November 30, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kubbooms.
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 to the Clearinghouse
of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
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Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maler and Danny g Radio and a very happy Sunday
to you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The NFL Weekend continues.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We had games back on Thursday and Friday, and now
here we are again with mostly a full card. A
lot of the glamour teams have already played. There's only
a couple of games that you really circle and said, boy,
I want to watch that game today. I will be
at a game. I'll beat the Raider Chargers game, which
I don't necessarily want to be at, but I will.
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I will well, I'll be there for media purposes. I
will be there Chargers and Raiders. I'll hopefully see Eddie
if he's at that game. The Bills Steelers game, though,
that's a big one, the Bills Steelers game.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That's a big one.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
And then the other game that it's kind of got
my interest that is somewhat acceptable, would be the Texans
and the Colts. To see what happens in that game.
Is the Texans have that great defense, the Colts starting
to show signs of falling apart. So those are the
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two games that really stand out. And then Monday Night tomorrow,
Giants and Patriots. You've got the Giants, who are terrible,
but Jackson Dart supposed to.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Play in that game. And the Patriots, we're not completely
in on them. They've got ten.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Wins and that's great. Let's see what they do against
a bad Giants team.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But enough of that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
On this podcast today the fifth hour, you have me
Ben Danny g Away this weekend for the holiday, but
you have the menu of Doom and also the mail
bag will start though with this. So sometimes you see
it coming. Sometimes you see it coming and you walk
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through the door and that.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Feeling hits you instantly. You shouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You've ever been in a place where you're like, I
really don't belong here.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Why am I here?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's just something's off. Everyone else in the building is
fluent in a language you never learned. They know the customs,
they know which fork to use. Me Na, NA, I
know how to make a pastrami sandwich at home. If
you want me to make gringo tacos, I can do that.
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I can make the mouther arl Pete's I can do
that as well. So this past weekend, my wife said, Hey,
we're going going out to a dinner. This was not
a suggestion, this was a decree, and through marriage, I
was contractually obligated to attend this dinner. It was a
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birthday celebration for someone that she works with, a co worker,
a bright, caring, lovely woman who is a social worker
and drug counselor who's helped hundreds find sobriety. And she's
done more good in the world than I've done, taking
seventeen thousand calls from hollering James Marcel in Brooklyn and
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Blair in Maine.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So just just has.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And when it was her time to celebrate, we were
celebrating her. She got to choose her restaurant, and she
chose her favorite restaurant. And this restaurant a think of
it like a white tablecloth seafood sanctuary with all kinds
of snotty, elitist rules, rituals, the dress code that might
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as well have been written by the Queen of England
might as well have been written by the Queen of England.
So the kind of place that you don't normally find me.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I'm not that kind of guy. I'd rather hang out
at a truck stop. This is the kind of place
where they give you a look, not a menu, and
the look says, sir, you better behave yourself. It's like
they stand there and make sure you put your napgun
on your lap, like they know you're a neanderthal. You
have to sit up with the proper posture. Your back's
got to be straight, no jokes, no jokes until dessert.
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It's culinary church fashion. Well, food is the fashion. It's
not fashion, it's food, and it forks with more attitude
than your high school principle. And this is where the
trouble begins. There are two kinds of people in this world,
those that eat the fish and those who don't eat
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the fish. And I am firmly stationed in the second camp.
I'm dug in. I got my helmet on, my trench mentality.
I'm in the trenches. I do not eat fish, sam
I am.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I do not.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I do not negotiate with fish. I do not bend
the knee to the fish kingdom. I don't get with
big fishy. I only despise two things about seafood.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I've told people this for years.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
There's only two things I don't like about seafood, the
smell and the texture. Other than that, I'm fine, I'm
a fan other than that. And yet there I was
a fish atheist in a seafood cathedral, the Tabernacle of Fish.
Here I was, And then like.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Que the Evil Star Wars music, the menu of doom.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Now you go stand when I go to a restaurant
that I don't normally go to.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm a planner. I'm a person like many many of us.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Maybe you're like me. I like to have things kind
of mapped out a little bit. I certainly want to
go to restaurants. I like to script out my meal,
think about what I'm gonna eat, kind of get a
little excited about.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That, think about I only eat once a day.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
So I'm like, okay, I want to plan I want
to plan this out, so I script my meals. It's
like a military operation and all of that. Right, I
need a road map. It's a game plan, a culinary
game plan. Now, unfortunately the men you read like a
hostage note written by Poseidon himself. I stopped counting any
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There about one hundred and seventy nine seafood dishes, lobster, razuto,
pan seared halibit, Chilean sea bass, something called on the
side caviare foam. I don't know what that is. It
sounds expensive. Crab legs, now, this was the big thing.
Crab legs, bigger than some national landmarks.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's what they're known for. And these people withou deep
fry a wall.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
If given permission, they would literally take a walrus and
just deep fright and people would eat it. They'd serve
jellyfish on brioche buns and call it summer inspired coastal fusion.
You just want to puke in my mouth. Now, there
were a few steaks. If it's a high end seafood place,
but they had a few steaks. Think of these like
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the lifeboats on the Titanic seafood vessel.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I didn't want steak though.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I didn't want and the reason I didn't want it
you know, I'm being totally honest here. It would have
been the wrong move because if you walk into a
high end restaurant, this case of seafood place, but they
also have expensive steaks, and you go in there and
ask them for a steak, say, I'm gonna have the
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I'm gonna have the steak and the mashed potato.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, how would you like that? Cook? Well, I would
like that.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I would like that like the color of the tires
on your car when I get it, and I can, I.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Have you please burn the steak. That is a felony.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That is a culinary felony, class a felony, maximum sentence felony.
Gordon Ramsey would personally drop through the ceiling like a
British swat agent and arrest you with a garnish of
Parsley if you go into that place and say I
want a steak and I want it all done now. Meanwhile,
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I'm staring at the kiddy menu at this point. I
don't like seafood, but I'm like, I gotta save myself here.
I don't want to order the steak because I can't
get it well done. All these food dishes look terrible.
