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The Fifth Hour: No Upcharge · 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 soul fashion of fairness. He
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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House
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Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something Special. The Fifth
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Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Speaker 3: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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Speaker 3: Mahler and Danny G Radio and a Happy Saturday.
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Speaker 1: The fifteenth day.
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Speaker 3: Of February, the day after Valentine's There was Valentine's Day weekend, right,
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Speaker 3: so I don't know if you survived or not. You're here,
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Speaker 3: you're listening, whether it's early or whenever you listen. We're
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Speaker 3: recording this early on Saturday morning, but we are here
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Speaker 3: hanging out with you on the Fifth Hour, myself, Danny
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Speaker 3: G on assignment today. It must be the Valentine's Day thing,
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Speaker 3: but he is scheduled to join us at some point,
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Speaker 3: hopefully tomorrow. Because I don't think he's going to be
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Speaker 3: on this podcast. You're stuck with me, but Danny will
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Speaker 3: be producing this podcast. Should be with us tomorrow for
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Speaker 3: the mail bag. And normally we start out by praising
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Speaker 3: some dope holiday. Really not anything stands out today on
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Speaker 3: the dopey holiday thing. The only thing that kind of
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Speaker 3: got my attention this is more because my brother lives there.
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Speaker 3: It is National Wisconsin Day today, and we have some
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Speaker 3: regular p ones that listen to the show, whether it's
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Speaker 3: live the Green Bay Gobbler for example, comes to mind,
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Speaker 3: or we have podcast listeners, guys that email. We have
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Speaker 3: some email guys from Milwaukee. We have some email guys
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Speaker 3: from Wisconsin as well, from all over Wisconsin. Brandon, for example,
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Speaker 3: sends emails so often, so listen, We're on in Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: It is National Wisconsin Day.
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Speaker 3: So I thought, all right, let mean, I really did
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Speaker 3: this to kind of send something to my brother because
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Speaker 3: he lives in Appleton, my young brother and I don't
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Speaker 3: talk to them that often, but I think of Wisconsin,
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Speaker 3: you think of cheese, and you think of beer, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: so I cooked up some fun facts about the state
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Speaker 3: of Wisconsin. And these mayor may not be true. These
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Speaker 3: mayor may not be true, but I believe them to
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Speaker 3: be true. I believe them to be true. So ten
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Speaker 3: thousand BC. They asked to me. Now, how the hell
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Speaker 3: they know this?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Ten thousand BC. The Paleo Indians the first known inhabitants
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Speaker 3: in Wisconsin. Now, I would argue that dinosaurs like we
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Speaker 3: lived there way before the Indians got there. But they're
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Speaker 3: claiming that was the beginning of humans in the.
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Speaker 1: State of Wisconsin.
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Speaker 3: And Wisconsin became US territory or I guess it was
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Speaker 3: the Wisconsin Territory created by an Act of Congress in
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Speaker 3: eighteen thirty six and became a state officially a state
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Speaker 3: part of.
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Speaker 1: The Union in eighteen forty eight.
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Speaker 3: It's been a minute since Wisconsin's been part of the US.
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Speaker 3: We stopped making states with Hawaii and Alaska.
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Speaker 1: That was it. We don't need anymore, I guess.
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Speaker 3: Sounds like President Trump, though's gung ho to get a
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Speaker 3: couple more states.
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Speaker 1: He wants to have some more states, Greenland and wherever.
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Speaker 1: Who knows.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, it's the National Wisconsin Date's Fun Fun Facts about Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: Fun facts about Wisconsin. Let's see what do I have?
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Speaker 3: I have Wisconsin. Now, I did not know this. By
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Speaker 3: the way, it is known as the Badger's state. I
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Speaker 3: knew that, right, Wisconsin Badgers, the Big ten team there
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Speaker 3: in Wisconsin. But did you know it is not called
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Speaker 3: the Badger State because of the animal. I always thought, well,
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Speaker 3: Wisconsin's mascot's a badger, and that's the badgerer animal, but
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Speaker 3: no turns out. In the early days of Wisconsin the
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Speaker 3: Badger State, the nickname a just goes back to the
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Speaker 3: eighteen hundreds refers to the lead or the lead rather
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Speaker 3: lead miners who used to travel and dig the tunnels
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Speaker 3: and they would stay warm and sleep and all that.
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Speaker 3: They were the Badgers, the lead, the lead group. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: well I know that Harley Davidson's from Wisconsin. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: they're not as popular as they used to be. When
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Speaker 3: I was younger, Harley Davidson was like the end all
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Speaker 3: be all. I don't think they're doing as well anymore.
