October 28, 2023 • 32 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour homie Danny G. have some Saturday fun for you! They're talking: World Series, Bribery Mugs, Ghostly Pretzels, the Cold Table, Pop Goes the Culture, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the Aird e Rewhere you are locked in on
the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Because listen,
five nights a week of overnight radio not enough. Danny,
of course heard on Covino and Rich during the week
here at Fox Sports Radio. But it is the weekend,
(00:50):
it is Saturday. We had the first game of the
World Series last night between the Rangers and the Diamondbacks,
and Danny, I did want to mention I didn't get
to this on yesterday's podcast, but with the World Series
now underway, I had a smile from ear to ear,
a Cheshire Cat smile. Yet another viral video my Malard
(01:13):
monologue grading the World Series matchup and the level of
vitriol from Texas Ranger fans and fans from Arizona. Just outstanding,
just wonderful. Sucks, it's just wonderful because the pain, the agony.
(01:39):
If you don't agree. If I was a Diamondback or
a Ranger fan, I would give the World Series an
A plus. But I'm not, and as an outsider, it's
a terrible World Series. It's bad for baseball, and the
ratings are going to be horrific. But I was so happy, Danny.
Reading some of the comments here, this guy said, I
sound like a muffin. That was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
What a muffins sound like?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, I like me. Another person said, typical Boston winer.
I didn't realize this in Boston. I had no idea.
Go f yourself. It is so good. It is so great.
You're just the Dodgers are in. Yeah it is, and uh,
of course I'm right. It's a bad matchup. And you know,
(02:27):
I'll watch. I watched last night, I'll watch today, and
that's fine and all that, but it's just it gets
it's so good, Danny. I gotta tell you wrong. By
this podcast, we have what do we have on the
agenda here? It's Saturday, this is the twenty eighth day
of October. We've got ghostly Pretzels, the cold table, and
(02:50):
pop goes the culture. Now, before we get into this, Danny,
we need an all points bulletin to be sent out. Yes,
the mobile out of the back cave, the backscratcher segment.
We have not done one of these in a while
because I'm looking at the podcast page here, Danny, and
(03:10):
I'm going page down, page down, page down, and we
have reached it. It's like a writer that has writer's block.
We've reached podcast review block. Now, how can we fix that? Danny?
What can we do to fix that? What do you think?
Should we do a contest? Should we give something away?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What can we do?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, it's gonna have to involve prizes. Unfortunately, that's gonna
have to come out of your pocket.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
No, No, I'm sure the company will I Heart will
give us some money for the for the podcast, right
and get some swag, right?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, sure, we'll give away some mallor mugs.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, well we'll see, maybeybe, I'll come up with something.
But you don't. You shouldn't need to be bribe. It's
pretty simple. It helps us out keeps the podcast going.
Apple podcast page right there, you can click on the
buttons there's right in the middle.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
For Covino and Rich. To get our bribery balls, we
had to sacrifice weekly paid guests. Now, I know you
love paid guests, big Ben.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, we have a big budget. Well what we do
is we buy, we buy the callers.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And well here's here's the thing. I was given a
small budget, not very big, but I was given a
small budget in case I wanted, like an NFL expert
or an MLB expert or NBA expert to come on
once a week. Yeah, I said, I would rather take
that small budget and buy a big box and nerve
footballs to bribe people to give good podcast reviews. So
(04:48):
it's give and take. You got to like give something
to be able to get some promotional items.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, all right, well yeah, I mean we can come
up with some swag fifth hour swag or something like that, or.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You want to sacrifice from your live radio show.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Iowa, Sam, we can sack I'm Sam and good.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Later, Sam. Your hours just got cut in half. Some
swag to give away for the fifth hour podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You're gone, gone, Gone, gone gone. Yeah, so help us
out on that if you can Apple podcast page. That's
something the company looks at hopefully they're not looking at
it right now. And then I got a lot of
email this week about the Sunday podcast. Are we gonna
wait till Sunday to do the review on how many
downloads we got last week? Or should we do it now?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We'll do the reveal tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, we'll do it on the Sunday podcast. So anyway,
we begin with this. It is a yearly tradition at
the Malor mansion every Halloween. Just before Halloween, Yeah, the
wife throws together a special event for all the kiddos
in the family. It is the Mallor Witches Dinner. Now,
(06:03):
funny enough, no witches were harmed at the Witch's Dinner,
but it's the social event of the year, Danny, and
you got to be there. If you're not there, you
get a Hecht's and you don't want to get a hex.
So we had last weekend. We had my niece, nephew,
We had several cousins, just a bunch of people hanging out.
My sister in law was there and my brother in law,
(06:25):
a couple of my other cousins, and we cooked up
a spooky brew. We had our cauldron out because if
you're a witch, you got to cook in a cauldron.
So we cooked in the cauldron, and I opened the
book of Spells. I had some rituals, we had magic instructions,
all of that, and we were able to combine an
old nineteen seventies band earth, wind, and fire. We put
(06:47):
all that together, you know, the four elements earth, air, fire,
and water. We put those out there. But I did
go in the kitchen. I cooked, well, I didn't really cook.
I melted chocolate. I was back as the chalkleteer. Haven't
done that in a while. So we started futzing around
with the chocolate, and it was white chocolate like that.
(07:08):
Remember the basketball player for the Sacramento Kings years ago
named white chocolate racist Jason Williams. So anyway, we melted
the chocolate. I then took a stick of pretzels, like
a pretzel stick. We dipped the pretzel into the chocolate,
and then placed some little edible candy eyes on top
(07:34):
of the pretzel. And it was a ghostly pretzel at
that point. Delicious, those little mini eyeballs, and just great.
I made sugar cookies and then I had to cut
them into shapes like witches, bats, pumpkins, cats, you name it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I saw the picture of what you did with the
oranges in the apple slices. That was really cool. The
orange peeled with the apple slice at the top to
make it look like a pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yes, a little trick, and yeah, we went all out.
We went all out on that. So it was really cool.
Kids seem to have a good time. They just ate
a bunch of candy. We had rice, crispy treats and
some other stuff, different juices and whatnot. So they were
seem to have a good time.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
By the end of this hooton Nanny as you call it. Yes, yes,
the kids smacked up on sugar, running in circles, screaming.