So then I'm like, okay, let me look at kiddy menu,
and I'm like, they gotta have chicken fingers. Everyone's got
chicken fingers on the kiddy menu. So I'm looking. I
don't see I don't see chicken fingers. I'm like, okay,
I know I don't like seafood. I'm willing to take
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one for the team, just so I don't get weird looks.
I'll take these kids beer battered fish sticks. I'll get
two orders crinkle cut fries, a gallon of tartar sauce.
I'll pour a two gallons of vinegar. I'll make it
rain vinegar from the heavens, and I won't even be
able to taste the fish. So okay, like divine intervention. Unfortunately,
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no Bueno or in this case, no kiddy menu at all,
no dice. They didn't have a kiddy menu. This is
not for kids. This is a high end steak place.
No Lifeline, nothing. So I finally landed on Terioki chicken,
which I consider the witness protection program of entrees. The
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chef sent out half a chicken, breast coated and Tarioki syrup,
sitting next to a thimble of rice. I feel like
they counted each piece of rice and one lonely pineapple
chunk that looked ashamed to be there, and that meal,
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that meal, half a chicken breast coated in syrup, a
thimble symbol of thimble of rice rather and one lonely
pineapple chunk that was forty bucks. Forty American dollars for
a meal that I know I could make better blindfolded
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on a humid Tuesday with one spatula and one arm
tied behind my back and a broken stove. And I
could have made it better, but I didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And I did it.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I showed up, I paid the bill, and everyone's plates
looked like art. Okay, everyone's got these vibrant, colorful, obviously
expensive plates of food, and the food I got looked
like room service, but it was like it was room
service at Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Forty dollars for half a chicken breast.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Again, I mean, just I can go through the whole
thing if you want, but I'm like, my god, it's
absolutely crazy. And this wasn't even the worst part. The
worst part. The worst part was watching everyone else at
the table and they love their food.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
They're oh, this is like the greatest thing ever. Oh
my god, this is better than sex. And I'm like,
oh my god, I would disagree.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There were people smiling and nodding like the full body reactions.
There were a few people who closed their eyes. Meanwhile,
I'm gnawing on just disappointment, poultry disappointment. And I knew
then I had lost the night. I had lost the night.
And we live just miles from the mighty Pacific Ocean,
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the giant provider of seafood for the world. There are
estimates that claim there are roughly three and a half
trillion fish in the waters of the ocean trillion, three
and a half trillion. The ocean is basically a swimming
costco and over seventy percent of the world's fish catch
come from the Pacific.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Tens of thousands.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Of species exist, with new ones being discovered all the time.
And I want none of them on my plate. Not one, Sam,
I am not one. Not because I hate fish, not
because I'm trying to make a stand or be a troublemaker.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Again, I can't take the smell or the texture. Other
than that, I'm okay, I'm okay with it. So when
the night was over, we said our goodbyes from.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
This bougie bougie fish place, and everyone thanked the people
at the restaurant there thinking the thanking the chef like.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
This person intured disease. And I walked out, knowing I
played the wrong position. The entire evening, I was the
guy trying to run the triple option offense at a
seafood banquet. The out of place one was me, the
land mammal in a room full of ocean devotees. Uh
and listen, that was okay, because what I learned is simple.
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If the pride of your meal is a punt chunk,
you did not eat dinner, you survived it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
If that's the highlight, a little chunk of pineapple that
was better than the chicken and the rice, you just
happen to survive. And next time I will I will
have to do the same thing because I was a guest.
But if I picked the spot, there will at least
be ketchup. There'll be chicken fingers on the kiddy menu,
They'll be fries, they'll be all of that. There will not,
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under any circumstances if I'm picking, be crab legs, not
gonna happen not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Now, of that, let's get to Ohio Al. Can you
get me in the mood for the mail bag? The
great Ohio aw, It's bag all right, very good. These
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are actual questions by actual listeners. If you would like
to send a question in care of Real fifth Hour
at gmail dot com. That's all letters, no numbers, Real
fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Put jokes in the headlines.
Now sign your name and city if you want credit
after every joke. Some of you don't do that, so
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all you have to do is submit the joke and
then under each joke put your name in city. Otherwise
you likely won't get much credit for writing said jokes.
First up on the mail bag, thanks again to Ohio Al.
And again it's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Jokes in the headline. Reggie from Detroit says Ben and
Danny G. Ben, you had a fill in boardop. You
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had a couple of different producers this week, and your
radio show sounded as good as always. You've become like
McDonald's Big Mac Ben consistently good. How are you able
to put it off with all these filling people? That's
from Reggie in Detroit, well, first of all, thank you,
Reggie for comparing the radio show to a Big Mac.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Does that mean we've got a lot of bread like
the Big Mac?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You get the bread piece in the middle, is at it? Yeah? Okay,
maybe not.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So to get to the point, Richie, yeah, I do.
I do take pride that the show is about the same.
It really is a blessing.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And a curse though in many ways. And yeah, I've
talked to this.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I do about ninety eight percent of the work for
the show ninety eight percent, and so it really is
something that takes up my entire day and night.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And it's it's.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
My baby, right I put when you put the baby
to bed at night, get the show ready.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
But I do all that. I am the monologues. I
get no help on that.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You know, anything that is done on the show is
you know, something that I've I've put together. So you know,
it's a blessing that I have that kind of editorial control.
It's also a curse because it would be a lot
easier on me if I had some people that would
help do some of that stuff. But it's just the
way it is, you know what. I It is really odd, Reggie,
because I fill in. I did stuff at Wei and Boston.
(16:04):
A couple of years back. I filled in LA Radio,
and it's much different When I fill in. There's a
lot of like people that do that stuff. But when
I'm on my own at nine on the Ben Malor Show,
I just I.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Just do everything.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
And so therefore, you know, people can go out and
go comedy clubs and movies and do whatever they're doing
during the day and they don't have to worry about
the show. I'm the one worried about the show, so
you know. But in terms of as you said, I'd
like the Big Max. So it's it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
In that regard that I don't really worry.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
You know, some people say, oh my god, you're what
are you gonna do if this this person's off for
that Parson.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Like, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
It doesn't really affect the quality of the product, and
that's the most important thing is the quality of the product.
