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The Fifth Hour: Get the dump button ready · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, the fifth hour with me, Ben Maller.
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  Speaker 1: It's NFL Sunday. It's the first NFL Sunday of the
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: season after a couple of so-so games to begin the year.
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  Speaker 1: We will now have the full card of NFL activity
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  Speaker 1: from early on all the way up through Sunday night football,
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Giants game.
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  Speaker 2: On NBC, not.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest card in the world today. We had Benny
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  Speaker 1: versus the Penny. This week, the picks are up and running.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: But before we get to anything, Ohio Al, get me
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  Speaker 1: in the mood.
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  Speaker 2: It's in the bag.
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  Speaker 3: Ben's Mailbag.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we spun the wheel, as we often
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  Speaker 1: do on the mailbag, round and round and round. Last
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: week we had JT the Wingman and Weedman Hippie. Are
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  Speaker 1: they back for an encore?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: However, in their place, one person replacing really three people,
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  Speaker 1: because we had not only Weedman Hippie, we had his lady, Lisa.
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  Speaker 2: And then also JT the Wingman. So replacing them, we
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  Speaker 2: welcome in Robbie, the Mariner fan.
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  Speaker 3: Hey guys, I thought you were going to go with
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  Speaker 3: a fat joke there.
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  Speaker 1: So insert your own joke right there.
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  Speaker 4: I know exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Rib man and Justin, those guys will insert their jokes.
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  Speaker 2: I know I will.
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  Speaker 1: I would want you to know Robbie and I, and
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  Speaker 1: you listening that we did reach out to hollering James
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  Speaker 1: to be in the third chair of on this edition
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  Speaker 1: of The Mailbag. He gave Coop his number about two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. So I had his number in my phone,
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  Speaker 1: so I called up Hollering James, assuming.
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  Speaker 2: He would be very excited to be part of the show.
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  Speaker 1: And I dialed the number Coop gave me, and the
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  Speaker 1: number you have dialed is no longer in service.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: Either Coop wrote it down wrong or James doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: his phone number or because he's got an Obama phone,
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  Speaker 1: it just changes all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But either way, we tried to reach out to James. Unavailable.
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  Speaker 2: No hollering James.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll have to deal with that. But we have
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  Speaker 1: Robbie more than enough. You've been on here more than anybody, Robbie.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even want to say how many times it's
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  Speaker 3: been on because I don't want to make people jealous
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  Speaker 3: at this point. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: People are going to be pissed. Oh, it's Robbie. Every
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  Speaker 2: week it's Robbie. Why you put Robbie on? That old thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: What did I say? You answer your phone. You respond.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you how difficult it is. It's like
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  Speaker 2: herding sheep, trying to get people that say they want
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  Speaker 2: to do it, and then they're not available, or they
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  Speaker 2: don't answer their emails or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So fine. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Some of those X notifications aren't the most reliable.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give them that. But yeah, it is interesting. The
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  Speaker 3: people that call up in their whole agenda on the
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  Speaker 3: call for a radio show is, hey, put me on
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  Speaker 3: the list. And then they don't answer the call. That
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  Speaker 3: always puzzles me a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the list.
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  Speaker 1: You made the list, but now you're no longer on
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  Speaker 1: the list because you didn't answer your thing and all that.
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  Speaker 2: But we got a lot of messages. Good amount of
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  Speaker 2: email today.
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  Speaker 1: Messages sent care of realfifthour at gmail.com.
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  Speaker 2: That's realfifthour.com. At gmail.com. And first up, I know a
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  Speaker 2: good friend of yours, Robbie. Fergdog.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: He says, Ben and the cockroach that scared the bejesus
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  Speaker 1: out of Lorena.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of your work, Mr. Cockroach. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was very odd.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a burgeoning rivalry between Fergdog and Lorena.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure Lorena realizes it, but I've noticed some
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  Speaker 3: shots Fergdog's been subtly taking at Lorena the last couple weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Fergdog's got an evil side to him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He says, can I suggest hollering James to co-host next week? Well,
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  Speaker 1: if he gave us a number that worked, he would
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  Speaker 1: be on right now for a dog.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that hard.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what he'll bring to the table, but
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  Speaker 1: at least he's slightly more coherent than Robbie.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true, Robbie?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I often get confused with hollering James unless I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He says, Ben, I'd like to compliment you on how
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  Speaker 1: you handled that meathead caller who kept asking if you'd
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  Speaker 1: ever played football. You don't need to be a chef
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  Speaker 1: to know when the meat is burnt. Meat should always
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  Speaker 1: be cooked well done. Nothing more, nothing less. This stupid
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  Speaker 1: gotcha question was pointless anyway. Since everyone knows you've played
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  Speaker 1: multiple sports at a high school level, including football, is
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  Speaker 1: there any profession you can think of that you must
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  Speaker 1: have done yourself to be able to criticize those doing it?
