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The Fifth Hour: Supervillains Poppy & The Leprechaun Mailbag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: with ben maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: In the air everywhere, the fifth hour with me, Ben Maller,
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  Speaker 2: as we slide into a brand new month, the first
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  Speaker 2: pod of the month of November, the time change, all
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff, as it is the first day of November,
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  Speaker 2: which means we are ready. We are ready for the
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  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving festivities at the end of the month and then
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  Speaker 2: obviously the Christmas holidays. But it is the mailbag on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: so we spin the wheel of Malheur Militia Legends. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: competing to try to get on the mailbag. Big money,
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  Speaker 2: big money, no whammy. Stop! And we have a round table,
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  Speaker 2: not the round table pizza, which is available on the
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  Speaker 2: West Coast. But no, we have a round table on
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  Speaker 2: this mailbag. And now stepping in to the mailbag, a veteran...
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  Speaker 2: His birthday wishes coming true from the Commonwealth, the man
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  Speaker 2: that hosted the rollicking Malheur meet and greet that we
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  Speaker 2: did in Boston and in Worcester. He's a man, a legend,
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  Speaker 2: and a leprechaun. That's his Halloween costume. Mike the Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 2: There he is. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 3: Hello there. Arthur and the Round Table, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. And making his debut, a polarizing caller.
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  Speaker 2: A man that is either loved or despised. It depends.
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  Speaker 2: It's not easy being that guy. You saw him in
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  Speaker 2: a commercial for Uber back in the day. He gives
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  Speaker 2: out his picks, whether we want them or not. The
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  Speaker 2: very controversial handicapper from San Diego, Poppy. Hello, Poppy.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm so excited to be here. Wow. Hi, mentor.
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  Speaker 2: Poppy, it's good to have you guys. This is either
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  Speaker 2: going to be the greatest podcast ever, or this will
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  Speaker 2: be the final edition of the Fifth Hour Podcast. So
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  Speaker 2: it's really up to you, gentlemen. We have a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of questions. People have sent questions in. None of these
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  Speaker 2: people knew either one of you was going to be here.
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  Speaker 2: It is Mike the Leprechaun's birthday week. When was your
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  Speaker 2: actual birthday? Was it the other day?
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, technically.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday was technically his birthday. So happy birthday to the Leprechaun. 63.
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  Speaker 3: 63 and counting.
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  Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 4: Feliz cumpleaños. Yay.
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  Speaker 2: For the advertisers, he's 36. He's in the demo. And
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  Speaker 2: then you've got Poppy, who actually won a raffle to
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  Speaker 2: be here. So congratulations, Poppy. You won a raffle. So
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  Speaker 2: we have a bunch of questions. If you would like
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  Speaker 2: to send questions in for next week's mailbag, send them
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  Speaker 2: care of realfifthouratgmail.com. realfifthouratgmail.com. Ohio Al, get me in the mood,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio Al. It's in the bag. Ben's Mailbag. All right,
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  Speaker 2: first up, we have Kevin. He's in Ohio. Kevin in
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  Speaker 2: Kansas writes in and says, Dear Ben and hallowed guests, Ben,
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned on the radio broadcast about War of the
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  Speaker 2: Worlds on the Friday podcast. It sparked some excitement at
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  Speaker 2: the time. I used to teach that broadcast to my
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  Speaker 2: English class, but they had a hard time understanding how
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  Speaker 2: people could be fooled so easily will equate the radio
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  Speaker 2: of yesterday with social media today. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: can be our next mass panic event that could be
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  Speaker 2: caused by the internet? Basically, that's it, the internet today. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think we've seen with social media, you know what's
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  Speaker 2: crazy about social media is the government's pretty much announced
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  Speaker 2: there's Other creatures living on the planet... With these releases...
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  Speaker 2: And nobody seems to care... That's like... It's crazy... Like
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  Speaker 2: certain people... People get all worked up about certain things...
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  Speaker 2: On the internet... And then... Other stuff they don't care about...
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  Speaker 2: There's like so much... It's really wild, Kevin. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the War of the Worlds thing was fascinating. I learned
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  Speaker 2: about that when I was in school back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm old, I guess. I don't know. They don't
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  Speaker 2: really teach that anymore. Do you guys know about.
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  Speaker 3: The War of the Worlds?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Orson Welles wrote it, correct? And it was like mass hysteria.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a radio show back a million years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and it was about this fictional town in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And all that stuff and everyone so the next.
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  Speaker 3: Step the next takeover will be ai when they send.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone says that what does that mean though i don't
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  Speaker 2: know how's how's the world gonna end with ai i
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  Speaker 2: guess we'll find out together how it's going well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah i know about social media um you know when
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  Speaker 4: i cross the border and i'm very famous mentor because
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  Speaker 4: my videos on tiktok like the CBP border. I was
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  Speaker 4: over there in Tijuana last night. He's like, Hey, he
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  Speaker 4: was with the canine dog. And I was already like,
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  Speaker 4: are you the guy that makes the TikTok videos? And
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  Speaker 4: I said, yes, that's me. He's like, I'm following you.
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  Speaker 4: I like your videos. Thanks for having us, holding us accountable.
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  Speaker 3: I really like your videos.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, Oh, thank you. Thank you for following me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you like my videos.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm being famous because of that.
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  Speaker 2: That's a humble brag by Poppy. You see that?
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  Speaker 3: Poppy, does that mean you're going to be the next
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  Speaker 3: ruination of the world?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, I'm trying to be like my mentor. I
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  Speaker 4: want to have my own podcast like him.
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  Speaker 2: So how often do you cross over to Tijuana there, Poppy?
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  Speaker 2: How often are you going over there?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, often, you know, sometimes two times a week, sometimes
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  Speaker 4: once a week. So I go off often.
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  Speaker 2: So people, you have like family over there. You, you
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  Speaker 2: just hanging out to get the deals. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Um, I do have a family, but I go over
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  Speaker 4: there just hanging out, buy some stuff for the family
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  Speaker 4: and then just enjoy the food.
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  Speaker 3: I really love the food right there to have good food.
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  Speaker 4: Also in Rosarito and good seafood. And I love, I
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  Speaker 4: love the food over there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just went to Mexico city at a great time,
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  Speaker 2: but that's far away from. I haven't spent much time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really spend much time in Tijuana, but I should,
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  Speaker 2: I should go. I should go.
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  Speaker 4: But I was going to ask you, mentor, the food
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  Speaker 4: in Mexico City, that's the best of the best. Did
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  Speaker 4: you like the food there?
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  Speaker 3: How was it? You liked it?
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  Speaker 2: No, I did. I mean, it's obviously different than Mexican
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  Speaker 2: food in America, but I don't know. It was great.
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  Speaker 2: It was, I had a wonderful time. Everyone was nice.
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  Speaker 2: It was, the traffic was insane in Mexico City, but
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  Speaker 2: it was cool. It was a good. good experience there
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Um, I didn't notice poppy though. Your, your
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  Speaker 2: number is from Miami. Are you, did you live in
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  Speaker 2: Miami poppy? Is that, uh, or is that just a
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  Speaker 2: burner phone that you've got?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, it's my, uh, it's a true story. That's
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  Speaker 4: my number because I always wanted to be, uh, an
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  Speaker 4: actor mentor. And actually I did three or five in
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  Speaker 4: my first, uh, thing I did in acting. I was
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  Speaker 4: in Telemundo and I actually flew over there to Miami.