Of course.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Then we had them all leave and they ran out,
and that was it. Not our problem, not our problem,
not my problem, somebody else problem. You got to deal
with these kids. Kids are probably still awake. It's been
a week. The kids are probably still awake. They're like
it is, still on a sugar high, still going through
their bloodstream as we speak. And so what happens, Dan
(08:50):
is you just have to throw them down on a
cold table. That is what you have to do.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Just pop them down on a cold table. And then
you're good, right, Yeah, oh that's what Kaiser does. So
a couple days ago, CoA had his dreaded two month
appointment at the doctor to get his shots, his first
round of shots.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Boo.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I'm not talking about the kind Manty likes to drink
right after her shift. I'm talking about the round of
shots you don't want to get as a little kid,
especially a little infant. This past Wednesday, we bring CooA
to Kaiser and it's not a good situation right now. Ben.
As you might have heard, they have a little strike
going on with their healthcare workers.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I'm a doctor.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
They're trying to get a twenty one percent wage hike.
I was reading. We all, yeah, so we had to
reschedule this appointment. The best of the best we're working.
Unless that's not true. Some scabs were in there the
whole time. I'm thinking, man, should we take them somewhere else? Like,
I don't want to be in the middle of a
strike when it comes to my kid and getting shots.
(09:56):
Can you really trust scabs? This is like going to
a football game when NFL players were striking.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, it's it's a tough, but what are your options?
You your Kaiser's you're medical, right, so you really don't
have any other options, are you.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, that's that's what co Is signed up to. So
we were stuck keeping the appointment. We had a backup doctor,
we had a backup nurse who was fumbling all over
the place, and in little cold check up Room twelve
we had CoA in there waiting to get his shots.
Three needles. They do three shots into the thigh in.
(10:34):
One of the vaccines is oral, so of course they
do that first because they know the kid is going
to be screaming. Yeah, so they give him the oral first.
He's trying to spit that up and I'm like, good boy,
spit it back out, get rid of that crap. Yeah,
And that's what sucks about these vaccines too, Ben. Obviously,
they got to poison your body with a little bit
(10:56):
of the virus whatever virus there giving you the vaccine
for that to poison you with a little bit of
it so that your body knows how to fight it off.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah. Well, the good thing is, you know he's not
gonna remember it, so it's a good thing, right.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So yeah, that's the good part. The bad part is
the two days following, are you crying. This nurse finally
comes back into the room after the doctor does the update,
and you'll be happy to know, cos in the ninety
one percent tile in all of his health measurements. So
he's a big boy. He's a future NFL linebacker for sure.
(11:34):
The doctor said, this is the biggest baby at this
age I've seen in a little while, so she was
pretty impressed with his stats. Then she said the nurse
will be in shortly to give him the shots. Waiting,
and you're waiting and waiting. Ten minutes go by, fifteen
minutes go by. My wife mutters, the strike, the stupid
(11:57):
strike they're having. Yeah. Thirty minutes later, the nurse comes
back in with an assortment of needles and liquid. She says, okay,
take his onesie off, you hold his arms. I'm gonna
hold his legs down now. This wantn't be that bad.
If maybe they thought this through and had like an
(12:17):
oversized stuffed Teddy bear to put the kid on. Yeah,
maybe like a little person personal heater pointed towards the kid. No,
these poor kids have to lay with just a little
diaper on on this cold table. That's there's gotta be
a better way, now, this is Obviously parents are laughing
right now because they've dealt with this for years. This
(12:39):
is my first experience with this. So I'm holding his
arms and this lady's jabbing these needles into his baby thighs.
He is screaming, blood curdling crying going on. And when
the lady wrapped up, she's like, all right, he'll be
okay in a couple of minutes. And she waltzed out
of the room. And we have a baby who's as
(13:01):
red as a turn up and is trying to catch
his breath because he can't breathe.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, and he's looking at you and saying, what did
you do?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Exactly? Yeah, looking at me, and his mom like, why
would you torture me like this?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You're supposed to protect me. You put me in here,
and what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Wow? That day, of course, he had a fever. We
had to give him baby tile and all. They didn't
do anything for this big guy. So he's crying because
of the pain in his legs. He had an upset
stomach because of that crap that they made him drink,
not fun whatsoever. The day after day two is the
worst day because that's when the pain and the legs
(13:40):
really hurt. By day three, which was yesterday, he was
feeling a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So yeah, he just put him in a hot tub,
you know, and whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
But Ben, we got to do this all over again
on December sixth.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh, how many more rounds are there's that?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
One more round or two more rounds of this?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Two more rounds? Man?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And I'm thinking, does it get easier as they get
a little older, or do they hate you even more
and look at you and disgust even more that you
would let them be tortured like this.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Now that you've done the first round, you can prepare,
like what can you You can bring some toys or
sign he's too little for that. I don't know what
you be.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, no, yeah, I don't think. And now he's going
to have a I think once he's in that little
checkup room and on that table, he's going to remembers
he's smart.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Maybe this is why a lot of people don't like
going to the doctor to that. Is it possible that
that is related.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Maybe this is why the nurses want to raise too,
because I feel like the next time in there, he's
going to kick that nurse in the Adams Apple.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, maybe by the next time, the Kaiser thing will
be settled and we'll actually have the people back and
it'll be a much cleaner, smoother process.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, we won't have Vince Evans working on him.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It's like it's like the baseball strike players. Remember the
night the nineteen ninety four spring training they had all
the replacement players and all that.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We'll be grew Garrymore by herself running the entire office.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, my goodness. All right, we have pop goes the culture.
We have a song, so we should probably play the song, right.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, Ohio Al did a pop pop for us, John.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
John Pop pop pop pop pop. Thank you the great
Ohio Al. And first story. These are stories that we
have uncovered from searching the dark web to give you
the latest inside skinny on just random things that are interesting, like,
(15:52):
for example, this has been making the rounds here the
first ever Florida Man Games. This is big. You'll have
events like a mullet contest and beer belly sumo wrestling.
I'm all in for that. Put me in man flow.
I gotta get Marlin's man to go to this or Gascon.
