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The Fifth Hour: Mickey Mouse Maller · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol 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.
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Speaker 1: In the penthouse.
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Speaker 2: Wow to clearing house of hot takes, break free for
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Speaker 2: something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
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Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny g Radio,
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Speaker 3: who is out doing his thing. He'll pop in at
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Speaker 3: some point this weekend as we are hanging out together.
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Speaker 3: The weekend begins today right now at this mall mead.
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Speaker 1: As it is the twenty seventh day of June.
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Speaker 3: We celebrate National Bingo Day today and we learned.
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Speaker 1: When I saw it was National Bingo Dances.
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Speaker 3: Well, I occasionally played bingo, and I said, where did
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Speaker 3: this originate? And it actually is from Italy bingo in
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Speaker 3: the fifteen hundreds, although it was a little different than
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Speaker 3: the modern version, but it was an Italian lottery game.
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Speaker 3: So they actually started as a lottery in Italy, and
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Speaker 3: then a couple hundred years later there was a French
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Speaker 3: game that took what they had in Italy, the bingo game,
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Speaker 3: and turned it into the modern era which is still
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Speaker 3: used today. The card that has twenty seven numbers, nine columns,
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Speaker 3: three rows and all that.
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Speaker 1: So that was a couple hundred years later.
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Speaker 3: I don't have the exact details on the lottery in
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Speaker 3: Italy from the fifteen hundreds. And then there was a
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Speaker 3: opportunistic toymaker in the early nineteen hundreds, about one hundred
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Speaker 3: years ago, nineteen twenties, who discovered people playing a card
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Speaker 3: game called bino, not Bingo Bino at a carnival in Atlanta,
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Speaker 3: and that was in they estimate around nineteen twenty nine.
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Speaker 3: So then they in nineteen thirty like, wait a minute,
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Speaker 3: we can say make some money. So this toymaker, Edwin Lowe,
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Speaker 3: said all right, we're going to market this thing, and
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Speaker 3: off to the races we went. And that was in
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Speaker 3: the nineteen thirty so about one hundred years ago. And
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Speaker 3: of course now you can play bingo on your phone
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Speaker 3: or wherever it's it's literally everywhere now. I did go
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Speaker 3: to a bingo game about about a year ago.
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Speaker 1: I think it was a year ago. I think I
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Speaker 1: talked about it on the show.
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Speaker 3: So one of my wife's friends they played bingo on
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Speaker 3: a semi regular basis, and so I went down there
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Speaker 3: to the church. There was a church Friday night bingo
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Speaker 3: and I sh had a good time, which I believe
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Speaker 3: means I'm getting old. I thought it was fun. They
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Speaker 3: had like an app you could futs around on your
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Speaker 3: phone or you could do the card thing with the
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Speaker 3: highlighters and all that. But I had a good time,
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Speaker 3: and I'll probably play bingo again, but not too often.
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Speaker 3: So on this podcast we have it's a Mickey Mouse
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Speaker 3: kind of operation. The word of the week, the word
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Speaker 3: of the week, and it's all about the chocolate. We'll
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Speaker 3: get to that. We have some foodie fun and who
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Speaker 3: knows what else will pop up on this podcast, but
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Speaker 3: we begin with this. So it is a Mickey Mouse
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Speaker 3: kind of operation. So a couple months ago, yours truly
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Speaker 3: did something I'm very good at. I complained about the
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Speaker 3: prices of Disneyland.
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Speaker 1: I came up in conversation. I'm not exactly sure how
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Speaker 1: it came up.
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Speaker 3: Might have been because our friend, the FSR Tech Queen
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Speaker 3: has a Disney pass and she goes all the time
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Speaker 3: and she posts photos and all that stuff, and I
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Speaker 3: got on my soapbox and started ranting and raving about
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Speaker 3: how expensive it is at the Magical Kingdom. Despite living
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Speaker 3: relatively close, relatively close to to Disneyland, rarely go. It's
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Speaker 3: just too expensive and it's not worth the money and
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Speaker 3: all that stuff. Well, an eagle eared not ied, an
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Speaker 3: eagle eared listener felt pity on this quagmire, and so
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Speaker 3: I would like to tip the microphone to Ken in
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Speaker 3: South Oce.
