that are that break and keep
driving in circles.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, there's one that drives in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, it's pretty wild. No, I did not take a
way Moo. I brought my car, I drove my car.
I'm I'm good. And I heard they're the same. But
my brother in law I was like, oh yeah, they're
like he takes them all the time. He's like, well, yeah,
they're pretty much the same price as taking Uber. So
really want to take an uber? Help a dude out,
you know, doing Uber help them out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's why we see things a little bit different because
so many truck drivers and paper boys and remember those
things called newspapers.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, God bless truly the paper boys, security guards.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
And truck drivers we support because we appreciate all of
those men and women that do those jobs, because there
are a lot of our listeners.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah for sure. I mean when I started the Overnight Show,
most of our live listeners were delivering the newspaper. Now
it's like maybe three percent, But at one point it
was like sixty percent of the people were delivering the newspaper.
They were going to get the papers, they had to
wrap them, the whole thing. And now it's hardly anybody.
(28:56):
Now it's mostly uber truck drivers, people working in bakeries, factories.
Those are normally the people. Good guys, I said, good
guys in bads, got cops and bad guys who are
out coming to crime and all that. So they're hey, listen.
So anyway, I think that's so. Now we have some
other ones, but I think we're good on that. We
gotta get ready for football, Danny. It's the last time
(29:17):
when the entire playoff bracket will be set. By the
end of the day today everything will be locked up
and then tonight our grand body of them all mina
Sota in Detroit for all the marbles. The number on
the NFC it is.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Who did you take in that game on Benny versus
the penny I actually.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Took, believe it or not, the Minnesota Vikings took the bikes.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Okay, So as.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
The number one seat in the entire NFC, do.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
You know on our prediction sheet inside the studio, we
all fill it out before the season begins. I picked
the Vikings to make the playoffs as my out on
a limb.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well, you're guaranteed of that appen.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Do you think when they give Sam Darnold big pay day,
do you think JJ McCarthy will be available to quarterback
needy teams?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, if you're gonna pay Donald, why not. It's not
like mccow old's. McCarthy ain't McCarthy's. He's not a young lad.
He was at Michigan for several years. I think, yeah,
why not trade him to somewhere like Seattle or there's
a bunch of teams Tennessee that they need a quarterback
and Donald's young enough if you believe in him. I skeptical.
(30:26):
I just in my head, Donald's gonna go out there
and ride the vomitcommet in the playoffs and then it'll
be like, well should we should we pay him? And
uh uh?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Do you think Lamar is gonna fold in the playoffs again.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, he has not had any success in the plus,
why would this year be any different? He hasn't. Now
they could win in spite of him, like because Henry
and the defense played better.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
But yeah, by the way, McCarthy's not that old. He's
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh I thought he was a little than that. But
Donald's is late twenties.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Twenty yeah, Donald's twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And all right, we will be back next weekend with
all new podcasts. If you want to recommend something, when
you want to send a message in for the email bag,
it's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com. If you would like to
be part of the mail bag, if you want to
recommend something either for the Terrestrial show or this show,
(31:21):
or you want to recommend a guest, we don't do
really do guests, but people we can hang out with.
You can do that as well, same email address, the
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
So I'd like Brian Billick to be on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Brian Billich, Brian Billick, what we need Brian Brian Billick.
All right, Dann, you have any wonderful day, enjoy the football,
and I'll be back on the live Radio tonight tonight,
back at it Sunday night into Monday, eleven o'clock in
the West and two am in the East, all night
long and we'll talk to you man.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Have a booty full week later, Skater, I heard that Danny.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Brian Billy I'm not available, so please a message.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I got a murder. I gotta go.
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Here week ago. Welcome, It's the Fifth Hour with me,
Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. Because listen, five days
a week not enough, five nights a week not enough,
and I'm on every night late night. Danny G, who
used to be with me, is with Covino and Rich
(00:50):
during the afternoon hours, and we form Voltron here on
the weekends. We thank you for being part of the
pod and spinoff off of all those terrestrial radio shows,
but only available here in the podcast format. This is
the final NFL Sunday, the last one, the swan song
for the regular season. And then it gets real. It's
(01:12):
on like Donkey Kong starting next week in wildcard round.
