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The Fifth Hour: Dummy Run! · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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Speaker 1: Fifth Hour Podcast. On this Friday, we have made it
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Speaker 1: This podcast only available right here. It's not broadcast on
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Speaker 1: terrestrial radio like the Overnight Show. As we celebrate a
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Speaker 1: very important holiday for me. I don't eat this very often,
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Speaker 1: but when I do, I have a smile from ear
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Speaker 1: to ear. It is National Sticky Bun Day. That's right,
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Speaker 1: an entire day to celebrate the sticky bun, which is
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Speaker 1: one of the great things about being alive. The sticky
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Speaker 1: bun a confection that is Philadelphian of nature. It was
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Speaker 1: brought to the United States by German immigrants in the
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Speaker 1: eighteenth century. And one of the producers on Benny Versus
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Speaker 1: the Penny, this guy John Good. Dude, dude, good like
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Speaker 1: lifetime TV dude, you know, old school TV guy. And
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Speaker 1: so John lives in Philadelphia and he helps on the
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Speaker 1: TV show during the you know, the football seasons. Obviously
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Speaker 1: we don't do it now. And John loves to talk
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Speaker 1: about Philadelphia pretzels. He loves talk about pretzel. But the
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Speaker 1: sticky bun also a Philadelphia treat from the German settlers
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Speaker 1: back in the eighteenth century. Normally you think you have
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Speaker 1: the sticky bun with breakfast, but you know, sometimes the
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Speaker 1: cinnamon rolls, but carmel rolls, monkey bread and all the
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Speaker 1: different names. But the sticky buns originally were known as Schnannecken.
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Speaker 1: I think I'm saying that properly. I think I believe
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Speaker 1: I'm correct on that. They go back to the eighteenth century,
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Speaker 1: but German settlers in the Dutch Pennsylvania area brought them
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Speaker 1: over and the rest, as they say, is history. So
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Speaker 1: celebrate appropriately a very important day, the sticky Bun Day,
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Speaker 1: which I can go for the walnut ones. You know,
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Speaker 1: last time I ate one was at the airport where
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Speaker 1: was I was in South Carolina, I believe, at a
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Speaker 1: small airport and they had the cinemon. I hated the
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Speaker 1: cinebun place there, which is the only time I eat
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Speaker 1: cinnamon is at the airport. And liked it. Liked it.
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Speaker 1: How do you not like it? I mean, that was great.
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Speaker 1: It was a great way. You get on the plane.
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Speaker 1: You're good to go. It's outstanding, outstanding. So on this
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Speaker 1: edition of the Fifth Hour podcast, on this Friday, we
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Speaker 1: got the dummy run, political theater, foody fun, and the
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Speaker 1: word or words of the week. That's right, all of
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Speaker 1: that coming your way right now, and we begin with
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Speaker 1: the week that was on the Ben mal Show, the
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Speaker 1: original Recipe show. As it has come to an end,
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Speaker 1: the radio program. It was not like pulling teeth there
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Speaker 1: and all things consider. I got this email from Blind
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Speaker 1: Scott Who's like, well, this is the greatest time of
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Speaker 1: the year because it's all about the callers now there's
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Speaker 1: not much sports going on. And I got all these
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Speaker 1: these people who are like he wasn't the only one.
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Speaker 1: There were several other people who reached out to me. So, oh,
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Speaker 1: this is great because you don't really have a lot
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Speaker 1: to talk about. And this is the part that I
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Speaker 1: kind of like because I've pointed this out before. First
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Speaker 1: of all, anyone can do sports talk radio. It's not
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Speaker 1: that hard, right, It's not that difficult. Now the question
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Speaker 1: is can you do it well? Can you put the
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Speaker 1: work in and master the craft, And there's not that
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Speaker 1: many people that can do it. I'm still trying to
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Speaker 1: master the craft. But this time of the year I
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Speaker 1: think is more fun because there's a lot of people
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Speaker 1: that get exposed and it's neat because if you don't
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Speaker 1: put the work in, it's like the vampire exposed to garlic,
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Speaker 1: right or sunlight. You know, under normal circumstances, daylight can
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Speaker 1: be very harmful to vampires. If vampires were real, it
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Speaker 1: would be a big problem. And for sports talk show hosts,
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Speaker 1: this time of the year when things slow down in
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Speaker 1: the NFL is a problem. It's an issue, right, And
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Speaker 1: so you got to kind of work your way through it.
