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The Fifth Hour: Variety Pack Mailbag! · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The clearing House of hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me Ben
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  Speaker 1: Malor and it is the Sunday Pod the second day
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  Speaker 1: of August, the first Sunday Pod in August. It's amazing
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  Speaker 1: how that works. And without further ado, no bs, ohio Aal,
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  Speaker 1: get me in the mood.
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  Speaker 3: It's in.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations again ohio Al and Dick and Dayton winning the
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  Speaker 1: vote of the people, by the people, for the people
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  Speaker 1: in the mal of Palooza that we had a little
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  Speaker 1: while back. So we had split wins. Marcel won the
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  Speaker 1: vote of the judges and ohio Al and Dick and
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  Speaker 1: Dayton won, which was great because that was actually back
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  Speaker 1: in Kentucky where we did the meet and greet there
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  Speaker 1: and the people who heard it thought that was great.
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  Speaker 1: And now a lot of other people got to hear it,
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  Speaker 1: so that was kind of cool. Now we spin the
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  Speaker 1: wheel on the side host the number two chair on
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  Speaker 1: the mail bag a volunteer position. It's like a volunteer
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  Speaker 1: fire department. We spin the wheel round and around. Big money,
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  Speaker 1: big money, big money. Stop, and I present Robbie the
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  Speaker 1: Mariner fan back again.
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  Speaker 3: Hello Robbie, Hello Ben, what does everybody. I'm glad to
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  Speaker 3: be back. It's been a bit.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully everythingles smoothly and I'm looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: And it Congratulations. We decided, Robbie, we had a big
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  Speaker 1: meeting the staff here at the Fifth Hour podcast and
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  Speaker 1: we decided, in honor of the Seattle Mariners winning a
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  Speaker 1: championship this week, we thought you should come on here
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  Speaker 1: and do the mailback. So congratulations. I hope you had
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  Speaker 1: a good time at the parade.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was great. There were so many people. It
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  Speaker 4: was just it was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And next year the Mariners are going to have a promotion.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna have the day we beat the
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  Speaker 1: Dodger bobblehead. That'll be yes, So that'll be that'll be
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  Speaker 1: exciting and uh yeah, just just absolutely great. Meg got
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  Speaker 1: I watched the Mariager I said this on the air.
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  Speaker 1: I think I was watching the Mariner feet of the
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  Speaker 1: broadcast and it was oh boy, it was and Dave
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  Speaker 1: Valley was a good player, yeah years ago. But my god,
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  Speaker 1: he's just spewing cliches like dude.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it might be a unpopular opinion.
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  Speaker 4: I actually like really like Goldsmith or gold However, the
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  Speaker 4: play by play guy I think is really good. His uh,
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  Speaker 4: his compete, the people they pair him with leave something
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  Speaker 4: to be desired on a nightly basis, and it's always
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  Speaker 4: easy to you know, punch at the the uh, the
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  Speaker 4: playoff player, the color commentary, and that's that's become a
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  Speaker 4: thing for Americ fans. But it's kind of deserved. It's
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  Speaker 4: it's it's a long it's a far cry from back
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  Speaker 4: in the days of when it was either Rick Riz
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  Speaker 4: or Dave nee House doing the game.
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  Speaker 1: So oh yeah, Dave Neehouse the goat, the goat back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Rick Riz isn't far behind you. Yeah, of fame
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  Speaker 4: one day too.
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  Speaker 1: Is he still doing what? He's retired now, this is
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  Speaker 1: his last.
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  Speaker 4: Year, so he's kind of you know, he doesn't do
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  Speaker 4: every game and everything.
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  Speaker 1: He so okay, yeah, I got you get out the
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  Speaker 1: right bread and bustard Grandma. Its great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do without
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  Speaker 4: that saying anymore. Because he he carried that tradition on
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  Speaker 4: from Dave knee House. He does that same call for
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  Speaker 4: Grand Slams. It's going to be sad next year if
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  Speaker 4: there ever is a Grand Slam with how about our.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's the press. It's like doing play by
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  Speaker 1: play on a funeral. Here comes to you. They gotta
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  Speaker 1: dig that hole, get the body in there. Come on now.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's wild to zero lead to zero deficit feels
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  Speaker 4: insurmountable at this point.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so sad and it's it's crazy, Robber. I
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  Speaker 1: think I've said this to you before. But like when
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  Speaker 1: I remember the Seattle Mariners when I was younger at
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdome. They always had great offense. The pitching was
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  Speaker 1: a little walky most of the time. I have like
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  Speaker 1: one or two pitchers. The rest of them you could,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get a bunch of runs again. So it is,
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  Speaker 1: it is a tough spot. Most of the younger broadcasts,
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  Speaker 1: like I it's there's not a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 1: are that good.
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  Speaker 4: U you know, we don't They all go to like
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  Speaker 4: the same school and learn the same way, and so
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  Speaker 4: it's very formulaic at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, that's another problem, Like there's no originality.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what is the issue with me?
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  Speaker 1: Is the original Back in the old days, it was
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  Speaker 1: when sports was a mom and pop operation, they you know,
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  Speaker 1: they'd allow Harry Carey to get hammered on the air.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't. Now it's so corporate you have to say
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  Speaker 1: anything mildly offensive. You know, it's like, my god, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? And it's not even about being offensive,
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  Speaker 1: it's just being entertaining. Yeah, exactly, if you're entertaining, he was, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to make it all about you. Well, so
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to get people to watch if the team's terrible, Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, come on, I think of all. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: if you watch a lot of these other broadcasts. The
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  Speaker 1: guy inside he goes really good. Uh, I forget his name, but.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Mets. The Mets guys are the best.
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  Speaker 4: But that's just they're on early in the day on
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  Speaker 4: the West coast for us because they play on the
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  Speaker 4: East Coast. So I watch a lot of Mets baseball.
