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The Fifth Hour: Names That'll Live Forever · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the clearinghouse
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  Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
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  Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio,
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  Speaker 3: who will be producing this podcast. He'll join me later
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  Speaker 3: in the weekend when I don't know, probably tomorrow, probably tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: But here we are.
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  Speaker 3: We've made it to the end of the week. It
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  Speaker 3: is the seventh day of March, a big day for me.
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  Speaker 3: We usually begin these podcasts reacting to the dope holidays
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  Speaker 3: that they have every day, and today is National Ben Day,
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  Speaker 3: a day all about Ben.
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  Speaker 1: You have got to be kidding me, How great is that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What a dumb holiday? Anyway, I do have some fun
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  Speaker 3: facts about the name Ben. It's not a popular name.
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  Speaker 3: It was never a popular name in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Back in the I guess in the eighteen eighties, way
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  Speaker 3: before we were around, it was it was one of
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  Speaker 3: the ten most popular names in the United States. But
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  Speaker 3: as of the last survey of names available a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years back, the name Ben was ranked seven hundred
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  Speaker 3: and seventieth, so that that's not good. But outside of
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  Speaker 3: America it's it's popular in Germany, of all places, the
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  Speaker 3: name Ben ranked in the top thirty five. Also very
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  Speaker 3: popular in Ireland. About that Germany was in a seventh place.
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  Speaker 3: Ireland it was in like thirty second place. And so
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  Speaker 3: the name Ben, which the most famous band the founding father,
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  Speaker 3: one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin,
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  Speaker 3: the first Postmaster General in the US back in seventeen
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  Speaker 3: seventy five. Now, there were some other things that stood
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  Speaker 3: out that I would like to share with the class
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  Speaker 3: because it's kind of amusing. Today is National be Heard Day,
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  Speaker 3: and it's National Day of Unplugging, So you have a
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  Speaker 3: day to be heard and a day to not pay
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  Speaker 3: attention to anybody. That's the same day, which is wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm told National be Heard Day is a chance
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  Speaker 3: for small business owners to have their voices heard. So
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  Speaker 3: you're supposed to encourage people that work in small businesses
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  Speaker 3: to stand up for themselves and be heard and all
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  Speaker 3: that and fight against the big companies. But then you
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  Speaker 3: have National Day of Unplugging, which should be on the weekends.
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  Speaker 1: It should not be on a Friday. You can say
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  Speaker 1: the weekend begins.
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  Speaker 3: Today because it is Friday, the National Unplugging Day. It
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  Speaker 3: became a global day just a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 3: so it's one of these for gazzy holidays that hasn't
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  Speaker 3: been around that long.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: This weekend, I believe on Saturday, in the Sunday early
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  Speaker 3: in the morning, it is the daylight saving time jump.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta spring forward, and that'll be on Sunday in
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  Speaker 3: the wee hours of the morning, and that the early
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  Speaker 3: sunsets the end of winter and early sunsets, and that
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  Speaker 3: means the sun will be out a little bit later.
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  Speaker 1: Now. I have been reading a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Things that one of the things that the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: is considering doing here.
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was took an Act.
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  Speaker 3: Of Congress, but apparently the president can sway Congress is
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  Speaker 3: to decide whether or not they're going to just stick
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  Speaker 3: to one time, which I'm all for.
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  Speaker 1: And this was actually something my dad.
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  Speaker 3: Was a big advocate of and there were a couple
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  Speaker 3: of points before my dad checked out, where it looked
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  Speaker 3: like this was going to happen, and it never actually
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  Speaker 3: took place. But it seems like Trump's only gonna be
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  Speaker 3: president for a few more years and then he's done,
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  Speaker 3: and so he's trying to pack everything in he can.
