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The Fifth Hour "Stoned Salmon" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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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 sol fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It's the clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben
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  Speaker 3: Malor and you, as we are together again the magic
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  Speaker 3: of audio content. On this twenty sixth day of April,
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  Speaker 3: day number one sixteen of the year, we'd like to
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  Speaker 3: call the morning after the epic Malard meet and greet. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: what a wonderful day it was in beautiful Newport, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: Now you might think I'm going to regale you with
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  Speaker 3: nothing but stories about how amazing it was to hang
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  Speaker 3: out with the Dixter and Ohio Al and all the legends.
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  Speaker 3: You would be wrong. We're saving that for ratings purposes.
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  Speaker 3: We're saving that for the Friday podcast next week. I
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  Speaker 3: want some time, as Terry in England knows, I like
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  Speaker 3: to decompress with these things. I like to let things
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  Speaker 3: marinate and then and then I will have a full
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  Speaker 3: thorough review of all that went on, all the shenanigans,
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  Speaker 3: all the nonsense that only happened at one of these events.
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  Speaker 3: That's the deal. So we'll get to the main event
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  Speaker 3: here in a moment. It is National Pretzel Day. One
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite treats a pretzel. Love the pretzel. And
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  Speaker 3: at the airport you find an Anti ANNs or Wetzels,
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  Speaker 3: Pretzels or something like that. God's pretty good, however, still
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  Speaker 3: not as good for whatever reason as walking around the
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  Speaker 3: streets of Manhattan and find a cart selling pretzels. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about a pretzel's been sitting out for hours
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  Speaker 3: collecting the grime of New York City. And you put
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  Speaker 3: that and they heat that up for you a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: put a little salt on it, and it's just it
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  Speaker 3: just hits different.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The modern pretzel. I mention this in previous episodes. The
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  Speaker 3: modern pretzel, as we know it is a gift from
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  Speaker 3: the Philadelphia area. Some immigrants came to Philadelphia and they
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  Speaker 3: gave America what is the modern pretzel. So we are
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  Speaker 3: grateful to whoever they were back back in the day
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  Speaker 3: and with that let's bring in the star of the show,
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  Speaker 3: the Great Ohio Al, to get me in the mood.
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  Speaker 3: It's all right, thank you very much, the Great ohio Al.
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  Speaker 3: More on him and more on everything coming up here.
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  Speaker 3: This is the mail Bag edition. Now full disclosure behind
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  Speaker 3: the curtain on the mail Bag. I had planned loosely
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  Speaker 3: to have a celebrity on the mail Bag and I
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  Speaker 3: was asked what time, and I gave a time. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: my schedule is a little wonky, it's all over the place,
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  Speaker 3: and unfortunately just didn't work out for the person I
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  Speaker 3: was hoping to do this with. They bailed on me,
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  Speaker 3: and so I then reached out frantically to a couple
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  Speaker 3: of members of the Malord Militia.
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  Speaker 1: One of them was Terry in England.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, because of the time difference and the logistics of this,
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  Speaker 3: I reached out to Terry.
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  Speaker 1: I'd written to him because he had mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he enjoyed doing the mail Bag and I
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  Speaker 3: really had a great time with Terry and Robbie the
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  Speaker 3: Mariner fan of those guys. It was a lot of
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  Speaker 3: fun and Terry wanted to do it again. I said, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'll have you on again. I'd love to have Robbie
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of the big names who want to
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  Speaker 3: do it. I've been surprised some of you guys don't
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  Speaker 3: want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, hey, I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: For whatever reason. I've been turned down by a couple
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  Speaker 3: of big time members of the Mallard Militia, which I
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  Speaker 3: was both offended by and honored by that. I was
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  Speaker 3: offended they didn't want to do it, and then I
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  Speaker 3: was honored because they think it's so hard they didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to be part of it when it's pretty much
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  Speaker 3: just giving opinions. That's pretty much what this is, just
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  Speaker 3: giving opinions anyway. So the person I was supposed to
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  Speaker 3: do the mail bag with couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: I screwed it up. I messed it up. I gave
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  Speaker 1: a time. I thought there was some wiggle room. There
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  Speaker 1: was no wiggle room.