Thank you, Reggie. I appreciate that. Steve from Ohio Rights
in Steve's got to complaint. He does not say what
part of Ohio.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'll just assume he's in Dayton.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
He says, Ben, why didn't you bash producer Bree on
Friday's show doing a Thanksgiving side dish list on your show.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's Steve.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
So Steve, First of all, I am a big fan
of Brie. She's got some work ethic to her. She
works hard, she really does a good job, and so
that was the first thing I dodn't want to crush her. Secondly,
it's a tell that she doesn't listen. She used to listen,
but she's busy. She got lot of stuff going on,
so she's not a consumer. Otherwise she would have never
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brought that up.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Anybody that has listened to me ranted all over the
years about my disdain for lazy talk radio knows that
that just drives me nuts. So yeah, Steve, if I
could have just bashed her and just ripped her apart,
I chose to take a higher plane on that one,
and I did not. I was gonna do my whole
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rant about the holidays. I did not do that, and
I didn't do it because alf can plane is all.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You're gonna I know you're gonna do the rats about
Thanksgiving radio, and I do what I hear, Oh my god,
whatever I want to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Next up, Kwang from Ho Chi Minh Vietnam, says Benny
the dishwasher. He says, what happened to Nuby Knight? What
the heck happened to Nuby Knight? Well, Ben, let me
tell you. Let me tell you, Benny, nothing happened to
Newby Knight. We just haven't done it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
We were supposed to do it. We forget other things
pop up.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And then also what happens.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
When we do Newby Knight? The regular callers don't know
what to do. They're besides themselves. They start freaking out.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
They're like, oh my god, I don't know how to
handle this. It's a big nightmare. Now.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
He also says Quang. Since Coop doesn't seem to have
any more offensive lame jokes, why not incorporate Lorena.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, So I'm willing to incorporate anyone that wants to
be part of it, but you have to show some
initiative and they if they want to be part of it.
If Leno wants to be a part of it, I'm
more than happy to include these people in it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But I'm not going to force you to do it.
And you have to.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Kind of want to be into it. And if you're
not into it. It just doesn't It doesn't work. And
he also says, could you interview your wife on the
fifth hour? I think your listeners would love to hear
how y'all met et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Well,
we don't really do interviews right now, quayg. If we
get back to that at some point. The holidays are
upon us. We said Thanksgiving this past week, and Christmas
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is coming up here at the end of the month,
obviously the end of the year, and so we'll start
doing some of those guest type podcasts. I think as
we get closer to the end of the year. They're
evergreen podcast. Next up, Barry from South Carolina says Yo
Yo Ma Benny and Danny g.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
He says, how long did you date.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Your woman before you knew you were going to propose
to her? You know right away that there's there's there's
some interest there. You know right away that this has
got a shot at being something more than just a
run of the mill situation.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
But normally it's not your call. You know.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I'd been on dates with people in the past, Barry,
where I thought, well, that's that could be something, but
they didn't agree, right, So it takes two two to tango,
as they say, and you also have to you have
to make sure the jigsaw puzzle pieces fit together and
all that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So you know how long, I don't know exact time.
It wasn't very long.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I mean it was probably a couple months in and
then then it was like, okay, then you're trying to
get confirmation.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You know how it is. You know, you know what
I'm talking.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
About, Barry, You feel me on that. When are you
leaving South Carolina? I thought you were leaving South Carolina.
You're waiting for the housing market to go back up,
the interest rates to go down more, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Next up on the mailbag, Alf from the Good Old
Write Sin. He says, it's that time of the year
when we reflect on and give thanks. As each year
turns and we get another year older, I find myself
getting jaded and more impatient with people and the state
of the world. Alf says, Now, as you read this,
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I'm guessing you've already produced your annual.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Lazy radio podcast.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
As you've been baited all week by the listeners.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I have not done that. I have not done that. Alf.
Maybe I'll do it during Christmas, he is.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
My question is to you, Ben, do you ever scream
for a drop in your head during the show? As
people come and go from the show, I find myself
figuratively reaching for the drop button more and more as
many classics have been lost in the FSR black hole.
During the holiday season, I'm guessing there may be an
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Evergreen podcast or two. So I would love for Danny's
Radio to unload his chamber of drops for another classic
episode like he's done in the past. Well, that's a
great idea, alf and we will talk.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
To Danny and we'll see if we can do that. Yeah,
the whole drop thing.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I've gotten to the point in life where I used
to get very upset when the people I worked with
on the show, whoever.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
They may be. You know, I'm not going to name anybody, but.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
The people I work with when they're lazy and they
don't do their job, it used to drive me nuts.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I would get so upset, I say.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Cause I'm just not wired that way. I just my
goal is always to be perfect. I'm not perfect, no
one's perfect. But as long as you I was taught,
as long as you put the effort in and you mean, well,
you're in good shape. I've worked with so many people
over the years that are so lazy it is very frustrating.
But I got to the point, as I've gotten older
in life where I said, listen, I can't control that.
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I love what I do and I like to put
the work into it, and I don't hire the people
I work with. If people at the company don't value
that and they hire people that are lazy and they
that's on them.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I can't control that.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And the drop thing is just a product of I've
encouraged people to play drops. They don't listen to me.
