June 29, 2025 • 39 mins
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Kubbooms.
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If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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Wow.
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The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
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The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler
and Danny g Radio A Happy Sunday to you, the
last Fifth Hour podcast for the month of June. Yeah,
we're almost into July, and that means NFL training camp
will open up in a couple of days. We do
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have the mailbag. We'll get to that in a couple
of minutes. It is National Camera Day today, which means
I fell down the proverbial rabbit hole with amazing factoids, shocking,
mind blowing factoids about the camera. I am such a
radio loser. For example, is it true that the ancient
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optics were invented the basis for the camera four hundred BC?
That the Chinese? The Chinese provided the earliest known written record,
written record of their exploration of the camera or pinhole
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imagery now wasn't until the eighteen hundreds, eighteen twenty five,
so exactly you do the math on this, it's twenty
twenty five, so that would be two hundred years ago
the first image was printed. A French scientist invented the heliograph,
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a print that requid required eight hours of light exposure
eight hours of light exposure to create and soon faded away.
And then within fifteen years, less than fifteen years after that,
eighteen thirty nine, the forerunner of filming was born as
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a gentleman in France was the first person to commercially
successfully photograph, use that process of photography to create a
permanent image on a metal plate. So that was in
eighteen thirty nine, and then you advance a couple of
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years later, another gentleman patented the calotype process, the first
negative positive process at the time, which made it possible
to reproduce multiple copies of pictures. And over time you
think about the evolution of the camera and where we
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have gotten where everyone has their own camera. But it
was in the eighteen eighties George Eastman invented the first
flexible photographic film and that follow up with another first
in eighteen eighty eight when he patented the Kodak role
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film camera, and Kodak became one of the biggest companies
in America. When I was a kid, Kodak was dominating.
And if you're under the age of like forty, you
probably no idea like Kodak. What the hell's Koda? I mean,
you've heard the Kodak moment, but like, what is it?
The first mass marketed camera went on sale in nineteen hundred,
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and then there was every couple of years there was
a big, a big thing. The Wright brothers invented the
airplane and then that created aerial photography, making it available
to the military. Sorry, I was in nineteen oh three.
You can advance it. Nineteen thirty five that Guy Eastman
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introduced the Coda Chrome the first and they claimed the
best color transparency film nineteen thirty five. And then you know,
every couple of years there was a big announcement, and
it was up until the nineteen seventies when digital seventies
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of the nineties, digital started taking over in the eighties
and the nineties. The first camera phone was in two thousand,
built into a camera, though very few people had it
and Kodak, which had dominated and again one of the
biggest companies in America, they stopped making film cameras over
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twenty years ago. Twenty four was when they said ixnay
on the film may were good. And I guess they're
still around, but barely around, right, barely barely around. So
that is it. In a nutshell, it is National Camera Day,
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so more than eight hundred years, all the way back
eight hundred years. Uh. And dark chamber And even when
I was in junior high school, you old had we
had a class that it was an elective you could
sign up for, and it was processing film, going into
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a dark room, putting the film under the end in
the water and taking it and creating the image. Uh.
And you don't have to obviously don't have to do
that anymore. But in a split second you have what
used to be movie quality film on your on your phone.
I mean, it is wacky, wacky, wacky. In wheeling away
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from that, before we get to the mail bag, we
have the two for one weekly special at the Malor
Mad House. That's right, a two for one weekly special
at the Malor Mad House. And you get first DIBs
on this because you are a legit p one listening
to the fifth hour podcast on a Sunday or whenever
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you end up listening to this, and you will have
an advantage. Those other mere peons will not have. The
people that only listen to the overnight show, we will not
know this. So the two for one weekly special at
the Malor Mad House, I will be in tonight, per normal,
per normal, normal night overnight talk radio. I will then
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not be in. That would be the one. I will
be off the radio Monday and Tuesday, so you will
not hear my voice Monday and Tuesday. Have something I
have to take care on that night, so I cannot
attend the radio show. But then I will be back
to normal the rest of the week. So four nights
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of overnight talk radio. But here's the two I mentioned
a two for one weekly special at the Maler Matthouse.
I have been called in out of the bullpen. I
will be back doing the day night doubleheader double barrel
talk radio day and night, burning the candle at both
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ends as I will be working with Fred Rogan, the dean,
the Dean of La Sports, Fred Rogan on the Blowtorch
AM five seventy and that'll be on Wednesday and Thursday
of this week. So the dates on that, I believe
our July second and July third. So I'll be on
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from noon to three pm Pacific. That's after noon Drive
on the East Coast three o'clock in the afternoon till
six o'clock. You can listen on the iHeart Radio appts
on AM five seventy that is the home of the Doyers.
So I'll be on there and talk a lot of Dodgers,
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LA sports, the usual stuff. I'll be forced to talk
about the Lakers, but I'd much rather talk about the Clippers.
The Rams you can ram it all day, you can
ram it all night, and the Chargers as well. So
that'll be coming up two for one special again for
those of you a little slow in the back of
the room. I will be on tonight Monday into Tuesday.
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No radio show for me, but then to make up
for that, I will do six extra hours of talk
radio spread out over two days. So you are warned,
prepare accordingly. So if you guys on the payroll, like
Alf and fer Dog and Terry in England, you guys
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are gonna have to work extra. You're you're also gonna
have to work extra, but I will give you the
one night off on Monday and Tuesday, I'll give you
that night off. Now to the mail bag, and that
means the one and only get me in the mood,
ohio Al, you know what to do. Come on, ohio Al.
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Hit that button right there, Danny G it's all right,
all right, Thank you very much, ohio Al. These are
actual letters by actual listeners to the Overnight Show during
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the week and this fifth hour podcast. You have made time.
You've taken time out of your schedule to write an email.
I know it doesn't take that long, but you've taken
a little bit of time to contact me. We do
thank you for doing that. And yet again we have
some new names here that have not popped up in
the past, which means the podcast is growing, that it's
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in safe hands. And so I know we both appreciate
Danny's not here on the mic this weekend, but we
both we do appreciate the fact that you are taking
time out and adding content, burning up the audio dance floor,
if you will. Now, this is a name that we
get quite often. He's a big fan of the show,
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although he's never called the show not this show. Or
the radio show Reggie from Detroit. Reggie says Ben and Danny.
He says, I hope your weekend is going well. I
really enjoyed hearing from Dick in Dayton. He sounds in
a he sounds like he's in a bad mood. Reggie says,
he's not that happy with his living situation. Hopefully you'll
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be able to get to Ohio and cheer him up.
