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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 sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
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Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We fix it up by Popular Man, the very popular
listener driven Sunday edition of The Fifth Hour. Happy tenth
day of December. It is week fourteen of the NFL.
We had that little appetizer, which wasn't much of an appetizer.
The game wasn't actually that bad, the Patriots and the Steelers.
But now we can all pipe down because we got
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full action all day long today into the night. And
and I I Danny, unlike most, I mean going to
a lot of NFL games this year, you know, hanging out, media,
free loading and all that. But that poppycock ends today,
at least for now, as I am in recovery mode
and I'm right now riding a vapor trail. Danny, it's
not trying to make it through this edition of The
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Fifth Hour with you and me, and we had.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
To get for drinking all that Kirkland brand alcohol last
night at your party.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Do what you gotta do, Danny, Yeah, you gotta drown
the sorrows away. But here we are here, we are
back at it again with it. We got the mail bag.
And since we were supposed to get to this earlier
on the weekend and whatever, we don't get too early
in the weekend. We just jump right into it. So
I'm not gonna do small talk and dilly dally and
all that stuff. We're just getting right into it. And
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that means pop goes the culture. We're gonna go a
few of these stories because there's some good ones. And
our guy ohio Aal strike up the band Tojohnjohn, Well,
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I've never been to Venice. You ever been to Venice,
like the real Venice, not Venice in La I've been
to that Venice. I'm talking like the real, authentic Venice
where they have those Gonda gondola boats, you know those things.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yes, I've only been on a gondola in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I've not been on those in Vegas, but I
have seen those Invegas. So anyway, the real, the real
McCoy in Venice, one of them capsized filled with taurus.
Now why did it capsize? Danny want to take a guess.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
A shark bit the bottom of the boat.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Completely reasonable, Completely reasonable. A lot of shark attacks in
Venice or or the out of towners refused to sit
down when instructed by the gondola captain and would not
stop taking selfies, and they reached a tipping point where
they fell into the Now I've heard the water. I've
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never been there, but I've heard the water and I've
seen stories. The water is not the cleanest water. It's
pretty filthy. Flint Michigan comes to mind. You know, I'm
just not particularly particularly great there. And uh yeah. So
then the problem is if you're taking all the selfish
I assume if you fall into the water, you then
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have to get a new phone, which is a thousand
bucks to get a new phone. By the time you
get through everything right and all the charges and all
that stuff. Okay, whatever whatever works for you.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Would you rather fall in that water or the Hudson?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh man, that's I'd have to read more about the
water and invests the water on the Hudson is disgusting.
It's just but not the ugliest water. The ugliest water
I've ever seen is in Lake Superior in northern Minnesota,
because that water is it's brown.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But that's just because of the dirt, right, well, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Not the dirt is some other term for it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I forget, but yeah, I remember you talking about this.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The sediment of the water. It's the way it's supposed
to be. It's like a coffee color, but it looks
like shit and it's like shitty water, like you know,
you had diarrhea, and the whole lake it's like the
biggest great lake and it looks like it's just diarrhea
water in the lake. Diarrhea exactly exactly. And somebody, can
you convince Eddie Garcia that Ben Bishop did have the
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runs in that Stanley Cup final? He does not believe me.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh boy, he definitely had diarrhea exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's what I'm saying. How about shut up? We have
other oddities in pop Goo's the culture. Well here's here's
a story. It warms your heart so a woman. I
don't know if this came up on Covino and Rich
this week, maybe it did, maybe he didn't. So this
woman assaulted a fast food worker at Chipotlet, right she
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she kind of roughed up this employee and so she
got her sentence. And this happened in Ohio. You want
to take a guess what the punishment was for the
person that roughed up the employee at the Chipotle.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
The judge made her chop up chicken at Chipotle for
twelve months.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Well, you're actually not far off. The woman who could
not keep her hands to herself and assaulted the Chipotle
worker has been sentenced. Her time is to work a
fast food job for two months. What I mean, that's
too much. He's thirty nine, thirty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Does she get to choose the fast food place?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's a good question. I'm reading the story here and
in Parma, Ohio, which I'm probably mispronouncing. But at first
she was going to go. She had to pay a
fine and serve one hundred and eighty days in jail
with ninety days suspend. But then the judge had another idea.
