The Fifth Hour: "Weasel Word" Mail Bag

at it here today. So the first one up from Andy from South Carolina Wrights and he says, hey, Ben, Are you mourning that this is the last Sunday of the NFL regular season? Which is what I just said, Andy, but you're not listening because it's a podcast. No, to answer to the question, I am not mourning that this

is the last Sunday of the NFL regular season. I have been around a couple of years, and while we love the NFL, it's exceptional for business, it's absolutely fantastic and all of that, the silly season is also exceptionally good and often often just as good, just as good because you have the I'm sorry to phrase it, in the offseason. No one really loses, right. People think that they might their team might be losing, but there's always this cock eyed optimism which has always been mind blowing

to me. So No, and the NFL regular season ends today. We have the playoffs, which are fun, right, We like

the playoffs. Those are always good. There'll be some breath taking moments in the playoffs, electrifying games, and there'll be a lot of bad games as we navigate our way through the playoffs, and some of the takes that we've had all year will be validated, which is always fun hot take validation, and then we'll slide into the coaching mary go round the coaching carousel, as we like to call it, and then the NFL combine, and then certain events,

these pillars of the NFL offseason. So we'll be okay, Andy, we'll be fine. And the good news about this being the last Sunday in the NFL, you don't have to watch the Raiders play or the Jets play, not that we watch them play anyway any reasonable person, though any reasonable person would say, well, it's good not to have to watch, even by chance stumbling onto a Raiders or

Jets gime. So but thanks for your concern, Andy, I appreciate that now there are people that do what I do for a living that are not on the same page. That they will not know what to do with themselves once the NFL winds down, and they'll be scrambling and trying to adjust and all of that. But we don't have that problem. We don't. Next up on the mail bag is Jade, a wingman from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee.

He says it was a bummer hearing that Big Sexy about Big Sexy on the fifth hour, he said, but I'm glad that you told the story as it was from before my time as a listener. JT says. The last several years have brought many great losses to the Valord Militia, and you are right, Overnight radio is different. JT says. The reason it's a militia is because we kind of have a bind together, even if we are all from different backgrounds and places. Yeah, that's the magic

of it, right, We all kind of come together. We have one common goal, which is trying to stay awake at night and maybe even talk from sports. So the email continues from JT. So that being said, what else in your life gives you fulfillment like the time you spend talking into the microphone, be it live radio or a podcast, JT says, For me, even though I spend so many hours behind the wheel of a truck, I love to get out on my Harley and take on the open road, this time taking in God's beauty and

enjoying the fresh air. That's wonderful. There you go, and he says he he says, a great Sunday. Look forward to listening to the live show when you return from a well deserved break. That's our buddy, JT. The wingman who's been to a bunch of Mallard meet and greets

over the years. Hopefully we'll run into JT at some point here in twenty twenty six, with tentative plans to have several big Mallard meet and greets all over the place, depending on a few other things, but some of these will definitely happen, And whether all of them happen, my guess is based on past experience. Probably not, because people flake and things happen and whatnot. But we will get out and about and hang out with you, hopefully JT

and some of the other guys. As far as what gives me fulfillment in my time, I don't know if there's any one thing. I spend so much of my time JT preparing for the radio show or podcasts or things like that, so I don't have too much free time. I've had a lot of free time the last couple of weeks because of limited work, although I've still been doing Benny Versus the Penny, which is a labor of love, more so this year than in years past. Benny Versus

the Penny on YouTube you can still watch that. For the final Sunday of the NFL regular season, we'll be back for the playoffs next week. But I enjoyed looking and traveling around. I don't get out on the road and drive just to drive. I don't have a Harley. I'm not a Harley guy. JT the Wingman. But I do like traveling and seeing new places, and spend a lot of time in the last couple weeks catching up with some family. So that's been a lot of fun and it gives me some level of fulfillment. Ferg Dog

writes in from the winter wonderland of Fullerton. He says, happy New Year, Ben and Danny G. This email might seem a little familiar, but last time I sent it, Danny G accidentally nuked the podcast, So just act like it's the first time you're reading it all. I will pretend that I have not seen this email, and hopefully this one will actually make the podcast. We'll see stay tuned developing hot dot dot dot. Ferg Doog says, you were not wrong, Ben, when you go on vacation, I

