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The Fifth Hour: Round Robin Mailbag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kaboom if you thought four hours a day 1200 minutes
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  Speaker 1: a week was enough think again he's the last remnants
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  Speaker 1: of the old republic a sole bastion of fairness he
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  Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse wow the clearinghouse of
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  Speaker 1: hot takes break free for something special the fifth hour
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  Speaker 1: with ben maller starts right.
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  Speaker 2: Now In the air everywhere, the Fifth Hour with me,
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  Speaker 2: Ben Maller, and it is an extra special Labor Day
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  Speaker 2: weekend on a Sunday here, the sixth day of September,
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  Speaker 2: and we're about to make some history on the mailbag.
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  Speaker 3: And without further ado, for the first time in.
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  Speaker 2: The history of the mailbag, we have the first ever
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm saying this, but we're doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God for technology. The first ever round robin on
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  Speaker 2: the mailbag. We welcome in our celebrity panel. from all
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  Speaker 2: over the United States who have assembled here to form Voltron.
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  Speaker 3: On the 5th Hour Podcast. First of all, let's welcome
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  Speaker 3: in from Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I always butcher the name of the town he's in,
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  Speaker 2: but he's outside Knoxville. He's been to six Malheur meet
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  Speaker 2: and greets. The man, the myth, the legend, JT the Wingman.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, JT.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Ben. It is great to talk to you. And
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  Speaker 5: it's Sevierville.
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  Speaker 3: Sevierville.
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  Speaker 5: Sevierville. Sevierville. It's real simple. Or you just say the
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  Speaker 5: Smoky Mountains.
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  Speaker 4: Good enough.
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  Speaker 3: I like the Smoky Mountains. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Now, JT has been great over the years. He's from Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: And he hides it very well, unless he doesn't. He
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  Speaker 2: appreciates colders.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 2: In Florida, believe it or not, after all of the
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  Speaker 2: chatter and all the speculation and being unable to get
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  Speaker 2: the Zoom app, we welcome in from Hollywood, Florida, a
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  Speaker 2: legend in the Malheur Militia, a man that survived a
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  Speaker 2: hurricane while broadcasting from a lifeguard tower in Miami. Weed
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  Speaker 2: Man Hippie!
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  Speaker 6: Wow, Ben, I'm so happy to be here. I love
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  Speaker 6: you so much, and you're saving my life. I love
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  Speaker 6: you so much.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saving your life. I think Lisa is with
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  Speaker 3: you as well. Is that correct? So this is technically,
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  Speaker 3: we have a whatnot.
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  Speaker 6: Hi.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Lisa.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So this is great. Now we're up to four people.
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  Speaker 3: How many people does it take to do a mailbag?
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  Speaker 3: Now we, man, I want you to know.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: We have no budget for this podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: But I went, we got a gizmo, which obviously apparently
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  Speaker 3: is working. We'll find out.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe how well it's working. It's so great.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't get zoomed.
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  Speaker 3: And now JT is probably jealous because he's figured out Zoom,
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  Speaker 3: so he's able to do it.
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  Speaker 4: This call will be recorded.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Who's recording this phone call? Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Are you recording this phone call?
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  Speaker 3: How dare you?
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  Speaker 5: That and a dollar will get you a couple of
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  Speaker 5: dollars at McDonald's.
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  Speaker 4: You hear that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't hear any fireworks. Hopefully, they're just fireworks and
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  Speaker 3: not something else. But all right.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get to the mailbag. First up, these are actual
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  Speaker 2: questions by actual listeners. We thank everyone that wrote in
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  Speaker 2: this week. Real Fifth Hour at GM.
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  Speaker 3: I do hear something, actually. Is that fireworks? Yeah, that's fireworks.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 6: I'm out with you doing the nail bags and there's
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  Speaker 6: fireworks in.
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  Speaker 4: Hollywood, Florida.
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  Speaker 3: America, America.
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  Speaker 4: All right. All right. So stupid.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Reggie from Detroit writes in. He says, hey, Benny and whoever. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's JT and that's none other than the weed man
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  Speaker 2: and Lisa and the whole. The whole gang is here today.
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  Speaker 2: Reggie says, Benny, would you leave radio for a scratch gig?
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  Speaker 2: And then he says there's a guy in southern China
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  Speaker 2: who is earning $ 15, 000 a month.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to make a dime. Are you joking?
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  Speaker 3: Well, calm down. He actually works.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a $ 15, 000 a month gig scratching people's itches.
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  Speaker 3: He's got two. Yeah, yeah. So he's hired all women.
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  Speaker 3: And he puts, like, special nails on them or what?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to describe.
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  Speaker 4: So he's more than kind of a hooker joint. You're
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  Speaker 4: going there scratching.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that it's full service we've made, but
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  Speaker 2: it's China.
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  Speaker 3: They have different rules there.
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  Speaker 2: But they built a business around professional itch scratching.
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  Speaker 3: And he's got two locations. Hired all the women. Makes
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  Speaker 3: $ 15, 000 a month. He's trying to start a... $ 100, 000.
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  Speaker 4: Are you kidding?
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  Speaker 2: All right, calm down, Weebit. So, JT, there's a market
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  Speaker 2: for anything. Reggie asked if I would leave. For $ 15, 000
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  Speaker 2: a month, my God, it would be very tempting to not. Although,
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  Speaker 2: it's only women are doing this.
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  Speaker 3: But, you know, imagine $ 15, 000 a month, and all you're
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  Speaker 3: doing is scratching. people's itches that's I.