Excited about all that, but we've got the met back
Before we get to the mailbag. I did want to
mention here it's the fifth day of January. I wanted
to mention more plumbing issues of the Malord Mansion. More
plumbing issues.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I mentioned this is the reason I tune in.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, yeah, you love to hear, you know, shit stories.
So we had mentioned in a previous episode there was
a clogged toilet. Someone stayed at the house cloged toilet.
So we had someone I will not name the guilty
watching our dog Moxie while we were in San Francisco,
house sitting and with a big giant gun in case
(01:54):
anyone tried to come to the house anyway. So they
were in the house for a few days. Got back
all right, got back kind of late, little groggy. When
I got back to town, the person that was house
sitting was gone. And I'm gonna tell this story because
it's important to the story. So I go into the
lower bathroom here the Malor Mansion, downstairs bathroom. So I
(02:17):
go in there, and I had to take care of business.
I'd been in the car all day driving back from
from Northern California. So I'm I'm on the throne, you know,
I'm doing my doing my thing with my squatty potty
and all that. And I go to flush, and I
hear the water filling into the bowl, but I don't
(02:40):
hear the water going down the bowl. And then I
as I'm sitting on the throne, I am, I'm feeling
some some water kind of coming up near the Tukas
turns out Danny that the person that was watching the
house had clogged the toilet and did not did not
(03:05):
let us know. Again it's a second time. Now, this
was not a number number one. This was the number two. Yeah,
that means it was brown town, if you know what
I'm saying. Right. But I'm like, okay, you know what,
I'm sure it's not a big stuff. I'm just gonna.
I mean, I have a plunger. I am, I'm gonna.
(03:27):
I'll cover my eyes and my nose and I'll do it.
So I take the plunger out and it's not a
great plunger. My wife got these plungers that look good.
They're not really effective plungers, but they look good, so
that whatever. So I go to plunge the toilet and
a couple of thrusts. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's just the water is not going down.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
So so let me give you a little time, so
I know, because maybe the water pressure will put you know,
you know, sometimes just without doing anything, the toilet water
will go down, the clog will take care of itself.
So I waited about forty minutes. I come back. It's
exactly the same. It's I go to the plunger, I
grab the plunge and I start trying to fus around
(04:15):
with the plunger and try to get the thing on stuffed.
And I'm really aggressive at this point. I'm really going
for it. I'm like a lumberjack with the plunger. So
I'm doing it and nothing. So now I'm starting to
freak out a little bit because it's like New Year's
Eve or like it was like the day before news
(04:37):
and I was like, you know how much it costs
for a plumber over the holiday? Like they charge you extra, right,
it's like surge pricing. So I'm gonna take care of
this myself. I am hellbat. So I start going online.
I'm like, what are some tricks to get a toilet
unclogged without a plumber? The Internet's a wonderful place. It's
(04:58):
also a very dangerous place. So I I read all
these home remedies involving boiling hot water. That boiling hot
water will loosen everything up. So I went and boiled
the pot of water. Now I'm standing over the brown
poop water and I'm pouring boiling hot water. The poop
is splashing around.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh, it's like you're making coffee.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So they said, the Internet said, just put the water
in there and leave it. And then they said, also
before you leave it, leave some some soap, some dish
soap in there as well. So I'm like, okay, boiling
hot water.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And then somebody was punking you.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Then I put dish soap over the boiling hot water.
So now just brown soup with bubbles soap bubbles is
what I have. Right, So it's like this is literally
a shit show. And so but it said again, it said, listen,
(06:02):
just do this, it'll take care of itself, you know,
give it an hour. Okay, I'll give it an hour.
So I went away and I came back about an
hour later, and it was exactly the same, exactly same.
So I said, you know what, I'm giving up. I'm
giving up. I've tried the internet thing. I'm gonna go
to home depot. I'm gonna buy you know those plumbing
(06:25):
tools you can buy at home depot to unclog a toilet. Yeah,
so I'll do that. So I get up the next
morning and I go down and look at the toilet
and the water had gone down, like overnight. The water
had gone down. So I'm like, all right, we're good.
And the poop was gone and it was like it
(06:46):
was low. So I went to flush the toilet and
it got clogged again. It was it was not unclogged somehow.
I don't know this like a magic trick, like a
Houdini trick. The water had gone away, but yet I
flushed it and it filled back up in the water.
It wasn't draining. So I was like, oh, screw it.
