February 25, 2023 • 35 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour home-skillet Danny G. have fun for your Saturday! They're talking: Dr. Seuss Was Right, In & Out Leads to More In N' Out, the Toxic Mix, Back Scratcher, and Pop Goes the Culture!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaboom. 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 sole fashion of fairness.
He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The Clearinghouse
of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G. Welcome
into the audio box that rocks from such a rocking dude,
but not a Fox Sports radio production. No, this is iHeartMedia.
(00:47):
I got it all the game. Big difference, Big difference here,
Danny G. Big difference. And we are slaving away over
these red hot microphones for another award winning, Marconi worthy
piece of audio content. Wrong only for you, because let's
five days a week not enough. Eight days a week,
(01:09):
every day of the week. He got something. Yep. We
both have brand new car payments that we're dealing with,
So that means if there was a ninth day of
the week, we would be working that as well. Yes,
whatever it takes, we'll have to add another bonus podcast,
You've got the animal thunderdome right around the corner. You
might have to do a thunderdome for each different animal,
(01:32):
like lion thunderdome, the dog thunderdome, the cat, the you know,
the elephant thunderdome, and just change it up. Gets snakes
the snakes. Yes, snakes are very popular. So on this
latest edition of the fifth Hour, We've got Doctor Seuss
was right. In and out leads to more in and
(01:52):
out the Toxic Mitch mix. Those two stories could be related.
Hop goes the culture, our friend Ohio al back again, Backscratcher,
and whatever else pops up a ton of audio content
to get to. But let's get started with this. Oh
the places you'll go and the people you'll see. A
great quote by doctor Seuss and we blew into the
(02:16):
bugle on the pod last week asking you, the members
of the Malamus, of the rank and file, the great Unwashed,
what the hell are you doing while you consume this podcast?
And I had some ideas. I thought a lot of
people were working out. I thought they were maybe doing
some stuff around the house. So many interesting responses here
(02:38):
from friends of the show. I really enjoyed learning about
these people. Danny, I thought we'd share some of them.
Unfortunately we are not able to read them all due
to time constraints. So what I have done is I've
picked a grab bag, a random selection of a few.
Give you a little flavor of what we received. So
(02:59):
are you ready? Oh? Yes, all right? And again it's
much like doctor SEUs said, Oh the places you go,
the people you see, give you a high five. We'll
give you a five pack. Kyrie from Oka See a
big supporter of our podcast. He says, I listen to
you guys as soon as I get up On the weekend,
(03:22):
Kyrie says, he washes his face, brushes his teeth, brushes
his teeth while the fifth hour is going, He makes coffee,
He runs errands, does chores around the house, etc. Et cetera,
et cetera. He says that the podcast is the soundtrack
of the weekend. He points out, so he wanted to
thank us Danny for everything he is. So Kyrie, make
(03:45):
sure you brush your teeth and you got a floss. Also, Kyrie,
and maybe a little mouthwash, little mouthwasher, you don't have
bad breath. No, that's pretty cool though, because the soundtrack
to my weekend. When I was a kid. Was Nwa
Beach a little different? Little different? We're gangsta in the
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talk format. Scott from Northern Kentucky rights and he says,
I usually work for the Postal Service. I start at
four pm, so I have the shows from the night
before and I start my workday. Listen to the last
night show. It gets me through the first couple hours
in the night. The weekend shows the Fifth Hour. I
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usually save all three for my Sunday shift. I would
be lost without them. See this guy, We are making
sure that commerce at the United States Postal Service moves.
Without this show, there might not be mail delivered. Do
you understand how important this podcast is, Danny? This is
(04:49):
God's work. Yeah, and Hey, much like the Postal Creed,
the Fifth Hour believes in the same mindset as the
Postal Creed. Neither snow nor rain, nor heat nor gloom
of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of
their appointed rounds. That is our belief. We must complete
(05:09):
the podcast. We start the podcast, Danny, We have to
complete the podcast. Very important. Yeah. I always just think
about that mailman on the TV show Chairs, Oh at
the bar, drinking Cliff Claven. Yeah, leg you so anyway,
(05:31):
he says, he listens on Sunday helped to meet you
and greet you. And since in the Cincinnati area soon
he says, I will be there. I've been a fan
since I was working late nights in Hollywood, California, was
at the Avalon in Hollywood, formerly the Palace. I've been
by there many times, Scott, he says. Is it very
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close to the Tommies you used to go to, Yes,
the famous Tommies where my fat ass would sit in
the parking lot at me in the morning, you know,
watching people come off the Hollywood Sunset Strip and I'd
be sitting in my car eating a triple cheeseburger with
chili cheese fries and a lemonade. You were chili. I
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was getting as fat as I could possibly get. I
loved it though. It was great. Next up here, let's
see this is not the mailback, by the way, These
are just this is listener feedback on what people are
doing wall they listen to this podcast. Berry from Nashville, Yo, Yo.
Mob Berry writes, and he says, for the fifth hour podcast,
I usually listen as soon as it's available, so that
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could be when I'm making breakfast or on my walk
or bike a ride around in the morning. So another
early morning riser that listens to the podcast Berry in Nashville.
So thank you Berry, appreciate that. Callighan tim writes, and
he says, on Friday, I'm at work. I'm a machinist.
On Saturday, it can be anything this time of the year.
(06:59):
I'm working once the weather is nice. I'm usually doing
yard work. I have almost three acres, so it takes
me a good two hours to mo Mo Mo Mo.
Not Mo from Brooklyn. This is Callaghan Timbo. What state
is he in? State of Denial? No, he doesn't say
it doesn't say say damn, where do you have three
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acres at? Give me a please, North Dakota. No, I
don't know, he says. Sometimes I'm charging the oil or
changing the oil is what I believe he meant changing
the oil on my truck, or doing some random project
around the house. On Sunday, he says, I'm usually folding
laundry or whatever I didn't get done on Saturday. Sometimes
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I listen on Monday at work, he says. I know
I'm boring, but when you work sixty hours a week,
you have plenty of time to listen to podcasts. Well,
good job Callagan, Tim, thank you. I appreciate that. And
sounds like you're much more of a hearty man than
us Danny in the fact that he moses own lawn,
he changes his own oil. These are all things that
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we don't typically do, right. Yeah, Well, we work eighty hours,
so we don't have time exactly. Plus I don't have
a yard, demo you do, but I don't. I have
a balcony. Yeah, I have a yard, but there's no
grass in the back at the Mallard mansion right now.
It's so you just kick rocks. Yeah, it's it's mostly mud.
(08:28):
With all the rain that it never rains in La.
It does rain in the north Woods. It does absolutely
rain in the north Woods. All right, last one. We
will only do five of these. Who'll do one more?
