January 28, 2023 • 35 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour home-skillet Danny G. have fun on your NFL-free Saturday! They're talking: Is That a Flea in the Ear? Noah's Wife, Mirror Mirror Not on the Wall & Pop Goes the Culture!
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with Ben Maller starts right now in the a rewereing, Hey,
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It's the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G
Radio in the podcast air everywhere as it is our
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Saturday extravaganza. Danny no football today, nothing to watch today
in the NFL. Better for the podcast downloads. Let's go. Yeah,
nothing to distract you from the podcast. So on this
edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got is that a
flea in the ear, Noah's wife, mirror, mirror not on
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the wall, and pop goes the culture. So that's a
lot of stuff. Yeah, it's a full board. Yeah. So
we'll start with this life of life of myself, Ben Mallory,
Life of Danny G Radio. And so this past week
back to the full grind. I had family in previously,
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so I had to take a couple of days off
because of family, and uh, my family left and went
back headed back. He's my my brother, my older brothers
actually was in Mexico City this week of all places.
Um daily grind. I do the show, nothing spectacularly, nothing
out of the ordinary. My routine is pretty simple. I
do the show, I prep all day, do the show
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at night, go to the gym, and come home and
go to bed. Usually do dishes after the gym and
go to bed, and so good afternoon, good evening, good night.
So I was doing my thing. But on Monday, I
got to the gym after the show, made the long
trek from the Sherman Oaks compound of Fox Sports readily
I heart Premier Networks building. Made the trip down far
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far away, and I'm on the treadmill, and you know,
hop on the treadmill. I can normally do nothing out
of the ordinary, uh standard workout. Pop my headphones in.
Usually I'm on treadmill. What do I watch? I watch
something on YouTube, or I'll listen to music. Anything I
can to divert my attention away from the monotony of
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the workout. Maybe I'll put a podcast on. But distraction
is the key. So I am, I'm just on the
treadmill whatever, I'm doing my thing, and I clip on
some video on the on the YouTube, I think I
was watching an old baseball game. They got a bunch
of those, some like the eighties and the nineties, like
random baseball games and uh pop that on there kind
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of fall into zombie mode. It's muscle memory that takes over,
you know, treadmill and so, uh, I decided that my
headphone on my my right ear. I decided it was
not quite working right, so I needed I needed to
adjust it. So I twisted the headphone a little bit
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and uh, and all of a sudden it sounded like
it was like really not working. I was like, well,
what's going on? And so I I kind of squished
it in my ear a little further and um yeah
yeah yeah yeah. So so then I I like it
still wasn't working. I was like, what the you know,
what the hell? I I mean these I use these
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headphones every day. So then I take the thing out
and I'm like, oh crap, um and was missing. Yeah
what have you done? You moron? And uh, I have
very thick fingers apparently, and and I ended up twisting
twisting that thing all the way into my ear. Drum
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drum um, drum um. The audio obviously was not working.
And uh yeah, so is that a flea in your ear?
Are you just glad to see me? Now? I want
you to know, Danny. I had two options. I could
have immediately left and gone and tried to get taken
care of. But I said, you know what, I still
have one headphone that's working, and it didn't really hurt
me that much. So I finished my workout. I finished
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my workout, and then I actually what I did was
I I contacted my wife, who was home. She was
off from work that night. I said, hey, probably gonna
need your help. Um, I've got a situation here. You
have any chopsticks available? Yeah? Yeah, I said, you might
want to go get the Tweezers. You know, you might
want to get the Tweezers. There, I got something stuck
in my ear. She's like kind of freaking out a
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little bit. She's what are you talking about? I said, oh, yeah,
I probably need some new headphones also, I probably need
will and uh so she was like half asleep, but
I told her, I said, gonna finish the workout. So
I got home and then you know, she was sleeping,
and so I woke her up. And this is not
a good idea, Danny, to have somebody who's half awake,
half asleep try to dig something out of your ear drum. Yeah,
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half awake surgeon, Yeah, yeah, this is not good. So
she's I give her the tweezers. She's like pulling at
my ear, but she doesn't see anything. I think, apparently
I've got a lot of I guess I got a
lot of hair in my ears, so I don't know
she's she's pulling it that She's like, think, I pulled
your hair, which I guess I'm I'm old because I
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got hair in my ear. And then I think it's
from the headphones anyway. So she's struggling and all that,
and she's kind of freaking me out. She's like, well,
you might have to go to the hospital and get this.
I mean, I can't see it. I don't see anything.
And then at that point, I'm like, come on, I mean,
it can't be that hard. You know it's got me.
I didn't. I don't think it's in my brain. It's
just a little piece of rubber um and so we
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turned the light on. She turned the light on her phone,
and she was funagling with this. It seemed like it
was like an hour. It was probably only a couple
of minutes. And she did successfully extract the little piece
of rubber from the tip of the headphones from my
ear canal. So just another another klutz move, Danny, I
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can add to my bed post. I can add this
to breaking the microphone like the Incredible Hulk taking down
the entire light from the Fox Sports radio studios. The
hits just keep coming, man, the hits keep coming. Disaster
the past few years, I know, right, I just merely
can't even put headphones in. I'm such a wreck. I
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can't even do that without having a situation. So it's
I'm surprised that doesn't happen more because it's very easy
for I assume you have those kind of headphones. I mean,
it's pretty easy to have them fall out. Yeah. I
finally broke down and ordered some really nice ones that
were like that last year, and they have all the
different sizes of those rubber tips that you could keep
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trying until you find the perfect fit for your ear.
And no matter which tip I put on, those stupid things.
They don't stay in and they don't feel comfortable. So
after spending two bucks on a nice pair of those,
I really don't use them that much because I'll be
walking in my house with them on and it'll pop
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off and fall on the floor, and I'm like, I'm
not gonna go outside and have it fall on the
ground like that. So they're in my closet right now,
like stowed away. Yeah, yeah, it is a thing that
pops up in And you can get those, as you
said that some of them are really expensive, or you
can go to like we have a store here which
I think is a National store five below, which is
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actually sell stuff that's not five below. But I think
you can get a knockoff version of those kind of
headphones at a store like that, which are probably the
same thing. I mean, how much how much worse could
they be? How much better could they be? And I
had a twenty pair from Amazon and they were cheaper
and didn't sound good, but they fit really well, and
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I was like, damn it, why can't they have that
good technology and these ones that actually fit. It's just
that that's one of the things where it doesn't match up.
