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The Fifth Hour: Hollaring with James · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kaboom if you thought four hours a day 1200 minutes
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  Speaker 1: a week was enough think again he's the last remnants
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  Speaker 1: of the old republic a sole bastion of fairness he
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  Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse wow the clearinghouse of
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  Speaker 1: hot takes break free for something special the fifth hour
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  Speaker 1: with ben maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: In the air everywhere. The fifth hour with me, Ben Maller,
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  Speaker 2: and a great Sunday to you. It is the 20th
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  Speaker 2: day of September. We have NFL action from early to late,
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  Speaker 2: all the way up to the Sunday night game. And
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  Speaker 2: what is the Sunday night game? That would be the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 2: another primetime game against the Indianapolis Colts. That's the nightcap
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  Speaker 2: and Before we get there, we got all kinds of action.
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  Speaker 2: And before we even break that down, let's spin the wheel.
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  Speaker 2: It is a mailbag kind of Sunday. And let's spin
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  Speaker 2: the wheel. Big money, big money. Let's try to find
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  Speaker 2: out which Malheur Militia legend is going to join us
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  Speaker 2: on this edition of the 5th Hour Podcast. We've had
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  Speaker 2: legends like Marcel in Brooklyn. Robbie, the Mariner fan, has
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  Speaker 2: been on more than anybody. Nico in Vancouver. Big names
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  Speaker 2: have been in this chair right over there. Who's going
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  Speaker 2: to join them on the royalty in the Malamalation? Big money,
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  Speaker 2: big money, big money. No whammies. Stop hollering James from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that. Hollering James, my man. Unbelievable. See, this
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  Speaker 2: is the part you talk, James. See, this is the
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  Speaker 2: part you have to do.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let me chime in. Hey, Benny, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy, this is going to be interesting. James sounds
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  Speaker 2: wide awake. There are people on the prediction market trying
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  Speaker 2: to see if he will fall asleep during the podcast. Now,
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  Speaker 2: to fully do the mailbag, Ohio Al, get me in
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  Speaker 2: the mood. All right, very good. So James has been
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  Speaker 2: calling the show for many, many years. How many years
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  Speaker 2: have you been calling the show, Hollering James? We go
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  Speaker 2: way back, me and you.
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  Speaker 3: Many, many years.
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  Speaker 2: We've been friends.
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  Speaker 4: Way before I met you, Tammy Montana, I don't mean
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  Speaker 4: to give a shout out, but when she said... I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to set something up, and I want to see
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  Speaker 4: if Jack Hagerty and Megan Hagerty will bring you to
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  Speaker 4: the Mermaid to see Ben. But she didn't disclose where
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  Speaker 4: you were going to be. She didn't know until she
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  Speaker 4: actually found out from the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it was great to meet you, James. We
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  Speaker 2: had a wonderful time at the Mermaid. It was a
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  Speaker 2: great event, and hopefully we.
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  Speaker 3: Can see you again. All right.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Calm down, James. Now, James is famous. I
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  Speaker 2: think everyone who listens to the show knows who Holler
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  Speaker 2: and James is. Have you enjoyed your celebrity, James, that
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  Speaker 2: you're a big, well-known member of the Mallard Militia? Because
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  Speaker 2: you're known for sleeping a lot, snoring. You're legendary. And
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  Speaker 2: you got the nickname Hollering James because you're very loud
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  Speaker 2: and you got kicked out of the place you were
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  Speaker 2: living because you loved the show so much. You kept
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  Speaker 2: screaming in the middle of the night, which we love
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  Speaker 2: about you. And let's not forget, James, how many pills
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  Speaker 2: do you take in the morning and how many pills
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  Speaker 2: do you take at night?
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  Speaker 4: 36 in the morning and 36 at night?
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  Speaker 2: That's right. That's 72 pills. This man is keeping Big
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  Speaker 2: Pharma alive, hollering James. Without James, Big Pharma would go
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  Speaker 2: out of business. So we have questions here from random people,
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  Speaker 2: and we're just going to go through this, the mailbag,
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  Speaker 2: the email address if you'd like to send a question in.
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  Speaker 2: In a future edition of The Mailbag, it's realfifthouratgmail.com. That's realfifthouratgmail.com.
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  Speaker 2: And you can be part of the show that way.
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  Speaker 2: First up is Shane from Dallas, Texas, who writes, Have
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  Speaker 2: you ever been to Dallas, Hollering James?
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  Speaker 3: I was in Dallas, but I got cousins in Fort Worth. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Shane in Dallas writes and says, Ben and blank. We
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  Speaker 2: love your lexicon, and I know you have said you
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  Speaker 2: were self-taught, your vocabulary. Do you approve, Shane in Dallas says,
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  Speaker 2: of the new words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary? And
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  Speaker 2: then he sent me, there are 1,400 new words that
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  Speaker 2: have been added. to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, including the big three,
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  Speaker 2: are copium, rickroll, and looks maxing. And so rather than
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  Speaker 2: me answer this question, Shane, I'm going to defer to
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  Speaker 2: my friend Hollering James. I'm going to guess that you
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  Speaker 2: do not know what any of those terms mean. James,
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  Speaker 2: do you know looks maxing, copium, and rickroll? Do you
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  Speaker 2: know what those terms mean, any of them?
