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The Fifth Hour: Benny Island Life Mailbag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kaboom!
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, 1,200 minutes a
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  Speaker 2: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
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  Speaker 2: the old republic. A sole bastion of fairness. He treats
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  Speaker 2: crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich
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  Speaker 2: pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The clearinghouse of hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 4: In the air everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maller, as we slide
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  Speaker 1: on into a Sunday, the 27th day of September. And
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  Speaker 1: as always with the mailbag. You never know who's going
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  Speaker 1: to pop up. Whoever answers their phone gets the crack
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  Speaker 1: at the mailbag. Several of you have reached out. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you have sent me very nasty emails complaining, saying,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you ever pick me? A couple of you,
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  Speaker 1: I tried calling. You didn't answer your phone. So now
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  Speaker 1: we spin the wheel of the Malheur Militia legends and
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  Speaker 1: big money, big money, big money, no whammy stuff. And wait,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio out. Get me in the mood here. Get me
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  Speaker 1: in the mood.
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  Speaker 4: Ohio out.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have a round Robin. Thank you, Al. A
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  Speaker 1: round Robin on the mailbag. We have returning for a record.
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  Speaker 1: 789th appearance on the mailbag, Robbie the Mariner fan!
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  Speaker 6: Hey, what's up everyone?
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  Speaker 7: Sorry to FergDog, I probably ruined his weekend, so, you know.
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  Speaker 1: He'll get over it. He doesn't leave his house. And
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  Speaker 1: we have right over there, all the way from Hollywood, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: hooray for Hollywood, Weed Man Hippie!
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  Speaker 3: All righty, let's do it!
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  Speaker 1: Now you guys answer your phone and i tried among
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  Speaker 1: others i know there's a nor'easter this weekend so some
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  Speaker 1: of my guys are in the northeast they didn't answer
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  Speaker 1: including mike the leprechaun big daddy i had him on
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  Speaker 1: my board big daddy i tried calling him five times
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  Speaker 1: didn't answer no voicemail the mailbox thing wasn't working so
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  Speaker 1: i couldn't get a daddy So we went down the
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  Speaker 1: big board, and I think this is a good mix.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have a good mix here. We've got Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: a heavyweight, and we've got Weed Man, a lightweight. And
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens here. So this is great.
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  Speaker 1: These are actual letters by actual listeners to the show.
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  Speaker 1: You can email in a future edition of the 5th
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  Speaker 1: Hour Mailbag, real5thhour at gmail.com. That's real5thhour. com. at gmail.com it
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  Speaker 1: is a round robin mailbag first up is our guy
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  Speaker 1: quang from ho chi minh city vietnam says guaranteed human
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  Speaker 1: he says big ben i saw an article about the
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  Speaker 1: return of toys r us and apparently jeffrey the draft
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  Speaker 1: is getting the band back together after nearly a decade
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  Speaker 1: Since the U.S. chain went bankrupt and closed more than
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  Speaker 1: 700 stores, Toys R Us is planning to open 120
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  Speaker 1: new standalone stores this holiday season. That means they'll be
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  Speaker 1: up to 160 stores. And he says, Big Ben, with
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  Speaker 1: Toys R Us making a comeback, could you please ask
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  Speaker 1: Weed Man Hippie, a.k.a. Billy Blanks, if he thinks about
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  Speaker 1: reopening his toy store in Manhattan? Well, that's a great
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  Speaker 1: way to start, Quang. You didn't know Weed Man was
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  Speaker 1: going to be on the mailbag. But Weed Man, any
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  Speaker 1: chance you'll move back to New York and open up
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  Speaker 1: a toy store in the Big Apple?
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  Speaker 8: No, but that would be great. I used to have
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  Speaker 8: the toy store. I was Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 5: Christmases were great.
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  Speaker 3: I loved it, but no more.
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  Speaker 1: No, so you're giving up. What if you could open
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  Speaker 1: a store in Miami? You could run a Toys R
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  Speaker 1: Us in Miami. How about that?
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  Speaker 5: That would be great.
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  Speaker 3: I would love that. I think there are no more
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  Speaker 3: toy stores.
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  Speaker 1: Well, most people buy their toys online, or they buy
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  Speaker 1: them at Walmart or Target. Where do you buy your toys, Robbie?
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  Speaker 1: Where do you get your toys at?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know about that, but I'm surprised no one's
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  Speaker 7: asked me to be Santa Claus before I'll say that.
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  Speaker 1: I know you should be Santa Claus. You'd be the
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  Speaker 1: perfect Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get you. You should do that as
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  Speaker 1: a mall, like a gig at the mall.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm getting to the point where I'm like, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Get a little side hustle. How many movies have they
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  Speaker 1: made about Santa, like mall Santas? Oh, man. Press Santa
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  Speaker 1: and all that.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like every.
