March 4, 2023 • 43 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour homie Danny G. have fun for your Saturday! They're talking: The Influencer, Snowball in Paradise, Losing the Inheritance, What Ya Doin’, Back Scratcher & Pop Goes the Culture!
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Kabooms. If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred
minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last
remnants of the old republic a sole fashion of fairness.
He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as
the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The Clearinghouse
of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
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Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G. Radio
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all weekend long, no days off. No, we are not
practicing load management. We are not. We do not believe
in injury prevention. At any time, at any time, our
vocal cords could pop from overuse. We are not saving
our voice for the postseason. We don't believe in that bullshit.
We are here to entertain the masses, all seven of
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you who download the podcast religiously every week. Danny G.
It is our mission, it is our life's purpose, to
provide marginal audio content, and damn it, we're gonna do
it every week. Danny. Hey, that's seven and a half. Ben.
Because my mom forces her little shit su to listen
in the living room while she plays the podcast. He
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counts as a half. Let me tell you something, your mom.
All moms are great unless they're not. But I'm a
fan of moms. You. I support my mother mission rest
in people. She had three dogs that listen to every
one of my show, earf every one of the shows
I ever did. I had three extra dogs that listen,
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and she told every other dog in the neighborhood about
her son's radio show. She was very proud of her
son's a little radio show. So anyway, on this edition,
the fifth hour, we've got one of my favorite stories,
the influencer, Snowball in Paradise, losing the inheritance. What you're
doing backscratcher. But wait, there's more. We've got Pop goes
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the culture scientifically, and whatever we don't get to today,
we can always get to on the Sunday podcast. So
we'll try to get to as much of that as
we can. But we begin with this, and it's really
sums up my existence in social media now. There are
big companies that advise people who are quasi celebrities. Foe celebt,
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I'm a foe selebt, I'm a real celebrit I'm a
foe selebt. And so they advise these people on how
to handle social media and how to have power and
things like that, and they tell you you should have
one name on every platform. On Instagram, on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok,
that's your brand. One name. I have a name for Facebook.
I have a different name for Twitter. I have a
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different name for Instagram. Every one of these platforms there's
a different name. So I get this message on my
phone from my Instagram page and this kind of caught
my attention, Danny, so I said, and I clicked on it,
and I got I got a look. Side of my
eyes kind of puffed up a little bit, and I'm
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gonna read this. I'm holding my phone. I'm gonna read
this verbatim, Danny. So it says, hey, there, we love
your profile so much and we want you to try
our products for free. Oh yeah, I'm in. If it's free,
it's for me. And then it says just message us
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at blank and then it has the name of the
account to message and we'll send you some free samples,
and it says don't miss out. These spots are limited.
So I'm excited. I'm like, what am I gonna get?
Maybe I'll get a shirt, maybe I'll get ahead, maybe
I'll get a jet, you know, something pretty cool. So, Danny,
I'm now going to send you the link. Because I
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clicked on the link. I was excited. I was like,
I'm gonna go shopping and I don't have to pay
for anything. So here is the link. I am now
an influencer and I can now I can now pick
out any item on this particular page and then I
will be able to wear said item. Uh, this is
this is very exciting. Uh, Danny, I think you'll agree
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when you click on that there. That really sums up
my head. Instagram models wearing little outfits. Yeah, there's a
there's a bikini model over here that, there's a I
don't know what that one holding, a lot of women
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holding purses. There's a lot to send you. That little
purple top that that girls were yeah, the crop top
or the yellow one. Oh man, I was so pissed.
I was like, dude, you look good in that green bra.
I'm like, you know, here we are. I'm all excited.
I'm getting some stuff and it's like, oh my god,
it's it's these weird glasses and crap like that. Oh
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my god, it's a little top with her boob sticking
out in there. It's like a bandanna design for the
little crop top. Yeah, that I'll look good in that, right,
that was your left arm. That'll show my girlish figure.
So for a moment, Danny, I was an influencer for
a moment, For a very brief moment, I had influencer powers,
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and I thought, man, I finally arrived. Finally I've arrived.
I can get some swag and I'm an ambassador for
this company. And then it's it's like all like female stuff.
What did it feel like being a Jenner? For just
a moment, I was excited. Man, I was like, I
was gonna text my wife and I was, hey, we've
made it. We've met the family's made it, and uh no,
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I like it says it says inspired by today's youth,
unique eye wear, vintage with style. It says on this site.
And so how the fuck did they end up standing?
I know it's all probably a computer or a robot
or something like, but how will I end up on
that list? We're like, I know, we'll send this jackass
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a link, and how does that happen. Anyway, it happened,
So we'll move on from that. Now, these snowball in
Paradise twas a winter wonderland in southern California. And this
is a story that has never been told. I didn't
talk about this on the podcast on the radio show.
I saved it for the podcast. So where the snow
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meets the ocean, it never rains in La. It's not
supposed to snow, for God's sakes. And so let me
let me prefer this Danny by saying that it was
not snowing in the north Woods. And last weekend, my
plan was to have a lazy, rainy day at the
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Mallard match. You know, one of those days. You stay home,
you wear your pajamas, you watch TV, you eat, you
cook food you already have, you know, go you don't
leave the house. That was my plan. And as the
old line goes, if you want to make God laugh,
tell them about your plans. So I'm sleeping at eight am.
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The power goes out. How do I know the power
went out at eight am? So I'm sleeping. I'm not
awake at eight am on a Saturday. I'm sleeping. And
I always have white noise in the background. I have
a fan, or I have summer I have the AC
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going the room air conditioner. Otherwise I can't sleep right,
I cannot sleep. I need to have some some background.
So I was awoken when that noise vanished at eight
in the morning, and I tried to go back to sleep,
but I knew right the power had gone out, and
all as I tried to get back to sleep, and
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then after about thirty minutes of tossing and turning and
you know what am I doing, I said, Oh, screw it.
I got up and I went to the gym and
I spent like two hours on the treadmill because I
had nothing else. So then I got a text. I said,
my wife said, hey, the power company says that the
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service that they're figuring out the problem is, but the
service will not be on until the nighttime. So it's
like at this point, it's probably ten thirty eleven in
the morning. And I came home and they said they
were sending a crew out fix the problem. So around
around that time, my mother in law informed my life
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that it was snowing on the freeway where she lives
in her neck of the woods near she lives kind
of close to my sister in law. So we made
a decision since we why would we stay at home.
Was cold and rainy, and the power was out. We
couldn't use the refrigerator. We couldn't you know all that.
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So we made a decision to make a run out too.
I could be Uncle Benny, right, make a day of it.
Getting the mallamobile, headed head to the area. The snow
was falling, which, by the way, for those of you
in southern California, right off the two ten freeway, it
was a winter wonderland kind of past Glendora, Sandemas past
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that area, and so it was it was. And so
we got out there and my mother in law said,
this is where it's snowing. We get out there on
the freeway, no snow, It was raining, there was no snow,
So we decided to get off. I decided, oh, let's
get off the freeway. And I got off the freeway
and I turned left and I went four blocks kind
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of towards the mountains, and boom, it was a snow utopia.
It was awesome. It really was a winter wonderland and
it felt like I was back and I'd been in
the snow and New York or Boston or Connecticut, you
know one of those places. It was beautiful. It was
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snowball and paradise. There used to be a sports not
a sports anchor. Was a news anchor in La named
Jerry Dumpy, and he said his famous line was from
the desert to the sea to all of southern California.
