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The Fifth Hour: Casper · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Cut booms.
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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 fastion 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 Mallard starts right now.
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Speaker 1: In the air eywhere the Fifth Hour with me Ben
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Speaker 1: Mallor A very happy Friday to you the calm before
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Speaker 1: the final four weekend just finished. The Overnight Show took
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Speaker 1: a little pause back in the audio. Dojoe the Sweatshop
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Speaker 1: does not stop on this third day of April, as
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Speaker 1: we have made it through another week on the over
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Speaker 1: Night Show, and on this edition of the Fifth Hour
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Speaker 1: podcast we have Casper say Hello to Casper, and if
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Speaker 1: that was not enough, we also have the wild tale
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Speaker 1: of a surprise visit that happened this week. But we
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Speaker 1: begin with this and I wanted to address what has
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Speaker 1: been going on in these parts on the podcast. So
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Speaker 1: there is a moment in every long running show, whether
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Speaker 1: it's radio, TV, some guy on YouTube that reviews gas
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Speaker 1: station tuna fish sandwiches. There's a moment when a very
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Speaker 1: familiar voice fades out and the consumer of the content
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Speaker 1: reacts like someone just pulled the Jenga block from the foundation.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, what are you doing? So here we
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Speaker 1: are for those who missed the Sunday mail bag, I
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Speaker 1: will address the snuffle up figus in the room. Danny
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Speaker 1: g the longtime co pilot of the Fifth Hour podcast,
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Speaker 1: has been let's call it less visible than trying to
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Speaker 1: find a parking spot in Santa Monica at about five
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Speaker 1: o'clock or four o'clock and the after good luck. So
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Speaker 1: this led to a bunch of email and when I
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Speaker 1: say a bunch, at least half a dozen. At least
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Speaker 1: half a dozen. There were people sending random social media
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Speaker 1: messages in the carrier pigeons from the Malard Militia Deep
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Speaker 1: State Division. And I'm not going to go through all
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Speaker 1: the messages. I'm not going to read names here. The
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Speaker 1: general I'm gonna sum this up in a brief recap.
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Speaker 1: The messages were, was Danny fired, No, he was definitely fire.
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Speaker 1: Was Danny demoted? Absolutely? Did Coveno and Rich force Danny
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Speaker 1: to make some kind of loyalty, vow and leave the podcast. Yes,
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Speaker 1: they must have done that. Danny was reassigned to a
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Speaker 1: secret audio gulog somewhere in Maldova where bad takes go
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Speaker 1: to die. Those are the kind of messages I may
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Speaker 1: have embellished some of those. I may have embellished some
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Speaker 1: of those. And to that, I would like to quote
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Relax, take a sip of whatever you sip,
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Speaker 1: and based on the listener feedback, I've gotten you guys
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Speaker 1: like you like some serious alcohol content. So Danny G
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Speaker 1: was not pushed. Danny G jumped, and not in a
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Speaker 1: dramatic reality show elimination way, more like a guy who
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Speaker 1: calmly hops off the treadmill after realizing even though I've
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Speaker 1: been on here for an hour, no one is going
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Speaker 1: to hand me a medal for being on the treadmill.
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Speaker 1: And it's burnout with a capital B. That's the headline.
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Speaker 1: Not sexy, not scandalous, doesn't end up on TMZ. However,
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Speaker 1: it's about as real as it gets, and to be fair,
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Speaker 1: to give you a little bit behind the story, Danny
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Speaker 1: G had told me months ago that he was planning
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Speaker 1: on quitting the podcast, that the Grind of doing this
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Speaker 1: every weekend was becoming a problem. And it makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Podcasting sounds easy, and for many it is pretty much.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's got a podcast, you just have to talk. But
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Speaker 1: to do a professional podcast and do it properly, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot that goes into it. You realize it's kind
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Speaker 1: of like hosting a dinner party every week where you
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Speaker 1: also have to cook clean, pretend you're interested for an hour. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: been the most talented of people start checking for the
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Speaker 1: off ramp, and Danny decided he wanted to exit. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not upset with Danny at all. I'm happy that
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Speaker 1: he did the podcast for as long as he did.
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Speaker 1: And Danny was trying to get more more shekels, and
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Speaker 1: something happened in our business years ago where they just
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Speaker 1: these media companies just don't give out more shekels. Doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem fair, but that's the way it works, and if
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Speaker 1: you've been listening closely, you could feel it. I did
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Speaker 1: get messages from some of the regulars who email me
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Speaker 1: on the mail bag and they're like, where's Danny been?