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Speaker 1: You know, Ken has been a long.
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Speaker 3: Time supporter of the Overnight Show and has been with
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Speaker 3: the show for many, many years.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize this at the time, but I met Ken.
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Speaker 3: Came to the infamous Baker's Field Malar meet and greet,
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Speaker 3: which was next level. That was the one that was
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Speaker 3: thrown by Rod, the ambassador of Bakersfield, and it was
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Speaker 3: a rip roaring good time. I had a great meal,
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Speaker 3: went to the Bakersfield Blaze game and it was blazing.
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Speaker 3: We closed down this minor league team in Bakersfield. We
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Speaker 3: had a good time. It was fun, I very hot,
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Speaker 3: a lot of crazy things. Air Force Andrew got kicked
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Speaker 3: out in the second inning and then tried to sneak
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Speaker 3: back in to the game, which was, which was interesting. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: Ken had been there. I didn't reach it.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that he had reached out to me.
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Speaker 3: It's been a long time p won of the show,
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Speaker 3: and he said, hey, listen, you know I I can
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Speaker 3: invite you. I would like to invite you to come
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Speaker 3: to Disneyland as my guest can may or may not
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Speaker 3: work there, and so I think he does, but in
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Speaker 3: fact I know he does.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, so at first now I did not respond right away.
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Speaker 1: I did not.
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Speaker 3: I did not recognize the random account. I get a
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Speaker 3: lot of very interesting messages that pop up on my
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Speaker 3: direct messages, and some I want to scream at. Some
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Speaker 3: I just delete immediately. They come in all shapes and sizes.
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Speaker 3: I don't even know who most of these people are.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes I see some names that I recognize. So anyway,
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Speaker 3: he sends me a message on Facebook, and I'm a
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Speaker 3: little slow on that, so I didn't respond right away.
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Speaker 3: I get a lot of messages every day. Many of
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Speaker 3: them are you know, you're an a hole. I'd just
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Speaker 3: say that, you know, you rip my favorite player. Others
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Speaker 3: are I like that that was a good segment. Or
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Speaker 3: then there's people that are like, hey, you got a
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Speaker 3: speeding ticket and you didn't pay for it.
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Speaker 1: You know, the scam artists. So it's all all kinds,
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Speaker 1: as I said.
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Speaker 3: So I did not respond right away, and I thought
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Speaker 3: originally I was getting punked. It turns out it was legit.
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Speaker 3: So we then played a game of tag trying to
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Speaker 3: work out the logistics, which is always the hardest part, right,
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Speaker 3: I don't want to inconvenience Ken. Ken's like, hey, I
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Speaker 3: want you to come to Disneyland, but I want to
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Speaker 3: work with his schedule and I have some things playing,
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Speaker 3: and so, long story longer, the planets all lined up
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Speaker 3: up this past weekend and it was on like Disney Kong.
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Speaker 1: It was me and the wife flashed back to our childhood.
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Speaker 3: We met Ken over there at Disneyland and had a
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Speaker 3: wonderful time.
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Speaker 1: It was a really fun day.
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Speaker 3: It was a long day, but it was a fun
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Speaker 3: day at the happiest place on Earth, the Magical Kingdom,
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Speaker 3: and it.
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Speaker 1: Was packed wall to wall with humanity.
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Speaker 3: Although may I point out it is interesting to note
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Speaker 3: that since Disney now tracks exactly who can go and
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Speaker 3: who's allowed in and who's not allowed in, you had
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Speaker 3: to have a reservation and all that stuff. It is
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Speaker 3: not nearly as busy as I remember it when I
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Speaker 3: was a kid, because I used to have a pass
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Speaker 3: because it was really cheap when I was growing up
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Speaker 3: to get a pass to Disneyland if you lived in
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Speaker 3: Socoal So I would go on a regular basis.
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Speaker 1: And during the summer in June, July and August, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, it was.
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Speaker 3: Bumper to bumper. You couldn't no elbow room. Now it
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Speaker 3: was busy. I don't want to make it seem like
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Speaker 3: it wasn't busy, but it was manageable. It was manageable humanity,
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Speaker 3: unlike back in the olden days where they would have
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Speaker 3: overflow crowds and they need people to leave and all
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Speaker 3: that stuff. So we took out the machete, if you will,
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Speaker 3: the imaginary machete, and navigated our way through the mass
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Speaker 3: of people.
