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The Fifth Hour: Waiting on Skid Row · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
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  Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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  Speaker 3: Maller and Danny g Radio. On this nineteenth day of July,
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  Speaker 3: we were hanging out early in the morning here settling
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  Speaker 3: into a Saturday Saturday Saturday and Danny.
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  Speaker 1: Back with us here on this day.
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  Speaker 3: We have the lump of coal lost at the park
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  Speaker 3: and the neon pink plastic sausage that we will discuss
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  Speaker 3: in great detail today, which is very important to cover
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  Speaker 3: on the Fifth Hour podcast. As we are are here
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  Speaker 3: hanging out and there's no dopey holidays, I wass.
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  Speaker 4: Looking at dope.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing today.
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  Speaker 4: That really Oh that's good. We could talk baseball for
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  Speaker 4: a second, because our Dodgers picked up right where they
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  Speaker 4: left off.
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  Speaker 3: Tremendous offensive baseball team. The Doyers the greatest team ever assembled.
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  Speaker 3: I learned that before they had played a game. This year, Danny,
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  Speaker 3: I learned the Dodgers the greatest team in baseball, greatest
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  Speaker 3: team ever assembled in baseball, the reigning World champions. This
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  Speaker 3: is another magical year of Dodger baseball. They have actually
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  Speaker 3: a good record.
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  Speaker 4: That's why it's so good to have money in the
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  Speaker 4: bank when you start sucking, and when life starts sucking,
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  Speaker 4: you have some money to fall back on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be nice if some of the guys the
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  Speaker 3: Dodgers gave the lottery too would actually show up and contribute.
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  Speaker 1: Uh it does anyone who were Blake? What is Blake?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know where Blake Snell is? Danny g or
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  Speaker 1: we are we aware of you? Have you him? Have
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  Speaker 1: you spotted him?
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  Speaker 4: I can't even remember what that dude looks like, to
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  Speaker 4: be honest with you, except I know he's got a
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  Speaker 4: punishable face.
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  Speaker 3: Very punishable face. And what the other guy they wanted.
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  Speaker 3: I know he's got a blister problem for the Yankees,
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  Speaker 3: but he's been an All star. Max Freed, who grew
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  Speaker 3: up a Dodger fan, and instead they signed David Vasse's
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  Speaker 3: buddy Blake Snell, who's been malingering all two starts. The
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  Speaker 3: guys made two starts all year for the for the
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  Speaker 3: Doyers who got shut out last night and had how
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  Speaker 3: many hits? Not one, not to just three hits against
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers. And now I know this guy, Quinn Priester,
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  Speaker 3: I guess is his name? The other guy that the
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  Speaker 3: guy's got a good, good record, good numbers. Had you
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  Speaker 3: ever heard any of you?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, I'm fall Yeah, earlier in the season,
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  Speaker 4: I remember seeing some highlights from a kame through on
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  Speaker 4: Sports Center. But that's the sort of picture that when
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  Speaker 4: you have a strong lineup, you still should be able
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  Speaker 4: to hit that dude. Three hits is pathetic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they're still in vacation mode.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when you come back to work after you've
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  Speaker 3: been on vacation, you're still on your in vacation mode.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly that's the issue doing some.
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  Speaker 4: Bullsh isn't it. You said going into the break they
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  Speaker 4: went break. Currently now they're on an extended break. That sucks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they're all gazillionaires. They don't have the laser like
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  Speaker 3: focused Danny.
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  Speaker 1: They don't.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's obvious they're just this is the thing
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  Speaker 3: they assume and it Last year they didn't look like
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  Speaker 3: they were gonna win the World Series around this time.
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  Speaker 1: They're so arrogant over there. They're like, oh, when we.
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  Speaker 3: Get to late August, we'll flip the switch, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: until proven otherwise, maybe they will.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet on it. They don't look like.
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  Speaker 3: A championship team to me from what I've seen this year.