So I went to home depot. I went to the
(07:07):
plumbing aisle on home Depot and I'm looking around my Now,
keep in mind, my grandfather was a very successful plumber,
and so I feel like it should be in my
DNA second generation, you know, third generation whatever. He ran
up a plumbing company in LA and I feel like
I should be able to pull this off. So I
(07:27):
go and go to the plumbing aisle. I get the
I forget what it's called, but you it's it's kind
of like a snake for a toilet. It's you know,
it's a big metal thing you twisted, it goes all
the way down the toy.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, call that a snake.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay, So I get that. Now there's three different options.
There's the professional grade plumbing option, which is like one
hundred bucks. There's the middle option, which is like forty
or fifty bucks, and then there's the basic option, which
is like twenty. So I, of course A bought the
twenty dollars one. I'm not gonna spend one hundred dollars
to unclog a thought. So I bought the twenty dollars
(08:04):
and I came back and I watched a YouTube video
on how to do this thing, and I'd go in
the bathroom and very frustrated, and I used this thing
and I put it all the way to the very
bottom of the toilet. I pull it back up to
get everything out of there. And I do this like
three or four times, and nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. And
(08:26):
so had we ended up having to call a plumber,
wasted the money on that, called the plumber, came out,
and we've determined now the plumber was here for like
ten minutes and fix the thing right away because he
had the professional one. So I could have spent one
hundred dollars Danny and gotten it fixed, but I chose
to spend twenty, which meant I had to spend another
you know whatever it was for the plumber. So that
(08:48):
was that was my plumbing situation. But we've determined a
minute long mall of investigation that what has happened here
is that we have high end toilet the toilet paper.
The one thing I do not go cheap on is
toilet paper. I don't I go big on toilet paper.
I feel like that's that's something you don't go cheap on.
(09:09):
And what we've re term is when people come to
have my wife has a lot of parties at the
end of the year, and so we have see septic
issues here because of the fact that people are not
used to high end toilet paper. It's a bougie item.
So we made a decision in the future, when we
have people stay at the house, we are going to
get commercial grade toilet paper one ply toilet paper, and
(09:33):
that is the toilet paper we're going to use for
when people come to the house because if you cannot stuff.
I think it's called marathon toilet paper. You know, I'm
talking about the really cheap.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Toilet paper because you buy the fancy stuff, it's thicker
and so, yeah, you just use too much of it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The Charman ultrasoft I believe is what it's or something
like that, and it's it's great, but you don't need
to use a lot of it because it's you know,
it's really good, right, mego roll and all that and
people touch, and we think that's the the issue there.
So we're gonna find commercial grade. We'll go to like uh,
I don't know, Smart and Final or something like that.
(10:11):
They probably sell it there, and we'll get the cheapest
toilet paper that everyone hates, sloppy, the whole thing, and
then we'll just.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Borrow something from our studio's bathroom.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well I could do it. Yeah, we have a horrible
toilet paper. It's just freaking horrible. All right, let's get
to the actual mail bag. It's I had to tell
(10:44):
my poopy story. But let's say the mail bag. Anonymous
rights in, Anonymous rites and says, So Jonas Knox comes
in before your show ends, Ben, did you do you
talk to him between breaks when he's preparing for the show,
and then when your show is over and the other
are coming in, like LaVar Arrington, do you talk to
those guys before they go on the air or out
(11:05):
of respect? Do you not bother them because you have
to prepare for a radio show and you have thoughts
in your head and you might understand that if you
talk to them, they might find it annoying because they
just really want to do their show and all that stuff.
What's the etiquette asking for a friend? Yeah, so the guys,
(11:25):
I mean, we don't really have anywhere to get ready
for the I get there early. I go to the
very back. I go to the old Fox Sports Radio
Updates studio, which is empty, and I go in there
and I finish up getting ready for the show. But
pretty much everyone else shows up at the very last minute,
I mean very last minute. And so it's not like
Jonas and LeVar are there an hour before the show.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well, Ben, to be fair, I think that's because Coop
gets there so early. He's asleep back in one of
the other rooms.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Well, that's true. I'man Coop is the model of preparation,
so he's really the personification of dedication. So he's there,
but the other people's you know, get there late and
all that stuff. So but I do I say hello
to Jonas. I've known Jonas for many years. I love Jonas.
