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The Fifth Hour: Valentine Monster & Last Supper · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
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  Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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  Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny G
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  Speaker 3: Radio and a very good Friday to you as we
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  Speaker 3: are together again the standalone podcast, not the original recipe podcast,
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  Speaker 3: which is separate. No, no, no, This the Extra Crispy,
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  Speaker 3: Extra Spicy Fifth Hour Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Danny G will be with me tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: He will be producing this, but he is away from
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  Speaker 3: the microphone as he normally is on Friday. And it
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  Speaker 3: is Valentine Day today. Woo hoo hoo.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I did have a fun fact though about Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 3: As today's fourteenth day of February Valentine's Day, twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: And if you do not like Valentine's Day, you can
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  Speaker 3: kind of thank the Catholic Church. But it actually is
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  Speaker 3: more complicated than that. I did a little legwork on this.
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  Speaker 3: So the origins, if you go way back to the
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  Speaker 3: point of conception to what is now Valentine's Day, you
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  Speaker 3: go back to people that studied it, say it's the
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  Speaker 3: feast of the patron saints named Valentine by the Catholic Church.
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  Speaker 3: This was in fourty four hundred, four ninety six a D.
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  Speaker 3: Rather four ninety six a D was the year, and
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  Speaker 3: so it started with that. But keep in mind it
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  Speaker 3: did not become associated with love and romance until the
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  Speaker 3: fourteen hundreds, So it went like almost one thousand years
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  Speaker 3: without romance being part of it. And then messages or
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  Speaker 3: Valentines as they were called, began to appear, handwritten letters, poems,
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  Speaker 3: all that stuff, and that became more popular. But in
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  Speaker 3: the mid eighteen hundreds, so now we started in four
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  Speaker 3: ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: AD all the way.
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  Speaker 3: In the eighteen hundreds Valentines cards began to commercially be produced,
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  Speaker 3: and that's when big business was like, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 3: we can make a couple of bucks. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: will sell these people these cards, and they got to
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  Speaker 3: get a new one every year, and we can make
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  Speaker 3: some money. And so they started commercially producing gifts that
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  Speaker 3: are still to this day, all these years later, associated
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  Speaker 3: with Valentine's Day. Candy flowers, red roses that symbolize the love.
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  Speaker 1: And the beauty and all that stuff. And so there
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 3: It started four ninety six and really took off in
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  Speaker 3: the fourteen hundreds and then the eighteen hundreds it became commercialized.
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  Speaker 3: And now here we are. The monster is upon us
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  Speaker 3: here in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Now it is not the only holiday. Oh it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of tough to compete with Valentine's Day, right, and it's like,
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  Speaker 3: what else.
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  Speaker 1: Are you gonna do? It's like, that's the whole day.
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  Speaker 1: It's big business.
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  Speaker 3: You go to the stores, they get all the balloons
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  Speaker 3: out and the flowers and all that stuff. But it
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  Speaker 3: is also among other holidays today International Winter.
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  Speaker 1: Bike to Work Day.
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  Speaker 3: What because I can't think of a better thing to
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  Speaker 3: do on a cold winter's day than to bike to work.
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  Speaker 3: Just wonderful. It is Library Lover's Day today. And I
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  Speaker 3: did see a story this week. I don't think I
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  Speaker 3: mentioned it on the Overnight Show that the Hall of
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  Speaker 3: Fame in Cooperstown, New York is looking for someone anyone
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  Speaker 3: to run the old library there at the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: And it's sounds like, well, that'd be a good job,
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  Speaker 3: right though, working at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: How cool is that?
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  Speaker 3: The National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York. So
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  Speaker 3: they're looking for a librarian. You have to have a
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  Speaker 3: master's in library science, which is like, okay, you know
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  Speaker 3: how much the job pays.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody sent this to me. I did not come up
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  Speaker 1: with this, but the.
