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The Fifth Hour: Smooth Jazz and "Laker girlllls" · 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 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: It's a clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Malar,
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Speaker 1: you have been indoctrinated in the cult of the Malard Militia.
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Speaker 1: On this Friday, the nineteenth day of June, day number
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Speaker 1: one seventy one seventy of the year. There are one
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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five days left, I am told as
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Speaker 1: we hang out together here in June. And it is
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Speaker 1: a holiday, June teenth, which is a relatively new holiday
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Speaker 1: that didn't exist up until a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: It is also National Kissing Day, which also didn't exist
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Speaker 1: that long ago. And I clicked a thing. I'm a
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Speaker 1: jig or was it a do hickey? I'll have to
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Speaker 1: check with my advisor, Alf the Alien o Pineter. I
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Speaker 1: clicked on something and I was like, well, what's going
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Speaker 1: on here? So it's National Kissing Day. Here's a fun fact,
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Speaker 1: fun fact on kissing. That kissing can that's what we's
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Speaker 1: a word can transmit eight eighty eighty million, eighty million
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Speaker 1: micro bacteria. So okay, now, who counted all eighty million?
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Speaker 1: That was done before AI the world record. Here's a
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Speaker 1: bonus fun fact. The world record for the longest kiss.
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Speaker 1: How long was the longest kiss? That would be in Thailand?
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Speaker 1: The record is fifty eight hours, thirty five minutes and
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Speaker 1: fifty eight seconds. And that's a little much. That is
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Speaker 1: a little much. That's a knockout blow, is what that is. Now.
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Speaker 1: I am told that today is the anniversary of the
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Speaker 1: birth of a federal government operation that started almost one
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Speaker 1: hundred years ago and still to this day impacts my life.
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Speaker 1: That federal agency, the Federal Communications Commission, better known by
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Speaker 1: their gangster name the FCC. The FCC. So it started
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Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty four, way back in the day, nineteen
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Speaker 1: thirty four, and to this day. Every year when you
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Speaker 1: do a talk show at a major radio company, they
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Speaker 1: make you do training once a year so you're up
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Speaker 1: to date on all the rules and regular relations, all
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Speaker 1: the red tape. You got a color between the lines,
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Speaker 1: as they say that at the Federal Communications Commission. So
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Speaker 1: now it is time, well it's almost time before I
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Speaker 1: get into the focus of today's pod, and we'll get
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Speaker 1: into it. Lawrence Tanter a is the focus of today's podcast,
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Speaker 1: A Trip to the Confessional Booth. Now my doctor is
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Speaker 1: doctor Seuss, not the actual Doctor Seuss. Mind you, my
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Speaker 1: insurance is not that good. However, somewhere along the road
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Speaker 1: of life, I adopted the philosophy of oh the places
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Speaker 1: You'll go, which, if you've made enough wrong turns, can
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Speaker 1: double as a warning label as well. So I have
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Speaker 1: long believed, and if you listen to the show you
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Speaker 1: know this. I have long believed that life is just
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Speaker 1: the stories that you collect while you're living your life
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Speaker 1: and waiting for the check or you know, putting groceries away,
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Speaker 1: or in my case, waiting for the beef stroganoff. So
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Speaker 1: one of those stories involves the aforementioned Lawrence Tanter. Thirty
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Speaker 1: plus years ago, before everybody carried those little tiny televisions
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Speaker 1: in their pocket that cost like a thousand dollars, and
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Speaker 1: before every stranger with Wi Fi became an expert, I
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Speaker 1: had run into LT. That's what he's known for as LT.
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Speaker 1: In the media dining room at the Great Western Forum
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Speaker 1: in the hood in Inglewood and up to no good.
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Speaker 1: And this gentleman stood six foot seven, and that meant
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Speaker 1: that he had a competitive advantage taller than me. And
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Speaker 1: he had a commanding bird's eye view of the daily
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Speaker 1: media buffet at the Great Western Forum, so he could
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Speaker 1: spot those stale dinner rolls way before the rest of us.
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Speaker 1: He'd give us the intel, Hey, listen, avoid the rolls.
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Speaker 1: There's a little mold on the rolls over there. So
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Speaker 1: the Forum cuisine was a culinary crime scene. Now this
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Speaker 1: was in between the showtime Lakers. They still had some
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Speaker 1: of the guys on the team there. They were not
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Speaker 1: winning anymore. And that was before they eventually got Shack
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Speaker 1: and then moved to what was Staples Center and then
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Speaker 1: they get got Kobe, the whole thing. So when I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you it was a culinary crime scene, it was
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Speaker 1: beef strogan off over egg noodles that appeared seemingly every
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Speaker 1: other day. There was the beef strogle if somebody must
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Speaker 1: have loved the beef strogan off with the egg noodles.
