The Fifth Hour: "Security & Hard Drive Space?" Mail Bag

and Danny g Radio. You have made it back into the audio, do Joe, as we are hanging out with you only in the podcast format eight days a week. Danny slaving away there on his radio show with Covino and Rich and I've got the overnight show your Boso we Oin Forces on the weekend for you for your entertainment pleasure. Danny, it's Sunday and that means it's mail. We got a lot of mail to get through. Are you ready? Are you gonna buckle up for the mail bag?

Real quick? I got a mail bag question for you. Have you turned your attention to the NBA yet a little bit? I'm not fully in, but I I will tell you the trade deadline I gotta look excited. There were some big trades in the NBA that got me jones up a little bit, and then I have been watching. I've been trying to watch a little bit more every night, little by little as I'm getting ready for the show.

But I'm not fully on board because we still have this obviously is an All Star weekend in the NBA, and then we've got another couple of months before the playoffs. The playoffs don't really they don't get going until mid April, right, so we've still got a ways to go. You know. Somebody sent me the Dodgers spring training schedule you terday, and I was like, I don't know if I'm ready for baseball yet. Oh I'm ready. I'm more excited about

spring training baseball than I've ever been. It is going to be such a ship show in baseball with all these new FUGHAISI rules that the weird scientist commissioners put in and all these hard old baseball people. I was talking to a guy that has worked in baseball for probably as long as I've been alive, maybe not that long. But this guy, he's like, you know, and he loves base but he works in baseball He's like, the players are so stubborn in our sport. They're so pig headed.

It is going to be fascinating. It's a it's like a great science experiment when they tell the pictures they can't fidget on the mound or then the runner can steal second, and they can't throw, and you get called for a box and like all these weird rules and if you don't throw the ball fast enough, all of this. Because I mentioned this on the radio show this weekend, I don't know if people everybody, maybe you missed it. It's because because of the nerds. It's because they let

the nerds in baseball, Danny. This is my theory, because baseball is like, we need home runs. So they juiced the balls up they had home running. But then everyone who runs these baseball teams, they all said, okay, we'll just play bare league softball and we'll try to get walks, and we'll try to hit home runs, and we won't give a shit about singles, and who cares about anything other than home runs or or walks, and and strikeouts

don't matter. And so now baseball is like, well, we have to artificially make it like it used to be in the seventies and the eighties, where the stolen base is important and the goal is obvious. They want to they want to artificially create more action because there's not enough action in baseball. But how they're going about doing that is going to mess up the axis of baseball

and it'll be it'll be fun to watch. How many spring training stadiums did you go by when you were in Phoenix for the last week at the Super Bowl. I didn't see any. You didn't any. I went by the Angels facility and Tempe, the Chicago Cubs. I guess that's in Mesa. Uh. There were like three or four others that we just like randomly. We were in Uber and like, hey, look there's the spring training home or the Giants were in Fairness. I was traveling at night when it was dark, but we did fly over one

of the stadiums. I don't know which one. Yeah, I mean, they're every couple of miles. It's insane, and they're all within the greater Phoenix area. You can't go more than like eight miles from a spring training stadium in Phoenix. So all right, let's get to it. These are actual messages from actual listeners. But by the way, before we get the mail are you watching the NBA? Daniel you Jones up for the NBA? Are you're excited because more

Bomba as a Laker. I'm halfway there. Bomba and the new Editions have looked pretty decent, so you know, they're like just a couple of games away from being a six seed all the sudd it's so exciting. I know we'll see what happens after the All Star break, but no, I mean they made some decent moves there. Yeah, you didn't get Bones though, Bones Highland, he's a Clipper. Bones Highland is a Clipper. What is still wrong with the Clippers? Eric Gordon's back. I've always liked the Angelo, you know,

when he was with the Wolves. When he was with the Timberwolves, I was watching him like, why couldn't the Lakers keep one of those young guys? So now it feels like speaking of artificial, feels like the Lakers never let him go even though he's played for every other team in the NBA, the ultimate basketball hobo. All right, So, as far as the mail bag is concerned, let's get right to it. OHIOO. It's first one is from Lee

