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The Fifth Hour: "Pick a Time Zone" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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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 fastion 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. Wow to Clearinghouse of
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Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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Speaker 2: 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: Mahler and Danny g Radio and it's just me on
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Speaker 1: the Sunday podcast. Who the worst day of the year
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Speaker 1: for the body clock is today? Today, the eighth day
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Speaker 1: of March. As we changed the clock at two in
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Speaker 1: the morning light Savings time we sprung forward, which I
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Speaker 1: assume you know by now, And I'm not gonna do
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Speaker 1: my normal rant. For years on this podcast I have
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Speaker 1: done a rant and rave about how ridiculous this is
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Speaker 1: and how stupid the flipping of the clocks. I don't
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Speaker 1: care which time you pick, just pick a time. But
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Speaker 1: daylight Saving Time has started and observed every March eighth.
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Speaker 1: I guess not every March eighth, but this year it's
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Speaker 1: obviously March eighth, which is today, and yah, move the
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Speaker 1: clock forward one hour. We and then later on you
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Speaker 1: revert back to standard time. Dumb the dumb, dumb, dumb.
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Speaker 1: And I'm a little disappointed that Benjamin Franklin came up
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Speaker 1: with the idea of resetting clocks to save money on electricity.
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Speaker 1: He said, well, I'll save some money, why not. I
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Speaker 1: was back like the seventeen hundreds, and then there was
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Speaker 1: some other English guy that came up with the plan,
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Speaker 1: was the first true proponent of daylight savings time, but
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Speaker 1: it was not until nineteen eighteen. All the way in
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Speaker 1: nineteen is this came up originally in the seventeen hundreds,
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Speaker 1: and then in nineteen eighteen they said, oh yeah, let's
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Speaker 1: do the daylight savings thing. Yeah that works, why not?
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Speaker 1: And it was during World War One, and then in
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Speaker 1: World War Two there was some more futsing around with
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Speaker 1: the clock. But I just I hate it. I can't
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Speaker 1: stand it, despise it, and it's just going to be
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Speaker 1: the next couple of days. It's terrible. And a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago there was a push to change this
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Speaker 1: and just set one time. And it's days like this
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Speaker 1: that I wish I lived in Arizona or one of
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Speaker 1: the other states that does not futs around with the clock.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not going to go on on that. We
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Speaker 1: have the mail bag to get to. So let's strike
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Speaker 1: up the band. Ohio, al get me in the mood, Ohio. Aw,
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Speaker 1: it's this mail bag all right. These are actual letters
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Speaker 1: by actual listeners. We have not had to beg for
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Speaker 1: messages in a long time. You guys have been great.
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Speaker 1: We've got new names, which I love. The podcast is growing,
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Speaker 1: and as it is a dawn of a new day,
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Speaker 1: as we were doing this year, early on on a Sunday,
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Speaker 1: we begin with a staple of the mail bag. Someone
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Speaker 1: that I don't believe has ever called the radio show,
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Speaker 1: Reggie from Detroit. Reggie says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I
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Speaker 1: wanted to get your thoughts been on that guy that
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Speaker 1: called this week. I think his name was Tom. He says,
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Speaker 1: I think you're referring to Tom who The guy claims
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Speaker 1: to be from Texas, and Reggie says, is he a
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Speaker 1: legit caller or a plant? Why would someone call your
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Speaker 1: show multiple times? Who hates the show? Reggie in Detroit.
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Speaker 1: First of all, Reggie, thank you for sending the message.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that and listening on a regular basis. So
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Speaker 1: I have not spent much time investigating this guy, Tom.
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Speaker 1: I do have boots on the ground, the investigative wing,
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Speaker 1: the MiB AS. I like to call it the Malard
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Speaker 1: Investigative Bureau. There have been some people that have gone
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Speaker 1: around and messed around on the internet, found some information out.