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  Speaker 4: They when the Mets suck, they will they don't hide it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good like the Mets. I don't mind the
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  Speaker 1: Giants broadcasters that they're old dudes, uh Padres. I don't
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  Speaker 1: mind some. I just mute most of them. I just
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  Speaker 1: the Twins used to have good broadcasters. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what those guys are boring anyway. All right, well we
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  Speaker 1: have questions, Robbie, so let's jump right into the mail bag.
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  Speaker 1: First up is my man Reggie from Detroit. He says, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Benny and whoever, and you please explain to those of
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  Speaker 1: us that send email to the podcast how you decide
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  Speaker 1: who's in the co host chair of the podcast. It
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  Speaker 1: seems rather random, whether it's Robbie, Breed, Nostradinas, Justin or
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  Speaker 1: whoever you had last week. Do you use the mallor
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  Speaker 1: hopper from the world, No, Reggie, I do not use
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  Speaker 1: the malor hopper. It is I don't know. Should we
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  Speaker 1: tell people how we make the susch age? Well, I
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  Speaker 1: really have no rhyme or reason with this. Like I
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  Speaker 1: record the mail bag at certain times, and it's an
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  Speaker 1: ad on them, you know what I mean, Robbie's an
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  Speaker 1: add on item. It's not it's not set in soon.
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  Speaker 1: I do not want to have a set time to
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  Speaker 1: do the mail bag. So normally what happens is it
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  Speaker 1: just depends on my sked. Like when I can do
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  Speaker 1: the mail bag, then what happens is I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to have someone. I can't lock someone in to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: be avail. It's not like a delivery of a sofa
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  Speaker 1: where you have to be available all day. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do that to someone. So like what happens
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  Speaker 1: is I say, Okay, I'm going to do the mail bag,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna I'm going to reach out to
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  Speaker 1: people I want to talk to, and whoever responds first
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  Speaker 1: gets to do the mail bag. That's about it. It's
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  Speaker 1: not I don't maybe I should plan it out, Reggie,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm Robbie's been great. He's been
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  Speaker 1: available more than anybody. So availability is the key. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to be available otherwise, you know. Come on, yep,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's see. Thanks Reggie for that wonderful question
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  Speaker 1: to start our Carl from Michigan somewhere in Michigan rights
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  Speaker 1: and he says, Ben, I know you've complained in the
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  Speaker 1: past about this setup. How is this lawsuit going to
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  Speaker 1: change the sports collectible industry? And he sent me the story.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you've seen it. Rob the PSA, the Authoritator group.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this actually with you. I think you
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  Speaker 1: were on when we talked about this.
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  Speaker 3: I believe, I know we've talked cards.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if we specifically talked the new lassit
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  Speaker 4: against PSA.
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  Speaker 1: But we haven't talked about this. But I've complained that
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of cards, some of them I
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  Speaker 1: think are worth some money. However, in order to get
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  Speaker 1: any real money, you have to send them in to
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  Speaker 1: this outfit, this PSA group, and then they have to
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  Speaker 1: grade it. And then if you get a good grade,
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  Speaker 1: like on a scale of one to ten, then you
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  Speaker 1: can actually if it's like a nine or a ten,
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  Speaker 1: you can get some real such a racket.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So this especially the part where you have to
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  Speaker 4: like you pay like a base fee, but then at
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  Speaker 4: the card they value it, They're like, oh no, this
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  Speaker 4: card is really expensive. Then you have to pay them
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  Speaker 4: again for the same card.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's a sliding scale. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: It is. So the lawsuit is for like a lot,
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  Speaker 1: isn't like a class action thing, but I saw like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. They argue that the according to
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  Speaker 1: the complaint, PSA built its reputation by promising collectors that
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  Speaker 1: its grades are based on standardized expert evaluations. Lawsuit claims
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  Speaker 1: that is misleading. It is subjective by I appeal, rather
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  Speaker 1: than consistent grading standards. So yeah, we'll see if they
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  Speaker 1: win or not. So carl to answer your question, A,
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  Speaker 1: they have to win, and even if they do win,
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  Speaker 1: you know, will this actually change anything. Well, they've had
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  Speaker 1: such a racket, as you said, Robbie, for so long.
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  Speaker 1: There's two groups. PSA is the big one though, that's
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  Speaker 1: the big and this is all a byproduct of when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid and people were ripping off people
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  Speaker 1: right and left with the counterfeit memorabilian merchandise cards and
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  Speaker 1: all that. So that led to the birth of PSA
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  Speaker 1: and the other group that does it. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know much about it other than I just read we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it would change it. There's got to be
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  Speaker 1: a different way to do it. There's so many, Charli,
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  Speaker 1: there's so many the scam artists, Charlie Charlton's is that
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Something like that?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, yeah, something like that. Now I'm kind
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  Speaker 4: of confused. No one how to pronounce it. Two but
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  Speaker 4: Eli kind of skated by with some fake memorabilia Eli
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  Speaker 4: Manning a couple of years ago too. It's even though
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  Speaker 4: PSA they when they launched it was this claim to
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  Speaker 4: like we're going to bring like you know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: put a good reputation behind this kind of industry that
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  Speaker 4: has a batter reputation. Doesn't seem like it's helped all
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  Speaker 4: that much. There's still quite a few scams.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Sure. Leo from Chicago right center the
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  Speaker 1: fifth Hour mail bag. You want to email the mail bag,
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  Speaker 1: it's real fifth hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth
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  Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com. Make sure to put your
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  Speaker 1: name in city if you want credit. Otherwise with just
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  Speaker 1: goof on you. Leo says, Hey, Ben, have you ever
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  Speaker 1: been bumped from a flight? He says that there was
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  Speaker 1: a flight this week in Vegas where it was one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen degrees this week in Vegas, and they
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  Speaker 1: had fifty passers. They had to get off the plane
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  Speaker 1: otherwise the aircraft could not take off safely. Oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: they offered people. I did actually see this Leo, they
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  Speaker 1: offered people a bunch of money, like they offered They
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  Speaker 1: always start out travel vouchers for five hundred and then
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  Speaker 1: they go up to like I think they offered fifteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars travel vouchers and then it went up. There's
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  Speaker 1: one story I read that said that somebody got six
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars over six thousand dollars in flight vouchers and
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of frequent flyer miles and all that. I
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  Speaker 1: have been bumped off a couple of flights, Leo, over
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  Speaker 1: the years. The trip to Hawaii to get married, we
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  Speaker 1: got bumped, well, we got bumped off the flight and
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  Speaker 1: then got upgraded to first class on the following flight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind. If I have time, I would lock.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine six thousand dollars in travel vouchers? Are
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  Speaker 1: you kidding me? I'd sit, I'd sleep at the airport
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  Speaker 1: for six dollars in travel vouchers. You ever been bumped
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  Speaker 1: from a fight? You know, travel that much, right, Robbie, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean no, But I've had my fair share of horror
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  Speaker 4: stories going, but never been bumped. I've have had to
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  Speaker 4: spend the night in Denver airport and I was stuck
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  Speaker 4: on the tarmac in Vegas a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 4: for three and a half hours.