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Speaker 1: Now, the key to Disney we've learned over the years,
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Speaker 1: is the locker.
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Speaker 3: Whether you go to Disneyland or Disney World, you've got
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Speaker 3: to have the locker in the right place, the right
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Speaker 3: part of the park. And in Disneyland, there's California Adventure,
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Speaker 3: there's Disneyland, and so you have to figure out you
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Speaker 3: want the locker and which part do you want the locker,
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Speaker 3: and we chose Disneyland because that's our rog favorite. You
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Speaker 3: got the snacks, you got the water, you got the
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Speaker 3: backup chargers, all that stuff. And I learned this long
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Speaker 3: ago that success in life, whether it's even going just
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Speaker 3: to Disneyland or working your job, ninety percent is preparation
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Speaker 3: and only about ten percent is perspiration, meaning you should
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Speaker 3: always overprepare and then just go with the flow and
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Speaker 3: hope it it's all for nothing. That's my mantra, Like
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Speaker 3: when I get ready for the Overnight show, even this podcast,
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Speaker 3: way too much preparation, way too much preparation. But my
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Speaker 3: philosophy is I don't want to be caught flat footed.
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Speaker 3: I know from doing radio shows early on, where sometimes
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Speaker 3: you wing it and.
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Speaker 1: Oftentimes it's fine.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of people that don't do any prep
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Speaker 3: and you can tell who they are because it sounds
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Speaker 3: like it, but you know there are people that can
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Speaker 3: pull it off. But generally speaking, my philosophy.
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Speaker 1: Has always been I'm gonna be overprepared.
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Speaker 3: I want to be ready to go so I don't
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Speaker 3: need to depend on any crutches. The people I work
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Speaker 3: with who sometimes show up and sometimes don't. Sometimes they're engaged,
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Speaker 3: sometimes they're not engaged.
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Speaker 1: The phones.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to be dependent on the phones, which
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Speaker 3: which actually worked out because we went about ten days
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Speaker 3: with the phones not working. So we went about almost
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Speaker 3: two weeks with no phones.
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Speaker 1: But it was fun.
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Speaker 3: They show didn't miss a beat because we had plenty,
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Speaker 3: plenty of content ready to go right.
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Speaker 1: So again, always overprepair. Hopefully you don't need it.
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Speaker 3: But you do it. And so I'm like, that's what
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Speaker 3: I did with Disney. So we started out actually at
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Speaker 3: California Adventure and.
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Speaker 1: Packed in.
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Speaker 3: The cool thing that you know, even though it was
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Speaker 3: was packed and there was a lot of people there.
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Speaker 3: The cool thing that I like is going to Disneyland
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Speaker 3: during the summer is like going to a zoo. It's
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Speaker 3: the Disney zoo. You're not going to see an elephant,
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Speaker 3: not a real one. You're not going to see a draft,
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Speaker 3: not a real one. You won't see any rhinos. It's
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Speaker 3: a human zoo.
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Speaker 1: It's like a Whitman's sampler.
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Speaker 3: And the great thing about us people is become in
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Speaker 3: all shapes and sizes, right the fat people, skinny people,
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Speaker 3: young people, old people, people from here there, everywhere, all
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Speaker 3: different backgrounds right, the Rainbow Coalition.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 3: Everyone's all just hanging out and happily emptying their wallets for.
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Speaker 1: Disney merch that's overpriced and food and all that.
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Speaker 3: Now, as far as the rides are concerned, the first
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Speaker 3: ride we started out og this is a classic Pirates
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Speaker 3: of the Caribbean.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 3: It's calm, it's dark, the line moves pretty fast. It's
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Speaker 3: a classic Disney experience, and it flashes back to it,
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Speaker 3: and it was a timeless classic. I flashed back to
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Speaker 3: when I was eight years old and I'd run around
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Speaker 3: with my brother and we'd run through all the rides
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Speaker 3: and we'd try to go on Pirates of the carib
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Speaker 3: Mean as many times as we can, because there was
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Speaker 3: never any line in those days. As far as snacks
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Speaker 3: are concerned, since Ken hooked us up, we're like, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna go big on the snacks. We're gonna spend our
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Speaker 3: money on the stand. So we went big. We had
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Speaker 3: I had a Mickey Mouse pretzel, not bad, not bad.
