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The Fifth Hour: People Are Strange · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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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.
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Speaker 1: 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 Mahler starts right now in.
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Speaker 1: The air everywhere.
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Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g
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Speaker 3: Radio celebrating World Pasta Day as we broadcast from the
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Speaker 3: remote studio somewhere in the bowels of the iHeartMedia Building,
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Speaker 3: unless it's not. As we're yapping away here celebrating pasta,
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Speaker 3: which has been around for five since five thousand BC
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Speaker 3: and came to America. We've talked about this before in
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Speaker 3: the podcast because I think we've been on during World
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Speaker 3: Pasta Day in the past. But President Jefferson was in
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Speaker 3: Perie back in the day and somebody served him some pasta.
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Speaker 3: He called it macaroni. He loved it so much. How
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Speaker 3: much did he love it? He brought back a ton
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Speaker 3: of it and He's like, I got to bring that
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Speaker 3: to America.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I love this macarona.
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Speaker 3: Of course it might not have actually been what we
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Speaker 3: call macaroni today, but he returned with a couple of
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Speaker 3: cases of this stuff, and then that helped spread the
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Speaker 3: joy of pasta. The big bumpety bump in mass production
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Speaker 3: of pasta was oh, you know the rest. Campbell's Soup
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Speaker 3: Company invented the canned pasta known as Spaghettio's, Oh Spaghettio,
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Speaker 3: and that became a big deal. Now as a kid,
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Speaker 3: it was in my rotation, and they determined the people
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Speaker 3: that may the pasta determined that kids could eat the
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Speaker 3: O shape rings without making a mess, and that was
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Speaker 3: bull crap. I was able to make a mess. My
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Speaker 3: mom's not here, but she would tell you she was
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Speaker 3: still around that I did make make a mess. Some
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Speaker 3: of the other ideas when they were making Spaghettio's, they
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Speaker 3: were like, well, let's make a little cowboys or you know,
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Speaker 3: coo cowboys.
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Speaker 1: And Indians racist. Well, they would have had to cancel
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Speaker 1: Campbells if they had done that.
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Speaker 3: They thought about maybe spacemen or stars, or shapes of
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Speaker 3: footballs and baseballs, but they determined that the oh was
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Speaker 3: good and it rhymes spaghetti Oh kind of flows and
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Speaker 3: the whole thing. And then a few years after Campbells
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Speaker 3: came around the chain restaurant, the Old Spaghetti Factory opened
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Speaker 3: its first location in Portland and they're still around.
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Speaker 1: There's still a few in my area.
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Speaker 3: So it is World pasta day celebrate appropriately on this podcast,
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Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me and Danny g on this Saturday,
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Speaker 3: we've got in honor of National Past today we have
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Speaker 3: the Spaghetti Western, a story that has never before been told.
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Speaker 3: What you're about to hear the first time ever. This
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Speaker 3: story will be told on any microphone anywhere. And also
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Speaker 3: the odd ball Corner, which is our corner. It's our corner,
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Speaker 3: is what it is? Yes, all right, so listen. There
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Speaker 3: is a moment somewhere between the second Margarita and the
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Speaker 3: fourth rendition in your head of friends in low places,
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Speaker 3: when life stops pretending to be complicated, right, and you
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Speaker 3: just kind of tip your hat and you say, how
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Speaker 3: do partner and let the absurdity trot on through. So
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Speaker 3: that moment happened again recently in my life this past weekend,
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Speaker 3: a story that I've saved for this podcast. On the
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Speaker 3: far edges of Los Angeles County, a little place called Norco, California,
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Speaker 3: a town that has more saddles than Starbucks.
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Speaker 1: It does have a Starbucks, but it has more saddles.
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Speaker 3: They have wide things near the road, a little like
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Speaker 3: dirt things to walk your horse. There's more livestock than Tesla's,
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Speaker 3: which is odd in California. And the concept of an
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Speaker 3: HOA a homeowner's association likely involves actual horses, a stampede
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Speaker 3: of horses.
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Speaker 1: Now, I was not there as a gas bag. I
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Speaker 1: was visiting.
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Speaker 3: I was there by marriage, as we have pointed out.
