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The Fifth Hour: Wonder Woman to the Rescue · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
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Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio A Happy Saturday to you.
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Speaker 1: College Football Saturday on the twenty seventh day of September eight.
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Speaker 1: College Football Saturday today, and I do have some things
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Speaker 1: going on, so I'm trying to figure out. Bye. By
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Speaker 1: the way, Daniel joined me tomorrow. It's you Just Got
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Speaker 1: Me today, You just got me Hi. I'm my name's Ben.
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Speaker 1: Today on the podcast, but all day long, starting not
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Speaker 1: that far from now. With the USC Trojans who complained,
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Speaker 1: We talked about this the other night on the radio show.
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Speaker 1: They complained about having to play the early game today
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Speaker 1: after playing the late game last weekend, and they taken
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Speaker 1: on Illinois, who's just technically a top twenty five team,
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Speaker 1: sneaking in. Well. USC's not much higher rank than Illinois,
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Speaker 1: but USC off to a good start. They haven't played
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Speaker 1: any real competition, but they're four to zero. They take
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Speaker 1: on Illinois today. That's the early.
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Speaker 2: Game on.
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Speaker 1: Fox. Is that the big noon game of the week.
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Speaker 1: I know, it starts at noon Eastern time, and we'll
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Speaker 1: see what's going on with that game. And then later
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Speaker 1: on you got Alabama tonight Alabama and Georgia. Alabama not
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Speaker 1: nearly as good as they had been, but we'll see
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Speaker 1: what they can do against Georgia. And then what else
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Speaker 1: am I'm looking for? LSU and Old Miss can be
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Speaker 1: pretty good. And then the game which is also tonight,
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Speaker 1: going against Alabama, Georgia on what channels you know, NBC
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Speaker 1: Oregon and Penn State, which is pretty cool on our guy,
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Speaker 1: LeVar Arrington on that ESPN college football pregame show is
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Speaker 1: the celebrity picker. He's the big celebrity picker, which is
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Speaker 1: very very exciting. I know, Yeah, it'd be nice to
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Speaker 1: see LeVar get a little TV time. He doesn't get
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Speaker 1: enough TV time there. So in that matchup, it's all
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Speaker 1: on Penn State. James Franklin. Good teams every year but
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Speaker 1: against the top ten opponents. I saw the stat seven
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Speaker 1: times this week. James Franklin's played twenty four games against
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Speaker 1: top ten opponents since he's been to Penn State, and
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Speaker 1: they've only won four. They're four and twenty four and
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Speaker 1: twenty which I didn't play college football, but I'm told
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Speaker 1: is not good. So that'll that'll be the game at
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Speaker 1: the very top there. But I'll be flipping my right hand,
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Speaker 1: will be getting a workout between that and the aforementioned
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Speaker 1: Alabama Georgia games. So that's what we have to look
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Speaker 1: forward to to night and today starting here in a
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Speaker 1: little bit, and it's also National corn Beef Hash Day.
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Speaker 1: I want to point out I am not a breakfast guy.
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Speaker 1: I've talked about this from time to time on this podcast,
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Speaker 1: on the radio show. The wife does enjoy breakfast, so
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Speaker 1: she will drag me when we Usually we go on vacation,
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Speaker 1: so we're on vacation, eat breakfast. Got to eat breakfast together,
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Speaker 1: and corn beef hash has been a salvation for me
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Speaker 1: when I am dragged into breakfast. I don't hate breakfast food.
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Speaker 1: I don't I like pancakes. I like a lot of
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Speaker 1: it's bad for you, but for me. My go to
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Speaker 1: is corn beef hash, which goes all the way back
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Speaker 1: to the seventeenth century in England. It was originally rabbit hash,
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Speaker 1: and then the Ashkenazi Jews brought it to America. The
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Speaker 1: night teenth century, immigrants from northern Europe brought their food
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Speaker 1: here and then it became part of America. And then
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Speaker 1: in World War One, there's stories of soldiers eating corn
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Speaker 1: beef hash as they were in war. Was served corn
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Speaker 1: beefash was served in field kitchens the troops during World
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Speaker 1: War One, and it wasn't until nineteen fifty though, that
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Speaker 1: Horrmal Foods introduced canned corn beef hash and roast beef hash.
