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The Fifth Hour: The Valley of The Fan · 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 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.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben
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Speaker 1: Mahlor and you. We are united together on this Friday.
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Speaker 1: We have made it to the end of the week.
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Speaker 1: Did the overnight show last night? You know the drill.
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Speaker 1: Here we leave the radio remote studio, we refresh the battery,
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Speaker 1: and then right back into the mobile audio dojo. On
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Speaker 1: this the one hundred and ninety first day of the year,
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Speaker 1: there are one hundred and seventy four days to go,
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Speaker 1: or something like that. The twenty eighth week of the year,
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Speaker 1: we celebrate all kinds of holidays. I'm gonna attempt to
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Speaker 1: do rapid fire fun facts for the holidays today. Programming note,
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Speaker 1: though we'd like to alert all the affiliates down the line,
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Speaker 1: there are none. Because it's a podcast. We will have
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Speaker 1: the Palm Tree Island, what the f is Palm Tree Island?
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Speaker 1: And the word of the day, and possibly some other
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Speaker 1: things down the line, depending on how much time we
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Speaker 1: have left. As you know, I have studied the ancient
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Speaker 1: art of the podcast, and I know roughly how long
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Speaker 1: the podcast needs to be. Now that being said, we
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Speaker 1: are going to attempt something we've never done on the
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Speaker 1: fifth hour podcast, rapid Fire fun Facts. I know alf
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Speaker 1: is excited and Fergdog and Mallard prop guy, and I know.
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Speaker 1: So here we're gonna go. In fact, I'm gonna set
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Speaker 1: a timer. Let me get my my thing of a
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Speaker 1: jig here and see here that's at the timer. I
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Speaker 1: gotta reset that. I'm gonna set my timer for one minute.
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Speaker 1: Do I do one minute? Or two minutes? Let me
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Speaker 1: do two minutes. I get a lot of stuff, all right,
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Speaker 1: two minutes on your marks, get set, hit the wrong
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Speaker 1: button on your mark, get set? Two minutes. Fun facts
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Speaker 1: on the holidays. Today, Here we go. We're on our
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Speaker 1: way and boom. All right. So it is National Motorcycle
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Speaker 1: Day today. National Motorcycle Today. How many motorcycles are on
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Speaker 1: the road in the United States? That would be over
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Speaker 1: seven million motorcycles. They say that the number seven point
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Speaker 1: one million to celebrate National Motorcycle Day, seven point one
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Speaker 1: million motorcycles. It is National Pina Colada Day today. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Fun act fun fact on that. According to legend, sometime
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Speaker 1: in the eighteen hundreds, that's a lot of time, a
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Speaker 1: lot of real estate. Sometime in the eighteen hundreds, a
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Speaker 1: pirate named Captain Robert Cofresse I might be butchering that name,
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Speaker 1: sailed the Caribbean with a pirate crew and morale was
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Speaker 1: not good. Morale was not good. So he concocted the
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Speaker 1: pina colada, starting with rum and then the drink of
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Speaker 1: choice among pirates, he added coconut and pineapple, putting his
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Speaker 1: own touch on it, serving it in a coconut shell.
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Speaker 1: Now we don't know for sure whether or not it
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Speaker 1: approved or improved morale. Perhaps it did. The recipe was
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Speaker 1: allegedly lost upon his death in eighteen seventy or eighteen
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Speaker 1: twenty five. And that's that. And so more than a
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Speaker 1: century later, nineteen fifty four, a hotel in San Juan,
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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico created the new signature drink. And so there
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Speaker 1: you go, and we've gone over two minutes but it's
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Speaker 1: World Kebab Day today, and we have fun facts on that.
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Speaker 1: The practice of cooking meats on a stick goes back
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Speaker 1: to ancient times. It originated in Turkey, or as they
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Speaker 1: said in the World Cup Turkey, the word kebab. There
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Speaker 1: we go, we've crossed. Now we've crossed two minutes. The
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Speaker 1: word means to roast kebab. However, we grill the kebab.
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Speaker 1: And it was first recorded the word kebab in Turkish
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Speaker 1: manuscripts going back to thirteen seventy seven. Thirteen seventy seven,
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Speaker 1: that's a long time ago. So there you go. Wow,
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Speaker 1: we move on to tales of the life of Mallard.