in Phoenix. He says, Ben, what happened? I was waiting to meet you and the Phoenix Mallard militia and nothing. Please tell us the whole story. Yes, Lee, I'd like to apologize on behalf of myself and and that's it. I will apologize on behalf of myself. So I was under the impression, Lee, that the NFL experience would include Radio Row. So my original plan was to have listeners

come down to Radio Row and meet them. I thought this would be great, accomplished the daily double, I do the show, I'd meet listeners, they could watch me do the show. What great fun this would be. Well, then I didn't know until I got to the Radio Row that the NFL had segregated us. As I said, they put us away from everyone else private. It was a private thing. We had to take a bus to go back and hang out with the cool people, and it was. It was a mess, and so I was piste off

by that. But then I was like, Okay, I'll find a restaurant and I put it out on social media. I was like, we'll go to a restaurant on Friday, and a listener there were two listeners that reached out that are big fans of the show. One of them he owns a restaurant in Phoenix. He was going to get back to me on specifics. The other one is this kid that works at Arizona State who's a very smart man, plays a lot of great trivia, very good at trivia. He gave me the name of his restaurant.

So then I was like, Okay, well maybe I'll meet at that restaurant. UM. And then I got called in to work the extra show, The Odd Couple, and that was the time I was planning on meeting the listeners. So that got shot out of the water. And then by the time I got done, I was I just crashed and I didn't have I was unable to set something up. So I apologized Lee, I meet you, I still want to meet you, and all the other people that reached out that were bummed out. I feel like

a total schmuck. I really thought it was gonna work out. I thought this would be easy. It turned out to be like the Rubik's cube. It was not easy to solve. It became problematic. UM, and I will be back and I it's on my list of things to do. I would like to meet a bunch of listeners this year. That's the goal. We couldn't do anything during COVID. We had a meet and greet in l A last year that went very well. We had a great turnout for that, and so my goal is to do as many of

these things as I can do. It's not cheap to travel, that is a problem, and you you gonna pay money out of my own pocket. The company's not paying for me to travel. They were actually at the super Bowl, but not normally, so we'll make it happy. Um. So that's that's what went down. Lee, it was Phoenix. You haven't Oh no, I'll be back. I will. I will be back there too to enjoy ay. Uh not Marley's. I won't be back at Marley's, but some of the other

restaurants I'll be back in. Next up is Terry from England. He says, hey guys, hey, Ben, how long how long was the planning for the Super Bowl trip for you? Ben? How much advanced noticed did you get? That's from Terry from England? Uh? Not very much, Terry, first of all, and Danny knew you knew you were going for some time. I was in a holding pattern. Is the way I would describe it. I was told I probably will be able to go, but I did not know the weekend

before I went. It was not completely confirmed and I didn't want to jinx anything. But it did not get completely green lighted until less than a week before I had landed in Phoenix. It was that close to not happen. Yeah. The way our boss explained it to me was the la piece of your puzzle he had been waiting on was whether or not security and all that would be in place for you to be able to broadcast live at your time. So once he got the thumbs up

on that, that's when he confirmed it with you. And the bad news. The bad news from my boss is now that we know that security is there around the clock, that in future Super Bowls, there's no reason for me not to go because now we know that I will be the most protected man in radio that that there would be you know, seven thousand security guards from my fat asked at Radio Row. So there's nothing to worry about, um.

But I hope that answers your question, Terry. So it was very last minute, and we mentioned the hotel issues and all that, but it was great to be there and a lot of fun. It was great to see everybody. I had a good conversation with our our big boss, Don Martin, who I don't get to see very often. Mom, Maya, come on down, Ma Maya and let me of them coming to my already here for you, Maya. What I mean? We had to pay him over time, but what to do for you? Because you're a legend, my man, You're

worth it, my man, We're family. We're family here, my man. Anyway. Alright, So John from Peoria, Illinois emails in on the mailbag. He is next. He says, Hey, Ben, uh, this is random, he said, did Jerick mckinnons slide before the goal line screw yourself or Danny g out of a large sum of money like it did myself. I needed him to score for the final leg of my parlay. Yeah, so that that was the famous play. Kansas City was trying to run out the clock and kick the game winning

