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The Fifth Hour: Maller Road Warriors · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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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 sole fastion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the clearinghouse
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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.
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  Speaker 3: The air everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g
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  Speaker 4: Radio as we take a step back and provide you
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  Speaker 4: with podcast gold.
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  Speaker 1: Unless we don't, you'll be the one that decides that.
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  Speaker 4: But it is Friday here, the twenty sixth day of September,
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  Speaker 4: the final weekend of the Major League Baseball regular season,
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  Speaker 4: and the postseason will get going next week Playoff Baseball,
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  Speaker 4: which means we are allowed, as the sounding board of
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  Speaker 4: the late night to get deep into the weeds of
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  Speaker 4: Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I've said in the past that Baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Should play their playoff games on days not named Monday, Thursday,
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  Speaker 4: and Sunday that and I actually brought this up years
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  Speaker 4: ago to people in baseball. I don't want to get
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  Speaker 4: sidetracked to begin here. But I talked to a few
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  Speaker 4: people I know that work at Major League Baseball, and
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  Speaker 4: they're like, listen, you guys, why even bother competing with
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  Speaker 4: the NFL at this point. They have a choke hold
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  Speaker 4: on Thursdays, on Mondays and on Sundays, but you can
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  Speaker 4: dominate every other day, Friday and Wednesday and Tuesday, and
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  Speaker 4: you know all these in the day they were baseball,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the people that serve as a mouthpiece to
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  Speaker 4: Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, well, we're we don't believe in that.
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  Speaker 4: The people are very tough, like, we don't We're not
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  Speaker 4: worried about the amount of NFL dominance that over shadows
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  Speaker 4: Major League Baseball. We're gonna do what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, they didn't listen to me. Of course they don't.
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  Speaker 4: Why would they anyway, So they'll play and then we'll
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  Speaker 4: ignore them on Sundays, we'll ignore them on Mondays and Thursdays.
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  Speaker 4: Likely we'll talk a little bit about them, and then
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the time will be heavy Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Which'll be nice.
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  Speaker 4: See if there's any kind of sizzle here. I am
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  Speaker 4: not optimistic about the twenty five Dodgers. This is a
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  Speaker 4: great underachieving team that will likely fizzle out rather quickly
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs. But I did see today's National Lumberjack Day,
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  Speaker 4: which is exciting unless it's not. And that term lumberjack
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  Speaker 4: isn't all that old. I guess it's old relatively speaking,
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  Speaker 4: but it's not like in the Bronze Age they were
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  Speaker 4: talking about lumberjacks. In fact, the word lumberjack was first
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  Speaker 4: mentioned in eighteen thirty one, so.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long time ago.
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  Speaker 4: Eighteen thirty one, it was, but I thought it'd be
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  Speaker 4: an older word. It was first mentioned, you know where
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  Speaker 4: it was first mentioned, the term lumberjack. No, how about
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  Speaker 4: oh card, I'm sure our buddy Nico knew that, unless
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  Speaker 4: he didn't anyway. Yeah, in Canada, they first existed about
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  Speaker 4: a century ago or so. The original form up until
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  Speaker 4: the time of World War II was about the end
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  Speaker 4: of the modern lumberjack. Lumberjacks worked in Scandinavia and they
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  Speaker 4: were roaming around Canada and also parts of the US obviously,
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  Speaker 4: but some of them were immigrants to North America. Now,
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  Speaker 4: in nineteen o six, it is estimated that that is
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  Speaker 4: the magical year that there was a boom in the
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  Speaker 4: growth of lumberjacks. In fact, in nineteen o six there
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  Speaker 4: were five hundred thousand lumberjacks in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I learned all of this because it's a Lumberjack
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  Speaker 4: Day today, and so you have to have fun facts
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  Speaker 4: about lumberjacks. In nineteen sixty the World Championship for lumberjacking
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  Speaker 4: was held. The Lumberjack World Championship held in Hayward, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 4: And I recall in the early days of ESPN, before
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  Speaker 4: it went all woke and all that, when it was
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  Speaker 4: just trying to make its mark in the world and
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  Speaker 4: they didn't have a lot of programming to put on.