He's a friend of mine, and so we'll know the
quick hello, the small talk. LeVar is a great dude.
Talk to LeVar with Penn State in the playoff LaVar.
(12:15):
I saw him on TV the other day when I
was watching the Penn State Boise State game. There was
a play on the sidelines and LeVar is like a
big you know, he's big royalty at Penn State. So
he was on the sidelines there and and we were
chatting with you know, just small talk, chat with him
about whatever's going on and normally nothing to do with sports.
I'll say, hey, what's going on with the family or whatever,
(12:36):
and then we're done. You know, We'll make some sarcastic
radio comments and then we'll move on and that's it.
But there's there's no long, long conversation. I mean, maybe
once a year we'll socialize somewhere. There'll be an event
we have to go to and we'll socialize, but oh quick, quick,
Kello and I just like with Jason, Jason Smith and
Mike Harmon. I talked to Harmon more than I talked
(12:56):
to Smith, but I.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I see it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Catch up, how's the kids, how's the wife, that thing
or the you know or whatever, and then we're done.
So all right. Next up, Mike from Shrewsbury, Mass Writes
in on the mail bag. He says, we we got
to get you the Central Mass here for a Mallard
meet and greet. Longtime listener, all the way back to
twenty five, back when Spokekane Gary was around. Yeah, I
(13:23):
remember that great Spokane he spoke kan Gary and Pete
and Pittsburgh arrivals, updates with Turk Stevens. You had another
two people, one from Philly and a guy with a
fake name. Anyway, a longtime huge fan. I'm curious as
to why you are so secretive of what town you
live in. No big deal, and I understand privacy, but
(13:44):
I'm always wondering the whereabouts of the Mallard mansion. Not
a stalker, just a curious question. I keep up all
the great shows. And then says he wants Eddie to
come back and all that, and it's any good vibrations.
So Mike yeah. So here's the deal. I I I
know that there's a lot of people on the Internet
that are fake tough guys, but over the years, I don't.
(14:06):
I don't think I'm abrasive in any way. I think
I'm pretty mellow and all that. I just have sports takes.
But I've had people send me some threatening things and
previous homes I've lived in. I had somebody got my
address at one of the houses I used to live in,
and they'd send me things with no return address on them,
kind of ominous things, and I know it's it's likely nothing,
(14:28):
but just out of what do they say to any
out of an abundance of caution, I just I don't
toss out where I where I reside. Now, I'm sure
if you want to find out where I live, you
can find out with the Internet. It's probably not that
hard to find out, but you might get it wrong.
I've moved several times in recent years, so you're probably
not going to find out exactly where I am. But
that's generally that's generally right. I was, I was on
(14:50):
a list. Some lunatic was sending weird snail mail to me,
and Adam Carolla with me and Adam Carole. It was
very odd. I've only met Adam Carolla a few times
in my life. I don't really know him. He didn't
really know me. You know, we're not friends. But it
(15:11):
was very bizarre.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You know what's crazy is when you view the Malord
mansion from Google Earth, you have the nicest pool. It's
in the shape of dollar.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Signs Da da dalla. That's what I say. That's I said.
That's what I said. Come on, Pippin, get your tims on.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
You say dollar dollar bill, y'all.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Zach from Columbus right sat in the mailbag, he says, Mary,
Christmas happy hanikah blah blah blah. Did you ever tell
the story about the horrible thing that happened? Or did
I ever tell you the story? Says the horrible thing
that happened to me in college involving human excrement and
a fridge full of beer. Yes, Sack, I think you
did tell us that stor if I remember correctly. A
while back, he said he's been busy with all the events.
