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The Fifth Hour: "Dirty Nike" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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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.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maler and Danny g Radio and a happy Sunday to you,
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  Speaker 1: the final Sunday before the Ash Football League takes over.
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  Speaker 1: And also, oh, by the way, the final day of
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  Speaker 1: the month of August. We will bid a do it say?
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  Speaker 1: I'm told it's a holiday weekend this weekend? Is that correct, Danny?
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  Speaker 1: I know it's for some people's holiday. And when you
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  Speaker 1: were working, radio store never closes. The store is always open.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's not a holiday for us. We're working, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we were working.
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  Speaker 1: So but if you are celebrating the holiday weekend, I
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  Speaker 1: have a wonderful, glorious time and all that. But here
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  Speaker 1: we are hating out final day of August and we've
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  Speaker 1: got Ohio al ready to go, and that means it's
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  Speaker 1: the mail bag. It's this mail.
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  Speaker 3: Bag, today's mail bag, complaint free.
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  Speaker 1: We took care of all of our complaints yesterday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's sixty dollars for daycare. It's pretty an hour is
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  Speaker 1: pretty pretty extreme.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty dollars in parking, you have me beat.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was ridiculous. Eighty dollars. Even when I
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  Speaker 1: went to pay for the parking for the show, the
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  Speaker 1: guys like, you know, it's thirty bucks for the show.
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  Speaker 1: And the show's like at night. All these shows are
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  Speaker 1: ninety minutes. So we could do some math on that.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on a second, let me do some malor math
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  Speaker 1: on that. So I said, the complaining is over. Oh
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  Speaker 1: that's true. I guess I can't. Yeah, I can't.
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  Speaker 3: That would be that would be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a lot. That was a lot per
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  Speaker 1: minute I was paying anyway. First best message from Reggie
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  Speaker 1: from Detroit. He writes in He says, Hey, Ben and Danny,
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  Speaker 1: I heard you the other night. Ben, you did one
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  Speaker 1: topic radio you don't normally do that. You talked about
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  Speaker 1: Michael Parsons pretty much the whole show. How did you
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  Speaker 1: handle the repetition? Says Reggie, it was fine, Reggie. There
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  Speaker 1: was a a lot to break apart. And I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: this on the show Nanny. We get into talk radio,
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  Speaker 1: there's a thing called the topic tree. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they still teach the topic tree anymore, but I
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  Speaker 1: learned the topic tree when I was a kid. And
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  Speaker 1: you have branches of the tree, and you start out
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  Speaker 1: with the main topic. And there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: branches to the Micah Parsons tree. There was a lot
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  Speaker 1: to it. So to answer your question, Reggie, I did
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  Speaker 1: not really have that big a problem with it. It
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  Speaker 1: was a good story. And there's a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: I'll go into the radio studio and there's not a
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  Speaker 1: really good story, and so we had a good story
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. It was nice and juicy, and that
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  Speaker 1: was good. And so I would prefer not to do
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  Speaker 1: those kind of shows. I like talking about something different,
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  Speaker 1: catches my attention, it keeps the show flowing. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's a better flow to it when you change topics
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  Speaker 1: every hour and not just do the same thing. But
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  Speaker 1: it was yeah, it was all right. Al from Sin City,
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  Speaker 1: says Ben and Danny. Hey, Ben, after your latest voyage
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  Speaker 1: to Vegas, do you see yourself going full JT the
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  Speaker 1: brick mode and just staying there to do a residency
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  Speaker 1: with shadow band ballplayer, a shadow band ballplayer. I can
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  Speaker 1: see it now. On the Marquis Benny and the Bauer says,
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  Speaker 1: alf Yes, I think I'm in La through marriage. If
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  Speaker 1: I was, and my wife doesn't want to really live
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  Speaker 1: anywhere other than La, So I don't think I'll be
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  Speaker 1: leaving anytime soon. I have thought about it. Although Vegas
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  Speaker 1: is pretty big now, it's pretty massive. It's pretty pretty massive,
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  Speaker 1: so it's still much cheaper than La. I could see
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  Speaker 1: myself living in Vegas. Although it was one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: we did the Malor meet greet last week. It was
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twelve degrees. We came out of the
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  Speaker 1: meat were at like six o'clock. It was one hundred
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  Speaker 1: degrees at one in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, you need if you live there, you need
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  Speaker 3: a swimming pool. Oh there's no question you have to Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: no question. You have to have a pool, which you.