Tony from so Cal I thought this was the most
unique one that we got, and so I've saved it
for the big ending, the big finish, that says hi,
(08:49):
Uncle Ben and Danny g I listened to the fifth
hour while I am doing my physical therapy, Tony says,
why is Tony doing physical therapy? Danny? He is a
former NFL pro bowler Close Tony has revealed reveal answers,
reveal answers. He says he got shot in the leg
(09:10):
three months ago. Ah but that damn yeah. Now, Tony
does not reveal how he got shot in the leg.
There's I don't know if he's a Plaxico Burth situation.
That could be right. Maybe it was a self inflicted wound.
It could be as a police officer, it could be
(09:30):
as a criminal. I don't know. All. He says he
was shot in the leg three months ago. Tony have
to write back and let us know if you can.
He says he should be back on the tennis court
in three more months. I don't think he's a criminal, though,
I don't know how many burglars play tennis. It's a
fair point. That's a good point. So, but but no,
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if you get shot in the leg, it's assuming you
don't die. It's a six month situation, well at least
where he got shot. So fleshwoman, A flesh woman. Aside
from that, he says, and the shower, those are the
only times I go podcast, he says. While I'm in
(10:11):
the car, I usually go live AM five seventy So
he's in La here music or iHeartRadio, so I can
listen to other Fox guys outside of La. Not much
podcasting in the car though, so that is from Tony
in Socas, So that is a little sampling, Danny. We
asked the members of the Mallard Militia, the fans of
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the podcast here, to let us know what they're doing.
And yeah, it's kind what I thought. For the most part,
listening in the morning, doing stuff around the house, eating breakfast,
you're taking care of your personal grooming, like Kyrie or
Scott at work. He saves the podcast for his duty
(10:53):
at the postal service. So that's good. It's good to
get that feedback, and I appreciate that. We'll do that
again from time to time. Why not, Danny, What the heck?
Kind of cool? And now I know I have some
extra thoughts to be in my head now on early
Friday morning, Saturday morning, and Sunday morning, when I'm getting
each podcast ready to shoot out to the world, I
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feel the weight of the nation on my shoulders. I
feel millions of feet tapping, waiting, waiting to hear your
voice clicking refresh, saying I need that freaking podcast. I
cannot eat my scrambled eggs. I cannot do it. Sam,
I am no, no, I need the echo from the
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podcast blasting out. Make it happen. All right, let's see.
So we thank you for that. So doctor SEUs was right.
There is an old saying, and this was part of
the early marketing campaign. In and out leads to more
in and out. That's a slogan. You can get it
on a bumper sticker. I think I might be making
that up. I don't know. I know this is audio
(11:57):
and not video. But you just went like this with
your arm when you said that. I did, and that's
kind of what this is. In and out leads to
more in and out. So in and out thrust your
arm like that, yeah, to more in and out and
then hold a burgerau. My pregnant wife get away from
Me mentioned this before on another episode, and we think
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it's because she needs iron. She has been craving burgers,
and more specifically in and out burgers. She'll be like,
oh my god, I have a headache. I need an
in and out burger. So we found out that the
cure to these headaches she's been getting while pregnant is
a fat double double from in and out with some fries.
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And also she's like you, she doesn't like milk as
you call it, but she's been ordering shakes. Oh it's
the oddest thing, dude. I've known her for over two
years now, she's dipping fries into these milkshakes and then
taking a big bite of burger. And you know something
(13:05):
is up, Ben, because her second favorite place to eat
right now raising canes. Yeah. Well, she's a smart woman.
That's like my diet. If I can eat fast food,
that's where I would go raising canes and in and out.
What's weird about it is speaking yesterday's podcast, we mentioned tattoos.
I made her go on a trip with me to
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Temecula one weekend because there's a really good tattoo artist there. Yeah.
So that's like in San Diego area, right, yeah, North
County area. Yeah, it was a nice drive. I had
to get an airbnb and then the next day I
woke up and went and got the tattoo. Well, the
night that we got there, there was a raising canes
(13:47):
like a couple of blocks away from our airbnb, and
I had told her all about raising canes and she
knew your love affair with it. She wanted to see
what the hype was about, is my witness. She sat
there like the biggest bitch while we were eating the
food because she was like, this is way over hyped. What. Yeah,
(14:11):
she told me the fries weren't good. It was too tried.
She said, the sauce wasn't that great. Right there, I
thought about breaking up with her. That's it. That's a
deal breaker. Now fast forward to her being pregnant and
not only moonlighting within and out, but she went the
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weekend you and I were at Radio Row in Phoenix,
she drove our middle kid to a baseball tournament in Henderson.
The Orca swam to Nevada and her son's he's a
great baseball player, and him and his friends they live
(14:56):
on Raising Canes the love. Hey listen, you were not
on the show, Danny, but we had a guy from
Minnesota that's the manager of the Raising Canes and maybe
not the man. He works at Raising Canes, and he
told the story about after Vikings practice, Kirk Cousins would
come into Raising Canes with a drive through and order
(15:17):
some chicken. All right, I want my chicken. NFL quarterback
ordering the Raising Keynes. Yeah, so that's all. He really
wants to eat with his teammates after practices, after games,
they all meet up at the Raising Canes. Yeah. So
she told me, She's like, well, you know, we got
some options here in the Vegas area, but all he
(15:38):
wants is raising canes. So I'm gonna go have it
with him and I'll give it another try. So I
was really curious. Now I'm in Phoenix, I'm waiting for
this report to come back in, and she tells me,
I don't know what's changed, but Bark raising kne sauce
is tremendous. He's like, the chicken was great, love the fries.
(16:01):
I can't wait to go back. All right, now you go.
Now we're cooking. Man. So there's pregnancy. Not only is
going to give me a son, but it gave me
a new found raising Canes fan. Yeah that's great. And listen,
I love the chicken fingers, but the chicken fingers the
delivery vehicle for the sauce. The chicken finger brings you
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the sauce, and that's the way to do it. And
you know it's I like what I'm hearing. I like
that she's dipping the fries and the shake mean, the
whole point of eating. It's all really combining. We've talked
about this a lot over the years, Danny. You know
my position on this. I read this in a book
years ago, so I always repeat it because I believe
it's true. It's all about combining the right amounts of salt, sugar,
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and fat. That's it. And there's people spend millions of dollars,
these big companies, the food manufacturers, they spend all this money.
