"Don't Be An A-Hole" Mail Bag

We are back at it again on a Sunday, Sunday Sunday, another edition as the wild Card Weekend continues in the NFL of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller eight days a week. We do it five days a week on the Overnight Show, and of course joined as always by Danny g Radio, who's back after surviving his workers cop your claim and he's back on a Sunday. So the is all about listener email uh and and posting Danny. So that's not dilly down, That's not waste any time.

Are you mentally prepared to answer the big giant bag of mail that we get every week on Facebook in the in the mail bag, the email bag. I have an ice pack on my nose and I'm ready to go, all right, you gotta you gotta put on your your bullet proof vest, you gotta put on your your breathing apparatus as well, the whole, the whole shebang. All right, here we go, very exciting in the bag, and we

thank you all who have been loyal minions. And I don't considering how many people download the podcast, it's a very small percentage who actually sent questions in, but we do thank you, and we, as I said last week, we're always looking for new people to join the fund right always and interact with us and and whatnot. So you feel free. There's plenty of ways you can submit a question to the Fifth Hour mail Bag, usually on Tuesday.

I will post in the morning, and you can just on the Facebook page which is Ben Maller Show and you can post something on there, or you can send it via email to Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour a's f I F T H Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Thanks to ohio Al who got us started on that. And you can also if you want to send a question, Dan, I'm sure

on Twitter people want to send you questions. You'd be open to receiving them there as well, Right, Yeah, I get a lot of Ben mallor related material sent to my Twitter at Danny G Radio. Yeah, so there's plenty of ways you can reach out to us, and we do thank you for doing that. So where do we begin? We do have mail Kansas Rites and Kevin a loyal minion of the Fifth Hour podcast and it's many different

variations over the over the years. Kevin says, Dear Ben and Danny G. When you were both in high school, do you wish you had all the technology students have today or are there throwback elements you wish we'd still use today? Signed Kevin there in Kansas. Well, not not to get romantic, but you know, I think I'm a product of how I grew up. I'm a product of having to cheat the old fashioned way and not having Wikipedia, having to go get cliff notes or find other nefarious

means to find the answers to the test. And so yeah, I don't know how the kids do it today. It's great, you're in you're in classrooms, Danny, You're you're around kids and whatnot. But no, I like that. I like the way I grew up, and you know, looking back, it's it's crazy. It's like the Stone Age, and you know, twenty years from now it will also today will be like the Stone Age. It's crazy how that works now, you're right. Pe Teachers even tell the kids today bring

your chrome books and your headphones. Oh I know the chrome phone, kid. Yeah. The kids live and die by their chromebooks. Very interesting compared to what we were doing now. We had computer labs obviously, yes, yes, yes, remember it was like once a week or twice a week you got to go into the computer lab. It was like a big deal. And they had these archaic games. They they're educational games that they would allow you to play, and looking back, they were like the worst games imaginable.

Video games were starting to get a little bit better when you and I were in high school. When we were little kids, Oh my god, I mean talk about stick figure graphics and basic computer programs. So high high school it was c D decks that came out in our radio station were nice. They had a nice mix board inside the high school radio station. So the equipment was improving, but the human interaction was very much analog. Instead of being on social media and getting requests and dedications,

those things were handed to me on paper. You had to hand that personally to the DJ. Well, remember we used to do the facts of the day, you know, and that was like whoever would send faxes in? It was like that was a big deal. And yeah, a lot of the contesting on radio stations in the nineties was done through fax machines. Even in high school, we had did you have type? I learned to type on typewriter? No, I did not. I guess you're you're you're a little

younger than me. But we had we had typewriter class to learn how to type. And they did have they had shop where you actually used saws. Do they still do that? That's a great question, because I did have wood shop, and I had R. O. P. Electronics and I had R. O P. Wood Shop my last year of high school, which was great. I mean, we used the lathe and we made baseball bats and stuff. And your teacher would show you like he cut off his pinky or something like that, and you know, you don't