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  Speaker 3: According to the website, it's posted on this job app
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  Speaker 3: where you can look for the jobs at the Baseball
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  Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. So this gig again, you gotta have
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  Speaker 3: a master's, which I don't think is cheap. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't have a master's, but I don't think it's cheap anyway,
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  Speaker 3: get to the point, please, So they're looking for someone
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  Speaker 3: who has this masters to preserve history, honor excellence, and
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  Speaker 3: connect generations as a steward of the game's history, baseball history.
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  Speaker 3: So for that they will pay you thirty five thousand
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  Speaker 3: to forty five thousand dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: You're better off going down to the Taco Bell or
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  Speaker 3: the McDonald's or the RBS and applying for a job,
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  Speaker 3: and you'll get some perks like food discounts. You'll also
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  Speaker 3: make more money. My god, I know it's supposedly cheap.
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  Speaker 3: I've never been to Cooperstown. It's a charming little village
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  Speaker 3: Cooperstown there. They say it's an American treasure and wonderful
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  Speaker 3: snowmobile trails, biking.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lake right there. All of that.
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  Speaker 3: I actually know several people that have worked in Cooperstown,
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  Speaker 3: New York over the years, people that have run the
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  Speaker 3: Baseball Hall of Fame at different points, so I know
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about it. But they didn't go there
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  Speaker 3: to make thirty five forty five thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Dollars a year.
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  Speaker 3: No, they were there for big Bucks, Big big Bucks. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: moving on from the Baseball Hall of Fame, on this
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  Speaker 3: edition of the Fifth Hour podcast, the Friday Special, we've
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  Speaker 3: got the very Last Dance, soap Man Cometh and Ring
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  Speaker 3: the Bell, Ring the Bell.
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  Speaker 1: We'll also have some.
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  Speaker 3: Foodie fun and who knows what else, but we'll start
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  Speaker 3: with this, A meloncollie, a melancholie, last supper, last dance,
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  Speaker 3: if you will, The Swan song of season two of
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  Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny, the conclusion of a show that
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  Speaker 3: started in late August. Here we are in mid February,
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  Speaker 3: and the culmination of months and months of work. The
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  Speaker 3: farewell performance. It is the last hurrah for season two
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  Speaker 3: of the TV show and I want to thank everyone
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  Speaker 3: that has watched the show.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to so many of you who have watched it
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  Speaker 3: eight gazillion times to help us out. Alf the Alien, Opiner,
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  Speaker 3: the late great Masshole Mickey, may he rest in peace,
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  Speaker 3: and several of you as well who have sent me
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  Speaker 3: messages and photos of you watching at different places and
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  Speaker 3: going to restaurants and saying, hey, can you turn on
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  Speaker 3: his show Benny versus the Pennies coming on.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I do
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. Proud of the show.
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  Speaker 3: It will air tonight at six pm and seven thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Pm on BC Sports Boston.
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  Speaker 3: NBC Sports Boston, which is the flagship, as you know
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  Speaker 3: from listening to me try to get you to watch
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  Speaker 3: the TV show every week on this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It is the flagship.
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  Speaker 3: It is produced out of NBC Sports Boston and the
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  Speaker 3: team that works on the show is out of NBC
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  Speaker 3: Sports Boston. It is very important that people watch the
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  Speaker 3: show on NBC Sports Boston. So that is tonight six
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  Speaker 3: o'clock and seven point thirty, and it'll layer all day
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday, off and on and even on Sunday. And
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of cool because it's All Star weekend in
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  Speaker 3: the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: So what does that mean? All Star weekend in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: That means that we will not be preempted by a
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  Speaker 3: Celtic game or a Sixers game, the Warriors of the
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  Speaker 3: Sacramento Kings, or the Lakers or any of the other
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  Speaker 3: teams that are on the stations that carry Benny versus
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  Speaker 3: the Penny.
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  Speaker 1: So we should have full clearance and the.
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  Speaker 3: Show should air about every ninety minutes, about every ninety minutes.
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  Speaker 3: The show should be on somewhere somehow about every ninety minutes.
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  Speaker 3: So that that is the deal with the TV show.