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  Speaker 3: All three. Really? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What does rickroll mean, James?
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  Speaker 4: Rick Roll means you got to be like Rick Ross.
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  Speaker 4: You got to roll hard and roll soft.
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  Speaker 2: Either that or it's an internet thing where you put
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  Speaker 2: a video up and then in the middle of the video,
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  Speaker 2: you play a Rick Astley 1987 hit, Never Gonna Give
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  Speaker 2: You Up. This actually, this is odd to me. This
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  Speaker 2: has been around, I know Shane, you know this, but
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  Speaker 2: this has been around since the 2000s, early 2000s. And
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  Speaker 2: here we are in 2026, and now it is being
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  Speaker 2: added to the lexicon. It's still popular, but I remember
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  Speaker 2: when that became a thing back in the day, and
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  Speaker 2: I said, oh man, you got Rickrolled. And might I add,
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  Speaker 2: when I was doing... Early days at Fox Sports Radio,
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  Speaker 2: we got Rickrolled a couple of times. We would play
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  Speaker 2: stuff off YouTube, and then this goes back probably 20 years.
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  Speaker 2: We'd play stuff off YouTube, and in the middle of it,
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  Speaker 2: it would Rickroll us, which is terrible. What is copium?
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  Speaker 2: Holler at James.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's copium with everything that goes on.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. It's probably a pill that you take. A copium
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  Speaker 2: is a combination of cope and opium. And so that
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  Speaker 2: is an official word in the language, in the dictionary anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing added?
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  Speaker 2: It has been added. Copium is now a word, so
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  Speaker 2: you have to use the word copium. It is now
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  Speaker 2: officially defined as denial or minimization of an unfavorable situation.
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  Speaker 2: imagined as a narcotic. Well said, James. And now we
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  Speaker 2: have looks maxing as well. Now, when I met you,
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  Speaker 2: I think of you as a looks maxing kind of guy, James.
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  Speaker 2: What is hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota think that looks
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  Speaker 2: maxing is? What do you think?
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  Speaker 4: Most maximum is looking low when you're down, but you
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  Speaker 4: stand up in the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: I love that you answer every one of these questions,
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  Speaker 2: and you're not anywhere near being correct. But I love
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  Speaker 2: the fact that you're answering the questions. You're not afraid
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  Speaker 2: of being wrong. Looks maxing, according to Merriam-Webster, defines as
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  Speaker 2: the practice of taking sometimes extreme and even dangerous measures
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  Speaker 2: to improve your physical attractiveness. Like, you don't need to
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  Speaker 2: do that, James, because you're like a runway model over there,
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  Speaker 2: and so there's no need for you to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But some people do extreme things to try to look better.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: So that does happen. Some of the other words, we
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  Speaker 2: have Sunday scaries, and that's where you're sad because you
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  Speaker 2: realize your weekend's about over. We don't have the Sunday
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  Speaker 2: scaries here. We have the Saturday scaries because we go
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  Speaker 2: back to, well, we technically never take a day off
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  Speaker 2: because of this podcast, but The overnight radio show broadcasts
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night into Monday, so we have the Saturday scares.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have the Sunday scares. Some of the other
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  Speaker 2: words they added this year are, according to Shane here,
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  Speaker 2: vibe coding. I don't know what that is. Parasocial. Uncanny Valley.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. Cuffing season. That sounds taboo.
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  Speaker 2: California sober. Trash panda. I've heard of that. And the
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  Speaker 2: Mandela effect. How is the Mandela effect not part of
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  Speaker 2: this prior to that? I don't understand. All right. Thank you, Shane.
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  Speaker 2: In Dallas, I appreciate that. Ryan in Reno writes in.
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  Speaker 4: Reno.
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  Speaker 2: You know what state Reno is in? Hollering James. I'll
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  Speaker 2: get you. You're so smart over there. And Ryan says, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: this is my first email to a radio show or
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  Speaker 2: a podcast. I'm 68 years old. I don't know who
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  Speaker 2: you're working with. I'd like to compliment you on the
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  Speaker 2: consistency of your overnight show. I do enjoy daytime radio,
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  Speaker 2: and some of the hosts I listen to, I can tell,
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  Speaker 2: are not that into it some days. What is the
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  Speaker 2: secret to your success? And he says, why do others
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  Speaker 2: not have the same work ethic? Well, I don't, Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: I don't listen to much. I don't really listen to
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  Speaker 2: much of the daytime stuff. So I don't know. You'd
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  Speaker 2: have to talk to them. And I don't brag about
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  Speaker 2: the work ethic and all that. But the secret is,
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  Speaker 2: here's the secret. And you know this, James. At some point,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to rip the microphone out of my hands.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to take the headphones off my head. They
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  Speaker 2: will not do that because of the quality of the product.