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  Speaker 4: Would just be.
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  Speaker 3: Calm down we met JT go ahead JT please I.
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  Speaker 5: Would just be afraid that people are looking for something
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  Speaker 5: a little more than that you know the old kind
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  Speaker 5: of happy ending things seems like it'd be coming.
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  Speaker 2: In real close yeah yeah the Robert Kraft the exactly yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah But 15 grand a month, that's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Next.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Reggie.
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  Speaker 2: Next up is what do we got here? This is
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  Speaker 2: Mike from Parts Unknown did not sign his name. And
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  Speaker 2: he says, hey, Ben, do you think Doc Mike was
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  Speaker 2: behind this study? So there was a.
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  Speaker 3: Study done in regarding Mount Everest.
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  Speaker 2: And the if you guys saw this or not, Human
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  Speaker 2: urine is melting away.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Doc Mike. It's the urine there.
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  Speaker 2: Scientists believe that human urine is responsible for a huge
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  Speaker 2: amount of Mount Everest glacier melting away. Researchers there, this
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  Speaker 2: is wild. They're claiming 6,000 liters of urine a day.
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  Speaker 2: 1500 gallons that's a lot of wee wee that's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of piss that is a lot uh researchers claim
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  Speaker 2: well they say but they're trying to push back on
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  Speaker 2: this because they're one of the client they always love
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  Speaker 2: to go with the climate change but this is different
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  Speaker 2: here uh they found that the urine situation They have
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  Speaker 2: like a temporary city there at Mount Everest because so
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  Speaker 2: many people love to climb Mount Everest.
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  Speaker 6: How many people are climbing Mount Everest that could possibly
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  Speaker 6: happen in life?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not one of them we've met. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how many people are. Here's some numbers. I got the
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  Speaker 3: story in front of me. Thanks to Mike. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know about that.
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  Speaker 4: Everest Base Camp operated roughly 1,600 tents.
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  Speaker 3: This is those tents.
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  Speaker 4: 1600 tents. That's incredible. I never could have supposed that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently these Sherpas are kind of like camels. They must
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  Speaker 5: hold a lot of liquid in them.
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  Speaker 6: You're saying at any given moment in time, 1600 people
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  Speaker 6: climbing Everest?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that,
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  Speaker 2: that it operated roughly. This was during the 50 day, uh,
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  Speaker 2: spring season so i guess it depends on what time
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  Speaker 2: of the year it is it's not it's not no
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  Speaker 2: no i'm saying that that it certain parts of the
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  Speaker 2: year the weather's better so people climb it um so
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  Speaker 2: yeah they this is wild though because urine leaves the
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  Speaker 2: body warm researchers calculated that the thermal energy could theoretically
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  Speaker 2: melt about 154 tons of ice.
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  Speaker 4: That's ridiculous. That's impossible. That's not true.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what's your science degree, Weed Man?
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  Speaker 6: All I know is, no matter how many people are
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  Speaker 6: climbing Mount Everest, if they pee on the side of
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  Speaker 6: a mountain.
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  Speaker 4: It's not going to melt the mountain.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just skimming the story. I'm trying to get to
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of this here.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see.
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  Speaker 6: I'm trying to give you a logical perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Well, researchers emphasize that they brought up climate change again, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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  Speaker 2: bizarre urine finding illustrating how putting a temporary city with generators, heaters, kitchens,
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  Speaker 2: and thousands of people directly on a glacier, obviously it
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  Speaker 2: localizes the melting, the base camp, they said moving the
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  Speaker 2: base camp to stable ground should eventually be considered.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So JT, you're a climber. Calm down.
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  Speaker 5: I can't say I'm a climber. However, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: did go to graduate school for physics back in the
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  Speaker 5: day and I studied thermodynamics. I had a class in
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  Speaker 5: thermodynamics and I, I get part of the science, but
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  Speaker 5: the numbers don't seem to really add up for me.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't think we're going to be really worried
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  Speaker 5: about watching the yellow wave. fly down Mount Everest anytime soon.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: It says, unlike solid waste, which is generally collected and
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  Speaker 2: carried away, much of the urine is discharged directly onto
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  Speaker 2: the glacier.
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  Speaker 4: All right. You know, this is disgusting. this is disgusting.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: It's like all I'm visualizing, yellow snow, yellow waste. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: I think we should celebrate. We should celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know, but I think we should celebrate that we're,
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  Speaker 2: as humans, we have something very powerful, our urine.
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  Speaker 3: This is great, right? I mean, come on now, we
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  Speaker 3: can take.
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  Speaker 4: That.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't matter how many at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: If there's a thousand people up there, how many times
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  Speaker 2: does the average person go to the bathroom?
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  Speaker 4: A thousand? You took one mouth every day?
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  Speaker 3: I'm never going to climb Mount Everest. I'm never going
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  Speaker 3: to be. I have no idea. I'm never going to
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  Speaker 3: be there.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin in Kansas writes in on a mailbag. This is crazy.
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  Speaker 6: You make it sound like a busy building in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on, Ben. Before you go on, the only thing
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  Speaker 5: that could top that for Doc Mike is if a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of goat's heads started floating down the mountain, too.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Good old– Doc Mike's semi-retired from calling the show. He
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  Speaker 2: does not call me every week anymore, which is good,
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  Speaker 2: but he'll still check in from time to time, Doc Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin in Kansas writes and says, Dear Ben, and special
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  Speaker 2: home slice, or in this case, slices with JT the wingman.