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  Speaker 3: In the plane.
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  Speaker 4: We were about to take off and this dust storm
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  Speaker 4: hit and so we couldn't go back to the airport
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  Speaker 4: and we couldn't go take off, So we were just
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  Speaker 4: stuck like on the strip, the strip, just sitting there
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  Speaker 4: with no AC for three and a half hours.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of the worst experiences of my life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I had a similar experience, not in Vegas. I
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  Speaker 1: was in Chicago at O'Hare and there was a lightning storm.
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  Speaker 1: We had taxied from the gate to take off. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: there were too many planes ahead of us and the
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  Speaker 1: storm came in. You know, the weather in Chicago could be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly what happened to us, only it was
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  Speaker 3: in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so we we were stuck on the plane
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  Speaker 1: for more than three hours. They actually changed there's a
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  Speaker 1: there's a limit on how long they have to give
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  Speaker 1: you something if you're on the plane over a certain
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  Speaker 1: amount of time. That changed a few years ago, But
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  Speaker 1: back then they rap and that must have been the
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  Speaker 1: slowest moving storm because I mean insane like this so stupid.
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  Speaker 1: That is wild though, that the planes can't take off
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  Speaker 1: if it's too hot. There's a it's called density altitude
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  Speaker 1: extremely hot air less dense. It reduces the lift and
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  Speaker 1: the aircraft performance, especially when it was hotter, higher elevation location.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, you're fun fact about the heat
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  Speaker 1: and the well. You'd rather take a travel aboutcher than
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  Speaker 1: have the opposite happen, obviously, Yeah, al from the pond
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  Speaker 1: or pound rather for the pound, right pond pound, he says.
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  Speaker 1: A happy Sunday, Ben, and spin the wheel of co
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  Speaker 1: host the co hosts that would be Robbie the Miriner fan. Ben,
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  Speaker 1: do you know if Luigi was a mutt? Or do
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  Speaker 1: you have contact with Luigi's current family or he living
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  Speaker 1: on the streets of South Beach? Yeah, so I haven't
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  Speaker 1: I know where Luigi's living. I don't really have any
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  Speaker 1: contact with Luigi at this point. Luigi was not a mutt.
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  Speaker 1: Luigi was a full French bulldog and the biggest troublemaker,
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  Speaker 1: just an absolute devil dog. Luigi love Luigi, very sweet
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  Speaker 1: but conniving, very Luigi, always up to trouble, always up
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  Speaker 1: to no good. And yeah, I mean Moxie's the com
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  Speaker 1: my dog. Moxie now is ridiculously calm with Luigi though,
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  Speaker 1: it was a nightmare. It was like it was like
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  Speaker 1: a hex was put on on Moxie.
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  Speaker 3: You'd need an exorcist or something like.
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  Speaker 1: Luigi was the hype man and he'd hype her up
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  Speaker 1: and then so they'd team up together. He somehow got
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  Speaker 1: her all worked up into a lather to attack. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: In fact, my niece she's afraid to see Moxie because
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  Speaker 1: she was she was a little girl and she saw
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  Speaker 1: Moxie and Moxie like attacked. Oh wow, I gotta play,
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  Speaker 1: not like biting, but just like one and yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: but Moxie just sleeps the whole time. Now, that's so,
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  Speaker 1: that's all Moxie does. Uh So Yeah, anyway, thanks Solf.
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  Speaker 1: Out Back John and Joanna right in fifth hour Mailbags,
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  Speaker 1: Big Ben in special guest. That's Robbie the Merinith, the
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  Speaker 1: Legendary of Robbie celebrating the Mariners Championship. This week. When
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  Speaker 1: Joanna and I go out to eat, it's out back
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  Speaker 1: John and Joanna, we always sit across from each other,
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  Speaker 1: however not but not, but however, if we go out
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  Speaker 1: to eat with others, we will sit next to each other.
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  Speaker 1: We have to position ourselves appropriately, as I am right
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  Speaker 1: handed and she is a lefty. Our question this week
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  Speaker 1: is do you and missus Mahler do the same when
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  Speaker 1: it's just two of you, or do you have to
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  Speaker 1: do the same when dining with others. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: about it that much. I do know when we go
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  Speaker 1: out alone, you know those some restaurants have half a
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  Speaker 1: booth and then chairs. So I'd rather sit on the
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  Speaker 1: booth and she would too. So we'll sit. We'll sit
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  Speaker 1: next to each other if it's half a booth, if
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  Speaker 1: it's not. If it's the same, we'll sit across from
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  Speaker 1: each other. And as far as I don't even notice,
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  Speaker 1: like we're both right handed, so I don't really logistics
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  Speaker 1: on that. I don't really worry about like that part
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  Speaker 1: of it. So anyway, Caleb from so Cow rights into
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  Speaker 1: the mailbag. He says, Ben, are you worried that roombas
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  Speaker 1: are going to be banned from the United States? The
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  Speaker 1: government is banning all robot vacuum cleaners entering the country. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a room bus, so why would I care? Caleb?
