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The Fifth Hour: "Every Fat Kid's Hero" Mail Bag · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 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: Maller and Danny g Radio Happy Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. It
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Speaker 1: is the thirtieth day of the month of March, and
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Speaker 1: we're hanging out with you big old mail bag on
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Speaker 1: this Sunday. Will be down to the final four right now, Danny,
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Speaker 1: we're sitting at let's see, we went from the Sweet
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Speaker 1: sixteen to the Dirty Dozer to the Elite eight, and
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Speaker 1: now it's the six what is it? Sixes?
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Speaker 3: Everywhere today we have Tennessee and Houston and Michigan State
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Speaker 3: and Auburn.
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Speaker 1: All right, so that's what's coming up today. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: we'll have plenty of Mallard monologue reaction to all that
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Speaker 1: tonight on the Overnight Show. And I know you and
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Speaker 1: Covino and Rich and those guys on Monday will be
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Speaker 1: breaking it all down. But let's get to the mail bag.
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Speaker 4: It's bang.
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Speaker 3: One thing Ben I like about Covino and Rich they
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Speaker 3: don't pretend to be experts at sports they don't watch
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Speaker 3: or know anything about. They both openly admit that they
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Speaker 3: suck at college basketball.
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Speaker 1: Well, based on the the picks on Fox Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: dot com, everyone sucks at college Yeah. It's one of
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Speaker 1: those things. The weird thing about the tournament it's really
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Speaker 1: become more of an issue in recent years, is if
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Speaker 1: you just pick chalk, people rip you. You shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: doing that. You know that anybody can pick chuck. You've
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Speaker 1: got to pick upsets. Yet, if you just pick chalk,
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Speaker 1: you'll end up feeling pretty good. You'll you'll be doing
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Speaker 1: very well. You'll you'll end up with teams in the
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Speaker 1: final four.
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Speaker 3: A couple of the lowest seed we had was Arkansas. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and they were the tenth seed and they didn't hang
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Speaker 3: on to go any deeper.
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Speaker 4: So of course you should pick chalk.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not you don't get any credit for that.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: It's like before every season I have a theory that
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Speaker 1: I've come up with over the years doing sports stock
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Speaker 1: radio that the most outrageous prediction, the most wild prediction
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Speaker 1: is it's a battle. It's like a pissing contest to
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Speaker 1: have the most prediction before season because you get clout,
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Speaker 1: you get attention for it, Like I'll give you any
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Speaker 1: baseball just starting right, Dodgers are off to a really
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Speaker 1: good start.
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Speaker 4: And all that.
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Speaker 1: And in the baseball season predicting, if you come out
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Speaker 1: and say the Dodgers are gonna win one hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventeen games and they're gonna win the World Series, yawn.
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Speaker 1: Now if you come out and say, the Dodgers might
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Speaker 1: not even win the National League West, so they're not
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Speaker 1: gonna win the Nation League West and Dodgers won't win
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Speaker 1: the World Series, and the Podres are gonna win the
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Speaker 1: World Series or the Baltimore Orioles are gonna win the
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Speaker 1: World Well, that gets attention. So you're better off picking
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Speaker 1: some outrageous thing rather than going with the obvious, because
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Speaker 1: nobody wants to hear the obvious and they just want
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Speaker 1: they don't want that. So anyway, we have the mail
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Speaker 1: bag here and Ohio Al, thank you for that. We've
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Speaker 1: got first one from Reggie in Detroit. Reggie's a longtime
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Speaker 1: supporter of this podcast.
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Speaker 4: Reggie theas, uh, yeah, sure.
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Speaker 1: I mean, don't say now, we might just assume it's
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Speaker 1: Reggie Theis, the former cal State Northwards christ Did he
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Speaker 1: Is he the one that threw the punch or got punched?
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Speaker 1: Remember that that Reggie Theis, Yeah, there was a punch.
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Speaker 4: Did he remember if he was on the receiver. I
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Speaker 4: know he was part of the incident.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember great moments in cal State Northridge history
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Speaker 1: right there? All right, So Reggie from Detroit, right, it says, Ben,
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Speaker 1: would you please address the mal ord militia regarding these
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Speaker 1: social media commentators this week who said that they think
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Speaker 1: you are responsible for having Eddie fired and replaced on
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Speaker 1: the show by Lorena. Thanks Reggie from Detroit. Yeah, Reggie,
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Speaker 1: So I have been told this. I didn't. I didn't
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Speaker 1: see it. Apparently there is a popular theory by some
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Speaker 1: that I went to management and I said, ick on
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Speaker 1: the Eddie a and that's it. We've got to get
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Speaker 1: rid of Eddie and Reggie. My response to the people
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Speaker 1: that are saying that is there's a lot of stupid
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Speaker 1: people out there. There's a lot of dummies.
