Can't Kill Ben

can't even scream the way that I normally scream. But it is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio, back at it again on a Saturday. Yeah, I'm glad you're still alive. Yeah. Now I feel fine. The voice not feeling fine, unfortunately, And I don't know what happened, Bro, I don't know what happened, man, but it's it's all messed up anyway. Uh. The Fifth Hour, I assume you know by now, and normally does not sound my part crabby. Danny's got the great pipes and

he sounds fine. Uh. And then I have the sick cold voice, which we'll get more into. I have the on this edition of the Fifth Hour. It is a spinoff of the radio show, which has heard on Fox Sports Radio Monday through Friday on the overnight. And if you're relatively new and you don't remember Danny G. Danny G was with me for many years as one of my producers, an engineer, and he came up with many of the great drops that some are still paid played today. But he put his own spin on the sound of

the show. And there's that one song that you came up with that you found you didn't write, the song that we still playing. And I've had radio people asked me what the name of that song is. It's get the Weekend Started or something like that. You know that the weekend song, that the Debbie deb song Lookout Weekend. Yes, yes, that I've had multiple people say what is that song. I'm like, I don't know, and I'm like, Danny G came up with that. I don't know what the hell

that is. I have no idea, but yeah, Ever since I was a little kid fourteen years old on kb d G ninety point nine FM, every Friday we would play that song and so all through my adult life, I would always use that song going into the weekend. It's a it's a great song, and I was like, I don't know what that is, and then I had to ask somebody, and then he said, yeah, and I know we've been playing it since you were we're doing it. You were the one that founded and were still playing

Who knew anyway. On this edition, we've met the Holiday Blues, Hotel Bed, Nightmare, Rain of Palooza, and the debut if we have time for pop Quiz. We used to do pop Quiz back in the past, and I thought, why not bring it back? So if if we have time, but we begin Danny with Holiday Blues. And this is a reminder in life. Every once in a while in life you need a reminder. And as you know, Danny, I do not take a lot of time off. I believe in hoarding my time off and squirreling away my

days off until the end of the year. And so in I did that. I I think I had missed some time at the beginning here because my father passed away, But once I came back, I was there. I was in. I think I missed maybe one or two game shows the entire year. Very good at Tendants. They don't give you a bonus for that. By the way, if you're wondering. They don't give you like an extra you know, a couple of bucks or anything that. Uh. And there's also the story I'm about to tell is a reminder that

God laughs. Quote that quote, God laughs at you while you're making plans. Uh. So I had all these big plans for the end of the year. Uh. And you know, I love doing the show, and I love radio. But after a while, I get tired of hearing my own voice and I just want to go away and not talk and not have to worry about monologues and this that and the other thing, all these things. You know, we all have our own problems, whatever job you have.

So my expectation, Danny, I was gonna like, we're gonna small road trip, you know, me and the wife clean out the storage. That was a big one because I still have a lot of stuff in storage from moving during the middle of So I was gonna go through storage. And I guess how much of that happened, Danny, want to take a guess how much of that happened. Judging by your voice, I'm gonna say none of it happened. Zero, That is correct. You You win, Dan. I don't know

what you win. But you went to her lifetime supply of nothing that's right and tripped to nowhere. And uh, this this is not a SOB story, although it sounds. Yeah, it sounds like a sub story. So so anyway, Um, I we went to a Christmas Eve family event. I was only off the day before. Um. So we went to this Christmas evening and you know, family was there, whatever, friends of the family were showing up, you know, usual, nothing out of the ordinary. Uh. And then my wife

she started feeling sick. This is on Christmas Day. So she starts feeling sick. I'm like, oh, here we go, actually gonna be sick the whole time. Uh. And then on Saturday. On on Sunday, we were doing some work trying to clean out the garage at the Mallard Manch and then I start feeling kind of a new weather. Right, I'm like, what's going on here? That whole thing. And I had the standard cold symptoms, you know, cough, some mucous, maybe a little bit of a sore throat, but not

really that bad. Um. It was nothing, nothing out of the ordinary. Uh. And so but my wife's like, oh, I got a test for COVID and I'm like, no, you don't. You don't have COVID. What are you talking about that you have a cold. I've had colds like this before, there's nothing, no big deal. Um. So anyways, she's like, no, I gotta test for cold. And she happened to have a COVID test at the Mallard match. And because of her job, she goes into the police station.