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Speaker 3: And you know this if you're also married. That is
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Speaker 3: how these things work. When you say I do and
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Speaker 3: you sign the contract. At some point in the journey
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Speaker 3: of life, you find yourself in a newly purchased cowboy hat,
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Speaker 3: standing next to three goats, a fluffy cow named Jet
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Speaker 3: and timing a mechanical bull that people are riding on
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Speaker 3: like a man auditioning for some kind of endorsement deal
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Speaker 3: with a stopwatch company. We were there for my my
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Speaker 3: wife's longtime co workers fiftieth birthday bash. Nice Woman, Good House.
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Speaker 3: It was her home Western theme. It was a fandego,
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Speaker 3: as they said in the Old West. A shindig, a
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Speaker 3: real gudea up and go kind of party, and so
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Speaker 3: it's kind of walking through this. So I don't own
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Speaker 3: cowboy boots. I have very big feet. I don't own
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Speaker 3: cowboy boots. I don't own spurs. I have watched the
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Speaker 3: San Antonio Spurs play, but I don't own spurs. However,
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Speaker 3: I do own what can only be described as a
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Speaker 3: Canadian tuxedo. We've talked about this in the past, a
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Speaker 3: full denim ensemble acquired on my somewhat recent trip to Vancouver.
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Speaker 3: We talked about yesterday I did this love note to Toronto,
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Speaker 3: but I talked about Canada because the Dodgers and Blue
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Speaker 3: Jays playing, and I mentioned Nico and here we are again.
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Speaker 3: I got that when we went to Vancouver, the Canadian tuxedo,
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Speaker 3: when Nico rolled out the red carpet, and you know,
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Speaker 3: the red carpet in Canada is covered in maple syrup
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Speaker 3: and hospitality. But that outfit, I didn't think I'd ever
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Speaker 3: wear it again. I thought, well, this is the only
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Speaker 3: time I'm in Canada, I'm gonna wear the Canadian tuxedo.
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Speaker 1: And I had the bolo tie, the whole thing, and
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Speaker 1: I said, oh no, I want to do it.
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Speaker 3: And it's the kind of an outfit that makes you
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Speaker 3: feel like an extra and a B list spaghetti western, right,
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Speaker 3: the kind that ends up face down in a saloon
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Speaker 3: after the first scene that was me okay in the
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Speaker 3: spaghetti western on World pasta Day.
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Speaker 1: So I put on the tuxedo.
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Speaker 3: I topped it with the authentic cowboy hat which still
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Speaker 3: had the label on it, and just like that, poof,
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Speaker 3: I was no longer Benny from Benny versus the Penny
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Speaker 3: and the radio. No no no, I had a nickname change.
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Speaker 3: I was Benny Buckeroo Bennie Buckero, a man who, in
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Speaker 3: theory could lasso a calf, in reality could barely lasso
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Speaker 3: the TV remote control. That's just the reality. So Benny
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Speaker 3: Bucco Buckaroo or Buckeroo, Benny, whatever you want to call me.
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Speaker 3: So every true great party eventually involves a bad idea.
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Speaker 3: I'm not a big party guys, you know, I'm an introvert.
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Speaker 3: I try to limit it to mallard meet and greets,
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Speaker 3: and that's for bonding.
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Speaker 1: With you, the listener.
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Speaker 3: So I just don't go to too many parties. But
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Speaker 3: I do know from the times I've been to parties
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Speaker 3: that normally there's a bad idea that becomes a good thing.
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Speaker 3: So some involve trampolines, some involve karaoke. This one involved
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Speaker 3: a mechanical bull, the great equalizer of bravado and machismo
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Speaker 3: and balance.
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Speaker 1: Now, I last was at a bar.
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Speaker 3: There's a place and I don't even know it's still
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Speaker 3: there on Sunset in Hollywood. I used to go to
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Speaker 3: when I was younger, and they had a mechanical bull
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Speaker 3: and it was it was fun. I mean, most of
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Speaker 3: the people were there just to look at the hot
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Speaker 3: girls that would go on the mechanical bull and go
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Speaker 3: flying off the mechanical bull. But the mechanical bulls are
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Speaker 3: a fascinating invention. They were first introduced in the nineteen thirties.
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Speaker 3: Right the nineteen thirties. I thought, that's almost one hundred
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Speaker 3: years at an amusement park in New Jersey. And how
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Speaker 3: do I know that? Because I was like, I was
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Speaker 3: sitting there at this thing, and I was like, I
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Speaker 3: have mechanical bulls. I wonder how long they've been around.