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  Speaker 1: And Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 3: Was he the first Buddy or something, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: whatever they're calling him, whatever dopey name they gave him,
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  Speaker 3: But he was running a survey over on X and
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  Speaker 3: trying to get people to decide whether they wanted the
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  Speaker 3: permanent clock to go if Daylight Saving US time changed,
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  Speaker 3: if it was canceled. Do you want an hour earlier
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  Speaker 3: an hour later of sunlight? And I don't know why
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  Speaker 3: you would want an hour earlier of sunlight. Most people
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  Speaker 3: would rather go out and do stuff after work and
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  Speaker 3: have the sun up a little bit later. I would think, right,
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  Speaker 3: it's common sense. But I wouldn't care either way as
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  Speaker 3: long as you don't change it. And I used to
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  Speaker 3: do the weekend overnight show in my early days at
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  Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio, and when we went back, I remember
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  Speaker 3: one year I was doing like a five hour live
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  Speaker 3: show on the weekends overnight, and so that five hour
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  Speaker 3: live show went to six hours, and then on the
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  Speaker 3: flip side when we lost an hour, and then it
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  Speaker 3: was obviously down the other direction. But I recall spending
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years actually doing like six hours, which
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  Speaker 3: was a lot by yourself, and then when I ended
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  Speaker 3: up doing a weekend show with Looney Tunes, we did
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  Speaker 3: like six seven hours pretty much every Sunday on the Blitz.
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  Speaker 3: It was an all day into the night type situation
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  Speaker 3: back then. Now on this edition of The Fifth Hour,
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  Speaker 3: we have the return of the phrase of the Week
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to start though with the postgame cover.
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  Speaker 3: So now I know the Bennys were back at the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the week, back on Sunday night in the
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  Speaker 3: Monday early Monday morning.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't want to do old broadcasting.
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  Speaker 3: I did want to go over some of the numbers
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  Speaker 3: now that we've had some days to let everything settle
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  Speaker 3: in and process the Benny Awards, and so I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to hold your hand and walk you through this and
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  Speaker 3: kind of go over everything again.
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  Speaker 1: If you miss the Benny Awards.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of the most downloaded podcasts that we have
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  Speaker 3: every year, and certainly this quarter of the year. We
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  Speaker 3: have the Benny Awards, which took place back on Monday,
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  Speaker 3: and then the big event of the next quarter of
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  Speaker 3: the year, which goes into the summer, is the Malard Palooza,
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  Speaker 3: which will be taking place sometime around Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 3: it's all Star break. So I want to spend a
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  Speaker 3: couple of good minutes here going over the Benny Awards,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll give you who finished in first, second, and third,
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  Speaker 3: third place in all of the various categories. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think I'm going to give who finished in last because
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't really I don't want to pick on people
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  Speaker 3: for finishing in last place.
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  Speaker 1: But great voter turnout, very passionate.
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  Speaker 3: I did get the normal emails from people saying, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I really like your show. It's not fair
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  Speaker 3: I should have won, or people upset they didn't get nominated.
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  Speaker 3: Even I didn't get as many messages from people who
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  Speaker 3: lost as I have in the past, but I got
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  Speaker 3: this similar amount of people complaining it's not fair and
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  Speaker 3: I should have been nominated. They give me the whole resume,
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  Speaker 3: and I understand you're a fan of the show and
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  Speaker 3: you want to be recognized. I get it, but we
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  Speaker 3: can't recognize everyone otherwise, what's the point, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't give out participation trophies and all that, so ixnay
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  Speaker 3: on the message A and I think some of you
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  Speaker 3: just did this to troll me. I'm convinced that there's
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  Speaker 3: a certain percentage of you idiots that were just setting
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  Speaker 3: me messages because you just wanted to bust my balls,
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  Speaker 3: which fine, mission accomplished. Pat yourself on the back, congratulations,
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  Speaker 3: A way to go, so again, I'll work you through
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  Speaker 3: this year and the Benny Awards. Back on Monday, we
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  Speaker 3: had the Rookie Caller of the Year. Now, as you
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  Speaker 3: might remember, Mike the Leprechaun from Boston won and he
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  Speaker 3: won by a pretty wide margin. Finishing in second place
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  Speaker 3: was our friend Kelly in des Moines formerly in Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly and Shane in des Moines are a couple. They're
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  Speaker 3: going to be getting married at some point here. And
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  Speaker 3: Kelly's got a bun in the oven, so they've got that.