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  Speaker 3: We had a lot of funny. So how do you
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  Speaker 3: do a TV show? You're supposed to pick games, there's
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  Speaker 3: no games to pick.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do? Let me explain? All right, calm down, cowboy.
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  Speaker 3: So the TV show is a look back, a retrospective
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  Speaker 3: as we look at the season that was what went well,
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  Speaker 3: what did not go well? We also look ahead to
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  Speaker 3: some of the big storylines that we'll be talking about.
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  Speaker 1: The odds you can bet.
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  Speaker 3: On where certain players are going to go, So we'll
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  Speaker 3: have some of that and we'll just have a good
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  Speaker 3: old time.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have fun.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the show is all about. It's about gambling,
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  Speaker 3: but it's about fun. It's about having a good time.
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  Speaker 3: And there will be a video up later today. Another
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  Speaker 3: video will pop up from our final trip around Universal
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  Speaker 3: Studios in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: In the rain.
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  Speaker 3: And it doesn't rain in La unless occasionally it does,
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  Speaker 3: and not that un complaining.
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  Speaker 1: It could have been worse. It could have been ice,
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  Speaker 1: could have been snow.
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  Speaker 3: But it's been very rainy the last couple of days
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  Speaker 3: in the Southland here, and we whizz through the rain.
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  Speaker 3: I did bring an umbrella. I noticed that on I almost
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  Speaker 3: never use an umbrella. The wife was like, you got
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  Speaker 3: to use an umbrella. Use an umbrella, so.
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  Speaker 1: She owed me with the umbrella.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm kind of a tall guy and lost a
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  Speaker 3: lot of weight, but I'm still very tall, and I've
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  Speaker 3: noticed that to have the proper umbrella coverage, I need
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  Speaker 3: to fully be covered by the umbrella, and I need
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  Speaker 3: a tall, big and tall size umbrella he blew me
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  Speaker 3: off at.
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  Speaker 1: A hotel near lax I'm sure they sell those things.
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  Speaker 3: They're probably very expensive, and I don't feel like spending
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money on big and tall umbrellas because,
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  Speaker 3: as you know, umbrellas last about five minutes and then
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  Speaker 3: they fall apart the first big gust of wind. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: That's all. So I think I'll just stick to the
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  Speaker 3: smaller umbrellas. But the problem was we were walking. We
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  Speaker 3: had to walk up a hill. I'm really happy with
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  Speaker 3: where we went for the final video at Universal Studios.
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  Speaker 3: I think we'll be impressed. One of the great sets
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  Speaker 3: in the history of Hollywood. And we were there just
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  Speaker 3: hanging out in the rain schmoozing. Now, Looney, I got
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  Speaker 3: a sorry about Looney. So Looney, the knucklehead I do
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  Speaker 3: the TV show with. We call him Tell the Prompter, Tom,
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  Speaker 3: So Tell a Prompter, Tom. I said, Tom, this is
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  Speaker 3: our last show. This is it, right, this is the
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  Speaker 3: climax farewell performance. You know all that the finale, And
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  Speaker 3: I said, listen, we're gonna be walking in the rain.
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  Speaker 1: Bring an umbrella. He said, bring an umbrella. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: we do the show.
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  Speaker 3: We then go down to put some of our stuff
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  Speaker 3: in the car to walk to where we need to walk.
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  Speaker 3: So we're in the Laurel and Hardy parking garage.
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  Speaker 1: I said, all right, let's go grab your umbrella and
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  Speaker 1: tell a prompter.
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  Speaker 3: Tom says, I'm good. I don't need the umbrella. I
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  Speaker 3: bet you have the umbrella. I don't need the umbrella.
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  Speaker 3: I said, it's raining. It's not raining that hard. Bring
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  Speaker 3: the umbrella.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need the umbrella, I said, Tom, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be walking up a hill.