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  Speaker 3: So then I reached out to Terry and some other
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  Speaker 3: people and nobody.
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  Speaker 1: Got back to me. So here we are, Here we are.
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  Speaker 1: You got the solo edition. It's all Mallor all the time.
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  Speaker 3: You give us thirty minutes, we'll give you nothing but
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  Speaker 3: opinions on the mailbag from OHIOI who got me in
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  Speaker 3: the mood.
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  Speaker 1: First one up is Tony from Sarasota, Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful Sarasota, Florida, one of the great spring training towns
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  Speaker 3: in America. He says, Hey, man, I've been listening to
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  Speaker 3: you since twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, that's.
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  Speaker 3: What do we mean twenty twenty six? That is eleven years.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: How many of the malad militia have you met so far?
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  Speaker 3: He says, you're the Howard Stern of sports radio.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Tony.
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  Speaker 3: I was a Howard Stern listener back in the day
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  Speaker 3: growing up. That is one of the highest compliments you
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  Speaker 3: can give.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I assume Tony, you're talking about pre woke Howard Stern,
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  Speaker 3: when Howard still had his fastball and just delivered a flamethrower.
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  Speaker 3: The Baba Booie Jackie Martling days. That era of the
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  Speaker 3: Stern Show one of the all time greats, if not
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  Speaker 3: the greatest for morning radio.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you get better than that.
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  Speaker 3: And in terms of answering your question, Tony, I haven't
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  Speaker 3: kept track. I have met a number of the bigger
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  Speaker 3: name people that have called the show. Among the current callers,
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  Speaker 3: Blind Scott, who's going through some stuff I've met blind
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  Speaker 3: Scott multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: I've had a few meals with blind Scott in my
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  Speaker 1: travels to Boston. We're going to Boston.
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  Speaker 3: That's the next meet and greet on the agenda, coming
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  Speaker 3: up here in a couple of weeks, which is exciting,
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  Speaker 3: so blind Scott hollering James. I've met Chris and Houston
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  Speaker 3: who's a retired caller now he went to the dreaded
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  Speaker 3: day Shift, Jade Dot in Utah, Queen Roxanne, Robbie the
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  Speaker 3: Mariner fan.
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  Speaker 1: Who else have I met? Trying to think there's a bunch.
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  Speaker 3: There's a bunch, and I don't like I said, I
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  Speaker 3: don't keep a list of it. It's always cool to
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  Speaker 3: go out Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. I met him Al
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  Speaker 3: in Minnesota. He's a big part of the show. He
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  Speaker 3: was out at the Malla meeting we did. And Femi
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  Speaker 3: the Uber each driver. I met a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: guys in Minnesota, a lot of the guys in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: Slug in Vegas, who's been the hostess with the mostess.
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  Speaker 3: He's in great lance the bus driver.
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  Speaker 1: I can go on.
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  Speaker 3: There's a bunch, Ah, Ryan writes in he says, hey, Ben,
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  Speaker 3: this summer I start my internship with the New England
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  Speaker 3: Collegiate Baseball League, hoping to get a job in sports marketing.
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  Speaker 3: This is a big step and a great opportunity for me,
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  Speaker 3: but I am nervous since I feel like you have
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  Speaker 3: done an internship before. Do you have any advice for me?
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  Speaker 3: I'm also an introvert like you. Anyway, I hope to
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  Speaker 3: see anyway. I hope to see you in Worcester for
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  Speaker 3: the meet and get well. I plan on being there, Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: So if you're there, we'll hang out. Unless something goes.
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  Speaker 1: Hey wire, We'll be there, We'll hang out, we'll catch up.
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  Speaker 3: So the internship thing, and I'm not sure how is
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  Speaker 3: today because I was an intern a long time ago.
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  Speaker 3: I interned at a radio station called the Mighty six ninety,
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  Speaker 3: which was a border blaster.