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Speaker 3: And still, well, it doesn't make any sense because Lorena
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Speaker 3: doesn't do the same job Eddie does. She is a
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Speaker 3: tech producer. Yeah, she doesn't even have the same boss
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Speaker 3: that Eddie had, exact two different departments.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the only reason Lorena talk is Coop won't talk.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like I've tried to use Coop for
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Speaker 1: bits on the show. He just doesn't doesn't interact. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: it's not that's not his thing. He doesn't like to
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Speaker 1: talk too much. And Lorena at least will respond every
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Speaker 1: once in a while, and she's kind of into it,
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Speaker 1: and so I like having her on the show. But
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Speaker 1: I tried to use Coop, but Coop's just not he
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Speaker 1: just doesn't engage unfortunately. So but no, I had nothing
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Speaker 1: to do. I loved Eddie. I actually found out. I
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Speaker 1: got back from Kansas City. It was early November, went
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Speaker 1: to the Kansas City meet and greet flew back on
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Speaker 1: I think it was that Monday morning. I got back
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Speaker 1: Monday afternoon, took a nap, woke up, and all hell
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Speaker 1: had broken with this. But Reggie, Yeah, I me, there's always
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Speaker 1: gonna be certain people that are just ignorant and dumb
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Speaker 1: and whatever phrase you one. He was, But no, nothing,
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Speaker 1: nothing like that is true. But you know, people can
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Speaker 1: believe what they want. And I am honored though, in
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Speaker 1: some way, that people believe that the overnight talk show
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Speaker 1: host has the kind of an iron fist that can
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Speaker 1: control those things. I just believe that it's a wonderful
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Speaker 1: thing that you think that I have the kind of
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Speaker 1: thing where I can move mountains and that I'm in
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Speaker 1: control of the terrain. I think that's neat. There was
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Speaker 1: a time maybe that was the case where you were
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Speaker 1: the engine master and all that, but I don't think
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Speaker 1: that in modern times that.
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Speaker 4: You're being modest.
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Speaker 3: In fact, I heard a rumor that the reason why
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Speaker 3: our kitchen is blue is because that's your favorite color.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, I am the benevolent overlord, right, I'm the dictator.
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Speaker 1: I rotate nuts. My nickname in the building is at
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Speaker 1: Till of the Hunt. That is my nickname in the building.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, thank you Reggie for that, and thank you
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Speaker 1: for all the idiots. I guess on social media that
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Speaker 1: we're posting that ian from Australia. Right, so, and he says, hey, Bandon,
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Speaker 1: Danny enjoyed the podcast. I wanted to ask you about this.
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Speaker 1: Didn't they make a horror movie about this very topic?
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Speaker 1: And then he sent me a story that says scientists
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Speaker 1: want to grow human bodies for testing and the harvest
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Speaker 1: for parts. This is from Ian in Australia. Ethically sourced
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Speaker 1: human bodies. Yeah, scientists from Stanford University asked in a
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Speaker 1: recent article. This is from MIT Technology Review. He says,
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Speaker 1: why do we hear about medical breakthroughs and mice but
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Speaker 1: rarely see them translate into cures from human disease? Why
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Speaker 1: do so few drugs that inner clinical trials receive regulatory approval?
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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. And then they explain because
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Speaker 1: they're not doing it on human bodies. And so this
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Speaker 1: is the common root cause there's a shortage of ethically
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Speaker 1: sourced human bodies.
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Speaker 4: May too early in the morning for this.
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Speaker 1: I know. So they say, with more than one hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand patients currently waiting for a solid organ transplant in
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Speaker 1: the US alone, it is the kind of an outside
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Speaker 1: of the box thinking that could solve this organ shortage. Wow,
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Speaker 1: So how exactly would this work?
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Speaker 4: Jesus?
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Speaker 1: You imagine it would be harvesting bodies. We're just gonna
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Speaker 1: but I don't even want to. Yeah, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what do you want me to say? Ian, I don't
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Speaker 1: know that that is a horror movie. That's that to
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Speaker 1: have been a horror movie at some point, right, that
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Speaker 1: had to be. This is like some kind of April
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Speaker 1: fool's joke. We're not quite into April yet. Ethical harvesting
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Speaker 1: of human bodies I'm a doctor. Yeah, is determining whether
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Speaker 1: we should make body ooids non human or human will
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Speaker 1: require considerable thought, discussion and debate.
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Speaker 3: Man, all right, you know what, it is too early
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Speaker 3: for this, but I'm gonna be thinking about this all
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Speaker 3: day now.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Ian for that. Yeah, And don't you think
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Speaker 1: they're probably already doing that somewhere maybe somewhere in like
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Speaker 1: some well look at the maybe in Wuhan. You know
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Speaker 1: the lab there in Wuhan where they give us COVID
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Speaker 1: and all that, the fish market in in Wuhan, China,
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Speaker 1: they can at harvesting bodies. Oh yeah, yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1: who's next on the mail bag? And by the way,
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Speaker 1: if you want to send a mail.
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Speaker 3: Transition from that, I know, I don't know, I don't
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Speaker 3: know what do you what are you doing speaking of
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Speaker 3: dead bodies?
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Speaker 1: You know, we're not coast to coast ian. I know
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Speaker 1: you don't even know what that is, probably in Australia,
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Speaker 1: but we're just just trying to get through it. I
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Speaker 1: don't even know what this is. It's not really a
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Speaker 1: sports podcast.
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Speaker 4: It's not.
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Speaker 1: It's just a podcast. It's just a couple of dude hybrid.
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Speaker 4: It's a hybrid.
