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The Fifth Hour: Maller Year-End Special · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cut booms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a 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: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. It is a special edition, a
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  Speaker 1: holiday edition of the Ben Mahler Show, and a very
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  Speaker 1: happy holiday to you, and a special hour we look
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  Speaker 1: back to some of the great moments this year on
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  Speaker 1: the show. We'll start out with weed Man Hit. This
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  Speaker 1: was a new bit on the show, weed Management of Caller.
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  Speaker 1: He's a character, his name is Billy. He lives in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: He loves the show, and he's called us for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, many years, and he always wanted his own segment.
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  Speaker 1: So one day this year we just said, ah, what
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  Speaker 1: the heck, why not? And that led us to the
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  Speaker 1: debut of Ask a weed Man. Let's go back in
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  Speaker 1: the hot tub time machine and take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: that very first edition of Ask a weed Man. Weed Man,
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  Speaker 1: What is this what are we doing here? Are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Ask a weed Man? Is that what you want to do?
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  Speaker 4: Right now?
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  Speaker 1: Ask a weed Man?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Please, all right, well do it right now. Give out
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  Speaker 1: the number right now. We'll hang up on some of
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  Speaker 1: these idiots and call right now eight seven, seven ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine on Fox. We're gonna do Ask a weed Man.
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  Speaker 1: This is a trial run. And if you want to
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  Speaker 1: send a question in hashtag ask a weed Man. And
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  Speaker 1: are we starting it right now? Yeah, we're doing it
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  Speaker 1: right now. Do we have any music for this?
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  Speaker 4: Or?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 5: We do?
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  Speaker 1: All right, little music, get me in the mood. Here
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  Speaker 1: we go, all right? Ask Do you have any opening
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on Ask a weed Man? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Everybody should be rich and free and speak the same language.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's you just believe they should be like
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  Speaker 1: a universe. Isn't the emoji language the universal language of
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  Speaker 1: the world that we all speak emoji?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know. I don't know why we don't
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  Speaker 6: speak the same language.
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  Speaker 3: We should.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because there's people that, uh, you know, there's big
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  Speaker 1: The world's a big place, weed man. But you're the guy.
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  Speaker 1: It's this is not my bit, it's your bit. Ask
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  Speaker 1: a weed man. Let's say hello to it says Tokyo
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  Speaker 1: t K. Is that correct? I think I'm saying that correct. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Tokyo t K. You're on with weed Man. It's ask
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  Speaker 1: a weed Man.
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  Speaker 5: Well that's the way I called. But I'll do you
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  Speaker 5: think the language that we should all use would be
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  Speaker 5: at fronto?
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  Speaker 1: Weed Man? Your thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what happened to the Montreal explodes?
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  Speaker 1: That's a non secretor weed Man? You're you're this is
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  Speaker 1: ask a weed Man. You've got a guy who says
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  Speaker 1: you're in Japan? Is that correct? Sir?
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  Speaker 4: What's your question? Again?
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  Speaker 5: That's not why I'm called. But if you're going to
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  Speaker 5: pick a language for everybody should be at yeah, go Toronto?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Why did you call? Did you call the
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  Speaker 1: rip weed Man? Is that what you call?
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  Speaker 5: No? I called because weed Man when he said this
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  Speaker 5: last week, he gave me an idea. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: you're in no shortage of good idea, fairies. But I
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  Speaker 5: thought to myself, how about Mallard's Mountain of myths back
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  Speaker 5: where he constantly gives out free stuff to everybody else?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that would be weed Man's dream. That would be
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  Speaker 1: the absolute dream for weed Man, who so wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to give him stuff. How many years have you begged
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  Speaker 1: for stuff? Weed man? Come on every year? Every year?
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  Speaker 1: Every year? Yeah, I mean at least you don't. The
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  Speaker 1: great news is he lost his password to his Gmail account,
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  Speaker 1: so he no longer says, you know, send me money.