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  Speaker 3: We've got Weed Man and Lisa. Look at this.
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  Speaker 2: This is a celebrity panel. Brown Robin edition. He says
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  Speaker 2: this past week I was visiting family in Phoenix and
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  Speaker 2: we were able to stop at Bucky's. I had to
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  Speaker 2: force myself not to buy any beaver nuggets because they
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have survived the 15 minute drive home. What food
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  Speaker 2: do you have to ban from your diet because you
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  Speaker 2: know it will test your self-control? uh i don't know
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  Speaker 2: i i don't know i ban anything i my thing
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  Speaker 2: is i eat once a day usually on the weekends
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  Speaker 2: i'll eat more than once but uh.
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  Speaker 4: You only eat once a day ben.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah it's a intermittent fasting because i i.
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  Speaker 6: I eat twice a day like every day but most people.
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  Speaker 3: Eat three times jt do you eat three times a
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  Speaker 3: day yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I yeah i eat at least three meals a day
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  Speaker 5: i do like to snack a little when i'm on
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  Speaker 5: my keto diet i always i do snack on a
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  Speaker 5: lot of um like peanuts or some kind of nuts.
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  Speaker 5: What time of day do you eat, Dan?
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  Speaker 2: I usually eat when I'm watching the early baseball games
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  Speaker 2: or basketball, whatever. It's like usually, uh, you know, here
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  Speaker 2: in LA, the games start like four o'clock. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I, I sleep during the day cause I work overnight.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm, I'm sleeping, I'll get up and then I'll,
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  Speaker 2: I drink a lot of water. I fill my stomach
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  Speaker 2: with water. So that's my thing.
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  Speaker 4: What is your sleeping arrangement, Ben? I always wonder, when
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  Speaker 4: do you sleep? You've got to sleep, Weed Man.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to sleep. Ben, I swear to God to you.
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  Speaker 6: I can't tell you how long I have not slept.
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  Speaker 3: All right. That does not seem possible.
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  Speaker 4: I'm curious.
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  Speaker 2: I usually sleep somewhere from like six 30 to like.
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  Speaker 3: 11 or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a small, sometimes if I'm feeling frisky, I'll sleep
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  Speaker 2: till noon. What about you? You have kind of weird,
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  Speaker 2: you're a driver, right? You drive around.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a driver. I am kind of, I have
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  Speaker 5: a kind of weird sleep pattern. You know, I work for,
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  Speaker 5: I do work technically for a shift, uh, So I
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  Speaker 5: typically go to bed like 9 o'clock Eastern time, of course,
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  Speaker 5: and I get up at 3.30 in the morning. And
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  Speaker 5: that gets me in just in time during the middle
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  Speaker 5: of just hour number two of the show. So I
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  Speaker 5: listen to the second half hour or two until the
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  Speaker 5: beginning of the show, and I start work right literally
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  Speaker 5: as the show is ending.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so you're up. That is a crazy schedule.
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  Speaker 2: I'd ask you when you sleep, but you don't sleep,
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  Speaker 2: so I.
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  Speaker 5: Don't need to.
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  Speaker 4: I never ever sleep. I can't even tell you the
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  Speaker 4: last time I ever slept. It's terrible.
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  Speaker 5: I can't imagine that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's good for me that... Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're also watching YouTube videos most of the.
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  Speaker 6: Time, to be fair. My life is so wasted. I
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  Speaker 6: cannot tell you how I waste my life.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: This is the best thing I've done. I can't tell
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  Speaker 4: you how long since I'm on the phone with you.
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  Speaker 4: You're the only meaningful thing in my life. I swear
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  Speaker 4: to God.
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  Speaker 3: That's not true.
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  Speaker 2: You got Lisa. And here's the thing, man. Listen, you're still,
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  Speaker 2: you're alive. You can change your story. You're always, as
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  Speaker 2: long as you're alive, you can change.
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  Speaker 4: I have all the time. I don't have anything to do.
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  Speaker 4: This is the closest thing I have to something to do.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: And Lisa, do you have normal hours? You're on the
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  Speaker 3: phone with him all night though, Lisa, right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you guys are. Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 3: I assume you have normal schedule, right?
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  Speaker 4: Lisa. You wanted to know what, when I sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have like a normal schedule? Like you are
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  Speaker 2: normal or are you up late at night?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: No, I sleep from midnight to about.
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  Speaker 4: 4 45 AM.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: I got you. except when weed man calls me for
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  Speaker 6: your show which is a.
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  Speaker 2: Couple days a week all right ferg dog writes in
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  Speaker 2: from fullerton he says hello ben.
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  Speaker 3: Hi fergie and don't don't encourage.
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  Speaker 2: Him uh hello ben and anyone but robbie i hope
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  Speaker 2: wow well you'll be very happy because we have a
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  Speaker 2: round robin here as you've been listening to so with
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  Speaker 2: with jt and and weed man and lisa And FergDog says, Ben,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I don't like to complain, but I have to say
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  Speaker 2: I found last Saturday's episode very misleading. When I saw
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  Speaker 2: it was named White Whale, I instantly got excited that
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  Speaker 2: it would be a replay of the most elusive, greatest
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: guest in the history of the Fifth Hour, Brian Billick.
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  Speaker 2: No matter how much I liked the episode, it was
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  Speaker 2: never going to match the excitement of Coach Billick's interview. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we did spend a lot of time with trying to
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  Speaker 2: track down Brian Billick. Anyway, he says your talk with
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  Speaker 2: Bernie Frato on Friday was definitely not a letdown.
