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The Fifth Hour: "Watching from the Ground" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cut booms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 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, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maller and Danny G Radio, and a happy Sunday to
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  Speaker 1: you as we are hanging out on this third day
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  Speaker 1: of the month of August and celebrating one of the
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  Speaker 1: final Sundays before football. I don't really count these exhibition games.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Danny G Radio, but I
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  Speaker 1: watched more of the Hall of Fame game on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: than I have in years, but only because I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to hear Brent Musburger and I wasn't sure when Musburger
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  Speaker 1: was going to come on. You know that, and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't show up.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he was the highlight. And then I know once
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  Speaker 3: you got on the radio. Probably one of your monologues
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  Speaker 3: was about how Trey Lance is now a top ten quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the rumor, and I don't know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I'm allowed to say this on the podcast, but
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  Speaker 1: that Kansas City's offered Mahomes and Kelsey for Trey Lance.
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  Speaker 1: That that, and that's what Schefter had.
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  Speaker 3: Now, No, I think the Chargers could get more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree. When you think of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: Charger quarterbacks, you think of Philip Rivers, you think of
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  Speaker 1: Dan Fouts, you think of Drew Brees. But all of them,
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  Speaker 1: all of them pale in comparison to July Trey Lance.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing match July Trey Lance. He's the greatest jobs.
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  Speaker 3: And do you know after the game, an NFL reporter
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  Speaker 3: posted the final score and said, oh boy, the Lions
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  Speaker 3: sure are going to miss Ben Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You can make a lot of nothing like overreacting to
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  Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame game, the first preseason game of
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  Speaker 3: the year where no actual starters are on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I do realize before you said, well, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: you overreact all the time? Are your stupid radio show? Yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I understand we're in the reaction business, but even for me, Danny,
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  Speaker 1: that is a bridge too far.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, And you overreact to starters
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I do overreact to QB one's and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And I I have learned my lesson over the years
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  Speaker 1: on not getting burned by exhibition quarterbacks. What was the guy?
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  Speaker 1: There was a quarterback the Saints had. Was it Jake Hayner?
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  Speaker 1: I think that was. Remember last year there was a
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  Speaker 1: guy that played really well if I remember in the
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  Speaker 1: exhibition games who people were getting all horny, They're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, this guy's amazing. Didn't quite work out that way.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Jake, And there was Every year
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  Speaker 1: there's one quarterback at least that just dominates exhibition football, right,
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  Speaker 1: just is amazing. I think it was Jake Haner the
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  Speaker 1: Saints last year. I might be wrong on that, but
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  Speaker 1: either way it doesn't matter. Yeah. So anyway, today's Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll have plenty there will be exhibition football. There
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  Speaker 1: was only one not to I don't think today. But
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  Speaker 1: next week that's when the real card begins in exhibition football.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have the word of the week, dany are
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  Speaker 1: you ready for the word of the week.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna do Word of the week on a mail
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  Speaker 3: bag Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And then we'll get to the mail bag. I just
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  Speaker 1: wonder a mail bag edition of word of the week. Ok,
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  Speaker 1: this is the word of the week. Is usurped? Now?
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  Speaker 1: This was by request from the aforementioned alf the alien opiner.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Ben, I heard you mentioned the word usurped
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  Speaker 1: twice in monologues this week or something like that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to I'm membering this off the top of my
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  Speaker 1: head anyway. So the word usurped, which goes all the
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  Speaker 1: way back, it was first recorded in the twelve hundreds,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere between twelve seventy five and the early thirteen hundreds.
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  Speaker 1: The word usurped has a lineage that goes way back.
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  Speaker 1: It goes like so many of our words, it goes
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  Speaker 1: back to Latin roots. There's also some Old French influence
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  Speaker 1: in there. The original meaning in Old the French was
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  Speaker 1: to wrongfully appropriate. That was the original and by the
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  Speaker 1: early fourteenth century in Middle English. According to the linguistic
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  Speaker 1: people where I got this from, they claim that it
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  Speaker 1: was used to describe falsely claiming rights or seizing power.