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  Speaker 2: They will do that because they're cheap. They will do
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  Speaker 2: that because of other reasons, but they will not do
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  Speaker 2: that because of the quality of the product. The product,
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  Speaker 2: the consistency is important, and as I've mentioned, you go
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  Speaker 2: to a Starbucks. I've been all over the country. You
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  Speaker 2: go to a McDonald's. You get a Big Mac in L.A.
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  Speaker 2: or New York or Boston or Minnesota or Houston. That
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  Speaker 2: Big Mac's going to taste the same. You go to
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  Speaker 2: a Starbucks. Now, I don't drink coffee. My wife does.
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  Speaker 2: But we go stop on road trips, and it's the same.
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  Speaker 2: So that's it. That's it. And, yeah, I do know
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  Speaker 2: when guys do open phones for an entire show, that's
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  Speaker 2: a sign they didn't want to prepare for the show.
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  Speaker 2: That's usually what that is. What else do we have?
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  Speaker 2: Hudson from Dallas writes in. And hello. That's two out
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  Speaker 2: of the first three from Dallas, by the way, James.
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  Speaker 2: We're big today on the mailbag in Dallas. Anyway, Hudson says, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: do you think we will get a Netflix doc on
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  Speaker 2: the fight club involving toddlers? And that's from Hudson. So
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  Speaker 2: there was this story in— this goes back a little while,
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  Speaker 2: not too far— So there was a daycare in— I think
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  Speaker 2: this was in Texas, and the people running the daycare,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, were bored. So they had the toddlers fight
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  Speaker 2: each other. Apparently, it's on surveillance. It's not really up
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  Speaker 2: for debate. It's on surveillance. There's footage allegedly showing a
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  Speaker 2: teacher encouraging— her son to fight another four-year-old. And as
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  Speaker 2: a result, the reason Hudson sent this, he said there's
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  Speaker 2: a new update that the parents are suing the daycare
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  Speaker 2: for over $ 1 million, claiming that the teacher turned the
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  Speaker 2: classroom into toddler fight club. So Hudson, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if they've made a documentary. I don't keep up on
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  Speaker 2: my Netflix documentaries. I do watch it from time to time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't recall seeing a documentary about this, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: all for it. Wouldn't that be a great doc hollering
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  Speaker 2: James to have a documentary about some lunatic in a
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  Speaker 2: daycare center who decided to turn a bunch of little
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  Speaker 2: kids into a fight club? That would be crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy. That'd be like brawl at the mall.
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  Speaker 2: The brawl at the mall of America. You've been to
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  Speaker 2: the mall of America, James? Did you visit there? I, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's what, you know, there's a joke there. No, I
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  Speaker 2: have not. I have not been there. I only had
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  Speaker 2: limited time when I was in Minnesota. So I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to go out and see all, you know, Lake Minnetonka.
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  Speaker 4: You got to come back for that, but let me interrupt.
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  Speaker 4: You got to come back for the Mall of America.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, there's a reason to come back, James.
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  Speaker 2: We can go wander around, around the mall.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was. You can go on the rides. You
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  Speaker 3: can go on the rides. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of rides do they have?
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  Speaker 4: They got the pool where you slide down a big slide.
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  Speaker 4: It's a slide, but it's a water slide. And you're
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  Speaker 4: in like a lumber bus car. And you get out
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  Speaker 4: right at the.
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  Speaker 3: Bottom like a roller coaster.
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  Speaker 4: And you go all the way down and you get splashed,
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  Speaker 4: really splashed.
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  Speaker 3: And you also got an.
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  Speaker 4: Underwater aquarium that you can see all the sharks and
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  Speaker 4: different kind of fish in the world.
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  Speaker 2: That's outstanding, James. So, let's make you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: thought of this and I apologize to my guy, but
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  Speaker 2: here's the thing here, James.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: You are now the head of the chamber of commerce
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  Speaker 2: for the state of Minnesota and for Minneapolis and St.
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  Speaker 3: Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Give me three reasons why someone who's never been to
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  Speaker 2: your state and your city should visit your town. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Three reasons. All right, James.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so they should visit because they don't like the taxes.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what else?
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  Speaker 3: They don't like the politicians.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like, so you should visit because you don't
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  Speaker 2: like the taxes, you don't like the politicians. And why
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  Speaker 2: else should they visit, James?
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  Speaker 3: And they need to stand up for women's rights.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that is it. That's likely the greatest campaign speech
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  Speaker 2: I've ever heard for someone to come vote for you.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the mailbag, Juan from Van
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  Speaker 2: Nuys writes in. You have no idea where that is, James.
