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hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere as we kick off a Saturday another edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny Gen dazzling you with marginal weekend audio content, well at least my part. But here we are yet again. On his Saturday a hearty conversation on the Friday Podcast Nanny with one of the great gambling moguls from Lost Wages, Nevada, the man that has been all over the gambling world with his

comments about Tom Brady. So he didn't want to get too much into it on the on the Friday podcast, but he didn't touch on it. He'd talk about it, said there's people looking into it, and that's what he want to leave it at that. But how is your weeked anywhere? On our show? You stepped in for Cooper Loop but the last minute you came running out of the bullpen. This week, Yeah, what a wild week, but a lot of fun being on the live show. Although I am running on some fumes right now. My I V.

Drip is old school folders coffee. Ready to do this Saturday thing though. Alright, so we'll get right into it. I've got the Demon Sinkhole surprise attack, which is all kind of tied together Ottawa, the nominees are and back scratcher and consider this. We're gonna get into it in a couple of minutes here. But this is a big podcast. It is going to give you everything you need to know, all of the nominee ease for the greatest night on

the show. Many people think the Bennies, which will be coming up on Tomorrow night into Monday morning, depending on which time zone you are on. It's it's it's happening quickly. It was like a war zone when I was answering your studio lines the other night, just about every call with somebody bitching and complaining about a betting nomination. Yes, yes, which is outstanding because we try to get as many

people nominated as we can. But we do have a lot of nice folks that spend time contributing to the show. We can't include everybody and get that brid here now, So it becomes a problem, and it's it's one of those things you should know. Don't when they tell you when you give a speech, don't include anyone because you you can't include everyone, So just leave it. Just say general terms you give a speech. So we will get to that coming up in a couple And as we

start though with the demon sinkhole. And if you are a regular listener to the Overnight Show, you understand that we had a very spooky situation on the Thursday night into Friday night, Friday morning show. Middle of show, things are going fine, everything's great. All of a sudden, the Gremlins attacked. Danny g We were attacked by gremlins. We shunk again. Yeah, the home studio down for the county Internet broadcast connection that we use, down network down, red

lights flashing. I'm running around, kicking, spitting, uh, just very upset and I'm on a mission. Den. I gotta kill the Gremlins is what I gotta do. And I'm going all over. My goal is to kill the damn Gremlins. But I'm really at the mercy. I hate I hate it. I hate it. Uh. We've talked about this before, Daddy. But when this stuff breaks and goes hey wire and I hear that sound, I always look. I said, is there anything that I left up? Is there anything I

screwed up here? And I go through all the connections, all the cables, all the wires. I'm a very have a novice perspective on this. I'm not an expert on the technical stuff. I was an engineer years ago, but I was a terrible engineer, so I don't really know what the hell I'm doing. And so I look at everything, and every looked good, and everything looked kosher. So I just kind of left it there, and I sat back and I said, I'm just gonna wait. And then I

was debating. There was that debate. I was like, well, wait a minute, maybe I should just cruise in. And then I looked at the map and I looked at how far I live from the main studio, the time it would take to get there, and how much time would be left in the show. I did a cost benefit analysis. That's probably not the way to go. So I just waited it out. It was like fifty five minutes, almost a full hour we were down. I was on

the phone for most of that. But yeah, so it was the Eddie Garcia Show with you as a guest on the line. D D I E. Well, Eddie did a segment, he did the last segment of the second hour, and then I came on at the top of the next hour and kind of hung out for the the bounce. The thing that pissed me off though, and thing that really got me going, is that I have a couple of connections here. I have one I used solely for

the equipment to broadcast the show from the home studio. Uh, and then I have another one I used just for the like the regular internet connection that I used at the house that I live in. And the regular internet came back, but the other Internet that I used to broadcast from, and I was really piste. I was like, this is terrible. This is you know, I go online, but I can't at the show going. So that was annoying.

But we figured it all out, which is really just us waiting for the internet connection to come back, and it eventually did and that was that was that so interesting times it was like a dream come true. I'll be at that dream of nightmare? Yeah? Have you had those dreams in real life? Though there's sometimes where, you know, people talk about that dream where they're falling and then they wake up before they hit the ground. If you're a broadcaster, the nightmare we have is you go off

the air and you cannot get back on the air. Yeah. Well that is part of the nightmare. But the other part of the nightmare for me, which I did live out, is I I spend a copious amount of time, way too much time getting ready for the show, jotting down notes and things for these monologues, and not being able to deliver. I feel like, I what was I doing? I was wasting my day here, at least for one of the hours. I didn't really get to do what I wanted to do, what I had planned to do.