It is a wild thing though. I I know we've
talked about this in previous episodes of the show, but
the fact that human beings are wired where if you
think you're getting more if you pay more, like that's
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always like like I'm like, no, I can. I can
get good stuff at you know, a dollar store or
something like that. I don't need to But but electronics, though,
some of it is true because if you hear like
just a thin sound of music compared to really full music,
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I guess that that bothers an audio file more than
it does just the average person who maybe doesn't care
about hearing clean highs mids base Like I guess if
you're not bothered by bad sounding music, then it wouldn't
affect you as much if you're only spending twenty dollars
compared to a couple of hundred bucks. Yeah, but I'm
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pretty sure I've read over the years like they've done studies,
maybe not on headphones, but on other stuff where if
you take an item and you let's say you price
it for and you take the same item in another
part of the country, and you charge you know, a
hundred dollars for it, the people that pay the hundred
dollars will think that that is a better product than
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the people that paid the twenties the same product. But
they've convinced themselves because they spent more money that they're
getting more bang for their buck and all that. And well,
I would agree when it comes to fashion and clothes
and stuff like that, because is it really better just
because it has a certain logo on it. It could
be made even shittier than something that's cheaper. But you're right,
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people just think it's better because it costs a hundred
dollars more because of that branding, with that little logo
that they want. Yeah, and that's a lot of how
like the art world operates, right that you know, there's
a finite amount of it, and you know this stuff
that I think of five year old could do, but
it just happens they put a big price on it.
And then there's some rich guy in Miami at Art
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Basil who's like, all right, you know, what the hell?
Why not you are like van Go, you were about
to have your air chopped off? Yeah, I was thinking
about that. If I needed some kind of medical procedure,
I might have had to take a day off, a
medical day off, like that's all I have is my
mouth and my my hearing, and that's it tastes like
a touchdown in your mouth. I mean, she's she's Louise
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on that anyway. So like Patrick mahomes Ben, you're better
than half the host out there with just one ear.
There you go. That's like an old rush Limbaugh line.
I got one ear tied behind my back. Mega dittos Uh.
And I know that I'm not Noah's wife. I know
that I know that is the case. Nanny g. I'm
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not that well. A few weeks ago, you asked me
if my wife he had prego cravings yet, if there
were any certain kinds of foods that she was craving.
And I was telling you at the time about in
and out and how suddenly she's craving some red meat,
probably because she needs the iron. She's always kind of
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stuck up her nose when me and the kids are
eating burgers, like it gross, like smell burgers away from me.
She's one of those people. She hates hamburgers. So it
was very, very strange to watch her enjoying in and
out and then afterwards saying, oh my god, that's the
best meal I've I've had in weeks. I want that
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again tomorrow. I'm like, who is this person? Yeah, the
answer is she's a pregnant lady sexist. She is snacking
every three hours. She's craving the strangest foods. Um. I've
never seen her eat cream, cheese and a bagel in
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my life. And that's all she's been talking about now
for a week. Bagels. Huh, and she keeps talking about
French toast, what kind of bagels she like? Shot egg, bagel, everything, bagel, Garland, everything, solid, Bael,
good bagel, choice, good bagel. So a couple of mornings ago,
I get woken up at four in the morning. She
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tells me, do you think anything is open? I had
to go open up the campus in a couple of hours,
so I'm an early riser as well. But I went
to my phone and the ie hoop here in our
area they didn't open until seven am. There is no
Denny's around us, although she would have turned her nose
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up to Denny's. So you're not driving to like cancers
in l A. You're not making that trip. That's a
long yeah, exactly. I looked at all the different breakfast
restaurants around us, and none of them opened early early,
and I was like, man, what how come none of
these breakfast places open for those of us that got
to go to work so that we could go eat
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there and then go to work. Um. So I told her.
I was like, well, here's the thing. We can't get
your French toast. And when I told her nothing was open,
she brought the bagel back up. I find Noah's Bagels,
which is a great spot. I don't know if you've
ever had their Their bagels, Yeah, they are good. They're nash.
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Their claim to fame is they only use a few
ingredients and so it's clean food. So I take her
on this drive. She's happy. She's dancing to the music
in the car, even though it's early in the morning.
So I have this this growing whale next to me
and we are swimming up stream on the one oh
one freeway to feed her some fish, are I And
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she's dancing to the music in the passenger seat. She's
in a good mood. We get to Noah's Bagels. We
walk in and there are no bagels set out yet
because they had just opened. No but that's actually good
because they're making them right right, right, they get there
when they're fresh. There's nothing better than a fresh bagel
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or donut. Man, we're waiting, we're waiting. I could tell
she's fading because the other thing pregnant ladies need our naps,
and she's not a napper either, So that's another weird
thing about all this. She's eating foods I've never seen
her put anywhere near her mouth, and she's also sleeping
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at odd times, so this is not a good combination.
Here inside Noah's Bagels, the bagels aren't ready, and she's
starting to fade. We get our order finally, been I
get in the car and her head is kind of like,
you know, yes, but we've all had this before where
the person sitting in the passenger seat next to you
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is kind of falling asleep. Yes, So I was like,
holy sh it, this is night and day. Where where's
the dancing to the M and M that was on
the car stereo? Get home? What we wound up ordering
were two of the bagel sandwiches. Have you ever had
those from Noah's. They put ham, bacon, cheese, egg on
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whatever kind of bagel you want, and they put a
pepper schmir on there. Pretty good, right, you like to
watch what you spend. Those are eight dollar breakfast sandwiches. Wow,
that's all you eat. But still that's you know, it's
up man. You can make that same sandwich at home
for a lot less. Yeah. So I walk upstairs Ben,
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and she's sitting in bed, you know, with the rapper
as her plate. She's feeding the ham out of the
sandwich to her dog and she's just kind of picking
at it. And she tells me, Yeah, you know what,
next time, I'm just gonna do the everything bagel with
cream cheese on it, because all I really liked from
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this is the bagel with the cream cheese on it.
And you're thinking, wait a minute, I just have bagels
a two bucks. I spent eight dollars on this. Your
probably yeah, with inflation and everything else. And I don't
know if you have any pointers on how to keep
the fridge full and the cravings full. But I mean,
I'm starting to run out of dough. Yeah, I I
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mean I've not been in your situation, so I I
would think that you've got to kind of plane out, Like, man,
you're gonna have to go to the grocery store and
you're gonna have to try to do a lot of
guessing on what you think she's gonna want to eat.
I'm starting to think I'm gonna get her a Ralph's
gift card. You don't know what Ralph's is. That's a
grocery store in our area. We're gonna get her a
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Ralph's gift card and be like, yeah, I'm not gonna guess.
You just go get whatever you want at the grocery store.
Either that, get one of the other kids to get
a job at the bagel shop just in case, and
you get the alright, so the turning the page on it.
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So this past week was a moving and shaking good time.
Danny Wall on the radio, the ground below us started
sh shaking. It was a grand old time. Now, you
were probably sleeping at this time. It happened during the
overnight show while we were on the live air. As
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Cowboy John Brad likes to say, it happened at two
am Pacific time, five am in the East, and Eddie
was doing the top of the hour news update. But
I actually had started yapping and I did not feel it.
Did you feel it? I didn't feel it, No, I didn't.
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You were sleeping, right, Okay, you didn't wake up. I didn't.