It's a good evening, an old school newscaster. And you
could add from the surf to the slopes, right because
it was crazy. And and you had the photo which
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I didn't take a picture of it. I hadn't posted,
but these you know, those Spanish style houses with the
the uh, the like kind of orange brick on the
on the you know what I'm talking about. Yeahs covered
in snow. And it was like the craziest thing covered
in snow. And so we had a brief snowball fight
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and loved it. Wonderful time. And then we just kind
of mosied around, went to bass Pro shops, wandered around
that ginormous store, ate some donuts at that legendary donut
place out there, donut Man, and then I hung out.
I hung out with my niece and nephew. Awesome little
kids and the and they lived kind of in bear country,
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and my nephew was playing the Floor's Lava. Great game,
wonderful game and nothing great when we were when I
was a kid, we had like the ocean, there were sharks.
We pretended it was like sharks, not so much the
floor's lava, but it was like there was like ocean
filled with evil sharks. But I had a fun day.
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We turned to the Mallor mansion and by the time
we got back, the power was on there. So it
was a happy, happy time. And the good news that
there's no losing of the inheritance, there's none. Danny, Well,
this is a snow story also that ties into yours,
because there are parts of California where maybe they've gotten
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some snow from time to time, but not this amount
of snow, not where you need a snow plow just
to go to the grocery store. My dad, he's not
part of the Garadeli Empire because he got out of
high school. He decided to go his own direction. So
for years he has co owned and operated a construction
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company and it's taken him to places like Denver, where
he was part of the construction crew on the Broncos
latest stadiums. He also built some homes in Colorado Springs
and then most famously built some home with his partner
in bass Lake, right outside of Yosemite. He stood there
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like a prospector ben on this land in bass Lake
that's some big wig, some rich guy owned, and he's
helping to build this guy a lake home. And he
told himself, someday, I'm going to come back to bass
Lake here and build my own house. And that's what
he did. About a decade now, he's been living there
on the lake. Still works part time for the construction company,
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just as a supervisor, you know, because he's done with
the holding the hammer himself. So I'm going to send
you some before and after pictures. He built himself a
nice little home there on the lake, all right, and
you'll see the pictures. The last time I visited, I
took some pictures of his front deck. Okay, I'm clicking
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this here. Yeah, beautiful, beautiful, big trees and right in
the middle of the forest it feels like yeah, and
literally cross over the street and you are a hundred
feet away from Bass Lake from the water, and they've
gotten snow from time to time. But he has been
snowed in with my step mom for ten straight days now.
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And look at the Look at how much snow has
fallen there. This looks like buffalo. That looks like the
That looks like a lake effect blizzard you would see
outside a Bill's game. It does. That's a while. It's
so bad that the neighbor to the left had their
roof cave in. Oh no, the neighbor to the right,
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the guy was trying to light his furnace and it
exploded in his face. There's face burned, his hair, his face,
his eyebrows off. Oh my gosh, there's been no snowplow action.
They have been stuck there, trapped like rats. Finally they
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have enough food, or they had enough food, or were
they prepared, or they knew that they were going to
have a bad storm for a couple of days. They
had no idea that it was going to be this bad,
that the snow was gonna come down like this and
collapse roofs there in their neighborhood. Everybody's been freaking out
there because they can't even go into town to get supplies.
(15:24):
As he stands outside his house there, the snow is
coming up to his chest. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
So finally a couple of days ago they were able
to for a couple of hours with shovels dig their
truck out of it and they were able to at
least drive to the town over and they are now
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in a hotel. All right, Well, that's do they have
an a frame like if you don't have an a
frame roof, like I was hearing that some of these
places in the mountains around San Berardino County, the houses
that don't have an a frame roof, as you talked
about that guy, the snow sits there and will collapse
the roof. Yeah, that you need to have that triangle
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shaped roof or else you're screwed. You know, it's a
great future career. Let's he a roofer in an area
like that. You are going to be a hot demand.
You know what we should have done as a hustle though,
get a snowblower. He blew me off at a hotel
near lax How dare you and go up there? And
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we would have made so much money? How if much
money people would have paid. There was somebody going through
the neighborhoods there selling gas in propane, sure, charging triple
the price, making a boatload of money, and he bought
some pails of gas from the guy. That was the
only resource he was able to get from somebody to
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keep his generator running. Wow, price couching the American way, right,
that's what happens. It's like when there's an earthquake in
the hotels, all of a sudden getting a lot more expensive. Yeah,
does look like Buffalo. I'll have to tweet that out
at Danny G Radio. Yeah, it looks like something I've
seen at a tailgate outside of Bill's game, where you're like,
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what the hell is that? I don't get it? Speaking
of the what what what you're doing? And I had
a few more stragglers. I can now say the word
that that have told us what they do. First, Mike
from Fullerton says, I was brushing my teeth and floshing flossing.
(17:37):
When you asked what people were doing at the start
of Saturday's pot, I mainly yell at Alexa to play
the fifth hour while I'm doing monotonous things on the
weekend like working out, shaving, et cetera. So that's from
Mike in Flerton. I didn't realize that the show would
play if you just ask Alexa, you just yell at
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Alexa and then it'll play the fifth hour. That's pretty cool, dude.
Alexa can do anything I say, Alexa, do the splits, Hey, Alexa,
send me some money, Alexa, twerk, shake that moody. Come
on pimping, get your tims on Kevin in Kansas, he
(18:18):
writes into the very popular what You're doing segment, he says,
while he's listening to the Fifth Hour, he is jogging
or mowing yards seasonally, say is my favorite podcast to
work too. Well. Thank you God bless you, Kevin. And
you've been great over the years, sending us questions pretty
much every week religiously. In fact, it's at the point now, Kevin,
if you don't send a question in, we feel like
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we need to do a wellness check on you to
make sure everything's okay. We're at that We're at that
point in the relationship. That's where we are in the relationship,
and that's just just the way it is. So the backscratcher, Danny,
and before we get to the backstratcher, if you would
like to send in if you have not yet done it,
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and you're late to the party, send in what you're doing.
We'll still mix those in if we get some some
good ones, ben it. Send me an email, Real fifth
hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com, all letters, no numbers, Real fifth Hour at
gmail dot com, and just put what you're doing and
explain what you're doing and we'll read it on there.
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So the backscratcher, the goal is to get to four hundred, Danny.
The goal. We've got to get to four hundred by
the end of the year. That is a nominal goal.
You said by the summer. I said by the end
of year. You said by the summer. And these are
the Apple podcast reviews that Bannon's talking about. So this week, Danny,
did we get one, two, four? Well, no, no reviews.
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I'm gonna say, dosts. Yeah the answer Danny boom right there.
Four we had four reviews. Right, this is big. Well,
this is cool. So this puts us over the three
eighty mark. Where three eighty one, so we only need
nineteen more reviews. But let's get to the nice reviews
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right now from fellow listeners, men, women, and children. In
the backscratcher segment, you scratch our back, we'll scratch your back,
we'll give you a weekly tip of the on air light.
Here to the loyal supporters of the podcast on that
Apple podcast page. Now, why do we obsess about the
Apple podcast page Because we have corporate overlords that do
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love that page for whatever reason, they think that is
the end all be all, And we are fighting the
good fight against other podcasts that have bots and and
pay for reviews. We don't do it. We have no
budget when it comes to that kind of thing. The
first review, though, comes from Melissa in Rocky Mount, Virginia.