be careful, And I wonder, I don't know. I don't think they do that anymore. I bet they don't. I bet they got rid of that because if I mean, we had all the famous kickback stories too, where you'd be using the table saw that when in crooked it would kick back. And yeah, I always warned you because that piece of wood would go right through your stomach. Now, just to answer Kevin further, I think I would be a much better student today because I was a I was a master at you know, having a little bit

of an advantage from time to time. There's so many there's like ten thousand different ways to push the rules, push the boundaries, right gamesmanship with with the technology today and yeah, I mean cheese, But I'm I like the way I grew up the you know, that's that was what I knew at the time, and I can only imagine what the world is gonna be like years and

years from now. Fred from Spring Texas Rights and he says, you always say that you are at the bottom of the totem pole at Fox, Ben because you do overnights. Is this really true? He says, your longevity at the network seems to make this claim suspect. What really is your status? Well, no, Fred, it's more of a a way that radio works. I am doing the overnight show. We are on more affiliates than Colin Cowhard, who's the

star of Fox sports radio, Dan Patrick. But we're on in the middle of the night, and so there are fewer people that listen to the radio in the middle of line. And the way that advertising was there's there's really two different radio stations. Fred. The way that it works six am to six pm. That is the most important part of a radio station. That is the part of the radio station where yeah, I mean it is you're you're making your money, and that's where the big

advertisers are, you know. It's that kind of thing. And like day rates, that's like paying for a hotel on a Friday or a Saturday night exactly. And and then there's radio from six pm. Yeah, like a like a hotel on a Tuesday night. Yeah, it's uh, it's a hotel. There's a lot of vacancies, a lot of vacancies. And that's just the way that radio works now. I personally think radio I'm a little biased. I think radio is better at night than it is during the day. I

think it's more Radio is a very personal communication. I think when you're listening at night, you buy yourself you're lonely. To me, that's a better experience than during the day. But I'm biased obviously because I've done mostly nights and overnights. Uh, And I think you can be more of a clown. You know, you can really just goof around more at night and the bosses aren't around, and you can kind of let your hair down a little bit. Um. But but the reason Fred I say that is is basically

based on the advertising. And you know, like I said, six am to six pm is one radio station and six pm to six am. And part of the reason is we're on, uh, Danny, you know, the night shows, all of the night weekend programming is is cleared because a lot of local radio stations, unfortunately, and I wish this was not the case, even though I do syndicated radio.

I wish there was more local radio. But a lot of radio stations to save money just you know, they turn it on Fox Sports Radio, so we benefit from that. But you know, it's given take. It's given take. So anyway, thanks for that, Fred in Spring Texas. Now, Ozzy Momentum says, hey, Ben and Danny g I have recently made the decision to shave my head. Us relates to what we talked

about yesterday. Uh. He says, it has the genetic lottery has deemed inappropriate to do so, so as a fellow follically challenged individual, How dare you, Assy Momentum, He says, I was wondering if you can provide any tips or things I should know aside from where a hat all the time. Cheers Ozzy Momentum. Well, I have really nothing to add. I mean, maybe Danny, you know something you can add here. But you guys, I just talked about

this yesterday as E went. I just last week my my bride convinced me to trim my hair down to a one, which is hardly anything. I'm like on my way to baldom. Uh. But but no, I don't know. I mean, any other tips, Dandy, that you can give somebody you My my buddy from elementary school is bald. He he has to shave his head like every morning.

Though it's like a hole. It's a hole to do because you once you shave your head fully, right, I think the rules are you don't wanna, you know, just have a little stubble because it doesn't look good, right, Yeah, exactly, it's a whole another thing to keep up. And let's be honest, some of us have beards because we hate all that crazy maintenance, although you still have to shave

around the beard. But yeah, I mean. I have a friend from middle school who posted on Facebook recently because he shaved his head and there were some comments with people making jokes and laughing. His reply was, Michael Jordan's holding a trophy. I loved it. That's good. Yeah, I would do too, man, Michael Jordan's made it one of the best hairstyles. Yeah, yeah, I know what it is. It's tease their own. I mean I don't. I didn't have a problem with my hair, but you know, it's

