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The Fifth Hour: Around the World, Helmet Blow · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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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 clearing House
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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: Here. We go in the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour
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Speaker 1: with Me, Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. Happy Friday
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Speaker 1: to you. It's the twenty fourth day of January. We
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Speaker 1: got you covered for the next thirty minutes or so.
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Speaker 1: It's the Fifth Hour podcast. Danny G is producing this podcast,
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Speaker 1: but he is on assignment and not able to come
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Speaker 1: in studio right now, so he'll join us for the
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Speaker 1: Saturday and hopefully the Sunday podcast as we work our
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Speaker 1: way through the weekend. Celebrating National Beer Can Appreciation Day,
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Speaker 1: another one of those dopey holidays. The beer can fun fact.
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Speaker 1: The beer can debuted in nineteen thirty five in New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: A brewery in New Jersey released the first beer can,
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Speaker 1: and there was a It was actually a delay in
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Speaker 1: production because of World War two. Seemed that they needed
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Speaker 1: to use the materials to make bombs and weapons, and
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Speaker 1: so there was a delay because of World War Two.
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Speaker 1: And then can beer became mainstream again in nineteen sixty two.
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Speaker 1: So that's all the fun facts I have on beer cans.
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Speaker 1: When I was a kid. I don't remember exactly where
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Speaker 1: it was, but I have one of those memories of
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Speaker 1: going into someone's garage. I think it was one of
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Speaker 1: my neighbors, and it was just like middle aged dude,
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Speaker 1: probably the age i'm at now, and he had a
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Speaker 1: whole wall of beer cans, and I can still close
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Speaker 1: my eyes and kind of see it, because there was
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Speaker 1: some really old beer cans that were brightly colored and
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Speaker 1: looked pretty cool. And I was not old enough to
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Speaker 1: drink at the time, but I still appreciated the different logos.
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Speaker 1: It was visually stimulating to see all the different colors
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Speaker 1: and all that. I was like, that's pretty cool. It's
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Speaker 1: Macintosh Computer Day today, that's right, Yeah, the same day
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Speaker 1: every year, January twenty fourth, same day. Back in nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy nine, Macintosh the project began, and we know what
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Speaker 1: it has turned out to be the first mac began
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Speaker 1: the project nineteen seventy nine. Nineteen eighty four Macintosh introduced
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Speaker 1: with much fan for Ridley Scott was a big deal
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Speaker 1: George Orwell inspired Ridley Scott TV commercial and that was
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Speaker 1: entitled nineteen eighty four and actually during the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: and that kick started in many ways, the Macintosh revolution.
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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, my dad was very into
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Speaker 1: computers and he, my old man, worked on computers when
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Speaker 1: they were the size of football fields. I might be
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Speaker 1: exaggerating a little bit, but they took up these entire warehouses,
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Speaker 1: and those are the kind of computers my dad worked on.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, he loved it, and so we
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Speaker 1: were futs around his kids. We had the latest. He
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Speaker 1: liked the Apple computers. So we had the Macintosh and
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Speaker 1: some of those kind of things, and we play around
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Speaker 1: and I spent hours playing Apple Galaxians, which most people
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Speaker 1: don't even know what the f that is, but it
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Speaker 1: was like a it was a shooter game. Well it
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Speaker 1: was you were playing, you know, shooting aliens, going back
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Speaker 1: and forth. But I loved that game. That game was
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Speaker 1: so freaking cool and you get those little flags at
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Speaker 1: the bottom. Man that I love that game. Man was
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Speaker 1: that fun going back. It's also just do it day
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Speaker 1: to day. That must be like some kind of Nike thing, right,
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Speaker 1: just do it. That's the Nike the Nike slogan just
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Speaker 1: do it. And yeah, yeah, that's not like it's a
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Speaker 1: newer holiday. They just made it up, I guess. In
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. The slogan was first used, though here's a
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Speaker 1: fun fact on this slogan was first used in nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty eight at an advertising meeting, and the slogan was
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Speaker 1: inspired because of Gary Gilmore's twice convicted murder a murderer's
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Speaker 1: last words, let's do it when he's I remember seeing
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Speaker 1: that there was a Nike movie a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 1: and I remember seeing that they had that in the movie.