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She writes in love the show, she says, I've been
authorized by Brigadier General Jason and Rocky Mount leave a
five star review. Thanks for keeping my husband entertained while
he is at work and on the weekends. I have
also come to love your show. I can listen when
I can listen you rock Well, that's very nice. Look
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at that. See that that right there is a wonderful
wife because she know she's maybe not a big fan
of the show, but she supports her husband and she
knows that the legend that is Jason and Rocky Mount
Virginia has been a big supporter of the show for
years and that's awesome. So and also, Melissa, thank your
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husband because he did send he's a hat benefactor. He
sent me a hat from the local Salem Red Sox team.
It's in my rotation. So it's very good. Happy husband
would blow jobs, happy life. That's absolutely great. Every woman
knows that. All right, James and Arkansas, Right City says,
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just trying to help you, help you to reach your
goal for reviews. Well, thank you, James. I have a
side job driving cars in between dealerships and delivering cars
purchased off the dealership website. Sorry, you two had to
buy in this market. The little windows stickers added by
the dealership have market adjustment two to four thousand dollars
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above sticker. Oh man, yeah, I got stuck with that.
I enjoy listening driving down the highway. That's James in Arkansas.
God bless you, James. That is an interesting job. So
I assume you'd drive. I would assume James, and he's
not there to answer this, Danny, but I would assume this.
The way this works is you'd have some kind of
tow truck or something like that. You'd drop the car
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off and then that's it. Right, You're done you'd drive
back and that how that would work? Yeah, I would
think kind of bobbies. Next up, it says a headline,
wonderful pair. This is from b nine zero two one zero.
So it's just a fine wine pairs nicely with an
interesting stinky cheesee, just like a fine wine pairs nicely
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with a interesting stinky cheese. That's a funny Danny G
pairs nicely with Ben Maller, and the fifth Hour pairs
nicely with the Ben Mallers Show. So glad the two
of you put forth the extra time to make weekend
content that makes me tuned into Fox Sports Radio and
not have to seek out another station. Never disappointed, Love it,
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Keep it up. That's from the nine O two one
oh no name. Just that's what it said last one
on the backscratcher. These are actual reviews by actual listeners
on the Apple podcast page. And if you like this
and you want to be part of it next week, Boom,
you can be part of it. Cliff in Nashville, he's
a regular supporter of our content. Cliff in Nashville says
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this podcast is great for your mind and body. He
says walking for exercise is better with Ben Long walks
are boring. That is true. That is kind of boring.
So he says, I planned them around this podcast. So
entertaining with witty Ben and Danny g always interesting to
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hear the adventures and experiences these two have never born
from Cliff in Nashville. So thank you, Cliff. I appreciate that,
and Danny you do too, Right, this is great Apple
podcast page help us out. Yeah, thank you to all
four of you. That's really nice to take some time
out of your day to make those reviews. Yeah, we
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do appreciate it. And we're not kidding. Some people think
we're kidding. I trust I promise you we are not kidding. No,
we are bean counters at the company that sift through
all the reviews. Yeah, and this is a product of iHeartMedia.
And as you know, Danny, they love their podcast like
they are. I don't want to speak for the company,
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but I feel like they're more into the podcast stuff
than the radio stuff at this point. They love podcast
They changed their name. It's not iHeartRadio, it's iHeart Media.
And a big part of media is podcasting. Yeah, and
they they're the largest podcaster. We're competing with like a
gazillion podcast. There are other companies that sign up for
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ihearts just to have their podcasts put out there. So
at least for podcasting, we work for the right company. Yeah,
we're doing okay in that department. Pop goes the culture.
Let's give it up for Ohio, ow Ohio our body.
Pop goes the culture. All right, so we'll do a
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few of these, Danny, and this one comes out of
the tech world. Pop goes the culture. Is it true
that a poll has gone full woke? I think they
were already woke. But a new feature they have added
that slows charging down on your phone when clean energy
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isn't used. Did you see this? No? Yeah? And now,
of course iPhone users are claiming that Apple is actually
trying to trick them into upgrading by quietly slowing the
charging down. That explains why my phone has been moving
so slow, because everything's dirty over here, Daddy, dirt, dirty dirty,
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you're dirty devil. Yeah, Apple quietly releasing a feature that
determines if and when an iPhone charges. The feature slows
down the process when quote sustainable close quote electricity is unavailable,
and people believe many people now believing that Apple has
quietly added this trick to get them to buy new phones.
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And there's a bit of an uproar that is going on,
and they want to sell thousand dollars phones. What the
fuck is clean energy charging? Anyway? What does that even mean?
That's a good question. I don't I don't get that.
I mean, I plug my phone in. That's whatever power
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I have. I have. Now the good news, And this
is as a public service, Danny. If you do happen
to have an iPhone on your iPhone, if you tap
on settings, these settings, I'm want to do this right
now because I've not actually done this. So I'm gonna
get my iPhone out. I'm want to say here, all right,
I got mine out. Two settings all right? If you
tap battery, followed by battery, health and charging. So, by
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the way, mine says, I averaged fifteen point five hours
a day on my phone? Is that bad? Oh? Man?
Let me see how many hours exactly? I don't know
how many hours? Oh screen the screen time? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's a lot. Uh oh what I said? All right,
So you battery, let's see tap on battery, follow battery
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to health, battery health and charging, all right, and then
you tap on the toggle button next to clean Energy Charging. Yeah,
and you turn that feature on or off. I guess
you would want to turn it off. It says, if
your region iPhone will try to reduce the iPhone, try
to reduce your carbon footprint. Oh my god, carbon footprint,
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carbon footprint, to buy selectively charging when lower cable emission
electricity is available iPhone. Blah blah blah. So I assume
you have to turn that off, right, turn it off? Okay,
turning it off? Yeah, it was automatically on. It says
clean energy charging helps reduce carbon footprint. Turn off until tomorrow.
Turn off or cancel? Turn off, bitch, beach, turn it off.
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There you go. Screw you, all right? Look at that.
That's a PSA on popcast. Big tech. Take that, big
tech and your little tricks. We're helping people out here.
We're helping them push back against the footprint. All right.
I didn't realize we were going to go down that road.
Here's an odd one. There's a glitch in the matrix,
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if you will, that a bird has been filmed motionless
in midair. How is this possible, Danny G? How is
this possible? Yeah? Now, this has happened before in twenty twenty,
a year we'd all like to forget. There was a
camera hovering motionless in midair. A bird was caught by camera,
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I should say, hovering in Gallop, New Mexico. Nobody could
figure it out. People tried to explain what was going on.
They thought it was a fake. They thought it was
some kind of photoshop thing. So here we are in
twenty twenty three, and oops, it happened again. A mystery
unfolding in British Columbia, oh A man capturing a video
(30:12):
of a bird floating in the air motions. The footage
shows a colored bird in the sky with nothing attached
to it. It happened about one pm. This happened back
to February eighteenth near a secondary school and the man says,
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that's a dead bird and it's just floating in the air,
no strings, no nothing. And during the video, the man
moves around to show there's nothing attached the bird, nor
as it perched on anything. He zooms in on the
life like bird, which seems to be swaying slightly with
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the wind, but does not flinch or moved. Uh, man, weird,
that is pretty crazy. I don't I don't know what's
going on with that? But it's a wacky world out there,
my man. It's a wacky, wacky world, is what it is.
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Speaking of wacky world, you guys talk about on your
show with the Boys, did you talk about that Madonna
is now dating one of her children's trainers, thirty five
years her junior. No at that? Yeah, Madonna, she's sixty
(31:39):
four years old and she is romancing someone named Josh Popper.
I don't know who that is. He's twenty nine years old.
