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The Fifth Hour: "Saving Gotham's Sunday" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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  Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny G Radio. We have made it to
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  Speaker 1: the Is it the end of the week or the
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  Speaker 1: start of the week. I think Sunday technically is the
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  Speaker 1: start of the new week. I believe, although for most
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  Speaker 1: people Monday is the start of the new week. But
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  Speaker 1: you got me Ben and Danny G joining us from
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  Speaker 1: the mailbag.
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  Speaker 3: Hello Danny, Yeah, live from Circa one of your favorite
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  Speaker 3: sports books.
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  Speaker 1: I love Circa. Yeah, I always I always try to
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  Speaker 1: go to Circa when I'm in Vegas. I don't always
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  Speaker 1: make I prefer that part of Vegas than the Strip.
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  Speaker 1: Although I told the story last was it last weekend
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast? I was just in Vegas because it's
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  Speaker 1: a suburb of Los Angeles, and I noticed when I
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  Speaker 1: was in Old Vegas or Downtown Vegas, depending on how
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  Speaker 1: you want to describe it, a lot more debauchery than
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  Speaker 1: I recall. Like I've always been to debauchery. I just
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  Speaker 1: felt a little it was a little dirtier, a little grimier.
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  Speaker 1: It was more of a freak show. I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I was at the Venice Boardwalk or Atlantic City Boardwalk,
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  Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing last time I was there.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm assuming it's the same Danny because it's only
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  Speaker 1: been a couple of weeks, so I'm guessing the crowd
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  Speaker 1: has not turned over that much in a couple of weeks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, I saw the freak show that you mentioned, but
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  Speaker 3: I've mostly stayed here inside the resort and I don't
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  Speaker 3: fly back to Lax until a few.
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  Speaker 4: Hours from now.
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  Speaker 3: Wondering if I should put a little wager down on
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  Speaker 3: NBA Finals Game seven for this evening.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would bet on this going to eight games
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  Speaker 1: because Scott Foster will be officiating the game today. He's
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  Speaker 1: known as the extended Danny, so somehow they're going to
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  Speaker 1: play like best of nine. I love the fact that
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  Speaker 1: all these series are seven because the Giants I think
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  Speaker 1: was the New York Giants owner. I talked about this
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  Speaker 1: years ago on this podcast, but the guy that owned
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  Speaker 1: the New York Giants in the early days of baseball,
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  Speaker 1: they played some series that were best of nine. I
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  Speaker 1: think there were some longer than that, and they settled
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  Speaker 1: on best of seven. You could go best of nine,
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  Speaker 1: you could do whatever. I mean, they just happened to
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  Speaker 1: choose seven games as the magic number. But Scott Foster
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  Speaker 1: is going to be there, and the unpredictable nature of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA when you don't know who's not going to
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  Speaker 1: show up meeting like the other night on Friday or
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night. Right, it was Thursday into Friday and Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City was up by eight and then got outscored by
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine points until early in the fourth court they
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  Speaker 1: just stopped playing, Like, how does that happen in a
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  Speaker 1: game you can win a championship? Wild?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, and it makes me think that they're
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  Speaker 3: not going to lay down like dead dogs for a
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  Speaker 3: second game in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, their favor everyone says the better team. What
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  Speaker 1: a choke job this would be for Oklahoma City. Holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: if they don't live at home. In game seven and
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  Speaker 1: Mala Burton's hopping on one leg. I mean, God, So
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  Speaker 1: the pressure, if you go by the pressure, if you
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  Speaker 1: believe in that. I don't believe in momentum, but I
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  Speaker 1: do believe in pressure, and some guys respond to it,
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  Speaker 1: some guys don't. And you got to be able to
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  Speaker 1: read the room. You would say that the vast majority
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  Speaker 1: of pressure is on Oklahoma City. It's like the way
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  Speaker 1: I described Indiana. It's kind of like when you go
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  Speaker 1: to the casino and you sign up for the player's
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  Speaker 1: card and they give you fifty free spins or fifty
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  Speaker 1: three plays or whatever, and so you're like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if I win money, that's great. But if I don't care,
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  Speaker 1: if I don't do anything because it's free, it's so
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  Speaker 1: they gave me, so I don't really give a crap.
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  Speaker 3: I had to hear about Rich winning six hundred dollars
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  Speaker 3: on digital roulette and Big Mike who played a ten
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  Speaker 3: dollars slot machine and he won five hundred dollars. Me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm out all this money on seven dollars sodas and
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  Speaker 3: eighteen dollars grilled cheese sandwiches. So I would love to
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  Speaker 3: join the winner circle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, The key is, though, if you're going to gamble,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you don't win any more than twelve hundred dollars, right,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's like twelve is it twelve fifty
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Then you got to they hand
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  Speaker 1: you a piece of paper and you have to fill
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  Speaker 1: it out in your taxes. So you always want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure whatever your bet is, your win is just
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  Speaker 1: below that sweet spot. And we're hoping that the President
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration will raise that because that number has not
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  Speaker 1: been raised since like the seventies on e within inflation
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  Speaker 1: and all that. You still that's the number.