And so that was that was really this this part, like you know, what's the point of this? You know? I mean I was being prepared and all that, but then when you can't do it, you're like crap, you know. I was like okay, So that was fine. Moving on. So each weekend, now this is the Saturday Pockets. The life of Mallar. Part of it is a life and the Life of Danny g as well amazing ones. We have the Men of Mystery. We're debonair is what we are. Yes, So each weekend I have like one day to myself

with the family, do whatever on. So each weekend my goal is to get in the kitchen and I lately the last couple of months, I've been baking cookies for the for the house, Eminem's oatmeal raisin sugar white chocolate snicker doodle. Like I I wish my mom was around because she'd be very proud of me if I and she used to bake all the time. So I I'm doing that, and this past weekend I cranked it up a couple of notches. Now I'm Jewish, but I'm a

bad Jew. You know I'm not. I'm not a non I'm like a nonpractice occasional I celebrate the holidays things like that. Um so with the Jewish holiday perum, which was a week ago before you know, ten days ago, whatever it was that was taking place. And so I remember when I was a kid, my mom used to make these pastries called hamatash, And so I said, you know what, my mom was not around anymore. I'm gonna make what the what the fun? I'll make? I I got a recipe. I found a recipe. I rolled up

my sleeves, I put on my chef's apron. What are these like because I've never seen these? Yeah, they're they're triangle filled pockets. Normally the traditional way that you make them is with a poppy seed or prune flavor. That's usually you know most of the making. But it's it's just like a little pastry. And so I found a recipe. I got everything ready to go, the homemade hamatash and and uh again if you're not part of the Travis, just a triangle filled pocket of good, you know, little thing.

And my mom would make these back in the day. So I ended up making them, and Benny the baker was activated here, uh Danny, and I got everything ready, all the ingredients and all that butevery they out on the COUNTERCT but everything out first. Make sure I have all the ingredients very prepared. Um. But I could not find I don't really like poppy seas. My dad liked that. I don't like that. And I found prunes, but I didn't really I didn't find the prune filling. I wasn't

looking in the right place at the grocery store. So what I did is I called an audible. Oh maha, oh maha, Oh, I called an audible with a lot of scrimmage. And I changed the plays and I did use apple strawberry and grape. So I made these little pastries with apple, strawberry and grape and made a ton of them. The recipe made a ton of them, and I was happy because I'm usually the only one eating these things. But my cousin she moved out here a few months ago from from Texas, and she lives nearby,

and so I was able to give her something. She she said they were goods. Right, those flavors sound a lot better to me than prune. Because I don't know about you, but we all had that Grandma east rialto California. She would inspect our number two's not all the time, but uh consistently enough to punish us by setting us down at the kitchen table and forcing us to drink

a glass of prune juice. Yeah. Yeah, well that was like a big selling point for my Well, you eat this, it will help everything, you know, go through your system and all that. It'll be good, you know, you know, it's uh, you know, I'm like, Okay, I don't really need that. I'm a right anyway. So that was my big baking adventure from the past week. Here my big accomplishment. See I can, I can breach out. I'm I'm multidimensional here, Danny g It's not just cookies. I'm not just a

cookie guy. I am the definition of a loser. I can make other pastries and things like that. So that's what I did. I think I could probably make more money as a baker at this point the way things are going anyway, The nominees are here. We are you ready, Dan? Are you prepare? Are you mentally in the right frame of mind here, because we are about to give you the guide to the Two Benny's celebrating Marginal Overnight sports talk Radio. Many of the hard working characters that contribute

content to the show. This is exciting. I'm excited about this. Here are the categories and the nominees, and we will give them to you right now. If you haven't voted, we'll tell you before we go through all the nominees. You can go to my Twitter page at Ben Mallord. Just on the top there there's a link pin and you can also go to the Facebook page Ben Mallers Show,

which many of you send questions too. So I know you're on Facebook and you gotta catch up with your aunt and your uncle's and your cousins and all that, and they're on Facebook, so you're on there. So check that out on the Ben Mallor Show page. It's link, It's tagged right to the top there. Click on that link. You gotta have a Gmail at out or some access to a Google account. One vote per account, so if you have multiple accounts, you can vote more than one time.