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  Speaker 1: He appointed, well, yeah, listen, the guy was a hard-o guy.
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  Speaker 1: And we get, you know, the hard-o guys call up
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while. I get a kick out
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  Speaker 1: of it. And as you said, or as I like
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  Speaker 1: to say, you don't have to work at NASA to
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  Speaker 1: know when the rocket on the launching pad blew up
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  Speaker 1: because it's in pieces. That's how you know it. So
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  Speaker 1: this job is not that hard. But thank you, Ferg Doggy.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: I would say Dr.
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  Speaker 1: But I think you do know when your doctor gives
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  Speaker 1: you bad advice, you can kind of tell whatever they
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  Speaker 1: told you is probably not the proper thing most of
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  Speaker 1: the time. Javon in Phoenix writes in, he says, Ben
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  Speaker 1: and guests, that would be Robbie the Mariner fan, I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed your interview.
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  Speaker 2: With Ross Porter, baseball trivia.
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  Speaker 1: How long did it take you to develop your voice
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  Speaker 1: or your style in radio, Javon says, in addition to Mr. Porter,
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  Speaker 1: who are some of the other influential people over the
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  Speaker 1: years well I interned for this guy named Lee Hamilton
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  Speaker 1: Lee Hacksaw Hamilton who was a big San Diego radio
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  Speaker 1: guy and so I learned some tips from him and
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  Speaker 1: Tony Bruno who's retired now I guess he does some
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  Speaker 1: stuff in Philadelphia although lives in Florida so Tony was
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  Speaker 1: big I've talked about this guy Jim Healy who did
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  Speaker 1: a radio show in LA and he was somebody that
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  Speaker 1: I used to listen to and But I listened to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it when I was growing up.
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  Speaker 2: I loved radio.
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  Speaker 1: So Howard Stern back before he went woke and all that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was great back in the day. I
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  Speaker 1: don't listen to him anymore, but.
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  Speaker 2: He was good.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, so that is that. Javon in the Valley
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  Speaker 1: of the Sun.
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  Speaker 2: Next up is.
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  Speaker 1: Outback John and Joanna in the San Gabriel Valley of SoCal. Says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Big Ben and special guest or guest. No, it's Robbie
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  Speaker 1: the Mariner fan.
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  Speaker 4: Just one.
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  Speaker 2: Just one. No, that's all we need. I was listening
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  Speaker 2: to the show the other night and was thrilled to
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  Speaker 2: hear about.
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  Speaker 1: Ross Porter being on the podcast. And Outback John said,
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was on the other day, so hopefully you've
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  Speaker 2: heard it by now.
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  Speaker 1: Our question this week is, which sports announcer, living or dead,
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  Speaker 1: that you never met would you most want to meet?
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  Speaker 2: That's from Outback John and Joanna.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the guys I watched when I was growing up,
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  Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to at least have some interaction
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  Speaker 1: with people that I didn't even really listen to, but
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  Speaker 1: I knew of their work because I was that kind
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  Speaker 1: of guy, and I had access to a big, giant
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  Speaker 1: satellite when I was younger, so I would watch different broadcasts.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to run down.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to brag about people I met, but
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  Speaker 1: I met a lot of the people I grew up
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  Speaker 1: watching who I wanted to meet or didn't watch but
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  Speaker 1: I heard about.
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  Speaker 2: The one that I never met that I thought would
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  Speaker 2: be pretty cool because I loved this show when I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid was Mel Allen.
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  Speaker 1: This week in baseball. I love that show. He passed
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  Speaker 1: away before I got into any of this stuff. I'd
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  Speaker 1: heard Mel had an accident. He fell in the shower
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. He wasn't the same after that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about all that.
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  Speaker 2: That would be the one. I guess John Madden would
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  Speaker 2: have been a cool one to meet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't meet him, so that'd be about it. Robbie, anyone
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  Speaker 2: you want to meet? Robbie, any big broadcast people?
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  Speaker 4: Dave Niehaus would have been cool. Obviously, he's passed away, but.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Or Rick Riz. I mean, Mariners were blessed to
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  Speaker 3: have two legends back-to-back like that, so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the last year for Rick Riz, is
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  Speaker 2: that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of sad the way it's going out
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  Speaker 3: with the Mariners the way they are, but... Yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: can't really control that, so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they just want to be in the race, right?