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Speaker 1: It's a hybrid. We're just trying to get today.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, ask Ben in two point zero and a little
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Speaker 3: bit of sports mixed in.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, whatever caught our attention we talk about,
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Speaker 1: it's not It's not that deep, dude, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's not that deep. Okay, Joe in New
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Speaker 1: York writes and he says, hey, Ben, I saw that
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Speaker 1: Logan Paul and Jake Paul this week had their own
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Speaker 1: version of a malord meet and greet in Times Square,
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Speaker 1: but no one showed up. Uh has this ever happened.
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Speaker 4: Like a Doug Gottlieb remote.
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Speaker 1: Or like a Doug Gottlieb coach basketball team? Oh no,
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Speaker 1: all right, No, we love you, Doug. We're big fans
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Speaker 1: of Green Bay. Maybe you'll win five games next year. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Joe writes.
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Speaker 3: In nobody showed up because Doug's fans live in other states.
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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Yeah, no, but so Joe sent
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Speaker 1: a link here. So Logan Paul, Jake Paul had a
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Speaker 1: meet and greet in Times Square and nobody showed up. Uh.
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Speaker 1: So the question was has this ever had me Fortunately, no,
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Speaker 1: although we did have almost we only had a couple
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Speaker 1: of people show up in Appleton, and Appleton, Wisconsin was
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Speaker 1: very small. That was the smallest one we've had. I
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Speaker 1: was worried no one was going to show up. We
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Speaker 1: had a few people show up from Green Bay and
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Speaker 1: one dude, I think they're like four four people showed
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Speaker 1: up to that. That was the That was the one
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Speaker 1: that came close to having no one show up. But
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Speaker 1: other than that, we've done pretty well and we did
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Speaker 1: very well in Boston. Vegas was great, Minnesota was wonderful,
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Speaker 1: The la Ones have always been really good. We did
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Speaker 1: pretty well in Charleston. So yeah, we have never I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna jix myself now, I'm gonna jinx myself. But to
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Speaker 1: this point we've never had no one show up, which
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Speaker 1: would be very very unfortunate. And how did that happen.
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Speaker 1: I thought Jake Paul and Logan Paul were like popular,
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Speaker 1: are they not? I don't know, They're not popular to me,
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Speaker 1: but I think I'm too old for there.
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Speaker 3: No, I mean I would have I would have assumed
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Speaker 3: that they would have a decent sized crowd. Maybe it
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Speaker 3: wasn't promoted properly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Or it's all smoking mirrors, And it's like the
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Speaker 1: matrix and what I always say about social media and
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Speaker 1: and all that, that it's just algorithms and bots and
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Speaker 1: this that and the other thing, and AI.
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Speaker 3: Like all those supporters are not tangible in real life.
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Speaker 1: A lot of what goes on on social media is
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Speaker 1: not you can't monetize it. It's not like legit. It's like,
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Speaker 1: aren't there more more people on Instagram that have a million?
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Speaker 1: There's not what was the number, I gotta find the number,
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Speaker 1: but there's like more people on Instagram that have a
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Speaker 1: million followers or something like that that actual people on
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Speaker 1: the planet, meaning the population. If you took all those
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Speaker 1: millions of people, there's a lot of fakeness, is what
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to say, right, A lot of it's smoking mirrors.
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Speaker 3: By the way, I saw Doug in our La studios
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Speaker 3: last week.
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Speaker 1: Is he recruiting? Is he trying to get some kid
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Speaker 1: from Tustin to come joining?
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Speaker 4: Well, I was telling him about cos skills.
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Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, you can never start, you know, getting your
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Speaker 3: son's film out there too soon. But he asked me
13:55
Speaker 3: how the Fifth Hour podcast was doing. And I talked
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Speaker 3: to him for a couple of minutes, you know, him
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Speaker 3: being a coach now too. I felt like he should
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Speaker 3: have had lunch catered for our studios that day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just charge it to green Bay, come on, man?
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Speaker 1: Exactly was Doug surprise when he got to La he
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Speaker 1: was greeted by this thing called the Sun? Was he like, whoa,
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Speaker 1: what is that? There's a thing called the Sun? Where
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Speaker 1: did that come from? I can't believe it. Did he
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Speaker 1: wear the pullover Green Bay thing? You know, the pullover
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Speaker 1: that says the Green Bay logo on it and all that.
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Speaker 4: I didn't know.
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Speaker 3: I didn't see any I didn't see any slag on him. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I would wear it was incognito. He was in well
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Speaker 3: you know, he was dressed as a broadcaster.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you'd agreed, Danny, the way Green
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Speaker 1: Bay performed this past year, you probably should go incognito. No,
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Speaker 1: he should go definitely go incognito. Next up is Dave
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Speaker 1: in Boise, Idaho. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny, I
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Speaker 1: know you guys are not big fans of my state.
