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The Fifth Hour: Marlins Man Posse · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
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  Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
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  Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio,
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  Speaker 3: A Happy Saturday to you.
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  Speaker 1: We have arrived here.
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  Speaker 3: The twenty first day of the month of June, a
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  Speaker 3: celebration of National Selfie Day today. And I've been doing
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  Speaker 3: this podcast long enough that I recall this day. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if we did this last year or a
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  Speaker 3: couple of years ago, but it is National Selfie Day.
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  Speaker 3: And the stat on this, the fun fact on this
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  Speaker 3: which blows me away. The first selfie widely credited to
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  Speaker 3: somebody named Robert Cornelius, and who the f was Robert
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  Speaker 3: cornelis He was an American chemist and is considered one
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  Speaker 3: of the founding fathers of photography, which kind of obvious.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of the first people to do a selfie. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the thing about this, this goes all the way back
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  Speaker 3: to eighteen thirty nine. This guy, Robert Cornelius, had to
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  Speaker 3: sit still, perfectly still for ten to fifteen minutes to
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  Speaker 3: create the first intentional self portrait. So imagine in eighteen
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  Speaker 3: thirty nine what the world must have been like. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's only sixty some odd years A little over that,
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  Speaker 3: the birth of America and the world's first selfie. Robert
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  Speaker 3: Cornelius the earliest form of photography utilizing natural light and
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  Speaker 3: silver transfers, and it was born. And it wasn't from
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  Speaker 3: that point until the nineteen seventies, So from eighteen thirty
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  Speaker 3: nine to the nineteen seven so we're talking about one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty some odd years. And then ted all
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  Speaker 3: about the digital. It was all about the digital. A
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  Speaker 3: company came up with a way to do digital photography,
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  Speaker 3: the dawn of the digital age. The first digital camera
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  Speaker 3: was invented in nineteen seventy nine, and then it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: until another decade plus that the first global social media
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  Speaker 3: website started, MySpace. MySpace is huge, as my old colleague
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  Speaker 3: Karen Kay said back in the day, and Facebook debuted
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  Speaker 3: in the early two thousands, and so that was that
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  Speaker 3: was the beginning. And then the next big change was
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  Speaker 3: in two thousand and two the Nokia Phone and the
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  Speaker 3: Sanyo Phone. They debuted camera phones, and then ever since
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  Speaker 3: then watch out. There is no stopping, no stopping the selfies.
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  Speaker 3: So today National Selfie Day. On this podcast, though, we
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  Speaker 3: go swimming with the marlin. Swimming with the marlin, as
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  Speaker 3: in the Marlin Man, and who goofed? I've got to know?
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  Speaker 3: The phone edition, who Goofed? I've got to know? And
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  Speaker 3: we'll have some phrases, probably more than one phrase of
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  Speaker 3: the day, but we'll begin with this. So, once upon
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  Speaker 3: a time, a very long time ago, a strange thing.
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  Speaker 1: Happened on a very high mountain in the north Woods.
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  Speaker 3: That was early on a random Sunday night or late
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  Speaker 3: on a Saturday, and yours truly was lounging around. It's
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  Speaker 3: very early or very late, depending on how you look
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  Speaker 3: at these things, and the decision was made to take
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  Speaker 3: a bath to decompress from the week that was. The
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  Speaker 3: wife was away, she was at work, she was working
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  Speaker 3: an extra shift, so I was alone. Got a random text,
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  Speaker 3: I'm in the bathtub and I get a text and
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  Speaker 3: it's from a number that I had not received a
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  Speaker 3: text from in some time. And I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: who's this And their name pops up and it says Lawrence,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, wait a minute, I know Lawrence.
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  Speaker 3: I only know one person named Lawrence, and it's not
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  Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence in my life.
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  Speaker 1: In my phone.
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  Speaker 3: There's one person in my phone, I believe right now
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  Speaker 3: named Lawrence. And he goes by the moniker Martlin's Man. Now,
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  Speaker 3: keep in mind, I had not heard from mar Oland's
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  Speaker 3: Man in many, many months. I had not seen Marlin's
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  Speaker 3: Man in a couple of years. So he sends me
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  Speaker 3: a text. He says, Hey, I'm heading to Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: I'm on a plane. I'm at the airport here in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: I'm flying on a very early morning flight to his time,
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  Speaker 3: heading to California, and I'm going to beat the Dodger game.