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I saw the headline. Do you
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  Speaker 1: see anything about this, Robbie, I have.
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  Speaker 4: Not this is we got a room by at one
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  Speaker 4: point and it just seems like it's more pain than
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  Speaker 4: just doing it ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't think we used it much.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you have to have a flat like if it's
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  Speaker 1: got to be completely flat a room but can't go
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: over bumps, can't go upstairs? Yeah, so if.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: You and we have stairs, So it was just like,
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: might as well just do it ourselves?
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do too. We have. And it's annoying too,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: because every room so I don't know what they call it,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: but there's like stare at you know, go up like
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: one one step to another room and then down a step,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and it's like, ah, yeah, yeah, all right, what else
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: do we have? JT? The Wingman writes in from Parts Unknown, Tennessee.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you changed to that JT. Thank you because
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I still don't know how to pronounce your JT. Will
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: get the Mallard Meet and Greet August twenty ninth, so nice,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: twenty seven days. You'll be there, right, rocket yep.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Yep, great rockets. Rooms booked, the plane, tickets booked, everything's
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: book Have.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: You bought your tickets to the meet and greet because
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: that'll cost you seven hundred dollars to.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Get shout out weed Man back when he.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Was like, yeah, remember that Benny and the weed Man.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: We were gonna rent out. What do you want? Which
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: hotel that do you want to want?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I don't remember which one.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Caesar's Palace I forget, but he he's like, yeah, well charge.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I was like five hundred dollars a ticket or something
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I remember when he said that.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: When he started with five, I thought he was going
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: to say like five or fifty dollars. When he said
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: five hundred, my jaw hit the floor. And then the
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: best part of that entire story was you were like
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: yelling and I'm like, no one's gonna pay. He's like,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: don't worry, no one will be turned away if they.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Don't have the money. Well, then why are you charging
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: that much to get with it?
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Was?
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: It was one of the better one of the more
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: iconic times in Malar history, show history.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: The genius of weed Man. I don't know if you
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: heard the yesterday's podcast, but I called him up. I
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: tried to get him free food for his birthday. I figured, Hey,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: this is your day to go out and Bud restaurants
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: offer free food. So I told the story because when
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I was younger, I did that. One of my birthdays.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I went out, I went to Danny, I got the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: free you know breakfast. I went to McDonald's. They would
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: give you like an ice cream coat. Like that was
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: years ago many so I do that. I did that.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I thought, well, this would be great. You know, We'n's
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: got no money. He's begging Purrito to send him burritos,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and so I said, why not we man and so
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: so I'm on the phone with him and I'm like,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: He said, oh, you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Know, I love That's a great idea. Thanks Ben. And
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: then he said where should I go? So I'm like,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: all right, restaurants that offer free stuff for your birth
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: There I typed in. All these restaurants come up. So
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, this is great. So I'm like, well,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: there's Starbucks everywhere, so I'll click on Starbucks. See what
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you get. He said, well, you get a little small,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: like a small like a dessert or something like that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I said fine, and then he said, oh, you got
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to sign up for the rewards thing last night. And
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: then every restaurant I went to, they all I did
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: not find one that just said show your ID and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: free whatever. And weed man doesn't know how to use
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the internet, Like he just on YouTube watching old episodes
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: of Johnny Carson and he doesn't know email. I've sent
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: up an email address. I Coop has set up an
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: email address, and he always forgets the password, doesn't check it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: He lost his used to be on Twitter, on face Book,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: he lost his password, and he's so lazy he doesn't
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: even bother to find a new password. You know what
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I mean. It's wild.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there is shocking some of the people that I've
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: become friends with in Marlosia. The tech level, the tech
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: competence level is slapping shout out, goat man in a
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: justin Cincinnati. I'm sure they're happy I'm shouting out there
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: complete lack of technological ability.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: But it's true, shots fired. Like I'm not I can't
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: program a computer, but I know my way around. I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: know the basics, like have had to learn the basics
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of how to.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Do like you could recover a lost password if you
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: had to. That's challenging for certain people apparently.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Well even my work email, which I never checked because
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the first thing they get rid of you have email.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: When you're fired is your work email, So I learned
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: in nine January twentieth of nine, I learned a very
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: valuable lesson that you should not use that work email
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: for any important things because as soon as get let yo,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you need to check those things, and it's gone. So
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I did get locked out of the work. I had
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to do some training stuff for work, and then I
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: couldn't get in there, and then I emailed the boss.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Of course he didn't write back right away, so then
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I was able to figure it out on my own.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: It must have been a glitch because I typed. I
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: kept typing the same password. Anyway, JT writes, and he says,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: as the world continues to turn, and I reflect on
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: this week's buck moon, I can't help but wonder what
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: your favorite constellation might be. My dad would love. My
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: dad loved getting the telescope out and looking up at
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the heavens and looking at the different constellations and all that.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: And the last few years of my dad's life, this
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: was pretty cool, and you can still do this. He
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: loved to go out and look at the space station.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: When there's a website, NASA has the International Space Station,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and you can go out of your house and see
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: it floating over you. They tell you when it's going
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to go over your house. Pretty cool, actually, and I
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I used to do that. My dad would would run
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: out to go do it, and it would be pretty
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. U constellation. I don't know what you what
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: is your favorite? Who knows? I used to I used
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to know them all back in the days, wasn't.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Was it the Little Dipper that's the only one I remember?