He said, you didn't get your burrito bowl the way
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you like it, and this is how you respond. The
judge said, this is not real housewives of Parma. This
behavior is not acceptable, and so the judge said, he said, listen,
you can cut off sixty days in jail if you
agree to work at least twenty hours per week at
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a fast food restaurant for two months. The woman accepted,
Oh took, She took.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
But if I was a judge, I'd be like, but
it has to be at the hot dog on a
stick inside our mall. Yeah, she yi put on that uniform.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Man. She told The Washington Post that she was stepping
in to protect a seventeen year old employee who was
getting yelled at by this woman. This Emily Russell told
the court she was traumatized. The food was hot and
burned her face. She said, go fund me campaign in
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your face. I have a couple of questions, Danny, does
this woman get paid while she's working or is this
unpaid employment? And would you eat at a fast food
restaurant this woman was making your food at because I
would think that she might not. She knows it's only
a two month job.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
On a court order. Though maybe she's being careful on.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Her best behavior. I'd have a camera on her at
all times, though, because she might slip something else in
there she might slip a Mickey in in your tostata
and you don't need that. What else do we have
on Popco's The Culture Let's see here all Nick Cannon?
This kind of relates to this past week going to
Disney on a random night. Nick Cannon took a bunch
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of shit online this week. He revealed he has so
many kids that in order to go to Disney with
his twelve kids, it cost him two hundred thousand dollars
a year just to take the kids to Disney.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh sah, dad goals.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Two hundred thousand. Doesn't he get a deal because he's
a celebrity. I thought Disney looks the other way for celebrities.
I thought they'd give you the VIP treatment.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeh, Disney doesn't do a lot of the VIP stuff.
They don't do the media stuff anymore either. They used
to let media members like us go into the park
once or twice a year with our families. They stopped
doing that like a decade ago. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Well, and when Disney started, like Walt Disney, wasn't the
whole idea affordable family fund? Wasn't that the whole concept
of Disney?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That was his mantra.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, and what happens, you know, it's like any
I remember in school, I had a professor, not that
I paid very much attention in school, but he was
explaining to me how like things start out perfect and
then over time it slowly gets worse and worse and worse.
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It's kind of like America started. Now. I love America,
very patriotic, wrap myself in the flag. But America started
with because there were too many laws and too much
tax in Europe. Right, that's basically the origin story of
how America started. So they just came and they said, well,
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let's just take you know, Native Americans land, and they
did and they formed Formed America. So that started where
they didn't want a lot of taxation, they didn't want
a lot of rules and regulations. So fast forward a
couple hundred years. How are things looking now, Danny? How
are how are things.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Those same forefathers they'd be looking for a new piece
of land right now, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Just it's outseading and it's just people. You know, slowly,
it's the boiling frog. You don't even notice. You start
adding more and more stuff and before you know it,
like you know, Disney it's like, well, we'll raise the
prices a little bit. Then some of the original Disney
people went away, and then so then they went they
hired new people, and the new people want to make
their you know, they want to make the stock market happy,
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so they have to raise prices, and they have to
you know, cut the cost of paying the employees. And
it's just a shit show.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Just recently, you and I did that inflation calculator. Remember,
oh yes, right, yeah, that's a fun bit. Yeah. The
cost walking into Disneyland should be eleven dollars and fifty
cents per person.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, and it's one hundred and fifty to two hundred
dollars or something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh, two hundred and twenty five dollars to fifty on
certain days, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Two fifty to wait in line for an hour.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah. Now, it depends on if you have one day
or the park copper two days. All that plays into it.
But the bottom line is you are paying hundreds and
hundreds of dollars when it should be ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. But what are you complained?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I mean, yeah, you're gonna pay it because if you
want to experience the park, then you got to part
ways with that money.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, New Jersey Police. The only
reason I'm bringing this up is because the name of
the pig they chased down, a pig named Albert Einswine
is the name of the pig that was rather random.