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Speaker 1: And I laughed because when I first started, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I've been doing it for a while now, but when
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Speaker 1: I first started in the radio business, we got almost
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Speaker 1: all of our sports news from these things called newspapers.
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Speaker 1: And I remember when I worked at the station in
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Speaker 1: San Diego, we had an AP sports wire and a
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Speaker 1: sports ticker and they would update breaking news bulletins and
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Speaker 1: all this stuff, and we had that. That was the
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Speaker 1: way we got our news. Lee Hacksaw Hamilton, it was
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Speaker 1: my mentor in radio. He would get a bunch of
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Speaker 1: newspapers delivered and he'd scroll through them and cut out
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Speaker 1: different parts, and that's how we got the information. But
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Speaker 1: now there's never a slow that you might not like
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Speaker 1: the inventory, but there's always inventory. You might say, there's
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Speaker 1: not a lot of meat on the bone, but we've
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Speaker 1: got potatoes, and we have really good potatoes. You have
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Speaker 1: country fried potatoes, We've got potato wedges. Those are outstanding.
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Speaker 1: So maybe you don't like the meat's not really there,
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Speaker 1: but we've got the potatoes. And then we have dessert.
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Speaker 1: We've got some apple pie, and the apple pie is good.
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Speaker 1: Who doesn't like apple pie? So the point listen if
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Speaker 1: you if you want it varies because every day there
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Speaker 1: are self promoting athletes that go on social media and
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Speaker 1: do stuff. For example, this week, I squeezed out parts
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Speaker 1: of Mala monologues on Vladimir Guerrero Junior of the Toronto
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays, and he liked a photoshop of him as
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Speaker 1: a Yankee. Boom right there. That's part of a Mala monologue.
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Speaker 1: But this is only something that could happen in the
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Speaker 1: modern era. A story like that would not have possibly
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Speaker 1: happened back in the olden days, but in modern times,
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Speaker 1: those kind of things happen all the time. There's or
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Speaker 1: that I didn't mention on the show that I had
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Speaker 1: considered it was under review to be part of a
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Speaker 1: mal monologue, but did not reach the threshold to be
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Speaker 1: a Mala monologue or in it. And that was the
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Speaker 1: random emoji that was sent out by the Cheetah, the
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Speaker 1: random emoji sent out by Tyreek Hill. And he's having
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Speaker 1: a mid career crisis, or maybe a late career crisis.
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Speaker 1: It certainly seems he's a bit miserable in Miami. So
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Speaker 1: that did not end up as a mologe. So there
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Speaker 1: is stuff that we didn't even get to that would
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Speaker 1: have been pretty good, would have been pretty good now.
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Speaker 1: The stuff that we normally have during the NFL season,
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Speaker 1: which creates a primal scream, you know, that visceral reaction.
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Speaker 1: Not too much of that. The story though, that we
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Speaker 1: did just last night, Friday, the Friday, overnight, Thursday and
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Speaker 1: a Friday a perfect example of the zeitgeist. And I
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Speaker 1: call it the I call it the hockey cult. I
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Speaker 1: call it the hockey cult. So I get message. There's
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Speaker 1: two or three people that have consistently emailed me over
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Speaker 1: the years who listen. For some reason. I don't have
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Speaker 1: the foggiest inkling why they listen, because all they do
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Speaker 1: is complain. You know you should when Eddie was working,
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Speaker 1: you should give Eddie more time. Why don't you give
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Speaker 1: any more time? Eddie's the hockey guy. Eddie should talk
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Speaker 1: he knows hockey. And then they'll be like, there's a
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Speaker 1: big story you should have talked about hockey. Why didn't
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Speaker 1: you do a monologue about hockey? So they get all upset,
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Speaker 1: and anytime there's a hockey story that they think should
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Speaker 1: have been on the show, they get very upset. Their namored.
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Speaker 1: They love hockey, they worship hockey, right, they're the hockey cult,
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Speaker 1: Hockey forever, hockey truthers, whatever. So I usually don't even
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Speaker 1: write back I'm like, okay, whatever, you're complaining yet again.