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  Speaker 4: So like I had that vision, um, you know, three
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  Speaker 4: or five, I'm going to work one day in Miami
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  Speaker 4: and it came true. I worked in Telemundo and, uh,
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  Speaker 4: And Caso Cerrado, that's my first acting gig I got.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: You still doing acting, Papi? I remember you did some stuff,
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  Speaker 2: drove up to do extra work, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still doing one, acting, and hopefully, I'm not allowed
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  Speaker 4: to say what I'm going to come out in. It's
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  Speaker 4: a big project. But yeah, yeah. Something coming up soon.
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  Speaker 4: I'll let you guys know.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah. All right. Mass panic event. Papi says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: remember they had a couple years ago, there was a
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  Speaker 2: text message sent out by mistake saying that missiles were
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  Speaker 2: inbound to Hawaii? That didn't even cause mass panic. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: people did freak out for a couple minutes. Mike from
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin writes in. He says, Ben, is this a good
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  Speaker 2: or bad thing? Starbucks wants to use AI to personalize
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  Speaker 2: drive-thru menus for every customer. So when you show up
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  Speaker 2: to a Starbucks, they're going to know who you are,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to personalize that digital display like when
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  Speaker 2: you go to the drive-thru. I don't need that. I
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  Speaker 2: like the communal aspect of going to the drive-thru and
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  Speaker 2: having everything for everybody. I'm not all about the, hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's hurry up here and get your own stuff. Because
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  Speaker 2: to me, guys, that means they're going to charge you
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  Speaker 2: more because they know how much you spend and they
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  Speaker 2: know all the information about you. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: a good idea. I like having communal pricing. What say you, Leprechaun?
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  Speaker 2: You are supporting, personalizing Starbucks. I don't even... My wife
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  Speaker 2: loves Starbucks. I'm not....
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a snob. I don't do Starbucks. I do Dunkin' Donuts,
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  Speaker 3: and they can keep the Starbucks... You do.
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  Speaker 2: Dunkin' because it's a religion where you live. And it's also...
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  Speaker 2: Dunkin's massive, too, though. It's not like Dunkin' Small. It's
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  Speaker 2: a major... You know, it used to be Dunkin' Donuts.
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  Speaker 2: I know. It should be Dunkin' Donuts. Because I grew
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  Speaker 2: up with the Dunkin' Donuts. And so I call it Dunkin' Donuts.
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  Speaker 2: And you go there, and they have donuts.
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  Speaker 3: They do, but they want to be healthy now, so
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  Speaker 3: they're just joking.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, stop. Listen, I work in radio, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of radio, they try to get rid of the word radio.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like the word radio. They use audio instead
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  Speaker 2: of radio. It's dumb. But I don't like the personalization
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  Speaker 2: of that. Because I remember we talked on this podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure both you guys listen to this podcast, right, Poppy?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Who was on the Friday podcast, Poppy? Who was on
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  Speaker 2: Friday's podcast?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Friars Podcast?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, right now.
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  Speaker 4: Danny G, Danny G. Yo, yo, yo, it's Danny G.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. You realize Danny G hasn't been on
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  Speaker 2: the podcast? He quit the podcast like a year ago
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  Speaker 2: or two years. No, it was a year ago. He
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  Speaker 2: quit the podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, bad job on me.
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  Speaker 2: That's a bad job by you. That means Mike the
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  Speaker 2: Leprechaun Poppy has not listened to the podcast in about
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  Speaker 2: a year. Because Danny officially left the podcast earlier this year,
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  Speaker 2: but he pretty much had quit before he left. He
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  Speaker 2: stopped doing it. So, wow, that's pretty wild. Why are
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  Speaker 2: we having you on? You don't even listen to the podcast, Papi.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do listen to it, but I've been busy.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you know, Mentor, I got in
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  Speaker 4: a car accident, car crash, and the thing that you
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  Speaker 4: were talking about, Dunkin' Donuts, a car did hit me
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  Speaker 4: by Dunkin' Donuts, so I do listen to the podcast,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm just like on rehab mode, but I do listen.
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  Speaker 2: But wouldn't you be able to listen more if you
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  Speaker 2: were in rehab mode? Cause you don't have much to do.
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  Speaker 2: You're in rehab mode, right? That would be anyway. All right, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Fine.
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  Speaker 2: Danny from Vancouver writes in, he said, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Dale Brown was on the, well, not in, not, he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't actually on, he's dead, but we celebrated the life
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  Speaker 2: of Dale Brown. who I worked with at Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Papi has no idea who Dale Brown is, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Never heard of him. By the way, you mentioned the
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  Speaker 3: Pearly Gates on Friday, Ben. You never mentioned Masshole Mickey.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's true. I did mention him one time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but not on Friday. No, no, I did. I mentioned him.
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  Speaker 2: He was, I had him on my big board. I
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  Speaker 2: did give him a mention. I did mention him. You
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  Speaker 2: must not have been listening. Bad job by you. Let
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  Speaker 2: me see here. I mean, you want me to go,
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  Speaker 2: I'll go to my notes. No, don't worry. Go to
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  Speaker 2: my notes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, going to my notes.
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  Speaker 3: Lorena gives me crap for having notes.
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  Speaker 2: Hour two. Hour two. I said, hello. I gave him and, uh, Skeeter,
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  Speaker 2: all the, uh, the boys that have checked out. I've all,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I try to remember as many of the
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  Speaker 2: famous people that call the show. And that's, uh, that's that.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out to Masshole Mickey. He was a good friend
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  Speaker 4: of mine. And, uh, You know, he was a big
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  Speaker 4: fan of yours, Ben Maller. He would always tell me
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  Speaker 4: he would love me calling you for the picks. And big,
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  Speaker 4: big love to him. He's like, keep on seeing your picks.
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  Speaker 4: I remember him. He was a good friend of mine.
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  Speaker 2: A couple months before he passed away, he came to
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  Speaker 2: downtown or to the North End. We did a thing
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  Speaker 2: on the North End and all that. Anyway, all right.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Poppy, you say you don't know who
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  Speaker 2: Dale Brown is. Dale Brown is the guy that discovered
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  Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neal. He was a college basketball coach who coached
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  Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neal.
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  Speaker 4: Fun fact, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Shaquille O'Neal is doing an ad now for Lucky Charms.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, is that Leprechaun? In the Leprechaun community, is that it?
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  Speaker 3: General Cereal, whatever. Anyway, he is. Wow. I'm not lying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I have another fun fact, Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 4: You want to take a guess?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: You're Spanish? No.
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  Speaker 4: No, bad job on you. I actually met Shaquille O'Neal
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  Speaker 4: in my hometown. Shout out to my hometown, Coachella Valley,
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  Speaker 4: in Palm Desert, College of the Desert, when he was
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  Speaker 4: there with Kobe Bryant, a rookie. And you know when
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  Speaker 4: Shaq used to be in the Pepsi commercials? I got
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  Speaker 4: a Pepsi, and I said, Shaq, do you want a Pepsi?
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  Speaker 4: Can I have your autograph? He was like, I'm sorry, kid.
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  Speaker 4: I'm all taped up. I can't give you an autograph.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, Shaq, thank you. I actually saw Shaq.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Fun fact.
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  Speaker 3: Shaq and Kobe did not get along very well, by
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  Speaker 3: the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: They did not. All right. Denny from Vancouver writes in.
