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The Fifth Hour: LAPD, Line 1! · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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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 clearing House
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Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
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Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the.
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Speaker 1: Air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and
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Speaker 1: Danny g Radio Happy Friday. We have reached the weekend,
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Speaker 1: which is not the end of the line, as you know,
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Speaker 1: because everyday audio, every effing day audio here did the
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Speaker 1: radio show last night, up all night, waited a couple hours,
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Speaker 1: came back into the podcast studio, cut up here. We
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Speaker 1: are hopefully no speed bumps. Had a few speed bumps
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Speaker 1: this week. We'll get to that in the bar body
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Speaker 1: of the podcast later on. In this pod, we've got
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Speaker 1: strawberry shortcake. Unless it's not nine to one one, what's
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Speaker 1: your emergency? Lights camera action will have the phrase of
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Speaker 1: the week, and also, if we have time, some foodie fun.
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Speaker 1: But we begin with this. It is National Sewing Machine Day.
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Speaker 1: That's why we love these dopey holidays on the Fifth
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Speaker 1: Hour podcast. So it's National Sewing Machine Day. Now. When
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Speaker 1: I was a kid, my mom would futs around with
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Speaker 1: the sewing machine, and I remember that was like a
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Speaker 1: big thing. She would we would always f up. We
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Speaker 1: had had two brothers, so she was the mom of
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Speaker 1: three boys and we would f up our clothes tremendously.
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Speaker 1: And my mom would always be sewing crap together. And
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Speaker 1: she was really good, as I remember, she was good
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Speaker 1: at it. Now I don't know, maybe she was bad
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Speaker 1: at sewing, but as a kid, I thought, man, my
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Speaker 1: mom is like the greatest sewer of all time. So
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Speaker 1: it is National Sewing Machine Day and a major tip
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Speaker 1: of the cap to Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. Do
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Speaker 1: you know who that is? No, you've never heard of
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Speaker 1: the name Elias Howe or Isaac Singer. Well, it's a
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Speaker 1: bad job by you now. Back in the day, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if they still have home eck. When I
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Speaker 1: was I'm a dinosaur. When I was in school, they
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Speaker 1: had a home ex where you had to like learn
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Speaker 1: You didn't have to learn who Elias how and Isaac
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Speaker 1: Singer were, but you had to learn like stuff like
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Speaker 1: sewing and things like that. They tried to teach you,
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Speaker 1: you know, things that you need as a human being,
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Speaker 1: things like that. So it turns out that Elias Howe
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Speaker 1: and Isaac Singer are two of the more important people
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Speaker 1: in the history of the world. But nobody really cares
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Speaker 1: about them because they did not invent They did not
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Speaker 1: invent the wheel. They didn't come up with the telephone
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Speaker 1: or the internet or any of that stuff. No, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: let's go all the way back in the hot tub
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Speaker 1: time machine. We're gonna go back to the year seventeen
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Speaker 1: ninety one, not seventeen ninety and not seventeen ninety two.
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Speaker 1: Teen ninety one. Very important. So in seventeen ninety one,
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Speaker 1: a guy named Thomas Saint. Thomas Saint patented the sewing machine.
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Speaker 1: The first sewing machine was patented in seventeen ninety one. Okay, wow,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't until eighteen thirty three, so we're looking at
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Speaker 1: forty forty years later or so. A guy named Walter
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Speaker 1: Hunt invented the lockstitch machine, but he didn't patent it.
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Speaker 1: Bad job by him. I guess the internet wasn't around
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Speaker 1: in eighteen thirty three. He said, well, you haven't said
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Speaker 1: the names. You didn't say. You didn't say the name. Okay,
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Speaker 1: calm down. So that's right. Thomas Saint and Walter Hunt
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Speaker 1: are not Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. So we move
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Speaker 1: ahead in this tale of sewing greatness. It was in
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Speaker 1: eighteen fifty one, March of eighteen fifty one, and that
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Speaker 1: is when Isaac Singer used other manufacturers' ideas. It was
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Speaker 1: not his idea to put together a foot pedal, and
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Speaker 1: was granted the first American patent, the very first one,
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Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty one, and off to the races we go,
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Speaker 1: and so so, so so so, and then in nineteen
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Speaker 1: forty six, Toyota, Toyota. You think of Toyota, you think
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Speaker 1: of cars, but they built their first sewing machine in
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty six. So there you go a little fun
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Speaker 1: fact on sewing the timeline, cause we're all about the history.