I've encouraged people to put songs into the system so
we can play it when they're not there. They don't
listen to me, And it's just guy the boy wise,
I don't even listen if they're that incompetent.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I don't even bother. I just control what I can control.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And it's funny you bring this up out because we
read an email from Reggie in Detroit and Reggie.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Was the show sounds the same.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I was explaining why the show sounds the same whether
you know people are gone or not. But yeah, Danny,
as far as the point, Alf will let Danny know
we want at least one podcast over Christmas or New
Year's which is just great drops, and I think that's
the way to go. Next up, Scott from Florida writes
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in he says, Ben and Danny, there have been a
ton of there's been a ton.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Of dishwasher talk the past few weeks. By the way,
that term sounds like.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Something a church youth group leader or your father would
use as a euphanism for something naughty back in the
nineteen nineties. Scott says, this past weekend, my wife was
cleaning something in the sink and asked me, when was
the last time you cleaned this? You clean it every
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few months, right, And I just looked at her and said,
what is that?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
She informed me.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Scott says it was the dishwasher filter that sits in
the middle of the electric dishwasher. Yeah, all the time,
I answered to Shirley, nodding my head. So, Scott says,
Ben and Danny, I had no clue that dishwashers had
a filter in the dead center in the I mean,
it makes sense, but it never crossed my mind. Certainly
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I have never bent over pulled out the dish rack,
reached back and down.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
And pulled out the filter.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
In my forty six years on this round Earth, did
either of you realize this existed? And do you clean
it out every few months? That's from Scott, So Scott,
I do know of the filter. I've told the story before.
The reason I am the dishwasher at the house is
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years ago, my son and the wife would do the dishes,
and the dishes I'd look at the bottom of the
dishwasher and it would be covered with like spaghetti macaroni.
There'd be little pieces of I don't even know what,
some vegetable or something like that at the very bottom,
and it was like, WHOA, what is that? And so
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they would just put the dishes and covered in food.
Assuming the dishwasher it would just take care of itself.
And of course it caused a lot of problems. And
that's why I'm the dishwasher. So I do know there's
a filter there. I gotta tell you though, I have
not changed the filter.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Since that incident. Since that incident with the dishwasher, and
we're in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And here's why I do the dishes ninety nine percent
of the time and I clean every dish by hand.
I hand wash every dish. The dishwasher is just the
final stage. The dishwasher is just the closing part of
the deal. You do most of it by hand, and
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then you kill all the germs, for sure, all the bacteria.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
You kill it with the dishwater. That's how I do it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Thank you Scott for that pretty good email there from
Scott in Florida. Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass Writes, and he says,
since you will be reading this after Thanksgiving, I hope
you both had a good Thanksgiving. Ryan says, question this
week is about the good old Malar Mobile. Says, one
of my hobbies is cars and motorcycles. I was curious,
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as a car guy, what kind of car is the Malormobile?
Sorry if you answered this before, but I'm curious as
to what car it is. Also, what are your guys
dream dream car? I think I might go with a
sixty seven Chevelle. Thanks always, boys. Sorry Danny about your raiders.
There you go making Shuldar look like Tom Brady. Well
(27:30):
let's hold off on that. Ryan should didn't play that well.
There was like a bubble screen that went seventy yards.
Because the raiders don't know how to tackle. He didn't
play particularly well, and that's the Raiders are so bad, Ryan,
that the Browns won. Anyway, as far as the car,
the car I drive into work is a Ford Edge
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with a lot of miles on it, a lot of
miles on it, and I've had that for years. Does
not get great gas mileage. I drive a long way
from the north Woods. But that's the car that I
drive mostly, the car that I would love. I just
love comfortable cars. I've told the story before, Ryan, that
the most comfortable car.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That I've ever been in.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
We were covering the World Series in Cleveland years ago
and they had a Lincoln Continental and I sat down.
It was the rental. It was the only rental they
had left. So we got this rental car and it
was like sitting on a sofa. I was driving around
Cleveland and it was like I was sitting on a
sofa and it was like the most comfortable seat. And
I was like this, you know, sitting in traffic wouldn't
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be that bad in this thing. That'd be pretty good.
Be great, man, all right? Noah rights in. Noah in
Austin says happy Sunday. Ben and Danny Ope, things are
well in your world. I have a question, he said,
one for Danny, but Danny's not here, so we'll just
do the one for.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Me from Noah.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
He says, Ben, since your bowel movements have been brought
up more than once on this podcast, what is a
meal that you absolutely love but know for a fact
it will give you a little toilet trouble later on?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's from Noah in Beautiful Austin, Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Well, Noah, it is not really the food I've noticed
over the years. It's the fasting. I lost my gallbladder
years ago. I had my gallbladder chopped out of me.
It malfunctioned, and so I've determined since I fast, I
do inter minute fasting. If I go two days fasting
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and then eat a heavy meal like a pastrami sandwich.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Or a double cheeseburger or something like.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That, if that happens, I got problems, all right, I
got major problems. I really only have about thirty minutes
after the time I finish eating before it's.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Bombs away, whether I'm ready for it or not.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So it's not so much what I eat as if
I'm fasting a lot, it causes me more problems.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It causes me more problems. It does. That's just the
way it is. Let's see what else do we have
page down here.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
There's some people with questions about Black Friday that took
place over the weekend. There's a magician in Missouri. This
guy Craig says, a magician in Missouri had an idea
to implant a computer chip into his hand and then
do some fun magic tricks with it. Unfortunately, Pierce, he
forgot the password and the chip has been lost. He
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lost the password to the chip embedded inside his body.
So that does not seem like a a great magic trick.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're not supposed to lose that. All right, we'll get
out on that.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I'll be back on the radio tonight and all the
way through, all the way through the week, no days off.
And remember though, Benny versus the Pennies available right now
on YouTube Benny Vspenny. We got off to the four
and oh start this week. We won all the games
on Thanksgiving, and then if you won those and rolled
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your money over into Friday, we told you to take
the Chicago Bears and they won as well. So we're
off to a really good start this weekend, which means
either this is gonna be one of the big dominating
weekends or an absolute fricking disaster.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Who knows, but either way.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Benny Vspenny on YouTube, click the like button, subscribe button,
all that stuff. Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday.
We'll see you around on the radio, and we'll see
you here on the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Next time later Skater settle Land. Just a little bit
pasta pasta, got a murder.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I gotta go.
