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The Fifth Hour "Diet Coke Skullduggery" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old republic, a 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 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me Ben Malor,
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  Speaker 1: and a happy Sunday to you. It is the nineteenth
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  Speaker 1: day of April. We are now in the week of
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  Speaker 1: the Malor Meet and Greet, and we've got the mail
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  Speaker 1: bag coming up here. Momentarily, I did want to mention
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  Speaker 1: today is a very important holiday. National Garlic Day is today.
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  Speaker 1: Some would say this is the most important holiday. I
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  Speaker 1: wish I was in Gilroy to celebrate National Garlic Day properly.
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  Speaker 1: A town that smells like garlic, that just gives the delicious,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful odor. They're the garlic capital of the world in
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  Speaker 1: Gilroy today, National Garlic Day. You know my love of
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  Speaker 1: garlic if you've listened over the years, and that if
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  Speaker 1: you go back in time, the early humans realized that
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  Speaker 1: garlic is a not just an antibiotic, a super strong
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  Speaker 1: natural antibiotic. It's nature's antibiotic. This goes back to the
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  Speaker 1: thirteen hundreds. I fell down a rabbit hole a while back,
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  Speaker 1: and you can go back in the archives of the
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  Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast. I know Lucky Tony Will and I
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  Speaker 1: ranted and raved about the amazing things that garlic can do.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to walk like an Egyptian. The Egyptians
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  Speaker 1: worshiped garlic as a god. As a god, they even
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  Speaker 1: used it as early currency. But wait, there's more. Garlic
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  Speaker 1: supposedly gave strength to Greek athletes and warriors and warded
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  Speaker 1: off the evil eye and protected maidens as well. I
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  Speaker 1: can go on and on and celebrate appropriately National Garlic Day,
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  Speaker 1: which is a very important day. It is also National
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  Speaker 1: hanging Out Day. Well, I thought that meant, hey, let's
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  Speaker 1: go hang out. It's a Sunday, it's the nineteenth of April.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go hang out and have a fine time with friends. No,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those environmentalist holidays where you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to help the environment. And instead of using a dryer,
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  Speaker 1: which most normal civilized people do in America, you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to go hang your clothes up on a line, dry
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  Speaker 1: your It says, well, you'll extend the life of your
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  Speaker 1: clothes by line drawing them. Let me know how that goes.
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  Speaker 1: It is also bicycle Day today, which I assumed was
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  Speaker 1: just a harmless holiday. Again, you don't what happened to
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  Speaker 1: you assume celebrating bicycle riding. Well, it turns out it's
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  Speaker 1: a little more than that. It's a little more than that.
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  Speaker 1: With the name bicycle Day, will just jump to the
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  Speaker 1: conclusion you just go out and little two wheel ride
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  Speaker 1: around town, that's it. However, it turns out that this
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  Speaker 1: is not what you think it is. Bicycle Day is
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  Speaker 1: a celebration of LSD. Well kind of. It commemorates the
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  Speaker 1: discovery that LSD can evoke significant shifts of consciousness even
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  Speaker 1: in very low doses. So in I guess you can't
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  Speaker 1: just have people go out and do LSD. So in
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  Speaker 1: order to celebrate that, they want you to go out
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  Speaker 1: and get on your bike. And so this goes back
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  Speaker 1: to the Originally the LSD thing was in like the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifties when it was discovered, And there you go,
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  Speaker 1: there's a bunch of other dopey days, but I thought,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have time to do the whole thing. It
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  Speaker 1: is time now for the mail bag. So can you
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  Speaker 1: get me in the mood? Oh hi, oh ow, it's
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  Speaker 1: this mail bag all right? Well, thank you, al. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot wait to see what happens here this coming Saturday
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. It is going to be awesome. If you
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  Speaker 1: have not heard by now, and I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: you could have missed this. I have completely sold my
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  Speaker 1: soul to promote this upcoming Mallard Meet and greet in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: It is on like donkey gong. It's coming up this Saturday, Saturday, Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: We will all be together, you and I side by
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  Speaker 1: side if you show up there April twenty fifth, two
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  Speaker 1: till five pm. Malard Meet and Greet in the Greater
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati area at Strong's Brick Oven Pete Surrey at seven
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  Speaker 1: oh eight Modernmaus Street, Newport, Kentucky, four to one oh seven.
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  Speaker 1: What about a mile away from the where the Reds
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  Speaker 1: play their games and the Ohio River and so looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to checking out Cincinnati. I have never spent any
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  Speaker 1: time there. I've been to the airport a few times,
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  Speaker 1: changing flights. I've never actually gotten out of the airport.
