The Fifth Hour: "Shake It Like a Polaroid" Mail Bag

radio loser. For example, is it true that the ancient optics were invented the basis for the camera four hundred BC? That the Chinese? The Chinese provided the earliest known written record, written record of their exploration of the camera or pinhole imagery now wasn't until the eighteen hundreds, eighteen twenty five, so exactly you do the math on this, it's twenty twenty five, so that would be two hundred years ago

the first image was printed. A French scientist invented the heliograph, a print that requid required eight hours of light exposure eight hours of light exposure to create and soon faded away. And then within fifteen years, less than fifteen years after that, eighteen thirty nine, the forerunner of filming was born as a gentleman in France was the first person to commercially successfully photograph, use that process of photography to create a

permanent image on a metal plate. So that was in eighteen thirty nine, and then you advance a couple of years later, another gentleman patented the calotype process, the first negative positive process at the time, which made it possible to reproduce multiple copies of pictures. And over time you think about the evolution of the camera and where we

have gotten where everyone has their own camera. But it was in the eighteen eighties George Eastman invented the first flexible photographic film and that follow up with another first in eighteen eighty eight when he patented the Kodak role film camera, and Kodak became one of the biggest companies in America. When I was a kid, Kodak was dominating. And if you're under the age of like forty, you

probably no idea like Kodak. What the hell's Koda? I mean, you've heard the Kodak moment, but like, what is it? The first mass marketed camera went on sale in nineteen hundred, and then there was every couple of years there was a big, a big thing. The Wright brothers invented the airplane and then that created aerial photography, making it available to the military. Sorry, I was in nineteen oh three.

You can advance it. Nineteen thirty five that Guy Eastman introduced the Coda Chrome the first and they claimed the best color transparency film nineteen thirty five. And then you know, every couple of years there was a big announcement, and it was up until the nineteen seventies when digital seventies of the nineties, digital started taking over in the eighties

and the nineties. The first camera phone was in two thousand, built into a camera, though very few people had it and Kodak, which had dominated and again one of the biggest companies in America, they stopped making film cameras over twenty years ago. Twenty four was when they said ixnay on the film may were good. And I guess they're still around, but barely around, right, barely barely around. So

that is it. In a nutshell, it is National Camera Day, so more than eight hundred years, all the way back eight hundred years. Uh. And dark chamber And even when I was in junior high school, you old had we had a class that it was an elective you could sign up for, and it was processing film, going into a dark room, putting the film under the end in the water and taking it and creating the image. Uh. And you don't have to obviously don't have to do

that anymore. But in a split second you have what used to be movie quality film on your on your phone. I mean, it is wacky, wacky, wacky. In wheeling away from that, before we get to the mail bag, we have the two for one weekly special at the Malor Mad House. That's right, a two for one weekly special at the Malor Mad House. And you get first DIBs on this because you are a legit p one listening to the fifth hour podcast on a Sunday or whenever you end up listening to this, and you will have

an advantage. Those other mere peons will not have. The people that only listen to the overnight show, we will not know this. So the two for one weekly special at the Malor Mad House, I will be in tonight, per normal, per normal, normal night overnight talk radio. I will then not be in. That would be the one. I will be off the radio Monday and Tuesday, so you will not hear my voice Monday and Tuesday. Have something I have to take care on that night, so I cannot

attend the radio show. But then I will be back to normal the rest of the week. So four nights of overnight talk radio. But here's the two I mentioned a two for one weekly special at the Maler Matthouse.