As for my question, Reggie says, I know you guys
are not soccer fans, However, do you have any hot
takes on Ronaldo and his deal in Saudi Arabia? All right,
so obviously Danny cannot answer this because he's out here,
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but I will answer this Reggie. So, first of all,
let's start with Dick and Dayton. And he's one of
my favorite people. You know that if you listen to
the Overnight show. I am a huge fan of Dick
from Dayton. He has provided so many great drops. Then
I'm relatively confident he does not even realize how funny
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he is. Dick from Dayton and he's just a treasure.
He's been calling me for god at least twenty years.
We've had a radio relationship. Caller host and he called
me when I was working on Thanksgiving probably twenty years ago,
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and a sweet, fun guy. He was going to get
Thanksgiving dinner by himself in Dayton, Ohio, and he was
bragging he paid five dollars for Thanksgiving dinner. And he's
called me ever since. He calls me once or twice
a week, and I would love to get there. I'm
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efforting to get there, Reggie. That is the plan. Some
of you reached out, I need a venue for the
meet and greet. Based on the feedback that we're getting,
a lot of you are like, hey, he should come
to southern southern Ohio. I don't know, like Cincinnati, Dixon
in Dayton obviously, and he can't really leave there, so
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I might just have to go to Dayton. I might
just say, effitt and I'll just go to Dayton. And
if I have to pick Dick in Dayton up in
an uber or something, well we'll make it happen. But
as far as the other part of that, I did
see the Ronaldo contract. I read the Sun, which is
a tabloid in London. I don't read it. I scan
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it and this thing up. So Ronaldo and you can
correct me if I'm wrong, Reggie. As I understand it,
Ronaldo is going to earn two hundred and forty three
million dollars per year on his new deal. You talk
about getting some of that Saudi oil money. He will
be paid four point seven million dollars per week. But wait,
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there's more. He also gets an ownership stake in the team,
and he's got performance bonuses in there as well. He'll
get was it ten grand per goal? That's that's ten
extra thousand. That's like a startup fee for a tech company.
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Ten thousand dollars he'll get oh no, wait, one hundred.
I say one, one hundred and ten grand. I said ten, No,
one hundred and ten grand, My god, ten grand. He
wouldn't even get out of bed. One hundred and ten
per goal, Now that is more like a tech startup.
He'll get fifty five thousand per assist. So whether he
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passes for a goal or scores a goal. Man. Now,
my friend Nico, who's got his son who's a soccer prodigy.
Now Nico, please remember me, Nico when your son ends
up getting that Ronaldo money from Saudi Arabia. Holy crap.
But wait, there's more. So, Reggie, the story says that
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essentially Ronaldo has been given not only the two hundred
forty three million dollars, but he's been given an entourage
like he's the president, which includes chef's gardeners, private security
around the clock. And does he get a new pair
of underwear every day like Floyd Mayweather. My got two
hundred and forty three million, and he gets a thirty
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three percent ownership stake in the club. He'll he'll get
up to twenty five million dollars in team incentives and
as we mentioned, sixteen full time staff members for Ronaldo. Man,
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they have so much money because of you and I
buying gas in Saudi Arabia. My god, that can you imagine.
I was like, ah, yeah, we'll pay. We're gonna pay Ronaldo.
We'll give them two hundred and forty three million dollars. Wow,
that is next level. Is obviously obviously what it is.
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And if they start I remember we talked about this
when there was some Middle East money that went into golf,
and if they wanted to there's so much money, you
know a couple of these countries, you know, the Saudi
Wellness Fund, We talked about that. How much money they
have they could destroy if they wanted to the NFL,
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the NBA, and Major League Baseball. If they woke up
and got to bug up their ass and said, we
just want to take down the NFL, they would be
able to do that within a year. They have so
much money that they would just cherry pick Patrick Mahomes
and they'd get Josh Allen and the top coaches, Sean
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McVay and all these other guys whoever they wanted, because
you could pay them all one hundred million or two
hundred million per year and they would still not It
wouldn't even make a dent in how much money they have,
all right. Next up on the mailbag, we have Hwang,
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who writes us from Vietnam. He says, Big Man and
Daddy g Radio. A woodpecker's tongue loops around its head,
helping to protect its brain from the force of repeated pecking. Says,
are the rumors true that are you smarter than a
tech queen? The bit was canceled due to the lack
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this lack of protection. Wow, well, Quang, the bit is
on hiatus right now. It has not officially officially been canceled.
It just was not up to the standard, Like I know,
I don't have a lot of standards on the show.
It just wasn't good. The people that were calling to
play were not good. Lorena, I love her, but she
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didn't take it seriously and it just wasn't good radio.
And so why would we do it? Why would we
continue to do it if the quality was just not there?
It makes no sense now, Tommy. Since he Tommy writes,
and he says, greeting's Big Ben, Benny the Brazen and
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Danny g Money, he says, quote, I agree with you,
smarter than the FSR Tech Queen game was not going well. However,
since he Tommy writes it in I think it should
be retooled instead of shell. If I may touch up
your work. Just to Tad sir, here we go, Tommy says,
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consider changing the rules. Alternate picking the category. Lorena and
the challenger must say their first name and answer the
question alone like the other games. Says, allowing contestants and
Lorena to piggyback their answers doesn't work and makes the
game easier and longer. Please consider don't let my legacy end. Benny.
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Much love and a little skyline to you both. Well,
there you go Daniel skyline chilly. So this is where
you play the fart sound effects right here? Yep, that's
about right, all right? So that was Tommy. Listen, Tommy,
I'm not as I told Kwang, and I'll repeat it
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if you weren't paying attention two seconds ago. At this point,
the game is on pause. Will I consider bringing the
game back at some point? Sure, I'll consider bringing the
game back. I want to say we can come up
with something else. I want to try some other things
and see I've had some bits floating around in my
head that we haven't done, So we'll see where that goes.
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Ferg Dog in Fullerton that Winter Wonderland writes, and he says,
simpify Ben and Danny g. In response to Alf's question
from last week, I don't think there's anything wrong with
listening to a throwaway podcast on two times the speed,
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like The Herd or the Puck Podcast. But if you're
listening to a good podcast like The Fifth Hour or
The Animal Thunderdome, you shouldn't alter it in any way.