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  Speaker 1: Have to have. Danny is a massive air conditioner the
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  Speaker 1: size of the dome where the Raiders play. Just a
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  Speaker 1: huge air conditioners which you have to have. It's so
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  Speaker 1: fricking Just stay inside. That's it my god, Scott's writes
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  Speaker 1: in on the mail back Fifth Hour. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to send a message in you can
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  Speaker 1: send it care of real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's real our at gmail dot com. Scott says, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you could hold a Mallard meet and greet at
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  Speaker 1: any location in the world, what would you choose? He
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  Speaker 1: says examples. I thought of the White House, a casino, sportsbook,
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  Speaker 1: a nunnery, and iHeart CEO's personal residents. What's the dream
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  Speaker 1: setting and why? Says Scott. It would be fun to
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  Speaker 1: go to a ballpark like Finway or Wrigley Field and
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  Speaker 1: have a Mallard meet and greet and now while there's
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  Speaker 1: a game going on, but just be able to play
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  Speaker 1: a game. We could have We could have teams of
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  Speaker 1: Mallard like people that show up with these meet and
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  Speaker 1: greets and they could play in a game on Finway,
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  Speaker 1: parks Field or Dodger Stadium or Wrigley Field or somewhere
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  Speaker 1: like That would be pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: That would be cool. That would yeah, that would be
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Or we could just go to Klay Travis's house. That
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  Speaker 1: would be fun too. You know why, I'm sure that'll
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  Speaker 1: solve it. Uh, let's see what is my Steve Wrightson
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  Speaker 1: says in de Haas, Oh, this is a place that
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  Speaker 1: one of our listeners match I think it was Matt
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  Speaker 1: Jack wants us to do a mal of meat read. He says, Hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: I love the show, never miss it via the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: And now I live in work Nights, lived in work
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  Speaker 1: nights for so col Gas. He's retired. Now I'm local
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  Speaker 1: and we avoid this place. He says. He avoids in
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  Speaker 1: DA has considered a dive and can be dangerous. Steve says,
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  Speaker 1: just ask the San Dimas Sheriff's department. He says, the
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  Speaker 1: food's not good, the service is not good. Wow, can
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  Speaker 1: you speak to some other locations might be okay during
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  Speaker 1: the daytime. I suggest you send in a point man
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  Speaker 1: to check it out. Well, Steve, I actually used to
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  Speaker 1: live out in your area in SoCal and I've been
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  Speaker 1: to Zendejas and it was okay. You gotta understand, though,
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  Speaker 1: and you've been to these meet and greets standing you
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  Speaker 1: can speak for this. We't Our crowd is a pretty
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  Speaker 1: tough crowd, like somewhere. Say that when we show up
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff department has to show up, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I don't think we're worried about that.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the food was okay. The service was
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  Speaker 1: not great. When I was out there, the food was
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  Speaker 1: all right. I don't have a I have only been
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  Speaker 1: to Zenday House once and it was fine. It was good.
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  Speaker 1: We do these things during the day anyway, Steve, so
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  Speaker 1: it'd be like in the afternoon, it'll be fine.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it'd be a problem with it.
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  Speaker 1: It's been out there for a million years. It can't
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  Speaker 1: be that bad. It's been around for thirty five years.
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  Speaker 3: Probably.
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  Speaker 1: I would say something like that, it's been a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see Kwang from Vietnam Rights and says, hey, big
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  Speaker 1: Ben and Danny G. Would either of you guys eat
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  Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts poop pretzel?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, well, it looks like it looks like a turd.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen this? Just google it, Danny. The Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: Colts pretzel for this year. It's a giant it's shaped
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  Speaker 1: like the Colts logo.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I have seen this on social media.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so you want to of course it's a pretzel.
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  Speaker 1: I would eat it. Why would you not eat it?