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Speaker 1: So that's been seventy five years since that happened. So
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Speaker 1: I will partake next time I have breakfast. I'm not
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Speaker 1: having breakfast today, but next time I have breakfast, I
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Speaker 1: will have corn beef hash. So on this podcast, as
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Speaker 1: we hang out together on a Saturday, the audio sweatshop
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Speaker 1: does not stop. The audio Sweatshop does not stop. We
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Speaker 1: have spent the globe and also it's the little things
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Speaker 1: in life. So I want to start with this. There
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Speaker 1: is nothing quite like live radio. I realize I'm saying
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Speaker 1: this as I'm doing a podcast. But I and I
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Speaker 1: openly admit that I fell in love with radio when
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Speaker 1: I was a kid and it was just magical to
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Speaker 1: me as a kid, and even at the age i'm
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Speaker 1: at now, I still just love radio. I just it's
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Speaker 1: in my blood. There's nothing quite like live radio. Nothing.
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Speaker 1: It's the great high wire act of modern media. And
5:36
Speaker 1: podcasts like the one we're doing right now, these are safe.
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Speaker 1: Like if I f up this podcast, I just don't
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Speaker 1: put it out there. I delete it or whatever and
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Speaker 1: I redo it. It's not live, it's I can do
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Speaker 1: whatever I want now. Normally what we do is we
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Speaker 1: do one take. We treat it like radio. We do
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Speaker 1: it one take. However, if something gets really effed up,
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Speaker 1: I can just delete it and not send it out
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Speaker 1: and you'll never hear it, and that's it. Television, I've
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Speaker 1: been lucky enough to do a little television, highly produced,
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Speaker 1: major production value. There's editors, there's people with the graphics,
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Speaker 1: there's producers. Like a lot of people do a television show.
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Speaker 1: It's good, but it's not radio. Streaming pretty polished, right,
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Speaker 1: radio though, live overnight in the witching hours, when you've
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Speaker 1: got truckers in Tennessee and Alabama, insomniacs in Iowa and Illinois,
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Speaker 1: and Barista's in Boston, all of them tuned in. People
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Speaker 1: working in factories, baking stuff and whatnot. And that's just different.
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Speaker 1: That's naked, that's raw, and that's you a microphone and
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Speaker 1: the ABYSS. And the ABYSS does not wait. There's no
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Speaker 1: waiting room with the ABYSS. So take you back all
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Speaker 1: the way till yesterday, Friday morning, inside the bowels of
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Speaker 1: the Malor Mansion, working from the remote studio, and I
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Speaker 1: was reminded of this eternal truth picture, if you will,
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Speaker 1: the scene as I am preparing for the radio show.
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Speaker 1: I've got my trusted companion, Moxie, beloved mascot of the
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Speaker 1: mal Or Militia, the English Bulldog, snoring like a freight
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Speaker 1: train two feet away. I've got three screens going roughly.
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Speaker 1: I got the baseball game in Chicago. I've got the
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Speaker 1: football game that's a Thursday night, so Thursday night interprise.
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Speaker 1: So I've got the football game Seattle and Arizona from Glendale, Arizona.
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Speaker 1: Got some random nonsense on the other screen. And I've
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Speaker 1: got my laptop. I'm sitting down I've got my notes
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Speaker 1: and I'm preparing for the show. I've got mallard monologues.
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Speaker 1: The way we do it, we do four monologues a night.
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Speaker 1: Each monologuees anywhere from fifteen to twenty minutes, give or take.
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Speaker 1: And so I've got to get my notes ready, my
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Speaker 1: bullet points, and I'm polishing them. I'm spit shining the
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Speaker 1: bullet points like a five star chef prepping, gathering the
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Speaker 1: ingredients in place before the big dinner service, getting everything
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Speaker 1: ready to go. Preparation is the key. Am at the
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Speaker 1: point now where I'm about ready to go. I'm about ready.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm good. I've got all the ingredients I need.
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Speaker 1: I know how much food I have to serve that night.