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  Speaker 1: He lost his passwords, so even if you send him money,
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  Speaker 1: he won't be able to get his money. You also
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  Speaker 1: lost your password on on Twitter, right, weed man, So
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  Speaker 1: you're not on there anymore. Yeah, yeah, you can't get on.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can get another account, weed man. You
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  Speaker 1: are able to get another account. You wear that. But
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  Speaker 1: all right, well thank you. That's a great idea. But
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  Speaker 1: I we'll move on. It's ask a weed Man. There
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  Speaker 1: you go first, call weed man right out of the box.
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  Speaker 1: And now just Josh writes in on ask a weed Man.
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  Speaker 1: He says, weed man, do you shower more than once
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  Speaker 1: a week? And did the mice ever return your teeth?
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  Speaker 3: The mice never return my teeth?
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  Speaker 6: And I shower more than.
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  Speaker 1: Once a week? Yes, one and a half times a week,
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  Speaker 1: weed man? Maybe h three times a week? Look at
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  Speaker 1: the heck? Good? Is that good?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to shower every day. Let's go to Josh
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  Speaker 1: in it's ask a weed Man and Josh is in Orlando. Josh,
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  Speaker 1: you're on with weed man, hippie weed Man.
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  Speaker 2: Damn.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I got a question. What is the best.
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  Speaker 8: Vehicle to be homeless?
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  Speaker 2: And it would be one of those boats flagging.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, that's a great question. That's a great question. We
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  Speaker 1: all listen, weed man, we're all a couple of mistakes
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  Speaker 1: away from being homeless. So what's the greatest vehicle if
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  Speaker 1: you are planning on becoming home?
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  Speaker 3: Chevy and pala v.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this is great. Ask a weed man. This is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Our friend from Miami, this is his debut. This is
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  Speaker 1: your first bit late night drug tester writes, and he says, well,
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  Speaker 1: the penny no longer being minted effect your panhandling. That's
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  Speaker 1: some late night drug tester. All right, Trucker Joe writes
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  Speaker 1: in from the highways and byeways, he says, Ask a
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  Speaker 1: weed Man will go just as good as Benny and
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  Speaker 1: the weed Man did in Vegas with those all those
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  Speaker 1: high prices. Weed man, listen, you don't want to do
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  Speaker 1: you want to bring back Benny versus the Benny and
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  Speaker 1: the weed Man. And all right, all right, let's take
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  Speaker 1: another call. Let's go to Mike in Detroit. Hello, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: you're on with weed Man Hippie.
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  Speaker 6: Was from Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: What up? Weed Man?
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  Speaker 1: How you do you remember me?
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  Speaker 6: I'm a tote talk driver. You stayed at my house
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  Speaker 6: in Northern Borider, remember you.
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  Speaker 4: We.
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  Speaker 1: Man. Remember this is the guy I remember you. You
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  Speaker 1: accuse me of having you kidnapped? Remember you? You begged
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  Speaker 1: for a place to stay, And.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just a tot talk driver.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, wow, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we'll move on from that person. That must be a
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  Speaker 1: phony folk. DJ. Mike is in Kansas City. It's ask
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  Speaker 1: a weed Man, DJ. You're on with our buddy in Miami.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's great, weed man. When you're playing five dollars
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  Speaker 6: black jack and you've got a sixteen against the dealers ten,
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  Speaker 6: are you hitting or are you staying?
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  Speaker 1: Great? Great question.
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  Speaker 5: I'm staying.
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  Speaker 1: Your snaking? No, no, no, no, you gotta you gotta hit.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, great question, DJ Mike. Because you think gambling,
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  Speaker 1: you think weed man. Hippie Rob in the three two one,
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  Speaker 1: But this is going better than I thought. Rob in
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  Speaker 1: the three two one is ask a weed Man?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Rob, weeds Man, how you doing. You're highly entertaining.