They call it the bliss point, the perfect ratio of
each group salt, sugar and fat. Because if you get that,
it's a dick. We keep going back. We want more,
(17:02):
more and more and more. So I feel like we
got to thank in and out for this because it
was the gateway drug to raising kens. Yeah all right,
See that was a surprise. I did not see the
story going that way. I did not have that on
my big board. My next detail, the life of Mallard
and Danny Gy. I was reminded Danny of something that
(17:24):
you cannot do when you live the fasting life. There's
a learning curve to these things. So I am obsessive
with keeping my routine. I eat once a day. I
usually skip a day or two during the week. I
don't eat anything, and this is the way I can
maintain my weight. Doctors would still say I'm fat, I
(17:46):
need to lose more weight, But for me, I'm comfortable
with where I am and I like my appearance in life,
and so I'm happy with what's going on with that.
So that's my diet. The other night, I was really
tired and I didn't sleep well. I don't usually sleep well,
but I only got like two hours of sleep. It
(18:07):
was really bad, and so I was kind of feeling
it as the show's going on and all that, and
it just wasn't doing that great. I was trying to
stay awake, and you try to do a radio show
and you're tired, sometimes you start slurring your words. And
so my wife had said, hey, you should take some caffeine,
(18:27):
and we had this. She had bought this supplement which
is like a caffeine powder type thing that you mix
them do a drink and it's got no calories, so
you can when you're fasting, you can take it. Allegedly,
I don't know. Maybe it's got a bunch of calories
and it gives you a little a little joke, a
little boost of energy. And so I was like, all right,
(18:48):
I don't usually do that, but I was like, okay,
I need to do it. And I had not eaten
in a good amount of time, and it had probably
been a day and a half since I last had
some food. My stomach was pretty pretty empty. So this
is known as dangerous ground. So I took a little
scoop of this powder. I poured it into the I
(19:10):
grabbed a cup, I filled it with water. I poured
the powder in the water. I stirred it, and I
drank the powdered caffeine. And then I went back and
I did the show and everything was all right, did
the show, no problem. And then about an hour after
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the show had ended, I had this feeling in my stomach.
Oh yeah, I mean we've all had that feeling. I've
had it a few times. And I got a feeling.
And it's the strangest thing because I hadn't eaten in
a couple of days. But I get that feeling like, oh,
(19:53):
you know, there's a clock ticking down, and if you
do not make it to your destiny, the porcelain throne,
this is going to end very badly. It's like what
you did to that bathroom at the park pretty much,
pretty much. Yeah, and sure enough, the uh the clock
(20:14):
ran out and uh boom goes to dynamite toxic mix
the the caffeine on an empty stomach. I'm a caffeine fiend,
and my stomach went called blue. And it's it's not
not to get too graphic on the podcast, but who
the hell cares? It was not like it didn't look
like jumbalaya that came out. Wait wait, wait, wait wait,
(20:36):
we just found out that some listeners eat their scrambled eggs.
That's a fair point. Yeah, all right, so let's say
what it didn't. What came out of my stomach did
not look like jumbalaia. It was more like cream of
mushroom soup. And uh yeah. So it's it's harshly because
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I have no gallbladder. I've determined this. I have no
medical training. I've just determined this on my own without
know with no knowledge whatsoever. I'm totally talking out of
my ass right now. But I've determined since I had
my gallbladder taken out, something's coming out of your and
I fest no, it's like these fluids in your stomach
or something like that. That because they need food every
(21:24):
so often. If you don't, my theory is if you
don't give food to the stomach and they just start like,
I don't know, he's got to get out of your body.
I guess I don't know. Maybe a doctor, a real doctor,
can explain that. Who listens to the podcast at whatever
it is that is just brutal man. So I had
(21:44):
a high level of toxicity that took place the other day.
So we'll move over that. We have Pop Goes to
the Culture before we get to that, and hold off
the band on that because I got to get to
Backscratcher and then we'll get to Pop Goes to the Culture.
These are actual reviews from actual fans of the podcast,
at least people Danny that claim to be fans of
(22:04):
the podcast. So now that we're all in great moods,
after you painted such a nice picture a cream of mushroom,
you know, I didn't say it wasn't jumble, lie. It
was definitely more cream of mushroom. So anyway, on the
fifth hour, the company, the powers that be, the big
corporate muckety MUCKs that we deal with here that are
(22:27):
in charge of this podcast, that helped sell the podcast
and all that they love these reviews and the Apple
podcast page is the way to go. And we get
a couple every week, usually one or two a week,
which is good my goal and we'll see if this
can happen. Danny. We need twenty one more reviews to
(22:52):
get to four hundred total, which is not that many,
like a lot of podcasts have any more reviews in
that we're very low on the podcast reviews scale, but
for us, four hundred would be a nice way to go,
and then we can get to five hundred. I don't
sneeze at four hundred, man, you're a legend. Yeah, so
(23:14):
four hundred would be good. So my goal for this
podcast late February now, right last weekend in February. So
what are we looking at here, Danny? What should be
the over under on how we can get to twenty
one more reviews? Do I have to wait till the
end of the year for this? Should we set the
(23:36):
goal in the summer? I would say at the end
of the summer, so like end of August, start of September. Yeah,
all right, so that's the goal now. In order to
meet the goal, I am not beyond some shenaniganst Danny.
This may require certain people in the militia like Ya,
(24:01):
Feeme and Cliff and Nashville and some other p ones
to deputize aunts, uncles, neighbors, co workers, parents, you name it. Like.
We may need the community here to reach out and
get other people and say, hey, I know you may
(24:22):
not listen to this podcast, but just download at least
one and give us a review. Yeah. Yeah, we'll know
when those people are leaving reviews because it'll say this,
Ben Mallett, guy, sure as an ass and my cousin
a favor. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But that's fine. As long
as it's five stars. You can shoot all over us.
You know, you can knock yourself out. I should point
(24:46):
out Ben that ever since the politics left this podcast,
that overall rating has gone up by two points. That
is correct. It's I don't know. I guess all those
people went to West vill the four L five or
something like that. I don't know what happened. But this
week we have twizzle Tea. We have one review, Danny
one review twizzle Tea. He says, get the app Hey again,
(25:08):
Danny Gee and Big Ben. I'm glad to have y'all
back from the super Bowl and back to the important
items like the McDonald's app. Danny g is not lying
between that and the three dollar bundles. You eat like
a king. Yeah, or no more than eight dollars as
long as you are smart like Danny and don't get
(25:31):
a drink. Once again, fantastic show with great chemistry. Top
five podcast on right now. Keep up the amazing work.
That's from twizzle Tea, who wrote in just to follow
that up, I fell down a YouTube hole. I might
talk about this more in a future episode of the show.
And it was fast food, cheek codes and raising canes.