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  Speaker 1: That I was normally used in political dialogue. So when
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  Speaker 1: someone usurps a throne or a title, they're essentially seasoning
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  Speaker 1: for use without rightful claim, all right, without rightful claim.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to, if you want to use
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  Speaker 1: the word usurp, you could say that Danny, if I
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  Speaker 1: were away and we had I don't know who would
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  Speaker 1: be in here doing the podcast. If we brought somebody
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  Speaker 1: else in third person into the podcast and they did well,
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  Speaker 1: they would usurp the podcast from me.
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  Speaker 3: So the word of the week is it was like
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  Speaker 3: when I was a little kid at the dinner table
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  Speaker 3: and my mom would say stop it, and I looked,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like what she's like, you surp it and I
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  Speaker 3: had my soup in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: Or if you go out to a Malibu or Santa Monica,
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  Speaker 1: you could surp a right cowibump. Let's get to the mailbag.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, mail back time, mailback, mailbag.
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  Speaker 3: Mail bag, it's mail bag.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. The great Ohio. What a talented
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  Speaker 1: guy Ohio al is and he had a great song
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  Speaker 1: in the mallet PLA. No, he's good. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good I need.
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  Speaker 3: To sell that. At least you got his name right
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  Speaker 3: few All.
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  Speaker 1: Right, ah, let's go. Let's go. First up, Frank from Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Oh this is good, Frank says. I don't normally don't
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  Speaker 1: normally right into your show, but you inspired me this week,
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  Speaker 1: he says, Ben and Danny. I live near three dairy
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  Speaker 1: queens in my town, and I want you guys to
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  Speaker 1: know that I was able to hit all three after
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  Speaker 1: hearing your overnight show, and I got blizzards at each.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm both very charitable, Frank says, and I'm now fat.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys on Covino and Rich
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  Speaker 1: I had to do this, but we had every segment
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  Speaker 1: was sponsored by dairy Queen, every segment on the Overnight show, So.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, we didn't have that on our show.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it was a national I don't know, it
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  Speaker 1: was some It was a charitable thing where they were
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  Speaker 1: giving kids. They were donating like a dollar from every blizzard.
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  Speaker 1: So so every segment I had to do a liner
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  Speaker 1: for dairy Queen everyone. And so that inspired this guy
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  Speaker 1: Frank to go, I guess and get get three blizzards.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, also possible, Danny. I don't want to rip
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  Speaker 1: Frank that he's a big, fat guy and he just
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  Speaker 1: likes eating, you know, blizzards. I mean something wrong with that.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to you know, you can blame me
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  Speaker 1: as your guy and say, but just my fault anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Frank. Alf from the ledge of the tallest
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  Speaker 1: building I could find says it is with a heavy
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  Speaker 1: heart that I am writing this message. Do you do
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  Speaker 1: you think that the rumors that I cut the cord
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  Speaker 1: reached the suits over at NBC Sports Boston and had
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  Speaker 1: any influence on the decision to poll acts the TV show?
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  Speaker 1: Do you hold me responsible in any way for cutting
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  Speaker 1: said cord at the end of June? Does this mean
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  Speaker 1: that you won't be returning to the Bay State? What
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  Speaker 1: am I even doing here?
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  Speaker 2: Alf?