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  Speaker 1: Station in San Diego.
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  Speaker 3: The transmitter was in Baja California, and when I interned,
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  Speaker 3: Steve Hartman was doing a show with this guy I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Chet forty, who was the producer of.
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  Speaker 3: Monday Night Football back when Howard Cosell was on Monday
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  Speaker 3: Night Football, legendary sportscaster.
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  Speaker 1: They were on there.
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  Speaker 3: I interned for Lee Hacksaw Hamilton, who was a San
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  Speaker 3: Diego radio legend, and Jim Rome was doing a local
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  Speaker 3: show just becoming a syndicated radio personality at that time.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a long time ago and my fellow interns,
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  Speaker 3: some of the guys I interned with have gone on
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  Speaker 3: and had major crews. I always believe there are going
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  Speaker 3: to be some of the people that you're around, Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: who will go on and run baseball teams or football teams.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to happen. One of the people I interned
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  Speaker 3: with is a major executive at Fox Sports Television. Now
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  Speaker 3: I work for iHeart and Fox Sports Radio and all that,
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  Speaker 3: but it's really an iHeart operation. This guy has been
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  Speaker 3: one of the key studio people helping out like right
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  Speaker 3: now he helps out David Ortiz and Jeter and those
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  Speaker 3: guys on the MLB pregame. But he's had major typ
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  Speaker 3: He worked at ESPN for a long time. Not only guys.
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  Speaker 3: Is a sports executive with the team I will not name.
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  Speaker 3: So these guys will go on, and so you do
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  Speaker 3: want to form friends, and I know it's tough as
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  Speaker 3: an introvert and all that, but the next wave is
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  Speaker 3: in that group, like the next wave of people that
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  Speaker 3: will go on and do stuff. So just kind of
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  Speaker 3: fake it till you make it. That's my advice, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because you're nervous, and I'm sure everyone else who's going
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  Speaker 3: to be interning is nervous. And it just happens when
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  Speaker 3: I was covering the Padres, when I was working in
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  Speaker 3: San Diego, the Padres. One of the interns for the
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  Speaker 3: Padres who was involved in giving the press notes out
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  Speaker 3: back for the interweb. And everything's online now, but back then,
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  Speaker 3: you gave out actual physical copies of the notes. Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: And one of the guys who did that was theo Epstein,
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  Speaker 3: who was an intern for the Padres in the PR department.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what we happened to him. Whatever happened
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  Speaker 1: to theo Epstein? Did he?
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  Speaker 3: The guy gave me press notes in like eighteen ninety
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  Speaker 3: five or something like that. Now he's God only knows,
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  Speaker 3: so I don't know. He's mister red sock guy, cub
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  Speaker 3: guy and all that.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Chris in Jersey writes in and says, Ben, you did
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  Speaker 3: not mention this on the Overnight show?
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: And he sent me the viral story about the cocaine
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  Speaker 3: exposed salmon that became unstoppable swimmers.
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  Speaker 1: According to a study.
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  Speaker 3: He said that cocaine pollution and waterways are changing how
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  Speaker 3: animals behave a new study finding that exposed salmon, we're
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  Speaker 3: swimming further than ever before. Did we really need a
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  Speaker 3: study for this? It's go back and look at the
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  Speaker 3: baseball in the basketball in the nineteen eighties with the
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  Speaker 3: cocaine man, they're all going. Tim Rain's nicknamed rock Rains
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  Speaker 3: very fast man, according to the Internet legend, even faster
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  Speaker 3: because of what he had in his back pocket.
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  Speaker 1: He always would headfirst.
