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The Fifth Hour: Dodger Denial! · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
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Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something Special. The Fifth Hour
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Speaker 2: with Ben Mallard starts right now in.
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Speaker 1: The air everywhere.
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Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny g
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Speaker 3: Radio A Happy Friday to you. We have made it
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Speaker 3: to the weekend, and that means we slide on over
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Speaker 3: to the pod studio, not the regular radio studio. No, no, no,
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Speaker 3: this is a podcast only. We thank you for being
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Speaker 3: to the Fifth Hour Podcast with Me and Danny g Is.
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Speaker 3: It's now Friday, the twenty first day of the month
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Speaker 3: of March, and if my math is correct, this is
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Speaker 3: the last Friday without Major League Baseball until October. I
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Speaker 3: believe I'm correct on that right because I know the
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Speaker 3: season starts next week and then every Friday, even though
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Speaker 3: there's the All Star break that does not include Friday
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Speaker 3: so we will have baseball every weekend between now and
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Speaker 3: the World Series, which is exciting. And we actually have
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Speaker 3: a baseball related story here on the fifth hour that
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Speaker 3: we'll get to it a little bit and a lot
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Speaker 3: to break apart, a lot to break apart.
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Speaker 1: It's been a very busy week.
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Speaker 3: We'll start with this though, on this National Crunchy Taco
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Speaker 3: Day today. Yeah, somebody sent that to me and said
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Speaker 3: you better mention this. I want to thank Steve in Arizona,
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Speaker 3: a rather large state. I'm assuming Phoenix, but maybe not
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Speaker 3: someone in the Phoenix area. Anyway, Steve rhad in and said, Ben,
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Speaker 3: I know you do the you like to begin the
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Speaker 3: podcast by saying, you know what you know, dopey days.
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Speaker 3: It's National Crunchy doc Taco Day on Friday. That is correct, now, Steve,
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Speaker 3: I have gotten into many arguments with some of our
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Speaker 3: great Latin listeners who have the Latin blood that say
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Speaker 3: that what I enjoyed the crunchy taco is not an
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Speaker 3: authentic taco. And to those people, I say, FUOI I
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Speaker 3: like what I like, and I like the crunchy taco.
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Speaker 3: One of my great friends, he passed away a couple
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Speaker 3: of years ago, this guy, Alex, who was a worked
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Speaker 3: at a Mexican radio station in Los Angeles, did Mexican
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Speaker 3: sports talk and just one of my great friends. I
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Speaker 3: knew him since I was like a teenager, and he
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Speaker 3: was always very supportive and he would always bust my balls.
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Speaker 3: He said, gringo tacos racist, But they're actually called tacos dorado.
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Speaker 3: And one of the great things about living in Los
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Speaker 3: Angeles is not the traffic, it's not the politics.
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Speaker 1: It's the food. Amazing crunchy tacos.
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Speaker 3: A lot of plays not everywhere, a lot of the
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Speaker 3: more authentic stick up that took his places. Oh, we
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Speaker 3: don't serve loose, we only shift soft tacos. But I
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Speaker 3: love a crunchy taco. So thanks to Steve for pointing
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Speaker 3: out it is National Crunchy Taco Day, and I think
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Speaker 3: later today I will eat crunchy tacos. But it has
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Speaker 3: been a very busy extended dance remix on this show.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how literally I've been yappy. I feel
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Speaker 3: like I've been talking all week. I don't know whether
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Speaker 3: or not you've been consuming all of this or not.
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Speaker 3: I have no idea. We have been promoting it and
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Speaker 3: not trying to provoke anyone, but we have been promoting
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Speaker 3: it and I filled in not once but twice. In
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Speaker 3: LA I worked with Jonas Knox, my guy Jonas who
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Speaker 3: hosts the morning show on Fox Sports right now, on
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Speaker 3: the pregame show for Jonas, and despite us working essentially
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Speaker 3: both the overnight shift, regardless of that, we both formed
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Speaker 3: Vulture during the day. So right now, I'm not looking
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Speaker 3: for a purple heart. I'm not looking for some kind
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Speaker 3: of star near my name. I just want to point
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Speaker 3: out that in the last maybe twenty eight hours or so,
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Speaker 3: give or take, starting on Wednesday night, So Wednesday night
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Speaker 3: into Thursday, I did the overnight show, So that's four
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Speaker 3: hours of live national talk radio. So I did that,
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Speaker 3: and then I went to the gym, and then I
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Speaker 3: went back. I went to sleep, and that was basically it.