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  Speaker 8: So if you ever want to meet Jeff Bezos or
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  Speaker 8: Elon Musk and they said, hey, would you like a
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  Speaker 8: free trip to the moon, would you take it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? Absolutely you would.
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  Speaker 1: What if it was a one way ticket, though, weed man,
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't come back? Would you know? All right? Thank you, Rob,
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  Speaker 1: It's ask a weed man, Bud. These are great questions.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see here, mister irrigation from Houston rights instances. Is
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  Speaker 1: there any certain way that running from the cops can
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  Speaker 1: turn out successfully? Great question for mister irrigation. Wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Not unless you get away.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta get away, though, Have you ever gotten Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever been able to get away? Weed man? I've
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  Speaker 1: known you a long time.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're not very I actually did.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, really, And irrigation shitting me a beautiful ben.
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  Speaker 1: Now a rig there you go. Enjoy that. Yes. Freddie
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  Speaker 1: writes and says, what's your dream vacation? Ask a weed man?
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  Speaker 8: He says, my dream vacation is coming out of California
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  Speaker 8: and staying with Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my, No, let's make it happen. No, no, we don't.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need that, weed man. Let's say hello to
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  Speaker 1: nurse jockey in Cannes City. We're doing a random new bid.
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  Speaker 1: It's ask a weed Man or friend Billy. He's in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Longtime loyal minion of this show. He sat through hurricanes
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  Speaker 1: because of our show and done all kinds of crazy things.
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  Speaker 1: Nurse jockey, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, weed Man, I just want to know if you
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  Speaker 5: have a patient who codes, what are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: I'm I don't know what you might want to call
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  Speaker 1: the corner at that point or something like that. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, nurse. An amazing question. Our last one from
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  Speaker 1: King Rory. He says, does weed Man have more than
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  Speaker 1: one pair of underwear?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 9: I do?
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  Speaker 1: All right? All right, well, I lie. There's actually a
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  Speaker 1: few more questions here. Let's see. Steve says, weed Man,
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  Speaker 1: hippie to you is what Guillermo is to Jimmy Kimmel.
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  Speaker 1: At least, he says, you're not making fun of Mexicans
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  Speaker 1: like Kim goes. I don't know about that. Benito says,
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  Speaker 1: what is the best beer to drink? That's from Benito,
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  Speaker 1: the long suffering cowboy fan. That's your go to beer?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Well, listen, weed Man. Amazing, what a great
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  Speaker 1: segment that was. Everyone loved it. We'll do it again. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I love you all right every Monday night, ask a
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  Speaker 1: weed Man. Well, that was quite the segment of talk
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  Speaker 1: radio with weed Man Hippie. Up ahead, as this hour
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  Speaker 1: continues on the greatest hits of the Ben Mahler Show
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  Speaker 1: from the year twenty twenty five, we'll look back at
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  Speaker 1: a legend, a childhood hero who left us this year. Also,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most zany moments of the entire basketball
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  Speaker 1: season was a transaction. We'll take a look back at
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  Speaker 1: that night as well. When the Ben Mallor Show continues.
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  Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan died. I grew up a huge wrestling fan
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  Speaker 1: and one of my first childhood heroes was Hulk Hogan.
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  Speaker 1: Loved professional wrestling, and we spent some time honoring and
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  Speaker 1: giving a eulogy for hul Hogan, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go back and this the end of the year and
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  Speaker 1: take listen again here let you hear some of my
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  Speaker 1: thoughts at the moment as the Hulk a Maniac himself,
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  Speaker 1: the leader of Hulk A Maniacs Everywhere, passed away earlier
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  Speaker 1: this year. And we're gonna start with a wrestling story.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know by now I'm assuming you heard.
