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The Fifth Hour: Stretch the Dough & Fill Her Up · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
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Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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Speaker 2: with Ben 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 Through the magic of podcasting,
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Speaker 3: Danny is on location. You'll find out where in the
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Speaker 3: world is Danny G coming up in a moment on
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Speaker 3: this the first podcast of February twenty twenty five. We've
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Speaker 3: crossed over the rubicon here as it's now the new month.
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Speaker 3: We celebrate Car Insurance Day by does anyone like car
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Speaker 3: insurance or any insurance for that matter. I used to
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Speaker 3: think insurance, Danny, I thought there was a point, well,
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Speaker 3: assurance is great, and then as an adult, the times
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Speaker 3: that I've needed insurance and they fought me on everything
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Speaker 3: f insurance.
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Speaker 1: That's my new position on it.
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Speaker 3: I know you need it supposedly, but when you actually
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Speaker 3: need it, my experiences, they try to screw you over
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Speaker 3: every chance they get.
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Speaker 4: They need to rename that Nova Silene Day.
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Speaker 1: Car Insurance. Here's a fun fact.
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Speaker 3: You're ready for an early fun fact in the pod
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Speaker 3: car insurance has been around since the first car was
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Speaker 3: invented by Carl Benz in eighteen eighty six, so they
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Speaker 3: have been efing people over since eighteen eighty six. However, however,
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Speaker 3: they claim it was the US early US forefather, Benjamin Franklin,
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Speaker 3: the founding father of the United States, and he kicked
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Speaker 3: off the initiative, so we can man, I like Ben
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Speaker 3: Franklin's name, but we can blame him for the insurance.
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Speaker 3: In seventeen fifty one, they became the first his operation
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Speaker 3: became the first within the American colonies to offer fire insurance.
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Speaker 1: So wow, people have been ft over how many generations?
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Speaker 1: Is that? My God?
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Speaker 3: Anyway, so celebrate appropriately National Car Insurance.
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Speaker 1: I got in a wreck. I think it was last year.
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Speaker 3: I was coming back from a funeral and I got
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Speaker 3: rear ended on the five Freeway near downtown. And it
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Speaker 3: was clearly not my fault, you know yet rear ended.
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Speaker 3: Whoever hits you, it's their fault, and it didn't matter,
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Speaker 3: and it took forever to.
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Speaker 4: Get the money.
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Speaker 1: It was just ridiculous.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, my favorite part of car insurance. When you
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Speaker 5: total a car, they give you half of its value.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's another good one.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And I can't tell you how many times I've got
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Speaker 3: an email over the last twenty years from people who
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Speaker 3: are sick in the hospital and they have medical insurance.
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Speaker 3: They paid their medical insurance their entire life, they were healthy,
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Speaker 3: they get sick as they get older, and that they
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Speaker 3: call you on everything like every procedure like do you
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Speaker 3: really need that? We don't think you need that. And
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Speaker 3: I was like, oh god, but this is car insurance,
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Speaker 3: that's medical insurance.
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Speaker 1: And I'm a doctor, rant on and on and on.
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Speaker 1: But you are not in your normal abode.
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Speaker 3: Danny, right you or not? You're where in the world
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Speaker 3: is Danny G. Let's see what can you guess? Sorry,
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Speaker 3: everyone locked their answers in right now, and Danny G
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Speaker 3: reveal answers, reveal answers.
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Speaker 5: On this Saturday morning, sitting inside the luxurious New York
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Speaker 5: New York Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Speaker 1: If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
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Speaker 4: Right there.
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Speaker 1: You have the Statue of Liberty right out in front.
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Speaker 4: Especially as a prostitute.
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Speaker 1: Have you have you ever seen those I don't know which.
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Speaker 3: I've seen tourists over the years take photos and it
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Speaker 3: seemed like and I couldn't really understand because they're speaking
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Speaker 3: different languages, like they thought that was the actual Lady
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Speaker 3: Liberty that had been Like I think they thought it
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Speaker 3: had been moved to the Las Vegas Strip like they
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Speaker 3: just I don't know. They were taking photos with it,
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Speaker 3: like they, oh my, we we found, you know, the
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Speaker 3: actual statue of Liberty. I was like, wow, those people, Uh, man,
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Speaker 3: how about you invest in the internet?
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Speaker 1: Man?
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Speaker 5: But uh, tonight there's a fight going on, you know.
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Speaker 5: Covino and Rich love the fight game. David Benavitez versus
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Speaker 5: David Morrile two undefeated middleweight and Benavitez is the champion
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Speaker 5: right now. Mike Tyson calls him the Mexican Monster.