go on vacation. The second I hear and sitting in for Big Ben in the intro, I immediately turn off the radio. I don't even stick around long enough to find out who's filling in, Ferg Dog says, like you always say, the most valuable thing people have is their time. It's not my money, it's your time. He said, h this is not money, it's your time. And I choose not to spend my free time listening to blank blank blank blank. I hope you understand you are free to

do what you want. For a dog, you are free. Although I do think I still get credit, although it's kind of weird over the holidays, if people are listening. However, I would imagine that if the numbers go down when I'm not there, that's not a bad thing, meaning that the company knows the value of the person that normally hosts the show. But I have no idea how all that works, he says. Have you guys heard about this company? Heleon, they're great. I get all my Flintstone vitamins from them.

Do you take a daily vitamin or do you think they're a total scam? Says Ferg Dog. Well, even if they don't work the way they're exactly designed vitamins. I know the placebo effect is a big thing. That there are certain vitamins that I take on a semi regular basis. But if you want me to go on a long rant about vitamins. This is not going to happen right now, not today. Maybe next week or the week after. It

could happen, but not right now, Lucky Tony writes. In on the mail bag, he says, Hey, Ben and Danny g He says, if me going to blank blank on Veronica Leal, I guess that that must be like a porn star, right. Can someone help the Bears win it all? He says. He says, if blah blah blah blah blah, I will take one for the team. Go Bears. And he says, what does twenty twenty six have in common with twenty twenty five? Lucky Tony ass He says, David Veasse can eat a plate of blank? All right, very nice,

you're one of my favorite Lucky Tony. Happy New Year to you, Lucky Tony, outstanding, wonderful. Next up, mail bag, Eddie, not that Eddie, not Eddie from Charlotte, not the guy that used to work on the show, Eddie from Tampa, writes, and he says. Scientists have claimed a new dark matter theory that could explain the existence of a hidden universe. It says, Ben, can you please give me some insight on this. That's from Eddie in Tampa. So I read the story. I wonder how much of this is bull

crap and how much of this is legit. But the story said that dark matter, which is a invisible substance that makes up for five to six of the universe. But until now scientists assumed it was created during the Big Bang, but they have now theorized it could have very well followed days after the universe again, so like there's a second there were two big bangs, bang bang like that, you know. And this is a going to a University of Texas Austin physicist, So Eddie, the key

part of this is theorized theorized. That's like me giving an opinion. This is a theory on what may or may not have happened, the new dark big Bang theory and all that. And I continue to go by my theory that there is a whole lot of other stuff out there, a lot of things out there. Now. My belief is a lot of these critters and creatures that are flying in the sky at night, and these unidentified flying objects are things that are living deep in the oceans.

That's been my theory, My recent theory. I've had that for the last couple of years, actually longer than that, longer than that. So there you go. Do they have to remake Eddie The Big Bang theory to the Two Big Bangs? Sounds like a movie that Lucky Tony would watch in his spare of time, The two Big Bang, And Lucky Tony's like, well, I'll watch that as long as the Bears win the Super Bowl. Reggie from Detroit writes in Good to Hear From Reggie, a regular email

contributor to this podcast. Reggie says, boys, welcome to twenty twenty six. I wanted to get your thoughts on no Stradamus and his big predictions for the new year. That's from Reggie from Motown. I did see this story, Reggie, although much like the previous story from Eddie the guy from Tampa who sent a story from a professor or a psychia psychiatrist, a physicist, there we go, dummy, a physicist from the University of Texas talking about two Big Bangs.

It was that theorized, which is a bit of a weasel word, theorized. Well, this story, Reggie about Nostradamus, not nostro genus. He lives in Seattle, but no Damas, and it says that even though Nostru Damis is known as the prophet of doom, that he never explicity explicitly wrote predictions for the year twenty twenty six, which is amusing.

This is in the now full disclosure. Reggie sent me a story which is from the New York Post, and Reggie sent me the story and he explained that these are the big headline here is you know, Nostra Damas writes predictions for the year twenty twenty six. However, it says in the fine print, if I'm reading this properly and it is rather early while we're recording this podcast, it says that Nostradamis never explicitly wrote predictions for twenty

twenty six. However, however, a cousin of but however true believers in the bat blank which means bat shit, they looked to the number twenty six and they saw the following disasters. So this is again much like the previous story. This is a theory, a theory Reggie that says we are going to have rivers of blood, plagues of bees, and death by lightning. Ooh, do do do do do do do do Do Do do do do do do do Yes. Well, they call them the prophet of doom.