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Speaker 1: So I decided, since everyone's joned up about the four
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Speaker 1: Nations tournament that took place over the last ten days
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Speaker 1: or so, I was like, all right, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I'm gonna dust off the
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Speaker 1: cobwebs and I'm gonna settle in here and do a
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Speaker 1: little hot hockey. And I watched the game. And it's
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Speaker 1: not like I don't watch hockey. I do. But we
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Speaker 1: point out and this really annoys the hockey cult. Boy
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Speaker 1: do they get upset. They do not like what I'm
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Speaker 1: about to say. And this, this really is a tinderbox comment.
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Speaker 1: What I'm about to say. I point out that we
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Speaker 1: do broadcasting, not narrow casting, and that right there is
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Speaker 1: a powder keg and it's a When I bring that up,
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Speaker 1: it's an explosive combination. People get very upset and they
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Speaker 1: start blubbering and bursting into tears, and you get all emotional.
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Speaker 1: I love my hockey. I can't believe it. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, So I just want to tell you
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, right behind the microphone, what goes on.
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Speaker 1: But behind the scenes, and so I watched the hockey game,
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Speaker 1: and it was a competitive game where I went to overtime.
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Speaker 1: Connor McDavid scored the overtime game winner for the Canadians
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Speaker 1: and they win the game. And so that was a
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Speaker 1: buzzkill for those of us here in America. And so
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Speaker 1: I did my monologue in about fifteen sixteen minutes on hockey,
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Speaker 1: and of course what happened the hockey cult the same
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Speaker 1: people that send me messages saying I should have talked
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Speaker 1: about this, that and the other thing. These people are
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Speaker 1: in a total meltdown. My theory is it wasn't because
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Speaker 1: of anything that I did. They were upset because they
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Speaker 1: really believed that Team USA was going to win and
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Speaker 1: that was a reality check for them, and they had
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Speaker 1: anger because they expected the American team to win. And
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Speaker 1: so rather than just eat Humble Pie, they said, you
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Speaker 1: know what we're gonna do. We're gonna weaponize and attack
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Speaker 1: the idiot on the radio, and they did.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: They were sending me nasty messages in that the hockey
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Speaker 1: cult did not enjoy the dummy run, and I felt
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Speaker 1: like I should have said somewhere I don't think we're
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Speaker 1: allowed to. But the you know, the test I don't
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Speaker 1: think they use this anymore. But this is a test.
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Speaker 1: For the next sixty seconds, this station will conduct a
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Speaker 1: test of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test.
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Speaker 1: I want to say, this is this, I'll change the words.
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Speaker 1: This is the Ben Malor Show. This is a test.
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Speaker 1: For the next sixty seconds, the Ben Maler Show will
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Speaker 1: conducted test of the emergency hockey broadcast system. This is
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Speaker 1: only a test. And then that's it. And so like
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Speaker 1: people want to throw me into the the penalty box
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Speaker 1: and admonish me, and I thought, I was fine, this
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Speaker 1: is not It was a hockey monologue. I talked about
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Speaker 1: the game. I mentioned some of the storylines around the game,
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Speaker 1: which to me were pretty interesting. I don't believe that's
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Speaker 1: a game misconduct penalty or anything like that. Is it's fine,
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Speaker 1: and we move on. So I will talk hockey if
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Speaker 1: something happens that I feel rises up to the level
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Speaker 1: of a malad monologue about hockey. The bar is very
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Speaker 1: high because it's again, it's broadcasting, not narrow casting. That's
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Speaker 1: the thing that triggers triggers many who are in the
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Speaker 1: hockey cult. And I don't even know how you end
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Speaker 1: up in the hockey cult. I would imagine it starts
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Speaker 1: in childhood, and it's really non negotiable. You're inflexible when
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Speaker 1: you're part of the hockey cult and you love the
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Speaker 1: hockey dogma, and you evangelize about hockey and you try
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Speaker 1: to convert people. But yet when they talk about hockey
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Speaker 1: and they come over to your beliefs, you're annoyed by them.
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Speaker 1: That troubles you even know your life's mission is to
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Speaker 1: get people who aren't hardcore hockey people to follow your teachings.
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Speaker 1: And when that happens and you've converted someone at least
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Speaker 1: for a night, and you've done that, it's still not
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Speaker 1: good enough. It's still still not good enough. But I
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Speaker 1: digress now. That dummy run I thought went pretty well.