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Speaker 1: Mexican Monster. Is that pay per view fight or is
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Speaker 1: that on like cable or something?
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Speaker 5: The undercard is on Amazon, main bout is on PPV
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Speaker 5: dot com.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, and you're you're gonna be at the fight tonight?
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Speaker 1: You're going or are you gonna go?
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Speaker 4: We are, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 5: We were here on their radio row at MGM Broadcast
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Speaker 5: Live yesterday.
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Speaker 4: That was a lot of fun.
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Speaker 5: And they had just done the Way In, so there
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Speaker 5: were a ton of boxing fans here for the way In,
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Speaker 5: which was free and open to the public. So it
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Speaker 5: was jumping here yesterday and the night is the actual fight,
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Speaker 5: we're going to be in attendance should.
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Speaker 3: Be good, nice, and there were there a bunch of
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Speaker 3: Mexican boxing fans because they are very loud racist. I
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Speaker 3: remember back in the day when I covered fights, the
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Speaker 3: very loud, lot of flags, a lot of flags, very
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Speaker 3: loud and.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, very loud. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: In fact, this past Thursday on the show, I got
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Speaker 5: David Benavitez to do a zoom interview and he mentioned
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Speaker 5: that because they asked him about his walk up music
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Speaker 5: and his intro to the ring, and he was talking
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Speaker 5: about how he's including he's incorporating artists now and he
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Speaker 5: said he's using Mexican artists because he's like, you know,
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Speaker 5: most of my fans are Latino and they are very
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Speaker 5: loud and supportive. And that was very much the crowd
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Speaker 5: that we saw here at MGM yesterday. In throngs, and
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Speaker 5: the thinking is, if Benavetez wins this bout, and it's
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Speaker 5: not a cakewalk because Moral is undefeated, as I mentioned,
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Speaker 5: and he's a good boxer less bout so he's a
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Speaker 5: little Benavitez is a little more experienced. But the thinking is,
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Speaker 5: if David Benavitez wins this fight, then he's going to
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Speaker 5: go possibly could fight Canelo, and Canelo has been dodging
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Speaker 5: Benavitez for a couple of years now because these people
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Speaker 5: say he's scared of him.
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Speaker 1: Ah, the old that's a classic boxing trope that you
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Speaker 1: are scared of the other guy.
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Speaker 3: The only Mexican boxing and don't quit, I'm not mister boxing.
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Speaker 3: But the only one I remember back in my early
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Speaker 3: days of my career that not every Mexican boxing fan
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Speaker 3: liked was Oscar de la Hoya. There were people that
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Speaker 3: were did not like that. They didn't think he was real,
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Speaker 3: they thought, and then the photos came out, which kind
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Speaker 3: of made things a little awkward, But yeah, that was
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Speaker 3: the one that was polarized. I remember de la Hoya
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Speaker 3: back in the day, but he's like a big boxing
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Speaker 3: promoter now. I guess on this podcast, we've got Itch
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Speaker 3: to scratch pulling a Ben Maler. I can't imagine what
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Speaker 3: that is. Winter rummage. And we've got possibly the phrase
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Speaker 3: of the week. Some other things we'll see if we
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Speaker 3: have time for, but I'll start with this.
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Speaker 1: So the life of mal or the Life of Danny g.
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Speaker 1: That is why you tune into the fifth Hour podcast.
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Speaker 3: I know right now Ferg Dog's taking notes alf the
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Speaker 3: Alien Opiners, probably trying to find some recipes to send
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Speaker 3: me right now for some cookies to get me fat again.
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Speaker 3: These guys are hard at work. So Friday yesterday was
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Speaker 3: pizza Night. Yes, we had an itch to scratch Pizza Knight,
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Speaker 3: homemade pizza Pike. In the past, I've gone back and forth,
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Speaker 3: like there have been times I've bought.
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Speaker 1: I don't do Djorno any of that.
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Speaker 3: I don't do frozen pizza, but usually would just kind
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Speaker 3: of cheat a little bit, go to Trader Joe's, get
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Speaker 3: the dough and make pizza that way in the sauce.
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Speaker 3: But this time we said, let's go next level, and
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Speaker 3: so we made along with my wife, we made pizza
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Speaker 3: from scratch, like the dough, the tomato, sauce, the everything
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Speaker 3: mixed together. We hand we hand shredded the mozzarella and
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Speaker 3: the palmers on.
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Speaker 1: Uh. It was.
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Speaker 3: It was awesome and it came out really good. I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna post some photos later today, Danny. Uh,
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Speaker 3: probably this afternoon when I wake up from this.