He's a Florida Man now. And yeah, this is like
(16:15):
the Redneck Olympics going on here. One guy in Florida
has decided to honor the Florida Man reputation in Saint Augustine,
Florida with the first ever Florida Man Games. This guy
named Pete I said he wanted to give people an
opportunity to live the Florida Man life for a day.
(16:37):
And this is a great idea. I wish I had
put the money behind. This is gonna make a ton
of money. This is gonna be such a big money maker.
It'll become a yearly thing. It'll be on television and
they'll make money that way, and the Internet is gonna
be viral the people participating in the games, The Florida
Man Games competition will be held you twenty fourth. Participants
(17:02):
will get a chance to take part in all kinds
of activities, including a weaponized pool noodle mud duel now
that sounds like fun essence will where goggles designed to
simulate drunkenness and they'll go at it beer belly as mentioned,
beer Belly Florida Sumo, where your stomach is the only
(17:23):
weapon you're allowed to deploy. Okay, how about this Evading
arrest obstacle course where you're going to be chased, they say,
by real actual cops.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You've got oh man Jed who fled needs to sign
up for this.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, he'd be perfect for that. You know who wouldn't
be perform that? Baker Mayfield, who is a Florida Man
place for the Buccaneers who saw them play the other night.
You have, yeah, a self obviously look in the mirror,
mullet contest, et cetera. Are some other things here. Florida
Man Games will also featured two former members of the
(18:02):
American Gladiators cast Nitro and Ice.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
So they the two that haven't died from steroids.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
They dug up Nitro and Ice and they will be
part of this. I gotta tell you, Danny, I'm in.
I'm in thumbs up, thumbs up for the Florida Man Games.
It's fun. You know what it reminds me of In
Pasadena they had I don't know if they still have it,
the Dude Do Parade. Remember have you ever heard of
the Dude O Parade?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Not heard of that?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Okay, they used to. I don't know if they still
have it, but they every every year and they'd have
the Dude Dot Parade, which is like mock. It's kind
of like mocking. It started out mocking the Rose Parade,
which is yeah, it's like people goofing around and stuff.
And I think it's been hijacked by certain groups over
the recent years. But when I was a kid, just
people dressing goofy and funny and walking down Colorado Boulevard
(18:54):
or whatever. So having to find fine time, what is next?
Goes the culture here. A list has popped up of
twenty eight places women refuse to go on a first date.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We covered this on Covino and Rich. It was popping
up all over Facebook and Instagram, and right off the bat,
number one is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, that's a great restaurant. And I would not want
a data woman that would not want to go to
the number one restaurant on this list here, Cheesecake Factor.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
No.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And I got into the comments immediately and said, you
are a witch if you think there's something wrong with
the cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And the bread alone that they serve you is worth
the visit.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I would argue the women that approve this list are
women that will be probably single for a while. You know,
you know, I'm just saying you know what I mean, Danny, Yeah,
go get another cat, don't do a lost cat magnet next. Yeah,
like any fast food chain, Buffalo, pretty much every restaurant.
(20:07):
These are only restaurants I go to when I was single. Well, church,
icond of like, why would you take a date to church?
That seems a little that seems a little much. Netflix
and Chill basically was on air. No, no long drive,
no sporting events. That's a bad list, man.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Neew plenty of girls back in the day that would
have loved to go to a sporting event as a date.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, it's not. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Well by the way house, your house is on there. Well,
my wife she went to my house on our first date,
so suck it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, there you go. And my first date we technically
met at a movie theater, although we didn't actually see
a movie because we couldn't figure the timing didn't work out,
so we went. I think we went to one of
the restaurants that is on the list. I closed it out,
but I think we went to one of those restaurants.
It was a chain bar diner type restaurant.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Pat, you got her a chili dog?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, exactly. I went to a waffle How about Russell Wilson.
That story is great. This week Russell Wilson renting out
an entire waffle house for his wife because that's her
favorite restaurant for her birthday. Baby, get some waffles. I
have a great time. Sirah. There you go. He's lucky.
There's waffle houses in Colorado. There are no waffle houses
(21:34):
in California. They stop at Arizona. They did not bring
the waffle house to where we are.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Oh are you saying that's the deciding factor to sign
with the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That and the fact he wanted to extort tons of
money and stop playing good football. Humans will become immortal,
but there is a catch, according to AI. The exclusive
report from The Daily Star in London says the secrets
to humans living forever could be they put the curve
(22:07):
that could in there because you know that's weaselter could
be unlocked at some point within the next seventy seven years.
I guess we'll be dead if Google's artificial intelligence powered
software is to be believed. So this is good news
for your son, Danny, Your son CoA immortal can live forever.
(22:29):
The claim comes from Google's artificial intelligence powered language model
software called Barred. Never heard of it, but they go
into some detail there and they say that within seventy
seven years, of course everyone who is live now will
either be really old or will be dead. So why
(22:54):
not go eighty years. You can make predictions from eighty
years because pretty much everybody will be gone. So yeah,
just absolutely, just absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I'm going to make sure to alphabetize all of our
hot takes that way, when Koa is a mortal on
the radio, he could be like, let's listen to a
fifth hour podcast hot take from the year twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
And now a classic let's go back in the hot
tub time machine to the year twenty twenty two, and
here we go. Next up, we have I don't know
if I buy this threads. The threads app already has
one hundred million monthly users.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Barbiton.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I've stopped going on there. I have a Thread's account,
but I don't really go on there anymore. Did I
tried it for a while as or whatever. I'll need
to go somewhere if Twitter starts charging everybody, but I'm
not leaving Twitter yet. They haven't done that. I guess
they're going to charge new people. I'm an old person,
so I don't think that's gonna matter. But one hundred
million monthly users and internet experts say that they are
(24:01):
in position to pass Twitter by that they will absolutely
destroy Elon's x. Actually what it's called now exis name
was Twitter.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I don't feel like it's user friendly. I feel like
Twitter is more straightforward and easy to use, whereas Threads,
you're looking at it and you're still sort of confused
as to how they want this thing to work.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, they got to tweak it, they got to update
it and all that, and it's gotta there's gotta be
ways you can look at stuff, where like Twitter had
they used to have the tweet deck, which they don't
have anymore, because you've gotta pay for it. So why
would you pay for something? What is the first rule? Well,
I don't know if it's the first rule of business, Danny,
(24:46):
but it's probably the most important rule of business. If
you charge people for something that was once free, people
will no longer use it. It is a basic rule. Yeah,
despite being the smartest man in the room, Elon Musk
clearly did not pay attention to that rule. And this
(25:08):
is the problem that the newspaper business had. The newspapers
started giving their stuff away for free online and then
they wanted to start charging. No one's going to pay
for it, So what do you do? And it's problem.