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 gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maler and Danny g Radio and a very happy Sunday
to you.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The NFL Weekend continues.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
We had games back on Thursday and Friday, and now
here we are again with mostly a full card. A
lot of the glamour teams have already played. There's only
a couple of games that you really circle and said, boy,
I want to watch that game today. I will be
at a game. I'll beat the Raider Chargers game, which
I don't necessarily want to be at, but I will.
(01:07):
I will well, I'll be there for media purposes. I
will be there Chargers and Raiders. I'll hopefully see Eddie
if he's at that game. The Bills Steelers game, though,
that's a big one, the Bills Steelers game.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That's a big one.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
And then the other game that it's kind of got
my interest that is somewhat acceptable, would be the Texans
and the Colts. To see what happens in that game.
Is the Texans have that great defense, the Colts starting
to show signs of falling apart. So those are the
(01:42):
two games that really stand out. And then Monday Night tomorrow,
Giants and Patriots. You've got the Giants, who are terrible,
but Jackson Dart supposed to.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Play in that game. And the Patriots, we're not completely
in on them. They've got ten.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Wins and that's great. Let's see what they do against
a bad Giants team.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But enough of that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
On this podcast today the fifth hour, you have me
Ben Danny g Away this weekend for the holiday, but
you have the menu of Doom and also the mail
bag will start though with this. So sometimes you see
it coming. Sometimes you see it coming and you walk
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through the door and that.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Feeling hits you instantly. You shouldn't be here.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You've ever been in a place where you're like, I
really don't belong here.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Why am I here?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's just something's off. Everyone else in the building is
fluent in a language you never learned. They know the customs,
they know which fork to use. Me Na, NA, I
know how to make a pastrami sandwich at home. If
you want me to make gringo tacos, I can do that.
(02:58):
I can make the mouther arl Pete's I can do
that as well. So this past weekend, my wife said, Hey,
we're going going out to a dinner. This was not
a suggestion, this was a decree, and through marriage, I
was contractually obligated to attend this dinner. It was a
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birthday celebration for someone that she works with, a co worker,
a bright, caring, lovely woman who is a social worker
and drug counselor who's helped hundreds find sobriety. And she's
done more good in the world than I've done, taking
seventeen thousand calls from hollering James Marcel in Brooklyn and
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Blair in Maine.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So just just has.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And when it was her time to celebrate, we were
celebrating her. She got to choose her restaurant, and she
chose her favorite restaurant. And this restaurant a think of
it like a white tablecloth seafood sanctuary with all kinds
of snotty, elitist rules, rituals, the dress code that might
(04:11):
as well have been written by the Queen of England
might as well have been written by the Queen of England.
So the kind of place that you don't normally find me.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I'm not that kind of guy. I'd rather hang out
at a truck stop. This is the kind of place
where they give you a look, not a menu, and
the look says, sir, you better behave yourself. It's like
they stand there and make sure you put your napgun
on your lap, like they know you're a neanderthal. You
have to sit up with the proper posture. Your back's
got to be straight, no jokes, no jokes until dessert.
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It's culinary church fashion. Well, food is the fashion. It's
not fashion, it's food, and it forks with more attitude
than your high school principle. And this is where the
trouble begins. There are two kinds of people in this world,
those that eat the fish and those who don't eat
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the fish. And I am firmly stationed in the second camp.
I'm dug in. I got my helmet on, my trench mentality.
I'm in the trenches. I do not eat fish, sam
I am.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I do not.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I do not negotiate with fish. I do not bend
the knee to the fish kingdom. I don't get with
big fishy. I only despise two things about seafood.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I've told people this for years.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
There's only two things I don't like about seafood, the
smell and the texture. Other than that, I'm fine, I'm
a fan other than that. And yet there I was
a fish atheist in a seafood cathedral, the Tabernacle of Fish.
Here I was, And then like.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Que the Evil Star Wars music, the menu of doom.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Now you go stand when I go to a restaurant
that I don't normally go to.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'm a planner. I'm a person like many many of us.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Maybe you're like me. I like to have things kind
of mapped out a little bit. I certainly want to
go to restaurants. I like to script out my meal,
think about what I'm gonna eat, kind of get a
little excited about.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That, think about I only eat once a day.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
So I'm like, okay, I want to plan I want
to plan this out, so I script my meals. It's
like a military operation and all of that. Right, I
need a road map. It's a game plan, a culinary
game plan. Now, unfortunately the men you read like a
hostage note written by Poseidon himself. I stopped counting any
(06:38):
There about one hundred and seventy nine seafood dishes, lobster, razuto,
pan seared halibit, Chilean sea bass, something called on the
side caviare foam. I don't know what that is. It
sounds expensive. Crab legs, now, this was the big thing.
Crab legs, bigger than some national landmarks.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's what they're known for. And these people withou deep
fry a wall.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
If given permission, they would literally take a walrus and
just deep fright and people would eat it. They'd serve
jellyfish on brioche buns and call it summer inspired coastal fusion.
You just want to puke in my mouth. Now, there
were a few steaks. If it's a high end seafood place,
but they had a few steaks. Think of these like
(07:21):
the lifeboats on the Titanic seafood vessel.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I didn't want steak though.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I didn't want and the reason I didn't want it
you know, I'm being totally honest here. It would have
been the wrong move because if you walk into a
high end restaurant, this case of seafood place, but they
also have expensive steaks, and you go in there and
ask them for a steak, say, I'm gonna have the
(07:49):
I'm gonna have the steak and the mashed potato.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Okay, how would you like that? Cook? Well, I would
like that.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I would like that like the color of the tires
on your car when I get it, and I can, I.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Have you please burn the steak. That is a felony.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That is a culinary felony, class a felony, maximum sentence felony.
Gordon Ramsey would personally drop through the ceiling like a
British swat agent and arrest you with a garnish of
Parsley if you go into that place and say I
want a steak and I want it all done now. Meanwhile,
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I'm staring at the kiddy menu at this point. I
don't like seafood, but I'm like, I gotta save myself here.
I don't want to order the steak because I can't
get it well done. All these food dishes look terrible.