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Speaker 1: Now my recent departure from the radio. As you know,
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Speaker 1: somewhat recently, I was away for a few days. My
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Speaker 1: wife had a birthday. Now that alone, I'm told there's
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Speaker 1: a yearly situation that, assuming you don't check out, you
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Speaker 1: get a new birthday every year you do, and people
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Speaker 1: generally wait for milestone birthdays to celebrate. Can you agree
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Speaker 1: on that? I think we can agree on that, at
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Speaker 1: least over the top, right, And I don't even do
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Speaker 1: that really, I recently crossed. What I'm told is a
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Speaker 1: rubicon rather large birthday myself and I had a very
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Speaker 1: subdued event. My idea of a good time is sitting
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Speaker 1: in a room by myself and staring at the wall
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Speaker 1: and contemplating the space time continuum. I am an introvert,
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Speaker 1: and I have neurosis when it comes to social now.
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Speaker 1: My wife, on the other hand, treats these things much differently,
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Speaker 1: much differently. As you know from being a loyal minion
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Speaker 1: to this podcast and the radio show I mettion. I
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Speaker 1: was away for a few days now. My presence was requested,
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Speaker 1: which is a polite way, as we like to point
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Speaker 1: out of saying it is mandated under penalty of the
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Speaker 1: law by the wife at a desert oasis getaway. Now,
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Speaker 1: I am busy. I don't have a real job. I
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Speaker 1: have a radio job and a podcast job, and I'm busy,
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Speaker 1: and so I do the show, I have the podcast.
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Speaker 1: I barely have time to figure out what day of
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Speaker 1: the weakness. I literally sometimes don't even know what day
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Speaker 1: of the week it is. The assembly line of Hot
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Speaker 1: Sports Takes does not slow down. The baton has passed.
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Speaker 1: These people that work in like the NFL. The NFL,
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Speaker 1: they play the season, the season ends in mid February,
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Speaker 1: and no they're off season events, but there are no
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Speaker 1: games from and if you don't make the playoffs, there's
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Speaker 1: no games from like early January until September. So you
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Speaker 1: have some time. You have some time. Same thing in basketball.
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Speaker 1: Basketball season ended not that long ago, and there's plenty
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Speaker 1: of time now. The baton gets passed. And when you
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Speaker 1: when you do everything, you're a one stop shop like
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Speaker 1: we are. It just it just doesn't end. That's it.
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Speaker 1: And so this is not a sob story. It's just
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Speaker 1: I work on the assembly line. I mean the factory.
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Speaker 1: You work in the factory. I'm in the factory. And
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Speaker 1: these sports stakes just don't make themselves. You gotta watch games,
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Speaker 1: gotta pay attention, look for what's interesting. It's relentless, it
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Speaker 1: never stops. It's a it's a non stop merry go
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Speaker 1: round that won't slow down. And so me and my
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Speaker 1: trusted assistant, Moxie, my beloved English bulldog. She helps put
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Speaker 1: the show together on a daily basis, keeping me from
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Speaker 1: totally collapsing on weekends. It doesn't leave a lot of time,
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Speaker 1: doesn't leave a lot of time to stop and smell
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Speaker 1: the roses or even realize there are roses around. So
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Speaker 1: I had put on little phone app, the calendar app
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Speaker 1: on my phone that we were going to celebrate the
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Speaker 1: wife's birthday somewhere in Palm Desert, which is near Palm
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Speaker 1: Springs o Hi to be exact, and I really didn't
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Speaker 1: think about it until the day came. My wife had
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Speaker 1: decided to rent a house with a bunch of co
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Speaker 1: workers from the nine to one to one Dispatch Center
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Speaker 1: also better known as the police station. Now let me
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Speaker 1: repeat that the police station. I was going to be
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Speaker 1: trapped in a home that I didn't know much about
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Speaker 1: with people who carry handcuffs and other things for a living.
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Speaker 1: So now I was along for the ride. But the
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Speaker 1: wife is her birthday, she's the star of the show.
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Speaker 1: I was just kind of there, and I had really
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Speaker 1: no information, no information. I didn't ask many questions. I
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Speaker 1: didn't think about it. I told you, I put it
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Speaker 1: on my app on the phone. I said, okay. And
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Speaker 1: that's usually how I've gone with vacations recently. A lot
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Speaker 1: of people look forward to vacations and they're like, well,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait counting down the days. I'm the opposite.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh wait a minute, I have to go somewhere.