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Speaker 1: This guy's been very open about posting nasty stuff online
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Speaker 1: and all that. I don't know much about him. I've
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Speaker 1: just read some things. Reggie. It sounds like he's a
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Speaker 1: failed radio guy and he just didn't make it because
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Speaker 1: he was not very good at radio. And he's upset
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Speaker 1: because people are on the radio and so and he's
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Speaker 1: a troll and all that. And I get it. You know,
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Speaker 1: radio is hard, it's not for everyone. It's the hardest
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Speaker 1: medium to do, especially doing a solo show. And then
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Speaker 1: the guy apparently was an abject failure at radio. So
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Speaker 1: I get it. I am. I'm not upset. I mean
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Speaker 1: it's great, it's been a good bit for the show
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Speaker 1: that he doesn't seem to like it. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it's stick. It might be shtick, who knows. And
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Speaker 1: it's good, you know, you do the show, and you
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Speaker 1: hope people like it. It doesn't really matter whether they
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Speaker 1: like it or not. I get paid the same money
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Speaker 1: whether you love the show, you hate the show, as
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Speaker 1: long as you listen. And there's a tournament goes back
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Speaker 1: to the nineteen eighties called the Stern Effect for Howard
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Speaker 1: Stern before he went woke and now wants everyone to
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Speaker 1: like him, when he was just doing outrageous bits, just
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Speaker 1: crazy bits on the radio back in his heyday, before
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Speaker 1: he lost his fastball Howard Stern. And they did research
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Speaker 1: the radio stations determine at the people who really hated
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Speaker 1: Howard Stern, they couldn't stand him, they thought he was
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Speaker 1: a pig and all that, and he, you know, may terrible.
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Speaker 1: They listen longer than those who absolutely loved him, and
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Speaker 1: they why is that why? And as well, we want
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Speaker 1: to make sure that the people that hated him, they
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Speaker 1: didn't want to miss an opportunity to be outraged, to
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Speaker 1: be angry. People love to be angry, right of all
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Speaker 1: the things to get angry about an overnight radio show, right,
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Speaker 1: And it's like if you don't I've always said this,
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Speaker 1: but if you don't like your restaurant, I don't I
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Speaker 1: don't go. You know, I don't like your restaurant. I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna hear anymore. You just don't. You don't go.
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Speaker 1: I don't like. I'm not wired that way. I know
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Speaker 1: you don't. It's not an airport. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: announce your departure. You just that's it. So but thank
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Speaker 1: you for I guess being concerned. Rich You were just
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Speaker 1: asking why this guy would Tom that's the name he's using,
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Speaker 1: would would call it? You'd have to ask him. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Danny in Nashville, Now you send me a question. Danny's
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Speaker 1: he's hanging out in Miami these days. But I wanted
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Speaker 1: to say Mazeltov to Danny in Nashville. I'm very proud.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I should be the godfather because Danny
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Speaker 1: had his first child. His son arrived recently. He sent
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Speaker 1: this email a while back. I somehow it fell through something.
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Speaker 1: I apologize to Danny and your lady there, But congratulations
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Speaker 1: to both of you. That is awesome, And I'm excited
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Speaker 1: that you're going to be able to listen live because
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Speaker 1: you're going to have a little You have a little guy,
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Speaker 1: and you'll be able to stay up late because kids
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Speaker 1: have problems sleeping and all that stuff, and so I'm
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Speaker 1: just very happy for you, very happy for you. And
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Speaker 1: Danny did have a good line. He says, Hey, his
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Speaker 1: kid can now snore along with hollering gips. I did
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Speaker 1: not get the name of his child, so email me again, Danny,
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Speaker 1: let me know the name of your son. Or maybe
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Speaker 1: I missed it. I did see some really cool photos
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Speaker 1: and I saw you right there. You look a little
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Speaker 1: different than when you were hiding in the bushes outside
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Speaker 1: these studios there in Sherman Oaks. You're all grown up
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Speaker 1: now and your dad. That's pretty cool. Mike from Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: writes in on the mail bag. He says, Hey, Ben,
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Speaker 1: I've heard you talk about Logan Paul on your radio show.
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Speaker 1: Are you concerned about a lawsuit? Mike says that Logan
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Speaker 1: Paul said this week he's going to sue people that
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Speaker 1: call him a scammer. And yeah, Logan Paul apparently said
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Speaker 1: he's looking forward to dealing with people who have called
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Speaker 1: him a scammer through legal action. He says, as they're false.