You wouldn't listen to a classic song at two times
the speed, would you? Question Mark? He says, what's your
guy's least favorite ride at Disneyland. For me, it is
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the Haunted Mansion. I went on it once and I
had nightmares for weeks. Never again, never again. So for
a dog my least favorite ride at Disneyland, let's see,
I guess I would go Space Mountain. I think I'm
too tall. I'm too big a guy now. I used
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to go on it when I was a kid, and
I've heard stories that people if you're a little too
tall there, like there have been people that have been
hurt on it, and I don't think that'll happen anymore.
There's enough people that ride it that doesn't really do
much for me, And I'm trying to think, like I
usually just avoid the rides I don't like. I don't
bother to go on them. So if they don't look
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interesting to me, unless I'm being forced to go on
them because I'm with my niece or nephew or something
like that, I'm like, eh, I'm good. I'm not I'm
not going to be partaking if it doesn't look good,
because the most important thing we have is our time.
But yeah, I go Space Mountain. I'm trying to think
what other rides are like, pretty lame? I guess the
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the submarine ride. I think they still have that. I
think they changed the name of it though I used
to like Splash Mountain. They change that. But you get soaked,
so I'm not not going on that. My wife hates it.
She's can't ah, you get so wet. It's discussing anyway.
Paul from Oregon rights and says, Ben and Danny, you
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guys calling your travel agent about the big travel news
this week. And Paul says that North Korea Kim Jong
un has opened a new beach resort. Okay, I don't
think we're allowed. Uh yeah, that'd be a tough one.
Although I have been sent by some of you idiots
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travel blogs on YouTube of people that have gone to
North Korea, Like they're a lot if you're like British.
I mean they allow some people to go. And I'm
guessing they don't show you the whole picture. They only
show you a part of the picture, if you know
what I mean. Yeah, that's I'm good on that. I
saw some of the photos. Look looks fine. I don't
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think the food's that good. Frankie from Philadelphia Adjacent Frankie
says he says, hey, bandon Danny. You guys proud of
your baby talk. I think this is more for Danny
than for me. But Danny is not here. And Frankie says,
this story he found this week is that baby talk
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is believed to be the reason humans are the only
speaking species on Earth baby talk. And he sent me
a story here. According to the story, and I don't
know where Frankie got this from. He says, human infants
receive up to four hundred up to a weasel term,
up to four hundred times more direct vocal communication then
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baby bontabos, and nearly seventy times more than baby chimpanzees.
The suggestion is that talkative parenting is unique among the
great apes. So the human beings talking and they say
that well, background chatter around the children infants similar across humans,
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chimps and all the other ape species. It is only
only the human caregiver that is focused on speech directly
at the baby, and so that helps encourage learning. But
here's the thing. Obviously, Frankie is like, yeah, we do that,
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but are you You're born doing that right, because some
human beings didn't start out with me. Somewhere along the
way the first humans, I do the math on that
they didn't you know, where did they come from? Etc?
Evolution all that. Those are some deep conversations, but the
early kids were their parents talking right away like how
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did that work? I don't know, but thank you, Frankie,
and I'm sure Danny he'll address that at a later date.
For baby Ka. Joe from New York, New York, right Sin,
He says, Ben, since you have talked about your spitting
loogie fascination on the show, I thought you'd appreciate this story.
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Have a great day, enjoy the radio show and the podcast.
You better not stop doing either. That is from Joe
in New York. And Joe sent a story about what
to do with flem and he wrote this like Shakespeare,
he wrote, to spit or to swallow flem. So I
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read the story, Joe, and it's pretty funny because the
story concluded going it's a very worthy story, and it
concluded you're fine doing either either you spit that big
wad of mucissi flem out or you swallow it back
into your stomach. The story says spitting can help some
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people feel better, especially if their cough is associated with
thick flem. That's causing distress. But for most healthy people
there is no need to force a cough or spit
out flem. Swallowing flem is completely safe. Okay. Now, one
thing about this story, Joe, My favorite part is that
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if you go back to the eighteen twenties, so a
couple hundred years ago, there was a French physician who
invented the guy that invented the stepiscope, and in his
office he had a spitting pot, he said, a spinning
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pot he considered an essential part of the bedroom apparatus.
So not only his office, but like in the bedroom,
near the bed, you had to have a thing just
to spit flem into. How do you like that? Put
that in your pipe and smoke it. Carl from Vegas
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rights and Carl says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I enjoy
the mail bag. I thought this would be good for you. Okay,
thank you. That's all we need. Send me more, guys,
if you see stuff that you think we would be
good for the show. It's real fifth hour at gmail
dot com. That's real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
All all letters, no numbers, Carl says, is this guy
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the cowboy John brad of magic? So he sent me
a story here. A magician was on the Today Show
this week and has memori every zip code in America,
every single zip code in America. This guy has has
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gotten his head. So Carl a couple things. Number one, number,
one number. It's obvious this guy has some kind of
photographic memory, right, certain people have that. I don't have that.
I'm assuming you don't have that, right, otherwise you wouldn't
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have sent this in, Carl, So we don't have that.
Number two. Yeah. The beauty of Cowboy John Brad is
he does not own a computer, he does not have
a smartphone, he does not have any of that stuff.
But yet he remembers everything, like every day of his
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life he remembers. And he started to call the show again.
And so I don't know particularly, I didn't see the
segment with the guy that knows every zip code in America.
I didn't see it. However, it doesn't really like shock
me because if you have that ability, I get it.
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I totally get it. Tony in the Bay Area rights in.
He says, did Jinks May's ask for my five five
five number? Not yet, Tony, We'll let you know, And
he says, Danny g I'm guessing you have judged many
verbal octagons. He says, I was wrongly disqualified recently, and
I want your decision if I won by the vowel
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being thrown in after me saying a cross between William
Shatner and David Vassey is what my dick looks like. Wow. Well, unfortunately,
Tony Danny's not here to answer your questions. I'm sure
he's laughing right now as he listens to it. Ryan
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from Shrewsbury, mass writes and he says, big Ben and
Danny g Since it seems like you're a tacco expert, Ben,
can you please settle the great debate between me and
my wife? Absolutely, we will do that, Ryan, He says,
I like hardshell tacos and she is more of a
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soft shell taco fan. Oh which is better in your
professional opinion? Well, Ryan, first of all, these are the
kind of questions that are perfect, absolutely perfect for the
male back. So thank you for that. We appreciate that. Now,
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with all due respects, I'm sure your wife doesn't listen
to this podcast. She could not be more wrong with
her love of soft shell tacos. That is a bad answer.
That is a party foul. There is only one excit answer.