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Speaker 3: I slept for like four hours, and then I arose
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Speaker 3: thanks to my watch waking me up. I then wandered
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Speaker 3: into the studio disheveled, and I started talking and I
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Speaker 3: was the connoisseur of some hot takes. So I did
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Speaker 3: several hours of daytime talk radio. I think that was
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Speaker 3: what we three hours there, so that's seven hours and
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Speaker 3: then I had about an eight hour break in which
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Speaker 3: time I was the artisan and I crafted together some
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Speaker 3: malard monologues.
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Speaker 1: So I did that and watched some some random games
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Speaker 1: or whatever.
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Speaker 3: I was watching some college basketball because it's college basketball season.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And then I went back into the studio, wandered around
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Speaker 3: into the studio and did one, two, three, four more
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Speaker 3: hours of radio and not not copycat radio. This is
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Speaker 3: our intellectual property, not looking for any kind of again award.
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Speaker 3: So four hours and then I had a few hours off.
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Speaker 3: I went to the gym for a little bit, and
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Speaker 3: then I walked back in here to the podcast studio.
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Speaker 3: I cranked on the mic and the underground mix. Here
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Speaker 3: found the secret sauce, the secret blend of eleven herbs
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Speaker 3: and spices, mixed that all together, and here we are.
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Speaker 3: So the fifth hour pocast. So the math on that
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Speaker 3: that is, by the time I get done with this,
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Speaker 3: it's about twelve hours of talk radio in a day
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Speaker 3: and a few hours.
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Speaker 1: So that's a fair amount. It's all right.
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Speaker 3: I love the job. And it was interesting being on
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Speaker 3: the show that I fill in on on the local station,
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Speaker 3: which is a five seventy in LA. Because the show
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Speaker 3: went viral indirectly went viral. I sit in for Fred
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Speaker 3: Rogan or Rodney Pete, depending on which one you want
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Speaker 3: to choose. They were both off from their show this week,
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Speaker 3: and Rodney Pete and Fred were in Japan at the
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Speaker 3: Dodger Cub game in Tokyo, not your Cup games in Tokyo,
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Speaker 3: and so.
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Speaker 1: They're, you know, doing their thing whatever.
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Speaker 3: And in the sixth inning of game two, Dodgers and Cubs.
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Speaker 3: Bottom of the sixth inning, there's a foul ball and
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Speaker 3: Max Munsey is playing third base. He goes over to
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Speaker 3: try to make the catch right along the line there
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Speaker 3: if you can kind of close your eyes and imagine
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Speaker 3: over and left field. But months he's playing third base.
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Speaker 3: So he goes over there, he puts the glove out
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Speaker 3: and the ball is is grabbed snatched by Rodney Pete. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: the same Rodney Pete that does the midday show. Rogan
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Speaker 3: and Rodney used to play for the Lions. I saw
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Speaker 3: a lot of stories, So why he's former Eagles quarterback.
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Speaker 3: When I think of Rodney Pete, I think of him
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Speaker 3: with the Lions. I actually think of him as a
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Speaker 3: college quarterback at USC. But I guess that means I'm old.
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Speaker 3: So anyway, this thing went virals. It was seen millions
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Speaker 3: of times. A former NFL quarterback who does a sports
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Speaker 3: talk radio show wearing full Dodger gear and he ends
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Speaker 3: up stealing a foul ball for Max Munsey, who appeared
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Speaker 3: to reprimand him and give him a tongue lashing. And
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Speaker 3: some of you have messaged saying, well, you shouldn't be
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Speaker 3: taking a glove. You're over a certain age, you should
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Speaker 3: not take a glove and all that, and people complaining
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Speaker 3: and all this stuff.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's the week.
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Speaker 3: I don't need to give a whole sermon on it,
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Speaker 3: but that's the week that was. So the the Golden
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Speaker 3: Pipes have gotten a heavy, heavy amount.
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Speaker 1: Of work this week.