So if you start out, Hell, the Internet people want
there are people that want the Internet, Yet you have
to pay to go on the internet. Can't do it.
(25:30):
I can't do it right.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
No way. Yeah, that'd be like if suddenly we said, hey,
you know what, the fifth Hour, it's not for free anymore.
Wherever you download your podcast, you're going to have to
pay us six dollars and ninety nine cents a month.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Heah, now for the right to download the pip And
there are people that do that, for the right to
download the podcast. Well, there are those pages. And I'm
not totally opposed to it. What do they call where
you have to donate money Patreon? Patreon? Yeah, Like I
wouldn't be against that if I wasn't doing the radio show.
I mean, they're paying me to do this, so why
(26:05):
should I.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
No. I feel like Patreon is something that a guy
like Howard Stern would have used way back in the
day when he first started. He would have been like
raw and uncut and for your six dollars a month,
I'm gonna go crazy on this platform. And I get that,
but it would have started like that, like you said,
it wouldn't have been something he did for a while
(26:28):
and then been like, oh, I'm gonna spring this on
you at the last minute. Now six dollars or you
can't hear this any longer?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, moving on? What do we have you here?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
All right?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
How about this? You want to earn one hundred thousand dollars?
Danny go to Oregon. An Oregon fisherman actually earns over
one hundred thousand dollars in bounties by removing unwanted species
in the rivers. So the unwanted species found in the rivers.
This guy has gotten over one hundred thousand dollars from
(26:59):
doing so. Like, how long does does it actually take?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Though? Who pays him? The state?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yes, this fisherman in Oregon, he has taking home a
grand prize to remove thousands of problem fish throughout the rivers. Here,
the anglers earned over one hundred and seven thousand, eight
hundred bounties. He took part in the twenty twenty three
Northern Pike Minnow Sport Reward program, and the guy caught
(27:30):
this is crazy, almost eleven thousand Northern Pike minnows during
the season from May through September. And because of that,
the reward program this guy cashed in that is that
is nuts.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, what do they do with it? Is eleven thousand fish.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I'm reading the store here at the second place. How
about if you're in second place? Second place got nine thousand,
seven hundred and eighty six, so they still made ninety
so it's not like that's not too bad. But he's
about ten thousand less than this guy took away. But man,
the first twenty five in one season worth six dollars each.
After twenty five they're worth eight dollars each, and after
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two hundred they're worth ten dollars each.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
And that's a cool That is a cool. Last job.
When I leave, when I finally blow this popsicle stand
and I say I'm retiring from radio, and people say,
what are you going to do? I ain't gonna go
be a campus supervisor. I'm not going to be a
bus driver. I'm not going to be a superintendent or
a principal or advice. No, I'm gonna be a damn
(28:41):
angler And I'm going to get one hundred thousand dollars
for sucking some pike out of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
It's gotta be a great gig, right, although it must
be stressful because if you're not catching stuff at that rate. Though,
this guy must have he must have known the all
the trick and all that. So the pike minnows have
played an active role in the Columbia and Snake River
systems in Oregon. They've been eating millions of salmon and
steelhead juveniles, so all that there was protecting the salmon.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Ah. There you go with the money. They know the
money makers.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, that makes all the sense in the world. They
The numbers are out from Mattel after the summer blockbuster
movie of the Barbie Movie, and the claim has made
that the Barbie sales went up fourteen percent. Mattel sales
of Barbie four shouldn't have been more than that. That
(29:37):
seems like it's not enough. I don't know that thing.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I guess it's always been a good seller though.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, that's a fair point. And plus, the people that
went to the Barbie movie most likely had already tons
of Barbies, you know, right, so they probably had tons
of them. So they didn't really need it and all that. Anyway,
all right, we'll get out on that. It is Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
Saturday Fun Day today, and he plans Danny, I'm trying
(30:04):
to think. Well, I got the TV show which is
still airing all over the place. Check your local TV listings.
Please help us out, Benny versus the Penny. We'd love
to have you watch that and some different times this
weekend because of the NBA playing games and whatnot, So
make sure you check your schedule. But what are you
got going on today, Danny?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I'm gonna take the WiFi to get some breakfast. We'll
see how long we can stay there at the breakfast
place before CoA starts to get antsy and starts crying
and wants the booby. Yeah. Then we're gonna go to
the outlets. Beautiful ben Camarillo, California. I know you've taken
(30:44):
little flights into that airport there.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I have have gone by the Camerio Airport.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, home of the Strawberry Festival. Oh nice, to the
Nike outlet there?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Oh okay? And are they are they really cheap?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
They're about fifty percent off retail. Now the problem there
there's a shit ton of people inside that outlet. There's
a Puma right next door. There's a couple other shoe
spots as well. We usually go in there and then
you feel a little claustrophobic because there's so many people
inside the store. Get one pair, stand in a long line,
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and then get the hell out of there.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Gotcha?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Well that sounds like a night mirror for me. But welcome.
I hope you have a great time, and I'm sure
we'll hear all about it next week. We had another podcast.
Remember NFL. Obviously, if everyone's playing this weekend in the NFL,
no bye weeks this week, you need to download the mailbag.
We will find out. I do not even know the numbers.
Danny has not told me the numbers on how last
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week's podcast did. We'll find out together. Have a great Saturday.
We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, and don't forget Benny versus the Penny. Watch that today.
I'm going to watch it at eleven PM on the
Laker Channel.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Well, it's just a TV channel. I don't know that
I call it the Laker. It's a TV channaker channel.
It's the Ben Mellor Laker Channel TV channel. I don't
know that I would say Laker Channel. I mean it's
got other shows on.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Just check your local listings.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
It's called Spectrum Sports Net is what it's called.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's the Ben Mellor Laker Channel. I'll be watching your
show there later. Skater gotta murder. I gotta go.
Kabbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the Aird e Rewhere you are locked in on
the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Because listen,
five nights a week of overnight radio not enough. Danny,
of course heard on Covino and Rich during the week
here at Fox Sports Radio. But it is the weekend,
(00:50):
it is Saturday. We had the first game of the
World Series last night between the Rangers and the Diamondbacks,
and Danny, I did want to mention I didn't get
to this on yesterday's podcast, but with the World Series
now underway, I had a smile from ear to ear,
a Cheshire Cat smile. Yet another viral video my Malard
(01:13):
monologue grading the World Series matchup and the level of
vitriol from Texas Ranger fans and fans from Arizona. Just outstanding,
just wonderful. Sucks, it's just wonderful because the pain, the agony.
(01:39):
If you don't agree. If I was a Diamondback or
a Ranger fan, I would give the World Series an
A plus. But I'm not, and as an outsider, it's
a terrible World Series. It's bad for baseball, and the
ratings are going to be horrific. But I was so happy, Danny.
Reading some of the comments here, this guy said, I
sound like a muffin. That was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
What a muffins sound like?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes, I like me. Another person said, typical Boston winer.
I didn't realize this in Boston. I had no idea.
Go f yourself. It is so good. It is so great.
You're just the Dodgers are in. Yeah it is, and uh,
of course I'm right. It's a bad matchup. And you know,
(02:27):
I'll watch. I watched last night, I'll watch today, and
that's fine and all that, but it's just it gets
it's so good, Danny. I gotta tell you wrong. By
this podcast, we have what do we have on the
agenda here? It's Saturday, this is the twenty eighth day
of October. We've got ghostly Pretzels, the cold table, and
(02:50):
pop goes the culture. Now, before we get into this, Danny,
we need an all points bulletin to be sent out. Yes,
the mobile out of the back cave, the backscratcher segment.
We have not done one of these in a while
because I'm looking at the podcast page here, Danny, and
(03:10):
I'm going page down, page down, page down, and we
have reached it. It's like a writer that has writer's block.
We've reached podcast review block. Now, how can we fix that? Danny?
What can we do to fix that? What do you think?
Should we do a contest? Should we give something away?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What can we do?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, it's gonna have to involve prizes. Unfortunately, that's gonna
have to come out of your pocket.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
No, No, I'm sure the company will I Heart will
give us some money for the for the podcast, right
and get some swag, right?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, sure, we'll give away some mallor mugs.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, well we'll see, maybeybe, I'll come up with something.
But you don't. You shouldn't need to be bribe. It's
pretty simple. It helps us out keeps the podcast going.
Apple podcast page right there, you can click on the
buttons there's right in the middle.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
For Covino and Rich. To get our bribery balls, we
had to sacrifice weekly paid guests. Now, I know you
love paid guests, big Ben.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, we have a big budget. Well what we do
is we buy, we buy the callers.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And well here's here's the thing. I was given a
small budget, not very big, but I was given a
small budget in case I wanted, like an NFL expert
or an MLB expert or NBA expert to come on
once a week. Yeah, I said, I would rather take
that small budget and buy a big box and nerve
footballs to bribe people to give good podcast reviews. So
(04:48):
it's give and take. You got to like give something
to be able to get some promotional items.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, all right, well yeah, I mean we can come
up with some swag fifth hour swag or something like that, or.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You want to sacrifice from your live radio show.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Iowa, Sam, we can sack I'm Sam and good.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Later, Sam. Your hours just got cut in half. Some
swag to give away for the fifth hour podcast.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You're gone, gone, Gone, gone gone. Yeah, so help us
out on that if you can Apple podcast page. That's
something the company looks at hopefully they're not looking at
it right now. And then I got a lot of
email this week about the Sunday podcast. Are we gonna
wait till Sunday to do the review on how many
downloads we got last week? Or should we do it now?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We'll do the reveal tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, we'll do it on the Sunday podcast. So anyway,
we begin with this. It is a yearly tradition at
the Malor mansion every Halloween. Just before Halloween, Yeah, the
wife throws together a special event for all the kiddos
in the family. It is the Mallor Witches Dinner. Now,
(06:03):
funny enough, no witches were harmed at the Witch's Dinner,
but it's the social event of the year, Danny, and
you got to be there. If you're not there, you
get a Hecht's and you don't want to get a hex.
So we had last weekend. We had my niece, nephew,
We had several cousins, just a bunch of people hanging out.
My sister in law was there and my brother in law,
(06:25):
a couple of my other cousins, and we cooked up
a spooky brew. We had our cauldron out because if
you're a witch, you got to cook in a cauldron.
So we cooked in the cauldron, and I opened the
book of Spells. I had some rituals, we had magic instructions,
all of that, and we were able to combine an
old nineteen seventies band earth, wind, and fire. We put
(06:47):
all that together, you know, the four elements earth, air, fire,
and water. We put those out there. But I did
go in the kitchen. I cooked, well, I didn't really cook.
I melted chocolate. I was back as the chalkleteer. Haven't
done that in a while. So we started futzing around
with the chocolate, and it was white chocolate like that.
(07:08):
Remember the basketball player for the Sacramento Kings years ago
named white chocolate racist Jason Williams. So anyway, we melted
the chocolate. I then took a stick of pretzels, like
a pretzel stick. We dipped the pretzel into the chocolate,
and then placed some little edible candy eyes on top
(07:34):
of the pretzel. And it was a ghostly pretzel at
that point. Delicious, those little mini eyeballs, and just great.
I made sugar cookies and then I had to cut
them into shapes like witches, bats, pumpkins, cats, you name it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I saw the picture of what you did with the
oranges in the apple slices. That was really cool. The
orange peeled with the apple slice at the top to
make it look like a pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yes, a little trick, and yeah, we went all out.
We went all out on that. So it was really cool.
Kids seem to have a good time. They just ate
a bunch of candy. We had rice, crispy treats and
some other stuff, different juices and whatnot. So they were
seem to have a good time.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
By the end of this hooton Nanny as you call it. Yes, yes,
the kids smacked up on sugar, running in circles, screaming.