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Speaker 3: My wife went with the Truro. I had one of those. Also,
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Speaker 3: the six dollars bucket of popcorn, not the fifteen dollars bucket.
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Speaker 3: With the souvenir container, six dollar bucket of popcorn, had
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Speaker 3: the iconic Disney corn dog and Chips Delicious Chef's Kiss
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Speaker 3: right wonderful.
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Speaker 1: I had that.
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Speaker 3: Some of the other rides we went on, I didn't
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Speaker 3: take notes on everything. One of the Jungle Book crews
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Speaker 3: because why not, Indiana Jones. Those rides are side by
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Speaker 3: side the Haunted Mansion, Ooh spooky.
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Speaker 1: We went on Monsters Inc. In California Adventure.
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Speaker 3: The reason we did that is because the wife's friends
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Speaker 3: came and they have Disney passes. And then one of
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Speaker 3: my wife's friends brought her her daughter who's like seven
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Speaker 3: years old, and so we were like, we got to
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Speaker 3: do some kids stuff. So we did Monsters Inc. Astro
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Speaker 3: Blasters and it's a small world for the kid, it's
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Speaker 3: a sacrifice.
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Speaker 1: Now, the coolest ride is the newest.
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Speaker 3: Ride that we had not been on, so went to
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Speaker 3: last time, went to Disneyland. Star Wars Land had just opened. Fact,
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Speaker 3: we went with Wrecket Ralph Ralph Irvin, who you might
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Speaker 3: remember if you're a fan of Fox Sports Radio. Ralph
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Speaker 3: a friend of mine and he lives in Vegas now.
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Speaker 3: But Ralph had a hook up and so we went
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Speaker 3: and hung out and told stories about.
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Speaker 1: The Mighty six ninety and all that stuff, and Ralph.
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Speaker 3: Was great, very kind, And so we went to Star
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Speaker 3: Wars Land went on the Millennial Falcon ride. But this
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Speaker 3: time we went on the Rise of the Resistance, right,
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Speaker 3: which I'm assuming was not open. Was not open the
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Speaker 3: last time we were at at Disneyland, and it was
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Speaker 3: It was great fully immersive ride, and man was it.
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Speaker 1: It was just perfect. I don't know where that was hiding.
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Speaker 3: I had not heard about that, but man, alive, that
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Speaker 3: was outstanding. They nailed it. They who made it, But
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Speaker 3: whoever made it, they absolutely dominated. It is really really good,
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Speaker 3: and I have a feeling that all future rides are
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Speaker 3: going to be almost exactly like that in one way
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Speaker 3: or another. I turned the page on that time. Now
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Speaker 3: for the word of the week. The word of the
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Speaker 3: week now, the word of the week this week is
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Speaker 3: a term that is often used in military jargon.
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Speaker 1: It's it's used for punctuality.
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Speaker 3: Ship shape refers to something being clean, tidy, well organized,
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Speaker 3: and it means listen, you're neat your orderly right, your appearance.
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Speaker 3: If you're in the military. Mentioned my son in the
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Speaker 3: military now joining the marines and you got to have
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Speaker 3: that ready.
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Speaker 1: To go and all that stuff.
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Speaker 3: So the word of the week is ship shape, which
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Speaker 3: again means neat, tidy, in excellent order and all that stuff.
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Speaker 3: It actually it's birthplace was in Britain. It is a
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Speaker 3: British term ship shape, and it stems from the British
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Speaker 3: maritime industry and it has continued. It goes back to
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Speaker 3: the historical domination of the British Navy and the merchant
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Speaker 3: fleets from Britain, and so it has obviously evolved over
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Speaker 3: the term. You know, the years that we've used the term,
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Speaker 3: the term shipshape originally was ship shapen and that that
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Speaker 3: older version goes all the way back to the sixteen forties,
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Speaker 3: and think about that, that is an.
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Speaker 1: Insane amount of time.
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Speaker 3: So in the sixteen forties they had that it was
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Speaker 3: directly combined the noun ship with shapen.
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Speaker 1: Meaning obviously shaped and all that stuff.