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  Speaker 7: Other Christmas movie has at least one disgruntled Santa scene,
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  Speaker 7: you know?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. The email continues from Quang. He says, because
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  Speaker 1: if Jeffrey can make a comeback, maybe there's still hope
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  Speaker 1: for Weed Man Hippie's Toy Empire. And then he says,
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  Speaker 1: can we get Weed Man Hippie to sing the Toys
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  Speaker 1: R Us jingle? Would you like to sing the Toys
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  Speaker 1: R Us jingle, Weed Man?
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  Speaker 5: How does that go?
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  Speaker 1: You don't know the Toys R Us jingle? Oh, Weed Man.
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  Speaker 3: We were Toys R Us kids.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't know it. But there's still Toys R.
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  Speaker 6: Us, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there are some Toys. standalone toy stores. Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: you want to sing the jingle? Then Weed Man can...
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  Speaker 1: Do you know the jingle? You're younger.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: You know what? I.
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  Speaker 7: It was like the first generation that was in the
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  Speaker 7: video games so much they didn't go to Toys R
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  Speaker 7: Us that often. I'm probably part of the reason why
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  Speaker 7: Toys R Us closed for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Follow after me. I don't want to grow up. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a Toys R Us kid. They got a million toys
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  Speaker 1: at Toys R Us that I can play with.
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  Speaker 3: You got a million toys.
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  Speaker 8: The toys are off that I can play with.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to grow up. I'm a toys and
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  Speaker 1: games kid. All right, that's the only line that matters.
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  Speaker 1: That line right there is all that matters. Okay, what
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  Speaker 1: else do we have? Thank you, Quang. How appropriate. That
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  Speaker 1: was not planned. That was the first email that I
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  Speaker 1: opened here from Quang in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Next up.
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  Speaker 7: Are we sure he's human? That's like some telepathic stuff
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  Speaker 7: right there.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty good. What else do we have here? Let's
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  Speaker 1: see here. I'm going to click this.
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  Speaker 4: 160.
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  Speaker 1: This thing's not opening. It's frozen. And I got to
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  Speaker 1: click this open. Here we go. This is from John,
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  Speaker 1: Outback John and Joanna in the San Gabriel Valley of
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  Speaker 1: Southern California.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, it says, you mentioned in the past that when
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  Speaker 1: you say emanating live, you are paying homage to the late,
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  Speaker 1: great Lawrence Tanter. May he rest in peace. Our question
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  Speaker 1: this week is, is what is the origin of the quotes,
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  Speaker 1: in the air, everywhere, and good or bad job by you?
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  Speaker 1: I use those exact quotes, he says, and have my
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  Speaker 1: 77-year-old dad texting me, good job by you, kid, when
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  Speaker 1: I beat him at Wordle. There you go. So those
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  Speaker 1: are things I just picked up over the years. There's
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  Speaker 1: really nothing specific. The in the air everything or in
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  Speaker 1: the air everywhere, I guess there's a cartoon that was,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, used that line. I didn't watch the cartoon
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid. So I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: said it because it sounded good. And then I said
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  Speaker 1: it one time and people liked it. So when people
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  Speaker 1: like something, I just keep doing it. And it kind
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  Speaker 1: of became my thing. I didn't say it for the
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  Speaker 1: first 15 years of my career, but I've said it
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  Speaker 1: a lot since then. But it's just kind of become
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  Speaker 1: my thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember the name of it, but I've had
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  Speaker 1: a few people email me and say, hey, did you
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  Speaker 1: steal that from the cartoon? I'm like, no, I didn't watch. Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'd never heard of the cartoon. It wasn't like I
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  Speaker 1: was a Saturday morning cartoon guy. That was my generation.
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  Speaker 1: We watched cartoons on Saturday morning. So it wasn't from
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  Speaker 1: one of those. And those are the ones that I watched,
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  Speaker 1: other than like Tom and Jerry reruns and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: the Jetsons and the Flintstones, because those were also old
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  Speaker 1: cartoons that that I watched. Anyway, all right, let's see here.
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  Speaker 1: What do we got? Okay, so this is, he did
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  Speaker 1: a PS thing, but he said not for the mailbag,
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  Speaker 1: so I will not do that. Ferg Dog, uh-oh. Ferg
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  Speaker 1: Dog in Everton writes, and he says, hello, Ben and
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  Speaker 1: friend of the show. I loved hollering James last week.
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  Speaker 1: He was funny, engaging, and best of all, he's not Robbie.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: That's not right.