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Speaker 1: I better pack. That's wild. So I have a lot
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Speaker 1: of information, pretty much no information, as I said, other
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Speaker 1: than we were going to party, spend a lot of
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Speaker 1: time in the pool, have some good food, and for
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Speaker 1: most people that sounds like an amazing trip. I'm not
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Speaker 1: most people. I'm like a vampire, except to have an
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Speaker 1: exemption when it comes to garlic. I don't spend a
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Speaker 1: lot of time in the sun. If you've seen me,
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Speaker 1: if you've met me, you know that's the case. Now
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Speaker 1: when I do, I normally turn into a lobster, a lobster,
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Speaker 1: but not a delicious Maine lobster with claws and what
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Speaker 1: you tell me, I don't eat lobster but nice b
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Speaker 1: butter sauce. So I turned into a sad, blistered, radioactive
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Speaker 1: legal sized envelope. And I'm so red like red lobster
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Speaker 1: wouldn't even want me. Needless to say again, I was
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Speaker 1: along for the rye. So we packed up the mobile.
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Speaker 1: And now when I say we, it was mostly my wife.
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Speaker 1: I helped carry things from the house to the car.
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Speaker 1: We packed it so full. How full was it? Thanks
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Speaker 1: for asking? It was so full. When we came off
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Speaker 1: the driveway, and I backed the malamobile down. We scraped
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Speaker 1: the road. Scrape da the road, a horrible metallic screech
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Speaker 1: from the other side of Dante's Inferno, and it shook
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Speaker 1: me to the bone. Right now, I told my wife
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Speaker 1: at that point we should have just rented a U
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Speaker 1: haul for all the crap that we were taking. She
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Speaker 1: didn't seem to enjoy the joke. Now, mind you, it
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Speaker 1: wasn't just clothes, it was not My wife had decided
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Speaker 1: that she wanted to be the hostess with the mostest
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Speaker 1: because her girlfriends were going to be there. So she
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Speaker 1: went out to Costco and Walmart. Not a fan of Walmart.
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Speaker 1: I love Costco, I don't mind Walmart. She didn't like Walmart.
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Speaker 1: She really liked Costco either the big box stores. And
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Speaker 1: she went out. She was motivated. She purchased a big
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Speaker 1: rig load of food and drink and alcohol to bring
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Speaker 1: to our desert oasis. We had enough supplies to survive
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Speaker 1: a nuclear winner, which was very exciting. We wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: the shelter, but we had the supplies. More likely, a
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Speaker 1: very long weekend with a bunch of law enforcement people
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Speaker 1: that liked to have a good time. So I was
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Speaker 1: the driver. As I mentioned, we were cruising, cruising, cruising
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Speaker 1: for a bruisin and it wasn't that hot in Socau,
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Speaker 1: at least where we were coming down from the north
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Speaker 1: Woods until we crossed the Valley of the Fan. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you're from Arizona, if you've been to Phoenix, you
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Speaker 1: know the Valley of the Sun. In Palm Desert they
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Speaker 1: have the Valley of the Fan. Not a sports fan, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: the other kind. So if you've never been to Palm
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Speaker 1: Springs or Palm Desert, you drive on Ien from la
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Speaker 1: That's how we did it, and you turn and suddenly
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Speaker 1: you are in this dystopian world. You drive into Palm
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Speaker 1: Springs thinking you're getting palm trees, golf courses, wealthy retirees
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Speaker 1: and in a lot of Canadians, right, a lot of
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Speaker 1: our Canadians love it. Instead, it's attack of the two
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Speaker 1: hundred foot tall kitchen fans. It's like some kind of
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Speaker 1: horror movie from the nineteen eighties or something like that.
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Speaker 1: Palm Springs, i am told, used to be known for
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Speaker 1: the rat pack, for Frank Sinatra, the legends of Hollywood
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Speaker 1: and music that went out, and that was their home,
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Speaker 1: their getaway from La. Now it is known for looking
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Speaker 1: like your grandmother's box fan escaped and had a thousand
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Speaker 1: giant white spinning babies. They're in the air everywhere, whirling
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Speaker 1: and looming and all that. Now, people tell me, they say,
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Speaker 1: you know, Ben, you get used to them. Yeah, get
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Speaker 1: used to them. Okay, that's not an endorsement. You get
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Speaker 1: used to traffic, you get used to taxes, You get
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Speaker 1: used to your right knee hurting and barking, and your
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Speaker 1: lower backs and where you're going, you get used to.