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Speaker 1: We're all about the history of the sewing machine. You say, well, what,
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Speaker 1: just he was involved in it. Okay, I was involved
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Speaker 1: in it. Just deal with it. That's it. And if
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Speaker 1: you want some other fun facts on that, go find
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Speaker 1: them yourself. I'm done on that now. It is also
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Speaker 1: a day that is important to me. It's National Kitchen
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Speaker 1: Clutch Day, one of these made up holidays. As you
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Speaker 1: may or may not know, in recent years, I have
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Speaker 1: taken up the hobby of cooking. It started out as baking,
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Speaker 1: and I still bake occasionally. But the problem with baking
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Speaker 1: is you end up eating most of the product that
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Speaker 1: you bake. And if you bake cookies and cakes and
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Speaker 1: things like that, brownies, you end up fat. So I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to avoid that, so I've cut back tremendously on
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Speaker 1: the baking. It's rare and appropriate. Now make a bunch
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Speaker 1: of cookies and do that whole thing, but rare inappropriate,
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Speaker 1: rare inappropriate. But it's National Kitchen Cluts of America Day
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Speaker 1: every June thirteenth. Why do we have this day? Well,
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Speaker 1: why do we have Father's Day? Right, the least popular holiday,
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Speaker 1: Father's Day, Mother's Day very important. Father's Day which is
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Speaker 1: this weekend, not that big a deal. I'm guessing when
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Speaker 1: they discovered fire, which this is the Stone Age, the
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Speaker 1: beginning parts of the Stone Age, back in the day,
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Speaker 1: there must have been some dude who had decided to
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Speaker 1: cook something over the fire and like drop the whole
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Speaker 1: thing into the fire, right, primitive Neanderthal type, you know,
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Speaker 1: half Neanderthal, half Homo sapey and just kind of throwing
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Speaker 1: the crap into the fire. It wasn't until seventeen twenty
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Speaker 1: five the world's very first restaurant opened up. Now I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing somewhere in like the sixteen tens or something there
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Speaker 1: might have been something there was a restaurant, but just
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Speaker 1: go with it, right, just go with it. So it
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Speaker 1: was in seventeen twenty five the world's first restaurant opened,
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Speaker 1: and it opened in Madrid. I think we've had that
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Speaker 1: before in the podcast. I feel like we've talked about
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Speaker 1: that on this podcast. And anyway, seventeen twenty five it opened,
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Speaker 1: and you know, somewhere in that kitchen at that nice
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Speaker 1: little restaurant in Madrid, they were they were affing around.
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Speaker 1: Stuff was not going right, and they dropped stuff. And
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Speaker 1: the history of klutz being a clutch, which I am
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Speaker 1: proudly a klutz I think most of us are, and
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Speaker 1: then the history of food go side by side and
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Speaker 1: some of the things that we used today. It always
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Speaker 1: blows me away, like the random things that are in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen where you go back and you're like, well,
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Speaker 1: how did that start. I'll give you an example. I
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Speaker 1: was reading a story this week. I know this is
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Speaker 1: a little bit off topic, but it doesn't kind of
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Speaker 1: involve food. So I was reading stories. Somewhere I fell
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Speaker 1: down this rabbit hole and I was getting ready for
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Speaker 1: the show, the radio show, and I started looking up.
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Speaker 1: I don't even remember what I was looking up. Somehow
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Speaker 1: I ended up down this rabbit hole where it was
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Speaker 1: like about foods that used to be medicine. And it's
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, but the one that stood out
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Speaker 1: was ketchup. Way back a couple hundred years ago, doctors
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Speaker 1: would prescribe ketchup to treat diarrhea and indigestion. You got
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Speaker 1: the mana Zuma's revenge, you go get some some ketchup,
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Speaker 1: get some Heinz ketchup, and you're good to go. That's
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Speaker 1: all you need, and that's it. Just put put little
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Speaker 1: ketchup in there. You'll be good. Now. I would I
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Speaker 1: would definitely go to the doctor Moore. If the doctor says,
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Speaker 1: you know, Ben, yeah, you don't feel right, there's something
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Speaker 1: wrong with you. Why don't you go eat a dozen
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Speaker 1: donuts and let's that's helped that that stomach for years.
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Speaker 1: You look like you need about a dozen donuts, a
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Speaker 1: combination of apple fritters and Sinmon rolls, and that will
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Speaker 1: take care of all of your props. That's it. That's
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Speaker 1: all you need. Make it happen, Okay, Doc, whatever you say.