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  Speaker 2: He says, it was great meeting you, Ben, when you
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  Speaker 2: came to our fine city. Thanks to Nico for making
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  Speaker 2: that happen. Yes, thank you. That was awesome. We had
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  Speaker 2: a great time in Vancouver. It was a beautiful city.
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  Speaker 2: Stanley Park is the greatest park I've been to in
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  Speaker 2: a city better than Central Park. in New York city, but, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: thanks to Nico. I haven't heard from Nico in a while.
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  Speaker 2: I hope he's doing all right. Uh, Danny says, are
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  Speaker 2: you jealous that our, our fine city and province will
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  Speaker 2: not be having a time change? He sent this obviously
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  Speaker 2: before the time change. Yeah, no. So apparently guys, Canada
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  Speaker 2: has broken from tradition, British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba will
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  Speaker 2: no longer the starting, I guess this year, they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to change their clocks twice a year, beginning today.
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  Speaker 2: The transition, the Northwest Territories and parts of Northwestern Ontario
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  Speaker 2: are also abandoning changing your clocks, joining Saskatchewan, Yukon as well,
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  Speaker 2: which already stopped the practice. That means permanent daylight savings
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  Speaker 2: time is in effect in Vancouver. The change means more
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  Speaker 2: evening sunlight during the winter, but darker mornings later. And
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  Speaker 2: so they always freak out because the kids might be
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  Speaker 2: commuting to school before sunrise, and they freak out about that. However,
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  Speaker 2: for the greater good of society, we should have one
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  Speaker 2: time and not save daylight savings time. Here's the interesting thing, though,
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  Speaker 2: as Denny points out in this email. That means Vancouver,
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  Speaker 2: which is just a few miles north of Seattle, Vancouver
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  Speaker 2: will be one hour ahead of Los Angeles and Seattle
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  Speaker 2: during the winter months. And they'll be on the same
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  Speaker 2: time during the summer. So that means right now, today,
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  Speaker 2: Vancouver is one hour ahead of the west coast of
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  Speaker 2: the United States. So that's pretty crazy because it's literally
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  Speaker 2: on the west coast. You can go out to the
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  Speaker 2: Pacific Ocean. I think it's great. And I love the
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  Speaker 2: fact that with all the political bull crap that goes on,
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  Speaker 2: the politicians in Canada were able to get that done.
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  Speaker 2: They have been talking about this for decades. 20 years
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  Speaker 2: in America. Oh, we're going to have one time. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to have permanent daylight savings time. That's going to
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  Speaker 2: be that. And here we are, and we haven't done
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  Speaker 2: it yet. So I say, hey, way to go. I'm jealous.
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  Speaker 2: I am jealous, Denny, of Vancouver. Where do you guys fall?
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  Speaker 2: Should we have one time, or do you enjoy changing
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  Speaker 2: the time? Do you enjoy the clocks changing? We'll start
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  Speaker 2: with you, Poppy. Are you pro time change, or do
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  Speaker 2: you like it one time, and that's it?
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  Speaker 4: I like it one time because it's hard for me
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  Speaker 4: to adjust in my sleeping. So I like it all
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  Speaker 4: the same.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: All right. Leprechaun, I think you're one time, right? You
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: want one time?
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Well, it's actually a ballot question on Tuesday in Massachusetts.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: But in Ireland, which is much further north than most
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: of Canada, in the summertime, it's bright, almost like. 17
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: hours a day. And in the wintertime, it's the opposite.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: But I would prefer to be the same time as well.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I hate that extra hour fudging with my clock and
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: my radio and all that stuff.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and the other problem, too, is
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: it causes issues. There's more.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Crashes and mental issues and all that stuff, yeah.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Dougie from The Natty writes, and he says, Hey, Ben,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: you considering using this religious exemption... To avoid the boogeyman,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: he says there's a guy in Kentucky that successfully secured
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: a religious exemption from using artificial intelligence at work.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: The guy claimed for religious reasons, I cannot use the AI.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: And he got that from a court. How about that?
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: That's pretty wacky, right? That that actually worked. 45-year-old guy.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: He is a research administrator at the University of Kentucky,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: was granted the unusual accommodation. And so there you go
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: about working workplace AI tools, including chat, GBT, Microsoft Copilot
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: and Claude. Let's see here. Apparently this guy, 45 year
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: old David Derman is secular. He's a secular humanist. meaning
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: his beliefs do not depend on a god or supernatural forces.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: He believes that thinking independently, making decisions, and taking personal
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: responsibility are essential to the moral development, or his moral development. Anyway,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: it's a lot of bullcrap there, but he is.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: No he's not allowed to use ai he's got a
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: religious exemption so big news there how about that you
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: poppy breaking news break break are you poppy are you
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: going to say hey wait a minute i can't use
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: ai because of my you use ai though don't you you.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Guys yeah i have to use it for my advantage
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: and i love ai because i'm not the best at
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: spelling and i have to do some corrections and some
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: stuff like that so I.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Do like AI.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: If we don't adjust, if I don't adjust to the technology,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be left behind. So I don't want
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: to be left behind. So I better, you know, use
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: advantage for my advantage or else I'll be cooked.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I don't want that.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I saw that the Pope cast the ballot, right?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: From Rome.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: He's the first of all time, the first Pope.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: All right. Look at that. Pope voting.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Very good. Yeah. Uh, let's see what else we got here. Bob,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Bob boo, Brad from LA writes in, he says, Ben,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: there's a movie theater chain that is planning to hypnotize
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: 30 people to try to make them forget their favorite films,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: allowing them to experience them all for the first time.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Would you want to be hypnotized to enjoy your favorite films? Fresh. Uh,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: that's from Brett. No, I'm good. Leprechaun, you want to
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: be hypnotized. What's your favorite movie, Leprechaun? What's your go-to?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Forrest Gump.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Forrest Gump. Good movie.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: So you want to be hypnotized to experience Forrest Gump
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: brand new again? No?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: No. I mean, no. Have you been hypnotized?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I have.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: And it worked?
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: It did not work.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: It did not work. I don't think it would work
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: with me either. No.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I would pull up on the stage and it worked
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: for some, but not for me. I think it's all
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: a prank.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess there's certain people that are more able
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: to be hypnotized. I don't believe I would.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Prone, prone.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Exactly, Prone's the word. Poppy, would you want to be hypnotized?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: What's your favorite movie, Poppy? When you were a kid,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: what did you love as a movie? What was your favorite?
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Would I be hypnotized? I don't think so, but maybe
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: right now I would. Maybe it'll help me with my
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: back injury and my soreness. Maybe help me for that.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Hopefully it'll work. My favorite movie as a kid?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I would love that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. It's like,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: go ninja, go ninja, go. I would watch that all
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: over again.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: All right. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, yeah. And how's your
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: rehab from your back injury going, Papi? How's that?