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Speaker 1: I do recall that. Let's get to the meat of
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Speaker 1: the matter on this fifth hour. We've got around the
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Speaker 1: world in eighty days. Who is that masked man? We've
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Speaker 1: got that Cordon barf. Cordon barf. You won't hear that
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Speaker 1: on any other podcast. Joe Rogan doesn't have that, nobody else,
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Speaker 1: Adam Carolla, they don't have that. So we'll have cordon barf.
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Speaker 1: We also have foody fun and the idiom of the week,
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Speaker 1: the idiom of the week. But we begin with this.
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Speaker 1: It is the championship weekend in the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: Cannes City and Philadelphia hosting championship games. The early game
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia and Washington. That's the undercard. The winner will head
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Speaker 1: to the Bayou to go have amazing pull Boys and
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Speaker 1: Beignet's and all the New Orleans food and come back
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Speaker 1: a loser. Because the winner of the AFC should win
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl barring some kind of catastric catastrophe. Easy
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Speaker 1: for the guy on the podcast to say, so, We've
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Speaker 1: got those matchup Washington and Philadelphia, and then the late
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Speaker 1: late game Kansas City and Buffalo, and by Sunday night
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Speaker 1: we will know who is in Super Bowl fifty nine.
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Speaker 1: Cannot wait now if you want to get the inside
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Speaker 1: skinny on that what I think, who I think is
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Speaker 1: going to win. It is the latest episode. You knew
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Speaker 1: I was going to bring this up, right, Come on,
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Speaker 1: I do it every Friday. It's Benny versus the Penny.
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Speaker 1: Check it out. The ratings have been really good, which
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Speaker 1: kind of scares me because my picks have been horseshit.
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Speaker 1: But the show people are watching the show, which is
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Speaker 1: great and so thank you, thank you, thank you. And
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Speaker 1: as I point out, while we have listeners all over
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Speaker 1: the country, people all over the world that downloads download
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Speaker 1: bunch of people that who knows where they're actually listening
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Speaker 1: from because they use VPNs to listen to this loudmouth podcast.
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Speaker 1: But either way, thank you all. So the TV show
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Speaker 1: has been going very well, and the main affiliate, the hub,
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Speaker 1: is in Boston. The show is produced out of NBC
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Speaker 1: Sports Boston, and so we really need to do well
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Speaker 1: on NBC Sports Boston very important. So if you're in
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Speaker 1: the Boston market and you have access to cable TV,
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Speaker 1: it really does help us out quite a bit if
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Speaker 1: you'll watch the show and tonight, because the Celtics have
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Speaker 1: been out where we are in LA on the last
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Speaker 1: couple of nights, I've put the clips and the Lakers,
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Speaker 1: So no Celtic game tonight. They're on their West Coast trip.
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Speaker 1: I think that one game left. I believe, maybe I
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Speaker 1: made that up, I don't know. So the Celtics on
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Speaker 1: the road, but they're not playing tonight. That means we
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Speaker 1: will be on at the six pm window a little
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Speaker 1: earlier than we had been the last couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: because of Celtic games, So six pm on NBC Sports Boston,
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Speaker 1: then on Core showings at seven thirty and nine pm,
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Speaker 1: so every every hour and a half we'll be on
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Speaker 1: NBC Sports Boston. I'm very excited about that, so please
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Speaker 1: please check it out. And we literally to promote this
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Speaker 1: show have gone around the world in eighty days. We
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Speaker 1: have gone around the world in eighty days. What do
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Speaker 1: I mean? So, as you know, we have access the
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Speaker 1: show's produced at NBC, it's produced out of Boston, but
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Speaker 1: our studios at Universal Studios here in Hollywood, and we
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Speaker 1: have access to walk wherever we want, just about assuming
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Speaker 1: they're not working on the sets and when we tape
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Speaker 1: the show they're not normally working. So we've been wandering
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Speaker 1: around the back lot at Universal Studios, Hollywood, and we
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Speaker 1: made our way to Little Europe. So what yeah, Little Europe,
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Speaker 1: which is awesome. Now I've never been to actual Europe.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I'll get there some point. I'd like kind of
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Speaker 1: like to go. I didn't want to go a few
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Speaker 1: years ago. I kind of want to go Now it's
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Speaker 1: very expensive, as you know, it's a long plane flight,
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Speaker 1: which I don't like, but I might as well check
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Speaker 1: it out before I check out of this mortal coil.
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Speaker 1: So at some point me and the wife will get there.
