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The Fifth Hour: "Blow the Vuvuzela" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mallor and Danny g
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  Speaker 4: Radio a Happy NFL Sunday Week fourteen continues today on
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  Speaker 4: the what is it the seventh day now of December
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  Speaker 4: and it is Mailbag time and Danny is with me.
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  Speaker 4: But you're on location, Danny, You're not in the normal
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  Speaker 4: podcast studio. You're on location for the mailbag. So Ohio,
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  Speaker 4: get us in the Ohio. Aw, it's all right there.
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  Speaker 3: It is Ohio that really got me in the mood.
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  Speaker 5: I was already kind of in the mood, Ben, because
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  Speaker 5: an hour ago when I woke up, I was painting
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  Speaker 5: half my face silver the other half black. I am
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  Speaker 5: on a remote here in Vegas going to go into
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  Speaker 5: Allegiant Stadium in a few hours.
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  Speaker 4: Oh the Raiders in the Denver Broncos today, Right, that's
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  Speaker 4: the big matchup there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, one team fighting for draft position and the other
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  Speaker 5: team trying to be the road that you have to
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  Speaker 5: take to win the AFC.
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, the Raiders made progress last week. They actually
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  Speaker 4: went a whole week without firing a coach. So that's
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  Speaker 4: a step in the right direction for the Raiders. Congratulations
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  Speaker 4: on that.
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  Speaker 5: And I am going to flip off Geno Smith in
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  Speaker 5: person today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, congratulations on that.
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  Speaker 4: What you should do is say, all right, everyone, at
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  Speaker 4: the start of the second half, when the Raiders come
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  Speaker 4: out of the huddle, everyone just flick off Gino Smith
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  Speaker 4: and he might walk off the field, Danny, he might
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  Speaker 4: just walk off there, and if he does, he'll celebrate.
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  Speaker 4: Today is National cotton Candy Day. I know you're excited
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  Speaker 4: about that, Danny. National cotton candy Day. Now, do you
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  Speaker 4: know what cotton candy was known as when it was
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  Speaker 4: first invented?
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  Speaker 3: Cocaine?
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  Speaker 4: No, it was originally the original name was fairy floss.
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  Speaker 4: That was the original name of cotton candy it debuted.
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  Speaker 4: It was because it's national cotton candidate. So you have
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  Speaker 4: to have a fun fact about cotton candy. It was
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  Speaker 4: actually invented by a dentist. A dentist in eighteen ninety
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  Speaker 4: seven is credited with the invention of the machine that
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  Speaker 4: spun cotton candy, and then it debuted at the World's Fair.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like a marketing stunt. It's good for business, right,
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  Speaker 3: I know it'll get people in my chair of terror.
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  Speaker 4: It was the World's Fair in Saint Louis in nineteen
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  Speaker 4: oh four, but it was originally known as fairy floss.
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  Speaker 4: And then it got its name from a guy who
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  Speaker 4: built a machine and sold the treat to patients in
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  Speaker 4: his Louisiana office. This other dentist, not the original dentist.
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  Speaker 4: And then the people at Tutsi Roll in nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 4: six they began calling it fluffy stuff. But it's known
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  Speaker 4: as it's known as obviously cotton candy. But it had
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  Speaker 4: three names, fairyfloss, cotton candy, and fluffy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Insert your own joke. I rotate nuts, how dare you?
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  Speaker 4: But all right, let's get to the actual email questions
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  Speaker 4: of the week.
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  Speaker 1: These are all sent in by various listeners.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have been wonderful but real Fifth hour at
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  Speaker 4: gmail dot com if you want to send an email
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  Speaker 4: in name in city name and city name and city
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  Speaker 4: if you want credit. First one up is from Steve
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  Speaker 4: in the Greater Cleveland area and he says that there's
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  Speaker 4: a clothing tycoon who vows to give away three billion
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  Speaker 4: dollars you know, that's his company for proof that the
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  Speaker 4: Earth is flat. And then Steve says, Ben, do you
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  Speaker 4: know anybody that can help and help with that information. Well, well, Steve,
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  Speaker 4: as you might remember during I think it was during COVID,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know it wasn't during COVID, it was
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  Speaker 4: when remember Kyrie Irving came out and announced the Earth
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  Speaker 4: was flat.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that story, it's yeah, of course. So we were.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about that on the overnight and then I had
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  Speaker 4: and Steve, you bring up a great memory. We had
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  Speaker 4: the flat Earth people, but we also had the hollow
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  Speaker 4: Earth people.