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Well, it's going. I have to pick up medicine today
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: at Costco. Thanks for asking, mentor. And it's going. I'm
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: just doing stuff little by little. I can't lift up
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: heavy stuff.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: So you're not working right now?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: I am, but the doctor, I went with the doctor,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: and the doctor told me, take it light. If you
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: feel like your back's hurting, just relax.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I can't work.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Or drive as heavy as i used to but um
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: i'm still working but not as much.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: All right you got it yeah you got a lawyer
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: poppy you got a lawyer.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: You yeah i actually did get a lawyer but uh
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: maybe if you could recommend me one mentor what do
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: you think you got one recommend me i.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: See a billboard lawyers everywhere i go you take a
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: billboard lawyer or did you somebody else because i see
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the billboard lawyers was it uh Morgan and Morgan. Morgan
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: and Morgan. Yeah, they're everywhere. But I've seen out here,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: we got Sweet James, James, Sweet James is everywhere. I mean,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I see, I drive, there's like 20 billboards for lawyers,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: but I don't, you have a lawyer, so you don't
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: need a lawyer.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a lawyer. I got a local right
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: here in San Diego, so we're just taking time.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so thanks.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Hit and run he laughed you.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Don't have anyone to sue then though right unless you
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: can find out who did it that's the problem Jim
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: from San Francisco writes in he says Benny you're going
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: to leave FSR for Instagram he says Instagram is offering
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: some YouTubers up to $ 500, 000 to post long form videos
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: on Instagram they're trying to compete with YouTube Instagram wants
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: to take down YouTube So they want long-form content on
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the platform. They offered me $ 500, 000 to go. That's a
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: good amount of money. I would certainly listen to $ 500, 000.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I could do the show on Instagram for $ 500, 000. My God. Papi,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: you're an influencer. Have you been offered $ 500, 000 to go
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: over to Instagram, Papi?
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: No, but now I'm thinking about I should have my
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: content right there on Instagram and start putting it everywhere.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: But I have this content about influencer. I make stuff
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: like Costco drops and stuff like that. And people are
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: starting to recognize me in San Diego. Hey, I've seen
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: your video for Pokemon and Costco. Hey, somebody told me
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: today I was in San Diego. Hey, are you the guy,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the TikTok guy that puts the videos on TikTok? I said, yeah,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: because I'm going against all the gatekeepers and the scalpers
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: and I want the regular public for... holidays are coming
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: out to get Pokemon and those guys don't like me
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: and I don't care. I expose all the locations.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: You're like a Robin Hood. You're helping out. Yes. Yeah, right.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Steal from the rich and give to the poor.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I'm not an influencer, so no thank you.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: All right. Tim from Phoenix writes in. You ever been
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: to Phoenix, Poppy? You've been to Phoenix, right, Poppy? I assume, yes? Yeah,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I actually went.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: To Phoenix because I was trying to get for my
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: board when you cross my century. I went there and
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: it was nice. I went close to the University of Arizona.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: It was really nice. I stayed there and Oh.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: That's in Tucson, though.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Tucson, yeah.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Phoenix. Leprechaun, you ever been to Arizona?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Ever been out?
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: No, that's Nevada, right? Nevada? Actually, my daughter lives there.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: It's Arizona.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Arizona.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: No, no, Arizona's a different state.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Arizona, sorry. You're right. So anyway, the answer is no.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: All right. Tim writes in, he says, did you have
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: big delivery food battles on your bingo card? I guess
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: DoorDash is buying Instacart. For $ 17 billion, this massive food
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: distribution battle royale. I don't use DoorDash or Uber Eats.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I don't. I have some relatives that use it all
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the time. My mother-in-law uses it all the time. I...
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I don't. I'm old school, though, because I, you know, Poppy,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I guess I'll start with Leprechaun. Leprechaun, they have this thing,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: if you want food, it's called the drive-thru. You don't,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: to me, that's convenient. I don't need someone to, like,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: pick up the food and take it to my house
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and all that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: At my house, I have something called an oven.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: That's a good thing, too. I love, I do cook
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: most of the time. But if I do go out
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: to eat, if I'm getting kind of lazy and I
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: go out to eat, I just end up, I'm not
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: saying I'm better than anyone, but I just, like, get
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: in the car and And I go, and I get
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: the food, and they hand it to me through the window,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and I pay with my credit card, and that's it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: That's that. But how about that $ 17 billion? Wow.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: This week, there was a $ 6 billion cryptocurrency robbery. Did
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: you hear about that?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Where was that at, Papi?
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Well, the North Koreans probably did it. But one of
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the major cryptocurrency companies got robbed of $ 6 billion.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: That's painful.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: That's not good.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Quinn from Dallas says, Ben, you like you make the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: call questions. Here's a you make the call for you
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: and your distinguished guest on the Fifth Hour Mailbag. First
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: of all, Quinn, thank you for listening. I don't think
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: we've heard from Quinn in Dallas. He's emailed. He says,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: which way are you voting on this, Ben and friends?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: So there's a pilot that I think this was in
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: New York. The airline pilot got on the public address system, said, passengers,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: you have a choice. There was a dog that had
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: urinated on the plane and the pilots all you wait.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: You can either wait for a cleaning crew and your
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: flight will be delayed or will depart on time and
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: you just have to deal with the smell. And then
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Quinn says, what way would you vote? So I thought
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: about this because it's flying. You're stuck in a tube
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: and it's recycled air. I don't generally have a big
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: problem with smells. I, and I'm used to Moxie, my
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: dog who pees a lot around the house and I
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: have to clean it up. So I'm kind of used
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: to the dog of smell or the, the used to
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the smell of dog urine. So I would, if I
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: was in a hurry and I had somewhere to go,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I would probably just say, okay, let's do it. Let's
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: do it. Let's go. And then that's that. Um, I
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: do know people are very sensitive to smell and those
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: people would have been cooked, uh, leprechaun. You're on a plane, uh,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: You're leaving Austin, you're at Logan. The pilot comes on
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: and says, listen, this dog, little dog Shih Tzu peed
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: on the plane. It smells like piss. We can either
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: wait an hour and a half and have the plane
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: cleaned or we leave right now. Which way do you.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Vote? I love the smell of dog pee, so I
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: would hop on.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised. I grew up on a farm. Leprechaun
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: says he loves the smell of piss. Poppy, go ahead, Poppy.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: It depends because if I would get a voucher or
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: free travel and stuff like that, I would think more strategy.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: What can I get to benefit me?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: That's a smart move. I love traveling when I don't
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: have to be somewhere in a hurry. I love getting
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: bumped from planes and getting those free travel vouchers. I hope...
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I hope to get a free travel voucher. I do.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: So I would hope I would get that. And I'll
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: probably be like, no, I need to get a voucher.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: This is bad for my health. And you know how
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: they cry about all those people, all those parents. I'll
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: probably do that to get a free ride.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I'll probably step out.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: When I got, went to Hawaii to get married years ago, we,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: we got bumped from our flight. We got upgraded on
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the next flight and we got free vouchers for a trip. Wow.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: That's great. It was nice. Will from Salt Lake writes in,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: he says, enjoy the fifth hour podcast. And I have
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: no idea who you have on. But he says, will
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: you be eating at Arby's this holiday season? Apparently Arby's
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: brought back the, it says, infuriatingly good deep fried turkey
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: gobbler sandwich is available back at Arby's. It has made
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: a comeback. I have not eaten at Arby's in years.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Danny G, who used to be on the podcast, although
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Poppy still thinks he's on the podcast, Danny G Radio
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: always thought that Arby's, he would say his opinion, not mine.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: that Arby's was like the front for some kind of
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: money laundering operation because there was never anyone inside the Arby's.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: There are just a lot of Arby's that are around.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I have never had, Will, the infuriatingly good deep fried
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: turkey gobbler sandwich. That has never happened in my world. Leprechaun,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: you cook at home, so I assume you've not been
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to an Arby's and had deep fried.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: No, but I know they're at it. We got the meat.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Is that their slogan? We got the meat.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: That's their slogan. We got the meat.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: We got the meat. Yeah, that's their slogan, yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Papi, are you an Arby's guy?