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  Speaker 3: The bullpen has been overused. They're gonna have to trade
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  Speaker 3: for two or three relief pitchers. The starting rotation is
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  Speaker 3: like they have. It's just there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: fed up with that. But enough of that.
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  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I like this though. It's like
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  Speaker 4: a little taste of what we got on AM five
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  Speaker 4: seventy LA Sports when you were on the air with
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  Speaker 4: Jonas Knox.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, people were upset with'd be oh, why have
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  Speaker 5: you been so negative about the Dodgers. Everyone on the
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  Speaker 5: station is always nice about the Dodgers. I don't care
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  Speaker 5: what the other people do during the day. I focus
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  Speaker 5: on tough love. I want to see the Dodgers do well,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm not going to sit there and lick their
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  Speaker 5: toes when they're playing like this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it.
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  Speaker 3: So last week Danny I tried to eat at Cole's. Now,
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  Speaker 3: for those that are not listening, most of people listen
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  Speaker 3: aren't in southern California.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're not from Los Angeles or been to LA.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you've been to LA, you may not know.
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  Speaker 3: Coles is a legendary French dip sandwich shop in downtown
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles, a place that is so entrenched in the
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  Speaker 3: LA mythology, if you will coal La mythology, that it's
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  Speaker 3: the offering that it's a French dip place, and it's
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  Speaker 3: semi sagree. Now, it's not at the in and out
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  Speaker 3: burger level, because the in and out burgers all over
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  Speaker 3: the place. But we're talking about an iconic century old
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  Speaker 3: joint which claims, and there's this great battle between Coles
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  Speaker 3: and Philips that both say they invented the French dip sandwich,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe they co invented it, depending depending how you
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  Speaker 3: look at it. But when I used to live down
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  Speaker 3: in Lincoln Heights in LA, I was a single guy,
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  Speaker 3: and I was a regular, semi regular. I want to
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  Speaker 3: say I was going there all the time because of
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  Speaker 3: the neighborhood. But I worked quite a bit at Staples Center.
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  Speaker 3: Was there a lot Dodger Stadium, and so I would
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  Speaker 3: stop by on a semi regular basis when I was younger.
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  Speaker 3: And it's the kind of place. Have you been to
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  Speaker 3: Cohls by the way, I don't know if you've been
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  Speaker 3: down there before. You ever gone down to Coles have never.
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  Speaker 4: That's one of the places I still need to get to,
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  Speaker 4: all right.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the kind of place that you know
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  Speaker 3: it In La there's not a lot of things that
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  Speaker 3: are old.
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  Speaker 1: Anything old they get rid of and put some new.
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  Speaker 3: And so this is a place that has character, which
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  Speaker 3: is another way of saying it's kind of a rundown neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: It's on the wrong part of town. It's on the
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  Speaker 3: wrong side of the tracks. You might see a rat
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the you know, on the street out
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  Speaker 3: in front of it. You know it's in just But anyway, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I said, we're going to go there. So we had
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  Speaker 3: all mapped out, left the north Woods, headed into the
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  Speaker 3: Big City one final supper, Danny, because Cole's announced a
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks back that they are shutting down. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's August, early August, So here we are it's
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  Speaker 3: January or January, July nineteenth age January, my god, so
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  Speaker 3: it's July nineteen, so they have another couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 4: I did not know they were closing, so yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: a big to get there quick.
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  Speaker 3: So another great thing for Mayor Karen Bashier. In Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 3: another iconic restaurant closing. So Cole's announced they were shutting down,
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  Speaker 3: and like any great institution which is facing its last
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  Speaker 3: supper on its deathbed, suddenly everyone needs to be there,
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  Speaker 3: right because they're closing.
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  Speaker 1: So now everyone's like, I gotta go, I gotta go.
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  Speaker 4: Jeah.
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  Speaker 3: So all the people me included, who ignored the restaurant
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  Speaker 3: for probably decades, now now it's just craziness. It's like
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  Speaker 3: the line wrapped around the block, like it's some amazing
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  Speaker 3: movie premiere.