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's the deal. Yes, you are responsible. If you
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  Speaker 1: had only kept cable television, the show would have been
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  Speaker 1: brought back, and unfortunately it does not look like I
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  Speaker 1: will be returning to Boston. I love those trips to
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  Speaker 1: Boston were great, and to tape stuff for the TV
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  Speaker 1: show and multitask and have Mallard meet and greets and
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  Speaker 1: all that was a lot of fun. I'm bummed out.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually supposed to meet Alf last year, but
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't make it because of the weather. I was
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  Speaker 1: able to meet Mass whole Mickey before he unfortunately died
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  Speaker 1: shortly after that and some of the other listeners that
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  Speaker 1: came on. There is a chance alv the the Leprechaun
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  Speaker 1: and Mike in New Hampshire have offered to roll out
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  Speaker 1: the red carpet for a special Mallor meet and greet
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  Speaker 1: in Worcester and in Boston. I need to know more information.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure that's a legitimate offer before
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  Speaker 1: I accept. I'm not sure the details on that. I
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  Speaker 1: got to make sure to read the fine print. So
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  Speaker 1: it is possible that I will be back there just
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  Speaker 1: for a Malor meet greet, just for a mal of
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  Speaker 1: meat and greet.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll seanks for the warning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah no, and and alphas is ps. I blame that
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  Speaker 1: camera hog, Tom Looney. He's dead to me, public enemy
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  Speaker 1: number one. He says, Wow, all right, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: that dub.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you get for going with the wrinkled up
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  Speaker 3: bold penny.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, Ryan Ryan C. From Shrewsbury, Mass writes
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  Speaker 1: in He says, Hey, Ben and Danny g As you
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  Speaker 1: guys know, I've been emailing the pod for a while now,
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  Speaker 1: and I started by telling you guys about me and
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  Speaker 1: all that, But I want to start asking the questions
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  Speaker 1: we will want answers to. I said, this guy Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you some danme. This guy Ryan is
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  Speaker 1: on the pulse of the people. He says. I was
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  Speaker 1: the guy that asked about softer hardshell tacos and who
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  Speaker 1: wins a race between you, sain Bolt and joy Chestnut.
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  Speaker 1: But she had to down one hot dog. I had
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  Speaker 1: to start the race. So for this week's question, if
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  Speaker 1: you got offered five thousand dollars a week for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of your life, but you had to have Taco
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  Speaker 1: Bell for one meal a day for the next ten years,
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  Speaker 1: would you do it? Ryan says? He says, personally, I
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  Speaker 1: am a wimp and a pussy willow when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to fast foods, so I would do it immediately. He says, thanks, Pois,
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  Speaker 1: that's from Ryan. Well, is there any reason to say no?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Who would say no to five brand a week?
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  Speaker 3: Danny?
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  Speaker 1: And all you had to do is eat Taco Bell
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  Speaker 1: one meal a day, Like.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a noe brainer if you think about it.
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  Speaker 3: The other two meals would be up to you, so
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  Speaker 3: you could make those the healthy meals. The Taco Bell
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  Speaker 3: once a day, could just clean your system out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you eat it at night before you go to bed.
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  Speaker 1: And now my problem, My problem is I can go
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  Speaker 1: in there and eat some burritos and tacos and all
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  Speaker 1: the different weird items they have at Taco Bell and
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  Speaker 1: all that during the week. I usually only eat one
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  Speaker 1: meal a day, so that would be my one meal
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  Speaker 1: would be Taco Bell. They have enough items on there,
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  Speaker 1: like you could try the canteena burrito and you can.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have enough different items to where you could.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it would still get old if you had
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  Speaker 3: to do it for that many years, but there's enough
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  Speaker 3: items now at least to rotate through. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is it true they charged twenty cents per pack of
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  Speaker 1: like hot sauce and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Is that true or is that No? Not at not
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  Speaker 3: at our Taco bells here in California at least.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. That's good. Next up is Barry, my guy,
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  Speaker 1: Barry from South Carolina. Still sadly yo yo, Ma, Benny
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  Speaker 1: and Danny g Okay. I can't be the only one
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  Speaker 1: thinking this, but I am calling bs on Willis.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Willis is the dog of Andrea. So Barry says the
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  Speaker 1: first few months, Willis is not hurt at all. Now,
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  Speaker 1: every time Andre is on the phone, Willis is barking
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  Speaker 1: up a storm, Barry says after a minute long Barry
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  Speaker 1: in South Carolina Investigation, I added that part he said,
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  Speaker 1: this is a fake dog. This is some.
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  Speaker 3: Gizmo he had, Oh no, which.