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Speaker 1: It is not exactly a five star review on a
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Speaker 1: travel website. You feel me on that. So we drove
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Speaker 1: through that eyesore. We kept going and going past the
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Speaker 1: arena that hosts the Lakers G League team and the
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Speaker 1: Coachella Valley Firebirds, which I am told as a hockey team,
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Speaker 1: which is the affiliate of the Seattle Kracking. What's cracking.
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Speaker 1: So we finally finally got to the off ramp the
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Speaker 1: house we were staying out up the road a little bit,
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Speaker 1: a few miles off the highway, and it was a
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Speaker 1: gated community. Oh, gated community. So we had an access
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Speaker 1: code that's how you get in. And I was saying,
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Speaker 1: why is this a gated community, and I was saying, well,
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Speaker 1: there must be a lot of thug baboushkas roaming the
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Speaker 1: desert looking to heist some meta mucil in, some vitamins.
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Speaker 1: So we typed in the code. I typed in the code.
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Speaker 1: We entered the neighborhood. We parked in front of the
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Speaker 1: what appeared to be relatively new, modern house. It was nice,
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Speaker 1: It was not the greatest home I had ever visited.
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Speaker 1: It was for spectacle. So parked the malamobile. We opened
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Speaker 1: the we got out the car, walked over, opened the
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Speaker 1: front door, and then it happened. Here we go, Geronimo,
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Speaker 1: witness the wildest view I have seen in sometime. So
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Speaker 1: the front door opens up and you're like, okay, this
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Speaker 1: is probably just a regular house. My wife said there
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Speaker 1: was a nice pool. Fine, So we open it up
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Speaker 1: and we see these beautiful mosaic tile floors, giant Florida
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Speaker 1: ceiling glass windows across the living room. The entire back
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Speaker 1: of the property was a pool. Oh, you must be exaggerating. No, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: that's not that's not a lie. Uh, I guess it.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't just a pool. This would count as the
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Speaker 1: sixth Great Lake of America. Seriously, I forget Lake Superior,
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Speaker 1: Lake Michigan. This was it. Like you saw this, I thought,
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Speaker 1: there's no way, like this must be a mistake. Unicorns
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Speaker 1: started tap Nansen, rainbows randomly broke out, Confetti started falling
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Speaker 1: from nowhere. Even some of the pigeons that were in
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Speaker 1: the backyard there stood up and applauded the view. It
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Speaker 1: was like having the Mandalay Bay Pool in your backyard,
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Speaker 1: and you know that things supposed to eleven acres in Vegas,
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Speaker 1: it's got the wave pool, the Lazy River. This place
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Speaker 1: we rented had a hot tub in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the pool, which was like its own sovereign nation. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it should have had a seat at the un that's
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Speaker 1: how crazy. This was bigger than Vatican City. Now we're
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Speaker 1: talking Elon Musk style living. They had a palm tree
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Speaker 1: island in the middle of the pool. So they not
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Speaker 1: only had the high in the middle, which is close
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Speaker 1: to the front, but they had in the middle, very
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Speaker 1: mintal middle of this giant island thing. You had a
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Speaker 1: palm tree island right there in the middle. Who does
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Speaker 1: that an island for a palm tree in the middle
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Speaker 1: of a pool, Like if you got lost swimming in
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Speaker 1: this thing. If we couldn't find one of the people
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Speaker 1: that were there to celebrate, forget the lifeguard or the
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Speaker 1: coast guard, you would need to call the United States
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Speaker 1: Navy to help you find this person. Now. Fortunately, to
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Speaker 1: protect my mental health, my wife did not tell me
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Speaker 1: how much this rental cost on my overnight radio salary.