They have to test all the time. And because she's around people, I'm not around people, Danny at the home studio as you know, right, thank god. So anyway, the wife gets the test and I'm watching TV and uh, amazingly it comes back negative, no COVID. Great. As I was I was telling her, see, we just have the cold. It's just the cold. Uh. And anyway, a couple of days go by and we're taking like all the over the counter cold medication because my wife picked up a

bunch of this stuff. Um, and so we're taking whatever, and so she starts getting sick on Saturday. I got sick on a Sunday. And then on Thursday she's like, I got a test again for COVID. I'm like, no, you don't, we already tested. You don't have the COVID. Uh, you know, what are you doing. You're wasting a test. There's no need for it. It's just a cold. I've had cold before and that's it. You've got a cold. She said, No, I need to test again. She loves

these tests, these these COVID tests. So anyway, I like, whatever, it makes you feel better, you know, I go, go do your little test. So she doesn't know a test, and then all of a sudden, surprised motherfucker. Yeah it's uh knock knock at the door, and sure enough, Yeah, the COVID had arrived at the Mallard mansion. So uh, yeah, it's uh, it's COVID, but it's I gotta tell you, Danny, I you know, I I know I'm still sick and I don't sound good. I feel fine. Uh, it's all

in my vocal cords. I feel much better if I know. You're not supposed to say it. But if everyone could get this COVID, I don't think it's that bad. I don't I know. Are you're not supposed to say that or uh? And I didn't bring it up. I didn't want to address that because I know a lot of our our friends in the media love to run around and say, hey, I got the COVID and make a big deal about it and tweet about and I'm not I just thought, you know, I'm not that guy. You're

not that guy. I'll trust me, You're not that guy. Yeah, I'm not that guy. And I'm not looking for attention. I don't think it's that big a deal. It's an illness. Uh And for people, they'll be fine and uh. And I will say I was hoping that I would get the a symptomatic version of the COVID. Omarion is a singer and Twitter was joking when the O macron version came out. All the kids are calling it at the

omarion Arian. Oh, is that what they were doing? Which is I guess it's more contagious, but the symptoms are to a lesser degree, which is what you're talking about. It is they can call it COVID, which I guess I have COVID right now. But but it's just it's gonna be a common flu eventually. Yeah. I mean it feels like every other cold I've had. Uh, it doesn't

feel any different. I mean, there was a little bit of a cough that I had, um and that really led me down the garden path where every time I get a cold, it with almost without fIF I don't catch it early with the garlic, it'll destroy my voice. And and so my voice was okay the first couple of nights. I came back and did radio. But as you know, Danny doing talk radio for four hours and I I rant, I admit, I talk a lot, and I got a big mouth, and I do monologues and yeah,

I mean, I just don't shut up. And it's an instrument exactly. That's what I try to tell my wife, right, I mean, you know that you know, as a fellow broadcaster that there's a certain like it's not just your regular talking voice when you're when you're talking to a microphone, and the way we use our voice, it's up and down to try to make a point. It's there's a lot of effort used by the vocal cords. For sure. When you finish an entire show, you feel like you

just did a little mini concert. Yeah, exactly so. And then once you get a little illness and and you're you're kind of cough on a little bit, or you just have a lot of mucus, you need to cough up um, But I guess the my mother in law, she she did gradual. She came over because the reason one of the reasons I didn't want to everyone to know I had COVID because people freak out. Some peopill

