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The Fifth Hour: Nostradeanus Mail Bag! · 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 sore 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, it's a clearinghouse
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  Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
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  Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, the fifth Hour with me, Ben Mahler,
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  Speaker 3: on this holiday weekend, a Memorial Day weekend, And rather
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  Speaker 3: than practice neuroscience, we're gonna give you something bigger and
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  Speaker 3: better than that.
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  Speaker 1: We like to call it the mail Bag.
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  Speaker 3: So without any further ado, let's not waste any time here, Ohio,
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  Speaker 3: al get me in.
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  Speaker 1: The mood, Ohio. Aw, it's all right, So on the
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  Speaker 1: mail bag.
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  Speaker 3: Over the last month or so, we've had some big
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  Speaker 3: names on this mail bag. We had Robbie the Mariner fan.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get bigger than Robbie the Mariner fan. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: come on the round a mound of talk we've had
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  Speaker 3: justin in Cincinnati. We had Nico from Vancouver who popped on.
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  Speaker 3: And there have been some others, and today as a
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  Speaker 3: special bonus on the Fifth Hour podcast, we go now
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  Speaker 3: into the winner's corner, a man who has been busting
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  Speaker 3: my balls for many years. And as I like to
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  Speaker 3: say on the radio show, I am a distant relative
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  Speaker 3: of Nostra Damas and friend of Nostradinas who's here right
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  Speaker 3: now from the Seattle area.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Nostradinas.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, mister Mallard. Thanks for having me on. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to continue to bust your balls about the Ram
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  Speaker 4: and the good guy Seahawks, and that's just that's the
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  Speaker 4: nature of the beast.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's fine that you can do that all you want,
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  Speaker 3: but I would like you to admit right now on
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  Speaker 3: the podcast that you were given the gift of a
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  Speaker 3: phantom two point conversion in the regular season matchup in
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  Speaker 3: your final seat.
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  Speaker 1: Just admit it. We can move all. Just admit it.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Odd oddly enough, I have studied that play over and
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  Speaker 4: over and over. I mean I've studied that play more
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  Speaker 4: times than weed Man has written can you send me
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  Speaker 4: money on PayPal? You know, Zach Sharbonay, he listened to
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  Speaker 4: the coaches, you always play to the end. He did
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  Speaker 4: the smart thing. He went and grabbed the ball as
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  Speaker 4: one of your Rams defenders oddly enough lunched for it
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  Speaker 4: and just couldn't make the play. Zach picked it up.
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  Speaker 4: It was a good play, and you know, the funny
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  Speaker 4: thing is the Rams still had over six minutes to
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  Speaker 4: go down and win the game. They went the length
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  Speaker 4: of the field and then they blew it getting a touchdown,
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  Speaker 4: so they went for the field goal, missed the field goal,
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  Speaker 4: they blew it again, went into overtime. Right what they do.
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  Speaker 4: They drove all the way down, they had a nice
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  Speaker 4: catch to Puka, got that first touchdown, and then their
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  Speaker 4: defense choked two more times, so you know we did
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  Speaker 4: the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean at this point out in no studinis
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  Speaker 3: that that was a word salad. For what I took
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  Speaker 3: away from that was you're right, Ben, that's what I.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure that's exactly what you took from it. Kind
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  Speaker 4: of like the messages that I send in on the
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  Speaker 4: Twitter X machines somehow adjust slightly from what I typed.
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  Speaker 3: Well, as I pointed out social media post, it's like art,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you go to the louver. I was just
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  Speaker 3: in New York visiting my brother and we went to
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  Speaker 3: the met, right, and so you go around all this
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  Speaker 3: art and it's how you interpret the art.
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  Speaker 4: It's definite interpretation. And the great part and most of
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  Speaker 4: the people who listen on the radio, who are not
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  Speaker 4: on Twitter, they have no clue, they have no no
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 1: That's the beauty. And you guys get so upset. It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 4: It's a good tactic on your part because it works.
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  Speaker 1: It's effective.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. So now, for those
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  Speaker 3: who don't know, nostrdine Is does not call the show.
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  Speaker 1: You're not a caller. No stridine Is. You're You're one
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  Speaker 1: of those guys.
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  Speaker 3: As you said, you're on X And I was lucky
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  Speaker 3: enough I met you in December of twenty nineteen. That
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  Speaker 3: was the Mallard meet and greet we did in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: You came down there and we had a good crowd.
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  Speaker 3: It was fuss We had a lot of fun there.