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Speaker 1: Why is Danny not here? What happened to Danny? And
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Speaker 1: this was several months ago, and I've noticed. I knew
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Speaker 1: this happened with the bus driver as well. You know,
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Speaker 1: you can kind of feel when the end is near.
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Speaker 1: Danny became a ghost. Not the scary kind of ghost.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing scary about it. More like Casper. If Casper
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Speaker 1: was scheduling conflicts almost every week, almost every week, the
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Speaker 1: timing just didn't line up, just didn't line up. The
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Speaker 1: energy didn't match, the vibe got sporadic, and it's unfortunate
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Speaker 1: this happens, you know. So we we on this, and
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Speaker 1: on my end, we did what radio lifers do. We adjusted,
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Speaker 1: we pivoted, and if somebody didn't want to do the
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Speaker 1: show with you, you grabbed the podcast Mike like a
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Speaker 1: Times Square Street performer who just lost his juggling partner
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Speaker 1: and decide, all right, fine, I'll just do some more
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Speaker 1: mallord monologues. And that's it. And here's the thing the
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Speaker 1: solo show. We'll get more into it, but the solo
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Speaker 1: show is its own experience. It's like watching a guy
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Speaker 1: play basketball one on one against himself. You gotta be
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Speaker 1: a little creative. There's gonna be some chaos and occasionally
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Speaker 1: you wonder who's winning the argument. And yeah, so yet
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Speaker 1: in the radio business og radio people I like to think,
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Speaker 1: especially of the overnight variety, then teach of overnight are
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Speaker 1: wired differently. Silence is the enemy. Dead air is the
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Speaker 1: boogie man, not the boogie woogie, the boogeyman. You fill
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Speaker 1: the space, even if it means debating yourself like a
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Speaker 1: caffeinated philosopher at some kind of weird Venice Beach drum
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Speaker 1: circle where for some reason they have torches. I don't
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Speaker 1: know why. Why do they have torches? I don't know now,
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Speaker 1: So even the greatest solo act eventually wants to become
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Speaker 1: someone that has a second voice, not necessarily a co
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Speaker 1: host carved in stone, however, someone to lob the conversational
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Speaker 1: tennis pall you know, back across the net, which brings
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Speaker 1: us to the new plan, which is the temporary plan,
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Speaker 1: which is Lucy Goosey flexible, mix in a little jazz improv,
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Speaker 1: keeping your jazz commercial free Friday and Saturday. For now,
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Speaker 1: this is obviously the Friday show and the Saturday show
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Speaker 1: as well. For now, I will ride solo. That'll be
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Speaker 1: a solo ride, not recommended. I will captain the audio ship,
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Speaker 1: hoping it does not hit an iceberg. Now Sunday. That
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Speaker 1: is where things will start getting interesting. In my head,
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Speaker 1: I have this idea. We'll see how this goes. We'll
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Speaker 1: have a rotating cast of and I say this in
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Speaker 1: air quotes, celebrity members of the Mallard Militia, big stars
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Speaker 1: of the Mallard Militia, someone from the extended universe stepping
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Speaker 1: into the big chair. As Mark Patrick used to say,
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Speaker 1: kind of like a guest drummer at a backyard jam session.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be unpredictable. It will definitely be at
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Speaker 1: least a little messy, and it should be some fun.
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Speaker 1: It should be some fun, because the truth is, nothing
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Speaker 1: in this business stays the same, not co host, not
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Speaker 1: time slots, not even careers. Now, David Gascon once held
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Speaker 1: down that chair, the Danny g Chair, which is now
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Speaker 1: the blank chair. Danny had that job for several years,
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Speaker 1: but David gag On, as he was called by Mike North,
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Speaker 1: had that gig and he traded it for Sunshine Early
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Speaker 1: Bird Dinners in Florida. He retired and went to a
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Speaker 1: convalescent home. And young guy to go to a convalescent home.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why he did. And it's not West
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Speaker 1: of the Four h five. I digress. So Danny g
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Speaker 1: is now helping out. He's talked about this on previous
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Speaker 1: episodes of the show. He's helping out at an elementary school,
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Speaker 1: which is either a noble life pivot or proof that
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Speaker 1: children have better looking agents than sports talk radio podcasts.