I have been called in out of the bullpen. I will be back doing the day night doubleheader double barrel talk radio day and night, burning the candle at both ends as I will be working with Fred Rogan, the dean, the Dean of La Sports, Fred Rogan on the Blowtorch AM five seventy and that'll be on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. So the dates on that, I believe our July second and July third. So I'll be on

from noon to three pm Pacific. That's after noon Drive on the East Coast three o'clock in the afternoon till six o'clock. You can listen on the iHeart Radio appts on AM five seventy that is the home of the Doyers. So I'll be on there and talk a lot of Dodgers, LA sports, the usual stuff. I'll be forced to talk about the Lakers, but I'd much rather talk about the Clippers. The Rams you can ram it all day, you can

ram it all night, and the Chargers as well. So that'll be coming up two for one special again for those of you a little slow in the back of the room. I will be on tonight Monday into Tuesday. No radio show for me, but then to make up for that, I will do six extra hours of talk radio spread out over two days. So you are warned, prepare accordingly. So if you guys on the payroll, like Alf and fer Dog and Terry in England, you guys

are gonna have to work extra. You're you're also gonna have to work extra, but I will give you the one night off on Monday and Tuesday, I'll give you that night off. Now to the mail bag, and that means the one and only get me in the mood, ohio Al, you know what to do. Come on, ohio Al. Hit that button right there, Danny G it's all right, all right, Thank you very much, ohio Al. These are actual letters by actual listeners to the Overnight Show during

the week and this fifth hour podcast. You have made time. You've taken time out of your schedule to write an email. I know it doesn't take that long, but you've taken a little bit of time to contact me. We do thank you for doing that. And yet again we have some new names here that have not popped up in the past, which means the podcast is growing, that it's

in safe hands. And so I know we both appreciate Danny's not here on the mic this weekend, but we both we do appreciate the fact that you are taking time out and adding content, burning up the audio dance floor, if you will. Now, this is a name that we get quite often. He's a big fan of the show, although he's never called the show not this show. Or the radio show Reggie from Detroit. Reggie says Ben and Danny. He says, I hope your weekend is going well. I

really enjoyed hearing from Dick in Dayton. He sounds in a he sounds like he's in a bad mood. Reggie says, he's not that happy with his living situation. Hopefully you'll be able to get to Ohio and cheer him up. As for my question, Reggie says, I know you guys are not soccer fans, However, do you have any hot takes on Ronaldo and his deal in Saudi Arabia? All right, so obviously Danny cannot answer this because he's out here, but I will answer this Reggie. So, first of all,

let's start with Dick and Dayton. And he's one of my favorite people. You know that if you listen to the Overnight show. I am a huge fan of Dick from Dayton. He has provided so many great drops. Then I'm relatively confident he does not even realize how funny he is. Dick from Dayton and he's just a treasure. He's been calling me for god at least twenty years. We've had a radio relationship. Caller host and he called me when I was working on Thanksgiving probably twenty years ago,

and a sweet, fun guy. He was going to get Thanksgiving dinner by himself in Dayton, Ohio, and he was bragging he paid five dollars for Thanksgiving dinner. And he's called me ever since. He calls me once or twice a week, and I would love to get there. I'm efforting to get there, Reggie. That is the plan. Some of you reached out, I need a venue for the meet and greet. Based on the feedback that we're getting, a lot of you are like, hey, he should come

to southern southern Ohio. I don't know, like Cincinnati, Dixon in Dayton obviously, and he can't really leave there, so I might just have to go to Dayton. I might just say, effitt and I'll just go to Dayton. And if I have to pick Dick in Dayton up in an uber or something, well we'll make it happen. But as far as the other part of that, I did see the Ronaldo contract. I read the Sun, which is a tabloid in London. I don't read it. I scan it and this thing up. So Ronaldo and you can

correct me if I'm wrong, Reggie. As I understand it, Ronaldo is going to earn two hundred and forty three million dollars per year on his new deal. You talk about getting some of that Saudi oil money. He will be paid four point seven million dollars per week. But wait, there's more. He also gets an ownership stake in the team, and he's got performance bonuses in there as well. He'll get was it ten grand per goal? That's that's ten extra thousand. That's like a startup fee for a tech company.