Who twenty nine years old? Wow? And so yeah, there
you go, the New York City trainer. And according to
the tabloids, and they're never wrong, the Queen of is
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dating a twenty nine years man. The story she must
have late at night in bed if you asked her, like, hey,
tell me about your dating life in your twenties and thirties,
Imagine the story she has. I mean, from Tupac to
Warren Beatty. Yeah, she's seen and done at all. Literally,
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But what could they possibly have in common other than
the obvious? You know what I'm saying? What menopause is
he pre med? What does he know about menopause? When
this guy's hooking up with the queen of pop. You
think he's going like a Vergin. You think he's like,
you know, thinking some old madonnaitons from back in the
(32:45):
day and alive. All right, Well, how about this lawyer.
This is quite the story. A Florida lawyer arrested for
spending his clients settlement money on drugs and only fans.
This guy, this guy was going, I was going for it.
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Forty four year old attorney facing charges of money laundering,
grand theft for defrauding sixteen clients. He's this guy stole
more than eight hundred thousand dollars and he blew the
money on drugs and and only fans. Sounds like a
good weekend. The only fans thing is fascinating to me
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that the amount of dudes that is sending money into this,
it blows my mind. It is the modern peep show, right.
We remember when we were younger, Danny back, they had
before the internet porn, they had peep shows. In New York.
Used to be a bunch of those. Yeah, it was
all peep shows, nudes, nudes, nudes, girls, girls, girls, all
(33:52):
that stuff, and that all went away. They cleaned up
time Score Disney bought all that. But it's the same concept, right,
it's it's it's like big peep show, at least for
these women that do this, and that's crazy. His bank
record show. He spent thirty thousand dollars on the website
only fans thousand dollars A man, Old man, old man.
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He spent almost four thousand dollars on PayPal, twenty four
thousand dollars on uber. Pretty pretty wild. Here's something we
can look forward to in advertising on pop gills the culture.
Rick Flair is going to be the face of cannabis
products for a rectile dysfunction. Whoa yeah, he is partnering
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with Mike Tyson's Weed company, a new line of products.
So you do a little weed and your your standard
attention boys from Rick Flair Spinal You might have have
to use that on the Covino and Rich tribute. You
gonna have to add that to the well. Rick Flair
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is like, hey, listen, you know, I don't know how
many years I have left here, and I might as
well get as much money as I possibly can, and
I can, I can pass on this inheritance, this massive
amount of money. I mean, what is he seventy He's
seventy four So, but he's a wrestler, So in wrestling years,
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that's like one hundred and fourteen, isn't it. Yeah, Yeah,
wrestlers have traditionally not not been around. We don't want
to jinx him, but I've been around that long, all right.
Last one in pop goes the culture. Ford is patenting
self driving, a car technology that will repossess itself if
the owner fails to keep up with payments. So like,
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you don't pay your car and Ford, we'll just it's
a self driving thing. You'll just repossess the car. The
owner point the way on yeah, and it gets my
lying car eyes. But yeah, they presented this this technology.
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I'll have your payment on tooth day. This is gonna
be bad news for the repo guys that listen to
the show overnight that repossess cars while they're driving around.
But yeah. The story claims that the technology is so
advanced Apple getting the patent on this that the car
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will repossess itself. The computer tells the car to drive
back to the show room if payments payments aren't made.
I also said there's a version of this. If the
car is determined to be too beaten up, they will
drive the car will drive itself to like a Junkyard
or a place where they can, you know, just scrap
(36:58):
the car. Yeah, here you go. So if you're planning
on not paying for your car payments, you probably should
not get afford I would think that's the lesson. That
would be the obvious lesson. And as far as the scientifical,
we're gonna have a lot of time for let's get scientifical.
(37:20):
There were a couple of stories that that popped up
that I wanted to yap about and get to. And
here's one that says humans could have wings, tentacles, or
an extra arm in the next few decades. What which
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of those would you like to have? Wings, tentacles, or
an extra arm. Well, as you know, because your right
hand is always getting a workout. I know, I knew
you were gonna do. My right hand was getting a workout.
I hear, well, Ben, I happened already have an extra arm.
My nickname in high school was tripod Man. That was
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my nickname. Yeah, I mean, that would be cool to
have four arms, tentacles though, that would be kind of neat,
but the wings actually being able to fly. Just think, Danny,
your kids, how are people going to have wings? Is
this gonna be surgery? Experts have already designed a third
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thumb controlled by foot movements that they believe the device
is a step forward more dramatic additions to the body.
They talked about wings, tentacles, and extra arms could be
a reality in the next few decades. They are talking
about human augmentation. This sounds out of a horror movie.
Isn't this what Frankenstein was all about? I think, wow, yeah, Well,
(38:47):
I could tell somebody that I see myself as a
hornet and I am transitioning to being a hornet, and
that's why I'm having surgery to have some wings put on.
But we live in the year twenty twenty three. Well,
if you identify as a hornet, Danny, damn it, you're
a hornet and that's all the matters. It doesn't matter
if you have the hornet parts. You're a hornet and
(39:08):
that's all you need right there, boom, just to inventory
and just say it, say it is anyway. Researchers have designed,
as we said, a third thumb controlled by foot movements,
which allow the weaker or the wearer rather to unscrew
a bottle peel a banana or thread a needle using
just one hand. Yeah, did they have a drawing of
a what a human would look like with with wings?
(39:34):
I need a new drop from you saying my right
hand was threading a needle. Yeah, there you go, gonna
add that, add that to the mix. Wow, that's uh,
that's pretty good. There you go. This this wing thing
looks like it's like a bat. This person's like a
bat with this, these these giant wings em standing on
(39:56):
a cliff. And yeah, well, if you that's not that
long though, that seems like way too soon. That seems
like a few decades. That's a generation is two and
a half decades. Two and a a half decades, so that
would be a generation from now. I'm gonna I'm gonna
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say a hard no on that one. I'm gonna say
hard no on that one. Scientists are trying to use
lab grown mini brains to create powerful biocomputers. This, what
could go wrong with that? Danny, Holy crap, that's any brains.
So they're using balls, Yes, exactly. They decided the big
(40:43):
testicles they're using it says. For years now, scientists have
been raising ethical concerns about the creation of lab grown
mini brains. At the same time, other scientists are plowing
full steam ahead creating these brains, these mini brains, trying
to find ways to put them to good use. And
as the story goes, a group of rogue scientists have
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They've developed something called organinoid intelligence, and they shared their
research in one of the science journals, and essentially they
want to use the lab grown mini brains as biological
hardware for new biocomputers. It'scording to live live science. One
(41:28):
of the scientists for John Hopkins University spoke about this.
He said, while silicone based computers are certainly better with numbers,
brains are better at learning. I'm good on that. I
don't need that. I think we're all right, all right.
Last one in scientifical. Let's get scientifical. The common flu
(41:55):
which many of people, maybe even you, are suffering from
right now now, science claims it they have originated from
a fish six hundred million years ago. We can blame
a damn fish. Another reason you should not eat seafood.
(42:16):
You can blame a fish. Danny g how dare that fish?
Why did they think it's from a fish? I'm glad
you asked, Danny, So let's go into the meat of
the story. So all these science stories, they all have
something in common. They either have the word could may
possibly Yeah, they all throw that in there. But the
(42:38):
virus found in Sturgeon resembles the ancestor of all known
forms of human infecting influenza. Scientists believe the flu originated
from an ancient fish six hundred million years ago. The
team found an influenza related virus in the intestines of
(42:59):
a start. It was goddamn Sturgeon's danny to hear them.
All right, we'll get out on that. Anything you want
to promote, we have the mailbag on Sunday, I will
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yell about nothing here, just big thank you for downloading
these three podcasts this weekend. All right, have a great
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It is our mission, it is our life's purpose, to
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Because my mom forces her little shit su to listen
in the living room while she plays the podcast. He
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counts as a half. Let me tell you something, your mom.