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Speaker 1: And I mentioned Roberto he's driving a school bus. Literally,
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Speaker 1: I'm not making that up. He quit radio to be
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Speaker 1: a school bus driver, which is mind blowing. The old
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Speaker 1: school radio heads will tell you that never used to happen.
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Speaker 1: People staying in their lanes, stay in your lane, held
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Speaker 1: their roles, wrote it out. However, this isn't that world.
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Speaker 1: Times changed, generations come and go, and it's not that
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Speaker 1: world anymore. This is the remix era, the gig economy
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Speaker 1: with podcast microphones. People shift priorities, change life, taps you
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Speaker 1: on the shoulder and says, eh, you know, maybe, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: do something else for a while. Okay, that's fine. What
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Speaker 1: else should I do? I don't know. Here's an idea.
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Speaker 1: Let's do that now. The Fifth Hour is obviously not ending. No,
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Speaker 1: it is not. Until my contract runs out. I will
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Speaker 1: continue to do the Fifth Hour. It's just evolving.
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Speaker 1: Like a band that lost a guitarist but kept playing,
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Speaker 1: figuring out the sound as it goes, you just fake
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Speaker 1: it till you make it. And somewhere out there in
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Speaker 1: this pile of email, it's it's still gonna be. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna I know, I'm gonna get messages six months from now.
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Speaker 1: Where did Danny Jingo? Why is Danny up in on
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Speaker 1: the podcast? I don't understand you know that whole thing.
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Speaker 1: And I get some of you are concerned. You don't
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Speaker 1: listen every week, and you self incriminate yourself. You are
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Speaker 1: you just incriminate yourself when you announced that. So you're
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Speaker 1: a little concern, you're curious, you're you're slightly unhinged, and
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Speaker 1: you're loyal, And for that I am grateful. I'm so
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Speaker 1: grateful that you're loyal, which in its own way is
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Speaker 1: very comforting in times of change. Right, great, It's wonderful
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Speaker 1: because as long as people care enough to ask the show,
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Speaker 1: whatever version, it is still very much alive, still very
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Speaker 1: very much alive. Now I've had several emails about the
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati meet and greet. We got an RSVP from the
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Speaker 1: legendary Tommy in Atlanta, Big Atlanta Braves fan Tommy, who
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Speaker 1: was at Charleston Meet and greet, plans on attending the
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Speaker 1: event in Cincinnati, so that's exciting. We look forward to that.
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Speaker 1: April twenty fifth, it's a Saturday. It'll be in the
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Speaker 1: afternoon at a venue to be named later, a venue
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Speaker 1: to be named later. So that's exciting. We look forward
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Speaker 1: to that. And then we've got Boston and that'll be
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Speaker 1: on May eighth and May ninth. Saturday is the event
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Speaker 1: in Worcester, the Wusox game, and then on Friday will
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Speaker 1: be at a venue in Boston. I think we're going
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Speaker 1: to the Red Sox game. So this gonna be like
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Speaker 1: a late night get together. We're night people. We're night people,
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Speaker 1: so we'll have a good time and might just go
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Speaker 1: bar hopping. One of my first ever mallor meet and
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Speaker 1: greets was with in Boston was with Mikey Adams Planet,
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Speaker 1: Mikey Radio Legend in Boston and Mikey Adams and his crew.
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Speaker 1: We went on a tour of some of the great
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Speaker 1: night spots in Boston, and it was a bit of
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Speaker 1: a puzzle. We had a good time. We had a
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Speaker 1: great time. It was fun. Rick in Boston, if you remember,
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Speaker 1: he died in a car accident tragically. He was one
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Speaker 1: of my guys in the Malain Militia, but he was
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Speaker 1: there that night. We had a great time. It was
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Speaker 1: a lot of good conversation, which generally I try to
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Speaker 1: avoid social interaction. That was fun. Now turning the page
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Speaker 1: on that Once upon a time in a kingdom hidden
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Speaker 1: beyond the clouds, which is how I would describe the
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Speaker 1: corner of Ventura and Sepulvida, at about two in the morning,
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Speaker 1: about two in the morning, a voice from Radio Past
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Speaker 1: paid a visit who wasn't well. Take a guess if
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Speaker 1: you were listening, you know, by the way, that is
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Speaker 1: how all great stories begin, right, Once upon a time,
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Speaker 1: All great stories just like a Disney movie, except that
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Speaker 1: won't cost you an arm and a leg, and instead
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Speaker 1: of princesses, it's just a guy who works overnight at
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Speaker 1: Amazon and part time at Walmart, which frankly feels more
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Speaker 1: relatable and also comes with better health benefits. So the
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Speaker 1: other day I got a text from Edmund Dallas steamboat
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Speaker 1: Willie Garcia. A few days, a few days prior to
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Speaker 1: the event that took place, I got this message. And listen,
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Speaker 1: get a message randomly from someone you don't talk to
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Speaker 1: very much anymore, and it's the especially from Eddie. It's
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Speaker 1: the modern equivalent of receiving a telegram from the Civil War.