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Speaker 1: All right, So, as far as the strawberry shortcake thing,
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Speaker 1: if you were listening to the Overnight Show, I've been
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Speaker 1: told by some of you idiots that this Friday podcast
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Speaker 1: is a retrospective on the week that was. And sometimes
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Speaker 1: that's true. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not. It just
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Speaker 1: depends on my mood. Today. I'm looking back at the
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Speaker 1: week that was. We had some zany things happen. I say,
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Speaker 1: strawberry shortcake. It's really strawberry moon. Our friend Andrea, she's
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Speaker 1: the astrology insider on the show, and she called up
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Speaker 1: and she pointed out she had the Farmer's Almanac out.
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Speaker 1: She said, hey, Ben, it's a strawberry moon. And so
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Speaker 1: I made a joke about strawberry donuts. She said, strawberry moon.
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Speaker 1: And we know from life experience doing overnight talk radio
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Speaker 1: when there's a full moon, people act differently. Things pop up.
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Speaker 1: I say, well, it's a quinky dink, Ben, It's not
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Speaker 1: really true. It's just your perception. And I would argue
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Speaker 1: that if that only happened a couple of times over
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Speaker 1: the course of my long winding road doing audio talk radio,
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Speaker 1: then I would say, Okay, you're right, it's just my interpretation.
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Speaker 1: That's not the case, though I have overwhelming I'm talking
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Speaker 1: twenty plus years of doing this, most of it overnight,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter whether it's overnight or not. It
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Speaker 1: happens during the day too. People just and it doesn't
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Speaker 1: stand out as much during the day, but at night
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Speaker 1: it stands out more so. We had the Strawberry Moon
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Speaker 1: and on Q on Queue everything hit the fan. We
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Speaker 1: had the lunatics, the people out committing criminal acts against police,
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Speaker 1: throwing bricks at police and whatnot, and taking rocks and
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Speaker 1: chucking them at people and lighting cars on fire, you know,
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Speaker 1: normal activity in LA. And so that happened. The phone
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Speaker 1: lines clogged, which did coincide, as it was pointed out
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Speaker 1: to me by someone. I'm I'm not sure who pointed
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Speaker 1: this out. There might have been a couple of people
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Speaker 1: that it coincided with the LA curfews. More than that,
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Speaker 1: in a second. So it is a call in radio show,
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Speaker 1: as you know, and with one line. We had one line.
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Speaker 1: We have a bunch of phone lines coming into the mothership.
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Speaker 1: There was one line that was working. Every other phone
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Speaker 1: line was messed up and you had to call like
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Speaker 1: fifty times to get in. We heard that that you
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Speaker 1: had to keep calling, and it depending on what phone
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Speaker 1: company you had. If you had certain carriers, you couldn't
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Speaker 1: get through. So we tried resetting the phones. You know,
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Speaker 1: hit the thing of a jig and then you twist
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Speaker 1: the what you might call it, and then da da,
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Speaker 1: Well that didn't work, all right, that didn't work. Now. Fortunately,
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Speaker 1: because I am a loser, I have no life, type,
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Speaker 1: a personality, whatever you want to say, I over prepare
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Speaker 1: for every radio show. And I do that because early
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Speaker 1: in my career, I've told this story from time to time.
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Speaker 1: I'll share it with you right now. I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to give you the full dance remix. But the first
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Speaker 1: time I ever did talk radio by myself was a
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Speaker 1: Saturday morning show, and I had worked in San Diego
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Speaker 1: for a while at the mighty six ninety, which no
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Speaker 1: longer is in business and hasn't been in business for
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Speaker 1: probably twenty five years or twenty years, but anyway, So
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Speaker 1: I worked in the mighty sixth ninety I got transferred
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Speaker 1: to the station in Los Angeles, local station that was
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Speaker 1: owned by Jacore Media, which became a clear channel, which
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Speaker 1: became iHeart and I still work at iHeart. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: I'm doing my first radio show. The program director Bob Bennett,
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Speaker 1: you know, he he thought early on and the company
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Speaker 1: thought that I had a chance to not suck. Not
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Speaker 1: that I would be good, but they thought I did.
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Speaker 1: They didn't think I would suck, so that that made
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Speaker 1: me feel pretty good. That made me feel pretty good.