(25:56):
The Kenny Ac combo at Raising Canes. If you order
a three it's a four piece box combo, and get
two added on pieces of chicken and one extra sauce,
you'll save I think it's a dollar around a dollar
fifty from and you get the same amount of food
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as the Canny Ac combo. Nice. That's a little cheat
code you can do. I also in one of these
things I was watching, they said to get fresh bread
at McDonald's. If you order a burger, substitute the bun
for a fish filet bun. I forget what it's called
but that's a fresher bun, the fish filet bun. They
(26:40):
toast it. Got it? Oh that makes sense. Yeah, so
we might have to talk about that. I feel like
that's the kind of stuff that the people that like
this podcast could use. Yeah, I've got a lot of intel. Now,
I got a lot of cheat codes. I'm gonna have
to write some notes down here and things I've learned. Yeah,
I know we both have some life acts, especially with food.
The one time I had McDonald this past week, I
(27:01):
used that app ben an ice latte, a double burger nuggets,
and I saved half of the food to eat after
my radio shift. And it costs six dollars and sixty
eight cents. That's great. Yeah, and all that costs you
was McDonald's having all of your contacts. That's it. And
so they've got all your contact your way, they're blocked.
(27:23):
Go go to your settings. They don't have my contacts.
They don't have access to my camera either. Oh here, yeah, here,
all right, let's get to our friend, Ohio al Well,
do a few pop goes the culture. All right, thank
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you for that, the great Ohio al Well. Here's a
fun story out of the Australian Outback, raining fish l
from the sky in a remote part of Australia's outback.
See what isn't that out of the Bible. I think
that's a Bible story, isn't it? Yeah, fish raining down
from the sky. It happened, It has happened again. Apparent
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it's small town in Australians, Australia's northern territory. That's a
lot the town. I'm not I'm not gonna even trying
to pronounce this l A J A M A n
U who. This population is very small. When I say
small remote town, I'm not kidding at all. They say
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the population is like just under six hundred people the
last census. It's a very remote area. And so the
fish started falling from the sky. This this happened in
twenty ten, and in twenty oh four and other times
dating back to the nineteen seventies. Raining fish was first
recorded recorded there in nineteen means it has also happened
(29:01):
in Texas. So they claim that there's an underlying meteorological
mechanism that leads to raining fish are there. It's simple
and complex, so there's a lot to it. But it's complex,
so the storms pass over a streamer, a pond, or
a large body of water, they pick up fish into
(29:24):
the updraft of a tornado. So these fish go into
a tornado and waila, people get pelted down with fish.
That's some flying sushi. That's gotta be like your fish nightmare, right,
Like you're a fish, you get you're in a tornado
and you get shot out of a tornado. Crazy. They say.
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This actually happened in San Francisco last year. There are
record instances of birds dropping so many fish from the
sky that it is mistaken for raining fish. That has
happened as well. So there you go in the remote town,
this remote town in Australia. Everything lines up perfectly and
they get fish raining down. I have a lot of
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animal stories this week, and pop goes to the coast.
This would be a good animal Thunderdome. New York City
wildlife officials pulling out a four foot alligator out of
a lake in Brooklyn Park. Danny, Oh, nice, isn't this
the urban legend we've heard? Well, that's why the teenage
mutant ninja turtles, right, Michelangelo and them living in the sewers,
(30:28):
living underground. Yeah, yeah, but this is legit. There's a
large alligator captured underneath New York City, and this is
not the first time it's happened. A maintenance worker in
Brooklyn's Prospect Park got quite the surprise. They're spotting the
(30:49):
four foot long gator that was pulled out of the
lake that happened over last weekend. Now do you think
this was somebody's pet and they let it go? Yeah,
they're they're not sure. That is one of the theories
that they believe that you got like a little baby
gator and then the thing just kept eating and next
(31:10):
thing you know, you're like, whoa wait a minute here,
I'm gonna send you a picture. This is not This
is not just a tiny, little like small game. This
is like a full sized gator. Like if you saw that,
you'd be like, oh, that's kind of messed up, man, Like,
what's going on with that? Right? That's a that's a
fair sized thing. Especially when you're in New York You're like,
(31:30):
what the hell? Man? Oh yeah, yeah, that doesn't even
look like a baby. That looks like a teenager. Yeah,
that's a teenage mutant ninja alligator. That's what that is.
So I'll have to tell my my family lives in
the city there you might want to avoid. I don't
think they go in the subway or the sewer anyway.
Here's an odd one. A Florida bill would band dogs
(31:56):
from sticking their heads out car windows. Oh, come on,
that's the right of passage. Yeah. Yeah, some animal rights
wackos actually think this is a good idea because apparently Danny,
although this has never happened to any dog I've had,
occasionally the dog does go flying and gets injured, and
they like some dogs die from falling out of the
(32:18):
All right, this is a little too much, though. I mean,
then that's on the owner because you shouldn't have the
window down all the way, says if the bill passes
in Florida, the dogs must also be on a harness
or in a pet seat belt when traveling in the
carfarf thinking, and they claim it with prohibit dog owners
(32:42):
and allow the pet to extend. They can't extend your
head out, I guess you could, it says here. They
would allow the pet to extend its head or any
body part out of the vehicle while the person's operation.
So they wouldn't actually they wouldn'tess confusing the way this
is written. But if you get ding with this animal abuse,
(33:03):
you're in trouble for animal abuse. If if this law passes, Oh,
come on, that's a little much, a little much, all right,
what is next? On? Pop goes the culture. Oh, here's
one science. Why do zebras have stripes? Nanny? Because polka
dots were already taken. Yeah. No, scientists believe they have
(33:25):
finally figured out one of the great mysteries of the
Western world why zebras have the unique outline stripes. And
it turns out it is apparently a natural horse fly repellent.
There's a new study on the animals for it reveals
that these stark black and white stripes and small dark
(33:47):
patches are very effective at warding off attacks from the
disease spreading insects. So all because of a horsefly, you
should make backets that look like zebras. Then the University
of Bristol in the United Kingdom the UK there deducted
(34:09):
that these thin stripes on the zebra's backs served to
minimize the size of the dark patches and the flies
that they don't find it an appealing. So there you go.
That's that's one of the great mysteries. All right, very good,
we'll get out on that. Anything to promote here, Danny
on a Saturday. You're done with saturdays, right, You're you're
(34:30):
out on saturdays now. I'm on call right now, I'm
gonna be on call. What's funny, man, you're fired. Well,
I'm not on call. He's sitting inside. I know. I'm
at the age now where I don't want to drive
in the rain. Danny, I've reached the age now or
when it rains, I'm out. I'm gonna stay home. That's it.
(34:52):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm at that age. So that
after almost dying driving to work that one time a
few weeks ago, I said, that's it. I'm done. Anyway,
have a great rest of your day today. We will
catch you again on the Mailbag Sunday podcast. We thank
you for supporting the podcast. Tell a friend, let's get
to that four hundred mark on the reviews, and we
(35:13):
will talk to you next time later. Skater bo Felician
Kaboom. 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 sole fashion of fairness.