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Speaker 1: The people that are the hockey cult people didn't like it.
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Speaker 1: I did have the most calls I've ever had. I've
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Speaker 1: been doing this show for a long time, and maybe
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Speaker 1: you've been listening for a long time. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how long you've been with me on the show, but
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Speaker 1: we're kind of a weird family here. Some people have
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Speaker 1: been with me a long time, a short time. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. We're in this together, right work in the
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Speaker 1: third shift. So I bring this up because we had
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Speaker 1: more calls from Canada in that first hour, really first
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Speaker 1: couple hours of the show than I have ever had
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Speaker 1: in many I mean, I've noticed again many years, I've
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Speaker 1: never had that many cous and Fox Sports Radio is
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Speaker 1: a absolute blow torch. It is a supersonic missile in terms
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Speaker 1: of clearance, and we're very lucky to have that bully pulpit,
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Speaker 1: if you will, and we're cleared everywhere late at night.
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Speaker 1: So we're on like six hundred radio stations or something
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Speaker 1: on that number, and we're on all over Canada obviously
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Speaker 1: from coast to coast. In America, we're on the American
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Speaker 1: Forces Network, and so it's available for those at ships
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Speaker 1: at sea and whatnot, and you can hear the show.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's pretty cool. I think that's that's pretty
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Speaker 1: neat that people can hear it all over the world.
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Speaker 1: And we have a lot of military people that call
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Speaker 1: the show, usually are military contractors that live on bases
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Speaker 1: or around bases. I'm not sure how all that works.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a military person, but based on what I've
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Speaker 1: gotten feedback wise over the years, a number of the
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Speaker 1: people maybe their former military and they bring their family
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Speaker 1: to Germany or somewhere in Asia, in Korea or whatever,
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Speaker 1: and so they listened to the different radio shows from
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Speaker 1: back home. Now, the calls we took in Canada, there
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Speaker 1: was a common theme from the calls that we took
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Speaker 1: in Canada. I don't know if you noticed the common
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Speaker 1: theme or not. It was hard not to notice pretty
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Speaker 1: much every single person from Canada that called up, and
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Speaker 1: very nice people, very very nice people from Canada, but
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Speaker 1: they all were ready to hit the panic button because
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Speaker 1: of President Trump talking about making Canada the fifty first date. Now.
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Speaker 1: I heard what he said, and I chuckled, because a
15:52
Speaker 1: lot of what President Trump does is to just try
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Speaker 1: to get headlines and kind of goof around with people.
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Speaker 1: And you know, we minded people freak out over everything, right,
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Speaker 1: they just freak out, and mostly media dopes. They just
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Speaker 1: lose their mind over everything he does because they're convinced
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Speaker 1: everything is legit and all that stuff. And so the
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Speaker 1: fifty first state thing, I couldn't believe how many people
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Speaker 1: from from Canada were like, that's what they brought up.
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Speaker 1: They're like, oh man, just like thegit and I thought
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Speaker 1: it was a joke. I don't foreshadow in the next
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Speaker 1: four years, Canada becoming part of America. Not that stranger
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Speaker 1: things haven't happened. I get that, it's it was amusing
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Speaker 1: to me. I found it amusing and somewhat troubling that
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Speaker 1: that volume of people are like, hey, I kind of
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Speaker 1: think this is gonna happen. And then you had that
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Speaker 1: true dog character, that that dope, and he was prodding
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Speaker 1: the story, trying to get some headlines even though he's
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Speaker 1: out right he's resigned. I thought, when you resign, you
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Speaker 1: gotta leave radio. When you said I'm leaving, you don't
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Speaker 1: really get that final couple of the shows. That's it.
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Speaker 1: You're pretty much done at that point. But it was
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Speaker 1: great to hear I fro McCall's we're on all over Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg,
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Speaker 1: where else are we on there? We've been on and
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Speaker 1: off in a lot of these places. Ottawa, we are
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Speaker 1: on in Toronto, all over Ontario, Montreal, so we've got
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Speaker 1: some good clearance on Fox Sports Radio all over Canada.
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Speaker 1: And all it took was me to do a mala
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Speaker 1: monologue about hockey, and they were raising up the Canadian flag,
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Speaker 1: loving it and in honor of Canada. This is not
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Speaker 1: a This is not a list for Terry and England.