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  Speaker 3: And that was just before the pandemic, right, That was
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  Speaker 3: I think the last I made for the pandemic.
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  Speaker 4: That was the last hurrah. And if I remember right,
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  Speaker 4: you were going to try and go to the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: game and then something happened and they didn't let.
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  Speaker 3: You in well, yeah, so jj and Renton claimed he
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  Speaker 3: has a relative that works for the Seahawks and was
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  Speaker 3: going to get me in right, So okay he went
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  Speaker 3: down there. Oh that was a whole you were not
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  Speaker 3: there that we we had the event and then the
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  Speaker 3: next day we had the Seahawks thing. So we had like, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Ed from Spokane had a bullhorn. We did this malar
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  Speaker 3: Man march through Seattle and he was like yelling, listen
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  Speaker 3: to the Ben Mahler show on and he was like
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  Speaker 3: waking up homeless people. Now, I'm sure downtown Seattle is
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  Speaker 3: much worse now than it was then because.
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  Speaker 1: That was seven.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's insane down there. I mean, most of the
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  Speaker 4: businesses decided that when people start taking a dump on
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  Speaker 4: the sidewalk, it's it's time to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't blame I don't blame.
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  Speaker 3: Well listen, you know, I do the show from La
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  Speaker 3: so I know it's the same the same deals, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, maybe stop people from poop on the street.
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  Speaker 1: It might be a what do I know?
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, so we we we did this malar Man March
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  Speaker 3: and it was really awkward because you know, Ed and
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  Speaker 3: and Christina from Spokane, we're yelling my name and the bullhorn.
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  Speaker 3: And then we we got down to the stadium. We're
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  Speaker 3: standing around and JJ's like, you know, get I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: get you in.
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  Speaker 1: And all that. And then I'm waiting. I'm waiting.
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  Speaker 3: The game's about to start, you know, and I'm still
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  Speaker 3: I can't get you. And there's too many, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because it was the biggest game that was that was
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  Speaker 3: a playing game for the playoffs that year.
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  Speaker 4: Remember this, I believe it was against the forty nine Ers.
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  Speaker 1: Well it was a Sunday night game.
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  Speaker 3: They shifted it to Sunday night the forty nine Ers
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  Speaker 3: and the Seahawks, And so I ended up going to.
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  Speaker 1: A bar across play there and watching on TV. But
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  Speaker 1: we had a good time. We had like you know,
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  Speaker 1: we took fans of the show whatever. We had some
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  Speaker 1: fun there. The stadium looked great from the outside.
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  Speaker 4: It's a beautiful stadium. They did a really good job there.
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  Speaker 4: Oddly enough, the first thing I ever saw there was
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  Speaker 4: not a football game. It was Metallica.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well that.
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  Speaker 3: Makes sense, knowing what I know about you, that maybe
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  Speaker 3: that would be on brand. So you I also met
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  Speaker 3: you. You just happened to be in Vegas, when we did.
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  Speaker 3: Was it last year? The Mala meet we did in Vegas?
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  Speaker 4: You just had last last summer. I was coming down
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  Speaker 4: Missus Noster Dinas and I were coming down to see
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  Speaker 4: the aging much aging rock band, the Scorpions, And it
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  Speaker 4: was the same weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you came in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it was good, and uh, I know this is
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  Speaker 3: your anniversary weekend this weekend, so happy anniversary too.
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  Speaker 4: But you and I know, I thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I like your wife, but I don't like her that
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  Speaker 3: much because she eats nothing but vegetables.
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  Speaker 1: So as you know, that's the danger zone for me.
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  Speaker 1: That's uh, yes, that's you know.
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  Speaker 4: I've discussed with her the merits of eating oysters because
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  Speaker 4: in the vegetarian community, oysters could go either direction, and
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  Speaker 4: she just won't even bite on oysters.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's a no fly zone.
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  Speaker 4: That's a it's a losing situation for me.
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  Speaker 3: My wife was briefly a pescatarian, which is a cousin
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  Speaker 3: of the vegan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they like fish.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I'll eat fish and vegetables, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, certain fish I don't like, but certain others I'm
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  Speaker 4: all in on a good basket of fish and chips.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, fish and chips. I'll go for That's about it.
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  Speaker 3: I usually eat fish and chips once a year. And
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  Speaker 3: I could live in Iowa, Nebraska, some landlocked state somewhere
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  Speaker 3: with very little fish, I could. I could do fine.