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  Speaker 3: Manny from Dallas writes in he says, Ben, did you
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  Speaker 3: see the ice cream shop here is serving crawfish flavored
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  Speaker 3: ice cream with real seafood on top. So, Manny, I
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  Speaker 3: thought this was fake. You're you're sending it like this
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  Speaker 3: is real. I thought this was an AI situation. I
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  Speaker 3: saw the story and I just assumed whether there's no
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  Speaker 3: way that anyone would want a crawfish ice cream. No
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  Speaker 3: one in their right mind would want that. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just ridiculous. And apparently you're saying it's legit. This is
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  Speaker 3: actually in Houston. The the owner. I guess it's inspired
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  Speaker 3: by a type of crawfish popular in Houston, and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that should be a crime. I feel like the only
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  Speaker 3: reason you would go down that road would be for
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  Speaker 3: the photo. Right. Remember we talked about on this podcast
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  Speaker 3: a while back the Great Wolf Lodge actually in Ohio,
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  Speaker 3: the Great Wolf Lodge. They had a ranch dressing milkshake
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  Speaker 3: top with carrots and chicken, remember that, And that was
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  Speaker 3: disgusting and this is also equally disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: Many but why don't you? I know your Dallas, but
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  Speaker 1: go down.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is in Houston if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 3: So go down to Houston and knock yourself out. Out back,
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  Speaker 3: John and Joanna and so Cal ride in a couple
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  Speaker 3: of big supporters of this show and they say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: big Ben and a special.
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  Speaker 1: Guest to be named later.
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  Speaker 3: Because the special guest has not been named because they're
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  Speaker 3: not here, says you mentioned recently that you had some
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  Speaker 3: memorabilia from your days used to work with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: Would you ever consider selling a piece to us? It
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  Speaker 3: would instantly become cherished, a cherish piece to our collection.
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  Speaker 3: If so, absolutely, John, Joe, I would consider that. I
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of stuff. I have not gone through it.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna go through it during the pandemic, which
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  Speaker 3: was six years ago or whatever I say. It really
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  Speaker 3: ended like four years ago in California. It's still going on.
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  Speaker 3: I see people all over the place doing their thing.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, once I have some time, I'm very busy
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  Speaker 1: with the podcast and the radio show.
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  Speaker 3: I have not had time to go through it. There's
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  Speaker 3: some good stuff now. A lot of it is not
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  Speaker 3: Dodger stuff. Some of it is Dodger stuff, but I
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  Speaker 3: picked up random things from different people I came across
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  Speaker 3: in baseball, and back in those days, they were not
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  Speaker 3: as paranoid about you getting some of the stuff. I
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  Speaker 3: was friends with some of the clubhouse guys. I remember
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  Speaker 3: I was playing the media baseball game at Dodger Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: They handed out jerseys every year. It was the same
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  Speaker 3: uniform Media Baseball game, and they gave out these cheesy hats.
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  Speaker 3: And the hat that they gave me it wouldn't really
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  Speaker 3: fit because I have a very have a size eight head.
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  Speaker 1: The hat was not big enough.
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  Speaker 3: So I told my guy, who is the equipment guy
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  Speaker 3: with the Dodgers, I don't have a hat. He said,
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  Speaker 3: no problem. He walked back into the storage room at
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  Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium, grabbed a hat, for the players and just
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  Speaker 3: tossed it me. He said, here you go, you got
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  Speaker 3: a hat. I mean today you got to pay for it.
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  Speaker 1: This thing.
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  Speaker 3: Everything's everything's different than back back in those days. But
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  Speaker 3: the point is, yeah, I will be happy if I
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  Speaker 3: ever get to that point, hopefully soon. If I have
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  Speaker 3: some time John and Joanne, I'll make sure.
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  Speaker 1: To see if I can cook you guys up with something.
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  Speaker 3: Who doesn't want an old broken baseball bat or something
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  Speaker 3: like that. Lucky Tony writes in from the Bay Area.
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  Speaker 3: I love Lucky Tony's dedication, he writes in. He says
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  Speaker 3: he does a David Vassi joke and then says, bears,
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  Speaker 3: I just loved the effort from Lucky Tony, thinking I
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  Speaker 3: would read a very offensive joke about Dodger talk host
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  Speaker 3: David Vasse, who was my producer many years ago. Hank
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  Speaker 3: from Vegas writes in, and he says, Ben, did you
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  Speaker 3: see this guy that climbed the spear is going away
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  Speaker 3: for a while. I did not see this, Hank, but
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  Speaker 3: I thank you for sending me the story. So, according
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  Speaker 3: to Hank, this is on a local TV website TV
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  Speaker 3: news website in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: A man who climbed the spear, told cops that he'd
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  Speaker 1: get away with it. Has been jailed for two years.