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  Speaker 4: If you've flipped on the original ESPN, there would be
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  Speaker 4: heavy man or strongman competitions, and I remember seeing lumberjack competitions,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm pretty sure it was in Hayward, Wisconsin, where
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  Speaker 4: they'd have the cutting of the tree and in the
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  Speaker 4: pieces and the carrying the thing, the whole deal.
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  Speaker 1: Now I did the name.
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  Speaker 4: This is to me a mistake, but the Lumberjack Day
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  Speaker 4: name is also called National Pancake Day, which doesn't make
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  Speaker 4: sense to me. And then I dug a little deeper
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  Speaker 4: and I say, well, that makes sense. What we call
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  Speaker 4: Lumberjack Day pancake day. Pancake's not a lumberjack at Lumberjack's
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  Speaker 4: not a pancake anyway. So the theory is that the
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  Speaker 4: lumberjack has been so stereotyped by Hollywood that you have
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  Speaker 4: to have if you're a lumberjack, you have to have
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  Speaker 4: a big, burly beard, you have to wear a flannel shirt,
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  Speaker 4: like I wear some flannel. My wife likes flannel stuff.
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  Speaker 4: She'll buy me flannel shirts. I'll wear those around and
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  Speaker 4: long sleeve flannel shirt like well, Benny the lumberjack, I
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  Speaker 4: don't do the suspenders. I don't really do the boots.
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  Speaker 4: That's part of the look as well. It's all part
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  Speaker 4: of the cosplay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: One of the other things, though, is the appetite of
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  Speaker 4: the lumberjack. And the legend is that a real lumberjack,
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  Speaker 4: a hearty lumberjack, loves flapjacks or pancakes. And so thus
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  Speaker 4: they say that Lumberjack Day is also called National Pancake Day,
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  Speaker 4: which to me, again for most doesn't seem like it
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  Speaker 4: makes a lot of sense. And then today is also
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  Speaker 4: National Chimmy chung To Day, and I feel like We've
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  Speaker 4: done this before in years past, but it's National Chimmy
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  Speaker 4: chung To Day today, the twenty sixth of September. A
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  Speaker 4: chance to celebrate one of the great culinary accidents in history.
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  Speaker 4: And there are so many things that we eat on
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  Speaker 4: a regular basis that we're not supposed to happen. The
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  Speaker 4: French dip sandwich, right, that was a mistake that wasn't
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  Speaker 4: supposed to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: The chimmy choga is on that big board, not a
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  Speaker 4: list terry in England, not a list terry in England,
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  Speaker 4: but a big board. And it was created in Mexico,
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  Speaker 4: unless it wasn't. The Chimmy Chunga is not from Mexico.
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  Speaker 4: Was created in nineteen forty six, the year my dear
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  Speaker 4: old mom was born Rest in peace, the same year
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  Speaker 4: as the concept of mechicken restaurants in America became popular.
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  Speaker 4: Before nineteen forty six, it's hard to find a Mexican restaurant.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, the chimmy Chunga, which I was blown away.
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  Speaker 4: You know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know what that means. Let me explain.
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  Speaker 4: So I started digging around a little bits. National Chimmy
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  Speaker 4: chung to day. I like chimmy chung's. I don't eat
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  Speaker 4: them very often. I like them. They're delicious if properly
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  Speaker 4: put together the ingredients of one stuff. So I was like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, what's going on with this chimmy chunka? So hey,
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  Speaker 4: the term chimmy chunga. And I'm likely getting this completely
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  Speaker 4: wrong and I might be hornswoggled, so correct me if
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  Speaker 4: you speak better Spanish than I do. But as I
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  Speaker 4: understand it, the term chimmy chunga means thing of a
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  Speaker 4: jig in Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: How great is that?
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  Speaker 4: So my goal now is to work into my lexicon
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  Speaker 4: the term chimmy chunga, but not as a food dish. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: because I do like to use the word think of
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  Speaker 4: a jag and what you mightna call it. Those are
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  Speaker 4: fun words. I like those words. They're relatable words. So
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  Speaker 4: my plan is to add chimmy chunga, and then people
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  Speaker 4: will say, I don't why do you use the word
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  Speaker 4: chimmy chunka. That's a that's a fried burrito. I don't
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  Speaker 4: understand what you're talking about. Anyway, get to the point, please.