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Speaker 1: Eddie doesn't text that often unless something's going on. Unless
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Speaker 1: something's going going on. And so Eddie said, Hey, I
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Speaker 1: got this deal. I want to run Baya. And you know,
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Speaker 1: the same Eddie who I worked with for over twenty
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Speaker 1: years at Fox Sports Radio, which in radio years is
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Speaker 1: roughly one hundred and thirty seven. And he said, our guy,
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Speaker 1: Siria Sean wanted to stop by Eddie wood chaperone, which
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Speaker 1: is appropriate because any time someone agrees to spend time
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Speaker 1: with me voluntarily, clearly adult supervision is at least strongly recommended.
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Speaker 1: So Sean, it turns out, is one of those people
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Speaker 1: who makes you feel lazy just by existing. The backstory
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Speaker 1: if you don't know, Sirias Sean grew up in southern California,
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Speaker 1: was a Mega MEGAMEGAMEGA fan, super fan of the show
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Speaker 1: in high school. Now pushing thirty, not quite thirty, pushing thirty,
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Speaker 1: living in the Valley of the Sun there in Phoenix,
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Speaker 1: working multiple jobs, grinding through the overnight shift like it's
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Speaker 1: a competitive sport. Now. Meanwhile, I of course considered a
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Speaker 1: productive day if I am able to shower, brush my teeth,
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Speaker 1: and eat one meal and that that's it. So after
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Speaker 1: driving all night, remember I was in Vegas. We'll tell
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Speaker 1: some stories about that over the weekend, probably tomorrow. So
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Speaker 1: after driving all night and the malomobile from Vegas, which
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Speaker 1: may or may not sound glamorous. If it does, you think, well,
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Speaker 1: that's great, until you realize it's just driving from Vegas
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Speaker 1: to La mostly involves Okay, I gotta I gotta hit
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Speaker 1: the urinal, so let's go to Baker. We'll stop in Baker. Okay, good,
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Speaker 1: we'll stop in Baker, no problem. Moving on from that,
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Speaker 1: all right, another pit stop and Barstow. I'm convinced they
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Speaker 1: timed out all of the different towns to accommodate the
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Speaker 1: amount of time a middle aged adult male will need
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Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom. It's about every hour, hour
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Speaker 1: and a half. Sometimes there's a stop or two hours,
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Speaker 1: and it's about what you need. So just a lot
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Speaker 1: of pit stops on the way back and some reflection
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Speaker 1: under the cover of darkness and Death Valley. So I
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Speaker 1: hopped in the car after driving all night, slept her
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Speaker 1: a few hours, and headed down from the north Woods
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Speaker 1: up to Sherman Oaks to the Premiere Networks facility again
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Speaker 1: Ventura and Sapalvda right across from the Cheesecake Factory. For
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Speaker 1: those scoring at home, the intersection of dreams, keep your
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Speaker 1: feet on the ground and keep reaching with his styes
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Speaker 1: and traffic. A lot of protests from Wokesters across the
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Speaker 1: street there and there was Eddie. There was Eddie. I
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Speaker 1: had not seen him since the Charger season ended. The
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Speaker 1: way Chargers season seasons almost always in my entire life.
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Speaker 1: Just kind of a shrug and a sigh and some
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Speaker 1: people asking questions. Wait, that's it. That's like we spent
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Speaker 1: a lot of time and this is all that happened. Now,
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Speaker 1: myself and Eddie. We used to do these mini meet
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Speaker 1: and greets at Sofi Stadium, or as Helmet Man insists,
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Speaker 1: Sofa Stadium. Haven't heard from Helmet Man in a while.