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  Speaker 1: It's a pretzel. Pretzels are delicious, They're wonderful. The middle
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  Speaker 1: part of the pretzel. I guess there's really no middle
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  Speaker 1: part of the pretzel though, right, it's.
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  Speaker 3: A horseshoe by the way. How good is that pretzel
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  Speaker 3: at Finney's?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? That is really good? Yeah, Danny, you had recommended
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  Speaker 1: that place on this podcast, and I was in Santa
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  Speaker 1: Barbara a couple of weeks ago with the wife and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, we gotta go. She's always looking
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  Speaker 1: for places. He was place Fennis or fenni'es whatever, really good.
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  Speaker 1: That was probably my favorite restaurant in Santa Barbara.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's my food, you know, it's my kind of food.
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  Speaker 1: You're kind of food, right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, it's this big, piping hot pretzel that they
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  Speaker 3: bring out with three fancy dips, caramel like a sweet
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  Speaker 3: honey mustard, and melted cheddar. It is amazing. It is
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  Speaker 3: by far the fanciest best pretzel I've ever had in
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  Speaker 3: my life. Yeah, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Learned something about myself that I did not know when
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  Speaker 1: I was eating that pretzel. I did something that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think I would do. I didn't think I enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: and I did that. Carmel was amazing that pretzel. Carmel
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  Speaker 1: tell me, oh, man, that's a home run in your
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  Speaker 1: mouth right there? Man? Was that kid?
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  Speaker 3: That's a drop.
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  Speaker 1: That's a home run in your mouth right there? All right,
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  Speaker 1: all right? Marcus in San Antonio writes and says, Dear
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  Speaker 1: Big Band and Danny G. One of my favorite things
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  Speaker 1: about the Weekend podcast is listen to you guys talk
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  Speaker 1: about things you did growing up as kids, through the
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  Speaker 1: bachelor years, and into marriage. I'm not sure if my
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  Speaker 1: favorite stories are about Danny G and his brother raising
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  Speaker 1: heck or Danny G sharing his wife's massage experiences. I
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  Speaker 1: hear your stories and I think about things I used
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy as a kid, like jumping on a pogo stick,
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  Speaker 1: riding a bike, or even playing corn hole in the backyard.
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  Speaker 1: We've all seen the extreme sports that took those things
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  Speaker 1: we did for fun into new heights, and some are
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  Speaker 1: now borderline life threatening. He says. Then I saw a
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  Speaker 1: clip of an Asian kid winning his eighth Yo yo
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  Speaker 1: championship racist and wondered, what is the next kid's toy
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  Speaker 1: or game?
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  Speaker 3: Why does it matter that he's Asian? Racist?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just reading the email. He even said the
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  Speaker 1: guy's name here, but I didn't say that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who this person is. Just what's the next toy?
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  Speaker 1: He says. I always thank you for keeping me entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting my weekend choice done. I never miss a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you Marcus in San Antonio, who sent a
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  Speaker 1: link to the yo Yo kid here, that yo Yo kid.
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  Speaker 1: So the way I'm determined this Marcus is, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: whatever's popular right now, whatever's kind of cool for young
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  Speaker 1: people right now, in twenty years on twenty forty five,
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  Speaker 1: will be monetized, marketed, and repackaged as nostalgia. That's my theory.
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  Speaker 1: Anything that's twenty years old or so, and maybe even
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  Speaker 1: more than that. What do you think they twenty thirty years?
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  Speaker 1: You gotta think when kids are like ten, So maybe
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  Speaker 1: thirty years is better.