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Speaker 1: She simply said, don't worry. The girlfriends are helping to
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Speaker 1: chip in as well, so it's not that bad. Not
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Speaker 1: that bad, Okay, I'm sure it was terrible, Thank goodness,
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Speaker 1: I didn't find out how much. Because our room was
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Speaker 1: bigger than all the other rooms, and it was also
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Speaker 1: bigger than the first three apartments I had in Hollywood
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Speaker 1: and near the Miracle Mile in La over there on
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Speaker 1: Wilshire combined. Now we were swimming all day and into
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Speaker 1: the night at night, though we did cook together. It
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Speaker 1: was immediate anytime we had ten to twelve people, sometimes more,
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Speaker 1: sometimes less, but it was always around ten to twelve,
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Speaker 1: and each person paid for the night. Like people stay
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Speaker 1: for one night, someone stay for two. A couple of
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Speaker 1: people stayed for all three night, all three nights. But
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Speaker 1: I was immediately given chores because God forbid. I just
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Speaker 1: sit down on my rare and appropriate time away. Although
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Speaker 1: according to our friend in Duluth, the curmudgeon Wane from Duluth, Yeah,
18:45
Speaker 1: according to him, I guess I spent too much time away.
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Speaker 1: So one night I was Benito the chip maker. I
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Speaker 1: took my job very seriously. I loved my chips and salsa.
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Speaker 1: I was very proud that my Mexican brought others and
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Speaker 1: sisters at this event gave me the official Mexico Seal
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Speaker 1: of Approval for my chip distribution efficiency. Another night, I
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Speaker 1: was doing some cosplay as Femi, the top uber each
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Speaker 1: driver in the Twin Cities. I was dispatched to pick
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Speaker 1: up supper for the party. I went to Costco again
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Speaker 1: to pick up not one, not two, not three, not four,
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Speaker 1: not five, six pies, six pizza pies for the hungry crowd.
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Speaker 1: It looked and smelled like a catering truck in the malomobile.
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Speaker 1: Now I was not done. I was also Benny the dishwasher,
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Speaker 1: to make sure that we had clean plates every day.
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Speaker 1: My hands are still pruney from that experience. I have
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Speaker 1: no fingerprints left. If I commit a crime, now I'm invisible.
19:46
Speaker 1: Then came Game night. That's right game night. They dragged
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Speaker 1: my ass into playing Left Right Center, which actually liked.
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Speaker 1: That's my favorite party game. Left Right Center a fun,
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Speaker 1: mindless the ambling game with dice where you watch your
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Speaker 1: singles disappear. Then we played something I hadn't played before. Same,
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Speaker 1: same but different, and I enjoyed this game. This game
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Speaker 1: has one hundred and seventy five safe cards one hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy five risky cards. Players have ninety seconds to
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Speaker 1: write a phrase that fits both scenarios on give them
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Speaker 1: a little dry erase board, and then whoever's picked as
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Speaker 1: the judge for that particular event collects the responses, shuffles them,
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Speaker 1: and selects the funniest answer. The player with the winning
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Speaker 1: phrase earns a point, and you play multiple rounds, you
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Speaker 1: rotate judges and all that. Now, my brain doesn't work
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Speaker 1: on a ninety second clock unless I'm screaming about Jerry
20:43
Speaker 1: Jones and the Dallas Cowboys. That's just it. So we
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Speaker 1: played that. We played a drinking game called Tipsy Land.
20:50
Speaker 1: I wonder where they got that name from. Nothing like Monopoly,
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Speaker 1: Tipsy Land or Yeah. Anyway, So the girls, they loved it.
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Speaker 1: The friends of my wife, they my wife was having
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Speaker 1: a good time. Me not so much. My idea of
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Speaker 1: tipsy is having a root beer beer and then taking
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Speaker 1: a snooze on the sofa. All right, the little snooze
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Speaker 1: on the sofa. So we even went out to a
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Speaker 1: local casino about thirty minutes away in Palm Springs area.
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Speaker 1: I forget the name of it. Lady friends wanted to
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Speaker 1: go to a cigar bar. Now, I am not a
21:34
Speaker 1: cigar guy. I am not all right, It's never my
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Speaker 1: thing to me. They smelled like a burning tire yard. However,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't going to be the party pooper. I did
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Speaker 1: my best to make it as good as all the rest.
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Speaker 1: I sat there inhaling secondhand smoke, looking like a man
21:56
Speaker 1: waiting for a bus that was never going to arrive,
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Speaker 1: and just in general, because we had way too much food,
22:02
Speaker 1: way too much booze. This was an extravaganza, is what
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Speaker 1: it was. Now. The only mild problem was an ant invasion.