freak out and make a big deal about it. But my my mother in law, who's actually an emergency room nurse in UH in Los Angeles, she's been doing forever and she's a wonderful woman, and she came over immediately and examined us and then said, you're fine pretty much. I mean, and she's been around COVID people for obviously, for like everyone else, for the hospital business, UH, for the for the last two years, and so anyway, I can check that box and it should be good to

go at someone. I think this is gonna linger around, my voice because the weekend doesn't last that long, as you know, Danny, and then it's right back to mutilating, putting your voice in the wood chipper. So I think this is gonna hang around for a little longer, hopefully gets a little stronger. I'm gonna try garlic. Back to the garlic and the honey, salt water and every other home remedy. Yeah, that I can come up with. That's the plan. Glad your ice box heart is handling the

omarion variant. I don't think this will knock me out. Something will kill me, but I don't think, yeah, that this will be the thing that does me. And so the hotel bed blues. What is this all about, Danny g What what do we have here? What happened? Well? This actually has a COVID kind of um spin to it as well, because my TINDERRONI and I had plans to go to Pisamo Beach for my birthday. We were going to make a huge deal out of it was

just gonna be for one night, quick getaway. I had several shifts lined up for the holiday at the network, and her son came down sick. Now he's still in school, but he's old enough to take care of himself. But we didn't want to. She didn't want to be out of town, which I understand. You know, no matter how old your kid is, you don't want to be miles and miles away when that's the you know, yeah, you don't need our Mom's not far away, right, That's the key.

The greatest thing about a mom. She's never that far away, right. And it's funny because last year her son, who you know, has his first car, he drove himself to urgent care for the first time, and I swear she did a dance like a happy path. He figured it out. As parents know, one of the worst parts of being a parent is having to deal with hospitals and appointments and checkups and e er and urgent care and all that mess. So when you're finally drives himself to the hospital or

the urgent care, that's a big deal. Did the kid Once the kid realized how long they have the weighted urgent care, did they call their mom? And they wait a minute, Mom, it's the there's a four hour await. What are we doing? Right? They fill out the paperwork for the first time and deal with an insurance card and all that. They're really appreciate shading their parents. So she said, you know what, I was looking around, Let's do this. Um, he took a COVID test. He's negative

even though he had all the symptoms. But I still want to be nearby. I'll just get a really nice hotel in the area so that we can, you know, have a jacuzzi and a nice room and at least after I take you out for a birthday dinner, we'll have a nice private hotel room. I hear you way to go right now. You see another reason why she's a keeper. So I'm like, all right, that's totally cool. We check in at a nice local hotel. We go to our room that they she's holding the key card.

We find the section of the hotel, these nice garden grounds. We walk up the stairs and she's like, oh, top of the stairs there there it is. Uses the key card opens the door, pushes the door, and it kicks back that somebody was in there and they had that top walk on. No. Yeah, so there was wow. And but the key opened the door, open the door. The girl who checked us in gave us a room that somebody had not checked out of yet. Wow. Yeah, So there was a lady in a robe on the bed

staring at us through the crack in the door. Holy crap, somebody's in there. Wait, how does that happen? Seriously? So maybe they thought these people were checking out and they decided to stay an extra day. That's when you cleaned the hotel room before somebody else comes in. Isn't that normal standard operating procedure, thank you. So there was some sort of communication breakdown where the girl at the front desk thought this room was cleaned and ready to go,

and in fact there was somebody in there still. Now it's really awkward because we're pulling our luggage. I mean when we had a bag each, but we're carrying our bag and a couple of grocery bags we had in the lay. You who was wearing the robe is now on the back balcony smoking a cigarette staring at us. What the hell does happened? So we go back to the front desk and the lady was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. My TENDERRONI was like, very calm and

nice about it. She was totally cool. The girl at the front desk had just dealt with a major asshole complaining about everything because my girl was cool about it all. The girl at the hotel said, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna upgrade you guys to our best room to a new part of our grounds, just constructed by like a lake, a man made lake they have there. We scored. We're like, this is perfect. So we go over there, dude, brand new construction. There's this huge fireplace

