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The Fifth Hour: "Dust off the Balls" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabboobs.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The 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: Mahler and Danny G Radio and a very good Sunday
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  Speaker 3: to you. Hanging it out the day in between the
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  Speaker 3: championship game tomorrow is the sixth day of April, and
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  Speaker 3: we are chilling in the audio box, hanging out in
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  Speaker 3: the magic audio Box every single day, every single day.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, Danny, we should not waste any time here,
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  Speaker 3: my man, Danny G. Let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm pointing my imaginary squirt gun at you?
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  Speaker 1: How dare you?
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  Speaker 4: It's FSR. Just find me seventy five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's right, Yes, I Jamorant, the Great Jamrant, King
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  Speaker 3: of all knuckleheads, actually laughed. I at one point I
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  Speaker 3: was like, well, this is embarrassing and sad, but then
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  Speaker 3: I just thought it was so funny. It's like the
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  Speaker 3: Jamaran thing, Danny. I'm sure you guys covered it on
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  Speaker 3: Coveno and Rich and all that, but it's like certain
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  Speaker 3: people that just they don't they don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the worst thing in the world or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a finger gun, like we all.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's just like, I love the fact that he
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  Speaker 3: threw it right in the face of the NBA hours
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  Speaker 3: after this decide we're not gonna plant this jamrant and
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  Speaker 3: then he comes out and he's he's going he's got
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  Speaker 3: the finger blasters ready to go right in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Just great, just absolutely wonderful. Oh man.
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  Speaker 4: It's like it's like when management back in the day
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  Speaker 4: told us not to mention certain things and then just
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  Speaker 4: out of nature, naughty by nature, we slipped and talked
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  Speaker 4: about it right out the gate, and we're like, whoops.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes it's just something's ingrained in you.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing about jam Moran is he if you
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  Speaker 3: read about his issue, like even some of the guys
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  Speaker 3: that have been in the media business who former players
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  Speaker 3: appointed out like he's not from.
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  Speaker 1: The bad Martin.
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  Speaker 4: No, he's not. The town he grew up in is
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  Speaker 4: in the middle of nowhere, you know, so you think
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  Speaker 4: he'd be about fishing. And also he had nice middle
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  Speaker 4: class parents according to all the stories we've read, so
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  Speaker 4: not like he's just some kid from the hood who
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  Speaker 4: doesn't know anything else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what he reminds me of. He reminds
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  Speaker 3: me of kids I grew up with. I grew up
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  Speaker 3: in a very nice planned community in Orange County, and
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  Speaker 3: there were certain kids at our school that wanted to
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  Speaker 3: be like gangsters, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know what I mean. That's the way to do it. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a tough guy.
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  Speaker 4: I blame that movie Dangerous Minds when we were growing up.
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  Speaker 1: That must be it, clearly anyway, So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: All right, it's let's get to it, Reggie, and Detroit writes,
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  Speaker 3: and he says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I love you
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  Speaker 3: guys on the weekends. Thanks for answering my email about
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  Speaker 3: the postings from Eddie and Lorena.
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  Speaker 1: In the previous show.
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  Speaker 3: I like your Overnight show, but you've been having a
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  Speaker 3: lot of commercials lately. It's one read after another. How
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  Speaker 3: do you deal with all the commercials? That's from Reggie.
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  Speaker 4: He does understand we're on commercial radio, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, we have had a lot more commercial I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you remember Danny, we had like there were points we
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  Speaker 3: had no commercials on the Overnight Show. I mean it's
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  Speaker 3: it's one of those things with Reggie. It is a
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  Speaker 3: blessing and a curse. The show is actually doing well.
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  Speaker 3: The network's doing well. And yeah, as you reference Danny,
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  Speaker 3: that is the most important part. Now, I do take
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  Speaker 3: pride whether management likes it or the sales department likes it.
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  Speaker 3: Like I try to incorporate the reads into the show
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  Speaker 3: because there are a lot of live.
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  Speaker 1: Reads, which I'm fine with. I want them to have more.
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  Speaker 3: Commercials and not less, because that means everything's doing well
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  Speaker 3: and people are paying money. They don't give out free commercials.
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  Speaker 3: So I like that and it's great and all that,
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  Speaker 3: and I try to try to incorporate, you know, different
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  Speaker 3: things to make it entertaining.