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  Speaker 2: That's in Southern California, not far away from the mothership
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  Speaker 2: studios of Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Juan says, Ben, do you think what you do
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  Speaker 2: is harder than being a Navy SEAL? Because according to Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Ballin.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Ballin says, making videos can be harder than training
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  Speaker 2: to become a Navy SEAL. That's from Juan. First of all, Juan,
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea who Mr. Ballin is. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: he's a nice young lad. I have no idea who
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  Speaker 2: that is. And I do know what bullshit is. And
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  Speaker 2: that is some hot bullshit. See, James, we can curse
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  Speaker 2: on the podcast. I normally don't say that word. But
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  Speaker 2: when I hear someone say that making Internet videos can
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  Speaker 2: be harder than Navy SEAL training, I know that's bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't. Yeah, come on. And if that's the case,
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  Speaker 2: I make four. I do four videos a day on
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  Speaker 2: the radio show. With the Mallard monologues. I know you
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  Speaker 2: subscribe to that, right, James? You're a big fan, yes?
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  Speaker 4: You better talk to Kyler Murray, because he's always playing videos.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's always hurt, Kyler Murray. Anyway, yeah, no, Juan.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's nice to say.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I will point out, and I've said this before,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe this. I've done television and radio. I'm
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  Speaker 2: lucky enough. I had a TV show for a couple years.
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  Speaker 2: I've had the radio thing my whole life. Radio?
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  Speaker 3: You've seen that?
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  Speaker 4: I've been one of your most long-time listeners.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry I cut in.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're my guy, Chase.
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  Speaker 1: Me and you, man.
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  Speaker 2: You're my boy. When I go out to these events
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  Speaker 2: and I meet people... at these Mahler meet and greets
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  Speaker 2: around the country, your name comes up all the time.
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  Speaker 2: They want to know what you're like. They want to
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  Speaker 2: know details on the meet and greet we had in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: They're all about that. But just to finish my thought, James,
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  Speaker 2: I do believe doing talk radio by yourself, which is
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  Speaker 2: what I do. A lot of these guys do back
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  Speaker 2: and forth, yin and yang. I'm by myself. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have anybody. I you know Lorraine is a lover she
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  Speaker 2: doesn't know sports and she's my engineer and Coop doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really talk so I I'm by myself for four hours
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  Speaker 2: a night and that is much more difficult than a
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  Speaker 2: TV show because even in any TV show you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have your executive producer you're gonna have director you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have all these people behind the scenes who are gonna
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  Speaker 2: make you look good and in radio you are pants
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  Speaker 2: you're exposed so I do think that is hard but
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  Speaker 2: do I believe that Doing YouTube videos is harder than
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  Speaker 2: being a Navy SEAL? No, come.
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  Speaker 4: On.
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  Speaker 2: Leo from Chicago writes in. He says, Ben, I know
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  Speaker 2: you're not much of a fast food guy anymore, but
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  Speaker 2: are you fired up for your biggie-sized yellow meal? At Wendy's. Yes, Leo.
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  Speaker 2: I might have to go to Wendy's to get a
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  Speaker 2: thing of fries, those sea salt fries, just so I
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  Speaker 2: can see the yellow packaging. But big news this week, James,
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  Speaker 2: and Leo confirming it, Wendy's is bringing back the iconic
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  Speaker 2: yellow packaging by demand. By demand, James. The people want yellow,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to get yellow. Aren't you excited, Hollering James?
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  Speaker 3: Is Fitness Day bringing it back?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Dave's with us anymore. He might be
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  Speaker 2: sending the memo from the other side, across the gates.
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  Speaker 2: He might be coming. Yeah. Next, I don't know. What
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  Speaker 2: else do you want me to say, Leo? Good. All right, fine.
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  Speaker 2: They're bringing back yellow packaging. What the F do you
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  Speaker 2: want me to say? Mike from Kansas writes in, says, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: our beloved Travis Kelsey. Not my beloved, Mike. Your beloved. Says, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: my beloved, or our beloved Travis Kelsey. Again, that's yours.
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  Speaker 2: Of my chief's fell victim. to a ponzi scheme why
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  Speaker 2: do so many athletes fall for these con artists you have.
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  Speaker 4: A good undercover and they scam artists come out when
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  Speaker 4: people know they're at their most vulnerable position like me
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: look at that hollering james that is why we have
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: you on the mailbag james.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: The type of commentary that you provide. And you're absolutely right.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. Listen, these guys are really good at
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: what they do. And I've had a few people over
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the years that I was pretty sure were Charleston's. I'm
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: trying to think of the word. Charlatans. It's early, James.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Charlatans.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Guys that were grifters, right? Selling bunko art, you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: those type of people. And It's difficult because these guys,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: they dress well, they have nice cars, and they show
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: you all the stuff that they claim to own. And
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Travis Kelsey just is a meathead football
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: player who happened to end up good at football and
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: made a lot of money. I'm relatively confident that he
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: does not have that much insight when it comes to
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: investments and Wall Street and all that. And so some
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: grifter comes along, some small-scale swindle guy who and some
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: shades there man that's right or the uh those nigerian
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: money scams those are always good right those are email
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: though those are you know hey my so-and-so died and
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: i have access to 50 million dollars here in some bank.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: What about the guy that.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Imposed the san francisco 49er football player but never really
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: was one that shanghai all these women I know.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: How about that? I mean, these women fell for this guy.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: He was a fake football player, Mr. Lofton.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Millions and millions of their money.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Pretty wild, huh?