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Speaker 3: So I guess since I started a Jersey, which I
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Speaker 3: guess means the original version likely tossed men in three
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Speaker 3: piece suits and women in floral dresses into the dirt
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Speaker 3: around Atlantic City. But the true pop culture coronation, as
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Speaker 3: I understand it, came in nineteen eighty when Urban Cowboy
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Speaker 3: turned this contraption at Gilly's Bar into a cinematic icon,
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Speaker 3: and that was John Travolta. Sissy Spacek was in that
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Speaker 3: movie Legends of that Era. However, the real star was
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Speaker 3: this rotating, bucking, ridiculous piece of machinery that has spent
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Speaker 3: the last four decades separating cowboys or fake cowboys from
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Speaker 3: their dignity.
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Speaker 1: Now, yours truly did not ride the ball.
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Speaker 3: I'd like to alert all the podcast affiliates there are
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Speaker 3: none that I did not ride the bull. So this
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Speaker 3: was not out of fear, well, not only out of fear.
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Speaker 3: My lovely wife, knowing full well that I could trip
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Speaker 3: over a cordless phone, benched me pre eminently, your klutz,
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Speaker 3: You're gonna hurt yourself. I'm not spending the night in
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Speaker 3: the er that kind of stuff. You know, need your
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Speaker 3: healthy now. She also announced that she wasn't going to
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Speaker 3: ride the bull either. She let me know right away,
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Speaker 3: I am not planning on riding the bull. But here's
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Speaker 3: the funny thing about declarations made before a few margaritas
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Speaker 3: at a party filled with friends. There's this thing called
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Speaker 3: peer pressure. You mix that with alcohol, and by the
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Speaker 3: end of the night, my wife had gone on the
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Speaker 3: mechanical bul not one, not two, not three, not four,
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Speaker 3: not five, how about six rides later, and you could
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Speaker 3: nickname her Calamity Jane reincarnated, clinging to the bull like
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Speaker 3: a rodeo legend. If mechanical bull riding ever made the Olympics,
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Speaker 3: and why not? They have all these other food, gazy
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Speaker 3: things in the My wife is bringing home the gold
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Speaker 3: and she'll wrap herself in the flag. It's gonna be great.
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Speaker 3: It canna win a gold medal. So there, I was
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Speaker 3: not riding the bull, but I was at the party
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Speaker 3: and I was socializing.
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Speaker 1: And I had my.
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Speaker 3: Apple watch trapped on like some futuristic sheriff badge in
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Speaker 3: the Old West, Like what is that thing? And my
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Speaker 3: job I didn't know this when I showed up to
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Speaker 3: the party. My job was the timer. I was timing
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Speaker 3: each bull ride fifteen seconds here, thirty seconds here, one
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Speaker 3: minute there.
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Speaker 1: The crowd would go wild.
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Speaker 3: Is if someone was storming Normandy with a pair of
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Speaker 3: boots and a stubborn spring. So the mechanical bull riding
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Speaker 3: is an underrated metaphor for adulthood, like nobody actually looks
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Speaker 3: very good doing it.
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Speaker 1: You can't look graceful on a bull.
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Speaker 3: You're flailing away, you're trying to grip, you're making weird faces,
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Speaker 3: you know, and people are recording it with their phones
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Speaker 3: to use against you at future points in time. And
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Speaker 3: everyone's getting thrown off. No one survives the bull. Everyone
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Speaker 3: gets thrown off, and in many ways that's life. You
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Speaker 3: hold on you get tossed around in life, and if
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Speaker 3: you're lucky, someone's laughing with you and not at you
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Speaker 3: by the time it's all over. And there was something
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Speaker 3: almost cinematic about Norco. I haven't spent much time there.
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Speaker 3: It's just want to be clear, it's not la as
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Speaker 3: I said. There's no skyline, there's no bums over there,
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Speaker 3: there's no trash. It's just different. It's a California where
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Speaker 3: people have space. There's goats, there's pigs, there's turkeys, there's chickens.
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Speaker 3: The whole thing a fluffy cow named Jet that was
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Speaker 3: the birthday gift to my wife's friend. Beautiful black, fluffy
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Speaker 3: cow that seemed to be a little scared of all
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Speaker 3: the attention the cow was getting. Jet was running around
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Speaker 3: its little cage there, and he was the star though.