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  Speaker 1: There are there are groups of.
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  Speaker 4: People that believe in the hollow Earth, and then there's
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  Speaker 4: other groups that believe in the flat Earth. And the
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  Speaker 4: hollow Earth people were sending me a lot of propaganda,
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  Speaker 4: like there's portals you can go in the middle of
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  Speaker 4: the planet and there's like a different different group of
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  Speaker 4: people that live there. So yeah, I think I could
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  Speaker 4: reach out to those guys Steve and Hey, Danny, you
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  Speaker 4: want in on this three billion dollar company. This guy's
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  Speaker 4: going going to give away as long as we can
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  Speaker 4: prove the Earth is flat.
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  Speaker 1: And I know people that swear the Earth is flat.
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  Speaker 4: They swear that that's not around, it's flat. And if
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  Speaker 4: we can get a hold of these people, we can
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  Speaker 4: actually get Columbia's sportswear company.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like the Hollow Earth people are kind of
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  Speaker 5: your people because you buy into that in a way,
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  Speaker 5: you believe there's portals underneath the ocean and the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Well I didn't say portals.
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  Speaker 4: What I believe is if you were coming from another
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  Speaker 4: world or even somewhere out in our Solar system, you
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  Speaker 4: would think that this planet is mostly just water because
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  Speaker 4: if you look at it from afar, it's all blue,
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  Speaker 4: so you think that's the majority. So you'd go in
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  Speaker 4: the ocean and you wouldn't have to bother with human beings.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think there are spaceships or whatever you
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  Speaker 4: want to call it, come out of the oceans.
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  Speaker 1: I do buy that there's.
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  Speaker 3: Like an achool person and it has big guys that's
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  Speaker 3: looking at us. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I you go in the middle of the earth.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway.
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  Speaker 4: The guy that's the billionaire CEO of Columbia's Sportswear has
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  Speaker 4: let the world be known that you haven't the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: of a lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: His worth is estimated at one point six billion.
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  Speaker 4: The reward would be control of his three billion dollar
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  Speaker 4: family business, which was founded in nineteen thirty eight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure his great grandfather would be broad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right. Come on anyway, Steve, Yeah, I'll reach
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  Speaker 1: out to those people. We'll get right on top of it.
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  Speaker 4: Reggie from Detroit writes in on the Fifth Hour mail Bag.
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  Speaker 4: He says, Hey, Bandon, Danny, my town of Detroit has
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  Speaker 4: just erected a statue of the iconic movie character RoboCop.
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  Speaker 4: We're very proud here in the Motor City that we
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  Speaker 4: have a statue for RoboCop. And then he says, does
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  Speaker 4: this become now the greatest statue for a movie character
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  Speaker 4: in any city in America?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Reggie, I have not have you seen this?
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  Speaker 4: I've not seen a photo of the RoboCop statue, so
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't comment on it.
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  Speaker 3: Saw I saw this last week?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, does it look cool?
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  Speaker 3: It is a cool statue.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I would say, though the Rocky Balboa statue isn't that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to upset Reggie, but wouldn't that be
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  Speaker 4: more more on top? You know, that's that's kind of cooler.
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  Speaker 5: Uh yeah, but I mean the the RoboCop one is
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  Speaker 5: more modern.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking.
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  Speaker 5: I have it saved because it was something I sent
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  Speaker 5: to Covidno and Rich during the week. As soon as
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  Speaker 5: I find it here, I'm going to text it to you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I know in Palm Springs they have a Marilyn Monroe statue,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't know this year it's nude. Well her
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  Speaker 4: dress is blowing up, so you know, you kind of
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  Speaker 4: get a get a peek.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm trying to think of some other statues that
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  Speaker 1: I've seen. I haven't. You know, there isn't there a
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  Speaker 1: Fonsie statue in in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I've been to a place there was
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  Speaker 4: a Fonsie statue.