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  Speaker 1: It's really the biggest story I believe in sports, and
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  Speaker 1: I assume you've figured it out. But the wrestling world
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  Speaker 1: and the sporting world mourning the death of a legend
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  Speaker 1: that transcended what was at that time the WWF now
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  Speaker 1: the WWE. Hulk Hogan is dead. Died in Florida cardiac
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  Speaker 1: arrest early in the morning hours on Thursday. I was
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  Speaker 1: seventy one years old and was born Terry Bulla and
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  Speaker 1: he joined the WWF in the early nineteen eighties and
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  Speaker 1: within a couple of years had become the biggest personality
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  Speaker 1: and really put that operation on the map and made
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people a lot of money in those
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  Speaker 1: days and even to this day, the day that Hulk
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  Speaker 1: Hogan left the mortal coil that we all share here,
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  Speaker 1: the revenues and the impact of the WDA are just
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  Speaker 1: next level. So let us discuss the question what are
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  Speaker 1: you going to remember about the life of Hulk Hogan.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I got shag Carpet, Prince Charming,
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  Speaker 1: and bulletproof, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are gonna make the Goba Ghul. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make the gobag so A. The main reason I'm
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  Speaker 1: starting with this is it hits close to home, right,
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  Speaker 1: A chunk of my childhood as growing up and not
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  Speaker 1: knowing much about anything, like we all start out. A
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  Speaker 1: bunch of my childhood is gone. The man with the
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  Speaker 1: twenty four inch pythons and the Fu Manchu mustache and
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing is gone. That's it. See you later.
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  Speaker 1: Now what do I remember? What do I really remember?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and there I go on
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  Speaker 1: with all scandals, lawsuits, the reality show, all that. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: There's no question hul Hogan was a flawed man, There's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But what I'm going to remember
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  Speaker 1: is my youth. Hulcomania right flashing back. I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: fat kid. Haul Cogan burst onto the consciousness of America
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  Speaker 1: as I was growing up, and I saw it through
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  Speaker 1: my eyes, the eyes of a child. It was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Fired off man, haul Coke impact that he has was
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  Speaker 1: next level on the culture in the nineteen eighties. This
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  Speaker 1: was a guy that stood in my head. This is
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  Speaker 1: how fed up I was as a kid. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you like me, I don't know how old
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  Speaker 1: you are. Maybe you're younger than me, and you think, well, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're just a boomer, dude, what are you doing. But
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  Speaker 1: as a child, in my head, like hul Cogan was
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  Speaker 1: toe to toe, belly to belly with the cartoon heroes
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  Speaker 1: that we all worshiped, like he was he man, you
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  Speaker 1: Captain of America. Hulk Hogan was them, except he was real.
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  Speaker 1: You said, no, he was. You're just a loser. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll try telling that to ten year old fat Benny
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  Speaker 1: who was sitting with his legs crossed on some shag
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  Speaker 1: carpet my parents bought years earlier, in front of those
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  Speaker 1: giant televisions that was the size of a Toyota and
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  Speaker 1: watching hul Cogan become a national treasure. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: do the whole Mount Rushmore thing. Other people do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that, but in my head,
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  Speaker 1: and I could be completely wrong about this, what do
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  Speaker 1: I know? But in my head, if I think back
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  Speaker 1: to that era in my youth, the biggest names in
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  Speaker 1: sports in the nineteen eighties, that's Joe Montana with the
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  Speaker 1: forty nine ers, Magic Johnson with the Lakers. In boxing,
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  Speaker 1: it was Mike Tyson, and it was Hulk Hogan, all
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  Speaker 1: of them larger than life. Of course, those other guys
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  Speaker 1: played real sports. Hulk was not about that. He was
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  Speaker 1: a spectacle. It was the theme music, the real American
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  Speaker 1: and all that. We played some of that and just
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing, the national anthem on Saturday mornings. And
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  Speaker 1: that was the Stone Age.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in the Stone Age. There was no
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  Speaker 1: Internet and all that. You'd watch the cartoons. You had
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  Speaker 1: the big big hit, you had Transformers, Gi Joe, and
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  Speaker 1: then boom right into WWF Superstars with my original broadcast
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  Speaker 1: hero Mean gene Okerland, who stood there in a tuxedo
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  Speaker 1: talking to giants, literal giants like Andre the Giant. It
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  Speaker 1: was absurd. As a kid, it was glorious. It was wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give a little taste here, so we
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  Speaker 1: have a little clip here. This is Mean gene Oakerland,
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  Speaker 1: Hulk Cogan and Macho Man Randy Savage. They're all gone now,
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  Speaker 1: they're all dead. But listen to this. This is this
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  Speaker 1: is what it was like watching this as a kid. Tigers,
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  Speaker 1: Oh Comania, two Mega Powers, being Air, the Mine, Hulk Hogan,
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  Speaker 1: what has happened?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know me, Geen, we really don't know what
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  Speaker 4: we're dealing with here, man, And I'm just kind of
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  Speaker 4: a little worried about washing up here because we just
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  Speaker 4: might pull the whole planet up. You know, everybody knows
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  Speaker 4: that whole Comania is the strongest force in this universe.