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  Speaker 4: So over the years, a number of restaurants have claimed
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  Speaker 4: to be the father, the forefather of the chimmy chunga. However,
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  Speaker 4: the legend is if you go to Tucson, Arizona. The
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  Speaker 4: origin story that we're gonna go with here, this is
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  Speaker 4: in the late nineteen forties, early nineteen fifties, and there
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  Speaker 4: was a woman named Monica Flynn, the owner of El
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  Speaker 4: Charro Cafe in beautiful Tucson, Arizona, where Mike and Tucson
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  Speaker 4: and his family lived there. So, according to the legend,
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  Speaker 4: the modern day chimmy chunga the thing of a jig
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  Speaker 4: was the result of an accident. The woman named Monica
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  Speaker 4: was flipping a burrito and she accidentally flipped the burrito
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  Speaker 4: into the deep fryor who goofed? I've got to know,
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  Speaker 4: and she exclaimed, using the Spanish swear word chimmy chunga.
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  Speaker 1: Uh oh, maybe it doesn't mean thing of a jig?
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  Speaker 4: And that came out of what came out of the
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  Speaker 4: fryar was this crisp, perfectly cooked savory burrito That became
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  Speaker 4: a legend. And now there are chimmy chunga's all over
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  Speaker 4: the place and one of my go to foods when
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  Speaker 4: I go to a Mexican restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: I love Mexican food, of course.
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  Speaker 4: The rule is if you do not work in, if
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  Speaker 4: you don't bake in the price of chips and salsa,
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  Speaker 4: you're not going to get my business.
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  Speaker 1: You're just not.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's not right, ben No, that's the way I operate.
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  Speaker 4: I have a strict rule. And if you've been with
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  Speaker 4: me a long time, you know my rules.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 4: If you go to a Mexican restaurant and they don't
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  Speaker 4: provide you complimentary oh, it's not complimentary because there is
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  Speaker 4: no free lunch.
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  Speaker 1: You could pay for everything. It's built into the cost
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  Speaker 1: of the food.
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  Speaker 4: But if they don't provide you the chips and the
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  Speaker 4: salsa when you sit down and a cup of water,
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  Speaker 4: I'm out. And then in an Italian restaurant, I expect
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  Speaker 4: a cup of water. I also expect a nice plate
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  Speaker 4: of fresh bread, nice thing of bread.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 4: If I don't get that, and you're not getting my business.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think that's too much to ask. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not asking to get it for free. I'm saying, build
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  Speaker 4: it into the cost of the food, and I'm in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in.
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  Speaker 4: It makes you feel like you're getting a little something
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  Speaker 4: and you're not getting a little something. But it makes
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  Speaker 4: you feel like you're getting a little something, so why
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  Speaker 4: not So turn the page on that. Now we get
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  Speaker 4: to the meat of the podcast, now, the meat and
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  Speaker 4: potatoes of the fifth hour with me and Danny g
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  Speaker 4: who should join me at some point here over the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: So it started like every other week, two am Eastern
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  Speaker 4: in the.
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  Speaker 3: Air everywhere, the airwaves filled with endless hot takes, an
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  Speaker 3: assembly line of hot takes, one after.
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  Speaker 1: Another after another after another, as we draw conclusions on
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  Speaker 1: the day's sporting news.
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  Speaker 4: And not only was the airwaves filled with hot takes,
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  Speaker 4: it had expired caffeine supplements. This week was a little
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  Speaker 4: rocky at the beginning. I got the call from New Zealand, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: we want you got to talk about the NFL. They
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  Speaker 4: actually wanted me to come on last week I was unavailable. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I love the people of New Zealand. One of my
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  Speaker 4: cool radio buddies that I've never actually met in person,
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  Speaker 4: Darcy Walden, who's a big New Zealand media personality, and
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  Speaker 4: I was on his show for ten fifteen years every week.
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  Speaker 4: Then this thing called the pandemic happened in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: and the network he worked for went out of business.
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  Speaker 4: So now my friend Darcy hosts a news talk show.
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  Speaker 4: And when you host a news talk show, you can't
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  Speaker 4: have the fat sports guy from the US on all
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  Speaker 4: that often. So I'll go on every once in a
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  Speaker 4: while and I'll do a check up on American sports.