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Well, look, you know, my partners, I used to go
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: to Arby's and she would like some shake.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: It was like.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: grigio or maybe some like salad they would do and
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: get that but i i love a turkey i haven't
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: tried it i'm close to an rb kind of close
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: by so i do uber eats orders right there so
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: i wouldn't mind because if i'm doing orders or uber
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: eats there i would love to try that sandwich so
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: thanks for that jester i'm gonna go.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: And try it don't poppy you should try the new
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: uh burger king chicken fingers or chicken.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Nuggets oh yeah the nuggets are supposed to be good
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: they're reinvented yeah Spent a lot of money on commercials.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Will in Salt Lake. Lance writes in. He says, Ben,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: listening to you a long time. Are you excited to
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: get ready to break down more Jake Paul fights? He says, yeah,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I saw this, Lance. Jake Paul has confirmed that he
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: will return to boxing. he suffered a broken jaw over
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: a year away from boxing with a broken jaw but
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: he is returning so That's Jake Paul. Yeah, I can't wait, Lance,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to break down. You know, I love my— I do love boxing.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I miss boxing. When I first got into radio, we
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: had two or three big fights a year, and it
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: was always so much fun to go to Vegas. They
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: would fly a lot of the radio shows to Vegas,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: and we'd have these big events, and then we'd get
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: to cover the fight. I was so lucky back in
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: the day with people like Mike cutting out. Bad job
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: by me. But I love back in the day you
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: had Mike Tyson fights, Evander Holyfield, that era of boxing,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya. We had such great
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: fun at those fights. And there's really nothing in professional boxing.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: There are some big UFC events that people get into. Boxing, though,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: and Jake Paul's not. For me, it's not really my
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: cup of tea, as I pointed out, Lance. I think
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of that stuff, my opinion, you can't sue
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: me for my opinion. A lot of that stuff is manipulated,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: shall we say. So I'm not into it. But hey,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: you know what? I'm all in the content business, Leprechaun.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: As I say, I need things to talk about. There's
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: somewhat interesting.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Muhammad Ali was a classic, right? Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: The trailer in Manila. And I have a personalized signed
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: picture of Muhammad Ali.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Wow, that's worth a lot of money.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: It is. And his mother, one of his parents is
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: from County Cork in Ireland. That's a little known fact.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I did not know that.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, you can look it up.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Did you actually meet him when he signed that leprechaun,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: the autograph? How did you get that autograph?
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. I bought it from a dealer.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good thing. Actually, in the late 90s,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Hold on a sec. The mic's all messed up here.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: What's going on? There we go. I fixed the mic.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Yay.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: I'm not, I'm not broken.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: All right. Hold on. Calm down. No, no. So years
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: ago we had a event called the winning way. It
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: was a motivational speech and they brought in Muhammad Ali. Unfortunately,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Muhammad Ali was, he had already had Parkinson's and he
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: was very ill and, but he still showed up and
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: his daughter Layla Ali was becoming a boxer at the time. And,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: My buddy, a huge Muhammad Ali fan, got to meet
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: him in the green room. It was really, took a
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: photo side by side and all that, but that's cool.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: So are you a Jake Paul fan, Papi? You seem
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: like you'd be a Jake Paul fan. Are you a
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Jake Paul fan?
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, with the Jake Paul, look, I've seen him in
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: his fights. I mean, I heard that when he fought
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Mike Tyson, he really said, I am sorry, Mike Tyson,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: you're a legend and apologize for like pretty much Jake
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Paul paid Mike Tyson so he could win. But, yeah,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: I really don't. I do want to see Jake Paul.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: I really don't care. But he's ranked up there with
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: the tops like, you know, like Canelo and all the
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: other professional boxers.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: If he's the top boxer, we're done with boxing.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Papi, Papi, quick question. Did he leave that fight with
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: two years? He's two years intact.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: What do you mean? You're saying he has two years left,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Jake Paul?
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Well, he had two years. Mike Tyson bit off somebody's ear, remember?
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: I remember when he bit off his ear. I was
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: watching that fight. Yeah, it was like on Showtime or HBO. Yeah,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: he threw it on the ground on the.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Cabbage, yeah.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: It was a pay-per-view fight. Albert from San Francisco writes in.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: He says, hey, Ben, I typically listen on my commute
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: home after midnight and some of the past episodes on
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. I have not heard any calls from
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Jerome in Charleston and was wondering if he's still around today.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Calling in to complain. I always enjoyed listening to his
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: breakdown on whatever recent issue bothered him. I love Jerome
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: and Charleston. I yelled at Jerome last time he called.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: He has not called since. Because Jerome, he would go
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: off of these rants. And I think he's a good caller, Jerome.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: But he always got so upset by people that made
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of money and were successful. It just always
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: annoyed me. Because he got upset with, was it Pat McAfee?
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: He was very upset with Pat McAfee for a while.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: because he found out how much McAfee was making. Ranted
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: about Stephen A. Smith for a while. And it was
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: like every one of his calls is the same phone call.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I do like Jerome. I've heard he calls Rob Parker's show,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: our colleague at Fox Sports Radio.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Rob Parker.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Rob Parker. So I have not chatted with him in
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: several months. I don't know what's going on with Jerome.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I don't have any way to contact him. I famously
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: wanted to meet Jerome. I had an event. We had
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: a Malheur meet and greet in Charleston, South Carolina. I
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: invited Jerome. I said, Jerome, come on, come on. It
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: was like a mile from his home and he chose
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: not to show up. He said it was too inconvenient.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: So I've never, never met.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Do you say when he calls in, when he used
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: to call in, I think he used to say, bring
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: it home, Jerome.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Yes. And the reason I said that, that was a
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: tribute to Bill Rafterty. There was a college basketball player
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: years ago named Jerome Lane who, who broke the backboard.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: He played for the University of Pittsburgh, and he broke
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: the backboard, and that was the famous call, bring it home, Jerome,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: from Bill Rafferty, who's famous for saying onions on the
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: college basketball broadcast.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: By the way, Ben, did you hear Belichick broke up
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: with his girlfriend?
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: He did? I saw that, yeah.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Breaking news.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing. They said it happened a year ago.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: It's a little odd. Why would you not announce that?