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Speaker 1: And he said, hey, I want to give you a shot,
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Speaker 1: and you got to pay your dues. You gotta pay
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Speaker 1: your dues. I said, okay, I'll pay my dues. So
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Speaker 1: we'll give you a slot on Saturday morning. And then
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Speaker 1: originally I did the show with other people. I had
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Speaker 1: other people. I did the show. It was I got
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Speaker 1: an hour or I think it started as an hour show,
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Speaker 1: and then as I remember, and then that was it.
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Speaker 1: So they said, we want to see what you sound
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Speaker 1: like by yourself. I said, okay, I'm in sign me up, coach,
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. Put me in center field I
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Speaker 1: can play. So they gave me the show on the Saturday.
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Speaker 1: And this is in the days before the modern internet,
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Speaker 1: you know, like AOL America online, and there was limited,
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Speaker 1: limited content. People were still reading newspapers and so it
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Speaker 1: wasn't the world that we're in today. It's a much
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Speaker 1: more difficult proposition to properly prepare for a radio show.
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Speaker 1: At least the way I prepare is whatever, because I'm
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Speaker 1: anal about this. So the first show I ever did,
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Speaker 1: I remember saying, I am just going to knock everyone's
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Speaker 1: socks off. I am just going to kill it. I
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Speaker 1: am going to kill it. And so I prepared, and
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Speaker 1: I prepared, and I spent two days putting my first
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Speaker 1: ever Mallard monologue together. And this was going to be
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Speaker 1: my moment. I was going to prove everyone to everyone
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Speaker 1: that gave me a shot, hey, you were right. And
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Speaker 1: for those that wouldn't give me a shot, screw you,
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Speaker 1: you suck you blew it. Okay, fine, So I put
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Speaker 1: this monologue together and it was a piece of poetry.
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Speaker 1: It was I had all my bullet points. I was
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Speaker 1: ready to go. I had practiced it. You know, the
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Speaker 1: whole thing got the timing rat a tat tat, ready
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Speaker 1: to go. I got on that microphone and I opened
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Speaker 1: the mic, and I nailed it. I absolutely nailed it,
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Speaker 1: ten out of ten. In fact, it was twenty out
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Speaker 1: of ten perfect. Gave out the number, did a tease boom,
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Speaker 1: went right to the commercials. So then five minutes of
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Speaker 1: commercials play back to the show, and I drowned. I
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Speaker 1: had only prepared for that opening monologue, not realizing that
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Speaker 1: was only ten or fifteen minutes. Shiver me timbers I
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Speaker 1: had at that time. I think that show was three hours,
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Speaker 1: so I had three hours I had. I had used
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Speaker 1: up all of my bullets in the first segment, and
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Speaker 1: I had this swat, this flop sweat. I was freaking out.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I don't know how I survived that.
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Speaker 1: I gave out the number. Nobody knew who I was,
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Speaker 1: no one was calling. It was a nightmare. So ever
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Speaker 1: since then, long story short, I said I was gonna
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Speaker 1: be the short version. I gave you a longer version
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Speaker 1: that was like the mid version, so long story short.
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Speaker 1: Because of that experience, I always over prepare for a
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Speaker 1: radio show. I never want to be in that situation
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Speaker 1: where I am not ready to go. I have to
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Speaker 1: prepare myself for all of the conceivable possibilities. And as
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Speaker 1: you know, especially these days on the Overnight Show, it's
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Speaker 1: a one man band. It's you know, just me, that's it.
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Speaker 1: You know. I don't even have a sidekick anymore. They
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Speaker 1: whacked Eddy, so I'm on my own. And so the
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Speaker 1: things I learned as a boy scout back in the day,
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Speaker 1: and we're confirmed when I did my first talk radio
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Speaker 1: show I still use today. Your work is your signature.
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Speaker 1: That is my product. You never sell. I believe in
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Speaker 1: never selling an inferior product. I wouldn't want to buy
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Speaker 1: an inferior product. Why would I want to sell an
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Speaker 1: inferior product? And this is all I have is my words,
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Speaker 1: So that's it. And I want to be like some
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Speaker 1: horse being sent to the glue factory. But it's the
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Speaker 1: code of the West. You take pride in your work,
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Speaker 1: you ride for the brand, and you finish what you start,
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Speaker 1: and those basic things. I feel like we could just
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Speaker 1: teach those basic things to people and they could follow them.