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  Speaker 4: But Benny, it's free. It's free radio.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I pay a serious XM subscription every every month. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: it's like seventeen dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 4: There's still a couple of channels, Itune and that's the
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  Speaker 4: basic package for them. By the way, and when I
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  Speaker 4: tune into a couple of different channels, they still have
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  Speaker 4: some live reads and once in a while they'll do
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  Speaker 4: some commercials and I'm like, wait a second, I'm paying you.
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  Speaker 4: That's my membership fee, so you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: But with what we do terrestrial.
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  Speaker 4: Rate, terrestrial radio commercials are what you need to support
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  Speaker 4: in order for us to keep doing what we're doing.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the important part to remember. I know it's
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  Speaker 4: easy to complain about, but you're not paying a monthly
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  Speaker 4: fee to hear Ben Maller. You are getting that for free.
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  Speaker 4: And what makes it possible are these sponsors. So when
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  Speaker 4: I hear a sponsor on a show that I like,
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  Speaker 4: I go out of my way to support that sponsor
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  Speaker 4: because I want them to keep making my favorite guy
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  Speaker 4: money and ratings so that he stays in his spot.
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  Speaker 3: And I will quote the retired voice of the New
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  Speaker 3: York Yankees on this podcast, the great John Sterling, who
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  Speaker 3: popped in here and we should get John on.
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  Speaker 1: A I answer his phone. He's not doing anything, he's
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  Speaker 1: retired and all that.
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  Speaker 3: But John Sterling, who said the most important thing is
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  Speaker 3: to sell the soap right, and it really we're just
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  Speaker 3: filler between the commercials.
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  Speaker 1: Yin Yankee. Yeah that's right.
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  Speaker 3: The Yankees win, and.
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  Speaker 4: And that home run was brought to you by Ivory Soap.
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  Speaker 1: The funniest was the pregame on the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: Yankee Baseball is brought to you by and then John
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  Speaker 3: Sterling would read off and I'm not kidding, like seventeen
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  Speaker 3: sponsors in a row and BMW the state area.
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  Speaker 1: It's brought to you by so and so Burger Shack
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan. And I used to watch those infomercials.
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  Speaker 3: I've read books on infomercial I was fascinated by Ron Polpeel.
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  Speaker 3: We try to get him on the podcast, and then
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  Speaker 3: he died. He was supposed to come on then it
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  Speaker 3: didn't work out. But that whole ron Co line, the chopimatic,
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  Speaker 3: the diallematic, the vegematic, all that crap, right, the lines
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  Speaker 3: set it in and forget it.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more.
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  Speaker 3: Like all that stuff came by via infomercials. Operators are
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  Speaker 3: standing by, supplies are limited. All of those phrases started
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  Speaker 3: in infomercials.
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  Speaker 1: And they're still around. They're a lot different.
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  Speaker 3: It's not obviously, nothing stays the same, but yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 3: So Reggie Bpt, thank you for listening. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: appreciate you listening and complaining about the commercial.
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  Speaker 1: That means they're doing well. Sorry, now the Grandy Man
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  Speaker 1: can the Grande Man game?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Brandy Man can the Grande Man can?
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  Speaker 1: Oh so much fun? Ohkapa Ton with a home run of.
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  Speaker 3: The Yankees back in the day. All right, let's see
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  Speaker 3: what do we have next? Alf from the Courthouse rights
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  Speaker 3: in on the mailbag. He says, gentlemen, do you think
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  Speaker 3: the reason behind the NFL getting more and more replay
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  Speaker 3: happy is motivated by widespread legalized sports betting? And Alf says,
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  Speaker 3: just think if you got screwed by a call in
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  Speaker 3: the past, do you Veto and his associates would be
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  Speaker 3: inclined to hand over? Do you think they would be
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  Speaker 3: a handover the winnings. It's not like you're going to
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  Speaker 3: sue your neighbors sports betting entrepreneur. I'm guessing that Roger
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  Speaker 3: Goodell and all the suits are a bit concerned about
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  Speaker 3: Shaney calls being adjudicated in court.
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  Speaker 1: So I have heard this.
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  Speaker 3: Ie was asked the other day in one of the
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  Speaker 3: appearances that I made Danny, and they said, what would
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  Speaker 3: you change about the NFL, And my point was, I
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  Speaker 3: want less replay. I can't stand having to go over
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  Speaker 3: every single little thing.