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Speaker 1: What's going on with that? Which is honestly more comfortable sounding,
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Speaker 1: you know, Sofi Stadium it's been about seventeen months since
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Speaker 1: Eddie got whacked. He got the pink slip, one year
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Speaker 1: and five months. Not that anyone's counting, all right, Not
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Speaker 1: that anyone's counting, except of course I am. Because when
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Speaker 1: you work with someone for as long as we work together,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, they're gone. And I
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Speaker 1: was in Kansas City when all this went down. I
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Speaker 1: had a great alibi. I was at the malar meetings
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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs game when news started trickling out. I
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Speaker 1: was at the Chiefs Broncos game. That's the one that
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Speaker 1: ended on the Chiefs special teams blocking the Broncos field goal,
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Speaker 1: a chip shot field goal. So that's that. And so
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Speaker 1: I was out of town and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: Eddie's gone, and I'm getting all these phone calls, and yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a plot twist. So Eddie became a big part
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Speaker 1: of the rhythm of the show goes without saying and
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Speaker 1: the dynamic I think Abbott and Costello, which is a
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Speaker 1: dated reference. But Eddie was the straight man, and I
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Speaker 1: was the babbling balloon filled with hot air, and Eddie
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Speaker 1: was the string keeping me from floating into low Earth orbit,
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Speaker 1: which seemingly almost happens on a nightly basis, and he
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Speaker 1: would help set me up. I of course would knock
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Speaker 1: it down on body blow, body blow, body blow, arm bar,
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Speaker 1: arm bar, timing, pacing, the whole dance. Don't believe in chemistry.
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Speaker 1: Just work well together. Just work well together. Now, since
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Speaker 1: Eddie was kicked out, no live updates all recorded, no
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Speaker 1: one to play off of, no one to play off of,
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Speaker 1: no one there to say, actually, you know, you shouldn't
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Speaker 1: have said it that way or that's not true, which,
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Speaker 1: as it turns out, was a very active part of
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Speaker 1: the show. I did not realize as much. So you've
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Speaker 1: had to adjust as a consumer. I have had to
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Speaker 1: adjust on this side of the microphone, which is a
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Speaker 1: polite way, I believe, a very polite way of saying
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Speaker 1: that I now argue with myself for a living. I
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Speaker 1: get paid a decent amount of money to argue with myself.
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Speaker 1: That's it. That's the gig. So low radio is a
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Speaker 1: dying art form, mostly because consultants and program directors say, well, it's.
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Speaker 3: Boring, boring, and it's not right and nobody can do
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Speaker 3: it by themselves and all this stuff, and it requires
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Speaker 3: you to be slightly unwell, slightly unwell.
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Speaker 1: In a charming, marketable way. You feel me on that
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Speaker 1: it's controlled schizophrenia for entertainment purposes. I remember hearing stories
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Speaker 1: about a legend in radio who did some stuff at
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Speaker 1: KFI and LA back on the day. Phil Henry had
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Speaker 1: a syndicated show, and Phil was the maestro of creating characters,
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Speaker 1: having conversations with those characters and just going for it.
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Speaker 1: And just he did it because he went to a
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Speaker 1: small radio station and they had nobody calling, and so
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Speaker 1: he just had to create this magic and he was
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Speaker 1: able to pull it off. A Hall of famer, and
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Speaker 1: it really does become schizophrenia in a controlled environment for
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Speaker 1: entertainment purposes. Only you need multiple voices in your head
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Speaker 1: at the same time, each with its own agenda. You've
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Speaker 1: got the outraged voice, the skeptical I'm very good with
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Speaker 1: the skeptical, the tired one, the one wondering if we
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Speaker 1: left the stove on. I've done that. I've gone to
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Speaker 1: the gym with the stove on. You rotate them and
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Speaker 1: it's like a pitching staff, or maybe a bullpen is
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Speaker 1: the better way to describe it. You've got different arm angles.
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Speaker 1: In my case, you've got different tones, different pacing. It
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Speaker 1: creates the illusion, the illusion of dialogue without anyone else
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Speaker 1: in the room. Without anyone else in the room. Now
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Speaker 1: we all have an internal monologue, that documentary voice that
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Speaker 1: announces to everyone else what you're doing. Of course, nobody
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Speaker 1: else here's that other than you, So in many ways
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Speaker 1: we all have a bit of schizophrenia. The moment you
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Speaker 1: start talking to those other voices, will that becomes something
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Speaker 1: of a medical concern at that point, So you rotate
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Speaker 1: it again like a bullpen, different tone, pacing. You have
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Speaker 1: to be very creative. You have to create the illusion
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Speaker 1: of dialogue without anyone else in the room. Why is
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Speaker 1: there no one else in the room? I don't know why,
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Speaker 1: which is either very impressive to some or concerning, depending
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Speaker 1: on your perspective. Now, think of it like playing tennis.