field goal. Philadelphia looked like they were allowing him to score the touchdown and McKinnon slid down and it was the right thing to do, Yeah, but it wasn't the fun thing to do with such a good game. Yeah, it bothered me more than the penalty, you know, Yeah, that's a penalty. Can call it if you want. But what bothered me was him sliding and then Mahomes dropping like a bag of potatoes a couple of times. It reminded me of the way the stupid Pro Bowl ended

with Kirk Cousins. You know the vibe I got from Mahomes, I got Lebron James, Steph Curry hamming it up, milking an injury, playing to the cameras. That's the vibe. I guy like Mahomes is a showman. Yeah, that last drive, because there's no way he was hurting that bad and he's able to run that well. Yeah, there's a lot of embellishment going on. And I'm starting to think that initial high ankle sprain. I don't know what he was hurt, but it was It was not a high ankle sprayed.

That's bullshit, because a high ankle sprains a six week injury. You don't come back and play at that level. I don't care what kind of pharmaceuticals they shoot you up with. I'm not buying that. I I've injured my ankle, I've had a high ankles, but I know I'm not a professional athlete, but I'm not back. Hell, I hurt my knee. I know, I'm a middle aged man. I hurt my knee. It took me like three months for that thing to heal my knee. You know, I I was, I was

hurting all right. Next up, you have a Hutch from Richmond, Virginia, the Great Hutch Rights and he says, hey, Ben and Danny g do you guys ever sleep? And Ben, did your wife come with you to the Radio Row festivities? Yes? I was very happy that my wife was able to join me with a good time hanging out and she got to Actually I didn't know this was even possible. And I told her as, I, I can't really get you in, you know, you're gonna have to be at

the hotel. And she's like, okay, I'll do my own thing. And then I showed up on that Thursday and I ran into Jonas and onus at his wife with him and his his kid, and I was like, wait a minute, how'd she getting here? And Jonahs is like, yeah, yeah, you talk to this person and that person and you get a pass and so so that was pretty cool and up big thanks to to Jade. She she was able to to take care of that. So that was

that was pretty cool. She she visited, and as I said in the previous podcast, touch, I think the whole time I was in Arizona, which was like three days, I got about an hour's sleep per day, so I got like three hours told, I think I got to I got one hour of sleep going there, and then two hours of sleep and then that was it while I was there. So not not an ideal situation. Next up on the mailbag, Kyrie, our guy Kyrie, he's the

Kyrie we like in Okay. See. He says, Hey, gentlemen, my wife has been watching football for with me, rather for two years now. It's freaking us. I can't believe she's sitting down watching games with me. The question is, do your wives watch any sports with you, guys, or maybe attend some sporting events live? Since sports are your job and very important to all of you guys and all of us. I just wondering anyway, As always, much love from Kyrie in Okay See. So I'll go first.

Any Um, my wife does not have the sports gene. She's not a sports fan. She will not watch games on TV with me. She claims that it's hard to keep track of where the ball is. No matter what sport, the ball could be the size of the moon, you know. But she does like going to games, which seems like a good idea until you realize the cost of going to the games and it. Does she like watching the game in her seat? Or does she like shopping at the little memorabilia stands and the food stands? No, my

wife likes the vibe. She enjoys the you know, the energy of the cry out, and she likes the different foods you can get that her price gouging you and things like that. She's into that as far as the actual being a purist of the game and that kind of it. Not what about you did your your lady, she's into it or no kinda you know. I have something similar to Kyrie with football. So my girl really

loves the Dodgers. She's a baseball fan, so we connected with that when we first met baseball with her kids, they all grew up on the baseball diamond, so she's a baseball mom and her family the Raider fans. But she didn't know the ins and outs of NFL football. So she's watched football. She's chaired on the Raiders, but she doesn't understand all the rules of football. Until two years ago she started sitting down watching the games with me and I started explaining all the rules to her

that she wasn't familiar with. And now, Ben, this year, this past season was the very first season where she watched all the games from the beginning of the season until the Super Bowl, and she was really proud of herself. I'm proud of her. That's cool, that's great. And you took her to the game. You guys went to veg see a game, so that was neat. She got to see the famous Chandler Jones ending one of the great games that we've seen. Amazing ending to an NFL game.