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  Speaker 1: There wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: There was one in Minnesota too, that I forget. When
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  Speaker 4: I was in Minnesota, we saw a weird statue. I
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  Speaker 4: don't remember the name. Though it's it's early here, I
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  Speaker 4: don't I don't know, Uh, that's pretty cool though. That's
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  Speaker 4: that's that's that's neat, you know, that's why not. There
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  Speaker 4: you go, RoboCop one.
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  Speaker 1: That movie's old too, though, right, that movie's way back,
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  Speaker 1: way way back in the day. Let's see here.
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  Speaker 4: It says there's a Captain America statue in Brooklyn. I
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  Speaker 4: have never never seen that. There's an Andy Griffith and
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  Speaker 4: Opie statue in mount Airy, North Carolina. Bronze statue of
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  Speaker 4: Andy and Opie.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, from the Andy Griffith Show. That sounds that sounds amazing, Danny.
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  Speaker 4: I might have to go next time I am in
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  Speaker 4: North Carolina, I'll have to go to mount Airy, North
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  Speaker 4: Carolina to check that out.
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  Speaker 5: I sent you the I sent you the Detroit Free
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  Speaker 5: Press article with the picture of the statue.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that is pretty cool. Oh you should be proud, Reggie.
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  Speaker 4: What a great day for you people in Detroit. My god,
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  Speaker 4: it's got the full full costume on there. It's good
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  Speaker 4: to go.
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  Speaker 3: And it took fifteen years of planning for this.
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  Speaker 5: And it says RoboCop was a police officer turned cyborg
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  Speaker 5: who saved Detroit from hoodlums. Who Yeah, in a nineteen
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  Speaker 5: eighty seven movie, of course, we all saw that as kids.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Geez, so that movie is a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Almost forty years old, fifteen to put that statue together.
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  Speaker 4: That's a great job by the government there, all right, Kevin,
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  Speaker 4: thank you, Rechie Kevin and Albuquerque Rights. And we don't
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  Speaker 4: get many emails from people in Albuquerque. He says, have
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  Speaker 4: you guys ever been hit by a cosmic ray? And
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  Speaker 4: then he sent me a story here It says that
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  Speaker 4: in October fifteen, people were hospitalized after a cosmic ray
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  Speaker 4: sent a New Jersey bound jet Blue Flight plunging thousands
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  Speaker 4: of feet, a phenomenon that could potentially pose a.
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  Speaker 1: Threat to all air travel.
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  Speaker 4: According to the chief of space Policy at the Planetary Society,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what the hell that is.
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  Speaker 1: Said. We have lots and.
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  Speaker 4: Lots of airplanes flying every day, so very occasionally these
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  Speaker 4: things will occur. And he says, if a particle strikes
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  Speaker 4: a critical circuit in a computer, it can corrupt the
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  Speaker 4: computer's memory, censor data, potentially.
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  Speaker 1: Cause other damage. Oh that sounds great, Yeah, I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I guess we can file that on top of all
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  Speaker 4: the other things we need to worry about. Danny, the
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  Speaker 4: cosmic ray did you fly to Vegas or did you
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  Speaker 4: drive to Vegas?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, did you fly?
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  Speaker 3: I flew?
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  Speaker 1: Oh you flew?
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  Speaker 3: Really? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You got how you guys find Looney's in Vegas this
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  Speaker 1: weekend too? And he flew, I'm the only one that
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  Speaker 1: I love driving.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I like to You know what the
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  Speaker 3: key is.
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  Speaker 5: I got these plane tickets right when the NFL season began,
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  Speaker 5: like week one. And when you get a flight that
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  Speaker 5: many weeks out in advance, you get a great price.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: And then you had to take an uber to the hotel,
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  Speaker 4: I guess or shuttle or something.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, I had a friend pick me up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you got a guy. You know a guy?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know a guy. I got hookups out here.
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  Speaker 5: You got a guy, man, You're a made man.
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  Speaker 4: My plan to drive to Vegas has not been as
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  Speaker 4: enjoyable the last couple of years, since they started.
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  Speaker 1: Charging fifty bucks a day to park.