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  Speaker 3: So you make a thousand dollars or anything over that,
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  Speaker 3: and Uncle Sam's like, come on, give me mine now.
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  Speaker 1: That should be like three thousand dollars. It should be
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  Speaker 1: like minimal.
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  Speaker 4: I agree. And we should also be able to say
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  Speaker 4: shit on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and what's wrong with the word fuck? Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: you know people say that all the time, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: come on, anyway, Well, we have the mail bag, and
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  Speaker 1: let's jump right into it. Our friend Ohioau will serenade
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  Speaker 1: us and lead us in to the mail bag. It's
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  Speaker 1: this bag, all right, thank you, OHIOO. These are actual
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  Speaker 1: questions by actual listeners. If you'd like to send a
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  Speaker 1: correspondence into a future edition of the Fifth Hour podcast
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  Speaker 1: mail bag, you can do that care k of Real
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  Speaker 1: fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's Real fifth Hour
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  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. And we do appreciate you putting
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  Speaker 1: your name and city first. Some of you knuckleheads choose
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  Speaker 1: not to do that, so you're from parts unknown. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you somehow have burner email accounts and don't even
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  Speaker 1: put your name in it or the city. Those we
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  Speaker 1: normally don't use unless they're really good questions. So the
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  Speaker 1: first one up is from our friend Barry in South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: although he's desperately trying to leave South Carolina. And Barry,
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  Speaker 1: I met him, a longtime supporter of the show and
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  Speaker 1: a guy that is, he was in Nashville, he went
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  Speaker 1: to South Carolina. He was at the Mallard meet and
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  Speaker 1: greet in Charleston. We did a while back, Barry says,
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  Speaker 1: Yo Yo Ma, Benny and Danny g. So when you
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  Speaker 1: are gone from the Overnight show, Barry writes, I am
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  Speaker 1: sure that you get tons of email asking you where
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  Speaker 1: you are, when are you going to be back?
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  Speaker 4: For you?
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  Speaker 1: Is this annoying or does it make you realize the
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  Speaker 1: malad militia miss missus you that's from Barry. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go with door number three here, Barry, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go with door number three. So it is annoying, is
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  Speaker 1: it is upsetting, and it is also flattering at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, I've become used to it and also get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of complaints. Whoever sits in for me must
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  Speaker 1: be the worst person in the world because you all
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  Speaker 1: tell me how much the show is not as good
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, which I guess is a compliment. But and
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  Speaker 1: then you're like critiquing things that need to be happening
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  Speaker 1: when I'm not there. And I promise you I love
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  Speaker 1: doing the show. I wanted. My dream was to be
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  Speaker 1: in radio. I've been able to live my dream in
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  Speaker 1: my life here. I'm very fortunate at doing that. I
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  Speaker 1: probably should have chosen something more than radio, but I
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  Speaker 1: chose radio, and I'm very happy that I love doing radio. However,
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  Speaker 1: when I'm not doing the radio show, I'm not listening
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  Speaker 1: to the show. So your critiques, I mean, I I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it, but I'm out doing stuff and I take
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  Speaker 1: the rare and appropriate time off and we are at
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  Speaker 1: that point in June, July, and August where I will
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  Speaker 1: take pretty much all the time off because once September
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  Speaker 1: comes around, that's it. I'm locked in for football season.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got wait a second, if you're gone, who's
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  Speaker 3: gonna cover the WNBA action?
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  Speaker 1: I know, right, the oly crap. I have gotten some letters,
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  Speaker 1: Danny from people. Are you not talking about the WNBA
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  Speaker 1: everyone else is. I'm like, okay, listen, First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, they're not talking about the actual games.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's Caitlin Clark, it's you know, it's the story.
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  Speaker 1: It's the soap opera. But just again, very like to
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  Speaker 1: answer your question, I am flattered that people miss me.