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Speaker 3: Jet was the star of the livestock show. And it
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Speaker 3: reminded me that some people's daily existence is so different
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Speaker 3: than mine. It's like a petting zo These people live
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Speaker 3: in like a petting zoo. Mine involves a microphone and
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Speaker 3: my bulldog named Moxie, who, by the way, I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: post some photos at some point today, so check out
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Speaker 3: the social media pages for the show, the Facebook page
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Speaker 3: and the Instagram page. I'm gonna post some photos. And
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Speaker 3: you gotta see this photo of Moxie, ourf who let's
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Speaker 3: just say she put it on thick when I put
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Speaker 3: on my cowboy costume to go to this event, and
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Speaker 3: she really really nailed it. Listen that these people that
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Speaker 3: live at this place, their morning involves like chicken feeds sunrises.
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Speaker 1: That's not my life. I go to bed when the
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Speaker 1: sun comes up.
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Speaker 3: And there's a particular sound of mechanical bull makes when
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Speaker 3: someone hits the ground around the bull, that thud, and
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Speaker 3: then there's little laughter and the clapter, and then there's
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Speaker 3: there's a groan and there's more laughter, and for this night,
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Speaker 3: that was the soundtrack.
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Speaker 1: Like, that's what we got, right, We got these people say,
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Speaker 1: I know there's people casually. These are my wife's friends.
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Speaker 1: I know them casually. They're nice people. They're good, they're
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Speaker 1: nice seeing.
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Speaker 3: Them, they always smile. They're nice to me. Even if
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Speaker 3: they don't like me, they pretend to like me. And
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Speaker 3: I imagine the next the next morning for these people
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Speaker 3: was less laughter and more pharmacy grade ibuprofen. Like alcohol
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Speaker 3: has a marvelous way of delaying pain, it does not
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Speaker 3: have a marvelous way of canceling it.
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Speaker 1: But in that moment under.
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Speaker 3: The string lights, you know, the old Western themed the
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Speaker 3: set up there, the cowboy hats, as the bull bucked,
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Speaker 3: the turkeys gobbled off to the side, the chickens were
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Speaker 3: doing their thing, and it just it was like the simplest,
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Speaker 3: dumbest night.
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Speaker 1: It was fun, you know, the moment just kind of
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Speaker 1: stuck there.
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Speaker 3: There people drinking margaritas, there was plenty of food. They
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Speaker 3: had a taco guy there because you think Old West,
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Speaker 3: you think tacos.
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Speaker 1: It was just good and anyway, maybe this was what
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Speaker 1: we're we're all doing. Think about it.
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Speaker 3: As I was leaving and I was kind of like
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Speaker 3: processing everything that happened, and I wrote a few.
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Speaker 1: Notes down as I was leaving this.
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Speaker 3: This party, and in some way writing a mechanical bull.
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Speaker 3: We obviously didn't build it, it just showed up.
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Speaker 1: You rent it.
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Speaker 3: It's like a couple grand to rent. They didn't even
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Speaker 3: can rent these things. Imagine the liability on that. And
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Speaker 3: so I think, wow, we you know, we got this
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Speaker 3: under control. And you know, trying to last just a
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Speaker 3: few more seconds before gravity wins, and you want to
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Speaker 3: impress everyone, and you cling to it and you wobble
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Speaker 3: and wobble, wobble, wobble, and you laugh and people clap
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Speaker 3: and cheer, and then people dust you off and somebody
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Speaker 3: hand you a drink, and you.
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Speaker 1: Know that's it. Here you go.
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Speaker 3: You almost made it. You almost survive right right there. Congratulations,
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Speaker 3: And if you're lucky, someone's there like me with an
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Speaker 3: apple watch keeping time, not to measure how long you
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Speaker 3: stayed on, but to remember, for a brief, ridiculous moment
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Speaker 3: in time, we were both in the arena, and I
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Speaker 3: was the man in the arena. I was the timekeeper
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Speaker 3: in the arena, but I was in the arena. So
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Speaker 3: if you need a timekeeper. If you're planning on having
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Speaker 3: a Western party, I will travel, I do weddings, I
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Speaker 3: do bar mitzvah's, I do birthday parties obviously, and I
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Speaker 3: do Western theme events. So saddle up, my friend. Life
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Speaker 3: does not stop. It does not stop. It does not stop.