There is no great taco debate the taco and I
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know because you're living in southern California. It's essentially northern
Mexico right where we live here in southern California. There's
a great Mexican food. It's it's wonderful. Oh, there's no question.
Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it,
love it, love it. The acceptable answer tacos Dorado's tacos dorados.
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That's the answer. And there are some tacos snobs out
there and these a holes. It's like the people that
get upset that that are low low IQ people, the
dumb of the dumb. I can't believe you like your
steak butterfly cut, well done. Heah, yikes. Yes, it's my steak,
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you schmuck. I'm gonna eat it the way I want it.
You lose it, and.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'm not going to complain because there's blood dripping off
your pink climey discussing steak.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I don't care how you meet your steak. But it's
the same brain, Rod, It's the same brain, Rod, Ryan.
And it's unfortunate to hear your wife has it the
soft taco Illuminati. That's what I call. They're like an illuminati. Okay,
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they are assholes, I said it. Ah, give me tacos dorado,
the gringo taco, which, oh, by the way, if you know,
the history of Mexico is as authentic as it gets. Now,
it's not everywhere in Mexico, but if you look at
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the northern parts of Mexico, like Sonora, Mexico, Chihuahua. I
mean there's some other towns too. I don't I can't
forge of the name of them, but there's there's several
northern outposts, several northern outposts in Mexico where the local
taco is tacos dorado. So don't do not back down. Ryan.
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The soft taco is more like a burrito. It's not
a taco. The proper taco is crunch it's fried. It's wonderful,
and don't forget when you're having Mexican food. Ryan, the
crunchy gringo taco, the cousin of the gringo taco, also wonderful.
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The taketofact last night for dinner, homemade crunchy tacos, gringo tacos,
the tacos dorado and taketos from scratch. We made them
from a scratch, and we've mastered that menu item. We've
mastered that menu item. It's just absolutely great. Alf writes
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in the Alien Opiner from Columbia Pictures. He says, I
figured there's no better way to put a ball on
three Stooges a week on the Ben Mathers Show than
to give you a bunch of fun facts about our
favorite trio. So hit the music, all right, So Alf
sent me, we won't do all of these Alves. I mean,
(33:22):
let me pick and choose some of these the Three Stooges.
The Three Stooges lineup was not always the same. There
were six different Stooges from nineteen twenty two to nineteen seventy. Wow,
you talk about a run. Holy, that's forty eight years
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of I mean a little bit younger than I am
right now. That is wild Curly's hair. His shaved head
was not natural. He cut his hair short because he
thought it looked funnier. What else? The physical comedy was real.
The actors often were injured while filming on set. Larry
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Fine broke a finger during a stunt. There you go.
The Stooges were among the first American comedians to satirize
Hitler and make fun of the Nazis, so they did
that in their first film, Women Haters, was a musical
comedy with rhyming dialogue and jokes. I was in nineteen
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nineteen thirty four. The ipoke inventor Shemp Howard credited with
inventing the three Stooges ipoke, which is when you think Stooges,
that's one of the first things you think of. Curly's
signature sounds U U and woo woo woo woo woo
first appeared in Women Haters, though the woo woo woo
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woo woo was borrowed from another comedian. And the most
amazing fun fact of them all is that they were unaway.
They were unaware that they were popular. They didn't realize
that Columbia Pictures was making tons of money based on
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their ability. Their salaries were kept low, they didn't get royalties,
they didn't get residuals from the films and the TV stuff,
so they were not They were not rich, They were
not wealthy because the evil movie studios screwed them over.
(35:33):
A guy named Harry Cohen, the Columbia Pictures President kept
their salaries pretty low, and they made more money and
more money, and more money, and more money and more money.
So there you go. It's from alf. I think I
did do all the fun facts off. I think I
got pretty much all of them. I think so all right,
(35:54):
our last one, well, this is not really worthy of imagine.
Patrick from San Diego DJ Spin. He wanted to apologize.
He was on Jeopardy the other night, and he says,
no excuses, and then he gave an excuse. He said,
no excuses. I couldn't hear everything clearly, he says. That's
on me. He says, after I listened to the questions
(36:15):
on the podcast, I knew the answers. He says. I'm
not a usual caller. He says, By the way, I'm
still blocked by William Shatner on X and he is
going to beat me at scrabble. Now, well, I give
you credit. I will give you credit, Patrick, because unlike
most of the other listeners that have played me on Scrabble,
(36:38):
You're still going and a lot of the other guys
have given up. They've thrown in the towel. They're like, ah,
we can't. We can't compete with this. You know, you
know you can't beat me. Now I have lost. I
lost to Noah. I lost to Noah alf. I don't
think I lost to alf He's one one of the
(37:00):
guys that has stopped to stop playing. But if you
want to play me on on Scrabble, it's it's on
iPhone and Android, and I don't get paid for this,
and they're not not a sponsor, but it's I love
playing Scrabble. And if you want to go against me
on Scrabble, it's the Scrabble Go app. It's a free
(37:22):
app and you can test yourself against me. My name
on there is Benny uh and so you know it's
my name, and just search for the Benny's. I have
a Brooklyn Dodger cap, the bet cap on my avatar. Okay,
there you go. All right, we'll get out on that.
(37:42):
And thank you for listening all weekend on the podcast
and really testing the boundaries of the human voice. I
gotta tell you, I mean, I think the company is
just trying to trying to get my voice to be
completely destroyed. They on the Overnight show, I used to
have have Eddie and then they got rid of Eddie,
so I talked for four hours a night by myself.
(38:05):
I don't care. I'm leaving. Goodbye. Remember tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight.
I will be on normal off on Monday, but it's
a two for one special, so I'm off on Monday
and Tuesday, but then back double barrel Action. I will
be on locally in LA, but you can listen on
the iHeartRadio app on AM five seventy it's the Dodger station.
(38:30):
I will be on from noon to three Pacific that's
three to six Eastern Time on Wednesday and Thursday. And
we will have a live show on the fourth of July,
heading in to that overnight the July third into July fourth.
So I have a wonderful a rest of your Sunday.
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We will catch you later on tonight on the radio.
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I gotta go
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If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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Wow.
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The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
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The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler
and Danny g Radio A Happy Sunday to you, the
last Fifth Hour podcast for the month of June. Yeah,
we're almost into July, and that means NFL training camp
will open up in a couple of days. We do
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have the mailbag. We'll get to that in a couple
of minutes. It is National Camera Day today, which means
I fell down the proverbial rabbit hole with amazing factoids, shocking,
mind blowing factoids about the camera. I am such a
radio loser. For example, is it true that the ancient
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optics were invented the basis for the camera four hundred BC?