one of those things. It's like you get older and as Aussi Momentum said, the genetic lottery, you have no control over that, right, that's uh, that's your DNA, and what's your parents and your grandparents and everyone before you what they gave you and you're you're supposed to deal with the cards you're dealt, right, Play, play with the cards you're dealt. I think that's how that goes, all right? Who is next year? It's the mail bag. These are

actual questions by actual listeners to the show. I got mail, Yeah, I got mail, YEA very exciting Pierre from Springfield, mass Home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where you can see Muffett McGraw and a bunch of other like Russian coaches and players you've never heard of. Anyway, Pierre says Ben, and Danny g I says Ben, which happens first? This is for me. He says, you eat a pickle or you drink a cup of coffee? Yeah, so I I would say, that's a great question, Pierre. I would

go out and claim. I mean, I think the claim would be the pickle would probably be more likely than a cup of coffee, because I think the car f thing is cooler to talk about. Like, nobody cares that I haven't eaten a pickle, Like I've smelled pickles, but like I could, I could, and I go eat a pstrawamy sandwich. They give you pickles, you know, you go to Canters in l A or Langer's Day, they give you a pickle. So I could eat a pickle. I

could take a bite of a pickle. I don't like the texture that I don't like the way it feels, the sliminess of the thing that I don't like that. I would be more inclined to do that than have a cup of coffee. They says for Dan G he says important question from Pierre. He says, thumbs up or thumbs down on pickles. What is your pickle position, Danny G. See, I like pickles, but I don't like those sweet ones. And you don't really know what I'm talking about, Banner. No,

And I do not know what you're talking about. No, I've no pickle knowledge. Yeah, they have these bread and butter pickles. There's the classic pickle. Um the pickle they served with lunch stand which is is good dope. And and and if it's a crunchy pickle and it snaps, that's a good pickle to have with lunch. Supposed to snap like a hot dog. You know, a good hot dog snaps a little bit. Well, I think in this case

it would snap more like a carrot stick. Those pickles are delicious when they're thinly sliced and placed on a hamburger like a wendy'sburger, that's also delicious. So there's different layers to the pickle. Now. Pierre famously sent a massive box of pickle related products to Fox Sports Trader because because Eddie hates pickles and I'm anti pickle, he sent like pickle, potato chips, pickle beverage, like everything. Pierre is

an amazing fan of the pickle. In fact, I think Pierre is behind He's trying to set me up to throw out the first pitch at a minor league game in Portland, Oregon, the Portland's Pickles UH minor league team. But and isn't that kind of an odd thing to be obsessed with? It kind of is and that classic I was thinking about. That's the dial and then the

sweet pickles are those bread and butter. Don't get confused because sometimes in the store, in that aisle, you'll just grab some pickles for your lunch sandwiches, and then you put them in and or you taste one before you make your sandwich and it's sweet, and you're like, what the hell did I buy? And then you look and it says bread and butter on on it, and you're like, damn it. I wanted the dial totally foreign to me that I had no idea there were this many types

of pickles. I had no concept of this. This is blowing me away. The only pickles I've really consistently seen are when I go to Deli's and I get a pastrami sandwich or a roast whatever it might be, porn beef, and they put they put the pickle out there, and I never eat them. I smell them occasionally, but I don't eat them. That's the only pickle I've ever seen. I've never seen a different pickle. Have you ever been to a county fair and you see a woe and

holding one of those huge fried pickles. I have seen that. Yeah, because everything's deep fried. And what kind is that pickle? That's the bad kind? I'm not sure what's under that breading. Because I would never eat a fried pickle. I would. I would eat a fried pickle because it's fried. Man, Come on, everything fried tastes good. There's it's Homer Simpson taught me that if it's fried, it's it's good. No, No,

I don't know about a fried pickle. And there's also an old myth about women not supposed to be eating a lot of pickles. Have you ever heard that? Uh? Why maybe I have, but refresh my memory. Why should they not eat a lot of pickles? The supposedly, pickles do not mix well with a woman's chemical balance cycle, if you will something to that effect. And I don't know if that's true, but that's an old wives tale.