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  Speaker 6: At least.
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  Speaker 2: I do wish you guys were a bit kinder to
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  Speaker 2: my favorite sports league, the WNBA, though.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure for a guy.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that came up in the interview was how
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  Speaker 2: much prep you guys both do for your show. I
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  Speaker 2: know you've had issues with your notes before during Mellor
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  Speaker 2: monologues without anybody noticing. Have you ever considered doing a
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  Speaker 2: completely no prep show to see if listeners would still notice?
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  Speaker 3: I think it would be a fun test. Well, I
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  Speaker 3: would love that.
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  Speaker 2: Just roll in there and not do any prep. My
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  Speaker 2: life would be, if I only had to do four
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  Speaker 2: hours and not have to do any prep, that would
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  Speaker 2: be great. But, no, I'd feel guilty, so I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I— I mean, I've had to do it before because
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  Speaker 2: things have happened with my computer or if I've traveled.
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  Speaker 3: You know, these things pop up, but nah.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Ben, I thought about that, that you'd have
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  Speaker 6: to— that you'd probably do much prep to your show every night.
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  Speaker 4: I thought about that. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not— people think you just show up and do
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  Speaker 2: four hours, but it's a lot of stuff that goes
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  Speaker 2: into it prior.
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  Speaker 4: To the four hours. Yeah.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: The easiest part. Yeah, the easiest part is the four hours.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: That's the easy part. The getting ready.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: You have to map out all your monologues.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I put bullet points down for every monologue and I
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: got a lot of stuff in front of me.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: It's amazing what you do.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: I love you, man.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: That's tremendous sucking up weed, man. I appreciate that.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: No, but there's a lot of, listen, I'm sure JT,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: when you're with you, what you have, right.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: You, you have.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: That's part of the beauty of what I do for
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: the most part. I really don't have to do a
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: lot of prep. Unless there are a few things that I'll,
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: that I have to haul that have a little more
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: work involved. But for the most part with my job,
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: it's part of the beauty is I go to work.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: I just do it. And when I'm done, I get
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: to go home. For the most part, work doesn't follow
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: me home, and I love that.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my job follows me.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I was watching a bunch of college football all day
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: on Saturday, and the.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: NFL is starting this week. So it's always something.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: We don't really break the games down very much unless
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: they're playoff games, but I still feel like I need
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: to watch them for some reason. I enjoy watching them.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: There are some days I don't enjoy watching them, but
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: for the most part, I do. And my wife has
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: a similar job. She does not need to do any
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: prep for her work. So she kind of shows up
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: and then.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Which is great.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Wednesday night, NFL, the Seahawks and the Patriots.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: And then Thursday, the Rams and 49ers from, what, Australia, right?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: So it's going to be Australia.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Think 49ers, Rams.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: You think Australia.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Al from the editing room writes in. He says, greetings, Ben,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and spin the wheel of gas. That's JT, the wingman,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: and the man, the myth, the legend, right over there.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Our friend weed man and Lisa met Alf, by the way, JT,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: you were not able to make it to the one in.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a bummer. I would love to meet
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Alf yet. Hopefully maybe, maybe one of these days I'll
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: get to, I'm sure you'll be back in Boston again.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: That does seem to be a pretty frequent landing spot
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: for you. I would certainly like to get there.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do. We do well in Boston. We always
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: have a good crowd there. Have fun.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Anyway, it says, Ben, you recently spoke on your, of
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: your new tech toys, uh, But what happened to your
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: old toys? You remember specifically the one that your original
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: stick in the mud producer shunned you from using your
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: sound effect board. Yeah, I, we did F around with
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: when the fifth hour years ago, I used to play
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of sound effects and crap and it didn't
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: sound as good.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I had fun with it, but then I just started
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: playing buttons and it, you know, kind of got away
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: from it. So it's better without it. I, I when
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I have sound effect boards in front of me I
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: just hit everything I everything's funny to me I.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: It's not great.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But the latest gizmo, which I think, Weedman, this is
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: your favorite gizmo that allows me to do the Fifth
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Hour podcast with a– we have– normally we do it
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: on Zoom. We still have– JT's on Zoom right now,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: but Weedman's just on the regular phone. So this– Have
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you shown the WEI? No, no, I haven't done that
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: since 2018, I think. It's been– It's been a while.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: I haven't done– I used to call you up and W-E-E-R.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did the night show. I filled in at
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: night for two years.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, 2017, 2018.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: That's so long ago now.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: I can't believe that's eight years ago.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I know, I know. It's crazy. Yeah, well, what happened?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: They loved me over there, but what happened, our radio
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: show got picked up by the rival station in Boston,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: so I couldn't... They're competitors, so I couldn't work at
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: EEI because we're on the sports hub, so it became
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: a bit of a kerfluffle.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Your night show was not on WEI back then?
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: No, it was, I'm saying, but we switched affiliates in Boston.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I had a great time. It was fun. Everyone,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: you know, I love doing the show.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: It gives me a little less, but I was doing
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox postgame show.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: How crazy is that? I was doing Red Sox review.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: That was insane.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, people were leaving Fenway, calling me up, asking me
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: about the game.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: What else you got? Scott from Florida writes in on
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: a round robin mail. This is amazing, everybody. Look at this. JT,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: the wingman. We got Weedman. Lisa, this is crazy.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Lisa, you're there, right? Yes.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Lisa's like, what?