(15:58):
He still listens, but usually weeks later, so Danny, he'll
hear this sometime in like February. Loves the show.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He says, let me know that Super Bowl is gonna
be awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
He says, let me know if you're if we're still
in play to drag your ass to Ah. Yes, Zach,
I don't know when, probably the spring, and you have
offered your establishment there Zach and Columbus and I actually
sent out an email this past week Danny to try
to try to figure that out. And one of the
scenarios would be to do a live podcast from that
(16:31):
bar in Columbus. So we'll see if that that happens,
but whether whether I do it or not. Normally on
these mallor meet and greets, I'm not doing that. But
if we happen to work it out logistically, maybe we'll
do it. But so I will, God willing, I will
be there once I start after football season. Usually wait
(16:52):
till March or April. And you really don't want to
go to Ohio in February or January, so Alf from
Realtor dot com writes, and so he says, as beautiful
and magical of a place that Fullerton sounds. Have either
of you too gotten as far as scouting future locations
to call home and get the hell out of the
People's Republic of California, says Alf from the Commonwealth. Danny,
(17:18):
have you have you thought about you're getting a little
older there done with radio? Where you're gonna end up? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Me?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You know, I really liked Wyoming and Montana when I
went there, oh maybe a decade ago on a little
hiking trip. I could potentially see myself pulling a Phil
Jackson just going out in Montea.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, I could see you, like, well, we have the
budget in Montana, we could live like the Unibomber, you know,
a little shack in Montana right now. God's I've never been.
I've never been to Montana. Looks beautiful, though, so it
looks amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Really pretty.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Man.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Air is so crisp and so clean that if you're
a city boy like us, it hurts your lungs to
breathe the oxygen there. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, that's that's pretty neat. I don't know. I do, look,
alf sometimes I look at real estate and say, you know,
what would this be like? And but you know, my
wife loves California, so she's not leaving her job anytime soon,
So you know, I do. I do criick on the
(18:24):
real estate websites every once in a while and think
like if I bought a little place in New Hampshire
right on the ocean there, like near Portsmouth, I could
do that right the low taxes, I could kind of
handle that, Mike and Fullerton, right, since it is that
be New Year, guys. During The Ben Maller Show's extended
holiday break, I took Tony in the Bay Area's advice
and listened to a couple of show podcasts from early
(18:46):
twenty seventeen. The crew at the time was Eddie Garcia,
Justin Cooper, and some guy named Danny g. I've never
heard of him before. I really enjoyed your breakdown of
the twenty seventeen NBA trade deadline. Anyone who hasn't heard
it yet should check that out as soon as possible. Yeah,
that's classic. Now, Mike says, I have a couple of
questions from that show. You bet Eddie Garcia that Colin
(19:09):
Kaepernick would not start five more games in his career,
and Eddie was stupid enough to take it. Did he
ever pay off the bet or did he try to
weasel out of it? I know, Mike and Fuller and says,
I know if things turned out differently, you definitely would
have paid off your bet. Rocky Mountain Oysters anyone. That's right,
(19:30):
Mike ear high five. And my other question is you
were concerned at the time that your male was getting
jacked off by someone. Did you ever find the culprint
very funny, very very funny?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I remember that bet. But when you make long term bets,
Danny on radio, no one actually remembers them.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
A good thing for you because you also bet me
and Coope that the Lakers and Lebron when they first
signed it, that they wouldn't even sniff the NBA playoffs,
let alone a final. And you said the Clippers. You
said the Clippers would win a championship before the Lakers
even got to one.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
What's wrong with your Clippers? Hold on buckeroo, hold on buckeroo.
Number one, the Lakers did not win a championship with
Lebron James wrong and number two the clip Here we
go the final four. That's okay. Go Kawhi Leonard, you
know right, Kawhi back? Come on?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Oh did you see that? Did you see the recent
lawsuit I did?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, Clippers are dealing with a former Clippers employee spilling
the dirt.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It's one of Kawhi's buddies, who was like, wants a
big check and good luck. Maybe you know, maybe he'll win.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
The way the story was written did not paint him
in the in the greatest picture. But yet early on
that Kaepernick story twenty seventeen, that was every day, it
was a new revelation.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
If I had to hear Clay talk about Kaepernick one
more time talk, he was great on the radio, But
I had to hear Kaepernick talk every single morning, without
a doubt, Kaepernick was going to come up in the conversation.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
It was gold.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
There was low hanging fruit, which is the most delicious fruit.
And we'd never seen anything like this in modern NFL.
And then the people were boycotting the NFL. They were
very upset and it was patriotism and stuff, and then
you had everything was just Nutso in the mid that
mid decade, that from like twenty fifteen the election and
(21:42):
twenty sixteen Trump.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Some people predicted that the NFL would fold and go
out of business.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Remember, yeah, Mark Cuban, didn't Mark Cuban say the NFL
was going to go they were going to kill themselves
or whatever. Yeah, yeah, you had. So you had all
that in with this span of a couple of years,
and then you topped it off. The cherry on top
of this was the COVID in twenty twenty, twenty twenty
one into twenty twenty two in California. Of course, I
still see people. I still see people wearing masks, so
I think it's still going on in parts of California.