That the Chinese? The Chinese provided the earliest known written record,
written record of their exploration of the camera or pinhole
(01:38):
imagery now wasn't until the eighteen hundreds, eighteen twenty five,
so exactly you do the math on this, it's twenty
twenty five, so that would be two hundred years ago
the first image was printed. A French scientist invented the heliograph,
(01:58):
a print that requid required eight hours of light exposure
eight hours of light exposure to create and soon faded away.
And then within fifteen years, less than fifteen years after that,
eighteen thirty nine, the forerunner of filming was born as
(02:19):
a gentleman in France was the first person to commercially
successfully photograph, use that process of photography to create a
permanent image on a metal plate. So that was in
eighteen thirty nine, and then you advance a couple of
(02:39):
years later, another gentleman patented the calotype process, the first
negative positive process at the time, which made it possible
to reproduce multiple copies of pictures. And over time you
think about the evolution of the camera and where we
(03:02):
have gotten where everyone has their own camera. But it
was in the eighteen eighties George Eastman invented the first
flexible photographic film and that follow up with another first
in eighteen eighty eight when he patented the Kodak role
(03:22):
film camera, and Kodak became one of the biggest companies
in America. When I was a kid, Kodak was dominating.
And if you're under the age of like forty, you
probably no idea like Kodak. What the hell's Koda? I mean,
you've heard the Kodak moment, but like, what is it?
The first mass marketed camera went on sale in nineteen hundred,
(03:47):
and then there was every couple of years there was
a big, a big thing. The Wright brothers invented the
airplane and then that created aerial photography, making it available
to the military. Sorry, I was in nineteen oh three.
You can advance it. Nineteen thirty five that Guy Eastman
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introduced the Coda Chrome the first and they claimed the
best color transparency film nineteen thirty five. And then you know,
every couple of years there was a big announcement, and
it was up until the nineteen seventies when digital seventies
(04:28):
of the nineties, digital started taking over in the eighties
and the nineties. The first camera phone was in two thousand,
built into a camera, though very few people had it
and Kodak, which had dominated and again one of the
biggest companies in America, they stopped making film cameras over
(04:50):
twenty years ago. Twenty four was when they said ixnay
on the film may were good. And I guess they're
still around, but barely around, right, barely barely around. So
that is it. In a nutshell, it is National Camera Day,
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so more than eight hundred years, all the way back
eight hundred years. Uh. And dark chamber And even when
I was in junior high school, you old had we
had a class that it was an elective you could
sign up for, and it was processing film, going into
(05:35):
a dark room, putting the film under the end in
the water and taking it and creating the image. Uh.
And you don't have to obviously don't have to do
that anymore. But in a split second you have what
used to be movie quality film on your on your phone.
I mean, it is wacky, wacky, wacky. In wheeling away
(06:02):
from that, before we get to the mail bag, we
have the two for one weekly special at the Malor
Mad House. That's right, a two for one weekly special
at the Malor Mad House. And you get first DIBs
on this because you are a legit p one listening
to the fifth hour podcast on a Sunday or whenever
(06:25):
you end up listening to this, and you will have
an advantage. Those other mere peons will not have. The
people that only listen to the overnight show, we will not
know this. So the two for one weekly special at
the Malor Mad House, I will be in tonight, per normal,
per normal, normal night overnight talk radio. I will then
(06:48):
not be in. That would be the one. I will
be off the radio Monday and Tuesday, so you will
not hear my voice Monday and Tuesday. Have something I
have to take care on that night, so I cannot
attend the radio show. But then I will be back
to normal the rest of the week. So four nights
(07:08):
of overnight talk radio. But here's the two I mentioned
a two for one weekly special at the Maler Matthouse.
I have been called in out of the bullpen. I
will be back doing the day night doubleheader double barrel
talk radio day and night, burning the candle at both
(07:29):
ends as I will be working with Fred Rogan, the dean,
the Dean of La Sports, Fred Rogan on the Blowtorch
AM five seventy and that'll be on Wednesday and Thursday
of this week. So the dates on that, I believe
our July second and July third. So I'll be on
(07:52):
from noon to three pm Pacific. That's after noon Drive
on the East Coast three o'clock in the afternoon till
six o'clock. You can listen on the iHeart Radio appts
on AM five seventy that is the home of the Doyers.
So I'll be on there and talk a lot of Dodgers,
(08:13):
LA sports, the usual stuff. I'll be forced to talk
about the Lakers, but I'd much rather talk about the Clippers.
The Rams you can ram it all day, you can
ram it all night, and the Chargers as well. So
that'll be coming up two for one special again for
those of you a little slow in the back of
the room. I will be on tonight Monday into Tuesday.
(08:38):
No radio show for me, but then to make up
for that, I will do six extra hours of talk
radio spread out over two days. So you are warned,
prepare accordingly. So if you guys on the payroll, like
Alf and fer Dog and Terry in England, you guys
(09:01):
are gonna have to work extra. You're you're also gonna
have to work extra, but I will give you the
one night off on Monday and Tuesday, I'll give you
that night off. Now to the mail bag, and that
means the one and only get me in the mood,
ohio Al, you know what to do. Come on, ohio Al.
(09:23):
Hit that button right there, Danny G it's all right,
all right, Thank you very much, ohio Al. These are
actual letters by actual listeners to the Overnight Show during
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the week and this fifth hour podcast. You have made time.
You've taken time out of your schedule to write an email.
I know it doesn't take that long, but you've taken
a little bit of time to contact me. We do
thank you for doing that. And yet again we have
some new names here that have not popped up in
the past, which means the podcast is growing, that it's
(10:09):
in safe hands. And so I know we both appreciate
Danny's not here on the mic this weekend, but we
both we do appreciate the fact that you are taking
time out and adding content, burning up the audio dance floor,
if you will. Now, this is a name that we
get quite often. He's a big fan of the show,
(10:31):
although he's never called the show not this show. Or
the radio show Reggie from Detroit. Reggie says Ben and Danny.
He says, I hope your weekend is going well. I
really enjoyed hearing from Dick in Dayton. He sounds in
a he sounds like he's in a bad mood. Reggie says,
he's not that happy with his living situation. Hopefully you'll
(10:52):
be able to get to Ohio and cheer him up.