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Speaker 1: You never talk about it, but I thought this would
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Speaker 1: be interesting for the podcast. And he says that the
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Speaker 1: governor of Idaho has signed a law this week that
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Speaker 1: has made it illegal to have truck nuts. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: cannot have have the the truck nuts. I rotate nuts. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's peanuts, you know, you know what, you know what
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Speaker 1: truck nuts are, Danny, right, the little scrot them, the
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Speaker 1: fake scrotum that attaches to the back of the back
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Speaker 1: of the truck, and it says a common decency. Many
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Speaker 1: years ago, Florida attempted to make truck nuts illegal with
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Speaker 1: a law that proposed a sixty dollars fine, but it
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Speaker 1: failed to pass. South Carolina had a legal battle after
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Speaker 1: a woman got a four hundred and forty five dollars
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Speaker 1: ticket for violating obscenity laws. But according to the story
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Speaker 1: that was sent here by Dave from Boise, Idaho, he
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Speaker 1: says House built two seventy recently went into effect and
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Speaker 1: it updated pre existing indecent exposure law that now outlaws
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Speaker 1: the public display of female breasts, male breast altered to
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Speaker 1: look like female breasts, and toy products that resemble genitals.
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Speaker 1: I've never been to Ido. Have you been to Idaho
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Speaker 1: with Covino and Rich or anything, or just gone up
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Speaker 1: fishing or anything.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been to Idaho. Been a hiking Yeah, on
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Speaker 3: a hiking trip. Beautiful man rolling green hills on the
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Speaker 3: way into Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Okay, there are huge, sprawling estates.
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Speaker 3: You can build a retirement home on a ton of property.
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Speaker 3: And my cousin and I we were blown away by
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Speaker 3: all these homes we saw. And my cousin told me,
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Speaker 3: He's like, man, this is the spot to retire right here.
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Speaker 1: I've known a few people that at social events I've
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Speaker 1: gone to with the wife. And a lot of cops
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Speaker 1: retire in Idah. I think it's a big cop place.
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Speaker 1: Like a lot of cops go up there, and like
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Speaker 1: from La, I'm pretty sure.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of Hollywood folks that have moved to
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Speaker 3: Actors actresses that have moved out that way to get
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Speaker 3: out of La.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, definitely often.
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Speaker 3: I know Mario Lopez brought his family out there is
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Speaker 3: that right?
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Speaker 1: Is that right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they still have a residence here in southern California,
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Speaker 3: but they built a house there in Idaho. My wife's
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Speaker 3: uncle and aunt are building a big home in Idaho
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Speaker 3: right now. So yeah, that is a spot where people
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Speaker 3: on the West Coast especially look to retire.
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Speaker 1: Cool. Are you planning to retire, Danny? Have you mapped
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Speaker 1: out your retirement plans there?
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Speaker 3: And dude, my retirement plan is in full effect once
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Speaker 3: I turned ninety three.
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Speaker 1: You're starting right now.
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Speaker 4: You'll start saving seven good years left. Wrong.
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Speaker 1: Once CoA goes number one in the NFL draft, you'll
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Speaker 1: be you'll be ready to go.
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Speaker 4: Uh, it is.
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Speaker 1: The mail bag, And thank you, Dave. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what do you want me to say, Dave. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really have a problem with with
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Speaker 1: fake nuts on a truck.
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Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's the greatest look in the world,
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Speaker 1: but I don't think it's something that needs to be
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Speaker 1: punished by the law.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Ben, really quick, though, I don't know falls there
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Speaker 3: were a ton of large people there. We stopped in
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Speaker 3: a diner and oh my goodness, there were big people
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Speaker 3: in there.
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Speaker 1: Is that right? Well, that actually is perfect, Danny, are
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Speaker 1: you looking at my notes here? Are you cheating?
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Speaker 4: Nanny?
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Speaker 3: No, No, we're just in sync because Billy rights in,
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Speaker 3: I'm justin Timberlake.
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Speaker 1: Apparently, so Billy writes in he says, uh, I guess
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Speaker 1: parts unknown. By the way, he did not. Billy did
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Speaker 1: not say where he is actually residing, so part's unknown.
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Speaker 1: He says, Ben, I heard you mentioned Desmond Watson this
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Speaker 1: week on the Overnight Show, and I want to know,
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Speaker 1: if you're a man of your word, will you actually
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Speaker 1: get one of his jerseys. So, for those that didn't
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Speaker 1: hear the Overnight Show, I did Billy mention that I
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Speaker 1: am a big fan of Desmond Watson. I believe he
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Speaker 1: is the kid's name, Desmond Watson. He is the humongous
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Speaker 1: defensive tackle from the University of Florida that, if he
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Speaker 1: is drafted, will be the heaviest player drafted in NFL
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Speaker 1: history by almost one hundred pounds.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm looking him up right now. Desmond Watson four
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Speaker 3: hundred and forty nine pounds.
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Speaker 1: No, he's bigger than that. He's like forced safety. He
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Speaker 1: weighed in on his pro day. He's projected as a
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Speaker 1: Day three pick. He weighed in at four hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty four pounds. Oh yeah, he but he big boy.
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Speaker 1: He benched two hundred and twenty five pounds thirty six times.
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Speaker 1: That's the most of any player that he wasn't at
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Speaker 1: the combine, but no players at the combine bench that much.
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Speaker 1: He also completed the forty yard dash in five point
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Speaker 1: thirty nine seconds and almost five hundred pounds.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: The dudes athletic. So yeah, I'm a big fan. Billy
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Speaker 1: from Parts Unknown. I'm pulling for the kid. Well I
20:31
Speaker 1: actually buy a jersey? Probably not.
20:33
Speaker 4: What does he eat?
20:35
Speaker 1: Donuts and traduccin and.