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Speaker 1: Narratives are out there about him online. So to answer
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Speaker 1: your question, Mike, the percentage of concern that I have
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Speaker 1: for being sued by Logan paul is zero. I'm not
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Speaker 1: a social media influencer this time of the only one
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Speaker 1: Benny versus the Pennies on So I'm not a social
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Speaker 1: media influencer. I also have been educated by an army
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Speaker 1: of lawyers over the years, working at all these big
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Speaker 1: radio companies, mostly Fox Sports Radio, but I've worked at
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Speaker 1: other companies and what we do, and I think you
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Speaker 1: realize this if you listen. It is an opinion based show.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's an opinion based show. I often
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Speaker 1: say things like this is my opinion or as we
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Speaker 1: understand it, and a pure opinion. You're in this country.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about other countries. I don't worry about that.
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Speaker 1: But in this country, a personal viewpoint that does not
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Speaker 1: assert or imply any kind of factual claim is protected speech,
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Speaker 1: very important protected speech. It cannot be the basis of
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Speaker 1: a defamition lawsuit. Now, you could sue for defamition, however
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Speaker 1: you would not win, the case would be thrown out
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Speaker 1: and you'd get buppkus. However, an opinion that implies some
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Speaker 1: undisclosed facts, or if it's phrased in a way that
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Speaker 1: a reasonable person would take as a factual accusation that
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Speaker 1: can be defamation. You can look at my webinar if
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Speaker 1: you want on that. Defamation, from what I understand, requires
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Speaker 1: a false statement of fact that harms the reputation. Opinions
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Speaker 1: do not qualify. You are entitled to your own opinion
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Speaker 1: and editorials, commentary, obvious hyperbole, which we love. We love hyperbole.
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Speaker 1: They get even more protection. So I got even more protection.
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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, hurt feelings and unfair criticism
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Speaker 1: do not meet the legal standard for defamation. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: you learn that right away. I've had people I've worked
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Speaker 1: with that have been sued for things that they said
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Speaker 1: on the radio, and you learn how to avoid that happening.
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Speaker 1: It's not that difficult. It's once you learn the little
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Speaker 1: things you can say, it's not that hard. But good
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Speaker 1: luck to Logan Paul. I'm sure that'll go very well
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Speaker 1: and he'll make a lot of money and be very,
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Speaker 1: very wealthy, as he needs the money. Hose from Dallas
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Speaker 1: writes in, and I'm pretty sure this is the first
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Speaker 1: time we've gotten an emailer who wanted to ask about
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Speaker 1: F one racing. Jose says, Ben. I know you're not
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Speaker 1: a big racing guy, but yeah, he says, did you
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Speaker 1: take in the big F one story this week? What's
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Speaker 1: your opinion on that? Apparently he sent me a link
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Speaker 1: here to a story from some website I've never seen.
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Speaker 1: Aston Martin's F one car was unable to finish the
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Speaker 1: race at the Australian Grand Prix, said the driver Fernando Alonso,
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Speaker 1: risked major health problems and he had to go only
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Speaker 1: fifty eight laps and because of he felt like he
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Speaker 1: was being electrocuted as he was driving his F one car.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not an F one guy open wheel racing.
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Speaker 1: I did watch the Brad Pitt F one movie with
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Speaker 1: a giant bucket of popcorn. I did watch that. I
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Speaker 1: did watch that. My goodness. Was it like an electric
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Speaker 1: chair instead of a driver's seat. Maybe they go down
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Speaker 1: to San Quentin or something like that, So can we
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Speaker 1: get the driving? Can we get the electric chair? We'll
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Speaker 1: put that in there. That seems very odd. I wonder
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Speaker 1: how that could happen. I'm not a car guy. I
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Speaker 1: like my car, but I'm not a car guy, not
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Speaker 1: really a shoe guy. I don't know what kind of
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Speaker 1: guy I am. I guess I'm a dog guy. As
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Speaker 1: I did that rant the other day, and then what else?