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  Speaker 4: But when I get that ring and I saw what
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  Speaker 4: the madness was all about, I realized there was a
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  Speaker 4: whole other universe out there, a whole on the frontier,
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  Speaker 4: and the power of the mad in the media just
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  Speaker 4: bloom on twenty four inch guns out.
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  Speaker 1: You mean to tell me there is another solar system
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  Speaker 1: monto Wolton state of shock right now? All right? So no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and tell you they
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  Speaker 1: were all doing coke. But you know, I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: that at the time, but looking back, they probably were.
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  Speaker 1: But page two here, what was the secret ingredient as
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  Speaker 1: we say goodbye and pour one out for Haul Cochin?
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  Speaker 1: What was the thing that made him so special in
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  Speaker 1: the wrestling game? Well, the obvious thing that you don't
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  Speaker 1: need me to tell you. This guy was one of
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  Speaker 1: the great showmen, charismatic, He had this magnetic personality, great
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  Speaker 1: stage presence. Vince McMahon and his dad cooked up the
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  Speaker 1: formula which had been around for a while in professional
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  Speaker 1: wrestling was the WWF at the time, and it was
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  Speaker 1: the age old battle between the good and the bad, right,
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  Speaker 1: the good and the bad and all that, and the
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  Speaker 1: rivalries between what they call in that business the baby
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  Speaker 1: faces versus the heels. That is responsible, that sells the
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  Speaker 1: tickets right, gets people intrigued and all that. But nobody
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  Speaker 1: did it better than the Hulkster, and he was able
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  Speaker 1: to blur the lines between fiction and reality. Again, as
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  Speaker 1: a kid, I'm sure there were adulta who is the
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  Speaker 1: dumbest thing in the world, But as a kid, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, this was Prince Charming, mesmerizing, captivating and just
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: how successful was it? The number that is mind blowing?