20:38
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do for the combine, get heavier.
20:41
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat those three layer burritos is what I'm
20:43
Speaker 1: gonna eat. That's what I'm going for. Man, you talk
20:46
Speaker 1: about the great fat Hope Desmond Watts. I hope the
20:49
Speaker 1: Rams draft that guy. The Rams draft him. I'll have
20:51
Speaker 1: to buy a jersey. I do think I'm a little
20:53
Speaker 1: too old for that, but I don't know. I man,
20:56
Speaker 1: I'm pulling for the kid. I hope he makes it.
20:58
Speaker 1: That's every fat kid's hero right there. If he squashed it,
21:02
Speaker 1: literally squashes the record by eighty pounds. Currently the heaviest
21:07
Speaker 1: player ever drafted in the NFL, weighed in at three
21:10
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty pounds. There's a couple of offensive linemen,
21:13
Speaker 1: most recently was Trent Brown, who's actually had a decent career.
21:19
Speaker 1: But this guy Watson's again almost one hundred pounds heavier
21:23
Speaker 1: then that that is as wild. And he never missed
21:29
Speaker 1: a game at Florida.
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Speaker 4: You know that.
21:31
Speaker 1: I watched him play defensive tackle, but he he had
21:34
Speaker 1: some decent stats and he moves very well. He moves
21:38
Speaker 1: like he's a normal sized player. So that's that's the
21:40
Speaker 1: kind of guy.
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Speaker 4: Dan.
21:41
Speaker 1: If you're an NFL team, draft that guy in the
21:42
Speaker 1: sixth round. If you can get him to lose i
21:47
Speaker 1: don't know, seventy pounds or something like that, get under
21:50
Speaker 1: four hundred, man, that's it.
21:53
Speaker 4: I having him lose anything.
21:54
Speaker 3: I'm having him gain thirty more pounds and then I'm
21:57
Speaker 3: gonna just put him in whenever i have to do
21:59
Speaker 3: the push play.
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Speaker 1: Well, No, he's a defensive second, so he could stop
22:03
Speaker 1: the toush push.
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Speaker 4: No, I would put him in on offense. I'd use
22:07
Speaker 4: them like a refrigerator.
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Speaker 1: Perry oh Man, that is that is a great story. Billy,
22:13
Speaker 1: but again unlikely to buy actually buy his jersey, but
22:16
Speaker 1: I will be a fan. I will support him and
22:18
Speaker 1: hope he does very well for sure, Mike. And Fullerton
22:21
Speaker 1: writes in on the mailback and says, hey, Ben and Danny,
22:23
Speaker 1: g do you think if the Dodgers stay healthy they
22:27
Speaker 1: have a legit shot at a perfect season this year?
22:31
Speaker 1: I know it's never been done before, but if anyone
22:34
Speaker 1: can do it, it's this year's Dodgers. On paper, they
22:37
Speaker 1: look unbeatable. Also, do you know if mercury being in
22:41
Speaker 1: retrograde is a good thing or a bad thing. I've
22:43
Speaker 1: listened to Andrea's calls for years and I still.
22:46
Speaker 4: Have no idea.
22:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, so pretty sure Mike that you don't have to
22:50
Speaker 1: worry about the Dodgers being perfect. And as far as
22:54
Speaker 1: as far as the mercury and retrograde, I generally it's
22:57
Speaker 1: a bad thing unless it fits the narrati, it's a
23:00
Speaker 1: good thing. So it really it's wonderful. You can manipulate.
23:04
Speaker 1: It's kind of like playto Danny, mercury being in retro red.
23:07
Speaker 1: You can move it to whatever fits your agenda. It's
23:10
Speaker 1: like that after the fact reporting when people talk about
23:13
Speaker 1: this team didn't get along very well, and then they
23:16
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. Well they didn't. They didn't they
23:18
Speaker 1: didn't get along. Well, that's what the reason was for
23:21
Speaker 1: them to win is because they didn't get along well.
23:22
Speaker 1: So it kind of drove them to win. And then
23:25
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out, they didn't win because they
23:27
Speaker 1: didn't get along. So whatever fits the narrative, you just
23:30
Speaker 1: plug it in and you're good to go.
23:33
Speaker 3: Andrea, she has magical powers. It's true because every time
23:37
Speaker 3: I hear her on your show, she magically turns into
23:41
Speaker 3: Amy Lawrence.
23:43
Speaker 1: Oh how that's a low blow. That is a low blow.
23:48
Speaker 1: What was she's gonna do now? Amy Lawrence gave up
23:51
Speaker 1: the overnight show?
23:54
Speaker 4: Uh?
23:55
Speaker 1: Gary in Pa, you know, I don't know ferk Dog.
23:58
Speaker 1: I'll ask her next time.
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Speaker 4: Is very nice lady, by the way, he's a lovely lady.
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Speaker 1: In my apologies to her. Gary and Pittsburgh writing.
24:05
Speaker 3: The phone calls and she would ask me about my
24:07
Speaker 3: family for about ten minutes, and then you'd leave her
24:09
Speaker 3: on hold for another hour.
24:11
Speaker 1: That's right, Gary, sometimes two hours. Gary and Pittsburgh write.