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Speaker 1: And it's the end of the week, and you want
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Speaker 1: to go in feeling pretty good about yourself. Not that
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Speaker 1: the audio ends. Obviously, we're doing this podcast here, so fine,
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Speaker 1: that's it. As we like to say, we do broadcasting,
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Speaker 1: not narrow casting. I had put the baby to bed,
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Speaker 1: and when you put the baby to bed, everything you
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Speaker 1: can possibly do to prepare for the show is done,
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Speaker 1: and you just have to wait for the show to
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Speaker 1: get going. It's broadcasting, not narrow casting, and our job
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Speaker 1: is to find story that spin the globe. They constant
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Speaker 1: variety of sporters. The late great Jim McKay so famously
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Speaker 1: put it the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat,
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Speaker 1: the human drama of athletic competition. And if you're completely honest, here,
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Speaker 1: we spend most of our time marinating in the agony
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Speaker 1: of defeat. We just do. In news, they say, if
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Speaker 1: it bleeds, it leads. In sports radio, if you lose,
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Speaker 1: you're at the very top, because defeat is magical, defeat
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Speaker 1: is relatable. Defeat makes good talk radio. And I learned
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Speaker 1: this at a young age when I was like nineteen
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Speaker 1: and I got assigned to cover professional sports and I
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Speaker 1: was in the locker room. You'd go into winter's locker
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Speaker 1: room to be a boombox. Music was playing, people were
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Speaker 1: having fun, having a good time. And then you go
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Speaker 1: across the tunnel to the loser's locker room. There was
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Speaker 1: no music. Everyone was melancholy. Everyone was sad. Oh they
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Speaker 1: were so depressed because they'd lost the game. And that's
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Speaker 1: where the drama is. And so there I am doing
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Speaker 1: the show. Everything's fine. First three hours rat a tat
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Speaker 1: tat rat a tat tat rat a tat tat. Heading
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Speaker 1: into the final hour, I take a deep breath. We
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Speaker 1: finish with lame jokes, and I've got a few minutes
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Speaker 1: before the next hour begins. Here the recorded update from
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Speaker 1: Montsie at the top of the hour, and I'm clicking
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Speaker 1: open my file. Here. It's about five am Eastern time,
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Speaker 1: two am Pacific Primetime. Believe it or not, it's actually
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Speaker 1: primetime for us. That is when the commuters on the
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Speaker 1: Eastern Seaboard start heading out to try to beat the traffic,
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Speaker 1: and some of them end up stuck in traffic, flipping
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Speaker 1: through the dial looking for someone to scream about. I
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Speaker 1: don't know Tua or Aaron Rodgers or something. Anyway, that
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Speaker 1: is when we have the most ears listening to the
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Speaker 1: live show. That is when we have the biggest audience.
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Speaker 1: Is the final hour of the show. And I've got
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Speaker 1: one more monologue in the chamber, the final monologue of
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Speaker 1: the week, ready to fire. I've done my copious amounts
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Speaker 1: of research, I've put my due diligence in. I'm ready
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Speaker 1: to go. And remember, we got about fifteen to twenty
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Speaker 1: minutes of carefully assembled bullet points to navigate through and
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Speaker 1: the way whereas you put the bullet points. Now you
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Speaker 1: don't use them all, but you kind of sling them
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Speaker 1: together and you make it work. And it's kind of
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Speaker 1: like spaghetti and tomato sauce. You can have just the
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Speaker 1: spaghetti without the sauce. You can have the sauce without
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Speaker 1: the spaghetti, but it's better together. And so we were
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Speaker 1: going to talk about Robert Salah accusing the Jaguars of
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Speaker 1: sign stealing into a tongue of Iiloa and Cam Newton,
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Speaker 1: and then his story about the Tennessee Times. All that
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Speaker 1: was teed up. So we're about ninety seconds from the
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Speaker 1: on air light flashing, and I clicked open the file
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Speaker 1: and I save everything in my computer and I click
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Speaker 1: opened the file to get to the bullet points that
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Speaker 1: I had spent a lot of time preparing with Boxie.
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Speaker 1: And I see, I see nothing. I see blank. I
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Speaker 1: see a white screen. I see the Sahara desert. It's
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Speaker 1: like going to the grocery store during COVID and everything's empty.
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Speaker 1: My magnum opus reduced to blankness, just a blank stare.