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Speaker 1: A'm a I'm a not a foodie. I just like
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Speaker 1: what I like and that's it. Uh, what else do
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Speaker 1: we have here? Let's see? Uh? Dave from Indiana writs
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Speaker 1: and says, hey, Ben and Danny. I try to catch
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Speaker 1: the podcast at least every other weekend when I'm up
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Speaker 1: early doing doing things around the house. He says, I
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Speaker 1: wanted to thank you for the the lou Holtz monologue
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Speaker 1: this week. It was it was like, I think you
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Speaker 1: meant touching. I don't know what word. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what that is. Ah, well, you don't have to. There's
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Speaker 1: no need to thank me. I've never liked doing eulogies.
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Speaker 1: I have not enjoyed doing eulogies. I don't know anyone
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Speaker 1: that does. However, whether this is a pot or negative
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Speaker 1: depends how you look at I guess it's a negative
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Speaker 1: that there's a positive that it grew out of it.
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Speaker 1: There have been so many people that were a big
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Speaker 1: part of my life, whether they're pop culture callers to
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Speaker 1: the show, and I've I feel like I've got a
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Speaker 1: little better at the eulogy thing. The biggest monologue that
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Speaker 1: we did last year was the Hulk Hogan monologue. I'm
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Speaker 1: still getting emails about the Kobe Bryant thing when he died,
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Speaker 1: and that was before the pandemic years ago. I don't
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Speaker 1: enjoy it. I really would just stay away from anything
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Speaker 1: that was death and all that. Next up is legally
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Speaker 1: Blind Christopher, who is answering the question that I posed
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Speaker 1: on the air. I said, your complain about the weather
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Speaker 1: in London. You whine about that? What is going on
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Speaker 1: with you, legally blind Christopher? And he writes, since is,
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Speaker 1: dear mister Maller, I live in London for two reasons,
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Speaker 1: and then he gives the reasons. Six thousand miles from
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Speaker 1: his ex. Well, that's pretty good free mass transit for
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Speaker 1: me instead of having to walk eight miles a day
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Speaker 1: in Charlotte, North Carolina to get what I need. That
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Speaker 1: sounds like a nightmare. And he says, plus I have
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Speaker 1: work and a new family here in London. Look at you, Christopher, Hey,
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Speaker 1: look at that. All that happened in the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years. That's pretty well. So six thousand miles Does
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Speaker 1: that mean your ex now lives on the West coast
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Speaker 1: of the United States? Am I correct on that? Let
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Speaker 1: me know in your next email, fill me in on that,
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Speaker 1: all right. Next up, we have Gary in Pittsburgh, writes
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Speaker 1: In on the mail bag. He says, Ben, I was
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Speaker 1: listening to your buddy Steve Zabin on his Wednesday podcast
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Speaker 1: and he and his guest were talking about Arby's buying
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Wild Wings back in twenty eighteen for two point
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Speaker 1: nine billion dollars and Gary says I was absolutely for it.
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Speaker 1: And Zabe and his guests both remarked that they said,
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Speaker 1: where did Arby's get two point nine billion? And he says,
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Speaker 1: Gary says, that's an under the radar event that has
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Speaker 1: been kept very hush hush. I guess bad roast beef
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Speaker 1: makes a killing unlesslie are experts at as Danny G
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Speaker 1: says money laundry. But I want your thoughts. Well, Danny's
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Speaker 1: unfortunately not here. I will try to remind him next
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Speaker 1: time he's on the mail bag, hopefully next week. I
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Speaker 1: will let him know about that. But my goodness, he says, ps,
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Speaker 1: if you make it to Ohio, I will be there
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Speaker 1: with the Orum's cinnamon rolls. Well, that would be amazing. Gary,
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Speaker 1: that's a re to go right there. And we are
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Speaker 1: I say, we, not me, but we mentioned last week
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Speaker 1: on the Mailbag, there has been a listener that has
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Speaker 1: stepped up. I don't know if they want me to
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Speaker 1: give their name or not, but a fan of the
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Speaker 1: show who's in Cincinnati, in the Cincinnati area who is
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Speaker 1: boots on the ground and he's he's got some ideas
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Speaker 1: on some venues that could host the mallor meet and greet.
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Speaker 1: So we're hoping that that all works out and we
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Speaker 1: can make it happen. And that's typically how this goes,
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Speaker 1: unless somebody just sets up the whole thing, like Mike
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Speaker 1: the Leprechaun and our friend Mike and New Hampshire are
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Speaker 1: planning on doing for the big Boston Worcester meet and greet.