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  Speaker 3: What was it, 52.5% or something like that? The infamous
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  Speaker 3: press conference?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The funny thing is right now that would be good enough,
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  Speaker 3: but we're not even that.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: And Dave Neha, get out the rye bread and mustard, grandma.
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  Speaker 2: Salami time.
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  Speaker 3: Which he bestowed that play call upon Rick Riz. He
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  Speaker 3: told Rick Riz to carry that on. But I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if the next guy is going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: So who knows? Probably not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think it should probably just stay with Rick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What else do we have here? Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Can't read that one. Dear Ben and guess. So this
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  Speaker 1: is Scott from Asia temporarily, normally in Florida. He says
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  Speaker 1: my professional. Work attendance over 25 years is not quite
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  Speaker 1: Cal Ripken, but I'm certainly not a modern-day NBA player.
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  Speaker 2: I am squarely team non-load management. I'm in Asia for work,
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  Speaker 2: and I wanted to call in to the live show
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  Speaker 2: this week, but I've been deathly ill out here. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that sucks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine being in a foreign country, and you're sick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The way nightmares are made.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I know in Mexico they call it Montezuma's Revenge.
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  Speaker 2: What do they call it? I don't know what country
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  Speaker 2: in Asia it's in, but I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever we did in Vegas, I got sick there. I'm
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  Speaker 3: still battling that, so who knows?
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully nobody roofied you, Robbie. I hope none of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't Lorena get sick in Vegas too? Like in supermarket
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  Speaker 3: Steve's wife.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Something's going around out there.
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  Speaker 2: Either that or just a lot of alcohol.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of, well, I can't see that was my
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  Speaker 3: reason then. So I hear you. I hear you.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Scott says, I haven't been able to eat anything
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  Speaker 1: for 72 hours and I've shown up to, for my
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  Speaker 1: meetings and office work. What's the biggest non-load management grind
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  Speaker 1: you've made in your career? For the love of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for several years, I worked every single day.
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: Well, kind of like I'm doing now with this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: but like every single day, I did something.
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  Speaker 2: For a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I think the busiest stretch I had was when I
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  Speaker 1: was doing weekend radio for Fox. I was doing like
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: three shows on the weekend. I did my website during
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  Speaker 1: the week. I had a website that was just a
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  Speaker 1: one-man thing, gossip, links, that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I was aggregating sports news. So I was doing that,
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  Speaker 2: and then I got a gig. This is the original
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  Speaker 2: job I had at NBC, but that job I had
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  Speaker 2: to fly back to Connecticut every couple.
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  Speaker 1: Of weeks to do like a week of TV and
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  Speaker 1: then come back. So I had all that going on.
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  Speaker 1: That was like a freaking– I had no life. I
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  Speaker 1: think I lost about eight, nine years of my– I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it for that long, but it was about
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: eight or nine years where I think I just zoomed
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  Speaker 1: past that.
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  Speaker 3: Yikes.
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  Speaker 2: I think I've– yeah. But it's good. I like keeping busy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good problem to have. But, Scott, try to
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  Speaker 2: see a doctor maybe. I don't know. Unless you're in China.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Do they have good doctors in China?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: You could probably put in a joke.
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  Speaker 3: It depends how rich you are in China, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. Well, that's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of everywhere. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter whether you're in China or not. You
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  Speaker 2: go here.
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  Speaker 1: You go in and get whatever you get if you
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  Speaker 1: don't have money. And if you have money, well, you're
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  Speaker 1: hanging out at the nice hotel. Mark in Reno wrote in,
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  Speaker 1: he just said, Ixnay on the Weed Man A, but
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  Speaker 1: he liked JT the Wingman. All right, well, I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: that you approved JT, but not Weed Man, who seemed...
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard that, Robbie, last week, but.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I heard it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Weed Man seemed to be... This was like a
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  Speaker 2: dream come true.
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  Speaker 4: That was what made it worthwhile, because his audio wasn't great.
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  Speaker 4: Not that I.
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  Speaker 3: I can't say I haven't had bad audio before, so...
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  Speaker 3: I emphasize that we've made on that. But no, hearing
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  Speaker 3: his gratitude and how happy he was made it worthwhile
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  Speaker 3: to listen to. And then JT was also great just
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  Speaker 3: as like a regular, you know, like a regular host.
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  Speaker 3: Great type thing. So it was fun to listen to.
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  Speaker 2: The problem with Weed Man is he couldn't really hear JT.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what was going on. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if he's got bad hearing or whatever, the connection, whatever. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was fun. Barry.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead. No, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say the part on the ice.
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  Speaker 3: Was it the icebergs and urine? That was hilarious.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That was one of the better segments of the mailbag
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  Speaker 3: you guys have had.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the urine is destroying. Yeah. Human urine, the power
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  Speaker 2: of our urine. And we were very powerful people.