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Speaker 1: And I kept clicking refreshed. It seemed like it was
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Speaker 1: half an hour maybe twenty seconds. I just kept clicking, refreshed, nothing.
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Speaker 1: And then I'm like, well, I mean, this is not good,
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Speaker 1: and it's what I'm trying to process. What happened. This
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Speaker 1: has not happened like this in a while, so I'm like,
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Speaker 1: oh boy. I didn't panic, but I had the realization
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Speaker 1: that the notes that I had spent so much time
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Speaker 1: preparing for this monologue were not on the machine. And
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Speaker 1: I do use a different setup in my remote studio.
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Speaker 1: I have everything locked in place. I have camera lighting,
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Speaker 1: extra lighting, I have a special computer that I use
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Speaker 1: because we have to record the monologues for the Ben
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Speaker 1: Mather Show YouTube channel. So it's just a lot of
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Speaker 1: different things. And so the notes were on my laptop downstairs. Now,
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Speaker 1: normally what happens is I transfer the file to the laptop,
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Speaker 1: it gets boomed through Wi Fi or or Bluetooth, and
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Speaker 1: it ends up on the cloud and then I take
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Speaker 1: it off the cloud and that's that. But it wasn't
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Speaker 1: on the cloud. It appears I had gotten so tired
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Speaker 1: I forgot to transfer my bullet points for that monologue.
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Speaker 1: Everything else was fine for the show, but that one
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Speaker 1: file I did not transfer over. And this is when
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Speaker 1: the self deprecation kicks in. I have one job, literally,
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Speaker 1: I have one job. Talk into a microphone with some
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Speaker 1: semblance of preparation that you as a consumer. I've said this,
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Speaker 1: if I've met you at meeting greets over the years,
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Speaker 1: I've told you this is the deal. Here. You are
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Speaker 1: giving up the most valuable resource that you have. You're listening.
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Speaker 1: You're giving your time. That is the most valuable thing
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Speaker 1: we all have as human amazinging for you to give
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Speaker 1: your time to listen to a sports radio show, that's
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Speaker 1: pretty cool. So the least I could do when I
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Speaker 1: get behind the microphone is have some, as I said,
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Speaker 1: some semblance of preparation. And so I had completely forgotten
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Speaker 1: the notes. And it's like a surgeon. You wouldn't want
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Speaker 1: to go and do to an operation as a surgeon
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Speaker 1: and leave your scalpel at home. Say well, just hold
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Speaker 1: off here, I got to I don't have a scalpel.
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Speaker 1: It's bathroom at home. If you're a pilot you go
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Speaker 1: down to the airport and you forget the keys to
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Speaker 1: turn on the plane, you don't want that. Or if
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Speaker 1: you're a chef and you show up to the restaurant
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Speaker 1: and you realize that you left all the vegetables and
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Speaker 1: all the bread in the trunk of your car. That's
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Speaker 1: not gonna work. Now in the podcast world, what would
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Speaker 1: you do, Like I'm in a podcast set up right now,
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Speaker 1: I would just pause. I grab the laptop. I would
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Speaker 1: Sasha my way back. No problem, edit it out, nobody notices,
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Speaker 1: nobody knows. But in live radio, we'll do it live,
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Speaker 1: I'll ride it, We'll do it lot. There is no pause.
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Speaker 1: But when the on air light is illuminated, the void
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Speaker 1: is right there, right, the void is right there, and
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Speaker 1: it's just laughing at you, daring you to stumble. So
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Speaker 1: I did what any desperate man, desperate talk show host
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Speaker 1: working from the remote studio would do. Oho I called
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Speaker 1: for backup. No, I did not call Moxie. I did
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Speaker 1: not call Moxie. I called my wife, who was somewhere
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Speaker 1: near the laptop enjoying some nice television, and I said, listen,
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Speaker 1: you gotta help me out. I need that computer asap. Emergency,
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Speaker 1: emergency def Con one, deaf con one, or something like that.
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Speaker 1: And suddenly the wife transformed into wonder woman faster than
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Speaker 1: Florence Griffith Joinner. If you know who that is, that's
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Speaker 1: a dated reference covered in red Bull, drinking red Bull.