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Speaker 1: Outside of that, normally it's like, hey, I need somebody
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Speaker 1: who's actually there because you live in the city and
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Speaker 1: it's kind of obviously I don't know what's good and bad.
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Speaker 1: I could go find a restaurant or a sports bar
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Speaker 1: to go to. It very well could be on the
17:55
Speaker 1: wrong side of the tracks and no one's gonna go.
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Speaker 1: And so I want to go to a place that's
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Speaker 1: class and people want to go to and it's safe
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Speaker 1: and all that, and so that's where we are on that.
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Speaker 1: What else do we have to see? Page down here?
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Speaker 1: Felix from Fresno. I don't think we've had an email
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Speaker 1: from Felix before. He says, Ben, I know you and
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Speaker 1: Danny don't like traveling very much by planes. Will this
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Speaker 1: change your opinion on United Airlines? And then he sent
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Speaker 1: me a sort I saw this the other day, actually, Felix,
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Speaker 1: But the United Airlines is changing. They changed their code
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Speaker 1: of conduct and now passengers who fail to use headphones
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Speaker 1: while listening to audio or video content, those infractions can
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Speaker 1: get them on the no fly list for United Airlines. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: how about that. I don't like all the rules. You
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have to put a rule in this. I feel
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Speaker 1: like this is one of those things, Felix, that should
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Speaker 1: be common sense, like the fact that society is at
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Speaker 1: a place where you have to put a rule in
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Speaker 1: to just be polite. It's a communal space. You're stuck
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Speaker 1: in a tube thirty thousand feet in the sky, and
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Speaker 1: if anything goes wrong, it's turnout. The last the parties
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Speaker 1: over and the amount of people that get on planes
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Speaker 1: that don't shout, and you're probably sending this Philixes of
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Speaker 1: the rant I did about the the airlines and all,
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Speaker 1: but but the amount of people that show up that
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Speaker 1: don't have simple decency the quorum, It's like, what do
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Speaker 1: you live? Are you raised by like Neanderthal? Like? What
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Speaker 1: are you doing? I feel the same way when I
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Speaker 1: go to the beach during the summer whi's getting summertimes
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Speaker 1: not not too long from now, and the people that
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Speaker 1: are out there and they've got their boom boxes and
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Speaker 1: they're just blasting the music. But it's not your private
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Speaker 1: beach bozo, Like, dude, what are you doing? So I
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Speaker 1: don't like that. They have to put a rule in. However,
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Speaker 1: if you're watching video or audio stuff and you're just
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Speaker 1: having it blasting, it's affecting other people. So yeah, and
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Speaker 1: that is a big pet peeve. It gets people's blood boiling,
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Speaker 1: as it should. It's a very territorial thing. Barry, the
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Speaker 1: hostess with the most is my guy. Barry put together
20:35
Speaker 1: What a great meet and greet we had in Charleston,
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Speaker 1: South Carolina a little while back. I was down there
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Speaker 1: to visit my niece, who loves Charleston so much that
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Speaker 1: she has stayed that's her home. She lives in Charleston,
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Speaker 1: South Carolina, and I know Barry is still trying to
20:52
Speaker 1: get out of there, and for some reason he's still there.
20:55
Speaker 1: But you know, hey, I know he's trying to get out.
20:57
Speaker 1: I know he's trying to get out. He says, Ben,
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Speaker 1: now that you can make now that you know you
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Speaker 1: can make money from TikTok, when can we expect to
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Speaker 1: see your TikTok account it's from Barry. Yeah, so this
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Speaker 1: is one of those things. The guy that filled in
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Speaker 1: for Coop one night has worked behind the scenes, Brandon
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Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio, and I really talked to him,
21:21
Speaker 1: kind of an introvert like me, and so we don't
21:23
Speaker 1: really talk. When you put two introverts in the room,
21:26
Speaker 1: not much happens. There's not a lot going on. So
21:30
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I make some money. And I was
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Speaker 1: asking them some stuff on the air. I asked him
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Speaker 1: some stuff off the air. And I've always been like,
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Speaker 1: I'm too old for TikTok that I'm not No, I'm
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Speaker 1: not doing that. I'm starting to change my opinion. I am.