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Speaker 4: I haven't seen anybody do that since my grandmother.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 3: It was cool and we we My wife did some
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Speaker 3: research and I had I'd made some stuff in the past,
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Speaker 3: but this was like the most we had ever done
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Speaker 3: where everything everything, Like I didn't go out and milk
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Speaker 3: the cow, you know, and make the cheese. I didn't
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Speaker 3: do that, and so so that I didn't do. But
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Speaker 3: the rest of it, I mean, everything together, and it
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Speaker 3: was it.
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Speaker 1: Was you know what it is. It's like it's satisfying, right, Danny.
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Speaker 5: It's like you feel like it passed your eyes. The
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Speaker 5: butter though with your jerking motion.
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Speaker 3: My right hand was getting a workout as I was Yeah, no, no,
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Speaker 3: So it was it was cool.
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Speaker 1: You know, I thought it came out good.
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Speaker 3: I'll take some I did take some photos last night
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Speaker 3: and I'll post them later today. And you know, it's
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Speaker 3: it's odd because not about the pizza thing, but yesterday
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Speaker 3: on the podcast, I was talking about Some people were
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Speaker 3: emailing me, They're like, how come we were on in
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Speaker 3: d C the night of that plane crash near Reagan
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Speaker 3: Airport in d C and the Potomac and we didn't
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Speaker 3: talk about it?
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Speaker 1: And I explained.
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Speaker 3: I was like, hey, you know, we're trying to we're
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Speaker 3: alternative programming.
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Speaker 1: I think I said that.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if I about cloudy right now, but
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Speaker 3: I think I said something along those lines, like you know,
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Speaker 3: alternative programming and all that, and.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of my position.
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Speaker 3: So and then last night there was another plane that
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Speaker 3: crashed in Philadelphia, which is I mean, I know that's
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Speaker 3: not a commercial flight. It was like a medical a
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Speaker 3: plane that was lying, but like right in the city
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Speaker 3: in Philly.
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Speaker 4: It was a big explosion for a small plane.
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Speaker 3: And the thing I was telling one of my buddies,
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Speaker 3: I was like, the thinking about this is crazy is
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Speaker 3: everything is on video. There's no we have video of
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Speaker 3: the helicopter hitting the plane in DC. I've already seen
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Speaker 3: videos some people were sending me last night of dash
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Speaker 3: cam of the medical plane coming down and at a
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Speaker 3: very high rate of speed. Like I don't know what
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Speaker 3: went wrong, but something went terrible wrong, terribly. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it was like flying directly into the city in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 3: and I don't I don't know how many people were
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Speaker 3: killed on the ground, but I imagine it was a
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Speaker 3: it was a few. I've seen different reports. I don't
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Speaker 3: think anything, at least I haven't seen it this morning.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure there's probably some stuff. I haven't found how
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Speaker 3: many people were were hit by that, but just just
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Speaker 3: wild man, crazy crazy stuff. So I was checking that out,
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Speaker 3: and uh, I guess you could say every night, Danny,
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Speaker 3: I pull a Ben Maller. Every single night I do.
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Speaker 3: I can't avoid it. Sometimes I pull a Bill Miller.
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Speaker 3: Every once in a while I go Bill Miller, but
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Speaker 3: normally I go Ben Maller.
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Speaker 4: That's normally what I do.
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Speaker 5: Well, the radio row that I was at yesterday, it
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Speaker 5: was shades of you and I walking the Sofi super Bowl.
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Speaker 5: If you remember back to that. Some people were still
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Speaker 5: wearing COVID masks. I remember, yep, yep. And you had
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Speaker 5: to pay for parking, which irritated you quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I was there for work.
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Speaker 3: I had to park, not only to have to pay
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Speaker 3: for parking, I paid for parking and it was like
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Speaker 3: really far. I remember, I was kind of sweaty when
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Speaker 3: I showed up and it was you know, it's a
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Speaker 3: hot day and it was a pain in the ass.
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Speaker 1: I remember that, Eh.
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Speaker 4: You remember how you got your parking money back.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think you what did I? Oh? Did I?
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Speaker 3: Oh? Something involved having swag or something? Right, didn't we
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Speaker 3: sell the Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we went to the refreshment room there at the
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Speaker 5: Super Bowl media row and we both loaded up our bags.
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Speaker 5: Oh yes, everything you took. You started doing Mallard math
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Speaker 5: like that. Right, there would be five dollars in the store.
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Speaker 5: I think that's about three ninety nine. Oh oh, look
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Speaker 5: at that. That's six dollars at the store. And by
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Speaker 5: the time your bag was full, you owed them money
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Speaker 5: for more parking.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so they had a lot of free stuff
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Speaker 3: at the box.