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Speaker 1: She hurtled the sofa, cut a corner like secretariat, charged
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Speaker 1: up the stairs like she was storming Normandy, and about
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Speaker 1: forty seconds later, forty seconds she was in the remote studio,
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Speaker 1: laptop in hand, delivered like the passing of the torch
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Speaker 1: at the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Teamwork makes the
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Speaker 1: dream work pure and simple. And here's the kick. Nobody listening,
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Speaker 1: nobody listening to you. I didn't get one email. I go.
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Speaker 1: I was worries. People a going to know that something
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Speaker 1: happened here, not a soul. The monologue went on. We
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Speaker 1: talked about Robert Salah and accusing the Jaguars of cheating,
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Speaker 1: made some Jose Albouve jokes and comments based on bullet points.
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Speaker 1: We talked about Tua being thin skinned, the Tennessee Titans.
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Speaker 1: It all played as if it had been planned perfectly.
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Speaker 1: There were no hiccups at all, and you had the
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Speaker 1: thrill of victory if you were listening now. Behind the scenes,
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Speaker 1: I was living the agony of defeat. I was. And
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Speaker 1: that again is the thing about what you love so
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Speaker 1: much about live radio. It's jazz, it's improv a little bit.
17:43
Speaker 1: It's juggling knives on a unicycle wearing clown makeup. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Gremlins almost always show up. When we work from
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Speaker 1: the remote studio, they almost always show up. Files go missing,
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Speaker 1: dogs will bark, power will go out, microphones will start barn. However,
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Speaker 1: the show must go on. The show must go on.
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Speaker 1: And if you've got an English bulldog by your side
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Speaker 1: and the Wonder Woman spreating through the house, maybe, just
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Speaker 1: maybe you might be able to put off. And that's
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Speaker 1: the reason I just I love it. I love it.
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Speaker 1: I love love the gig. I don't like everything about it.
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Speaker 1: There's some things I would love to change, but there's
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Speaker 1: no job anyone's ever had at any point that is
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Speaker 1: completely perfect. But it's another reason it matters to me,
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Speaker 1: Like it's anyone can do a podcast anywhere and polish
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Speaker 1: it up and do it live though, because live radio
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Speaker 1: it is not perfect. It's not meant to be perfect.
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Speaker 1: It's the human drama of athletic competition, except the competition
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Speaker 1: often is between me and my own stupidity, and nine
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Speaker 1: out of ten times I end up losing on a
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Speaker 1: daily basis, and I keep going back like a glutton
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Speaker 1: for punishment. But it just happened to be the end
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Speaker 1: of the week. There. With the help of my lovely wife,
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Speaker 1: I I won. That is a wwwwwww barely. And that's it.
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Speaker 1: That is why you span the globe for good talk radio,
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Speaker 1: because you never know when boom goes the dynamite. Boom
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Speaker 1: goes the dynamite, just like that. All right, turn the
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Speaker 1: pitch on that. It's the little things in life. The
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Speaker 1: little things in life. Now, let's be honest here, all right.
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Speaker 1: A podcast photo, a radio show photo is usually the
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Speaker 1: least important thing in the world. Just stick with the podcast.
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Speaker 1: It's wallpaper, it's a label on a soup can, the
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Speaker 1: tiny print on the back of your credit card. Nobody
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Speaker 1: knewbody is listening to a podcast because of a headshot.