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Or was it the Big Dipper?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I believe it was the Big Dipper?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well I don't remember that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Well it was who came up with the name of them,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: like a long time ago. They've been around. They haven't
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: changed the names. No, none of those constellations have been canceled,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: he says. I know the Fifth Hour podcast does not
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: include our friendly astrologer Andrea, but I am sure a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: real night owl like you must check out the stars
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: from time to time. Personally, I have always been a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: fan of Orion, as it's very easy to find in
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the north Northern hemisphere and like your favorite DJ once
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: said many times, keep your feet on the ground and
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: keep reaching for the doors. Late great Casey Casein. Yeah,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: so I do have fun. I have my dad's tell
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: us dope. He didn't take it with him, so I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: haven't used it. But it's it's here somewhere burry from
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: South Carolina right sin yo yo mob any but not
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: for long. I will be free from the gestapo hoa
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: very soon. Well that's great. Yeah, never Robbie, when you
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: go get your own place, Robbie, no hoa, stay away
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: from the HOA. Do not a. Do what you have
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to do. No hoa.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: We have a modified HOA at the moment where I live,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: it's a historical landmark house and those are pains as
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: it can be. So I don't I don't know why
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: anyone would voluntarily do an hoa because the horror stories
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: sound awful.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: It's terrible, terrible anyway, he says, you love to say
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: What's in the box. However, have you seen the Netflix
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: show What's in the Box? It's pretty lame. I have
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: not have you seen that show?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I haven't even heard of it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: What's in Let me? Let me? Let me look here?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Is this like just a YouTube thing where it's on Netflix? Though?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: What's in the Box? Uh la la la, it's a
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Netflix series. It's anyone's game, but only one duo can
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: leave with the super box. The jaw dropping twists and turns.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: This sounds Oh it's hosted. I recognize that guy. Yeah,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: who's let's see here o Neil Patrick Harris. There you go.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: You have to players have to answer trivia to win
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: spectacular hidden prizes. But can they keep them from the competition? Yeah,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I'm good, all right, I don't need that Greenlok's that.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I know. It looks like they only did one season,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: six uppisodes. That's it. Those game shows. That's the life. Though.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: If you're I know, entertainment's not what it was when
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I was growing up, and it's just you know, do
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: ten minute videos on YouTube and you're rich and all that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: That's great, good for you, But I remember the the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: game show thing is the way to remember these old guys.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna date myself. But this guy named Stu Nahan
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: was a famous sportscaster in La Silver Tips. Stu was
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: his nickname because he loved to free load. And Stu
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: was a local TV sports guy. And there was a
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: weather guy. This is at NBC back you know, forty
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: years ago, fifty years ago, and so Stu had the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: weather guy and Stu were buddies, and the weather guys say, hey,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I got this thing. This I was offered this game
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: show and Stu's like, ah, nah, you shouldn't take that though,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you know, those things come and go. News people need
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: their news, you know, and the weather they need the weather.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Weather always important. So anyway, the guy ended up taking
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the job and his name was Pat Sajack and it
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: was like the easiest gig in the world. He lived
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: in Maryland or something like that, and he'd fly out
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to la and he would do a few episodes or
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: a bunch of episodes of the Wheel of Fortune and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: then fly back and it was great. And you do
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the news back in those days, you had to do
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: like five newscasts a day and it was a big panow.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: So it was a lot of work to actually do
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the news back in the day. Anyway, thank you for that, Barry.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I will not be watching What's in the Box? Alf
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: from the Pound. Did I do this one? I think
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I did this one? Didn't we do this?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: We did this one? All right? Yes, that job by me?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: All right? Scott from northern Kentucky. Remember you met Scott
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: right at the Mallar.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Meet and greet there, he believe, so, yes, he.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And his wife were there. He's from southern California, Ben,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: What are some of your pet peeves? For example, I
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: can't stand when people say irregardless. Drives me crazy. Also
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: when I go to the drive up ATM and those
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: those rare occasions I need cash and a person ahead
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: of me gets out of the car at the drive
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: up ATM. That's some scott in northern Kentucky. So I'll
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: give you a few. I have a bunch of pet peeves.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a few of them. When I'm trying
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: to get into and out of the store and I
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: just want to get my groceries and get home, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the babushka in front of me, who has no friends
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: or family, her kids don't call her anymore. She holds
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: up the grocery line for twenty minutes talking to the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: teller drives me nuts. Just get your lettuce and tomatoes
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and get the hell out of there. Leave us alone.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you have no one to talk to.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: That's very sad to me. But you're ruining my day.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I'm also annoyed.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I'm also annoyed, Robbie. When I go to Trader Joe's
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and they don't have self checkout, and I have to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: go to a checkout stand because I just I love
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the self checkout. Now, I don't steal stuff like a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: lot of you idiots. That's why they're getting rid of
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: self checkout. But I would love to just go and
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: do self checkout. Trader Jo's doesn't have that. I also
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: am very annoyed by people when you're driving and they
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: don't use their turn signals when they're changing lanes. Are
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: you that, Like, if you're gonna be an a hole,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: fine cut me off. Just at least be polite about
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: it with your exactly, just like, just signal your changing lanes.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: And if you're that lazy, you shouldn't have your driver's license.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: You know any pet peeves Robbie that you have.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, people that needlessly say the word right in the middle,
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: beginning and end in every sentence drives me insane.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: That is that is your nightmare? Yeah, I have done that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I've been guilty of that at times. I don't do
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it very often.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: It's not no, I've never noticed it with you. But
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: there's people that are like news journalists that will say
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: it so often. It's it just sounds like a fifth
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: grader talking.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: It's shocking to me.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Let's see, well that you are supposed to relate to people,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: so you have to kind of dumb it down, Robbie.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: I guess that's true. Maybe maybe I've looked at it