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  Speaker 1: So this will be fun to go around and see
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  Speaker 1: what the locals are up to and meet you and
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  Speaker 1: just enjoy the nice hospitality, the fine state of Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: and the state of Ohio. So I look forward to
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  Speaker 1: that and Ohio al is going to be a big
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  Speaker 1: part of it. Now on to the mail so fast
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  Speaker 1: clarify that before we get to the mail I did
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  Speaker 1: plan on having a sidekick for the mail bag. I
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  Speaker 1: reached out to multiple people who were unavailable. So at
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  Speaker 1: the time we are recording this mail bag, and it
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  Speaker 1: changes literally every week, right, you know, some weeks it's
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  Speaker 1: at this time and then other weeks. It really just
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  Speaker 1: depends on my schedule. I was trying to explain. I
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  Speaker 1: told Terry in England last week, who was kind enough
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  Speaker 1: to join us and stayed up like in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night to be part of it. I said,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I'm doing it are you available? He
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  Speaker 1: said yeah. So I reached out to a couple people
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  Speaker 1: and got blown off by all of them, which is fine.
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  Speaker 1: People have lives, they have things. It was last minute,
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  Speaker 1: so it's just me. I hope you'll put up with
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  Speaker 1: me for the mail bag. Thank you In advance. On
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  Speaker 1: that note, the first letter we have letters, lots and
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  Speaker 1: lots and lots of letters. The first letter from our
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  Speaker 1: buddy Reggie from Detroit, who almost never misses a mailbag.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason he almost never misses a mailbag is
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  Speaker 1: he emails pretty early in the week, which almost guarantees
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  Speaker 1: that that will be on the radio or podcast. Reggie
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  Speaker 1: writes and says, Ben, and guest, there is no guest.
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  Speaker 1: Would you get a bodyguard robot? He then sent me
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  Speaker 1: a link to a apparently viral video which I have
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  Speaker 1: not seen, shows a humanoid robot named Edgar, who went
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  Speaker 1: viral recently for chasing off a wild bore in Poland. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so a viral robot who was hurting wild bores into
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  Speaker 1: a forest. Well, it turns out I did a little research,
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  Speaker 1: your Reggie. It actually turns out that this is apparently
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  Speaker 1: a social media star in Poland. Yeah, so it's not
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  Speaker 1: exactly what it appears. Now. To answer a question, would
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  Speaker 1: I get a robot bodyguard? Eh, I'm okay. I have
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  Speaker 1: ways to protect myself. I think I'm fine Because the
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  Speaker 1: chances of the robot actually protecting you, well, they might
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  Speaker 1: be pretty good. The chances of the robot may be
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  Speaker 1: having a bad day, or there's a glitch in the programming,
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're like, well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want that. What is that? And then the
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  Speaker 1: thing like attacks you and all that. Yeah. What a
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  Speaker 1: world though, man, what a world that seems like right
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  Speaker 1: out of a movie, Right out of a movie. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Next on the mail bag, look at this. We got
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  Speaker 1: an actual letter in physical form, not an email. This
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  Speaker 1: is not an email. This is an actual letter. This
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen very often. This letter comes from Caleb. About this,
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  Speaker 1: Caleb says, He writes in I'm eleven years old. I
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  Speaker 1: have listened to the show you two channel and podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Unlike Charlie in Wisconsin Boo packers, I love this. I
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  Speaker 1: love this, Boo Charlie. Caleb's hand written, handwritten note continues,
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  Speaker 1: Caleb brights. I have gotten in trouble for listening to
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  Speaker 1: the show, he says. But he says, my parents have
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  Speaker 1: given up on stopping me from listening. Ha ha ha ah.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. Good job by Yes, Dedication and Caleb, we
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  Speaker 1: actually have that in common because when I was your age,
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  Speaker 1: I listened. I loved radio, I loved that and obviously
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have YouTube because I'm kind of a lot
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  Speaker 1: older than you. But I love radio and I would
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  Speaker 1: stay up and listen to radio, and I called in
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  Speaker 1: the radio shows as a kid. I've fond memories that
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  Speaker 1: I am flattered, Caleb, that you have been a rebel
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  Speaker 1: and you have shown the dedication, Caleb, the commitment to
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  Speaker 1: listening to the Ben Mallor radio show and this podcast
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  Speaker 1: where you were able to stay up, and you really use,
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  Speaker 1: you know you did, Caleb, skullduggery. You use skullduggery to
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  Speaker 1: convince your parents to allow you to continue to listen.
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  Speaker 1: Good job by you. You should listen to your parents.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is rather harmless and I am, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, Caleb, a little biased because I host the show.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Any email or not email
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  Speaker 1: This actual letter here from Caleb. He says, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get your opinion which two teams besides the Faker
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  Speaker 1: Lakers are like that. That's a good line, that's right,
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  Speaker 1: The Faker Lakers will blow the NBA playoffs. From Caleb,
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  Speaker 1: I also sent a shout out there to Danny G.