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Speaker 1: There was also some Italian dish that was so strange
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Speaker 1: that if you served it in Rome that you would
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Speaker 1: like to get summoned by authorities like what is this.
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Speaker 1: You're attacking the culture of Italy. What's wrong with you now? Still,
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Speaker 1: the food wasn't the point, and that's not the reason
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Speaker 1: I bring up for it. I just remembered the beef
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Speaker 1: struggle off and that's why I brought it up. The
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Speaker 1: point was the conversation. As you are likely aware as well,
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Speaker 1: I am not a social butterfly. However, back in those days,
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Speaker 1: from October through April and occasionally in de May and June,
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Speaker 1: the Lakers were actually playing meaningful basketball. If that happened,
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Speaker 1: we would be schmoozy. You can accomplish a lot through schmoozy.
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Speaker 1: I don't do it enough. It's not my thing. Nations
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Speaker 1: have been built on less than schmoozy. So Lawrence, and
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Speaker 1: again everyone called him LT and still does, was not
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Speaker 1: just the Lakers public address announcer. He was a listener.
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Speaker 1: Imagine that a man whose voice was heard by eighteen
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Speaker 1: thousand people a night voluntarily choosing to hear my voice,
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Speaker 1: which immediately made me like this guy and says something
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Speaker 1: about his loyalty and perhaps something troubling about his judgment.
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Speaker 1: So this goes back many years. I was doing the
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Speaker 1: local AM eleven fifty Ben and Dave show, Ben and Dave,
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Speaker 1: Ben and Dave, and I even knew him before that show.
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Speaker 1: I was Local LA Radio. I was working at the
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Speaker 1: mighty six ninety as well, and eventually became what I
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Speaker 1: am still to this day, the host of the gas
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Speaker 1: Baggery known as the Ben Mahler Show, which is a
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Speaker 1: national show. Anyway, we bonded over the spoken word. I
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Speaker 1: found my tribe, if you will, I found the people
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Speaker 1: that I related in this case LT. And if you've
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Speaker 1: watched the Lakers over the past forty years, you know
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Speaker 1: who LT is, whether you realize it or not. Now.
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Speaker 1: He started in nineteen eighty two, way before I was there,
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Speaker 1: and I was a kid. In nineteen eighty two, ET
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Speaker 1: was number one at the box office, top movie in
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Speaker 1: the theaters. A gallon of gas when he started was
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Speaker 1: a dollar twenty two. Michael Jackson was a young up
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Speaker 1: and coming musician who had released Thriller. Of course, he
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Speaker 1: had already had success with Jackson five, but Thriller came
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Speaker 1: out and that became the best selling album of all
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Speaker 1: Time and featured hits like Billy Jean Beat It and
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Speaker 1: the iconic Thriller music video was tied into that. Young
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Speaker 1: girls loved Strawberry Shortcake dolls apparently, and everyone enjoyed Space Invaders,
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Speaker 1: the video game, which made a ton of money in
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Speaker 1: these things called arcades. And this was before the computer
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Speaker 1: revelation of USA Nation. In nineteen eighty two, the Commodore
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Speaker 1: sixty four personal computer went on sale for the first time,
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Speaker 1: so people got to buy computers for the first time.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty two, hair was bigger, shorts were shorter,
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Speaker 1: which nobody liked looking back, and nobody thought that wearing
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Speaker 1: socks with sandals was acceptable behavior. And that is when
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Speaker 1: he took over. Nineteen eighty two lt was the beginnings
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Speaker 1: of a career. He would become the longest tenured public
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Speaker 1: address announcer in Lakers history. His smooth baritone pipes welcoming
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Speaker 1: the showtime Lakers of Magic, Kareem and Worthy ten NBA
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Speaker 1: championships while he was on the microphone the public address,
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Speaker 1: and that went all the way through the glory days
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Speaker 1: of Kobe, that embarrassing Bubble Championship with Lebron and yes,
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Speaker 1: because life is all about balance. He also lt survived
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Speaker 1: the Smush Parker era of Laker basketball, and oh what
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Speaker 1: an era it was. Now not everybody gets that kind
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Speaker 1: of emotional range. So you got Magic, Smush Parker, D'Angelo Russell.