But here we go the the nominees. We have Rookie Caller of the Year, Rookie Caller of the Year. Here the nominees are Hayes in Minnesota, right, he's the guy that's creepy that deals with dead people. Jennifer in Battle Creek, Michigan. She's blind and complains she called up the other night complaining, yeah I call yeah, angry woman. She's very upset. Shane in Des Moines, HM. I'm sensing that chains like the

oldest rookie. It seems like Shane's been around more than just a year, but he's listed as a rookie caller of the Year Patrol and Mike from Houston who got very upset with me because I was trashing the strows. He's up for it. Shas a m he's the kid caller from Jersey who reeled on the show that he got hammered on um uh that last Jewish holiday. Humble Dick, he's in there. And paul in Rhode Island. I got into it with Paulia and I do he got upset with me. So those are the nominees for Rookie Caller

of the Year. Good luck to all of you. It's nice. People say we don't have any new callers to the show, Danny, But every year there's new people that find the show, that stumbled into the show, new people that worked the third shift, and so we have a nice, eclectic group of new people contributing to show. So I'm excited about That's good. I have to have new callers because we have to spend our show's budget every year. Yeah, it is. It is hard, and we've had a lot of people die,

which unexpected. Now do they really die, Danny, or do we just push them off to the side and make somebody new it, because maybe they're just alive. But we just don't use them on the show, and maybe that's Yeah, they live on in the universe through our satellite dishes. Yeah, he never died. When you're on the Ben Mallor Show, you're part of the show for life and even after you did. Alright, Best game show contestant, Here we go,

Best game show contestant. The nominees are Uncle Mo from Brooklyn, Justin in Cincinnati, Jed who fled, Paul in Maine, and our buddy Jose in Rosarrito Beach, Mexico Vado. And those are the guys. Now, that's very competitive. This is a competition. Yeah, we have some tremendous game show horrors, very good at these games. Uncle Uncle Mos coming on, Justin and Cincinnati has been a game show hore for years. Jed who fled. Surprisingly, with all the narcotics that Jed's done, he still has

maintained the knowledge of sports. Paul and Maine. We haven't heard from Paul in a while. I hope he's okay. But but Paul has been really good with the trivia, and Jose is wonderful as well from Rosario Beach. So those are all great candidates. Yeah, that's a tough one man, because I'm friends with Justin and Jed, so I don't know. I guess it would be whoever could bribe me with the most money. Yeah, okay, that's not illegal unless it is,

all right. The best instant Advice line caller, and these are the people that call up and say goofy things on the Instant a Viceline, which is every Monday on the show Sunday and a Monday. We have the Andrea in Berkeley impersonator. Hi, how are you Ben? You know that guy? Hi? Ben? How are you? That's my Andrea impersonation? The penguin who who annoys me? Uh? Fudgi Kamo is that his name or anything? I'm saying that right? Uh? One of the characters very popular, very popular. Fudgi is

very popular. The I know it's you, Roberto guy. I like that guy too, Pokey Pokey Pokey, which is a tribute. It's something many years ago on the show when we were playing pass word the word Game of the Stars and you should see her box the you should see her box guy. So those are some of the nominees of actually all the nominees for the Best Instant Advice Line Caller. Good luck to all of you. And we're

not sure who these people are. I know who the Andrea in Berkeley impersonator is, but these other guys I'm not really that familiar with. And the instead a Vice line still holds my personal record for how many times in a row I had to hit the dump button. We've had some saucy listeners that literally and figuratively have used the sauce our dump lament for the segment Best Couple. As we continue our look at the Bennies honoring marginal overnight sports talk radio, so best Couple, we have many

celebrity couples. Leslie and Jack, the judge staples of the show, the patriarchs and the matriarchs of the show, beer drinking Brian and a half point last time beer drinking Brian pops up on the ballot Arrest in Peace. Doc Mike and Regina. They were supposed to get married on the show, but Regina didn't show up the dismay of Doc Mike and Ed and Christina and spoken. Now they've vanished here. Ed and Christina used to be regulars on the show,

but then they got married. And I believe they're working during the day and so We haven't heard from them as much, but they have called in quite a bit over the last year. So those are the nominees. Good Field, I have a feeling that heart strings will be tugged here and one has a more more of an advantageous opportunity, one couple in particular. But maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I don't know how it's gonna turn out. That's why

we have the vote, That's why we vote. Did and Doc Mike will be tugging on bladders, yes, it will, would be using urine therapy and save the day, all right. Best lame joke Writer another very competitive category. So many joke writers it couldn't include everyone, so we picked out a handful of those that really stand out. Gordon in Tacoma, a long time joke writer, Ozzy momentum on the international line, very funny, azzy momentum. He's got that typical Ozzy sense