(22:09):
But anyway, all right, thank you Mike for listening to
old podcasts. Do we get credit, Danny? Does the company
still say, hey, people are listening to your podcast even
if it was eight years old, we still get credit?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I know. That's what sucks is if this was a
TV show, you and I would see a payment, even
if it was thirty cents or thirty dollars, we'd get
something in our mailbox. But when you do radio, as
you've talked about before, in one air out the other
literally because there are no residuals.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, it sucks. It sucks. It's like music. You make
a song. How many bands, how many musicians, they're nineteen
or twenty years old, they do a song, it's a hit,
and they're still doing that song when they're fifty and sixties,
you know, sixty in their fifties and sixties, they're still
doing the same song they did when they were nineteen,
and they're making money off it. And you imagine you
(23:02):
doing what if?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Like you, I remember you did this really great Lob
City monologue one night, and what if For years people
called in requests and said, Ben, do your Lob City
monologue again.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh yeah, I would. I would nail it every time,
would get better, it would be better, it would be amazing,
and uh yeah, but no, it's a disposable form of
entertainment unfortunately. All right, thank you, Mike, Kevin and Ohio. Right,
so we're not sure where. It's kind of a big state,
he says. Ben and Danny. I wanted to get your
(23:38):
thoughts on this new wrinkle in fraud and I did
not say. Did you see the story this week that
the the new there's a surge in cryptocurrency fraud led
by young Nigerian men, that they've found a way to
rip people off with cryptocurrency.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh, I thought this was going to be that stupid
fast track thing. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I don't know how these pirates are doing it, But
when you drive anywhere near those fast track lanes. There's
some in Orange County. So when we were going through
Orange County to go to the San Diego Zoo, there
was an option, you know, to get in those fast
track lanes. Didn't get in there, but I did go
into like a carpool lane. And then later I get
(24:27):
a text saying that I went into the fast track
lane and I owed six dollars in ninety nine cents.
Maybe it wasn't a carpool lane. I click on the
stupid thing and it goes to the California fast Track page.
Whatever I put in my card to pay the six
ninety nine, it just spins and spins and it says
it couldn't process my card. The very next day, I
(24:50):
find out that my card has been flagged by my
bank for fraud.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You're an ass hat. It's a fake.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Fast track thing. They have put in your information so
they could rip off your info and then they try
to add you to their Apple Wallet to use your card.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Uh you know. I Actually it's funny you bring that up,
because I had when I was in the Bay Area,
we had the option of taking the Bay Bridge, which
they had to use. You have to use the like
the Northern California fast track thing, or you could go
the long way into San Francisco. So we went the
long way because I wanted we didn't have the fast track.
And I did get a text. Actually, now that you
bring it up, I got a text. But I text
(25:29):
my wife. I said did She drove part of the
way and I drove most of the way, and I say,
I know I didn't go in the carpol in. Did
you go in the carpool in? Because I don't. I
don't remember you doing that. She said, Oh, no, it's
a scam.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Because yeah, there's been reports of this all over the country. Now,
first of all, they won't text you. I read that,
and if you look closely at it, it's fast track.
The tea is missing, so it's fas track. So just
be aware of that and hit the report spam button
on it.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
All right? So were they like, how do they get
your number? They're just they're fishing.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
That's the part where Brenda was saying, that really creeps
me out that they were able to find out that
we were going through that area. How do they do that?
How do they scan the phone? Is it through Apple Someway?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah? Here it is It says, please pay fast track
lane on December thirty first, in order to avoid excessive
late fees and potential legal action on the bill, Please
pay the fee in time, thank you for your cooperation,
and wish you a happy holiday. And then has a load.
It has a link. Please reply Yet why then exit
the text message and open it again? Blah blah blah
(26:36):
blah blah. Uh yep, got that. I got the same thing.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, see, and I felt so stupid. The reason that
I didn't even think twice about it was because, like
I said, I knew I had just passed one of
those lanes. So that's how they got me.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, everyone who drives goes through one of those lanes
at one point or another, even if you don't go
in the lane you're.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I don't have any of those around where I lived.