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  Speaker 4: If something crazy happens, if something unthinkable happens in American sport,
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  Speaker 4: Darcy will put me on, but it's very rare. So
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  Speaker 4: there's another sports channel, sports network that started up, and
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  Speaker 4: they somehow got my number and they said, hey, we
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  Speaker 4: want you to have we want to have you on
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  Speaker 4: talks some NFL football.
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  Speaker 1: I said, sure, no problem, I love New Zealand. I'll
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  Speaker 1: do it. And then I prepared for that.
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  Speaker 4: The only problem is because of the time difference, I
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  Speaker 4: was going on the morning show, which I was supposed
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  Speaker 4: to go on the morning show, which is Tuesday morning
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  Speaker 4: because their NFL Sunday is actually NFL Monday, but it's
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  Speaker 4: two day day then. Anyway, long story short, because of
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  Speaker 4: the time difference between the West coast of the US
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  Speaker 4: and the time zone in New Zealand that I was
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  Speaker 4: going on, they needed me to go on at a
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  Speaker 4: time that I am sleeping I'm not doing Diddley Squat
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  Speaker 4: at that time, but they wanted me to go on.
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  Speaker 4: I said, that's the time. It's a morning show. I said,
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  Speaker 4: against my better judgment, sure, why not. So I woke
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  Speaker 4: up in I don't sleep a lot. I only sleep
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  Speaker 4: like four or five hours day at the most, and
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  Speaker 4: so this was like a two hour night.
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  Speaker 1: I slept like two hours.
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  Speaker 4: And I got up because I'm a loser, and I
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  Speaker 4: did the thing and then I curled up and wanted
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  Speaker 4: to die afterwards. But I didn't go back to sleep
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  Speaker 4: because I don't nap and I'm worried about oversleeping and
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  Speaker 4: I'm I've got a type a personality, and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I'll just pound pound through the day and all that.
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  Speaker 4: So it made for some some rocky times. But the
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  Speaker 4: week started like you know, normal on Sunday and Monday,
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  Speaker 4: and then that Monday morning I.
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  Speaker 1: Needed to go on. So that'screwed things up.
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  Speaker 4: And then the thing about the overnight shift, it's like,
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  Speaker 4: as Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer would say, the Island
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  Speaker 4: of Misfit toys and sports radio, you never know who's listening,
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  Speaker 4: you never know who's going to show up, and we've
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  Speaker 4: got crackheads and CEOs. We've got professors and potheads, doctors
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  Speaker 4: and drug dealers not the legal kind, robbers and robber barons.
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  Speaker 1: We've got them all.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's kind of cool when you go to
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  Speaker 4: these Mallard meet and greets, as I've pointed out, because
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  Speaker 4: you have people crossing worlds. It's very similar to going
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  Speaker 4: to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs or live in
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  Speaker 4: La here So Santa Anita, and you've got really wealthy people,
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  Speaker 4: really successful people, and people that have mastered the fentanyl
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  Speaker 4: lean on the other side, and.
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  Speaker 1: They just everyone mixes together. And I actually like it
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's kind of cool that we all have
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  Speaker 4: found on this common ground here on the show. So
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  Speaker 4: this week the door opened and in walked Moving Man Matt.
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  Speaker 4: If you listen to the Overnight Show every night, never
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  Speaker 4: miss an episode, and you might have heard that. If not,
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  Speaker 4: you can go back and hear the podcast. So Matt
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  Speaker 4: a road warrior, a road a lifer, a man who
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  Speaker 4: was racked up.
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  Speaker 1: I did the math on this. I did malar math.
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  Speaker 4: He has racked up more highway miles than an Amtrak conductor.
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  Speaker 1: Moving Man Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Trotting besides him, of course, as they made their way
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  Speaker 4: into the studio, escorted by Yours Truly, his trusty sidekick,
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  Speaker 4: a French bulldog named Louis. Now I first met Louis
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  Speaker 4: a couple years back. Louie was just a pup. Now
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  Speaker 4: Louie's all grown up, and Louie either remembered me or
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  Speaker 4: really wanted to give me the royal welcome, because as
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  Speaker 4: soon as Louie laid eyes on me, he had to
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  Speaker 4: investigate my feet.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I do not have good looking fear.