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  Speaker 3: Well, i'd say twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so twenty five years. So if someone's popular when
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  Speaker 1: you're ten years old, you gotta wait till the person's
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  Speaker 1: thirty five, because then they'll have a job, they'll have
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  Speaker 1: a family, most likely we'll have a career, they'll have
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  Speaker 1: money to spend to buy the product or support the product.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's it. That's the key. I've figured it
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  Speaker 1: all out. I don't need to go to some marketing
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  Speaker 1: webinar or anything like that. It's just whatever is popular now.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty five years from now will they'll have a renaissance
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  Speaker 1: and all those people that are around thirty five or
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  Speaker 1: forty so oh, I remember that. It was so cool,
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  Speaker 1: It was awesome, amazing. That's a home run in your
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  Speaker 1: mouth right there. One of the things that I got
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  Speaker 1: a kick out of this week, and I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: do a monologue about this on back on Thursday, but
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  Speaker 1: then the Parsons trade happened and we had to we
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  Speaker 1: had to put that to bed. We couldn't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're pretty much talk to Parsons. The team called the
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  Speaker 1: Savannah Bananas. There was a story this week that the
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  Speaker 1: people at Major League Baseball want to partner with the
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  Speaker 1: Savannah Bananas, which, like, I look at that team. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's the kind of gimmicky team twenty five years from now,
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  Speaker 1: if there's if they're not around twenty five years from now,
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  Speaker 1: they'll pull out the guy and the gold tuxedo. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that guy that wears the yellow tuxedo and yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: they'll have like a nostalgia thing with the Savannah bananas
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  Speaker 1: and bring them back and and and all that. But
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  Speaker 1: that's like, that's kind of a fatty thing. Gotta be careful.
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  Speaker 1: I say that that's that's going on right now and
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  Speaker 1: will be popular. I don't know the other like what
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  Speaker 1: other stuff is really popular with kids that would be
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  Speaker 1: popular twenty five years from now. I'm in I'm in
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  Speaker 1: my lane, stay in your lane. So I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: Really young kids or teenagers like I'm talking about like
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  Speaker 1: you obviously have a very young yeah. By the talk
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  Speaker 1: about like yea kids ten eleven, twelve, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: mostly video game stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And also fashions. I would say, like they're all wearing
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  Speaker 3: those stupid burking stocks right now, and they love the shoes,
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  Speaker 3: the white nikes, and then they get them all dirty
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  Speaker 3: and messed up looking on purpose, which is very interesting
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  Speaker 3: because when we were kids, we had those sneaker cleaning kits.
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  Speaker 3: We were so psycho about our shoes, our tennis shoes
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  Speaker 3: being clean that we had little kits to clean our shoes.
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  Speaker 3: Teenagers I have now they get their shoes dirty on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, I remember we have white shoes, and I say,
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  Speaker 1: we never wear them, only wear them once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: don't wear them outside.
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  Speaker 3: You know, So our fourteen year old in twenty five years,
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  Speaker 3: there's gonna be a radio show that says, remember when
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  Speaker 3: it was popular to wear Birkenstocks sandals to school, And
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  Speaker 3: she's gonna be like, oh my god, I begged my
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  Speaker 3: mom and stepdad to have a pair of those. And
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  Speaker 3: they'll talk about white nikes and getting them dirty on purpose,
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  Speaker 3: and it's dumb, it makes no sense. But you know, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I guess every generation the pair and say the same
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  Speaker 3: exact thing.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's let's have a party and pretend like we're
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  Speaker 1: going to school. All right, everyone wear your pajama bottoms
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  Speaker 1: because that's how you go to school, pajama bottoms and
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  Speaker 1: in the birkinstock. Yeah, all right, Ferg Dog Right, send
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  Speaker 1: from Fullerton to mail bag and CROs if you want
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  Speaker 1: to send a message in Real fifth Hour at gmail
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Ferg
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  Speaker 1: Dog in Fullerton, the winter Wonderland of Fullerton. I know
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  Speaker 1: Ferg's excited that we're going to get that new crop
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  Speaker 1: of tire Iraq commercials. Right winter has arrived, or Winter's
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  Speaker 1: Coming or anyway. Uh. Fergduck says, Hey, Ben and Danny
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  Speaker 1: g to maintain P one status in the mal or militia,
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  Speaker 1: is it now required to watch all your YouTube videos
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  Speaker 1: in addition to listening to the live show, the podcast
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  Speaker 1: of the live show, and the Fifth Hour podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: willing to do it. Ferg Dog says, just give me
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: the word. Yeah, I'm giving you the green light on
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: that for Duck. Now, you don't necessarily have to watch
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  Speaker 1: all the YouTube videos, but what you do have to
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: do you have to click the play button and then
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: just set it and forget it. Like Ron Polpiel, who
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: was going to go on this podcast, was booked on
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  Speaker 1: this podcast and then decided the very last minute he
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: didn't want to go on this podcast because he wanted
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: to play with his grandkids. And then he's now he's dead.