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Look at that. Do you think you could impersonate anyone hollering, James?
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Only a sports... I'd try. Only one like you hollered, man.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: A sports radio figure like you. I would love to
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: try to impersonate because you're the.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Best one on the air oh you're very kind James
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: look at that I'll give you my notes I'll give
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you my notes you're you're part of my fan club
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: you're the senior member you're my agent James Reggie from
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Detroit writes and Reggie's a mailbag staple he never misses
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: well that's not true he did miss a couple weeks
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: but he's back You're back, Reggie. He says, Ben, I
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: saw social media people upset with you for your Arch
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Manning take on Gigglegate, as you called it. Did you
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: get in trouble for thinking the whole thing was ridiculous?
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: That's from Reggie in Detroit. It's fake internet trouble. It's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: not real trouble. It's an opinion thing. People are entitled
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: to their opinions, I believe. And I just get a
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: kick out of the folks that seem to think that
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: was real or whatever. It's satire. It's dark comedy. That
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: is allowed. I didn't think it was particularly funny, Reggie.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I just think that getting all worked up, trying to
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: police the tone police, trying to police what you think
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: is funny... And the rest of society is only allowed
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: to laugh at what you laugh at, I think, is
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: just ridiculous. And so I don't support that. And there's
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: a lot of things. I go to comedy clubs. I
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: love comedy. I go out. A friend of the family
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: has access to comedy clubs, so we go out. I
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: was at a comedy show last week and had a
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: great time. There were a couple comedians. They had the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: opener and the main event. I thought the opener was okay.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: The main guy was fine, whatever. I didn't think it
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: was that great. And, but I'm not going to sit
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: here and complain and say, well, you know, you're not
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: allowed to laugh at that. That's not funny. And I, no,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: who cares? Now, trust me, if a real woman had
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: been hit, yeah, I'd be screaming and shouting and you
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: can't do that. You can't be slapping women. Obviously, it's
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: fake though, dummy. And that was my point. And it
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: just blows me away how big that story became this week, Reggie.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And we talked about it a couple of times. It
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: was just the dumbest thing. And, you know, every week
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: or every other week, there's something that pops up. where
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just like, what is that? And I'm sure you
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: feel the same way, Hollering James, with some of these
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: ridiculous stories, yes?
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you for agreeing with me.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Final answer.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: All right, next. Final answer. Next up is Lucky Tony
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: from the Bay Area.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Lucky Tony.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: He says, hey, Ben, tip of the bear's cap to
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Fudgie in Boston. Now, I made a bet with hollering James,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Lucky Tony says, that if the Bears win, James gets
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: a golden ticket. But if the Vikings win, he gets
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: two golden tickets. Put it on my tab. Thanks, Ben.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Bears.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: All right. Is that true? Is there a bet between
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Lucky Tony and you? Is that accurate?
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know what Tony's thinking or what he's drinking,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: but I'm still going Minnesota.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I bleed purple. Okay.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Who's your favorite Viking quarterback of all time? There's only
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: one right answer, Hollering James. Favorite Viking quarterback of all time.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Is it Kyler Murray? No.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: That's the wrong answer. Bad job by you.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Dustin wins.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: No.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: No.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about a former... No. Yeah, there you go.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: See... That was the fifth time. Isn't that amazing?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Didn't you meet Tommy Kramer at the event? That's right.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: They were astounded because you guys had to stop eating.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: And drinking whenever you were drinking and enjoying your time
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: with your socialists and your.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Company to visit my two friends that brought me there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Well, for those that don't know, Tommy Kramer was a
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Vikings quarterback back in the 1980s.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: He threw an unremarkable pass to Ahmad Rashad, which is
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: real name Bobby Moore. But he turned his name to
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Ahmad Rashad because he turned Muslim. And Ahmad Rashad cut
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: with one hand like Sammy White did against the Cleveland
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Browns and Brian Sight.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Now I'm dating myself.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Great memory. Great memory, yeah. So Tommy Kramer showed up,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: was very kind.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: He was beautiful. I actually remembered him right off the bat.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I knew he was there. I never forgot that moment
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: in my life.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: It was wonderful. It was really, really great. All right,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Tony from Jersey writes in. He says, Ben, what could
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: possibly go wrong with New York adding a scoreboard clock
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: to going to the powder room, as you say? And
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: let me explain this to you, James, because I don't
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: think you know the story. So New York is rolling
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: out futuristic public robo toilets that give users exactly 10
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: minutes to finish their their poopy before the door automatically opens.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: So that means that you could be sitting on the toilet.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: You got hemorrhoids and you're sitting on the toilet. You
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: got to do a doo doo. and it's more than
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: 10 minutes, you're going to show the whole world, when
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: that door opens, anybody that walks by is going to
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: see your ass on the toilet. So, yeah, Tony, this
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: is going to be epically terrible. I know why they're
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: doing it, because I think homeless people are going to