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Speaker 1: The world would be a better place. It just would,
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Speaker 1: and you wouldn't have that sinking feeling. Now nine to
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Speaker 1: one one, what's your emergency. This is not a story
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Speaker 1: about my wife, who you may or may not know,
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Speaker 1: is a nine to one one operator. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: This is a recreation of what we think happened, what
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Speaker 1: we think happened earlier this week. This go back back, back,
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Speaker 1: back back back, and uh any a day that was
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Speaker 1: I don't know, was it was it Wednesday? Was it Thursday?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, A couple of days back, and we're
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Speaker 1: doing a recreation here. This is not the actual call.
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Speaker 1: This is a recreation ring ring ring nine one one.
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Speaker 1: What's your emergency? Yeah, my name is Scott. Hi, Scott,
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Speaker 1: what's your problem? I live on the North end of Boston. Well, Scott,
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Speaker 1: this is this is La PD Scott. Uh yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: I'm calling because my favorite radio show's having an issue
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Speaker 1: with the phones. I feel like this is an emergency.
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Speaker 1: Uh but you're you're in Boston, We're in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: What are you doing? Uh? Yeah, it's it's called Scott,
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Speaker 1: It's Scott. Here's it's the Ben Malor Show. Yeah. So
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Speaker 1: if we are to believe Scott, now, Scott has is
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Speaker 1: he's admitted he has like multiple personalities and he's got
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Speaker 1: there's a lot going on I get a kick out
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Speaker 1: of Scott. Ninety five percent of the time I am
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Speaker 1: a fan of Blind Scott. The five percent I do
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Speaker 1: not like blind Scott is when he threatens to docks
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Speaker 1: me and he goes completely off the reservation. Not a fan,
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Speaker 1: But for the rest of it, I get a kick
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Speaker 1: out of him. The fact that he's on You don't
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Speaker 1: realize he's on hold every night, almost the entire show,
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Speaker 1: and I only usually use him one time on the show.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll use him two or three times, but usually
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Speaker 1: it's only one time, and he says on oh, and
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Speaker 1: most of the time he doesn't complain. And the thing
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Speaker 1: about him, unlike most of the callers, like I'll take
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Speaker 1: calls and these are like regular star callers on the show.
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Speaker 1: These are legends, and they're gammering and they're not ready
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Speaker 1: to go. And Blind Scott always has a sharp tongue.
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Speaker 1: He's always ready to go, and he's he's listening somehow
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Speaker 1: to all the bull crap. So I appreciate that he
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Speaker 1: puts He's not getting paid, I don't think, but he's
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Speaker 1: putting work in so anyway, if we are to believe Scott,
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Speaker 1: the phones go down at FSR and he thinks this
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Speaker 1: is a police matter, and he says he called LAPD. No,
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Speaker 1: he didn't call nine one one. I added that I don't.
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Speaker 1: If you call nine one one, you get your local
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Speaker 1: nine one one. But he called the LAPD office like
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Speaker 1: some he went on the internet and found some number.
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Speaker 1: And keep in mind, he did this while the city
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Speaker 1: was under curfew. Downtown Los Angeles, the meat of LA
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Speaker 1: City Hall, that area one mile radius was under curfew,
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Speaker 1: and he ended up in the middle of that saying, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call the chat line here. I got a problem.
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Speaker 1: My radio show can't take calls and I'm a caller now,
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Speaker 1: piggybacking off that piggybacking off that you have lights, camera action.
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Speaker 1: That is what it was like for me a couple
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Speaker 1: nights this week, driving in to the radio studios from
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Speaker 1: the north Woods, making the long drive in. So I'm
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Speaker 1: driving into work. Now, the writing had been going on
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Speaker 1: for a couple of days, so that that's one issue.
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Speaker 1: Then you had the curfew, as we mentioned with the
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Speaker 1: blind Scott story, so you had that. So I'm making
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Speaker 1: the long drive in from the north Woods. Now keep
20:15
Speaker 1: in mind, before this happened, I had I was watching
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Speaker 1: a game, and then I would flip over and they
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Speaker 1: had the news on, and they had the helicopters, and
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Speaker 1: there were people, uh, just a few few bad actors
20:29
Speaker 1: I'm sure looked like a lot, but they were out
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Speaker 1: there causing havoc, you know, messing with the cops and
20:34
Speaker 1: all that stuff and usual activity that happens in La
20:37
Speaker 1: La Land. So I'm watching this and I'm like, well,
20:40
Speaker 1: I drive it in, and the way I go in,
20:42
Speaker 1: I take the one oh one. If you're not familiar
20:44
Speaker 1: with Los Angeles, the one on one freeway, which slices
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Speaker 1: right in downtown, goes by Union Station is on the right,
20:51
Speaker 1: and then on the other side is like the Men's
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Speaker 1: Central Jail. Actually, no, I think it's not the Men's
20:56
Speaker 1: Central Jail. It's just the jail, the Men's Central Jails
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Speaker 1: on the other side. And then there there's a city hall.