Are you familiar with the actor named Emily Hirsh Are
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you familiar with that person? And you know, yeah, she
made some big, big productions there in Hollywood. She claims
this is actually kind of funny. She claims that Quentin
Tarantino offered offered him. I say, bad job by me.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
He was in that movie where he wandered around the country. Yeah,
see that one.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I did not, but he So Quentin Tarantino offered this
guy a Hollywood role on Facebook. The guy hersh thought
he was being catfished. He thought it was a prank,
so he didn't didn't respond. So let's get to the mailbag.
What do you say, Dan, is it time for the mailbag?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yes, it's.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
This mail bag. Thank you, ohio al. These are actual
letters sent in by actual listeners to the show. The
first one says, uh, hey Ben and Danny G or
Daddy G. This is Vahid. I believe I'm not saying
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that right. He's a cab driver. He's sent messages before
now in a while, though he's been away for a
long time. A cab driver from New Orleans, he says,
longtime listener, legend, since the legend was alive. Genie and Medford,
he says, and he then misspelled Genie's name, But I
knew what you meant. You spelled Medford, right, So that's important,
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he says. I am still an active listener. But that
must be interesting to drive a cab around New Orleans
with all the drunks that are there, and the famous
people that come through New Orleans, the mixing of the
rich and the poor, the you know, it's just it's
gotta be wild. This guy must have some amazing stories
being a cab driver in New Orleans and also having
to compete with the uber and all that. Right, that
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that world changed a ton a ton anyway, says question
for you, my friend's favorite comedian, and he's got toss
up question from hid the cab driver, he says, Jeff
Dunham or Gabrielle Iglesias, that fluffy guy. Yeah, so this
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is this is kind of tall. I'm not I'm not
a huge Dunham fan. He's okay. I kind of I'm
leaning towards the fat guy. Is that a bad take
or the proper comedic tape? Yeah, he's pretty he's pretty good.
I've seen some of his stuff. Most of the comedians
I like are kind of like dead at this point,
but there's some some good guys still around. But of
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those two, I would go with Fluffy and what about you, Danny.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I would go with Steven Wright.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I would go with Ed Well, George Carlin.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Richard spill Burr, Dave Chappelle.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Sure, who's the who's that other guy? Of the comedian
he got canceled though he was an actor, very funny,
stand up comedian, did a lot of TV shows. Remember
he was he was massaging the sausage of all the
clues where you got that boom right or white right
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there mentioned sausage. You're good to go. My right hand
was getting a workout. That's outstanding. That made me smile.
That's great, all right, Craigster writes in Distress. Seattle fan
Seahawks Fanny says, Ben, I've been listening to you since
that time you filled into filled in for JT. The
Brick when he was doing the Overnight Show. I suffered
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from CRS can't remember shit syndrome, so I don't remember
when that was. Please enlighten me. That could have been
at any point. JT worked at the network for a lot.
She I was filling in for people. Before JT did
the Overnight show, we had who do we have? Originally
we had a couple of different overnight hosts. We had
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Silio Dan Silio who was an overnight host at one point,
and there was a guy that went on. He was
a former forty nine er player, Ryan Tim Ryan, I
think did the Overnight show briefly or a night show.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And then.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
What's the guy he's he's like an ESPN sideline reporter.
Now I forget his name. It's trying to think, but
he did the Overnight that. There's a bunch of people.
But it's a long time, probably been well since this
iteration of the Overnight Show. I'm hitting. I think I'm
in my tenth or eleventh year now, so it was
before that probably I don't know, maybe fifteen years ago,
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probably longer.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Praikster, So yeah, I was going to say probably about
twenty years ago. I remember my older brother. He was
doing graveyard in northern California for Jelly Belly, and not
only would he get to bring home awesome samples and
stuff that the company would give him, but he would
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always tell me what JT the Brick was talking about,
because as he drove in to his graveyard shift, he
would listen to JT. And then at the factory where
they made these jelly bellies, they would have JT on
on the speakers.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
How about home off, Yeah, yeah, for sure, Jem he's
still doing. He does the local stuff in Vegas. He's
got the overnight, the overnight stuff and h or not overnight.
He does like serious x M. He's got some of
that stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
At the beginning of the Raiders season, I saw him
on a panel kissing McDaniels.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Oh I heard about. Somebody sent me an email that.