I was awake, I was alert. I was worried about
the monologue and what I was gonna say and all that. Um.
But I have determined that earthquakes are good for business
because I did notice the uptick, because a number of
people did wake up, and we had a lot more
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interaction on our blowtorch. In southern California a M. Five
seventy the Dodger station, a number of people were tossing
and turning and for some reason flipped on either the
I Heart radio app or the radio if they still
have old radios in their houses. And I gotta tell you, Danny,
who better to turn to for information on an earthquake
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than a sports talk radio show. I can't think it's
either KFI, the big news station in l A or
or the overnight sports guy. And the early reports that
was like a four point two, which is not the biggest,
but it was in Malibu and that was unexpected. So
after the show and I didn't feel it, I'm kind
of hanging out. Wife gets home from work. I'm doing
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whatever I'm doing. She's like, I'm gonna go take a shower.
I'm like, okay, good knock yourself out. And she sends
me a message. She's like, hey, you gotta get over here.
And I'm like, okay, what the what happened? She said,
something's going on. And it turns out that one of
the mirrors in the Mallard mansion, in the in the bathroom,
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like half of it. We have the like round mirrors,
and half of it had come out of the wall
from the earthquake. Oh wow. And I'm like, well, this
is fucking impossible. I didn't even feel it, and I
was awake, and how could this have happened. There's no
other way that that could have happened. Like, that's not
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like you live right next door to Malibu. No, I'm
far away from Malibu. Like that's that's why I figured
I didn't feel it because I'm far enough away and
I could not believe it. I was like, wow, So
now we have the mirror, a mirror not on the wall,
hanging on Holy Canal, and it's crazy. So we have
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to get that fixed. And I didn't see any other
damage around the house. I didn't think there would be
any damage. I was like, there's no, this is not
a major event. I just didn't even bother checking because
I figured, why would there be any damage? It makes
no sense. I feel like your wife broke it the
same way you broke the light in the studio and
the microphone and the microphone stand, and she just blamed
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it conveniently on the earthquake and she just grabbed it
and like pulled it. There you go. Uh, let's get
the pop goes the culture and that means our man
ohio aloo, all right, these are actual pop culture stories, Danny,
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that we may or may not have missed on the
My Show, the Ben Maller Show, and the Cavino and
Rich Show, which you're a part of. And so we'll
get to this right now. Uh. The United States Military,
well they've done a lot over the years to try
to get people to join the military. Now they have
turned to the girl influencers. Have you seen this, Danny, Yeah,
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the military struggling to get gen z to sign up
and help the country out. So they have signed up
e girl influencers on TikTok. And you're gonna have to
help me out on this, Danny. I'm not down TikTok.
But they have os play commandos, which I guess is
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costume dressing up in costumes, right, isn't that cosplay? I
think I know that. Yeah, and they're posting nationalist thirst
trap photos. So the e girls are are wearing like
military themed outfits but sexy, like sexy soldier outfits. Yeah,
it's almost just think of Halloween costumes for slutty females.
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And they do this all year around with their cosplay. Okay,
all right, so there's some videos here. I don't know
who these people are. I assume you're not on TikTok,
so you don't know either. But one of these these
influenced these numbers on TikTok are bullshit. Uh, twenty year
old young lady there. Uh, e girl, she's got millions
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of views on this video. Uh. And these these girls,
I guess they're getting paid by the military. They used
the thirst traps inside choppers where they're like, you know,
banding over inside a chopper, pouty selfies with assault rifles,
hashtags like pew pew and military curves to get the
boys excited. And uh yeah, I'm I'm looking at some
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of these videos here and that's okay. Is that gonna work?
I guess? I don't know. There's a lot of hungry
dudes out there. Oh yeah, well that you can never
underestimate the horn dog. But what a hustle. This TikTok is, right,
can you? There was a story the other day that TikTok.
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An employee for TikTok admitted they arbitrarily decide randomly what
goes viral. They just randomly choose what goes what a world? Man?
What get the Ben Mallard show on TikTok? My man,
I guess, I guess? All right, pop goes the culture?
Well how about this for this sounds like a movie?
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This next one. You know that big f t X
scam that just took place, Well, there's a there's a
big rich dude from New York. Robert Belfer is his name.
Who I don't know if that rings the bell for you.
He's an oil entrepreneur and borrow five bucks exactly. He's
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the patriarch of the the calling it the elite bell
for family. So this guy lost a bunch of money
on the cryptocurrency f t X, that platform f t
x Okay, a lot of people lost a lot of money.
That sucks. Well, it turns out this guy has hit
the trifected Danny g that this guy bell for also
lost money with Bernie made off. And if that was
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not enough, he lost money with Enron. You remember the
Enron scandal from years ago. Yeah, this The Enron was
the the the oil company in Houston. They the Astros
new ballpark at the time was called en Ron Field,
and it turned out it was a complete scam. So
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this These are the three biggest investment scandals in the
modern era, and this freaking guy lost money in all
three of them. How impressive is that? On some level,
you'd think, you know, fool me once. You know the
old line, fool me one, shame on on you for
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me twice, shame on me, what's fool me three times?
I'm surprised he wasn't part of jaw Rules Island. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Really that would have been like the bonus round on fire. Yeah,
I get the same and all that, and man, what
what bad luck? What else do we have? We have
a few more on popcast the culture. Uh let's her
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appliance makers. Appliance makers are upset that fifty percent of
customers do not connect smart appliances. They're annoyed by this
whirlpool and l g are they're they're not happy. The
two big appliance makers. They've added WiFi technology to the dishwashers,
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the ovens, the refrigerators, and they have built in apps
and they claim that less than fifty percent of people
actually connect the items. And I say, bravo, I don't
need WiFi in my dishwasher. I don't need in my oven,
I don't need it in my refrigerator. Uh. And the
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reason they're upset, I'm I'm speaking. I don't know this
for effect. I'm just guestimating. I think this is probably right, though.
See if you agree with me, Danny. The reason they're
upset is because they were planning on selling that data
and of what when people are using their their you know, dishwasher,
and they're what, they're how many times they open their uh,
the refrigerator and all that crap, and they can use
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that somehow and make money on it. And now they
can't do it because people aren't using it and they're
not using the apps thousand percent correct. They want to
be able to track us. They want to be in
your phone as one of your apps. Like the dishwasher
thing doesn't make sense because what are you gonna put
a bunch of dirty dishes in there and say, well,
I'll wash them later. I'll set the WiFi to turn
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the dishwasher on. Says that my dishes are tht dirtier
than they were last week. I gotta do something about that.