21:44
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I started looking around like, oh,
21:48
Speaker 1: maybe I could do something with this and a couple
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Speaker 1: monologues a day and they don't even have to be.
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Speaker 1: They don't have to be mini, they don't have to
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Speaker 1: be MODELOG. You can just be he said, one minute.
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Speaker 1: I do four hours of opinion based radio. Do you
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Speaker 1: understand how easy that would be, how little work would
22:11
Speaker 1: be required to do a one minute rant about whatever?
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Speaker 1: So I am looking into it now. On that note,
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Speaker 1: Barry Tony, who lives, he says, in the greater Philadelphia area,
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Speaker 1: but not South Philly. Whatever that means, he says, Ben,
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Speaker 1: I believe your matrix theory is picking up steam. I
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Speaker 1: wanted to see if you saw this. This is a
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Speaker 1: story from a CEO of Twitch, and I did not
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Speaker 1: see this, Tony, but I thank you for sending it
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Speaker 1: my way. It does back up my worldview. And the
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Speaker 1: headline headline says a top Twitch executive encouraging streamers to
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Speaker 1: buy view bots because good content is not enough. Oh spaghettio.
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Speaker 1: All right. So, in a post on a different social
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Speaker 1: media platform, the Twitch executive explained that bots are going
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Speaker 1: undetected and Twitch benefits from this. Hello, That's exactly what
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Speaker 1: I've been saying, because more viewers look better when it
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Speaker 1: comes to advertisers, exactly. And this is my point. This
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Speaker 1: has been the rant I feel like, I'm going crazy here.
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Speaker 1: I'm one of the few people that is pointing this out. Now.
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Speaker 1: I learned this years ago. It's all fogayzy, it is,
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Speaker 1: and it is either people want to ignore it, they
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Speaker 1: don't want to bring it up. It's I keep going
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Speaker 1: back to the Wolf of Wall Street, right, I go
23:58
Speaker 1: back to the Wolf of Wall Street, and they're going
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Speaker 1: on and on and on and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 1: nobody knows if a stock is gonna go up or down,
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Speaker 1: sideways or fucking circles, least of all stockbrokers. And then
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Speaker 1: he goes in that whole rants all food gazy. You
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Speaker 1: know what a fugazy is for Gaysey is fake fu
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Speaker 1: gazy fo ghazi. It's wazy, it's woozy, it's very dusty.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't exist, it never landed. It is no matter. Blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's Internet
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Speaker 1: view counts. I'm telling you, it's been this way for years.
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Speaker 1: All right, back to the story, So thank you Tony
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Speaker 1: for sending this. By the way, if I didn't thank
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Speaker 1: you already. The executive from Twitch says that he claimed
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Speaker 1: that viewbots, which you can buy, is important for anyone
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Speaker 1: looking to grow, even if the growth is done by
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Speaker 1: those nefarious methods, And the quote continues, I would never
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Speaker 1: explicitly say you should bought your views on Twitch, other
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Speaker 1: than in the title of the article. But you know
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Speaker 1: what that means. Kids. But the reality is, if your
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Speaker 1: view botting and everyone else is, if you're not viewbodding, rather,
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Speaker 1: if you're not viewbodying everyone else is, you're at a disadvantage.
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Speaker 1: There you go close quote and he's not wrong. And
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Speaker 1: again I go back to the stories. I'm going bonkers here,
25:34
Speaker 1: the people on TikTok who had all these down loads,
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Speaker 1: and dumb people who work at websites that aren't social
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Speaker 1: media based, like these old newspapers which are just websites.
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Speaker 3: Now, this person had two million views on their song
25:50
Speaker 3: and okay, and then they try to sell tickets and
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Speaker 3: friends and family buy tickets.