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  Speaker 4: My toes are all messed up from treadmill life and
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  Speaker 4: shoes that don't fit the right way, and I've had
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  Speaker 4: toenails fall off many times. It's a mess. It's a
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  Speaker 4: hot mess. You do not want to look at my toes,
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  Speaker 4: do you do not? But Louie, Louis, I love these toes.
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  Speaker 4: So he had his sniffer out, you know, sniffing around there,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm pretty sure that he was more interested in
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  Speaker 4: where I had been prior his investigative skills. Louis the
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  Speaker 4: French bulldog, because I had been doing show prep with
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  Speaker 4: my beloved Moxie, who laid down on top of me
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  Speaker 4: and was cuddling.
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  Speaker 1: As really sleeping and farting.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm pretty sure that louis the French bulldog
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  Speaker 4: spelled the English bulldog.
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  Speaker 1: And then that's that back to the story.
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  Speaker 4: So movie man Matt not just some random schmuck, you know,
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  Speaker 4: not in this and it is all of people listen
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  Speaker 4: to show. He's not undercover. He's certainly somebody's a headliner,
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  Speaker 4: you know the name. He's been around a long time,
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  Speaker 4: he's got staying power. We know he's a Giants fan.
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  Speaker 4: He's not perfect, he likes the Giants, he's loyal to them.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got that. So he's of the age as
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  Speaker 4: all our friends in Boston. I learned this years ago.
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  Speaker 1: If you're over the age of like forty five or so,
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  Speaker 1: you're either a Dolphin fan, a Giant fan, or a
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  Speaker 1: Jets fan.
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  Speaker 4: If you grow up in Boston, you're not a Patriots
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  Speaker 4: fan because they didn't win anything. They were losers.
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  Speaker 1: They were loser.
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  Speaker 4: And then if you're under a certain age, you love
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  Speaker 4: the Patriots because they were great. They were a dynasty. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: so we know a little bit about him. We know
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  Speaker 4: a little bit about him. He's not just your normal
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  Speaker 4: listener he's a member of the Mallard bullsh He's a
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  Speaker 4: decorated veteran. In fact, he has eaten the full Mallar
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  Speaker 4: food Tour, the Chicken Fingers, the Landing in Cans City,
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  Speaker 4: the Chickens, Dvandwich there in Denver at the Sportsbook Bar
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  Speaker 4: and Grill in the Greater Denver area, and he's even
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  Speaker 4: been to the Bird.
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  Speaker 1: The bird is the word. The bird is the word.
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  Speaker 1: The bird is the word.
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  Speaker 4: They're in Kansas where they had the Malard Fowler and
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  Speaker 4: probably some MA branded side dishes I didn't even know about.
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  Speaker 4: Somewhere exists, and we're still waiting for that pizza spot,
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  Speaker 4: the Mallard Pizza. I had a listener reach out to
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: me from this podcast. By the way, I was very
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: excited about that, and it didn't work out. He works
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: at a mom and pop pizza place and he ran
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: it by his pops, and it's too expensive to put
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: it on the menu. Of course, the rule is for
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: us to give the full proper tribute to restaurants, you
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: must have the Mallard food dish on the menu. I
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: think that's very very small thing to ask. Anyway, this guy,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I felt bad for him because he was all excited.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: He unfortunately made the mistake that so many people do.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: They made the offer before getting appool for the offer,
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  Speaker 4: and then it.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't work out.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, with the this is not a commercial to
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: get a Mallard pizza. I'm just saying we almost had that.