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  Speaker 4: Probably some idiots like me who heard about it for
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  Speaker 4: years but never got to go.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So me and the wife hop as we said, it
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  Speaker 3: happened in the malamobile. We drive into downtown, which, if
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  Speaker 3: you have not been recently to downtown Los Angeles, it's
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  Speaker 3: not exactly a brunch in Malibu. It's twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 3: downtown it is. It's to describe it. It's skid Row.
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  Speaker 3: The restaurant's literally right next to skid Row. It's a
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  Speaker 3: dystopian world, think Sodom and Gomora without the orgies, although
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  Speaker 3: there might be some of those going on, but I
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  Speaker 3: didn't see any, just the aftermath. And so opened up
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  Speaker 3: the Apple Maps. Now it wanted me to get me
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  Speaker 3: and the wife to get the fully immersive experience, Danny.
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  Speaker 3: As it rooted us, I think it had a smile,
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  Speaker 3: the Apple Map thing. It rooted us straight through the
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  Speaker 3: belly of the beast.
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  Speaker 1: On skid Row.
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  Speaker 3: We are talking Mad Max meets walking dead, crackheads dancing
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  Speaker 3: in the street. To the right, we saw the fentanyl fold.
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  Speaker 3: To the left, you know, Zombie five slumped over. You know,
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  Speaker 3: these guys, they didn't really were alive or not. There
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  Speaker 3: was a person that who I think and in my
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  Speaker 3: way of describing this for you listening, I think this
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  Speaker 3: is the person that dotted the eye like the Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State Marching band. So was this black dude who who
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  Speaker 3: clearly was having a bad day, torn up from the
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  Speaker 3: floor up, Danny. He had he had pants on, but
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  Speaker 3: only his left leg had the leg that all you
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  Speaker 3: know like the normal pants.
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  Speaker 1: The other leg had.
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  Speaker 3: Been ripped and torn, so it looked like he was
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  Speaker 3: wearing half shorts, half pants showing his boxer shorts. So
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  Speaker 3: at least he had underwear on. This guy was completely bedraggled,
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  Speaker 3: covered in dirt.
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  Speaker 1: Right, the shoes like.
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  Speaker 3: Were barely there. They looked like clown shoes. They were
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  Speaker 3: all torn up. I mean this I was really in
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  Speaker 3: tough shape. And my favorite part though, so just imagine
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  Speaker 3: this guy's covered in dirt, He's got pants on, but
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  Speaker 3: only one leg has the pant leg. The other leg
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  Speaker 3: it looks like shorts, no shirt, just completely messed up, frazzled.
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  Speaker 1: But he had the bling bling on.
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  Speaker 3: When I say bling bling, Danny, that would be a
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  Speaker 3: court ordered ankle monitor, which is high fashion on kid row.
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  Speaker 3: So this guy had it all going on. He was
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  Speaker 3: on the catwalk, man, he had the ankle monitor, which
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  Speaker 3: you could clearly see. So at least he was being
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  Speaker 3: mined way.
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  Speaker 4: So how does that work he's not allowed to leave
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  Speaker 4: his street.
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  Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, that's a great question, Danny. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea.
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  Speaker 3: I'd never seen that before, so this was new to me.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that that you could just roam around
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  Speaker 3: with that on. But the guy had he clearly had.
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  Speaker 3: I have seen that before, We've all seen it. He
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  Speaker 3: had an ankle, one of those big black ankle monitor
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  Speaker 3: things on.
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  Speaker 1: His as it was.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing is the right, right or left? I
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  Speaker 3: think he might have left left leg. He was stopped
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  Speaker 3: right in front of Coles.
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  Speaker 4: It's house arrest. What happens if you have no house?
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  Speaker 4: You can just go anywhere. I guess, yeah, so he
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  Speaker 4: was halfway between. It's like one of those cautionary tales.