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  Speaker 3: Two years he climbed the Mighty Spirit in Vegas, causing
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  Speaker 3: they claim one hundred thousand dollars of damage. How did
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  Speaker 3: that cause one hundred thousand dollars damage? I thought there
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  Speaker 3: was like a shell on it. Anyway, the guys, well,
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  Speaker 3: they say two years. This is a Nevada situation.
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  Speaker 1: So what is he gonna do? Like a year? Like
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  Speaker 1: a year is a long time. Trust me.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to do a year. But he's likely
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  Speaker 3: going to do much less than two years. Even though
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  Speaker 3: he he's technically been jailed for two years. Don't let
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  Speaker 3: him out early. I would imagine Ferg Dog, who says
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: he's still in mourning. He says he wanted us to
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: pay homage to the legend Garrett Anderson.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I think it's only.
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  Speaker 3: Right that we talk about the greatest baseball team of
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  Speaker 3: all time, the two Angels. Did you get halo fever
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  Speaker 3: during their run into the World Series? Do you still
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  Speaker 3: have your rally monkey?
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  Speaker 1: Like me?
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  Speaker 3: What else were you doing in twenty two? Were you
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  Speaker 3: even born yet? And he says, rest in peace, Garrett Anderson,
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: Even alive for Doug.
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  Speaker 3: I saw some clips online of the the o Two Angels,
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  Speaker 3: but as you know, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the younger demo.
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  Speaker 3: I would you gotta be really old to remember the
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  Speaker 3: Two Angels like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a long time ago. They didn't even have
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  Speaker 1: social media.
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  Speaker 3: Do you realize people were still wearing using America online
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  Speaker 3: when the Angels were in the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty well now. I will tell you an interesting story.
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  Speaker 3: When I covered the Angels in the late nineties, there
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  Speaker 3: was a debate. They had a bunch of outfielders. That
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  Speaker 3: was the year they had like Tim Salmon came in
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  Speaker 3: a late nineties early two thousands. You had Darren Erstad
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  Speaker 3: who was the top pick, Garrett Anderson, and Jim Edmonds.
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  Speaker 3: So they had this glut of outfields and I remember
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  Speaker 3: off the record conversations there was a debate on whether
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  Speaker 3: or not they were going.
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  Speaker 1: To keep who they were going to get rid of.
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  Speaker 3: And Garrett Anderson's name came up in trade rumors a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and it was really between as I was told, it
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  Speaker 3: was between Jim Edmonds and Garrett Anderson on who they
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  Speaker 3: were going to get rid of the ended up getting
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  Speaker 3: rid of Jim Edmonds, who went on to do some
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  Speaker 3: really good things. I'm sure that was all natural with
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals, and they kept Garrett Anderson. And Garrett Anderson
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: was a part of the world serious team. Very quiet guy,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: introverted guy. I was on the beat when he was
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: playing a radio beat and had to interview him a
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: few times, and it was it was odd because it
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: was I'm an introvert. He was an introvert and went out.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: The silent assassin went out and did his job. But
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: rest in peace. Garrett Anderson leaving, leaving us way too soon,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: way too soon.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Uh, what else do we have to see?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Alf from the Yellow Cab Company rights and he says, Ben,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: which would you prefer an alf uber or a leprechaun lift?
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we have not met Alf. I have met
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the Leprechaun.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: And even without meeting Alf, the alienal pinter I would
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: much rather hang out with Alf, the allienal pinter I kid,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: because I care no. The leprecaons a character. The leprechauns
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: a character.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I don't want him driving me anywhere. I'm good on that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Next up, JT.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: The Wingman from Tennessee rights in He says, shouldn't shouldn't
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: the Saturday yesterday be designated National dick in Dayton Day?