All moms are great unless they're not. But I'm a
fan of moms. You. I support my mother mission rest
in people. She had three dogs that listen to every
one of my show, earf every one of the shows
I ever did. I had three extra dogs that listen,
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and she told every other dog in the neighborhood about
her son's radio show. She was very proud of her
son's a little radio show. So anyway, on this edition,
the fifth hour, we've got one of my favorite stories,
the influencer, Snowball in Paradise, losing the inheritance. What you're
doing backscratcher. But wait, there's more. We've got Pop goes
(02:15):
the culture scientifically, and whatever we don't get to today,
we can always get to on the Sunday podcast. So
we'll try to get to as much of that as
we can. But we begin with this, and it's really
sums up my existence in social media now. There are
big companies that advise people who are quasi celebrities. Foe celebt,
(02:39):
I'm a foe selebt, I'm a real celebrit I'm a
foe selebt. And so they advise these people on how
to handle social media and how to have power and
things like that, and they tell you you should have
one name on every platform. On Instagram, on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok,
that's your brand. One name. I have a name for Facebook.
I have a different name for Twitter. I have a
(03:02):
different name for Instagram. Every one of these platforms there's
a different name. So I get this message on my
phone from my Instagram page and this kind of caught
my attention, Danny, so I said, and I clicked on it,
and I got I got a look. Side of my
eyes kind of puffed up a little bit, and I'm
(03:22):
gonna read this. I'm holding my phone. I'm gonna read
this verbatim, Danny. So it says, hey, there, we love
your profile so much and we want you to try
our products for free. Oh yeah, I'm in. If it's free,
it's for me. And then it says just message us
(03:43):
at blank and then it has the name of the
account to message and we'll send you some free samples,
and it says don't miss out. These spots are limited.
So I'm excited. I'm like, what am I gonna get?
Maybe I'll get a shirt, maybe I'll get ahead, maybe
I'll get a jet, you know, something pretty cool. So, Danny,
I'm now going to send you the link. Because I
(04:07):
clicked on the link. I was excited. I was like,
I'm gonna go shopping and I don't have to pay
for anything. So here is the link. I am now
an influencer and I can now I can now pick
out any item on this particular page and then I
will be able to wear said item. Uh, this is
this is very exciting. Uh, Danny, I think you'll agree
(04:30):
when you click on that there. That really sums up
my head. Instagram models wearing little outfits. Yeah, there's a
there's a bikini model over here that, there's a I
don't know what that one holding, a lot of women
(04:52):
holding purses. There's a lot to send you. That little
purple top that that girls were yeah, the crop top
or the yellow one. Oh man, I was so pissed.
I was like, dude, you look good in that green bra.
I'm like, you know, here we are. I'm all excited.
I'm getting some stuff and it's like, oh my god,
it's it's these weird glasses and crap like that. Oh
(05:16):
my god, it's a little top with her boob sticking
out in there. It's like a bandanna design for the
little crop top. Yeah, that I'll look good in that, right,
that was your left arm. That'll show my girlish figure.
So for a moment, Danny, I was an influencer for
a moment, For a very brief moment, I had influencer powers,
(05:41):
and I thought, man, I finally arrived. Finally I've arrived.
I can get some swag and I'm an ambassador for
this company. And then it's it's like all like female stuff.
What did it feel like being a Jenner? For just
a moment, I was excited. Man, I was like, I
was gonna text my wife and I was, hey, we've
made it. We've met the family's made it, and uh no,
(06:06):
I like it says it says inspired by today's youth,
unique eye wear, vintage with style. It says on this site.
And so how the fuck did they end up standing?
I know it's all probably a computer or a robot
or something like, but how will I end up on
that list? We're like, I know, we'll send this jackass
(06:29):
a link, and how does that happen. Anyway, it happened,
So we'll move on from that. Now, these snowball in
Paradise twas a winter wonderland in southern California. And this
is a story that has never been told. I didn't
talk about this on the podcast on the radio show.
I saved it for the podcast. So where the snow
(06:51):
meets the ocean, it never rains in La. It's not
supposed to snow, for God's sakes. And so let me
let me prefer this Danny by saying that it was
not snowing in the north Woods. And last weekend, my
plan was to have a lazy, rainy day at the
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Mallard match. You know, one of those days. You stay home,
you wear your pajamas, you watch TV, you eat, you
cook food you already have, you know, go you don't
leave the house. That was my plan. And as the
old line goes, if you want to make God laugh,
tell them about your plans. So I'm sleeping at eight am.
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The power goes out. How do I know the power
went out at eight am? So I'm sleeping. I'm not
awake at eight am on a Saturday. I'm sleeping. And
I always have white noise in the background. I have
a fan, or I have summer I have the AC
(07:53):
going the room air conditioner. Otherwise I can't sleep right,
I cannot sleep. I need to have some some background.
So I was awoken when that noise vanished at eight
in the morning, and I tried to go back to sleep,
but I knew right the power had gone out, and
all as I tried to get back to sleep, and
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then after about thirty minutes of tossing and turning and
you know what am I doing, I said, Oh, screw it.
I got up and I went to the gym and
I spent like two hours on the treadmill because I
had nothing else. So then I got a text. I said,
my wife said, hey, the power company says that the
(08:38):
service that they're figuring out the problem is, but the
service will not be on until the nighttime. So it's
like at this point, it's probably ten thirty eleven in
the morning. And I came home and they said they
were sending a crew out fix the problem. So around
around that time, my mother in law informed my life
(09:00):
that it was snowing on the freeway where she lives
in her neck of the woods near she lives kind
of close to my sister in law. So we made
a decision since we why would we stay at home.
Was cold and rainy, and the power was out. We
couldn't use the refrigerator. We couldn't you know all that.
(09:21):
So we made a decision to make a run out too.
I could be Uncle Benny, right, make a day of it.
Getting the mallamobile, headed head to the area. The snow
was falling, which, by the way, for those of you
in southern California, right off the two ten freeway, it
was a winter wonderland kind of past Glendora, Sandemas past
(09:46):
that area, and so it was it was. And so
we got out there and my mother in law said,
this is where it's snowing. We get out there on
the freeway, no snow, It was raining, there was no snow,
So we decided to get off. I decided, oh, let's
get off the freeway. And I got off the freeway
and I turned left and I went four blocks kind
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of towards the mountains, and boom, it was a snow utopia.
It was awesome. It really was a winter wonderland and
it felt like I was back and I'd been in
the snow and New York or Boston or Connecticut, you
know one of those places. It was beautiful. It was
(10:29):
snowball and paradise. There used to be a sports not
a sports anchor. Was a news anchor in La named
Jerry Dumpy, and he said his famous line was from
the desert to the sea to all of southern California.
It's a good evening, an old school newscaster. And you
could add from the surf to the slopes, right because
it was crazy. And and you had the photo which
(10:54):
I didn't take a picture of it. I hadn't posted,
but these you know, those Spanish style houses with the
the uh, the like kind of orange brick on the
on the you know what I'm talking about. Yeahs covered
in snow. And it was like the craziest thing covered
in snow. And so we had a brief snowball fight
(11:15):
and loved it. Wonderful time. And then we just kind
of mosied around, went to bass Pro shops, wandered around
that ginormous store, ate some donuts at that legendary donut
place out there, donut Man, and then I hung out.
I hung out with my niece and nephew. Awesome little
kids and the and they lived kind of in bear country,
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and my nephew was playing the Floor's Lava. Great game,
wonderful game and nothing great when we were when I
was a kid, we had like the ocean, there were sharks.