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  Speaker 4: Or was it performance art or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: There was also a woman I spotted screaming at a
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  Speaker 3: lamp post. I guess the lamp post had been mean
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  Speaker 3: to her. So, I mean, there was so much going on.
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  Speaker 3: It was like an art.
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  Speaker 1: Installation down on skid Row. And I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It was just wild and so everyone's like half the
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  Speaker 3: people are like they don't know whether they're awake or asleep.
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  Speaker 1: They looked at there's zombies.
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  Speaker 3: There's people talking to themselves and then yelling to the
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  Speaker 3: ones having a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: That one's yelling.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, listen. There were tents everywhere. It was a tense city.
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  Speaker 3: It's remember Blade Runner without the budget.
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  Speaker 1: So finally, right in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Of this is the restaurant Coals, which is a after
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  Speaker 3: describing the neighborhood, it's a charming first floor even like underground,
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  Speaker 3: there's like a speakeasy in Coals brick building, this old
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  Speaker 3: building from La old from probably the eighteen hundreds. There's
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  Speaker 3: like a neon sign kind of flickering. It's kind of
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  Speaker 3: like a boxer, the old boxer that doesn't want to
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  Speaker 3: quit and just wants to keep fighting and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But as we turned the corner again we're driving through
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  Speaker 3: skid row, we see the sign, we see the building,
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  Speaker 3: and there's a line. And I said, there was a
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  Speaker 3: line around the block. This was like the Energizer Bunny.
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  Speaker 3: It kept going and going. It was so funny. What
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  Speaker 3: a juxtaposition, Danny, because you got all this sodom and Gomara,
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  Speaker 3: worst of the worst of society, people really just lost
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  Speaker 3: in life, and then you've got all these people that
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  Speaker 3: are wearing like their Dodger stuff and they're dressed up
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  Speaker 3: and they're you know, just normal, you know, middle class
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  Speaker 3: people in line for a French dip sandwich. It was
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  Speaker 3: just wild. So the line was absurd. Not I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a line person. It wasn't just long. It was like
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  Speaker 3: self important long, like the kind of line that somebody
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  Speaker 3: needed to document. And it wrapped around the block in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of skid Row, and it was like on
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  Speaker 3: a Saturday, and you know, like anything in La Danny,
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  Speaker 3: there were people instagramming the weight like it was a
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  Speaker 3: pilgrimage and they wanted to document it. And so everyone's
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  Speaker 3: standing outside three It looked like a three hour wait.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a huge restaurant eighty five degrees, like.
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  Speaker 4: People in line at eight in the morning waiting for
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  Speaker 4: an Otani bobblehead.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 1: It was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: So it was hot, and you know, there was a
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  Speaker 3: guy doing shadow boxing in flip flops.
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  Speaker 1: That was all part of the experience.
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  Speaker 3: So it's essentially people standing around the Titanic trying to
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  Speaker 3: get one last selfie with the band on the Titanic
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  Speaker 3: before it sinks off into the Atlantic.
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  Speaker 1: But everyone is here because it's ending.
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  Speaker 3: The restaurant is done, and it's as you said, it's
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  Speaker 3: not because they needn't really care about the food. It's
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  Speaker 3: just this apocalypse type nostalgia thing, like this place is
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  Speaker 3: going away. It's been around since like the eighteen hundreds
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, so or I guess theah, I think the
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  Speaker 3: eighteen I think it might maybe early nineteen hundreds, probably
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  Speaker 3: early nightte units. But either way, it's it's going and
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  Speaker 3: people probably were mumbling about the good old days and
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  Speaker 3: all that. The funny thing is if these people have,
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  Speaker 3: these people at eaton the French dip sandwich is regularly,
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  Speaker 3: they would not be going to the big restaurant diner
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  Speaker 3: in the sky. And I didn't end up getting a sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't park.
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  Speaker 3: We saw the line, we drove around the block, and
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  Speaker 3: we just kept driving. We drove right past it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: past the history and all that stuff, past the people
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  Speaker 3: clinging on to that last bite of la nostalgia and
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  Speaker 3: all that. Because, as you know, Danny, the most precious
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  Speaker 3: resource that we all have, the most valuable thing that
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  Speaker 3: we have, is not French dip.