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Speaker 3: And one of the things that I didn't want to
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Speaker 3: mention and share with you, since this is for the
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Speaker 3: super p Ones, a couple of you knuckleheads have said, well,
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Speaker 3: this is going to be the year. You know, the
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Speaker 3: Dodgers are going to take care of you now because
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Speaker 3: last year they didn't take carry.
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Speaker 1: Well, we have an update.
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Speaker 3: I got an email from the Los Angeles Dodgers this week.
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Speaker 3: The some pr weasel for the LA Dodgers emailed me
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Speaker 3: and now that for the second conceived year after thirty
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Speaker 3: well was it twenty nine years? Twenty nine or thirty
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Speaker 3: years of covering the Dodgers in the media. For the
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Speaker 3: second consecutive year, I have been asked not to.
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Speaker 1: Regularly cover the Dodger. I got an email.
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Speaker 3: I was saying, they've denied my mi crenation and you
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Speaker 3: probably don't care, and you probably what who cares about
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Speaker 3: you and your stupid cranchial And I totally get it.
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Speaker 1: I understand.
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Speaker 3: It's just very bizarre to me, and I know why
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Speaker 3: they did it. I don't make them any money. I
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Speaker 3: guess they don't need the overnight listener, but it's bizarre.
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Speaker 3: The reason it's bizarre, first of all, is I've I
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Speaker 3: know the people out there, many of them I've considered friends.
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Speaker 3: I guess maybe I should revisit that. So I've been
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Speaker 3: either I know the people involved. A lot of them
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Speaker 3: have changed, and so that's part of the problem. A
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Speaker 3: lot of the people I knew really well are dead
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Speaker 3: or they're not working out there anymore. So the next
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Speaker 3: people that took those jobs, they don't really appreciate at
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Speaker 3: the work that we do here.
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Speaker 1: So that's part of the problem.
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Speaker 3: But the reason it's bizarro world to me is first
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Speaker 3: of all, that I'm on the Dodger station I just mentioned.
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Speaker 3: I filled in on the AM five to seventy airways
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Speaker 3: that station. I'll let you in on a little inside radio.
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Speaker 3: I'll get to the word of the week, by the way,
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Speaker 3: or the word up today anyway, coming up in a
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Speaker 3: little bit. But let me get in my soapbox. So
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Speaker 3: when I fill in on AM five to seventy in LA,
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Speaker 3: or when I do my own overnight show, those shows
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Speaker 3: are broadcast on AM five to seventy, which is owned
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Speaker 3: by about I think it's like forty nine point five
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Speaker 3: percent or something like that. Somebody told me, I forget,
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Speaker 3: it's a lot. Don't hold me to that about half
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Speaker 3: the radio station. And it's a partnership with the parent company,
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Speaker 3: which is the company.
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Speaker 1: That I work for. iHeart.
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Speaker 3: So I work not for the Dodgers, but I work
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Speaker 3: on the Dodgers station. I've been out there. It's not
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Speaker 3: like I need a seat. The thing that's that's bizarre.
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Speaker 3: I usually my my strategy in recent years, I often
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Speaker 3: don't even stay for the games because I need I
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Speaker 3: need tunnel vision to lock in and put some notes together,
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Speaker 3: bullet points for the Mallard monologues. Very long winded and
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Speaker 3: all that stuff, as you know, and it takes time to,
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Speaker 3: as we like to say, handcraft those prolonged Mallard monologues.
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Speaker 3: And so if I'm at Dodger Stadium and I'm there
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Speaker 3: for a long time and people like to talk to me,
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Speaker 3: which I don't know why I'm an introvert, but people.
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Speaker 1: I say, how you doing? I heard the show? Or
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Speaker 1: you know, what's this? Uh?
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Speaker 3: This guy that takes all the pills in Minnesota? Or
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Speaker 3: who's the the you got?
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Speaker 1: He got? Alf? Is that an alien? He call?
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Speaker 3: He just doesn't call, but he sends him. He asked
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Speaker 3: me random questions. And I'm honored that they listen. You know,
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Speaker 3: we have a lot of a lot of the listeners
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Speaker 3: in the the media in LA and a lot of
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Speaker 3: the baseball people because they'll listen on their way home.