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Speaker 3: And the first ever ice cream Sunday we can thank
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Speaker 3: because of the Twin Rivers Soda Shop. Some guy named
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Speaker 3: George George George George George George of Twin Rivers. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: at the Twin River Soda Shop. He asked in that
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Speaker 3: soda shop for a dish of ice cream and sauces
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Speaker 3: on a random Sunday, And that was the point of
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Speaker 3: conception for the ice cream Sunday. So I'll send some
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Speaker 3: of those over to my my brother. Today's National Wisconsin Day.
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Speaker 3: Very very exciting.
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Speaker 1: Indeed. Now in this podcast we have what do we have?
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Speaker 3: We have the signs you have a work force problem,
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Speaker 3: signs you have a workforce problem.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that.
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Speaker 3: No up charge here, something that I'll likely get ripped
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Speaker 3: for by you idiots and worse than the chiefs, if
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Speaker 3: that's possible, worse than the chiefs.
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Speaker 1: So we'll have that.
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Speaker 3: And I actually wanted to start with the phrase of
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Speaker 3: the week because I did not get to it on
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Speaker 3: the Friday podcast. So the phrase all the work, oh
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Speaker 3: here is the phrase of the week. The phrase of
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Speaker 3: the week is with a grain of salt. Now there's
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Speaker 3: a couple of ways to say this. You can say
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Speaker 3: with a grain of salt, you can say with a
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Speaker 3: pinch of salt. I use this on a semi regular basis.
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Speaker 3: This is part of my lexicon, and it actually comes
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Speaker 3: from a Latin phrase which translates and I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to try to speak Latin x nay on the Latina.
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Speaker 1: That's all the Latin I know.
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Speaker 3: Although there's a fair amount of words that we use
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Speaker 3: that are Latin, but we know how to use them.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, get to the point.
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Speaker 3: So with a grain of salt or a grain of
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Speaker 3: salt translates the Latin phrase with a grain of salt
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Speaker 3: or with a grain of wit, the phrases used to
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Speaker 3: indicate that something should be taken with skepticism or reservation.
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Speaker 3: The phrase is thought to originate it and be written
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Speaker 3: around seventy seven a d.
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Speaker 1: That's been a while, seventy seven a d.
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Speaker 3: And in the book Plenty Plenty the Elder's Natural Historia,
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Speaker 3: that was the name of the book. But in the
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Speaker 3: book Penny described an antidote for poison that included a
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Speaker 3: grain of salt, and that phrase that was taken from
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Speaker 3: seventy seven AD. In this random book the phrase was
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Speaker 3: adapted by English writers and oh there we go. And
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Speaker 3: in Britain the phrase is used with a pinch of salt.
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Speaker 3: In in America it's with a grain of salt. So
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Speaker 3: obviously again you're you know, you don't believe it. You're like,
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Speaker 3: that's not really true. And they're lying to us there,
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Speaker 3: they're lying to us. Take it with a grain of salt.
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Speaker 3: Now it is NBA all Star Weekend. Last night they
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Speaker 3: had this for gazy rookie thing with run TMC and
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Speaker 3: Team C. They got it done over Team T and
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Speaker 3: you had the Golden State war influence.
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Speaker 1: So of course these are the Warriors.
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Speaker 3: When I was a kid, when they had Tim Hardaway,
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Speaker 3: Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullen and they were known as
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Speaker 3: run TMC. It was an exciting team. It's fun team
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Speaker 3: that was back in the late eighties. I think Sleepy
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Speaker 3: Floyd was still part of that team. Good name anyway,
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Speaker 3: they used that in the Rising Stars Challenge.
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Speaker 1: I watched about two minutes of this. I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: lie and on that. I'm good. I'm all right.
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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, Team T, Team M and Team C alongside
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Speaker 3: the g League Crew, which was coached by Jeremy Lynn.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not for me. This is not for me.
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Speaker 3: I did see after it all ended that Steph Castle
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Speaker 3: of your San Antonio Spurs was the MVP. So congratulations
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Speaker 3: on ringing the Rising Stars Towns. I gotta tell you,
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Speaker 3: I didn't see a lot of Rising Stars the two
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Speaker 3: minutes I watched. Maybe I missed the Rising Stars. I
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Speaker 3: should have kept watching, right, I should have kept watching.
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Speaker 3: I did see Dalton connect play a little bit and the.
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Speaker 1: Lakers tried to trade him.