Ten thousand dollars he'll get oh no, wait, one hundred. I say one, one hundred and ten grand. I said ten, No, one hundred and ten grand, My god, ten grand. He wouldn't even get out of bed. One hundred and ten per goal, Now that is more like a tech startup. He'll get fifty five thousand per assist. So whether he passes for a goal or scores a goal. Man. Now, my friend Nico, who's got his son who's a soccer prodigy. Now Nico, please remember me, Nico when your son ends

up getting that Ronaldo money from Saudi Arabia. Holy crap. But wait, there's more. So, Reggie, the story says that essentially Ronaldo has been given not only the two hundred forty three million dollars, but he's been given an entourage like he's the president, which includes chef's gardeners, private security around the clock. And does he get a new pair of underwear every day like Floyd Mayweather. My got two hundred and forty three million, and he gets a thirty

three percent ownership stake in the club. He'll he'll get up to twenty five million dollars in team incentives and as we mentioned, sixteen full time staff members for Ronaldo. Man, they have so much money because of you and I buying gas in Saudi Arabia. My god, that can you imagine. I was like, ah, yeah, we'll pay. We're gonna pay Ronaldo. We'll give them two hundred and forty three million dollars. Wow, that is next level. Is obviously obviously what it is.

And if they start I remember we talked about this when there was some Middle East money that went into golf, and if they wanted to there's so much money, you know a couple of these countries, you know, the Saudi Wellness Fund, We talked about that. How much money they have they could destroy if they wanted to the NFL, the NBA, and Major League Baseball. If they woke up and got to bug up their ass and said, we just want to take down the NFL, they would be

able to do that within a year. They have so much money that they would just cherry pick Patrick Mahomes and they'd get Josh Allen and the top coaches, Sean McVay and all these other guys whoever they wanted, because you could pay them all one hundred million or two hundred million per year and they would still not It wouldn't even make a dent in how much money they have, all right. Next up on the mailbag, we have Hwang, who writes us from Vietnam. He says, Big Man and

Daddy g Radio. A woodpecker's tongue loops around its head, helping to protect its brain from the force of repeated pecking. Says, are the rumors true that are you smarter than a tech queen? The bit was canceled due to the lack this lack of protection. Wow, well, Quang, the bit is on hiatus right now. It has not officially officially been canceled. It just was not up to the standard, Like I know, I don't have a lot of standards on the show. It just wasn't good. The people that were calling to

play were not good. Lorena, I love her, but she didn't take it seriously and it just wasn't good radio. And so why would we do it? Why would we continue to do it if the quality was just not there? It makes no sense now, Tommy. Since he Tommy writes, and he says, greeting's Big Ben, Benny the Brazen and Danny g Money, he says, quote, I agree with you, smarter than the FSR Tech Queen game was not going well. However, since he Tommy writes it in I think it should

be retooled instead of shell. If I may touch up your work. Just to Tad sir, here we go, Tommy says, consider changing the rules. Alternate picking the category. Lorena and the challenger must say their first name and answer the question alone like the other games. Says, allowing contestants and Lorena to piggyback their answers doesn't work and makes the game easier and longer. Please consider don't let my legacy end. Benny. Much love and a little skyline to you both. Well,

there you go Daniel skyline chilly. So this is where you play the fart sound effects right here? Yep, that's about right, all right? So that was Tommy. Listen, Tommy, I'm not as I told Kwang, and I'll repeat it if you weren't paying attention two seconds ago. At this point, the game is on pause. Will I consider bringing the game back at some point? Sure, I'll consider bringing the game back. I want to say we can come up

with something else. I want to try some other things and see I've had some bits floating around in my head that we haven't done, So we'll see where that goes. Ferg Dog in Fullerton that Winter Wonderland writes, and he says, simpify Ben and Danny g. In response to Alf's question from last week, I don't think there's anything wrong with listening to a throwaway podcast on two times the speed,

like The Herd or the Puck Podcast. But if you're listening to a good podcast like The Fifth Hour or The Animal Thunderdome, you shouldn't alter it in any way. You wouldn't listen to a classic song at two times the speed, would you? Question Mark? He says, what's your guy's least favorite ride at Disneyland. For me, it is the Haunted Mansion. I went on it once and I had nightmares for weeks. Never again, never again. So for a dog my least favorite ride at Disneyland, let's see,