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Speaker 1: But it's it's really cool. They have these these cobblestone streets,
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Speaker 1: which I believe we're actually just press cement to look
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Speaker 1: like cobblestone. They've got all the bells and whistles. You
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Speaker 1: feel like you're in a little village in Europe. It's
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Speaker 1: just awesome. It's just really cool. There's several streets, there's
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Speaker 1: a train station, and all of them can be redressed,
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Speaker 1: as they say in Hollywood, they can dress it up,
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Speaker 1: making it however they want. But it's awesome because we
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Speaker 1: went back and looked at some of the films that
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Speaker 1: have been made in that in that location, and it's
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Speaker 1: just awesome. I mean, some of the biggest move movies
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Speaker 1: in the history of Hollywood were filmed right there. We
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Speaker 1: didn't know this at the time. We were flutching around,
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Speaker 1: walking around. We were just trying to find a place
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Speaker 1: that looked kind of cool, and we stumbled down this
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Speaker 1: cobblestone street and this little villa there was a fountain,
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Speaker 1: little shops. It was awesome and the only thing missing
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Speaker 1: was actually being in Europe, but in that location. And
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Speaker 1: I'll put a video up. I'll put two different videos up,
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Speaker 1: one beyond Instagram and Facebook, one all beyond on on acts.
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Speaker 1: But some of the films in this set, we were on.
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Speaker 1: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the original, the original movie
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Speaker 1: The Hunchback of Notre Dame nineteen twenty three, that was filmed.
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Speaker 1: They're all quiet on the Western Front. Also there are
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Speaker 1: some of the other big films, the original all quiet
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Speaker 1: on the Western Front. Dracula kind of a big deal,
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Speaker 1: kind of a big deal with Bella Lagosi, a little
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Speaker 1: bit right, a little bit. Frankenstein, the Original Frankenstein. Many
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Speaker 1: of the exteriors of the village were actually filmed on
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Speaker 1: the little Europe set at Universal, So that's awesome. The
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Speaker 1: Invisible Man, another iconic movie, the original. These are all
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Speaker 1: original films that were filmed there. Nineteen thirty three, The
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Speaker 1: Bride of Frankenstein. So he had Frankenstein, The Bride of
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein that was in the nineteen thirties around the world.
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Speaker 1: In eighty days, I used that as the t's around
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Speaker 1: the world in eighty days. Part of it was filmed
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Speaker 1: on the back lot Little Europe. But wait, there's more.
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Speaker 1: I mean, these are all films. I'm not a big
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Speaker 1: movie guy, but I know the legends and if I know.
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Speaker 1: If I am aware of the name of some of
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Speaker 1: these shows, that's kind of a big deal, I think,
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Speaker 1: But maybe not. I've heard of them. Rich Man, poor Man,
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Speaker 1: rich Man. That was a TV movie in the nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventies that was filmed there, Buck Rogers. When I was
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Speaker 1: a kid, I used to watch Buck Rogers. Some of
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Speaker 1: that was filmed there. The A Team. I loved the
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Speaker 1: A Team when I was a kid. Love it when
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Speaker 1: a plan comes together. Murder, she wrote. There were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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Speaker 1: eight nine, ten episodes of Murder. She wrote, Well check
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Speaker 1: that out a holo second, she's about twenty episodes of murder,
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Speaker 1: she wrote, that were filmed in Little Europe, and they
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Speaker 1: have the name. I don't know what the names are.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I watched a few episodes of Murder. She wrote.
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Speaker 1: It was very popular in the late eighties and up
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Speaker 1: until like the mid nineties. People would watch that. But
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Speaker 1: I the names of the episodes don't really do too much,
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Speaker 1: like Hooray for Homicide. I don't does that do anything
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Speaker 1: for you? Is that Horay for ham aside? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Elm Street, Elm Street? Yeah, I mean it's crazy. Mcguiver
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Speaker 1: loved mcguy for that was filmed part of it in
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Speaker 1: little Europe. Who else do we have? Beverly Hills nine
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Speaker 1: o two one oh that was filmed in Europe City Slickers.
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Speaker 2: That was a.
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Speaker 1: Quality early nineties movie, Beverly Hills nine oh two to
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Speaker 1: one oh classic in the nineties. Also, I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: that mean go on on. There've been some other films
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Speaker 1: within the last last twenty five years. The Pirates of
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Speaker 1: the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl was filmed
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Speaker 1: filmed in that set, and Can Gone the Pink Panther.