I've never never if you see a woman eating tons of pickles, I remember hearing that story as a it and I'd be like, why is she eating so many pickles? Wow? Alright, who knew you? You live and learn? All right? Who's next year? Alright? Come back? It's sign the mail call. Yeah, we're doing the mail call. This next one from Barry in Nashville. Now, Danny, you can't see this, but he has sent a box of pop tarts and they claim

to be ranch dressing flavor. He says, Yo, yo, Ma, Benny and Danny, g. This is not a real product, but I know how much you love ranch dressing, so I had to send this to you. Looks yummy unless it doesn't. How many boxes should we sent? Do you want a ranch dressing pop tart? If you can actually find one? Would you? Would you eat that? Danny? Would you partake in the devil's blood in the pop tart format? That does not sound tasty to me. I love ranch on a good salad. I love dipping pizza and ranch.

I love ranch for chicken nuggets. Boo oh, man, nugget ranch. There's nothing like it, Ben is blasphemy. You go barbecue ranch honey mustard, barbecue ranch honey mustard, and you rotate with those dips. You stay away or else. That's it. You're really testing the boundaries. You're wearing a Lakers shirt and you got I mean, then you love the ranch dressing. I mean, come on, man, what are you doing over here? You know? I mean, come on, don't be that guy.

You're not that guy. You're not that guy. Trust me, you're not that guy. Man. Hashtag winning? Yeah, okay, how's Russell Westbrook working? Actually are your Clippers doing? They're far about the same record as the Lakers have. Anybody, Oh, that's a great accomplishment. Yeah, I supposedly. I mean, I

love I love your boy. Brian Finley. By the way, when I was working Network last weekend, Brian was like, as a Clippers fan, I love seeing the Lakers strong going, and he was going on this whole diet tribe about how bad the Lakers were. Yeah. I turned my microphone on and I'm like, hey, Brian, uh, look at the west right now. And he looked for a second. I'm like, yeah, same record, buddy, Well but that's more embarrassing for the Lakers than is the Clippers. Kai hasn't played a game.

You guys are superior according to you, though, well they do own l A. The Clippers run l A clearly and literally. All you Laker historians are upset about the Clippers. I heard the Lakers were so old that they would be lucky to have ten wins right now. So they're doing okay, just keep having Wrestle Westbrook shoot. I think you need more of him shooting from the outside, especially in the fourth quarter of a close game. Anyway, what's still wrong with your all? Right? What's that? What is

still wrong with the Clippers? Nothing? That's we don't even play that. We don't play that anymore. We moved Roberto better play those drops still, David in Boston and uh, he didn't call the show anymore. Terry in England, right so, and he says, Benn and Damny g I hear some of the shows regular drops and catchphrases let's get into it, for example, being used by some podcast posts. He says, it's clearly obvious that they listen to you. They use

the same emphasis and annunciation. He says, as a pronunciation, Uh, do you hear others using them. That's from Terry in England, and Terry, I don't. I try not to consume too much other stuff because I want to do my own thing. And I know when I listen to other people sometimes all end up kind of cherry picking things, and I I want to make this as unique as it can be.

And so when I when I listened to more other you know, other shows and whatnot, I end up uh either intentionally, it's not really intentionally, it's like unintentionally, you know, here's something so, well, maybe that'll work, And then I try not to do that. But I have been told by by listeners Terry, that there are a number of people that do this that apparently like the show. I I do know from friends of mine that I've made that we were pretty popular with a lot of East

Coast morning shows. That a lot of the morning guys who are getting ready prepping for their show will listen to our show, and I am I've heard that. A few hours later you'll hear something that we did repackaged. But you know, hey, that's fine. You know it's isn't that the highest form of flattery, Danny, the highest it's supposed to be. I would say the highest form of flatteries when you get paid a commission because you think your idea. Yeah, that that part, I don't like that part.

I do not like that. They make a lot more money doing a morning drive show than I do doing an overnight show and they're doing the material that we we did. That that bothers me a little bit. I want to spend you know what I want to when I hear that, I want to sing the Spider Pig songs. What I want to do. Pek does whatever spider Peek does any thing from a web. We can't. He's a pig. Look, he is. Any reason to play that, Danny, I love it.