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  Speaker 1: It drives me nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Now, they have been pretty good lately in the NFL
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  Speaker 3: about the expedited booth review, you know that, that whole thing,
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  Speaker 3: But just in general, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't like the NBA stoppages when they're trying to look
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  Speaker 4: at videotape to see whose finger last touched the basketball,
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  Speaker 4: and the flow of the game just absolutely gets ruined.
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  Speaker 4: And nine out of ten times it's the way it
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  Speaker 4: kind of looked when it happened in real time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like either confirm, you change, you let the
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  Speaker 3: call stand, which means you don't know, and so you're
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  Speaker 3: just gonna go with whatever it was. And it's like
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  Speaker 3: one man's obvious that call must be overturned in the
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  Speaker 3: command center, and then other people like watching the same thing,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, well that doesn't I mean, it's just let
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  Speaker 3: them play. But again, we're on the same age that
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  Speaker 3: we grew up with the mindset of the human element
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  Speaker 3: that the game is going to be played, there's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be some mistakes, and it'll all even out in the end.
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  Speaker 1: But now it's like everything has to be right. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think it's because of gambling. I don't really think
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  Speaker 1: that's why it used to be.
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  Speaker 4: The ball don't lie.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, maybe the AI can lie, but not the ball.
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  Speaker 3: But I thank you Alf as far as the I
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  Speaker 3: just point out, though I know, legally speaking, the legal
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  Speaker 3: ease in the agreements that the sports leagues have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of them are classified as entertainment operations. So they
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  Speaker 3: do that for multiple reasons. But in a court environment,
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  Speaker 3: I think they'd be okay.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they're too worried about the legal part
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  Speaker 3: of it. They have all that stuff vetted by a
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  Speaker 3: million attorneys. Next up Kyrie in okayc on the mailbag.
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  Speaker 3: He says, Hey, Ben and Danny, thank you Ben for
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  Speaker 3: shouting me out again on the radio. You make me
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  Speaker 3: feel like the official thunder fan of the militia.
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  Speaker 1: You're a man of the people and that's some very
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  Speaker 1: nice things here. Call me absolute goat.
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  Speaker 4: What are you doing a wacky morning zoo show. You're
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  Speaker 4: not supposed to do shout outs. That's a podcast. We're
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  Speaker 4: allowed to do a podcast. And he says, what did
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  Speaker 4: you say? Here, I thought, I check in with you guys.
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  Speaker 4: I really think my Thunder have a chance to win
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  Speaker 4: the finals. I know you agree with me. Ha ha
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  Speaker 4: haa some.
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  Speaker 1: Emojis there you don't.
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  Speaker 3: But anyways, I am listening to the podcast seven days
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  Speaker 3: a week.
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  Speaker 1: Is Kyrie there you go? Well, thank you, Kyrie. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason I.
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  Speaker 3: Bring your name up is because you're the only Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: City Thunder fan I've ever come across.
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  Speaker 1: You're the only one. Oh that isn't funny.
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  Speaker 3: I know, Geene, but I had not heard from Kyrie
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  Speaker 3: in a while. So when I don't hear from some
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  Speaker 3: of you guys, I'm like, are they still listening? Are
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  Speaker 3: they still there? What happened? Did something change in their life?
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  Speaker 3: Or they no longer a fan of the show. We've
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  Speaker 3: had a couple of super fans over the years that
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  Speaker 3: have gotten into the show with their girlfriends or wives,
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  Speaker 3: and then they get into a breakup and then they
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  Speaker 3: stopped listening because the show was reminding them of their
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  Speaker 3: previous life, and so I was curious, like, what happens
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  Speaker 3: when you stop? When I stopped hearing from you and
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  Speaker 3: all that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, or they pass away? Unfortunately?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well wait, we kind of got maybe we.
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  Speaker 4: Have, so I went out rip bear drinking Brian.
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  Speaker 1: One of a kind, beer drinking Brian is tractor And
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  Speaker 1: then if we can.