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Speaker 3: Bucking the whole thing. I am Buckeroo, Benny or Benny
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Speaker 3: the Buckeroo.
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Speaker 1: Now turning the.
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Speaker 3: Page on that, we had a great mitzvah that took
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Speaker 3: place on the radio show this weekend.
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Speaker 1: I want to I want to share it with you.
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Speaker 1: It happened the other day and I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you were listening.
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Speaker 3: I think this goes way back to We debuted it
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Speaker 3: on Monday into.
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Speaker 1: Tuesdays, so I guess it was early Tuesday. And this
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Speaker 1: is one of those things.
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Speaker 3: There's moments when you do this job, when the universe
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Speaker 3: gives you the thumbs up. It just does not the
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Speaker 3: corporate memo. You're not allowed to talk about. That not
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Speaker 3: the engagement metrics that are you must be in the
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Speaker 3: twenty five to fifty four demo.
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Speaker 1: Got to be in the twenty five to fifty four demo.
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Speaker 1: Wink wink.
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Speaker 3: Now I'm talking about the real thing, the out of nowhere,
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Speaker 3: middle of the night, lightning in a bottle, kind of
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Speaker 3: a sign from the gods, and it happens quite a bit.
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Speaker 3: It happened again, a little audio care package sent from
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Speaker 3: the Buckeye State. A man who is well known in
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Speaker 3: the mal Ard Militia. One of the great songwriters. You
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Speaker 3: think of the legends and the Malam Militia, he's right
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Speaker 3: up there with Jay Scoop and Just Josh and all
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Speaker 3: the others are Buddy and Richmond that have sent songs in.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about Ohio Al and Ohio Al. If you
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Speaker 3: listen to this podcast, you know he has often featured
16:55
Speaker 3: here with the little vignettes that we use Ohio Al.
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Speaker 1: I don't know much about what.
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Speaker 3: Makes him working all about IIOWI often spends his nights
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Speaker 3: in my head, futzing around in his garage with his guitar, and.
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Speaker 1: He's got all his toys.
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Speaker 3: He's got, you know, kind of a raspy voice at times,
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Speaker 3: and he's got this supernatural understanding of a very particular,
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Speaker 3: very strange community of radio listeners and callers.
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Speaker 1: Not listeners. The listeners are normal.
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Speaker 3: The callers are a little on the edge on the spectrum,
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Speaker 3: as we like to say.
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Speaker 1: And so he sent in a song and I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: play it.
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about it here first and set
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Speaker 3: it up as a DJ one oh two point seven
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Speaker 3: kiss f M or something like that. So I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: play it, I promise you. And you guys have been
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Speaker 3: say employed some of these songs. All right, we're gonna
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Speaker 3: play this on the podcast, and we've got it cued up.
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Speaker 3: This is not just any song. Okay, I'm gonna set
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Speaker 3: this up and then you're gonna hear it and you'd
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Speaker 3: be like, oh, that was.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's everything.
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Speaker 3: So this is a Doors knockoff that would make Jim
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Speaker 3: Morris and sit up from wherever leather pants wearing poets
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Speaker 3: go when they leave.
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Speaker 1: Us behind the pearly gates. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Just the tune was people are Strange,
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Speaker 1: which is perfect. I don't know if I said this
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Speaker 1: on the air or not. Maybe I did.
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Speaker 3: I know that I was talking to some friends about
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Speaker 3: the show and I think this was off.
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Speaker 1: The air, and they're like, well, what song sums up
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Speaker 1: the show?
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Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, the Doors people are Strange
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Speaker 3: and this is people are strange, but it's reimagined, repurposed,
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Speaker 3: and rebranded into a malar militia anthem. It's catchy, it's clever.
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Speaker 3: I think you'll agree, but you'll be the judge of that.
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Speaker 3: It will become for my purposes the Halloween theme soundtrack
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Speaker 3: of overnight sports talk radio, the oddball corner of the
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Speaker 3: American media landscape, which is not mainstream because we're on
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Speaker 3: at night. If we were on during the day, that
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Speaker 3: would be different. Not on six am to six pm.