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  Speaker 1: Ben, I think I have finally figured out the formula
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  Speaker 1: to Anthony and Louisiana's calls. They may always seem the same,
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  Speaker 1: but I've noticed a few key differences. If he calls
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday or a Tuesday, he tends to open
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  Speaker 1: the call by asking, how was your weekend? Then proceeds
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  Speaker 1: to interrupt your answer with, hey, cuz. But if he
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  Speaker 1: calls on a Thursday or a Friday, he opens the
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  Speaker 1: call hoping you have a good weekend. Then while you're
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  Speaker 1: thanking him, he proceeds to interrupt you. with a hey
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  Speaker 1: cuz i'm still not completely sure what happens when he
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  Speaker 1: calls on a wednesday it's too far from either weekend
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  Speaker 1: to open with uh open the call with weekend talk
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  Speaker 1: he'll probably just go right into asking lorena where she
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  Speaker 1: got her good sense of humor from exactly the great
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  Speaker 1: thing is like if you're a halfway attractive woman you
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  Speaker 1: can literally say anything and a guy like a guy
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  Speaker 1: like anthony will be like oh where'd you get your
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  Speaker 1: sense of humor from it's hilarious right am i wrong weed.
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  Speaker 5: Man right come on Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. It reminds me, and I've talked about this, like
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  Speaker 1: these coaches, when I was out at games a lot,
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  Speaker 1: professional sporting events, and you interview the coaches and the
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  Speaker 1: players after the game, and most of them are not
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  Speaker 1: very funny at all. They're just whatever. And they'd say
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  Speaker 1: something mildly funny, and everyone would laugh like a hyena.
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  Speaker 1: They'd just go crazy. That was the funniest thing in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Anyway, Fergduck says, I hope my findings help
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  Speaker 1: you navigate Anthony's calls, Ben. I also hope his eventual
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  Speaker 1: surgery goes well, and it's not on a day of
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  Speaker 1: the full moon, because any quack will tell you.
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  Speaker 5: He'll bleed more during the full moon.
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  Speaker 1: He's having some dental work done. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about that. You have no teeth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I hope he's okay. I tried calling him, and
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  Speaker 1: I had the wrong number. He had given Coop the
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  Speaker 1: wrong number because he had said, I think he said, Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: five times already he's going to have this procedure, and
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't had it yet.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it is the most delayed surgery possible.
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  Speaker 6: I can remember.
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  Speaker 7: Hopefully I'm not wrong when I say it must not
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  Speaker 7: be too urgent, the amount of times it's been kicked back.
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  Speaker 6: But, yeah, I guess we'll find out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, who knows what kind of medical coverage he has
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  Speaker 1: or whatever.
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  Speaker 6: No, I know. That's why I said hope. I started
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  Speaker 6: thinking about it. I was like, never mind.
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  Speaker 7: I've had some things get pushed back out of my
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  Speaker 7: control before, too, that shouldn't have been pushed back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin in Kansas writes in. He's next on the mailbag.
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  Speaker 1: He says, Dear Ben and guest host or host. That
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  Speaker 1: would be two. The Great Weed Man Hippie and Robbie
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  Speaker 1: the Mariner fan. How about that? As we get closer
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  Speaker 1: to the fall here, because we're in the fall right now,
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  Speaker 1: the sun is setting earlier. Autumn winds are upon us.
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  Speaker 1: What are some life routines you adjust to this time
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  Speaker 1: of the year? I just changed my smoke detector batteries.
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  Speaker 1: I'm already anticipating taking... leaves and breaking out warmer clothes. Well, Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: you're in Kansas.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: It's like 95 degrees right now and humid. As I've said,
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  Speaker 1: we do not have the seasons. Our idea of fall
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  Speaker 1: is to go to Starbucks and get a pumpkin spice latte.
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  Speaker 1: That is the fall.
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  Speaker 4: Seriously.
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  Speaker 3: I love being in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why you're in Florida, right? You'll never leave
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  Speaker 1: because you don't have to... Yeah, I can't see you,
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  Speaker 1: Weed Man, shoveling snow. I can't... No, no.
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  Speaker 4: I remember that.
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  Speaker 3: It was terrible. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Robbie, you live in a place that does get
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  Speaker 1: the seasons and does occasionally get snow, right?
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  Speaker 5: You get some snow sometimes?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Without getting in the way, I'm in the part of
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  Speaker 7: Oregon that doesn't get snow but gets a crap ton
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  Speaker 7: of rain. So, yes, it's... just it's uh it's already
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  Speaker 7: cold it's like 60 degrees today but really windy and damp.
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  Speaker 1: So okay all right so you don't but you believe
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  Speaker 1: yeah do you get the the different color leaves there
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  Speaker 1: in the fall yeah yeah okay like i don't we
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  Speaker 1: really don't get that like i.