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: go in there and, like, you know, go make a whoopee,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: you know, go bow chicka-wow-wow in the bathroom. So they're
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: trying to avoid that. But you can still get that
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: done in 10 minutes. I guess you can set the
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: timer if you're going into the bathroom to have some fun.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Nine minutes. You just got to get it done in
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: nine minutes. But yeah, that seems like a really bad idea.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: That seems like a terrible idea. And how long do
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: you take, James? This is a great question. This is
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the kind of content people want on the Fifth Hour Podcast.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: and the mailbag here on this Sunday. So, James, what kind–
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: how long do you take? How long do you take
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: on the commode? Very important question, James.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Well, tell Lucky Tony I'm in and out.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: I go quickly and fast because I usually have a
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: loose door, which is a ball movement, where it passes
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: too quickly.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I'm in 36 hills at night, 36 hills in the morning. Oh, man.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: He can't sink or swim. He drowns.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I love the fact that we are now breaking down
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: the bowel movements of Hollering James. The Fifth Hour podcast
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: has now reached a new low. My God, that is outstanding.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I'm jealous, James. You take so many pills and all
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: that that you're able to go to the bathroom and
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: have no problem. I occasionally have the constipation. You know,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I actually do do fruit smoothies. Doc Mike recommended that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I don't add his special ingredient. But there's certain things
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I have to do to try to get the old
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: intestinal tract moving, James. But it sounds like you just
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: go in there and it's like you always have Montezuma's revenge.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: You're always in good shape. Always in good shape. What
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: else do we have? Let's see here. Ryan in Shrewsbury
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: writes in. He says, Ben and special guest, I have
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: been pretty busy with the new norm of life since
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: my father-in-law passed, but I have been keeping up with
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: all the pods and, of course, the best of version
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: of the overnight show. Recently, I was driving around in
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: our new favorite town, Worcester. Yeah, Worcester's a cool town.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I like it. A lot of trees, and it's got
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: a little downtown, trees, nice little ballpark. I jam it, man.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I like the vibe there. It's pretty cool. Anyway, he says,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I saw that they opened a Raising Cane's there. That
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: is the second one I found in my area. Now,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: I've been there once for food, but if I were
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: to go again, what is the Benny's special? What's your
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: go-to order? Thanks again. Much love, Ryan. I did not
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: see the Raising Cane's. I don't remember seeing it when
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I was driving around Worcester, but I remember when I
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: went back that Sunday to throw out the first pitch
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: with the Leprechaun, they had a Burger King. I parked
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: right near a Burger King and right across the street
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: from the Polar Park, I believe it's called, the Woosox Stadium.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: So I remember that. But my go-to order, Ryan, is
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I go Caniac Combo. That's the biggest combo you can get.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Caniac Combo, no coleslaw, extra fries, substitute. Get rid of
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the coleslaw. I don't want any vegetables. I want extra fries.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: And then sometimes I'll get the Texas toast. I'll get
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: that cooked on both sides. You can get it cooked
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: on both sides. So that's my order. I get lemonade.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: They upcharge you for lemonade, but I get lemonade, and
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: that's all I need. You ever been to Raising Cane's,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Hollering James?
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Raising Cane's.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: The only cane I've been to is maybe a little cocaine.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Really? Have you done the cocaine in the past? Let's
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: talk about that, James. I didn't expect that to pop
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: up either. Are you a big Coke guy back in
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the 80s, James?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Did I be in cocaine? I've been sugar cane.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Is it true, Hollering James, that your nickname back in
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: college was Columbian Bam Bam? Was that your nickname? Is
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: that true?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: No?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't remember that in my repertoire.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: No?
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: No.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: You've heard.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Ben. You know, you got me on.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I'm waiting for the next one.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: All right. I like that. Look at you.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: James, you know, you are so great. We've heard about
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: your bowel movements, your cocaine issue. This is this is
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: wild to me. You know, your nickname should be Cocaine Bear.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: That should be your nickname.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Remember, they had.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Sharknado, they had Meth Gator, and Cocaine Bear.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: They had all that back in the day. And Colombian
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Bam Bam. That could be your new nickname. And Johnny Cash.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Johnny Cash sang a song, Cocaine Blues.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: He did.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: All right, so you've never been to Raising Cane's. Bill
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: from South Carolina writes in and says, Ben, the doom
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: and gloom weather people are saying that the Atlantic hurricane
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: season could break a record that has stood for 175 years.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Do you believe it, Ben, and should I be worried?
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: That's from Bill in South Carolina. Well, no, you shouldn't
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: be worried because according to the story, not a single
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: hurricane has formed in the Atlantic Basin yet this year.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: How about that? Yeah.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: The latest Atlantic hurricane on record formed on September 17th, 1941.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: That was back on Thursday. That record goes back to
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: 1851 when early meteorologists relied on shipping vessels for storm reports.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: And as of now, not a single hurricane has formed
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: in the Atlantic Basin this year. Yeah, okay.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Was that the same hurricane that sent down the elephant seralds?