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: With all the negative publicity Belichick got, you would think
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: you'd announce, hey, I broke up. You know, this is
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: the deal.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: And all that.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Anyway, Leo from Chicago writes in. I love Chicago. By
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: the way, I'll be in Chicago later this month here
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: in November. I have to visit Chicago. Anyway, Leo says, Ben,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: the Mad Hatter of Sports Chatter, you mentioned on your
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: show that you're coming. Yeah, here it is right here.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: You mentioned you're coming to my fine city here later
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: this month. Do you have any update on a meet
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: and greet for me, FaZe, Doc Mike, Tree and all
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: your other Chicago fans, thanks. I'll take my answer off
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the air. Very funny, Leo. We don't actually have calls. No,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I would love to do a quick meet and greet.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I have not. I toss it out on the radio.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Nobody really got back to me that could do it.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: So if anybody listening to this podcast in the Chicagoland
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: area has either an establishment or or a place, or
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: you know somebody that would host. I don't think many
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: people are going to show up because it's last minute,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: and you never know with these things. We had a
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: ton of people in Worcester. It was a smaller crowd
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: in Boston, for example, so you never know. But I
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: would be open to doing one in Chicago. It's very
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: last minute, so... It would probably be on a Thursday.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: So if anybody, Leo, if you know somebody or any
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: of our other guys in Chicago, if you're interested. Otherwise,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to have limited time. I'm flying
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: into Chicago and then driving up to Appleton. My brother
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: lives in Wisconsin, so I have to go and. visit
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: my brother.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Are you going to do a Mellor meeting? Maybe you
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: should do LA soon. All the people in LA, someone
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: nobody's like, all the people want one right there.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Why not your local city? We should do one in LA.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: That's a good idea. That's where I met Poppy. I've
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: met Poppy, by the way, Leprechaun. He came to one
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: of our events. And I give Poppy credit because Poppy,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: a polarizing caller, and he showed up. He didn't care.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: He woke up in there with machismo. He's like, hey,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I'm Poppy. I'm a conquistador.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: I'm a conquistador, and I'm ready for another meet and
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: greet in L.A., yeah, and I love it. I had
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: a good time.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: All right, well, what about San Diego? Those are my
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: old stomping. I started in radio in San Diego back
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: in Baja, California, Mexico.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, even here, like even with the San Diego chicken,
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: I do have a gift for you from the San
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Diego chicken. Like I told you before, he did sign
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: a card for you. He's like, I know Ben Mallory. Wow,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: he's very famous.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: All right, all right. Reggie from Detroit writes in. He says, Benny,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the holidays are here with Halloween weekend and Thanksgiving coming up.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Are you going to be selling Mallory merch for Christmas
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: and Hanukkah? It's from Reggie. Well, Reggie, yet again, we
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: have reached a speed bump. I had planned on selling
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: some stuff. I will get back to you on that, Reggie.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: As of this moment, it's unlikely we're going to have
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: that done by the time it should be done. I
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: would love to start doing that. I think what we're
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: going to try to do, Reggie, from talking to some
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: of the merch people, is just have limited edition stuff where...
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: We don't have a way to keep the inventory, so
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: the plan would be to have a limited run, maybe
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: like 100 items or whatever, and that's it. When they're gone,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: they're gone, and we don't make them again. So I'll
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: let you know. As of this hour, unfortunately, Reggie, there
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: is no official Malheur merch that we are going to
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: be hawking. Kai from Seattle writes in. He says, Benny,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I work at a bar here in Seattle. I enjoy
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: your show after work. Are you an anime guy? And
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: he says that Japan's anime industry hits a record high,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: $ 28 billion. $ 28 billion, he says. Foreign sales, obviously, and domestic.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: in japan uh kai if you don't know by now
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: that i am not an anime guy by listening to
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the show driving home from your bar in seattle i
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: don't know what to tell you dude i mean i
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: haven't i made it clear uh leprechaun i'm not i
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: mean i don't hate anime but i'm not i'm too
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: old right we're me you're older than me but we're
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: we didn't grow.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Up so my kids draw anime and one of them
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: is super into pokemon Oh, nice. So, I mean, I
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: respect that, but it's not my style.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: On anime, I grew up with Dragon Ball Z. Imagine, boo! So,
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Dragon Ball, for me, is a big thing.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: So, there's your thing.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: I do like anime Dragon Ball.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: All right. No, I'm not. I don't like. I don't
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: pee on people or spit on people that like anime.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: My generation didn't grow up with it, so it's not
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: something that was part of my life. Outback John and
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Joanna from the SoCal San Gabriel Valley says, Hey, Big
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Ben and special guests. I am currently having the worst
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: season in fantasy football in at least a decade. Our
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: question is, have you ever played fantasy football or any
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: fantasy sports before? And what was your experience like? Yeah,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: so I have Outback John and Joanna. First of all,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: thanks for the question. And my problem is I spend
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: so much time obsessing with the fantasy draft. I get
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: the players I want. And then I don't want to trade.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: What's the point of playing fantasy sports if you're not
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: going to trade and add players and all that? And
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: the other thing is I've noticed, like, I have a
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: lot of my wife's friends, they do the fantasy, and
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: some of her friends are not, like, really into the NFL,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: but they play fantasy because it's a communal thing and
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: all that. And so they'll ask me, they'll reach out
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: for advice. Like, one of my wife's friends, Jamie... Or
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Ashley will reach out and she'll be like, hey, listen,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I'll try to give advice. But it's a whole different
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: world than what I do. I'm an opinion guy. I'm
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: not like number. I give opinions on outcomes of games
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: and athletes and things like that. So it's a different
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: skill set. Mike Harmon, who I work with, he does
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: the show before me, very good at fantasy stuff. He's
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: done fantasy podcasts. He still does a fantasy podcast. Yeah,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I just don't have time for it. Uh, so people
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: get upset when you don't make trades and you just
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: keep the same team all year. It's kind of defeats
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: the purpose of it. So I don't really do it. Poppy.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Are you a fantasy football guy?
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Poppy?
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: I used to play a big fan of fantasy football.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: The best advice I could give you on fantasy football
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: guys is if you just see your player, not doing
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: too good, kind of like get the hottest player, drop
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: the ones that are like dead weight, get them out
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: of there. And don't be too attached to them. Get
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: rid of them. Be on top of it on the
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: injuries and, and, So if somebody drops a player, you
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: got to be very, very active. The best advice I
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: can say is trust your gut. Maybe start Lamar Jackson
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: this week. He's going to come back. Start him against
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: the Buffalo Bills. People say, oh, that's a hard defense.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Who cares?
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Give him a chance.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: If he flops.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Go on to your next quarterback, but that's what I
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: would get. Get someone that's available. You know, get Jacobs
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: from the Green Bay Packers. All right.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: I got you. All right. And Leprechaun, you're not a
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: fantasy guy, right?
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not. It's a waste of time. I don't– I've
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: got to use up my time.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't play it though, guys.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: It's a waste of time.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: All right. So Poppy's advice is if players are not
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: playing well, get a new player. All right. That's good advice.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Alf from the black hole writes in, he says, greetings,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Ben and distinguished guests. Ben, what do you have against
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: quarter zips? Do they stir up sore memories of your
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Benny versus the penny wardrobe? Yeah, I, I have a
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: whole closet full of quarter zips from Benny versus the penny.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: I it's, It was very odd. The people at NBC
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: were like, hey, here's what you have to wear. You
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: have to wear a quarter zip on the show. And
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: I was like, well, I don't really wear quarters. But
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: that's what everyone wears on TV. So I did. I'm
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: fine with it. It's actually kind of cool. If I
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: lived in Boston where the weather gets a little chilly,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: I'd probably wear them because it's pretty convenient. You just
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: go out. It keeps you nice and somewhat warm. And
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: it looks... Okay, I'm not against it. I'm not against it.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: He secondly says, what kind of big eating guy has
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: veggies as the star on their pizza pie? As far
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: as I'm concerned, my big board of toppings has pepperoni
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: and hamburger or sausage as the top with veggies... Coming
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: in after, to only highlight the meat, if I'm feeling fancy,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: I may go with barbecue chicken pizza. I know, Ben,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: you have the pie the way you want it, and
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: I can have it the way I want it. Go ahead, Ben,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: defend your pro veggie position. Well, listen, I have sampled
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: many a pizza, and I love the pizza. In fact,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: when I'm in Chicago, I'm going to have the deep
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: dish Chicago pizza pie, which is going to be great.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to that. However, for me, Alf, I have
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: figured out that the baked or cooked garlic, the roasted garlic,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: the onion and the bell pepper, to me, that's my
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: favorite pie. I've had pastrami pizza, which wasn't bad. I
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: thought that was pretty good. I've had Philly cheesesteak pizza,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: which is all right. I just, I like what I like.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: So screw you, Alf. And you can get, you can
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: get a pizza with pepperoni, hamburger, sausage. You can put
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: a llama, chopped up llama on the pizza. Knock yourself out.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know. What's your favorite go-to pizza? Leprechaun. I
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: know a lot of leprechauns love pizza.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Good Irish thing. Um, So Celeste Pizza has gone out
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: of business because of Marcel. Apparently. But the one topping
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: I would always insist upon is mushrooms.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Mushroom, okay. You like the fungus.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I love the mushroom.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Poppy, pizza very popular where you come from there. Poppy,
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: any favorite pizza?