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  Speaker 4: At one point. We had it in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: That ended.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: There's also a I forget the name and movie man
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Matt's going to be upset with me. But there was
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: a place in Colorado they named Cocktail after.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: The show, and I forget the name of it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: It's like it's not in Denver, it's out in sticks,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: out there in Colorado. Nonetheless, Mark is what you call
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: a completist. He's like the guy that owns every Springsteen
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: bootleg or every Seinfeld box set, or to relate to
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: the show, Ferg Dog's Pokemon collection, ALPS nineteen eighties TV
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: sitcom trading card collection, just everything.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And then there's the truck. O MG. The truck a beast,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a monstrosity of beauty, metal, horsepower, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: across America's highways and byways, carrying with it this giant
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Ben Mather show Billboard hellllelujah, hellelujah. Now it is not
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a neon. The billboard is not a neon.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: So you think marketing is some kind of slick Manhattan
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: based company that dabbles in social media.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: We'll get you some bots. We're gonna we're gonna have
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: a good time here. We'll get you some bots. We'll
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: have we'll have some fun with it. No, no, no.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Triplastering the name of a radio show.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: On this beautiful eighteen wheeler that drives from Boston to Boise,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: from San fran to San Diego. Every car in the
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: lane behind this truck, every gas station stop, every roadside diner,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: truck stop. There it is Ben Mahlor Show, unofficial mover
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: of the Ben Mahler Show. And that kids is guerrilla
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: marketing at its finest. I want to thank moving Man
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Mark he had this on there. He got rid of
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: the truck for a while, and then he's brought it
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: back and it's gonna get even bigger and better, he
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: told me as we went outside on Sepulvita Boulevard there
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: right across from the gas station, and a chicken restaurant
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: and a closed bar that used to be there went
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: out of business, and so he say, oh, yay, we're
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: gonna put on the back too, We're gonna make it bigger.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: And this is just the beginning of it. And I
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: was like, oh, that's great, that is awesome. That's branding
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: you cannot buy. And here's the kicker. The kicker. That
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: truck that the moving man Matt Empire has with Louis
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: his sidekick is more advertising for the Ben Maler Show
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: than we've gotten from the actual network that airs the show.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And I'm not ripping anybody. I love where I work.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: It's been great. However, Fox Sports Radio will put out
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: glossy spreads in the.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Radio trade papers. Yeah, I know, it's shocking there. It's
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: still radio trade papers. So they'll put this out and
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: they'll put it online. It's online, it's in the trade papers.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Now. I don't read the trade papers very often. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: just stay in my lane.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: But inevitably will happen is I'll have a radio friend
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: from Atlanta, or someone from Detroit, or somebody I work
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: with who's now in Tampa but would rather be in Dallas,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: but he's in Tampa hoping to get to anyway. These
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: people will send me a message.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Did you see did you see they didn't include your show?
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Is everything? Okay? You're fired? What a disrespect? And I'm like,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: yes it is, but I'm used to it by now.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I'm numb to the whole thing.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: So they'll send out, the company will send out and
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: the trades and they'll have you know, Fox Sports Radio
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: the lineup on there, and more often for the not
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: we're not listed. We are told that the space is
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: reserved for the daytime shows. So we are reminded often
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: that while tremendously popular, our niche, our niche here overnight,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: the Overnight show is still the forgotten stepchild of the company,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: and we scratch and claw for every inch of promotion.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: It's the underground audio railroad, if you will. And meanwhile,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: here's Moving Man. Matt doesn't work for the company, doesn't
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: work for me. I'm not paying him, and he's just
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: a super nice guy and a good friend of the show,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: and he is doing more for the brand, one mile
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: marker at a time, than the corporate machine has been
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: able to do all this time. And so I just
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: can't thank him enough. And we could make this a game.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I was thinking, we get an app, actually thought about
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: this after Moving Man Matt paid us a visit.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I thought, this be a great thing. If we have a.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Listener who's really good technically, they can kind of play
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: around with this stuff. How great was this? We we
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: can make it a game where in the world is moving?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Man? Matt.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Now, he might not like this because this is going
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: to track where he's at, but everyone's being tracked anyway.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: And we can have fans of the show go out
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: to truck stops. You know, he's driving through Sheboygan and hey,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: have you live in near Sheboygan? Moving Matt maskin and
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: he's got a gig out there. You want to see
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: the mobile mal or billboard boom. And then we can
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: put the photos of random people who are fans of
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: the show. Many of them never call the show, never
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: writes to the show, and we can have a collection