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: wrong this entire time.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: You have to relate to everyone. Quieting from Ho Chi
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Minh Vietnam rights and he says, hey, Big Ben. On
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the Monday, July twenty seventh Original Recipe podcast, you mentioned
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: that NFL media insiders were sitting around playing Tiddleywinks while
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: waiting for the green light to break the Kyle Shanahan
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: car accident start. I have a feeling you intentionally slipped
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: in the little faux paw just to see if I
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was paying attention. So thanks for the laugh. Could you
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: ask weed Man Hippie if he ever sold Tiddleywinks in
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the New York Store, which is, of course a game.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I'll try to remember that Quang weed Man will be
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: on Monday into Tuesday unless he forgets to show up.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: And Quang is really interested in me having this macaroni
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and cheese pizza thing we talked about in a previous
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: episode of The Mail back does sound very good. Yeah,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: so he's trying to coordinate. He's like calling people from
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: what I heard, so I don't can email them back.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, yeah, I'd like to try
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I'd like to try it. I schedule wise, it's only
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: available on Sundays, so which is today, by the way,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So anyway, Scott from Florida writes in he says, hey,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: big Ben and friend growing up, my best friend had
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: an excuse as the at the ready. At the ready,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Scott says, if he was pulled over for speeding, Sorry, officer,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get to my SAT tutor. I'm sorry.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: How does that stack up versus going to see dead
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: grandma and grandpa? Is that true? I read that? Is
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: that accurate that Tony's grandparents aren't even alive? Is that? Yeah?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I heard that they weren't alive.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: So that's awkward. Yeah, do you have a better story
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: if the mallamobiles pulled over? No, Scott, I can't get
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: out of tickets. The only I'm convinced the only people
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: get like Lorraina gets out of the ticket, like hot
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: would get out of things. A guy can't get out
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of a ticket. How do you get everything? I got
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: pulled over. I've been pulled over many times, but a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: few years ago I've told the story. Before I got
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: pulled over. I was on my way to work, and
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the cop they always asked where you going? What are
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you in such a hurry, you know when he get
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: pulled over? Well, I'm going to the going to This
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: time I could actually say it. I was was going
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to the radio station. Oh really, what do you do?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: What do you do? Well, I'm a talk shows? Oh
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: this is great. Uh yeah, what what station? I said?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't say Fox Sports Radio. I said the local
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: station because I figured he probably might know the station,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: so I said, oh really, uh and uh and then
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: he he he asked if I knew Petros. He didn't
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: care about my she didn't even know who know who
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I was. So if I was Petros, I would have
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: gotten out of the ticket. If I was the p
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I would have gotten the ticket. But yeah, I don't.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I don't have anything. I have been pulled over where
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: they thought I was drunk and I'm not drunk, and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: they get really depressed because that's like a big cops
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: get drunk drivers. That's like they get awards for that
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and oh really, Yeah, if you get the most drunk drivers,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: you get rewarded and whatever prizes. So anyway, yeah, any
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: go to Robbie, you get pulled off.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: I have gotten out of a ticket when I was
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: with my brother, but it was just because I think
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: he realized he had. He said, we turned eighty feet.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: You're supposed to apparently at all in the town I
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: live in, if you blinker, you have to wait a
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: hundred feet before you turn, and we only did the
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: eighty And I asked how he could prove that in court.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: He almost, I heard a mutter, that's a good point,
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: and so he just gave us a warning and so
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: let us go. So because it was like the middle
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: of the night. And yeah, but no, I don't have
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: any good excuse. I would probably just say not guilty
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: because the cops usually they pre existing conflicts and so
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: they wouldn't be able to show.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Up to the actual court case and you get off anyway.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they hate having to go to court because they
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: have to go to court on their days off usually exactly.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: I learned that from my dad, who may or may
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: not have been a lawyer.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: So aha, see there's good legal advice right there. Yeah,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: unsolicited legal advice ferg Dog, and Fullerton writes in he says, Hey,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Ben and friend of Ben, I really enjoyed the last
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: week's mail bag with Jerry Coleman. After having a true
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: professional like him on, It's going to be very hard
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: to go back to amateurs like Robbie the Marriory. Maybe
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: ad help if Friends of the Show all took ASU's
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: influencer program. Yeah, is there a rivalry? Do we have
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: a rivalry between ferg Dog and Robbie the Mariner fan
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: or is he just trying to be like Justin and Cincinnati.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: First it was Justin and then it was goat Man,
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: and then Goatman and ferg Dog. I feel like started collaborating,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: and Goatman's been buusy with work and life stuff lately,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: so he hasn't been listening line as much, and Fergug
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: has taken a ton and run with it lately in
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: terms of trolling me.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: So did the see I guess.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it says I'm interested in the free chairs you
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: talked about in last week's episode of the show. I
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: don't believe you ever said how many you picked up?
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Is the pink color growing on you. We picked up
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: four chairs, four dining room chairs that are now pink.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: It is not growing on me. It's not for me.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I don't really care. It's just a chair. I'm not
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: going to get worked up into a lather about a chair.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: There are things to get worked up about. Robbie, Yep,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: this is not one of those things. You got to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: pick your spots. I'm going to get worked up. I
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: get worked up over was it Kyle Shanahan's funky arrest?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I get worked up over that, Robbie that it worked
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: up too. Not this. There's some funny something's going on.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Something's odd.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know what.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: And if I can't fee, well, there's no reasonable explanation
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: for what's going on. So I'm glad you haven't let
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: it go. Like literally every other news station that never
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: even I would say they let it go, but they
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: never really seemed interested to begin with.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: It's so odd.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Eleven Day Gap won't release the video, won't release the video.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: So if Chanahan said I did it, I'm the I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: was the bad guy, So what's wrong? Why not? You
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: can cover up the other ladies and nobody exactly it
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: looks like And if it just makes no sense, and
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: you know, there's all kinds of conspiracies that was he
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: alone in the car? Was there something else going on?