in the room. I mean, this is a sprawling pad and we're just in this room. It's a perfect birthday night. But then we lay down on the bed. Ben, I know you did the sleep number commercials for a did you know my Tinderoni likes a solid bed, so if she had a sleep number it might was it. The higher the number, the harder the Yeah, hundred, it goes from a hundred. I actually still have my sleep number bed. I love it. I wish they were still an advertiser because it's a great bed. But yeah, it goes from

a hundred the hardest to zero. Sleeping on the floor, it would be zero. So I might be a sixty and she's probably an eighty. This bed eighties pretty high. This bed, though, Ben, this was a hundred and five. It felt like we were laying on bricks. And I don't know if it was because the room is brand new and so no one's ever slept on this mattress. But you don't think the mattress would be more comfortable

in this nice hotel. So what do you do do you You've you've gotten an upgrade, so you can't like, you can't say, wait a minute, the room sucks, right, can you so your screw and and it didn't and suck. It was just the bed plus the most I mean, you're gonna spend eight hours, you know, in the bed at least, plus some other extracurricular activity. Prior to this, we had walked around the grounds and we went to the jacuzzi, so we had already had a full night.

She was like maybe a half hour into trying to sleep. I told her, I said, well, we're in our area. Let's just drive home and sleep in our own bed, wake up, and then come back to our room. And that's what we did. Wait a minute, you staying at hotel and you went back to your own bed. So yeah, so we threw our clothes on, got in the car, laughed when we were in the car, and we're like, well, oh thank god we're not in Pismo Beach. We wouldn't

have been able to drive to our own bed. We get to our own bed, have a wonderful night's sleep, wake up in the morning, go through the Starbucks drive through, go back to our hotel room, put the fireplace back on, enjoy the room until checkout time. But we didn't sleep there. That's that's that's hilarious. That sounds like I My wife is very conscious of the bed. She hates. She actually doesn't like the really hard bed um and so she

likes this kind of in in the middle. And we were staying one time in Vegas and the bed was just a ship bed, right, It was just horrific, and we were like waking up and our backs were hurting, and we we had one more night, so we stayed in Vegas and and as I remember the story, we were gambling and then we just decided, you know, it's like maybe one o'clock in the morning, and we're like, you know what, fuck it, and we just we took off

and got in the car and and we left. We we didn't come back, uh to the obviously the longer, longer drive, but we we got the heck out of it. We started cursing, you know, like all that off and then uh, we we checked out and we were gone. We've actually done that a couple of times, did that in Palm Springs at a hotel that was not The bed wasn't very good, So but I've never that's hilarious that you came back that was outstanding. Uh. And and then now, we we had a bunch of weird holiday

weather in the Los Angeles there. It's it's I always say, it's like California bad weather is like a really nice day in most of the country. And I watched I'm like Mike Trout, Now I'm watching the Weather Channel a lot. Uh, and I'm looking like, holy my. My brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin and the h and they don't get tons of snow. They're compared to other parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. But I look at that compared to what I grew up in and what he grew up in, and I'm like,

holy canal man, what is it? I mean, it's just insane. But in l A, even though they made a movie, it never rains in l A. Bullshit. Uh, it does rain occasionally. And we had a rain of Pelloza event and you got locked in. This is that correct, Danny Man? Yeah, the famous Tony Tony Tony song. It never rains in southern California. Um. Yeah, It's already hard enough to drive to the studios in Sherman Oates when I fill in producing the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon because it's

drive time. Yeah, my trick is to just go a little earlier than I need to. Their show starts at seven pm on the West Coast, so I'll usually get on the road no later than four pm to go cover that show. Well, now that it's raining, right, and I mean it's pouring cats and dogs here in southern California. You're right. People in other parts of the country kind of roll their eyes when anyone in l A talks