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Speaker 3: But he's a rising star. Why would you trade a
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Speaker 3: rising star? I don't understand. I have no idea. Now
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Speaker 3: I did, I didn't want to mention that. I tease
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Speaker 3: this and the story. This is one of those stories
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Speaker 3: every once in a while, something happens on a Friday
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Speaker 3: or Saturday where I was like, man, I would really
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Speaker 3: love to do a monologue on that, and I'm not
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Speaker 3: going to do it here because we try to avoid
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Speaker 3: all sporty all the time. But there's something that I
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Speaker 3: saw that my eyeballs popped out of my head a
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Speaker 3: little bit when I saw it. Is that you gotta
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Speaker 3: be joking, like this gotta be satire. This is something
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Speaker 3: like Sports Talk Barry my guy who I've had on
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Speaker 3: this podcast, or butt Crack Sports, or Babylon B came
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Speaker 3: up with. Did you see that the NBA and the
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Speaker 3: Players Association holding meetings with the All Star players, the
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Speaker 3: top players in basketball, like the top guys, biggest names
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Speaker 3: in the sport ahead of the All Star Game, which
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Speaker 3: is tomorrow, and they were essentially evangelizing that it's very
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Speaker 3: important to play hard for the fans. But then they
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Speaker 3: tossed in and this is the most important part.
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Speaker 1: For the business.
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Speaker 3: For the business now, I would argue, I would argue,
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Speaker 3: this is a sign that you have a workforce problem,
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Speaker 3: that you as a business, something has gone sideways, something
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Speaker 3: is off a little bit. You have people in your
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Speaker 3: business that are so confident in their celebrity that they
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Speaker 3: can rest all Star weekend.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to hammer away and put on a show.
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Speaker 3: And it's man, it's something that is across all sports.
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Speaker 3: It has infected all of the sports. Drastic times require
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Speaker 3: drastic measures. So you know something's drastic when the commissioner
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Speaker 3: and the union are meeting with the players to say, hey, boys,
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Speaker 3: you gotta kind of give us a little bit effort.
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Speaker 3: You got to get off the inner tube and stop
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Speaker 3: floating on on the lazy river. There they punch the
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Speaker 3: clock guy mail it in and just coasting along. And
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Speaker 3: in all those words, the NFL players did the same thing, right,
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Speaker 3: They cut corner. They didn't want to tackle boo hoo hoo.
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Speaker 3: And so the nfls has got rid of it. And
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Speaker 3: the Pro Bowl is like now it's like a water
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Speaker 3: balloon toss tic tac toe.
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Speaker 1: It's like summer camp. The Pro Bowl. I mean this
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Speaker 1: used to be an event.
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Speaker 3: Now, the Pro Bowl was never great in football, but
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Speaker 3: there was a point where guys actually hit. There's a
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Speaker 3: certain safety that died way too young for the old
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Speaker 3: Washington Redskins that laid out a punter in one of
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Speaker 3: the great moments in Pro Bowl history. But across all
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Speaker 3: of sports, the temperature for these All Star events is lukewarm.
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Speaker 1: I rotate nuts.
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Speaker 3: I have a couple of friends of mine that have
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Speaker 3: and worked in that professional sports world for a long time,
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Speaker 3: and they were explaining me the whole point of the
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Speaker 3: All Star Game was to promote the business.
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Speaker 1: And all these sports leagues.
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Speaker 3: When they started, they weren't they weren't that well publicized,
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Speaker 3: they weren't broadcast everywhere, and so you didn't have the
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Speaker 3: internet obviously in the early days. And so in order
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Speaker 3: to have an event where you could see everybody like,
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Speaker 3: it's all the great it's an appetizer of all the
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Speaker 3: greatest things you have to offer.
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Speaker 1: That's the All Star Game.
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Speaker 3: But now everyone can see anything anytime they want, and
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Speaker 3: the players are so confident and so cocky, and they
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Speaker 3: lack that toughness and that Frida and I often talk
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Speaker 3: about the Code of the West, right, the Code of
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Speaker 3: the West, which I have tried to model as much
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Speaker 3: of it as I can. The main thing is to
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Speaker 3: take pride in your work and always finish what you start,
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Speaker 3: do what has to be done.
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Speaker 1: Those are all parts of the Code of the West.
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Speaker 3: And that doesn't exist when you're a pro bouncy ball
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Speaker 3: player and you just want to go and party at
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Speaker 3: the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: And I get it, it's fun, you know, you have
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Speaker 1: a good time. Why not.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to be bothered by having to play
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Speaker 3: hard in the game, so you play grab ass on
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Speaker 3: the court. But Adam Silver seems to think there'll be
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Speaker 3: some kind of renaissance and we'll see tomorrow in the
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Speaker 3: All Star Game. I know the three point shootout and
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Speaker 3: the Dunk Contest, which is really the Witness Protection Program
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Speaker 3: edition of the Dunk Contests that they continue to tweak
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Speaker 3: and try to modify. And I don't even know the
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Speaker 3: All Star Game thing. I got you have multiple teams
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Speaker 3: in that dough Yeah, let me explain something. If you
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Speaker 3: need someone to explain the instructions to you, and you're
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Speaker 3: a die hard fan to watch a sporting event, something
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Speaker 3: is not right there. I know you're trying to recalibrate
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Speaker 3: this thing, right, You're trying to get some excitement back
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Speaker 3: in the All Star Game. But if the customer needs
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Speaker 3: someone to explain what is going on because you've got
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Speaker 3: a business filled with players that just don't have the
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Speaker 3: intestinal fortitude to play hard, I mean that is a
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Speaker 3: tough sell. That it's hard enough to watch the All
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Speaker 3: Star Game. I mean, I'll probably watch some of it
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Speaker 3: because I've got a radio show to do and I'm
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Speaker 3: looking for content. But that is I would have done
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Speaker 3: a full monolog I'm not in two monologues if there
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Speaker 3: was a show on Friday night into Saturday. Here about that, man,
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Speaker 3: that is just insane. Yes, we're begging you, please please
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Speaker 3: come on buy in to the Dogma, buy in.