Even right up until the day McDaniels was fired, JT
was advocating for Josh McDaniels, but just to I mean,
he works for the team, so it's you know, it's
this is one of the problems, right, I mean, you
work for the team, it becomes a problem. You become
a shill for the team. It's it's an issue. That's
one of the problem. When I people this is really funny.
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But when I did Dodger Talk, and this is a
long time ago before social media. I mean, it's a
long time and people think of me as Dodger honk,
that I'm just a Dodger. I've got my knee pads
with the Dodger logo on it. But when I did
Dodger Talk and the team didn't play well, and in
that time when I did it, this is an era.
They had all these high priced players. Kevin Brown was
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on that team, Gary Sheffield. They had all they spent
a lot of money, and the team's team was like middling.
They were middling team. They were underachieving. And I was
not the most compassionate person because.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Dodgers fans faxed in their complaints to the radio station
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Oh hell, Bill Miller, and so I took some flak
because I was like, well, it seems underachieving and they're
not playing well.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And then I remember hearing you being a dick on
AM five seventy. Yeah, after certain games were over, I
thought it was funny.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, they the Dodger people did not find the humor
in it. For some reason. I don't know why. Maybe
they lost their funny bone. Oh as George Sadana is
who I how don't I can forget Sadanna?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Oh okay, yeah shoo. I believe he's on one of
the other stations in southern California.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Now, I don't know, are there any other stations in
southern California.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I yeah, he's a couple, but they're not as listened
to as AM five seventy the blowtorch.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Right, the mighty AM five seventy. What is next year?
On the mailbag? We have Mike in Fullerton. He says,
happy Honikah, Ben and Dangey, Well, thank you, I appreciate that.
When is this? We started Honkkah on Thursday, so we
went through Friday, Saturday. Today, today is the fourth night
of the Festival.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Of Lights, the fourth night of Honic. Time to hear
the clip of Smokey Robinson saying what's chanooka?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yes? Happy? That was outstanding? Yes, that was that was
a ten ten out of ten U Ben, Yeah, anyway,
Mike says, I didn't really get an answer last time.
Is Benny versus the penny going to the standard of
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the playoffs or is it a regular season only show. Well,
you'll be happy to know, Mike that NBC has picked
up Benny Versus the Penny all the way through the
Super Bowl, all the way through the Super Bowl. I
think there's one all off week, which is obvious because
there's a there's a bo there's a week where there's
no football, so we're obviously not doing a show that week.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
You're not going to pick the flag football game?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, yeah, we're the the Pro Bowl games were don't
avoid that. But but other than that, we will have
Wildcard Benny Versus the Penny, Divisional Round Benny Versus the Penny, Championship,
Sunday Benny Versus the Penny, and then Super Bowl edition.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Any versus super Bowl where you will you wear a
bow tie for the Super Bowl Edition?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Well, as you know I have. It's like like the military.
When you do a TV show, a syndicated TV show
on regional sports cable television, you have to have a uniform.
You have to have it. So I have my my
wardrobe picked out by the people over at NBC and
I've won the same thing every week, so there will
be no bow tie. But if I do win, I
would like to wear a crown. I would like to
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wear a crown on the on the final episode. He says, Also,
do you have any nuggets you can share about this
week's episode? Well, that's on the Friday show, Mike, that's
on the show. You can hear that. I get a
couple of good lines on the show. And if I
haven't watched yet, still on today, few viewings on Sunday
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the Big Ones in New York in Manhattan on s
n Y the Mets Channel, but a good time. I
don't I don't think I've slipped a ferdog mentioned in there.
Maybe I'll have to get that in there one of
these weeks. I know Marcel and Brooklyn's demanding a a.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Reference because he's good. These guys need to get in line.
I'm still waiting for mine.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I know, I know, I gotta I gotta work you
into the mix as well. But the Raiders Vikings game
was not a featured game this weekend of the show.