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  Speaker 1: Barry from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Now Chattanooga, choo, choo, choo, choo.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: He says, yo, yo, ma, Benny and special guests, Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: the Mariner fan. Not sure if you have ever heard
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: of Chris Tuck. He does rankings on the internet for anything.
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  Speaker 1: I know this is clickbait, but Barry said he did
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: rank morning talk shows as Look where you fit into
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  Speaker 1: the guys.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: This guy's rankings. Great time.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think that is your picture. Not sure
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  Speaker 1: whose pick it is. And so he sent me this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of Chris Tuck? I don't have
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  Speaker 1: no idea who this is.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard of Chris Tucker, but not Chris Tuck.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Chris Tucker.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, so this guy makes this must make Terry
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  Speaker 1: in England feel sick.
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  Speaker 2: This guy does is make lists.
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  Speaker 4: His moral enemy, Chris Tuck.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so it says the best morning radio talk
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  Speaker 1: shows A-tier list. Let's see how many of these you've heard, Robbie,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: or I've heard of. The Howard Stern Show.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: I've heard of it.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard of that. I haven't listened to him
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: in a long time. The Breakfast Club. I've heard of it.
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  Speaker 2: I've never listened.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard the name, but I don't know if they
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: were in a police lineup, if I could pick them out.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Is it Chaminade, I believe, is one of the hosts?
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  Speaker 3: Or like Charlemagne the God or something?
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, Charlemagne.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm calling the wrong name. You knew more than me.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: The Bobby Bones show. You ever heard of the Bobby
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Bones show?
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  Speaker 3: I've heard the name because a barstool guy went on
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  Speaker 3: there by accident when it was on ESPN and he
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: got yelled at by Dave Portnoy. So that was a
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  Speaker 3: whole two days.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Bones, I know he's a big deal at the company.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard his show. He did actually work at
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, though. There was a tennis guy that
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  Speaker 1: did a show on the weekends.
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  Speaker 2: What was the guy's name? I forget.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the big tennis players had a show,
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  Speaker 1: and Bobby Bones is his buddy, so they did the
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  Speaker 1: show together.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I remember that. It was like Andy Roddick and
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Bones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. Yeah, they did a
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  Speaker 2: Saturday show together just because they, you know, why not?
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Elvis Duran. I've heard the name, never heard the show.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: I don't think I've heard the name.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: The Todd Show? I have no idea what.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Is that the Todd from the Dan Patrick show? No,
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: it's I know they're kind of like contracting them all
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: off because Dan's retiring soon. So who knows?
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know who that is. The John Jay and
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Rich show. That's a lot. I have no idea what
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: that is.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: That sounds like a YouTube show when they just get
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: a bunch of people on, you know, one of those
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: live streams.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: So that was the elite tier. Okay.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: So I've only heard one of those shows and that
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: used to be good, but probably not anymore because.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Stern's getting older.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: We just got a new contract with HBO Max, Howard Stern.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: So that was surprising to me.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Are they going to rehire all the people they whacked?
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Maybe.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know. They were, they were, it was a
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: long trailer. I didn't watch it, but they promised the
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: whack pack.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: So. Mojo in the morning. This is the amazing top
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: tier shows. All right.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: It says Mojo in the morning. That is a show
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: out of Detroit, I guess.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I've never heard of that. The Dave and Chuck freak show. No, nothing.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, here we go.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: It says K-Fan morning show, which is the power show.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I've been on there.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Those guys. Yeah, I've heard you on there.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Those guys are cool. The Ticket Morning Show. I don't
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: think that's what it's called. That's what it says here.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: That's in Dallas.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: That station does very well, but I've never heard of
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: that thing.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: The Morning Zookeeper? The hell is that? That's out of Chicago?
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell that is. This guy's
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: still on there. Man Cow, Mully, and Bunk. There's no way, right?