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Speaker 1: We need you. Wow. Anyway, I'm moving on from that,
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Speaker 1: So about it.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna most likely get killed for this, but I'll
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Speaker 3: tell you what happened. So Valentine's Day was yesterday and
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Speaker 3: it was rather a quiet been married for a few
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Speaker 3: years now and the wife wasn't feeling great. I'm still
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Speaker 3: getting over this. The sniffles got a lot of phlegm.
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Speaker 3: I'm the King of all phlem right now. So we
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Speaker 3: were like, all right, Valentine's Days for the amateurs, right there.
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Speaker 3: Valentine's Day for the people that are new and new relationships.
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Speaker 3: You're dating, you're trying to impress your significant other, the
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Speaker 3: whole thing.
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Speaker 1: But we're pros.
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Speaker 3: It's kind of like New Year's Eve is for the amateurs.
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Speaker 3: If you're a real hard alcoholic, you don't need to
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Speaker 3: go out in New Year's Eve because that's for the amateurs.
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Speaker 3: So we thought about Valentine's Day's kind of same thing.
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Speaker 3: And I've never been a big Valentine's Day guy anyway.
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Speaker 3: Now Lorraina the other night, she was all fired up,
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Speaker 3: but the wife and I were like, listen, we have
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Speaker 3: to work a lot.
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Speaker 1: We don't see each other much during the week. I'm
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Speaker 1: running all over the place.
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Speaker 3: We had the last TV show which you can still watch,
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Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny on Peacock check that out.
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Speaker 1: Help us out.
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Speaker 3: So anyway, we were like, I will stay home, and
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Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I'll make pizza. We'll make it
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Speaker 3: from scratch. We had done this in the past, we
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Speaker 3: have pizza time and all that. And then I had
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Speaker 3: this light bulb go off in my head because I
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Speaker 3: was reading some stories. I think I mentioned this on
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Speaker 3: a previous edition of this podcast, but I read that
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Speaker 3: a bunch of these pizza chains were up charging people
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Speaker 3: for Valentine's Day, and not just pizza places. But the
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Speaker 3: story is about pizza because I'm I'm gonna tell you
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Speaker 3: I made pizza last night. But it was like I
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Speaker 3: read that. I think it was Papa John's California Pizza Kitchen.
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Speaker 3: There were some pizza hut I think was I think
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Speaker 3: that was a big one. Anyway, they were like, all right, listen,
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Speaker 3: if you it's limited time, limited time, you know, go
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Speaker 3: to a pizza hut, you can get a heart shaped
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Speaker 3: pizza for Valentine's Day. And so they were like charge
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Speaker 3: an extra for that, and oh, I mean it's the
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Speaker 3: same dough.
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Speaker 1: You just shaped the dough. And I was like, what's
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Speaker 1: going on with that? So I got this, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know what up my I was, I'll do that,
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Speaker 1: why not? You know? So I did.
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Speaker 3: I made a heart shaped pizza for the wife on
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Speaker 3: Valentine's Day and I have some photo.
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Speaker 1: Now she was not feeling well.
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Speaker 3: She was under the weather and she's still obviously day
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Speaker 3: after so she's still in the other she refused. She
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Speaker 3: said she was not photo ready, so no photos of her.
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Speaker 3: But I took some photos. I was very proud of
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Speaker 3: my work here, so I took some photos. It's not
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Speaker 3: a perfect heart, but I saved the upcharge. There was
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Speaker 3: no up charge. And I not only made the Valentine's
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Speaker 3: Day pizza, we made it from scratch. I'm talking you know,
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Speaker 3: the flour, the yeast, all that, the sugar. The I
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Speaker 3: had a little honey and that was good that I
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Speaker 3: mean that now on honey. I had a little, just
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Speaker 3: a teaspoon of honey, and it adds a little twist
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Speaker 3: to it. I put some corn meal under the crust.