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Speaker 1: That's it, friends and family buy tickets. Next up we
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Speaker 1: have Enie Meenie Miny Mo Scott from Florida Wright since says, hey,
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Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, what's a sign in the wild that
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Speaker 1: someone is a costco member? For me, it's the the
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Speaker 1: Puma tube SOX. I don't own anything else. Puma, But
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Speaker 1: damn if I don't have fifty pairs of those white
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Speaker 1: tube socks in the closet. And I see other Puma
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Speaker 1: sack guys all around town. Almost all of them are
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Speaker 1: Costco shoppers. Well I'm jealous, Scott. I don't have a
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Speaker 1: lot of Costco clothing. By the way, how's the day
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Speaker 1: shift going? Have you gone to the day shift? Have
26:40
Speaker 1: you have you done that? I think you're I think
26:43
Speaker 1: I'm right you're going to or were you going to
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Speaker 1: the night shift? I'm confused. Maybe you were going back
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Speaker 1: to the night shift. I don't know. It's early. There
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Speaker 1: was a freaking time change. I have no idea anyway.
26:54
Speaker 1: What is he's asking? What is the sign someone's a
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Speaker 1: Costco member? Well, you really would know until you went
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Speaker 1: to their house and found the seven gallon tub of mayonnaise,
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Speaker 1: the twenty five gallon container of pretzels, the five pound
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Speaker 1: thing of M and M's. You got to go into
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Speaker 1: the storage the pantry at the house, and then you'll say, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's Costco. That's Costco. Clearly, Tom from La thank you, Scott.
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Speaker 1: I hope things are going well for you. Tom from
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Speaker 1: La right sences McDonald's launching Crocs keychain toys in the
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Speaker 1: new basketball Happy Meal. Ben, are you going to go
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Speaker 1: back to Mickey? The's no, I'm not interested. I don't
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Speaker 1: wear Crocs. I don't have a problem with Crocs. Some
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Speaker 1: people have a very strong reaction to Crocs. I'm not
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Speaker 1: that person. So enjoy. If that's your thing, I'm good
27:55
Speaker 1: on that. Now, if that's worth some money, we can
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Speaker 1: revisit this and say, well, maybe I should go back
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Speaker 1: and get some of those. So the promotion begins is today.
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Speaker 1: The eighth begins March tenth. It includes so a couple
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Speaker 1: of days away, includes miniature crop keychain toys inspired by
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Speaker 1: the footwear brand Signature Clogs, a collab bringing basketball theme
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Speaker 1: collectibles to restaurants along the annual high school showcase, which
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Speaker 1: I guess is coming up in Phoenix, Arizona. So there
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Speaker 1: is that. Yeah, I mean they look kind of cool,
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Speaker 1: and that looks to me like something that will go
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Speaker 1: for a fair amount of money for people that collect
28:44
Speaker 1: random crap. Tom Shane in de Moine writes in he says, hey,
28:50
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, Oh, no, Shane's in Dallas. I got
28:54
Speaker 1: shaneon to Mooyne on them. Sorry, I got my Shanes
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Speaker 1: mixed up Shannon Dallas. It's early, I'm telling you, that's
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Speaker 1: my default excuse. It's early. So a man had to
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Speaker 1: be rescued by firefighters. He got trapped into a phone booth,
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Speaker 1: or as they call it in London, a phone box,
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Speaker 1: while trying to order a kebab, and then Shane in Dallas,
29:19
Speaker 1: not the Moe. Shane in Dallas, says Ben, how could
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Speaker 1: this happen? Well, Shane, I wasn't there. I'm looking at
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Speaker 1: a photo of this and it's in Manchester in the UK,
29:31
Speaker 1: and these are these classic. When I think of London,
29:34
Speaker 1: I think the first thing I think of was the
29:36
Speaker 1: double decker bus. The second thing I think of is
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Speaker 1: the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, and then
29:42
Speaker 1: somewhere a little lower after Big Band and some other
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Speaker 1: things after that. I then, at some point I get
29:49
Speaker 1: to the red phone booth. You would think, though, just
29:54
Speaker 1: again common sense not being very common, that you would
29:57
Speaker 1: look inside. There's windows on this thing. You say, okay,
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Speaker 1: there's no phone in there, Because this story says this
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Speaker 1: guy got in there and he realized there was no
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Speaker 1: working phone, and then the door shut behind him and locked,
30:09
Speaker 1: and there was no way for him to get out,
30:11
Speaker 1: so his friends were there and they called firefighters to
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Speaker 1: get him out. You'd think, whynton just use his friend's phone,
30:19
Speaker 1: But who knows. Rick from San Diego rights into the mailbag.