So then I'm like, okay, let me look at kiddy menu,
and I'm like, they gotta have chicken fingers. Everyone's got
chicken fingers on the kiddy menu. So I'm looking. I
don't see I don't see chicken fingers. I'm like, okay,
I know I don't like seafood. I'm willing to take
(08:47):
one for the team, just so I don't get weird looks.
I'll take these kids beer battered fish sticks. I'll get
two orders crinkle cut fries, a gallon of tartar sauce.
I'll pour a two gallons of vinegar. I'll make it
rain vinegar from the heavens, and I won't even be
able to taste the fish. So okay, like divine intervention. Unfortunately,
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no Bueno or in this case, no kiddy menu at all,
no dice. They didn't have a kiddy menu. This is
not for kids. This is a high end steak place.
No Lifeline, nothing. So I finally landed on Terioki chicken,
which I consider the witness protection program of entrees. The
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chef sent out half a chicken, breast coated and Tarioki syrup,
sitting next to a thimble of rice. I feel like
they counted each piece of rice and one lonely pineapple
chunk that looked ashamed to be there, and that meal,
(09:52):
that meal, half a chicken breast coated in syrup, a
thimble symbol of thimble of rice rather and one lonely
pineapple chunk that was forty bucks. Forty American dollars for
a meal that I know I could make better blindfolded
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on a humid Tuesday with one spatula and one arm
tied behind my back and a broken stove. And I
could have made it better, but I didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And I did it.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I showed up, I paid the bill, and everyone's plates
looked like art. Okay, everyone's got these vibrant, colorful, obviously
expensive plates of food, and the food I got looked
like room service, but it was like it was room
service at Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Forty dollars for half a chicken breast.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Again, I mean, just I can go through the whole
thing if you want, but I'm like, my god, it's
absolutely crazy. And this wasn't even the worst part. The
worst part. The worst part was watching everyone else at
the table and they love their food.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
They're oh, this is like the greatest thing ever. Oh
my god, this is better than sex. And I'm like,
oh my god, I would disagree.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There were people smiling and nodding like the full body reactions.
There were a few people who closed their eyes. Meanwhile,
I'm gnawing on just disappointment, poultry disappointment. And I knew
then I had lost the night. I had lost the night.
And we live just miles from the mighty Pacific Ocean,
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the giant provider of seafood for the world. There are
estimates that claim there are roughly three and a half
trillion fish in the waters of the ocean trillion, three
and a half trillion. The ocean is basically a swimming
costco and over seventy percent of the world's fish catch
come from the Pacific.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Tens of thousands.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Of species exist, with new ones being discovered all the time.
And I want none of them on my plate. Not one, Sam,
I am not one. Not because I hate fish, not
because I'm trying to make a stand or be a troublemaker.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Again, I can't take the smell or the texture. Other
than that, I'm okay, I'm okay with it. So when
the night was over, we said our goodbyes from.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
This bougie bougie fish place, and everyone thanked the people
at the restaurant there thinking the thanking the chef like.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
This person intured disease. And I walked out, knowing I
played the wrong position. The entire evening, I was the
guy trying to run the triple option offense at a
seafood banquet. The out of place one was me, the
land mammal in a room full of ocean devotees. Uh
and listen, that was okay, because what I learned is simple.
(12:57):
If the pride of your meal is a punt chunk,
you did not eat dinner, you survived it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
If that's the highlight, a little chunk of pineapple that
was better than the chicken and the rice, you just
happen to survive. And next time I will I will
have to do the same thing because I was a guest.
But if I picked the spot, there will at least
be ketchup. There'll be chicken fingers on the kiddy menu,
They'll be fries, they'll be all of that. There will not,
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under any circumstances if I'm picking, be crab legs, not
gonna happen not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
All right.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Now, of that, let's get to Ohio Al. Can you
get me in the mood for the mail bag? The
great Ohio aw, It's bag all right, very good. These
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are actual questions by actual listeners. If you would like
to send a question in care of Real fifth Hour
at gmail dot com. That's all letters, no numbers, Real
fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Put jokes in the headlines.
Now sign your name and city if you want credit
after every joke. Some of you don't do that, so
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all you have to do is submit the joke and
then under each joke put your name in city. Otherwise
you likely won't get much credit for writing said jokes.
First up on the mail bag, thanks again to Ohio Al.
And again it's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Jokes in the headline. Reggie from Detroit says Ben and
Danny G. Ben, you had a fill in boardop. You
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had a couple of different producers this week, and your
radio show sounded as good as always. You've become like
McDonald's Big Mac Ben consistently good. How are you able
to put it off with all these filling people? That's
from Reggie in Detroit, well, first of all, thank you,
Reggie for comparing the radio show to a Big Mac.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Does that mean we've got a lot of bread like
the Big Mac?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You get the bread piece in the middle, is at it? Yeah? Okay,
maybe not.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So to get to the point, Richie, yeah, I do.
I do take pride that the show is about the same.
It really is a blessing.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And a curse though in many ways. And yeah, I've
talked to this.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I do about ninety eight percent of the work for
the show ninety eight percent, and so it really is
something that takes up my entire day and night.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And it's it's.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
My baby, right I put when you put the baby
to bed at night, get the show ready.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
But I do all that. I am the monologues. I
get no help on that.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You know, anything that is done on the show is
you know, something that I've I've put together. So you know,
it's a blessing that I have that kind of editorial control.
It's also a curse because it would be a lot
easier on me if I had some people that would
help do some of that stuff. But it's just the
way it is, you know what. I It is really odd, Reggie,
because I fill in. I did stuff at Wei and Boston.
(16:04):
A couple of years back. I filled in LA Radio,
and it's much different When I fill in. There's a
lot of like people that do that stuff. But when
I'm on my own at nine on the Ben Malor Show,
I just I.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Just do everything.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
And so therefore, you know, people can go out and
go comedy clubs and movies and do whatever they're doing
during the day and they don't have to worry about
the show. I'm the one worried about the show, so
you know. But in terms of as you said, I'd
like the Big Max. So it's it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
In that regard that I don't really worry.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
You know, some people say, oh my god, you're what
are you gonna do if this this person's off for
that Parson.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Like, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
It doesn't really affect the quality of the product, and
that's the most important thing is the quality of the product.