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: He says, I mean, since.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Saturday was actually National Hug of Plumber Day, it's not
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: a big deal to give him a piece of the action.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: He says, I also know that today is National Help
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: a Horse Day, and I hope they are helping the
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: racehorses get ready for the biggest two minutes in sports
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: next week at Churchill Downs in the Kentucky Derby. And
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: he says, all of these days, what a treasure other
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: than National Garlic Day, which just passed.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: A week ago. What is your favorite? That's from JT
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the Wingman, And yeah.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Off the top of my head, JT, I guess National
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Radio Day, which I don't even know when that is.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Apparently that's a thing, and then I hear about it after.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: And the reason I hear about it after is because
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I see a bunch of my radio friends who post,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: like the post images of them working at a radio
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: station somewhere. They'll be like, oh, you know, going through
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: the whole thing, and I'd be like, I worked at
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: this radio station and the radio people and I don't
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: think it happens as much anymore because it's much a
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: different world. But when I first got into radio, there's
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: nothing old radioheads love more than just spewing a bunch
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: of call letters that I worked at, you know, like
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I worked at KSBR xtr A, I did some fill
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: in at WEI, I was at the fan in Denver,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: did a show for KJR, and like that would be
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: my thing. So national Radio day. But garlic, Yeah, as
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: you said, you said, other than garlic JT, which because
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: you know that's my day.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: You know that's my day.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Scott from Florida Wright sin He says, Ben, my second
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: favorite podcast, changed their logo.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: You changed your logo about a year ago.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: How much thought and effort goes into that or do
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: you just see it one day and think it's time
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: to change it? So ay, I have nothing to do
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: with that, Scott, I do not. I have the same
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: avatar on my social media, on my x page for years.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: I only changed it one time because one of our
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: great p ones said I'm going.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: To make you an avatar.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: So I said, okay, I'll take the avatar, and I
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: used it because he made it. This was before AI.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: It's like a cartoon image of me. So that was fine.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: B What happened was I got a message from one
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: of the corporate people at iHeart who said, Hey, we're
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: changing all the podcast logos. Can you please send us
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: a couple of photographs. We're going to make a new
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: avatar for your podcast. I said, okay, So I sent.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Over I don't know, three or four photographs whatever it was.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I don't remember exactly how many. Scott and they picked
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: out the one they like. They had to cover up
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: the Dodger logo on the hat, and then they slapped
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: that bad boy.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: On there and we were off to the races. That's it.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: That's all.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Y Fred from Spring Texas writes in he says, have
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: you ever been approached to endorse products or services?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: He says, I hope you had a great.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Time at the mallor meet and greet there in the
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati area.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: So Fred, Yeah, I've endorsed some things over the years.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: My favorite endorsement would be the Sleep Number bed, which
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I still sleep on.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Just a wonderful product.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: They were an advertiser years ago and we did the
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Sleep Number commercials and I think that's where the line
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: jerk yourself awake came from from one of the commercials
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: we did for sleep number that was great.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Typically I don't get paid.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I don't get paid for the commercials that we do
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: the live reads on the show.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Some of the other hosts do.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I don't, But I would love to endorse more products
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: and all that.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of layers.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: It's a big corporation, so there's a lot of things
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: involved in that.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: But I'm all for it. I'm all for it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Reach out if you want me to endorse your product,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: if I believe in your product. I don't just randomly
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: endorse anything. Of course, I do have a price, so
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: if he got enough money, I will, but I generally
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: try to only endorse things would I would use or
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I would wouldn't mind my friends using things like that.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Kwang from Ho Chi Min Vietnam rights and he says
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: guaranteed human He says, in honor of your former guest
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Joey Chestnut, did you see that some guy named Michael,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: a sixty one year old man, was arrested in the
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Tampa International Airport after authorities found forty seven uncooked hot
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: dogs taped to his.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Body under his clothes.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Now, this guy, Michael, claimed that he was just being
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: efficient to avoid buying food at the airport. He says,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: what do you try to sneak into the airport or
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: what would you try to sneak into the airport in order.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: To avoid paying for marked up food?