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Speaker 3: Those are mainstream shows, those of corporate shows.
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Speaker 1: We are the afterthought.
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Speaker 3: We are where insomniacs, the night shift workers, the degenerates,
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Speaker 3: the dreamers, and we're there for things that go bump
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Speaker 3: in the night when the goblins are out running around
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Speaker 3: and their spaceships were on. So this was not just music.
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Speaker 3: This was us and that's why I'm excited to play
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Speaker 3: it for you. Over the years, the Ben Malor Show
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Speaker 3: has become less and less of a sports show and
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Speaker 3: more and more of it's a radio program, but it's
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Speaker 3: kind of more just a late night speak easy where
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Speaker 3: the weird and wonderful show up in full technicolor, and
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Speaker 3: the way each hour starts out Normally we start out
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Speaker 3: with a Malard monologue, which is typically sporty, normally complaining
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Speaker 3: about something that is ridiculous or ripping someone that lost
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Speaker 3: the game. And then we open up the phones in
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Speaker 3: the B block and the B blocks about the calls,
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Speaker 3: and then we have a game or something goofy. We'd
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Speaker 3: be in we do in the C block. That's normally
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Speaker 3: how the show goes. And you know the characters in
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Speaker 3: the show. You got blind Scott from Boston, Hurricane who's
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Speaker 3: in a Red Sox cap unless he's not because he
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Speaker 3: doesn't know he's wearing. You got Marcella and Brooklyn with
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Speaker 3: his morning food picks, who thinks he's reinventing radio. My
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Speaker 3: man Lucky Tony, who's been dumped more than anyone on
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Speaker 3: the show the last couple of years. He was always
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Speaker 3: got a jab at that hater of the show, David Veasse.
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Speaker 3: You've got hollering James, whose nickname is as literal as
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Speaker 3: a nickname cats. You've got Jet who fled Dick and
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Speaker 3: Dayton weed Man who's the big star now with Asco
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Speaker 3: weed Man, Mike the Leprechaun, obviously, the characters that work
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Speaker 3: on the show behind the scenes.
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Speaker 1: You've got a rogue gallery.
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Speaker 3: There's some other names as well, but it's a Vaughtvillian
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Speaker 3: act as what it is. It's like a midnight opera company,
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Speaker 3: and I love it. I didn't start out trying to
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Speaker 3: do this kind of show. It just kind of morphed
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Speaker 3: into that in Ohio, al somehow, some way fit nearly
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Speaker 3: all of those characters, the big stars on the mallad Militia.
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Speaker 1: Right now into the song that I'm about to.
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Speaker 3: Play, like a musical role call of your audio family
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Speaker 3: that doesn't quite fit anywhere else, and you don't really
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Speaker 3: want anyone to know about them. They're just for your
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Speaker 3: late night alone time. And that's one of the cool
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Speaker 3: things about people are strange. When Jim Morrison wrote it
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Speaker 3: before I was Alive in the nineteen sixty nineteen sixty seven,
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Speaker 3: it wasn't about the trip. It was about being the stranger,
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Speaker 3: being the one on the outside looking in, feeling like
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Speaker 3: you're walking through the rain while the rest of the
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Speaker 3: world dries off.
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Speaker 1: And when you don't know someone, people do give you
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Speaker 1: very odd looks. I get more odd looks than anyone
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Speaker 1: because I'm a very big guy.
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Speaker 3: I'm tall guy, and I'm intimidating to little people.
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Speaker 1: I rotate nuts.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 3: Women always give strange looks, so they try not to
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Speaker 3: look at you at all. But men in general also
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Speaker 3: with me. Oh man, you're a big guy. I'm gon
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Speaker 3: leave you alone. But it's the same energy that we get,
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Speaker 3: you know, late at night, overnight, two in the morning,
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Speaker 3: three in the morning, whatever it might be. The lights
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Speaker 3: are out, the highways are empty. The only sound is
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Speaker 3: some lunatic with a big mouth barking into a microphone
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Speaker 3: in a darkened radio studio in Sherman Oaks talking about
22:23
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts and his Shenanigans. It's that space for the
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Speaker 3: misfits who couldn't get on in the daylight, wouldn't be
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Speaker 3: a loud in polite society in the daylight, but have
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Speaker 3: found a home together. I'm the general. You are in
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Speaker 3: the malad militia. You're part of the darkness. We had
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Speaker 3: our buddy, our box car guy, call up this week
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Speaker 3: in Iowa and do the oath. But how there's an
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Speaker 3: old line from this guy. I've used the line from
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Speaker 3: the man that shot Liberty Balance. But there's this guy
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Speaker 3: named Tony Wilson who also gave a version of that quote,
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Speaker 3: this is a myth making a guy behind the legendary
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Speaker 3: factory records back in the day, and his quote, which
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Speaker 3: is very similar to the man that shot Liberty Valance quote.