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Man Cow's got to be off the radio by this point,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I would think. I don't know that was the amazing
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: tier and then what do we got the great great
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: time consistently great show oh I made that look at
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: that Robbie I'm on consistent yeah consistently great shows and
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: then yeah you're right Barry that looks nothing nothing like
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: me I don't know they must have used AI for
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: this thing this guy Chris Chris talk Yeah, I don't
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: know who that is, but I mean, I'm ugly. I'm
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: not that ugly. I think I look better than that.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I would like to hope. The Ron and Don show.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Here's my contemporaries, Robbie. The Ron and Don show. Don't
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: know what the hell that is. The Mikey and Bob show.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: What the hell is that?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: That's on the fan in Tampa.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I've never heard of that. What else we got? V103
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: morning show. No, that's in Atlanta. The Tommy show.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: And then there's a Mexican talk morning show. I'm not
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: even a morning show, but I'm an overnight show.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're overnight. There's a big difference.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I happen to be on the last hours on morning,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: kind of early morning drive at 5 a.m.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: On the East, but that's it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Then they say, not my cup of tea or not
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: my cup of coffee is coast to coast. Limbaugh well
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: he's not around anymore the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: show well okay I think this guy doesn't like that
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: kind of talk Infowars okay and the Dana show I
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: What the Dana show is I'm guessing it's political.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know I think I know who that might
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: be Dana Loesch or that one woman I don't know
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: this is the Dana show I used to be into
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: politics more than I am now but you know I
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: stay aware of what I need to stay aware of,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: but I try not to get as political online as
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I used to get.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: The daily outrage.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Culture war.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Barry. You just killed about eight minutes
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: of talk, so I do appreciate that. I don't know
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: that we accomplished anything, but thank you for your effort.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I do appreciate that. What else do we have? Quang
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Guaranteed human?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know who this is. Do you think this
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: is a real person or somebody using a burner email?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Do you think this is a real person, like legit?
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: There are expats living in Vietnam, so it's possible.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, absolutely.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Anyway, he says, Big Ben and friend, at the time
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of this email, I have no way of knowing if you...
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: covered this already on the Saturday, September 12th podcast. So
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: forgive me if you did, but here we go. Back
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: in 1976... ABC was testing a new seven second delay
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: during a gardening show. A caller phoned in asking if
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he could bonsai his marijuana plants so the cops couldn't
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: see them over the fence while naturally maintaining the yield.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: And just like that, boom, the dump button made its
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: debut again. And he says, who knew the first ever
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: dump button test would involve a gardening show, marijuana, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a guy worried about his crop getting too tall? He said, well,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that might be TV, Robbie and Quang. But what I
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: had always heard was the delay. You said this was
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: in 1976. In the 1950s, way back in the 1950s,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the radio station WKAP in Allentown, Pennsylvania, They were the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: first radio station to use a delay system. They had
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: a tape delay system and they had external playback. It
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: was like really archaic and all that stuff. And they
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: started a talk show called Open Mic. And that is
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: believed to be the first time a television or this
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: was radio, but I got a radio call in show
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: was broadcast with the telephone conversation live on the air.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the FCC at that time said, no, you're not allowed
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: to broadcast live television conversation. However, there was no rule
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: prohibiting taped playback. So that's how that went. And that was,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: we were actually on that station. They obviously don't, you know,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: times have changed and they had us, I don't think
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: we're on there anymore, but we had Fox sports radio
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: programming on that station was kind of, kind of cool.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: So there you go.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: They said there had to be a beep tone that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: was heard by the caller every 15 seconds so the caller.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Knew that they were being recorded. There you go. All right.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Thank you for that, Quang. Appreciate it. Alf from the.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: AI Opiner from Cyberspace writes, and he says, I'll skip
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the pleasantries.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Are we all effed?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Experts are sounding the alarms about AI, and by AI,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I don't mean my mallor memes. I mean AI systems
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: communicating with each other in languages they create, and we
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: can only translate using the same AI. This AI also
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: has the ability to hack any system on the planet.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Time to head to Benny's bunker. It was nice knowing
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you all.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: That's from Alf.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Wasn't there some guy that came out with a long
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: X article or something that said he quit his job
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: at one of the AI companies because there's a chance
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: they're going to kill us all or something?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Yes. I'll be right. I choose not to worry about
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: it because if you're dead, you're dead. If you can't
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: control it, What are you going to do? You'll die
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: sooner if you freak out. You're like, oh, my God.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Control. As they say in sports, Robbie, control the controllables.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: You got to be like a college football coach when
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: it comes to this stuff. Just spit out cliches and
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: live in the moment, you know?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Tremendous. I know you're an Oregon State fan.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're happy the Ducks went foul, had some
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: foul play there against Oklahoma State.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Is that it? They lose. And what happened to the
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: quack attack there? Quacking, coking. My gosh.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: With how bad the Beavers are, I almost threw it
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: against the Ducks in football more than I root for
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: the Beavers in football.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: It's kind of sad.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: But, you know, we got our baseball team, so that's
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: all I need.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: That's all you need.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Reggie from Detroit writes in. He says, Ben, did you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: see that NFL, this being the start of the NFL season,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: game day costs have jumped 72% in a decade.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Well, why is everything.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: More expensive in the NFL outrunning inflation in the regular world?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: That's from Reggie from Detroit.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Well, it's rather obvious because they can get away with it.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: People still pay for it. That's the market. If people
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: stopped paying for it, they'd have to lower the prices.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Tickets had the biggest increase. The league-wide tickets for NFL
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: games rose 81%. In the last decade, from $ 86 to $ 155,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the average stadium beer up 47%, from $ 7. 42 a beer
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: to $ 10.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: 61 a beer. The team with the biggest increase... Who
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: do you think it is? That's a little trivia for Robbie.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Not trivia, it's more of a fun fact, because if
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: you do trivia, it becomes trivial. So, what do you
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: think here? The team that had the biggest rise... in
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: average cost per ticket.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Over the course of just the last year?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: No, the last decade.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go Seahawks just because their fan base
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: has grown so much, but that's probably wrong.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: No, this is a team that was terrible for years
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and only in the last 10 years became a good team.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: And a team that was horrific.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: In fact, they were so bad, they were bad in
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: my childhood, and they've been bad as an adult.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Now I'm at my age, I'm at now, and now
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: they finally have a competitive team year after year.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: The Rams?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: No, the Raiders used to be good. How dare you?