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  Speaker 1: Is a button when he wants Willis is totally made up?
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  Speaker 3: Says they're onto us. Ben, Willis is part of our
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  Speaker 3: payroll that we're not supposed to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Willis is AI. I think Willis is an AI dog.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. Berry.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, Danny. People were originally saying that
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  Speaker 1: the dog Willis was was not a real dog, meaning
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  Speaker 1: there was no dog there. Because Andre and the Commonwealth.
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  Speaker 1: Andre would say I've got my dog, Willis. I'm walking
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  Speaker 1: my dog. The dog would not make any noise. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: some people said it was not a real dog. Then
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  Speaker 1: there was a period of time where Andre would call
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  Speaker 1: up from the Commonwealth and the dog would bark a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. And the last couple of weeks, every time
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  Speaker 1: Andrea starts talking, bark bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's not stop, Danny, It's not stop. It's insane.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know he sent he sent photos. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if I do end up back in Boston, hopefully i'll
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  Speaker 1: meet Andre and i'll meet the I'll meet the dog,
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  Speaker 1: and I will make a determination at that point. But yeah, God,
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  Speaker 1: so work burk burk bark, bark, bark, bark bark. How
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  Speaker 1: dare you all right? Next up on the mailbag, Joe
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  Speaker 1: from New York. Right, since says Ben and Danny, where
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  Speaker 1: can I find Benny Versus the Penny in twenty twenty five?
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  Speaker 1: You did not say on your Friday podcast where the
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  Speaker 1: show will be?
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, please don't tell me you're gonna have me
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  Speaker 3: produce it again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we don't. We do not know the correct answer
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  Speaker 1: at this point, Danny. I mean there's a possibility it
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  Speaker 1: does return to the podcast.
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  Speaker 3: No, that we're gonna have Looney produce that.
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  Speaker 1: Then, well, I don't know what's gonna happen. There's all
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  Speaker 1: and there's all kinds of things. That is my intellectual
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  Speaker 1: property at this point, so believe it or not, there
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  Speaker 1: are other people that are interested in Benny Versus the
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  Speaker 1: Penny on other platforms. So the answer at this point
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  Speaker 1: is to be determined. So all right, we have not
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  Speaker 1: made a formal decision. There are some conversations that are
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  Speaker 1: underway with people that actually want unlike NBC that didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to show anymore, people that actually want the show.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see if the problem is we're late in
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  Speaker 1: the game. You know how this stuff works. These deals
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  Speaker 1: are normally done months in advance. They're normally done way
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  Speaker 1: in advance. We got a poll axe by NBC at
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  Speaker 1: the very final minute, which gave us really no time
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  Speaker 1: to get a new deal.
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  Speaker 3: If the Penny has the season off, you know the
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  Speaker 3: old pip hop saying, keep them eager to listen, Eric
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  Speaker 3: being rock chem style, so people will be clamoring for
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  Speaker 3: the Penny Show for next season.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's that. I mean's certainly that. So at this point,
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  Speaker 1: as we sit here on August third, there is no
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  Speaker 1: answer yet. But one thing's for sure, Danny, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: afraid of promoting the hell out of crap. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: afraid of promoting the hell out of stuff. So I
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  Speaker 1: will let people know, just like people were upset with me, Danny,
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  Speaker 1: because I did not say what the future was it
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  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny I said, you got to listen
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  Speaker 1: to the Friday fifth Hour podcast to find out, right,
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  Speaker 1: So I tossed that out and people they assumed that
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  Speaker 1: I was the show was coming back. So people were
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  Speaker 1: sending me congratulatory letters. I'm so glad the TV show
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  Speaker 1: is coming back. You know, they're all fired up. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, no, you know what happens we assume Nanny? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeahs Blind Scott is really shaken by this, really upset
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  Speaker 1: by this, threatening to quit the show. Blind Scott all right,
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  Speaker 1: Reggie from Detroit writes in says, hey, Ben and Danny.