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  Speaker 3: Is maybe it's not raining right now, but it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be raining a lot. Then he gives the whole
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  Speaker 3: lot from New York, you know, that whole thing. I'm
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  Speaker 3: from Elmyra or where he's from. And so he's going on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: So we walked and start walking and we're walking in puddles,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, it was it was interesting.
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  Speaker 3: It was an interesting walk, and you know, we do
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  Speaker 3: the whole thing, and we both ended up soaked. But
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  Speaker 3: the umbrella, because it was so small, the water was
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  Speaker 3: pouring off the sides and onto my pants.
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  Speaker 1: Like the top of me was not getting wet.
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  Speaker 3: Really, my head was fine and the top of my shirt,
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  Speaker 3: but everything lower was getting soaked. I did want to
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  Speaker 3: mention this now, this being the finale of Benny Versus
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  Speaker 3: the Penny season number two, we will not know the
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  Speaker 3: ratings until next week. And this is not a list,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, Terry in England's listening, This is not
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  Speaker 3: a list, Terry. This is Big Ben's Big Board of
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  Speaker 3: the most watched season finales or series finales. Now, this
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  Speaker 3: is keep in mind, we don't know what's going on
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  Speaker 3: with Benny Versus the Penny season three, but we'll get
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  Speaker 3: to that in a minute, but focus in on the
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  Speaker 3: series finale. Now, the top ten Big Board, Big Ben's
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  Speaker 3: Big Board, number ten, Number ten, that would be Home
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  Speaker 3: Improvement nineteen ninety nine, Tim Taylor, Home Improvement. That is
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  Speaker 3: the tenth most watched, tenth most watched show in a finale,
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  Speaker 3: thirty five point five million people watched in nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 3: You imagine getting other than football or sports, getting someone
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  Speaker 3: or a group of people to watch that big show.
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  Speaker 3: Good Luck, Family Ties another old show nineteen eighty nine,
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  Speaker 3: Michael J. Fox teen Idol thirty six million. All the
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  Speaker 3: Family That's in the nineteen seventies had forty million people watch.
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  Speaker 3: Archie Bunker forty million people as the curmudgeon Archie Bunker
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  Speaker 3: professed his love to Edith in the season finale, and
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  Speaker 3: yeah about that. There was a spin off that came
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  Speaker 3: shortly after that, so that was kind of like, we're
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  Speaker 3: closing the show, but we're coming back with another show,
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  Speaker 3: The Cosby Show. Oh that's taboo. Good old Bill Fio
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  Speaker 3: graduated from NYU and that was nineteen ninety two. Forty
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  Speaker 3: four point four million people in nineteen ninety two watched
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  Speaker 3: the final Cosby Show. And Bill's never been the same
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  Speaker 3: since Magnum Pi. Now I walked by them. One of
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  Speaker 3: the magnum Pi cars at Universal Studios it's parked, was
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  Speaker 3: getting absolutely soaked in the rain. The top was open
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  Speaker 3: and all that stuff. And this show back in the
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  Speaker 3: All these shows are like in the nineties and the
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  Speaker 3: eighties because that's when people did not have the Internet
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  Speaker 3: and everyone was watching a handful of chanels. But fifty
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  Speaker 3: million people in nineteen eighty eight, fifty point seven million
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  Speaker 3: people watched as Magnum P.
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  Speaker 1: I think he got married. If I remember, did he
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  Speaker 1: get married? I think he got married or I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, I was fifty million people, Friends that was in
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  Speaker 3: the two thousands. It's already been twenty plus years though.
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  Speaker 3: The season finale of Friends with Chandler and Monica and
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  Speaker 3: all the other knuckleheads on that show, fifty two point
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  Speaker 3: five million. Seinfeld very controversial ending, very controversial, the show
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  Speaker 3: on NBC where they ended up in jail, and seventy
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  Speaker 3: six point.
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  Speaker 1: Three million.
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  Speaker 3: Viewers for Seinfeld nineteen ninety eight, The Fugitive, and this
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  Speaker 3: goes way back. This goes back to the nineteen sixties
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  Speaker 3: the TV show called The Fugitive, and in nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 3: seven they estimate seventy eight million people watched that show.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy eight million.