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  Speaker 3: It's the primetime Sunday night game Dodgers in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: and they're playing the Padres or not the Pidters, the Giants.
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  Speaker 3: He says, are you going to the game.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to see you?
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  Speaker 3: So all right back, I said, listen, I'm very excited
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to be at a Dodger games. I
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen you in.
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  Speaker 1: A long time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very happy for that, but I will not be
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  Speaker 3: at the game. I then explained how the Dodgers had
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  Speaker 3: cut me off. They had stonewalled me the PR department
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  Speaker 3: for the Dodgers since they got Shohio Tani. Despite almost
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  Speaker 3: thirty years of covering the Dodgers, they decided that I
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  Speaker 3: was not worthy of being there on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 3: So a few minutes later I sent that to Marlin's man.
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  Speaker 3: I explained the whole deal. I said, listen, I've been
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  Speaker 3: replaced by seven reporters from different news outfits in Japan,
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  Speaker 3: and I get it. They're making more money. I guess
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  Speaker 3: they don't value the overnight show, which is on a
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  Speaker 3: station which is almost owned, like half of it by
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers. Anyway, So Marlin's man text me back and
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  Speaker 3: he says, hey, listen, I want you to go to
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get your ticket. You want to go, I'll get
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  Speaker 1: you a ticket right next to me.
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  Speaker 3: And without missing a beat. Now I had other plans.
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  Speaker 3: I said, hell, yes, yes, what time do I need
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  Speaker 3: to be there? It was that simply said, listen, do
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  Speaker 3: you still have the same email. I'm gonna transfer the
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  Speaker 3: ticket over to you. So he sent me the ticket.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't send me parking, which I'm okay with. So
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  Speaker 3: I got to the stadium, and that in itself was
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  Speaker 3: an issue because remember last weekend, the civil unrest was
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  Speaker 3: going on. There was a lot of animosity. There's still
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  Speaker 3: a lot of animosity in the LA area. But the
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  Speaker 3: off ramp, all of them, all the off ramps from
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  Speaker 3: the one oh one Freeway, which is what I take
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  Speaker 3: to get to downtown LA.
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  Speaker 1: I normally will get off.
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  Speaker 3: I know all the streets in LA because I used
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  Speaker 3: to live down there and I've been there a million
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  Speaker 3: times to Dodger Stadium, and it's much easier to get
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  Speaker 3: into Dodger Stadium from a couple of streets which are
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  Speaker 3: not right off the freeway.
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  Speaker 1: You get off the one oh.
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  Speaker 3: One and you make your way through and you can
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  Speaker 3: get there pretty quick. But the problem was everything was closed,
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  Speaker 3: so all of the routes or routes that I normally
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  Speaker 3: take to the ballpark I couldn't take. There were highway
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  Speaker 3: patrol LAPD fully armed loaded all that blocking every on
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  Speaker 3: ramp and off ramp. So this ended up adding about
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  Speaker 3: two hours. Roughly, it was like an hour and a
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  Speaker 3: half to two hours of my commute to the ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: So I finally get there, and I realized that, wait
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  Speaker 3: a minute, if I park here, it is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a freaking nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: And I like to save a couple of bucks when
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  Speaker 1: I can.
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  Speaker 3: So the Dodgers, they claim they don't own the parking
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  Speaker 3: lots at Dodger Stadium and all that stuff, but whoever
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  Speaker 3: does own the parking lots at Dodger Stadium is making
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  Speaker 3: a killing because there is no real public transportation at
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  Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium. You got to take a bunch of trains, planes,
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  Speaker 3: buses and all that stuff. So the parking at Dodger
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  Speaker 3: Stadium is forty dollars for general parking.
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  Speaker 1: Forty bucks, all right.
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  Speaker 3: So I remembered because I would park here back when
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  Speaker 3: I was in good standing with the Dodgers. I would
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  Speaker 3: park down the hill near the La Fire Academy, and
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  Speaker 3: it's like a fire building. They have a gymnasium and
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  Speaker 3: all that stuff, And that's the overflow parking. It's not
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  Speaker 3: technically in Dodger Stadium property. It's down down, not at
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  Speaker 3: the bottom all the way, but it's like halfway down
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  Speaker 3: the hill, and.