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Speaker 3: I'm on in LA, our shows on after Dodger Talk
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Speaker 3: most of the time when they're on the West Coast,
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Speaker 3: they play a night game, so a lot of them
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Speaker 3: will hear the beginning of our show and whatever we're
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Speaker 3: ranting about, and sometimes they'll hear the the end of
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Speaker 3: the show when they're playing an early game on the
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Speaker 3: East Coast, so people ask questions. Fine, but the fact
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Speaker 3: that they they wouldn't let me out there, it's you know,
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Speaker 3: idealy and they'll say, well, you just still go out
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Speaker 3: there occasionally, you know, I have to to get approval.
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Speaker 3: It's just a it's a giant inconvenience, and I guess
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Speaker 3: I'm at the point now where I've done this for
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Speaker 3: so long, I don't need to go out there in
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Speaker 3: terms of actually watching the games. I need to go
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Speaker 3: out there to network, to to talk to the guys
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Speaker 3: during batting practice, to you know, kind of get stories
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Speaker 3: the story when the story you talk to some of
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Speaker 3: the Dodger players during batting practice, some of the coaches,
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Speaker 3: some of the broadcasters, and that's where you get a
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Speaker 3: lot of stuff you don't get it during the game.
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Speaker 1: During the game.
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Speaker 3: It's great, And I certainly don't dislike watching the Dodger games.
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Speaker 3: I watched them all the time. But as I said,
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Speaker 3: you know, getting ready for the show, people past you
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Speaker 3: and bought you know, kind of badgie and it's tough
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Speaker 3: to stay focused, and so that ends up provoking me
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Speaker 3: at some point. So the whole point of it is
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Speaker 3: to be out there and just kind of get those stories.
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Speaker 3: And then I'll often leave early in the game and
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Speaker 3: then go to the mother Ship and I go to
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Speaker 3: the very back and get ready for the show. I
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Speaker 3: put the monologue together and all the monologues and that's that.
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Speaker 3: But will not be at Dodger Stadium. I don't know
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Speaker 3: if I'll go out there at all. I went one
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Speaker 3: time last year. It was again very frustrating thing. And
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Speaker 3: it's funny. I last year I visited the great t
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Speaker 3: J Seimer's who died. He had terminal care answer and
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Speaker 3: TJ was a friend of mine and I was able
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Speaker 3: to see him several times in hospice and right up
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Speaker 3: until the end. TJ was a total firecracker. And I
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Speaker 3: remember one of the conversations we had. TJ was bedridden
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Speaker 3: and he was talking about his career and some of
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Speaker 3: the great moments in his writing career. At the La
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Speaker 3: Times and some other places in San Diego he worked,
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Speaker 3: and he was on ESPN on the show that's about
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Speaker 3: to be canceled.
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Speaker 1: I think it's called Around the Horn. I think something
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Speaker 1: like that.
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Speaker 3: He was one of the original panels on the show. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: we talked about TEJ. I talking to TJ. I remember
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Speaker 3: one of the things TJ told me before he checked out,
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Speaker 3: he I'd mentioned to him. We talked about the Dodgers
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Speaker 3: and some of the old stories back when Davy Johnson
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Speaker 3: was the manager and Kevin Malone was the GM and
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Speaker 3: trading stories. And there was this great uprising, this insurgency
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Speaker 3: when TJ took over, because the La Times had always
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Speaker 3: been a safe space for the Dodgers, like they just
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Speaker 3: lick the toes, right. It was full throttle propaganda for
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Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and because they were one of the big advertisers,
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Speaker 3: they bought a lot of newspaper space.
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Speaker 1: And when TJ took over.
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Speaker 3: He came in there and he was a fire hose
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Speaker 3: and he was a flamethrower and you know all that,
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Speaker 3: and I mean, just whatever adjective you want to use.
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Speaker 3: He was throwing razor blades all over the place, and
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Speaker 3: there was a rebellion. There was anarchy among the media,
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Speaker 3: the other writers at the La.
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Speaker 1: Times because TJ was such.
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Speaker 3: A muckraker, if you will, and he would call the
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Speaker 3: Dodgers out and they hadn't won in a fair amount
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Speaker 3: of years at that time, and so it was very awkward.