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Well, the thing that drives me bonkers is the bottled
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: water thing.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if they've they've.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Changed that or not, but like the surcharge on bottled
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: water at the airport is just next level, right, It's like, oh,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: that drives me nuts. That drives me nuts. I typically
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: don't eat on planes playing. I'm not the greatest guy
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: to ask this question to. I try to just sit there.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I don't want to use the bathroom. I try not
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: to drink, although I do occasionally have some water. You
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: definitely can drink a little bit, but not too much.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: And usually these flights, like going from LA to Ohio,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a pretty long flight. I had a
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: stop along the way, and so that's that's part of the.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Deal on that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: So yeah, like I wouldn't mind taking some snacks in
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: there for wherever I get when I start eating again,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Reggie from Detroit writes in he says, Hey, Ben are
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: you in on the Dominoes ultra cheese pizza. They claim
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: to top it with over two pounds of fresh mozzarella. Sure, sure,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I make my own pie, the malor pie. Dominoes is
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: one of those things in.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: My life that has changed.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: When I was younger, Dominoes was like eating cardboard with
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: some tomato paste on.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It was so bad.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: And it has become to me the go to fast
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: food pizza. It jumped over pizza. Although pizza does seem
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: like they're making a rally here lately, I'm sensing some
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: good mojo from the people over there at Pizza. My
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: all time favorite pizza, not that you asked, Reggie, is
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Round Table Pizza. I mentioned my round Table last week.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I love the Round Table Pizza. It's a Bay Area chain.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure it's not in Detroit, so you have
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: no idea what I'm talking about. There's also a pizza
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: chain I used to love when I was a kid
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: out here called Shakey's, which was just great.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Loved loved the Shaky's. That was wonderful.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Shane from Dallas writes and he says, hey, Ben, I
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: know you're not dating, but Tinder has taken action against
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Ai profiles. They're now making users scan eyes to prove.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: They are human? Are you okay with this from Shane? Uh?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Do I love it? Shane? No, I don't love it.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I just get the sense that every time we leave
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: our houses were being scanned. Everywhere we go, you're getting scanned.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: There was another email from I'm going to combine these
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: because I.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Know, why not? What the f I'll come bin it?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I can do this a podcast. Who cares?
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: So, Shane, there's a story that Jerry, that's Jerry with
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: a G who lives in the oc rode in and
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: he said that Disneyland has rolled out a special entry
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: lane so people can skip facial recognition and the biometric
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: tech entirely.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: That's cool, Jerry.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: So I'll combine these two stories because Shane, you mentioned
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: that Tinder is making you scan your eyes, and Disney's like, well,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: you can just skip the whole thing. So the Disney
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: part of this from Jerry, I would argue, isn't it
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: too late for that? Like Disneyland has been doing facial
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: recognition for years and years and years. Assume you've been
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: to Disneyland anytime in the past ten years or so,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: you've probably had your face skin and they've got it
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: on a record, and so that's that's the deal and
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: the tender thing. I guess it's a good way to
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: cut down on people who may be frolicking pulling the
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: old mic Rabel.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Diana Russini thing. Because your eyes scanned and you think
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: they keep the scan. I'm gonna go out and limb that.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: It's more likely than not somebody's got a file with
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: all those scans. Carlos from the valley in l and Soca.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know whether the San Gabriel Valley or the
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: San Fernando Valley.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know. He just says the valley.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna assume he means the San Fernando Valley, which
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: is where Fox Sports Radio is in Sherman Oaks, and
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: not the San Gabriel Valley, But who knows.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: He says Chuck E Cheese.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: He says he's got kids, and Chuck E Cheese is
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: offering free arcade games to customers if they touch grass.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: For two weeks. They're trying to reward kids to.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Spend time outdoors, according to Carlos, and he wanted to
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: know my thoughts on that.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it seems like in theory it's great.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: And I was a kid that grew up running around outdoors,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: and if you're around my age, this is just what
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: you did, ran around like you lived in Maybury and
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I had orange grows and we had great memories going