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Speaker 1: That movie is about twenty years old. Holy crap, that
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Speaker 1: movie is about twenty years old. That's wild. There have
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Speaker 1: been some commercials West World on HBO, which was I
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Speaker 1: think on up until a couple years ago, that was
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Speaker 1: filmed in that and that set. So anyway, it was
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Speaker 1: very awesome to watch it walk around and I loved
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Speaker 1: it appbsolutely loved it, and so I wanted to share
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Speaker 1: that with you and you can check out the video
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Speaker 1: and see what I'm talking about and check that out.
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Speaker 1: Who is that masked man on the radio? So I
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Speaker 1: want to take back to the I want to take
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Speaker 1: you back to the beginning of the week. And I
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Speaker 1: thought we had a really good week of overnight talk
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Speaker 1: right well the greatest, but I thought was pretty solid.
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Speaker 1: So good job by you and those of you that
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Speaker 1: contribute to the show and those of you that listen
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Speaker 1: to the show. I thought everything worked together pretty well.
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Speaker 1: Now that being said, last night, I love when guys
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Speaker 1: that don't call the show anymore called the show. And
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Speaker 1: in the final hour of the show is actually this morning,
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Speaker 1: Lenny from Fort Lauderdale popped up on my board. His
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Speaker 1: name flashed on my board and I said, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: could that possibly be Lenny the cripkeeper, solid old school
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Speaker 1: New Yorker who's lived in Florida for a long time.
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Speaker 1: And sure enough it was the original Lenny from Fort Lauderdale.
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Speaker 1: And he played Jeopardy against for Gaze from Minnesota. So
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Speaker 1: that was fun. We had Jay Dot call up the
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Speaker 1: last hour from Salt Lake City. He's going to trial
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Speaker 1: this week. He could be convicted and if he's convicted.
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Speaker 1: He's going to jail for a year. Who knows. So
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Speaker 1: good luck to Jay dot on that we had Jason
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Speaker 1: call up overnight, the truck driver from Tucson who took
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Speaker 1: a German beer infused version of the malin Militia if
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Speaker 1: it was great to hear from me. He's been listening
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Speaker 1: for about ten years, going back to twenty sixteen, and
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Speaker 1: this is the first time he called up and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I gotta do the oath. I got you do the oath.
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Speaker 1: He did the oath e dog again, becoming a regular
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Speaker 1: on the show, and to me, the highlight of the night.
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Speaker 1: All that stuff was cool. Helmet Man dida da helmet
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Speaker 1: Man did helmet Man, I'm actually on the live air. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you're on the So helmet Man calls up an hour
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Speaker 1: number one and he had an agenda. He didn't want
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Speaker 1: to talk about the Ravens. Do you blame him? So
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Speaker 1: he calls up and he goes right in to the
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Speaker 1: recap of the episode on I think it's on Court
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Speaker 1: TV of the nineteen ninety five OJ Simpson trial. So
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Speaker 1: my man helmet Man is going blow by blow on
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Speaker 1: what he just watched in the OJ Simpson trial, which
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Speaker 1: was awesome to hear because he reported on it like
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Speaker 1: it was new, not that it was thirty years old,
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Speaker 1: and really kind of gets the zeitgeist to the show.
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Speaker 1: We had Marcel and Brooklyn break the fact that the
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Speaker 1: Titanic hit an Iceberg. Nobody else has had that on
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Speaker 1: radio as breaking news. We're the only show on radio
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Speaker 1: to have that. Andrea called up, it's great to hear
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Speaker 1: from her. Fats in Philly, the man that lit himself
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Speaker 1: on fire. If you want to see that video, it's
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Speaker 1: on my ex page. He reached out to me. So
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Speaker 1: the great Philadelphia Eagles fan fly Eagles Fly on the
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Speaker 1: road to victory. Yeah, blah blah blah. So he was there.
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Speaker 1: So all of that was good stuff. All of that
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Speaker 1: was really cool stuff. And so it was great. But
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Speaker 1: I want to take you back to who is the
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Speaker 1: Masked Man? So at the beginning of the week, we
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Speaker 1: had the Octagon leading in to Ohio State and Notre
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Speaker 1: Dame and this was inspired by Alameda Lou. Now, Alameda
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Speaker 1: Lou had called us the previous week and we had
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Speaker 1: the Octagon schedule. However, Buck Nuts did not call in
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Speaker 1: at the proper time. Now he claims that Cooper Loop
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Speaker 1: told him the wrong time zone, and he drives a truck.