I can't get enough of It makes everything better. You can't help but not smile when you hear Homer Simpson doing the Spider Pig speaking of Mallard catchphrases and drops something you can't hear ben because it's done during my post production. Yeah, here and there. I've been able to sprinkle in some classic Mallard drops, like old school, like all right, that's good. I think that's turned on. I like it, all right, Who's next? This is actual male

from actual listeners mail Dave listener. Dave writes and he says, hey, Ben and Danny, g do you ever notice the NFL cheerleaders? If you do, is there a favorite group of NFL cheerleaders? Do you think cheerleaders will go away with the me too movement? Or will something else kill the practice? Seems really weird to me when they become visible on the TV broadcast, which is so rare now. That is from

Dave in parts unknown. So as far as the whole me too movement, I think what they've done, rather than get rid of cheerleaders is they've just added dudes. That number of teams have added men. There are male cheers the Rams, several other teams. There's other teams, beams. Yes,

there are other teams that have male cheerleaders. The Rams are not the only one, which is uh yeah, NBA teams I was watching, not watching the Lakers and the Sacramento Kings, and the Sacramento gave like male male cheerleaders and some Kings out there. God, I gotta I gotta tell you, man, I don't know, Dann. When I was at so Far for the Raider Rams preseason game, U, Mike Daroni and I we had the great I texted

you a picture of it. We had the greatest time watching the ram dancers, just ram it because the couple of guys just looked out of place and some of the stuff they were doing was just embarrassing. I don't I don't know, I don't get it. Uh. I tuned away from it, and then she was pointing it out more and more so for her it was entertaining, but like not in a good way. It was entertaining to her because she thought it was embarrassing for them. Yeah, I've not well actually been to ram names. I guess

I just was eating free food at that time. I didn't really it sounds about right. Yeah, that's probably what I was up to. But I don't know a favorite group of NFL cheerause I haven't really done a scouting report. The cheer that I know. The Cowboys are the most famous. The Raider Rats are pretty famous all but there's a number two. They don't even have them in the NFL right now. Everyone has cheerleaders. So and I will say this, you know, And and hey, the beauty is skin deep.

It matters more on the inside than it does on the outside. Blah blah, blah, but you have to put that qualified. I really do um with all due respect. A lot of the dancers, and I say dancers because they have to pass the dance phase of the tryouts, and so you do not get the hottest women because some of them have dancers bodies or they're just straight dancers, so they're not really beauty queens. A lot of them

are dancers. Yeah, that's true. In fact, that's one of the flaws with the Laker girls is they're more concerned about the dancing and the clippers. I usually had hotter cheerleaders than the Lakers. They can't dance, but they're better looking. Uh you know, they don't dance as well, but they're they're you know, easier on the eyes for what most people would say. But the Lakers, it's a whole Yeah. They have like you know, make up your mind you want to be a womanizer or do you want a

great dance number? Yeah, it's very confusing. It's like there, but they have like Broadway level dancers, you know that they come out here and they make no money. Those cheerleaders they make total ship money. Pay them some more money, please, And I think that has started a little bit after what happened with the Redskins and some of the other NFL cheerleading squads where the you know, all those stories came out about how underpaid and womanized some of them

had been. They deserve to get paid properly. Yeah, and they need the front office to say yes right there to my money right there. But I think cheerleaders will survived because they've added men. As I said, but I would you know the way it was going, Danny, with everything going crazy and all the local rate and all that. I wouldn't be shocked if you know that that one, that one away. Then there's another list that came out of words that we shouldn't say, like grandfather. You're not

supposed to say grandfather name. It's so stupid. Um, just leave it alone, all right? Next up here, who do we have here? We have actual mail from actual listeners to the show. I got mail, yea, I got mail yea. Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia. Our friend Jennifer's is hi, Ben

and Danny. Question for you both in the kitchen, have you ever struggled with a box of plastic wrap or foil as you're trying to tear off a piece, and it's it's just not unrolling the way it should, and everything gets all caught up and the whole thing becomes a frustrated, cussworthy jumble. Jennifer says, Uh, this happens to me a lot. Guys. You may already be smart on this, but I just found out that there's a thing for that.