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Speaker 3: That's pretty solid, pretty solid. But I made some garlic
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Speaker 3: butter parmersan twist. Now this is a ripoff of another
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Speaker 3: very expensive food item and I am a big fan of,
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Speaker 3: and that would be the garlic parmersan twist from Roundtable,
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Speaker 3: which is wonderful, absolutely great. And so I found years
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Speaker 3: ago how to make those a pretty good hybrid version
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Speaker 3: of that counterfeit version for a lot less. So once
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Speaker 3: I converted to that, I do that for big events.
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Speaker 3: I do that for big events, and I try to
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Speaker 3: spread the gospel. Let's say, you know, it's one of
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Speaker 3: my hobbies on the weekends, futsing around in the kitchen.
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Speaker 3: But it doesn't always go well. We go on the
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Speaker 3: hot tub time machine now and we head back back, back, back,
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Speaker 3: back back back, all the way back to Super Bowl
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Speaker 3: Sunday and one of the great food tragedies of our time. Now,
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Speaker 3: as I said, I like to futs around in the kitchen,
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Speaker 3: something I've started.
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Speaker 1: Doing, probably doing it for man, it's been a few years.
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Speaker 3: It's not brand new I've been I started doing the
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Speaker 3: baking stuff, and now I've moved on to pizza.
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Speaker 1: And it's pretty much just food. I like, I know
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Speaker 1: how to make.
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Speaker 3: It's food, I like, you know, it's cheese, steak, it's burgers,
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Speaker 3: it's it's a pizza, you know, those kind of thing
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Speaker 3: chicken fingers, you know, which may annoy you. I'm not
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Speaker 3: like a total foodie. I'm not making the foo foo food. No,
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Speaker 3: I'm making stuff I want. And that's it, right, And
19:29
Speaker 3: so that's what most people woul do, right, you make
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Speaker 3: stuff you like, you know, and all so Super Bowl Sunday,
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Speaker 3: big day, a big day, fired up Chiefs and Eagles,
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Speaker 3: last last Sunday, and I was like, I'm gonna break
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Speaker 3: my diet.
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Speaker 1: I am gonna go big.
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Speaker 3: I am going to go big, big big big big
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Speaker 3: big big big big big big big big big big
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Speaker 3: big big big. In fact, I want to be a
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Speaker 3: cartoon character. I would like to be Porky Pig from
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Speaker 3: Looney Tunes, right, And that's what I want. I want
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Speaker 3: to be Porky pick. I want to overeat so much
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Speaker 3: that I flash back to my younger.
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Speaker 1: Days and overdo it, you know.
20:14
Speaker 3: I mean, I want to be stuffed to the gills,
20:17
Speaker 3: but I want good food. I want people to look
20:21
Speaker 3: at me and say, that's a big fat cub of go.
20:26
Speaker 1: That's what I want. I want to be compared to
20:27
Speaker 1: Joey Chestney.
20:28
Speaker 3: Now keep in mind, I watched the game in solitude,
20:31
Speaker 3: and I'm by myself because I got to pay attention
20:33
Speaker 3: to what's going.
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Speaker 1: On and all that.
20:36
Speaker 3: So anyway, I'm settling up and on Saturday, the day
20:40
Speaker 3: before the Super Bowl, I'm like, Okay, I'm planning my menu.
20:43
Speaker 3: Eagles are in. I picked the Chiefs that didn't go
20:46
Speaker 3: so well, but I'm gonna have I'm gonna have a
20:49
Speaker 3: Philly cheese steak because that's the perfect meal. The Eagles
20:54
Speaker 3: are in there, it's Philadelphia, why not. And I'll have
20:56
Speaker 3: some pretzels. Pretzel bites is my appetizer. I'll have some
21:00
Speaker 3: ice cream for dessert and it'll be really good. I'll
21:02
Speaker 3: mixing some snacks and that's gonna be a wonderful Super
21:04
Speaker 3: Bowl for me. So I go to the store to
21:08
Speaker 3: buy there's a certain type of bread. Now I blame
21:10
Speaker 3: the great Tony Bruno. It's an outrage because Tony schooled
21:14
Speaker 3: me when Tony worked at our shop at Fox. Tony
21:17
Speaker 3: Bruno the greatest sports talk radio host in my lifetime.
21:20
Speaker 3: But Tony Bruno's like, hey, you know, he explained to me,
21:24
Speaker 3: this is what you need. No cheese whiz, you got
21:26
Speaker 3: to have provolone. And then he talked about the bread,
21:29
Speaker 3: certain type of bread. You gotta have these rolls from Philadelphia.
21:33
Speaker 3: So the local store where I live out in the
21:36
Speaker 3: north Woods, there's a store, only one store that sells
21:39
Speaker 3: that bread.