The needs an act for that stupid ship. Exactly, exactly. Well,
here's a fun story. I don't know if you guys
on Coveno and Rich talked about this. I probably should
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have brought this up on the radio program. Uh So,
the state of Oregon has put a bill out to
ban the sale of kangaroo body parts in the state
of Oregon. Now, why would they do that? Danny? That
is kind of het? Tell us. It turns out who
(27:38):
knew that high end soccer cleats from Nike use kangaroo
body parts? They used kangaroo leather. Does it make you
run faster? I got fired. I got no idea. I
didn't even know this was a thing. I think definitely
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they could use that as a cell point. You'll jump
higher in these because their part kangaroo. I who decided
that that kangaroo leather was the way to go? Like,
who decided that's the case? And so they have to
there's no kangaroos in Oregon, so they have to at
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least not native, So they have to get the kangaroos,
have to buy them from Australia and then they they're killed.
Are their kangaroo breeders just for Nike? They say that
high end soccer cleats and it's only worn by a
small subset of elite soccer players. Weird. I mean, there
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are some mean animals, right, but you still don't want
to kill them just for shoes. We'll have to get
one of our Australian guys to help us out on
that semis viral video where that kangaroo is boxing that guy.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's hilarious. Well, my favorite kangaroo
fun fact we learned from this podcast is that, unlike
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a rabbit that runs away from or kind of freezes
when they see a light, you know, dear rabbit in
the headlights, it turns out that the kangaroo will run
at the light and that that blew me away, Like
I can't believe that, what is going on with that?
But it's like a mosquito. That's pretty wild, right, Like
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what's going on? But that's apparently the case at least
the corner to our Australian experts that we trust because
they claimed that to be true, and so why not.
All right, now, if you go to Japan, good news here.
One of the big whaling firms in Japan is struggling
to sell well meat. Apparently, uh, they've decided. I don't
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know why. I thought people in Japan love whale meat.
But the firm is turning to vending machines to revive sales.
So there are now vending machines. You can go and
get some nice whale meat in that exciting, It's just
that's nasty. Below the photo of the meals is like
(30:06):
these little whale drawings, like the cartoon whales. It's kind
of like going to a chicken shack and you you
see the the chicken and you know the whale taste, Like,
can we google that? What is whale taste? Like, yeah,
I'm not I'm not sure. Uh. This is a great
story out of Philadelphia, Philadelphia. This is pop goes the
(30:27):
culture Philadelphia is so desperate. How desperate are They're so desperate,
Danny to get lifeguards that they are now check this out.
They are recruiting people who cannot swim. What could possibly
go wrong? What could possibly go And they claim that
these people that don't know how to swim, they'll teach
(30:48):
them how to swim. They have to take a lifeguard course,
but they said that they struggle. They have all these
public pools in Philadelphia and they couldn't open a lot
of them last year because there was a lifeguard shortage
because they're not paying the lifeguards much of anything. And
so yet again there appears to be even though we're
only in January, late January, but it appears that they're
looking ahead and there will be a shortage again for
(31:15):
for lifeguards. Here's the story out of New Jersey. A
twenty nine year old woman posed as a high school
student and got away with it for four days. Danny,
she said she was actually fifteen years old, and then
she finally got caught. They realized that, wait a minute,
(31:37):
that's almost a thirty year old woman there, and uh,
and yeah, it's crazy. In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the
officials have admitted, although they haven't explained much more than
just the admission that a grown ass woman posed as
a teen girl and was able to attend classes about
(31:58):
that she could be on the next version of Greece
because every actor and actress in that movie were thirty two.
Do you think Danny though, like what was her goal?
Like do you think she was trying to hook up
with dudes or something like, you know, young high school
kids or something like that, because I don't know that
you have to pretend to be a student to get
(32:19):
that accomplished. Like what what were you trying to get
done there? You know, it's a great question. Or was
she writing, uh for a newspaper that's that famous movie
Drew Barrymore was in. Yeah, the story it's from New
Brunswick today, that's where we got it from. Says the
woman could have legally enrolled in the adults learning center,
(32:41):
but she chose the high school and they figured her
out because she says she was fifteen, but suspicion was
raised because she could not identify her parents or legal
guardian of us. Would like to do a certain things
in high school over I've heard people's say, oh, man,
if I knew then what I know now, I would
(33:04):
slay it in high school. Oh yeah, like I've I've
heard the knowledge I have now, Like i'd have a shot.
You know, I had no chance. I had no chance.
I was it was over. I mean it was done
when I was in high school. But now, yeah, like
I kind of no human nature a little bit. I
kind of know how people operate, more kind of figured out,
plus you know, in high school, kind of the lay
(33:25):
of the land. So uh yeah, I think it would
definitely definitely do pretty well. All right, I think that's
that's good. Anything else then, you want to promote anything.
It's Saturday here, we're hanging out on a Saturday. No
football today, anything. You got to promote their really quick
here on a whale note. I looked it up. Whale
taste not like fish, but more like a very gamey
(33:49):
version of beef or venison. And I don't like the
gaming taste though, so I don't either. I'm good on that.
I don't think I need to. Yeah, they serve venison
burgers near yellow Stone and I had to. I had
to put it down after a couple of bites. Did
you puke? It wasn't that bad, but it just you know,
(34:09):
when you take a bite of a burger, you don't
want some weird aftertaste. No, No, it's like I don't
like the fishy taste either. It's the same concept, you know.
I like the fishy taste. I don't like the gamey taste.
I don't I don't want that. Yeah, when are you
gonna try your first sushi roll? Uh? Never? I don't know.
I've never had sushi. I've never had coffee. And and
(34:30):
so does your wife not like sushi either? No, she
she'll go out sometimes with her girlfriends and eat it.
I don't think it's her favorite. Yes, I don't eat it.
She doesn't take from it. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, have a
great rest of your Saturday. Egg. Yes, since it's Saturday,
I'm gonna go in with Jonas Knox. We don't need
(34:51):
to bring Jonas in in just a couple of hours here,
have some fun on the air with him, and then
your boy Steve Hartman with e from so UM And
it's crazy, Ben, I can't believe the NFL schedule is
almost over, because, as you know, the weekend schedule on
FSR will change slightly once we're out of football season. Yeah,
(35:12):
they have the football lineup and then the off season lineup,
and the football guys will we'll take some time off
and put some baseball people on I guess or some
basketball people. Oh yeah, what are we gonna talk about?
Oh listen, it'll be fine, all right. And I what
I what will I be doing today? What are you
(35:34):
gonna do on this Saturday? Probably bake some cookies. I
don't know. I got nothing else going on. I I
I'm messing around Benny's The Benny the Baker will be back,
so I'll have some new cookies. Have a great day today,
and take anything in any of your orifices. I will
try not to. I will try to avoid that, and
we'll catch you next time. Asta pasta
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(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now in the a rewereing, Hey,
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Radio in the podcast air everywhere as it is our
(00:48):
Saturday extravaganza. Danny no football today, nothing to watch today
in the NFL. Better for the podcast downloads. Let's go. Yeah,
nothing to distract you from the podcast. So on this
edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got is that a
flea in the ear, Noah's wife, mirror, mirror not on
(01:12):
the wall, and pop goes the culture. So that's a
lot of stuff. Yeah, it's a full board. Yeah. So
we'll start with this life of life of myself, Ben Mallory,
Life of Danny G Radio. And so this past week
back to the full grind. I had family in previously,
(01:33):
so I had to take a couple of days off
because of family, and uh, my family left and went
back headed back. He's my my brother, my older brothers
actually was in Mexico City this week of all places.