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Speaker 3: It was a mutiny on the Dodger bounty. But eventually
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Speaker 3: things calmed down and TJ continued. He was a great
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Speaker 3: columnist and did a wonderful job, but there were people
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Speaker 3: that wouldn't like sit. They board cutted the manager's news
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Speaker 3: conference because they were so upset with TJ.
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Speaker 1: And they went on and anyway.
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Speaker 3: So I remember talking to TJ at the end of
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Speaker 3: his life and I told him, I said, TJ, listen.
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Speaker 1: He asked me something about going to the games. I said,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to the games.
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Speaker 3: And I said, TJ, I I I'm not going because
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Speaker 3: the Dodgers did not give me a season credit. He said,
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Speaker 3: what are you talking about? And he then explained to me,
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Speaker 3: said you shouldn't. You should raise holy hell. He says,
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Speaker 3: if that happened to me, I would write about it
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Speaker 3: every single column in the La Times, back when people
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Speaker 3: actually read the La Times, and uh there would be
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Speaker 3: a complete I would. I would raise you a massive
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Speaker 3: amount of noise. He my word is Hulda blue. He
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Speaker 3: didn't use the word Hulda blue. I used the word
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Speaker 3: Hulda blue. So I'm not necessarily going to do that.
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Speaker 3: I'm mentioning it here and I'm mention it on the
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Speaker 3: radio show at some point. But like I said, I
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Speaker 3: can watch the games. I have access to everything I need.
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Speaker 3: It was just more of I felt like to make
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Speaker 3: the show a little bit better. I always got a
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Speaker 3: lot of good stuff because baseball people love to talk,
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Speaker 3: and some of those cats I've known for many, many years,
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Speaker 3: Like I said, the people that work kind of behind
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Speaker 3: the scenes and they just tell you stuff, and a
17:18
Speaker 3: lot of the time it's stuff that is not mainstream,
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Speaker 3: and it's usually pretty good. I can get some scoops.
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Speaker 3: I've found some stuff out, We've broken some stories over
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Speaker 3: the years because of that interaction during batting practice with
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Speaker 3: players and coaches and people that work for the team.
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Speaker 3: And so it's disappointing that the Dodgers don't do that.
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Speaker 3: It's also kind of frustrating because if I feel like
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Speaker 3: if I worked for a radio station in Tokyo, i'd
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Speaker 3: get a credential.
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Speaker 1: I guess season credential.
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Speaker 3: And actually I told one of my buddies, who is
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Speaker 3: a sports writer and longtime sportswriter who I will not
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Speaker 3: name because they're still employed, one of the few that
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Speaker 3: are employed, and I told him by this and I said,
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Speaker 3: I said, what should I do?
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Speaker 1: And he said, you know what you should do? Ben.
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Speaker 1: This was his idea.
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Speaker 3: Contact the radio stations in Japan and tell them you
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Speaker 3: want to be their US correspondent, and they'll probably just
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Speaker 3: give you a credential because they'll see they'll see like
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Speaker 3: Radio Tokyo or something like that.
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Speaker 1: And you're good.
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Speaker 3: The fact that you're in the backyard, you're too close,
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Speaker 3: they're too comfortable with you. They can screw you over.
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Speaker 3: But I get I understand the economics. And there were
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Speaker 3: twenty five million people that watch watch the Dodger cub
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Speaker 3: opener the other day this week on TV, and you know,
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Speaker 3: that's an insane amount of people. And the amount of
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Speaker 3: people that watch regular season baseball in America is a
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Speaker 3: fraction of that. And the Dodgers in Major League Baseball
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Speaker 3: are complete whores when it comes to making money in Japan.
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Speaker 3: And I don't disagree with that. I would do the
18:59
Speaker 3: same thing. I mean, and they are completely pillaging the
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Speaker 3: pockets of baseball loving fans in Japan, and that's what
19:07
Speaker 3: they should be doing, right. They're selling a bunch of
19:10
Speaker 3: jerseys and a bunch of knick knacks and all that
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Speaker 3: stuff and slapping the Dodger logo on it. People are
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Speaker 3: buying it and they can't sell enough, so they're allowing
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Speaker 3: every newspaper and all these people to get the creditors.
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Speaker 3: I just think you shouldn't forget the people in your backyard.