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: of photos from where in the world.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Is moving men Matt.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: And then I'm going to put down the ayahuasca that
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I got from Aaron Rodgers and that is that. So anyway,
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: listen it just think of a rolling scavenger hunt, a
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: fandom hauling freight and at the same time hauling I
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: would say my ego, you know, up and down? Was
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: it I ninety five, maybe I thirty five traveling? Could
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: he be going east to west or west to east
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: down I ten stopping in El Paso for some chimmy
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: chungas and then going over to batal Rouge for some
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: good Southern food, and now for about an hour, a
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: little less than that. I think it was probably a
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: little less Matt moving man. Matt and Louis sat in studio.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: They showed up on time, They showed up clean, they
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: had showered, they didn't arrive twelve hours early. They did
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: not pester my co workers. They were polite, They didn't
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: wear suntanned lotion. They have never eaten Lucky Charms. The
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: only leperkhn they like is Lucky the Leprechaun from the Celtics.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I believe that's his name, Lucky the Leperqunt, or maybe
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: that's the Lucky Charms Leperchunt. Either way, they like the
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Celtics Leprechaun. And so we talked if you heard the show,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: if not, go back and hear the podcast from this week,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: and we talked about life on the road, about his
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: lovely family which he has to leave behind in Massachusetts
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: and he's on the road. He only goes home a
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: day or two here and there, and he's on the
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: road all the way to like Thanksgiving, and he's grinding.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: He's trucking across the country, moving man, Matt. It's not
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: an easy life. And you know, somehow too big and
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: too small at the same time. The United States, it's massive,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: but yet it's too small. And the guy works hard.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: He sacrifices for the family. It gets a lot of
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: money doing that. But he's got to keep moving. He
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: got to keep moving. And we are reminded, at least
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: I was reminded sitting there with Matt that the show,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the show.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Is just a it's bigger.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: And as I get reminded of this stuff quite bit,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: we were reminded that it's bigger than just the little
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: studio that we're in and the microphone that I'm lucky
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: enough to have the keys to. Right now, it's rolling
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: down some random interstate right now, it's up and down
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: I five, honking its horn, stopping for gas, heading off
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: again and all that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And so there you go. It's the story of the
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: overnight shift.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: You never know who's out out there, who's engaged, who's
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: a fan. We have the Motley Crew not the band.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: We have the Motley Crew, and if they were to
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: change the slogan Lady Liberty and Lady Liberty slogan, give
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: me you're tired, give me your poor, your huddle masses yearning.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: To breathe free. Hot Sports takes all night long, baby,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: because you never know when they are going to come knocking.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: You just don't know, all right, and.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Maybe they'll show up with a big giant truck and
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: a dog and a story to tell.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: And it's cool.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I always like, you know, I've been told not to
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: do too much of this to have listeners in and
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: we did have to cut back a little bit after
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: some guy who likes to do cosplay as a Leprechaun
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: showed up. We had Tree and here we had our
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: buddy from Oklahoma Stop buy. We've had Manuel and Guardina
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: that is paid a visit Robbie the Mariner fan in
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: recent years, and so it's.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: It's pretty cool that you guys can come by and
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: hang out kind of see where we work, where we operate,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: and it's pretty pretty neat, pretty neat stuff, all right.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: We'll get out on that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: We will have new podcasts, fresh audio content in the
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: audio Lab.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: We'll have that for you tomorrow.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: And Danny maybe he'll join me tomorrow.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Who knows. Danny should be with me at some point.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Have the mail bag on Sunday if you want to
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: send a letter into the mail bag, Real fifth Hour
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour at gmail
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: dot com. We'll have that to look forward to on Sunday.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: We got the the big show tomorrow. And don't forget
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Benny versus the Penny. Don't bear the lead mama hand.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: All right, well, let's bad job by me. Here we
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: are at the end. But it's not frightening, it's not scary.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: It's Benny versus de Penny. Want all my picks on
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: the big games, the TV games, the big TV games
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: and all that and nothing will go Haywire off to
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: a middling start. Do for a big weekend. Benny versus
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: the Penny man versus coin. You can get all of
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: that on YouTube. It's YouTube dot com. Slash at that
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: at sign at Ben Benny versus Penny again, YouTube dot
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: com slash at Benny Vspenny And for all that picks
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Me and the great Tom Looney Looney Tunes, l Loon.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Dog and get all that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Anyway, have a wonderful rest of your Friday. Friday, and
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: we will chat with you at some point over the weekend.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: A stap pasta, I don't care, I'm leaving. Goodbye later.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Skater got a murder. I gotta go.