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  Speaker 4: At a lot of the hotels, or thirty dollars if
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  Speaker 4: for an hour parking, so it isn't quite as valuable.
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  Speaker 4: At some point, these morons that run these casino companies
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  Speaker 4: will realize, well, maybe maybe we should just give free parking.
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  Speaker 1: We did it before we made a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: We've started to charge for parking, We're not making as
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  Speaker 1: much money. I wonder if there's a correlation between those
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  Speaker 1: two things.
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  Speaker 4: Did you worry, Danny when you were flying about a
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  Speaker 4: cosmic ray like Kevin and Alberquerque's talking about.
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  Speaker 5: No, But now I'm going to be thinking about it
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  Speaker 5: on the flight back, So thank you, okay?
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  Speaker 4: Alarry in Saint Paul writes and he says, hey, Ben
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  Speaker 4: and Danny, I know hollering. James wants you Ben to
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  Speaker 4: come back for another malon mean greet. Do you think
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  Speaker 4: you can come in the wintertime? And do you think
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  Speaker 4: people someday will escape Mars to warm up here in Minnesota?
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  Speaker 4: And then he said that acquoding.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see this, Danny? According to ACI Weather.
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  Speaker 4: Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Thanksgiving Day, they had a temperature of
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven degrees on Thanksgiving last month on Mars, according
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  Speaker 4: to NASA's Curiosity Rover, the temperature on Mars was thirty
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  Speaker 4: degrees so.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually cool. It was colder in Minneapolis than
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  Speaker 1: it was on Mars. That'sa wow. That's wild man. That
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  Speaker 1: is bananas that it gets that cold.
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  Speaker 4: They say Earth is rarely colder than Mars, and they
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  Speaker 4: average around minus eighty five the temperature on how are
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  Speaker 4: people going to live there?
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  Speaker 1: It's minus eighty five?
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  Speaker 3: The air is cleaner there also, Yeah, wait wait.
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  Speaker 4: Till we get there, it says Mars because it does
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  Speaker 4: not have an atmosphere similar to Earth, so the planet
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  Speaker 4: can drop it to temperatures as low as minus two
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  Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five degrees.
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  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 4: One thing, Danny I've learned from being on the radio
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  Speaker 4: in Minnesota all these years is the good people of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: They love to let everyone know how effing cold it
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  Speaker 4: is in Minnesota, in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 1: Right that like that s yeah you a softies.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: We used to do weather updates on your overnight show
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  Speaker 5: back in the day, remember, and people would call in
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  Speaker 5: from all over the country comparing their degrees and showing
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  Speaker 5: off their temperature.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well it's it's one of those deals where if you say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: the price of gas is you know, X amount of dollars,
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  Speaker 4: then everyone loves to call up and tell you that
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  Speaker 4: their gas is cheaper or more expensive or more expensive, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: or the weather's the weather is the big thing. As
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  Speaker 4: a high high brag factor on that Michael from New York,
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  Speaker 4: I assume Upstate rites and he says, Hey, Ben, and
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  Speaker 4: I know you're not a soccer guy, but soccer fans
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  Speaker 4: are very upset around the world.
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  Speaker 1: They're accusing FIFA of fixing.
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  Speaker 4: The World Cup draw for the United States because President
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  Speaker 4: Trump was.
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  Speaker 1: There, and you wanted to know what I thought about that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a soccer guy, Michael, did you, Danny, did
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  Speaker 4: you pay any attention to this? I I did see
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  Speaker 4: some emails some people complaining on the broadcast, and I
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  Speaker 4: didn't see this, so I'm taking this second hand. But
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  Speaker 4: I had multiple people email me. I think this was
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  Speaker 4: on Fox. They interviewed people from the different countries in
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  Speaker 4: their native language, and they didn't they didn't have an interpreter,
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  Speaker 4: so unless you spoke that language and you had no
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  Speaker 4: idea what they were talking about. Yeah, I I only
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  Speaker 4: really care about the World Cup when the actual World
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  Speaker 4: Cup's going on, and that's only for content reasons. I
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  Speaker 4: remember that there was the big headbutt controversy.
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  Speaker 1: There was the that sound.
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  Speaker 3: Remember was because it was that it starts with a V.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, whatever it was called.