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  Speaker 7: But um as a big guy i welcome this weather
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  Speaker 7: in terms of sweater weather is not the worst thing
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  Speaker 7: in the world No.
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  Speaker 5: No, I like it, too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a fan of the— well, we don't get the sweater weather,
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  Speaker 1: but it does get a little cool. And nothing— like, the
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  Speaker 1: thing about fall is great because the leaves change colors,
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  Speaker 1: but then you have to wait for winter. Everything's dead. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I've been back to Connecticut for work, and you drive around,
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  Speaker 1: and all the trees are dead. It's depressing.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 5: Weed man went— It's terrible.
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  Speaker 3: I hate the cold weather. I hate the leaves. Just
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  Speaker 3: leave me and fuck.
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  Speaker 5: I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about after the leaves fall. Everybody's dead and depressing.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: Fall is great. Then it gets the next winter. Fall
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  Speaker 6: wasn't that great to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: All right, next up on the mailbag, JT the Wingman,
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  Speaker 1: who has been on the mailbag from the Smoky Mountains.
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  Speaker 1: He was with Weed Man last time Weed Man was
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  Speaker 1: on the mailbag. You know how much crap I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get Weed Man for having you on, by the way?
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  Speaker 1: He'd be like, why'd you put him on? Because he banged.
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  Speaker 1: You put him on because he banged. I love it.
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  Speaker 7: I know, but I'm going to get a lot of
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  Speaker 7: crap for this.
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  Speaker 1: Our next JT, as I said, JT, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: as a passenger on the way to, I guess he
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: sent this a little while ago from Bristol Motor Speedway.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't help but wonder what is the fastest you
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  Speaker 1: have ever driven in a vehicle in Or been a
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  Speaker 1: passenger in a speeding vehicle. I have personally driven a Corvette,
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  Speaker 1: and he said 173 miles an hour.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. I wish I had done that yet. And
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  Speaker 1: he says, on a motorcycle, 127 miles an hour, being
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  Speaker 1: very careful. Of course, high speed is definitely a thrill,
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  Speaker 1: but you have to pick your spots. Yeah, I've only
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  Speaker 1: been like... I think I've gotten up to like 115
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  Speaker 1: out and on my way to wherever in the desert.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't... I really try to keep it around
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  Speaker 1: 85 or so. You know, something along those lines. I generally...
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  Speaker 1: Once you get over a certain point, it's just like
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  Speaker 1: one thing goes wrong, you're cooked. And I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be in that situation. So, Weedman, you don't even drive,
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  Speaker 1: do you? I don't think either one of you guys drive.
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  Speaker 5: I have been in a vehicle from time 173.
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  Speaker 3: Miles an hour.
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  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I crashed a motorcycle. I was flying over the handlebars.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of a call.
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  Speaker 5: I was okay.
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  Speaker 3: But I crashed on a motorcycle. I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: ride motorcycles anymore. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: No, none of that? All right. Robbie, any experience in
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  Speaker 1: cars with fast....
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  Speaker 7: I can drive. I just don't have a car at
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  Speaker 7: the moment. But I've been in fast cars. When I
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  Speaker 7: was a kid, my friend had like.
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  Speaker 6: a Mustang.
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  Speaker 7: And so we got up to like 120 once, but
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  Speaker 7: it was on a back road in like rural Oregon.
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  Speaker 7: And I was like, the car, once the car started shaking,
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  Speaker 7: I was like, I'm good.
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  Speaker 6: I got over a hundred. I don't need to do
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  Speaker 6: that again.
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  Speaker 7: You know, life's short enough as it is without a
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  Speaker 7: car falling apart and having some, you know, some nightmare
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  Speaker 7: scenario happening.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. For sure. Next up, Alf from Benny's bunker East.
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  Speaker 1: At DEFCON Level 3, performing roundhouse drills, he says, he says, hi, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: and special guest, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Ben, did
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: your dad happen to show you a thing or two
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: about ham radio? He says, I'm preparing the bunker as
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: we speak and scrambling to acquire the necessary items to
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: keep up. Of course, the Nor'easter hitting this weekend. So
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: he says he's worried about, oh, he's also worried about A.I.,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Al Fred's story that AI is going to kill us all.
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: How is AI going to kill us all?
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: How is that going to happen?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's different theories on it. Who knows
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: what's true? Most of the time those things are wrong
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and you don't have to worry about it because if
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: it kills us all, we'll be dead. So who cares?