The box has built tabs to simply press in on both sides of the role, and waila, it holds the damn thing in place. Amazing. Yeah, I've had a lot of issues with aluminum foil and the plastic wrap over the years, and I don't feel like a grown now. I feel like a child when I'm using that, you know, I don't. I feel like I'm it's just a little off. Everything's a little wonky, you know what I'm saying. I

gotta look for that. I'm gonna look for that Jennifer picture here, So next time I use the alum foil or the plastic wrap, I'm gonna look for those little tabs. Yeah, and shouts out to my girl for solving the aluminum foil problem, because in her drawer where she has that stuff, there is foil that they sell now that come in individual squares. Yeah, so go that route for the foil. Yeah, that plastic wrap. That's a good tip because I hate

using that crap for that reason. It's very frustrating. My answer to that is just stay out of the kitchen, just avoid it altogether. Jennifer has a second question. She said, this is for me, Ben, you would be an excellent character on Curb. Why. Thank you? Of course, Curb your enthusiasm. Your brother in law needs to get you on set. Yeah, look it up. Yeah, she says, if a spot was offered to you by Larry David himself, would you do it? Of course? Are you kidding me? I love that show.

I think that's going to be happening any time soon. But I would love to be an extra, be in the background, you know what. I'd also like Dan, I've said this for years. I would love thee know, the scenes and movies where they have like the clock radio to kind of set the time and the date and all that. I would love for my voice the show to be on there, you know, the twenty seven minutes past the hour. It's the you know, it's the what is it the sixteenth day, seventeenth day of January or

whatever and do that whole thing. Um, when I was in Boston, when I was doing for Free I their morning show which is no longer on there, Dennis and Callahan, they got to do that in a couple of movies at least one. How cool is that would be awesome? Yeah, that's really cool. I mean that's a good point too, because when we were kids, we would grow up seeing l A fixtures on our TV screens like news guys, yes, yes, sports guys to our sports anchors would be on movies

and we'd be like, hey, that's our sports guy. Remember there was an anchor Jerry Dumpy. Yes, he was on a bunch of movies. And he actually is the model for Kent Brockman, the news guy on The Simpsons. They modeled that, the writers and the Simpsons model that after an old l A sports caster. Remember his cash phrase was from the desert of the sea to all of southern California. That's right, Yeah, that was his his famous line back in the day. Let's see who is next year?

Come back judging it's signed from now on? Call all right. Valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee says, for both you guys, Ben and Danny g did you buy your first car or was it given to you by your parents? And what kind was it? Ben, I'm glad you're okay. Well, thank you. We get asked this question a lot. So my first car was a handy down. It was my grandfather's car. So when he unfortunately checked out and that

was it lights out. I got the car. It was a Valari, a brown Valari, and it had really comfortable seats, and it had the smell of my grandfather. And so I kind of, like, you know, I was a fan of the grandfather, and so you know how cars kind of pick up the smell after time, and and so I'm not saying it wasn't. It wasn't. It was like his His cologne that he wore smelled like I don't

mean it's body odor. It smelled like his cologne. And I bet you if I drove a Valari, now I think what a piece of ship, you know, what an absolute clunker. But that first car, it doesn't to me. It doesn't matter what you get. It's it's it's great, you know, because it's freedom. Right. I don't know if it's like that today with kids, but back in the old days. Man, that that feeling of driving my first car to one of my first radio stations to do a weekend shift and I didn't even have my driver's

license yet. Yeah, getting yourself from point A to point B. To earn some money for that. To pay that car off, I bought a used Mitsubishi Eclipse. That was your first car. First car. The car wasn't much to look at, but I put a really nice sound system inside of it. I was bumping Doctor Dre on my way into work and that it got to the point where the sound system was worth more than the car. Good memories with that Mitsubishi. You know, I bought my first My first

car was my grandfather's car. But I the infomercial. I always love infomercials, and they had this infomercial for this wax that you could put on your car and light it on fire and the car wouldn't be damaged. And I was so taken aback, but I thought this was the most amazing me. I bought the product off the infomercial. I think, you know it's like, but wait, there's more.