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Speaker 1: This is a big board. It's Big Ben's Big board
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Speaker 1: of amazing factoids from Canada. Is it true that the
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Speaker 1: Vikings visited Canada several hundred years ahead of Christopher Columbus?
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Speaker 1: That is true. Legend has it the Vikings arrived in
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Speaker 1: Canada in one thy twenty one. How about that? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there you go. They settled on the northern side of
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Speaker 1: Newfoundland and just passed Greenland and they said, we've arrived here,
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Speaker 1: we are now. The first explorer to reach Canada was
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Speaker 1: in fourteen ninety seven some Italian dude. He was born
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Speaker 1: in Italy and he traveled to England and secured the
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Speaker 1: ships there and ended up traveling around. He was trying
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Speaker 1: to find a shorter route or route to Asia, and
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Speaker 1: he landed in Newfoundland and that's where he was. The
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Speaker 1: coldest recorded temperature in Canada in snag Yukon it is
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Speaker 1: sixty three selfies celsius. So what does that mean in
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Speaker 1: American terminology? Meaning fahrenheit? So that's just some malord math here,
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Speaker 1: I mean type this in here Malard math. You're listening
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Speaker 1: Live to the Fifth Hour Live on tape to the
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Speaker 1: fifth hour. So let's see if it's if it's sixty
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Speaker 1: three minus sixty three, selfies, I'm using this is big
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Speaker 1: time broadcasting. Metric conversion is what I'm doing. This is
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Speaker 1: big all right. So if it's minus sixty three, that
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Speaker 1: would be minus eighty one fahrenheit. Wow, minus eighty one
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Speaker 1: point four fahrenheit. And that's the coldest temperature. And is
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Speaker 1: that not worthy Terry in England of being on Big
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Speaker 1: Ben's Big Board of Canadian fun Facts. I believe it is,
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Speaker 1: I believe, and this is in honor of our many
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Speaker 1: Canadian listeners as we are blatantly sucking up to our
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Speaker 1: friends in Canada. Now, Canada has two national sports. We
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Speaker 1: all know hockey because that's the big one, that's the
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Speaker 1: bigin But in the summer, lacrosse is the official sport,
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Speaker 1: although it hasn't been the sport for that long in
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Speaker 1: my lifetime. When I was a kid, they didn't have
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Speaker 1: a summer sport. But the Parliament in Canada made it
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Speaker 1: the official summer sport in nineteen ninety four. In nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety four, what else? Canada has the fourth longest highway
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Speaker 1: in the world. We're number four the Trans Canada Highway,
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Speaker 1: which is four eight hundred and sixty miles. It takes
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Speaker 1: about one hundred and six hours of non stop driving,
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Speaker 1: and so you can enjoy that. Canada has the record
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Speaker 1: for the most lakes in the world, eight hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventy nine thousand lakes. Many of them are undiscovered and
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Speaker 1: unresearched because a lot of Canada is changing because of
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Speaker 1: the Glacier melts, and most of Canada is non human friendly,
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Speaker 1: non human friendly. Quebec is the most, well, not the most.
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Speaker 1: It's the only walled city left in North America and
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Speaker 1: it's been around now for four hundred almost four hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty years. And Charles Dickens, the Great Charles Dixon Dickens,
21:38
Speaker 1: rather Charles Dickens, called it the Gibraltar of North America.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. There's a fun fact. And Hawaiian
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Speaker 1: pizza was invented in Canada by a Greek dude. Yeah,
21:54
Speaker 1: the great Hawaiian not from Hawaii, from Canada. Oh, come
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Speaker 1: my home and native but to me. We mentioned this
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Speaker 1: in a previous episode. The most important contribution our friends
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Speaker 1: in Canada have given us poutine. Poutine which was invented
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Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties in Quebec. Now, if things go
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Speaker 1: well later this year, I plan on visiting Montreal, and
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Speaker 1: if I'm in Montreal, I am going to try to
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Speaker 1: find the birthplace of the poutine. And it started in
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Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties. It was not until the nineties that
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Speaker 1: the rest of Canada got on the gravy train, literally
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Speaker 1: the cheese curd potato gravy train. So it took about
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Speaker 1: forty years for that to become a big old deal,
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Speaker 1: a big old deal. Moving on from that, we turned
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Speaker 1: the page and it is now time for a staple,
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Speaker 1: an absolute staple of this show. And what is that?