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Speaker 1: It is a lot going on. There's a lot going
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Speaker 1: on in that time. So this week, the reason I
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Speaker 1: brought this up, I read that Lawrence Tanter's run as
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Speaker 1: the Lakers' public address announcer is over forty three seasons,
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Speaker 1: and turn out that the party's over now. Lawrence Tanter
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Speaker 1: is not dead. He was forced into retirement, really suffered
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Speaker 1: a stroke back in March at age seventy six. He
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Speaker 1: will remain with the Lakers. They gave him some fugesis
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Speaker 1: special advisor to the advisor of the advisor on game presentation,
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Speaker 1: which is great, and I will compliment the Lakers to
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Speaker 1: do that, because you should take care of a guy
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Speaker 1: that was a big part of your franchise and didn't
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Speaker 1: get paid that much for it. You don't replace voices
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Speaker 1: like that. You just move them to an other room,
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Speaker 1: is what you do here. And they've been so many
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Speaker 1: great public address announcers over the years, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of them have gotten older and died. Bob Shephard, I
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Speaker 1: guess would be the gold standard, right not guess? He
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Speaker 1: is the old Yankee, the voice of the New York Yankees. Now,
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Speaker 1: in terms of signature moments, LT if there's one call
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Speaker 1: that he is known for as a public address announcer
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Speaker 1: more than any other, it is his trademark, It is
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Speaker 1: his signature. It is late Ger Girls. Yes, that call
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Speaker 1: was part of the soundtrack of the Lakers. It's like
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Speaker 1: chick Hern had his vocabulary and the Jellos, Jigglin and
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Speaker 1: Vince Scully would tell stories and all that. And the
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Speaker 1: sound that I make every day when I get out
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Speaker 1: of bed is the sound of my knee cracking. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to life after fifty. So now I know what you're thinking, Ben.
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Speaker 1: Aren't you a card carring member of the LHSA. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I have paid my dues. I am a member with
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Speaker 1: me and Rob Parker Lakers Haters Society of America. It's
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Speaker 1: an active organization that pushes back against Laker propaganda. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: and I get I have paid my dues. I have
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Speaker 1: complained professionally. I have rolled my eyes at purple and
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Speaker 1: gold propaganda. With the dedication of a monk copying manuscripts,
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Speaker 1: and as Paul Harvey would say, now for the rest
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Speaker 1: of the story, the rest of the store now, being
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Speaker 1: around the Lakers did not make LT interesting, did not
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Speaker 1: jazz made him interesting. The Laker job was just a
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Speaker 1: side hustle. I think back in nineteen eighty two, the
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Speaker 1: NBA wasn't that popular. It didn't really boom until a
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Speaker 1: few years after that. And LT's real passion radio. He
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Speaker 1: worked as a jazz connoisseur around the LA Radio Dial,
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Speaker 1: was a program director on air, personality legendary disc jockey.
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Speaker 1: This man knew the music. I don't have the music gene.
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Speaker 1: This guy had not only the music gene, he had
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Speaker 1: in addition to that, the sports gene. He knew radio.
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Speaker 1: He understood the sacred art of talking too much and
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Speaker 1: somehow convincing people to come back tomorrow to hear even
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Speaker 1: more and more and more. Like that whole thing he knew.
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Speaker 1: And that is where our very casual I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: say say we're best friends, we're not, but that is
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Speaker 1: where the very casual friendship to GoF not basketball, not championships,
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Speaker 1: radio stories, in the shared delusion that discussing nonsense for
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Speaker 1: hours somehow constitutes meaningful work. Now, I'm gonna tell you
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Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes the tribute which very few
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Speaker 1: people know about. I have had a few mentioned this
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Speaker 1: over the years, but very few people know the tribute
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Speaker 1: that I have provided for years to LT who also
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Speaker 1: told me he had developed some friendships with some of
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Speaker 1: the Laker players, including some Hall of Fame Laker players
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Speaker 1: who I will not name because that's his story. Players
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Speaker 1: who love jazz love jazz ballplayers would stop by just
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Speaker 1: to talk music with them. Think about that, multi millionaire athletes,
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Speaker 1: legends of the game, who spent all day hearing people
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Speaker 1: tell them how wonderful they they were. These guys wanted
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Speaker 1: to sit around and discuss Miles Davis or whoever that
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Speaker 1: says something probably something good, Probably something good. So over
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Speaker 1: the years, over the years I had a number of meals.