24:15
Speaker 1: Since has been as a person that listens to your
24:17
Speaker 1: show but hides behind their email as some gasbag once said,
24:22
Speaker 1: I came across a pretty good deal in the coupons
24:25
Speaker 1: that come from our grocery ads. Apparently Arby's money laundering
24:30
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. I guess that's for you. Daddy in Pittsburgh
24:33
Speaker 1: must be off the charts. They have a coupon deal
24:36
Speaker 1: for fifteen dollars six mozzarella sticks, two beef and cheddar,
24:40
Speaker 1: two medium fries, and two drinks and two apple turnovers. Man,
24:46
Speaker 1: in this day and age, I think that is as
24:49
Speaker 1: fair as it gets, and will probably do this. We'll
24:52
Speaker 1: probably do this, he says, your thoughts as this is
24:56
Speaker 1: what half of that offer would be in californ.
25:01
Speaker 3: We talked about the prices yesterday. This sounds like the cartel.
25:08
Speaker 1: Now you get six mazzarella sticks. That's a nice appetizer,
25:10
Speaker 1: two beef and cheddar, two medium fries, and two drinks
25:14
Speaker 1: and two apple turnovers. That would cost at least seventy dollars.
25:19
Speaker 4: In LA at least one visit to the er.
25:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's worth it. He also says Gary's waiting
25:26
Speaker 1: for the dates for Columbus the Columbus Meet and greet.
25:29
Speaker 1: Brush up on your hockey knowledge, since that is the
25:32
Speaker 1: decor of that bar, Google Orums Donuts as I will
25:37
Speaker 1: be bringing you some of their famous cinnamon bunsh I
25:40
Speaker 1: like the sound of that. That are the size of Frisbees,
25:44
Speaker 1: says Gary in Pittsburgh. Wow, ah, man, cinnabuns cinnamon rolls.
25:52
Speaker 1: Is there anything better?
25:54
Speaker 3: When they give you a little sample? Yeah, at a
25:56
Speaker 3: cinnabon and in the mall, that's enough. Like I'll get
25:59
Speaker 3: two sand samples in that. That's gotta be sixty grams
26:03
Speaker 3: of sugar in the two little tiny samples. Who could
26:06
Speaker 3: sit there and eat a huge cinnamon roll?
26:09
Speaker 4: Yeah?
26:10
Speaker 1: Well, Danny, it obviously depends on how old you are, right,
26:15
Speaker 1: because you're you're at the age now, Danny where you're like,
26:17
Speaker 1: you know how many grams of sugar?
26:19
Speaker 4: But if but I couldn't eat that when I was twenty.
26:22
Speaker 1: Okay, I probably could have back in my big eating days.
26:26
Speaker 1: Well didn't you stop? Used to stop? What's that place?
26:28
Speaker 4: Is it in?
26:30
Speaker 1: Not Santa Cruz, Central California that's got the rolls?
26:34
Speaker 4: Pismo Beach, Pismo Beach.
26:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Pismo Beach.
26:37
Speaker 3: We're a famous Yeah, there's a famous cinnamon role play.
26:41
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful place, always packed there's people lined up
26:44
Speaker 1: out the out the door there.
26:45
Speaker 4: It's awesome.
26:47
Speaker 1: But those those are regular sized cinnamon rolls. Those are
26:50
Speaker 1: not the size of Frisbees. But but Gary, very kind.
26:54
Speaker 1: I look forward to meeting you, Gary. Continue to beat
26:57
Speaker 1: it behind your email all right, Marcus writes it from
27:02
Speaker 1: San Antonio. He says, Hey, Ben and Danny g I
27:06
Speaker 1: have mentioned in previous mail bag questions that we were
27:10
Speaker 1: lucky enough to be read on the Real Fifth Hour podcast.
27:14
Speaker 1: My first experience at AM radio was listening to Kansas
27:18
Speaker 1: City Royals games and follow up postgame shows, the fan shows.
27:22
Speaker 1: I remember watching WKRP and since a Naty as a kid,
27:26
Speaker 1: and Frasier on TV and thought, what a glamorous life
27:30
Speaker 1: it would be to work in a radio station, listening
27:34
Speaker 1: to several hosts cry about the demands of the job
27:36
Speaker 1: and former athletes that have basically ruined sports talk radio.
27:41
Speaker 1: There's one thing that still makes me wonder about to
27:45
Speaker 1: this day. Every once in a while, there seems to
27:48
Speaker 1: be an extended, I mean really long commercial break. I
27:52
Speaker 1: always thought the host was arguing with the producer or
27:55
Speaker 1: some kind of bathroom emergency. Can you explain why Sometimes
27:59
Speaker 1: these extends breaks just seem to come out of nowhere.
28:04
Speaker 1: It would be nice to get some closure on this.
28:06
Speaker 1: Truly appreciate you guys keeping me company on the weekends.
28:11
Speaker 1: That is from Marcus in San Antonio. So, Marcus, this
28:15
Speaker 1: must be a local radio issue because we have a
28:21
Speaker 1: formatted clock by the clock, all about the clock, living
28:26
Speaker 1: for the clock. It's all about the clock. But on
28:28
Speaker 1: local radio, I do know sometimes you move commercials around,
28:31
Speaker 1: and I know that occasionally you need to go a
28:36
Speaker 1: little bit long.