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Speaker 3: But you know, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm what do
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Speaker 3: I know? I just do the overnight show, so who knows?
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Speaker 1: Anyway?
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Speaker 3: Moving on from that, I want to spend the whole
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Speaker 3: time yapping. I feel like I have spent the whole
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Speaker 3: time yapping about that time. Now for the I guess
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Speaker 3: we'll call this the phrase all the week, the phrase
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Speaker 3: all the week, and I feel it's appropriate. This being
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Speaker 3: the unofficial soft launch of the Major League Baseball season.
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Speaker 3: The phrase of the week on this Friday heading into
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Speaker 3: the weekend, the last Friday without baseball, is inside baseball.
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Speaker 3: That is the fresh all the week praise Lee. All right,
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Speaker 3: so the week inside baseball. Now, this goes all the
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Speaker 3: way back. Believe it or not to they say eighteen
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Speaker 3: ninety two, Say why yes? The man credited as the pioneer,
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Speaker 3: the forefather of inside baseball is a guy named Ned Hamlin,
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Speaker 3: who the f is ned at and ned Hamler's been
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Speaker 3: dead longer than dead. But this goes way back to
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Speaker 3: the late eighteen hundreds. He was the manager, he was
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Speaker 3: a player, and he had he had the Raleigh fingers mustache.
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Speaker 3: I've seen a photo of him, had the Raleigh fingers mustache,
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Speaker 3: you know, the handleball mustache. And they played baseball with
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Speaker 3: ties in the eighteen eighties. They had ties and very bizarre.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, I don't need to get in that here,
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Speaker 3: so get to the point, please. So this guy Net
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Speaker 3: Hamlin was a former professional player in the eighteen eighties.
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Speaker 3: He became the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, yep, the
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Speaker 3: Orioles in eighteen ninety two, and they were in the
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Speaker 3: National League and they were very good. They supposedly, as
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Speaker 3: legend goes, they won a bunch of pennants and in
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Speaker 3: the decade they were like the Dodgers of that time.
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Speaker 3: And this guy need Handling came up with all these
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Speaker 3: different ways to play baseball that nobody prior in the
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Speaker 3: eighteen seventies of the eighteen eighties had.
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Speaker 1: Come up with.
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Speaker 3: The Orioles are the team that gave us the Baltimore chop.
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Speaker 3: And if you're a baseball nerd, you know the Baltimore chop.
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Speaker 3: When I was a kid, if I hit a ball
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Speaker 3: right into the ground in front of home plate, it
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Speaker 3: was the coach would be the you hit the Baltimore chop?
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Speaker 3: I said, what they have is the Baltimore chop? Is
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Speaker 3: that like a pork chop? Is that something I know?
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Speaker 3: That is where the batter tries to hit the ball
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Speaker 3: almost straight down and it results in a giant bounce
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Speaker 3: and the ball will stand in there long enough where
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Speaker 3: the runner will reach for a space.
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Speaker 1: And the story. I remember hearing stories about the.
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Speaker 3: Orioles, even like the nineteen eighties when Earl Weaver was
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Speaker 3: trying to hit home runs all the time, but they
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Speaker 3: would at the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. The legend
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Speaker 3: is they would make the ground in front of home
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Speaker 3: plate very hard, like rock hard, because they still up
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Speaker 3: to like the nineteen eighties, would hit them. They called
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Speaker 3: the Baltimore chop. So in order to have the Baltimore chop,
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Speaker 3: you got to have the ground in that area. So
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Speaker 3: by the early twentieth century, as we continue the long
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Speaker 3: winded version of the phrase of the week, inside Baseball,
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Speaker 3: the Dictionary says that inside baseball is anything known or
22:38
Speaker 3: understood only by a small group of people. But again,
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Speaker 3: this guy Ned good old Ned, the manager Ned Hamlin
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Speaker 3: of the Orioles is supposedly the guy that had inside
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Speaker 3: baseball first, and they actually called it early on scientific baseball,
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Speaker 3: which is what interesting.
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Speaker 1: And then we move on.