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  Speaker 1: I will make sure Caleb that Danny G knows that
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  Speaker 1: you are a fan of his work. Danny has moved
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  Speaker 1: on from the podcast for now. So to answer the
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  Speaker 1: question Caleb, the I don't know if I can give
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  Speaker 1: you two teams. I'm gonna give you one, The New
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  Speaker 1: York Knicks the Knickerbockers. I just don't have a good
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  Speaker 1: feeling about the Knicks for two reasons. They have a
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  Speaker 1: worst coach this year. They got rid of Tom Thibodeau,
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  Speaker 1: who I'm a fan of, Caleb, and they have Mike Brown,
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  Speaker 1: who's a very nice guy. When you ask him what
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  Speaker 1: kind of coach? We ask people what kind of coaches
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  Speaker 1: Mike Brown, they say, a very nice guy coach. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't really work. I mean you should be a
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  Speaker 1: nice person, but very nice guy coach doesn't usually work.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm a little skeptical on that. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: trust Karl Anthony Towns. Carl Anthony Towns will eat, drink
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  Speaker 1: and be merry and will not show up when you
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  Speaker 1: need him most. And I've lived that life. I also
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  Speaker 1: don't trust the Calves because of James Harden. Playoff Harden
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  Speaker 1: and he'll play well for a couple of games and
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  Speaker 1: then just rip your heart out. So Caleb, thank you
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  Speaker 1: do well in school, my man. Make sure you send
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  Speaker 1: me some more letters there. I am flattered to have
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  Speaker 1: you as one of the younger listeners. You could be
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  Speaker 1: the youngest person listening, Caleb, you very well could be.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you and thanks to your parents for allowing
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  Speaker 1: you to listen and not get into much trouble. That
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  Speaker 1: fires me up, Calebs, fire me up all right. Next
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  Speaker 1: up on the mail bag out back, John and Joanna
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  Speaker 1: and SOCl says, Hey, big Ben and special guest which
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  Speaker 1: we unfortunately don't have. Did not have anything to ask
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  Speaker 1: this week until I heard the podcast the last Friday
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  Speaker 1: about Andy Van Slike's take on Barry Bonds. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't like to use the word hate, but when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to Barry, maybe him or those cheating A one
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  Speaker 1: one thousand and two one thousand holes. Anyway, when my
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  Speaker 1: dad and I would go to Dodger games twenty something
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  Speaker 1: years ago, we would sit in the left field pavilion.
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  Speaker 1: At one point we were chanting steamroids at him. He
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  Speaker 1: turned around, smiled and flexed his right bicept. I know
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  Speaker 1: you're disdain for Barry Bonds, John and Joanna right in
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  Speaker 1: and the cheaters he says, is there another sports figure
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  Speaker 1: that you or the special guest have contempt for? Again,
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  Speaker 1: no special guests. You didn't know that, John when you
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  Speaker 1: sent this email, So that's fine. Who do I have
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  Speaker 1: contempt for? Who really drives me bonkers? No one reaches
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  Speaker 1: the level of Barry Bonds and the a Ros. No
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  Speaker 1: one's quite at that level. There are people that do
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  Speaker 1: annoy me. For example, JJ Reddick just pompous, arrogant elitist.
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  Speaker 1: This guy missed every big shot with the Lob City
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  Speaker 1: Clippers as much as we rip Doc Rivers. Who's another
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  Speaker 1: guy that I'm not fond of? JJ Reddick? The fact
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  Speaker 1: that this guy has no business coaching an NBA team.
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  Speaker 1: It's a joke because he did a podcast with Lebron
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  Speaker 1: was a great choke artist. How many wide open three points?
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  Speaker 1: The guy never missed J. J. Reddick in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 1: of the second quarter, in the fourth quarter. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: paid him a twenty million dollars. He couldn't make a
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  Speaker 1: shot that mattered. So he's up there, and there's some
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  Speaker 1: random football people. Thank you John, out back, John and
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  Speaker 1: Joanna for your contribution to the mailbag. Paul writes in
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  Speaker 1: from Thomasville, Georgia. He says, I heard some of the
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  Speaker 1: recent podcast, the discussion of the master's merch Paul points
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  Speaker 1: out he won tickets for a practice round. How about
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  Speaker 1: that through the club's lottery and they have it every year.