I guess I would go Space Mountain. I think I'm too tall. I'm too big a guy now. I used to go on it when I was a kid, and I've heard stories that people if you're a little too tall there, like there have been people that have been hurt on it, and I don't think that'll happen anymore. There's enough people that ride it that doesn't really do much for me, And I'm trying to think, like I usually just avoid the rides I don't like. I don't

bother to go on them. So if they don't look interesting to me, unless I'm being forced to go on them because I'm with my niece or nephew or something like that, I'm like, eh, I'm good. I'm not I'm not going to be partaking if it doesn't look good, because the most important thing we have is our time. But yeah, I go Space Mountain. I'm trying to think what other rides are like, pretty lame? I guess the

the submarine ride. I think they still have that. I think they changed the name of it though I used to like Splash Mountain. They change that. But you get soaked, so I'm not not going on that. My wife hates it. She's can't ah, you get so wet. It's discussing anyway. Paul from Oregon rights and says, Ben and Danny, you guys calling your travel agent about the big travel news this week. And Paul says that North Korea Kim Jong un has opened a new beach resort. Okay, I don't

think we're allowed. Uh yeah, that'd be a tough one. Although I have been sent by some of you idiots travel blogs on YouTube of people that have gone to North Korea, Like they're a lot if you're like British. I mean they allow some people to go. And I'm guessing they don't show you the whole picture. They only show you a part of the picture, if you know what I mean. Yeah, that's I'm good on that. I saw some of the photos. Look looks fine. I don't

think the food's that good. Frankie from Philadelphia Adjacent Frankie says he says, hey, bandon Danny. You guys proud of your baby talk. I think this is more for Danny than for me. But Danny is not here. And Frankie says, this story he found this week is that baby talk is believed to be the reason humans are the only speaking species on Earth baby talk. And he sent me a story here. According to the story, and I don't

know where Frankie got this from. He says, human infants receive up to four hundred up to a weasel term, up to four hundred times more direct vocal communication then baby bontabos, and nearly seventy times more than baby chimpanzees. The suggestion is that talkative parenting is unique among the great apes. So the human beings talking and they say that well, background chatter around the children infants similar across humans,

chimps and all the other ape species. It is only only the human caregiver that is focused on speech directly at the baby, and so that helps encourage learning. But here's the thing. Obviously, Frankie is like, yeah, we do that, but are you You're born doing that right, because some human beings didn't start out with me. Somewhere along the way the first humans, I do the math on that they didn't you know, where did they come from? Etc?

Evolution all that. Those are some deep conversations, but the early kids were their parents talking right away like how did that work? I don't know, but thank you, Frankie, and I'm sure Danny he'll address that at a later date. For baby Ka. Joe from New York, New York, right Sin, He says, Ben, since you have talked about your spitting loogie fascination on the show, I thought you'd appreciate this story. Have a great day, enjoy the radio show and the podcast.

You better not stop doing either. That is from Joe in New York. And Joe sent a story about what to do with flem and he wrote this like Shakespeare, he wrote, to spit or to swallow flem. So I read the story, Joe, and it's pretty funny because the story concluded going it's a very worthy story, and it concluded you're fine doing either either you spit that big wad of mucissi flem out or you swallow it back

into your stomach. The story says spitting can help some people feel better, especially if their cough is associated with thick flem. That's causing distress. But for most healthy people there is no need to force a cough or spit