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  Speaker 1: It's time.
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  Speaker 3: So I would I did not want to spend two
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  Speaker 3: and a half or three hours online because that's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of precious time and I didn't want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So we went somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: But that was that was my day. Yeah, driving, you know,
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  Speaker 3: driving through skid row and what a What a zoo,
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  Speaker 3: What an absolute zoo that was. And fortunately I did
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  Speaker 3: not get lost at the park or in skid Row
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  Speaker 3: for that matter, Dandy, I was close, but I didn't
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds like maybe they should have had customers get lost
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  Speaker 4: trying to find their new location when they relocated years ago.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like they needed to find a different part
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  Speaker 4: of LA for their restaurant.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's the same thing, I'm sure. My favorite
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  Speaker 3: deli is this place called Layers, which is right across
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  Speaker 3: from MacArthur Park, which is a drug den. MacArthur Park's
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  Speaker 3: a if you need If you need fentanyl, you go
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  Speaker 3: to MacArthur.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been there. A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You go to MacArthur Park for fent and all cocaine, crack, whatever, heroin.
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  Speaker 3: They got it all there. It's like a CBS for
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  Speaker 3: hard street drugs. But the mayor says it's just kids
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  Speaker 3: playing soccer in the park. That place will be closing
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  Speaker 3: within the next couple of years. But these places they
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  Speaker 3: don't They don't change location, and you could relocate somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to be in skid Row.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to cross the street from MacArthur Park,
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  Speaker 3: but for whatever reason they won't do it, and so
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  Speaker 3: they end up going out of business.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, to start this past week, and as you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was in Atlanta to broadcast live there at the
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: All Star Village for CNR and filled in for the
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Dan Patrick Show. You've probably seen these things. I know
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: you went into the NFL experience with me when the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl was in Los Angeles. Pretty cool, like all
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  Speaker 4: those interactive things you can do. They have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things for kids and big kids. Fast pitch and
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  Speaker 4: there were people standing in line waiting to hit batting
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  Speaker 4: practice and coach ball Game was there throwing pitches to kids.
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  Speaker 4: They had a like a makeshift field set up inside
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  Speaker 4: this convention center in Atlanta. Really cool event put on
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  Speaker 4: by Baseball for a few days. So Ben, we broadcast
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  Speaker 4: from nine to noon Eastern Time shows over at noon.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Guys tell me, well, we're going to do our Patreo show.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Now I'm not part of their Patreon show. So it
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: gave me a chance to go walk around little taste.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: I'm of course drawn to where there was They called
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: it ballpark Bites and they had something off the menu
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: from each major league team, and people were sitting on
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: this fake green grass with a DJ playing music, eating
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: hot dogs and nachos, and there were the garlic fries
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: from the Giants and it was pretty cool. Got a
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Chicago Cubs hot dog?
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah?
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: And then I'm on my way. There was an upstairs.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: There was a third story where some stuff was going
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: on in this convention center. As I'm walking outside of
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: where the batting cages were, I realized that my phone
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: was feeling a lot lighter. I have one of those
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: magnet wallets. Have you ever seen those?