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Speaker 1: And these were not regular ants like you might get
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Speaker 1: in the city. My friend, No, no, no, We're talking desert
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Speaker 1: ants the California desert. It's crazy. These ants were the
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Speaker 1: size of the death star. I looked one in the
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Speaker 1: eye and I swear it asked me, can I get
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Speaker 1: your driver's license, sir? And your insurance? I said, what
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Speaker 1: are you talking about? However, we survived. The wife had
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Speaker 1: a grand time. Her birthday was a great success. I
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Speaker 1: didn't get sunburned to a crisp. I wore a swim
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Speaker 1: shirt and a big hat, and we packed all this
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Speaker 1: stuff up. We somehow left with more stuff than we
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Speaker 1: showed up with, which I didn't know is possible, because
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Speaker 1: a bunch of the ARLs gave my wife presidents and
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Speaker 1: things like that. And the malamobile made it all the
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Speaker 1: way back to the north Woods, despite being three inches
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Speaker 1: lower to the ground, got back in my beloved dog, Moxie.
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Speaker 1: She looked at me and kind of gave me the
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Speaker 1: wink and I never leave the house again. Do not
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Speaker 1: leave the house again. I said, okay, we will not
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Speaker 1: leave the house again. Not going to happen. So that
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Speaker 1: was my adventure in the Palm Springs area. So we
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Speaker 1: didn't really go to Palm Springs proper because that's way
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Speaker 1: off the highway. Way. Off the highway, we could have
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Speaker 1: seen the Sonny Bono, the former mayor who was a
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Speaker 1: big entertainer back in the day. We could have seen
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Speaker 1: his statue and gone to the rocket Fizz shop to
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Speaker 1: get some candy. We didn't do any of that. We
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Speaker 1: just stayed where we were. That pool, it's going to
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Speaker 1: be impossible to top that pool, impossible to tell it
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Speaker 1: was wild. Although we did have the JACUZI was so
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Speaker 1: big or the hot tub was so big. It was
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Speaker 1: hard trying to figure out the do hickey to turn
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Speaker 1: the heater on. And you had to turn it on
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Speaker 1: way in advance, because if you didn't turn it on
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Speaker 1: way in advance, it became an issue. It became a
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Speaker 1: bit of an issue, all right. Meanwhile, time now for
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Speaker 1: the word of the day. That's right, the word of
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Speaker 1: the day. What is the word of the day. Well,
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Speaker 1: the word of the day from your ears, actually from
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Speaker 1: my mouth to your ears, the word is Nimrod. Now
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Speaker 1: I do use the word nimrod. I may or may
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Speaker 1: not have used the word nimrod on the radio show overnight.
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Speaker 1: So it got me thinking, where did that come from
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Speaker 1: the word nimrod. And believe it or not, the word
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Speaker 1: nimrod has origins with the Bible, Biblical and bugs and mugs.
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Speaker 1: Now we go below the surface on this one. So
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Speaker 1: the word Nimrod has always always amused me. It's always
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Speaker 1: one of those fun words. I don't use it all
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Speaker 1: the time. I use the words I use most are
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Speaker 1: like Mama Luke. I use that a lot, dingle Berry.
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Speaker 1: I've used that word quite a bit. Nimrod's in that family,
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Speaker 1: and I am told it originally was the name of
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Speaker 1: a great hunter, the hunter Nimrod from the Bible. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm going to get email from Bible people. You don't
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Speaker 1: understand you should have focused more on Nimro. Listen, I'm
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Speaker 1: acknowledging that, according to what I read in a rabbit hole,
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Speaker 1: Nimrod was a great hunter from the Bible. Good for Nimrod. However,
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Speaker 1: today it means a dumb dum dum du dum dum dum,
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Speaker 1: a foolish or a nept person. And what if I
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Speaker 1: told you, is it true that the reason the word
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Speaker 1: is known to highlight a dumb person Nimrod is because
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Speaker 1: of bugs? Bunny Bugs. Bunny took a word from the
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Speaker 1: Bible and twisted it around in one of the older
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Speaker 1: Merry melodies. Those are the cartoons with bugs Bunny and
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Speaker 1: Elmer Fudd is trying to hunt bugs. He's out there
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Speaker 1: trying to hunt bugs, which he does, and as an insult,
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Speaker 1: bugs calls him a regular nimrod. Now bugs was trying
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Speaker 1: to insult his hunting prowess by comparing him to a
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Speaker 1: great hunter. He said, you're a nimrod. However, the kids
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Speaker 1: this before Martin, it's not my fault, before my time.