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Going back at WrestleMania, I think it was the famous
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania three in the early eighties. There were thirty three
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: million people that watched hul Cogan versus Andre the Giant.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Thirty three million, And I put that in context. Our
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: friend in Fox Sports Radio's form a morning host and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: FSR alumni member Klay Travis pointed out more people watched
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: that than the World Series, the NBA Finals, and the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Final combined. This year, if you combined all
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: of those events, there were more people watching a staged
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: wrestling match between Hull Cogan and Andrea the Giant. And
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: you know, look, I get it now. You know, we
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: know now how it's scripted. But back then, as a
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: naive kid, I didn't think about it, didn't really care,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: didn't know. It was just magical. You'd see Hulk Hogan
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: there sweating like he was, you know, dying under the lights,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: dripping water, hulking up if you will, and obviously on
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: steroids that came out later. They were all on steroids,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: it seemed, uh. And then you know, shaking the the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: righteous fury as as he could in those early days
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and pointing the finger of doom and all that. And
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: you know some loser villain guy, you know, the iron
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: chic who literally, I think literally really like hates Hault
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Cogan like it is, you know, the end of the life,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Big John Studd, Rowdy Roddy Piper Enow. If you're if
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you're of a certain age, these are massive names. If
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: you're also of a younger age, you're thinking, boy, this
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: is the worst monologue ever. Oh my god, this is terrible.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: But just let me just let me finish this, okay.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: So then Hulk had the leg drop the signature move,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: you know, one, two three, the crowd goes wild, the
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: music hits, he's flexing the biceps there, and he could
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: solve all the world's problems all in that moment. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Halcogan did he get rich? Well, everything's relative, right. He
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: made a lot of money, made a lot of money.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: He also lived very interesting life away from the ring,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: involving you know, sex, drugs, rock and roll, all that,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: and you know, bad decisions and things and so spanning
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: his his career. Based on a minutes long Mallar investigation,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: starting in the nineteen eighties, when hulk Amania took off,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: it's estimated haul Cogan made one hundred and fifty to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars before taxes, before paying off spouses
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and other poor decisions that he made. And remember, money
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: was worth more in the eighties. It was worth more
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: in the nineties than it is today. Just like you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: if we get to twenty fifty, money today is going
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to be worth more than was is then. Now the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: last word here, So how much power, power, power, power
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: did Hulkogan have over kids in those early days? And
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I can speak of this because I was a kid,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: so we all bought it right. In my head, every
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: kid bought in completely. He was the master salesman. You
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: talk about product placement, the Hulk Mania T shirts, the
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: action figures, all kinds of crap that's in landfills right now.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And I was a kid that got fat on WWFA,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: these ice cream bars that I got, and I was
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: convinced that I had to get these. I remember pestering
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: my dear old mom if she rest in peace, I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: had to get my hands on those WWF ice cream bars.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And I couldn't stop eating them. I thought they were
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the greatest right and the whole thing right. And now
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I was more of a mean gene Oakland guy, but
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I couldn't wear a tuxiedo. I remember me and my
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: older brother we went to the Anaheim Convention Center, which
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: is an absolute shole, but there was wrestling there and
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: we stayed after to see the wrestlers walk out to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: their to their car. You know, there was like a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: bus thing take them to the hotel. And uh. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: remember seeing these guys and they were wearing like these
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: uh soprano. You know, if you remember the old jumpsuits
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: they would wear back in those days. And so I'd
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: see these them. Oh man, they're out, they're out of
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: uniform and all that. I was like, wow. But so
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I got fat on the WWF ice cream bars. I
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: blame hul Cogan. But then in my head I ate
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the vitamins. And and so I figured, like, if just
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: you eat the Hulk, Hogan endorsed vitamins, and that would
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: make you bulletproof in my head as a kid, right,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, Hulk told me, he said, to all my
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: little Hulk maniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins, and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you will never go wrong. So I thought, Okay, I
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: could eat the ice cream bars, I'll get fat, but
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: then i'll take the vitamins. I'll be fine. And I'm
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: telling you there were a lot of us who did
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: just that, right because we believed, you know, this was
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: bigger than just wrestling and all that and uh and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and those are the things I'll remember. And again the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: headlines are there. And obviously as a cynical, jaded, middle
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: aged talk show host, I've seen all the controversies. The
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Gocker thing, he took down Gocker, the bubble, the love sponge,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you know, stooping his wife. The holy I mean, listen,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that's all out there. You can get that. You can
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: do that if you want, you know, that reality stuff
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: that came later in my life. But I choose to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: remember the day that hall Cogan died. I chose to
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: remember the simpler time being fat little Benny watching mean
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Jeane introduced hall Cogan hyping up some event. Hey ww,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I'm coming to the you know whatever arena, you know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: coming to arena near you, you know, and not the jaded,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: middle aged gas bag that I've become, but more of
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the wide eyed Benny bright side ice cream all over
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: my hands, chocolate, the whole thing, because that was the time.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: You know, everything's like this when you're a kid, right,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the world just feels amazing. Everything's ahead of you and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: you feel like you could body slam anything. And and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that was Halcogan. So anyway, rest in peace, Hal Cogan.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Hapy Holidays. It is I Ben Mahler as we continue
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: this special hour looking back at the year twenty twenty five,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and two of the zanier characters that we have on
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the show are blind Scott from the North End of
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Boston and hollering James from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and they got
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: together and started doing impersonations on a random night of
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: another caller, Poppy from San Diego, and laughs were had
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: by all. Take a listen, let's go back and this
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: special holiday edition, we'll take a look back at that moment.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So let's see hell Poppy in San Diego. Hello Poppy, Hey,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I just want to say I love the introl. How
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: you you know, listen to your mentor read that intro.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Was like fire?