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  Speaker 1: Working for him.
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  Speaker 3: And in third place, I thought he would have done
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  Speaker 3: better than this because of the name Danny DeVito. So
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  Speaker 3: Danny DeVito finished in third place in Rookie Caller of
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  Speaker 3: the Year. So those are the top three the game
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  Speaker 3: show contested of the year, and this was the Secretariat,
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  Speaker 3: a domination situation for our guy, Manuel and Guardina, who
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  Speaker 3: got the largest margin of vote in any category. For
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  Speaker 3: Game Show Contestant of the Year, he won going away.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly and the Moine finished second. So that's two runner
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  Speaker 3: ups in two categories. On the Bennies for Kelly in
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  Speaker 3: the Moines, she was in second place and in third
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  Speaker 3: place was Chris in Boston, and Chris and Boston did split.
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  Speaker 3: He did split the vote with Chris in Massachusetts, Chris
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  Speaker 3: and the Commonwealth, And if you would combine those votes,
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  Speaker 3: they would not have won, but.
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  Speaker 1: They would have finished ahead of Kelly in the Moine.
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  Speaker 3: But if ifs and butts were candy and nuts, everyone
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  Speaker 3: would win to Betty.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not the way it works.
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  Speaker 3: The next category, Lame Jokes Contributor of the Year, another
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  Speaker 3: domination situation not as pronounced as Manuel and Guardian, but
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  Speaker 3: Surfer Todd, the Comedian, a fan favorite. Surfer Todd did
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  Speaker 3: it again quite the character there as he ran away
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  Speaker 3: with the voting, finishing in second place. Kurt from Earth
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  Speaker 3: finished in second, and Chip in Maine was in third place.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations to all of the joke writers.
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  Speaker 1: I know some of you guys were upset that you
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  Speaker 1: didn't get nominated.
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  Speaker 3: We have a lot of joke writers, George and Uvaldi
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  Speaker 3: for example, who did not get nominated, a regular joke writer,
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  Speaker 3: several others who have been with me a long time
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  Speaker 3: and unfortunately did not get the nomination. But that's the
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  Speaker 3: top three in that category. Game Lame Joe Contributor of
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  Speaker 3: the Year. The next category up is the ask Ben
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  Speaker 3: Questions hashtag asked Bean.
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  Speaker 1: And the top three in this category.
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  Speaker 3: That's very close category the Asked Ben Questions and Alf
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  Speaker 3: the Alien.
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  Speaker 1: Ol piner one.
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  Speaker 3: He won by eleven votes over his nemesis, Ferg Dog
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  Speaker 3: from Fullerton the Winter Wonderland of Fullerton, so Alf won
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  Speaker 3: by eleven votes. Ferg Doog was in second, and then
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  Speaker 3: just behind Ferg Doog was Late Night Drug Tester. So
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  Speaker 3: those are the top three in the ass Ben category.
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  Speaker 3: The top crew fill In which was very very competitive,
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  Speaker 3: and we had Milkman Mike, first ever non employee to
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  Speaker 3: win Crew fill in Milkman Mike as fake weed Man.
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  Speaker 1: He ended up winning the vote. In second place was.
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  Speaker 3: The No Show Brian no so Brian no fills in
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  Speaker 3: for me when I'm inappropriate away from my post. Brian
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  Speaker 3: Noah was in second place, and then in third we
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  Speaker 3: have Bernie Fratto Bernie Weekend at Bernie's, who just edged
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  Speaker 3: out Brie very close, just a few votes. So that's
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  Speaker 3: a pretty big surprise of the breed doing very well
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  Speaker 3: considering she only filled in a few times and Bernie
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  Speaker 3: and obviously Brian filled in more than anybody when I
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  Speaker 3: was away.