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  Speaker 1: He says, Ben, why don't you and Tom do a
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  Speaker 1: show for NBC that's not about gambling. You said that
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  Speaker 1: the problem was you couldn't get a sponsor because it
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  Speaker 1: was a gambling show. So just do a regular show
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  Speaker 1: without gambling. That's a great idea, Reggie. I'm sure. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they'll just give us a TV show? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Is that how that works?
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  Speaker 2: Danny?
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  Speaker 1: You just say, hey, why not just give us a
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  Speaker 1: TV show? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys can replace Colbert?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, well we got the Colbert, but
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  Speaker 1: he gets to do his show till what may. He's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna make it till May. Right, they're gonna take
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  Speaker 1: him off the year before May, Colbert right.
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  Speaker 3: You would think you would think.
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  Speaker 1: So, I'm gonna predict the holiday season starts around Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet you somewhere, because those shows usually go pretty
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  Speaker 1: dark around there, don't they.
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  Speaker 3: You don't think he's gonna make it to Black Friday?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think they'll just be like he's gonna take
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  Speaker 1: vacation and then never come back. That's my that's my guess. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: do I know?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Next up, Steve from Seattle writes in on.
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  Speaker 3: The mail Bag.
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  Speaker 1: Here, he says, Ben and Danny, Ben, I'm sorry about
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  Speaker 1: your TV show being executed by NBC, he says, on
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  Speaker 1: a positive note, uh, he said, did you see the
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  Speaker 1: controversy with Sydney Sweeney? He says. He says, the actress
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  Speaker 1: seems to be everywhere fronting dozens of ad campaigns. Is
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  Speaker 1: she over exposed? So Danny explained, I saw this hullabaloo.
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  Speaker 1: I saw this controversy this week. I don't. I did
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  Speaker 1: not really follow the story, so I'm not. I'm sorry, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: My plate is full, my head was spinning.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I also just saw it in passing and so
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know the details either. I'm looking right now,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: It says, backlash against Sidney Sweeney jeans slash jeens g
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: E n E s ad gets mocked by the White House.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Americans are tired of this bullshit. A top White House
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: communications official responded to critics of American Eagles ads starring
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Sidney Sweeney, calling their critiques of the campaign warped and moronic.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: In a post on social media this week, White House
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Communications director Stephen Chang wrote on x that claims that
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: the ad contains armful racial subtext are a sign of
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: cancel culture run amuck and an example of why voters
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: chose to re elect President Trump in last year's election.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: What started out as a buzzy commercial starring one of
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Hollywood's most in demand actresses has quickly spiraled into a
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: sprawling debate over sex, race, politics, and American culture. It
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: says the ad, or more accurately, series of ads, are
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: built around the tagline Sidney Sweeney has great genes, a
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: play on the word genes that conflates American eagle denim
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: with the genetic traits her famously voluptuous figure.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, so there are well that seems like a
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Danny that seems to me like a rather large stretch.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Like you know how there's certain people that are always
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: looking for something to be offended by, called the Internet.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Come on, what are you doing?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: There are beautiful people from all backgrounds and all.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not wired that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: People should be allowed to have their type. And that
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: doesn't mean that other types aren't beautiful.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Exactly. They're beautiful people from all genetic backgrounds and mixed
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: together and all that, and it's wonderful and glorious, and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you don't need to be offended by every effing thing,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you morons.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it says. In general, the primary complaint is that
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: the ad celebrates the genes slash genes of a white, blonde,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: blue eyed actress.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, hey, where are the white women at?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: What this is? To me?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: It sounds like not to get political, Danny's read me.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, I'm not that guy, So I'm not.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what to add to that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you, though, Steve for bringing that to my I'm
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: glad you brought that up.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Danny. Let's get Klay Travis on the phone.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Oh god c China. Well, I'll do two shows on
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that to a tag o volli ya. Next up is
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: James in Vancouver. He says, Dear Ben, now that you
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: have have his phone number, could you please let Angry
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Bill know that the battery for his smoke detector needs
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to be replaced. It has been chirping in the background