We pretended it was like sharks, not so much the
floor's lava, but it was like there was like ocean
filled with evil sharks. But I had a fun day.
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We turned to the Mallor mansion and by the time
we got back, the power was on there. So it
was a happy, happy time. And the good news that
there's no losing of the inheritance, there's none. Danny, Well,
this is a snow story also that ties into yours,
because there are parts of California where maybe they've gotten
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some snow from time to time, but not this amount
of snow, not where you need a snow plow just
to go to the grocery store. My dad, he's not
part of the Garadeli Empire because he got out of
high school. He decided to go his own direction. So
for years he has co owned and operated a construction
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company and it's taken him to places like Denver, where
he was part of the construction crew on the Broncos
latest stadiums. He also built some homes in Colorado Springs
and then most famously built some home with his partner
in bass Lake, right outside of Yosemite. He stood there
(13:05):
like a prospector ben on this land in bass Lake
that's some big wig, some rich guy owned, and he's
helping to build this guy a lake home. And he
told himself, someday, I'm going to come back to bass
Lake here and build my own house. And that's what
he did. About a decade now, he's been living there
on the lake. Still works part time for the construction company,
(13:29):
just as a supervisor, you know, because he's done with
the holding the hammer himself. So I'm going to send
you some before and after pictures. He built himself a
nice little home there on the lake, all right, and
you'll see the pictures. The last time I visited, I
took some pictures of his front deck. Okay, I'm clicking
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this here. Yeah, beautiful, beautiful, big trees and right in
the middle of the forest it feels like yeah, and
literally cross over the street and you are a hundred
feet away from Bass Lake from the water, and they've
gotten snow from time to time. But he has been
snowed in with my step mom for ten straight days now.
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And look at the Look at how much snow has
fallen there. This looks like buffalo. That looks like the
That looks like a lake effect blizzard you would see
outside a Bill's game. It does. That's a while. It's
so bad that the neighbor to the left had their
roof cave in. Oh no, the neighbor to the right,
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the guy was trying to light his furnace and it
exploded in his face. There's face burned, his hair, his face,
his eyebrows off. Oh my gosh, there's been no snowplow action.
They have been stuck there, trapped like rats. Finally they
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have enough food, or they had enough food, or were
they prepared, or they knew that they were going to
have a bad storm for a couple of days. They
had no idea that it was going to be this bad,
that the snow was gonna come down like this and
collapse roofs there in their neighborhood. Everybody's been freaking out
there because they can't even go into town to get supplies.
(15:24):
As he stands outside his house there, the snow is
coming up to his chest. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
So finally a couple of days ago they were able
to for a couple of hours with shovels dig their
truck out of it and they were able to at
least drive to the town over and they are now
(15:44):
in a hotel. All right, Well, that's do they have
an a frame like if you don't have an a
frame roof, like I was hearing that some of these
places in the mountains around San Berardino County, the houses
that don't have an a frame roof, as you talked
about that guy, the snow sits there and will collapse
the roof. Yeah, that you need to have that triangle
(16:08):
shaped roof or else you're screwed. You know, it's a
great future career. Let's he a roofer in an area
like that. You are going to be a hot demand.
You know what we should have done as a hustle though,
get a snowblower. He blew me off at a hotel
near lax How dare you and go up there? And
(16:31):
we would have made so much money? How if much
money people would have paid. There was somebody going through
the neighborhoods there selling gas in propane, sure, charging triple
the price, making a boatload of money, and he bought
some pails of gas from the guy. That was the
only resource he was able to get from somebody to
(16:53):
keep his generator running. Wow, price couching the American way, right,
that's what happens. It's like when there's an earthquake in
the hotels, all of a sudden getting a lot more expensive. Yeah,
does look like Buffalo. I'll have to tweet that out
at Danny G Radio. Yeah, it looks like something I've
seen at a tailgate outside of Bill's game, where you're like,
(17:16):
what the hell is that? I don't get it? Speaking
of the what what what you're doing? And I had
a few more stragglers. I can now say the word
that that have told us what they do. First, Mike
from Fullerton says, I was brushing my teeth and floshing flossing.
(17:37):
When you asked what people were doing at the start
of Saturday's pot, I mainly yell at Alexa to play
the fifth hour while I'm doing monotonous things on the
weekend like working out, shaving, et cetera. So that's from
Mike in Flerton. I didn't realize that the show would
play if you just ask Alexa, you just yell at
(17:58):
Alexa and then it'll play the fifth hour. That's pretty cool, dude.
Alexa can do anything I say, Alexa, do the splits, Hey, Alexa,
send me some money, Alexa, twerk, shake that moody. Come
on pimping, get your tims on Kevin in Kansas, he
(18:18):
writes into the very popular what You're doing segment, he says,
while he's listening to the Fifth Hour, he is jogging
or mowing yards seasonally, say is my favorite podcast to
work too. Well. Thank you God bless you, Kevin. And
you've been great over the years, sending us questions pretty
much every week religiously. In fact, it's at the point now, Kevin,
if you don't send a question in, we feel like
(18:41):
we need to do a wellness check on you to
make sure everything's okay. We're at that We're at that
point in the relationship. That's where we are in the relationship,
and that's just just the way it is. So the backscratcher, Danny,
and before we get to the backstratcher, if you would
like to send in if you have not yet done it,
(19:01):
and you're late to the party, send in what you're doing.
We'll still mix those in if we get some some
good ones, ben it. Send me an email, Real fifth
hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail
dot com, all letters, no numbers, Real fifth Hour at
gmail dot com, and just put what you're doing and
explain what you're doing and we'll read it on there.
(19:21):
So the backscratcher, the goal is to get to four hundred, Danny.
The goal. We've got to get to four hundred by
the end of the year. That is a nominal goal.
You said by the summer. I said by the end
of year. You said by the summer. And these are
the Apple podcast reviews that Bannon's talking about. So this week, Danny,
did we get one, two, four? Well, no, no reviews.
(19:48):
I'm gonna say, dosts. Yeah the answer Danny boom right there.
Four we had four reviews. Right, this is big. Well,
this is cool. So this puts us over the three
eighty mark. Where three eighty one, so we only need
nineteen more reviews. But let's get to the nice reviews
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right now from fellow listeners, men, women, and children. In
the backscratcher segment, you scratch our back, we'll scratch your back,
we'll give you a weekly tip of the on air light.
Here to the loyal supporters of the podcast on that
Apple podcast page. Now, why do we obsess about the
Apple podcast page Because we have corporate overlords that do
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love that page for whatever reason, they think that is
the end all be all, And we are fighting the
good fight against other podcasts that have bots and and
pay for reviews. We don't do it. We have no
budget when it comes to that kind of thing. The
first review, though, comes from Melissa in Rocky Mount, Virginia.
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She writes in love the show, she says, I've been
authorized by Brigadier General Jason and Rocky Mount leave a
five star review. Thanks for keeping my husband entertained while
he is at work and on the weekends. I have
also come to love your show. I can listen when
I can listen you rock Well, that's very nice. Look
(21:13):
at that. See that that right there is a wonderful
wife because she know she's maybe not a big fan
of the show, but she supports her husband and she
knows that the legend that is Jason and Rocky Mount
Virginia has been a big supporter of the show for
years and that's awesome. So and also, Melissa, thank your
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husband because he did send he's a hat benefactor. He
sent me a hat from the local Salem Red Sox team.