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Speaker 1: There's Olavera Street, which is on the other side near
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Speaker 1: Union Station, and then there's this like this Walt Disney
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Speaker 1: Music Hall. There's a weird high school that has some
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Speaker 1: art thing, and then up ahead is the from the
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Speaker 1: one oh one to the one ten, and to the
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Speaker 1: right you can get to Dodger stadium. So this is
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Speaker 1: how I go to get to work. So I'm driving
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Speaker 1: and I'm getting near Union Station and I get thanks
21:26
Speaker 1: to the incompetent mayor of Los Angeles, I get a
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Speaker 1: full on show. I end up driving right through the
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Speaker 1: heart of the knuckleheads. The only thing I was worried
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Speaker 1: about was that they would end up on the freeway,
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Speaker 1: because I've seen this happen a lot. They closed the
21:43
Speaker 1: they walk down it's an old freeway, the one oh one,
21:47
Speaker 1: or they'll close the one ten. There's a standard. So
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Speaker 1: we had on my way to work, I had lights
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Speaker 1: from the police helicopters I had, and also from like
21:56
Speaker 1: it seemed like two hundred police carers. I have not
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Speaker 1: seen that many police cars and that many cops in
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Speaker 1: one place since the previous LA riots. I'm going way
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Speaker 1: back when I was a kid. So we had the
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Speaker 1: lights from the police helicopters, and then there were some
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Speaker 1: news helicopters that didn't have lights of police cars, and
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Speaker 1: they were actually what they had done is on the
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Speaker 1: on ramps to the freeway that was like the staging
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Speaker 1: area for the cops. So there was like a combination.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't just LAPD there was highway patrol. But there
22:23
Speaker 1: were a ton of cops. I mean they were, well,
22:26
Speaker 1: it was a lot. And then we had the cameras
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Speaker 1: provided by the media, the action from the lunatics that
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Speaker 1: were throwing things and mocking the cops and all that stuff,
22:36
Speaker 1: many of them being arrested for violin and curfew. So
22:39
Speaker 1: it was not just your normal drive in. It was
22:43
Speaker 1: the drive with the lights, camera action and a bit
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Speaker 1: of a show. We had a bit of a show
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Speaker 1: on that one. All right. Time out for the phrase
22:52
Speaker 1: of the week. The phrase of the week. Now, the
22:57
Speaker 1: phrase of the week is really just two letters. It's
23:03
Speaker 1: two letters or is it two letters? Well, let me
23:09
Speaker 1: give it to you. The phrase of the week is
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Speaker 1: p you. Now, I do use this phrase on a
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Speaker 1: semi regular basis. In fact, you might have heard me
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Speaker 1: say something last night on the show, on the Overnight
23:24
Speaker 1: Show about this, and we talked about things that are
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Speaker 1: are smelling. So I'll say, p you what stinks? Right? Well,
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Speaker 1: the phrase PU does not does not stand for pretty,
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Speaker 1: unsavory or putrid eh or please use as in deodorant. No, no, no.
23:48
Speaker 1: In fact, if you if you go back and study
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Speaker 1: the origins, and I am not the one that did this,
23:54
Speaker 1: but I did fall down an avenue that led me here.
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Speaker 1: So the phrase pu, it turns out likely it began
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Speaker 1: in the early seventeenth century. And it is not initials
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Speaker 1: for anything. It's not initials for you name it. It is
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Speaker 1: the word pew. Pew, according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
24:23
Speaker 1: defines an expressing contempt, disgust, or derision division, and it is.