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  Speaker 1: So I go.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wait a minute, I can park here,
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  Speaker 3: And I said, five dollars dollars twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: You can pay five dollars five dollars.
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  Speaker 3: To pay for parking. Now, there was one problem that
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  Speaker 3: I did not factor in. I did the arithmetic here
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  Speaker 3: and I did not factor this in the problem. It
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  Speaker 3: was a scorcher. It was like ninety five degrees in
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles on Sunday. And so I paid the woman
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  Speaker 3: for the parking five dollars on the credit card, no cash,
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  Speaker 3: and then I get out of the car and I
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  Speaker 3: have to walk all the way up the hill. Now
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  Speaker 3: this is a social event. I'm not working, so I
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  Speaker 3: have to walk all the way up there. And I'm like, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I'm in. I spend my time on the treadmill.
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  Speaker 1: I can do that. It's not that I can't.
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  Speaker 3: Do it, But how am I going to appear when
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  Speaker 3: I get to Dodger Stadium on a ninety five degrade
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  Speaker 3: degree day with no shade. So I start walking one
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  Speaker 3: foot in front of the other. You know, that's how
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  Speaker 3: all great journeys begin. I've read that somewhere. So by
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  Speaker 3: the time I get to the ballpark, I am hand
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  Speaker 3: to God.
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  Speaker 1: Covered in sweat.
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  Speaker 3: It appears that I've just taken a bath and my
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  Speaker 3: clothes are drenched. So I get you use the ticket.
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  Speaker 3: I get to the ballpark and I immediately go to
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  Speaker 3: the bathroom on the reserve level. I go to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 3: I then grab as many paper towels as I can
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  Speaker 3: get my hands on as many of them, and I
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  Speaker 3: start trying to dry myself off because I've got to
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  Speaker 3: see Marlin's man, Lawrence, and I don't want to look
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  Speaker 3: like a slub. So here I am grabbing these paper
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  Speaker 3: towels and I'm in a fever pitch, trying to drive
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  Speaker 3: myself off the glamorous life of a big time overnight
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  Speaker 3: radio star unless I'm not. But I'm sitting in the
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  Speaker 3: front row. All the rich people, all the big shots,
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  Speaker 3: they sit down there. So I then had to find
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  Speaker 3: Marlin's man. This was a problem. I couldn't find it.
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  Speaker 3: I get down all the way down, I take the
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  Speaker 3: escalators down. I actually ran into Rick Monday, and I
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  Speaker 3: explained to Rick. On my way down, I said Rick
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  Speaker 3: real quick, I waved him. He was kind of surprised
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  Speaker 3: to see me. I've known Rick for many many years
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  Speaker 3: since I was a kid, and Rick was kind of
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  Speaker 3: taking it back, and I just quickly said, I said, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not really allowed out here much anymore, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Just want to say hello, something along those lines. And
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  Speaker 1: then that was it.
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  Speaker 3: So again I'm still covered in sweat. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: find Marlin's man. I get down there, he's not there.
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  Speaker 3: I send him a text. He doesn't right back, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking around now. The good thing is he always
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  Speaker 3: wears that orange Marlin shirt. He has the orange hat,
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  Speaker 3: and so he stands out like a throbbing orange thumb.
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  Speaker 1: All these people were in Dodger blue.
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  Speaker 3: There were a few Giants fans, and then there's Marlins
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  Speaker 3: Man and he's wearing his orange Marlin's Jersey's got the
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  Speaker 3: signature hat, the whole thing, which at one point about
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  Speaker 3: six or seven years ago was a very popular Halloween
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  Speaker 3: costume for many many years. And he was also late
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  Speaker 3: because of the traffic in downtown.
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  Speaker 1: La, the civil unrest and all.
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  Speaker 3: He had the same issues I had, except he had
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  Speaker 3: it worse because he is not familiar. He only comes
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  Speaker 3: to La occasionally, not very awful. So we finally a
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  Speaker 3: long story short, we finally connect. Now keep in mind,
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  Speaker 3: in between the time I'm waiting for Marlin's Man, I
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  Speaker 3: grabbed a single cup of ice water to try to
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  Speaker 3: cool down my internal temperature. I then go back to
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  Speaker 3: the luxury bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Where all like the rich f's.