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen those.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Though those are cool, it's never given me a problem.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: It's got a strong magnet on it. But I realized
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: that when I had my phone out of my pocket,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: my lanyard that they gave us, it was getting stuck
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: to the magnet. And when I pulled it off earlier
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: in the day, I remember it jarred my wallet loose,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: and I remember thinking to myself, Man, I gotta be
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: careful because that sucker is gonna pull off. I look down.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: No magnet wallet to be found nowhere on my phone,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: not in my pocket. I start freaking out because now
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about it, I'm standing in the middle probably
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: three thousand people walking around. Yeah, when is the last
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: time you lost your wallet? One of the worst uffin
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: feelings ever.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So you're trying to I've done this a few times.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I used to lose my keys. I lost my wallet
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: in the parking lot at the grocery store one time.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: So you're trying to What I would always do is
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: try to retrace your steps. Are you trying to probably
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: go back and try to remember where you walked and
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: where you might have lost it? Right, that whole thing exactly.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: So I go down to where I was eating because
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: that was the last time I had used my card. Yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: and there's nothing. I asked the people who served the
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: ballpark dog to me nothing was turned into them. They
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: pointed me to guest services. Nope, nobody's turned in anything. Yet.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I am screwed because a couple of days later, I
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: need to fly back to Los Angeles. My idea is
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: in there, my credit cards, all of that. So I
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: run outside to where the batting cages were, and I
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: go to that guest services and there was a nice gentleman.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: His name is Ken. I got his name, and I
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: sold him on our podcast before I left, and gave
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: him my business card and told him I would give
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: him a shout out. He got on his walkie talkie,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: talked to all five of the guest services tables, and
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: somebody got back to him at one of the desks
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: saying that it was turned in. Oh thank god, yeah,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: for I would say good. Forty five minutes, I walked
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: around feeling like the biggest loser ever that I was
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: going to have to you go back to the Dan
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Patrick stage tell everybody what happened and how I was
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: an idiot who couldn't get back home on the flight
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: to lax loser. I calmly walked back to the set
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: and I didn't say a word to anybody. It was
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: like it never happened. Well, perfect, there you go.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: And are you going to keep the magnet wallet though,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: or are you going to get like an old school
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: pocket wallet?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Are you going to you know.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: This thing has been nah, you know, this thing has
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: been pretty trusty. That's the only time that that's happened.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: And like I said, it was because that stupid thing
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: was getting tangled up with it because it was magnetic.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: So I guess I just got to be careful. It doesn't,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: you know, attached to something? Gotcha?
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: All right? What did the you?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, the Dodgers had the Dodger dog. Was that what
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: they had there at the All Star?
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah? They had the Dodger dog.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I wanted to try something different. The Cubby Dog had
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: like this strange, really bright green relish on it. Okay,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: and it was interesting. I didn't like it as much
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: as I like Dodger dogs when they're grilled, but it
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: was all right though. It was I would say a
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: five out of ten.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Do you remember what the other teams had, like the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Red Sox, where did they have? Did they have the
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Finway frank there their famous hot dog?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Was that what they had?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah? They're famous hot dog, which I already had got
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: to try thanks to your overnight show.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we used to have a guy a listening.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I think what was his name? Phil?
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I think I forget this guy was really cool. You
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: send us hot dogs every year for years. A Finway
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: doesn't do it anymore, but we used to get these
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: hot dogs.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It was awesome. Finway and the Monster dogs.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Of course those are more expensive, but you can buy
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: them at the market around Boston. Moving on from that,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: So there are some nights out when you stumble upon
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: things so ridiculous that you think you're hallucinating.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: We've all been there, and that's what happened to me.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: This.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna share this story. I've not told the story before.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I didn't talk about this on the air this week.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: So the fact is, working the overnight, you have the
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: sleep schedule. It's similar to a raccoon. So on the
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: weekends I get out and try to live a little
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: bit and all that stuff. So I was recently dragged
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: by the wife to something called Bingo Loco in Hollywood.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: You ever heard of this, Danny Bingo Loco? You ever
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: heard of that?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: No? No?
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, So I didn't know what the hell this was.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: She told me it would be fun. I didn't look
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: it up. I didn't google it or AI it or
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: anything like that. So when your wife says it's going
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to be fun, you know that's something every married man
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: knows is code for you're going to hate this, but
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: you're going to go anyway, right, don't you know that?
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Like Danny, when your wife says, hey, this is going
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: to be fun, usually that's you're gonna hate it, but
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: you have to go. And so all right, fine, so,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: and I'm not making this up. The name of the
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: thing was Bingo Loco, So what the hell is it?