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  Speaker 1: But good decision by him anyway. Yeah, you got to
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  Speaker 1: consume all that. Also, Fergdog says, I'm loving all the
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  Speaker 1: video game content on the show lately, whether it's your
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Sonic the Hedgehog lectures, or some guy calling in while
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: playing Castlevania two. Simon's quest. I hope he calls back
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  Speaker 1: after he beats it, says Fergdum. Yeah, I've realized I've
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  Speaker 1: known this for a while now that the number of people,
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  Speaker 1: the number of dudes that stay up till three four
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  Speaker 1: in the morning playing video games and then have our
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  Speaker 1: show on in the background is next level. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that just love to play the video
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  Speaker 1: games and they get their radio fix and the video
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  Speaker 1: game thing at the same time. Next up is Joe
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  Speaker 1: from New New York, but not New York City. He says, guys,
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  Speaker 1: Taco Bell said this week they're reconsidering their drive through
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  Speaker 1: with AI, and what do you think about that? He
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  Speaker 1: said that the reason they're thinking about changing this up
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  Speaker 1: is because there have been some viral pranks. I guess
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok people have been pranking the AI drive through,
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  Speaker 1: and there was one prank, Joe says, involving a thousand
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  Speaker 1: or thousands of cups of water. I did not see that.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see a Taco Bell prank with thousands of
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  Speaker 1: cups of water?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't see that?
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  Speaker 1: I must have been How did I miss that? How
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  Speaker 1: would I How would I miss it? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But it's been close to five years since the surprise,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the metaverse was going to be here, and
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff the next big thing, and artificial intelligence
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  Speaker 1: is around and Taco Bell reevaluating its use of AI
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: in drive throughs a a very rocky rollout. I've been
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: getting a lot of trolling because of it. There's some
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: viral videos. According to Wall Street Journal, there are currently
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: more than five hundred locations where customers can place their
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: order via virtual assistant. However, apparently there are there are
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: some issues. For example, here's I found the story here.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: It said some people doing pranks and taking advantage of
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the AI. One person unsuccessfully attempted to get the AI
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  Speaker 1: to ring up an order for eighteen thousand cups of
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: water before an actual employee had to step in. Okay,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: well that would have been Why not just a five
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: hundred would have been funny too. Five hundred would have
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: been good.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: While we're on some food, be fun here. Did you
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: see what McDonald's is doing?
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: No?
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: This what they got. This is from CNN a few
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: days ago. The inflation crisis that followed the pandemic altered
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: many customers' views of McDonald's from a cheap place to
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: get a quick meal to a pricey fast food restaurant
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: that barely undercut a higher quality sit down restaurant like
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Applebee's or Chili's, with the latter thriving over the past
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: few years, McDonald's is now cutting prices of its combo
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: meals to convince customers that it's affordable again.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, that'll do it. Yeah, that's it. Well, they knock
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a dollar off. Remember McDonald's, all these fast food places,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: we haven't done foodie fun recently. We learned that on
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that you can still get cheap fast food, but you
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: have to do it on the app. And most people,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I guess are not doing the app. They're not downloading
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the McDonald's app or the Burger King app.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: It's a very good point. In fact, Brenda just downloaded
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: the McDonald's app for the first time to get some
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: breakfast from there, and she is amazed at the app.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: And I told her about the stupid app two years ago.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes it takes a while delayed reaction. You planted
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the seed, Danny. It was a de laateed reaction speaking
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: of well, this is serendipitous, Danny. You mentioned the McDonald's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and we talked about food. Well, Paul from Orlando, he
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: says he listens every single morning. He can't sleep because
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: he's old. Well, I guess that's our future, Danny. Anyway,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Paul says, do you see this story, guys, worst fast
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: food item in America? The top ten worst fast food
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: items in America. I know Terry in England loves a list.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: This is not my list, so it doesn't count. I
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: don't do lists. It's just this is a story that
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Paul from Orlando Terry. If you're upset, contact Paul. He
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: says he's old and he can't sleep because his body hurts,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: so contact him. So this is a study done. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: how much fast food do you eat? Danny? I don't
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: eat much fast food. I'll occasionally eat raising canes. That's
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: my little dirty secret. Sometimes I'll go to Chick fil
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: A with the wife or something, but very rarely.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say once a week, if not every
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: other week.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, So how are you going? Can you name? How about?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I'll give you five guesses, and how many of those
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: five are in the top ten worst rated fast foods
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: in the nation. These are items fast food items that
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: are rated the worst.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is specific to the fast food Joint.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, American fast food who scored the lowest. What food
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: particular items like? You could say a taco from Taco Bell, gotcha?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Gotcha? Okay, I'm going to say a burger from Burger King.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Burger from Burger King. Not there strike on on the top.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That might be because people stopped eating.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: At Burger King. What's next?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Number two?