Thank you, Reggie. I appreciate that. Steve from Ohio Rights
in Steve's got to complaint. He does not say what
part of Ohio.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'll just assume he's in Dayton.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
He says, Ben, why didn't you bash producer Bree on
Friday's show doing a Thanksgiving side dish list on your show.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's Steve.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
So Steve, First of all, I am a big fan
of Brie. She's got some work ethic to her. She
works hard, she really does a good job, and so
that was the first thing I dodn't want to crush her. Secondly,
it's a tell that she doesn't listen. She used to listen,
but she's busy. She got lot of stuff going on,
so she's not a consumer. Otherwise she would have never
(17:30):
brought that up.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Anybody that has listened to me ranted all over the
years about my disdain for lazy talk radio knows that
that just drives me nuts. So yeah, Steve, if I
could have just bashed her and just ripped her apart,
I chose to take a higher plane on that one,
and I did not. I was gonna do my whole
(17:54):
rant about the holidays. I did not do that, and
I didn't do it because alf can plane is all.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You're gonna I know you're gonna do the rats about
Thanksgiving radio, and I do what I hear, Oh my god,
whatever I want to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Next up, Kwang from Ho Chi Minh Vietnam, says Benny
the dishwasher. He says, what happened to Nuby Knight? What
the heck happened to Nuby Knight? Well, Ben, let me
tell you. Let me tell you, Benny, nothing happened to
Newby Knight. We just haven't done it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
We were supposed to do it. We forget other things
pop up.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And then also what happens.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
When we do Newby Knight? The regular callers don't know
what to do. They're besides themselves. They start freaking out.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
They're like, oh my god, I don't know how to
handle this. It's a big nightmare. Now.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
He also says Quang. Since Coop doesn't seem to have
any more offensive lame jokes, why not incorporate Lorena.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, So I'm willing to incorporate anyone that wants to
be part of it, but you have to show some
initiative and they if they want to be part of it.
If Leno wants to be a part of it, I'm
more than happy to include these people in it.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But I'm not going to force you to do it.
And you have to.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Kind of want to be into it. And if you're
not into it. It just doesn't It doesn't work. And
he also says, could you interview your wife on the
fifth hour? I think your listeners would love to hear
how y'all met et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Well,
we don't really do interviews right now, quayg. If we
get back to that at some point. The holidays are
upon us. We said Thanksgiving this past week, and Christmas
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is coming up here at the end of the month,
obviously the end of the year, and so we'll start
doing some of those guest type podcasts. I think as
we get closer to the end of the year. They're
evergreen podcast. Next up, Barry from South Carolina says Yo
Yo Ma Benny and Danny g.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
He says, how long did you date.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Your woman before you knew you were going to propose
to her? You know right away that there's there's there's
some interest there. You know right away that this has
got a shot at being something more than just a
run of the mill situation.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
But normally it's not your call. You know.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I'd been on dates with people in the past, Barry,
where I thought, well, that's that could be something, but
they didn't agree, right, So it takes two two to tango,
as they say, and you also have to you have
to make sure the jigsaw puzzle pieces fit together and
all that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So you know how long, I don't know exact time.
It wasn't very long.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I mean it was probably a couple months in and
then then it was like, okay, then you're trying to
get confirmation.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You know how it is. You know, you know what
I'm talking.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
About, Barry, You feel me on that. When are you
leaving South Carolina? I thought you were leaving South Carolina.
You're waiting for the housing market to go back up,
the interest rates to go down more, Is that right?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Next up on the mailbag, Alf from the Good Old
Write Sin. He says, it's that time of the year
when we reflect on and give thanks. As each year
turns and we get another year older, I find myself
getting jaded and more impatient with people and the state
of the world. Alf says, Now, as you read this,
(21:19):
I'm guessing you've already produced your annual.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Lazy radio podcast.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
As you've been baited all week by the listeners.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I have not done that. I have not done that. Alf.
Maybe I'll do it during Christmas, he is.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
My question is to you, Ben, do you ever scream
for a drop in your head during the show? As
people come and go from the show, I find myself
figuratively reaching for the drop button more and more as
many classics have been lost in the FSR black hole.
During the holiday season, I'm guessing there may be an
(21:57):
Evergreen podcast or two. So I would love for Danny's
Radio to unload his chamber of drops for another classic
episode like he's done in the past. Well, that's a
great idea, alf and we will talk.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
To Danny and we'll see if we can do that. Yeah,
the whole drop thing.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I've gotten to the point in life where I used
to get very upset when the people I worked with
on the show, whoever.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
They may be. You know, I'm not going to name anybody, but.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
The people I work with when they're lazy and they
don't do their job, it used to drive me nuts.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I would get so upset, I say.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Cause I'm just not wired that way. I just my
goal is always to be perfect. I'm not perfect, no
one's perfect. But as long as you I was taught,
as long as you put the effort in and you mean, well,
you're in good shape. I've worked with so many people
over the years that are so lazy it is very frustrating.
But I got to the point, as I've gotten older
in life where I said, listen, I can't control that.
(22:59):
I love what I do and I like to put
the work into it, and I don't hire the people
I work with. If people at the company don't value
that and they hire people that are lazy and they
that's on them.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I can't control that.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And the drop thing is just a product of I've
encouraged people to play drops. They don't listen to me.