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  Speaker 4: Remember, they made made a big deal about that, Like
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  Speaker 4: those kind of stories. That's good talk radio. I'm fine,
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  Speaker 4: fine doing that. Am I gonna worry about the favorable draw?
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  Speaker 4: Do I think, Michael that the people behind the World
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  Speaker 4: Cup are more likely than corrupt?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Probably, just like the Olympics. By the way, uh was
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  Speaker 4: it called zuzella Zella?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, something like that.
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  Speaker 4: JT the Wingman, the Great JT the Wingman writes in
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  Speaker 4: Ben and Danny g I hope that y'all had a
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  Speaker 4: great Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 5: Now it sounded like a cursed in Swahili racist exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Now we move into December and the eastern part of
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  Speaker 4: the country heads into the less desirable weather.
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  Speaker 1: I do have it much better than I did when.
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  Speaker 4: I was in Wisconsin, JT, says JT the Wingman. But
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  Speaker 4: it's still cooler and wetter weather. That's the pattern. Since
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  Speaker 4: you talk about having a place being in the north
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  Speaker 4: woods of LA I wanted to find out if you
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  Speaker 4: have a fire pit at the Malar mansion. I have
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  Speaker 4: just moved to have a small one. I'm contemplating the
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  Speaker 4: purchase of a log splitter. I'm hoping to turn a
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  Speaker 4: nice bonfire into a real home fire burning.
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  Speaker 3: I like a good fire pill.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so we do have a fire pit. We
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  Speaker 4: had the wood one. We have a gas kind of
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  Speaker 4: fired table type thing right now. I love a fire
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  Speaker 4: on a cold night. It's cool to huddle around. We're
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  Speaker 4: having a big event here a few weeks the Malord
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  Speaker 4: first ever pajama party, not to be confused with the
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  Speaker 4: ugly sweater party that has been retired. It's a pajama
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  Speaker 4: party now, holiday pajama party. So we'll have to crank
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  Speaker 4: up the fire thing. But yeah, if you can get
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  Speaker 4: a locks but if you've got trees, you should do it.
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  Speaker 4: JT the wing Man, that would be the way to go.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: He also says ps, it was great to hear from
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Dominican Mike and Doc Mike this week on the show.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Speaking of Dominican Mike, who we both met at the
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: South Carolina Meet and Greet, you mentioned a presence requested
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: back in North Carolina this coming spring. I would love
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: to get an early heads up on a possible meet
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: and greet.
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  Speaker 1: I love that area. Yeah, I had a good time.
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  Speaker 4: My father in law lives there, and I have a
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: sister in law that lives in kind of Wilmington, North Carolina.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: So she's having a baby. The baby is.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Due in January or February, and so I believe my
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: presence will be requested to accompany my wife sometime probably
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: in spring, get to North Carolina for at least a
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: few days. So I will let you know if that
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: actually does happen. Fer Dog in Fullerton writes, and he says,
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Happy December, Santa Ben and Danny g Elfman. He says,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: you couldn't have chosen a worse time to take an
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: episode off. Danny g Ben finally unveiled his mount rushmore
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: of Thanksgiving leftovers last week. It was magical. Who knew
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: cranberry sauce would make the cut? What an upset?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: He says. Very funny, Very funny, he says.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Also, Ben, you mentioned having a good Jack Nicholson's story
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: but didn't have enough time for it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Do you have enough time for it now?