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, I wish I knew more about fast food
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: is probably good. I don't know that much about fast food.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I'm like you, more like you. We go to Chick
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: fil A, Panda Express, Rotate, and sometimes Taco Bell is
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: a treat maybe once a month.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Well again, I don't do this. I'll give you the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: big board.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll give you the big boy.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Let me give you the big board. I'll just go
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: real quick. Ten worst from the home office is Dave
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Leederman say home office in somewhere in Nebraska. Number ten.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Domino's Pasta was number ten pasta. Papa John's wings was
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: number nine, Pizza Hut breadsticks was number eight. Those are
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the same breadsticks I ate thirty years ago. They have
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: not changed them. The Chipotle case ideas are those are
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: on there? Domino's wings. Apparently people don't like wings from
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: fast food Number five was a Panda Express. I them, Danny,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the fortune cookie from Panda Express.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Yees, god, there, they're always stale. Yeah, not good.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: They likely bought them all in nineteen ninety nine and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: they're still giving them out all these Jude. Number four,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the KFC chicken sandwich was number four. Looks good apparently
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: does not taste good. Number three back to back in
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: belly the belly was the KFC chicken tenders. That's not
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: good if you're Kentucky Fried Chicken and you've got the lowest,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: fourth lowest rated chicken sandwich and the third lowest rated
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: chicken tenders. And now to the top two, Danny the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: top two number two. Number two the Chipotle rice bowl.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I've never had a rice bowl from Chipotle, so I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: could not tell you that.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, me neither.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: And number one, Number one, that would be the chicken
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: tends at McDonald's rated the worst fast food item in America.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to McDonald's A way to Go. It's a great
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: honor there. I'm sure you're very proud that you've come
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: up with the worst item imaginable at a fast food restaurant.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Still a good treat, though, Ben to go there once
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: in a while so you don't die young, and get
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: some fries and their diet coke. The carbonation there is
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: off the hook.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Gotta go fries, and you've got to get the cone,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the vanilla cone, or a Sunday. I'd allow a Sunday.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And you got to go to the in La. You
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: got to go over to Downey to the original, well
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: not the original, but the oldest standing McDonald's where they
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: have oh yeah, McDonald's. They have the fries, they.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Have the pot, the fried apple pie where I.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Remember being a kid biting into that fried apple pie
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: burning my mouth.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Not only your tongue, you would burn the roof of
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: your mouth.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: It was so painful. It was the the heat equivalent
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of when you get brain freeze from eating ice cream
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: too fast.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: It was wild and the doing apple stuff would it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Would run down so good man, it was.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: It was wild. What else do we have? Let's see here.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: This one's from Tony in Phoenix. He says, hey, guys,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: there was a study that revealed which generation of Americans
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: want a four day work week the most. And Tony says, Ben,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I know you can read this. You should ask Danny,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So I'll ask you, Danny, because Tony wants me to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: put you on the spot. This is according to research
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: done by Talker Research. I don't know what that is.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And they found which generation blank generation the most likely
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: to support a four day work week? What do you say?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Gen Z?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: You're going gen Z all right? Surveys no, Millennials, no,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: millennials as a generation are most likely to support a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: four day work week. Seventy five percent of millennials want
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to do a four day work week. And then gen
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Z was a little less, but close, little less. I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: think we're part of gen X, right? Are we part
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: of Gen X?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: We are?