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: You know I loved it. I loved it, and Ben
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: for you know that we're gonna be having Poppy versus
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Lorena for season two. Right, I'm excited.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Let me check my notes here. I don't. I don't
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: see that on the notes. I don't.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't show up, Poppy. You were supposed to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: show up every week and you didn't show up.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: And well, yeah, I already know what you were gonna say,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Ben Mala. But look, let me explain to you. Poppy
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: is a hard worker. Maybe you know you're saying I
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: didn't show up one week, but I'm always gonna be
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: there for season two. But I was working in the
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: morning all the way to the night. Like hard worker.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: You know I'm a hard worker, so you know, maybe
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: you know for this time, but I'm not there. We
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: can have like a fake poppy, like weed man, you know,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: like a fake weed man, have a fake poppy.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: So who would be a fake poppy? Who do you
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: think would do a good fake poppy?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I mean a fake poppy A man. A lot of
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: good callers out there that would do that. I mean, man,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe maybe someone I say, blind Scott
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: on my mind or something like that.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: All right, hold on a sec hold on, blind Scott.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Can you do a fake poppy voice? If poppy came, everybody,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: it's Poppy.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I haven't worked for the past month because I've been
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: taking a pat.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Of my car. I got the wheel off, I got
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: my I got my little loop here.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: All right, wow, okay, all right, hold on his poppy?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: How is that poppy? Do you like that? It was
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: that a good? Is that a good fill in for you?
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: No?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you're you're regretting. Wait wait wait, wait,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: wait wait, who's talking right now? I don't know who
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that was. I don't know both lines are up. I'm
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: not sure who just said that?
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Oh that was me? That was me.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: That was That's a great one, Scott, all right, what
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: about hollering James? You think James would be a good poppy?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: All right, let me check with him, hold on, hold
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: on a sec. Hollering James? Would you like to be
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the fill in as the fake poppy? Hollering James? All right,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: well the real poppy, stand up poppy? Did you like that?
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Do you think hollering James would be a good poppy?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Man, I love that he made me love, he made me.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Laugh, Yeah, he made me he made me cry, he
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: made me cry. Yeah, all right, So that are we
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: gonna settle on hollering James?
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Man, I would love to hear other people wandering like
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: a fake.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: All right, Let's see what Toning in the Bay Area? Tony,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: would you like to be the fake poppy? Toning the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Bay Area?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers looks like a gay whereas Waldough, what.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Do you think that poppy? You think that would be
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: a good fake poppy?