of humor. Surfer Todd the Comedian. This guy's a professional comedian. Danny's worked comedy clubs and he spends part of his time. He lives in Mexico, part of the time down in Baja California. He's a surfer avocados from Mexico, thus the name Surfer Todd. The comedian Bill from Iowa. So many funny people in Iowa. Bill is one of the great joke writers. Anthony and Annaheim, who's been part of the show for a long time. Very funny guy. He's a

family man. He's an honest man. Anthony and Anaheim. I've been using Lauren's laugh again on the podcast. Yeah, Lauren, who when Anthony came into the studio was just a girlfriend. Now she's the ball and chain and hates our show, cannot stand our show. And it was very awkward when she was dragged into the studio and you could tell she despised the show because this show was taking her man Anthony and Anaheim away from her because he was

spending so much time worried about the show competition. We were like the hot blonde women. Yeah, the hot blonde with the wig on it or whatever. Uh. Tammy in Montana just Josh is also these are also candidates Gary from Youngstown. Have not hurt much from Gary recently. Gary was a prolific joke writer. Much of George in Rochester that's Rochester, Minnesota, and he's very funny Kurt from Earth as well Kurtsmen with the show a long time, so

those are the joke writers. Very competitive also category, we'll see what happens there. Last I checked, I did check the voting on this category and it's neck and neck. No one is out in front by a lot, so this will likely come down to the final final few hours here this particular one, so it's very competitive. We have the best Mallard song and this is not holiday song that's a different categories. Is the best Mallar Mallard song. We've got the Sound of Mallard from Mr PC in Flint, Michigan.

The Mallard Militias song from raz Quit the Band which is now ras Quit the show. Mallard Town just Josh and Jay Scoop collaboration, tribute to Billy Joe, The Real Mallard from Mr PC. That's an eminem Yeah rip off, which is popular. Mallard Oddity from Just Josh and Jay Scoop collaboration from a David Bowie song. We've got Bars Are in Between from Just Josh and Jay Scoop, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rodgers Mallard Blues Them. Very good song, very good song. From Violent Harry from Maine. Good beat,

good delivery, good job. We have the Mallard Militia tune self titled from Ohio. Great song as well, So boy the Jokers or not the Jokers, the Mallard song. People ras quit the band, Mr PC, just Josh, j Scoop, Harry and Al. You can't go wrong, Daddy. Whoever wins this, they'll be like three other people that should have won. Also, it's loaded. This is like the musical version of the A f C. West. This is a murder's row, is what this is. This is insane. Best holiday song, so

many great holiday tunes. Back in December, we put the call out. I was working Thanksgiving. I said we need some help, help us out here, and the listeners answered the call. And we have so many of these great tunes. The best holiday seemed thong seemed thong thong. What easier for me to say, I've got the pot on my mind? No song, best holiday song we have here comes Mallard Claus. That's a really good tune. Brian Hickman, Blue Mallard, Mr PC, let it Mallard. That's Mr PC nailed that song. That

was amazing. I told everyone listening in the mall, I said, my favorite song is let It Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow Love. That's my favorite Christmas song. And so mr PC just did a version of that let It Let It Mallard and that was great and and violent. Harry and Mane also did one. He did let It Snow Mallard, which was awesome, awesome, wonderful. We've got half point got run over by her John Deere, which is hilarious.

That was great from Ohio Al Silent Night also from Ohio all back to back and belly to bell eight wonderful tune. The Ben Mallard Uh song from joe In Uh in Richmond with a little twist on that. Who else do we have here? Let's see, We've got the Twelve Days of Mallard from mr PC. Mr PC, They're great. Great tune Filexus the seven toed Drag Queen from Radioactive Ryan wonderful as well, great tribute song. Might have to

update that song. I believe Flexus is having more toes knocked off, I think, and Mallard got rear ended by a John Deere. The Mallard Town Philharmonic Chamber Choir made that one. So those are all some of the nominees and this categories are all the nominees for this category. And so again more of the same, Danny. These people are very talented. He was very lucky. We're very lucky to have these people that contributes songs to the show.