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  Speaker 1: We're recapping the twenty twenty five Benny's the.
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  Speaker 3: Top three drop of the year, and I ended up
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  Speaker 3: winning with give Me a Little Taste of That d
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  Speaker 3: and that was not very close. A second place was Loraina,
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  Speaker 3: the first runner up for Drop of the Year with
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  Speaker 3: the pickle SoundBite, and in third place and should have
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  Speaker 3: won the benny Hollering James, who not only not only
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  Speaker 3: as an epic snorre, but he proved that he can
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  Speaker 3: test the boundaries of the human body as he snored
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  Speaker 3: and farted at the same time on the air. And
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  Speaker 3: how that does not win a benny. I would like
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  Speaker 3: to have a word with the electorate, like, how do
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  Speaker 3: you not give that benny for Drop of the Year?
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  Speaker 3: To Hollering James, So but didn't happen anyway, I won it.
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  Speaker 3: Loreno was second, and Hollering James finished a distant third
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  Speaker 3: for that particular Benny Award. As the crow flies as
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  Speaker 3: they say, whoever they are. From drop of the year,
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  Speaker 3: we go to the blind Caller of the Year, the
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  Speaker 3: blind Caller of the Year, and this category went to
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  Speaker 3: blind Scott who dominated. Blind Scott has been over the
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  Speaker 3: top and very aggressive on our show. Now Blind Scott
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  Speaker 3: one got forty four percent of the popular vote in
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  Speaker 3: second place. It was a distant second place, but Inca
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  Speaker 3: Terror pretty impressive considering Inca doesn't call the show very much,
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  Speaker 3: but he was part of the Mallard Palooza, has been
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  Speaker 3: part of that off and on for a number of years.
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  Speaker 3: And in third place another guy that doesn't really call
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  Speaker 3: the show that much anymore, Emmett, the blind Seahawk Fan.
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  Speaker 3: So that was the top three in the blind community
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  Speaker 3: and Emmett finishing in third, edging out who did he
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  Speaker 3: j he had that legally blind Christopher and also Stevie
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  Speaker 3: Meatball's intentional caller or intentional Hello. International Caller of the
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  Speaker 3: Year said the guy with the microphone it's early.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want? International Caller of the Year.
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  Speaker 3: Very competitive category in in fact, the difference between first
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  Speaker 3: place and second place was four votes, even closer than
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  Speaker 3: the Caller of the Year, and congratulations to Ozzie was
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  Speaker 3: as he ended up winning at Ozzie was in Western Australia.
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  Speaker 3: He's the guy that bought the satellite hookup from Elon
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  Speaker 3: Musk so he could support the show. And Ozzie wise
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  Speaker 3: ended up winning by four votes over Ozzie momentum. It's
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  Speaker 3: all Ozzie all the time, but Ozzie was over Ozzie momentum.
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  Speaker 3: Finishing in third place was in a surprise Otto Bon
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  Speaker 3: Butch finished barely ahead of Terry in England and the
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  Speaker 3: difference between those two was also four votes, so very
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  Speaker 3: close voting for International Caller of the Year. And now
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  Speaker 3: the gentleman who finished in third Autobon Butch is not
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  Speaker 3: eligible now he moved back to the States, so he
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  Speaker 3: will no longer be eligib for International Caller of the Year.
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  Speaker 1: The Intoxicated Caller of the Year.
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  Speaker 3: A domination also that went to Jed who fled who
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  Speaker 3: won you might remember we talked about that, but in
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  Speaker 3: second place, very impressive from Lost Wages, Nevada. Mouthwash Mike,
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  Speaker 3: Mouthwash Mike is a big fan. He's from the Midwest.