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't tactor that in. That's a good point.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that could be something. You know, I'm not
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: saying that, you know.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I'm just I was gonna say something about.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I was probably say the same thing you were going
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: to say.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: It starts with an R. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: yeah yeah.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Well all right, anyway, so who knows what else do
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: we have? Chris from the Jersey Shore rights in the middle.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: He says, you think this is good police workmen, and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: then he's sent in his part of New.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: I guess it's not.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Actually he's in the Jersey Shore, but in somewhere in
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: New Jersey near New York City. Cop dressed up as
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: a bush on the side of the road to catch
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: distracted drivers on their phones, and the New Jersey cop
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: ended up. They get they caught seventy distracted drivers on
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: their phone, which that's like shooting fish in the barrel.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah you can't. We're all guilty of peeking down at
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: some point or another. We've all done it. The bad
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: offenders though, my god and I have noticed in the
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: modern era. Rob this is another pet peeve, even though
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: I'm guilty of it too, is when you're at a
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: red light and it turns and there's always like a
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: two minute lag because everyone's on their phone. Yeah, like
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the signal, which in some ways makes it safer. No
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: one's blowing through the signal because they're waiting right.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Unintended, Like everyone not following the law makes it safeer.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: That's kind of ironic, but yeah, you're right.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no one's jumping the signal because they want to
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: get through. They're like, they got to put their phone down.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: They were texting there whoever? The video of that, like
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: that cop thing, And obviously my wife works at a
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: police station in Lines, but the cop thing is like,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: that's how you know there's nothing going on in that town.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: There's no god of murder, gotta go, no a guy
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: in Boca.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: No, there is literally nothing going on. So let's just
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: find things to do. Is That's what that strikes me?
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: As we find things to do. So that's this is
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: a good idea and it is pretty funny when you
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: see it. Ricky from New York rights in that's rather
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: a big state. I'm assuming upstate, he says, Benny and
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: whoever that would be robby the Marina fan is my
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: state going to kill the prediction market? And the hope
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: not New York suing Calshi for thirty six billion. You
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: hear about this thirty six billion. They want to shut
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: down the prediction market. They claim they're running an illegal
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: gambling operation. Yeah, Goshi, which is really just them wanting
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a cut of the most exactly. That's what this is, like, Yeah,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: you're not paying us, and they're the moment.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: This Originally when DraftKings and FANDUL first started getting into gambling,
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: wasn't it like Virginia was like, oh, we got to
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: take down these these mobile gaming operators or not like
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: video game but you know, sports books. And then they
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: ended up just partnering and getting a cut of every transaction.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: So that's probably what's going to end up happening.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Usually that's what happened. It is fascinating to me because
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: in the People's Republic of California where I live, a
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, there was a ballot measure to
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: legalize sports wagering and it was backed by Draft Kings
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and fan Duel, the big gambling companies and it didn't
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: pass because the Native American groups that owned the casinos
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: in California said well, we're you know, we're we want
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: our cut. You know, they wanted to control This is
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: what I was told you who know the way I
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: heard it was the casinos. The Native American casino said well, no,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: we want to control the market. And so it was
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: supposed to go back on the ballot and then I
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: think this was around pandemic time. It never went back
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: on the ballot. But here in California now because of
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the prediction market, it just all of a sudden, there
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: were no laws changed, there was nothing, no legislation. They
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: just started taking bets. And so now like DraftKings is
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: in California, but they have to call it it's like
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: a loophole. I don't know all the legalese. Obviously, it's
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: it's crazy.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of confusing how it's a loophole, But
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: I do you know, it seems like they've both klshi
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: DraftKings and poly Market have known there was going to
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: be some waterloose level a lawsuit at some point, and
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: so they've been gearing up for it knowing at some
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: point someone's going to challenge them on.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: This this loop hole.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: So I think they probably have the best lawyers prepared.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: It's going to be an epic battle courtroom wise.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: You know, the people winning will be the lawyers. They
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: will exactly billable hours exactly. Denny from Nebraska. He says
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: it's his first email to the podcast. He says, Ben,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I read on social media that a growing number of
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: job applicants are hiding prompt injections in their resume to
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: trick AI screeners into ranking them as qualified candidates. Is
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: this fair or foul? What do you think? Thanks for
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the podcast, Denny from a small town in Nebraska. Thank you, Dan.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna imagine you as a farmer on a tractor
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: with overalls and a straw hat. That's in my head.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: So okay, so let's break this down here, Robbie. So
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: this AI, I guess companies are using AI to screen
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: resumes and these people are putting you know, how they
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: can put special, hidden, hidden writing in there, like they
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: had professor back east that tricked people. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to rule this is fair. If you're
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: using AI screeners instead of humans to reveal job applications,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: then all's fair and love. In job applications.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: And applying for a job, it's kind of like a
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: warrick this point. I agree with you on the completely.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's on you. Nick from San Diego says,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: did you see the fight video in my fine city?
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: How did you score this amateur boxing match? Things? My
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: answer off the air, that's from Nick. Oh, this is
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the video, Robbie. I'm sure you saw this, maybe not
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Mission Beach. A couple of guys fighting right on the
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: water there on a path. They were walking their dogs.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I did see this last night.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: And the dogs start fighting each other too. It's a
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: human dispute. It turns into a canine fight. And anyway,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Nick says, the guy in the black tank top continued
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: to strike and engage while the other guy was trying
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: to separate the dogs. And then he wants to know
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: my thoughts. Well, look, it violates the sports. There's a
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: lot of rules in sports, right in boxing. It's safety, fairness, sportsmanship,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: you know, those kind of things. And this is more
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: than a warning. If I'm the judge in there, that
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: is a certainly it's a point deduction for the guy
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: that kept punching possible disqualification. And I'm happy to report
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: my dog Moxie would not engage in a fight. Moxie
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: would just play down and you know, put a tongue
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: out and that's it. Take a nap. So that's why
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the dogs. That was one of the dogs was like
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: a shepherd type dog, large dog, and then there was
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: a smaller dog I don't know, like a mutt's. That's
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: a loyal dog. A dog will fight for you. Yeah,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: loyal dog that is. That's outstanding. See what else I mean?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I've got a few more here, Boo, what do we
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: have time for? Leo from Chicago, all right city says man.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I know this is not a sports podcast or a
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: political podcast. I don't know what this story falls into.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I read that flock cameras there are one hundred and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: twenty thousand of these things with automatic license plate readers
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: in forty nine states, and that in one California city
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: they got the license plate wrong seventy one percent of
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: the time. Where do you stand on these flock cameras?