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  Speaker 1: The merchandise building is huge and the line to get
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  Speaker 1: in can take hours. I got to the course early
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  Speaker 1: and did not have to wait too long. There is
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  Speaker 1: one or two small open air merchandise stands around the course,
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  Speaker 1: and Paul says during COVID they did have a small
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  Speaker 1: online site. I bought a golf shirt. Email continues. He says,
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  Speaker 1: if you do get an invite, you should go. TV
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  Speaker 1: does not do it justice. Every green and a very green,
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  Speaker 1: rather very every very green. If the man could talk,
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  Speaker 1: it's early and extremely hilly. He says, that's great. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing missing from this email, Paul, is you
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  Speaker 1: did not say, like like what you talked about the
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  Speaker 1: experience at the practice round, like I need more details
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  Speaker 1: on that, like you won tickets, but I want to know.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear more about it. I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: hear more about it. He also says, you see Pope
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  Speaker 1: Leo spinning the basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters. I did
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  Speaker 1: see a clip on my feed. I thought it might
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  Speaker 1: be AI. I guess that would real. You see things
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  Speaker 1: these days. They're like Pope's not spinning up basketball with
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  Speaker 1: the Harlem Globe trials. What are you're talking about? I
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  Speaker 1: guess that was legit. Patty from San Francisco rites in
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  Speaker 1: and says, did you see Ben that the YouTuber who
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  Speaker 1: risked his life to give diet coke to an isolated
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  Speaker 1: tribe on an island is facing five years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the story, Patty, we talked about it on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. I didn't realize he was bringing them diet
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  Speaker 1: coke the North Sentinel Island, which is that just blows
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  Speaker 1: me away that we still here in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: There are islands and places in the world that have
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  Speaker 1: not been touched by the modern society. There are people
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  Speaker 1: running around like they did in the beginning of time.
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  Speaker 1: It's fascinating to me that that happens. And as far
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  Speaker 1: as getting he's not gonna get five years in jail.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing though? Seriously, like, yeah, come on,
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  Speaker 1: and they certainly could have speared him and they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have been charged with a crime because it's their land
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  Speaker 1: and they can do what they want. I will be interested, Patty,
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  Speaker 1: to see how much jail time the guy gets. I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming he'll get a little bit of jail time probation,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Dax from Texas rights in. It's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: a rather big state, Dax. You might want to say
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: what city next time, he says Ben. Subway will be
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  Speaker 1: giving free food for a year if you can find
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  Speaker 1: a meteorite. Are you looking? Yeah? Let me put it
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  Speaker 1: this way, Dax. If Subway said you know what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do, We are going to hook you up with
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  Speaker 1: free raising canes for a year, I would spend all
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  Speaker 1: night looking up to the heavens all night to try
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  Speaker 1: to find a meteorite. Okay, all night, I would try
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  Speaker 1: to find it. If that was the case, I'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's see what we can find it. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. Yeah. So nah, you know, I eat
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  Speaker 1: maybe once a year, usually because I have no other options.
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  Speaker 1: I used to love Subway when they had the five
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  Speaker 1: dollars foot longs. Do I like paying fifteen dollars for
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  Speaker 1: a foot long? Hell? No? Next up? Gary in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: writes in He says Ben, I haven't listened to every
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  Speaker 1: Huber Heights hour of the show this week. Bad job
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  Speaker 1: by me. But you can take some solace that if
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  Speaker 1: you have to make a dick pick up that you
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  Speaker 1: can check out the brand new BUCkies that open on
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  Speaker 1: April six. It's located in Hoober Heights, Exit seventy one
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  Speaker 1: off I seventy. Looks like it's just north of Dayton.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised no one has said any about it unless
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  Speaker 1: I missed it. I will see you next Saturday. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if you can figure out who I am without
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  Speaker 1: an introduction. Good thing I'm an early riser because it
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  Speaker 1: looks like a six hour drive until then. Gary in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, Gary, thank you guy. You had said
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  Speaker 1: you were going to be there, and I'm happy that
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be able to meet you. So are you
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  Speaker 1: going to be wearing a Steelers jersey so I know
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  Speaker 1: you're from Pittsburgh, a pirate's hat or do I just
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  Speaker 1: have to guess? See, this is always the awkward part
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  Speaker 1: at these meet and greets because it's weird. I'm an introvert.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the people that are big fans of
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  Speaker 1: the show are also introverts. So it's that weird feeling
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  Speaker 1: out process. The good news is there's always enough extroverts
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  Speaker 1: that are there that kind of smooth things over, and
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  Speaker 1: I attempt to be a fake extrovert at these things.