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  Speaker 1: That means that the show matters to you. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need to give you my schedule. You're not my mom,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't need to tell you when I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be back. I did let people know. That was
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  Speaker 1: one of the cool things about these There were people
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  Speaker 1: that were shocked that I wasn't there, But I said
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  Speaker 1: on this podcast before I took a couple of days off,
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  Speaker 1: I said, listen, I'm not going to be here. There's
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  Speaker 1: something going on. You found out if you listened to
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  Speaker 1: the Friday podcast where I was. I was in San
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  Speaker 1: Diego at the marine graduation, the boot camp graduation thing
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  Speaker 1: that I was at, and so that's why I was
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  Speaker 1: away for a couple of days. And then but you knew,
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  Speaker 1: and they were people sending me messages that obviously they
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  Speaker 1: say they're huge fans of the show, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: listen to this podcast, so otherwise they would have known
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  Speaker 1: that I was going to be there. So anyway, with listen,
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  Speaker 1: that's I'm sure I'll get many more complaints buried because
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  Speaker 1: there's some other days that I will be taking that
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  Speaker 1: are scheduled for other things. And so that's just the
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  Speaker 1: way it is. Alf from the stock Room Rights and
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  Speaker 1: he says, I hope you gentlemen are doing well and
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  Speaker 1: I've recovered from the peaceful protest. Yes, let me preface
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  Speaker 1: my question with the story Alf says. He says, when
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  Speaker 1: I was a teenager, I worked in a small neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: grocery store. Now, one day I was bringing up items
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  Speaker 1: from the basement to stock on the shelves, and an
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  Speaker 1: older female cashier offered to help because they were slow
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  Speaker 1: up front. When we got to the basement, she said
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  Speaker 1: to me, I'll carry the light beer because it's not
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  Speaker 1: as heavy. Now, Alf said, even as a teenager, I
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  Speaker 1: recognized a good joke, but knowing this woman, she was
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  Speaker 1: not kidding. Now to the point, Alf says, ferg Dog
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  Speaker 1: once mentioned that if someone speeds up the podcast when listening,
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  Speaker 1: it's cheating. What say you? Also, if I listened to
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  Speaker 1: two time speed on the podcast and he listens at
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  Speaker 1: one time the speed, does it mean that he's half
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  Speaker 1: as fast? Thirdly, if I listen at two times based
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  Speaker 1: on the cashier's logic, do you get twice? The credit
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  Speaker 1: that's from Alf.
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  Speaker 3: Makes me laugh right now because a few days ago,
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  Speaker 3: our fourteen year old she showed us a video she took.
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  Speaker 3: She was proud of it when she took the video,
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  Speaker 3: she was embarrassed by it. After we all watched it
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  Speaker 3: and she realized what she had done. Her mom left
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  Speaker 3: her cell phone in the living room and went to
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  Speaker 3: run an errand I think to target. My stepdaughter took
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  Speaker 3: her iPad and recorded herself showing that mom's phone is
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  Speaker 3: right here. She's like, look, my mom left her cell phone.
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  Speaker 3: I better call to tell her that her cell phone.
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  Speaker 4: Is left behind.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And then you could hear her mom's cell phone
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  Speaker 3: ring in the video, she had such a blonde moment.
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  Speaker 3: That's great, that's yea funny. She obviously needs a college
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  Speaker 3: fund a little bit. Well, she's not getting a scholarship.
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  Speaker 1: She's learning the ways of the world. But I like
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  Speaker 1: the thing about that, Danny is like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: about you. Like I think for most of us, anywhere
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  Speaker 1: you go, if you don't have your phone, you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you're missing your right arm, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's like, oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have it. Like I get in the car,
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  Speaker 1: I listen. I actually, you know, I'll promote it. I
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  Speaker 1: use the iHeart app or I use some music apps
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  Speaker 1: that I use and when I'm driving, and they're all
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  Speaker 1: connected on the bluetooth to my car. So if I
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  Speaker 1: don't have my phone, I can't listen to anything. Really.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I do have the old school radio, but
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  Speaker 1: I usually do it with it. It's cleaner on the
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  Speaker 1: stream so I'll do it on one of the streaming
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  Speaker 1: services and all that. Usually iHeart and so, but if
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  Speaker 1: I don't have it, I'm like, oh my god, which
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  Speaker 1: is crazy because we're both of the age, like we
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  Speaker 1: our entire child that we didn't have phones. We were fine, right,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean pretty much even as a young adult,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really have I had the original cell phones
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  Speaker 1: were these big bulky things and we didn't really have
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  Speaker 1: use them anywhere the way we use it.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know?
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  Speaker 3: Whenever she gets punished and her mom takes her phone
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  Speaker 3: away quote unquote for the weekend, that never happens because
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  Speaker 3: she bugs her mom so much that she finally gives
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  Speaker 3: in and just gives it back to her, because, like
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  Speaker 3: what you said, people feel naked without their cell phone.
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  Speaker 3: Every thirty minutes, she would check in with her mom,
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  Speaker 3: how about now?
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  Speaker 4: Can I have it back? Can I have it back now?
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  Speaker 3: And she grinds her so much that she finally just
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  Speaker 3: gives her her stupid phone back.
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  Speaker 1: The war of attrition kids, No, remember when we were kids?
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  Speaker 1: Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we well?