It's in my rotation. So it's very good. Happy husband
would blow jobs, happy life. That's absolutely great. Every woman
knows that. All right, James and Arkansas, Right City says,
(21:57):
just trying to help you, help you to reach your
goal for reviews. Well, thank you, James. I have a
side job driving cars in between dealerships and delivering cars
purchased off the dealership website. Sorry, you two had to
buy in this market. The little windows stickers added by
the dealership have market adjustment two to four thousand dollars
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above sticker. Oh man, yeah, I got stuck with that.
I enjoy listening driving down the highway. That's James in Arkansas.
God bless you, James. That is an interesting job. So
I assume you'd drive. I would assume James, and he's
not there to answer this, Danny, but I would assume this.
The way this works is you'd have some kind of
tow truck or something like that. You'd drop the car
(22:41):
off and then that's it. Right, You're done you'd drive
back and that how that would work? Yeah, I would
think kind of bobbies. Next up, it says a headline,
wonderful pair. This is from b nine zero two one zero.
So it's just a fine wine pairs nicely with an
interesting stinky cheesee, just like a fine wine pairs nicely
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with a interesting stinky cheese. That's a funny Danny G
pairs nicely with Ben Maller, and the fifth Hour pairs
nicely with the Ben Mallers Show. So glad the two
of you put forth the extra time to make weekend
content that makes me tuned into Fox Sports Radio and
not have to seek out another station. Never disappointed, Love it,
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Keep it up. That's from the nine O two one
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on the backscratcher. These are actual reviews by actual listeners
on the Apple podcast page. And if you like this
and you want to be part of it next week, Boom,
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(23:51):
this podcast is great for your mind and body. He
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are boring. That is true. That is kind of boring.
So he says, I planned them around this podcast. So
entertaining with witty Ben and Danny g always interesting to
(24:13):
hear the adventures and experiences these two have never born
from Cliff in Nashville. So thank you, Cliff. I appreciate that,
and Danny you do too, Right, this is great Apple
podcast page help us out. Yeah, thank you to all
four of you. That's really nice to take some time
out of your day to make those reviews. Yeah, we
(24:35):
do appreciate it. And we're not kidding. Some people think
we're kidding. I trust I promise you we are not kidding. No,
we are bean counters at the company that sift through
all the reviews. Yeah, and this is a product of iHeartMedia.
And as you know, Danny, they love their podcast like
they are. I don't want to speak for the company,
(24:56):
but I feel like they're more into the podcast stuff
than the radio stuff at this point. They love podcast
They changed their name. It's not iHeartRadio, it's iHeart Media.
And a big part of media is podcasting. Yeah, and
they they're the largest podcaster. We're competing with like a
gazillion podcast. There are other companies that sign up for
(25:19):
ihearts just to have their podcasts put out there. So
at least for podcasting, we work for the right company. Yeah,
we're doing okay in that department. Pop goes the culture.
Let's give it up for Ohio, ow Ohio our body.
Pop goes the culture. All right, so we'll do a
(25:51):
few of these, Danny, and this one comes out of
the tech world. Pop goes the culture. Is it true
that a poll has gone full woke? I think they
were already woke. But a new feature they have added
that slows charging down on your phone when clean energy
(26:11):
isn't used. Did you see this? No? Yeah? And now,
of course iPhone users are claiming that Apple is actually
trying to trick them into upgrading by quietly slowing the
charging down. That explains why my phone has been moving
so slow, because everything's dirty over here, Daddy, dirt, dirty dirty,
(26:35):
you're dirty devil. Yeah, Apple quietly releasing a feature that
determines if and when an iPhone charges. The feature slows
down the process when quote sustainable close quote electricity is unavailable,
and people believe many people now believing that Apple has
quietly added this trick to get them to buy new phones.
(27:01):
And there's a bit of an uproar that is going on,
and they want to sell thousand dollars phones. What the
fuck is clean energy charging? Anyway? What does that even mean?
That's a good question. I don't I don't get that.
I mean, I plug my phone in. That's whatever power
(27:22):
I have. I have. Now the good news, And this
is as a public service, Danny. If you do happen
to have an iPhone on your iPhone, if you tap
on settings, these settings, I'm want to do this right
now because I've not actually done this. So I'm gonna
get my iPhone out. I'm want to say here, all right,
I got mine out. Two settings all right? If you
tap battery, followed by battery, health and charging. So, by
(27:46):
the way, mine says, I averaged fifteen point five hours
a day on my phone? Is that bad? Oh? Man?
Let me see how many hours exactly? I don't know
how many hours? Oh screen the screen time? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's a lot. Uh oh what I said? All right,
So you battery, let's see tap on battery, follow battery
(28:08):
to health, battery health and charging, all right, and then
you tap on the toggle button next to clean Energy Charging. Yeah,
and you turn that feature on or off. I guess
you would want to turn it off. It says, if
your region iPhone will try to reduce the iPhone, try
to reduce your carbon footprint. Oh my god, carbon footprint,
(28:33):
carbon footprint, to buy selectively charging when lower cable emission
electricity is available iPhone. Blah blah blah. So I assume
you have to turn that off, right, turn it off? Okay,
turning it off? Yeah, it was automatically on. It says
clean energy charging helps reduce carbon footprint. Turn off until tomorrow.
Turn off or cancel? Turn off, bitch, beach, turn it off.
(28:57):
There you go. Screw you, all right? Look at that.
That's a PSA on popcast. Big tech. Take that, big
tech and your little tricks. We're helping people out here.
We're helping them push back against the footprint. All right.
I didn't realize we were going to go down that road.
Here's an odd one. There's a glitch in the matrix,
(29:19):
if you will, that a bird has been filmed motionless
in midair. How is this possible, Danny G? How is
this possible? Yeah? Now, this has happened before in twenty twenty,
a year we'd all like to forget. There was a
camera hovering motionless in midair. A bird was caught by camera,
(29:44):
I should say, hovering in Gallop, New Mexico. Nobody could
figure it out. People tried to explain what was going on.
They thought it was a fake. They thought it was
some kind of photoshop thing. So here we are in
twenty twenty three, and oops, it happened again. A mystery
unfolding in British Columbia, oh A man capturing a video
(30:12):
of a bird floating in the air motions. The footage
shows a colored bird in the sky with nothing attached
to it. It happened about one pm. This happened back
to February eighteenth near a secondary school and the man says,
(30:36):
that's a dead bird and it's just floating in the air,
no strings, no nothing. And during the video, the man
moves around to show there's nothing attached the bird, nor
as it perched on anything. He zooms in on the
life like bird, which seems to be swaying slightly with
(30:57):
the wind, but does not flinch or moved. Uh, man, weird,
that is pretty crazy. I don't I don't know what's
going on with that? But it's a wacky world out there,
my man. It's a wacky, wacky world, is what it is.
(31:18):
Speaking of wacky world, you guys talk about on your
show with the Boys, did you talk about that Madonna
is now dating one of her children's trainers, thirty five
years her junior. No at that? Yeah, Madonna, she's sixty
(31:39):
four years old and she is romancing someone named Josh Popper.
I don't know who that is. He's twenty nine years old.
Who twenty nine years old? Wow? And so yeah, there
you go, the New York City trainer. And according to
the tabloids, and they're never wrong, the Queen of is
(32:02):
dating a twenty nine years man. The story she must
have late at night in bed if you asked her, like, hey,
tell me about your dating life in your twenties and thirties,
Imagine the story she has. I mean, from Tupac to
Warren Beatty. Yeah, she's seen and done at all. Literally,
(32:22):
But what could they possibly have in common other than
the obvious? You know what I'm saying? What menopause is
he pre med? What does he know about menopause? When
this guy's hooking up with the queen of pop. You
think he's going like a Vergin. You think he's like,
you know, thinking some old madonnaitons from back in the
(32:45):
day and alive. All right, Well, how about this lawyer.