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Well, they were good, and then they were bad for
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: such a long time.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: The correct answer would be the Detroit Lions.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Lions. I'm going to be bitter about that
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: all day now. I should have got that.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: The Lions fans saw the steepest rise in the league
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: at 336%. Oh, my God.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: From $ 98 to $ 429 per person following the NFC North
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: title and conference top record in the NFL.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Or the NFC when they had that a couple years ago. Wow,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: that's bald.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: I get why they got away with it, though, because
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: all the other Detroit teams have been... Up until recently,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: the Pistons were Drek, and so were the Detroit Red Wings.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: And so the Lions somehow became the only good team
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: in Detroit. So if you wanted to see good sports,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: you had to pay the premium, I guess.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: The Tigers and your Mariners played in the playoffs last year.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: That didn't work out.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. But the Tigers, I don't know.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: They're bad.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: They're bad.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Reggie. I have a feeling. What do you think, Robbie,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: that Reggie sent that because of the Lions? You think.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Probably pretty high.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Andy from Texas writes in. It's kind of a big state, Andy.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: You might want to give us a city.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying. He says, Ben, can you explain this?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: And he said there was a study that said telling kids,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: according to Andy, telling kids they're smart nearly doubled their cheating.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: According to a study, this is involving preschoolers who were
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: told they succeeded on a test that Because they were smart,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: they cheated on the next test 64% of the time,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: nearly double the rate of kids praised for effort or
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: an easy task.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: So... I don't know. I'd have to read more about that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to take away anything with preschoolers, you
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: know what I mean? A test or a study.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, do they even know they're taking a test? I
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's... That or we're raising a bunch of new
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Machiavellians or whatever, but who knows?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Kelly writes in from Parts Unknown and says, Ben, Berkeley,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: where your friend Andrea lives, banned candy and soda checkout lines.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Only one sold less. It said the drugstores, which had
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: lower compliance with the rules in a prior audit, showed
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: no clear sales decline in either soda or candy, but
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: small candy packages.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: According to this, the soda sales in Berkeley fell 40%,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: but the candy sales overall did not show a similar decline.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: A study analyzed point-of-sale records from 71 stores through, although
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: only 11 of them were actually located in Berkeley.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know about this. Kelly, I do know John Stossel,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: who's great. He's YouTube. He used to be on TV
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: back in the day, but he did.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: It popped in my algorithm. I didn't find it on
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: my own, but he popped in. It popped in my algorithm. Robbie,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: this place in Philadelphia did the same thing where they
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was just soda.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I think it might have been soda where they banned soda.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: So it just people went across the street to New
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Jersey and bought sodas.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: That's what happened.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: So Oregon, when they were one of the first states
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: to ban like the fireworks that shot up into the sky,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: everyone just went to Washington. And then I think Washington
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: may have banned it. So then everyone just went to
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: the Native American reservations in Oregon. And it's just a
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: free for all there now. So, yeah, people, if they
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: want to buy something bad enough, they will find a way.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the people that are in charge are so stupid.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: They don't realize this is not going to work. We
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: have every kind of rule. In L.A., there's every kind
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of rule. No fireworks.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: You can't. Not even safe and sane. You can't do this.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Can't do that. Well, Tijuana is a couple hours away.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: You can have a Disneyland fireworks show in your front
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: yard if you want.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: And many people, the greatest fire. show ever was the
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: COVID when the world was shut down. Oh my God.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: It's same here.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: It went to like two 30 or three in the morning.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: And there were people that I was like, wait, you're
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: the uptight neighbor that calls the cops on noise complaints.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: And even they were shooting off like illegal fireworks. Cause
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: everyone was living it up. They didn't know when COVID
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: would end. So everyone was just, if he could shoot
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: it in the sky, shoot it in the sky. It
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: was crazy.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was amazing. It was like having 17 Disneyland's
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: all in your neighborhood. It was wild.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: It was insane.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And it really hasn't
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: come down very much.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: No, it's come down maybe like 10 to 15 percent
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: in my area. But there's still a large amount of
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: illegal fireworks every year now.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: All right, this one is from Dom. I don't know.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I've never heard of anyone named Dom, but maybe that's
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: the guy from the Eagles, Dom.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Man, that Achoo guy, or is it Emmanuel Achoo, who
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: did that thing about saying that, oh, yes, and now
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: the NFL's investigating Big Dom.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, that's BS.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Well, it's not. He probably did it. Yeah, I know.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: That goes on.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: You'd have to be really naive to not think.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: It's like every team does it because Acho needed some
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: content for his failing pod. Now Big Dom's probably going
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to get in trouble for it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: It's 11 years ago. How are you going to find out?