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Speaker 1: Nobody is doing that. Nobody says, I wasn't going to
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Speaker 1: download that four our audio da Tribe about Micah Parsons,
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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones and Aaron Rodgers taking a bowel movement. But boy,
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Speaker 1: look at that handsome man in the square thumbnail. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. Yeah, it doesn't happen. And yet
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Speaker 1: this is exactly why I believe it's important, because the
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Speaker 1: small things the ones you're not supposed to care about,
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Speaker 1: sometimes screamed the loudest. Now I bring this up. You
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Speaker 1: may have noticed if you downloaded the Ben Malers Show
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Speaker 1: podcast for Friday. However, for the first time in I
20:38
Speaker 1: would say roughly fourteen years, fifteen years, the Ben Malers
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Speaker 1: Show podcast has a new picture. Not the same old
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Speaker 1: stock shot of a gas bag who looks like he
20:49
Speaker 1: had just waddled out of an all you can eat
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Speaker 1: Vegas buffet, not the bloated character that screamed part sports
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Speaker 1: rate guy, part job of the hut. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: this time, you know, is it a glamour shot? I
21:09
Speaker 1: don't know if I'll use that word. I'll use the
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Speaker 1: word where the host actually looks presentable, even debonair. The
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Speaker 1: face a face for radio, but yet serious intent with
21:21
Speaker 1: a little comedy flavor mixed in, you know, like someone
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Speaker 1: that's focused there, like they're about to carve a searing
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Speaker 1: steak of sports talk goodness and the sizzle right at
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Speaker 1: your table. And for once, the image does not betray
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Speaker 1: the content. All Right, we complained about this, I've done
21:42
Speaker 1: rants about this. You can roll your eyes and say, oh,
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Speaker 1: here we go again, Here we go again. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: can already hear you saying it's just a photo, bit
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Speaker 1: that schmuck, just Josh or Lucky Tonys, just a photo. No, no,
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Speaker 1: pump the brakes. This photo will appear millions of times,
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Speaker 1: literally millions of time. We do it very well on
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Speaker 1: the downloads, but it's an aggregate thing. You add this
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Speaker 1: up every day for weeks and months, and it's a
22:16
Speaker 1: neon golden arches at McDonald's, on every podcast app every podcast,
22:24
Speaker 1: a bitten Apple logo in every truck cab stopping to
22:29
Speaker 1: get some dinner at a truck stop, listening on serious
22:32
Speaker 1: satellite radio. It's every man, woman and child who downloads
22:38
Speaker 1: the Ben Maler Show. We'll see this thumbnail, that little
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Speaker 1: bitty square, that eighty bitty square, will carry the weight
22:47
Speaker 1: of recognition. It's like a brand burnt into the cattle.
22:53
Speaker 1: It's a cattle mark. It's out there in the dusty
22:56
Speaker 1: plane somewhere in the sports media world. And that that's
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Speaker 1: the thing, Especially when you're doing the overnight, you're like
23:03
Speaker 1: baby steps become avalanches. Like a new photo isn't just
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Speaker 1: a new photo. It's a reintroduction. It's the mirror finally
23:12
Speaker 1: catching up and to where you are right now, it's
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Speaker 1: got kind of like you hate that flattering angle. It's funny.
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Speaker 1: I was I back in the day when I was dating.
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Speaker 1: I knew that everyone wanted that photo looking down because
23:24
Speaker 1: you lose about twenty pounds of fat. When you do
23:28
Speaker 1: the camera above your head, you know, and you look down,
23:30
Speaker 1: you don't get the chin fat and all that stuffs
23:32
Speaker 1: a very flattering angle. It's like your aunt at Thanksgiving saying, oh,
23:37
Speaker 1: you've lost some weight. What have you been doing? Are
23:39
Speaker 1: you on that ozepic? And you haven't lost it hours.
23:43
Speaker 1: It's just perception shifting, and perception is reality. So for
23:48
Speaker 1: twenty five years of my life, for twenty five years
23:51
Speaker 1: of my life at Fox Sports Radio, the host has
23:54
Speaker 1: been portrayed as a slub, just the way it is
23:58
Speaker 1: at the Overnight Overweight Carnival Barker. And now the image
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Speaker 1: to me, it looks different, and you can tell me, oh,
24:06
Speaker 1: you know, you don't look that good. I just took
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Speaker 1: a little sneaker, a little more sophisticated. Yeah. This is
24:14
Speaker 1: not an accident, right, This is not vanity, This is branding.
24:19
Speaker 1: And you don't judge a podcast by its cover, except
24:23
Speaker 1: of course, you absolutely do. You absolutely do. But such
24:29
Speaker 1: as life in the audio world, we spent hours and
24:32
Speaker 1: hours perfecting the content and then you send it out
24:38
Speaker 1: and you like it, you don't like it. You judge it,
24:40
Speaker 1: you don't judge it. We use the thumbnail and sometimes
24:44
Speaker 1: that little tiny square is the biggest billboard you'll ever have.
24:49
Speaker 1: Of course, we have the mobile moving Matt billboard, or
24:55
Speaker 1: Matt the mover who's traveled all over there and his
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Speaker 1: dog Glue. We talked about him yesterday on the Friday podcast.