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Speaker 1: He's based in Columbus, Ohio, but he travels around all
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Speaker 1: over that region, from Ohio to Tennessee and Kentucky and
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Speaker 1: Indiana and all the different states around there. So buck
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Speaker 1: Nuts called up late. So we said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: We're going to move the octagon to Monday morning, Sunday
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Speaker 1: night and the Monday morning. So we worked with Alameda
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Speaker 1: lou and Alameda Lou Is like, all right, I can't
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Speaker 1: do a hour one. I work at the Kingfish here
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Speaker 1: in Oakland, so I can't do it, So I'm going
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Speaker 1: to go an hour two. We said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: we'll do hour two. But we got to do it
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Speaker 1: in hour two because we're going to allot some time
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Speaker 1: to the verbal octagon, and once we allot toime, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna lock that in. And we had to do it
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Speaker 1: because the game was that night. Otherwise there'd be no
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Speaker 1: reason to do the octagon because the game would have
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Speaker 1: already been played. Fine, so al of me to lose,
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Speaker 1: I'm good to go. So we get to the time
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Speaker 1: where the rubber meets the road Sunday night and the
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Speaker 1: Monday morning. It was our two of the show, and
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Speaker 1: Coop lets me know. He's like, I don't think Lou's
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Speaker 1: going to be able to make it. He said, something's
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Speaker 1: going on with the bar, and so I was like,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, Alami to lose, not gonna He's not,
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Speaker 1: he said, this hour we changed the guys. Hey, he said,
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Speaker 1: something came up. So on the fly, this was not planned.
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Speaker 1: We did not plan this. We did not have a
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Speaker 1: contingency plan. But on the fly we had an Alameda
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Speaker 1: Lou impersonator that came in with bloody knuckles. One of
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Speaker 1: the great dominant performances in the octagon. It was momentous,
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Speaker 1: a world class beat down at the Disco Tech, it
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Speaker 1: was a hold down at the Spit and Sawdust Bar,
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Speaker 1: and it even did the Doci dough. Now you probably
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Speaker 1: know by now you figure out by listening it was
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Speaker 1: not Alamy Lou. It was an impersonator, Blind Scott from
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Speaker 1: Boston as Alamy de Lou and Buck Nuts did not
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Speaker 1: know how to handle that. He did not know how
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Speaker 1: to take care of his business. And Grantlin Rice, the
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Speaker 1: iconic sports writer back in the nineteen thirties, wrote that
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Speaker 1: styles make fights and a good boxer always beats a
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Speaker 1: good puncher, right, those are some lines. Well, in this case,
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Speaker 1: Blind Scott came out and was a swarmer. He just overwhelmed,
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Speaker 1: absolutely overwhelmed buck Nuts. He had no chance, no chance,
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Speaker 1: and Buck Nuts was thunderstruck. And it wasn't about being
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Speaker 1: a shrewd tactician or moving your feet or anything like
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Speaker 1: that and being part of the sweet science of boxing,
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Speaker 1: the noble art. It was none of those things. It
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Speaker 1: was Blind Scott bringing a blow torch and it was
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Speaker 1: body blow, body blow, body blow. And it wasn't even
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Speaker 1: a slugfest because it was just one guy beating down
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Speaker 1: the other guy. And that's how it went. No ducking
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Speaker 1: and diving, no bobbing and weaving, none of that. And
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Speaker 1: it was just one after another, one after another. In
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Speaker 1: my head, why, as I was listening to this, I'm like, wow,
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Speaker 1: there's a there's a low blow, there's a you know punch,
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Speaker 1: you know, right to the right to the junk. You know.
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Speaker 1: It was the body blow body blow thing for Mike
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Speaker 1: Tyson's punch out. It was It was insane how impressive
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Speaker 1: that was. And it was like if it was Mike
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Speaker 1: Tyson's punch out. You got no no, no disrespect for
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Speaker 1: buck Nuts because this is not his forte. And we
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Speaker 1: thank him for being part of the show, and he
22:11
Speaker 1: loves the show and it's great. But on that event,
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Speaker 1: I think he would agree. If it was Mike Tyson's
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Speaker 1: punch out, he was Soda Popinske. He was Soda Popinske.