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Speaker 3: And the implication was it was formed or arranged in
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Speaker 3: the manner of a ship where the you know, back
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Speaker 3: in those days in the sixteen hundreds, this was the
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Speaker 3: way to get around the world, right if you go
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Speaker 3: out in the ship and you didn't know how long
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Speaker 3: you were going to be on the ship. You didn't
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Speaker 3: know what the weather was going to be like, but
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Speaker 3: space was limited. That's obvious. You don't need me to
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Speaker 3: tell you that. So and also when you're on a
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Speaker 3: boat for a long time, there's hygiene issues because there's
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Speaker 3: nowhere to throw your trash other than just throw it
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Speaker 3: over the side. But you need everything you have to
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Speaker 3: have for the whole trip, and so neatness and.
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Speaker 1: Proper stowage were essential, right.
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Speaker 3: And over time, the term shipshapen got shaved away and
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Speaker 3: it was shortened to shape because you know that end
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Speaker 3: at the end is a problem.
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Speaker 1: And so even to this day. That was the mid eighteenth.
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Speaker 3: Century, it went from ship shapen to ship shape, and
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Speaker 3: still to this day.
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Speaker 1: I mean word that started.
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Speaker 3: The first evidence of that term in written form was
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Speaker 3: in sixteen forty four, so I mean think about sixteen
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Speaker 3: forty four.
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Speaker 1: It was in a dictionary.
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Speaker 3: And here we are all these years later, and still
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Speaker 3: we end up using the word.
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Speaker 1: Not not all the time, obviously.
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Speaker 3: But there it is the word of the week. The
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Speaker 3: word of the week is ship shape.
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Speaker 1: So turning a.
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Speaker 3: Page on that, there's something that that kind of I
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Speaker 3: don't know.
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Speaker 1: If it got my attention, got my dander up? Is
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Speaker 1: that a phrase? I got my dander up? I've used
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Speaker 1: that phrase before.
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Speaker 3: So the shopping going around I went to I saw
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Speaker 3: some of this at Disney California Adventure, some of the
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Speaker 3: stores in Downtown Disney, I think it was Downtown Disney.
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Speaker 3: And then every time I've gone out to restaurants or
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Speaker 3: different shopping things, I've seen Dubai chocolates.
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Speaker 1: So I got to bug up. Mike took us. I
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Speaker 1: was like, why, all of a sudden, in the last
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Speaker 1: year we have seen these do Bai chocolates being marketed
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Speaker 1: all over America? Like, what is behind that?
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Speaker 3: So I fell down a rabbit hole and we can
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Speaker 3: blame tick talk. That's right, we can blame TikTok for
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Speaker 3: the overwhelming saturate of Dubai chocolate. Literally, the craze started
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Speaker 3: in the US because of social media, and it is
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Speaker 3: a masterclass in viral marketing. First of all, And you
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Speaker 3: gotta have a story, right, You gotta have a story.
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Speaker 3: That's one of the things we've talked about in previous
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Speaker 3: episodes of the show is that even restaurants, they have
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Speaker 3: to have the story, like you, mom and pop started
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Speaker 3: here and they it was a small restaurant in the
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Speaker 3: garage and then it grew and it became this massive
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Speaker 3: thing and it was amazing and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, here here's the origin story, if you will.
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Speaker 3: It started on TikTok and there was a handcrafted bar
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Speaker 3: from a chocolate tier in Dubai, and the chocolate in
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Speaker 3: Dubai was layered with pistachio cream and it had it
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Speaker 3: was it was a pastry and had different things mixed in,
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Speaker 3: but the flavor was inspired by this Middle Eastern dessert
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Speaker 3: which was mostly only consumed in the Middle East. So
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Speaker 3: there was a fifteen second that's it, fifteenth TikTok. People
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Speaker 3: have no attention span, So a fifteen second TikTok video
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Speaker 3: showed the Ui Guy pistachio center and there was a
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Speaker 3: snap to it that was satisfying.
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Speaker 1: When you bite into it. But it had the Ui
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Speaker 1: Gui center.