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Speaker 1: I guess it's called racketball, where you throw the you
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Speaker 1: hit the ball against the wall and hit it back
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Speaker 1: and all that. The wall always returns the ball, however,
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Speaker 1: you control the angle. The problem is sometimes the wall
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Speaker 1: starts winning and there's no one to sub it, no
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Speaker 1: commercial break. The gremlins attack, they win, There's no one
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Speaker 1: there where you turn and say, hey, you take this one.
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Speaker 1: I gotta go. I gotta go down to the toilet.
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Speaker 1: I gotta go to the powder room. It's just you,
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Speaker 1: your thoughts, and whatever questionable analogy you can stretch into
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Speaker 1: ten minutes of a radio show.
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Speaker 1: So it's the one man band, the one man man
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Speaker 1: of broadcasting. You become that, right, Not the charming kind
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Speaker 1: to see at the county fair, the slightly concerning kind
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Speaker 1: where the guy has the harmonica strapped to his neck,
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Speaker 1: there's a bass drum on his back, symbols between his knees,
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Speaker 1: the tambourines tied to his limbs, and for reasons no
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Speaker 1: one on God's Green Earth can explain, there's a banjo there.
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Speaker 1: Why would there be a banjo? Why not a mandolin?
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Speaker 1: Dick from Dayton loves the mandolin. He's part of several bands.
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Speaker 1: Why the banjo? Now? Meanwhile, Eddie's out there doing what
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Speaker 1: he always wanted. Right now. Eddie's podcasting, carving out his
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Speaker 1: own lane. Stay in your lane. He's talking hockey without
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Speaker 1: me interrupting him every eleven seconds. So good for him,
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Speaker 1: and genuine I mean that mostly. I mean that mostly.
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Speaker 1: And as far as Sirius Shawn is concerned, he's standing
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Speaker 1: there taking it all in, probably wondering how the sausage
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Speaker 1: it gets made and realizing it's less gourmet kitchen and
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Speaker 1: more guy microwaving. Leftover is made in a lab in
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Speaker 1: Belarus at three in the morning. Just a lab in
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Speaker 1: Belarus at three in the morning. And yet that's the
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Speaker 1: beauty of it all. That's the beauty of it all. Radio,
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Speaker 1: which I fell in love with as a kid. Why
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Speaker 1: didn't I fall in love with TV? I fell in
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Speaker 1: love with radio. I was a fat kid. Fat kids
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Speaker 1: don't go on television. I love radio. So radio, especially
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Speaker 1: the overnights, is not supposed to be perfect. We are
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Speaker 1: definitely not perfect. It's supposed to feel like a conversation
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Speaker 1: you kind of stumbled into and you ease drop into
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Speaker 1: it and that's it. You spy on it. It was
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Speaker 1: a little messy, a little weird, occasionally insightful, often ridiculous
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Speaker 1: with a capital are like life. However, we have many
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Speaker 1: more hot takes on the radio show, and as I
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Speaker 1: sat there catching up with my long lost friend Eddie Garcia,
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Speaker 1: talking shop, swapping stories about great moments, meet and greets
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Speaker 1: with listeners, all that stuff. It hit me the show
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Speaker 1: has again changed. Of course it has. Everything changes, nothing
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Speaker 1: stays the same. However, the core of it, to me
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Speaker 1: is still the same, and it's a combination of you
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Speaker 1: being part of it, feeding the content kitty, and then
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Speaker 1: me with my nonsense. So that's all still the same.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's still just a guy, or in this case,
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Speaker 1: a slightly sleep deprived gas bag, talking into a microphone,
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Speaker 1: trying to make sense of the sporting world and occasionally,
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Speaker 1: certainly more on this podcast. You're my own thoughts. That's it.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes there's a co host, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: you have a partner to set you up, and sometimes
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Speaker 1: you're just playing tennis against the wall again, hoping the
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Speaker 1: wall doesn't start talking back, although if it did at
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Speaker 1: this point I'd probably give it its own segment with
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Speaker 1: a creative name and sponsored by tire Rack or one
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Speaker 1: of our many other great sponsors like Wee Bowl. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: food he fun, We need some food, he fun. Oh
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Speaker 1: give me the rood? All right, good, I'm in the mood.