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know. The guys are probably not having cops anymore.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: The ones that were involved in it.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: These teams are.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Look at the 49ers. Kyle Shanahan gets in an accident.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: They go radio silent for 11 days. The cops won't
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: release the video.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: It's wild. You can't... I mean, the cops.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Is someone going to do one of those Freedom of
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Information Acts and make them release it at some point?
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I feel like whatever it was, it better be super
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: bad or else the mystery is going to be worse
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: than what it actually was at a certain point.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: We'll see. Somebody will let it out. I sure hope so.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Dom says, here are the physical signs that you are
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: scrolling too much. OK, this is according to what he
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: found on the Internet. Your neck and shoulders take the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: first take the load first.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Looking down at.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: A phone pulls the head forward and tightens the upper something.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know how to pronounce.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Uh, newer research, uh, complicates the idea that the posture
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: alone causes neck pain. Your thumb and wrist absorb thousands
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: of repetitive taps. Uh, according to a study in 2025, uh,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: found smartphone unlocked frequently, our frequency and screen time were
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: both linked to clinical signs of a thumb tendon condition
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: called Dick Quervian's, uh, tennis. So Vitus, I'm definitely not
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: pronouncing that right. Uh, Tendon condition in your thumb.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Make tennis a little for chronic Twitter users.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Your eyes blink far less than they should.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: No, I know about that, yeah.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Screen focus can cut blink rate by more than half
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: within the first minute of use, drying out the eye's
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: protective tear. And finally, your sleep gets pushed later than
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you plan. Evening blue light suppresses the hormone that signals bedtime.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: I sleep during the day, so who cares?
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Harvard researchers found it did so twice as long as
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: comparable green light.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Well, what do you want me to do with that, Dom? Okay,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: so stay off your phone. Good luck. Good luck getting
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: people to stay off their phone in 2026. Oliver from
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Tacoma writes in.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: That's in the beautiful Pacific Northwest there, although Robbie's in Oregon.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: He says, Benny Radio, are you going to be getting
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: a $ 2, 000 foldable iPhone?
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: No. No, I don't have any. I mean, no, I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: don't need that. I'm fine. I don't need that.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: $ 2, 000.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Come on. That's got to go down in price at
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: some point. Maybe then.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe in like the fifth generation when it's closer to
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: what an iPhone currently is, you know?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not. gotta have all the gizmos guy i'm
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: not that guy i respect.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: I used to be that guy.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I i understand that guy and i know that guy
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: i'm not that guy i'm not i normally use my
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: phone until i have no choice but to to replace
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the phone it's just tattered and broken and it gets
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: water damaged and i'm like well i can't use it
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: anymore so i gotta get a new phone And I'll
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: usually get like one generation behind the current one.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Cause I'm a value shopper, Robbie.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: I figure that's the smart thing to do.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I'm not necessarily smart when it comes to those things.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Now, if I had FU money, I would just be like, Oh, whatever. Yeah. Thing. But,
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: If anybody has that, let me know though. I'd love
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: to know if it's actually as good as average. I
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: just have a feeling you're going to fold it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: That's not, it'll work for like maybe a couple of weeks.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And then after that, you're going to start getting a
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: crease in the phone and it'll seems like.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I remember when Samsung first came out with the foldable phones,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: I remember there was a huge, there was a lot
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: of issues, the first generation of it. That's why like,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't even consider getting an iPhone foldable phone to
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: like the third generation and it would still be too
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: expensive anyway. So, you know, it, I feel like Apple's
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: kind of desperate if they're doing a foldable phone because
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: for so many years they're like, we don't need a
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: foldable phone. And now all of a sudden they're like, here's.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: This foldable phone.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like Apple's running out of like,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: like innovative ideas. Hopefully I'm wrong. Well, yeah.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, how do they got to keep coming up
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: with new stuff?