It's great. Yeah. They say that everybody's a musician nowadays, and our show proves that. Yeah, but in a good way. Those songs were all Christmas classics, and you know, I made sure to save those from our Christmas special because I know we're going to use them again. We definitely will use those again for sure, and we have You know we could do is just do one Mallard Music podcast when I have to do some Evergreen shows because I'll be traveling and I won't be able to do

the podcast like we really do it. We could do one where we just play all the holiday music and well maybe not the Holliday music. We already did that, but we could play some of these other Mallard songs. Yeah, we a Mallard Music Extravaganza, Mallard Music Hour or something like that. Knock it out. Ah, here are you nervous, Danny, best crew filling Oh here we go Best Crew Filling. We've got the nominees, numb Nuts, Brian Finley, he's on there,

uh the No Show. Brian Knows sits in with me so often, Chris Perfect the Engineer User who sits in for Roberto Iowa, Sam who occasionally sits in for Roberto, Bernie Fratto Live from Vegas, My Guy, Bernie long Suffering Lions Guy, and the final nominee, Danny G. Radio. About that, Danny G. You're a nominee for the Best Crew Feeling. Congratulations. I'm gonna get my tucks ready, we'll find out. Don't you think you're gonna win? What do you think your

chances are winning this? You're very popular on the podcast, which gives you an advantage. Well, we'll say this. I proudly display my trophy that I have in the garage for the NFL book them back to back Champion. So if I win that Benny, I will probably display it right next to my book. I'm trophy. Yes, it'll be invisible, but it'll look good. It'll look good there, all right, and we have little Benny Trophy. Well, you can get one made Best blind caller, Best blind caller, best means

as good as all the rest of the nominees. He's Kid wonder Boy one from the Pacific Northwest. This guy is a hot take machine. He's only in high school. He's going places. Blind Seahawks Fan, Emmett Emmett, the Blind Seahawks Fan. What of our nominees? We have Jennifer and Battle Creek, Michigan, the Breakfast Cereal Capital of America. And the third and final nominee from the North End of Boston,

Blind Scott, a former Caller of the Year. Blind Scott up for Best Blind Caller and he said that if he doesn't win it, it would be one of the greate atrocities of humanity if he doesn't win. Yeah, I just can't see that happening. Wow, oh yeah he was. He was blinded by the vote. All right, we have the Drop of the Year. Drop of the Year. These

the actual Drops of the year. It's the nominees on the Ben Mallard Show that Benny's They are Tomorrow night, Sunday night in the Monday, eleven PM in the West on Sunday night, and then who I Am in the East on Sunday on Monday morning. So that's when this show we'll mix it throughout the show. We have the Drop of the Year, The Drop of the Year. Next up, this is the one I always laugh at from our set in Cleveland. Do the Funky Chicken and rumble. Hilarious

his voice, the way he delivers that. I smile every time I hear. Yeah, that's a good one. Next nominee is me. I'm nominated for a benny. How about great with that? I want to penny. It's my my saying of the word COUCHI coachy. I'm very popular. One are the other nominees. This one's very popular. Roberto plays this a lot from Rachel and Montabello. I swallowed the drop from Rachel and Montabello, so very popular. We have Marcel

and Brooklyn the nominee for Drop of the Year. Happy Birthday John, Pipaya or paya whatever he said was John the Pie Guy said Hey, can you wish John the Pie Guy happy birthday? And without missing a beat, he said, happy birthday John, paieya. We also have Coop saying I want a steamer. That's also one of the nominees and the final nominee for Drop of the Year. So this is something people love. As you know, Danny from being the master of the drops. People love these funny sound

bites that we mix into the show. Yeah, half my life is the drops. Yep, yep, for sure, for sure it's a drop tastic But yeah, dropping back during post production, I'm slaving away right now. Adding another drop right here really be for your mouth. It would be like Russian Roulette. That sounded pretty good. I like that. People say I don't react to these drops, but I'm reacting. I just I have a professional broadcast persona Danny. I believe the show must go on. That's it, right, the show must

go on. I'm gonna take that little clip of you saying, oh, I like that, and I'm gonna use that in post production after more drops sprayed me all and that's what they did, They sprayed my entire face. That sounded pretty good. I like that. I keep my eye on the ball. That's what I did. I made Conquista doors what I am all right? Next up, we have a female Caller of the Year. Female Caller of the Year. Are we still allowed to do this? I'm not sure how that works.

We love the ladies like saying Stewart is People get very offended by that. Everyone's triggered on that what happened. It used to be when I was a kid was it was in Hollywood's actor and actress. But did they get rid of the word actress now? I'm not sure because I've said that and I've gotten a few messages. They don't say actress anymore. They're all actors. Okay, Oh I didn't. I didn't get that memo. When I hear actor, than I think like male actors. That's what I'm saying.