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: No? No, not really, not really Jack. I'll just I'll
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: say this for a dog. When I started covering the Lakers,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: and people think this is nuts because you hate the Lakers,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: But at the time, I didn't hate the Lakers. Part
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: of the reason I hate the Lakers is I dealt
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: with the Lakers, and that's why I hated the Lakers.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: But when I was around them at that time, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: they played at the Forum.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: In the hood in Inglewood.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: They didn't have the creature comforts they have these days.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: And so, wait a second, the Dodgers haven't been any
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: fun for you to deal with the past couple of years.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: You hate them now, I.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Don't like them as much. I don't.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: No, you must really hate the Angels and Clippers.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Then no, they're fine. I don't care.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: They don't. They don't.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I don't really want to go see them play either.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: But no, So the the Jack story was at halftime
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: and sometimes if the game was a blow, Jack would
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: come into the media room and drink coffee and hang
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: out with us in the media room and so like.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: And this was back when he was still making You know,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: he's like a hermit now retired, obvious, an old man.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: But back then, this thirty forty or forty years thirty
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: years ago, I guess it was mid nineties at the
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Forum and Jack would come in and have a cup
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: of coffee and sit down with the boys, and I
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: have have fond memories of that.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is like the biggest you know,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: he was cool, he didn't talk a lot.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I want a big talker, kind of like myself, just
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: kind of an introverted guy.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: But it was pretty cool.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: So yeah, and thank you for listening for I'm glad
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: you liked my Thanksgiving Mount Rushmore.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: It was an amazing episode of the podcast. Did we
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: set a record on that Danny for downloads?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know. We need the Texas Instruments calculator to
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: figure out those numbers.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, Roberto from Boston writes in he says, Tom
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: he Been this week showed off a seven hundred thousand
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: dollars diamond and crusted luxury watch at the World Cup
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: draw show off. What's the most expensive jewelry that you have?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: I don't have any expensive jewelry. I don't nor do
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I want it. Isn't that Danny like Brady. The more
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: that Brady goes out there, the less I like Brady.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: He just comes across as this arrogant, pompous, obnoxious show off.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: I just he's always been a pretty boy, except his
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: rookie season coming out of the draft. Can't get that
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: image out of your head. His picture from the draft,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: not the draft, but the what do you call it?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: The combine?
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the combine photo. There you go,
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: the underwear Olympic phones.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: He's your owner, though, Dan him. He's doing a hell
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: of a job. The Raiders are in good shape.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Yes, he doesn't owned shit right now. If you're the owner,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: you better fire Mark Davis and get things cracking.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: You know, how do you fire?
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Mark Davis handed the keys to Tom Brady and said here, Tom,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: figure this out and sure, no problem Tom Brady.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: It sounds like Tom Brady is busy buying watches right now.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: You think he bought that or somebody just gave it
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to him. Here, little taste. I'm betting them Raiders.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Kwang and Ho Chi Minh Vietnam rights and he says,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Big Ben and Danny Daddy.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: G Radio Daddy, He says, did you know that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Bova's Bakery was founded in nineteen twenty six by Italian
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: immigrant Antonio Bova on Salem Street on the North End
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: of Boston has been a family owned and operated business
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: ever since, despite having blind Scott as a North End resident.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: It started as a bread only bakery before expanding to
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: include pastries, pizzas, cal zones, becoming known as the It's
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: twenty four hour service, authentic Italian goods all that. Kwang,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: who did a deep dive on the interweb from Vietnam,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: said they are all delicious. Those are all delicious fun
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: facts that even Lizzo would consider ditching ozempic and returning
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: as a punching bag to Big Ben's lame jokes.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Of the week.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: They would have material again exactly, he says, Ben. What
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: was your favorite Boba Bakery delicacy? They have really good
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: cookies and the cream puff. I had a really delicious
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: cream puff from Bova's Bakery, and it's that's my favorite
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: part of Boston. I love the North End. I just
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: love the vibe. It's like a different world. It feels
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: like you're on a Disney set. And the fact that
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: so many legendary people lived in that part of Boston
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: going back hundreds of years. It's just it's pretty cool.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: So I love just the whole vibe. I wouldn't want
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: to drive around there. I have driven around there a
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: little bit. I don't want to do that. The streets
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: are not designed for cars, They're designed for horse and buggy.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kwang, I don't.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: If you've been to Boston, but you got to go
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: to Bova's Bakery when you go to Boston.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: It's really really cool. We did a meet and greet.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: That's the last one we did in Boston.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: We just did a quick kind of get together at
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: last minute and mass whole Mickey came out from the