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, sure. We've actually had hurricanes in the Pacific. So
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: where's all the global warming people freaking out and losing
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: their mind? I guess it's not that bad. Global warming,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you people. It's called El Nino is the term. El Nino.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: We used to have a caller named El Nino. El Nino.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: El Nino. Roberto's driving a bus right now is what
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: he's doing.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: He left us.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I like that, James. Look at you. You're such a character, you.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: All right. Very funny, Bill, with that question. Yeah, I
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: think you're in good shape there. Benny and No Penny.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: This is from Steve in St.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Paul.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: This is Steve in St. Paul, James. That's right over
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: near you. He says, Ben, I love your work. Have
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: you ever worked with anyone who had really bad B.O.?
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: That's from Steve in St. Paul. He sent me this story, James.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: A New York City tech worker was fired because they
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: had poor hygiene. How about that? They had B.O., body odor.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: They lost their job. And this guy in Manhattan... He
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: confessed that he was fired from a corporate gig after
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: just a couple of hours because his bosses cited hygiene issues.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Look at that. The guy said after nine months of unemployment,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: he found the position through a temp agency and says
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: he showered the night before his job began, wore a
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: brand-new polo shirt when he showed up at the AI
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: tech company where he was hired to work in People Ops.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: And after the first two hours, nothing really happened there.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: It was light onboarding, as they say. He was told
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: to take an early lunch. And before he was even
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: made it to lunch out of the building, he received
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: a call from the temp agency notifying him that he
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: was being let go for hygiene issues. How about that, James?
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: It's crazy, right?
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: You shower, right?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Occasionally, yes? Once in a while, you shower?
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Of course. I have to shower every day. Even a
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: baby shower.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I am shocked, James. We've been together on this mailbag
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: for over 30 minutes, and you have not fallen asleep
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: at all. I am very impressed. Nate from Alaska writes in.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: He says, Ben and friend... He says Robbie the Mariner Finn,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: but we gave Robbie the weekend off. He says, Ben,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I thought I was the only one listening to you
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: here in Alaska. I moved here several years ago for work,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: and I enjoy your show while having some drinks at night.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: And I heard on newbie night a couple of callers
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: from my state. Would you ever do a meet and
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: greet here in Alaska? It would be great. We have
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of hardworking people. And my friend owns a
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: rustic pub in Anchorage and would be more than happy
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: to host the Malheur Militia at an event. We have no, well, Nate,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I would love to go to Alaska. Who wouldn't want it?
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: It's beautiful. I would love to go there. I've never been.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: My brother, both my brothers have been there. Coop's been there.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I've not been able to make it. I don't have
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: any plans. These things are expensive, as I like to say.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: And if somebody wants to Help us out a little bit.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Cover some of the travel. I'd be more than happy
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: to go to Alaska. But other than that, I will
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: do meet and greets when my travels take me to
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: a city. And that's just the way it is. Unless
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: there's a special emergency. Like hollering James. I had to
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: go meet hollering James. And Dick and Dayton. And all
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: the legends on the show. All right. What's up next?
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Carl from the OC writes in. That's Orange County. He says,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Benny and whoever, do you silence your phone? The phone,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: apparently there was a study done that says the assumption
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: is people that silence their phone, put it in silent mode,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: if you mute your phone, you're often assumed to be
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: deliberately protecting your focus and that that's important. You're a
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: harder worker. You don't want to be distracted. Well, according
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: to a study, they found the opposite behavior pattern According
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: to Carl, they said, and Carl, I do usually have
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: my phone on. I don't even know what mode it is.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I got to look at my phone and I don't
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: have it right in front of me. I'm in the
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: remote studio, but I have it on the thing where
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: it's like focus. I think it is called focus and
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know how to turn it off.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Focus.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Like there are calls that I get. I don't get
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: the calls. I miss the calls because it's on the
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: focus thing. I don't even know. I got to figure
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: that out. It can't be that hard.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I'll just.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I'll just Google it. Here's the catch here, James. They
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: say the people that have their phone on silent mode,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: and that means, you know, hey, that's it, those that
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: silence their phones check their phones nearly twice as much
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: as those that left their phone on vibrate, 98.2 times
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: a day versus 52.9 times a day. And it's most
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: common for people that have high FOMO. You know what
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: FOMO is, James?
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: What?
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Homophobia?