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  Speaker 1: It's cosplay. I am. I'm fired up there, Gre I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to to meeting you, like I said, And
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  Speaker 1: if I do, I don't think I'll have to pick
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  Speaker 1: up Dick and Dayton. I don't know if you heard
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the Friday podcast A, not all heroes wear capes. So
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  Speaker 1: I think we're I think we're good on that. I
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  Speaker 1: think we're good on that. So if I did, I
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  Speaker 1: did see that they have the BUCkies, And if I
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  Speaker 1: had had to go pick up Dick, I would have
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  Speaker 1: taken him to BUCkies, whether he wanted to go or not,
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  Speaker 1: and I would have gotten a barbecue brisket sandwich and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that would have been that, and that he just would
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: have had to put up with it. Major Mallor, this
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: is from Neil, he says Major Mallor Neil from Fall River, Mass,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: asking permission to get in the Malor bus. Yeah, you're welcome,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: he says. I'm excited for your Boston trip. And I
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: was wondering if you're gonna throw a lollipop off the mound,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: or you're gonna cheat. There's no cheating. First of all,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you understand the rules. Okay, the rules k Neil from
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Fall River are I've done this a few times. I've
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: not thrown out of first pitch, probably has been almost
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: ten years, close to ten years. And usually they'll tell you, listen,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you can't go on the mound because the game's gonna happen.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And if they say you can go on the mount,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I'll go on the mount. And you don't need to
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: besmirch my ability to throw. There's more than one way
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to peel an orange, there's more than one way to
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: make a bed, and there's more than one way to
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: get a batter out. And you don't have to be
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: jealous that I have a high spin rate on my pitches.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Neil also says, hey, Ben, I am a car guy,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and my dad always said worst investment is a car.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: What other investment is worth nothing? After ten years? He says,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: my question, what brand of cars? The Malomobile with two
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand miles, Yeah, that car is back in the shop. Actually,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the Malorimobile with close to two hundred thousand miles. It
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: is a Hyundai Sonata Hunday Sonata, which is pretty good car.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I got the Sonata because it's very roomy on the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: inside and I like comfort, and I'm a big guy
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and a tall guy, and there's a lot of leg
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: room and all that, so I do enjoy it a lot,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: although it's in the shop. Again. Yeah, I will never
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: buy a new car ever. Now, if somebody who happens
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: to be a fan of the show happens to have
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a dealership and wants to lease me a car, boy,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I'd be very happy about that. But as far as
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: buying the car new, no, I will only buy use
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: cars because, as you pointed out, and your dad properly
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: touch you, Neil, it's not great. The moment you pull
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the car off the lot, the value of that thing
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: has taken a dramatic hit. So not worth a day
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: from Seattle writes in he says, Ben is your tongue out,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: And then he says, there's a restaurant in China that
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: is using AI to recommend food after scanning customers tongues
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and faces, and they're even using robots to cook up
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the dishes. Are you in? So, first of all, Dave,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I have no plans to go to China. I know
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of our listeners in China want to
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: do a mall of meet and greet, very popular in
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Beijing unless we're not. So that's the first thing. Secondly,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I like what I like. I don't need AI to
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: tell me what I like. I know what I like.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I can scan the menu and tell you what I like.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I don't need that to happen. So like, I'm sure
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: this will come to America at some point. Right, this
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: is going to come to America, and I'll be in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a position where I could do this if I wanted to.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I think I'm okay. I think I'm okay. Thanks for
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the story, though, Dave, have you done it? Have you
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: gone to China? Dave? Have you gotten your face scanned
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: by AI? Have you gotten your tongue scanned? Shane from
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Dallas rights and says, Hey, Ben, I think you missed
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: this one on the food segment. You do well. First
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: of all, we didn't do the food segment this week, Shane,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: So that's number one. We didn't do the food segment.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And anyway, he says, Costco is introducing a new dessert
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to its food Court lineup, adding a limited time Carmel
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Churo Sunday to menus just in time for spring, Just
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: in time for spring. Now this does something. This does
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: sound like something I'd be into. I have not had
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the mint Costco they added the mint thing. They got
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: rid of a different kind of vice. I forget which
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: kind they got rid of. They have mint now, So yeah,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Costco introducing this brand new dessert. The Caramel Churo Sunday,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: is priced at two ninety nine and is available at
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: participating locations. It arrives. Oh, so I guess this is okay.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: So this is what replaced the double Chocolate Mint Sunday.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: So it appears I will not get the double Chocolate
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Mint Sunday was phased out, so that was only around
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: for a couple months. That was launched in February. Had
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the chocolate mint base and chocolate syrup. So this is
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the new one. This looks really good. I'm looking at
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a photo. I wonder if they have this in Vancouver,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Like my man Nico, you can go to that Vancouver,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the Vancouver Costco. You could get the poutine and then
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: have have this. Yeah, it's got brown sugar and cinnamon flavors.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: It looks amazing, it looks absolutely wonderful. I'm gonna have
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to make it effort. I gotta get that, because I
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: guess this is the new deal for Costco. They have
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: these things. They pop up for a little bit and
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: then just a couple months and then that's all. They're
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: rotating things, which is smart, Which is smart.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: J T.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: The Wingman writes in from Tennessee, and I butcher the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: name of his town every single week. I butcher the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: name of his town. Am I gonna do that again?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Am I gonna try? I'm not eve gonna try. JT.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not feeling it today, so he says, looking very