He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The Clearinghouse
of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G. Welcome
into the audio box that rocks from such a rocking dude,
but not a Fox Sports radio production. No, this is iHeartMedia.
(00:47):
I got it all the game. Big difference, Big difference here,
Danny G. Big difference. And we are slaving away over
these red hot microphones for another award winning, Marconi worthy
piece of audio content. Wrong only for you, because let's
five days a week not enough. Eight days a week,
(01:09):
every day of the week. He got something. Yep. We
both have brand new car payments that we're dealing with,
So that means if there was a ninth day of
the week, we would be working that as well. Yes,
whatever it takes, we'll have to add another bonus podcast,
You've got the animal thunderdome right around the corner. You
might have to do a thunderdome for each different animal,
(01:32):
like lion thunderdome, the dog thunderdome, the cat, the you know,
the elephant thunderdome, and just change it up. Gets snakes
the snakes. Yes, snakes are very popular. So on this
latest edition of the fifth Hour, We've got Doctor Seuss
was right. In and out leads to more in and
(01:52):
out the Toxic Mitch mix. Those two stories could be related.
Hop goes the culture, our friend Ohio al back again, Backscratcher,
and whatever else pops up a ton of audio content
to get to. But let's get started with this. Oh
the places you'll go and the people you'll see. A
great quote by doctor Seuss and we blew into the
(02:16):
bugle on the pod last week asking you, the members
of the Malamus, of the rank and file, the great Unwashed,
what the hell are you doing while you consume this podcast?
And I had some ideas. I thought a lot of
people were working out. I thought they were maybe doing
some stuff around the house. So many interesting responses here
(02:38):
from friends of the show. I really enjoyed learning about
these people. Danny, I thought we'd share some of them.
Unfortunately we are not able to read them all due
to time constraints. So what I have done is I've
picked a grab bag, a random selection of a few.
Give you a little flavor of what we received. So
(02:59):
are you ready? Oh? Yes, all right? And again it's
much like doctor SEUs said, Oh the places you go,
the people you see, give you a high five. We'll
give you a five pack. Kyrie from Oka See a
big supporter of our podcast. He says, I listen to
you guys as soon as I get up On the weekend,
(03:22):
Kyrie says, he washes his face, brushes his teeth, brushes
his teeth while the fifth hour is going, He makes coffee,
He runs errands, does chores around the house, etc. Et cetera,
et cetera. He says that the podcast is the soundtrack
of the weekend. He points out, so he wanted to
thank us Danny for everything he is. So Kyrie, make
(03:45):
sure you brush your teeth and you got a floss. Also, Kyrie,
and maybe a little mouthwash, little mouthwasher, you don't have
bad breath. No, that's pretty cool though, because the soundtrack
to my weekend. When I was a kid. Was Nwa
Beach a little different? Little different? We're gangsta in the
(04:05):
talk format. Scott from Northern Kentucky rights and he says,
I usually work for the Postal Service. I start at
four pm, so I have the shows from the night
before and I start my workday. Listen to the last
night show. It gets me through the first couple hours
in the night. The weekend shows the Fifth Hour. I
(04:27):
usually save all three for my Sunday shift. I would
be lost without them. See this guy, We are making
sure that commerce at the United States Postal Service moves.
Without this show, there might not be mail delivered. Do
you understand how important this podcast is, Danny? This is
(04:49):
God's work. Yeah, and Hey, much like the Postal Creed,
the Fifth Hour believes in the same mindset as the
Postal Creed. Neither snow nor rain, nor heat nor gloom
of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of
their appointed rounds. That is our belief. We must complete
(05:09):
the podcast. We start the podcast, Danny, We have to
complete the podcast. Very important. Yeah. I always just think
about that mailman on the TV show Chairs, Oh at
the bar, drinking Cliff Claven. Yeah, leg you so anyway,
(05:31):
he says, he listens on Sunday helped to meet you
and greet you. And since in the Cincinnati area soon
he says, I will be there. I've been a fan
since I was working late nights in Hollywood, California, was
at the Avalon in Hollywood, formerly the Palace. I've been
by there many times, Scott, he says. Is it very
(05:52):
close to the Tommies you used to go to, Yes,
the famous Tommies where my fat ass would sit in
the parking lot at me in the morning, you know,
watching people come off the Hollywood Sunset Strip and I'd
be sitting in my car eating a triple cheeseburger with
chili cheese fries and a lemonade. You were chili. I
(06:13):
was getting as fat as I could possibly get. I
loved it though. It was great. Next up here, let's
see this is not the mailback, by the way, These
are just this is listener feedback on what people are
doing wall they listen to this podcast. Berry from Nashville, Yo, Yo.
Mob Berry writes, and he says, for the fifth hour podcast,
I usually listen as soon as it's available, so that
(06:36):
could be when I'm making breakfast or on my walk
or bike a ride around in the morning. So another
early morning riser that listens to the podcast Berry in Nashville.
So thank you Berry, appreciate that. Callighan tim writes, and
he says, on Friday, I'm at work. I'm a machinist.
On Saturday, it can be anything this time of the year.
(06:59):
I'm working once the weather is nice. I'm usually doing
yard work. I have almost three acres, so it takes
me a good two hours to mo Mo Mo Mo.
Not Mo from Brooklyn. This is Callaghan Timbo. What state
is he in? State of Denial? No, he doesn't say
it doesn't say say damn, where do you have three
(07:20):
acres at? Give me a please, North Dakota. No, I
don't know, he says. Sometimes I'm charging the oil or
changing the oil is what I believe he meant changing
the oil on my truck, or doing some random project
around the house. On Sunday, he says, I'm usually folding
laundry or whatever I didn't get done on Saturday. Sometimes
(07:41):
I listen on Monday at work, he says. I know
I'm boring, but when you work sixty hours a week,
you have plenty of time to listen to podcasts. Well,
good job Callagan, Tim, thank you. I appreciate that. And
sounds like you're much more of a hearty man than
us Danny in the fact that he moses own lawn,
he changes his own oil. These are all things that
(08:03):
we don't typically do, right. Yeah, Well, we work eighty hours,
so we don't have time exactly. Plus I don't have
a yard, demo you do, but I don't. I have
a balcony. Yeah, I have a yard, but there's no
grass in the back at the Mallard mansion right now.
It's so you just kick rocks. Yeah, it's it's mostly mud.
(08:28):
With all the rain that it never rains in La.
It does rain in the north Woods. It does absolutely
rain in the north Woods. All right, last one. We
will only do five of these. Who'll do one more?