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  Speaker 1: We're on a road trip. Are we there? Why? Why
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  Speaker 1: are we there yet? How much longer are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: be there?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, alf and we do appreciate it. One of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite bits. We don't really do this much anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but on the Overnight Show, we would get guys to
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  Speaker 1: get their like grandparents and like older relatives who just
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  Speaker 1: got smartphones and didn't know how to use them like
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  Speaker 1: automatic to subscribe and download the podcast, because we're like,
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  Speaker 1: there you go.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I count I loved it when you and
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  Speaker 3: I took unsuspecting callers and tape them for the following
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  Speaker 3: day's show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah, well we did that for a lot.
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  Speaker 3: So if it was Wednesday, I would tell them, all right,
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  Speaker 3: this is gonna be for Thursday show. Make sure you
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  Speaker 3: come in hot with a lot of energy and say
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  Speaker 3: happy Thursday. Oh yeah, yeah dad, Sure enough. The caller
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  Speaker 3: would be like, this is so and so happy Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't do that.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be like, now, remember, we'd stop him. That's not
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  Speaker 4: good enough. Take two.
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  Speaker 1: I need to bring that bit back. I haven't done
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  Speaker 1: that as much here recently, but that's a classic. That's
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  Speaker 1: an old school radio bit that's honored to me. That's
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: honoring the legends of radio when you do the Mike
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  Speaker 1: from Fergnag Mike aka Fergdog in Fortune Rights and says, hey,
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: boss and Chief, how pumped are you guys? That the
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: greatest eater of all time, Joey Chestnut is making his
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  Speaker 1: return to the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. Also is
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  Speaker 1: the w NBA a sport or a spin off of
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  Speaker 1: the Real Housewives. It's hard to tell. Actually, this is
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  Speaker 1: just what we were talking about listening live to the
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  Speaker 1: podcast here. What are you doing, you schmuck? Yeah, all
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  Speaker 1: the w NBA stories like the one the other day
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  Speaker 1: was there was one of the I don't know the
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  Speaker 1: names of the players other than Caitlin Clark, but one
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  Speaker 1: of the women was complaining because there were people outside
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  Speaker 1: the hotel that wanted autographs and she was complaining. She
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  Speaker 1: thought that was weird that someone would be waiting outside
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  Speaker 1: the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: There's the blonde girl with the long legs. Have you
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  Speaker 3: seen her, the one that stood up for Caitlin Clark
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  Speaker 3: during the.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yeah, they sold out a jersey or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, right, a little merch and the autograph
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  Speaker 1: thing that hit close to home. Dany I related to
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  Speaker 1: that because when I was in high school, I made
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  Speaker 1: some extra money and I was hired to get autographs
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  Speaker 1: that people sold, So I would follow baseball players around
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  Speaker 1: to the hotel and to restaurants and stuff, and that
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  Speaker 1: was my little side hustle to make some bucks, which
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  Speaker 1: pretty much just went to buy tickets to go to
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  Speaker 1: the game and all that until we figured out how
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  Speaker 1: to sneak into the game. But it's so funny to
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  Speaker 1: me all of these stories about the w NBA players
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  Speaker 1: complaining and for twenty years they complain because we just
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  Speaker 1: want to be like the other sports. We just want
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  Speaker 1: to be covered. We want to be like the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be like these other sports. We're women,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hear us roar. And now they're getting a
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  Speaker 1: little taste of it, not because they're any good, but
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  Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark is popular, so they're getting a taste of
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  Speaker 1: in the WNBA. And what do they do, nothing but bitching,
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  Speaker 1: nothing but complaining. Like newsflash, if you're somewhat popular, there
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  Speaker 1: are going to be people outside your hotel. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to be people following you around to restaurants to get autographs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if you're a win or not. It's
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  Speaker 1: a money making opportunity. And it's like also some of
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  Speaker 1: these people say, hey, I don't sign for adults. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: we had Helmet man On He ran into Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: in West Hollywood when the Yankees were in LA to
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  Speaker 1: play the Dodgers, and Aaron Judge said, I don't sign
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: for adults. I only signed for kids. Right, but what
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: ends up happening and these people are so stupid, the players,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the athletes. Well then the autograph hounds will just pay
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: kids to go get their autograph. So it's like, you
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: know you're not gonna you're not gonna win that battle.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it turns into child labor.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Exactly, So you're encouraging child labor. Aaron Judge like, what
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: are you doing, dude? You know, just sign it. It's like,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: and what's the big deal, dude, You're you're richer than rich.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Like you can make the argument the w NBA players
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: aren't that rich. You're in Judges likes, just sign the
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: autograph and Joey Chestnut listen. We're happy for Joey. We've
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: had him on this because of you, Danny. We've had
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: him on a few times. I don't know if he's
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: gonna be on this. I guess we'd have to get
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: him for next week because the following week is the
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: fourth of July. Right, if my math is correct, I think.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I could hit him up and see if he
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: has some time for the fifth hour.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Remember last year, last year we tried to We got
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: him on, but it was very awkward. Yes, I called
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: him hung up on me? I called him again, Why
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: do you keep calling me? It was like he was
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: very upset.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Last year, the only time he wanted anything to do
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: with me is when we were filling in on the
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Dan Patrick Show.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Well, okay, I'll go for the the big time slot there.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: So yeah, he did come on Covino and Rich the
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: day he made the announcement. So I feel like I'm
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: making progress with him because that wasn't the Dan Patrick
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: time slot one year removed. I feel like I'm making
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: a little bit of progress with Joey.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: It's cool.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Nathan's is not the same without him. And by the way,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: just to back up for a moment, that blonde with
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: the long legs we were talking about Sophie Cunningham in
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: case you want to look her up.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, And the woman that got upset, she was a
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: little taken aback by the autograph. Was that Kelsey Plumb?