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Speaker 1: So we have that, but now we have this as well.
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Speaker 1: So I thought that was kind of cool. I was
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Speaker 1: happy about that, And now it's out and so check
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Speaker 1: it out. Let me know what you think about the image,
25:16
Speaker 1: and yeah, so it's actually cool. I management reached out
25:20
Speaker 1: to me and said, hey, we're changing the podcast image
25:23
Speaker 1: and we've got some options, and I said, okay, what
25:27
Speaker 1: are the options. And they could continue to use the
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Speaker 1: one where I look like I am about to die
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Speaker 1: from obesity. They chose not to do that, So we're
25:37
Speaker 1: we're happy about that. We are fired up. I think
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Speaker 1: they did a good job. So it's a nice nice
25:42
Speaker 1: deal there for sure. All right, it's a fifth hour
25:45
Speaker 1: podcast and we have the mail bag tomorrow tomorrow, the
25:49
Speaker 1: mail bag which we are fired up about, and if
25:53
Speaker 1: you want to send a message in either for this
25:55
Speaker 1: week's mail bag or a future mail bag, you can
25:57
Speaker 1: do that care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
26:02
Speaker 1: That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and we
26:07
Speaker 1: will go through the mail bag tomorrow and read a
26:11
Speaker 1: bunch of these questions. We don't get it in tomorrow.
26:13
Speaker 1: If it's evergreen, we could always use it in a
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Speaker 1: future episode. If it's a dated one, we will not
26:18
Speaker 1: use it. So resubmit but Real fifth Hour at gmail
26:22
Speaker 1: dot com. If you want to support the radio program
26:26
Speaker 1: or actually this podcast, and you can ask about the
26:29
Speaker 1: radio program or whatever you want. It doesn't really matter.
26:34
Speaker 1: Danny g should be with me on the mail bag tomorrow.
26:37
Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll be able to stop by. It's been a crazy, crazy,
26:41
Speaker 1: crazy weekend. So again, I got a lot of college
26:43
Speaker 1: football to watch and don't even bother sending me an email. Well,
26:47
Speaker 1: you don't talk about college football. I don't understand why
26:50
Speaker 1: you're going to be watching those. Yeah, I don't have
26:55
Speaker 1: to talk about everything I watch. I don't. Okay, sometimes
26:59
Speaker 1: I can just be a sports fan. I don't even
27:02
Speaker 1: have to bet on the game. Now, I do pick.
27:03
Speaker 1: When I watch a game, I got to pick who
27:05
Speaker 1: I think is gonna win. I can just take the
27:07
Speaker 1: edge off and watch a game and that's it. I
27:10
Speaker 1: don't have to do the whole shebang where I sit
27:12
Speaker 1: in front of a microphone and spit out monologues and
27:15
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And quite frankly, some of the stuff
27:17
Speaker 1: I watched for the radio show I would never watch
27:20
Speaker 1: if I didn't have the radio show because I have
27:22
Speaker 1: no interest in it. But I have to work myself
27:25
Speaker 1: into a lather sometimes for some of the stuff that
27:28
Speaker 1: we end up talking about because it's broadcasting, not narrow
27:31
Speaker 1: casting and all that. But I can watch college football
27:34
Speaker 1: and I'll be out running around, so I'll likely watch
27:36
Speaker 1: some of it on my phone, depending on what I
27:40
Speaker 1: have going on today, because I have a lot of
27:42
Speaker 1: time off, especially doing the podcast on the weekend. So
27:45
Speaker 1: I'll figure some stuff out as I go through. And
27:49
Speaker 1: that'll be that. Anyway. Thanks to you for listening, making
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Speaker 1: it all the way to the end of the podcast.
27:54
Speaker 1: We'll have again the mail bag tomorrow, Danny G. Hopefully
27:56
Speaker 1: we'll check in. Have a wonderful rest of your set day, Saturday, Saturday,
28:02
Speaker 1: and we will catch you next time. Later, Skater Pasta
28:09
Speaker 1: Pasta We're still waiting for that Eureka moment. Now we
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Speaker 1: are got a murder. I gotta go.