Um daily grind. I do the show, nothing spectacularly, nothing
out of the ordinary. My routine is pretty simple. I
do the show, I prep all day, do the show
(01:55):
at night, go to the gym, and come home and
go to bed. Usually do dishes after the gym and
go to bed, and so good afternoon, good evening, good night.
So I was doing my thing. But on Monday, I
got to the gym after the show, made the long
trek from the Sherman Oaks compound of Fox Sports readily
I heart Premier Networks building. Made the trip down far
(02:19):
far away, and I'm on the treadmill, and you know,
hop on the treadmill. I can normally do nothing out
of the ordinary, uh standard workout. Pop my headphones in.
Usually I'm on treadmill. What do I watch? I watch
something on YouTube, or I'll listen to music. Anything I
can to divert my attention away from the monotony of
(02:40):
the workout. Maybe I'll put a podcast on. But distraction
is the key. So I am, I'm just on the
treadmill whatever, I'm doing my thing, and I clip on
some video on the on the YouTube, I think I
was watching an old baseball game. They got a bunch
of those, some like the eighties and the nineties, like
random baseball games and uh pop that on there kind
(03:02):
of fall into zombie mode. It's muscle memory that takes over,
you know, treadmill and so, uh, I decided that my
headphone on my my right ear. I decided it was
not quite working right, so I needed I needed to
adjust it. So I twisted the headphone a little bit
(03:25):
and uh, and all of a sudden it sounded like
it was like really not working. I was like, well,
what's going on? And so I I kind of squished
it in my ear a little further and um yeah
yeah yeah yeah. So so then I I like it
still wasn't working. I was like, what the you know,
what the hell? I I mean these I use these
(03:47):
headphones every day. So then I take the thing out
and I'm like, oh crap, um and was missing. Yeah
what have you done? You moron? And uh, I have
very thick fingers apparently, and and I ended up twisting
twisting that thing all the way into my ear. Drum
(04:09):
drum um, drum um. The audio obviously was not working.
And uh yeah, so is that a flea in your ear?
Are you just glad to see me? Now? I want
you to know, Danny. I had two options. I could
have immediately left and gone and tried to get taken
care of. But I said, you know what, I still
have one headphone that's working, and it didn't really hurt
me that much. So I finished my workout. I finished
(04:32):
my workout, and then I actually what I did was
I I contacted my wife, who was home. She was
off from work that night. I said, hey, probably gonna
need your help. Um, I've got a situation here. You
have any chopsticks available? Yeah? Yeah, I said, you might
want to go get the Tweezers. You know, you might
want to get the Tweezers. There, I got something stuck
in my ear. She's like kind of freaking out a
(04:54):
little bit. She's what are you talking about? I said, oh, yeah,
I probably need some new headphones also, I probably need
will and uh so she was like half asleep, but
I told her, I said, gonna finish the workout. So
I got home and then you know, she was sleeping,
and so I woke her up. And this is not
a good idea, Danny, to have somebody who's half awake,
half asleep try to dig something out of your ear drum. Yeah,
(05:16):
half awake surgeon, Yeah, yeah, this is not good. So
she's I give her the tweezers. She's like pulling at
my ear, but she doesn't see anything. I think, apparently
I've got a lot of I guess I got a
lot of hair in my ears, so I don't know
she's she's pulling it that She's like, think, I pulled
your hair, which I guess I'm I'm old because I
(05:37):
got hair in my ear. And then I think it's
from the headphones anyway. So she's struggling and all that,
and she's kind of freaking me out. She's like, well,
you might have to go to the hospital and get this.
I mean, I can't see it. I don't see anything.
And then at that point, I'm like, come on, I mean,
it can't be that hard. You know it's got me.
I didn't. I don't think it's in my brain. It's
just a little piece of rubber um and so we
(05:58):
turned the light on. She turned the light on her phone,
and she was funagling with this. It seemed like it
was like an hour. It was probably only a couple
of minutes. And she did successfully extract the little piece
of rubber from the tip of the headphones from my
ear canal. So just another another klutz move, Danny, I
(06:20):
can add to my bed post. I can add this
to breaking the microphone like the Incredible Hulk taking down
the entire light from the Fox Sports radio studios. The
hits just keep coming, man, the hits keep coming. Disaster
the past few years, I know, right, I just merely
can't even put headphones in. I'm such a wreck. I
(06:41):
can't even do that without having a situation. So it's
I'm surprised that doesn't happen more because it's very easy
for I assume you have those kind of headphones. I mean,
it's pretty easy to have them fall out. Yeah. I
finally broke down and ordered some really nice ones that
were like that last year, and they have all the
different sizes of those rubber tips that you could keep
(07:05):
trying until you find the perfect fit for your ear.
And no matter which tip I put on, those stupid things.
They don't stay in and they don't feel comfortable. So
after spending two bucks on a nice pair of those,
I really don't use them that much because I'll be
walking in my house with them on and it'll pop
(07:26):
off and fall on the floor, and I'm like, I'm
not gonna go outside and have it fall on the
ground like that. So they're in my closet right now,
like stowed away. Yeah, yeah, it is a thing that
pops up in And you can get those, as you
said that some of them are really expensive, or you
can go to like we have a store here which
I think is a National store five below, which is
(07:49):
actually sell stuff that's not five below. But I think
you can get a knockoff version of those kind of
headphones at a store like that, which are probably the
same thing. I mean, how much how much worse could
they be? How much better could they be? And I
had a twenty pair from Amazon and they were cheaper
and didn't sound good, but they fit really well, and
(08:10):
I was like, damn it, why can't they have that
good technology and these ones that actually fit. It's just
that that's one of the things where it doesn't match up.
It is a wild thing though. I I know we've
talked about this in previous episodes of the show, but
the fact that human beings are wired where if you
think you're getting more if you pay more, like that's
(08:31):
always like like I'm like, no, I can. I can
get good stuff at you know, a dollar store or
something like that. I don't need to But but electronics, though,
some of it is true because if you hear like
just a thin sound of music compared to really full music,
(08:52):
I guess that that bothers an audio file more than
it does just the average person who maybe doesn't care
about hearing clean highs mids base Like I guess if
you're not bothered by bad sounding music, then it wouldn't
affect you as much if you're only spending twenty dollars
compared to a couple of hundred bucks. Yeah, but I'm
(09:15):
pretty sure I've read over the years like they've done studies,
maybe not on headphones, but on other stuff where if
you take an item and you let's say you price
it for and you take the same item in another
part of the country, and you charge you know, a
hundred dollars for it, the people that pay the hundred
dollars will think that that is a better product than
(09:37):
the people that paid the twenties the same product. But
they've convinced themselves because they spent more money that they're
getting more bang for their buck and all that. And well,
I would agree when it comes to fashion and clothes
and stuff like that, because is it really better just
because it has a certain logo on it. It could
be made even shittier than something that's cheaper. But you're right,
(09:59):
people just think it's better because it costs a hundred
dollars more because of that branding, with that little logo
that they want. Yeah, and that's a lot of how
like the art world operates, right that you know, there's
a finite amount of it, and you know this stuff
that I think of five year old could do, but
it just happens they put a big price on it.