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Speaker 1: HOGI rolls, and they're authentic.
21:42
Speaker 3: They're the same ones that are used in Philadelphi, and
21:45
Speaker 3: I've only used those for years. When I make a
21:47
Speaker 3: cheese steak, a cheese steak Sammy, so I have some
21:52
Speaker 3: rabbi ready to go. I had the Provolone cheese, no
21:56
Speaker 3: cheese wizz Provolone cheese.
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Speaker 1: I went to buy the bread. They're out of it, right,
22:01
Speaker 1: So then I'm like, oh, man, maybe there's some other store.
22:03
Speaker 1: So I looked it up.
22:04
Speaker 3: In like two towns over, there's another store that's supposed
22:08
Speaker 3: to have the bread. So I get them the malamobile
22:12
Speaker 3: and I zoom over to the other part of the town.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I'll go get the bread. They
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Speaker 1: don't have the bread.
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Speaker 3: They don't have the bread, so now I'm like, well,
22:20
Speaker 3: I don't want to drive to a third store. So
22:21
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, as orchas. I love cheese steak.
22:23
Speaker 3: I got to have this bread. Apparently I can't eat
22:25
Speaker 3: it without it, because Tony Brune will be upset, even
22:27
Speaker 3: though he has no idea I'm doing this. So it's
22:30
Speaker 3: all right, I'll scratch that. I'll make pizza. That's what
22:34
Speaker 3: I'll do. How can you f up a pizza? Maybe
22:36
Speaker 3: I'll make a cheese steak pizza. I'll put the ribbi
22:38
Speaker 3: on there, I'll put some onions, a belt pepper and
22:40
Speaker 3: make a cheese steak pizza. That's the ticket. So I
22:44
Speaker 3: want to make it from scratch. So I go and
22:46
Speaker 3: I get the yeast and the water and everything, the sugar,
22:51
Speaker 3: the salt, all that stuff. Put it all together, and
22:54
Speaker 3: it's supposed to rise. So I put it in, put
22:57
Speaker 3: a towel over it, follow the instructions, walk away, And
23:04
Speaker 3: about an hour or so before the Super Bowl, I
23:08
Speaker 3: went to check the dough because you got to knead
23:10
Speaker 3: the dough a little bit. So I went to check
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Speaker 3: the dough, and the damn dough had not risen.
23:16
Speaker 1: He did not. This was not this was not an
23:19
Speaker 1: Eastern situation. Nothing had risen.
23:21
Speaker 3: So I was like, oh crap, I must have ft
23:24
Speaker 3: up the water temperature. When you combine the yeast with
23:28
Speaker 3: the water and the sugar and the salt and all it,
23:30
Speaker 3: the water temperature has to be one hundred to one
23:35
Speaker 3: hundred and ten.
23:36
Speaker 1: So it was either.
23:36
Speaker 3: Too cold or too hot. And I was tired when
23:40
Speaker 3: I put it together, so I didn't know which one.
23:42
Speaker 3: So then I'm like, all right. I was in a hurry.
23:45
Speaker 3: The game's closing in It's going to take a long
23:47
Speaker 3: time for this dough to get ready. So I threw
23:49
Speaker 3: together some more dough. And I was in a hurry,
23:52
Speaker 3: like I said, because I was trying to plan everything
23:54
Speaker 3: out time wise. So i'd have the food around halftime,
23:58
Speaker 3: and I put the dough in and I put a
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Speaker 3: towel on it, and I came back around the time
24:03
Speaker 3: I needed to knead the dough and this was flat.
24:07
Speaker 3: This was like a piece of paper. And I was like,
24:12
Speaker 3: oh crap, I'm ft is it? And this is going worse.
24:18
Speaker 3: At the time, the Chiefs were down I think twenty
24:20
Speaker 3: four to nothing at af time, and I was like,
24:23
Speaker 3: this is worse than the.
24:25
Speaker 1: Chiefs, Like, how is that possible?
24:28
Speaker 3: How is it possible that this is worse than the
24:31
Speaker 3: my performance worse than the Chiefs?
24:34
Speaker 1: It was wild, and so I was right. I couldn't
24:37
Speaker 1: make it.
24:38
Speaker 3: And now I've been told I talked to a few
24:41
Speaker 3: of my friends who are in the culinary world. They
24:43
Speaker 3: told me that what I need to do now and
24:45
Speaker 3: the next time the dough doesn't rise, it's probably some
24:48
Speaker 3: of you with the water or oil. So add some
24:51
Speaker 3: oil to it, add some water, knead it a little bit,
24:53
Speaker 3: and then it'll rise. But I didn't know that at
24:55
Speaker 3: the time. I didn't know that at the time. So
24:58
Speaker 3: I was f instead of having this feast of feast,
25:02
Speaker 3: instead of needing to go to a fat farm, and
25:06
Speaker 3: and all that I was not. I was not the
25:10
Speaker 3: guy that picked out scarf down all the food over indulge.