Of course.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Then we had them all leave and they ran out,
and that was it. Not our problem, not our problem,
not my problem, somebody else problem. You got to deal
with these kids. Kids are probably still awake. It's been
a week. The kids are probably still awake. They're like
it is, still on a sugar high, still going through
their bloodstream as we speak. And so what happens, Dan
(08:50):
is you just have to throw them down on a
cold table. That is what you have to do.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Just pop them down on a cold table. And then
you're good, right, Yeah, oh that's what Kaiser does. So
a couple days ago, CoA had his dreaded two month
appointment at the doctor to get his shots, his first
round of shots.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Boo.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I'm not talking about the kind Manty likes to drink
right after her shift. I'm talking about the round of
shots you don't want to get as a little kid,
especially a little infant. This past Wednesday, we bring CooA
to Kaiser and it's not a good situation right now. Ben.
As you might have heard, they have a little strike
going on with their healthcare workers.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I'm a doctor.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
They're trying to get a twenty one percent wage hike.
I was reading. We all, yeah, so we had to
reschedule this appointment. The best of the best we're working.
Unless that's not true. Some scabs were in there the
whole time. I'm thinking, man, should we take them somewhere else? Like,
I don't want to be in the middle of a
strike when it comes to my kid and getting shots.
(09:56):
Can you really trust scabs? This is like going to
a football game when NFL players were striking.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, it's it's a tough, but what are your options?
You your Kaiser's you're medical, right, so you really don't
have any other options, are you.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, that's that's what co Is signed up to. So
we were stuck keeping the appointment. We had a backup doctor,
we had a backup nurse who was fumbling all over
the place, and in little cold check up Room twelve
we had CoA in there waiting to get his shots.
Three needles. They do three shots into the thigh in.
(10:34):
One of the vaccines is oral, so of course they
do that first because they know the kid is going
to be screaming. Yeah, so they give him the oral first.
He's trying to spit that up and I'm like, good boy,
spit it back out, get rid of that crap. Yeah,
And that's what sucks about these vaccines too, Ben. Obviously,
they got to poison your body with a little bit
(10:56):
of the virus whatever virus there giving you the vaccine
for that to poison you with a little bit of
it so that your body knows how to fight it off.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah. Well, the good thing is, you know he's not
gonna remember it, so it's a good thing, right.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So yeah, that's the good part. The bad part is
the two days following, are you crying. This nurse finally
comes back into the room after the doctor does the update,
and you'll be happy to know, cos in the ninety
one percent tile in all of his health measurements. So
he's a big boy. He's a future NFL linebacker for sure.
(11:34):
The doctor said, this is the biggest baby at this
age I've seen in a little while, so she was
pretty impressed with his stats. Then she said the nurse
will be in shortly to give him the shots. Waiting,
and you're waiting and waiting. Ten minutes go by, fifteen
minutes go by. My wife mutters, the strike, the stupid
(11:57):
strike they're having. Yeah. Thirty minutes later, the nurse comes
back in with an assortment of needles and liquid. She says, okay,
take his onesie off, you hold his arms. I'm gonna
hold his legs down now. This wantn't be that bad.
If maybe they thought this through and had like an
(12:17):
oversized stuffed Teddy bear to put the kid on. Yeah,
maybe like a little person personal heater pointed towards the kid. No,
these poor kids have to lay with just a little
diaper on on this cold table. That's there's gotta be
a better way, now, this is Obviously parents are laughing
right now because they've dealt with this for years. This
(12:39):
is my first experience with this. So I'm holding his
arms and this lady's jabbing these needles into his baby thighs.
He is screaming, blood curdling crying going on. And when
the lady wrapped up, she's like, all right, he'll be
okay in a couple of minutes. And she waltzed out
of the room. And we have a baby who's as
(13:01):
red as a turn up and is trying to catch
his breath because he can't breathe.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, and he's looking at you and saying, what did
you do?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Exactly? Yeah, looking at me, and his mom like, why
would you torture me like this?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You're supposed to protect me. You put me in here,
and what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Wow? That day, of course, he had a fever. We
had to give him baby tile and all. They didn't
do anything for this big guy. So he's crying because
of the pain in his legs. He had an upset
stomach because of that crap that they made him drink,
not fun whatsoever. The day after day two is the
worst day because that's when the pain and the legs
(13:40):
really hurt. By day three, which was yesterday, he was
feeling a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So yeah, he just put him in a hot tub,
you know, and whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
But Ben, we got to do this all over again
on December sixth.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh, how many more rounds are there's that?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
One more round or two more rounds of this?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Two more rounds? Man?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And I'm thinking, does it get easier as they get
a little older, or do they hate you even more
and look at you and disgust even more that you
would let them be tortured like this.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Now that you've done the first round, you can prepare,
like what can you You can bring some toys or
sign he's too little for that. I don't know what
you be.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, no, yeah, I don't think. And now he's going
to have a I think once he's in that little
checkup room and on that table, he's going to remembers
he's smart.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Maybe this is why a lot of people don't like
going to the doctor to that. Is it possible that
that is related.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Maybe this is why the nurses want to raise too,
because I feel like the next time in there, he's
going to kick that nurse in the Adams Apple.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, maybe by the next time, the Kaiser thing will
be settled and we'll actually have the people back and
it'll be a much cleaner, smoother process.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, we won't have Vince Evans working on him.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It's like it's like the baseball strike players. Remember the
night the nineteen ninety four spring training they had all
the replacement players and all that.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We'll be grew Garrymore by herself running the entire office.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, my goodness. All right, we have pop goes the culture.
We have a song, so we should probably play the song, right.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, Ohio Al did a pop pop for us, John.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
John Pop pop pop pop pop. Thank you the great
Ohio Al. And first story. These are stories that we
have uncovered from searching the dark web to give you
the latest inside skinny on just random things that are interesting, like,
(15:52):
for example, this has been making the rounds here the
first ever Florida Man Games. This is big. You'll have
events like a mullet contest and beer belly sumo wrestling.
I'm all in for that. Put me in man flow.
I gotta get Marlin's man to go to this or Gascon.
He's a Florida Man now. And yeah, this is like
(16:15):
the Redneck Olympics going on here. One guy in Florida
has decided to honor the Florida Man reputation in Saint Augustine,
Florida with the first ever Florida Man Games. This guy
named Pete I said he wanted to give people an
opportunity to live the Florida Man life for a day.