And then there's some rich guy in Miami at Art
(10:22):
Basil who's like, all right, you know, what the hell?
Why not you are like van Go, you were about
to have your air chopped off? Yeah, I was thinking
about that. If I needed some kind of medical procedure,
I might have had to take a day off, a
medical day off, like that's all I have is my
mouth and my my hearing, and that's it tastes like
a touchdown in your mouth. I mean, she's she's Louise
(10:46):
on that anyway. So like Patrick mahomes Ben, you're better
than half the host out there with just one ear.
There you go. That's like an old rush Limbaugh line.
I got one ear tied behind my back. Mega dittos Uh.
And I know that I'm not Noah's wife. I know
that I know that is the case. Nanny g. I'm
(11:07):
not that well. A few weeks ago, you asked me
if my wife he had prego cravings yet, if there
were any certain kinds of foods that she was craving.
And I was telling you at the time about in
and out and how suddenly she's craving some red meat,
probably because she needs the iron. She's always kind of
(11:28):
stuck up her nose when me and the kids are
eating burgers, like it gross, like smell burgers away from me.
She's one of those people. She hates hamburgers. So it
was very, very strange to watch her enjoying in and
out and then afterwards saying, oh my god, that's the
best meal I've I've had in weeks. I want that
(11:48):
again tomorrow. I'm like, who is this person? Yeah, the
answer is she's a pregnant lady sexist. She is snacking
every three hours. She's craving the strangest foods. Um. I've
never seen her eat cream, cheese and a bagel in
(12:10):
my life. And that's all she's been talking about now
for a week. Bagels. Huh, and she keeps talking about
French toast, what kind of bagels she like? Shot egg, bagel, everything, bagel, Garland, everything, solid, Bael,
good bagel, choice, good bagel. So a couple of mornings ago,
I get woken up at four in the morning. She
(12:30):
tells me, do you think anything is open? I had
to go open up the campus in a couple of hours,
so I'm an early riser as well. But I went
to my phone and the ie hoop here in our
area they didn't open until seven am. There is no
Denny's around us, although she would have turned her nose
(12:51):
up to Denny's. So you're not driving to like cancers
in l A. You're not making that trip. That's a
long yeah, exactly. I looked at all the different breakfast
restaurants around us, and none of them opened early early,
and I was like, man, what how come none of
these breakfast places open for those of us that got
to go to work so that we could go eat
(13:13):
there and then go to work. Um. So I told her.
I was like, well, here's the thing. We can't get
your French toast. And when I told her nothing was open,
she brought the bagel back up. I find Noah's Bagels,
which is a great spot. I don't know if you've
ever had their Their bagels, Yeah, they are good. They're nash.
(13:35):
Their claim to fame is they only use a few
ingredients and so it's clean food. So I take her
on this drive. She's happy. She's dancing to the music
in the car, even though it's early in the morning.
So I have this this growing whale next to me
and we are swimming up stream on the one oh
one freeway to feed her some fish, are I And
(14:00):
she's dancing to the music in the passenger seat. She's
in a good mood. We get to Noah's Bagels. We
walk in and there are no bagels set out yet
because they had just opened. No but that's actually good
because they're making them right right, right, they get there
when they're fresh. There's nothing better than a fresh bagel
(14:20):
or donut. Man, we're waiting, we're waiting. I could tell
she's fading because the other thing pregnant ladies need our naps,
and she's not a napper either, So that's another weird
thing about all this. She's eating foods I've never seen
her put anywhere near her mouth, and she's also sleeping
(14:40):
at odd times, so this is not a good combination.
Here inside Noah's Bagels, the bagels aren't ready, and she's
starting to fade. We get our order finally, been I
get in the car and her head is kind of like,
you know, yes, but we've all had this before where
the person sitting in the passenger seat next to you
(15:02):
is kind of falling asleep. Yes, So I was like,
holy sh it, this is night and day. Where where's
the dancing to the M and M that was on
the car stereo? Get home? What we wound up ordering
were two of the bagel sandwiches. Have you ever had
those from Noah's. They put ham, bacon, cheese, egg on
(15:26):
whatever kind of bagel you want, and they put a
pepper schmir on there. Pretty good, right, you like to
watch what you spend. Those are eight dollar breakfast sandwiches. Wow,
that's all you eat. But still that's you know, it's
up man. You can make that same sandwich at home
for a lot less. Yeah. So I walk upstairs Ben,
(15:48):
and she's sitting in bed, you know, with the rapper
as her plate. She's feeding the ham out of the
sandwich to her dog and she's just kind of picking
at it. And she tells me, Yeah, you know what,
next time, I'm just gonna do the everything bagel with
cream cheese on it, because all I really liked from
(16:10):
this is the bagel with the cream cheese on it.
And you're thinking, wait a minute, I just have bagels
a two bucks. I spent eight dollars on this. Your
probably yeah, with inflation and everything else. And I don't
know if you have any pointers on how to keep
the fridge full and the cravings full. But I mean,
I'm starting to run out of dough. Yeah, I I
(16:31):
mean I've not been in your situation, so I I
would think that you've got to kind of plane out, Like, man,
you're gonna have to go to the grocery store and
you're gonna have to try to do a lot of
guessing on what you think she's gonna want to eat.
I'm starting to think I'm gonna get her a Ralph's
gift card. You don't know what Ralph's is. That's a
grocery store in our area. We're gonna get her a
(16:53):
Ralph's gift card and be like, yeah, I'm not gonna guess.
You just go get whatever you want at the grocery store.
Either that, get one of the other kids to get
a job at the bagel shop just in case, and
you get the alright, so the turning the page on it.
(17:14):
So this past week was a moving and shaking good time.
Danny Wall on the radio, the ground below us started
sh shaking. It was a grand old time. Now, you
were probably sleeping at this time. It happened during the
overnight show while we were on the live air. As
(17:35):
Cowboy John Brad likes to say, it happened at two
am Pacific time, five am in the East, and Eddie
was doing the top of the hour news update. But
I actually had started yapping and I did not feel it.
Did you feel it? I didn't feel it, No, I didn't.
(17:56):
You were sleeping, right, Okay, you didn't wake up. I didn't.