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Is that her name? Am I getting that right?
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: That's right? That's Darren Waller's ex wife.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Okay. All the guy played for the Raiders, yeah.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and retired on the Giants because they wanted him
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: to play full back a couple of plays.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not only retired from the Giants, he paid seven
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars or something to retire from the Giants.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: That's a good financial move. That is a solid financial move.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Let's see who's next. Quang in ho Chie Men, Vietnam.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: So he claims Big Man and Daddy g Radio, I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: cannot stand your overnight show. I never listened to it.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Would neither shout it out as it's not a Morning
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Zoo show, nor download it elsewhere or everywhere I get
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: my streaming services, and definitely do not have it as
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: a preset. However, is there any way that I can
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: convince you to cease and desist referring to New York
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: City as Gotham. I am in the camp that fictional
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: city Gotham draws its inspiration from Chicago. Well, Quang, first
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: of all, thank you for, as you say here, not
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: standing for the Overnight show. You never listen, would neither
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: shout it out or listen to it, download it and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. I'm sure that is not That is
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the way it is, and that's not a lie at all. No,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the nickname, if you look at the nickname of New York.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Gotham is one of the like the Big Apple. There's
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: a few different terms that you can use, and so,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: as you know, I like to mix my lexicon up.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: And that's you know, that's what we did. The Empire
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: state of my city that never sleeps. But it is
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a verified, verified fact playing that Gotham is New York
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: not Chicago. That's a cultural reference. And you know, do
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: concrete jungle, I mean the Knickerbocker's stand. There's a bunch
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of different ways you can say New York and Gotham's known.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: So put that in your pipe and smoke it, okay.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: And I looked it up right here. It says, while
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Gotham itself is not a real place, it is a
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: nickname for New York City.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not making it up, Yeah, pulling it out
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: of my ass, I'm not. I mean, come on, Tony
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: in the Bay Area, one of my favorite callers, one
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of the great callers to overnight talk radio. He's short,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: he's quick, gets to the point, hangs up, says something offensive,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: We all laugh and we move on with our day.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Tony the Bay writes in says, hey, Ben, did Lonnie
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: legend leave a message, let me let me check. No,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And does Danny g like comedy? I'm assuming everyone likes comedy.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Danny you like comedy? Right o?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I listened to the comedy channel on my
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: serious exam all the time.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: He says, if so. On YouTube, type in L seven
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Putts bounces off a wall and rolls around crying like
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a little girl. Or Tony says, just type in David Vassa,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: thanks fellas. All right, that's Tony on the Bay Area.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: It's a David vasse Well Vassay. I don't know if
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: he's on YouTube anymore. He's so busy massaging Blake Snell.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Blake Snell. Fun fact, Blake Snell's gotten more massages from
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: David Vassay than he has starts for the Dodgers. What
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a great move.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: That was.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Holy crap, that's fascinating.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're back on the radio tonight, I can't
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: wait to hear you rant on the padres.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that whole thing was was ridiculous. The padres
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: stopped anyway, A right, mister irrigation rights, and he says,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: ring update, Ring, Update. Here's an artist conception of what
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: is to be digitalized. Will be digitalized and then cast.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: The number one is going to be relocated to the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: upper left caddy corner like the three to sixty of you.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Bill Miller notices, I'm giving him a spot too. There
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you go. So I did, now, mister. He sent me
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: some artwork for the ring, and I made one request
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: about a relocation of the microphone to the top. That's
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: my preference. He has what appears to be a horse's
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: ass on the top of the ring. And as much
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: as I think that's funny, and it is funny, mister irrigation,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I think for people to actually wear the ring, I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: don't know that many will want to wear a horse's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: ass on top of the ring. I think on the side,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: that's funny.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Wait, since you're the leader of the ass, could you
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: wear that ring and everybody else gets the microphone version.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the Yeah, that's the thing. I would
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: like the micro I will not, and I'll take the
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: ring and I'll appreciate the ring. I won't ever wear
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the ring with the horses ass on it. But no
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I so and as much as I like the Bill
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Miller character, I don't know that Bill Miller needs to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: be on the ring. Either you know, you know what
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: So what if he put a game cock on there,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: because then it would be a metal cock and we
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: know how you feel about those.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: That was a big cock. Well, listen, we all have
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: our preferences on that. But no, and the Bill Miller thing,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: while it's funny, like, the whole point is to promote
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the show and if you give, if people get the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: ring and then show it to other people, the people
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that don't know so well, it's the Bill Miller show.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: And no, it's the Ben Miller show. So he needs
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to the proper brain. Am I being a jerk?