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Speaker 3: And that video got one hundred and twenty million views,
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Speaker 3: and that began. That was the seed that began the
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Speaker 3: global obsession. Now keep in mind the numbers are doctored
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Speaker 3: on social media, in my opinion, so one hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty million, there's a lot of people I'm gonna go
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Speaker 3: out and a limit say it was not actually one
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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty million people. Nonetheless, the original Dubai Chocolateeer
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Speaker 3: Dubai bar was only sold in Dubai.
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Speaker 1: And it was only made in these limited batches and
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Speaker 1: all that.
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Speaker 3: So that made it unique, that made it exclusive, that
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Speaker 3: gave it this mystique.
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Speaker 1: Remember the story, right, It's all about the story in marketing.
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Speaker 3: And then some opportunistic business people realized, hey, we can
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Speaker 3: capitalize on this. We can sell Dubai chocolate to major
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Speaker 3: American businesses and they'll buy it because we've got a
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Speaker 3: nice backstory, we've got a uniqueness, the mystique that it's
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Speaker 3: only available in the Middle East, and this exclusive do
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Speaker 3: buy chocolate tear and everyone in the world's gonna want this.
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Speaker 3: And so some marketing people went to these, you know,
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Speaker 3: these big conventions were it's like, remember years ago, there
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Speaker 3: was a soft serve, there was frozen yogurt that were
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Speaker 3: the fat it's a fat, right, is it a trender?
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Speaker 1: Is it a fat? These things come along as everyone's
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Speaker 1: selling chicken.
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Speaker 3: Fingers for a while and then right now it's Dubai chocolates,
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Speaker 3: and so some marketing people were able to capitalize on
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Speaker 3: that TikTok video.
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Speaker 1: They put up a presentation, a webinar if you will.
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Speaker 3: Next thing, you know, you've got major American companies like
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Speaker 3: Trader Joe's, Crumble Cookies, Costco, Shake Shack, I can go
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Speaker 3: on on that have either used Dubai chocolate or reimagined
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Speaker 3: Dubai chocolate. Right, it's essentially just milk, chocolate, pistachio.
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Speaker 1: And crunch.
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Speaker 3: Those are the three building blocks of the Dubai chocolate
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Speaker 3: and that became synonymous for luxury.
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Speaker 1: And you know, obviously it's a trend in all that stuff.
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Speaker 3: But it started with the TikTok and then some marketing
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Speaker 3: people sold it to these businesses and now it is
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Speaker 3: standard in the United States that people have Dubai chige.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't copy it.
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Speaker 3: They've added to it. They've mixed in rice crispies, and
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Speaker 3: it's a culinary blank canvas. Where as long as you
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Speaker 3: use the term Dubai, as long as you get the
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Speaker 3: term Dubai.
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Speaker 1: In there, oh you're good. And it is so popular
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Speaker 1: that there were some stories. I don't know if this
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Speaker 1: is true or not. It might be just urban legend. However,
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Speaker 1: there were.
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Speaker 3: Stories that said that the demand for Dubai chocolate, which
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Speaker 3: is based on chocolate and pistachio, that the global pistachio
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Speaker 3: market was disrupted because of this, and the prices swored,
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Speaker 3: and the supply chain was a supply chain shortage.
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Speaker 1: And even read.
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Speaker 3: Some stories when I fell down this rabbit hole, that
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Speaker 3: there were some imitation imitation pistachios. There were ripoff fake
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Speaker 3: pistachio sellers do buy chocolate sellers. There was like a
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Speaker 3: black market for pistachios. You can't make it up. You
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Speaker 3: cannot make it up. You imagine how'd you make your money? Well,
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Speaker 3: I sold pistachios, but not real pistachios, fake ripoff pistachios.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means.
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Speaker 3: All right, moving on time now for some food he fun.
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Speaker 3: Hooray for food he fun. It's all about the food
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Speaker 3: he fun. All right, So first up on foody fund.
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Speaker 3: These are some random food stories not related to Dubai chocolate. Well,
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Speaker 3: McDonald's for our Canadian brothers and sisters, for Nico and
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Speaker 3: all the other fine listeners in Vancouver and all over Canada.
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Speaker 3: McDonald's has added mcpizza bytes. The bisc off mcflurry and
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Speaker 3: more items inspired to the Canadian Canadian.
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Speaker 1: Menu, so.
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Speaker 3: You better run out to to Mickey D's all across Canada.