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: That's the problem, right? Yeah.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: But I mean, other companies have already done the foldable phone.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: That's what worries me.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: We'll be like, well, not, not as good as us though.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: We're, you know, we're better.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: And, All that. Pete from New Hampshire writes in, and
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: I wonder if he's in the town I like. I
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: don't know. Anyway, he says, what is the Malheur scale
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: of worry about rabies? It says U.S.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Rabies cases rise 17%. 17% rabies-related inquiries, and according to CDC.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: My.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Level of concern, Pete, Uh, that's not on my big board.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not, should I be worried about that?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Robbie?
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Should I go?
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I feel like rabies, at least you can see it
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: coming sort of, you know, like you don't animals have
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: to show signs of rabies.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I would think, but I'm not a rabies expert.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: So I tried to read that Annie Jacobson book about
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: biological warfare. And now I am a little freaked out
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: about biological stuff. So you never know.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Well, again, though, the things that could kill you.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. That's what I keep telling myself.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Pretty much everything.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: So you can't sit there and live your life like, oh,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: my God, what kind of.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Life is that?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Well, there's still people that would never go to Vegas
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: anymore because, like, oh, all the germs and everything. And
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: it's like, it's a fair point. You just got to
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: roll the dice, to use a Vegas pun, to be honest.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: No, for sure.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I get that part of it. I was just out,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you know, I was doing some shopping or whatever. And
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I saw, you know, the mask people are.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Still out there and all that.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Quite get it. It's pretty much been proven that didn't
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: do much of anything, but people, once they, you know,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: once a person makes up their mind, Robbie, you know,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: I changed their mind. They're convinced that they have it
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: all figured out and everyone else is a schmuck, which
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: everyone is a schmuck, but still anyway. All right. We'll
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: get out on that. I got football. I'll be at
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the charger game. Not cause, uh, Well, not because I'm
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: excited about that. He's playing the Cardinals, Robbie. That's got
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: to be one of the biggest mismatches.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say at least you get to see
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Love, but I'm pretty skeptical he's going to play much.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: They're sure hiding his ankle. They're like, he'll play. Maybe
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: he won't play.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: He'll play.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the one guy I want to see.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I love on the Cardinals. I'm not excited about Jacoby Brissett.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: That doesn't really get me tingling.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Tyler Algier, they're starting running back.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Doesn't get you going.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Not quite. Not quite.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: No.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Cardinals.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that'll be one of the few games the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Chargers have more fans at, though.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Although Phoenix to L.A. is not that far.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Are there a lot of Cardinal fans that want to.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Make that kind of investment to travel all the way,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: cost money, knowing their team's going to get smoked more
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: likely than not?
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they better get smoked, or man, that's going to be...
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: The Herbert haters will be out in force.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I took the Cardinals just because these teams don't
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: really do anything during exhibition games.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: The first half of these.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Games is a feeling out process, so then you've got
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to beat somebody by double digits in the second half.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: I've always been a big proponent of if a team
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: doesn't know how bad they are yet, then bet them
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: when they're an underdog.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. You always want to bet on bad teams early.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: They realize they're terrible and that's it. Although there are.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: in baseball it's a little different you gotta pick your
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: spots because there are i i'm.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: So bad at betting regular season baseball after the first
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: month i i feel like you should bet baseball first
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: month of the year and then playoffs otherwise it's so
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: hard because you don't know which bullpens are tired and
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: which aren't and with starters only going like five innings
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: anymore it's it's really hard to you can.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Bet the first five innings probably you could bet oh
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: that is true but then then if you're You're really
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: sweating it right away.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. All right. You have your YouTube thing, right? Robbie,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: you want to promote it?
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: We're going an hour earlier tomorrow. Ozzy's got stuff to do.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: So I'll be up at 5.30 a.m. Pacific time, 8.30 a.m.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Eastern for it.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:29
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• 39:38
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• 39:38
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• 39:41
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• 39:45
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• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Have a great Sunday. I'll be back a full week
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: of the radio show, no days off. So I'll be,
• 39:51
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• 39:54
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• 39:58
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• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the Sunday and the Monday recapping what happens today on
• 40:04
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• 40:06
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of pressure from the Bill's monster. So
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I hope I can live up to that. Otherwise I'll
• 40:11
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• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Anyway, have a great rest of your Sunday, and we
• 40:16
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• 40:20
  Speaker 2: As Dick and Dayton would say, bye-bye, bye-bye.