You're not gonna get much better than that, certainly not for a regular season game. Next up, John from Dallas, Texas writes in he says, hey, Ben and Danny g when downloading the Fifth Hour podcast, does it benefit you guys more to download it from the Fifth Hour page or the Ben Maller Show page or does it not make any difference. That's a great question. I do not know the answer to that. Do we get the same credit whether it's the Fifth Hour page or the Ben

Mallard page. We do get the same credit, Okay, so it doesn't matter. They go as long as you listen. And how many minutes do we need? Dan is at one minute? Are we the one minute man? Here? I think it's five minutes If I'm not taking five minutes. If you give us five minutes, even if you find us boring and repulsive and dreadful, we just suck. Five minutes is all we need. You give us five minutes. We're good, That's all we we. We asked just five good minutes. And you know once you do that, you

know it's it's you're good to go. Yeah, speaking of wives, that's all they ask as well. Uh. Next up is Mike from Fullerton, he writes, and he says, a great job from radio role last week. Guys, would either of you be able to handle four days in a darkness retreat? Allah? Aaron Rodgers, do you think eating or using the bathroom would be a problem in pitch blackness? Uh? He says, that's the first party says also, I'd like to thank Danny g for drawing my name out of a hat

for Caveno and Rich Bribery balls. Now I really need some Ben Mallard merch to go with it, Please consider selling a Ben Mallow Show themed pog set. Yeah, that's just what I need, you know. Maybe I'll do that as a gag for Mike friend of fur Dog. Maybe I'll do that. But the darkness retreat, I'm good on that. I don't need that, And I do think going to the bathroom would be a problem as far as the aim is concerned. And it's hard enough aiming when the

lights are on. I can't imagine trying to aim without without any lights on. And the eating, I kind of like to look at what I'm eating, you know what I'm saying. If I'm Aaron Rodgers, in other words, I have his kind of money. I'm going on an ocean retreat, a five star ocean retreat. That's what I'm doing. Five stars, baby, I'm going to the four seasons. I'm getting room service, I'm getting massages, I'm getting happy endings, and that is

going to clear my mind. Well that's a fair But wouldn't you not get the same experience being away from civilization if if you were in the middle of the Mighty Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean and there's no land for hundreds and hundreds of miles. Wouldn't that be the same environment You are away from the world, you're on your own. I know, you know it's different because the lights up a lie, but the concept of being away

from civilization and caught up in your own thoughts. If I'm sitting on a yacht looking out at the ocean, I'm thinking I'm wondering what's going on? Or just sit on a private beach with his money again, he could have your level of security you had at Radio Row and have that slice of beach to himself. Just stare out at the ocean and make up your mind on where you want to go next. John from Northern Colorado is next, he says. Guys, have either of you sat

through a never ending chick flick on a date? I thought the bridges of Madison County would never end, John says, and I had terrible gas the entire time. So yeah, I mean, Plus, we've all done it as men. We've all we've all taken one for the team here and attempted to impress a young lady that we were dating. Um, I'm trying to remember. I don't, I don't. I blocked it all out. I don't remember a specific chick flick.

But I did spend a lot of time. And I love going to the movies on dates because I didn't have to talk. It was great. I could just sit there and watch the movie. I didn't have to talk to her and all that. It was wonderful. What about your Yeah, and the Hallmark movies come to mind, especially seasonal, you know, and November and December roll around. You know that your girl is going to have some of those easy and corny Christmas movies on, and they expect you

to cuddle with them and watch the movies. But if you do your part, they will give back for the you know, the season of giving the end of the yang. Is that that works? Okay? I got you. You scratch my back, I'll scratch something else or whatever. You all right? Gary, the instigator writes, any this is from Valentine's Day the

other day, but I think it still holds up. He said, would either of you guys be up to this Valentine's Day challenge swap your phone with your spouse for a day If anyone says they would accept, with the others on the show called b So, I guess between me and you, I don't know why what would you accomplish by that? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I mean,