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Danny?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Is this too much to ask? I don't know. Maybe
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: it is too much to ask.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: I have no idea anyway, No, he has patience for you.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, mister irrigation. And let's you hear
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: this one's from Timmy from the lb C. He says, Hey, gentlemen,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend, Ben and Danny.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I read this week that a hundred million Americans are
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: roasting under an extreme heat dome. Are you worried? That's
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: from Timmy? No, Timmy, now heat dome. This is where
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I go on my rant about weather terminology, Danny and
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the atmospheric river and the different terms that have come
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: into the lexicon in the last fifteen years.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Is it true that, like a nerd, you used to
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: watch the Weather Channel back in the day when it
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: was just words on the screen.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Mike Trout, we're big fans, big fans of that.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: But no, like nol I had, there's one of our
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: A couple of our listeners work for the National Weather Service.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: There's a fine woman who's a big fan of the show.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Nice lady. She works in Colorado. She's the listener to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the show, and she's she's sent some stuff to me,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and some other people have sent stuff to me over
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: over the years, saying that that people became numb to
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the normal weather terms, and so they decided for people
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to pay attention on social media, they had to change
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the terminology because everyone had just gotten used to all
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the words that were used. And so instead of just
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: having a cyclone, it's a bomb cyclone, right. Instead of
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: a heat wave, it's a heat dome. Instead of just
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: a storm, it's an atmospheric river. And these are all
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: terms that are relatively new because they're used to get
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: people to click on weather stories. They're for clickbait and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: so heat Dome. This is gonna shock you, Danny in June,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: but really more July, August, and September. It gets hot,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: like not just a little hot, it gets blistering hot,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: like there is a a vortex of heat. There's another
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: fun word, vortex.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: I mean the kind of heat like yesterday here in
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Vegas where I sweated through my hat pretty much.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I never bring a good hat to Vegas. I've
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: learned over the years. You bring your crappy hat to Vegas.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: It was one of my good ones too. I was
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: so pissed at myself.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can wash it, but it's never gonna
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: be the same. I guess you could take it to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the dry cleaner. I don't know if I would recommend that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It's gonna cost you a lot of money, but it
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: is still cheaper than getting a new hat. A Ryan
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: see from Shrewsby Rights and says, hey boys, Danny big
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: thanks for the Shrewsbury shout out a couple weeks back.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Loved it. A question this week is that after I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: get married, we want to visit all different states in
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the country. So my question is what state did you
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: guys visit that you loved and what state have you
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: guys not visited but are interested in seeing? For me,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: besides SoCal and Vegas, it's Wyoming slash Montana. For some reason,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I think it would be awesome to visit those places.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Much love. That's from our friend Ryan. So, Danny, do
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: you have a favorite destination you'd like to promote for
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Ryan and his bride to be to go to.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you do get to go to Utah, go
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: to mo app That was awesome, canyon lands and all that.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: And then also he mentioned Wyoming, beautiful state. I loved Yellowstone.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: If I could go back to Zion on Utah, Ben,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I didn't expect it to be as beautiful as it was.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I guess I thought it would be more bland. Yeah,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: but the scenery and the landscape was incredible.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, make sure you have Zion on your bucket list.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: There's a hike you can go on called the Narrows
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: and you have to have water shoes and one of
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: those hiking sticks and the water gets up to about
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: your chest as you're hiking through these narrows.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: It is amazing.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: The food is bland, but the scenery is not exactly
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: so yeah, and for me Ryan, my favorite place the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: visit is actually in California, although it's near Fresno, and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: that is the Sequoia The giant forest at Sequoia Kings
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Canyon than the National Park is just amazing. These two thousand,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: three thousand year old trees that are like this, It's
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: like you're in Jurassic Park with the size of the trees.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: It's just amazing. I love, love doing that. And I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: don't know that I've been I've been anywhere bad. I've
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: been to a lot of the states. I've not been
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to Nebraska. I haven't been to Iowa. I mean, there's
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a bunch in the Midwest that I've skipped. But I
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: have been to a few Midwestern states, and I do
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: want to get to every state. I have this problem.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I have a job, so I've been able to do it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Once I lose the job, I'll be able to travel.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: You have a lot more free time then, yeah, a
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: lot more. You know, you always have podcasting though, so
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: that might still get in the way, although you can