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Thanks Leo from Chicago. Yeah, so I don't, like I thought,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I don't want to live in a police state. Robbi,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You know what I mean,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: there is a balance between safety and tyranny, and you
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have I feel like it's too much.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: I feel, well, have you ever seen those videos of
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: when like someone doesn't cross the street properly and China
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden horde of drones will just
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: like start flashing out them to make everyone aware that
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: they didn't do it correctly. I pray we don't get
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: to a point like that, but you never know. The
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: flock cameras do seem to be getting closer and closer
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: to the just having drones in the sky at all times.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little, a little much, and it's one
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: of those things that's as I understand, it started out
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: with good intentions, Like you know, kids get kidnapped. You know,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: we're trying to find cars, we have the license plate,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: we can't find the cars, so we'll just leave cameras
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: up and then when these people drive by, we'll get
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the camera and we'll save the kid and that'll be that. Okay. Well,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: now we have one hundred and twenty thousand cameras in
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: forty nine of the fifty six. I wonder which state
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: doesn't have them. I don't know. It's got to be
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: some state Texas.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Maybe, I don't know.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: It's it seems it seems like a state where they
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know, who knows.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Let me see. Oh you uh hold, I'm gonna try
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: this right now here. You talk for a minute, roun.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: It's either going to be a small state or a
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: very libertarian leaning state. So it might just be a
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: state that doesn't have enough funding or people. So I
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: could see it being like South Dakota or something.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Let's see, only state without flock cameras. Uh, I don't.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Of course I didn't.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Nothing came up. Let me let me Yeah, I.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: Would be shocked if it wasn't in all fifty at
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: this point.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably probably, Well, and don't I don't know how
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it works because somebody's gotta paid for it.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Is it the company? How do they make money? How
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: would the company make money if they installed?
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: Are they get a cut on the tickets paid?
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: Like if you're oh.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did that with the red light cameras. They
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: then the judge in LA ruled they're illegal or that
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: you can't actually write tickets. Oh here we go. The
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: only state. According to flock Safety, the only state that
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: does not operate currently is Hawaii.
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: Oh that makes well, my theory kind of worked.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: It a small state.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: But why there's not a lot of cars, and parts
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: of Honolulu there's a lot of cars. Honolulu is a
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: ton of cars. So what else do we have? Uh,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: all right, Mike, we'll get out of this. Mike from Wisconsin,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: says Benny an insert name here, that's Robbie the Mariner fan.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: I know you're not a tattoo guy, but let's do
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: this shark tank style. Would you invest in this? Uh?
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: This company? And so there's a London buy According to Mike,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: there's a London biotech startup called cipher x c I
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: p h e er might be pronouncing that wrong, which
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: has created permanent stick on tattoos using mike groscopic micro
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: needles instead of a traditional tattoo gun. The tattoo comes
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: on a small adhesive patch that applied to the skin
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: for about fifteen minutes. You using this special applicator, you
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: will have a permanent tattoo. The micro needles are less
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: than one millimeter long and deposit pigment just beneath the skin.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: No bleeding, no lengthy healing process. Right now, the tattoos
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: are limited to small, black, pre made designs like stars,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: heard skulls, you know, like the kind of stuff girls
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: get on a girl's trip to Miami or something like that. Yeah, so, Mike,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I would I if I was doing Shark Tank, like
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: if I was one of the you know, the wealthy
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: investors and somebody came in and made an elevator pitch
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: on this, Yeah, I would.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: I would.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I would do it.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you if you market it, or if you
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: have it in the right place, like you said, like
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: a Miami especially since they're small, so it sounds like
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: they might not be that expensive. But if I was
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: a tattoo artist, this sounds kind of scary. This sounds
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: like something that can eventually put you put them all
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: out of business because it takes the worst part of
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: the tat well, for some people, the thought of the
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: tattoo process is what prohibits some people from ever getting
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: a tattoo.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: So yeah, for sure, for sure, All right, well on
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: that we will get out of here. Anything you want
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: to promote, Robbie, you have your own YouTube show that
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: you have, right, yep.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: And I want to try to promote a little bit
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: better than last time because the Ausie guy heard it
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: and tore me a new one. He said, I didn't
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: do a very good job promoting it, which is fair.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: So it's Sunday mornings or evenings. We're still but usually
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Sunday mornings nine thirty am Eastern on YouTube, United States
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: of Australia, and we talk about a lot of washed
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: up comedians such as Stuttering John, Howard Stern, stuff like that,
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: and then I kind of do my own stuff at
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: the end where I just talk sports.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Is Stuttering John still doing a podcast what he was doing?
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: Yes, he is, and he's suing and getting sued and
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: so he kind of break all that down.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: So all right, yeah, check that out. It's a mustlessen podcast.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: It's right there, neck and neck with Joe Rogan's podcast,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: most downloads all over the place there, And you were
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: actually I think you got a complaint. Mister Beast is
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: worried about you and ougimo down his YouTube fame there.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I still have never watched anything mister Beasts.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Me neither.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: I don't understand, Like I've seen more eyeshow speed stuff
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: throughouts mosses than I have mister Beasts, and mister Beast
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: is like supposedly the most famous person alive, but I've
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: never seen anything he's done.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: I'm the same way. I have seen a lot more
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: of I show speed than mister Beast. And yet everyone says,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: mister Beast is where it's at. Who the hell's why?
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: It comes up in conversation like, hey, what's going on
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: with mister Beast? Do you ever watch me? Didn't come on,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: but I still have never seen if he was in
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the room with me, I wouldn't know who he was,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: just like a regular white dude, I wouldn't know.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: He does look like the most average dude ever. I
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: don't know if that's part of a peel or what,
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: but I who knows.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Anyway, have a great rest of your stundy full week
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: for me, no days off, no scheduled days off, so
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: I'll be in the audio box the sweatshop that rocks
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: there all week long, So be safe. Thank you for listening,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: we love you, and thanks to Robbie and bye bye
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: bye bye