That's what I'm saying. I think actress female. I think actor male, sexist. Dum dum, dum, dum dum. The word police. You need a Rosetta stone, is what you need for all the nonsense that that we can learn the new language,

what we're allowed to say, we're not to say. The weird thing about that, though, I have a theory on this dating that the language police online are not the real life language police, meaning that there's two different dimensions, the online world where everyone's prim and proper, and then the real world where people are still toxic or every want to say they just talk like normal people. I still think that goes on anyway. Female caller here, the

nominees are again Jennifer and Battle Creek, Michigan. Take that, Jennifer Tammy in Montana, the mother Teresa of the show. Andrea the astrologer of the stars, and she's very, very well known. She calls show at least a couple of times a week, gives us astrological information. Rachel and Mantabello, the great Achel Lamano below and spin cycle Regina from the Minnesota at Twin Cities. So congratulations to all the lovely and talented women. Good luck, only one of you

is gonna win. No cat fights please, no catfights. Yeah, leave the hormones at home. Sexist, yes, no room for that. It's a family show unless it's not. We have too much on our plate, as it is, Danny to deal with the nonsense. Yes, that is a really good category. I'm interested to see who walks out of that one alive. All right, next category, we have the Beer Drinking Brian Memorial Worst Caller the Year. We thought this would be

an appropriate way to honor beer drinking Brian. He started out was a terrible caller and then he grew on us. Oh yeah, well wait wait, like a tumor, he grew on us. We we liked, we We enjoyed beer g but we loved him. He always wanted to be part of the show. He called up when he had nothing to say nanny, And you know you've connected with a caller when they have nothing to talk about, but they just want to say hello, Hello, Hello, They just want to chat with you for a second. So that was

kind of cool. Anyway. The nominees Worst Call of the Year, we have Sir scratch Off from the Highways and Byways of Arkansas credit Card. Gordon in Waterloo, formerly of Ottawa. Some people love Gordon. There's a there's a small group that sends me messages. These scattered brains tell me they said this guy Gordon should be Caller of the Year. They love him, But he's up for the Worst Call of the Year. Shane in Des Moines is also one of the nominees for the Worst Caller of the Year.

Holler and James in Minneapolis, minnesote my guy, James an angry bill? What about a nine year old? Were all who's terrible? He's also part of this what about a nine year old girl? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's hard to differentiate between all these guys. Danny gonna tell you it's Uh, they all stand the test of sucking is what they say it. But but they were, they're all friends of ours. We like them on the show, so good luck to all of them. What an honor that is? Can you

brag your friends or not? Danny say, I was the worst caller on the Ben Mallar Show. What an honor that is? The beer drinking Brian Memorial Worst Caller of the Year. Yeah, it's a badge of honor. You're the biggest sucker. Yeah, congratulations. And now the last set of nominees, it is that time. Now the Genie in Medford Memorial Caller of the Year. Let me give you a two dollar drum roll. All right, all right, I think I kind of faded away, the f the drum roll, fading away.

I hear this. The nominees are Jed who fled from the Gulf Coast of Florida. I believe that's known as the Redneck Riviera, Danny, I believe that's what that's known. Doc Mike in Chicago has always been all over the United States over the last year, did not go to his usual Ecuador because of COVID. Charlie and San Antonio who had a child and stopped calling the show, but he is up for the Caller of the Your Genie and Medford Caller of the Year, the most important honor

given out in overnight sports talk radio. Marcel in Brooklyn, Marcel in Brooklyn and the final nominee for the Genie and Medford Memorial Caller of the Year, a past winner also whoopee Pie Blairs wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. There's always a lot of controversy with that category. That is a powder keg of a category, is what that is. So congratulations to all the nominees. If you didn't get nominated, try bead, try harder, do whatever you have to do

next year, and good luck to you. The next Benni's are gonna be here before you know it. Time is a flying and by flying, so I gotta do it. Moving on from the Bennies, we have The Godfather, The Godfather? What is the What is the Godfather? What is this about? You? Danny filled me in on this. I need to know some details on Can you believe that the classic film The Godfather is turning fifty? That's wild. A lot of people and a lot of movie experts have this listed

as the number one all time movie. A lot of fans like Godfather too as their favorite of that trilogy. Yeah, but Godfather set the standard. It raised the bar for all cinema, not just gangster films, but films across the bull word. The way the characters were developed, the way the characters were shot down in cold blood got a murder, the way that girl dropped her top in sicily uh and then blew up in a car right afterwards. Man, the Godfather film lives on, and so you know that