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: bring your laptop with you like I did.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I want to see the Carolinas and I've never been.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Caroline's are beautiful. The coast is really nice and a
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: lot of trees. And I hadn't been to the south
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: much at all. I don't consider Florida to the south.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I've been to Florida a bunch, but I don't consider
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Florida the South. I think of like the south ends, well,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: maybe northern Florida. How about the Redneck Riviera. I consider
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: that the south. But once you get into like central
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Florida and southern Florida, I think that's just like like
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: this weird demilitarized zone. It's not it's more northeastern than
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it is South. But like, I haven't spent time in
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Alabama or Mississippi, not that I've heard great things about
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: those places. Haven't been to New Orleans, haven't been to
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Louisiana at all.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: You've never been to Wyoming in Montana.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I've not been to Wyoming in Montana, so I haven't
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: done those dates. I would like to go to that.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's in the Dakota's God, it's it's as
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: a National park. It's an all like rock thing. It's
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: like a I forget what the name of it is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: off the top of my head, but there's a park
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: there that looks amazing. It looks like it's like there's
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: no life anywhere, but it's beautiful. It's an odd, odd
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: set about. But thank you Ryan, good luck, congrats on
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the upcoming wedding, to you on your your bride, and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: good luck tough Rachel from New York. That's an odd one.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: You get a lot of women at all that right,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: questions Anyway, A few, a few, but not many, haven't
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: heard this name before? Rachel says, Hey, Ben, Sabrina Carpenter
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: is going to be banning phones from her concerts, despite
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the fact that many people who go to her concerts
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: go to record for social media. Is this a good
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: idea or a bad idea? That's from Rachel, who says
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: that she was asked to send this by her boyfriend
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: or something. I don't know. Well, thank you Rachel for
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: doing this to appease whoever. I guess the guy in
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: your life is, but Danny So Sabrina Carpenter big deal, right,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: big star? Pop star? Right now? I guess, Oh yeah,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: time out there, I've heard her name. If I've heard
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: her name, she must be a big deal, because you've
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: got to be kind of a big deal. For me,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: like her and Boozy or whatever is that his name,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Shaboozy is something like that. Yeah, Yeah, those like those names.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: If I hear those names, I'm like, wow, those must
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: be pretty famous if they trickle down to me. So
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: banning phones, now, this is something that goes on a
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: lot in the comedy world. If you go to a
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: comedy show, they say no phones, no recording, uh, leave
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: your phones off, all that stuff. Like, I haven't done
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: too many concerts, Danny, so I don't know the etiquette.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Every time I've been to a concert, it's a lot
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: of people that are doing the Statue of Liberty. They're
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: holding their hands up like they're looking at Lady Liberty
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: and all that. So I'm not sure the etiquette and
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: all that. It seems like a bad idea from a
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: marketing deal, but she's likely a big enough name she
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: doesn't need the promotion on social media.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: She has a big hit called Manchild, and a lot
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: of people like the way she looks as well signs
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: her voice. She was recently asked by Rolling Stones if
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: she consider implementing a no phone policy. She said, this
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: will honestly piss off my fans, but absolutely I went
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: to see Silk Sonic in Vegas, and they locked up
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: our phones. Carpenter explained, I've never had a better experience
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: at a concert. I genuinely felt like I was back
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: in the seventies.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And the camera, the first camera. I think
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I talked about this this weekend on one of the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: podcasts that we did. That is like the first camera
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: on a phone was like the Nokia thing, and that
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: was like in the early two thousands where it became
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a thing.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: She was born in May nineteen ninety nine. Oh my god,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: she's twenty six.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: That was like May. That was like a less than
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a year before I started at Fox Sports Radio. Crap,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. Woo. Okay, all right, if you're marketing,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: if you want promotion, you've gotta have cameras, so you
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: gotta have phones. But she's big enough stars, she's a
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: big pop star. She didn't need to do it. Yeah, Steve,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: need it, Steve, the average American man says from Indiana
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Rights And well, what is the average American man? What
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: does that mean? Steve? I don't know, he says. Ben
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and Danny, I saw this story this week. I thought
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: of your podcast, he says, Coca Cola has been accused
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: of cutting costs by using less carbonation in their drinks.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And then Steve wanted to know what we thought about
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: about this story, whether it's true or not. Well, Steve,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I am not. I don't. I'm not bragging here. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't drink soda anymore. Occasionally have a lemonade when
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I cheat a little bit. I'm not drinking soda, so
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you. I don't have a first hand account.