I was awake, I was alert. I was worried about
the monologue and what I was gonna say and all that. Um.
But I have determined that earthquakes are good for business
because I did notice the uptick, because a number of
people did wake up, and we had a lot more
(18:18):
interaction on our blowtorch. In southern California a M. Five
seventy the Dodger station, a number of people were tossing
and turning and for some reason flipped on either the
I Heart radio app or the radio if they still
have old radios in their houses. And I gotta tell you, Danny,
who better to turn to for information on an earthquake
(18:41):
than a sports talk radio show. I can't think it's
either KFI, the big news station in l A or
or the overnight sports guy. And the early reports that
was like a four point two, which is not the biggest,
but it was in Malibu and that was unexpected. So
after the show and I didn't feel it, I'm kind
of hanging out. Wife gets home from work. I'm doing
(19:04):
whatever I'm doing. She's like, I'm gonna go take a shower.
I'm like, okay, good knock yourself out. And she sends
me a message. She's like, hey, you gotta get over here.
And I'm like, okay, what the what happened? She said,
something's going on. And it turns out that one of
the mirrors in the Mallard mansion, in the in the bathroom,
(19:24):
like half of it. We have the like round mirrors,
and half of it had come out of the wall
from the earthquake. Oh wow. And I'm like, well, this
is fucking impossible. I didn't even feel it, and I
was awake, and how could this have happened. There's no
other way that that could have happened. Like, that's not
(19:45):
like you live right next door to Malibu. No, I'm
far away from Malibu. Like that's that's why I figured
I didn't feel it because I'm far enough away and
I could not believe it. I was like, wow, So
now we have the mirror, a mirror not on the wall,
hanging on Holy Canal, and it's crazy. So we have
(20:05):
to get that fixed. And I didn't see any other
damage around the house. I didn't think there would be
any damage. I was like, there's no, this is not
a major event. I just didn't even bother checking because
I figured, why would there be any damage? It makes
no sense. I feel like your wife broke it the
same way you broke the light in the studio and
the microphone and the microphone stand, and she just blamed
(20:27):
it conveniently on the earthquake and she just grabbed it
and like pulled it. There you go. Uh, let's get
the pop goes the culture and that means our man
ohio aloo, all right, these are actual pop culture stories, Danny,
(20:57):
that we may or may not have missed on the
My Show, the Ben Maller Show, and the Cavino and
Rich Show, which you're a part of. And so we'll
get to this right now. Uh. The United States Military,
well they've done a lot over the years to try
to get people to join the military. Now they have
turned to the girl influencers. Have you seen this, Danny, Yeah,
(21:20):
the military struggling to get gen z to sign up
and help the country out. So they have signed up
e girl influencers on TikTok. And you're gonna have to
help me out on this, Danny. I'm not down TikTok.
But they have os play commandos, which I guess is
(21:43):
costume dressing up in costumes, right, isn't that cosplay? I
think I know that. Yeah, and they're posting nationalist thirst
trap photos. So the e girls are are wearing like
military themed outfits but sexy, like sexy soldier outfits. Yeah,
it's almost just think of Halloween costumes for slutty females.
(22:04):
And they do this all year around with their cosplay. Okay,
all right, so there's some videos here. I don't know
who these people are. I assume you're not on TikTok,
so you don't know either. But one of these these
influenced these numbers on TikTok are bullshit. Uh, twenty year
old young lady there. Uh, e girl, she's got millions
(22:28):
of views on this video. Uh. And these these girls,
I guess they're getting paid by the military. They used
the thirst traps inside choppers where they're like, you know,
banding over inside a chopper, pouty selfies with assault rifles,
hashtags like pew pew and military curves to get the
boys excited. And uh yeah, I'm I'm looking at some
(22:54):
of these videos here and that's okay. Is that gonna work?
I guess? I don't know. There's a lot of hungry
dudes out there. Oh yeah, well that you can never
underestimate the horn dog. But what a hustle. This TikTok is, right,
can you? There was a story the other day that TikTok.
(23:14):
An employee for TikTok admitted they arbitrarily decide randomly what
goes viral. They just randomly choose what goes what a world? Man?
What get the Ben Mallard show on TikTok? My man,
I guess, I guess? All right, pop goes the culture?
Well how about this for this sounds like a movie?
(23:36):
This next one. You know that big f t X
scam that just took place, Well, there's a there's a
big rich dude from New York. Robert Belfer is his name.
Who I don't know if that rings the bell for you.
He's an oil entrepreneur and borrow five bucks exactly. He's
(23:57):
the patriarch of the the calling it the elite bell
for family. So this guy lost a bunch of money
on the cryptocurrency f t X, that platform f t
x Okay, a lot of people lost a lot of money.
That sucks. Well, it turns out this guy has hit
the trifected Danny g that this guy bell for also
lost money with Bernie made off. And if that was
(24:21):
not enough, he lost money with Enron. You remember the
Enron scandal from years ago. Yeah, this The Enron was
the the the oil company in Houston. They the Astros
new ballpark at the time was called en Ron Field,
and it turned out it was a complete scam. So
(24:42):
this These are the three biggest investment scandals in the
modern era, and this freaking guy lost money in all
three of them. How impressive is that? On some level,
you'd think, you know, fool me once. You know the
old line, fool me one, shame on on you for
(25:03):
me twice, shame on me, what's fool me three times?
I'm surprised he wasn't part of jaw Rules Island. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Really that would have been like the bonus round on fire. Yeah,
I get the same and all that, and man, what
what bad luck? What else do we have? We have
a few more on popcast the culture. Uh let's her
(25:25):
appliance makers. Appliance makers are upset that fifty percent of
customers do not connect smart appliances. They're annoyed by this
whirlpool and l g are they're they're not happy. The
two big appliance makers. They've added WiFi technology to the dishwashers,
(25:49):
the ovens, the refrigerators, and they have built in apps
and they claim that less than fifty percent of people
actually connect the items. And I say, bravo, I don't
need WiFi in my dishwasher. I don't need in my oven,
I don't need it in my refrigerator. Uh. And the
(26:11):
reason they're upset, I'm I'm speaking. I don't know this
for effect. I'm just guestimating. I think this is probably right, though.
See if you agree with me, Danny. The reason they're
upset is because they were planning on selling that data
and of what when people are using their their you know, dishwasher,
and they're what, they're how many times they open their uh,
the refrigerator and all that crap, and they can use
(26:32):
that somehow and make money on it. And now they
can't do it because people aren't using it and they're
not using the apps thousand percent correct. They want to
be able to track us. They want to be in
your phone as one of your apps. Like the dishwasher
thing doesn't make sense because what are you gonna put
a bunch of dirty dishes in there and say, well,
I'll wash them later. I'll set the WiFi to turn
(26:54):
the dishwasher on. Says that my dishes are tht dirtier
than they were last week. I gotta do something about that.