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Speaker 3: They have a Teriaki chicken sandwich inspired from Japan. They
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Speaker 3: have a big Rosty I believe I'm mispronouncing that it's
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Speaker 3: a beefy burger featuring hickory smoke, bacon, processed cheese, cheese sauce,
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Speaker 3: and a hash brown.
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Speaker 1: All right, so they just put the hash brown on it.
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Speaker 3: And from Italy it's the Mick Pizza bytes, which look
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Speaker 3: like they're just a little mozzarella, tomato sauce, pizza dough
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Speaker 3: a tossed together.
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Speaker 1: What are those? I forget the name.
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Speaker 3: There's a there's a brand. They look very similar to
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Speaker 3: the brand the bisc off mcflurry. They say it's from Belgium.
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Speaker 3: I thought it was from Delta Airlines, but you can
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Speaker 3: get that at McDonald's. They've got biscp cookie crumbs, saft
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Speaker 3: serve swirl together, a Belgium favorite.
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Speaker 1: They say, the biscop that actually looks really good, that
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Speaker 1: is solid.
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Speaker 3: They have garlic Mayo style sauce representing the UK and
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Speaker 3: sweet tangy chili dip from Australia.
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Speaker 1: So those are some of the items.
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Speaker 3: On the McDonald's internationally inspired food items that they've added.
26:28
Speaker 3: Red Lobster has introduced a seafood boil. They're having their
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Speaker 3: Crabfest events, so knock yourself out with that. Applebee's has
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Speaker 3: added all you can eat boneless wings, chicken tenders and
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Speaker 3: riblets for a limited time, so hit up your Apple
26:47
Speaker 3: Bee's and Buffalo Wild Wings has added bottomless apps for
26:53
Speaker 3: a limited time only.
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Speaker 1: Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they have decided to keep up with the crave.
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Speaker 1: Of the food nation there. The company has.
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Speaker 3: Reclassified bottomless apps starting at nine. This actually began began
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Speaker 3: yesterday and you can have endless rounds of two appetizers
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Speaker 3: at a time, including mazzarella sticks, onion rings, fried pickles,
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Speaker 3: quaso and chips and salsa.
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Speaker 1: So knock yourself out.
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Speaker 3: So for twenty dollars, you can go in there get
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Speaker 3: mazzarella sticks and chips and salsa.
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Speaker 1: Or onion rings and just go for it.
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Speaker 3: Just absolutely knock yourself out. Now, I'm assuming the position
27:47
Speaker 3: that Buffalo Wild Wings will use the same trick that
27:51
Speaker 3: Olive Garden and the others use when they have the
27:54
Speaker 3: all you can eat thing that when you want a
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Speaker 3: new plate of food, they're very slow, very.
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Speaker 1: Slow to bring you the food.
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Speaker 3: And they suddenly stopped coming around all that much.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: They're like, we'll get to you when we get to you,
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Speaker 3: you know, so it's harder.
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Speaker 1: To get the refills, if you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Arby's has introduced a new Angus cheese steak and they
28:25
Speaker 3: say they're taking their beef game to the next level.
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Speaker 1: I like the extended winner.
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Speaker 3: How dare you Angus cheese steak available? Participating in location?
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Speaker 3: It looks pretty good. That's one of those things.
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Speaker 1: I can make a.
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Speaker 3: Wonderful cheese steak at home. Don't need to go to
28:43
Speaker 3: Arby's for the cheese steak. Taco Bell has partnered up
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Speaker 3: with Tony Hawk, which I think he's my age. Good
28:52
Speaker 3: for him and Taco Bell and skating legend Tony Hawk
28:56
Speaker 3: introducing his personal take on build your your own lux
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Speaker 3: Cravings Box. Okay, wonderful, So you can partner up there,
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Speaker 3: Tony Hawk, knock yourself out, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, we'll get out on that.
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Speaker 3: Have a wonderful rest of your Friday if you're listening early.
29:15
Speaker 3: If not, I hope you had a great Friday, because
29:17
Speaker 3: people listen whatever, and maybe you're listening on Saturday or
29:21
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29:24
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Speaker 3: Overnight Show, and we'll catch you next time. Later, skater
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Speaker 3: Asta pasta
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Speaker 1: Gotta murder, I gotta go.