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, James, you are such a treasure. You are such a... Oh,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: my God. It's either that or fear of missing out. Anyway,
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: the people that have fear of missing out check their
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: phones 120 times a A day. All right. Next up
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: is Stan. He says, I'm the man from Ohio. And Ben,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I wanted to ask this on your radio show, but
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I know you don't have as much time as the podcast.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Will the word police end up needing therapy, Ben, as
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: there was a study done? Here's another thing about words.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: People know I love words, James. And so Stan sends
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: me this story. There was a study done by McEwen
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: University and Stetson University, they recruited 616 U.S. adults, and
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: they tested 175 pairs of terms, one labeled potentially harmful
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: and one recommended replacement. The examples included master bedroom, which
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: has been canceled by the wokesters. Now you're supposed to
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: say primary bedroom. Pipeline, I didn't know this one. I
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: did not know pipeline got canceled. Maybe I talked about it.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: I don't remember. But apparently pipeline was replaced by pathway.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Blind review is now anonymous review. Tone deaf is unenlightened.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I didn't know about that either. Participants rated the words,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: according to Stan here, they rated the words for familiarity, acceptability,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: and how much anxiety they produced. And the study determined
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: that most of the terms that were considered highly acceptable
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: were They were considered highly acceptable, and several were preferred
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: to their proposed replacements, meaning the flag terms, the terms
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: that were persona non grata. Among the original participants, they
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: preferred terms like pregnant woman rather than birthing person. Whoever
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: says birthing person needs to be slapped across the face.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: If you say that, my God, get a life. The
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: people said they liked breastfeeding over chest feeding, so there's that.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: And Hispanic over Latinx. They like that. Of course. And
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I got to give credit, James, to my Latin brothers
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: and sisters, okay, from different mothers. Because they tried to
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: get rid of Speedy Gonzalez years ago when they were
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: getting rid of everything. And they said, no, we like
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Speedy Gonzalez. Don't get rid of Speedy Gonzalez. And that
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: whole Latinx thing, that's a nightmare. And I love it.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: I love that they're pushing back against the knuckleheads that
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: have been given a microphone. And yeah, I mean, I
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: still use. I don't really have a context to use breastfeeding.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: I guess I do say it occasionally. Master bedroom. Yeah,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: I say that. Blind review. I don't really use blind review,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: but if I did, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: My God. All right, James, we'll do one more. This
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: is Wayne from Duluth. Wayne from Duluth writes, you ever
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: been to Duluth?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Duluth, Minnesota. I've been to Duluth once.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: That is, that's north of you there, Lake Superior, right
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: up there.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Lake Superior.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Wayne from Duluth says, Ben, did you see that there
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: was a J-Lo lookalike who became a viral sensation on
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: the internet, a woman from Minnesota? Do you think she'll
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: become famous like the Hawk Tour girl? All right, so, James,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: you don't know about this story, but there was a 30-
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know about this story.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Only if you tried to act like Milli Vanilli.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Remember Milli Vanilli? That's back in the day, too. I'm
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: dating myself.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not dating myself. Only sometimes.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Fun fact, James. I was doing local radio in L.A.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: when the Milli Vanilli controversy happened, and one of the
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: members of Milli Vanilli became a D.J., At Kiss FM,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: and I saw him in the hallways. One of the guys, unfortunately,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: took their own life, but the other guy was a DJ,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: and it was like a publicity stunt. And I saw
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: him in the hallway, and we all laughed. We're like, oh,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: my God, this guy was like a big star, and
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: it was all fake. It's wild. Anyway, so this woman's
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: 35 years old, and she was recently arrested for stealing...
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Power tool batteries at a store in Monticello, Minnesota. I
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: have no idea where that is. You ever been to Monticello, Minnesota?
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: I've heard of it, yeah.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: You have?
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Anyway, the booking photo went online and has a stunning
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: resemblance to J-Lo. People thought it was J-Lo being arrested
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: for stealing $ 580 worth of batteries. Pretty wild there.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: And she's going to jail for being an impersonator? A
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: female impersonator?
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: No, no, she went to jail for stealing batteries.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: She has two....
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Two double packs of power tools and all that. She
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: admitted to taking it.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: All right. Thank you for having me on. I'm enjoying this.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, I'm glad you're enjoying it, James.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: I love your show so much.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: You said to look for this on the podcast on
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: Sunday morning or something.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Well, that's when it airs on Sunday morning.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Well, James, thank you so much. Hollering James. You're the man.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: You're the man. James, can you remember? We're not done yet, James.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: You have to end properly. What did you used to say?
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: You used to do a little prayer there. Remember on
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: the show? Remember you talked about the church? What did
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: you used to say.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: On the show? Remember? Oh, wow. You're dating my mind.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: You're really going back in time.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: I know. All right. Well, it's fine. You don't remember.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: It's all good.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Can you help me out with the bed? Oh, help
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: me out with the bed.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: You think the fathers at the church in Minnesota, you know,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: you gave a little thing, a little speech there.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: The fathers and the sons.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: And the holy priests had their own grail.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: They weren't baptized with the wine. Some of them drank
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: too much. But I'm not even leading on to that.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: I'm just happy being on your show, man.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Any way I.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Can, man.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Well, we love you. All right, the great Hollering James.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: All right, shut up for a sec. So I will
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: be on all week starting tonight here, Sunday night, all
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: the way through the week. No days off scheduled. Enjoy
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: the NFL today. Obviously, we'll break down all the games tonight.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: And you never know who's going to pop up on
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: the mailbag, but another epic edition thanks to our friend
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Hollering James. And as Dick and Dayton would say, bye-bye.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Bye-bye. Bye.