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Man, I don't think that, all right?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Apparently, how about Mike the Leprecaun. I see Michael Leprecaun. Mike, Yeah,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: would you like to be the fake poppy? Mike the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Leprecaun in the Boston area. Would you like to be
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the fake Poppy Mike the Leprecaun.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: I will, but don't put me off.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Hold out pop picks.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick the changers, and I'd like to then
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: picks annoying, Okay.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: And ruin.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, We're going so good. We were three for three
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and then we had to go for the fourth and
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: then man, all right, sorry, Poppy, I guess it's gotta
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: be hollering. James. Well, that was very interesting, and no
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: look back at the year on the Ben Malor Show
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: would be complete without taking a look at the biggest
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: night of the year. It's called the Malard Palooza. It's
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: our talent show, it's our spin on the Talent Show.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: And the big winners this year a duet we had
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: just Josh from Cincinnati and Jays Scoop from Northern California.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: These guys are senior members of the Mallard Militia. They're
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: so talented. They teamed up to give us a performance
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: for the ages. They were the big winners of the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Mallard Palooza. Let's go back and take a listen. Let's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: get to it here without further Ado the final act
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: of the Malor Palooza. Let's listen.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: Look, if you had one take one phone call say
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: everything you ever wanted. It's big Glen Mallan. Would you
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: pick up the phone or.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Just let it sit?
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Yo?
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: His car is ready, still has love for Eddie Brobacab.
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: You shun a sweat already like Jed and Fleddy insane,
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: but it's a shame. I feel a donut like Kelly's
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: lepper Kahn, the one who has lubrain a Freddie straight
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: out of Mallattown.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Weed Man smells sala.
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: He opens his mouth and his teeth just fell out.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: He's smoking. How all the lame jokes?
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: So now the clocks run out now, but wins cool.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: For blast snap crack.
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: There's an injury yoke. The goals that Nubie yoke. The
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: goals would be he joked myself mad. But he won't
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: bring it home like it won't He won't have it.
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: He knows it could be worse to show. When Lega
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: Bama Man no for s time called to show one time. Listen,
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: we know when he goes back to this mobile phone,
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: that's when it's coop screen and crap again yoke this
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: so militia theme. Better go capture this penny and ope
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: it don't be better move yourself from the high seat.
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: It's lop be like pop be your color's gonna.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Hit the goat. You will only get one shot. It's
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. This opportunity knocks on the bed of shot.
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: Make yourself like you know g and Cortina not a
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: deal and Donna never let it go.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: You will only get one shot. It's Fox Sports.
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: Wait, Yo, this opportunity knocks on the matter show.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: You can do anything.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: You shut your mind, you wish there. It is what
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a p performance by Jay Scoop and Just Josh outstanding
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: as they never disappoint those those guys and again these
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: are guys that met because of the show. Just Josh
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: has been listening for many years in Cincinnati, and then
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Jayscoop is in California. Now he used to be in
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Seattle and here they are. They teamed up and they
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: put these songs together. Let's go to our our judge
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: inco Terror who again inco Warrior dot com. Is your website?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Is that correct? INCA If people want to go and
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: watch you perform somewhere it is. He's got that and
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Inca performs all over the United States and all over
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the world. He's a classically trained pianist, very talented man.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: And you know, people in that world don't want to
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: know about this world, but we love you inco Terra.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: So final final act here, how did you judge the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: dynamic duo of Jayscoop and Just Josh?
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: It was You're right, they always do better than they
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: did before, and I would have given.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Them a sixteen, but it is pre recorded, so I'm
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: giving them a twelve.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Twelve, alright, twelve. I loved it. I thought it was wonderful.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: These guys have been great supporters of ours. Was pre recorded.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I gave Ohio a pretty high score. I'm gonna give
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: them the same. I'm gonna give it nine and a half.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go nine and a half for Jay Scoop
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and Just Josh. Lorena. Yeah, they got a ten for me.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Ben ten, Yeah, erteen, Kopeloop nine and a half, nine
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and a half, and my wife said a ten as well.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: What a fitting ending to this hour. But as you know,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: in radio hours never end. A special look back at
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five on the Ben Malor show
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: happy holidays. We look forward to many great nights together
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty six and beyond. Later, Skater
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: got a murder.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: I gotta go.