(16:37):
And this is a great idea. I wish I had
put the money behind. This is gonna make a ton
of money. This is gonna be such a big money maker.
It'll become a yearly thing. It'll be on television and
they'll make money that way, and the Internet is gonna
be viral the people participating in the games, The Florida
Man Games competition will be held you twenty fourth. Participants
(17:02):
will get a chance to take part in all kinds
of activities, including a weaponized pool noodle mud duel now
that sounds like fun essence will where goggles designed to
simulate drunkenness and they'll go at it beer belly as mentioned,
beer Belly Florida Sumo, where your stomach is the only
(17:23):
weapon you're allowed to deploy. Okay, how about this Evading
arrest obstacle course where you're going to be chased, they say,
by real actual cops.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You've got oh man Jed who fled needs to sign
up for this.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, he'd be perfect for that. You know who wouldn't
be perform that? Baker Mayfield, who is a Florida Man
place for the Buccaneers who saw them play the other night.
You have, yeah, a self obviously look in the mirror,
mullet contest, et cetera. Are some other things here. Florida
Man Games will also featured two former members of the
(18:02):
American Gladiators cast Nitro and Ice.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
So they the two that haven't died from steroids.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
They dug up Nitro and Ice and they will be
part of this. I gotta tell you, Danny, I'm in.
I'm in thumbs up, thumbs up for the Florida Man Games.
It's fun. You know what it reminds me of In
Pasadena they had I don't know if they still have it,
the Dude Do Parade. Remember have you ever heard of
the Dude O Parade?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Not heard of that?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Okay, they used to. I don't know if they still
have it, but they every every year and they'd have
the Dude Dot Parade, which is like mock. It's kind
of like mocking. It started out mocking the Rose Parade,
which is yeah, it's like people goofing around and stuff.
And I think it's been hijacked by certain groups over
the recent years. But when I was a kid, just
people dressing goofy and funny and walking down Colorado Boulevard
(18:54):
or whatever. So having to find fine time, what is next?
Goes the culture here. A list has popped up of
twenty eight places women refuse to go on a first date.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We covered this on Covino and Rich. It was popping
up all over Facebook and Instagram, and right off the bat,
number one is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, that's a great restaurant. And I would not want
a data woman that would not want to go to
the number one restaurant on this list here, Cheesecake Factor.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
No.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And I got into the comments immediately and said, you
are a witch if you think there's something wrong with
the cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And the bread alone that they serve you is worth
the visit.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I would argue the women that approve this list are
women that will be probably single for a while. You know,
you know, I'm just saying you know what I mean, Danny, Yeah,
go get another cat, don't do a lost cat magnet next. Yeah,
like any fast food chain, Buffalo, pretty much every restaurant.
(20:07):
These are only restaurants I go to when I was single. Well, church,
icond of like, why would you take a date to church?
That seems a little that seems a little much. Netflix
and Chill basically was on air. No, no long drive,
no sporting events. That's a bad list, man.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Neew plenty of girls back in the day that would
have loved to go to a sporting event as a date.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, it's not. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Well by the way house, your house is on there. Well,
my wife she went to my house on our first date,
so suck it.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, there you go. And my first date we technically
met at a movie theater, although we didn't actually see
a movie because we couldn't figure the timing didn't work out,
so we went. I think we went to one of
the restaurants that is on the list. I closed it out,
but I think we went to one of those restaurants.
It was a chain bar diner type restaurant.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Pat, you got her a chili dog?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, exactly. I went to a waffle How about Russell Wilson.
That story is great. This week Russell Wilson renting out
an entire waffle house for his wife because that's her
favorite restaurant for her birthday. Baby, get some waffles. I
have a great time. Sirah. There you go. He's lucky.
There's waffle houses in Colorado. There are no waffle houses
(21:34):
in California. They stop at Arizona. They did not bring
the waffle house to where we are.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Oh are you saying that's the deciding factor to sign
with the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That and the fact he wanted to extort tons of
money and stop playing good football. Humans will become immortal,
but there is a catch, according to AI. The exclusive
report from The Daily Star in London says the secrets
to humans living forever could be they put the curve
(22:07):
that could in there because you know that's weaselter could
be unlocked at some point within the next seventy seven years.
I guess we'll be dead if Google's artificial intelligence powered
software is to be believed. So this is good news
for your son, Danny, Your son CoA immortal can live forever.
(22:29):
The claim comes from Google's artificial intelligence powered language model
software called Barred. Never heard of it, but they go
into some detail there and they say that within seventy
seven years, of course everyone who is live now will
either be really old or will be dead. So why
(22:54):
not go eighty years. You can make predictions from eighty
years because pretty much everybody will be gone. So yeah,
just absolutely, just absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I'm going to make sure to alphabetize all of our
hot takes that way, when Koa is a mortal on
the radio, he could be like, let's listen to a
fifth hour podcast hot take from the year twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
And now a classic let's go back in the hot
tub time machine to the year twenty twenty two, and
here we go. Next up, we have I don't know
if I buy this threads. The threads app already has
one hundred million monthly users.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Barbiton.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I've stopped going on there. I have a Thread's account,
but I don't really go on there anymore. Did I
tried it for a while as or whatever. I'll need
to go somewhere if Twitter starts charging everybody, but I'm
not leaving Twitter yet. They haven't done that. I guess
they're going to charge new people. I'm an old person,
so I don't think that's gonna matter. But one hundred
million monthly users and internet experts say that they are
(24:01):
in position to pass Twitter by that they will absolutely
destroy Elon's x. Actually what it's called now exis name
was Twitter.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I don't feel like it's user friendly. I feel like
Twitter is more straightforward and easy to use, whereas Threads,
you're looking at it and you're still sort of confused
as to how they want this thing to work.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, they got to tweak it, they got to update
it and all that, and it's gotta there's gotta be
ways you can look at stuff, where like Twitter had
they used to have the tweet deck, which they don't
have anymore, because you've gotta pay for it. So why
would you pay for something? What is the first rule? Well,
I don't know if it's the first rule of business, Danny,
(24:46):
but it's probably the most important rule of business. If
you charge people for something that was once free, people
will no longer use it. It is a basic rule. Yeah,
despite being the smartest man in the room, Elon Musk
clearly did not pay attention to that rule. And this
(25:08):
is the problem that the newspaper business had. The newspapers
started giving their stuff away for free online and then
they wanted to start charging. No one's going to pay
for it, So what do you do? And it's problem.