weather about how bad it might be here. But for us, you know, seven inches of rain like it dropped on l A the last time it rain. That's a big deal for us, especially with a drought. Now, half the people don't know how to drive in bad weather. Yeah, but maybe ten miles an hour. The other half of the people drive like maniacs and act like nothing is different. So you got this weird combination on the roads which

causes tons of accident. Plus, since it hardly ever rains, when it starts raining, all the oil yes comes up, and so it's like a slipping slide. Yeah, and you've got got people going ninety miles an hour on a slipping slide. What could go wrong? Yeah? Spin out City, you're right about that, because there were people who were crashed into the center divider. Cars were off the road

turned in the other direction. So you're exactly right. There's so many damn cars on the freeways here that that oil is all over the place, and so when it first starts coming down, that oil loosens up and it just turns into a water slide. So I'm like, Okay, well I need to get on the road as soon as I can, which I did. I get on the road at four pm. I'm now headed on the one on one south to get to Sherman Oaks. It's twenty

one miles for me, the beautiful San Fernando Valley. Yeah, to go through the valley, to go through Woodland Hill, Calabasas Woodland Hills in Kardashians when you go through Calabasas with a middle finger. I I hate going through that Woodland Hills area. It always is jam packed. Now with bad weather, I'm thinking, man, this is gonna be a mission. But still it's twenty one miles. I can deal with it.

I'm sitting there. I'm sitting there. I didn't even get to Calabasas, which is the next city over for me, and I had already been sitting in traffic for thirty eight minutes. Did you use like a traffic gap like they used the ways app? But the ways app kept doing that thing where it kept refreshing, adding time, adding time, So every couple of minutes it kept adding fifteen more minutes,

fifteen more minutes, twenty more minutes. And then the voice came on and said estimated time in traffic forty minutes. And I was like, I'm not gonna get to the studios in time, you know, because it's already five it's five pm. Now I gotta be there at six pm. Depress. There's no other way. I mean, there are some long streets in l A, but they're all jammed up too, so it's right, there's not It's not like I could just go on frontage roads because I'm now I'm going

past canyons and stuff like that. Like if I exit to the right, I'm gonna go to Malibu. Um, so it's a nightmare. Yeah. So I made an executive decision. Ben I was like, Okay, it's way more miles, but maybe it'll move. I exit, flip a bit, and I go the other direction. I go north on the one oh one. So now I backtrack the few miles that I was able to go. At least it was moving in that direction. I get on the twenty three Freeway, which goes through Simi Valley, home of the famous producer

on your nightly radio ship. How bad could this drive be? Oh my god, the traffic through that city was a nightmare, not moving at all. And now it's five thirty. I'm like, am I even gonna get to the studios? Am I gonna have to call somebody? Finally I get through Simi Valley. Finally get to north Ridge. Now it is bumper to bumper in north In the rain is just pounding our windshields. I mean it's that kind of rain where, no matter how fast your windshield wipers are going, you cannot see

really what's in front of you. Sure um, Finally make it to the four oh five Freeway. Take that north to the student ohs. So I left at four. Then I got to the studios at six thirty pm. Wow. I had a half hour to quickly do the commercial reads for Jason and Mike. Problem with that is you need time to decompress. I can't. I do not do traffic well. Unfortunately, I haven't had to do traffic in a while. But when I get stuck in traffic, I just need about half an hour to forty minutes to

just like not deal with anything. I I am so stressed out dealing which I don't know how people do it. I I don't know how people deal with that kind of traffic on a regular basis. It's insane. The tech producer connects Jason and Mike, and they're both all happy, in good moods. How you guys doing tonight? We're sitting in their underwear. Yes, because they're at their home studios. They didn't even have to touch car keys. Yeah, and I'm shaking my fist at the heavens like, um, I