out flem. Swallowing flem is completely safe. Okay. Now, one thing about this story, Joe, My favorite part is that if you go back to the eighteen twenties, so a couple hundred years ago, there was a French physician who invented the guy that invented the stepiscope, and in his office he had a spitting pot, he said, a spinning pot he considered an essential part of the bedroom apparatus. So not only his office, but like in the bedroom, near the bed, you had to have a thing just

to spit flem into. How do you like that? Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Carl from Vegas rights and Carl says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I enjoy the mail bag. I thought this would be good for you. Okay, thank you. That's all we need. Send me more, guys, if you see stuff that you think we would be good for the show. It's real fifth hour at gmail dot com. That's real fifth hour at gmail dot com. All all letters, no numbers, Carl says, is this guy the cowboy John brad of magic? So he sent me

a story here. A magician was on the Today Show this week and has memori every zip code in America, every single zip code in America. This guy has has gotten his head. So Carl a couple things. Number one, number, one number. It's obvious this guy has some kind of photographic memory, right, certain people have that. I don't have that. I'm assuming you don't have that, right, otherwise you wouldn't have sent this in, Carl, So we don't have that.

Number two. Yeah. The beauty of Cowboy John Brad is he does not own a computer, he does not have a smartphone, he does not have any of that stuff. But yet he remembers everything, like every day of his life he remembers. And he started to call the show again. And so I don't know particularly, I didn't see the segment with the guy that knows every zip code in America. I didn't see it. However, it doesn't really like shock me because if you have that ability, I get it.

I totally get it. Tony in the Bay Area rights in. He says, did Jinks May's ask for my five five five number? Not yet, Tony, We'll let you know, And he says, Danny g I'm guessing you have judged many verbal octagons. He says, I was wrongly disqualified recently, and I want your decision if I won by the vowel being thrown in after me saying a cross between William Shatner and David Vassey is what my dick looks like. Wow. Well, unfortunately, Tony Danny's not here to answer your questions. I'm sure

he's laughing right now as he listens to it. Ryan from Shrewsbury, mass writes and he says, big Ben and Danny g Since it seems like you're a tacco expert, Ben, can you please settle the great debate between me and my wife? Absolutely, we will do that, Ryan, He says, I like hardshell tacos and she is more of a soft shell taco fan. Oh which is better in your professional opinion? Well, Ryan, first of all, these are the kind of questions that are perfect, absolutely perfect for the

male back. So thank you for that. We appreciate that. Now, with all due respects, I'm sure your wife doesn't listen to this podcast. She could not be more wrong with her love of soft shell tacos. That is a bad answer. That is a party foul. There is only one excit answer. There is no great taco debate the taco and I know because you're living in southern California. It's essentially northern Mexico right where we live here in southern California. There's

a great Mexican food. It's it's wonderful. Oh, there's no question. Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it, love it, love it. The acceptable answer tacos Dorado's tacos dorados. That's the answer. And there are some tacos snobs out there and these a holes. It's like the people that get upset that that are low low IQ people, the dumb of the dumb. I can't believe you like your steak butterfly cut, well done. Heah, yikes. Yes, it's my steak, you schmuck. I'm gonna eat it the way I want it.

You lose it, and.

the northern parts of Mexico, like Sonora, Mexico, Chihuahua. I mean there's some other towns too. I don't I can't forge of the name of them, but there's there's several northern outposts, several northern outposts in Mexico where the local taco is tacos dorado. So don't do not back down. Ryan. The soft taco is more like a burrito. It's not a taco. The proper taco is crunch it's fried. It's wonderful,

and don't forget when you're having Mexican food. Ryan, the crunchy gringo taco, the cousin of the gringo taco, also wonderful. The taketofact last night for dinner, homemade crunchy tacos, gringo tacos, the tacos dorado and taketos from scratch. We made them from a scratch, and we've mastered that menu item. We've mastered that menu item. It's just absolutely great. Alf writes