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  Speaker 3: He's lived on the streets of Vegas for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Every radio show needs a lot of good homeless guys
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  Speaker 3: calling the show, so Mouthwash Mike lives on the streets
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  Speaker 3: in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: He came to the mallor meet and greet, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't need to get.
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  Speaker 3: Into the Story's kind of obvious why he drinks mouthwash.
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  Speaker 3: And he's the guy that swims in the fountains at
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  Speaker 3: the Blagio. But he didn't call that much and he
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  Speaker 3: ended up finishing in second place over Keg Drinking Steve,
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  Speaker 3: the delusional over the top Canza City Chiefs fan Keg
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  Speaker 3: Drinking Steve, who finished in third place. The female caller
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  Speaker 3: of the another domination. Congratulations to all of the women.
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  Speaker 3: Now this is a category. If you're trying to sneak in,
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to sneak in and win a Beny Award,
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  Speaker 3: this is the category for you because there's not that
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  Speaker 3: much competition.
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  Speaker 1: But those that do take part.
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  Speaker 3: The women that do take part very good callers, and
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  Speaker 3: they love the show and they support the show and
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  Speaker 3: congratulations to Andrea again the Astrology Ladies, she finished in
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  Speaker 3: first place. She got over forty percent of the popular
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  Speaker 3: vote in second place, and that's her third second place.
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  Speaker 3: She's like the bride'smaid, which is ironic. She's getting married,
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  Speaker 3: but she's the bridesmaid. For the Beny Awards. Kelly and
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  Speaker 3: des Moines finished in second place, followed by Tammy in Montana,
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  Speaker 3: which is also very impressive that Tammy and Montana finished
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  Speaker 3: in third place considering the fact that Tammy rarely calls
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  Speaker 3: the show. She loves the show and she's still listens
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  Speaker 3: to the show, but she's unable to call the show
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  Speaker 3: much because of her her work situation.
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  Speaker 1: But she finished in third place. The Beer Drinking.
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  Speaker 3: Brian Worst Caller of the Year, the worst caller of
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  Speaker 3: the Year, and this category again very competitive category. Why
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't it be and we have a lot of worst callers.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have that many good callers. So the category
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  Speaker 3: named after beer drinking Brian, who passed away a few
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  Speaker 3: years back with half Pint, one of the great characters
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  Speaker 3: in the history of the Ben Mallor Show.
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  Speaker 1: And we do miss beer drinking Brian.
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  Speaker 3: He loved the show so much he could not stop drinking,
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  Speaker 3: and it unfortunately did him in the winner though of
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  Speaker 3: this category and back to back championships for Poppy in
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  Speaker 3: San Diego, who continues to be the biggest winner in
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  Speaker 3: the history of San Diego Sports. I don't know about sports
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  Speaker 3: in general, but at least sports radio Poppy in San Diego,
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  Speaker 3: who got thirty six percent of the vote in a
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  Speaker 3: ridiculously competitive category. And Poppy ended up getting thirty six
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  Speaker 3: percent of the vote now finishing in second place, was
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  Speaker 3: hollering James, So congratulations, hollering James, you're the first runner up.
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  Speaker 3: And what that means if somehow Poppy becomes a good caller,
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  Speaker 3: then we have to bump up. Bump it up. Now,
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  Speaker 3: bump it up. We will have to bump up, hollering James. So, James,
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  Speaker 3: you should be hoping that Poppy in San Diego becomes
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  Speaker 3: a good caller, because then you become the new beer
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  Speaker 3: drinking Brian worst caller of the year. And in third
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  Speaker 3: place Mike the Leprechaun. So, Mike, you got some work
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  Speaker 3: to do. Good luck. That is a surprise that Mike
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  Speaker 3: the Leprechaun finished ahead head of Gunner in Minnesota and
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  Speaker 3: also Jerome and Charleston, but particularly Gunner in Minnesota because
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  Speaker 3: his calls he's like a young poppy Gunner from the
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  Speaker 3: break room at the Walmart and he's on that same trajectory,
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  Speaker 3: if you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: All right, the final, Final, Final, Final.