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: She's about to go to bed.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: If anyone has a fitness question, I'll answer it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Lisa is a fitness professional her whole life.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: She's a guru.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Scott says, sometimes I ask people this question because I
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: always have a strong opinion on it. I will ask
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: you because it is once again relevant. Who do you
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: believe is the richest idiot in the world? In the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: history of Microsoft, only one CEO.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Elon Musk is only worth almost a trillion dollars, 800
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: million now.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: That was not his question we meant. He said the
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: richest idiot in the world.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: He says in the history of Microsoft, only one CEO
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: jumped around stage like a teenager in heat, sweating and
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: yelling like a deranged lunatic, overseeing a stock price that
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: fell around 30% during his 14-year tenure. His company's stock
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: price has literally gone straight up. With any other CEO,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: aside from the lucky Sperm Club members, wow.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Do you know.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Someone more financially successful with less talent than Steve Ballmer
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: in the world?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Well, Steve Ballmer is a co-founder of Microsoft, though.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: No, but he's saying that Scott's pointing out that the
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: stock went down.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: He's the guy, Weed Man, that got on stage. I
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: know you know the story, JT.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: He got on stage and started screaming about how no
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: one's going to buy the iPhone.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: It's too expensive.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I've been lucky. I've met a lot of rich people.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I don't really give them an IQ test or whatever.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I just kind of treat everyone the same, so I
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: don't really know if they're smart or not. I If
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: you hear stories about people that just kind of got
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: lucky at the right time.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: And.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Most people didn't have a lot of money, just kind
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: of walked into a little bit somehow.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people inherited. It's all about time.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Mark Cuban, who used to own the Mavericks, but Mark sold.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: audio like an audio website in the early days of
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: the internet yeah i believe that's it and he made
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: a gazillion like a ton of money like he and
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: it was him and his partner so i mean good
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: for him he came up with something that was.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Of value but i don't know i i it's hard
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: to say.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Who's uh you have anybody jt any rich guy that
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: you think's a complete dullard anyone come to mind not
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that really i.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Mean obviously that's it's sometimes people just seem to walk
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: into this money and you, a lot of, usually it's
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: always the second generation of, you know, generational wealth. And
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: by the time he gets to the third, usually it's
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: pretty chaotic and they either blow it or whatever. So
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: if they're fools. a fool in their money. It's usually
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: gone by the third generation.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you see that in sports with ownership, like the second,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: third family that owns a team.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Look at the Raiders. Yeah, look at the Jets. Yeah,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: look at the Jets.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Johnson's, right?
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: The Lakers with Jeannie Buss. I guess she's going to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: sell it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: What happened with the Lakers?
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Jeannie Buss sold her Jets and sold the team to who?
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Well, originally she sold to Mark Walter, who then sold
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to this other, I guess, what's this guy? Trump's buddy's
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: friend or brother, Kushner. Not the one in the White House,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: the other guy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: And then, yes.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Jared Kushner is Trump's son-in-law.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Well, it's– no, it's the other– what's the guy's name?
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I forget. All these Kushners are the same. I don't know. Yeah, exactly.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, Genie's in a lawsuit now to try to
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: keep a small percentage of the Lakers.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: It's a– you know, family, man. You fight over money.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: This happens. People die. They fight over money. That's what happens, man.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I've had– in my family, one of my aunts passed away.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: There was a big mess with relatives.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: It sucks. It sucks.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: I hate that. Barry from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: How far is Chattanooga from you, Jay?
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Strangely enough, Ben, I was in Chattanooga today, went to
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Chattanooga Whiskey Distilling Company, had a blast.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: That's great.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: It's about an hour and a half.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I actually have a relative that lives not
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: far from you, JT, an in-law family type thing.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I want to go to Chattanooga just because I love
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the Chattanooga choo-choo when I was a kid.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: And I was actually in that building too.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Where do I know that Chattanooga from? I must have
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: been in my 20s when I was a kid.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: The Chattanooga choo-choo. Come on, that's legendary.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Actually, their minor league ball team has, in my opinion,
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: one of the best logos ever. Those two little eyes,
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: the lookouts, I love it.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: That's cool. That's cool.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Anyway, Barry says yo-yo Ma Benny and his friend, he found,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: this is crazy, because he found, Barry, a copy. It's
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: not a great copy, but it's a copy of Jerry
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Jones talking about circumcising a mosquito.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: We've been trying to find this audio.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Me some glory hole yeah well that we got that
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: but yeah jerry this audio is like for some reason
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: almost impossible to find i have no idea how barry found.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: It and it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Was like 10 years ago he was talking about tony
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: romo and then there was something about the injury and
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: it was everyone was if i remember correctly it was
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: like romo they were asking questions and he was like
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: He's like, oh, it's like circumcising a mosquito, meaning you're
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: microscopically analyzing everything.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: So thank you.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, Jerry Jones.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Well, one thing he's not is poor. Quang writes in
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: from Parts Unknown. There's all kinds of bells and I
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: You're indeed human. Yeah.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: What is that?