there's nothing that exciting going on in my phone. Once you're in a serious relationship and you're not a douche bag, there's nothing that exciting on your phone, and that would you know, trigger some sort of fight. Now, when you're in your twenties, maybe your thirties, and you're kind of immature and you are unsure about commitment and maybe you're juggling a couple of different people in your phone or

something like that. Yeah, you can't let someone borrow your phone because they're gonna be getting text messages from Rando's. But you know, once you're married, you're not living that lifestyle any longer. You don't have to be a ding dong there and all that. I'm looking at my phone. I mean, my wife took my phone. You'd be talking to mostly Doc Mike and weed Man Hippie and people like and Fred Dryer. That's about. That's about. I'm looking at my calls. Here, at my my recent call. Yeah,

let's see, Yeah, that'd be good. Name your last six text messages? Oh yeah, my last six, your last six, let me see here my last six wife got you on there the microphone throttler. I've got my wife, Cooper Loop, I want to mount it. My friend Bob Fesco does the radio show in Kansas City, my buddy j who is the old newspaper guy, and gag on R. Okay, that's the list. What about you? You got on your I just pulled mine up right now. It got you

up at the top there. Very nice. Covino and Rich in a group chat for the show Solid my girl is third on there. My wife's number two, and uh, Jade from our network. Who are you just talking about? Uh? My cousin Chris Scott Shapiro not sure. Oh, look at that ball's on there? How about that? And then a group chat from John Morrossi, Oh, the great John Paul Morrossi. Yeah, by John Paul Morossi. Is it just John Morrossi? Now John morros eats to us. Now his old school name

was JP Morossi. Yeah, he used to be John John Paul. He's just John Morrossi. Okay, he says, good morning. I'll be at spring training in Florida for the next two days. If there's any interest in any MLB segments, for your shows. Oh that's nice. Yeah, all right, what up John, John MOROSSI check it in. So this next email is rather odd and uncomfortable. I have been getting people asking in the mail bag. I haven't read these on the here, but they've been like, Hey, what happened to the couple

in Florida? What happened to the couple in Kentucky? What happened to these people that used to email? I'm a pilot used to email? That's right. We think that was gagon. So I said, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna reach out to these people. I wonder what they're up to. Some of these people have an email this in three years. Oh so you reached out to them. I did. I was curious who would right back? So Helen hell and in Stu did not right back. I

don't know what happened to them. They didn't write back. I'm a pilot did not right back. So then I reached out to Kentucky Jay and Kay, and much to my surprise, they responded. And I am now going to read I'm not gonna read all of it because some of it was not for on air consumption. This is the response I got again. These people used to email us when Gascon Gagon was West of the four or five was on the show, email us like pretty much every other week for a year year and a half.

Sent me a hat that I wear Western Kentucky hat that I still wear from time to time. It's in my rotation. And the response said, hey, guys, I'm doing good. Unfortunately it's just Jay Now we got a divorce. Oh uh, he said, we are friends and cordial. Tell the fans on the show the Kentucky power couple are powerless. Uh so that's unfortunate, but life come fast. Yeah, these things do happen. What are you gonna though, you know? And

presentiment not every marriage last forever. And um, I appreciate Ja riding back, and good luck to J and K and both of them. And I know they've got there's kids involved here, so hopefully everything goes okay with that. You guys can be grown ups when you have to be grown ups and all that stuff and and make it work out a couple more. Pierre, friend of alf the alienal Piner rights and he says, Ben, given that a single big Mac in Lee, Massachusetts cost a whopping

eight dollars and nine cents. What would you and Daddy g Daddy spend at the most for a single fast food order. I try to stay on what used to be the one dollar menu, so I can't imagine even paying eight dollars total for a meal at somewhere like McDonald's. But now the minimum wage is fifteen dollars here in the Commonwealth, this will only get more expensive. Yes, I don't eat as much fast food as I did back in my big eaten days. Pierre the meals I go