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm a simple guy. I love the simplest thing.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: My favorite one, I just like plain cheese pizza, not
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: too much sauce.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right. I don't mind a cheese pizza. I
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: like the cheese medley. You know where they put different
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: cheeses on top? I think that's pretty good. That's not bad.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Ferg Dog writes in from that winter wonderland in Fullerton.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: He says, happy eat all your candy the day after Halloween,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Ben and friends. Before I get into my question, I
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: need to get something off my chest. Ferg Dog says,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: you keep taking pot shots at the high speed rail
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: being built in California, but once it's finished at 10,000
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: times the original budget and half the speed in 50 years,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: I bet you'll be singing a different tune. Can't wait
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: to write it. He says, yeah. Let me tell you something,
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Ferg Dog. I'll be in my hundreds. I cannot wait
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: to ride the high-speed rail. It'll be so good. He says,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: now that the Halloween has come to an end, he says,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: I'd like to hear what kind of costume you wore.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Did you go with silly, spooky, or sexy this year?
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: I went with all three with my Robbie the Mariner
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: fan outfit. I even got a little purse to complete
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: the ensemble. Well, there's a famous photo. I was there,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: by the way, with Queen Roxanne and Robbie the Mariner
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: fan and the gang at the Reds game. That was
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: as we were going to the Reds game with, I believe,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Can't Close the Deal Neil and his son, Corbin. And
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: we took that photo of, well, I didn't take the photo,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: but Robbie was walking, holding Queen Roxanne's purse. And she
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: had a little purse and it was quite, Quite enjoyable.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: So that's just, by the way, guys, he doesn't care
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: what we did for Halloween. He just wanted to take
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: a shot at Robbie the Mariner fan, which I respect.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: I respect that by my friend Ferg Dogg from that
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: winter wonderland of Fullerton. Quang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: writes in guaranteed human on the mailbag with Poppy and
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: the Leprechaun. Says happy Halloween. And now that it is
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: all over, he says the milkman has apparently traded his
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: milk carton for a taco. According to a newspaper out
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: of Orlando, Gringo's Locos abruptly closed all of its Central
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Florida locations, including its longtime downtown Orlando restaurant and its
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: UCF location. Customers and employees were reportedly left searching for answers.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: He says, Big Ben, if the milkman could rescue just
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: one Gringo's Locos taco... Before the doors slam shut, which
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: taco stand would he save and why? And with all
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: those double Ds going dark, he says here, would he
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: go down swinging for his all-time favorite or just settle
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: for one last bite before the taco tragedy gets put
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: on the shelf of its former self? Well, there's a
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: lot of interesting words there, Quang. So I've never eaten
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: at a Gringo's Loco. I've never even heard of it,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: so I'm... disappointed that another crunchy taco place went out
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: of business. There's a place in L.A. called Tito's Tacos,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: which I used to love. That really helped me fall
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: in love with the crunchy taco. I lived in Hollywood.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I'd drive over to Culver City to Tito's Tacos, and
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: when I went there, the tacos were like $ 2 a taco.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: They're now like $ 7 a taco, so I don't go
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: there anymore. I figured out how to make tacos at home. But, yeah, I...
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with that, Quang. I
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: love the gringo taco. Although, Papi, you've got family in Mexico.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: The gringo taco, not very popular in most of Mexico.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: There's only one state of Mexico where they have the
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: gringo taco on the menu all the time.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not popular. We like the authentic from scratch
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: Mexican tacos from Mexico. Yeah, I love tacos.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Soft taco. Oh, soft tacos are good.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Soft tacos are good. That's a traditional Mexican taco. It's
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: a soft little thing there. Scott from Florida writes, we'll
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: do a few more.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: Can I add a comment, Ben?
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Tacos in Ireland for Halloween. And Halloween was invented in Ireland.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Did you know that? All Hallows?
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. They used to do squash, right? Yeah, turnips.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: turnips yeah yeah.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: So zombies zombie.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Oh sorry hollow inspector poppy's been possessed by scott from
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: florida right so he says ben a few years back
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: we evacuated from florida to georgia for hurricane milton it
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: was the second hurricane coming up our alley in two
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: weeks sick of it all we considered living in the
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: northern suburbs of We'll be right back. Or coming Georgia.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Could you tell people with a straight face, pun intended,
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: that you're living in coming? You live in coming. Yeah,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: that's from Scott. There are some very interesting town names.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Coming Georgia is somewhat up there. That is a tough one.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Atlanta's- Chituat, Massachusetts is another one. Chituat.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Not shit. You said shit.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: It's not- I said Chituat. S-C-I-T-U-A-T-E. Chituat.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It sounded like you said the other- No,
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: I didn't.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: Swear.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: But it's a podcast. We are- Yeah, it's uncensored, right?
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: You can curse if you want. What? Well, yeah, it's not- Podcasts.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Why not? Podcasts are not governed by the FCC, so
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: you can do- Okay.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Let me find my book of curse words.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: No, no, we're good on that. There are some crazy
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: city names, though. I love the wild and crazy. There's
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: a town in Oregon called Boring Oregon, which is kind
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: of cool, right? If you like boring stuff, you can
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: go there.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: The winner can't say the word Worcester.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: What's that? She doesn't say it. How did she say it?
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: She said, what's that? Something. I don't know.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: A Worchester?
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, something like that. Worchester sauce.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: Well, you're not. If you're not from there, I get it.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, you wouldn't know. But I'm not from there,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: but I get it. What are some other crazy town names?
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: We've got, there's a town in Minnesota. There's a place
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: called Dinkytown.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: I have a funny one. I have a funny one
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: as a science teacher. Obviously, the kids make fun of
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: the planet Uranus. There is a town called Myanus. M-Y-A-N-U-S.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: The joke is Myanus is bigger than Uranus. I know.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: That's a fact. You can look it up.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Sweet Lips, Tennessee. There's a town called Sweet Lips, Tennessee.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: That's somewhat interesting. Coming Georgia's up there it is it's like.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Where you went uh mentor uh you know you went
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: to chichi slan that's chichi slan is like uh like
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: a breast like in spanish it's like like a breast
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: chichi is like so that's kind of funny you went
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: there you were you went on the pyramid chichi slan
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: one of the eight wonders so i'm glad you went
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: there and you shared on your socials i always wanted
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: to go there so i'm glad you had a Good
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: time right there in Chichititlan.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really cool. You got to get there.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: The elevation, man, that's no joke. It's like a half
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: a mile higher than Denver. It's like a mile and
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: a half up in the sky. The air is pretty
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: thin up in that area of Mexico City.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: Viva Mexico! Let's go!
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Eric from Rochester writes in. I don't know whether that's Rochester,
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: New York, or... Or Minnesota. There's a Minnesota Rochester. He says, Ben,
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: you think this guy will still be delivering frozen pizzas?