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  Speaker 3: Cheers went off the air in nineteen ninety three, they
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  Speaker 3: had eighty point four million, and then everyone went out
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  Speaker 3: in Boston and got hammered, and they brought back I
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  Speaker 3: remember Shelley Long had left the show. They brought her back.
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  Speaker 3: They brought back some of the other characters, but eighty
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  Speaker 3: point four million. And if I remember correctly, the Tonight Show,
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  Speaker 3: which was very popular back when people watched late night
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  Speaker 3: TV with Jay Leno that that show went out of Boston.
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  Speaker 1: They just interviewed all the characters from Cheers.
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  Speaker 3: And then the number one, which will never be beaten
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  Speaker 3: in my lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to go on on a limb and
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  Speaker 1: say your lifetime.
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  Speaker 3: For the biggest TV audience by a TV show in
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  Speaker 3: their series finale, that would be Mash Mash nineteen eighty three,
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  Speaker 3: Alan Alda the Goodbye Farewell, see you later, bye bye.
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  Speaker 3: And not only was that the most watched series finale ever,
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  Speaker 3: it had been the most watched television event ever until
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  Speaker 3: twenty ten. And if you look at the super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: now this we just had the super Bowl this week.
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  Speaker 3: They said one hundred and twenty seven million people watched
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  Speaker 3: the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a lot of people, but nineteen eighty three,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and five point nine million all tuning in
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  Speaker 1: to watch a show about the Vietnam War. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that is I mean just war in general. But there
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was a big part of everyone's life
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  Speaker 1: and this, that and the other thing. Anyway, so there
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 3: And we we'd like Benny versus the penny to slide
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  Speaker 3: on in. We'd be happy if we got the thirty
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  Speaker 3: six million of family ties. We'd be very We don't
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  Speaker 3: even have to be in the top ten. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be a douche because Fraser was number eleven,
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  Speaker 3: so we could beat Fraser. That was a popular show,
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  Speaker 3: the Cheers spin off where everybody loves Raymond. Our show
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  Speaker 3: like that. I think that would be fine. But listen,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, Benny versus the Penny coming up tonight. Check
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  Speaker 3: it out and we move on, and we move on
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  Speaker 3: to this, and this would be the soap man cometh.
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  Speaker 3: So keep in mind as I am talking to you
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  Speaker 3: here on this Friday morning and Valentine's Day and all
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  Speaker 3: that the TV show hasn't really aired. It started airing
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  Speaker 3: last night, but it hasn't aired all over the place,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm already getting emails they're gonna bring the showback?
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  Speaker 1: Is the show going to come back? What's gonna take
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  Speaker 1: for having another season of the show? And I was like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I want to address that right now. A thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you reaching out, all right, it's wonderful. I
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  Speaker 3: know you're racking your brain and trying to figure out
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  Speaker 3: how you can help. And here's the way I will
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: describe the conversations I've had with management at NBC. They've
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: been very good. They love the show. You know, I
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: don't think they just say that to everybody. The show's
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: evolved over the last couple of years. I'm proud of
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: the show. As I said, things are going pretty well.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: I feel like for what the show is, it's getting
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: to where we want it to be week in week out.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: You know, it's kind of like McDonald's and Starbucks. You know,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: you can go to a Starbucks in any single country anywhere.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: You get that venti coffee there at your Starbucks.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And the quality is the same. You know what I'm saying.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: You know what you're gonna get. And I'm not a
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: coffee drinker, but the consistency, the dependability of those big
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: company like McDonald's.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: You know what a big Mac tastes like.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: If you're in Minnesota, and if you go on a
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: road trip to Maine or something like that, or you
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: go to California, it's gonna taste the same no matter
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: where you are in the world. Right you know, you
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: go to the Golden Arches, they will be consistent. You
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: might not like it, you might think it's shit, but
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: you know that you're going to get the same experience
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: in terms of the basic menu and the wrapping, the design,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: all of that. So there's consistency and Starbucks it's pretty
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: much the same.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Right, They're pretty much the same.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: And it's push button coffee machines.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: You know, there's not a lot different.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: My wife loves Starbucks and so we've been to Starbucks