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Speaker 1: I didn't count them, so I guess you could say
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Speaker 1: they're countless. A few laughs, life observations, nothing profound that
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Speaker 1: doesn't happen in the media dining room. Nobody's solving world peace.
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Speaker 1: We save that for weed Man Hippie. Every week on
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Speaker 1: the Ben Malor Show, mostly just a group of dudes
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Speaker 1: sitting around talking basketball radio in our case, and whatever
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Speaker 1: else was going on in sports, whatever weirdness wandered into
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Speaker 1: the room, like, for example, occasionally at the Forum, Jack
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Speaker 1: Nicholson would just walk in to grab a cup of
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Speaker 1: coffee and maybe a piece of garlic bread, which, come
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Speaker 1: to think of it describes most you know, most friendships
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Speaker 1: are let me just have some coffee or garlic bread,
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Speaker 1: or let me just wander in and be ask my
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Speaker 1: way through. Now, as I get older, and believe me,
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Speaker 1: my body sends me regular reminders that I've come to
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Speaker 1: appreciate the people you see repeatedly in life because of you.
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Speaker 1: As you get older, things change, and that's that's the
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Speaker 1: issue here. And it's not because I've been lucky enough
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Speaker 1: some of these people are considered famous, not because some
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Speaker 1: have some kind of power. No, no, no, because they become
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Speaker 1: part of the furniture of your life and you don't
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Speaker 1: notice it at first. It just kind of happens, and
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Speaker 1: then one day the furniture's gone and suddenly the room
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Speaker 1: feels different. And that's how I felt reading about lt again,
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Speaker 1: He's not dead. It sounds like this is a eulogy.
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Speaker 1: It's not a eulogy. He's very much alive. He had
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Speaker 1: some health problems and he's been forced to retire. As
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Speaker 1: the public, as I understand it, the public addressing answer
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Speaker 1: for the Lakers, it's not sad, it's reflective and life's
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Speaker 1: kind of funny that way. Like you spend decades assuming
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Speaker 1: tomorrow looks like yes, today, and then one day tomorrow
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Speaker 1: arrives and politely informs you that it has other plans.
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Speaker 1: And I am still amazed at all the cool places
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Speaker 1: doing sports radio has taken me, and all the really
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Speaker 1: interesting people that I've encountered. I've met some of you,
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Speaker 1: others of you I've not met. Some of you became friends,
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Speaker 1: all of you became stories. A few of you entered
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Speaker 1: the friend zone. And Lawrence Tanter became a bit of both.
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Speaker 1: In fact, as a tribute, I did something I do
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Speaker 1: it every hour on the hour as a homage to LT.
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Speaker 1: And so it's cool. He became a casual acquaintance and
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Speaker 1: all that, which in a world where everybody seems to
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Speaker 1: be screaming to get noticed and have their ring cameras
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Speaker 1: on to get on TikTok is impressive. And I don't
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Speaker 1: remember him screaming. He didn't have to. He had the voice,
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Speaker 1: he had the pipes. And maybe that's the lesson. Not
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Speaker 1: everybody needs to be the center of attention. Sometimes the
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Speaker 1: people who matter most are standing off to the side
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Speaker 1: introducing everybody else, that's how they're doing it, and occasionally
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Speaker 1: eating questionable beef stroganof while listening to some loudmouth radio
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Speaker 1: host complaining about life. So not a bad run, not
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Speaker 1: bad at all, So enjoy retirement, LT. And my tribute,
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Speaker 1: which I have done for many, many years here at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of each hour, I have the usual stick
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Speaker 1: that I say, and I'll go coast to coast, border
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Speaker 1: to mortar and beyond on the vast, the vast, and
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Speaker 1: then I'll say big, humongous, gigantic, powerful microphones of FSR.
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Speaker 1: Now that line the vast is a tribute to l. T.
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Speaker 1: When I would go out there as a radio stringer
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Speaker 1: to the forum, maybe thirty forty minutes before the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the game, before the players were out in the court,
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Speaker 1: LT would introduce themselves, say welcome to the forum, and
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Speaker 1: you know, here's the matchup tonight. Who Lakers are playing whoever?