Tony from so Cal I thought this was the most
unique one that we got, and so I've saved it
for the big ending, the big finish, that says hi,
(08:49):
Uncle Ben and Danny g I listened to the fifth
hour while I am doing my physical therapy, Tony says,
why is Tony doing physical therapy? Danny? He is a
former NFL pro bowler Close Tony has revealed reveal answers,
reveal answers. He says he got shot in the leg
(09:10):
three months ago. Ah but that damn yeah. Now, Tony
does not reveal how he got shot in the leg.
There's I don't know if he's a Plaxico Burth situation.
That could be right. Maybe it was a self inflicted wound.
It could be as a police officer, it could be
(09:30):
as a criminal. I don't know. All. He says he
was shot in the leg three months ago. Tony have
to write back and let us know if you can.
He says he should be back on the tennis court
in three more months. I don't think he's a criminal, though,
I don't know how many burglars play tennis. It's a
fair point. That's a good point. So, but but no,
(09:50):
if you get shot in the leg, it's assuming you
don't die. It's a six month situation, well at least
where he got shot. So fleshwoman, A flesh woman. Aside
from that, he says, and the shower, those are the
only times I go podcast, he says. While I'm in
(10:11):
the car, I usually go live AM five seventy So
he's in La here music or iHeartRadio, so I can
listen to other Fox guys outside of La. Not much
podcasting in the car though, so that is from Tony
in Socas, So that is a little sampling, Danny. We
asked the members of the Mallard Militia, the fans of
(10:32):
the podcast here, to let us know what they're doing.
And yeah, it's kind what I thought. For the most part,
listening in the morning, doing stuff around the house, eating breakfast,
you're taking care of your personal grooming, like Kyrie or
Scott at work. He saves the podcast for his duty
(10:53):
at the postal service. So that's good. It's good to
get that feedback, and I appreciate that. We'll do that
again from time to time. Why not, Danny, What the heck?
Kind of cool? And now I know I have some
extra thoughts to be in my head now on early
Friday morning, Saturday morning, and Sunday morning, when I'm getting
each podcast ready to shoot out to the world, I
(11:14):
feel the weight of the nation on my shoulders. I
feel millions of feet tapping, waiting, waiting to hear your
voice clicking refresh, saying I need that freaking podcast. I
cannot eat my scrambled eggs. I cannot do it. Sam,
I am no, no, I need the echo from the
(11:35):
podcast blasting out. Make it happen. All right, let's see.
So we thank you for that. So doctor SEUs was right.
There is an old saying, and this was part of
the early marketing campaign. In and out leads to more
in and out. That's a slogan. You can get it
on a bumper sticker. I think I might be making
that up. I don't know. I know this is audio
(11:57):
and not video. But you just went like this with
your arm when you said that. I did, and that's
kind of what this is. In and out leads to
more in and out. So in and out thrust your
arm like that, yeah, to more in and out and
then hold a burgerau. My pregnant wife get away from
Me mentioned this before on another episode, and we think
(12:21):
it's because she needs iron. She has been craving burgers,
and more specifically in and out burgers. She'll be like,
oh my god, I have a headache. I need an
in and out burger. So we found out that the
cure to these headaches she's been getting while pregnant is
a fat double double from in and out with some fries.
(12:44):
And also she's like you, she doesn't like milk as
you call it, but she's been ordering shakes. Oh it's
the oddest thing, dude. I've known her for over two
years now, she's dipping fries into these milkshakes and then
taking a big bite of burger. And you know something
(13:05):
is up, Ben, because her second favorite place to eat
right now raising canes. Yeah. Well, she's a smart woman.
That's like my diet. If I can eat fast food,
that's where I would go raising canes and in and out.
What's weird about it is speaking yesterday's podcast, we mentioned tattoos.
I made her go on a trip with me to
(13:26):
Temecula one weekend because there's a really good tattoo artist there. Yeah.
So that's like in San Diego area, right, yeah, North
County area. Yeah, it was a nice drive. I had
to get an airbnb and then the next day I
woke up and went and got the tattoo. Well, the
night that we got there, there was a raising canes
(13:47):
like a couple of blocks away from our airbnb, and
I had told her all about raising canes and she
knew your love affair with it. She wanted to see
what the hype was about, is my witness. She sat
there like the biggest bitch while we were eating the
food because she was like, this is way over hyped. What. Yeah,
(14:11):
she told me the fries weren't good. It was too tried.
She said, the sauce wasn't that great. Right there, I
thought about breaking up with her. That's it. That's a
deal breaker. Now fast forward to her being pregnant and
not only moonlighting within and out, but she went the
(14:33):
weekend you and I were at Radio Row in Phoenix,
she drove our middle kid to a baseball tournament in Henderson.
The Orca swam to Nevada and her son's he's a
great baseball player, and him and his friends they live
(14:56):
on Raising Canes the love. Hey listen, you were not
on the show, Danny, but we had a guy from
Minnesota that's the manager of the Raising Canes and maybe
not the man. He works at Raising Canes, and he
told the story about after Vikings practice, Kirk Cousins would
come into Raising Canes with a drive through and order
(15:17):
some chicken. All right, I want my chicken. NFL quarterback
ordering the Raising Keynes. Yeah, so that's all. He really
wants to eat with his teammates after practices, after games,
they all meet up at the Raising Canes. Yeah. So
she told me, She's like, well, you know, we got
some options here in the Vegas area, but all he
(15:38):
wants is raising canes. So I'm gonna go have it
with him and I'll give it another try. So I
was really curious. Now I'm in Phoenix, I'm waiting for
this report to come back in, and she tells me,
I don't know what's changed, but Bark raising kne sauce
is tremendous. He's like, the chicken was great, love the fries.
(16:01):
I can't wait to go back. All right, now you go.
Now we're cooking. Man. So there's pregnancy. Not only is
going to give me a son, but it gave me
a new found raising Canes fan. Yeah that's great. And listen,
I love the chicken fingers, but the chicken fingers the
delivery vehicle for the sauce. The chicken finger brings you
(16:21):
the sauce, and that's the way to do it. And
you know it's I like what I'm hearing. I like
that she's dipping the fries and the shake mean, the
whole point of eating. It's all really combining. We've talked
about this a lot over the years, Danny. You know
my position on this. I read this in a book
years ago, so I always repeat it because I believe
it's true. It's all about combining the right amounts of salt, sugar,
(16:42):
and fat. That's it. And there's people spend millions of dollars,
these big companies, the food manufacturers, they spend all this money.