I've encouraged people to put songs into the system so
we can play it when they're not there. They don't
listen to me, And it's just guy the boy wise,
I don't even listen if they're that incompetent.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I don't even bother. I just control what I can control.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And it's funny you bring this up out because we
read an email from Reggie in Detroit and Reggie.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Was the show sounds the same.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I was explaining why the show sounds the same whether
you know people are gone or not. But yeah, Danny,
as far as the point, Alf will let Danny know
we want at least one podcast over Christmas or New
Year's which is just great drops, and I think that's
the way to go. Next up, Scott from Florida writes
(24:03):
in he says, Ben and Danny, there have been a
ton of there's been a ton.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Of dishwasher talk the past few weeks. By the way,
that term sounds like.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Something a church youth group leader or your father would
use as a euphanism for something naughty back in the
nineteen nineties. Scott says, this past weekend, my wife was
cleaning something in the sink and asked me, when was
the last time you cleaned this? You clean it every
(24:35):
few months, right, And I just looked at her and said,
what is that?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
She informed me.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Scott says it was the dishwasher filter that sits in
the middle of the electric dishwasher. Yeah, all the time,
I answered to Shirley, nodding my head. So, Scott says,
Ben and Danny, I had no clue that dishwashers had
a filter in the dead center in the I mean,
it makes sense, but it never crossed my mind. Certainly
(25:05):
I have never bent over pulled out the dish rack,
reached back and down.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
And pulled out the filter.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
In my forty six years on this round Earth, did
either of you realize this existed? And do you clean
it out every few months? That's from Scott, So Scott,
I do know of the filter. I've told the story before.
The reason I am the dishwasher at the house is
(25:34):
years ago, my son and the wife would do the dishes,
and the dishes I'd look at the bottom of the
dishwasher and it would be covered with like spaghetti macaroni.
There'd be little pieces of I don't even know what,
some vegetable or something like that at the very bottom,
and it was like, WHOA, what is that? And so
(25:55):
they would just put the dishes and covered in food.
Assuming the dishwasher it would just take care of itself.
And of course it caused a lot of problems. And
that's why I'm the dishwasher. So I do know there's
a filter there. I gotta tell you though, I have
not changed the filter.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Since that incident. Since that incident with the dishwasher, and
we're in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And here's why I do the dishes ninety nine percent
of the time and I clean every dish by hand.
I hand wash every dish. The dishwasher is just the
final stage. The dishwasher is just the closing part of
the deal. You do most of it by hand, and
(26:37):
then you kill all the germs, for sure, all the bacteria.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
You kill it with the dishwater. That's how I do it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Thank you Scott for that pretty good email there from
Scott in Florida. Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass Writes, and he says,
since you will be reading this after Thanksgiving, I hope
you both had a good Thanksgiving. Ryan says, question this
week is about the good old Malar Mobile. Says, one
of my hobbies is cars and motorcycles. I was curious,
(27:07):
as a car guy, what kind of car is the Malormobile?
Sorry if you answered this before, but I'm curious as
to what car it is. Also, what are your guys
dream dream car? I think I might go with a
sixty seven Chevelle. Thanks always, boys. Sorry Danny about your raiders.
There you go making Shuldar look like Tom Brady. Well
(27:30):
let's hold off on that. Ryan should didn't play that well.
There was like a bubble screen that went seventy yards.
Because the raiders don't know how to tackle. He didn't
play particularly well, and that's the Raiders are so bad, Ryan,
that the Browns won. Anyway, as far as the car,
the car I drive into work is a Ford Edge
(27:51):
with a lot of miles on it, a lot of
miles on it, and I've had that for years. Does
not get great gas mileage. I drive a long way
from the north Woods. But that's the car that I
drive mostly, the car that I would love. I just
love comfortable cars. I've told the story before, Ryan, that
the most comfortable car.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
That I've ever been in.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
We were covering the World Series in Cleveland years ago
and they had a Lincoln Continental and I sat down.
It was the rental. It was the only rental they
had left. So we got this rental car and it
was like sitting on a sofa. I was driving around
Cleveland and it was like I was sitting on a
sofa and it was like the most comfortable seat. And
I was like this, you know, sitting in traffic wouldn't
(28:34):
be that bad in this thing. That'd be pretty good.
Be great, man, all right? Noah rights in. Noah in
Austin says happy Sunday. Ben and Danny Ope, things are
well in your world. I have a question, he said,
one for Danny, but Danny's not here, so we'll just
do the one for.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Me from Noah.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
He says, Ben, since your bowel movements have been brought
up more than once on this podcast, what is a
meal that you absolutely love but know for a fact
it will give you a little toilet trouble later on?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's from Noah in Beautiful Austin, Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Well, Noah, it is not really the food I've noticed
over the years. It's the fasting. I lost my gallbladder
years ago. I had my gallbladder chopped out of me.
It malfunctioned, and so I've determined since I fast, I
do inter minute fasting. If I go two days fasting
(29:34):
and then eat a heavy meal like a pastrami sandwich.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Or a double cheeseburger or something like.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That, if that happens, I got problems, all right, I
got major problems. I really only have about thirty minutes
after the time I finish eating before it's.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Bombs away, whether I'm ready for it or not.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So it's not so much what I eat as if
I'm fasting a lot, it causes me more problems.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It causes me more problems. It does. That's just the
way it is. Let's see what else do we have
page down here.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
There's some people with questions about Black Friday that took
place over the weekend. There's a magician in Missouri. This
guy Craig says, a magician in Missouri had an idea
to implant a computer chip into his hand and then
do some fun magic tricks with it. Unfortunately, Pierce, he
forgot the password and the chip has been lost. He
(30:38):
lost the password to the chip embedded inside his body.
So that does not seem like a a great magic trick.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
You're not supposed to lose that. All right, we'll get
out on that.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I'll be back on the radio tonight and all the
way through, all the way through the week, no days off.
And remember though, Benny versus the Pennies available right now
on YouTube Benny Vspenny. We got off to the four
and oh start this week. We won all the games
on Thanksgiving, and then if you won those and rolled
(31:12):
your money over into Friday, we told you to take
the Chicago Bears and they won as well. So we're
off to a really good start this weekend, which means
either this is gonna be one of the big dominating
weekends or an absolute fricking disaster.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Who knows, but either way.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Benny Vspenny on YouTube, click the like button, subscribe button,
all that stuff. Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday.
We'll see you around on the radio, and we'll see
you here on the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Next time later Skater settle Land. Just a little bit
pasta pasta, got a murder.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I gotta go.
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