This is quite the story. A Florida lawyer arrested for
spending his clients settlement money on drugs and only fans.
This guy, this guy was going, I was going for it.
(33:05):
Forty four year old attorney facing charges of money laundering,
grand theft for defrauding sixteen clients. He's this guy stole
more than eight hundred thousand dollars and he blew the
money on drugs and and only fans. Sounds like a
good weekend. The only fans thing is fascinating to me
(33:32):
that the amount of dudes that is sending money into this,
it blows my mind. It is the modern peep show, right.
We remember when we were younger, Danny back, they had
before the internet porn, they had peep shows. In New York.
Used to be a bunch of those. Yeah, it was
all peep shows, nudes, nudes, nudes, girls, girls, girls, all
(33:52):
that stuff, and that all went away. They cleaned up
time Score Disney bought all that. But it's the same concept, right,
it's it's it's like big peep show, at least for
these women that do this, and that's crazy. His bank
record show. He spent thirty thousand dollars on the website
only fans thousand dollars A man, Old man, old man.
(34:19):
He spent almost four thousand dollars on PayPal, twenty four
thousand dollars on uber. Pretty pretty wild. Here's something we
can look forward to in advertising on pop gills the culture.
Rick Flair is going to be the face of cannabis
products for a rectile dysfunction. Whoa yeah, he is partnering
(34:45):
with Mike Tyson's Weed company, a new line of products.
So you do a little weed and your your standard
attention boys from Rick Flair Spinal You might have have
to use that on the Covino and Rich tribute. You
gonna have to add that to the well. Rick Flair
(35:07):
is like, hey, listen, you know, I don't know how
many years I have left here, and I might as
well get as much money as I possibly can, and
I can, I can pass on this inheritance, this massive
amount of money. I mean, what is he seventy He's
seventy four So, but he's a wrestler, So in wrestling years,
(35:28):
that's like one hundred and fourteen, isn't it. Yeah, Yeah,
wrestlers have traditionally not not been around. We don't want
to jinx him, but I've been around that long, all right.
Last one in pop goes the culture. Ford is patenting
self driving, a car technology that will repossess itself if
the owner fails to keep up with payments. So like,
(35:51):
you don't pay your car and Ford, we'll just it's
a self driving thing. You'll just repossess the car. The
owner point the way on yeah, and it gets my
lying car eyes. But yeah, they presented this this technology.
(36:13):
I'll have your payment on tooth day. This is gonna
be bad news for the repo guys that listen to
the show overnight that repossess cars while they're driving around.
But yeah. The story claims that the technology is so
advanced Apple getting the patent on this that the car
(36:36):
will repossess itself. The computer tells the car to drive
back to the show room if payments payments aren't made.
I also said there's a version of this. If the
car is determined to be too beaten up, they will
drive the car will drive itself to like a Junkyard
or a place where they can, you know, just scrap
(36:58):
the car. Yeah, here you go. So if you're planning
on not paying for your car payments, you probably should
not get afford I would think that's the lesson. That
would be the obvious lesson. And as far as the scientifical,
we're gonna have a lot of time for let's get scientifical.
(37:20):
There were a couple of stories that that popped up
that I wanted to yap about and get to. And
here's one that says humans could have wings, tentacles, or
an extra arm in the next few decades. What which
(37:41):
of those would you like to have? Wings, tentacles, or
an extra arm. Well, as you know, because your right
hand is always getting a workout. I know, I knew
you were gonna do. My right hand was getting a workout.
I hear, well, Ben, I happened already have an extra arm.
My nickname in high school was tripod Man. That was
(38:01):
my nickname. Yeah, I mean, that would be cool to
have four arms, tentacles though, that would be kind of neat,
but the wings actually being able to fly. Just think, Danny,
your kids, how are people going to have wings? Is
this gonna be surgery? Experts have already designed a third
(38:22):
thumb controlled by foot movements that they believe the device
is a step forward more dramatic additions to the body.
They talked about wings, tentacles, and extra arms could be
a reality in the next few decades. They are talking
about human augmentation. This sounds out of a horror movie.
Isn't this what Frankenstein was all about? I think, wow, yeah, Well,
(38:47):
I could tell somebody that I see myself as a
hornet and I am transitioning to being a hornet, and
that's why I'm having surgery to have some wings put on.
But we live in the year twenty twenty three. Well,
if you identify as a hornet, Danny, damn it, you're
a hornet and that's all the matters. It doesn't matter
if you have the hornet parts. You're a hornet and
(39:08):
that's all you need right there, boom, just to inventory
and just say it, say it is anyway. Researchers have designed,
as we said, a third thumb controlled by foot movements,
which allow the weaker or the wearer rather to unscrew
a bottle peel a banana or thread a needle using
just one hand. Yeah, did they have a drawing of
a what a human would look like with with wings?
(39:34):
I need a new drop from you saying my right
hand was threading a needle. Yeah, there you go, gonna
add that, add that to the mix. Wow, that's uh,
that's pretty good. There you go. This this wing thing
looks like it's like a bat. This person's like a
bat with this, these these giant wings em standing on
(39:56):
a cliff. And yeah, well, if you that's not that
long though, that seems like way too soon. That seems
like a few decades. That's a generation is two and
a half decades. Two and a a half decades, so that
would be a generation from now. I'm gonna I'm gonna
(40:18):
say a hard no on that one. I'm gonna say
hard no on that one. Scientists are trying to use
lab grown mini brains to create powerful biocomputers. This, what
could go wrong with that? Danny, Holy crap, that's any brains.
So they're using balls, Yes, exactly. They decided the big
(40:43):
testicles they're using it says. For years now, scientists have
been raising ethical concerns about the creation of lab grown
mini brains. At the same time, other scientists are plowing
full steam ahead creating these brains, these mini brains, trying
to find ways to put them to good use. And
as the story goes, a group of rogue scientists have
(41:07):
They've developed something called organinoid intelligence, and they shared their
research in one of the science journals, and essentially they
want to use the lab grown mini brains as biological
hardware for new biocomputers. It'scording to live live science. One
(41:28):
of the scientists for John Hopkins University spoke about this.
He said, while silicone based computers are certainly better with numbers,
brains are better at learning. I'm good on that. I
don't need that. I think we're all right, all right.
Last one in scientifical. Let's get scientifical. The common flu
(41:55):
which many of people, maybe even you, are suffering from
right now now, science claims it they have originated from
a fish six hundred million years ago. We can blame
a damn fish. Another reason you should not eat seafood.
(42:16):
You can blame a fish. Danny g how dare that fish?
Why did they think it's from a fish? I'm glad
you asked, Danny, So let's go into the meat of
the story. So all these science stories, they all have
something in common. They either have the word could may
possibly Yeah, they all throw that in there. But the
(42:38):
virus found in Sturgeon resembles the ancestor of all known
forms of human infecting influenza. Scientists believe the flu originated
from an ancient fish six hundred million years ago. The
team found an influenza related virus in the intestines of
(42:59):
a start. It was goddamn Sturgeon's danny to hear them.
All right, we'll get out on that. Anything you want
to promote, we have the mailbag on Sunday, I will
promote that. Anything else you want to sell, advertised, promote, scream, shout,
yell about nothing here, just big thank you for downloading
these three podcasts this weekend. All right, have a great
(43:22):
rest of your day, and don't forget mailbag coming up tomorrow.
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