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  Speaker 4: Only get a hold Do you sometimes think of listeners
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  Speaker 4: like that in the great moments we've missed out on
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  Speaker 4: since they passed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like Genie and Medford during the pandemic would
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  Speaker 3: have been amazing. Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay a beer
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  Speaker 3: drinking Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Like these are great callers. It was wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Anytime I do an Insta trivia or the who am
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  Speaker 3: I game? I think I'm Matt in the Bay Area.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, he always would check me. He had most of
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  Speaker 3: the answers to those questions. It would piss me off
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  Speaker 3: so much. And mass whole Mickey was such a great
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  Speaker 3: supporter of the show. He passed away last year. Calligan,
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  Speaker 3: Tim and Michigan and these guys, I think, Yeah, these
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  Speaker 3: guys were great friends of the show. And they were
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  Speaker 3: just fun people for us to you know, characters and
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  Speaker 3: foils or whatever. So yeah, and you wonder it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these guys checked out way too soon too.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other thing.
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  Speaker 4: Please take care of your own health.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, try not to try not to leave too too early.
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  Speaker 3: Next up is Todd in Minnesota. He writes, Sin says,
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  Speaker 3: they've been in any enjoy podcasts. Well, I'm taking care
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  Speaker 3: of my honeydee list on the weekends. He's I thought
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  Speaker 3: this was right in your wheelhouse bed. Rob Gronkowski this
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  Speaker 3: week said that he had a request of NFL coaches.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we need them to get fat again. He's
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  Speaker 1: a winner.
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  Speaker 3: Then I know you'll agree. Who's your favorite fat NFL
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  Speaker 3: coach of all time?
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  Speaker 1: So it's hard to whittle it down, Todd. I Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I ask Danny too his favorite fatty? I guess Gronk,
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  Speaker 1: according to Todd, was complaining the coaches are in shape.
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  Speaker 1: That is true.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of the NFL coaches are in shape other
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  Speaker 3: than Andy Reid. Is there any other fat coach other.
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  Speaker 1: Than Nandy Reid?
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  Speaker 4: You know what this is kind of like how certain
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  Speaker 4: comedians shed a lot of weight and suddenly they're skinny
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  Speaker 4: and they're not funny anymore. Yes, that's a phenomenon that
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  Speaker 4: has happened over the years. There's a lot of there's
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  Speaker 4: even some actresses who have said that, well, once I
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  Speaker 4: got skinny, you know, some people looked at me a
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  Speaker 4: lot different, and I wasn't as funny to them anymore.
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  Speaker 4: It's like that was a big part of their stick,
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  Speaker 4: and so when they shed the weight, everything changes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so zempic is not good. A lot of these
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  Speaker 3: coaches are younger. Though we were younger, Danny and we
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  Speaker 3: were kids. It was like a lot older middle age.
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  Speaker 4: I think your boy Sean McVay started a lot of this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, mcvad blame McVeigh. That's that's that's right, that's not wrong.
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  Speaker 3: The greatest fact coach of all time, the greatest photo
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  Speaker 3: of all time, I think you'll agree, is Mark Mangino. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Mark Mangino is not an NFL coach. He was coaching
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  Speaker 3: at Kansas.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know what you're talking about. The photo before
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  Speaker 4: the Yeah, there's also famous Walris. There's also a famous
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  Speaker 4: Walris photo of Mike Homgren Mike Holman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a good one too. But Mark Mangino standing with
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  Speaker 3: the Orange Bowl mascot, and uh, just you know, I
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  Speaker 3: have his number. Actually I could probably after saying this,
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  Speaker 3: he probably won't come on the podcast, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: probly track down Mangino. I have his number. Rex Ryan
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  Speaker 3: was a good fat coach. He actually was fun. He
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  Speaker 3: was three fifty or something like that when he was there.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, we only had one. We had Mike McCarthy
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  Speaker 3: was a fat coach.
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  Speaker 1: But he's not in the NFL anymore.
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  Speaker 4: He's out does Art shell count. He had a big belly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was fat. Art was fat. Absolutely. Romeo Cornell
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  Speaker 3: was fat. Remember Romeo Crenell.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, he was coaching the brown Wow, you
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  Speaker 4: you're good on this topic. I just googled it and
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  Speaker 4: your boy, man Gino comes up first on the list.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man Gino.
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  Speaker 4: Here and here's the rest of the list. Okay, Andy Reid,
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  Speaker 4: you mentioned Charlie Weiss. Oh yeah, I forgot about Charlie
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  Speaker 4: rob Ryan, Dennis rob Ryan. Rob Ryan worked at our place,
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  Speaker 4: remember pregnant? Yes, you mentioned Romeo Crenell. Tom Cable is
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  Speaker 4: on the list. Oh I forgot Tom Cable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Seattle, right, Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: Famous for coaching big ugly Yeah. And Wade Phillips is
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  Speaker 4: on the list. Oh yeah, Wade, good old Wade don't
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  Speaker 4: do list podcasting. So that's a big board right there.