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: forward to seeing you again this next week in the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati area, and even more excited to meet Dick from Dayton.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: As for my mail bag question, since you are a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: self labeled introvert, what makes you enjoy the various meet
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: and greets you have done over the years. This will
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: be my fifth and I would say for an introvert,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you are one of the more genuine, gracious hosts I've
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: ever met. It motivates me to make the drives or
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: even fly to Vegas to do this, says sure. I
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: also love meeting the characters on the show, but watching
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you interact with the characters is awesome. The highlight was
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: seeing you with hollering James. That was unforgettable. Then you
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: had Doc Mike and the wedding with spin Cycle Regina fantastic.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Don't forget about we had that was the event. We
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: had Eke from Roseville, Minnesota. We had, I mean there
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: was so many. Al was there as well from Minnesota.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: We had who else? Uber each guy Femi Legends says,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: looking forward to your answer here on the pod, see
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: you next week. That's from j T. Yeah. So there's
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. First of all, it's just it's important.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's a big deal, Like it's a
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: very personal thing doing the doing the radio show, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the fact that I've been able to pull this off
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: as many years as I have is a big test
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: stimonial to you guys, cause we're doing overnights here and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: we have a pretty good following, and it's because of
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: you listening and downloading the podcast and listening to this
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: podcast and supporting what we do. And if I can
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: just go out and say thank you, that's like that's
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: a big deal. You've been able to keep me employed
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: other than six months and twenty six days. We won't
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: talk about that. That was a mistake by the company.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: It's been a really cool experience to meet people, and
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I love hearing the stories. I'm an introvert, but I
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: do like to hear the stories of how people found
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the show, what's gone on, and what they do for
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: a living. I'm curious about that. Not that I necessarily
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: like engaging in social events on a normal basis, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I do work myself up to do this, but it's cool.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: It's really neat to hear people's stories and to see
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: what brought them there. And people listen for all kinds
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: of reasons, whether you work the third shift or a
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: lot of people have said they found the show because
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: they were sick, or they had a relative that was
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: sick and that was the reason they found the show
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and they kept listening and things like that, and so
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it interests me. It does interest me, and I do
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: like hanging out with the people. I do recall James,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: which was just and he's still jt It's very awkward
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: when James calls up hollering. James treats me like some
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: kind of God, and it's very embarrassing, very embarrassing. I'm
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: looking forward to say thank you JT for driving over
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: there from near Knoxville. Severville, is that I say? Right? No,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: all right, Severville anyway. Scott from Florida wrights and says Ben,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I admire your ethics as a journalist. How have you
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: managed to fight off the women working in sports in
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: order to keep your inside scoops above the belt for
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: thirty years? Well, fortunately, I'm not attractive, that's the first thing.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: So I've got that going for me. And I don't
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in hot tubs with people
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's usually how that goes. So those
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: two things, Scott. And although I don't think Mike Vrabel's
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a handsome devil, you know, I don't. I don't think
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: he's a handsome devil, but there are different ways. I guess.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I read a book years ago that women often find
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: it's not the physical look. It's if you have power
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: or money that that makes you very good looking in
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the eyes of some women. So Vrabel's got money and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: he's got some power, so that would mean he's attractive.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I would assume, all right, Maddie from Parts Unknown rights
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: In says Ben, why do almost twenty percent of Americans
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: believe that they are basically psychic? He says, and then
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: he sent me a link to a story. Survey of
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: two thousand adults explored how they employ their intuition in
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: their daily lives, and nineteen percent, almost twenty percent, nineteen
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: percent of Americans one in five believe their psychic Yeah.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Another seventy one percent rely on their intuition at least sometimes.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Only eleven percent don't believe in it. Yeah, all right,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So Maddie, I don't know where you're from. You might
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: want to put your city if you want us to
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: give you a little more attention. So this is not
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: that outrageous, Like I am someone who goose around. I
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: mock that. I talk about being a distant relative of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinis who lives in Seattle, And
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: that's a little wink in a nod. And I do
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: know that the psychics. I've seen the documentaries The Amazing
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Randy and some others about what a scam a lot
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: of that is. I get it. The thing that I
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: do is I telegraph things. If things are happening. I
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: telegraph the possible most likely outcomes, Like I had a
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: friend of mine who I was really good friends with,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and he met a girl, which is how all stories
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: go and take a dramatic turn, right, because that could
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: either be a positive a woman could be an amazing
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: thing for you, a great it's in your life, or
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: take you to the dark side. And there's really no
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: in between on that. And so I was good friends
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: with this guy and he found a woman. I met her,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and I just got a kind of a weird, weird
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: vibe out of it, and so I started telegraphing in
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: my head. I said, well, what's going to happen? And
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I actually tried to talk the guy out of getting married.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I just had a vibe this was not this is
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: not good. You're just you're going to end up in
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a tough spot. And I told some people in my
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: world that I had I don't know if it's premonition