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: There's other things to worry about. My dad tried to
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: teach me ham radio. The problem, I couldn't get a
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: license because, I could not figure out Morse code, and
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: it actually got rid of that qualification, I believe, from
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: the license to get a ham radio thing, so.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's used in emergencies, and for some reason, you
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: needed to have a license, and you had to pass
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a test, and there were a bunch of questions and stuff, obviously,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: on a test, and I couldn't get past the The
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: part with the, like I said, the Morse code, that
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: screwed me up. That screwed me up. But yeah, good luck.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Ham Radio is awesome. My dad loved it. That was
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: one of his passions in life.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: But now we have cell phones.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: Well, that's true.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: We still have people collect typewriters. We still have typewriters.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: People collect typewriters, right?
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Are you sure?
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Are you sure?
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: No, I mean, there are people.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I really would not think so.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: No, there are people that are. Yeah, it's one-on-one communication,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: ham radio, is what it is. It's in emergencies. It'll
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: work where other stuff won't work. Next up is Mike.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: He says, speaking of that, here we go. He says,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: this is Mike in the mountains. I live legitimately two
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: miles high just outside of the real South Park, fair
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: play colorado moose walked by my kitchen window often and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: he was on he said golf we talked about golf
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: ai commentators on the pod he says my my woman's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: very small company the head of it has made his
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: own ai for their call center you would never guess
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: it's ai it is very personable it'll hesitate stutter uh
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, even chuckle a little bit. You
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: can talk to it off subject and it'll respond. The
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: capabilities of AI commentator have a personality or the capabilities
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of the AI commentator having a personality is already there.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It's crazy from Mike in the mountains. I don't know
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: all that. I haven't dug that deep into it, but
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: it becomes a question we all have to answer.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Do you have any experience with AI at all?
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: No.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I've futzed around with it. I've played around with it.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: But just the stuff that's free, I don't know. I'm
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: not going deep into it and all that stuff. But no,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: like the thing you have to decide is that human beings,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: like I'll give you an example, like the NFL. The
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: NFL could have zero injuries if they just put robots
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: out there. But the whole point of it is to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: test the human body, the boundaries of the human body.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: So do you really want to go that direction? Because, yeah,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you could have AI commenting. You could have AI pretty
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: much doing everything. But is that the world you want
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: to live in? That's not the world I want to
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: live in.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that. I didn't even know that was possible.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: What about you, Robbie? Where are you at on this, Robbie?
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: That was kind of depressing.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: I didn't know you could just go off topic with
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: an AI like that verbally and it would just keep
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: up with you.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: That's kind of scary to be honest. You know what?
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: If there was one league that would end up having
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: to go with robots, it would be the NFL. And
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: I don't think they would be ashamed to do it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: If they thought they could dodge those CTE lawsuits, because.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Man, every time there's a CTE study, it comes out.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: It's never a good one. You know what I mean?
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: It never makes the NFL look good.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: It's always like half of all players that were studied
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: had CTE. Now, granted, it's kind of a confirmation by
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: a situation, but yeah. I wouldn't watch it. You just
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: might as well play Madden instead at that point.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, and there have been
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: people that have pointed out that the studies done on
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the brain by four former NFL players. Who was it?
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Some guy from the Chicago Bears. He made a big
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: stink saying a lot of these guys are just trying
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to get money, and they know that if they say, hey,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I've got CTE, I can join this lawsuit, and they'll
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: get money.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, probably.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: So there's part of that, too, which is a shady
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: part of it. You would never do that, Weed Man.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: You'd never sign up for something to get money like that,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: would you?
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: No, but I hear a lot.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Of people say, do we really do it that shady
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: just from being tackled?
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: That happens.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Well, there's really no way to prove it until you're dead, though,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the thing.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: I mean, you can say you have anything you want.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: But, you know. Nathaniel from the Bay writes, and he says, hey, Ben...
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I know you don't eat as much as you used to.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Would you try this? And then he says there's a
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: thing at McDonald's, I guess people online, it's a cookie McDouble.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: There's a trend online where you put a chocolate chip
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: cookie inside a double cheeseburger. And it goes viral. And McDonald's,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I guess, has commented on this. I mean, I don't
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: really eat much McDonald's, but I would– I would give
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: it a shot. It's just sugar, fat. I've often talked
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: about this. The people that make food, they combine the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: proper amounts of salt, sugar, and fat, and then that's it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: You're good to go in that. The big three food
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: groups are fat, sugar, and salt. They call it the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: bliss point. If you have the proper amount of those ingredients... Salt, sugar,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and fat. It'll optimize your taste buds, and they spend
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: millions of dollars to try to get food addictive so
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you'll keep coming back. The people that manufacture food, they
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: try to get you in that bliss point, and it's irresistible.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: It's like potato.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: What are you saying? They're putting what? Anything chocolate chip cookies?
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: What are they putting in?