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Speaker 3: If it's a choice between the truth and the legend,
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Speaker 3: you print the legend, you go with the legend. And
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Speaker 3: that's what happens on the Ben Mahler Show Overnight. It's
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Speaker 3: been the secret sauce.
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Speaker 1: Of the show.
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Speaker 3: Right, legends have been born in our little world in
23:31
Speaker 3: the dead hours of the night. They say, nothing good
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Speaker 3: happens after midnight unless you're on overnight sports radio. Nobody's
23:38
Speaker 3: fact checking Cowboy and windsor nobody's work shopping weed man's
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Speaker 3: ramblings in a focus group.
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Speaker 1: It just happens.
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Speaker 3: They exist, They become part of the fabric of what
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Speaker 3: this is.
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Speaker 1: And then, if you're lucky.
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Speaker 3: Somebody like Ohio I'll picks up a guitar and starts
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Speaker 3: futzing around on his garage and next thing you know,
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Speaker 3: we have a song, so we're about to play it.
24:06
Speaker 3: I did want to remind you to listen and watch
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Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny. It's week eight, already Week eight
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Speaker 3: in the NFL season. We would love to have you
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Speaker 3: consume our product there Week eight of the NFL season,
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Speaker 1: It's on YouTube at Benny Vspenny.
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Speaker 3: That's at Benny Vspenny if you would like to consume
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Speaker 3: the product there, and we'll have a mail bag tomorrow.
24:32
Speaker 3: I will be back from Nevada into a SoCal at
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Speaker 3: some point later today.
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Speaker 1: I'll be set up. There have some things to do
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Speaker 1: in La La.
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Speaker 3: Land when I get back to town, my home base,
24:47
Speaker 3: and and're going to try to watch some college football,
24:50
Speaker 3: a little bit of college football, obviously the.
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Speaker 1: Big event at the big event of that, you know
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Speaker 1: what that is.
24:55
Speaker 3: Anyway, I have a wonderful rest of your day, and
24:58
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna leave you with Ohio. I'm going to
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Speaker 3: play the song here and enjoy it. I just did
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Speaker 3: about ten minutes on how great the song is. So
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Speaker 3: without further ado, we now hand the powerful microphones of
25:12
Speaker 3: the Fifth Hour Podcast with Ben Maler and Danny g
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Speaker 3: Radio two ohioal for a little knockoff version of People
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Speaker 3: Are Strange, the Malard Militia version. Asta pasta. See what
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Speaker 3: I did there, Danny, I said, Asta pasta, And here
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Speaker 3: it is Ohio.
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Speaker 4: Aw Black Scott is foot fifth, three different calls leaving
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Speaker 4: mysel old days, de.
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Speaker 5: Confuse Love Get Tone's dumping on the best say Halo
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Speaker 5: and James is taking a Susie.
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Speaker 1: They're all strange.
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Speaker 5: The malliblish you can't change because that's strange. And then
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Speaker 5: they're remembers the names because it's strange.
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Speaker 1: They're all strange.
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Speaker 6: Jed who bleeds proud and the redneck rivi Era, the
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Speaker 6: Dixter so proud of his calling show win a weed
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Speaker 6: man is Wine and the bagging full Moon and leprecnspew
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Speaker 6: and his crab jokes again.
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Speaker 5: They're all strange, Hage Coop.
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Speaker 1: De loop screen and their calls.
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Speaker 5: Because that's strange. Lorena is busting their balls because that strange.
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Speaker 5: They're all strange.
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Speaker 2: M h.
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Speaker 1: They're all strange.
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Speaker 5: Has balor militia. Can't change because this strange. It's been
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Speaker 5: a remembers and names because it dram They're all strange.
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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, my Felicia m