It was not we need the Raiders to be featured
to really slide Danny g in to the show. Anyways,
says I wanted to know who the guy was who
spent a whole podcast just advertising the show. I doubt
(21:55):
you've heard of him. His name is Bill Miller. A
real piece of work. Bill, Yeah, Bill Miller, terrible person,
horrible host, god awful Alf from the ideas Department. Now,
Alf has been providing me with tips on cookie making
because Alf's cool. He's a young, hip guy and he's
on TikTok and so he's been helped me out. And
I actually tried a couple of these hacks when I
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made my new cookie creation this weekend. We'll have more
on that next week. But he says, Ben and Danny
g what are He says, Yeah, you're what we call
in the business hot. Right now, now that bright lights
of Hollywood are shining upon you, the bright lights of Hollywood,
and you are branching into all forms of entertainment, I
(22:36):
would like to pitch you a totally innovative idea the
likes that no one has ever come up with. As
I am positive that your food vlog will be wildly successful,
how can it not. Here's an idea blow hards in
buses exchanging recipes. Just think, Ben, you and Roberto can
(22:59):
pick up andp off the future of America and then
you can pull into the Costco or Walmart parking lot
and exchange his Mexican andre recipes for your dessert recipes
or some other food knockoff recipe. Then the two of
you could bust out a gas grill or griddle and
(23:19):
cook up some fantastic East. Not only would it be
a home run on the TikTok Alf points out, but
you would could also you could also use some of
the audio as guest segments. When Iowa Sam is away,
so Alf the ideas Guy and I am play.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'm going to do.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
That that food vlog. We'll see how that goes. I'm
gonna get that started.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I thought you fired Iowa samh well for some reason.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You know, sometimes you're you're fired and you don't leave,
you know, sometimes you just stick around.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You fired.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Sometimes sometimes that happens. Bury from South Carolin all right
and says yo yo ma Benny. As we do the
mail bag and we do it good. He says, who
do you think would win a verbal octagon between Jed
who fled and Marked the full name Guy. I know,
I know Mark the full name Guy quit the show,
but he will be back. Now, why do you assume
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Barry that Mark will be back? Because every other time
he's quit the show. He's come back. Maybe this time
will be different, but usually what happens is Mark. Yeah,
you know.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Mark was on Covino and Rich Oh yeah, Oh that's great.
They were talking about jerseys and he called up and
he shared that his very first jersey that he ever
bought was Mark Gastino.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Oh that's funny. So Mark got into a fight with me.
For those that missed, I explained this on the radio show.
But Mark got into a fight with me about Geno
Smith and it got a little heated. There were some
mean things exchanged. I much like the Seattle Seahawks safety
when they go low, I go lower. When you get
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into a dust up with me, I'm like, you know,
mister Lewis there? I think his name of it was right?
The safety I'm picking up? Is it Jamal Lewis? Is
that what I'm thinking of? I don't know, maybe not.
It's early, but anyway, so me and Mark got into it.
Mark sent me this email and he sent me his
entire life's resume, pointing out that he had accomplished more
than me and I was just a loser and how
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dare you?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
You know?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
And Mark, it's just a sports radio battle. Everything's okay.
I'm never listening to you again. Blah blah blah blah
blah blah. But to answer your question, if it was
a physical confrontation, my vote would go to Mark the
full name guy, because he's a he's a big burly
guy from New York, but he's an older guy's bodies
at You know, you're starting to fall apart from what
(25:46):
I understand. But if it's just a verbal sparring match,
as you said, verbal octagon, Barry Jed who fled? Jed
who fled? In that thirty seconds will provide ten minutes
of content.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Were you talking about Jamal Adams? By the way, Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Is it Jamal Adams? Yeah? Jamal Adams, I said Jamal Lewis.
That's a different guy. Isn't that a running back? An
old running back?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I think that is?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah, Jamal Adams who was with the Jets and then
he got in everybody. He goofs on the sports writer
h his wife and not only Fred in Spring Texas. Right,
since says greetings, gentlemen, do either of you have any
Christmas slash holiday customs or traditions? You have continued into adulshood, Well,
isn't that the way it works, Danny, Like the stuff
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we learned as kids, we just kind of keep doing,
isn't That's kind of what happens with me. I assume
that happens with everybody, right, Just kind of certain things
that are nostalgic that bring you back to your childhood.