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Speaker 1: And uh, the man that played the role of Alameda
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Speaker 1: Lou was was Mike Tyson. You know, I think I
22:32
Speaker 1: said so, I think I meant class Joe, right, Class
22:36
Speaker 1: Joe is the one that's the weak. I'm retracting. So
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Speaker 1: I got my Mike Tyson punch out characters mixed up, right,
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Speaker 1: I am doing this on the fly. But it's Class Joe,
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Speaker 1: that's the one, right, that little you beat the guy
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Speaker 1: and he had, you know, his eyes kind of rolled
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Speaker 1: around his head. Yeah, that's got to be it. So
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Speaker 1: that was it. And then and the other part, which
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Speaker 1: was hilarious was to Lou, the real Alume to Lou, well,
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Speaker 1: the real alim Me to Lou stand out, so stand up.
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Speaker 1: The real ala alamde Lou calls up and he is
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Speaker 1: furious and we put him on with the fake Alamda Lou.
23:13
Speaker 1: Blind Scott and it just made for Firecracker Radio, so good,
23:18
Speaker 1: so outstanding. It was wonderful, so good job by those guys.
23:23
Speaker 1: Made for some fun moments on the show. Organic. It
23:26
Speaker 1: wasn't planned out. We didn't have this all all scripted
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Speaker 1: and all that. It just kind of just kind of
23:31
Speaker 1: turned into a vertical suplex, if you will. Right, it
23:36
Speaker 1: was the old elevated hammerlock and solid, solid solid. Now
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Speaker 1: turn you the page on that. We go into the
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Speaker 1: kitchen for some not Cordon Blue, but Cordon Barf dateline
23:52
Speaker 1: Malor Mansion parts unknown, parts unknown. So in the the
23:59
Speaker 1: Mala Mansion parts it's unknown. We have a little half
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Speaker 1: a sleep cooking. Now. I don't get a lot of sleep,
24:09
Speaker 1: you know that, and I function pretty well. I think
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Speaker 1: other people would have to be the judge of that.
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Speaker 1: But I sleep maybe four to five hours. Unless I'm
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Speaker 1: drugging myself, I'm not sleeping much, so I know going it,
24:25
Speaker 1: you know, unless I give myself a tranquilizer or something
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Speaker 1: like that, I'm not sleeping much. And so that's just
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Speaker 1: the way it is, and I'm fine with it. I'm like,
24:35
Speaker 1: all right, that's just how I'm wired. And I can
24:38
Speaker 1: blame my parents, or you know, do some self reflection
24:42
Speaker 1: just whatever. So the other day we've been, as you
24:49
Speaker 1: know from listening to this podcast, we're going like an
24:51
Speaker 1: entire month. We'll probably go longer than that, just eating
24:54
Speaker 1: at home. We're not eating out, not because we're we
24:56
Speaker 1: can't afford eat out, but we just wanted to eat
24:59
Speaker 1: out for or eat at home because we like the
25:01
Speaker 1: stuff that we make, and we have a nice kitchen.
25:03
Speaker 1: We want to use it and try different recipes and
25:06
Speaker 1: recreate the stuff that we we like when we go
25:10
Speaker 1: to restaurants, and we've eaten out a lot. So we're
25:13
Speaker 1: just futzing around with that. And so the other day
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Speaker 1: I got about three hours of sleep because of the
25:20
Speaker 1: TV show taping and the radio show, and I didn't
25:26
Speaker 1: have insomnia. I just I could only sleep for a
25:30
Speaker 1: little bit of time, so i'd sleep deprivation, I believe
25:32
Speaker 1: is the term. So I was a little bit ditzy,
25:37
Speaker 1: shall you say, and I decided to fidget around in
25:43
Speaker 1: the kitchen and make some garlish garlic mashed potatoes. Then
25:46
Speaker 1: you might remember last week I told you that I
25:49
Speaker 1: have fallen in love with my stinking rose rip off
25:55
Speaker 1: garlic mashed potato recipe which is easy to make, very
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Speaker 1: easy to make, and in addition to being easy to make,
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Speaker 1: you can make a lot of it and it'll last
26:07
Speaker 1: the week because it's mashed potatoes. So again without sleep,
26:13
Speaker 1: I wandered into the kitchen. I more like staggered into
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Speaker 1: the kitchen. So I got the potatoes. I boiled some water,
26:22
Speaker 1: I washed the potatoes. I put the potatoes in the
26:24
Speaker 1: boiling water. Then I took some garlic, fifty clothes of garlic,
26:30
Speaker 1: maybe even more than that, and I put those into
26:33
Speaker 1: a food processor and I ended up mincing it was pure.