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Speaker 1: The Harlem Globe Trotters, the Washington generals, whoever it might be,
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Speaker 1: and he would then say, the game is being broadcast
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Speaker 1: back to Phoenix with Al McCoy on six point twenty
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Speaker 1: in the Valley of the Sun and all this stuff,
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Speaker 1: and on the Lakers broadcast on the Vast Laker Network
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Speaker 1: with Chick Hern and Stu Lance. And that's how that
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Speaker 1: that's how that went down. And so I have incorporated
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Speaker 1: that as a small silent not silent obviously, I'm talking
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Speaker 1: tribute to LT That's where that came from. That was
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Speaker 1: a tribute to the way he would do that, and
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Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of cool. I was like,
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Speaker 1: all right, I'm into it. I'm into it. Now the
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Speaker 1: quote of the week. Time, Now for the quote of
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Speaker 1: the week. What is the quote of the week? You ask,
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Speaker 1: It's a classic quote. I'm assuming you've heard it. It
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Speaker 1: takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes
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Speaker 1: to ruin it. Now, there are slight variations of that quote,
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Speaker 1: and for years I thought that quote was a Warren
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Speaker 1: Buffett quote. In fact, if you google that quote, it'll
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Speaker 1: often come up Warren Buffett, and Warren Buffett did use
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Speaker 1: the phrase. He did use the phrase, However, it predates
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Speaker 1: him by almost forty years, going all the way back
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Speaker 1: to eighteen ninety one, there was a small newspaper in
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Speaker 1: Texas that has a very bizarre name that I will
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Speaker 1: not attempt to say right now because I will absolutely
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Speaker 1: butcher it. I'm not in the mood to butcher it.
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Speaker 1: It's starts with wax and then God knows where it
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Speaker 1: goes after that. So this small newspaper, they somebody and
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Speaker 1: they don't write their name on it, complain that it
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Speaker 1: takes years to build up a good reputation which may
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Speaker 1: be destroyed in five minutes. And so it wasn't Warren Buffett.
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Speaker 1: This quote came from the Wahachi Enterprise. Supposedly, now it's
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Speaker 1: time for some food. He fun, all right, for food,
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Speaker 1: he fun well. A big food story this week is
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Speaker 1: from the people that Dominoes. If you've ordered the breadsticks,
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Speaker 1: anything that needs dipping sauce, chances are at some point
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Speaker 1: you've either had the option or you have gotten the
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Speaker 1: garlic sauce. Is it true? Is it true that the
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Speaker 1: Dominoes garlic sauce contains no actual garlic? No garlic was
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Speaker 1: harmed to make the Domino's garlic sauce. Ding Ding ding
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Speaker 1: Ding dig. Yeah, that is correct. No garlic was was injured.
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Speaker 1: It is garlic flavored sauce. If you look at the ingredients,
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Speaker 1: there is no garlic included. There's a bunch of stuff
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Speaker 1: and make it taste like garlic, but no garlic. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: Little Caesars has a deal you gonna make save some money.
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Speaker 1: A Little Caesar is pretty cheap anyway. Pizza pizza. However,
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Speaker 1: they have an offer for Amazon Prime members a five
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Speaker 1: dollars large pizza deal and this goes for I believe
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Speaker 1: another week through June twenty sixth. So Prime member is
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Speaker 1: an exclusive five dollars large pizza deal, and so you
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Speaker 1: can redeem that, I'm sure. As always there's fine print
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Speaker 1: on that. And you get the Classic, you can get
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Speaker 1: the Classic pepperoni, the cheese pizza. Those are the options there.
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Speaker 1: And as always, you have to use either the Amazon
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Speaker 1: or Little Caesar's website slash apps and there you go.
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Speaker 1: So notck it out if you want to. I guess
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Speaker 1: that's cheaper than the actual pizza. I did see this
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Speaker 1: thing at Arby's. Arby's is they brought back the Angus
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Speaker 1: cheese steak and they launched a new half pound cheese
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Speaker 1: steak as a permanent menu item, and this thing looks
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Speaker 1: really good. Now I'm not going to get it. And
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Speaker 1: the reason I'm not going to get it is because
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Speaker 1: I make my own cheese steak. I have a griddle
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Speaker 1: at home, so if I want a cheese steak, I
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Speaker 1: can make it just the way I want it. So
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Speaker 1: why would I go get this cheese steak? Buy Arby's.
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Speaker 1: It looks good though. The advertising on this looks really good. McDonald's.