28:37
Speaker 4: Now.
28:37
Speaker 1: We have had some hosts you may or may not
28:40
Speaker 1: have worked with, one who may or may not have
28:43
Speaker 1: gone on to sit in the most famous chair in radio,
28:46
Speaker 1: the Limbaugh chair, who would occasionally kind of fluts around
28:50
Speaker 1: with the clock, which would create some very tough situations
28:54
Speaker 1: as we go out. You know what I'm saying. I mean,
28:57
Speaker 1: but generally speaking, we're not able to do that, right Dan,
29:00
Speaker 1: we can't really mess Oh.
29:01
Speaker 3: I mean, well, I did one time have the heart
29:04
Speaker 3: out run into a heart out.
29:06
Speaker 4: You ever heard of that?
29:10
Speaker 3: So nobody knew what to do because it had never
29:14
Speaker 3: happened before.
29:19
Speaker 1: Oh that's so good, Oh man. The worst I've had
29:22
Speaker 1: I did. I came back at the top of the
29:27
Speaker 1: hour before the top of the hour, the final segment,
29:29
Speaker 1: and I think I had seventeen seconds, I believe. I
29:33
Speaker 1: said alone and gave the name of the show, and
29:38
Speaker 1: we went right back and that was that was that
29:41
Speaker 1: about seventeen seconds and the greatest.
29:44
Speaker 4: Sound my heart out hit in the middle of the
29:47
Speaker 4: top of the hour. Update.
29:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, there were legendary stories about that show. And because
29:54
Speaker 1: if they were just rolling, they would just keep going,
29:57
Speaker 1: and which is great, and you can do that alone
30:00
Speaker 1: local radio. The problem with us is we're feeding all
30:03
Speaker 1: these other stations and so if you if you don't
30:06
Speaker 1: follow the clock, it creates what's it called danny a bottleneck, right, well, gridlock.
30:13
Speaker 3: Like a it's like a train wreck, but millions of
30:16
Speaker 3: people die in the train crash, and.
30:19
Speaker 1: There's no way around it. There's really no way around it.
30:21
Speaker 1: You're you're just doomed.
30:23
Speaker 4: Now.
30:23
Speaker 1: There is a famous story markers in local radio. There
30:27
Speaker 1: was a talk show host in Los Angeles who had
30:32
Speaker 1: eaten lunch before his afternoon drive show, and the lunch
30:36
Speaker 1: did not agree with the host, and the host did
30:39
Speaker 1: the opening segment of his show and then realized he
30:42
Speaker 1: had to go to the powder room.
30:45
Speaker 4: And for what did you eat.
30:47
Speaker 1: It was not it was not me, but for forty minutes,
30:52
Speaker 1: that host was taking a bow movement and they had
30:56
Speaker 1: to play. They played forty minutes of commercial and music,
31:01
Speaker 1: which is not you're not supposed to play music on
31:03
Speaker 1: a sports station because this guy had to go to
31:05
Speaker 1: the bathroom and it was a classic.
31:09
Speaker 3: That happened one time on the Jay Moore Show, except
31:11
Speaker 3: he was doing something else.
31:13
Speaker 1: Well, he was probably looking up some laker information or
31:16
Speaker 1: something like that. Probably show sure. Marcus from Bruce phil Eddie,
31:21
Speaker 1: Texas right soon says, hey, you guys talked last week
31:23
Speaker 1: about when COVID had hit and still doing the radio station.
31:27
Speaker 1: I remember at one point there was nothing going on
31:31
Speaker 1: in the sports world. Everybody was scrambling for stories. My
31:36
Speaker 1: local station here in Waco had their host talk for
31:40
Speaker 1: an hour and a half about his daily routine from
31:44
Speaker 1: getting up, eating breakfast, showering, and going to bed. I
31:48
Speaker 1: thought that was hilarious. Did you guys have any moments
31:52
Speaker 1: like that? That's from Marcus, Yeah, we certainly did. Danny.
31:57
Speaker 1: The great thing is that the management was like, listen,
31:59
Speaker 1: there's not them that you normally do. That's going to
32:02
Speaker 1: be normal, So just do whatever you have to do,
32:05
Speaker 1: you know. I think one of the lines they said was,
32:09
Speaker 1: I know we're doing sports talk, but you're just doing talk.
32:12
Speaker 1: You know, you just just you know, get through it.
32:14
Speaker 1: You don't talk about it. Just that's it, you know.
32:17
Speaker 1: One of my fondest memories. Besides you doing the Marble coverage,
32:21
Speaker 1: we still had to get some guests on the air.
32:24
Speaker 1: And you know, since there were no games being played,
32:27
Speaker 1: there were a few, just a few sports.
32:29
Speaker 4: That were operating. One of them was MMA.
32:32
Speaker 3: So I got like the best writers and the dudes
32:36
Speaker 3: in that industry that were the most respected to hop
32:39
Speaker 3: on the phone with Clay Travis, and Clay was asking
32:42
Speaker 3: them all about MMA, and they were breaking down all
32:46
Speaker 3: the fights and the weight classes and everything, and it
32:51
Speaker 3: sounded cool on the air, just because the MMA never
32:54
Speaker 3: got primetime coverage like that before.
32:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, for sure. Then they were the only game
33:00
Speaker 1: in town. That and as we mentioned Korean baseball, we
33:05
Speaker 1: were getting fed Korean baseball games, and that was the
33:10
Speaker 1: sport and the stadium being empty and and all that.
33:14
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I mean, those those turned out to
33:16
Speaker 1: be stories that we will tell. You know, we're old
33:20
Speaker 1: guys in a rocking chair drinking lemonade, puking, my day
33:24
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, and you know, tell those most stories,
33:29
Speaker 1: and that's our that's a big moment, that nine to eleven.
33:33
Speaker 1: Those are things that we'll we'll talk about for the
33:36
Speaker 1: rest of our lives and then we'll be done, and
33:39
Speaker 1: then they'll be on Wikipedia, and then they'll be that
33:42
Speaker 1: and we'll move on to the next great disasters of
33:44
Speaker 1: the world, which are who knows how far away right
33:47
Speaker 1: always those those defining moments. I know when I was
33:51
Speaker 1: first starting out. For the previous generation, it was like
33:54
Speaker 1: the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, those were like the
33:59
Speaker 1: huge events. That was like the biggest. The Vietnam War
34:02
Speaker 1: was a big one in their lives. The Depression. I know,
34:06
Speaker 1: my grandparents, my mom also because of my grandparents and
34:13
Speaker 1: the Great Depression, my grandparents, I was living through it.
34:16
Speaker 1: My mom always had like fifty containers of toilet paper
34:19
Speaker 1: and Kleenex and all the supplies because she was worried
34:23
Speaker 1: about the depression. Of course, we ended up trying to
34:26
Speaker 1: hoard toilet paper because of COVID. But you know, it's interesting.
34:31
Speaker 3: When we were really little, one of those moments was
34:34
Speaker 3: the Space Shuttle exploding.
34:35
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, what uh?
34:37
Speaker 3: That was one of the first time I ever saw
34:39
Speaker 3: grown adults crying all in their eyes about And then
34:43
Speaker 3: how gangster our generation is? They they had us remain
34:47
Speaker 3: in class and they the teachers blew their nose and
34:50
Speaker 3: got some tissue and started teaching math again. Do you
34:54
Speaker 3: imagine nowadays if something like that happened for a week.
34:58
Speaker 1: They were absolutely right. Yeah, to put into context, like,
35:03
Speaker 1: you know, lot most of our listeners are around our
35:05
Speaker 1: age or older, you know, maybe a little younger. But
35:09
Speaker 1: that Space shuttle with the teacher, every fucking kid, Danny,
35:16
Speaker 1: every school, yes, watching that Space shuttle cub boom.
35:21
Speaker 5: And we had it on a huge projector inside the
35:25
Speaker 5: school's big library splash auditorium thing, so and all the classes,
35:30
Speaker 5: all the teachers were in there watching it together.
35:33
Speaker 1: Every kid watched a teacher die and a bunch of
35:38
Speaker 1: other people and oh my god, it was such a debacle.
35:42
Speaker 1: And we were like, we're going to send the letters.
35:44
Speaker 1: Remember they ever gonna have every kid send a letter
35:46
Speaker 1: to the astronauts.
35:48
Speaker 3: And oh god, I still remember walking back to the classroom,
35:54
Speaker 3: my teacher blubbering she had to like rub some dirt
35:58
Speaker 3: on it and get back in the game.
36:00
Speaker 1: I remember my teacher tried to spin it. She's like, well,
36:04
Speaker 1: it's possible that maybe they survived and they're in the
36:08
Speaker 1: capsule and they'll get them out of the ocean.
36:10
Speaker 4: You know.
36:11
Speaker 1: No, she was telling you, my teacher, she was trying
36:15
Speaker 1: to like, it's a chance. You know, you never know, maybe.
36:18
Speaker 4: They're out there. Saying there's a chance. I'm like, how
36:22
Speaker 4: do you think?
36:22
Speaker 1: Even as a little kid, I'm like, I was cynical.
36:24
Speaker 1: I was like, you gotta be I mean think exploded.
36:26
Speaker 1: There's no All right, we'll get out on that, Danny.
36:30
Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight on Sunday night into Monday. We'll
36:34
Speaker 1: recap the college basketball today and whatever else.
36:39
Speaker 4: Is going on.
36:39
Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be some random NFL factoids and whatnot,
36:43
Speaker 1: and you'll be back with Covino and Rich tomorrow.
36:46
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, sir, our usual time in the afternoon, although
36:50
Speaker 3: coming up on Friday we're going to be filling in
36:52
Speaker 3: for Colin cowverd so tune in for that. But yeah,
36:55
Speaker 3: we'll be on Monday afternoon. On the East coast, you know,
36:58
Speaker 3: that is five to seven and here on the West
37:01
Speaker 3: side that is two to four. PM in beautiful Chula Vista, California.
37:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.
37:07
Speaker 1: I love it, just east of San Diego. I have
37:10
Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful rest of your Sunday and we'll catch you.
37:15
Speaker 1: I'll catch you tonight on this podcast next weekend, and
37:17
Speaker 1: Danny tomorrow and we'll talk to you then.
37:20
Speaker 4: Austa pasta gotta murder. I gotta go