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  Speaker 1: That is a big board as not a list.
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  Speaker 4: That is it's a really big fat board.
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  Speaker 3: H It's a a larger in chargeboard. Larger in chargeboard
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  Speaker 3: for sure. Yeah, all right, well thank you for that.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great reminiscing about fat coaches. And if you're
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  Speaker 3: able to see, obviously you're blind, you can't look this up,
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  Speaker 3: but check out the photo of Mangino with the orange.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 4: The photo just popped up.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Next up on the membi, Kevin and Kansas rights in
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  Speaker 3: says ay Ben and Danny GM. Sitting in the Wichita
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  Speaker 3: Airport listening to the Ben Maller Show, the Thursday Night Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I got out of the car at.
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  Speaker 3: Departures, made my way through tsa preach, got a Duncan coffee,
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  Speaker 3: all in four minutes. As frequent flyers, have you been
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  Speaker 3: able to streamline your travels? I'm looking forward to listening
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: to your podcast from Fargo all this week.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Kevin. At that trip, You're going from
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Wichita to Fargo. Man, what you're doing in Fargo? Kevin?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: You have family there? Does anyone go to Fargo just
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: on vacation? I don't know. It's like is it like Cleveland?
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: I'm going to Fargo. Actually met at the Mallard meet
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: and greet in Minnesota, met some listeners to the show
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: from Fargo. If I one of the guys there used
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: to live in San Diego and moved to Fargo, and
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I told him, I said, you're the only guy in
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: the history of the world that went from San Diego
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: to Fargo. There's been a lot of people to go
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: from Fargo to San Diego, but you're the only one
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: that made the opposite move. And as far as the travel,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: you travel a lot more than me these days, Danny,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: But for us, anything outside LAX, if you go Long
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Beach Burbank in front of the LA airports, you have
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: a chance of having an extreamline travel experience.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: But at LAX you have no chance.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: No, you have no chance. The only thing that might
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: be in your favor is if you sign up and
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: pay extra for the TSA pre check. That's always a
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: good thing to do if you're a regular traveler. And
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: also you can pay a little extra to board first,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: or you can just sit there in the queue on
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: your phone like we do for Southwest. As soon as
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: it's twenty four hours before your flight, you hit the
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: button and it puts you like at B twenty or whatever,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: so that you can get on the plane before all
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: the other animals.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Well, now Southwest, have they switched over to seating?
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: It's coming up soon here?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they're charging for bags all bags? Now what
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: a bummer?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the last one. We should start an airline where
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: you actually treat people with.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Respect and all that and give them deals and yeah,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: that would never work.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: What else do we have?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Mike, and Fullerton writes and says happy April, Ben and
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Danny g and Mike says, Ben, you recently mentioned having
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: a great Harry Carey story, but I don't believe you
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: ever got around.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: To telling it. Could you please tell it now? He says, ps.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I love how you always make fun of that fermog
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: guy and the live reads.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It's my favorite part of the show. See there you go, Mike.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Unlike Reggie who was complaining about all the commercials, you
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: are embracing the fact that I work your name in.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure you love that your name.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: As far as the Harry Carey Store, I've told this
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: a few times over the years, but we always have
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: new people.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Coming into the store.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: So if you knew to the store, Harry Carey wasn't
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: over the top play by play guy from a different
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: generation and just quite the cartoon character Old drunk Guy,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: a classes total homer for the Chicago cub Holy Cow
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: and just boozing and crew.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Then the whole thing.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Remember when Bill Murray impersonated him.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, welcome to Ghostbusters nine. How fun out
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: there and be safe? That's great, that is awesome. Yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: So it's years ago at Dodgers dat.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: At the end of Harry Carey's career as a Cup broadcaster,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I started working in the media, and so the last
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: probably six or seven years Harry Carey was a broadcaster
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: for the Cubs.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I was in the media, and back in those days.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: The Dodgers were a family run operation, and I had
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: access and did some.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Work out there.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: And Harry did not do most of the Cub road
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: games he'd gotten to, but he always came to La
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: because he loved Palm Springs. Harry would spend the winter
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: in Palm Springs, had a place out there in Palm Springs, as.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I remember it, and so we always did the Dodger games.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: That was the only road games he would guarant I
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: think the Padres also, but the Southern California games and
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: then you go back to Palm Spring. So the stars
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: aligned one afternoon at Dodger Stadium, and I show up