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: So he's talking about this Red Baron. Did you see
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: this video this week, guys? This viral Red Baron guy?
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: The guy was working delivering pizzas to stores, and these
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: punk kids came up to him, and they pulled a
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: prank on him like they stole some money from his deal.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: And so he went viral because the guy was just
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: trying to— the guy lives in Michigan— His name is, I guess, Walt.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: He was just doing his thing, trying to get through
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: the day and all that. These kids played a punk
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: move on him, this Red Baron employee. And they're like, hey,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: what are you doing? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Shame
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: on you. They pretended like he took his money. This
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: guy freaked out. He's like, I'm trying to get through
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: the day and all this stuff. Well, they've raised, check
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: this out, they've raised $ 700, 000 for this guy on a
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: GoFundMe website. Uh, he says, Eric says, you think he'll
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: still be working frozen pizza, by the way, go fund
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: me gets 2.9% of that money. And here's, you want
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: a fun fact?
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Commission. You want a fun fact? The owners of the
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings, uh, believe this guy owns the Sacramento. Let
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: me double check here. Hold on a second. I'm pretty
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: sure this guy owns the Sacramento Kings. Hold on. Listen
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: to our live coverage on the Fifth Hour podcast of
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: the Red Baron guy. Oh, no, no, no. This is
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: not the owner of the Sacramento Kings. I thought the
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: owner of the Kings had donated money, but I guess
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: this is a political guy. He donated $ 38, 000. That's the
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: top donation. Somebody's $ 38, 000 to this guy. Holy crap.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: Tax write-off, right?
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Tax write-off, tax write-off.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Ha, ha, ha.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, but $ 38, 000, my God. So if it was $ 600, 000,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: then GoFundMe would get $ 17, 400. I don't know. Listen, good
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: for the guy. I hope that he buys his house
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: and he can not have to work as much, right?
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: That's good. I respect that people– look at that, people
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: looking out for the little guy. So a number bigger
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: than $ 600, 000.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: There was 750,000 people celebrating the Brewers World Series.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: I saw there were a lot of people in Wisconsin.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: A lot of people, yeah.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: I thought you were going to be there, Ben Maller,
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: with your brother over there in the parade. I thought
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: you were going to be there.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: No, no. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it. I could not
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: make it. Kevin in Tempe says, hey, Ben, I'm a
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: podcast-only listener. Thanks for doing the mailbag. He says, Ben,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: should Buddha Baker of my Cardinals have taken off the mask?
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: So the other day, Buddha Baker, he's a safety for
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals, said, He did a news conference dressed in
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: his Halloween costume. He refused to take off his Halloween mask. Yeah, Kevin,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I wasn't there. I saw the clip online. I would
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: say the etiquette is you keep the mask on for
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: a little bit, and then after a little while, you
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: move on. And I thought it was kind of silly, but,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: you know, whatever. It's Halloween.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: Well, his name is Buddha Baker, right?
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Buddha Baker. Buddha Baker. So what would you expect from
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: a Buddha Baker?
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's a real Buddha, though. I don't
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: know that he's a real Buddha. All right, I got
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: two more. That's it. Two more gentlemen on the mailbag.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: Thank you for your time. NASA Bob from Tucson writes in.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: He says, you see the U.S. Navy is on board
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: with your ocean alien theory. Enjoy the podcast. Thank you,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: NASA Bob. Yeah, so this retired U.S. Navy admiral this week,
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: said that he thinks UFOs are hiding in the oceans.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Researchers claim to have discovered alien base entrances off of Canada,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: the coast of Canada, which has more coastline than any
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: country in the world, Canada.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: So....
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bob, that's great. That's my theory, gentlemen. Do you
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: want to share? Poppy, do you have an alien theory?
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: My theory is that a lot of these goblins and
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: creatures are living in the ocean, the bottom of the ocean,
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: and they fly out to examine us and to look
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: at us as human beings. And then they go back
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: to their bases at the bottom of the ocean. That's
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: my theory.
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: Happy that's a good theory my theory is you know
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: there's something weird out out there and I think they're
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: like from the desert a big hole and then they
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: can go everywhere they can go in the sky and
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: and I've seen stuff on the sky like boom boom
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: so I'm thinking in the sky there you go the.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Sky well the sky but they have okay all right
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: uh leprechaun.
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah i already mentioned this on a previous mailbag i
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: think it's the city of atlantis okay that moved to
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: canada that.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: Just oh canada they want they wanted the health insurance
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: all right last one manny from fresno writes in in
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: you know where fresno is leprechaun California, somewhere. Central California,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: closer to Northern California. My friend Eddie Garcia from just
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: outside Porterville, which is near Fresno, I believe. Anyway, Manny,
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: he went to Fresno State. Ben, who are you going
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: to trust more, a chat bot or a doctor? According
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: to a new survey, 63% of AI health users have
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: followed a chat bot's medical advice without checking with a provider. 60%
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: trust the chat bot AI over a doctor. How about that?
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: That's pretty, pretty well. I have seen videos. Have you
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: guys seen the videos of the doctors that have gone
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: to check like AI while they're, that's a little unsettling.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: When they put stuff into AI and you're paying them
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: for their expertise and they're like, let me double check
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: on AI what I'm supposed to do. Poppy, would you
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: listen to a chat bot or a doctor more?
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: I'll probably do a chatbot because I've gone to the
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: doctors and they don't even know what I have. And
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: I do my own research. So first of all, do
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: my own research. So I will trust the chatbot because
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: they do say the truth. And when you go with
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: the doctor, they don't even know. And they give you
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: different symptoms. And I've already done my research and, and
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: they're lying to me. So I would rather trust a
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: chatbot 100% more than a doctor because they could be
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: having their bad days, their good days, and they're off
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: on it and not sleeping. And So I'll go with
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: the chat box because he's going to make 100% noise.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Leprechaun?
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: Two words. Well, four words. Trust in Doc Mike.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. That's the last doctor you
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: want to trust. The last doctor you want to trust.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: All right. We're going to get out on that. Gentlemen,
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: enjoy your Sunday here. NFL football all day. I'll be back.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: No days off this week. I will be here the
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: entire week. We thank you guys for supporting the mailbag.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Real5thHour at gmail.com. Poppy, you have anything you want to promote?
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Poppy in San Diego. Very controversial, Poppy. Anything at all
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: you would like to promote here, Poppy?
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, guys, make sure to follow me on my TikTok.
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: Make sure on at Picking with Poppy. And also make
• 59:41
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• 59:44
  Speaker 4: And follow me on my YouTube at Picking with Poppy, guys.
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: And watch my content, what I do. Thank you, mentor,
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: for having me here. Zombie.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Leprechaun. Anything for remote leprechaun.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: Nice talking with Poppy. Anyway, vote on Tuesday.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: There you go. Vote. Vote for whoever you want. And again,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: my theory, I give this advice every year, any propositions
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: that say raise taxes, vote no. That's all you do.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: I don't care who you vote for other than vote no.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: We have enough taxes. Don't raise my taxes. Don't raise
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: your taxes. Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. And
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: whenever you listen to this, a lot of people listen
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or whatever the hell.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: You get the point. And we will talk to you
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: next week on the podcast. And tonight on the radio show,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: 11 o'clock in the West, 2 a.m. in the East,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: all night long, the Ben Mather Show returns. Bye-bye, as
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: Dick and Dayton would say. Bye-bye.