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: We're Generation X, Generation X all right, so we were
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: the last the last generation without the internet, right, I
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: think that'd be accurate.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why we're the most creative generation.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: That's right, baby, Yeah, I don't.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: And that's why we're good communicators.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I don't mind working. In fact, we don't do a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: four day weekday, we do an eight day week. Here.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: You ain't lying.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: It's it is a grind, man, It can't be a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: grind at times. We love doing the podcast, but it's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: as long as you get you guys keep listening, We'll
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: keep doing it, but the moment the numbers go down,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I'm out. That's it. And and really the cool thing
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: is that you should get more people. I'll talk to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a buddy of mine about this. We need more people
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: to get other people who listen to the podcast, not
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: because necessarily we're good at podcasting, but this literally costs
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the company money. We get paid based on how many
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: people listen to this podcast correct any essentially a percentage
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of how many people listen to the buddies. Yeah, so
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: technically they call it impressions. Impressions. Yeah, so you want
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to stick it to iHeart and cost them lost them
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: money and then get more people to listen to this podcast,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: not because we're good, not because we're doing a great thing.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I think we are, But if that's up to.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: You, Yeah, if you really want to make a good impression,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: send this podcast to a family member or friend for us.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because we'll get a little extra scratch out
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of it, and that's kind of cool. Vince from Northern California,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: right Sin says Hey, Ben and Daddy G my two
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: favorite Dodger fans, says, Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy. I've
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: heard you guys talk about Rob Parker and his love
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: of Spirit Airlines. How will Rob recover? Yeah? I don't
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: think they're going out of business, right, Danny. I think
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: they just filed for bankruptcy so they can re shuffle
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the finances.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I guess they're just doing what a lot of
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: big companies have done. Yeah, basically, it's debt management.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, debt management. We know a lot about that. Travis
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and Dallas, several people right now, I'm using one from
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Travis and Dallas. He says, Ben and Danny, did you
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: guys pour one out this week for Doris Burke? And
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know much about history, but I know the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: French and German don't like one another. Racist. Yeah, so
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Doris got demoted from the NBA games on ESPN. She's
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna pour one out for Doris Burke
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and people. I used to RiPP her all the time
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: because I ripped her because she was bad at her job.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't rip her because she's a bad person. I
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: don't know Doris Burke. I've never met her. I mean,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: she's fine, she's just bad at commentating on the NBA
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and I would always hit the mute button. So I'm
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: not gonna pour one out. She got a contract extension,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: So what do you want me to do? I'd be
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: good for her. She got a contract extension, all right, Danny,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. Thanks to everyone else who
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we didn't get to. I'm trying to think of some
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: names that George, no Bill, Bill from Georgia, Brent somewhere
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: in Ohio.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I feel like you're just making up names right now.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I can show you the emails. If you want a
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: guy named Mike in southern California, there's only there's only
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: a two people named Mike. All right, we will be back.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight. It is a holiday for most
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: holiday weekend, but I will be doing it live on
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the radio in the overnight leading into an NFL week
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Baby and Danny, any surprises for you this week?
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we are also working Coveno and Rich will be
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: filling in for Dan Patrick and the Dan Hats who
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: are taking the holiday off, so you could wake up
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: with us six am on the West coast, nine am
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: in beautiful. Let's think of a good East Coast city.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful, anything Virginia Beach.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Ye like it's a good one. I'm getting a lot
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: of calls there for c and our beautiful Virginia Beach, Virginia.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Good military town. I've only been to Virginia Beach once
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and I was walking up the boardwalk there and there
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: were I felt like I was in my childhood. There
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: were a lot of planes from the military bases flying.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: They were doing their exercises over the beach there, Virginia Beach.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your Sunday and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: we will chat you. Thanks for listening. Bye, I appreciate it.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: We'll chat you with you next time.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Later.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Skater got a murder, I gotta go. That's a home
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: run in your mouth right there.