As for my question, Reggie says, I know you guys
are not soccer fans, However, do you have any hot
takes on Ronaldo and his deal in Saudi Arabia? All right,
so obviously Danny cannot answer this because he's out here,
(11:13):
but I will answer this Reggie. So, first of all,
let's start with Dick and Dayton. And he's one of
my favorite people. You know that if you listen to
the Overnight show. I am a huge fan of Dick
from Dayton. He has provided so many great drops. Then
I'm relatively confident he does not even realize how funny
(11:34):
he is. Dick from Dayton and he's just a treasure.
He's been calling me for god at least twenty years.
We've had a radio relationship. Caller host and he called
me when I was working on Thanksgiving probably twenty years ago,
(11:54):
and a sweet, fun guy. He was going to get
Thanksgiving dinner by himself in Dayton, Ohio, and he was
bragging he paid five dollars for Thanksgiving dinner. And he's
called me ever since. He calls me once or twice
a week, and I would love to get there. I'm
(12:14):
efforting to get there, Reggie. That is the plan. Some
of you reached out, I need a venue for the
meet and greet. Based on the feedback that we're getting,
a lot of you are like, hey, he should come
to southern southern Ohio. I don't know, like Cincinnati, Dixon
in Dayton obviously, and he can't really leave there, so
(12:37):
I might just have to go to Dayton. I might
just say, effitt and I'll just go to Dayton. And
if I have to pick Dick in Dayton up in
an uber or something, well we'll make it happen. But
as far as the other part of that, I did
see the Ronaldo contract. I read the Sun, which is
a tabloid in London. I don't read it. I scan
(12:58):
it and this thing up. So Ronaldo and you can
correct me if I'm wrong, Reggie. As I understand it,
Ronaldo is going to earn two hundred and forty three
million dollars per year on his new deal. You talk
about getting some of that Saudi oil money. He will
be paid four point seven million dollars per week. But wait,
(13:23):
there's more. He also gets an ownership stake in the team,
and he's got performance bonuses in there as well. He'll
get was it ten grand per goal? That's that's ten
extra thousand. That's like a startup fee for a tech company.
(13:44):
Ten thousand dollars he'll get oh no, wait, one hundred.
I say one, one hundred and ten grand. I said ten, No,
one hundred and ten grand, My god, ten grand. He
wouldn't even get out of bed. One hundred and ten
per goal, Now that is more like a tech startup.
He'll get fifty five thousand per assist. So whether he
(14:09):
passes for a goal or scores a goal. Man. Now,
my friend Nico, who's got his son who's a soccer prodigy.
Now Nico, please remember me, Nico when your son ends
up getting that Ronaldo money from Saudi Arabia. Holy crap.
But wait, there's more. So, Reggie, the story says that
(14:33):
essentially Ronaldo has been given not only the two hundred
forty three million dollars, but he's been given an entourage
like he's the president, which includes chef's gardeners, private security
around the clock. And does he get a new pair
of underwear every day like Floyd Mayweather. My got two
hundred and forty three million, and he gets a thirty
(14:55):
three percent ownership stake in the club. He'll he'll get
up to twenty five million dollars in team incentives and
as we mentioned, sixteen full time staff members for Ronaldo. Man,
(15:15):
they have so much money because of you and I
buying gas in Saudi Arabia. My god, that can you imagine.
I was like, ah, yeah, we'll pay. We're gonna pay Ronaldo.
We'll give them two hundred and forty three million dollars. Wow,
that is next level. Is obviously obviously what it is.
(15:39):
And if they start I remember we talked about this
when there was some Middle East money that went into golf,
and if they wanted to there's so much money, you
know a couple of these countries, you know, the Saudi
Wellness Fund, We talked about that. How much money they
have they could destroy if they wanted to the NFL,
(16:03):
the NBA, and Major League Baseball. If they woke up
and got to bug up their ass and said, we
just want to take down the NFL, they would be
able to do that within a year. They have so
much money that they would just cherry pick Patrick Mahomes
and they'd get Josh Allen and the top coaches, Sean
(16:25):
McVay and all these other guys whoever they wanted, because
you could pay them all one hundred million or two
hundred million per year and they would still not It
wouldn't even make a dent in how much money they have,
all right. Next up on the mailbag, we have Hwang,
(16:46):
who writes us from Vietnam. He says, Big Man and
Daddy g Radio. A woodpecker's tongue loops around its head,
helping to protect its brain from the force of repeated pecking. Says,
are the rumors true that are you smarter than a
tech queen? The bit was canceled due to the lack
(17:08):
this lack of protection. Wow, well, Quang, the bit is
on hiatus right now. It has not officially officially been canceled.
It just was not up to the standard, Like I know,
I don't have a lot of standards on the show.
It just wasn't good. The people that were calling to
play were not good. Lorena, I love her, but she
(17:29):
didn't take it seriously and it just wasn't good radio.
And so why would we do it? Why would we
continue to do it if the quality was just not there?
It makes no sense now, Tommy. Since he Tommy writes,
and he says, greeting's Big Ben, Benny the Brazen and
(17:49):
Danny g Money, he says, quote, I agree with you,
smarter than the FSR Tech Queen game was not going well. However,
since he Tommy writes it in I think it should
be retooled instead of shell. If I may touch up
your work. Just to Tad sir, here we go, Tommy says,
(18:09):
consider changing the rules. Alternate picking the category. Lorena and
the challenger must say their first name and answer the
question alone like the other games. Says, allowing contestants and
Lorena to piggyback their answers doesn't work and makes the
game easier and longer. Please consider don't let my legacy end. Benny.
(18:37):
Much love and a little skyline to you both. Well,
there you go Daniel skyline chilly. So this is where
you play the fart sound effects right here? Yep, that's
about right, all right? So that was Tommy. Listen, Tommy,
I'm not as I told Kwang, and I'll repeat it
(18:57):
if you weren't paying attention two seconds ago. At this point,
the game is on pause. Will I consider bringing the
game back at some point? Sure, I'll consider bringing the
game back. I want to say we can come up
with something else. I want to try some other things
and see I've had some bits floating around in my
head that we haven't done, So we'll see where that goes.
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Ferg Dog in Fullerton that Winter Wonderland writes, and he says,
simpify Ben and Danny g. In response to Alf's question
from last week, I don't think there's anything wrong with
listening to a throwaway podcast on two times the speed,
(19:40):
like The Herd or the Puck Podcast. But if you're
listening to a good podcast like The Fifth Hour or
The Animal Thunderdome, you shouldn't alter it in any way.