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: sticks and that was the last time we saw me.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: He passed away shortly after that.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: ALF from the Bennies, right, he says, what would be
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: a greater achievement than hollering James winning a game show
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: while fast asleep? I would say the Late Night Drug
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Tester winning caller of the Year with Leapfrog James Late
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Night is one of the best callers on the show.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: That's from That's from ALF. And here's here.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: How about this for serendipity Danny. The next emails from
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: the Late Night Drug Test. It says Ben, I know
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I'm not a regular caller to there.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: In fact, I don't think he's ever called the show yet.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: This week e Dog from Long Island said I was
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: his favorite caller. Not to cause controversy and drive up
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: ratings for the show or the Bennies. Do I need
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: to start as a a caller, started a caller of
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: the Year campaign? I am already way behind Marcel and Brooklyn,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: you killed it, says thanks again for another great year
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: of overnight entertainment YouTube content. Benny versus the Penny in
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: the Fifth Hour podcast, Well, thank you Late Night Drug Tester.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Now this would be one of the greatest. I agree
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: with Alf and Late Night Drug Tester. If that's never happened, Danny,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: you were with me a long time on the radio show.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: We've never had a caller of the Year that wasn't
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: an actual caller. Now that would be next level. That
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: would be next level. It's kind of like we've had
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: presidents that weren't really politicians that have won, but we've
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: never had a person who didn't actually call the show
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: as a caller of the Year.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: So that would be that would be awesome, So I'm
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: all for it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Scott from Florida Wright sind on the mail bag, Good
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Old Scottie. Scott says, my nine year old daughter is
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: a huge baseball fan, but given her age, obviously still very.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: New to the game.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: The minutes so the Twins came up in a conversation
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: and she was convinced that they did not exist because.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: They had never she had never heard of them. That's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a good strategy.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: What about A nine year old girl answered me that exactly.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: She accused me of making up everything I told her
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: about the twins in our conversation. My question is, then,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: of all major sports teams in America, what is the
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: most irrelevant franchise? That's from Scott from Florida.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: You want to go first, Danny, I can go first
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: if you want. It's North America sports teams that are.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Irrelevant, relevant as far as like not making money or
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: not mattering.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I'm madtering, I'm matter, I'll go first. I was asked
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: this question a couple months ago. I think it was
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: on FESCO in the morning, Kansas City. Scott and I responded,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: the Winnipeg Jets. But you said American sports. You said,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: I'm not Canadian. So Dan, I'm gonna I got two options, Danny,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I've got the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA and
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: the Columbus Blue Jackets and hockey.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: What say you?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: What's wrong with how dare you?
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: I saw alf wrote in he said that you can
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: buy a seventy dollars parrot for Christmas. A decoration led
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: lights Roscoe the parrot. Remember Roscoe?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Though? Yeah? Yeah?
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Well David from Winter Park, Florida.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Last one Tony, Lucky Tony says, I prefer to be
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: left alone, Hence the saying. If you ever see a
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Bears fan and you want to talk football, fuck off.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: But the other day, the other day, a guy was
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: on the phone talking handicapping, and against my better judgment,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I mentioned Benny versus the penny. Usually I would say
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: you owe me one. But since you're a fellow Bears fan,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: forget about it. Hey, Danny, did the all in bet?
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Did the all in bit?
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Ever?
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Give you the gambling bug? That's from Lucky Tony in
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: the Bay Area.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: He says, Bears Bears, Bears Bears.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: In fact, the very first time I ever gambled it
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: was when I was working on your Overnight show and
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: I made a trip out here to the desert and
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: I placed my very first bet as an adult.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: We even did horses.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, back in the back in the day. You
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: gotta do it, man, Fox Sports Radio knows it. Horses.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Bet on the ponies, Bet the ponies.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll get out on that, Danny. It is
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: a football Sunday today. Enjoy all the facilities. I will
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: not be a game. I'll be at a game tomorrow.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I'm going to the Charger Eagles game on Monday Night
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Football at so Far, but Rams are in Arizona today,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: so I will just be partaking and observing from the sofa.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: So enjoy the game today, Danny, make sure to give
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Gino the double bird salute. That's what real Raider fans do,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: and hopefully for you. Do you want the Raiders to
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: win or do you want them to lose?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: It would be nice if they finally suck enough to
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: have a top three pick instead of winning just enough
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: to be between eight and thirteen in the draft. Exactly.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: If you're gonna suck, do it well, go.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: All the way.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Ben sucks.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Hello. Anyway, I have a great day. We'll talk to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: you next time.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Later, Skater got a murder. I gotta go.