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: all over the United States in our travels. And yeah,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: so it's depending. So that's the point, right, there's some
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: studiness to it. It's like Ron pop Peel with that
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Showtime Rotisseri thing. The infomercial said it and forget it,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: And so that's where we are. I feel like the
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: show's in that good spot there, set it and forget it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I mentioned the soap man Cometh because I learned actually
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: a very very valuable lesson. I learned it on this
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: podcast from someone we had on, the old voice of
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: the New York Yankees, John Sterling, a great John Sterling
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: who's still to this dip. I called John Sterling up
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: right now. He'll answer his phone.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: He'll say hello John here and he'll talk and if
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: he's available, he's got a few minutes, he'll come on
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and do the show. He's retired now.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: But John Sterling famously said the most important thing is
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: to sell the soap. You gotta sell the soap, and
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: that's the key to season three of Benny Versus the Penny.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: It's all based on advertising. So as long as we
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: have a title sponsor and someone that's going to be
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: paying the freight for the TV show that will bankroll
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: season three, we're good. So if you want to help
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: the show out and you know someone that wants to
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: sponsor the show, let NBC know or let me know,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and I'll let NBC know.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: We'll work some there. It'd be a lot of fun.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: It'd be great, it would be wonderful. But wait, there's more.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: As I pointed out, and I'm a man of my word,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: if the TV show gets picked up for season three.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I did a Mallard meet and greet the very last minute.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Blind Scott came down and we got to meet Masshole
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Mickey before he passed away, and there were a couple
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: other folks that showed up very last minute in the
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: rain in Boston on the North End. And so we
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: will do another Malard meeting. I don't know if it's
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: going to be in Boston proper, because I feel like
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: we have a lot of you guys that listen out in.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: The Springfield, Worcester area. And so we'll figure it out.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I did want to complete the mission for Masshole Mickey
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: mass Ole Mickey had planned he'd send me a bunch
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: of emails about it doing an event where I threw
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: out the first pitch at a baseball game there in Worcester,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: the Wusacks, I believe they're called, and I'd love to
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: make that happen. I would love to go out there
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and hang out with you guys at a baseball game.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: That would be awesome. And also I want to meet Alf,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the alien opiner.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I almost met Alf at the one we did last year,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: but Alf was unable to make it because the weather
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: was horrific and I don't think he had gone to
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: tire Rack yet to get his new tires, and so
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: there was a problem there and that was that. But anyway,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: so there it is a soap man, come with you.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Gotta sell some soap and then we'll get season number three. Now,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: ring the bell. Got to ring the bell, Ring the bell,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: So I think we'll get out on this so ring
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: the bell. It is very rare in life that you
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: will come across someone. Now I don't know this person
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: like as a friend, but I've met them a couple
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: of times over the years and their life, their life
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: story gets turned into a movie. That's kind of cool, right,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: that's kind of cool. Actually found this out. Mike Harmon
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: sent me this message because he's aware of the history
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: of the Premiere Networks. So years ago, we used to
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: have these Galla Christmas parties.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I mean they just kicked ass.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: We were the showboating around there and open bar, fine food,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Beverly Hills Hotel, black tie type event, just first class.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: All the way. Premiere knew how to do it. Now,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: they stopped doing that.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Years ago because I guess it was too expensive and
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: they had to give people that money. But we loved it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: We were treated like royalty and it was so much fun.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: And I remember when I was a young young lad,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I worked in radio for a few years, but I
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: got hired for Fox Sports Radio, which is part of
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the Premiere now it's called the Premiere Networks, And so
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I got invited to this Christmas party and everyone of
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: their uncle was there. But they flew in all of
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: the top radio talent. So we're talking about like doctor Laura.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And she was there.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Matt Drudge, who was living in floor at the time,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: he was part of that Rush Limbaugh. I mean, these
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: are big time people in radio, and they had Art