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Speaker 3: The Chicago Hubs also developed a kind of a nuance
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Speaker 3: to that in terms of communication between the fielders. If
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Speaker 3: fielders knew what kind of pitch to expect, they could
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Speaker 3: better predict where to play and they could adjust. And
23:18
Speaker 3: so that was part of inside baseball as well. The
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Speaker 3: first time the phrase was used in print was by
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Speaker 3: a writer named Sai Sanborn. Doesn't that sound like a
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Speaker 3: newspaper man from the nineteen tens. Yeah, So this guy,
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Speaker 3: Sai Sandburn or Sanborn worked at the Chicago Tribune. He
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Speaker 3: wrote about it in the Chicago Tribune. And it all
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Speaker 3: started again with this guy Ned Reagan, the guy from
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Speaker 3: the Orioles, back back in the day. But the term
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Speaker 3: inside baseball, now, of course you got like the moneyball,
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Speaker 3: and you got nerd Army. It is interesting how life
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Speaker 3: repeats itself though over and over, and the fact that
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Speaker 3: baseball you got the same two arguments in baseball over
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Speaker 3: the years have been, well, baseball is dying, it's not
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Speaker 3: as popera as it used to be. You get a
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Speaker 3: lot of that that's been going on for over one
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Speaker 3: hundred years, and you get the nerd ball. What is
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Speaker 3: annoying the people that like baseball a certain way? And
24:23
Speaker 3: then it changes and all that Now in terms of
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Speaker 3: the phrase in a political sense, there's a guy named
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Speaker 3: Thomas L. Stokes, no relation to former NFL receiver JJ Stokes,
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Speaker 3: So Thomas L.
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Speaker 1: Stokes a political journalist.
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Speaker 3: He's the first person, at least in a published article
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Speaker 3: to combine inside baseball and politics. He said, there's such
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Speaker 3: a thing as inside politics, in which folks in the
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Speaker 3: grand stands and the bleachers seldom see and rarely understand,
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Speaker 3: just as crowds watching the great national pastime missed the
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Speaker 3: fine points of what it's called inside baseball. He wrote
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Speaker 3: that in nineteen fifty one, so it's been seventy seventy
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Speaker 3: five years or so almost since then. And I talked
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Speaker 3: about inside politics and the way that lobbyists work and
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Speaker 3: the clever operators of the political world and all that.
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Speaker 3: So that was at that particular point, of course, over
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Speaker 3: the years now political or inside baseball, inside baseball. It
25:26
Speaker 3: just means anything where a very small amount of people
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Speaker 3: have inside information. So the phrase of the week again,
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Speaker 3: the phrase of the week is inside baseball, inside baseball.
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Speaker 3: And that is a long winded boy.
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Speaker 1: I went a little long on that. We do have
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Speaker 1: time though, for some food. He fun. Hooray for food,
25:49
Speaker 1: he fun. It's all about that food, he fun. I know,
25:53
Speaker 1: I know you're excited. I know. Try to stick. Come
25:57
Speaker 1: all right, So here's some foody fun. We have a
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Speaker 1: few stories for you.
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Speaker 3: Is we continue this fifth hour podcast trying to help
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Speaker 3: you boys out. Another story that popped up on the
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Speaker 3: food blogs, and we talked about this on the Fifth
26:08
Speaker 3: Hour podcast any previous episode. The reason McDonald's is anti
26:14
Speaker 3: onion ring. They don't mind onions, They have the little
26:17
Speaker 3: chopped onions on the burgers, but they do not like
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Speaker 3: the onion ring.