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I park, I go in. Back in those days, we
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: all went in the same entrance, So I go in there,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: and you go up at a higher level of Dodgers datum,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: you actually have to take elevators down into the bowels.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Of Chavez Ravine.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: So part to the top, go down to the elevator,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: waiting for the elevator. And to my right, I hear
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: this sound of this kind of older gentleman saying something,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: and and I noticed in my peripheral vision I could
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: see the glasses, because this guy had unbelievable glasses. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: sure enough, it was Harry Carey, the play by play
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: voice of the Cups, had arrived at the ballpark with
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: his driver. I guess he couldn't drive anymore. So we
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: had a driver and we had to get in the elevator.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: So it was me, Harry Carey, his.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Driver, and then there were two other people that worked
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: at the stadium that were there.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: So we get into the elevator.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: And at Dodgers Stadium, I'm pretty sure they still have this.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: They had elevator operators. In the elevator, they have someone
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: that has to press the button.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: I guess, yeah, I've seen that they still have that
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: at the Colorado Rocky Stadium the Colorado.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Right, So the Dodgers had an elevator operator. Fine, so
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: we all get in there. We get herded into the elevator,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: and the elevator operator was this very good looking Latino woman. Uh,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: just smoking hot, right, smoke show. And as the elevator
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: is going down, Harry Carey starts flirting with the elevator operator.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: How you doing, young lady. It was it was funny
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: because we don't blurted today.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: His game is being brought to you by Bluetoe. Uh.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: But it was just hilarious because Harry, like I could
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: tell what he was doing, like he thought he was.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: You know, everyone was like, well, she's a beautiful woman whatever,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: and he started like trying to I don't want to
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: say he's picking up on her, but it seemed like
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: he was.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: He was kind of like flirting. It was really funny.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: He was getting he was getting his daddy mac on.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, it was.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: It was hilarious because I had grown up watching the Cubs.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Games with Harry Carey. You know when we were.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Kids, right, we had braves games, Cubs games, and the
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: local teams. And so I watched a lot of Braves games,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: a lot of Cubs games on the superstations back in
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: the stone, before the Internet. And so here's someone that
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I grew up watching on TV and he's just, you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: he's really old and he's just trying his best to
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: kind of dazzle.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: This, uh, this young lady. It was. It was pretty funny.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: So that's my my Harry Carey.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Story Berry in South Carolina rights and says, yo yo, ma,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Benny and Danny g a question for you. Do you
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: wear socks to bed or not? I bet Lorena wears socks. Well,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Lorena is not here, I am. I'm antized. I don't
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: wear socks.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, now now that he mentioned that Lorena's gonna get
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: six pairs of socks in the mail, Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Lorena got upset this week because this guy, Spaccoli, who's
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: a big fan of the show.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I great dude, loves Spaccoli and uh.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: In cool cool guy lives in He's from Wisconsin, but
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: he lives in North Carolina and he's been out to
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: visit us, and so Spaccoli sent me up nice box
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: with some great items from from BUCkies. It's kind of
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: an early birthday president. It was very kind of him
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: to do that. He didn't have to do that. It
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: was very kind of him. So I show up the
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: work and Loraina is like, there's a box with your
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: name on it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Do you want me to open it?
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: You know, she's so used to opening boxes now she's
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: she's at the point she's like, you just assume it
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: must be I'm the expert box opener.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: She's like one of those YouTubers who just does unboxings
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: all the time.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Oh man, I think with all the things that she's
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: got in the mail, she's making more than I am now,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Danny in terms of product. Definitely, it's unreal good for her.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't wear socks. I mean you probably
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: don't care.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: But wait till all the listeners see this stuff on
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: her eBay account.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's gonna gonna make fight the money there.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's got a ton of inventory.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah Ove all right, Dave writes in hey Ben, just so.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: You know, I've been working on my chest too with
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: my my weight bench in my garage. So if you
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: want to see some chest, send me, send me some
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: goodies in the mail.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: That's funny.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Anyway, Dave rights in. He said, I don't know where Davy.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Dumb asses don't say where you're from, some of you morons. Anyway,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Dave rights and says, hey, Ben, Danny gotta know if
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: you guys would try this or not. Kentucky Fried Chicken
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: KFC has debuted finger licking toothpaste, and it tastes just
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: like chicken.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: The original recipe chicken, would you brush your teeth with it?