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: or whatever. I just had this vision of what I
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: thought was going to happen. I could have been completely wrong,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: could have been completely wrong. And several people got very
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: upset with me who I consulted with and said, well,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't bring that up. You know, you're you're you're
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: just speculating. It's not right, and hand to God, Maddie.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: My prediction was, this woman is gonna drag him away
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: from where we live, gonna move him out to some
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: place in the boondocks, and he's going to stop even
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: replying to my text messages and we're not going to
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: be friends anymore. That all happened. Everything I said, everything
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I said happened, and literally every one of those predictions.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: It slowly she was I don't know if this was
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: her deal or what did she He was weaned away
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and uh moved moved very far. And I've not seen
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the guy in years, since before the pandemic. It's been
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: a while. Julio from Albuquerque writes and says, you ready
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: for a chat box chat box burger? He says, Dairy
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Queen is expanding his use of AI at the drive
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: through chat bots, and this continues the chain or the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: trend of fast food chains testing automation to speed up service. Okay, yeah,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that's great until they f up your order. And you
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: know a lot of people mumble, even I mumble from
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: time to time. So how are you going to be
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: able to understand what somebody who's completely baked at the
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: drive through at three in the morning wants to order
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: when they're mumbling good luck. Justin from Akron, I hope
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you can Akron, Ohio. Justin, I hope you can make
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: it to the Cincinnati area malor meet and greet this
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: coming Saturday. Justin writes and says, Ben, are you a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Nutella guy? He says, Nutella has launched its first new
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: flavor after over sixty years. First new flavor introducing the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Nutella Peanut two shelves across the United States. First of all,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I I think I've only had Natela a couple times,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and I'm not going to be getting this product. If
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: somebody happens to give me the product, I might try
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the product. I'm not against it, It's just not on
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: my must consume list or big board, as Terry would say.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Jack from Vegas Rights send on the mail bag a
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: lot of mail this week. Good job by you guys.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: If you would like to send a message in for
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: a future edition of the mail bag and we will
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: have someone with me next week. I know it gets
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: kind of dull with me. Just here Real fifth Hour
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Real fifth hour at gmail dot com,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. All letters, no numbers.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: You can send a message in or you can be
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: like our guy Caleb and write a snail mail message.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: You can do that also, whatever works for you. What's next?
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Do we have Jack from Vegas? He says, Hey, Ben,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: have you ever been to Longhorn Steakhouse? It turns out
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: they will actually let you order parmer jon crusted glass
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: wrapped around your water, and it's not just limited to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: your your food. Are you in? Yes, Jack? I get
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: there's two steakhouses that are that are chains. I think
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Longhorn's one of them, right, and there's another one that
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: sounds very similar. And I'm not sure whether I've eaten
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: at Longhorn Steakhouse or something that sounds just like Longhorn Steakhouse.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: But I have eaten at one of the big chain
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: steakhouse places and it was fine. I didn't hate it.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: And my theory is that anything with parmesan in it
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: is not a bad thing. So a glass of water
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: with parmesan sounds wonderful, you know, Andy from Van Eyes
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: in the Valley here in so Cow writes and he says,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: hey Ben, he says, we have dueling stories for you.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I found I know you love science. Andy says, I
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: found two stories that were perfect for your podcast. Hopefully
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you can talk about them. Thank you, and I hope
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: to see you soon. All right, Well, I don't know
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: how you're gonna see me, Andy, unless you come to
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati or what you're in Iaron Van Eyes. We do
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the show from Sherman Oaks, which is right down the street. Anyway,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the stories he sent me here for the podcast. He says,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: more time spent on social media is linked to a
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: thinner cerebral cortex and young adolescents the developing brain. It
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: is not good. It is not good. That is story
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: number one. Story number two says a recent studies from
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Andy and Van Eys. These are science stories he sent
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: to the show. He says, a recent study published in
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships suggests that the
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: way people interact with attractive strangers on TikTok can impact
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the trust and you know what when they're when they're
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: actually out dating, the satisfaction when they're out dating. Yeah,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: well it's listen, this is not new. The thirst trap
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: is the what's the way to discribe back in the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: day it was just straight porn. Now it's the thirst
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: trap is kind of like porn, except it's sposedly real people,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: unless it's AI and the girls have a little clothing on,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: unlike the porn when there's nothing going on there other
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: than just you your birthday suit. So it's like it's
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: always been the case. It's you watch too much porn.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: It affects your relationship and all that. And so I
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: would think if you're just looking at nothing but the fake,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: perfect lighting, perfect camera angles, thirst traps that the ladies
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: put up, it can be. It can't affect your perception
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: of reality because in reality, that's not what you're getting. Boys,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: you know, you're getting the real thing and all the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: warts and the moles and all that. That's part of
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the deal. Mike from Jersey rites in and says who
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: would have imagined? Ben that Pepsi says after lowering snack prices,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: they're getting more business now that more people are buying
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Pepsi snacks because they lowered the prink. Yes, we need
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the Golden Age mic of a reversal. I feel like
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the last fifteen to twenty years it's just been up, up, up,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: and way. How much can we price gouge these people?