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I thought that was you doing sound effects.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: No, I'm not doing that. I don't know. Somebody's doing something.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: You guys are killing me. I'm thinking it's you, Weedman.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Quang says, Big Ben, this email was originally for your return, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: He says, first tennis legend Martina Navratilova is featured.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, these are some documentaries, he says.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Chris and Martina, the final set, he recommended to watch that,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: a Netflix documentary exploring the remarkable careers.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: And friendship with Chris Everett and Martina Navratilova. Yeah. It's like,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know. You guys are probably around my age.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Tennis back in the 80s, man.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: You had.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: It's.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: Interesting right now that Venus and Serena played in Wimbledon.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I own the U.S. Open.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Conor Macaron, Ivan Lendl.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: They play doubles.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know, but I'm saying like the
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: old school, like, well, John McEnroe and.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Yep, Jimmy Connors, Yvonne Lendl.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: Nobody brings up Borg.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: To me, Borg was the best.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: I used to sit home on 4th and July and
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: watch at Wimbledon.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: I loved you and Borg.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: All right. I didn't have that.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, Borg in that flowing air.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, listen, everyone called me. And then he says,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: what else on the documentary? He says.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: The AI doc, or how I became in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: It's on Peacock, so it's about artificial intelligence. Anyway, it says,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Big Ben, when you're traveling, you are a documentary guy,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: or do you prefer to completely shut off your brain
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and watch something mindless? Yeah, I didn't watch much TV
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: in Vegas. We were out doing stuff. I mean, you
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: don't really go there to watch TV in.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Vegas, so.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Now, Weed Man, JT the Wingman's been to six of
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: these meet and greets. How many have you been to,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Weed Man?
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: I wish I had money. I wish I had a car.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Maybe we'll come to Miami or something like that. We'll
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: do it in Miami.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: My wife is just in the lowest.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Thing right now all right all.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Right calm down what'd you say jt what were you
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: saying that's.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: A florida meet and greet be great we could have
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: weed man we could have coach russell there's i know
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: there's a couple other characters out of uh out of
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: florida that uh the call.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: So we do well we let me let me tell
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: you something the uh the older gentleman that can't sleep
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: love the show so we're very popular angry.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: Bill we need angry bill can you imagine at a
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: meet and greet.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I thought he was going to show up to the
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: one in South Carolina. There were rumors, but he was
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: very angry at that time with me, so I was concerned, actually.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Even Jerome didn't show up, but it was down the street.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: I was there.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: You showed up.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Anyway, well, here's an email from JT. I
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: guess we'll skip over that one, because you're on the show, JT.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, you know, it's a pretty good one this week.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: All right, all right. I'll ask Weedman.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: He says, as I reflect on the excitement of last
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: week's Mallard meet and greet in Vegas, I couldn't help
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: but wonder, do you have a favorite utensil?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I am quite fond of the dinner fork.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: But can certainly respect the utility of the spork and
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the thrill of cutting food and other objects with a
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: good steak knife that certainly has its own merits as well.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: The butter knife, to me, is like an Oreo cookie.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Without enough cream filling, it just doesn't get the job done.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: And then he wants to know about that, our opinion. So,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Weed Man, I will defer to you.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Weed Man, this is a question from the great JT
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: the Wingman. from, let me see here.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Smartness does no use to me.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: A good cutting knife two nice forks, a plastic fork,
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: a spoon, two spoons, one spoon that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: I used for the peanut butter, and that's about it.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: I'm good like that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I'd say I love the spork because it's so unique.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I only get it when I get fast food, though.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I don't have it at the house, obviously.
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: Taco Bell always has them.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: The spork fork, for real.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Mashed potatoes, and then you can also eat them at KFC.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: KFC, yep.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they do.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: They do. I haven't had any KFC in a very
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: long time. I miss it.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Why don't you go eat some?
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: There's no KFC around here. All right. There's not a
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: McDonald's around here either.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Do you have a bike?
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Weed Man, I do envision a problem.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Weed Man trying to eat chicken. Hold on a second.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: JT brings up a good point.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, JT.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: How are you going to eat chicken off the bone
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: without your teeth? Because your teeth, as we know, have
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: been long lost.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: That's a great question.
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: But, you know, I have 13 teeth in my mouth.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: I have 26 that you should have.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: I can eat with half my teeth. I can still
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: eat from chicken.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: All right. All right. Thank God. Hallelujah. All right. Dylan
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: from Arizona writes in.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: He says, Ben, do you think this is a relative
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: of Jeannie in Medford.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Or Beardring, Brian? And it's the story this week.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Dylan sent 70,000 pints of Guinness were stolen in a
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: massive beer.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: House in the UK.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Stolen from an industrial estate in the UK. Roughly 70,000
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: pints stolen. Two trailers were stolen. So, yeah, I'm sure
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: that's like a second cousin of beer-drinking Brian.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Is there a black market for that? How much can
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: you get? How much does 70,000 pints of pinot?