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: Well, no, no.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: They're taking a McDonald's double cheeseburger, and they're putting a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookie in it. Wow. Yeah, that's the move.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Robbie, would you go for a double cheeseburger with a
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: big chocolate chip cookie in it?
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: I don't know. In a past life, probably.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: The things that are super high in sugar now, the
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: stuff I'm, the medication I'm on, it actually tastes really bad.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: Like it has that expired chips kind of food taste,
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: which is probably for the best.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: I would try it. So, yeah.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I got you. All right. What else do we have?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Tony from the Philadelphia area writes in. He says, Ben,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I saw what they added on Instagram. Is this necessary?
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Please explain. And he said that, I guess, Instagram has
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: a new feature that will allow you to blur other
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: people in your photos. They say that it's specifically so
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you can make dating soft launches. This is.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Well, you're not on Instagram, Weed Man, but so people will,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I guess it's a thing like you have to announce,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: you go public with your, if you're like a dude
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: dating a chick, you go public with her. You have
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to post a photo of her with you online. And
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: so now you can still post. This is so stupid. Tony,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: who sent this in because I know a way you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: can blur the photo. Don't post the photo. You don't
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: have to post every freaking photo. There's no need to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: post every photo. Do not have to do it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: We, man, back when you and Lisa started dating, you
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: didn't have to post a bunch of photos.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: Even on Facebook, when people post photos, I wouldn't post photos.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: You want to keep something private, keep it private. I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: don't get this. I don't understand. Stan from Maine writes in.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: He didn't say what part of Maine. I am told,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I've been to Maine a few times, but I've been
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: told I've never been to actual Maine. Because I've only
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: been to Portland, Maine, and the people who live in
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Maine tell me, not Maine, that the real Maine is
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: up north where the real people live and all that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: So I guess I was in fake Maine. It's a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: tourist town, Portland, Maine. Anyway, Stan says, did you hear
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: about our famous red wieners are going to be dyed
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: with insects, he says.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: No problem.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: All right, so here's the story Stan sent. There's apparently,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and I've never even heard of these, so I'm not familiar.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: There's a Maine hot dog maker, W.A.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Bean.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: They're changing the coloring used in their famous Red Snapper
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: hot dogs. The company has historically used red dye number
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: three to create the hot dogs, red fire engine appearance
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. However, they're banning it. The Food
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and Drug Administration is banning that. It cannot be used
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: after January 15th of 2027. No red dye number three
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: will be allowed. So as a replacement, they're using an insect... Extract.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: It's a natural red coloring made from dried and pulverized
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: cockaniel insects. I don't know what that is.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: It should have to be red.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: They're the red snapper hot dogs we've made. The bugs
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: are now helping paint the hot dogs. They say that
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: this is actually.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: They say this has actually been used in yogurt, candy,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and jams. So it's not new.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: How many bugs do you think we've eaten, Robbie, the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Mariner fan?
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, my God. I don't know.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: I don't think, I mean, in parts of the Pacific Northwest,
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: that's like a delicacy at this point. I remember the
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: Mariners were selling those spicy, was it like ants or cockroaches.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Or something for a couple years?
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Grasshoppers.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Grasshoppers.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: There we go.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: It's a really hard sell, the cockroach. It's a hard sell,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the cockroach.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: I don't know why.
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: I guess it's because Lorena complains about him like every
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: other show now.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. All right. Any free food this week from Pareto,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Weed Man? No, not at all.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Not for a while.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: He listens to the podcast. You want to say hello
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to him? You want to say.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Hi?
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Please. I love everything you send me.
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: Please send me something.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: You rock.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Check that box, Robbie. He's now begged for food, so
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: we've checked the box. DJ Spin Patrick from San Diego
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: writes in and says, Benjamin, now I don't want to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: be a blah, blah, blah jackass complaining that you didn't
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: say any of my tweets on the air the other night,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: but I thought my participation was going to be awesome
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: because you only know me as the last Padre fan left.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: You don't know that my family has been New York
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Giant fans for 100 years. It started with my grandfather
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: in 1926. I constructed... A really cool tweet. I actually
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: went over the amount I'm supposed to do, so I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: had to edit it down. I thought it was really cool,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and I popped in a picture of my pop being
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: annoyed by the Giants' performance. I thought you might have
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: thought it was cool. It's fine that you didn't say anything.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: but you could have hit the like button. So there's
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: a picture.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: He sent me the picture of his dad. It's nice
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to see a photo of your dad. You got to understand, Patrick,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I've tried to explain this. Believe it or not, there's
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: more than five people that like the show, and there's
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of.