25:13
Speaker 3: Was not that guy did not wolf down a ton
25:15
Speaker 3: of food. I made like two cheese casadillas, and I
25:21
Speaker 3: had a couple of pretzel bites which I had gotten.
25:23
Speaker 1: So I had those, and that's it. That's that's all
25:27
Speaker 1: I had.
25:27
Speaker 3: That's h and I some peanuts, I think, if I
25:31
Speaker 3: remember correctly. But that was my super Bowl. So I
25:34
Speaker 3: fd up. Bad job by me. And that means next year,
25:37
Speaker 3: assuming I'm not at the super Bowl, which likely won't happen,
25:41
Speaker 3: But next year, I will plan I will plan ahead,
25:46
Speaker 3: and I will make sure that my pizza is on point,
25:50
Speaker 3: make sure my pizza is on point.
25:51
Speaker 1: I will work on that. I did want to mention
25:55
Speaker 1: this too.
25:55
Speaker 3: I saw this story yesterday that caught my attention, and
25:59
Speaker 3: in invahl the chiefs.
26:01
Speaker 1: I love the excuses the chiefs.
26:04
Speaker 3: It wasn't their day. They sucked at a time you
26:08
Speaker 3: cannot suck. And as I often have preached from my
26:12
Speaker 3: bully pulpit, that the only thing that matters. And I
26:16
Speaker 3: spent a lot of time handicapping games, but the only
26:20
Speaker 3: thing that matters is who is better in that moment,
26:24
Speaker 3: who does better in that moment under the immense pressure.
26:27
Speaker 3: And as Dick Stockton taught me, stats tell you what
26:30
Speaker 3: has happened, not what's going to happen. And the Eagles
26:34
Speaker 3: were clearly dominant. And now there's a story coming out
26:38
Speaker 3: the Chiefs suffered from super Bowl fatigue. Let me get
26:43
Speaker 3: my world's smallest violent out. I can play that.
26:47
Speaker 1: Oh boo hoo. Who the Chiefs?
26:51
Speaker 3: They're in the super Bowl every year and they were
26:54
Speaker 3: just worn out.
26:55
Speaker 1: From being in the super Bowl every year. Stop, what
26:58
Speaker 1: are we doing here?
27:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, that story's making the rounds that Andy Reid or
27:05
Speaker 3: somebody who coaches. Maybe not Andy Reid, but somebody told
27:08
Speaker 3: some sports writer claim that told the media member who
27:11
Speaker 3: had asked him if going to the Super Bowl ever
27:14
Speaker 3: gets old, and he said it does.
27:17
Speaker 1: So. Well, the good news is if.
27:19
Speaker 3: They keep playing the way they did in the super Bowl,
27:21
Speaker 3: they do not have to worry about going back to
27:25
Speaker 3: the super Bowl.
27:26
Speaker 1: They don't have to worry about going back to the
27:28
Speaker 1: super Bowl. So there you go. Wonderful wonderful, wonderful.
27:34
Speaker 3: And what else did I see that caught my I
27:37
Speaker 3: saw the quote? Did you see the quote from Brian Cashman?
27:44
Speaker 1: No, Okay, you'll get a kick out of this one.
27:46
Speaker 3: So it is my belief that the Yankees and Dodgers
27:50
Speaker 3: are run pretty much exactly the same way from a
27:52
Speaker 3: day to day standpoint. You've got an army of dorks
27:58
Speaker 3: that are in the front off. Now, Brian Cashman has
28:02
Speaker 3: employed all of the nerds he can get, and in
28:04
Speaker 3: La Andrew Friedman has nerd army, So it's revenge of
28:08
Speaker 3: the nerds.
28:08
Speaker 1: And then you've got the.
28:09
Speaker 3: Manager who's just following the middle manager who's just following
28:13
Speaker 3: what those guys want, whatever the data indicates for that day.
28:18
Speaker 3: So Aaron Boone and Dave Roberts are pretty much the same.
28:23
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts I really liked him in that spot. I
28:26
Speaker 3: have fired Dave Roberts about six or seven times. At
28:29
Speaker 3: this point, I'm convinced Dave Roberts will manage the Dodgers
28:32
Speaker 3: the rest of my life. That he's just going to
28:34
Speaker 3: be there forever and be like the all time wins
28:36
Speaker 3: guy in baseball history, and he's just going to manage there,
28:40
Speaker 3: he'll be seventy and he'll still be managing.
28:42
Speaker 1: And then in New York you've got Aaron Boone.