You want to do, I'm sure with Coha, right, you
want to do certain things that you remember fondly as
a kid. Maybe going to grocery outlet and dropping kans
of soup on the floor to save a couple of.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Bucksh my mom didn't do Christmas, so oh okay, then no, yeah, no,
no for me.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
But we're going down to the super kitchen.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Kids.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I did my adult life obviously. I've had girlfriends who
love Christmas and do the whole winter wonderland thing. And
my girl right now is no different. She put up
that tree I talked about last weekend with a remote control,
and she's big on stockings. So CoA has this big
stitch stocking that's up hanging on the tree actually right now.
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And it's huge. You could actually fit the toy dump
truck into his stocking. That's that right, Yeah, it's huge.
And I told you, why don't you just get him
a big Santa Claus bag while you're at it.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Just put him in the bag. What's in the bag.
It's the kid. The kid's in the bag. It's a
baby in the bag. Marina chef in Omaha rights and
he says, have you ever come close to hitting a
pedestrian on a crosswalk? I have a time or two. No,
not hit one came close, That is from the Marina chep. Yes.
In fact, I've had a couple of incidents in my
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years driving that what I will not get into now
because I don't think these statute of limitations is worn't
out on that. But the famous one I was in
San Jose. I was in college. We were doing a
junior college state basketball championship tournament. I was working for
the college radio station and we had brought all this
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at the time very expensive radio equipment, which you can
now buy an eBay for about twenty bucks, but at
the time it was very expensive. And we were in
San Jose at San Jose State and the tournament. We
couldn't find parking. I couldn't find parking, and then we
found a spot was kind of far away, so then
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we had to carry the equipment up up to the
to the to the arena, and we were walking. We
walked several blocks. This was heavy equipment, old radio equipment.
So then we got closed. We found a spot near
the arena. So then we had this idea, well, let's
just save the spot. I'll stand here, I'll put the
radio equipment in the spot, and then well we'll be
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good and then and then anyway, it ended up there
was a woman who wanted said parking spot, who got
to the spot before my buddy who had the car
that we drove from southern California, San Jose. And this
woman really wanted the spot, and she started backing in
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to the spot. Now, mind you, all of our equipment
is in the parking place, which was probably not the
best idea, but that's what we did. And she starts
backing up. So I, of course, Danny, I defending, not
wanting to explain to my boss at the college radio
station how I had all the equipment run over by
a mid sized sedan and unable to broadcast the game.
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I then stood and the woman's backing in. She's yelling,
this angry woman, she's screaming at me, get out of
the way, get out of the way, and with profanity,
and so I slapped the back of her car, yeah,
which I guess is not the same as hitting someone
across the road. But this woman called the cops on
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She called the cops on me for damaging her car,
which was a big as. Fortunately we got a cop
that was like, you know, come on, you know, there's
no there's nothing, he just hit the car. There's no dent,
there's no damage. So I mean, I was like, a
what are we doing, Danny, Anything involving pedestrians, crosswalking, hitting anyone,
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maybe a parking lot.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
No. But I actually had something crazy happen on the
fruit not crazy, it's kind of normal in southern California.
But it hasn't happened to me in a while. I
guess it's the holidays getting to people right now, Ben,
because when I get to Woodland Hills, that's where I'm like,
finally the bumper to bumper traffic is over. I can
move through Calabasas now smoothly. But that exit for the
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mall there in Woodland Hills spills onto the one to
one freeway. It's been a big mess going through there
every single night, right now Ever, since we hit the
beginning of December, I've noticed people driving like crazy people.
On Friday evening, I leave the network and as I
get onto the one oh one where it crosses with
the four h five, somebody does that thing. Has this
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ever happened to you where somebody gets right behind you
and they start flicking their lights on and off really fast?