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Speaker 1: But the kids, many of the children watching, didn't know
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Speaker 1: it was from the Bible. It's a Saturday Morning cartoon,
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Speaker 1: so they assumed he was calling Elmer Fudd an idiot.
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Speaker 1: They took the stretch and said, okay, well he's goofing
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Speaker 1: on bugs, or bugs is goofing on Elmer Fudd, and
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Speaker 1: so that must be a derogatory comment. We're gonna go
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Speaker 1: with that. And that was the beginning of the new
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Speaker 1: definition of nimrod. And to this day not many people
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Speaker 1: are watching bugs bunny these days, but even to this day,
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Speaker 1: that is still the proper meaning of the word in
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Speaker 1: modern society. All right, no time for some food. He fun.
27:43
Speaker 1: Hooray for food, he fun. Hey, it's food, he fun.
27:47
Speaker 1: So we only have a few stories this week. Things
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Speaker 1: kind of slow because of the holiday. Jack in the box,
27:54
Speaker 1: what's in the box? That would be Jack in the box,
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Speaker 1: not everywhere, but they have added a new fry option
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Speaker 1: to the menu with the launch of Cheesy ranch Sauce
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Speaker 1: and loaded curly Fries. I'm puking in my mouth. The
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Speaker 1: new item features the brand seasoned curly fries, top with
28:14
Speaker 1: shredded cheddar cheese and cheese sauce, then finished with a
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Speaker 1: drizzle of buttermilk rancho. Yuck. Yuck, yuck yuck. Prices they
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Speaker 1: say may vary. They're available for four dollars. Supposedly that
28:29
Speaker 1: is the rate that was quoted there, four dollars. Burger
28:33
Speaker 1: King is back, the King of Burgers. They have unveiled
28:39
Speaker 1: the new loaded jalapeno original Chicken Sandwich and also the
28:46
Speaker 1: club original Chicken sandwich as well. They have the long
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Speaker 1: forearm sized chicken sandwiches there which became a thing I
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Speaker 1: guess in nineteen seventy nine Burger King. The original chicken sandwich.
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Speaker 1: They have the long breaded white meat which may or
29:04
Speaker 1: may not have actually been meat, the chicken patty there,
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Speaker 1: the shredded lettuce, the mayo on a toasted sesame seed bun.
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Speaker 1: And my grandfather loved Burger King. He loved Pizza Hut
29:17
Speaker 1: and Burger King when I was a kid, and so
29:20
Speaker 1: we went to Burger King a lot. I was fed
29:23
Speaker 1: on Burger King quite a bit back in the day,
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Speaker 1: and I had my share of whoppers. I had my
29:30
Speaker 1: share of chicken sandwiches, the whole thing, the whole shebang,
29:36
Speaker 1: the whole shebang. So I've eaten plenty of those over
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Speaker 1: the years. McDonald's announced recently a new collab with Lying
29:49
Speaker 1: Friends to launch the new BT twenty one Happy Meal.
29:53
Speaker 1: I have no idea what this is. I guess it's
29:55
Speaker 1: like a kid thing, for it appears to be a
29:59
Speaker 1: kid related show. Ten collectible toys, including characters such as
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Speaker 1: Tata and Chimmy, each with a ring clip so fans
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Speaker 1: can attach it to a backpack, keychain, or purse. This
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Speaker 1: is definitely not my demo. This is not your demo
30:19
Speaker 1: unless you're a little kid or a furry And I'm
30:24
Speaker 1: not judging you, do you boo? But yeah, that's a
30:29
Speaker 1: little out there. That's a little out there, all right.
30:31
Speaker 1: On that note, we will put the baby to bed,
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Speaker 1: or will we put the baby to bed? Have a
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Speaker 1: great rest of your Friday on this the tenth day
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Speaker 1: of July, and we'll hit you up with a brand
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Speaker 1: spanking new podcast, a new podcast coming your way tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: and we'll cook that up. If we have a great
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Speaker 1: rest of your Friday again and right with you next time.
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Speaker 1: Bye bye, as Dick and Dayton would say, bye bye,