was able to decompress in that power. I was there by the time the show started. I was fine. But man, you know, for two and a half hours to go twenty one miles insanity. Well, and just wait until the studios moved to Burbank. You're talking about another but forty minutes in traffic. Probably, I'm sorry. I a helicopter. Do you have a Kobe copter or a motorcycle? Those are my two dangerous options. Yeah, motor I don't know, but I feel like you're safer a helicopter. I don't know though,

but would disagree with you. Yeah, well yeah, I hear you on that. But as long as it's not foggy, stay out of the fog, and I think you'll you'll be okay. So we have this thing we we used to we used to do it and we stopped doing it. And I want to bring a pop quiz. So I will quiz you, Danny and the listener, and then you have to try to figure out you know the answer is very simple, okay. And so this is random stuff I found around the internet because I have no life.

So the average person, we'll say this five times today. What do you think it is? Five times? Good morning? No, no, not good morning, but it is a greeting, okay, it is thank you? All right? Only five times? Well more than that. You've been around kids lately, not all of them have been given etiquette, proper manners and decorum U. A new survey recently found that parents spend just under eight hundred dollars a year on this. What do you

think it is? Eight hundred dollars a year on parents spend this eight d oh if it was only a fast food these days, dan As you know, you're like I spent eight hundred dollars and two months. I used to know exactly how much my order was at Wendy's. It was like seven seven dollars. I remember when it went up to seven dollars. I don't think I could get out on Wendies for less than like sixteen bucks. And these days, you know, it's it's expensive now, oh

it's it's really everything. But the answer is their kids allowance. WHOA, let's do the map. It's twelve months a year, eight hundred dollars. How much does that work out to be? Yeah? Right, you know what. My mom pointed up at the roots and said, that's your allowance. That's your allowance. That's not

that's good. You know, that's good allowance. I remember sporadically having an allowance, but it wasn't like every week, and it was really more of a bonus and incentive bonus to do chores around the house, the vacuum or uh whatever. All right, this is the number one food we all hated as a kid, but we supposedly love. Now. I'm gonna say, broccoli, Uh, you're you're, you're in the vegetable family, and I don't. I don't agree with this one. Asparagus,

you eat asparagus. I could see that. I mean, you know, when my mom was having some money issues when I was young, she she got the asparagus in the can. You ever had that? No, I don't recommend it. Uh, pretty nasty and soggy, and I hated it. And then as an adult, I had it roasted at a fancy restaurant and I was like, Okay, I could get down with this. I see why people like this. But is it asparagus? In some people it turns your your urine fluids. Yeah, you can smell it, right, it comes out and you

can still smell it. Oh yeah, not not everyone has it, right, It's only a percentage of people. If it's in your d n A. I've never heard that. I thought that happened to every one. I don't think it's for everybody, but um, a lot of people have it. And yeah, that's any food that you can eat. And then when it comes out the other end, it smells the same. That's something about that I don't I don't. I don't

know about that one anyway. Next one on pop quiz, what was the one vegetable you hated as a kid that you Oh my god, I my the only fights I really got into with my mom. I love my mom. That I was a mama's boy. May she rest in peace. But the ones I would get into work Benjamin, eat your vegetables. And she loved peas I hated. She uh, and then she would change it up, and she tried to tell me that, oh, this tastes really good. I take a bite. Eventually it was disgusting. She made a

lot of broccoli. Um, cauliflower I hated. I hated the smell of cauliflower. But I pretty much despised all vegetables when I was growing up. And now, oh, I like, you know, some select vegetables I'll eat. But even to this day, I'm not a big vegetable guy. What about you, Danny, Well, there's some good cauliflower pizza out there on the market. Yeah. My wife, she does the gluten free thing, so she's yeah. Yeah. I hated the spinach on the plate, the soggy soft spinach.