Are we gonna have rivers of blood? I'm gonna go know. Will there be a river that is dyed red? Eh? Yeah? Likely around February according to my crystal ball, right around the time that we have fun, fun fun in Valentine's Day. A plague of bees. I'm sure at some point there'll be a bunch of bees that attack someone and they will die this year because of bees. Death by lightning. Yes, people will die. They will be hit by lightning. Someone probably already has been hit by lightning and died. My

grandfather was hit by lightning. He lived, though he didn't die. He lived a long life and made it all the way to the age of ninety and then that was that. But he did get hit by lightning. Kevin from La rights in and says exciting news. Ben, I know you like UFOs. I'd like to hear you host Coast to Coast sometime for George Norie. Well from your lips to God's Ears, Kevin, I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen, but I wouldn't do it. If they asked me, I would do it. I would love to sit in and

talk about extraterrestrials and chemtrails and the underworld and all that. Anyway, Kevin wanted to get our thoughts on an Air Force nuclear specialist claiming that Donald Trump could release bombshell UFO pictures soon. This guy named Jean, a national security expert, and well, I says former ex Air Force nuclear protection specialist said that the public may at the very least be given enough to satisfy the collective. Itch is the

way the story was written here. So first of all, Kevin, thank you of thinking of me when you think of UFOs or unidentified flying objects whatever I mean, whatever they're calling UFOs these days. Donald Trump was president for four years.

He then took a four year break for the weekend at Bernie's Experience in the White House, and now he's back and he's heading into another year and so far nothing And as I understand it, based on watching a bunch of documentaries and reading some stories on the dark web, that not only Trump, these photos have been around. Let's put it that with these photos of whatever that stuff is, whatever those things are, has been around since at least the nineteen forties and so Trump had access to all

that stuff and didn't release it. So I am a bit skeptical, a bit skeptical that we're gonna see any any real photographs. And plus with the age of AI, good luck everyone. So well, that's just AI. And the same theme continues Kevin, as we had with Reggie from Detroit and Eddie Getty's in Tampa. Those guys sent stories. There's a weasel word right here. It's a fun game. I should I should just do a podcast, spot the weasel word? Where's the weasel? Pop goes the weasel? Well

in this one, Kevin could is the weasel word? Could? I could get a daytime show in twenty twenty six and make legitimate money. I could do that. I'm not, but I could. I could wake up one morning, get a phone call from some corporate muckety muck and say, hey, we want you to go to the Dreda. So I don't want to go to the day ship, all right, we'll pay you what coward's making. Okay, I'm there, sign me up. I'll change my entire schedule around Rob from

the six one nine. For those who don't know that, Sundaye go beautiful Sunday A go, Rob writes, and he says from my old radio stomping rounds, he says, Ben, I was reading this week about a castle that was uncovered in France under a hotel, and it made me wonder, what do you think is under the Malor Mansion? From your radio friend Rob in the six to one nine. Well, thank you, Rob, appreciate that. And so what do I

think is under the Malor Mansion? I'm going to go out and a limb here and say, a lot of dirt, a lot of dirt, and if you dig all the way down, you'll find a willy mammoth. And then if you keep digging, you'll get to the core of the earth and there'll be a lot of heat, so we are told. Although I still get emails every once in

a while from the Hollow Earth Society. So it is possible, Rob from the six to one to nine, it is possible that if you go down far enough, there's a whole world in the middle of the planet little knowme, people that live there and live their lives and all that. Now, as far as the story Rober was referencing, this is kind of cool. So there was a fourteenth century castle that was discovered in the middle of a town, which is not like a small town, it's a decent sized

town in France. It was situated under the courtyard of a hotel. The six hundred and forty year old castle. Think about that has been confirmed as the Chateau de Hermin. It was built in the thirteen eighties. Think about that for a second, by John six the Conquer, John six, the Conquer. Between these spring in autumn of last year, they say that the archaeologist, the excavation people carried out an

excavation by the National Institute of Preventative Archaeological Research. That's a mouthful in rap is what they're called in rap And they uncovered it. So my question, and I did not read the whole story, maybe it's in here rob and if somebody knows the answer is like, how does that stuff happen? Like how does that much dirt? Did they just bury the castles back in the like the fifteen hundreds they say, all right, we're done with this castle, let's just put a bunch of dirt on top of it.