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: I'm getting a lot of... I'm getting a lot of
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: messages during the show, and I'm not completely locked in
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: on the X machine thing, so.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I look at it, I do the show, I'll go
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: back and I'll say, usually at the beginning of every
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: segment when I come back from a timeout, I'll be like, alright,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: let me read some comments. So I'll go through the comments.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I didn't happen to see what you posted. And if
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I had seen it, I would have at least clicked
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the like button on it. I still haven't seen it.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I saw the photo that you sent, Patrick, and So, yeah,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I understand. Like, you might have to send it more
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: than once. It's just the way it is. I'm sure, Robbie,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you've sent stuff I haven't used. And, Weed Man, you
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: don't send anything because you're not on there, Weed Man,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: because you can't.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: No, he's a Giants fan, and he's in San Diego?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, his family's Giants fans, yeah.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I've seen I've known people that have reached out
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: to me in the past and been like, I think
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: Ben's got blacklisted me. He hasn't read my tweets. And
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: I was like, you don't understand. He's doing a monologue
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: while he's getting these tweets. And it's it's not an
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: easy thing to do. Well, you probably get like, what,
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: 30 per monologue or something?
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: I don't even know.
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: But when I do a stream on YouTube and we're
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: getting messages, Ozzy and I, if I'm the one talking,
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: I have no ability to also check the messages we're
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: getting on the little YouTube comments.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: So I don't know.
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: It's not as easy as people think it is to
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: manage to talk and look at and read at the
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: same time.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Exactly. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. And
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I do try to read and scroll through them as
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: many as I can. So, and then sometimes I get
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: these guys like Hoosier Bill that'll carpet bomb my timeline.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: Remember when Ed and Spokane, the Who am I getting?
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: He used to just send in like 30 guesses at once.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Oh God.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Ed and Christina.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: They'll do every once in a while.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: They're characters, but if everyone did that, you'd have to
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: end the bit.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: You ever been out to Washington, Weed Man?
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: Do I remember any Christine Spokane?
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they visited Weed Man, I'm pretty sure, one time
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: they drove cross-country.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't see him, though.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Remember they drove, they rented a car in Maine? I
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: think it was in Maine, and they drove down to
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: see Weed Man. Weed Man ghosted him.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: Oh, no.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: But then they tried to return the rental car in Florida,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and they were going to charge him like $ 3, 000 or
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: $ 4, 000 or something like that.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Yikes.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: So they drove back to Maine.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: You can buy a used car for that kind of money.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Why would you do that?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Mike in Texas writes in and says, Benny, I am
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: a longtime listener since going back to the KK days.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I was impressed recently that the quality of the show
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: did not go down when Coop and Lorena both missed
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: some time. What is your secret to keeping the high
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: standards up? Thanks, Mike. Formerly in California, now in Texas.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: There's really no secret. I just pretty much do everything.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I don't depend on anyone. That's pretty much it. I
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: do all the prep for the monologues. I do all
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the prep for the teases, all that stuff. I mean,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I love Coop and Lorraine. They pretty much just show
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: up and that's it. If you have that set up, Mike,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter whether they're there. I like that they're there,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: but I don't ask them to do anything. It's just
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the way it works. I've had people in the past
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: that were very helpful, which is great, but I don't
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: You know, I can't depend on people, so I do
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: my own thing and put the show together. And it's
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: worked out well for me. And as you clearly noted, Mike,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: when somebody's away, like when they're away, it doesn't really
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: affect the quality of the show because I do everything.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Neil from Fall River writes, and he says, Mr. Ben, winner, winner,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: chicken dinner, he says. Have you ever tried a local
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: favorite in Fall River, Mass, chicken chow mein or another
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: local dish?
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: No, chicken chow mein.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Chorizo chow mein. I don't think Chicken Chow Mein is
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: actually just in Fall River.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: I think I've had Chicken Chow Mein and I've never
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: been to Massachusetts.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: What happened to Tom Looney?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Tom Looney was laid off from Fox Sports Radio. He's
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: worked random jobs. He's kind of out of the business.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I guess he does something with JT the Brick, but yeah,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: he's out of broadcasting, but Looney was great. We had
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: a great time with him back in the day for sure.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: I did the TV show.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And I would have done Benny versus the Penny, but
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: he did not want to do it this year because
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: he's kind of getting out of broadcasting, so I think
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. Brad from Florida writes in. He says, Ben,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you see that they're raising the price of chips that Pepsi,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: after they made a big deal about lowering the price
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: of Lay's and Doritos, they're going to raise the price
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of chips just months after they cut the price. Brad,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I did not see that. I'm not surprised. Weed Man,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: that's going to affect you. You don't eat chips, though,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: do you? I don't think you're a chip man.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: No, not really.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: But, you know, the gas prices, gas is like $ 4. 50
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: a gallon I see right here.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: It's over $ 6 in California.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was going to say $ 4.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: 50.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: That's it. Oregon's not as bad as California, but it's close.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just got gas the other day. It's over
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: $ 6. 30 or something like that.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: That's for regular.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Diesel is like.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Diesel's over $ 8.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: It's so crazy.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: They're raising the price of everything we ever buy.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not wrong. It's terrible. I don't know when
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: it's going to go down. I don't know. It is now.