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Speaker 1: Somebody mentioned this on the email like last week or
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Speaker 1: the week before, and I thought it was bullshoy. It
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Speaker 1: turns out it's not. McDonald's is indeed bringing back its
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Speaker 1: original fried apple pie after thirty four years. And this
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Speaker 1: is not some kind of internet rumor. No, no, McDonald's
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Speaker 1: is actually bringing back the fried apple Pie for a
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Speaker 1: limited time, of course, and this starts next week June
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Speaker 1: twenty third. June twenty third, you get that fried apple
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Speaker 1: pie from McDonald how much you want to bet some
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Speaker 1: locations do not have the fried apple pie because they
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Speaker 1: didn't get the memo. I'm gonna go yes on that
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Speaker 1: Red Lobster is bringing back endless shrimp. Didn't They almost
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Speaker 1: go out of business? Because of endless Shrimp. Well there's
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Speaker 1: a catch. As always, they're bringing it back, not quite
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Speaker 1: the same. The seafood restaurant known as Red Lobster announced
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Speaker 1: a new sweepstakes that gives fans the chance to win
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Speaker 1: an endless Endless Shrimp card, granting one lucky winner access
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Speaker 1: to endless shrimp once a month for the next twenty
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Speaker 1: five years for the Hello, I'm not a seafood guy.
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Speaker 1: The full prize package also includes a reinforced steel card,
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Speaker 1: a biometric safe, and a year of jiu jitsu classes. However,
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Speaker 1: if the winner doesn't want that kind of a deal,
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Speaker 1: there's a cash prize of fifteen thousand dollars on the table.
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Speaker 1: So would you rather have fifteen thousand dollars to buy
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Speaker 1: some SpaceX stock or whatever or get the I guess
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Speaker 1: it depends how old you are. If you want the shrimp,
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Speaker 1: you obviously have to love the shrimp. And does that
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Speaker 1: include the cheddar Bay biscuits or is it just the shrimp?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. All right, what else
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Speaker 1: do we have? Let's see? Uh burger king the new
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Speaker 1: chicken fries we are told tastes like pringles. What hey
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Speaker 1: like you're having a can of Pringles. The sign such
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Speaker 1: chicken fries just picked up a new flavor available cross Europe.
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Speaker 1: Burger King and Pringles have teamed up, So there is that.
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Speaker 1: In Japan, they are selling cotton candy that looks like
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Speaker 1: cat fur, because who doesn't want that? Yeah, edible cat fur,
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Speaker 1: or at least something that looks alarmingly close. Legend has
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Speaker 1: it there? And what else do I have? Taco Bell
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Speaker 1: has launched a new Fahida street Chaloupa and Chicken Fahida
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Speaker 1: nacho fries that you can get at participating Taco Bell locations,
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Speaker 1: So there is that. On that note, well, there's some
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Speaker 1: interesting food stuff this week. I'm glad we brought back food.
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Speaker 1: He fun. Hooray for food he fun. Oh, it's so great,
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Speaker 1: so wonderful. Well, don't forget. The mail bag is coming
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Speaker 1: up on Sunday, and some of you have been saying, well,
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Speaker 1: why don't you promote who's going to be on the
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Speaker 1: mail bag? That way we can send them questions. Well,
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Speaker 1: the reason is a lot of you guys have flaked
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Speaker 1: out on me. You're not dependable, and so it's fine.
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Speaker 1: You have your own lives to live. I realize that
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Speaker 1: it's hard for me to promote because I've had guys
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Speaker 1: lined up to do this and then they bail out,
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Speaker 1: so it becomes problematic. You feel me on that. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to name anyone because I can't guarantee
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Speaker 1: they're going to be here. There will be someone in
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Speaker 1: that chair, and I have some big names lined up.
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Speaker 1: We'll see if they actually show up. You can send
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Speaker 1: questions in care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. If you
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Speaker 1: are so inclined to send a question in and we
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Speaker 1: don't do sporty, you can ask anything you want other
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Speaker 1: than sporty just about and everything else is pretty much
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Speaker 1: fair game. Yeah, and we've had a lot of interesting
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Speaker 1: questions the last several months. You guys have done a
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Speaker 1: great job of thinking outside the box, and I have
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Speaker 1: not even checked my inbox to find out what I'm
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Speaker 1: in for on the mail Bag on Siday, But we'll
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Speaker 1: have another podcast tomorrow, the Saturday Special, and then the
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Speaker 1: mail Bag on Sunday. Have a wonderful rest of your
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Speaker 1: Friday here, enjoy the World Cup game tonight. I will
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Speaker 1: be watching. Don't tell anyone that Team USA in action
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Speaker 1: and we will catch you tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day, Yes,
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Speaker 1: another day to podcast