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Professional sports is the absolute worst. The worst of the
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: worst is in professional sports. It'd be great. And the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons did this a little bit by lowering the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: price of concessions, and good for Arthur Blank and the Falcons.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Way to go. I'm sure Tommy in Atlanta, who I
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: believe is going to be at the Mala meet and
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: greet this Saturday. I'm sure Tommy appreciates if he goes
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to a Falcons game he can get nachos and peanuts
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and all that for a reasonable price. I'm sure he
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: appreciates that. So yeah, good job. It's not shocking. It's
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  Speaker 1: I could have told you that you didn't need to
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  Speaker 1: hire some firm. Okay, Dwayne from Harrisburg, PA writs and
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  Speaker 1: he's been Can I go on a cruise and get
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  Speaker 1: paid as well? And then he points out there's a woman,
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  Speaker 1: a forty five year old woman from Caddedy, Forna. From
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  Speaker 1: here in Cannedy, Forna. This woman from California won a
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  Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars lawsuit after she was served more
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  Speaker 1: than fourteen tequila shots on a cruise ship and had
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  Speaker 1: a serve fall or severe surffall severe fall. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so she got injured. That's what this is about. I
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  Speaker 1: used to listen there was a show called Handle on
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  Speaker 1: the Law with Bill Handle, who I met at KFI
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. And this is the kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing I learned from listening to that handle On Law
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  Speaker 1: to the way to make real money at this you
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  Speaker 1: have to be really seriously injured, like you have to
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  Speaker 1: have things that negatively affect the quality of her life
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  Speaker 1: in order to get paid, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So I've never been on a cruise ship other than
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  Speaker 1: the Queen Mary, which does not count because it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere. It's anchored to the LBC. So yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get out on this. I love this
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  Speaker 1: story from mail in Kansas City. I hope you've had
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Mallard chicken fingers there at the landing in Liberty, Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: If you live in Kansas City. It's a must if
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  Speaker 1: you're a fan of the show. Liberty, Missouri. We had
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  Speaker 1: a Mallard meet and greet there a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. Check it out, all right, So Mel
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  Speaker 1: writes in, and he points out that there's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that runs a restaurant in China. By the way, how
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  Speaker 1: many of these stories come from China? Did they just
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  Speaker 1: make these up? Are these all legitimate stories? China must be?
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  Speaker 1: What a wild place China must be with all the
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  Speaker 1: crazy zany stories that come out of China that start
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  Speaker 1: with a blank. From China anyway, this is a restaurant
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  Speaker 1: owner in China has gone viral. Mel says he got
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  Speaker 1: upset with influencers, and he told the people that came,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the social media influenced in China to come
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  Speaker 1: to view his restaurant. He told them to not say
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  Speaker 1: good things about his establishment, do not leave a good review,
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  Speaker 1: do not make a nice Why this guy claimed that
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  Speaker 1: his life will be too hard. My life will be
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  Speaker 1: too hard if customers come in because of your good reviews.
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  Speaker 1: How great is that? That's a guy that says, I
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  Speaker 1: like my job, I don't love my job. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to work too much. Please don't make me work
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  Speaker 1: too much. Please please, please, please please. That's what that is.
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  Speaker 1: It's freaking hilarious. All right, thank you all for your messages.
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  Speaker 1: There are a few others that we didn't get to, but
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  Speaker 1: this has gone way longer than it was supposed to.
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• 41:35
  Speaker 1: If you want to be part of next week's mailbag again,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: we will be recording a little earlier next week because
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I am going to be in Cincinnati, so we'll do
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  Speaker 1: the Friday one on Friday and then the other ones
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  Speaker 1: will do a little We'll call him Evergreen. So if
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy that we'll be hanging out talking NFL Draft week,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: the baseball weekend, whatever else is going on, whatever pops
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• 42:18
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• 42:25
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