24:30
Speaker 1: It's pew. It's spelled a few different ways, but the
24:34
Speaker 1: way we'll use is pew. And there's different iterations and
24:38
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And it's supposed to be pronounced with
24:41
Speaker 1: one syllable. And so the theory is that over time,
24:47
Speaker 1: to add a little rasmataz, add a little flair. Instead
24:51
Speaker 1: of saying pew, they said p You like that, And
24:56
Speaker 1: it's similar to you can say beautiful or be you ful? Right,
25:02
Speaker 1: be be twoful? You can say that as well, Yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: And so pu sounds exactly like the letters PU. So
25:13
Speaker 1: it's believed that that's how it happened. Now that being
25:17
Speaker 1: pointed out, PW to pu isn't the only theory behind
25:22
Speaker 1: the expression. It has also been suggested by competing wordsmith
25:27
Speaker 1: a wordsmith out there that the phrase pu actually comes
25:34
Speaker 1: from an Indo European word, which is pu, meaning to
25:38
Speaker 1: rot or decay. There's also a Latin phrase that is
25:44
Speaker 1: similar that means to stink. And it turns out there's
25:47
Speaker 1: actually a number of phrases and other Latin words that
25:52
Speaker 1: are are similar. And I don't need to give you two.
25:55
Speaker 1: I don't speak Latin very well, but anyway, in short,
26:00
Speaker 1: I just kind of sum this up. The letters PU
26:02
Speaker 1: have been associated with stench, either from the seventeen hundreds
26:06
Speaker 1: or even before that in the sixteenth century. So there
26:09
Speaker 1: it is the phrase all the week pu, the phrase
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Speaker 1: of the week times for some food he fun, all right,
26:17
Speaker 1: for food he fun. Now. I talked to my friend
26:21
Speaker 1: Nico when I was in Vancouver and we had Nico
26:24
Speaker 1: on the podcast recently, and he was great. We love
26:27
Speaker 1: Nico and Nico enjoys the pod. He listens, and I realized, though,
26:31
Speaker 1: we have people that listen all over the place. Not
26:33
Speaker 1: most people listening are here in America, but we have
26:34
Speaker 1: people all over Canada, as we learned, great audience in
26:37
Speaker 1: Vancouver and other places around Canada. And so I have
26:41
Speaker 1: the foodie fun and I just put together a slap
26:44
Speaker 1: together some deals trap your boys out some new items
26:47
Speaker 1: that are interesting. Realizing these are not available everywhere, so
26:52
Speaker 1: as Nico said, well, you mentioned some restaurants and that's
26:54
Speaker 1: not in Canada. We can't you know, I can't have that.
26:57
Speaker 1: But these are some restaurants out. Even if these restaurants
26:59
Speaker 1: are in your place, you might not get the item.
27:04
Speaker 1: For example, McDonald's, they're everywhere. Just in time for the summer,
27:07
Speaker 1: McDonald's offering all the flavors of the classic campfire treat,
27:13
Speaker 1: the S'mores s'mores mcflurry. They partnered with Hershey's so you
27:20
Speaker 1: can have that. I was never a big Smores guy,
27:24
Speaker 1: did a few campouts in my younger days. Eh. The
27:28
Speaker 1: problem was the melt of the chocolate and it didn't
27:34
Speaker 1: match up. And then get one bite into the Graham cracker,
27:37
Speaker 1: the marshmallow and the chocolate, and it was such an
27:39
Speaker 1: f and mess. It was terrible. You had marshmallow all
27:43
Speaker 1: over your hands and it would drip down on your shirt.
27:46
Speaker 1: You were a pig. But anyway, if you're into that,
27:49
Speaker 1: if that's your jam, McDonald's unveiling the new Hershey's S'mores mcflurry.
27:54
Speaker 1: It's got four hundred and sixty calories if you're buying mcfluury,
27:57
Speaker 1: who the hell cares? Come on, don't count on that.
28:02
Speaker 1: But they say vanilla soft serve ice cream swirled with
28:04
Speaker 1: Hershey milk, chocolate, Graham Cracker, and soft marshmallows available in
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Speaker 1: meni and regular size prices starting at dollars seventy nine.
28:13
Speaker 1: That's probably for a thing the size of your thumb.
28:16
Speaker 1: And the prices do vary based on location. And also
28:20
Speaker 1: we're not sure if that's all over the place or
28:23
Speaker 1: just in the US. Taco Bell on Foodie Fund. Taco
28:27
Speaker 1: Bell has launched a new Crispy Chicken taco and burrito
28:32
Speaker 1: featuring all new Crispy Chicken strips. Okay, is there getting
28:37
Speaker 1: in on that? Like the fries, the Taco Bell fries.
28:40
Speaker 1: That's a win and this doesn't sound bad. Although, hey,
28:45
Speaker 1: the Malor Mansion, we have mastered the crunchy taco and
28:50
Speaker 1: the rolled taco, which is a taketo. We're in it.