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  Speaker 3: Category to break down for you on our postgame coverage
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  Speaker 3: made possible by Nobody the twenty twenty five Genie in
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  Speaker 3: Medford Haller of the Year. Before I get into this,
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  Speaker 3: I did want to take care of some business. I
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  Speaker 3: mentioned on the radio show that there's a park. I
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: mentioned this every so often, there's a park in LA.
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  Speaker 3: It actually came up from Lorena and she mentioned there's
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  Speaker 3: a Swan boat park. It's near Dodger Stadium in LA.
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  Speaker 3: And I had mentioned that there's a plaque that is
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  Speaker 3: dedicated to Genie in Medford. And I got an email
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  Speaker 3: from a guy who says I wasn't listening. I've heard
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  Speaker 3: you talk about Genie and Medfor'm a fan of the
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  Speaker 3: show and be in LA for work in the month
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  Speaker 3: of April next month, and I wanted to know what
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  Speaker 3: this was all about. And so I wrote back and
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  Speaker 3: I explained to the guy, and then I got another
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  Speaker 3: email from somebody who lives in LA who wanted to
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  Speaker 3: go check out check out the sign and as I
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  Speaker 3: was flattered and stuff, So I'll just throw it out here.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of years back, been a minute, Genie and
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  Speaker 3: Medford passed away. She was a beloved caller on the show.
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  Speaker 3: People could not get enough of Genie in Medford. She
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: was such a character and beloved right, and she was
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  Speaker 3: pretty sick and she didn't call for a while at
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  Speaker 3: the end, and when she passed away, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: mentioned the passing of people. We try to help them
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  Speaker 3: out their families and whatnot. But Jeanie was such a
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  Speaker 3: beloved caller to the show and she lived a very
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  Speaker 3: lonely life. She had kids, but they didn't really talk
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  Speaker 3: to her that much, and she was kind of on
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  Speaker 3: her own. And it was a sad story, right. It
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: was a sad story that happens to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just her. But she was a friend of
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  Speaker 3: ours and one of the reasons she kept calling the
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  Speaker 3: shows because she didn't have any friends. And so we
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  Speaker 3: embraced Genie and Medford, and when she passed away, we
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: were overwhelmed. We were just trying to get some money
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  Speaker 3: to pay for her funeral expenses and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: And we had so much love for Genie.
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  Speaker 3: People that never call the show, people that never send
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: messages into the show, and they're like, oh, you know Genie, really,
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  Speaker 3: you know, cheered up my day and all the stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And it's the power of the spoken word, the power
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  Speaker 3: of the late night You never know who's listening. These
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: are people that likely will never interact with the show ever.
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  Speaker 3: They're just listen and they're driving to work or driving
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: home from work, and that's it. So we had extra money,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: and so we thought we wanted you know, I forget
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  Speaker 3: who's I mean it was Tammy and Montana. So some
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  Speaker 3: came up with the idea and like, let's do something
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  Speaker 3: to remember Genie because she wasn't being buried in a cemetery.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of those deals.
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  Speaker 3: And so who visits cemeteries, right, Most people don't. But
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  Speaker 3: one day of the year, the day of the Dad,
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  Speaker 3: you might go and do that. But other than that, no,
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  Speaker 3: So this is at the Swan Boat Park. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: near Dodger Stadium, right near the one oh one freeway
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  Speaker 3: in La I actually go by there every time I
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  Speaker 3: drive into the.
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports radio studios.