They call it the bliss point, the perfect ratio of
each group salt, sugar and fat. Because if you get that,
it's a dick. We keep going back. We want more,
(17:02):
more and more and more. So I feel like we
got to thank in and out for this because it
was the gateway drug to raising kens. Yeah all right,
See that was a surprise. I did not see the
story going that way. I did not have that on
my big board. My next detail, the life of Mallard
and Danny Gy. I was reminded Danny of something that
(17:24):
you cannot do when you live the fasting life. There's
a learning curve to these things. So I am obsessive
with keeping my routine. I eat once a day. I
usually skip a day or two during the week. I
don't eat anything, and this is the way I can
maintain my weight. Doctors would still say I'm fat, I
(17:46):
need to lose more weight, But for me, I'm comfortable
with where I am and I like my appearance in life,
and so I'm happy with what's going on with that.
So that's my diet. The other night, I was really
tired and I didn't sleep well. I don't usually sleep well,
but I only got like two hours of sleep. It
(18:07):
was really bad, and so I was kind of feeling
it as the show's going on and all that, and
it just wasn't doing that great. I was trying to
stay awake, and you try to do a radio show
and you're tired, sometimes you start slurring your words. And
so my wife had said, hey, you should take some caffeine,
(18:27):
and we had this. She had bought this supplement which
is like a caffeine powder type thing that you mix
them do a drink and it's got no calories, so
you can when you're fasting, you can take it. Allegedly,
I don't know. Maybe it's got a bunch of calories
and it gives you a little a little joke, a
little boost of energy. And so I was like, all right,
(18:48):
I don't usually do that, but I was like, okay,
I need to do it. And I had not eaten
in a good amount of time, and it had probably
been a day and a half since I last had
some food. My stomach was pretty pretty empty. So this
is known as dangerous ground. So I took a little
scoop of this powder. I poured it into the I
(19:10):
grabbed a cup, I filled it with water. I poured
the powder in the water. I stirred it, and I
drank the powdered caffeine. And then I went back and
I did the show and everything was all right, did
the show, no problem. And then about an hour after
(19:30):
the show had ended, I had this feeling in my stomach.
Oh yeah, I mean we've all had that feeling. I've
had it a few times. And I got a feeling.
And it's the strangest thing because I hadn't eaten in
a couple of days. But I get that feeling like, oh,
(19:53):
you know, there's a clock ticking down, and if you
do not make it to your destiny, the porcelain throne,
this is going to end very badly. It's like what
you did to that bathroom at the park pretty much,
pretty much. Yeah, and sure enough, the uh the clock
(20:14):
ran out and uh boom goes to dynamite toxic mix
the the caffeine on an empty stomach. I'm a caffeine fiend,
and my stomach went called blue. And it's it's not
not to get too graphic on the podcast, but who
the hell cares? It was not like it didn't look
like jumbalaya that came out. Wait wait, wait, wait wait,
(20:36):
we just found out that some listeners eat their scrambled eggs.
That's a fair point. Yeah, all right, so let's say
what it didn't. What came out of my stomach did
not look like jumbalaia. It was more like cream of
mushroom soup. And uh yeah. So it's it's harshly because
(21:01):
I have no gallbladder. I've determined this. I have no
medical training. I've just determined this on my own without
know with no knowledge whatsoever. I'm totally talking out of
my ass right now. But I've determined since I had
my gallbladder taken out, something's coming out of your and
I fest no, it's like these fluids in your stomach
or something like that. That because they need food every
(21:24):
so often. If you don't, my theory is if you
don't give food to the stomach and they just start like,
I don't know, he's got to get out of your body.
I guess I don't know. Maybe a doctor, a real doctor,
can explain that. Who listens to the podcast at whatever
it is that is just brutal man. So I had
(21:44):
a high level of toxicity that took place the other day.
So we'll move over that. We have Pop Goes to
the Culture before we get to that, and hold off
the band on that because I got to get to
Backscratcher and then we'll get to Pop Goes to the Culture.
These are actual reviews from actual fans of the podcast,
at least people Danny that claim to be fans of
(22:04):
the podcast. So now that we're all in great moods,
after you painted such a nice picture a cream of mushroom,
you know, I didn't say it wasn't jumble, lie. It
was definitely more cream of mushroom. So anyway, on the
fifth hour, the company, the powers that be, the big
corporate muckety MUCKs that we deal with here that are
(22:27):
in charge of this podcast, that helped sell the podcast
and all that they love these reviews and the Apple
podcast page is the way to go. And we get
a couple every week, usually one or two a week,
which is good my goal and we'll see if this
can happen. Danny. We need twenty one more reviews to
(22:52):
get to four hundred total, which is not that many,
like a lot of podcasts have any more reviews in
that we're very low on the podcast reviews scale, but
for us, four hundred would be a nice way to go,
and then we can get to five hundred. I don't
sneeze at four hundred, man, you're a legend. Yeah, so
(23:14):
four hundred would be good. So my goal for this
podcast late February now, right last weekend in February. So
what are we looking at here, Danny? What should be
the over under on how we can get to twenty
one more reviews? Do I have to wait till the
end of the year for this? Should we set the
(23:36):
goal in the summer? I would say at the end
of the summer, so like end of August, start of September. Yeah,
all right, so that's the goal now. In order to
meet the goal, I am not beyond some shenaniganst Danny.
This may require certain people in the militia like Ya,
(24:01):
Feeme and Cliff and Nashville and some other p ones
to deputize aunts, uncles, neighbors, co workers, parents, you name it. Like.
We may need the community here to reach out and
get other people and say, hey, I know you may
(24:22):
not listen to this podcast, but just download at least
one and give us a review. Yeah. Yeah, we'll know
when those people are leaving reviews because it'll say this,
Ben Mallett, guy, sure as an ass and my cousin
a favor. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But that's fine. As long
as it's five stars. You can shoot all over us.
You know, you can knock yourself out. I should point
(24:46):
out Ben that ever since the politics left this podcast,
that overall rating has gone up by two points. That
is correct. It's I don't know. I guess all those
people went to West vill the four L five or
something like that. I don't know what happened. But this
week we have twizzle Tea. We have one review, Danny
one review twizzle Tea. He says, get the app Hey again,
(25:08):
Danny Gee and Big Ben. I'm glad to have y'all
back from the super Bowl and back to the important
items like the McDonald's app. Danny g is not lying
between that and the three dollar bundles. You eat like
a king. Yeah, or no more than eight dollars as
long as you are smart like Danny and don't get
(25:31):
a drink. Once again, fantastic show with great chemistry. Top
five podcast on right now. Keep up the amazing work.
That's from twizzle Tea, who wrote in just to follow
that up, I fell down a YouTube hole. I might
talk about this more in a future episode of the show.
And it was fast food, cheek codes and raising canes.