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  Speaker 3: Hangout, like all the very important people hang out, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm still sweaty.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think I did?
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  Speaker 3: That's right, yes, I grabbed a bunch of paper towels
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  Speaker 3: and started wiping the shits, as my grandfather would say,
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  Speaker 3: off my body. I was still worried about my appearance.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, this is embarrassing, and I got a
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  Speaker 3: good deal, I say, thirty five dollars on parking. However,
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  Speaker 3: I ended up looking like I had been in hot
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  Speaker 3: yoga and it was It was awkward. So again we
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  Speaker 3: connected Marlin's Man, and fortunately he didn't seem to notice
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  Speaker 3: that my clothing was still drying. He was very cordial,
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  Speaker 3: very polite, dapper man, Marlin's Man with the orange outfit,
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  Speaker 3: and he's also a very big tipper. Marlin's Man's got
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  Speaker 3: a couple of bucks, so he's a very big tipper.
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  Speaker 3: And he takes care of the people that work at
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  Speaker 3: the different ballparks, and so everyone when he walks in,
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  Speaker 3: like there's a battle between the people that serve the food.
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  Speaker 1: And there's like a pecking order.
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  Speaker 3: And I've been there enough with Marlin's Man over the years,
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  Speaker 3: where this is the Kramdala Krem. The richest of the
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  Speaker 3: rich get these tickets buying on plate and some very
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  Speaker 3: wealthy people in La that work at movie studios and
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  Speaker 3: our executives at tech companies and our so But Marlin's
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  Speaker 3: Man when he walks in, the waiters come over. They
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  Speaker 3: want him to work with them because you know, he'll
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  Speaker 3: get any table he wants, but he'll pay a large
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  Speaker 3: amount in terms of tipping.
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  Speaker 1: So he hooks us up. The server. The gentleman who
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  Speaker 1: came up hooks us up. I think his name was
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  Speaker 1: d or something.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, he hooked us up with a table and it
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  Speaker 3: was a freeloaders paradise, freeloaders paradise. I went for the
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  Speaker 3: chicken palm sandwiches. Now there was some high end seafood,
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  Speaker 3: really good seafood if you're into that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 3: which many of.
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  Speaker 1: The people there were enjoying.
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  Speaker 3: And I went for the chicken parm sandwich where they
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  Speaker 3: were a chef's kiss, the perfect ratio of chicken, not
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  Speaker 3: too thick, not too thin, fried to perfection, covered in nice,
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  Speaker 3: delicious cheese. And then they had the perfect sauce sauce
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  Speaker 3: to chicken.
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  Speaker 1: The cheese ratio.
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  Speaker 3: I also had some chicken enchiladas. Why not little garlic
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  Speaker 3: Little Mexican had some garlic bread with the chicken palm
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  Speaker 3: and the enchiladas and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Like a hodgepodge.
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  Speaker 3: I just it's like a pot luck, except there was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of luck, a lot of luck, and so
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  Speaker 3: it was a hodgepodge of goodness. It was delicious, and
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  Speaker 3: I tossed in some Father Day Father's Day cupcakes. They
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  Speaker 3: had this big spread of cupcakes. I posted some photos
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  Speaker 3: on social media. It was a marvelous culinary experience. Now
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  Speaker 3: I should also point out, and it is interesting to
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  Speaker 3: note that I was not there as just the only
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  Speaker 3: guest of.
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  Speaker 1: Marlin's Man, Because when Marlin's.
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  Speaker 3: Man goes to a game, Lawrence likes to socialize and
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  Speaker 3: he always invites a group of people and we become
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  Speaker 3: friends for that day and over the years going to
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  Speaker 3: these games, I have befriend did everyone from executives at companies,
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  Speaker 3: major companies that have gone here, to models, you name it,
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  Speaker 3: and it's like a whole you never know who's going
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  Speaker 3: to be there. So Marlin's man invited a couple of
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  Speaker 3: his other friends, and one was an actor who has
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  Speaker 3: been in a bunch of random roles, like one of
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  Speaker 3: those guys you kind of know who he is, but
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  Speaker 3: you're not really sure. He also worked at a high
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  Speaker 3: profile job in Stanford, Connecticut, traveled around with professional.
