If you thought four hours a day, 1,200 minutes a week was enough, think again.

He's the last remnants of the old republic.

A sole bastion of fairness.

He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse.

Wow.

The clearinghouse of hot takes break free for something special.

The fifth hour with Ben Mallor starts right now.

In the air everywhere.

Welcome and here we go.

It is the fifth hour podcast, which means the weekend is upon us.

I am Ben. Hi. And you likely already know what this podcast is about. Now, my man, Dan E.G.

is on assignment, hard at work, doing stuff with the Covino and Rich show so he will return to the Saturday podcast

he'll be back tomorrow but we wanted to get the weekend started you just have to settle for me

yeah Danny G here I'm still producing this bad boy it's it's just is the second day of February.

And a thing that has become a bit of a tradition here of late on the podcast is to see

what dopy holiday it is today.

Today is not a dopey holiday day today.

We mentioned this on the overnight show.

February 2nd, a massive day for you if you live in a city that actually gets winter.

Because today, you probably already know now, it is Groundhog Day today.

Now, I reference Groundhog Day quite a bit.

Part of the reason I loved the movie named Groundhog Day with Bill Murray back in the day.

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