28:54
Speaker 1: We have mastered that, and it only took a long
28:57
Speaker 1: time to get there. But we are, we are here,
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Speaker 1: and boy are we happy to be here mastering that.
29:04
Speaker 1: Papa John's has officially launched a new cheddar Crust pizza
29:09
Speaker 1: nationwide in the US here, So if you're into that,
29:14
Speaker 1: knock it out of the park. Culvers, which is in
29:16
Speaker 1: my This is not a list, but my big board
29:18
Speaker 1: of great fast food establishments. I've got Raising Canes, Got
29:23
Speaker 1: In and Out, Burger, Culver's is in there, and bo Jangles.
29:28
Speaker 1: Those are some of my favorites. But Culver's launching new
29:32
Speaker 1: and improved chicken sandwiches. They have a new lineup of
29:36
Speaker 1: chicken sandwiches at culver. I've never had a Culver's chicken sandwich.
29:39
Speaker 1: I've only been there a few times. I'm not near
29:42
Speaker 1: a Culver's. They have over a thousand locations, thousand locations,
29:48
Speaker 1: and I'm not near one. I'm not. The next closest
29:51
Speaker 1: is over in Arizona. There's none in La or in California,
29:55
Speaker 1: where we do the show from. When I visit my
29:57
Speaker 1: brother in Wisconsin, I go to anyone in the Midwest
30:01
Speaker 1: they have a Culvers. I'll try to stop by, But
30:03
Speaker 1: the Culvers, they say, based on fan feedback, a MULTII
30:08
Speaker 1: year MULTII year program fan feedback and research, Culver's culinary
30:14
Speaker 1: team has come up with the new grilled Chicken, the
30:18
Speaker 1: Crispy Chicken, and the spicy crispy chicken, which sounds like
30:23
Speaker 1: every other restaurants chicken lineup. It doesn't sound any different,
30:28
Speaker 1: but it's culvers and you get the cheese curds, and
30:32
Speaker 1: so you can go with that and have a fine time.
30:36
Speaker 1: Just just absolutely knock yourself out there. And that's it,
30:41
Speaker 1: all right. It is the Fifth Hour, and I want
30:45
Speaker 1: to solicit some letters if you would like to send
30:48
Speaker 1: a question in for the mail bag, which is not
30:53
Speaker 1: not ask man. We've been so happy with the feedback.
30:58
Speaker 1: And when I say feedback, I just mean like people
31:00
Speaker 1: that are new, not that we don't love the old people,
31:04
Speaker 1: because we love the regulars. You guys are the base.
31:06
Speaker 1: We love the bass. But there are new people seemingly
31:08
Speaker 1: finding the show. Other than Reggie in Detroit and Alf
31:14
Speaker 1: and ferg Dog and those guys, there's new people that
31:16
Speaker 1: are coming in, which is really cool because most people
31:20
Speaker 1: that listen to a podcast like this will never actually
31:23
Speaker 1: interact with the podcast. But Real fifth Hour at gmail
31:26
Speaker 1: dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com if
31:30
Speaker 1: you'd like to be part of this podcast. The mail
31:34
Speaker 1: bag is on Sunday, so even if you can't listen
31:37
Speaker 1: on Sunday, you can go back and listen to it
31:39
Speaker 1: later and enjoy that and have a fine, fine time.
31:43
Speaker 1: So Danny should be with me on the Saturday and
31:46
Speaker 1: the Sunday podcast. We've got pro bouncy ball tonight. I
31:52
Speaker 1: believe that is the case. Yeah, pro bouncy ball. So
31:56
Speaker 1: we've got that to look forward to. Any have a
31:58
Speaker 1: wonderful rest of your Friday. Here, maybe it's the end
32:02
Speaker 1: of your Friday. Who knows. We put the pot out early.
32:04
Speaker 1: It's up to you decide what you want to do,
32:07
Speaker 1: how you want to consume the content. I'm sure that
32:09
Speaker 1: Tony in the Bay Area will go back and listen
32:11
Speaker 1: to this. He listens to stuff eight years ago, so
32:14
Speaker 1: he'll go back and listen to this in twenty thirty three.
32:17
Speaker 1: Holy crap, he'll be listening to this. But have a
32:20
Speaker 1: wonderful Friday. We got fresh content all weekend. We got
32:23
Speaker 1: you on Saturday and Sunday. So I'll talk to you
32:24
Speaker 1: next time. And as Danny g would say, asta pasta pill.
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Speaker 1: Yeah gotta murder. I gotta go