You wouldn't listen to a classic song at two times
the speed, would you? Question Mark? He says, what's your
guy's least favorite ride at Disneyland. For me, it is
(20:04):
the Haunted Mansion. I went on it once and I
had nightmares for weeks. Never again, never again. So for
a dog my least favorite ride at Disneyland, let's see,
I guess I would go Space Mountain. I think I'm
too tall. I'm too big a guy now. I used
(20:26):
to go on it when I was a kid, and
I've heard stories that people if you're a little too
tall there, like there have been people that have been
hurt on it, and I don't think that'll happen anymore.
There's enough people that ride it that doesn't really do
much for me, And I'm trying to think, like I
usually just avoid the rides I don't like. I don't
bother to go on them. So if they don't look
(20:46):
interesting to me, unless I'm being forced to go on
them because I'm with my niece or nephew or something
like that, I'm like, eh, I'm good. I'm not I'm
not going to be partaking if it doesn't look good,
because the most important thing we have is our time.
But yeah, I go Space Mountain. I'm trying to think
what other rides are like, pretty lame? I guess the
(21:09):
the submarine ride. I think they still have that. I
think they changed the name of it though I used
to like Splash Mountain. They change that. But you get soaked,
so I'm not not going on that. My wife hates it.
She's can't ah, you get so wet. It's discussing anyway.
Paul from Oregon rights and says, Ben and Danny, you
(21:31):
guys calling your travel agent about the big travel news
this week. And Paul says that North Korea Kim Jong
un has opened a new beach resort. Okay, I don't
think we're allowed. Uh yeah, that'd be a tough one.
Although I have been sent by some of you idiots
(21:54):
travel blogs on YouTube of people that have gone to
North Korea, Like they're a lot if you're like British.
I mean they allow some people to go. And I'm
guessing they don't show you the whole picture. They only
show you a part of the picture, if you know
what I mean. Yeah, that's I'm good on that. I
saw some of the photos. Look looks fine. I don't
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think the food's that good. Frankie from Philadelphia Adjacent Frankie
says he says, hey, bandon Danny. You guys proud of
your baby talk. I think this is more for Danny
than for me. But Danny is not here. And Frankie says,
this story he found this week is that baby talk
(22:40):
is believed to be the reason humans are the only
speaking species on Earth baby talk. And he sent me
a story here. According to the story, and I don't
know where Frankie got this from. He says, human infants
receive up to four hundred up to a weasel term,
up to four hundred times more direct vocal communication then
(23:02):
baby bontabos, and nearly seventy times more than baby chimpanzees.
The suggestion is that talkative parenting is unique among the
great apes. So the human beings talking and they say
that well, background chatter around the children infants similar across humans,
(23:27):
chimps and all the other ape species. It is only
only the human caregiver that is focused on speech directly
at the baby, and so that helps encourage learning. But
here's the thing. Obviously, Frankie is like, yeah, we do that,
(23:51):
but are you You're born doing that right, because some
human beings didn't start out with me. Somewhere along the
way the first humans, I do the math on that
they didn't you know, where did they come from? Etc?
Evolution all that. Those are some deep conversations, but the
early kids were their parents talking right away like how
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did that work? I don't know, but thank you, Frankie,
and I'm sure Danny he'll address that at a later date.
For baby Ka. Joe from New York, New York, right Sin,
He says, Ben, since you have talked about your spitting
loogie fascination on the show, I thought you'd appreciate this story.
(24:34):
Have a great day, enjoy the radio show and the podcast.
You better not stop doing either. That is from Joe
in New York. And Joe sent a story about what
to do with flem and he wrote this like Shakespeare,
he wrote, to spit or to swallow flem. So I
(25:00):
read the story, Joe, and it's pretty funny because the
story concluded going it's a very worthy story, and it
concluded you're fine doing either either you spit that big
wad of mucissi flem out or you swallow it back
into your stomach. The story says spitting can help some
(25:22):
people feel better, especially if their cough is associated with
thick flem. That's causing distress. But for most healthy people
there is no need to force a cough or spit
out flem. Swallowing flem is completely safe. Okay. Now, one
thing about this story, Joe, My favorite part is that
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if you go back to the eighteen twenties, so a
couple hundred years ago, there was a French physician who
invented the guy that invented the stepiscope, and in his
office he had a spitting pot, he said, a spinning
(26:04):
pot he considered an essential part of the bedroom apparatus.
So not only his office, but like in the bedroom,
near the bed, you had to have a thing just
to spit flem into. How do you like that? Put
that in your pipe and smoke it. Carl from Vegas
(26:25):
rights and Carl says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I enjoy
the mail bag. I thought this would be good for you. Okay,
thank you. That's all we need. Send me more, guys,
if you see stuff that you think we would be
good for the show. It's real fifth hour at gmail
dot com. That's real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
All all letters, no numbers, Carl says, is this guy
(26:49):
the cowboy John brad of magic? So he sent me
a story here. A magician was on the Today Show
this week and has memori every zip code in America,
every single zip code in America. This guy has has
(27:09):
gotten his head. So Carl a couple things. Number one, number,
one number. It's obvious this guy has some kind of
photographic memory, right, certain people have that. I don't have that.
I'm assuming you don't have that, right, otherwise you wouldn't
(27:32):
have sent this in, Carl, So we don't have that.
Number two. Yeah. The beauty of Cowboy John Brad is
he does not own a computer, he does not have
a smartphone, he does not have any of that stuff.
But yet he remembers everything, like every day of his
(27:55):
life he remembers. And he started to call the show again.
And so I don't know particularly, I didn't see the
segment with the guy that knows every zip code in America.
I didn't see it. However, it doesn't really like shock
me because if you have that ability, I get it.
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I totally get it. Tony in the Bay Area rights in.
He says, did Jinks May's ask for my five five
five number? Not yet, Tony, We'll let you know, And
he says, Danny g I'm guessing you have judged many
verbal octagons. He says, I was wrongly disqualified recently, and
I want your decision if I won by the vowel
(28:42):
being thrown in after me saying a cross between William
Shatner and David Vassey is what my dick looks like. Wow. Well, unfortunately,
Tony Danny's not here to answer your questions. I'm sure
he's laughing right now as he listens to it. Ryan
(29:02):
from Shrewsbury, mass writes and he says, big Ben and
Danny g Since it seems like you're a tacco expert, Ben,
can you please settle the great debate between me and
my wife? Absolutely, we will do that, Ryan, He says,
I like hardshell tacos and she is more of a
(29:23):
soft shell taco fan. Oh which is better in your
professional opinion? Well, Ryan, first of all, these are the
kind of questions that are perfect, absolutely perfect for the
male back. So thank you for that. We appreciate that. Now,
(29:43):
with all due respects, I'm sure your wife doesn't listen
to this podcast. She could not be more wrong with
her love of soft shell tacos. That is a bad answer.