in the Alien Opiner from Columbia Pictures. He says, I figured there's no better way to put a ball on three Stooges a week on the Ben Mathers Show than to give you a bunch of fun facts about our favorite trio. So hit the music, all right, So Alf sent me, we won't do all of these Alves. I mean, let me pick and choose some of these the Three Stooges. The Three Stooges lineup was not always the same. There were six different Stooges from nineteen twenty two to nineteen seventy. Wow,

you talk about a run. Holy, that's forty eight years of I mean a little bit younger than I am right now. That is wild Curly's hair. His shaved head was not natural. He cut his hair short because he thought it looked funnier. What else? The physical comedy was real. The actors often were injured while filming on set. Larry Fine broke a finger during a stunt. There you go.

The Stooges were among the first American comedians to satirize Hitler and make fun of the Nazis, so they did that in their first film, Women Haters, was a musical comedy with rhyming dialogue and jokes. I was in nineteen nineteen thirty four. The ipoke inventor Shemp Howard credited with inventing the three Stooges ipoke, which is when you think Stooges,

that's one of the first things you think of. Curly's signature sounds U U and woo woo woo woo woo first appeared in Women Haters, though the woo woo woo woo woo was borrowed from another comedian. And the most amazing fun fact of them all is that they were unaway. They were unaware that they were popular. They didn't realize that Columbia Pictures was making tons of money based on

their ability. Their salaries were kept low, they didn't get royalties, they didn't get residuals from the films and the TV stuff, so they were not They were not rich, They were not wealthy because the evil movie studios screwed them over. A guy named Harry Cohen, the Columbia Pictures President kept their salaries pretty low, and they made more money and more money, and more money, and more money and more money. So there you go. It's from alf. I think I did do all the fun facts off. I think I

got pretty much all of them. I think so all right, our last one, well, this is not really worthy of imagine. Patrick from San Diego DJ Spin. He wanted to apologize. He was on Jeopardy the other night, and he says, no excuses, and then he gave an excuse. He said, no excuses. I couldn't hear everything clearly, he says. That's on me. He says, after I listened to the questions on the podcast, I knew the answers. He says. I'm

not a usual caller. He says, By the way, I'm still blocked by William Shatner on X and he is going to beat me at scrabble. Now, well, I give you credit. I will give you credit, Patrick, because unlike most of the other listeners that have played me on Scrabble, You're still going and a lot of the other guys have given up. They've thrown in the towel. They're like, ah, we can't. We can't compete with this. You know, you know you can't beat me. Now I have lost. I

lost to Noah. I lost to Noah alf. I don't think I lost to alf He's one one of the guys that has stopped to stop playing. But if you want to play me on on Scrabble, it's it's on iPhone and Android, and I don't get paid for this, and they're not not a sponsor, but it's I love playing Scrabble. And if you want to go against me on Scrabble, it's the Scrabble Go app. It's a free app and you can test yourself against me. My name on there is Benny uh and so you know it's

my name, and just search for the Benny's. I have a Brooklyn Dodger cap, the bet cap on my avatar. Okay, there you go. All right, we'll get out on that. And thank you for listening all weekend on the podcast and really testing the boundaries of the human voice. I gotta tell you, I mean, I think the company is just trying to trying to get my voice to be

completely destroyed. They on the Overnight show, I used to have have Eddie and then they got rid of Eddie, so I talked for four hours a night by myself. I don't care. I'm leaving. Goodbye. Remember tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight. I will be on normal off on Monday, but it's a two for one special, so I'm off on Monday and Tuesday, but then back double barrel Action. I will be on locally in LA, but you can listen on the iHeartRadio app on AM five seventy it's the Dodger station.

I will be on from noon to three Pacific that's three to six Eastern Time on Wednesday and Thursday. And we will have a live show on the fourth of July, heading in to that overnight the July third into July fourth. So I have a wonderful a rest of your Sunday. We will catch you later on tonight on the radio. Asta Pasta got a murder.