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Speaker 1: That would be the word of the week, the word
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Speaker 1: of the work. That's right, the word of the week,
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Speaker 1: and the word of the week. This week, fraz was
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Speaker 1: sent in, let me get the name here, la la l.
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Speaker 1: That would be Eric. Eric is a p one, he says.
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Speaker 1: He listens most of the time to the podcast, but
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Speaker 1: usually once a month he's up late. And Eric lives
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, or he says outside Atlanta. Well, Eric, thank
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Speaker 1: you for listening. God bless you great airport there in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: I know Sports with Coleman gets annoyed when I say
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Speaker 1: great airport. I've had good experiences there. I've not been
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Speaker 1: there when the weather's bad, but I've had always good
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Speaker 1: experiences when I've been to the Atlanta Airport. So thank
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Speaker 1: you for having a good airport, Eric, And he said, Hitchcockian.
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Speaker 1: He want to know more about the word HITCHCOCKI, in
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Speaker 1: which I think is raph. They're obvious, Eric, it's a
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Speaker 1: word that is taken from the last name of Alfred Hitchcock,
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Speaker 1: the famous you know in Hollywood back in his day
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Speaker 1: in the nineteen I said, go back to like the
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Speaker 1: nineteen thirties. Really the early domination of Hollywood. Alfred Hitchcock
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Speaker 1: was a big deal, a really big deal, and such
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Speaker 1: a big deal that his last name, a legendary Hollywood
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Speaker 1: director from the nineteen thirties, almost one hundred years ago,
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Speaker 1: ended up in the Oxford Dictionary. And it's, you know,
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Speaker 1: a thriller, suspense story, it's Hitchcockian or a Hitchcocky in drama,
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Speaker 1: I believe, is what I usually say, Eric when I
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Speaker 1: when I reference it. And it's just really anything described
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Speaker 1: as Hitchcockian is of that genre. And it started popping up.
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Speaker 1: The term actually goes back to the nineteen thirty I
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Speaker 1: guess so, Hitchcock, I must have been doing stuff in
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Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties. It was just around the release of
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Speaker 1: his third movie, a silent thriller called The Lodger, the
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Speaker 1: Story of the London Fog, and it started popping up
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Speaker 1: and it ended up as a word in the dictionary.
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Speaker 1: And while I was researching that Eric who lives in
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Speaker 1: the suburbs of Atlanta, I noticed the phrase Orwellian, which
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Speaker 1: is also named after It's somebody's name that became a thing.
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Speaker 1: So I think we've had this in the past, but
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Speaker 1: I just saw this and I wanted to bring it
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Speaker 1: up again because it's come up a lot, certainly in
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Speaker 1: the last five years. During the pandemic, there was a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on and people said was Orwellian.
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Speaker 1: The government overreached, the police state that was going on
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Speaker 1: in America and still going on, was Orwellian. And so
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Speaker 1: that phrase is a tribute to George Orwell's name because
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Speaker 1: it's synonymous with the dystopian authoritarian society that he would
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Speaker 1: write about in nineteen eighty nine. And Orwellian has been
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Speaker 1: around since around the nineteen fifties and there was a writer,
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Speaker 1: Norman Mahler, not Ma Mahler, who used the term in
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Speaker 1: a book in nineteen fifty nine, and it's been used
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Speaker 1: off and on ever since. I will tell you that
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Speaker 1: it's certainly been used more in recent years. But thank
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Speaker 1: you Eric for downloading the podcast, and for now you
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Speaker 1: are a show contributor, so you can brag your wife,
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Speaker 1: who you say hates the show, and you can say, hey,
26:46
Speaker 1: not only do you hate the show, but now you
26:48
Speaker 1: can double hate the show because I'm now a contributor
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Speaker 1: to the Fifth Hour podcast and my name is Eric,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know your last name, Eric, i'd say it,
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Speaker 1: I don't know it, but thank you. Meanwhile, we have
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Speaker 1: I have foody Fun. Allay for food e fun, Allay
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Speaker 1: for food e fun. Yes, we love to eat. I
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Speaker 1: used to love to eat. Now I don't eat very much.