Oh yeah, spinach tangy taste too. Did your mom ever tall? Well? Pop by the Sailor, man, ain't that screw? Pop By the sailor man my ass, he was on steroids. Yeah, there was spinach on the plate. I wanted to gag. I was not a fan of that. Um. I guess lima beans and stuff like that too. Oh yeah, lima beans are disgusting, so nasty. It's all the texture, though, isn't it. You're right? And then my grandmother would try to top everything off by pouring us a glass of

prune juice. And she'd say, no, no, no, you need this. And I wanted to roll up to clear out your system. Right, Yeah, yeah, I got that. I got Uh. Some of the Jewish holidays they'd have home and tash In and they'd have prune and poppy seed and uh yeah. I was not not particularly a fine memory. All we'll do a couple more and then we've got to save time. Get the mail bag on Sunday. So sixte of us? Uh, six of us have broken up with someone over this? What

do you think it is? Threesomes three? Uh? No, because they cheered for a different NFL team. Wow. Have you ever broken up with someone in part because they did not like the right team? Well, I wouldn't say that that was the reason why it was a breakup, but I will say that that was an added bonus with them being gone, I'm like, oh, thank god, I don't have to see that ugly Broncos gear anyway. Well, but don't, don't you think though, Danny, like I think most of

us as guys. I don't know how women feel about this, but most of us. If a woman is beautiful, and you will overlook that element, at least at the beginning. You know, when I didn't date very many women because

they wouldn't get near me. But I would date women, and sometimes they were fans of teams I didn't like, or you having a RAM fan, they like the forty Niners, and I mean like, yeah, you know, but they're really good looking, and uh, you know, you kind of put up with it, and then after a while that once you get settled in, you're like, this is annoying. I look at the sports aspect right off the bat. I mean, my TENDERRONI right now wasn't a Dodger raid Laker fan.

There's no way I would have given her a ring. I just don't think. So. Yeah, it was just easy sledding right away. Whereas somebody who roots against your team, and that's supposed to be your partner. No, and you want to sock them in the throat because they're rooting against your team. Yeah, it just doesn't work for me. Well, but think of the fun wagers you could conceivably make when your team's played. Yeah, you know, people say that it just doesn't work out that way. I got you,

I got you all right. Uh. Last one, this occurs more the first week of the new year than any other time. People getting ripped off at clubs. Uh No, but it does involve something that happens to the people that work. Oh, people getting laid off. Yes, yeah, people get the first week of the new year more than any other time. The rest of the year, people get laid off. That makes sense because the corporate slugs don't want to ruin their own Christmas by laying off staff,

so they wait for Christmas to be over. Well, and that's my I've always worked in the radio business where they usually use fire us before the holidays. They don't even wait for the holidays, And people always say, oh, it's so cruel the fire people. I would think it's even worse though. There's no good time to be fired. I've been fired a few times from radio jobs. There's

no good time to lose your job. But I would say it's actually better before the holidays because then you spend all this money and you think you have a job, and then you come back and you're like, no, you don't have a job. Get out of here, clean out your stuff, and you're like, wait a minute, I've been all this money, I went on a vacation and yeah, that we talked about it. That's why it's tough to be a Capricorn, because everybody's broke when it's your birthday. Yeah,

you're right. Everybody's trying to make their credit card payment in the month of January. There's not extra cash flying around. So I would rather know before I spend all this holiday money. Well and yeah, and I in radio. Usually when you get through the Christmas holiday, you're yeah, I made it, you know, and then you and then you realize, well, no, you didn't. Anyway, all right, we're gonna get out of here. Thank you, Danny. And you can obviously be part of

the podcast. If you want to email a question or just any kind of statement about the podcast, you can do that. My email address I used for this show. This is only for the podcast. It's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. You're obviously fine. Uh and that's the number, uh, the letter five. By the way, it's not the number five, Real fifth hour f I F T H hour at gmail dot com. And then you're on Twitter. I'm on Twitter, Danny, and you're at Danny

Radio at Ben Mallard. Absolutely all right, have a wonderful rest of your Saturday, and we'll have the mail bag on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday Later. Skater