Oh yeah, asshole, move for a long But then this
person was doing this for like it had to have
been twenty seconds long. I've never had somebody do their
lights to the back of my car like that for
that long. And the crazy part was I didn't cut
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him off. I don't even know why this guy was
doing this at first. I was so confused when he
was first doing it. I thought maybe he was being
courteous to let me know my lights were off, because
I didn't do anything wrong. If this guy thought I
was somebody else.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Your lights were on though you were Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Once I saw that my lights were on, and then
he did it again a second time. How do you
think I reacted?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Bird?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
No, I made sure I followed him on the four
oh five I could do my lights back on him.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh no, yeah, you had a road rage.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
And maybe it was because ice Cube was playing on
Sirius XM while I was driving bach. I ruined his
night with my brights on the back of him. And
then I circled back around and got on the one
on one.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah. Well, driving in LA, most of the time you
can't drive fast at all because it's just a nightmare.
There's too much traffic. But the times you can drive fast,
it's like fast and the furious. Everyone thinks they're in
the movie and they're they're a nasty car driver, you know,
open wheel driver. It's it's ridiculous, stunt driver. It's nuts.
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And I mean, I see, I've seen so many fatalities.
Driving home from the Overnight show in fect this week,
I got delayed to go extra you know, a bunch
of extra time get home. There was a a duy
drunk as teenager with to his buddies in a Honda Honda.
They drifted off to the side, hit a big rig
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truck that was parked on the side of the road. Boom,
two kids dead, and and of course it takes forever
for the corner to come pick up the remains, and
the freeways the highways completely shut down. Then they opened
up one lane, which is great and was able to
get through, but then you have to look at the
remains of the you know, the car with the people
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that died with the blankets.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
And that's why you have to be careful. I didn't
crash the back of his car hard. I just bumped
it gently.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Okay, like you were in Autopia.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
The pills you learned when you were a kid doing
bumper cars.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, Marcus from Bruceville, Eddie in Texas's I have a
two part question. Oh, this is a sporty question for
you and Danny. He says, I'm a Bucks fan. They
are fighting for first place in the NFC South at
five and six. That's right, Bucks play Atlanta today. If
they make the playoffs, what do they what do they do?
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What is the best scenario? I think is what he's saying,
to win a game? Or would you rather your team
lose out for a better draft scenario or make the
playoffs and get pummeled the in the first round? All right,
So I want to answer this first. My answer is
always I would what's rather be in the playoffs? I
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know it doesn't happen very often. Usually it's once in
a generation where a shit team just finds some kind
of higher power and plays out of body for a
couple of weeks, not momentum. They just happen to play
really well. It all comes together like it right now.
If the playoffs started, Atlanta would play Dallas or Tampa Bay.
If they get in, they would play Dallas in that
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four or five NFC matchup. So the formula, and I
think you kind of know this, Marcus, you're a smart guy.
The formula would be Dallas would be Dak Prescott getting
food poisoning because he ate some bad eggs the morning
of that playoff game and then went out and literally
not only ran the vomit comet, he had die die
diarrhea and then he couldn't play and then you'd win
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the game, you know, And maybe he shared those eggs
with Michael Parsons and Michaeh also had a situation, right
and then at the same time another key Cowboy player
came over there and he happened to have you know,
and that kind of thing can happen, or just Dak
Prescott playing like Dak Prescott in the playf game. But
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Dak last year he showed he can play well in
the playoffs against an inferior team, which was your Buccaneers,
and if they play again, the same thing would happen.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Because Tampa's not very good. And we've covered this on
your live show a lot. So many teams waste their
draft picks. Anyways, you're better off. Don't be negative. Just
get to the dance. Don't just assume there's a bunch
of blocker moores there at the party. There might be
some fine heina who actually likes you. Get to the party.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yeah, and it's not about the almighty all powerful first
round pick. The Rams have the top young receiver in
football right now who was a fifth round pick who
no one had ever heard of, Puka Nakua. The guy's
been a revelation. He wasn't a first round pick or
a second round pick. They got him in the fifth round.
They took a flyer on the guy, and the guy's
been better than Cooper Cupp.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Lebron has been tweeting about him.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Oh me, yeah, yeah, I know. Lebron always tries to
jump on all the bandwagons. Ohio Al sends an angry email.
He's upset with me. I think, he says. I've sent
multiple emails to your Gmail account over the past couple
weeks with three updated Malor holiday songs y'r Overnight Show
plus a brand new Honka song. I am perplexed that
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I've not heard any of them played on the podcast
or the show which I listened to faithfully. Did you
not get my emails? Or is Iowa Sam anti ohio Al?