fifty years later, there's gonna be some celebrations. And sure enough, a lot of movie theaters and a m c s across the country ran a special where Sunday through Wednesday of this past week Godfather fifty big theater showing. So if you never got to see it on the big screen, which obviously a lot of us did not get to do that, Yeah, this was the opportunity. There's so many quotes that we all use. They're just part of the zeitgeist. Even fifty years later. I think, Uh, you know, make

him an offer he can't refuse. For examples from the Godfather, the uh from Godfather, to keep your friends close, you're but your enemy is closer. Right. That was one of the great lines, and that uh, and there's there's a bunch of them, leave the gun, take the cannoli. Yeah, that's another one. Go to the mattresses. I remember my mom referencing it because she would say, if you don't take the trash out, I'm gonna leave a horse's head

in your bed. There you go. That's right, that famous. Yeah, And I didn't know what she was talking about until I was a teenager and I got to see The Godfather and I was like, oh, that's what she's talking about when she says that. So my mom also a fan of that film. So it was exciting for me to book a couple of tickets to the AMC theater here where I live because my Tinderroni has never seen Godfather one or two, neither one of them. Neither one. So I was thinking, well, this could go either way.

She's either gonna really like it or she's gonna fall asleep. Yeah, I mean there are parts. They're old movies, so there are parts of it's not like the modern movie where it's rata tat tat. There are and I like quoting the golf there are parts of the both all the god Father movies where it's kind of slow, right, it's not a rat tat tat. There's some some dolls Ville in there. You've gotta get through that to get to the good stuff. If you're in the cinema, it's not

exactly boring, but it's character. It's character building. Yeah, you're you're building up to the crescendo. Put all that stuff. But the yeah, the movies today. And I had a guy in music tell me that now you know the music songs in general, we'll get back to the Governor, But songs in the olden days, Danny, which is like ten years ago, they would have a slow leading and the DJ could talk over. But now you've got to

start right away. They gotta hook you right away. That that the songs, the new songs today, they don't want you to have a slow lead and they want you to go right to it with the lyrics and whatever you get into because people's attentions pants are so so shitty that they have to get right to it. So it's the same thing with movies. It's everything yea. With

radio shows they tell us the same nonsense. They you know, if you're not engaging right away, they're gonna turn to some other show or some other whatever to listen to. I read an article recently about the anniversary of the Godfather movie, and it was talking about how Francis Ford Coppola was not a fan of doing takes the way they do in movies nowadays. He was a fan of setting it up perfectly, almost like setting up a Domino's masterpiece, but you only had one chance to set it off.

The actress who plays Adrian in the Rocky Movies, of course, she's a Sunny sister in the film, and there's that scene where she's breaking the dishes and Carlo has been paid off by one of the other families to get reaction out of Sunny so that he gets killed there at that toll bridge. Well, that scene where she's breaking the dishes and he's like, go ahead, you guinea bratt,

and she's smashing all those dishes. The article. In the interview, she says she was really nervous because she only had one take to get that right, where she's smashing all those dishes. The camera was right in the middle of that scene, and so she's kind of spinning around smashing everything, And she said during that scene her shoes came off and so she was gingerly walking around in bare feet

as not to step on all the shattered glass. Yeah, and there's some crazy stories out of that film because they wanted to nail it and get that raw motion in either one or two takes, but they said Coppola would never do a third take. You know, it's it's smart because if you know you can do it over, you're not gonna put that. You're not gonna have the same Just do it right, you know what I mean, Like it's like doing it doing it live. We'll do

it live. The other thing about the Godfather stuff, every time I see Marlon Brando, it fascinates me remember the stories years ago we were young, much younger Danny about how Marlon Brando was one of the huge names of massive names in entertainment and he couldn't memorize his lines. He had to use an earpiece. Like every time I would watch Marlon Brando after I read that story, I'd watch a Marlon Brandow movie. I think, where's the where's

the earpiece? Who's who was feeding the lines there? There was also a famous story about him that he would put wax in his ears because he didn't want to be thrown off by what the other actors and actresses were saying. He wanted to be so focused on his lines that he wanted to block his air drums from the other, you know, the other crew members. He didn't want to hear them. He only wanted to focus on

what he was doing. And it's funny because it said that other cast members try had his trick with the wax, but they kept missing their cues, they kept missing their marks. So, yeah, he was a legend and then he was only forty eight years old when he played that role. Yeah, it's crazy, crazy, crazy crazy. Uh and so, and did you get popcorn? Did you any food at the movie? You when you're watching The Godfather? Did you? Yeah, like the veterans, we are my Tinderoni brought lots of snacks and soda in