26:40
Speaker 1: I hit the pure button. I don't even know what
26:43
Speaker 1: that means, but I hit the pure button on the
26:45
Speaker 1: food processor. So that made the garlic pure. So we
26:48
Speaker 1: put everything together. The potatoes boiled. I then took out
26:52
Speaker 1: the restaurant style smasher and smashed those potatoes into mash.
26:59
Speaker 1: And then we added all the different ingredients into the
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Speaker 1: mashed potatoes. Now I said Cordon Barf, not Cordon Blue,
27:09
Speaker 1: because there was a culinary crime. If this was a blimp,
27:15
Speaker 1: it would have been the Hindenburg. It was a hydrogen bomb,
27:18
Speaker 1: but it was hidden very flammable situation. So I was
27:23
Speaker 1: a little out of it. And while I was making
27:27
Speaker 1: the garlic mashed potatoes, I realized that, And this was
27:33
Speaker 1: after the fact, after we bit into the garlic mashed potatoes,
27:36
Speaker 1: that I forgot to roast the garlic. A major party
27:43
Speaker 1: foul by yours, truly, A major party foul by yours, truly.
27:48
Speaker 1: So the way the recipe were pretty sim You take
27:51
Speaker 1: the garlic and you roast it and then you make
27:55
Speaker 1: it pure. I missed that step. I don't know how
27:59
Speaker 1: I missed that step. I've made it now three times.
28:02
Speaker 1: The first two times I was not disoriented. I did
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Speaker 1: not have sleeplessness for some reason, and so so this
28:12
Speaker 1: time it was at a little messed up. And so
28:14
Speaker 1: I bit into it, and even I, who love garlic,
28:17
Speaker 1: absolutely love garlic, the pungent taste of that was very unpleasant.
28:28
Speaker 1: It was very unpleasant. It smelled good, but when you
28:33
Speaker 1: bit into it, it was how can I? How can I?
28:37
Speaker 1: It was like smelling salts, is I guess what I
28:40
Speaker 1: would say like that kind of it was varnish remover
28:43
Speaker 1: is what it was. Wild. So I'm gonna make more
28:49
Speaker 1: garlic mash. But I threw that out. We threw it out.
28:52
Speaker 1: That's not for human consumption. That's not for human consumption.
28:55
Speaker 1: So later today, probably Wall Benny versus the Pennies on
29:00
Speaker 1: and I will be making more garlic mashed potatoes, just
29:03
Speaker 1: the kind of thing you need to know. And they
29:04
Speaker 1: will be Cordon blue. They will not be Cordon barf
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Speaker 1: at all unless I screw up. And then if I
29:12
Speaker 1: screw up, well then they're gonna be bad, bad, bad
29:16
Speaker 1: bad bad bad bad bad foody fun real quick foody fun,
29:23
Speaker 1: foody fun. Let's do it, so Taco Bell, not too
29:28
Speaker 1: much going on. Taco Bell has launched a new steak
29:31
Speaker 1: cheesy Dipping burrito and slow roasted chicken cheesy Dipping burrito.
29:37
Speaker 1: Obviously multiple of those for a limited time, So make
29:41
Speaker 1: a run to Taco Bell if you're interested. That sounds
29:44
Speaker 1: pretty good. Again, I'm not eaty now, but it sounds
29:47
Speaker 1: good at least not now. PF Chain's is testing a
29:50
Speaker 1: fast casual concept restaurant called Pagoda Asian Grill. Somebody let
29:58
Speaker 1: Mark Davis. The Raider owners know no about that. Big
30:01
Speaker 1: news out of Steak and Shake. I like Steak and Shake.