The needs an act for that stupid ship. Exactly, exactly. Well,
here's a fun story. I don't know if you guys
on Coveno and Rich talked about this. I probably should
(27:15):
have brought this up on the radio program. Uh So,
the state of Oregon has put a bill out to
ban the sale of kangaroo body parts in the state
of Oregon. Now, why would they do that? Danny? That
is kind of het? Tell us. It turns out who
(27:38):
knew that high end soccer cleats from Nike use kangaroo
body parts? They used kangaroo leather. Does it make you
run faster? I got fired. I got no idea. I
didn't even know this was a thing. I think definitely
(27:58):
they could use that as a cell point. You'll jump
higher in these because their part kangaroo. I who decided
that that kangaroo leather was the way to go? Like,
who decided that's the case? And so they have to
there's no kangaroos in Oregon, so they have to at
(28:19):
least not native, So they have to get the kangaroos,
have to buy them from Australia and then they they're killed.
Are their kangaroo breeders just for Nike? They say that
high end soccer cleats and it's only worn by a
small subset of elite soccer players. Weird. I mean, there
(28:40):
are some mean animals, right, but you still don't want
to kill them just for shoes. We'll have to get
one of our Australian guys to help us out on
that semis viral video where that kangaroo is boxing that guy.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's hilarious. Well, my favorite kangaroo
fun fact we learned from this podcast is that, unlike
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a rabbit that runs away from or kind of freezes
when they see a light, you know, dear rabbit in
the headlights, it turns out that the kangaroo will run
at the light and that that blew me away, Like
I can't believe that, what is going on with that?
But it's like a mosquito. That's pretty wild, right, Like
(29:24):
what's going on? But that's apparently the case at least
the corner to our Australian experts that we trust because
they claimed that to be true, and so why not.
All right, now, if you go to Japan, good news here.
One of the big whaling firms in Japan is struggling
to sell well meat. Apparently, uh, they've decided. I don't
(29:46):
know why. I thought people in Japan love whale meat.
But the firm is turning to vending machines to revive sales.
So there are now vending machines. You can go and
get some nice whale meat in that exciting, It's just
that's nasty. Below the photo of the meals is like
(30:06):
these little whale drawings, like the cartoon whales. It's kind
of like going to a chicken shack and you you
see the the chicken and you know the whale taste, Like,
can we google that? What is whale taste? Like, yeah,
I'm not I'm not sure. Uh. This is a great
story out of Philadelphia, Philadelphia. This is pop goes the
(30:27):
culture Philadelphia is so desperate. How desperate are They're so desperate,
Danny to get lifeguards that they are now check this out.
They are recruiting people who cannot swim. What could possibly
go wrong? What could possibly go And they claim that
these people that don't know how to swim, they'll teach
(30:48):
them how to swim. They have to take a lifeguard course,
but they said that they struggle. They have all these
public pools in Philadelphia and they couldn't open a lot
of them last year because there was a lifeguard shortage
because they're not paying the lifeguards much of anything. And
so yet again there appears to be even though we're
only in January, late January, but it appears that they're
looking ahead and there will be a shortage again for
(31:15):
for lifeguards. Here's the story out of New Jersey. A
twenty nine year old woman posed as a high school
student and got away with it for four days. Danny,
she said she was actually fifteen years old, and then
she finally got caught. They realized that, wait a minute,
(31:37):
that's almost a thirty year old woman there, and uh,
and yeah, it's crazy. In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the
officials have admitted, although they haven't explained much more than
just the admission that a grown ass woman posed as
a teen girl and was able to attend classes about
(31:58):
that she could be on the next version of Greece
because every actor and actress in that movie were thirty two.
Do you think Danny though, like what was her goal?
Like do you think she was trying to hook up
with dudes or something like, you know, young high school
kids or something like that, because I don't know that
you have to pretend to be a student to get
(32:19):
that accomplished. Like what what were you trying to get
done there? You know, it's a great question. Or was
she writing, uh for a newspaper that's that famous movie
Drew Barrymore was in. Yeah, the story it's from New
Brunswick today, that's where we got it from. Says the
woman could have legally enrolled in the adults learning center,
(32:41):
but she chose the high school and they figured her
out because she says she was fifteen, but suspicion was
raised because she could not identify her parents or legal
guardian of us. Would like to do a certain things
in high school over I've heard people's say, oh, man,
if I knew then what I know now, I would
(33:04):
slay it in high school. Oh yeah, like I've I've
heard the knowledge I have now, Like i'd have a shot.
You know, I had no chance. I had no chance.
I was it was over. I mean it was done
when I was in high school. But now, yeah, like
I kind of no human nature a little bit. I
kind of know how people operate, more kind of figured out,
plus you know, in high school, kind of the lay
(33:25):
of the land. So uh yeah, I think it would
definitely definitely do pretty well. All right, I think that's
that's good. Anything else then, you want to promote anything.
It's Saturday here, we're hanging out on a Saturday. No
football today, anything. You got to promote their really quick
here on a whale note. I looked it up. Whale
taste not like fish, but more like a very gamey
(33:49):
version of beef or venison. And I don't like the
gaming taste though, so I don't either. I'm good on that.
I don't think I need to. Yeah, they serve venison
burgers near yellow Stone and I had to. I had
to put it down after a couple of bites. Did
you puke? It wasn't that bad, but it just you know,
(34:09):
when you take a bite of a burger, you don't
want some weird aftertaste. No, No, it's like I don't
like the fishy taste either. It's the same concept, you know.
I like the fishy taste. I don't like the gamey taste.
I don't I don't want that. Yeah, when are you
gonna try your first sushi roll? Uh? Never? I don't know.
I've never had sushi. I've never had coffee. And and
(34:30):
so does your wife not like sushi either? No, she
she'll go out sometimes with her girlfriends and eat it.
I don't think it's her favorite. Yes, I don't eat it.
She doesn't take from it. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, have a
great rest of your Saturday. Egg. Yes, since it's Saturday,
I'm gonna go in with Jonas Knox. We don't need
(34:51):
to bring Jonas in in just a couple of hours here,
have some fun on the air with him, and then
your boy Steve Hartman with e from so UM And
it's crazy, Ben, I can't believe the NFL schedule is
almost over, because, as you know, the weekend schedule on
FSR will change slightly once we're out of football season. Yeah,
(35:12):
they have the football lineup and then the off season lineup,
and the football guys will we'll take some time off
and put some baseball people on I guess or some
basketball people. Oh yeah, what are we gonna talk about?
Oh listen, it'll be fine, all right. And I what
I what will I be doing today? What are you
(35:34):
gonna do on this Saturday? Probably bake some cookies. I
don't know. I got nothing else going on. I I
I'm messing around Benny's The Benny the Baker will be back,
so I'll have some new cookies. Have a great day today,
and take anything in any of your orifices. I will
try not to. I will try to avoid that, and
we'll catch you next time. Asta pasta
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