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: of his calls since at least may best regards James
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and Vancouver. Well, James, thank you first of all for emailing. Secondly, A,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: even though I told Coop to give it to have
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Angry Bill give his number, Coop never gave me Angry
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Bill's numbers, so I still don't have Angry Bill's number.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And B I am slightly can concerned that Angry Bill
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that beep you heard in the background was not a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: smoke detector. That he's in a hospital. That's what I'm
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: worried about. Bill's got some health problems, so I'm concerned
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: he was calling us from a hospital. You know how
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: when you're I remember when I would visit my relatives
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: in the hospital I was younger, and sometimes, depending on
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: how fed up they were, there'd be that in the background,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you know, like some machine. So I don't know for
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: sure that's it, James, but I'm concerned that that might
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: be what you were hearing in the background because Bill
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: stopped calling for a while. He said he had a
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: medical problem, and so, uh yeah, I am a little
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: concerned by that. Next up, Toning the Bay Area says, hey,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g Unfortunately, there will be another season
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of sloppy picks, unlike Benny versus the Penny. But do
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: us a favor and make it sloppy versus a caller.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Now that is y'all. Now, what is your all opinion
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: about the Denver Broncos getting their own fucking colors? Toning
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: THEA says, example, Saints wearing silver and black, and he says,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: go bears what he So, that's Tony. I love Tony's.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Tony's a great character. Tony's Yeah, I love the guy.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Next level, they were used to all the teams stealing
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: the Raiders colors as their alternate jerseys.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Well, that started in the nineties, right, One of the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: first ones I remember was the Chicago White Sox, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: then the La Kings hockey team did it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: And when did the San Antonio Spurs go to that? Uh?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I think the Spurs have always been black and silver.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I think, okay, what year did they start their franchise?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: You know, hey, they've been around for a while.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Weren't then they were in the were they the one
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of the ABA teams? I mean, they've been around a while.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But the White Sox when I was a kid were red,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: white and blue, and then they switched to that. The
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: King's La Kings hockey team was purple and gold like
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and then they switched to black and silver.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's when Doctor Buss owned their team as well. Yeah, yeah,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: so yeah, it says the Spurs were founded in nineteen
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: sixty seven.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, so the you know that's allowed right.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Still after the Raiders, though, you're taking that.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: You're like our guy, Tony, You're not happy about that, all.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Right, It's okay. You know. That's like when people steal
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: bits we do from the radio.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I hear it all the time. I will
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: have people email me say I was listen to our
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: local morning show and they did something that you did
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: two days ago. And I'm like, all right, well there
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you go. I hope they did it, you know, living
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: up to my standards. Dave from Tacoma Rights and says,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: hey man, Danny love the podcast. He says, this video
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: has forty nine million views. He says, it's a woman
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: on a boat and you get here. A woman on
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a boat in Seattle.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Do you see this, Danny?
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: A baby seal hops on their boat there to get
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: away from a killer whale.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: What is this Animal Thunderdome?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: That does sound like a story for Animal Thunderdome anyway.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Dave from Tacoma says Ben and Danny. Do you think
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: things like this just started happening because of TikTok? He says, no,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't this one fall under the video or it didn't happen?
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Category you know how you better show me video or
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: didn't happen?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say too. The crazier video that was
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: going around the past few days. It was in Saudia, Arabia.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Twenty three people hurt, three critically injured. Amusement park ride
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: snapped it in half mid air.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Oh I did see that's crazy?
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah nobody, Yeah, midair this thing snapped into hit the
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: ground hard. I don't know what the carnegies are like
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: in Saudia Arabia. We know what they're like here in
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: the States.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what do they do to you in Saudi Arabia
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: if you're a carnee and you f up the right
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: That sounds like I have more of an engineering problem, though,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't it than a carnee issue? Because it cracked, right,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the foundation thing cracked, isn't that more so?