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  Speaker 3: I have to drive by that on the one oh one,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm driving by that a few days a week
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  Speaker 3: on my way into the studio, and I've not been
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  Speaker 3: there in a while. I was there originally around COVID time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a doctor, and it was it was bad.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there were homeless people everywhere. I thought the
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  Speaker 3: thing would be ripped off and gone. And then we
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  Speaker 3: went back, maybe two years ago, we stopped by and
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  Speaker 3: it was still there and it was all awesome. And
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  Speaker 3: so that is why we named the caller of the
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  Speaker 3: Year after Jeanie and Medford just a wonderful, wonderful caller
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  Speaker 3: to talk radio. Now, as for the meat of the matter,
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  Speaker 3: we mentioned very competitive, very close vote here, congratulations again
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  Speaker 3: to marcel in Brooklyn the caller of the year. So
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  Speaker 3: he ended up winning in a uber competitive vote. He
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: finished ahead of weed Man Hibbie by seven votes. That's
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: a seven votes. Jed who fled finished in third place,
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  Speaker 3: so congratulations to him and everyone else who took part
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  Speaker 3: in that. But those are the top three, So congratulations
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  Speaker 3: to everybody. And you know, I didn't say your name here,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: and it doesn't matter. You were in the running, and
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  Speaker 3: that's all that matters, and there's people upset that you
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: were there and they weren't there, and they're pissed off
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: and they were like what about us? You know all
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: that stuff. So you got that going for you as well. Now,
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  Speaker 3: time now for the phrase of the week.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, the phrase of the week.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought it would be appropriate as this we
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: recap the Benny Awards today, it would be appropriate if
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: we went with the short end of the stick. That
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  Speaker 3: is the phrase of the week, the short end of
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  Speaker 3: the stick. Now, the reason we're doing that is because
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: again a number of you idiots, so I got the
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  Speaker 3: short end of the stick and all this. So this
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  Speaker 3: origin story, there's a couple of different versions of the
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  Speaker 3: phrase short end of the stick. Now, the one that
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: seems the most plausible goes all the way back to
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  Speaker 3: the Middle Ages, right all the way back to the
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  Speaker 3: Middle Ages. And just like now, if you're wealthy, things
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: are easier for you. So in the Middle Ages, if
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: you're wealthy, the people that had the gold, the wealthier
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: people cleaned themselves with rags and they after using the
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  Speaker 3: privy the poorer people use leaves on a kind of
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  Speaker 3: a curved stick, a goom stick. I think is how
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  Speaker 3: you pronounce it. I believe I'm saying that right. I
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  Speaker 3: might be butchering it, but who knows. Just google it
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  Speaker 3: g o MPF. So this stick had a slightly curved
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  Speaker 3: end to it. You held onto the straight part and
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  Speaker 3: you clean your toukis and use the short curved part,
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  Speaker 3: so as you might imagine connecting the dots here. Don Yeah,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: anyone who's not paying attention back in the Middle Ages,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of goofing around. Maybe they're looking.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: At their iPhone or reading a book or things that
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  Speaker 3: didn't exist. But anyone not paying attention when going to
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: reach for this this goop stick, well they ended up
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  Speaker 3: grabbing the short end of the stick. And it was
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  Speaker 3: not not a pleasant experience, understand, not a pleasant experience, yes,
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  Speaker 3: not not the good and not the good at all.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: All right, that is that we'll put the pod to bed.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Danny should be with me for the Saturday podcast. He
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: should be here for the mailbag as well. But we'll
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: have that. We'll deal with it when we get to it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Have a wonderful rest of your Friday. Thank you for
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: supporting the original Recipe podcast, this fifth Hour podcast, and
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: we have new pods all weekend long, all weekend long.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Another one drops tomorrow and then obviously on Sunday, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: then we're back at it on the original recipe podcast,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: The Overnight Show, The Ben Mahler Show, which will be
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday night into Monday, and we will
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: talk to you then later skater aasta pasta Yeah, Danny,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: he's shaking his head.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Yes, wrong, gotta murder, I gotta go