So if you start out, Hell, the Internet people want
there are people that want the Internet, Yet you have
to pay to go on the internet. Can't do it.
(25:30):
I can't do it right.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
No way. Yeah, that'd be like if suddenly we said, hey,
you know what, the fifth Hour, it's not for free anymore.
Wherever you download your podcast, you're going to have to
pay us six dollars and ninety nine cents a month.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Heah, now for the right to download the pip And
there are people that do that, for the right to
download the podcast. Well, there are those pages. And I'm
not totally opposed to it. What do they call where
you have to donate money Patreon? Patreon? Yeah, Like I
wouldn't be against that if I wasn't doing the radio show.
I mean, they're paying me to do this, so why
(26:05):
should I.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
No. I feel like Patreon is something that a guy
like Howard Stern would have used way back in the
day when he first started. He would have been like
raw and uncut and for your six dollars a month,
I'm gonna go crazy on this platform. And I get that,
but it would have started like that, like you said,
it wouldn't have been something he did for a while
(26:28):
and then been like, oh, I'm gonna spring this on
you at the last minute. Now six dollars or you
can't hear this any longer?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, moving on? What do we have you here?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
All right?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
How about this? You want to earn one hundred thousand dollars?
Danny go to Oregon. An Oregon fisherman actually earns over
one hundred thousand dollars in bounties by removing unwanted species
in the rivers. So the unwanted species found in the rivers.
This guy has gotten over one hundred thousand dollars from
(26:59):
doing so. Like, how long does does it actually take?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Though? Who pays him? The state?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yes, this fisherman in Oregon, he has taking home a
grand prize to remove thousands of problem fish throughout the rivers. Here,
the anglers earned over one hundred and seven thousand, eight
hundred bounties. He took part in the twenty twenty three
Northern Pike Minnow Sport Reward program, and the guy caught
(27:30):
this is crazy, almost eleven thousand Northern Pike minnows during
the season from May through September. And because of that,
the reward program this guy cashed in that is that
is nuts.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, what do they do with it? Is eleven thousand fish.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I'm reading the store here at the second place. How
about if you're in second place? Second place got nine thousand,
seven hundred and eighty six, so they still made ninety
so it's not like that's not too bad. But he's
about ten thousand less than this guy took away. But man,
the first twenty five in one season worth six dollars each.
After twenty five they're worth eight dollars each, and after
(28:15):
two hundred they're worth ten dollars each.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
And that's a cool That is a cool. Last job.
When I leave, when I finally blow this popsicle stand
and I say I'm retiring from radio, and people say,
what are you going to do? I ain't gonna go
be a campus supervisor. I'm not going to be a
bus driver. I'm not going to be a superintendent or
a principal or advice. No, I'm gonna be a damn
(28:41):
angler And I'm going to get one hundred thousand dollars
for sucking some pike out of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
It's gotta be a great gig, right, although it must
be stressful because if you're not catching stuff at that rate. Though,
this guy must have he must have known the all
the trick and all that. So the pike minnows have
played an active role in the Columbia and Snake River
systems in Oregon. They've been eating millions of salmon and
steelhead juveniles, so all that there was protecting the salmon.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Ah. There you go with the money. They know the
money makers.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, that makes all the sense in the world. They
The numbers are out from Mattel after the summer blockbuster
movie of the Barbie Movie, and the claim has made
that the Barbie sales went up fourteen percent. Mattel sales
of Barbie four shouldn't have been more than that. That
(29:37):
seems like it's not enough. I don't know that thing.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I guess it's always been a good seller though.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, that's a fair point. And plus, the people that
went to the Barbie movie most likely had already tons
of Barbies, you know, right, so they probably had tons
of them. So they didn't really need it and all that. Anyway,
all right, we'll get out on that. It is Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
Saturday Fun Day today, and he plans Danny, I'm trying
(30:04):
to think. Well, I got the TV show which is
still airing all over the place. Check your local TV listings.
Please help us out, Benny versus the Penny. We'd love
to have you watch that and some different times this
weekend because of the NBA playing games and whatnot, So
make sure you check your schedule. But what are you
got going on today, Danny?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I'm gonna take the WiFi to get some breakfast. We'll
see how long we can stay there at the breakfast
place before CoA starts to get antsy and starts crying
and wants the booby. Yeah. Then we're gonna go to
the outlets. Beautiful ben Camarillo, California. I know you've taken
(30:44):
little flights into that airport there.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I have have gone by the Camerio Airport.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, home of the Strawberry Festival. Oh nice, to the
Nike outlet there?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Oh okay? And are they are they really cheap?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
They're about fifty percent off retail. Now the problem there
there's a shit ton of people inside that outlet. There's
a Puma right next door. There's a couple other shoe
spots as well. We usually go in there and then
you feel a little claustrophobic because there's so many people
inside the store. Get one pair, stand in a long line,
(31:20):
and then get the hell out of there.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Gotcha?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Well that sounds like a night mirror for me. But welcome.
I hope you have a great time, and I'm sure
we'll hear all about it next week. We had another podcast.
Remember NFL. Obviously, if everyone's playing this weekend in the NFL,
no bye weeks this week, you need to download the mailbag.
We will find out. I do not even know the numbers.
Danny has not told me the numbers on how last
(31:44):
week's podcast did. We'll find out together. Have a great Saturday.
We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, and don't forget Benny versus the Penny. Watch that today.
I'm going to watch it at eleven PM on the
Laker Channel.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Well, it's just a TV channel. I don't know that
I call it the Laker. It's a TV channaker channel.
It's the Ben Mellor Laker Channel TV channel. I don't
know that I would say Laker Channel. I mean it's
got other shows on.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Just check your local listings.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
It's called Spectrum Sports Net is what it's called.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's the Ben Mellor Laker Channel. I'll be watching your
show there later. Skater gotta murder. I gotta go.
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