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  Speaker 1: Wrestling, so he was there.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other gentleman also worked in entertainment as well.
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  Speaker 3: Both these guys were living in New York. Now, the
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  Speaker 3: other guy that was I'm not really familiar with exactly
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  Speaker 3: what he did, but he he ended up. He ended
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  Speaker 3: up originally from LA. He moved to New York and
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  Speaker 3: he had a lot of money. And I'm not giving
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  Speaker 3: any names here, so tell some more details. But the
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  Speaker 3: other guy was looking to buy a place, like he
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  Speaker 3: flew out, went to the Dodger game and he's like
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  Speaker 3: telling him.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I'm looking to buy a place.
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  Speaker 3: In LA And he's like explaining that he's gonna buy
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  Speaker 3: a like a high end luxury condo and so I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh, you got that kind of money.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you know, you buy a house.
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  Speaker 3: And then he's explaining, He's like, yeah, I got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of my friends have had home invasion robberies, which
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  Speaker 3: has been a big problem. A lot of it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: get reported on since they try to downplay that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They try to keep it on the down low.
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  Speaker 3: The athlete thing gets reported a lot when their houses
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  Speaker 3: get broken into.
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  Speaker 1: It anyway, So the guy's like, yeah, I'm looking at some.
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  Speaker 3: Real estate here and I decided to go to the game.
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  Speaker 3: And he's like a Yankees fan, but he's okay with
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  Speaker 3: the Mets. The other guy's a Mets fan and he's
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  Speaker 3: okay with the Yankees, which is odd, right, He's odd
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  Speaker 3: because the guy that's the the guy's the Yankees fan lives.
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  Speaker 1: He's from Long Island, and anybody that knows New York,
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  Speaker 1: I mean from there. I've got family there.
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  Speaker 3: The rule is generally, if you're in the city or
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  Speaker 3: a Yankee fan, and if you're over on the side
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  Speaker 3: there on Long Island, you are a fan of the
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  Speaker 3: Mets because that's the local team. Anyway, things are all messing.
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  Speaker 3: So that was the group of people that I was with,
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  Speaker 3: and we were schmoozen wall eating, and even though I
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  Speaker 3: am a full on introvert and it's very awkward for
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  Speaker 3: me to converse with random people that I've never met,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I actually enjoyed the conversation.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a couple of guys talking ball. You know,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: we were talking ball.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: We were all talking about what we do for our careers,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: and Marlin's Man was really pumping me up, which made
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: me feel good because these guys were kind of big
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: shots and he was pumping me up. He's a fan
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: of the show and he misses Eddie and we were
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: talking about some of the old days on the show
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: when he called in and all this stuff. Now, a
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: lot of what we talked about is not fit for broadcasts,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: and it's the private conversation and I'm not going to
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: talk about that. But Marlin's Man told some stories, some
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I'd heard, some I had not heard. He also knows
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: a lot of very important people at Major League Baseball.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Marlin's Man because of his job in his real life
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: and his travels around baseball.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Everyone knows him because of the outfit and he's a
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: very nice guy.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: And so he is around people that tell him stuff
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: like the inner workings of Major League Baseball. And so
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: he'll tell me things he's heard. You know, who knows
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: if it's true or not. I believe most of it's
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: probably very true because things he's told me in the
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: past have happened long after that. Unfortunately, I cannot use
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: that stuff on the air because I'll get cut off.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: So it's one of those weird things.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Like I know stuff that's going to happen, yet I
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: can't do it. And I'm not a journalist. I'm a
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: talk showist. I'm an opinion guy. Talk show is a
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: columnist on the radio. We're not there to report the news.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: We are just there to give opinions on what happens
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: and to occasionally going to no Stradamus mode, distant relative
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: of no Stradamus, friend of no stradenis and all that stuff.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: So he told me some stuff I can't repeat. So
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: then it's right before first pitch, and about twenty minutes
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: before first pitch, we're still inside because very hot Marlin's
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: man Lawrence is like, listen, we're gonna go out right
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: before the game. It's too hot. I did this before
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: when I was hot. Here there's no shade. We're just
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: gonna wait. Okay, fine, so there you go, and we
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: my phone starts blowing up. I was getting all these
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: messages about half an hour before the game.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I told the story a.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Little bit on the radio, but found out first one
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: in the group to find out that the Higants had
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: traded with the Boston Red Sox for Raffie Devers. And