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: So Bingo Loco in the event you've never heard of it,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and I'd never of it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: If you were to mix your.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Sweet grandma's favorite pastime, right, bingo with a techno rave tadda,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: there you go, it's bingo with glows sticks.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: But there's more to it. So imagine.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know if everyone's had this memory, but if
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: your childhood memories of watching your your grandmother play bingo,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: we're run through some kind of neon filter thing and
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: then broadcast on Instagram like a bachelorette party in Sherman Oaks.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Or something like that, that's Bingo Loco. So it's bingo Grandma.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Meets E D M and Wheel of Fortune, you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: meets some kind of internet social media reaction video. So
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: the premise, it's it's pretty great. It's like an article
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: from years ago. It's like, what if bingo? What if
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: you put bingo and Molly together?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: What would happen?
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: So even to paint the picsion more for the blinds,
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: think about like going into this thing in Hollywood. It's
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: a big venue. It's like a dance hall. There's rave lights,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: there's a DJ, there's a bar, there's a host. This
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: guy in a pink jersey that says bingo Loco of course,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: wearing number sixty nine, yelling numbers into a microphone like
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: he's announcing some kind of underground fight club out in
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Rancho Cucamonger or something like that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: And here I am. I find Danny.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I find my fat ass standing in the middle of
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: this techno hoot nanny. You know. I'm like, it's like,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: if you don't put a guy that doesn't belong somewhere,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: like a like if you were to put a dad
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: out in Coachella, you know, some cargo short wearing dad
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: out in Coachella wouldn't belong. And so I'm like, what
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: am I doing here? I really don't belong here. And
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: my wife told me, says, don't work. The prizes are good.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: You're in for the prize, she said. I said, what
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: are the prizes. I don't know what the prizes are.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I just heard they're good, you know. She's like, I
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: heard the prizes are good. So I said, all right,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: the prize, and my wife's like, oh yeah, the prizes
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: were advertisers, epic. What does that mean epic?
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Anyway, so I'm like.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: So I walk in there and I'm thinking names they
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: were the best prizes.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah exactly.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: So I'm thinking, hey, I'll win, We'll win a nice
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: prize at Bingo. Maybe we win a new TV, a
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: European vacation. That would be a nice prize. Lifetime supply
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: of chicken fingers, that would be pretty cool.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: No.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Uh, these people were playing Bingo under Neon and Rave lighting,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: and they were giving away the weirdest random junk. We
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: are talking about the remnants of like do you ever
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: watched like Storage Wars where they bid on empty abandoned
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: storage sheds.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like it was like that.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: It was like it was the weirdest name and listen,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I this is my opinion.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Whatever. It was like the last like the leftover crap
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: from a radio station prize exactly.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: They had a very cheap guitar that they were you
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: could win over stuffed pink bear stuffy like a stuffed
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: animal that probably reaked a regret.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: They had multiple air fryers, which you.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Know is like that's the adult version of getting socks
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: for Christmas, when you get an air airfryer.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: They had.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: The highlight for many was the giant I'm not being
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: those up, Danny. The giant neon pink plastic sausage, if
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, not the kind you serve
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: with pancakes, the naughty one, very phallic.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I need to spell it out.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: They gave away a sex toy shape like a brought
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: worst that actually happened. So what makes this event even
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: more fascinating is not that it's weird, because there's a
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: lot of things that are weird, right, Weird is not bad.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Weird by itself is not bad. What makes it notable
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: is that this place I am pretty sure exists entirely
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: for social media. I don't think anyone was really there
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: to play Bengo. I say that there might have been
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: a couple of grandma's that got dragged by their daughters,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: but anybody that went for bingo false advertising, Right, They're
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: not even really there for.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: The rave because the rave kind of sucked.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: They were there to document being at this bingo local thing.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Like the party wasn't.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: What it was about. It was just evidence that it happened.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: And it turns out that your beloved blowhard not in
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: the target demo, Danny, not in the target demo. That
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: is why the crowd was mostly what do you think