to Raising Keynes occasionally once a year on Christmas. I'll usually eat Panda Express because that's what Jewish people do on Christmas Day, eat Chinese food. Um. But I have not been able to get out of a fast food restaurant for without spending fifteen to twenty dollars for what for one meal? Like I get the combo, but then you add the upside the drink and it's usually like

fifteen bucks. It seems like what about you, Danny. I do the life hack where you do not get the drink from the fast food restaurant, and if I'm working at our network, I'll get the cent can of soda or a bottled water from our vending machine and then get the food by itself. That's one way to keep your your budget at Bay. Do not pay for those two dollar eighty nine cents three dollar eighty nine cent drinks at fast food. What a rip um? The other thing, Ben,

he's talking about fast food burgers. Get the McDonald's app in your phone. It's one of the apps it's actually worth using because every day they have deals and they also give your rewards points like all the other ones, but their deals every day are actually pretty good. Save you a lot of money just ordering ahead on that app for curbside pickup. Yeah, I've heard the the apps. But there's a pain. He's paying one restaurant. You gotta have an app for every restaurant. Want to pain in

the ass? Well, just put the couple in there that you go to the most often, and it's pretty convenient, especially like on your way into work or something like that. You just pull into one of those curbside UH spots that they have available to the app customers. I will do one more. We'll get out on this. It is from and all the other people that email them. Sorry, but we'll just submit another email for next week. Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. Hopefully we'll get it

on the air next week. Danny from Darry writes in and says, hey, Ben and Danny, g. I've enjoyed your podcast immensely. Thanks for that. I was thinking about all of the wonderful original and parody songs that have been created for the Ben Mallor show. I've heard some in their entirety, but when they play as rejoins, we get just a tantalizing snippet. It would be great if you could play them fully on the Fifth Hour podcast, perhaps just one each week, maybe at the end of the

Friday show. Call it something like the Fifth Hour Friday fan Fest, and give it a lean in with some details and background about the song. People would love hearing it, and it might even encourage some more to send them in. Just the thought. That's from Danny From Danny. We did do a podcast two years ago with all the holiday songs. Yeah, that was Oh yeah, they're still taking up a lot of memory space in my computer here. Yeah, and that's that sounds like the kind of show if we did

them all at once. Danny wants one a week, but we could do that as an evergreen podcast. Sure, And then if we want to take a day away where we don't do a new podcast, we can just play that the once a week may actually be a really good idea something I can look into, because the problem right now is disk space. We record a lot of podcasts. I have hundreds of your show drops, your audio drops from over the years in my computer. You pay me five dollars, I'll endorse a game magazine. I actually don't

have much room left in this this Apple computer. I need a bigger memory bank, man, because in order to like have tons of songs like that in store them,

it would say take up too much space. Yeah, And I actually had the same problem on my end because I also have a bunch of stuff here for the podcast that I've got, And every once in a while, usually it's once every couple of months, my phone will blow up and my computer, you know, you can't download anything, you can't get any ill and I'm like, oh crap, And then I gotta spend like half an hour an hour the leading files to clear space off. These are

first world problems. These are first they are they are, But if you think about it, we don't have endless space in our computers that we edit these podcasts on unfortunately, but you know, Ben, one of the goals is to get the company to pay for more hard drive space. Um, all about that action, boss, that would be great. From your lips to the big boss's ears fired and on that man, you want security and now you want hard drive space. Well, man, what do you think you're calling?

Calher Mo? Man? Come on man? Anyway, this has been great, had a fun weekend, Danny. I love the super Bowl stories and the the life and times on Saturday, and I'll be back on terrestrial radio tonight, All Star Weekend in the n b A and I will be blabbing away yapping through the overnight. God only knows what we'll be talking about, but we will have an original show for you and for you only from eleven pm to three am in the West Sunday night in the Monday on the East Coast two am, two six a m.

Bright and early. We'll be hanging out. And Danny, you're off today, right back tomorrow. Yeah, have the rest of this Sunday off after post production of this fine podcast. So I guess I will be watching some NBA All Star action saying thanks again, five stars on the podcasts send us an email to let us know what you're doing while you're listening to the podcast. I'm curious what's going on on the other side of the podcast. So have a great day and we'll talk to you next time. Later.

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