Or did land just move around that much? Was there massive earthquakes or something like? How does that much dirt get on top of a chateau. I'd love to know that. I guess I could go down a rabbit hole and figure it out myself, but it's more fun just to have you do the work for me. It is crazy, though, And then what do you do with it? Do they just leave it and then have like a doorway where you can go down and check out the chateau of

John six the Conqueror. Good nicknames? Good nicknames they had back in the thirteen hundreds, John six the conquer I wonder, though, did they call them by those names or are those names that were given to them long after their death? Did you have to address John six the Conqueror? Please hello John six the Conqueror. Could you call them John? I don't know. A guy named Dallas writes in on the mailbag on the fifth hour. Dallas is from Ohio,

which is rather odd because he's named Dallas. Anyway, he says, hey, guys, I know Danny's a big fan of these I'm assuming you are too as well, Ben, but they're dead. He's talking about leggings story here says sales overall are dropping for the leggings very popular with the ladies. Lulu Man laid off one hundred and fifty people in June, I say,

for a variety of reasons. However, these sales of leggings have gone down to the point now according to this story that Dallas sent that if you're spotted wearing leggings, that you're considered a boomer. So Dallas is Ben and Danny, are you mourning the loss of these leggings? Well, Dallas, first of all, boots on the ground, traveling around, going around to different locations. This story is bull pucky. Bull Pucky is what I don't buy it. I don't buy it.

Lulu Man, the overpriced clothing store. Have they laid off people? It's possible, possible people aren't spending the money on their product. In terms of seeing leggings, I see them all over the place. I don't what has replaced the legging because when I go out, I notice it's hard not to notice. In certain locations there's a lot of people wearing leggings. So I don't buy it, at least not where I am. Maybe in Ohio or Arkansas or Kentucky or Tennessee. I

don't I'm not there. I just know based on my experience. This is seems like total nonsense. That's what it sounds like to me. All right. Next up, Louis from k C rights in and he says, it's a new year, Ben, and that means new names. Are you on board with the TikTok name game? All right? So Louis sends, there's a lot of words. Louis, there's too many words. Just sum it up in a couple of sentences. My man,

let me skim through this, blah blah. So this story claims that, according to a baby naming website, the young young people in their twenties having kids are dumping the traditional.

whatever it is. You know, you called the name a kid, and then you hope the kid likes the name, and if not, they'll change the name and they'll call them they'll be called by nicknames. But I will tell you it's a curse to put on a kid. When you give a kid a name that is not a standard name, that's got a weird spelling, it becomes a huge issue in school, you know. You know what I'm saying. Louis you feel me on that. Yeah, Like you know, because I don't say it, I don't spell it, you know.

And then also when you go on vacation with the family and you try to get one of those do they still have those little license plates or the key chains with your name on it? And then you're like, hey, can I can I get a key chain with my name on it when I go to Disney World? Well, no, no, you can't, because you've got like extra vowels in there, and there's extra thing Ama Jigs and the dew Hickeys and all that. They don't have that. So okay, Adam

from Viva Las Vegas. Adam writes in he says, Ben and Danny, I know it's this is not a sporty podcast, he says, but I had a sports question. So what is your take on the Micah Parsons versus Jerry Jones battle? All right, so I did see this, Adam. I'm not completely blocked off from the sporting world, and we'll be back tonight doing the radio show live for the first

time in twenty twenty six. And so Micah Parsons was laughing because Matt eber Flews, the defensive coordinator at least for today of the Dallas Cowboys, made some comment about how one of the reasons I'm paraphrasing this, Adam, So I know I'm not getting exactly right, but as I understand it, Michah Parsons was goofing on Matt Eberflus, who made it seem like, well, if I only had Michael Parsons, the Cowboys defense would have been much better this year.

Blah blah blah, blah blah. And then Parsons came out and says, you want me to feel bad, and then he said Jerry Jones slandered his name to the Cowboys media and national media for months, and then he went on and said a bunch of other stuff. So now, Jerry Jones, I believe he confirmed this on one of his radio shows that he does this week, this past week. I'm pretty sure that Jerry confirmed this, and Jerry's excited.