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: It wasn't the way it was but up it was
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: the way it was constructed to begin with.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly something faulted, obviously, I mean meet it tell
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: you that.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: There was another story recently too, Ben where people were
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: stuck on the top of a really tall roller coaster
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: and they were up there for so long there was
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: no way to get them apparently, and they had to
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: climb down these emergency stairs, which took like an hour
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: to get down all the way down. Can you imagine
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: being on the top of a roller coaster and then
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the next thing you know, it's a couple hours of
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: an ordeal where you're walking down emergency stairs. Wow?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm good. Well. One of the nice things
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: about being kind of a tall guy and being a
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: big guy for a lot of my life, I don't
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: usually fit on those things, so I can't get stuck
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: in them because they don't put me on them, So
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I don't have to worry.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: About it that you'd be the one on the ground
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: watching your family up in the roller coaster laughing.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Are you a roller coaster guy, Danny? Are you a
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: big coaster?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: I do like a good roller coaster. Yeah, it's your
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: favorite coaster.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: What's the greatest coaster you've been on?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: There is one in San Diego at SeaWorld. I think
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: of the name of it right now, I'll look it up.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: But man, I wasn't sure if I wanted to clap,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: barf or hee my pants or do all three at
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: the same time.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: That crazy SeaWorld.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, because SeaWorld they figured out the formula,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: like people were upset about, you know, the shamoos and
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: the captivity of some of the creatures, and so they
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: had to pivot and start doing thrill rides.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, do they still have animals or is it all
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: just amusement?
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: They do? Yeah, but a lot of people go there
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: now for their rides. No, okay.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Next up is Evan from Parts Unknown. He says, Ben
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and Danny, are you guys making your final your final
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: preparations for the end of your life? He says. A
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Harvard scientist has announced that there is a mysterious interstellar
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: object hurling through the Solar System and says it will
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: spell disaster for mother Earth. Says a professor from Harvard
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: claims this object, he predicts will we'll end up reaching
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Earth between November twenty first and December fifth of this year.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And he's got theories on it, saying that it's the alien,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: it's an alien craft, and that it could be carrying
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a probe or a weapon. Do do do do do
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: do do do? Well, that's good. I guess we can
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: go out and spend a lot of money, and that
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: we can. If you knew the world was gonna end
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Danny on November twenty first, you take out a lot
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of loans, wouldn't you it. You don't have to pay
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: him back, So take a lot of loans out and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: live your best life. Just go for it. Why not.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I'll also go back on Tinder for a few months.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Eh, look at you, Danny? Hello, all right, just kiddy,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: just kidding, I know, all.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Right, unless my watch is in the swinging, then I'm
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: not kidding.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Then you'll be like try something different when anyway, have
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: a we'll do it. We'll end it there. I'll be
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: back tonight. Now, it is a short week for me
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: this week, Danny, because I got some of the stuff
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I've got to take care of away from the radio show.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So I will be in tonight and tomorrow and then
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: that's it for the week. So it's a two day
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: work week for me. We'll have the podcast next weekend
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: per normal. What about you, Danny with Covino and Rich
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: what's the plan there?
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Normal week? We are on our regular schedule Monday through Wednesday,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: and then the show is off Thursday and Friday as
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: the guys take their final two days off before the
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: football season.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone's trying to get their time off before the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: NFL begins.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yep. Oh and really quick, Benny, I looked it up.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: That roller coaster is called the Emperor.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: The Emperor, that's the one with.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: The dive coaster, and it's California's tallest, fastest, and longest
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: dive coaster. It features a one and forty three foot drop.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, awesome. All right, so your stomach goes into
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: your throat.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll watch. Well, I'll be on the ground, I'll
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: look up and watch, Danny.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I'll see how that goes.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So all right, Hey, le's have a great sunny.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys for supporting the podcast. Appreciate it, love
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: you all, you're the greatest, and we'll catch you next
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: week on the pot. But I'll catch you tonight eleven
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: o'clock here tonight in the West, and that's two am
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: on Monday morning in the East, with a new episode
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: of The Ben Maler Show. Until then, as you say,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Nanny Later, Skater