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: then that became buzz. Everyone was talking about. They were
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: putting their cupcakes and their cookies down, and they're like,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: can you believe this? Unbelievable. So we watched the game,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: had a good time. He had a lot of junk
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: food during the game as well. The Dodgers ended up
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: winning the game, and Marlin's Man.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Had told us, he says, listen, let's get out of here.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: There's like one out to go in the ninth finning
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: or whatever is. He got to get out of here.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: So I did what I was told to do.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Part of the group we left again one out before
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: the game endn't and Marlin's Man had to get out
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: of Dodge and get out of the ballpark. Hit back
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to lax for a flight to Florida. He also attended
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: the Florida Panthers clinching the Stanley Cup on Tuesday night.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: He was sent me a bunch of photos from the celebration.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: He's sitting right against the glass at the game. Now,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: leaving Dodger Stadium was also a bit of an opposite go.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I had the same issue I had coming into Dodger
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Stadium with a slight change.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Now, as you might remember, because I just told the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: story a few minutes ago. Since I parked.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Down the hill the cheap five dollars a lot, I
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: was able to circumvent much of the traffic. Unfortunately, not
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: only were the off ramps closed, the on ramps to
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: the highway were closed. So this presented a problem. I
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: was at the mercy of the LAPD and the Traffic
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Department of Los Angeles, La City to direct me on
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: where I needed to go. They decided it would be
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: fun to f with with Ben.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: How did they decide to f with Ben?
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Well, the roads were all closed, and so they directed
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: me through downtown Los Angeles and the people that were
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: very upset with ice were there and they were making
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: a lot of noise. This was like the ground zero
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: for the protesting. You had cops on one side, you
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: had people on the other side.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I've never seen that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Many Mexican flags, even in Mexico, but they were holding
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: up their flags and a lot of foul signs, upset
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: with the cops. It was quite the show. Quite the show.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: I did not expect to be in the show. Now
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: nothing happened to me. I was stunned, though. How many
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: buildings had f this f that graffiti on them. I'm
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: pretty sure the people doing the graffiti, that's the only
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: thing they know how to write on the wall. At
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: this point, what an I saw what an iesore and
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: it was disappointing. There's some really nice buildings that were
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: totally jacked up. It made me a little sick, a
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: little nauseated. And I know all that stuff will eventually
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: be cleaned up and it'll cost a lot of money.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: But I did make my way out of the matters.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Now I had to head back to the mother ship
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: because there was show to do. I had a talk
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: show to do, So I left and made my way
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: to the station, and then I went all the way
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: in the back to the very very back where the
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: door is broken, and proceeded to prepare the final elements
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: for the overnight show. So that was my trip with
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Marlin spent this week.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Who Goofed? I've got to know? Who Goofed? I've got
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to know.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: And they did fix the phones finally on Friday, but
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: it was a bit of a long week. In fact,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: you might be able to tell here we are even
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: on a Saturday, and my voice is.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Still a little a little off, a little off.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: And did a lot of extra talking on the talk show,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: a lot of extra talking. So as you know, I'm
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: on my own. I lived the island life every night.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: My partner in crime for years was Eddie Garcia. The
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: company determined that they decided to whack Eddie and they
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: didn't replace him, so they just put like you know,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: recorded updates on so fine, I said, I.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Can do the show. I've always prepared to do the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: show fin.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: So kind of replacing Eddie, I will mix in phone
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: calls so it's not just my voice, because Coop doesn't
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: talk and Lorena doesn't talk that much, so I will
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: mix in callers as an element on the show.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of the way I've been doing it. Well,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the phones are all messed.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Up, they're not working, so I just have to keep
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: calling and going and the you know, the do hickey,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: We couldn't get that working. The thing I'm a bob
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: wasn't what right, the gadget malfunction.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: You know, the mercy of the equipment.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: And this was actually the phone company.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: They were the ones that had f this up.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know how that happens, but it happened, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: we made it through the week, barely made it through