I just happened to drive past one in Orange County
that day. Yeah, how the hell did they know where
I was?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah? That's craziness, man, That is uh not so uh.
Let's see Mike in Sacramento rites and says Benny and
Danny guh, he said, I heard you talk about your
trip to northern California on the show. I only mentioned
it once, Mike, I didn't mention the whole thing. He says,
a self driving Waymo cab, did you take one? And
(27:28):
then he sent me a video of a cab smashing
into a delivery like robot, like a Wayne. I guess
there's a you. It's not YouTube. It's like a TikTok
of Waymo's gone wild. Have you seen this?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I have seen this?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, like Waymo's that are that break and keep
driving in circles.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, there's one that drives in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, it's pretty wild. No, I did not take a
way Moo. I brought my car, I drove my car.
I'm I'm good. And I heard they're the same. But
my brother in law I was like, oh yeah, they're
like he takes them all the time. He's like, well, yeah,
they're pretty much the same price as taking Uber. So
really want to take an uber? Help a dude out,
you know, doing Uber help them out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's why we see things a little bit different because
so many truck drivers and paper boys and remember those
things called newspapers.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, God bless truly the paper boys, security guards.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
And truck drivers we support because we appreciate all of
those men and women that do those jobs, because there
are a lot of our listeners.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah for sure. I mean when I started the Overnight Show,
most of our live listeners were delivering the newspaper. Now
it's like maybe three percent, But at one point it
was like sixty percent of the people were delivering the newspaper.
They were going to get the papers, they had to
wrap them, the whole thing. And now it's hardly anybody.
(28:56):
Now it's mostly uber truck drivers, people working in bakeries, factories.
Those are normally the people. Good guys, I said, good
guys in bads, got cops and bad guys who are
out coming to crime and all that. So they're hey, listen.
So anyway, I think that's so. Now we have some
other ones, but I think we're good on that. We
gotta get ready for football, Danny. It's the last time
(29:17):
when the entire playoff bracket will be set. By the
end of the day today everything will be locked up
and then tonight our grand body of them all mina
Sota in Detroit for all the marbles. The number on
the NFC it is.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Who did you take in that game on Benny versus
the penny I actually.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Took, believe it or not, the Minnesota Vikings took the bikes.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Okay, So as.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
The number one seat in the entire NFC, do.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
You know on our prediction sheet inside the studio, we
all fill it out before the season begins. I picked
the Vikings to make the playoffs as my out on
a limb.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well, you're guaranteed of that appen.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Do you think when they give Sam Darnold big pay day,
do you think JJ McCarthy will be available to quarterback
needy teams?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, if you're gonna pay Donald, why not. It's not
like mccow old's. McCarthy ain't McCarthy's. He's not a young lad.
He was at Michigan for several years. I think, yeah,
why not trade him to somewhere like Seattle or there's
a bunch of teams Tennessee that they need a quarterback
and Donald's young enough if you believe in him. I skeptical.
(30:26):
I just in my head, Donald's gonna go out there
and ride the vomitcommet in the playoffs and then it'll
be like, well should we should we pay him? And
uh uh?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Do you think Lamar is gonna fold in the playoffs again.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, he has not had any success in the plus,
why would this year be any different? He hasn't. Now
they could win in spite of him, like because Henry
and the defense played better.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
But yeah, by the way, McCarthy's not that old. He's
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh I thought he was a little than that. But
Donald's is late twenties.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Twenty yeah, Donald's twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And all right, we will be back next weekend with
all new podcasts. If you want to recommend something, when
you want to send a message in for the email bag,
it's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth
Hour at gmail dot com. If you would like to
be part of the mail bag, if you want to
recommend something either for the Terrestrial show or this show,
(31:21):
or you want to recommend a guest, we don't do
really do guests, but people we can hang out with.
You can do that as well, same email address, the
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
So I'd like Brian Billick to be on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Brian Billich, Brian Billick, what we need Brian Brian Billick.
All right, Dann, you have any wonderful day, enjoy the football,
and I'll be back on the live Radio tonight tonight,
back at it Sunday night into Monday, eleven o'clock in
the West and two am in the East, all night
long and we'll talk to you man.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Have a booty full week later, Skater, I heard that Danny.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Brian Billy I'm not available, so please a message.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I got a murder. I gotta go.
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