(25:56):
The Kenny Ac combo at Raising Canes. If you order
a three it's a four piece box combo, and get
two added on pieces of chicken and one extra sauce,
you'll save I think it's a dollar around a dollar
fifty from and you get the same amount of food
(26:18):
as the Canny Ac combo. Nice. That's a little cheat
code you can do. I also in one of these
things I was watching, they said to get fresh bread
at McDonald's. If you order a burger, substitute the bun
for a fish filet bun. I forget what it's called
but that's a fresher bun, the fish filet bun. They
(26:40):
toast it. Got it? Oh that makes sense. Yeah, so
we might have to talk about that. I feel like
that's the kind of stuff that the people that like
this podcast could use. Yeah, I've got a lot of intel. Now,
I got a lot of cheat codes. I'm gonna have
to write some notes down here and things I've learned. Yeah,
I know we both have some life acts, especially with food.
The one time I had McDonald this past week, I
(27:01):
used that app ben an ice latte, a double burger nuggets,
and I saved half of the food to eat after
my radio shift. And it costs six dollars and sixty
eight cents. That's great. Yeah, and all that costs you
was McDonald's having all of your contacts. That's it. And
so they've got all your contact your way, they're blocked.
(27:23):
Go go to your settings. They don't have my contacts.
They don't have access to my camera either. Oh here, yeah, here,
all right, let's get to our friend, Ohio al Well,
do a few pop goes the culture. All right, thank
(27:51):
you for that, the great Ohio al Well. Here's a
fun story out of the Australian Outback, raining fish l
from the sky in a remote part of Australia's outback.
See what isn't that out of the Bible. I think
that's a Bible story, isn't it? Yeah, fish raining down
from the sky. It happened, It has happened again. Apparent
(28:15):
it's small town in Australians, Australia's northern territory. That's a
lot the town. I'm not I'm not gonna even trying
to pronounce this l A J A M A n
U who. This population is very small. When I say
small remote town, I'm not kidding at all. They say
(28:38):
the population is like just under six hundred people the
last census. It's a very remote area. And so the
fish started falling from the sky. This this happened in
twenty ten, and in twenty oh four and other times
dating back to the nineteen seventies. Raining fish was first
recorded recorded there in nineteen means it has also happened
(29:01):
in Texas. So they claim that there's an underlying meteorological
mechanism that leads to raining fish are there. It's simple
and complex, so there's a lot to it. But it's complex,
so the storms pass over a streamer, a pond, or
a large body of water, they pick up fish into
(29:24):
the updraft of a tornado. So these fish go into
a tornado and waila, people get pelted down with fish.
That's some flying sushi. That's gotta be like your fish nightmare, right,
Like you're a fish, you get you're in a tornado
and you get shot out of a tornado. Crazy. They say.
(29:45):
This actually happened in San Francisco last year. There are
record instances of birds dropping so many fish from the
sky that it is mistaken for raining fish. That has
happened as well. So there you go in the remote town,
this remote town in Australia. Everything lines up perfectly and
they get fish raining down. I have a lot of
(30:07):
animal stories this week, and pop goes to the coast.
This would be a good animal Thunderdome. New York City
wildlife officials pulling out a four foot alligator out of
a lake in Brooklyn Park. Danny, Oh, nice, isn't this
the urban legend we've heard? Well, that's why the teenage
mutant ninja turtles, right, Michelangelo and them living in the sewers,
(30:28):
living underground. Yeah, yeah, but this is legit. There's a
large alligator captured underneath New York City, and this is
not the first time it's happened. A maintenance worker in
Brooklyn's Prospect Park got quite the surprise. They're spotting the
(30:49):
four foot long gator that was pulled out of the
lake that happened over last weekend. Now do you think
this was somebody's pet and they let it go? Yeah,
they're they're not sure. That is one of the theories
that they believe that you got like a little baby
gator and then the thing just kept eating and next
(31:10):
thing you know, you're like, whoa wait a minute here,
I'm gonna send you a picture. This is not This
is not just a tiny, little like small game. This
is like a full sized gator. Like if you saw that,
you'd be like, oh, that's kind of messed up, man, Like,
what's going on with that? Right? That's a that's a
fair sized thing. Especially when you're in New York You're like,
(31:30):
what the hell? Man? Oh yeah, yeah, that doesn't even
look like a baby. That looks like a teenager. Yeah,
that's a teenage mutant ninja alligator. That's what that is.
So I'll have to tell my my family lives in
the city there you might want to avoid. I don't
think they go in the subway or the sewer anyway.
Here's an odd one. A Florida bill would band dogs
(31:56):
from sticking their heads out car windows. Oh, come on,
that's the right of passage. Yeah. Yeah, some animal rights
wackos actually think this is a good idea because apparently Danny,
although this has never happened to any dog I've had,
occasionally the dog does go flying and gets injured, and
they like some dogs die from falling out of the
(32:18):
All right, this is a little too much, though. I mean,
then that's on the owner because you shouldn't have the
window down all the way, says if the bill passes
in Florida, the dogs must also be on a harness
or in a pet seat belt when traveling in the
carfarf thinking, and they claim it with prohibit dog owners
(32:42):
and allow the pet to extend. They can't extend your
head out, I guess you could, it says here. They
would allow the pet to extend its head or any
body part out of the vehicle while the person's operation.
So they wouldn't actually they wouldn'tess confusing the way this
is written. But if you get ding with this animal abuse,
(33:03):
you're in trouble for animal abuse. If if this law passes, Oh,
come on, that's a little much, a little much, all right,
what is next? On? Pop goes the culture. Oh, here's
one science. Why do zebras have stripes? Nanny? Because polka
dots were already taken. Yeah. No, scientists believe they have
(33:25):
finally figured out one of the great mysteries of the
Western world why zebras have the unique outline stripes. And
it turns out it is apparently a natural horse fly repellent.
There's a new study on the animals for it reveals
that these stark black and white stripes and small dark
(33:47):
patches are very effective at warding off attacks from the
disease spreading insects. So all because of a horsefly, you
should make backets that look like zebras. Then the University
of Bristol in the United Kingdom the UK there deducted
(34:09):
that these thin stripes on the zebra's backs served to
minimize the size of the dark patches and the flies
that they don't find it an appealing. So there you go.
That's that's one of the great mysteries. All right, very good,
we'll get out on that. Anything to promote here, Danny
on a Saturday. You're done with saturdays, right, You're you're
(34:30):
out on saturdays now. I'm on call right now, I'm
gonna be on call. What's funny, man, you're fired. Well,
I'm not on call. He's sitting inside. I know. I'm
at the age now where I don't want to drive
in the rain. Danny, I've reached the age now or
when it rains, I'm out. I'm gonna stay home. That's it.
(34:52):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm at that age. So that
after almost dying driving to work that one time a
few weeks ago, I said, that's it. I'm done. Anyway,
have a great rest of your day today. We will
catch you again on the Mailbag Sunday podcast. We thank
you for supporting the podcast. Tell a friend, let's get
to that four hundred mark on the reviews, and we
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