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: the week. Somehow blind Scott was able to get in.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: He got in, and I think it was Eric, the
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: introvert from the train town in Illinois. He got in
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: multiple times. But I was getting email from super fans
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: of the show that called the show very upset.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: They think that I was involved in this. They were like,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: oh man, you gotta fix the phone. I gotta get it,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: like this is.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Their hobby, is calling the show and being a character
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: on the show, and they were very upset and they
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: demanded that I fix it, like I have some kind
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: of technical expertise, which, by the way, spoiler alert, I don't.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: But somebody fixed the phones, so we should be good
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: for another I don't know, twenty five years until the
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: phone's break again, and then we'll move on to something else.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Time now for the phrase of the day. That's right,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: the phrase of the day.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: The phrase of the day. A two for one blowout.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Special will start with the phrase of the day, happy wife,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: happy life. Happy wife, happy life. So to have a
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: good life, it has been said you need to have
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: a good wife. And when the wife in a family
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: is happy, then everyone else is happy. And if a
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: wife is not happy, no one's happy. Now that phrase,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: happy wife, happy life, it goes back. I did research
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: on this. It goes all the way back to nineteen
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: o three, but not before that. There's no documentation of
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: that before nineteen o three.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: And it is interesting the node as.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: The late Great Vin Scilly would say that in nineteen
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: oh three in the final verse of a a choice
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: bit of doggerel called the work of wages party, where
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: the words have been not more than a congarease, but
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: used in expressing casualty. It's a lot of mumbo jump,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: but that makes sense.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: But here's what it said.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: It said, I'm a work and wages party man, like
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: a political group. I say that's what I am. You'll
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: find me true and hearty man, for that is what
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I am. Now let's rejoice to end the strife with
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: all the kids in Clover. A happy wife, a happy life,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: that's the line, and a jolly good turnover.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: So courier research done concerning this particular phrase.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: The belief is the phrase happy wife, happy life obviously
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: a true idiom, but it comes to describe obviously what
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: family's going all the way back to the late eighteen hundreds.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Which phrase was actually used.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Way before in nineteen oh three. It just wasn't in
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: document documented writing until nineteen oh three. Anyway, the woman's
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: mood needs to be good or else no one's happy
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: in the family. Now I mentioned a two for one blowout,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: a sale on the phrase of the day. How about
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: chill pill? Chill pill, that imaginary pill, calming and soothing,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: a medication used to relax. Now, this is a colloquialism
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: that is used when someone is worked up into a lather.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Down. Dude, take a chill pill. Take a chill pill.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Now, it turns out the term was actually first used
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: all the way back in the eighteen hundreds, way back then,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: describing a pill that was meant to fight off literally
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: the chills that were associated with a high fever. So
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: if you had a fever, you took this pill, and
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: it's a chill pill.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: You'd stop dealing with that.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: It contained a bunch of random medicines. Even some black
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: pepper oil was in there. And this was very little
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: relation to the chill pills of the nineteen eighties. These
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: were prescribed for children who were believed to have suffered
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: from ADHD eight, and the thought is by some that
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: the two were related in some way maybe a stretch. However,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: other people believe it is related. So the term chill
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: became popular in the late seventies. Today, chill pill is
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: used or chill out when needing someone to calm down.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, just take a chill pill. Just just
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: do it. Just take a chill pill, all right. That
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: is that, We'll put the baby to bed.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I will have a mail bag for you on the
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Fifth Hour podcast. I don't know if Danny's going to
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: be there or not, but we'll have the mail bag
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: either way tomorrow on Sunday. Have a wonderful, glorious rest
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: of your Saturday. Got an NBA Finals Game seven tomorrow?
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Tomorrow tomorrow?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Will the thunder choke this away? Is Indiana?
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: They're gonna steal a championship from OKC developing hot dot
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: dot dot.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: We will talk about that.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: More as we get into it, and the mail bag
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: and all that. I have you a wonderful day. We'll
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: talk to you next time. And as Danny would say,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: asta pasta laid skater, and I would say, a rivaderce.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Aloha by Felicia