28:46
Speaker 3: Now, the way the Yankees played is a direct reflection
28:48
Speaker 3: of Aaron Boone. They got to the World Series and
28:50
Speaker 3: they had a total melt down. The relief, pitching melted down,
28:55
Speaker 3: the defense was terrific. They were fundamentally unsound, even though
28:58
Speaker 3: they got to the World Series, and the Yankees decided
29:01
Speaker 3: to retain Aaron Boone. A very Unyankee like thing of
29:05
Speaker 3: my younger days in my youth, because the Yankees would
29:08
Speaker 3: fire managers all the time. In fact, they fired so
29:10
Speaker 3: many managers they brought back managers and it was a
29:14
Speaker 3: regular occurrence. So I saw this quote yesterday from Brian
29:17
Speaker 3: Cashman who said that if Aaron Boone had gotten into
29:22
Speaker 3: free agency, if the Yankees have said bye bye and
29:26
Speaker 3: let him go, he says, quote, if he wasn't the
29:30
Speaker 3: Yankee manager, it would have been a feeding frenzy for
29:33
Speaker 3: him to be a manager that's coveted elsewhere. Objectively, Cashman said,
29:39
Speaker 3: that's how I.
29:42
Speaker 1: See it.
29:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Brian, you see a lot of things I
29:45
Speaker 3: don't see because I look at Boonie the Yankees have
29:53
Speaker 3: made the postseason six of the seven years he's been there,
29:56
Speaker 3: but they have not won a World Series, which is
29:59
Speaker 3: supposed to be the bar for the New York Yankees.
30:02
Speaker 3: You're not judged by making the playoffs. You're judged by
30:04
Speaker 3: winning the World Series. And they've had some really good teams,
30:07
Speaker 3: and Aaron boot should should have paid a price. I
30:11
Speaker 3: would have fired him. I would have fired him, but
30:13
Speaker 3: you know, he's just a puppet. So I understand why
30:15
Speaker 3: they kept him. Why Dave Roberts continues on and all
30:17
Speaker 3: that stuff. But the decision in Game one when he
30:22
Speaker 3: put Nestor Cortes in their nasty nest Cortes, now I
30:25
Speaker 3: love it as a Dodger fan. Cortes hadn't pitched in
30:28
Speaker 3: September and then gave up that majestic one of the
30:31
Speaker 3: great moments in Dodger history, a walk off Grand Slam
30:35
Speaker 3: to Freddie Freeman in Game one of the World Series.
30:39
Speaker 3: And then, of course, the defensive meltdown in Game five
30:42
Speaker 3: in the Bronx when they had a five to nothing
30:44
Speaker 3: lead and the great Garrett Cole could not be troubled
30:48
Speaker 3: in the World Series to hustle the cover first base,
30:52
Speaker 3: so good, so good. Oh, and I didn't even mention
30:55
Speaker 3: the Eagle parade, which was on Friday, and I saw
30:58
Speaker 3: good old Howie Roseman.
31:00
Speaker 1: What a douche. Do you see?
31:03
Speaker 3: He got hit in the forehead with a beer bottle
31:05
Speaker 3: or can or something like that. So he had this
31:07
Speaker 3: big scar on his forehead. And he gets up there
31:11
Speaker 3: and he's speaking, holding up the Lombardi Trophy at the
31:13
Speaker 3: parade in the rally in Philadelphia, and he said.
31:17
Speaker 1: I bleed for this city. Does how he know he's
31:23
Speaker 1: not playing for the Eagles? Does he understand that I bleed?
31:26
Speaker 1: What a heart O, what a harder? All right, we'll
31:28
Speaker 1: get out on that.
31:29
Speaker 3: What do we get the dunk contest and the three
31:32
Speaker 3: point shootout tonight?
31:34
Speaker 1: Oh?
31:34
Speaker 3: Eve, I don't know anyone in the dunk contest that
31:38
Speaker 3: is bad.
31:40
Speaker 1: I'm not into it.
31:41
Speaker 3: A three point contest, I like, but that's just like
31:44
Speaker 3: watching a regular season NBA game, My god.
31:47
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, we'll get out on that.
31:49
Speaker 3: Have a wonderful rest of your Saturday, enjoy the day
31:52
Speaker 3: to day, and we'll have the mail bag. Whether Danny
31:55
Speaker 3: joins us or not, we will have the mail bag
31:57
Speaker 3: on Sunday. Your questions are answers nothing like ask Ben.
32:06
Speaker 1: Nothing like ask Ben. Anyway, I have a wonderful day
32:09
Speaker 1: and thank you.
32:09
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you next time later. Skater, asta pasta?
32:17
Speaker 1: Is that how you do it, Danny?
32:18
Speaker 3: That's right, that's how you do it right, Asta pasta,
32:20
Speaker 3: Now that's it, My Felicia