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: I wonder if, not to get through it real, but
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: all the people criticizing Elon and saying, you know, like,
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: I won't buy his cars. I wonder how many of
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: them are now putting their pride away and going to
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: get a Tesla after all.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Well, I know where I live, Tesla's very popular, right?
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Probably.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Once the Elon stuff started with Trump, people started buying
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: these Rivians, I guess they're called.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: They look weird.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: I have a weird.
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: There's Rivians in my neighborhood and the front of those
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: cars looks it looks like something from a Pixar movie,
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: but they don't look.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Happy. I don't know.
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: It's hard to explain.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Alex from Columbus, Ohio writes in the capital of the
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Buckeye State. He says, Benny the Buckeye. He calls me
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Benny the Buckeye. He said, that could be your nickname
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: if you move here. You can live on an island,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: he says, and they're selling a private island. According to Alex.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Here you go, you guys. This is in Ohio. Two-acre
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: private island in Ohio. 1.1 million. I found me out there.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: The price includes a mainland lot. The buyer has a
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: place to launch a boat and reach the island. Red
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Oak Island sits on the Indian Lake near Lakeview, Ohio.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: Are there any shores there?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, you live on an island.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: You have to take.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's not.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: there's no.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I guess if you built a big enough house there'd
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: be kind of cool no one i don't know the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: island life if the water rises you're cooked you know that.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: Kind of yeah would be.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: I guess i could pull all the money i have
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: and all the money justin cincinnati has and i'm just joking.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Well we could go rob some banks and you'd be
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: in exactly I haven't heard from Justin. What's Justin up to?
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: He hasn't been very active here recently.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: He's got a lot of health issues. He's taking it
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: day by day. But he does listen.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: We love you.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Feel better.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Feel better. We've got to get you back on the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: pod at some point. We'll get you on here. What else? Leo.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: We'll do one more. Leo from Chicago writes in. He says, Ben,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: do you agree with the politicians in Sweden, of all things,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: even though Leo's in Chicago for some reason? He sent
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: me a story. The Swedish police are urging people to
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: hang up on suspicious callers and shut the door on
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: strangers trying to fight back against scammers, which apparently have become.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: So I guess the thing is these people in Sweden
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: are too nice and that money, people want to steal
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: their money and other things. So yeah, people go door
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to door. They prey on old people.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: It sucks.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Cool, man.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: But anyway.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: On that note, would you, any, anything to promote Robbie,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: any podcast, any appearances you would like to promote anything?
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: If I could, Mallertown's making a comeback. It was on
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: last week. It was kind of somewhat of a mini disaster.
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: I ran out of content faster.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: I thought it was.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, don't say that, Robbie.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: It was a soft launch.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Amazing.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: It's going to be the greatest Mallertown podcast ever.
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: But I did get to tell your story of like, well,
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: now I can always be like Ben, where you told
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: that story of your first monologue you ever did on
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: a solo show, and you were like, it was the
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: best monologue I ever did, but then I realized I
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: used all my magic.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, that was the worst. Oh, my God. I had
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: nothing left.
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: And I was like, I used to always laugh when
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: Ben told that story. And I'll never laugh again. That
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: was the worst.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. How can people find the Mallard Town podcast?
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: So it's linked through the show I have with the
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: Aussie guy in the United States of Australia. We're just
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: sharing the channel because it's all built to an audience.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: But it's United States of Australia channel.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: It's not wait 11 1 a.m. Eastern 10 p.m.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: Pacific Time after Sunday Night Football. And then United States
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: of Australia is another show I do with him, and
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: that's really early in the morning on Sundays at 9.30 a.m.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Eastern.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Anything you want to promote? Weed Man Hippie.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Anything at all? No, but thank you for calling.
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: And Purito, please send me some Outback potato.
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: I was wondering.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: That was great.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I love how Robbie promotes the podcast. Weed Man begs
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: for a baked potato.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, it's all kind of the same at
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: the end of.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: The day, you know?
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all the same. It's all the same. Anyway,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: have a great day. I'll be back normal week. No
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: scheduled days off. So if I'm not there, something went wrong.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: No scheduled days off. I will have five nights, fresh
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: audio content, including two appearances by Weed Man Hippie. Right,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Weed Man? Yes, absolutely.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Dave.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: All right, there you go.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: We'll catch you tonight. As Dick and Dayton would say, bye-bye. Bye-bye.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.