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Speaker 1: I'm in the mood, all right, footy fun. These are
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Speaker 1: food related stories, so this is exciting unless it's not.
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Speaker 1: The pickle flavored hydration very important, very important. And this
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Speaker 1: story on the food industry website says Grillo's Pickles, I'm
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Speaker 1: not a pickle guy. Grillo's Pickles and Liquid IV I
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Speaker 1: have used Liquid IV have formed a group. They're they're teasing.
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Speaker 1: They tease the idea online and now it's happening there.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna get I guess this is already available. The
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Speaker 1: Liquid IV plus Grillos Pickles drop Pickle Flavored Hydration is
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Speaker 1: the headline pickle flavored hydration mix available. I'll stick with
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Speaker 1: the strawberry. Thanks for asking. Now what else do we have?
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Speaker 1: Alf's gonna go buy seven cases at Costco and then
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Speaker 1: he's gonna go over to and say, well, I've had
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Speaker 1: enough at Costco. They've cut me off on that, so
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Speaker 1: I can't get any more of the pickle Liquid ivy,
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Speaker 1: So I'm going over Sam's Club and see what I get. Now,
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Speaker 1: moving on from that, Little Caesars has put four different
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Speaker 1: flavors in one pizza crust, so that seems like a
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Speaker 1: little much. I don't eat it Little Caesars, although there
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Speaker 1: is one near the market I go to to get
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Speaker 1: my tortillas and that place is always packed, always packed. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: The new pizza from Little Caesars takes a full pizza
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Speaker 1: crust and splits it into four sections. You've got cheese, pepperoni, jalapano,
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Speaker 1: and bacon before slicing everything into sixteen breadsticks. So that's
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Speaker 1: the way to go on that. Each order comes with
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Speaker 1: crazy sauce for dipping, turning it into a shareable situation.
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Speaker 1: So it sounds like it's perfect for parties, perfect for
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Speaker 1: parties and all that. And four and one stick at
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Speaker 1: eight dollars. They say prices may vary, which means in
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Speaker 1: California it's more expensive. What else do we have? KFC
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Speaker 1: in Spain has launched a fried chicken donor the kebab
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Speaker 1: with wild rotating sign stunt. Part of this well, I
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Speaker 1: love fried chicken. I've never seen fried chicken on a kebab.
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Speaker 1: I have to check that out now. We used to
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Speaker 1: have Danny g on this podcast. Danny loved Arby's. He
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Speaker 1: thought it was a Monday launtering operation. That was his take,
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Speaker 1: not mine. Arby's is offering a new dippable sandwich in
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Speaker 1: the in the Sandwich game in the it's the launch
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Speaker 1: of the French dip Royale at participating locations. This began
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Speaker 1: this week and another one of these stories are like, well,
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Speaker 1: that's that's not real. This must be April fools. But no,
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Speaker 1: it's it's supposedly legit. In French. Dip Royal features thinly
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Speaker 1: sliced roast beef topped with melted probolone, cheese, seasoned caramelized onions, garlic,
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Speaker 1: aolie and steak seasoning, all served on a toasted sub roll.
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Speaker 1: The new sub is available a la carte for a
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Speaker 1: suggested realtail price of about eight dollars. As part of
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Speaker 1: the combo meal, you get your choice of a medium
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Speaker 1: side and medium drink for twelve forty nine. This bad
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Speaker 1: boy has seven hundred and ten calories thirty one grams
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Speaker 1: of fat and give you the whole stat sheet. I
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Speaker 1: think we're good on that. Burger King has launched a
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Speaker 1: new peppercorn BLT Whopper, a new member to the Wopper family. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the launch of the again peppercorn BLT Whopper, which began
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Speaker 1: this week. Oh we had a hearty conversation, what's better?
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Speaker 1: Was it? Sene? No, no, no, it was not Shane.
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Speaker 1: It was our buddy Gunner from the Walmart, Minnesota, and
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Speaker 1: he died on the take that burger king better than McDonald's.
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Speaker 1: That was his original take, and he went with that
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Speaker 1: and a burger king in a long time in more
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Speaker 1: of a McDonald's guy. Not that I ate there either,
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Speaker 1: Not that I ate there either. All right, on that note,
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Speaker 1: we will get out of here. Have a wonderful, wonderful
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Speaker 1: rest of your Friday. Here. We'll have new podcasts on Saturday,
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