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Speaker 5: I think there was there was, Yeah, I just I
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Speaker 5: just texted you, okay what my haull was. And not
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Speaker 5: included in the photo are the things that I actually
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Speaker 5: ate like a fat ass while I sat there.
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Speaker 3: Oh right, these are some good items here. Got some
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Speaker 3: schneiders of handover pretzels. Those are solid. That's right there.
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Speaker 3: That's probably how much you think that would cost an
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Speaker 3: a venting machine three bucks something like that. Okay, boom
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Speaker 3: chicka pop kettle corn. That's what do you think that's
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Speaker 3: another four dollars or so? Probably? I bet those granola
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Speaker 3: bars are expensive. They usually upsell you on the overcharge
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Speaker 3: you on the granola bars.
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Speaker 4: Maybe. And then they had these bags of corn nuts.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I see the corn nuts there? Yeah, those are
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Speaker 3: pretty good. How much was the park? How much was
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Speaker 3: the park?
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Speaker 4: No? So I didn't have to pay for parking, so
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Speaker 4: screw them.
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Speaker 5: We were there working, so technically these snacks were for me.
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Speaker 5: But what they didn't see these people running the premiere
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Speaker 5: boxing there. They didn't see Danny g walk over during
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Speaker 5: the Jim Lampley interview and accidentally put two bags of
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Speaker 5: corn nuts into his left pocket while putting an extra
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Speaker 5: granola bar into his right pocket. And then the Snyder's
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Speaker 5: bags of big pretzels you see there. I slipped those
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Speaker 5: in my computer bag. So before I left the middle table,
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Speaker 5: which had the refreshments, I was packed and loaded my
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Speaker 5: hotel room. Here now has I don't know about three
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Speaker 5: days worth of snacks?
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Speaker 1: Good?
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Speaker 3: Now, are you going to take those with you? Because
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Speaker 3: I think you're traveling on right? Are you going back
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Speaker 3: to LA. Are you going to keep going to another destination?
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Speaker 1: That's the question.
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Speaker 5: This is why I needed these, And if the refreshment
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Speaker 5: room is open again tomorrow, I'm going to take some more.
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Speaker 5: Because my backpack has one dedicated pocket for airplane snacks.
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Speaker 5: Why because Southwest sucks nowadays. They give you one little
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Speaker 5: bag of roasted peanuts or like that little checks mix
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Speaker 5: the poor a little glass of soda for you. They
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Speaker 5: don't even give you the whole can basically tell you
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Speaker 5: to shut up and like it, and you're starving on
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Speaker 5: the entire flight. So my goal is to get enough
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Speaker 5: free snacks to fly all the way to New Orleans,
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Speaker 5: which we're going to do tomorrow morning.
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Speaker 3: Gotcha, And I have not flown Southwest in a while.
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Speaker 3: I thought they were switching to dedicated seas. Do they
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Speaker 3: still have the open seating right now?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they haven't made that switch yet. It's like it's
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Speaker 5: like sitting in the queue for Disneyland. Now you have
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Speaker 5: to sit there twenty four hours before your flight and
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Speaker 5: quickly press your your button for the reservation. That way
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Speaker 5: you can get in the B group and not be
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Speaker 5: one of the lonely idiots who walks on the plane
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Speaker 5: last with no overhead space.
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Speaker 3: Well not only no overhead space, but then you're in
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Speaker 3: a middle seat, which is you know, I don't know about.
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Speaker 1: You, but you have got to be kidding me. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's pretty it's pretty bad.
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Speaker 3: And then they they charge extra if you want to
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Speaker 3: be in the A group, right, you got to pay
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Speaker 3: they can they upsell you on that.
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Speaker 5: They up charge you exactly. That's why you could be
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Speaker 5: the first one boom. Like we had a nine am
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Speaker 5: flight on Friday morning. Right at nine am, I press
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Speaker 5: that button just like I was trying to get at
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Speaker 5: Disneyland Reservation and it still put me at B twenty two.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, they they save that a to try to
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Speaker 5: make extra money off.
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Speaker 3: Of it, and they nickel and dimian and yeah. The
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Speaker 3: thing about Vegas though, back to Vegas is I still
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Speaker 3: enjoy Vegas, but it just sucks so much compared to
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Speaker 3: how I don't want to be that guy. I'll be
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Speaker 3: that guy. How it used to be free parking. They
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Speaker 3: give you a lot of perks back in the day,
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Speaker 3: and it's just.
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Speaker 1: Not that anymore. They know that the parking thing.
