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.

The fifth hour back at it on a Friday the eighth day of December.

We're hanging out with you here because five nights a week, not enough on the overnight.

And Ben Mallor hanging out with Danny, hello, Danny.

Welcome.

Good morning.

Yeah, it's so early on a Friday that I was trying to turn a heater on in the

garage. Well, as you know, we do these tire rack commercials, and part of the copy is the

terrible winter weather that we have in California, in L.A., how bad it is. And really,

is that wintery mix that we get in California where it occasionally gets down to

like 50 degrees or something like that.

It's a real problem.

I thought you were going to tell me to burn some tires in the grudge.

Oh, no.

Listen, if you want me, I can do a tire rack commercial now if you want.

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