They give you like a shammy, and they give you like an extra bottle of the crap and know that I bought it and I put it on the car and I thought it was so cool, you know, and I was maybe I'll light it on fire and I quite figure out how to do that, and h but I do do remember that, but I think that's the last thing I bought from an infomercial. I do love

going to like Walmart or Target. You know, they have the as scene on TV section and I always my wife, I will go shopping and she she always loses me at that section because I'm always fascinated because I've read books about infomercials over the years, and it's just the stuff they choose to make, and you know, some of those these are really good products that actually can't help you out, but it's it's just crazy, like the mass marketing and what gets you know, why they select certain

products and what they don't select. And when I worked at Westwood One back in the day, one of our on air hosts he was on TV doing an infomercial for some cheesy exercise equipment. It was kind of an embarrassing looking product, and so co workers would give him a hard time and make fun of them. He came in one week with his check and it was a check for twelve thousand, five hundred dollars and he was showing it to all of the people that were making

fun of him. Yeah, They're like, okay, you win, you win. And he was getting checks like that often. Well, some of those old infomercials that they've done documentaries about the the guy on the boat, the the Asian guy on the boat with all the beautiful women in bikinis. You know, and you can live this life too, and you know it's just total bullshit, but it's it's hilarious. Cliff from Nashville, Tennessee rites and he says, Ben and Danny gy have

either of you tried Nashville hot Chicken? I have not. I I like spicy, but my limit on the scale of spicy, from like one to ten is depending on how spicy it is, like a four. But that's that's about the limit. What about you, Danny? I like mild because I love the taste of things that are really spicy, but I hate I hate the after effects. Oh yeah, well your your eyes start watering up and the four alarm fire in the bathroom. Yeah, when it comes out the the other song and then the other side there

whoa what happened. Not a fan of that part of it. But I did have chicken while I was in Nashville visiting a couple of years ago. It was really good. Um and my friend j C. Brought me to a local spot to eat in Nashville. The corn bread besides the collared greens, delicious food there. Yeah, I think I would like the food in Nashville. I've not been to Nashville. I would like the food there. Did you see Arbies?

You know these chicken the chicken Wars are still going on, so I guess Arbies this week they debuted a new chicken standwich. They claim it's so hot dandy that they give you a free milkshake to wash it downward. That's their marketing gimmick. They give you a free free milkshake. I love. I have made for the last couple of years a rip off recipe at home of the Popeye's chicken sandwich. It's great, tastes amazing, It's not actually that hard to make, and you'd be amazed how little chicken

is actually in a chicken sandwich. Like I I will get like you know, you go to the grocery store and get like chicken strips I get, I get chicken strips, and I take a hammer and I pound the chicken down to make it flat. And one chicken strip, which is nothing, can be an entire chicken sandwich because you put all the breading on it and all that, and it fattens it up. And so these the the markup on the chicken sandwich. Considering how little chickens actually in

the sandwich. They're making a killing on those things. No wonder we're having chicken wars. Have you or anyone we know ever eaten at a real Arby's. Oh, I know I'm beat an Arby's. You have, okay, because I don't think I've eaten out an Arby's in thirty years. I haven't eaten Warfront iring money in there. I used to live in Hollywood and there was like an original Arby's.