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Speaker 3: Every hotel on the strip they and it's not just
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Speaker 3: a few bucks it's expensive. I mean, you go from
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Speaker 3: hotel to hotel, it's like fifteen twenty dollars per hotel
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Speaker 3: on the weekends.
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Speaker 1: The park there.
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Speaker 3: It just kills me because, like, don't you want people
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Speaker 3: to spend their money on gimling. They must think that
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Speaker 3: nobody actually gambles, I guess anymore, every time I walk
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Speaker 3: into a casino, it's full of people gambling.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, not just that, Benny, but two things are two
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Speaker 5: little ones I saw, I should say, two newborns being
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Speaker 5: held by their mothers down on the casino floor, both
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Speaker 5: of them smiling, rocking their little babies. Meanwhile, there's a
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Speaker 5: guy smoking a big stoky right next to the little
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Speaker 5: newborn and as you know, it's a big cloud of
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Speaker 5: cigarette smoke. Why in the fucking world would you bring
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Speaker 5: a little newborn into the New York New York casino floor.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, mama's got to do what mama's got
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Speaker 1: to do. I guess, but jeez.
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Speaker 4: I don't get it. I saw two in a row.
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Speaker 3: Did you see the gambling numbers that were released for December?
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Speaker 3: I always love this. I mentioned this in the past.
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Speaker 3: We've talked about this on the on the podcast You
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Speaker 3: Want to take a guess what.
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Speaker 1: We'll play a little.
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Speaker 3: Guessing game with Dandy Jes since you're doing the show
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Speaker 3: from Vegas.
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Speaker 1: Today this morning. So how what I mean? Let me
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Speaker 1: phrase this the right way.
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Speaker 3: So this is from the Nevada Gaming Control or Nevada
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Speaker 3: Gaming Commission.
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Speaker 4: I guess it is.
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Speaker 3: And it's Nevada Casino's net win in the month of December.
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Speaker 3: So which part of the casino made the most money
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Speaker 3: for the casino? Like, what game do you think or
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Speaker 3: what device made the most money for the casino?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Dude, do do do?
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Speaker 4: Do do do? I'm gonna say bacarac.
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Speaker 1: Dandy g that is a winner? Yeah what Yeah?
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Speaker 3: One hundred and ninety nine point six million. Damn revenue?
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Speaker 1: You ever put?
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Speaker 5: I mean, I always see that crowded. That's why I
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Speaker 5: thought that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you see a crowd nobody must win one hundred
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Speaker 3: and ninety nine points six million. The casino took which
18:45
Speaker 3: trump what is almost always number one, and that is
18:48
Speaker 3: the penny slot machine.
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Speaker 1: OKAYNT craps.
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Speaker 4: Craps has to be up there.
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Speaker 3: Right, Uh not not actually not that I a quording
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Speaker 3: to this. Uh, this is again in the out of
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Speaker 3: Gaming Control and the load of gaming commission whatever it is.
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Speaker 3: It said baccarat was number one hundred and ninety nine
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Speaker 3: point six million in casinos in Nevada. The penny slots
19:11
Speaker 3: was number two, one hundred and seventy nine point two million.
19:15
Speaker 3: Number three was blackjack at one hundred and four point
19:19
Speaker 3: two million. They made off blackjack, then after that roulette
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Speaker 3: thirty five point five million, then craps at thirty three
19:29
Speaker 3: point five and then way down fifteen million dollars of
19:34
Speaker 3: the sports books.
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Speaker 1: So they don't they don't make that much.
19:37
Speaker 3: I mean, if you made fifteen million dollars in a month,
19:40
Speaker 3: that's spread out abound all the casinos in Nevada, So
19:42
Speaker 3: that's a fair amount. Does that mean that the sports
19:46
Speaker 3: gamblers are winning some money or does that mean that
19:48
Speaker 3: it's just pretty much breaking even the hotel?
19:52
Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: We could ask Rich Davis about roulette. He's still down
19:56
Speaker 5: on the floor right now now playing. I don't think
19:58
Speaker 5: he's gone to bed yet.
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Speaker 3: That is Rich does Rich play? Does he bet odd
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Speaker 3: even red black? Or does he bet on numbers?
20:08
Speaker 5: He always does red sixteen for Joe Montana.
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Speaker 1: Oh boy, all right.
20:18
Speaker 4: Another living in the past.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would I had that system we talked about
20:26
Speaker 3: years ago and if it was you or gascon, but
20:28
Speaker 3: it was. It was a full proofs you have to
20:32
Speaker 3: have a big bank roll, but it was a fool
20:34
Speaker 3: proof system of making money on on the the rolette
20:38
Speaker 3: wheel where you would bet odd or even, you'd pick
20:43
Speaker 3: red or black, and you'd if you won, you made
20:47
Speaker 3: the same bet.