the purse. Yeah, Jude advantage. Women have the purse advantage. Imagine if they had a scale as you walked in and they made the women weigh their purses. Um, so we so I do get the hot popcorn for nine bucks the seven fifteen PM showing after all the previews, I'm like man, this is a long film we're talking about here. Yeah, sure enough. My Tinderoni was into it. She liked it, but the seats we were in were uncomfortable. She did fall asleep, but kept waking herself up when

the action was happening in the movie. When it was over, she told me that was a really well made movie. I can see why it's so popular, but it is a slow burn. Those were the exact words she used. Yeah, no, she's obviously saw it. I mean that's that. I had the same perspective on that, like it's you gotta be at the right moment, you gotta have caffeine, you gotta be into it, you've gotta have nothing else on your

mind to really enjoy to enjoy it. So that's what you do Godfather too, And they do that in a couple of years. When that the anniversary is. I assume it's in the next like a couple of years, right, I definitely would. And I know they're selling special box sets right now in four D the Godfather trilogy on sale on Amazon for like a hundred and thirty nine bucks. Second movie in four D and then just do a

home showing. That way you can put it on pause and go take a little bathroom break and come back. That's the way to do it, all right, Well, why don't we get out on this. We've got the act scratcher now. We said a couple of weeks ago, Danny, that you scratch our back, we'll scratch your back and a weekly trip to see who who did it? And we have a few more reviews on the Apple podcast page for the fifth hour. Our rating actually did go

up since you joined the show, Danny. We had gone down to a four point eight on on that out of five, and since you joined the show, we're back up to a four point nine. So we ticked up. It's gonna be impossibly get a five because we've had some negative votes, but that's about as high as we can go. So thank you for that, Danny. We we got a few a few people who did take time out to post. We have let's see here K listener K I believe is the name here? Uh? It says

I was swindled. Danny Gee said he'd give me a hundred dollars if I would rate the podcast five stars show proof. So I did what he said and he sent me five doll hairs is what it says here. Judging by the quality of the hair, it wasn't even from a Barbie. It looks like it was a dollar store knockoff. Barbie says the review five stars. Though, so it's still worked out. Danny, we got the five stars. That's all that matters. Yeah, Adrian writes back. Adrian posts online.

Adrian in the Mile High City says, tell a friend, Tell a friend, Tell a friend. Ben and Danny g make me laugh every podcast The Saturday Life and Times of Mallard my favorite episode of the weekend. Well God, love you, God bless you. Thank you, Adrian. I'm glad you're back on the show. By the way, it's good you were away for a while. You were hard working man, and you're back on the show. Gary from Florida also posted recently said I have sleeping issues because of your showcase.

A couple of years ago, I woke up around two am, put my ear butt in and heard this guy yelling about something. Then he started talking about his weight issues in the past. I related to just about everything he was saying. I did some investigating googling you and the staff. I decided to listen a little while and well, I'm still listening. My internal clock is sometimes a little early or late. For two am, the Fifth Hour holds me over a great job. That's from Gary from Florida. So

thank you Gary from Florida. Much appreciated as well, and thank you all and again, if you want to have us give you a little shout out here, scratch our back, We'll scratch your back the Apple podcast page. I have noticed any again, people posting on on on my radio show page, which is separate from the Fifth Hour page. I know that that's confusing because it comes across the same feed for a lot of people, but that's that.

Is that anything to promote any gigs coming up, any comedy gigs you're doing on any any tours around the country, Danny and anything like that, Well, I will be on fess Are today two radio shows Hartman and Jeff Schwartz and then after that your boy Brian No along with from Salam. But also I would like to just kind of touch on what you were saying with the separate

Fifth Hour podcast. We need you more than ever to download and subscribe to just fifth our podcast because Ben, we're switching over to a new platform right now for all the podcasting we do at Fox Sports Radio. Okay, so this week and it's this is gonna change down the road here quickly. But this week the Fifth Hour podcast will only be available on the Fifth Hour feed, all right. So that means that's all the more reason to subscribe specifically to the Fifth Hour podcast. Otherwise you're

gonna miss it. Now you're listening to it now, so you found it, but just make sure to subscribe. And that's the that's very important here. Otherwise, I mean, we're doing the show either way, but we want as many people to be part of it. We want you to be part of it. I have a great rest on your Saturday. Got the Mailbag podcast on Sunday. Cannot wait, Danny ge have a great Saturday. We will catch you then later. Skater, you know Avatados