The Cowboys play their final game of the season today and that means that tomorrow they become the top story again. That it's no longer about the games, It's about will Jerry keep Dak Prescott, Will Jerry fire this guy? Well, you keep the coaching staff and all that stuff. But in terms of Michael Parsons, yeah, I mean that's how all of this works. I learned this years ago with the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. Whenever they got rid of a popular player, they would always

conveniently leak stories trashing the player. And this goes back many, many many years and the Dallas Cowboys. All these teams do the same playbook. You have a popular player, why would you get rid of a popular player? The fan base loved Micah Parsons. He loved playing video games and doing cheesy podcasts with the fan base, and so like

you get rid of that guy. He's been productive, although a stat bandito, as we have pointed out on the radio show, if you're gonna get rid of a guy like that, you have to I ans some stories to make it look a little little shady, and so they all do it. Everyone is doing it, Timothy from Boca. But I don't feel bad for Micah Parsons. He wanted to get the bag. He got the bag. Now he's got to live in northern Wisconsin. I hope he enjoys

visiting with my brother eating cheese curts. Timothy from Boca writes in another sporty question, says, my Dolphins have hired Troy Aikman as a consultant to try to find their new general manager, Ben and Danny. Should I trust Troy Aikman? All right? So, Timothy, my response is this is one of the great empty gigs of all time. I've worked in radio and broadcasting my entire adult life, and every once in a while I will get an email from a consultant or I'll get dragged into a meeting with

a consultant. Now it doesn't happen very much anymore, so I feel like I'm allowed to just unload. I want to be a consultant. It is like the job that Kawhi Leonard had where he didn't have to do anything and he's got paid a bunch of money to talk about green stuff. It's a no show job. It's a no show job. There's no price to pay. It's like consultant comes in like treeatman comes ins. All right, I'm

gonna interview candidates. I would assume talk to people, recommend people for the dolphin job, Timothy, and then he'll hire the the boob. Some boob comes in there. I'll hire that person and then it's like, okay, that's that's fine. And then the person sucks and Aikman's back on Monday Night football and there's no accountability. There's none of that's I'd love to be a consultant. It would be great. Sign me up for that. You'll pay me a lot

of money and I'll give you advice. I give advice anyway. I get paid, not tons of money, but I get paid enough. I'll take a big check and I'll be your consultant. What a gig that is. Mike from so Cal Right saying on the mail bag questions, thank you guys. If you want to send questions in for a future edition of the mail Bag, you can do that real fifth hour at gmail dot com. That's real fifth hour at gmail dot com. And Mike says, Ben, I voted for you as the national sportscaster there. I did a

write in ballot. Unfortunately, Sean McDonough won the award. How come you never win these things? Well, congratulations to Sean McDonough for winning the award. I saw him call the which game was that? Old miss? And Georgia Georgia saw that. Well, the reason, Mike, is that I don't win these things is I don't really think about them. I don't know about them, and I'm not part of the cabal of sports media. You have the haves and the have nots.

You've got the cool kids and the non cool kids, and typically it's the same five to ten people that win these awards. They just rotate it. They just rotate it, and that's how that goes. That's how that goes. So Kirby from Phoenix Rights and I was actually in Phoenix I talked about that the other day on the podcast Kirby from Phoenix Rights and it says, Ben, have you you have some let me do that over. Kirby says, Ben, you have said you have issues sleeping? Will you be

turning to micro dosing. So this is a term that seems to be becoming very popular recently, micro dosing. This is according to Kirby here says microdosing psychedelics improves the quality of sleep. Small amounts of psychedelics could assist individuals sleeping and creating a healthier lifestyle. Yeah, sure, sure, Kirby. I'll talk to my doctor Jed who fled. I'll get him to send me some stuff or hollering James and

I'll be I'll be good to go on that. I want to thank who else cash JJ from the Bay And there's a few other emails we did not have time to get to. However, I got things to do. I gotta watch football today and then be back in the Magic Radio Box tonight for a little radio fun. We'll be here all week on the radio show eleven pm in the West, two am on Monday morning in the East. Four hours of live talk radio. The good, the Bad, the ugly this, that and the other thing.

We got you covered, a full retrospective on the NFL regular season coming to an end, and we'll get you ready for the playoffs as well. Have a wonderful, wonderful, glorious the rest of your Sunday, and I will talk to you a little bit later on hours and hours, unless you're listening to this after the fact, and then I've already done that. But you get the deal, right, Yeah, all right, got a murder. I gotta go.