20:47
Speaker 1: If you lost, you double the bet. If you lost again,
20:50
Speaker 1: you'd double.
20:51
Speaker 3: The bet and you you and then when you win,
20:53
Speaker 3: you go back down to and you bet that whatever
20:55
Speaker 3: your initial amount is.
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Speaker 1: And I did all right.
21:01
Speaker 3: The problem is you got to sit there forever, and
21:03
Speaker 3: occasionally you get really nervous because it goes like seven
21:07
Speaker 3: or eight in a row where it goes the opposite
21:08
Speaker 3: and then you start to panic a little bit. But
21:11
Speaker 3: eventually it'll go back. But you just have to have
21:13
Speaker 3: enough money to and you have to have the patience.
21:16
Speaker 3: And I also think it's not I don't think it's allowed.
21:18
Speaker 3: I think you might get in trouble if you do that.
21:20
Speaker 3: But it does work. It does work if you have
21:23
Speaker 3: enough money and you're willing to sit there like a
21:26
Speaker 3: putts and get in the hole because you when you
21:30
Speaker 3: double the bed every time, that adds up quickly. Dan,
21:33
Speaker 3: if you go seven or eight, you're really betting a
21:35
Speaker 3: lot of money by the time you get to nine
21:37
Speaker 3: and ten.
21:38
Speaker 1: So you got to be.
21:40
Speaker 3: Willing to do that, and if you are, you can.
21:43
Speaker 3: You know you should never take gamming advice from a podcast.
21:46
Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
21:47
Speaker 3: I'm merely pointing out that I've heard that works. We
21:52
Speaker 3: had the Winter Rummage, Danny, the Winter Rummage, the garage
21:58
Speaker 3: clean out, very exciting last weekend. I'd mentioned that I
22:04
Speaker 3: have a lot of cool stuff from when I first
22:07
Speaker 3: got into the business. I have some stuff when I
22:11
Speaker 3: was a kid going and getting autographs, a lot of memorabilia,
22:16
Speaker 3: random crap, and I'm thinking about selling a lot of it.
22:21
Speaker 3: So give me some feedback. Let me know if you
22:24
Speaker 3: guys are interested in any of this stuff, I can
22:25
Speaker 3: put it on like eBay or I don't know. My
22:28
Speaker 3: wife knows all the other places you can sell stuff
22:31
Speaker 3: on the interweb.
22:33
Speaker 1: So if you're interested, you know what.
22:35
Speaker 4: You can do, like Facebook, marketplace through your Mallard page.
22:38
Speaker 3: Oh, that's true, I could, I know. I don't know
22:40
Speaker 3: that I could use the Mallard page. I think because
22:42
Speaker 3: it's a work page.
22:42
Speaker 4: I don't know. I might have to use my personal interest.
22:46
Speaker 4: H I don't think me.
22:48
Speaker 3: To do that, But send me an email, Real fifth
22:50
Speaker 3: hour at gmail dot com, all letters, no numbers, Real
22:54
Speaker 3: fifth hour at gmail dot com. That's the same email
22:56
Speaker 3: we use for the mail bag which will be on
22:59
Speaker 3: tomorrow's podcast.
23:00
Speaker 1: And let me know.
23:01
Speaker 3: I'm mean, I have some old baseball bats that I got,
23:05
Speaker 3: you know, and I like this stuff. I have a
23:07
Speaker 3: batting helmet I got in spring training one year, Milwaukee
23:10
Speaker 3: Brewer's batting helmet.
23:12
Speaker 1: You leave that, Danny, talk about random stuff, right man?
23:16
Speaker 4: Crazy?
23:16
Speaker 5: Well, I know you must have a complete mixed bag
23:19
Speaker 5: of football, baseball, hockey, all kinds of crap in there.
23:24
Speaker 2: Yeah.
23:25
Speaker 3: I have some Dodger stuff that I got when I
23:27
Speaker 3: was doing stuff with them, random batting gloves, and I
23:31
Speaker 3: mean it's cool.
23:32
Speaker 1: I don't know that anyone would want. And maybe if
23:34
Speaker 1: you're a big time do you.
23:35
Speaker 5: Have anything to prove that when Gretzky blew you off
23:38
Speaker 5: in an lax.
23:39
Speaker 1: Parky, I could thank you for that, Dandy.
23:47
Speaker 5: No, let me let me tell you this. I think
23:50
Speaker 5: we should make an offer up page for you. That
23:53
Speaker 5: way dozens of people can ask you. Is this item
23:57
Speaker 5: still available and then just ghost you.