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: They're so bad to drink it.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: JT, the women.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: I remember being back when I was first getting my
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: CDL 13 years ago. I remember a topic they talked
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: about how important it is to have your freight secured
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: and that certain types of loads, like when you get
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: a load of like cigarettes or something like that, that's
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: very easily to resell that that stuff's under really tight security.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: And so that it obviously gets to its end place
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: and the correct end place.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think for sure.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: For sure.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Next up is a, I don't know what else to say, Dylan,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: but thank you for that. Abe in San Diego writes in,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: he says, hello, Ben.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: And, you know, whoever.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: I wanted to especially thank you and everybody at the
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: past Saturday Mallard meet and greet at the stakeout. Was
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: very glad to be in Las Vegas this past weekend.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Make time to attend and meet, among others, Ben, Lee, Lorena, Mrs.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Mallard, Slug, and others. I think JT as well.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I had a very lively time and a much more
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: appreciative perspective.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Of your work and efforts today.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: In the radio land where I am, my pets spend
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of time in the evenings and overnight.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I missed the group photo.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Had to speed off a little early without much of
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: a proper goodbye. That's an Irish goodbye, Abe. I like
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the Irish goodbye. In order to make a UNLV football pregame.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Event, I was going to. I knew this going in.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: That I would be cutting it close, but please let
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: everyone know I had a great time, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Did anybody win money in Vegas? I did.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: I lost less than $ 100, so I was pretty happy.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: That's a win if you lose less than $ 100.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Amen, yes.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: And I still got a couple futures bets out there.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: You ate and you shaved it? You're great.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Our friend, what's his name? Supermarket Steve, I think he
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: won some money.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: I think he did okay.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, I think he won some money.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Super Bowl, Steve was there the whole thing.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Matt in Austin writes, and he says, Ben, how many
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: lawsuits are going to come from the Heat at the.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Game on Saturday? I guess, I don't know if you
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: guys saw this or not, so.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: This is a big thing. So it was extreme heat.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Texas beat Texas State 59-7 on Saturday. But paramedics, no,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: that's not the story we've been. Paramedics were in the stands,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: rushing into the stands with stretchers. People were overcome by
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: the heat at Darryl King.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the game started at 2.30 p.m. local time.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: in Austin.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: And so they got like 100,000 people, whatever it is there.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: The forecast said 97 degrees, but conditions were expected to
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: feel about 107 in direct sunlight. And these people are drinking.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: They're standing out there. Fans were seeking shelter and shade.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Medical personnel tending to people suffering from the heat.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: And.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: What about the fans? Fans weed, man. They're needing medical attention.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I didn't think the players would go down.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: It's like sitting in a frying pan.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: You've been to these games in the hot weather.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: It's brutal.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: It's... It's going to be a little bit warm, that's
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: for sure.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had four designated cooling stations. I
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: don't know, Matt. I'm sure there'll be lawsuits. People sue
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: for everything, right? That's what people do. They file lawsuits.
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: Well, here in Tennessee this week, they actually, you know,
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: it was quite warm.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: They had air conditioning.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Calm down, Wee Man. Go ahead, JT.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: It was our warmest week. Yesterday was actually the warmest
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: day of the year in Knoxville. And the football teams took,
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: took a cue from FIFA and they had hydration breaks
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: during the Friday night football games.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Oh man.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Crazy.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: That is crazy.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Well, we met you're in Miami. It gets hot, but
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: it never doesn't. It never go like a hundred degrees
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: in Miami, right?
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: It's always, No, you see, every night you see the
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: danger areas on the map, on the news, and it's
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: never Miami.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Miami's never 110 like it is in some parts of
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: the country.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: But it's always warm in Miami. It's just never.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: It's always warm.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Never like over 100.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Ryan in Shrewsbury... Mass writes in. He says, hey, Ben,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: and special guests, or whatever. I've been away for a while,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: but I've been keeping up with the podcast. We have
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: had a family tragedy. My beloved father-in-law sadly passed away
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: on August 21st.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: After a brief battle with cancer.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Me and the wife will be doing a cancer walk
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: October 4th in Boston. Sticking with this sad topic, Ryan says,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: do you think there will ever be a cure for
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the terrible disease this terrible disease, or do you think
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: there is a cure, but keeping it away from the public?
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: That's from Ryan. Yeah, well, I'm not a doctor.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I can play one on the radio. But from what
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: I understand, the problem is cancer is not one thing.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: You know how people say Africa, there's a million countries
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: in Africa? Cancer is not just one thing. It's a
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: bunch of different types of, as I understand it. I
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: lost my mom to cancer.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: It's a problem. It's a horrible thing.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I've lost several relatives to it. So it's, it's, it's brutal,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: you know, but it's not, as I understand it, it's
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: not just one thing. And they have been able to
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: solve some of, some of the cancers. And it's like,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: as a, as a man, like prostate cancer, you get screen,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: you can, it is preventative in that they can catch
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: it early and it's not that big a deal and
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. So like, there are certain things like that.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I don't, Yeah, like the conspiracy, I don't think that
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: they have the cure for it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Have they? Come on, it's a scary, scary thing. When
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: I think about dying, I.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: attacks and cancer are the only thing I can kill
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: people these days.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Well, there's other things, too. But, yeah, no, I got it.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: And I believe the conspiracy more that there's a way
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: to run cars on water.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: I believe that more than I believe there's a... Because famous... No, no, no.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Back back but jt the we may remember the story
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: back in the old days there was a guy supposedly
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: came up with a way to run a car on
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: one water and then he he got he got whacked
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: i guess that was the lady yeah you see.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: Those internet you see those internet oh no i never
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: just i never heard that my.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Life calm down we may go ahead jt.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: Yes yeah you see i'll see those things every once
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: in a while online that you can plug in something
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: to like the uh the data port in your car
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: and It'll increase your gas mileage to 150 miles per gallon.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: I'm like, this is real. Everybody would know about this.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: The conspiracy is the oil companies were like, that'll kill
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: their business.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: If you can run on water, then why would you
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: need oil? That would destroy the global oil economy.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: You can run cars on anything but gas. That's insane.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Well, you would think you would be able to. I mean,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: you can run a car on electricity.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know about water.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: All right, let's do a couple more. We've gotten very
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: long here. You guys are so great. I love you both.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: And Lisa as well.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: I love all of you.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: All right, Joey from L.A. writes in, have enjoyed your
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: show for many years here living in SoCal. I saw
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: a clip.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: From your show was used on Pablo Torre's YouTube show
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: on the Dodgers and Magic Johnson. Did you know he
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: was going to use it? And are you friends with him?