30:03
Speaker 1: They haven't really worked out in LA. They put one
30:06
Speaker 1: in Burbank and that close I don't know if they
30:09
Speaker 1: have any locations in La anymore. They tried, it didn't
30:12
Speaker 1: really work. I know there's at least one or two
30:14
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Last time I was in Vegas. But Steak
30:17
Speaker 1: and Shake they cooked their fries in beef tallow. They
30:23
Speaker 1: announced they're changing back to beef tallow, which is the
30:26
Speaker 1: authentic way to cook fries. Another Taco Bell, No Taco Bell,
30:31
Speaker 1: introducing the new Dirty Mountain Dew Baha Blast. That's the
30:36
Speaker 1: dream beverage. For a limited time Arby's, they're offering a
30:42
Speaker 1: bunch of specials two dollars and fifty cent favorite deal
30:46
Speaker 1: through February second. So you got a little time left
30:50
Speaker 1: and as most of these deals are limited time, only
30:55
Speaker 1: available via the app, only available via the app, otherwise
31:02
Speaker 1: you are Scott Rude. Scott Rude. Yeah, all right, let's
31:07
Speaker 1: get to the idiom of the week. The idiom of
31:13
Speaker 1: the week. So the Endium of the week was requested
31:17
Speaker 1: by Carl. I don't know where Carl lives. Carl did
31:23
Speaker 1: not say where he lives. So Carl from Parts unknown.
31:28
Speaker 1: But thank you Carl, he says, Ben. I've heard you
31:31
Speaker 1: use this phrase quite a bit on your show. I
31:35
Speaker 1: would like to know where the phrase move the needle
31:40
Speaker 1: comes from. Well, Carl, you are correct. I have used
31:46
Speaker 1: that phrase many times, many times on the show. I
31:51
Speaker 1: think I use it at least once a night, at
31:54
Speaker 1: least once a night. So there's a couple of theories
31:58
Speaker 1: on the origin of move the needle. Got to move
32:04
Speaker 1: that needle, right, I gotta move that needle. Now, I
32:07
Speaker 1: do use it a lot to talk about an athlete
32:09
Speaker 1: somebody that does move the needle. So there's a couple
32:15
Speaker 1: of theories on this. One of them says it goes
32:17
Speaker 1: back to the industrial Revolution and that's where it began.
32:20
Speaker 1: But from what I understand, based on a minutes long
32:23
Speaker 1: Mallar investigation, move the needle comes from my business, comes
32:30
Speaker 1: from radio. How cool is that? Comes from music and radio,
32:36
Speaker 1: And the expression moved the needle originated via radio and music.
32:41
Speaker 1: In every radio station has a board which you hit
32:47
Speaker 1: all the buttons and that plays the audio and the
32:49
Speaker 1: music and the commercials and all that. And they have
32:53
Speaker 1: a classic VU meter. It's an analog recorder where the
32:57
Speaker 1: needle measurement measures the audio levels and if the sound
33:03
Speaker 1: is too soft, if it's too low, the needle would
33:05
Speaker 1: not move at all. So that is the phrase moved
33:10
Speaker 1: the needle, and it's been a pretty popular phrase since
33:15
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties, so that's going back forty plus years
33:21
Speaker 1: that that has been a popular phrase, move the needle.
33:24
Speaker 1: And I do use it a lot. We all use
33:27
Speaker 1: it a lot in sports, and I'm proud to say
33:28
Speaker 1: that that originated from radio and from music radio. And
33:34
Speaker 1: I remember one of my mentors, the great Tony Bruno,
33:37
Speaker 1: who I love, and I'm seeing Tony some of the
33:40
Speaker 1: Super Bowl I think it was last year. But Tony
33:44
Speaker 1: was great because he would say if you didn't have
33:47
Speaker 1: any to say some night, you'd be like I was
33:49
Speaker 1: just trying to keep the VU meter moving. That's all
33:51
Speaker 1: we're trying to do. Just keep that VU meter moving
33:54
Speaker 1: and get through the show. And we have just about
33:58
Speaker 1: gotten through this podcast. Don't forget to watch Benny Versus
34:02
Speaker 1: the Penny Man, versus coin Man Versus Copper and Today
34:08
Speaker 1: again NBC Sports Boston. You missed it earlier. I don't
34:11
Speaker 1: know how you would have missed it because the podcast.
34:13
Speaker 1: But six pm, seven thirty and nine pm, we're all
34:16
Speaker 1: over the Bay Area. We'll be on in La on
34:19
Speaker 1: the Lakers cable channel on Saturday early morning showings, afternoon showings,
34:25
Speaker 1: so check all of that out, have a wonderful Friday,
34:29
Speaker 1: enjoy yourself, be safe, and Danny Gei joined me on
34:34
Speaker 1: the Saturday Podcast for new episodes tomorrow and on Sunday.
34:42
Speaker 1: And as Danny would say, later, skater now asta pasta
34:50
Speaker 1: got a murder. I gotta go.