24:00
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:01
Speaker 3: Well, you know I know from back when I was dating.
24:04
Speaker 3: It wasn't called ghosting when I was dating, but women
24:06
Speaker 3: knew about it. They certainly did it quite a bit
24:08
Speaker 3: when I was I was dating on Tuesday, those women
24:12
Speaker 3: were ahead of their time. They all got headaches and
24:14
Speaker 3: had hair appointments right when we were supposed to hang out.
24:16
Speaker 3: I don't understand. All right, let we have the let's
24:19
Speaker 3: see what do we have with the phrase of the week.
24:22
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the phrase of the week, the
24:25
Speaker 1: phrase of the week?
24:28
Speaker 3: Yes, the phrase of the week this week is grasping
24:30
Speaker 3: at straws. Grasping at straws, that is the phrase of
24:34
Speaker 3: the week. And this comes from the proverb a drowning
24:40
Speaker 3: man will clutch at straws. This is from fifteen thirty
24:46
Speaker 3: four Thomas Moore's dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation, Who was
24:52
Speaker 3: published in fifteen thirty four. The phrase is a metaphor
24:57
Speaker 3: that describes someone who is in a difficult situation and
25:01
Speaker 3: they'll try anything to improve it, even if those attempts
25:06
Speaker 3: are futile and of course obviously unlikely to work. For example,
25:10
Speaker 3: you might describe someone who keeps trying to win an
25:13
Speaker 3: argument by bringing up unrelated We call them non sequiturs,
25:18
Speaker 3: as grasping at straws. You know, you can say clutching
25:25
Speaker 3: at straws, but grasping its straws. So there it is
25:29
Speaker 3: the phrase of the week, grasping at straws.
25:33
Speaker 1: Do you ever grasp at straws? Dan he ever grasp
25:36
Speaker 1: at straws?
25:37
Speaker 3: No?
25:38
Speaker 4: Usually I grasp at French fries.
25:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing wrong, Nothing wrong with fries. We call them
25:46
Speaker 3: freedom fries. You know here in the States we call
25:49
Speaker 3: them freedom fries for sure. Oh, I didn't want to
25:52
Speaker 3: mensure that. I forgot big rumor in Vegas, major hotel
25:58
Speaker 3: for sale like Clea to close in the next year
26:02
Speaker 3: or two.
26:03
Speaker 1: Did you hear this.
26:05
Speaker 4: Circus Circus.
26:06
Speaker 3: Yes, Circus Circus is for sale, and the rumor is
26:13
Speaker 3: that I think they want like five billion or something
26:16
Speaker 3: for it. I don't know who's got that kind of
26:18
Speaker 3: dough laying around, but the rumors.
26:20
Speaker 1: Are going to knock that thing down.
26:21
Speaker 3: And then they haven't improved it since I was a kid,
26:24
Speaker 3: and I'm getting old. Uh, and I think the same
26:27
Speaker 3: bubblegum is there and all that. Anyway, there's a lot
26:31
Speaker 3: of truck that is going to be the next boom
26:33
Speaker 3: part of the Vegas strip, right around Circus Circus. That
26:37
Speaker 3: area is the next wave of mega hotels are going
26:41
Speaker 3: to put in Vegas. And I was chatting with a
26:47
Speaker 3: source this week. Even it sounds much more impressive than
26:49
Speaker 3: someone I casually know a source who said that is
26:53
Speaker 3: likely going to be where the NBA Arena is built,
26:57
Speaker 3: and Vegas is going to get an expansion NBA franchise
27:02
Speaker 3: that will be announced in the next couple of years,
27:04
Speaker 3: and they're going to build.
27:04
Speaker 4: The arounah the Vegas Lebron's.
27:08
Speaker 3: Oh my god, did you see that story yesterday that
27:15
Speaker 3: somebody from Lebron's Clutch Sports contacted stephen A Smith about
27:21
Speaker 3: criticism of Bronnie James.
27:24
Speaker 4: What is that?
27:24
Speaker 3: No.
27:25
Speaker 5: Doesn't surprise me though, because Lebron thought he was homies
27:28
Speaker 5: with stephen A and then Steven A went off on
27:31
Speaker 5: that rant so emotional on TV last week. He sounded
27:36
Speaker 5: like like our boy Rob Parker times one hundred.
27:40
Speaker 1: I bet man, you don't want to get robbed going
27:43
Speaker 1: Rob getting.
27:44
Speaker 5: So so Lebron what I read it caught him off
27:48
Speaker 5: guard because he thought that they were cool with each
27:50
Speaker 5: other He's.