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Speaker 1: And it's all about mount of many. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: They did a cost benefit analysis back in the day
26:26
Speaker 3: and they determined it is bad for business that the
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Speaker 3: cost of the onion ring to mass produce the onion ring,
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Speaker 3: the amount of people that would buy onion rings does
26:38
Speaker 3: not match the effort for the onion rings, and they
26:40
Speaker 3: mark up their fries so much. Those McDonald's French fries
26:44
Speaker 3: are the jack you and so because of that, they're like,
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Speaker 3: we're making so much money on the fries. If we
26:49
Speaker 3: start selling onion rings, then people will buy those. Maybe
26:53
Speaker 3: we'll sell some, but we're not going to be able
26:55
Speaker 3: to make the amount of money that we make. You know,
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Speaker 3: we make at that point, you know the price points,
27:04
Speaker 3: so it's not even a profitable. So I saw that
27:07
Speaker 3: story again. I thought, if you missed that episode of
27:09
Speaker 3: the podcast Carl's Junior, that is, what is that west
27:14
Speaker 3: of the Mississippi. East of the Mississippi's Harty's Carls Junior
27:17
Speaker 3: indescing the new Triple Burger and Tropicali refresher. It's some
27:24
Speaker 3: kind of Fugeese lemonade. They've got that heart Ease, which
27:28
Speaker 3: is east of the Mississippi. They've got the new chicken
27:32
Speaker 3: Cordon Blue sandwich in select market that's not everywhere limited
27:39
Speaker 3: time on that quiz Nos the sandwich shop has gluten
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Speaker 3: free bread options. They've also got this new Buffalo Chicken
27:49
Speaker 3: Club that doesn't really look like my kind of thing.
27:52
Speaker 1: My wife has the gluten analogy, so I'll let her know.
27:56
Speaker 3: We usually eat at home though most of the time,
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Speaker 3: so I don't think we'll be hitting.
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Speaker 1: The Quiznos gluten free situation.
28:04
Speaker 3: Crumble Boy, they're really good, and man are the expensive
28:09
Speaker 3: Crumble baking new chocolate mint cake through March twenty second,
28:16
Speaker 3: So you got till that's kind of odd Toillmorrow, Like,
28:20
Speaker 3: why would you stop on a Saturday. I don't get it,
28:22
Speaker 3: but wouldn't you at least stop on Sunday? Yeah, so
28:25
Speaker 3: they have that looks really good and I'm sure it'll
28:28
Speaker 3: cost you like an arm and a leg and all that. Dominoes,
28:33
Speaker 3: they've got a fifty percent off pizza deal. It is
28:37
Speaker 3: back for a limited time. It's available. You have to order,
28:39
Speaker 3: of course, through the app. All these things through the app.
28:42
Speaker 3: And it ends on Sunday, so that makes sense. You
28:46
Speaker 3: don't end it on a Saturday like the people over
28:48
Speaker 3: it Crumble you ended on a Sunday. So you've got that.
28:51
Speaker 3: KFC has launched a new dunk It bucket. Gee, I
28:55
Speaker 3: wonder why could that be because of March Madness which
28:58
Speaker 3: is going on. Yeah, I got mashed potato poppers available
29:04
Speaker 3: for a limited time. Wall supplies last, so there is
29:08
Speaker 3: there's that and anything else that really stands out. There
29:12
Speaker 3: was a bunch of stuff this week because of Saint
29:15
Speaker 3: Patrick's Day and all that. I think that's enough enough
29:20
Speaker 3: for now. We will have new podcasts all weekend. My god, unbelievable,
29:24
Speaker 3: what are we doing. We'll have the Fifth Hour with
29:26
Speaker 3: me and Danny g hopefully back with me on the
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Speaker 3: Friday Pod, and then we'll have or the Saturday Pod.
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Speaker 1: Rather, this is today's the Friday Pod. I've been talking
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Speaker 1: so much, I don't even know what DAT is.
29:37
Speaker 3: But but Danny will be with me tomorrow on the
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Speaker 3: Saturday Pod, and then we'll have the mail bag on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: So if you want.
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29:58
Speaker 3: do you knuckleheads? Send me email and you don't put
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Speaker 3: what city you're in, so we have to say parts
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Speaker 3: unknown or whatever. You know, you're not proud of where
30:05
Speaker 3: you live. You don't want us to give you a
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Speaker 3: little love. I mean, come on anyway, I don't care
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Speaker 3: as long as you contact us but have a wonderful
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Speaker 3: rest of your Friday. I'm gonna go shut up for
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Speaker 3: a few hours, maybe even take a nap, who knows.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I watched college basketball. When I wake up,
30:21
Speaker 3: I'll do that. Riveting, absolutely riveting. I have a wonderful
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Speaker 3: rest of your day. And was Danny say asta pasta
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Speaker 3: stop later?
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Speaker 1: Skater?
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Speaker 3: Oh oh reaver, darja aloha nah?
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Speaker 1: Now all right, well whatever, have a good day. Got
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Speaker 1: a murder, I gotta go.