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: That's from Joey in LA. No, I had no idea
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: he was going to use it, and I have never
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: met him in my life. I'm happy that he did.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: They got a lot of attention on Friday. But no,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I don't think they asked for permission. They
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: just said courtesy of the Ben Maller show on there.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: And they used like a small clip.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: It was not a.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Not a big thing. But thanks for noticing, Joey. I
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: appreciate that. Any publicity we can get, we have no
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: marketing budget. No marketing budget. Kyle from Indiana writes in, says, Benny,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: watching your YouTube videos, I've noticed a bunch of different hats.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: How do you decide which hat to wear per night?
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Can listeners send in hats? What size are you blocked?
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Blah, blah, blah. Yes, Kyle. I don't get any mail.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, the only person who gets mail now is Lorena.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: She's the only one that gets mail. None of us
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: are allowed to get mail other than Lorena. She's got
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: hot girl privileges. So I used to get hats all
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: the time. I'm a size eight. I love minor league hats.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: I love hats with B on them. I love local businesses,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: supporting local businesses, mom and pop businesses and all that. I,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: you know, like I said, anything is good. Kyle also
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: says big fan here in the Hoosier state. You should
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: come here and do a meet and greet. I would
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: love to do that, Kyle. We don't have an endless budget.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Why don't we do one more here? One more, and
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: we'll do a round robin here. Everybody's involved here. Marshall
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: from Colorado writes in, and he says, Snoop Dogg is hiring.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: For the world's greatest job. Hey, this could be your gig.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Weed Man.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: He says, apparently this is a real gig, and it's
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: not just a publicity stunt.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: According to the New York Post, Snoop Dogg's Dr.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Bombay ice cream brand is hiring its first international ice
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: cream taster.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: The pay is $ 10, 000 per month for three months.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: $ 30, 000!
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: I'll do it!
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: $ 10, 000!
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: $ 10, 000! $ 10, 000!
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Not very often does Weed Man get excited about a job.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: I know, right?
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: It's an independent contractor position. The mission is essentially taste
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: ice cream, travel, discover trends.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Weed Man, I love you. What else does it say
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: about this?
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I guess anybody can apply for it. And you don't
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: have to have any professional credentials. Do you even like ice.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Cream, though, Weed Man? Are you even a foodie?
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Asking my young show all right all.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Right i'm just checking i got you uh 30 applications
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: open in late august uh and so they will stay
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: open for a couple more i guess it's still over
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: i'll try to find you the link weed man i'll send.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: You the link how about that oh that'd be great
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Can you imagine, JT, if he got.
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: No problem, they'll just email him back. Good luck with.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: That, Weed Man. That's a good point. It sounds like
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: working in a Baskin-Robbins store.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: JT brings up a good point. You don't have email,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Weed Man. How are you going to apply for the job?
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: You have to have an email address to apply for
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: the job, buddy.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: I don't know. That's hard. Lisa, you'll do that, okay?
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: But that's not her response. How old are you even?
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: My God.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: All right. Anyway, we'll get out of it. Listen, I
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: love you both.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: It's a holiday weekend. You guys, we record this at
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: an odd time. We had to wake JT up here.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Are we done?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Well, we're not. Pick it up, Weed Man. This is
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: the wrap up here.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: JT, do you have anything you want to promote? JT
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: the Wingman, I'll let you go first.
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: I'm just looking forward to the next meeting. It'll be
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: number seven. Seeing you last week was fantastic, Ben. Weed Man,
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: getting to speak with you one-on-one for the first time.
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: Another pleasure and another first. It's been a great night
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: and I really appreciate this. Or good morning, of course,
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: because it's Sunday.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: That's right. All right. And Weed Man, anything you want
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: to promote, Weed Man? Anything at all?
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: I love you.
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: Just know, just know, you know, I used to do
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: a television show for years.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: In my life. And the only thing I love doing
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: in my.
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: Life is talking to people and loving people and showing
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: people the better side of life, that life is good
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: and happy and He's always happy. And this is like
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: the only chance I've ever gotten in this part of
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: my life.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: To do anything like this. I love you, Ben. Thank you.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: We love you. You get great energy, Weed Man. Try
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: to get an email.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Then you can get back on Twitter and X and
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: all your people will love you. And so if you
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: get an email address, you get back on Twitter.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Well, I can have my name spelled wrong. It's crazy.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: Well, you can change that. There's ways to change it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: And Lisa, thank you for staying up and being part
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: of this as well.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm happy, happy, healthy. Awesome Labor Day weekend, everyone.
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: Labor Day, how about that?
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: Labor Day, it's Labor Day every day for you, Bill.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: That's a good point. Yes, Weed Man, it's Labor Day
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: every day.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: We're on for Monday. You're not taking off, huh?
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: I am not.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: I was forced to take a day off in Vegas
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: because I couldn't get a studio, but I will be
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: working as far, unless something happens, I will be in
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: every night.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: So we'll have fresh radio shows every single night. Have
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: a great day.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: I'll be there Monday. And thank you so much for
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: having me on this now. This is great. I love it.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: All right, and have a great rest of your Sunday.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: And we'll be back tonight on the regular radio show.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: All right, there's a lot of noise. Bye-bye.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: All right, see you.