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  Speaker 1: I will just tell you, Steve, as you say the
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  Speaker 1: average American man they're in Indiana, that what I do
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  Speaker 1: is I always assume that every product I buy they
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: are doing shrink flation and they are cutting corners as
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  Speaker 1: much as possible. So I would it shock me if
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  Speaker 1: if Coca Cola was cutting carbonation. It would not shock me.
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  Speaker 1: Do I know that they're doing of course, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that they're doing it, but if enough people on
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  Speaker 1: the Internet are saying they're doing it, likely there's something.
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  Speaker 4: I believe this.
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  Speaker 3: We got a thirty six pack of Pepsy zero Costco
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  Speaker 3: last week. Yeah, and I told my girl, I said,
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  Speaker 3: this tastes like flat syrup. It tastes like there's no
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  Speaker 3: carbonation in these cans. Yeah, there's something to this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, there's a there's a fine line, as you know, Danny,
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  Speaker 1: in anything where you cut costs, you cut costs, and
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  Speaker 1: eventually it's the old fuck around and find out chart
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  Speaker 1: where you f around and you find out like, well
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: this we've gone too far and now suddenly people aren't buying,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Like it's not a great thing. My dad loved soda
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  Speaker 1: pop and but he loved the stuff from Mexico that
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: had real sugar in it, and so he would make
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  Speaker 1: sure to buy that, and that was like his treat.
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  Speaker 1: Once in a while he'd have that. And because even
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  Speaker 1: that's better than the stuff they the corn syrup, those
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: that love soda will say. Pad from Georgia, says Benny
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  Speaker 1: from the block, and Daddy g He says, Applebee's and
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  Speaker 1: ihop are going to be introducing AI in restaurants. Are
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: you guys okay with this? That's from Pat in Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: So I looked this up, Danny, and it's not it's
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  Speaker 1: not like new meaning McDonald's has been doing this. Pizza Hut,
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  Speaker 1: taco bell like, it's pretty common. So the headline on
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  Speaker 1: this pad is rather shocking. But as I understand it, Danny,
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  Speaker 1: what they're going to be doing is they're using AI.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and you know how we talked about this
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  Speaker 1: a few months ago. When people order food from kiosks
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: at restaurants, they order more food. And part of that
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  Speaker 1: is because they're not they're not interacting with a human being.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody's judging you.
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  Speaker 1: But another part of that is the the the kiosk
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  Speaker 1: will encourage them. They will encourage they'll throw different items
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  Speaker 1: out think, you know, kind of it's an AI generated program.
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  Speaker 1: They think based on what you appear, how what kind
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  Speaker 1: of foods you're gonna buy based on what you order. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the spoiler alert on this is the reason that Applebee's
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  Speaker 1: and ihop are doing this, the same reason McDonald's and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: as we mentioned, Pizza and tacabell are doing it, is
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: because it's essentially to increase it's a tool for up selling.
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  Speaker 1: That's the part of AI that they're using. The unsuspecting
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  Speaker 1: customer they think, wow, this is great. They're helping us out.
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  Speaker 1: Like they're going to send out coupons to Applebe's and
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  Speaker 1: I hop. But they know, based on their research that
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  Speaker 1: if even if you use the coupon a you're going
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  Speaker 1: to come back to the store or so, that's great,
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  Speaker 1: they got you back. You're gonna it's becoming a habit
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  Speaker 1: and be the second part of that is even if
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  Speaker 1: you use the coupon, they're still gonna make money because
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: you're gonna buy other things other than the coupon. So
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  Speaker 1: there's that, and I think I think we're good on that, Danny.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else you would like to promote here, anything at all?
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: It's a Sunday Well, I'll be back tonight in the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Cairds Seed after Game seven, Pacers and Thunder will have
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: a blow by blow recap the good, the bad, and
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: the ugly, and of course the better story being in
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. However, when teams win championships, we
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: generally start with a team that won. But we will
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: see how this goes tonight. Hopefully it's just close. I
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: just want the game to be close.
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  Speaker 3: I want to do I do too, And I'm still
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: deciding whether or not I should put a little bit
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: of scratch down on the Pacers before I leave town.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a tempting point spread. It's a tempting spread.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: The issue how many times in our life, Danny have
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: we seen in a that game team falls behind early
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: by fifteen points and they just give up. That's it,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: it's done. They get run off of them.
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  Speaker 3: So I know, damn, I guess I gotta flip a coin.
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  Speaker 3: It's a problem.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: All right. We'll have a great rest of your Sunday, Danny,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: safe travels back to La La Land, and we'll do
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: it all again next weekend. And thank you for listening
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: and all weekend and all that great stuff. We do
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it, and we'll talk to you next time.
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  Speaker 4: Austa Pasta got a murder. I gotta go.