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Bell was there as well.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And that's the name right there.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Because according to the Hollywood Trades, Dateline says that there
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: have been multiple bidders for a radio biopic.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Amazon and Warner Brothers.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Have put bids in for a pitch that is making
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: the rounds from the team called It's Radio Silence is
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: the team with Paul Giamatti is going to be the headliner.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: And this Paul Giaomanni, the son of Bart Giamanni, the
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: old commissioner of baseball who was there and died and
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Pete Rose that whole era and Bart Giomonni and Pete
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Rose never gott in the Hall of Fame. And those
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: two things are connected anyway. The sales pitch is a
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: biopic about the host of Coast to Coast DJ Art Bell. Yeah,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: and he did his show from Perump, Nevada, which is
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: about sixty miles as the crow flies from Las Vegas.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I've talked about being in Perump, Nevad. I've been there
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: for an event my wife's work had and Perump is
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: where all the whorehouses are in Nevada.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: It's legal.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Prostitution is legal in perump I don't know if that's
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: why Art lived there, but Art was a legend. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I got to meet Art a couple of times at
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: those holiday parties, and that was really cool because I
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: was a listener. I was a listener to Coast to coast.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: My parents always stayed up late. I was always a
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: late night guy. And there was nobody that did it
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: better than Art Bell.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: If you wanted to hear about keemtrails, you wanted to
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: hear about some kind of time travel or mind reading
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: or lizard people. He had it all. He had it all,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and it was great.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: And Art Bell and his wife, they apparently they they
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: moved out to the desert.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: There. They had one hundred and fifty foot long triangle craft.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: They saw at one point.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: They saw a UFO. They saw a UFO supposedly, and
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: that that helped inspire Coast Coast. But they lived in
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: like this small little house in promptivout. It was like
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: there was really nothing, nothing magical or anything like that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: But back in his salad days. Art passed away a
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: number of years ago. I think he passed in twenty eighteen,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I believe, but it doesn't really matter.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: It's been gone for a while. But Coast to Coast
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and George Norrey does a great job. But in its day,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: they got about ten million people listing to Coast to
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Coast ten million and they were on overnight ten million
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: people in the middle of the night. Can you imagine,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: my god. I mean, that's what a legend is.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Anyway, So this movie is in production and we'll see
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: see what it's about.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's obviously about Art Bell, but how they're
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: gonna make it?
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Are they going to make it where it's art just
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: sitting there in a dark room talking about area fifty one?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: How far are they going to go in?
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: He I guess at some point he worked in city
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: government in Perumpt that's his hometown, and it's a fascinating tome.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I've read a little bit about Art. There's not too
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: much out there about his life. And we'll see what happens.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: But I would love to have a little, small, small
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: role in that. Somehow.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that will not happen, but you never know.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: I'd like to go see it at the red carpet thing.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: That would be kind of neat. As someone that worked
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: at the company back the day the Great Art Bell,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: and we'll.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: See what happens. Hugh ends up with it.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: But Warner Brothers in Amazon bidding on the Art Bell movie.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: The radio trades all about it. Love it, love it,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: love it art. We'll get out on that. Have a wonderful.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: We'll save the phrase of.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: The week till tomorrow, and we'll get some other stuff.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Danny G should be with me.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Tomorrow, Have a wonderful, glorious the rest of your what.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Valentine's there, It's Valentine's Day, Oh my god.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Enjoy Valentine's Day.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: And we'll yap about all that and who knows what
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: else tomorrow.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow, Tomorrow is another day. Don't forget.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Watch the TV show and listen to this podcast and
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: also the overnight podcast. It's all there, right there on
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: the magic audio device that you listen to right now.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: And as Danny G would say, later, skater hoo MEI
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: asta pasta. I think that's how it works, right Yeah, sure,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: why not? That's the ticket right now?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. Got a murder. I gotta go