If my work is not appreciated anymore, I'm fine with that,
but that's surprising since my song half Pint got run
over by her. John Deere won the Benny Award last
year for best Holiday Mallard Song, and my Talent Show
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entry this year was runner up, says Ohio. So yeah,
I apologize, ohio Al. I've been bad about I'm getting
a lot of email. I've been trying to trying to
dig through it, and that's probably my fault. It's not
Iowa Sam's fault, although he would probably ignore your music anyway.
He's also upset because Iowa Sam plays mister PC's songs
a lot. So yeah, Sam wasn't on the show, and
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you know, who knows what the future holds for Iowa Sam.
No announcements yet. But the thing about the Io Sam thing,
he's not really familiar with a lot of the music
that we've had, and so he can plays some of
it that he knows, but it seems like most of
that's from mister PC. You are correct, But if you want,
you can email Ben Mahler Show. Well, let me skiet
(38:14):
the right address is it? Ben Mahler producer, Ben Mahler
Show producer. Let me check here, Hold on a se
because there one of them is important, the other one
is not that important, and one of them will go.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I think it's temporary Ben Mahler producer at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, that's what it should be. Let me see you.
I'm gonna type this in Ben Mahler. There's a lot
of Ben Mahler's on there. Oh bet Yeah, it's just
Ben Mahler, producer at gmail dot com. So, Ohio, If
I'm a schmuck, If I'm a I'm a douche canoe
and I don't get back to you quick enough because
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I'm digging through email and fighting with you know, different
idiots that email me all the time, then just just
send a message to Benmallard producer at gmail dot com.
Now I have no access to that account. I have
nothing to do with that account. That's justin. Justin Cooper
checks that email from time to time, so check, you know,
send that to him and you'll be you'll be good
(39:13):
to go. Let's see here, guy writes in no name
on this favorite hot sauce, and then he lists a
bunch of Texas Pete's Louisiana, Tabasco, Frank's red hot Tapatillo.
Uh some I've never heard of. I like, you know,
on tacos. I like that tapatio that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Did he listla I.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Do not see? Oh yeah he did listen. Yeah, yeah,
that's on here too.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah yeah, I like that one.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
That's your go to. Yeah, all right, I think that's it.
We'll get out on that.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Danny.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It is Sunday. Anything you want to promote here on
a beautiful, glorious Sunday, Week fourteen in the NFL. I
know I'll be back tonight, back in the magic radio
box as we yap all night long here with Marginal
Overnight Sports Radio. Of course, Benny, this is the pending
this morning. If you're listening early in the day here,
what do you have going on?
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Danny? I'm dreaming of a dude with no eyebrows to
throw three interceptions. Can Joshua Dobbs please have another terrible.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Game please, which Dobbs will show up? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Of course, the Vikings get Justin Jefferson back just in
time to play against the Raiders shocker. But I hope
that Dobbs struggles again so that the Antonio Pierce sled
Raiders can get back into the W column.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I saw a stat that the Raiders the last twenty
years have the worst record in the NFL after a bye,
worst record in the NFL. Which that is what has happened.
That doesn't guarantee it's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yeah, that was some bad coaches too, that is true.
Hopefully this dude can prove that he's different.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
It is tough because you go into the game without
a quarterback, but at least the Vikings don't have a
quarterback either. I've got the Rams playing the Ravens today
and that Looney worships Lamar Jackson. So I need the
Rams to win so I can harass Looney on next
week's TV show. Can Tom Looney? I need that to happen.
But have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Thank you
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for continuing to follow follow the fifth Hour podcast and
the Ben Maler Show podcast and Danny's work with Covino
and Rich all of the podcasts. We do need you
to listen on the semi regular otherwise we won't get
any credit. And so just you know, five ten minutes here,
you know what, say, Monday, Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Friday, twenty minutes here, half hour there.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Yeah, three hour of.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Our podcasts on one day on a Monday while you're driving.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, just take a four hour drive for no reason
and just listen to podcasts. That's all you gotta do.
So anyway, thank you for that and help us out
and we will catch you next time.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Later. Skater got a murder. I gotta go,