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Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Ben, can you let your friend in
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Speaker 1: Vegas know that he better not take a whiz with
30:30
Speaker 1: his glasses on? Yeah, I don't know. Rick sent me
30:35
Speaker 1: a story about meta glasses. Does our friend in Vegas
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Speaker 1: use meta glasses or does he use some other kind
30:42
Speaker 1: of glasses? Are there other kind of glasses? I'm gonna
30:47
Speaker 1: assume he knows. I'm gonna assume our buddy in Vegas knows.
30:50
Speaker 1: But yeah, this story is that the metaglasses, the people
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Speaker 1: behind them have warned users that when they go to
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Speaker 1: take a nice dump, that everything they're doing is being
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Speaker 1: reviewed by humans. That these meta ray Man smart glasses.
31:09
Speaker 1: They've sent out this mass warning that whether you're dropping
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Speaker 1: a deuce, you're wiping your toukis, you're making whoopie, or
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Speaker 1: you're maybe by yourself adjusting the joystick, it's all going
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Speaker 1: to be on on camera. So yeah, I don't have
31:30
Speaker 1: to worry about that. I do wear glasses I inherited
31:34
Speaker 1: from my dearly departed parents, the bad vision. A sasquatch
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Speaker 1: Willie that sounds like a real name. He says, he's
31:43
Speaker 1: in the Greater Seattle area. He writes in he says, Ben,
31:49
Speaker 1: how come this was not a bigger story? I know
31:51
Speaker 1: you like UFL stories. A declassified UFO going back thirty
31:57
Speaker 1: five years, A giant glowing spear over a military base
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Speaker 1: has been confirmed, and yet nobody seems to care. Yeah, well,
32:08
Speaker 1: welcome to the modern times, the zeitgeist of the times.
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Speaker 1: Sasquat twilly. He sent me a bunch of UFO stories
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Speaker 1: as UFO hotspot uncovered or around underwater canyons off US coasts. Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: that one goes into my long standing theory. I say,
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Speaker 1: long for the last couple of years that I have
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Speaker 1: believed what we're experiencing is some other life form that
32:39
Speaker 1: shares the planet with us. And they say here in
32:43
Speaker 1: this story, right off the West coast, three regions of
32:46
Speaker 1: the West Coast, La Joya, and San Diego. Then there's
32:50
Speaker 1: a canyon in central California and also Monterey Canyon that
32:54
Speaker 1: showed unusually high concentrations of UFO sightings compared with the
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Speaker 1: population based expectation so the theory is there's some stuff
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Speaker 1: going on at the very bottom of the ocean. And
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Speaker 1: then Willie also sent me a story that NASA scrubbed
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Speaker 1: the moon landing mission for twenty twenty seven and he
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Speaker 1: says there's claims there's an ancient city on the surface
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Speaker 1: of the Moon and that's why they're not going to
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Speaker 1: go because humanity is not ready for that. Okay, that
33:30
Speaker 1: would be great, that would be amazing, and there are
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Speaker 1: people that would know. I'm pretty sure they've sent things
33:39
Speaker 1: all over the moon. We also talked to I think
33:42
Speaker 1: it was the last week about Mars, the Mars things
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Speaker 1: not happening elon Musk going to Mars. They were going
33:49
Speaker 1: to go to the Moon. So anyway, we'll get out
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Speaker 1: on that. I'm gonna go try to go back to
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Speaker 1: sleep and have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. This
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Speaker 1: freaking daylight savings time change thing, beach and these loser
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Speaker 1: politicians they don't have the balls to change it, do something.
34:14
Speaker 1: This is something that is a bipartisan issue. Anyway, I
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Speaker 1: can go on here, I get out of here, have
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Speaker 1: a great study. I'll be back on the radio tonight.
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Speaker 1: All things being equal, will be ranting and raving behind
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Speaker 1: the powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio, and we'll talk
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Speaker 1: to you. Then got a murder. I gotta go.