They had the old the big Arby's sign back in my big eating days when I was single, and I just went for it, you know, it didn't fast, just take whatever, and I'd eat like three meals a day and they were giant meals. Uh. And there was I think it's on. Did you go to town on those roast beef and it's just not actually I don't know what kind of meat it is, but but the big Montana and they had a big Montana which like pund

of that Arby's meat, and they had curly fries. I get the curly fries, but Armies would change their fries. But I used to eat there. I was in my rotation and it was just down the street from Tommy's in Hollywood, so I knew we're all. When I lived in Hollywood, I knew where all the fast food places were, and uh, yeah, I used to go to the Army's and that whole street is a lot different. But I

think the arms is still there. I haven't. I haven't been down I think it's pretty sure it's Hollywood Boulevard, but I've not been down there a while. But they the property values have gone through the roof now. So yeah, I'm gonna take that as a podcast challenge. I know there's one in Thousand Oaks, I think on the boulevard there. I'm not have to try that because I have not eaten there in so many decades. I'm curious what it's like inside one of those places. Yeah, well, yeah, take photos.

I don't even know where I live now in the north Woods. I don't even know where an Arby's is around here. I think they're all they're all gone. Next one from Mark, the Next Sea, last right, we've got to play. You know, there's a certain cadence to this, and we don't do what we're supposed to do. Well, that's a problem. Uh let's see, that's right. This is from Mark and Jacksonville, Florida. Says Hey, Ben, Danny G. I saw this and naturally, in honor of Doc Mike,

I had to share this with you. Yes, several listeners Danny have sent me this story. It's a drink up. Anti vaxers, self proclaimed head of vaccine police says, you're in therapy well cure covid. So this has been going around and anyway, another story being sent into us saying a lady drink some sperm concoction to keep herself COVID safe. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's called pornography. I think is with that usually they call that anyway, Uh, he says, love the

Fifth Hour podcast. Great move with Danny G on board as your regular guy, your sidekick there. You guys are great and I also regularly listen to the show just about every day via the podcast. I have done so for the last couple of years, especially since we no longer get Fox Sports Radio over the year in Jacksonville anymore since January. Well, don't worry, Mark, we know the way syndicated radio works. We come and we go and we come back, and so I'm sure we'll be back

on in in Jacksonville. And plus we're on satellite radio there and on the I heart stream and all that. But he says, thank God for the podcast, and my days would really be empty without them. I mean it, so thank you Danny, Eddie, Roberto Coope and the Mallard Militia. He says, thank you very much. Well, thank you, Mark, appreciate you keep downloading the podcast, all right, last one, Lee, and this for you Danny Lee And Phoenix says he's

the big cardinal apologist. What is the real meaning of life? Danny? He wants a podcast to answer the real meaning of life? Wow, the real meaning of life? Be authentic, give back, make God proud, and don't be a turn don't be an asshole. I think that's really little. Just be nice to people. If everyone's nice to everyone else, and I think most people are nice, you know, whether you know, forget take the politics out of it. If you know, people get

so worked up with politics. Yeah, and it's like, you know, you strip that away. People are people and you can get along and just don't be rude. Yeah, don't be rude. Just leave a positive mark on this planet. You gotta think about what people would say truthfully at your funeral for a eulogy. No, not the fake stuff where they're sugarcoating how much of an asshole you really were, but like some honest opinions about you. Yeah, now that's it.

I'll be back in the Magic Radio box recapping wild Card Weekend, which is not even gonna be over daty. You'll have the Rams and Cardinals on Monday night, So the first Monday Night Wild Card game books, we will talk about everything, the good, the bad, the ugly from Wild Guard Weekend in the NFL. Anything to promote Danny, any comedy gigs coming up, anything you want to promote. Well, first, you know how sad I am about my Raiders, but

what they went through. Very proud of the entire organization. That's right. Yes, nobody had them making the playoffs and they brought it down to the very last play of that game. But yeah, good luck to your rams, and I hope the mail Dancers have a top notch performance. Yeah, well I remember, as as we learned. And this was a guest on the podcast. Yeah, that's right. We're talking about playoffs, not at all. That's right, Coach Mars. Playoffs

and never boring. Alright, no they're not. Sometimes they are patriots. Yeah, sometimes they are, but that's just the way that he was. Anyway, listen, thank you for downloading podcast. Tell a friend I'm on cameo. If you want a personal video message on came Its not free, but it's not that expensive. Cameo com search my name Ben Mallor and have a wonderful rist of your Sunday and we will catch you next time on the podcast Later, Skater