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: through the orange grows and all that. I don't kids
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: today outside running around not the greatest. It's a good
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: marketing gimmick for Chuck E Cheese, though, why not? Albert
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: from Minnesota, Suspen You mentioned the white Castle vending machines
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: on your show a while back. Did you see that
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: White Castle is bringing a thousand of those vending machines
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: to hospitals and colleges? It is this a good idea
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: or a bad idea? That's from Albert in Minnesota. Yeah,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: so albert A, I would say it is a good
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: idea for White Castle because they don't have to hire
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: anyone and they can put their burgers in hospitals and colleges.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like that's the healthiest food for a hospital.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And then b it would not be good for me.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: I have no interest in getting a white Castle burger
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: out of a vending machine. I have had white Castle
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: made by human beings and depending on the amount of
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: alcohol that I consumed. Okay, other than that, I'm good.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I'll make a better burger myself. I don't need the
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: hassle of thinking about all the chemicals in the vending machine.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: And all that. I don't want any part of that.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, stand from Dallas, right center, he says, the greater
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Dallas area. He says a study came out recently that
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: said the.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Meat heead stereotype is wrong.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Muscular men tend to be intelligent, according to a new study.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: And then Stan says, are you on board with this? Well,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: how the hell would I know? Stan, I've not given
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: a bunch of meathead dudes a IQ test. I'm not
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: interested in that. I will tell you, being around professional athletes,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: some of them very muscular, they seem to be the
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: dumber athlete than the ones that aren't as muscular.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: But what do I know?
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: That's not exactly a peer reviewed science thing. Was this
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: done by some weightlifting company?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Stan?
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Come on, now, all right, what else do we have.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Let's see Frank from Delaware He's says he's got the
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: tinfoil add On claimed there was a story he read
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: in one of the science websites this week that the
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: origins of Egypt's Great Pyramid are being questioned. There's evidence
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: at an earlier lost civilization used the Great Pyramid. Yeah,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: so I've heard this theory going around that the pyramids
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: are much older, much much older than originally thought. I
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: still love the fact that this hallowed ground where the
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: the Great Pyramid are in Egypt, Like right across the
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: way there's a McDonald's.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I think that's just perfect, just app You could go
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: ahead and get a big mac and then.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Go through the gift shop. Do they let you out
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: of the gift shop. I've never been to the Great Pyramid.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: If you have, let me know. Is it like Disneyland
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: where you walk through the Pyramid and then they make sure.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: You exit in a gift shop? Is that how that goes? No?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: All right, anyway, so listen, I know what you want.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: What do you want to do? Frank.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: My theory is there's a there's goblins and critters and whatnot.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: We're gonna call them living in the oceans, and they
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: pop out and they examine us. And of that mindset,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked if there's a bunch of things
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: that have visited us, and we know so little about
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: what actually goes on in the world and what's out
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: in the cosmos.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: It would not shock me at all.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: It would be naive to think that we're all alone
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: here and it's just some kind of great mistake. I
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: don't buy that. I don't know how many other ways
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I can say it. Frank, I do love the science stories.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: If you would like to email a future edition of
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: the mail Bag, you can hit me up. Yes, the
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: email address Real fifth hour at gmail dot com, Real
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Again.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Want to think everyone that showed up to the malar
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Meat greet on Saturday had a great time with a
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: lot of fun. Will have the full review, a blow
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: by blow account, we'll tell some stories. The whole thing
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: that'll be on the I'm gonna save that for the
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Friday podcast. I will be back unless something goes wrong
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: with the travel. I will be back behind the powerful
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: microphones in the catbird seat, on the bully pulpit, gapping
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: away about the NFL Draft and everything else going on
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: these NBA playoff games. So I should be back tonight
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: again unless some plane gets delayed.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: And things like that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Things out of my control have a wonderful rest of
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: your Saturday and we will catch you.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Next time. Bye bye, as Dick and Dayton would say bye, Folation.