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: So the question, Dave is would you brush your teeth?
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: But really is how old you are? Because I gotta
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: tell you, Danny, if I was six or seven or
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: eight year old.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Benny, I'm in. I'm in. I mean, I'm going.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want I want the full chicken taste all
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: over my teeth at this age I'm at now, Probably not.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: I might try it now your your son, Danny co Yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: you might want to. I don't even you can buy
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: this still, But the KFC finger licking toothpaste?
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: All right, I want my chicken. Oh that's a classic.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't heard that drop in a long time.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: All Right, I want my chicken.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's funny. Yeah, we don't hear a lot of
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: those those classic drops. That's the problem. We change engineers.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: They don't know the old drops.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: They don't.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd hear the classic drops on this podcast every weekend.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, some of the greats.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I love those old drops back back in the day,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: and you guys would always take stuff out of context,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: which is I think the funniest.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I think we should still do that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: We don't really do that much anymore on the Overnight Show,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: but out of context audio is hilarious or.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: With you, it's just you talking as you normally do.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I rotate nuts.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Well, no, no, I mean occasionally, as you know, Danny,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I like to add a little spice. I am the
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: dancing clown and I like to act like the dancing clown,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: and you know, throw a little extra fun on top,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: and then sometimes it doesn't come off very well. I'm
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: not gonna lie, Danny. That was a big cock. Remember
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: the Tom Tom Brady Patriot deflated ball story. Uh, there
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: were so many drops that came out of that period
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: of time because you're talking about balls.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, remember the ball Remember the ball song we used
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: to play.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I yes, I haven't heard that in a long time.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: That was that was outstanding.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Some guys like a round, and some guys like him dance,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: some guys like a doll.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: To me, those balls are all perfect.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Oh that's so good. That was fun. I love stories
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: like that, aren't they great?
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Those kind of scandals where it's like every day there's
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: a new revelation and then and just awesome.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: You don't want watery balls? All right, we'll get out
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: on that, Danny.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: I will be back tonight in the Magic Radio Box,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: a brand new week of gas Baggerye.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And we'll see what the week holds here.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: And sure they'll get closer to the NFL Draft, more
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: trades and rumors and all that stuff. And you're back
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: tomorrow with Covino and Rich. I assume normal week for you, Danny.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, normal week. That is five to seven pm
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: on the east side of the country, and on the
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: west side that's two to four pm in beautiful Sacramento, California,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: where the press conferences are being held in a shed.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, major league Baseball salaries, minor league baseball facilities.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: They said that that stadium.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: I love to say, so, well, if the made the
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: playoffs while they're in Sacramento, they wouldn't be able to
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: host a playoff game, they'd have to play somewhere else.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: The stadium would not be able to have room. It's
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: not made for like the amount.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: Of Yeah, yeah, it's not their fault. People need to
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: remember it's temporary. They did do some upgrades, so they
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: were trying to make it at least as close to
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: MLB ready as possible.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the only reason they're even there.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Otherwise they would have gone to Reno or somewhere Nevada
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: to play games.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: They would have gone to the minor League Stateium in Vegas.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: But the reason they.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Had to stay is because they have a TV contract
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: with NBC Sports Bay Area that's paying them a ton
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: of money. And so they if they had left California,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: they would have lost or left Northern California.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Think revenue.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I I didn't know that we'd learned something new. And
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: by the way, to backtrack a little bit, the Southwest
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: change starts on May twenty eighth.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Boo, you'll be able to tell your son called bucket
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: your day when you were a little baby, had this.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Airline and you didn't have seats.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Your free bags, Dad, free bags? Yeah, then you have
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: free bags, all right? All right, have a great rest
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: of your Sunday, and thanks for listening.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I do appreciate it. And send a mail. Send a
• 32:14
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• 32:16
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• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Ben Real fifth so many email address Real fifth hour
• 32:23
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• 32:25
  Speaker 1: So we'll talk to you then later.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Skater gotta murder, I gotta go,