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: the crowd was, I'll tell you mostly middle aged women.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: You know, women in middle aged.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Or used to do ecstasy and go to big rapes
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: when they were younger.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Exactly, these are probably women. I don't I'm bad with ages.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: It looked like they were thirties, forties, fifties, and they
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: were screaming, they were going crazy. They were dancing around
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: holding up their air fryer like they won an oscar, and.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: You know, it was like listen.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Ultimately, you know, that's the night itself was what was important.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: It's part of the social media illusion, and that's it.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: You know, Bingo local is not as good as church bingo.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Church Bingo has better snacks, they have better prizes. You
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: don't need ear plugs. And the only reason I was
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: there was because my wife wanted me to go and Danny.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: You know, as a married man, marriage is mostly about
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: showing up and pretending like you're just you're happy to
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: be there, and you're not confused and all that stuff, and.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I had the thousand yard stare, like I realized that
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: this is this is pretty much my life now.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: But I did get some good husband points Danny, which,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: as we know, you can redeem husband points anywhere you
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: go for absolutely nothing. Husband points get you nothing. So
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: if anyone ask you, and I'm sure something, bring this up.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: When I ran into him at a mallard me greet,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I did not experiencially bingo local. I endured it and
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: it was a lot of people with glowed sticks chasing
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I guess some kind of clout or something like that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know what they were chasing. But now, of course,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: the thing is, every time I go any of these places,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: my wife always says, hey, you need content for your
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: little podcasts. So the fifth hour has become I can
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: literally go anywhere. And my wife was like, well, you
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: just need stuff to talk about in your podcast. So
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: it's like this has become my therapy session. And I
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: guess you're my shrink, Danny, and the people listening you're
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: my shrink as well.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: So there you go. That was mad. It's like it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: like a market research lab.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's it was. It was craziness. I mean, I
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: was like, how did I end up at a Bingo rave?
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: How did she even hear about something like that from
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: social media?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: No, she's not even on social media.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: She heard from people at work, like people she I
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: guess friends of hers or people at work. Somebody told
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: her about it, and so next thing you know, she's like, hey,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: we need to go out and check this thing out.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: And I should have known early on because the DJ
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: got up there says has anyone been to Bingo Loco before?
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: And nobody, Like there was nobody that said they had
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: been there, because it's one of those things you go
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: one time, you don't go back.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: You know, it's like a one and done type situation,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: because why would you go back. I mean you've experienced
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: so anyway.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: It's one and done like a Clippers game.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Why No, like the Lakers in the playoffs, one and done.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: But I'm bump hey, by the way, another the Lakers
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: want and went to the Clippers. How embarrassing for the Lakers?
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: My god, who want that? They wanted the great Bradley Beal.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Nobody wanted Bradley Beal. Everyone wanted twelve team.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Oh God, keep telling yourself that.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: The Lakers wanted him. He said, O.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Sons wanted to get rid of him so badly that
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: they're paying the money.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Twelve teams wanted this guy, and he chose the Clippers.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: That guy's a loser.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: He's a great guy. I can't wait.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: He is a cancer redemption story. Baby.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: We'll get out on that. Anything you want to promote, Danny,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: it's Saturday. What are you go going on? You want
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to say anything? You just say goodbye.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Just Orange County this weekend came down for speaking of
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: doing something to help the WiFi. Her ninety four year
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: old grandmother from Long Beach was recently put into a
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: retirement home here, so we are here this weekend to
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: check on her and make sure she's settled in nice.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Right, we'll take care of her. Have a wonderful day today.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: We've got the mail bag and also, Danny, the official
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: pregame show for the twenty twenty five Mallard Palooza will
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: be on the Sunday. That's the pregame show for the
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: boys that are pregaming. There'll be a lot of tailgating
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: people listening to that. Walt tailgating outside the Malar Palooza.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Danny it's gonna be big.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Nice. Throw a Dodger dog on the grill for me,
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: all right. We'll talk to you then see you tomorrow
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Later skater my flation