27:51
Speaker 4: Like, man, why is my dude doing me? Doing me
27:54
Speaker 4: like this?
27:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all I've been contacted by people like that
27:59
Speaker 3: in the past. It's just like, come on, dude, I'm
28:02
Speaker 3: not on your payroll. If you want to pay me
28:04
Speaker 3: to be a pr person, let me know. I'd be
28:07
Speaker 3: more than happy to take a check. But I'm not
28:09
Speaker 3: and you're not going to pay me, and I don't
28:11
Speaker 3: really want you to pay me.
28:13
Speaker 1: So stop, just stop. Stop. This is a total it's
28:18
Speaker 1: a bamboozlement of.
28:19
Speaker 3: The integrity of the NBA having Brownie out there. He
28:23
Speaker 3: has no business being in the NBA. It's ridiculous. The
28:25
Speaker 3: only reason there's because it was dead genetics. I get it.
28:28
Speaker 3: Come on anyway, all right, we'll get out on that, Danny.
28:32
Speaker 3: Anything else you want to promote. You're going near me
28:35
Speaker 3: in Vegas Tonight's yeah, I.
28:37
Speaker 4: Mean going to be here for the fight.
28:39
Speaker 5: And we have a bonus podcast with Jim Lampley on
28:43
Speaker 5: it that's up today, so if you have time after
28:46
Speaker 5: you listen to our podcast, you can check that out.
28:48
Speaker 5: And I heard you on yesterday's podcast mention about the
28:52
Speaker 5: big numbers, biggest quarter in fifth hour podcast history, So
28:56
Speaker 5: thank you. So much for tuning in and sharing it
28:59
Speaker 5: with your friends and family.
29:01
Speaker 4: It's because of your dedication. Really appreciate you.
29:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's awesome. And we were we were worried
29:07
Speaker 3: right during football season because on Sundays we do the
29:10
Speaker 3: pod and we're like, I don't know if anybodys are
29:11
Speaker 3: going to listen on Sunday when the NFL games are
29:14
Speaker 3: going on.
29:14
Speaker 1: And we did very well.
29:15
Speaker 3: We had the most most downloads and most listeners we've had,
29:19
Speaker 3: so it's good to know that things are actually getting better.
29:22
Speaker 1: The audience is growing, that's solid. We like that.
29:25
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you, and we will continue
29:27
Speaker 3: to shamelessly beg you to get other people to listen.
29:30
Speaker 3: And yeah, and I like Daniel, you've run into people.
29:33
Speaker 3: I've run into people.
29:34
Speaker 1: That that are not.
29:36
Speaker 3: Even really like sports people, and then they'll because we
29:39
Speaker 3: did a sporty one last week. Remember we had the
29:41
Speaker 3: NFL coaches last Saturday.
29:43
Speaker 4: Wow, it was weird.
29:44
Speaker 5: I heard from a few of our listeners who said, Wow,
29:47
Speaker 5: it was kind of cool to hear you guys do one.
29:49
Speaker 4: Whole podcast on sports.
29:52
Speaker 5: Usually it's the other way around, where sports dudes, it's refreshing,
29:55
Speaker 5: are weird? To hear them do a lifestyle show, but
29:59
Speaker 5: this pot this has always been about life and everything else,
30:02
Speaker 5: and we throw a little bit of sports in there.
30:04
Speaker 5: So yeah, man, it's cool to be able to have
30:08
Speaker 5: a diverse set of or non set of rules, I
30:13
Speaker 5: should say, for a podcast.
30:14
Speaker 3: Absolutely, they just say just fill thirty minutes each podcast.
30:19
Speaker 1: Make sure it's about thirty minutes, say man.
30:22
Speaker 4: As long as you do twenty two minutes, my man. Yeah,
30:24
Speaker 4: I know.
30:25
Speaker 1: Yeah.
30:26
Speaker 3: It's like, well, you know, these peopleway work out. They're
30:28
Speaker 3: on the treadmill, give me a half an hour. They're
30:30
Speaker 3: on the treadmill for thirty minutes. Give me a half hour.
30:32
Speaker 1: All right, don you're a star, Ben Mallar, You're a
30:35
Speaker 1: big star.
30:36
Speaker 4: Twenty two minutes, my man, exactly.
30:38
Speaker 3: All right, have a wonderful rest of your Saturday, whatever
30:41
Speaker 3: you got going on today, and we will chat with
30:44
Speaker 3: you on the mailbag tomorrow tomorrow, tomorrow tomorrow, we'll talk
30:49
Speaker 3: to
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