That is a party foul. There is only one excit answer.
There is no great taco debate the taco and I
(30:04):
know because you're living in southern California. It's essentially northern
Mexico right where we live here in southern California. There's
a great Mexican food. It's it's wonderful. Oh, there's no question.
Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it,
love it, love it. The acceptable answer tacos Dorado's tacos dorados.
(30:25):
That's the answer. And there are some tacos snobs out
there and these a holes. It's like the people that
get upset that that are low low IQ people, the
dumb of the dumb. I can't believe you like your
steak butterfly cut, well done. Heah, yikes. Yes, it's my steak,
(30:48):
you schmuck. I'm gonna eat it the way I want it.
You lose it, and.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'm not going to complain because there's blood dripping off
your pink climey discussing steak.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I don't care how you meet your steak. But it's
the same brain, Rod, It's the same brain, Rod, Ryan.
And it's unfortunate to hear your wife has it the
soft taco Illuminati. That's what I call. They're like an illuminati. Okay,
(31:28):
they are assholes, I said it. Ah, give me tacos dorado,
the gringo taco, which, oh, by the way, if you know,
the history of Mexico is as authentic as it gets. Now,
it's not everywhere in Mexico, but if you look at
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the northern parts of Mexico, like Sonora, Mexico, Chihuahua. I
mean there's some other towns too. I don't I can't
forge of the name of them, but there's there's several
northern outposts, several northern outposts in Mexico where the local
taco is tacos dorado. So don't do not back down. Ryan.
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The soft taco is more like a burrito. It's not
a taco. The proper taco is crunch it's fried. It's wonderful,
and don't forget when you're having Mexican food. Ryan, the
crunchy gringo taco, the cousin of the gringo taco, also wonderful.
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The taketofact last night for dinner, homemade crunchy tacos, gringo tacos,
the tacos dorado and taketos from scratch. We made them
from a scratch, and we've mastered that menu item. We've
mastered that menu item. It's just absolutely great. Alf writes
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in the Alien Opiner from Columbia Pictures. He says, I
figured there's no better way to put a ball on
three Stooges a week on the Ben Mathers Show than
to give you a bunch of fun facts about our
favorite trio. So hit the music, all right, So Alf
sent me, we won't do all of these Alves. I mean,
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let me pick and choose some of these the Three Stooges.
The Three Stooges lineup was not always the same. There
were six different Stooges from nineteen twenty two to nineteen seventy. Wow,
you talk about a run. Holy, that's forty eight years
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of I mean a little bit younger than I am
right now. That is wild Curly's hair. His shaved head
was not natural. He cut his hair short because he
thought it looked funnier. What else? The physical comedy was real.
The actors often were injured while filming on set. Larry
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Fine broke a finger during a stunt. There you go.
The Stooges were among the first American comedians to satirize
Hitler and make fun of the Nazis, so they did
that in their first film, Women Haters, was a musical
comedy with rhyming dialogue and jokes. I was in nineteen
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nineteen thirty four. The ipoke inventor Shemp Howard credited with
inventing the three Stooges ipoke, which is when you think Stooges,
that's one of the first things you think of. Curly's
signature sounds U U and woo woo woo woo woo
first appeared in Women Haters, though the woo woo woo
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woo woo was borrowed from another comedian. And the most
amazing fun fact of them all is that they were unaway.
They were unaware that they were popular. They didn't realize
that Columbia Pictures was making tons of money based on
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their ability. Their salaries were kept low, they didn't get royalties,
they didn't get residuals from the films and the TV stuff,
so they were not They were not rich, They were
not wealthy because the evil movie studios screwed them over.
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A guy named Harry Cohen, the Columbia Pictures President kept
their salaries pretty low, and they made more money and
more money, and more money, and more money and more money.
So there you go. It's from alf. I think I
did do all the fun facts off. I think I
got pretty much all of them. I think so all right,
(35:54):
our last one, well, this is not really worthy of imagine.
Patrick from San Diego DJ Spin. He wanted to apologize.
He was on Jeopardy the other night, and he says,
no excuses, and then he gave an excuse. He said,
no excuses. I couldn't hear everything clearly, he says. That's
on me. He says, after I listened to the questions
(36:15):
on the podcast, I knew the answers. He says. I'm
not a usual caller. He says, By the way, I'm
still blocked by William Shatner on X and he is
going to beat me at scrabble. Now, well, I give
you credit. I will give you credit, Patrick, because unlike
most of the other listeners that have played me on Scrabble,
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You're still going and a lot of the other guys
have given up. They've thrown in the towel. They're like, ah,
we can't. We can't compete with this. You know, you
know you can't beat me. Now I have lost. I
lost to Noah. I lost to Noah alf. I don't
think I lost to alf He's one one of the
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guys that has stopped to stop playing. But if you
want to play me on on Scrabble, it's it's on
iPhone and Android, and I don't get paid for this,
and they're not not a sponsor, but it's I love
playing Scrabble. And if you want to go against me
on Scrabble, it's the Scrabble Go app. It's a free
(37:22):
app and you can test yourself against me. My name
on there is Benny uh and so you know it's
my name, and just search for the Benny's. I have
a Brooklyn Dodger cap, the bet cap on my avatar. Okay,
there you go. All right, we'll get out on that.
(37:42):
And thank you for listening all weekend on the podcast
and really testing the boundaries of the human voice. I
gotta tell you, I mean, I think the company is
just trying to trying to get my voice to be
completely destroyed. They on the Overnight show, I used to
have have Eddie and then they got rid of Eddie,
so I talked for four hours a night by myself.
(38:05):
I don't care. I'm leaving. Goodbye. Remember tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight.
I will be on normal off on Monday, but it's
a two for one special, so I'm off on Monday
and Tuesday, but then back double barrel Action. I will
be on locally in LA, but you can listen on
the iHeartRadio app on AM five seventy it's the Dodger station.
(38:30):
I will be on from noon to three Pacific that's
three to six Eastern Time on Wednesday and Thursday. And
we will have a live show on the fourth of July,
heading in to that overnight the July third into July fourth.
So I have a wonderful a rest of your Sunday.
(38:52):
We will catch you later on tonight on the radio.
Asta Pasta got a murder.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
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