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Speaker 1: These are some food stories headlines got to help you
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Speaker 1: boys out. And there's one that immediately jumps off the pitch. Now,
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Speaker 1: this restaurant is not located everywhere. I realize that they're
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Speaker 1: not widespread because it's more of a Western chain. But
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Speaker 1: Jack in the Box, What's in the box? Jack in
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Speaker 1: the box? Jack in the Box celebrating their seventy fourth anniversary,
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Speaker 1: and what better way, what better way to celebrate that
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Speaker 1: than with a seventy four cent jumbo jack deal. It
27:39
Speaker 1: is available this weekend, so if you live near a
27:42
Speaker 1: Jack in the Box, it's only available on the app
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Speaker 1: and online through the end of the weekend. Today's the
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Speaker 1: twenty first. It goes through Sunday, and so if you
27:51
Speaker 1: want to get that seventy four cent jumble jack. Again,
27:54
Speaker 1: the issue, this has been a long standing issue, is
27:56
Speaker 1: you want any of this stuff. Every restaurant wants to
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Speaker 1: track you in in order to get a seventy four
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Speaker 1: cent burger, you have to allow them to track you
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Speaker 1: and have the app. So it's a quid pro quo.
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Speaker 1: As they like to say, it's my Latin. Sounds like
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Speaker 1: I'm very knowledgeable and I use Latin now can Tucky
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Speaker 1: Fried Chicken, better known by their gangster name KFC. They
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Speaker 1: recently introduced a new Korean barbecue loaded Fries bowl which
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Speaker 1: looks absolutely amazing Korean barbecue, mac and cheese and it's awesome,
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Speaker 1: just covering the fries. Available for a limited time exclusively
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Speaker 1: through the app and online like everything else, And if
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Speaker 1: you want to pig out and be a hawser piggy,
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Speaker 1: Piggy piggy. Golden Coral is where you need to go,
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Speaker 1: and they have the all you can eat steak and
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Speaker 1: butterfly shrimp deal which is back. It's available only on weekdays,
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Speaker 1: of course, because on the weekends forget about it. But
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Speaker 1: on weekdays after four pm it'll go all the way
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Speaker 1: till April sixth. So you got the last week here
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Speaker 1: of February, you got all the month of March in
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Speaker 1: a little bit in April, and they claim overwhelming demand.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but Golden Crowd welcoming back.
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Speaker 1: The all you can eat steak and butterfly shrimp thing
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Speaker 1: now is part of the offer. You get unlimited portions.
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Speaker 1: They claim a perfectly seasoned and grilled sirline paired with
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Speaker 1: endless servings of jumbo butterfly shrimp and fry doing golden crisp.
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Speaker 1: Well fine, I don't need the shrimp, but the steak
29:37
Speaker 1: sounds good. And it looks like they have a mashed
29:39
Speaker 1: potatoes thing taco bell again, that was a Golden Craw
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Speaker 1: Taco bell. They've got the new Milk Bar Birthday Cake
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Speaker 1: Truro which looks like it'll give you diabetes, but man,
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Speaker 1: it looks good. Jack in the Box also has a
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Speaker 1: box fries New Banana French Toasticks in the Box fries
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Speaker 1: banana like it's banana French toast, but it's in like
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Speaker 1: a fry box or something like that. So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Some of the food stories there some other stuff, but
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Speaker 1: that's those are the main ones. Those are the main ones.
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Speaker 1: Danny g should be with me on Saturday. I will
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Speaker 1: see if he can make it or not. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Work out the schedule and we'll get the mail bag
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Speaker 1: on Sundays Sunday Sunday. Thank you for supporting the podcast
30:26
Speaker 1: and being part of the madness of it all. Have
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Speaker 1: a wonderful rest of your Friday, and don't forget we're
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Speaker 1: here for you. On Saturday and Sunday, we'll have original podcast.
30:39
Speaker 1: I will wave the magic wand and we'll have amazing
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Speaker 1: fun unless we don't, but we'll get to all of
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Speaker 1: that as we get through the weekend, and we'll get
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Speaker 1: you next time later. Skater asta pasta? Is that all
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Speaker 1: Danny did I miss? I don't think I'm right. I
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Speaker 1: think that's all of them. Yeah, now, all right, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna go lay down and take a nap.
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Speaker 1: I'll be back tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. Gotta murder, Gotta go,