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  Speaker 3: But we should get to the mail bag. These are
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  Speaker 3: actual letters by actual listeners, and you guys can send
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  Speaker 3: the messages in for future editions to the mailbag Real
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  Speaker 3: fifth hour at gmail dot com. And as I always say,
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  Speaker 3: you got to put your name in city in because
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  Speaker 3: a lot of these people, no students believe it or not,
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  Speaker 3: don't listen to that. And then so I have to
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  Speaker 3: figure out, like, where's this person from? Who's this person?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know who that is. I don't know where
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  Speaker 3: they're from.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a pain in the ass.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, Real fifth hour at gmail dot com if
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  Speaker 3: you'd like to send messages in.
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  Speaker 1: And again thanks to Ohiol who I just met.
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  Speaker 3: We had a big event in Cincinnati slash Newport, Kentucky
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  Speaker 3: a couple weeks back, and then we went to Boston,
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  Speaker 3: but I met Ohio obviously in well, I was in Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: But it was a lot of fun. So the first
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  Speaker 3: one is from let's see here we have JT. Thewingman
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  Speaker 3: from I always butcher the name of the city. He's
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  Speaker 3: near Knoxville. He always wants me to say the actual
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  Speaker 3: name of the town, and I butcher it and then
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  Speaker 3: he gets upset. So it should I let me ask you,
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  Speaker 3: should I try to say the name of the town
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  Speaker 3: or should I just pretend and just say near Knoxville.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think my personality would be if he
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  Speaker 4: gets upset, I would go out of my way to
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  Speaker 4: mispronounce it every time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, from Severville, Tennessee or mill or whatever the hell
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  Speaker 3: is anyway, says dear Ben and guest, better known as
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  Speaker 3: the Great Nostradinas. Since this is the Indy five hundred
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  Speaker 3: weekend and I will likely be in the parking lot
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  Speaker 3: there as I listened to this podcast, going to the
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  Speaker 3: Indy five hundred was something I always dreamed about as
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  Speaker 3: a kid watching the Indy cars at Wisconsin State Fair
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  Speaker 3: Park on the Milwaukee Mile. I have now attended the
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  Speaker 3: last five Indy five hundreds, all of them since COVID.
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  Speaker 3: It was a major bucket list ten sports event for me.
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  Speaker 3: Now I am glad to renew yearly. He says, is
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  Speaker 3: there a bucket list sporting event you have attended or
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  Speaker 3: are hoping to attend in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Sincerely, JT. The Wingman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So for me, I've I've been pretty lucky. I've
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  Speaker 3: attended most of the stuff I really wanted to, like
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  Speaker 3: the World Series. When I was a kid, I loved baseball,
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  Speaker 3: and I've been to a few. I'll likely never go
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  Speaker 3: to another World Series, but I've.
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  Speaker 1: Been to three World Series, which is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: That's been been a lot of fun to go to
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  Speaker 3: those and be part of that. And I was one,
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  Speaker 3: you know, million years ago in the nineties. I went
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  Speaker 3: to the first World Series I went to was in
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  Speaker 3: ninety seven, and then the Dodgers kept going to the
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  Speaker 3: World Series right up until you'll appreciate this, no students,
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  Speaker 3: right up until they.
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  Speaker 1: Signed Otani and they blacklisted me. I don't know why,
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  Speaker 1: but Tani I went.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see them win the World Series, but I
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  Speaker 3: saw a few of them.
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  Speaker 1: But that I've been to the NBA Finals, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Not I've been to the Super Bowl media stuff where
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  Speaker 3: they bring in all those Boso radio people and influencers
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  Speaker 3: now and they put us in radio.
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  Speaker 1: So I've done that a few times.
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  Speaker 3: I've not actually been to the Super Bowl, but I
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  Speaker 3: like watching it on TV.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that i'd want to go.
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  Speaker 3: I think the experience it would be cool, I guess
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  Speaker 3: to do it, but from a viewer standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's better on the TV. But what do
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  Speaker 1: I know? What about you know, studinis?
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  Speaker 3: Have you been to anything or you trying to go
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  Speaker 3: somewhere you haven't been yet?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I like to travel for concerts for the
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  Speaker 4: most part, but sporting events are kind of fun. I
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  Speaker 4: did travel to go see the Good Guy Seahawks take
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  Speaker 4: on the forty nine Ers a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 4: down in that lousy stadium they have in Santa Ana.
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  Speaker 4: But that place sucks. But I did see that. That
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  Speaker 4: was fun. I do want to go see them this
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  Speaker 4: upcoming season. They're going to play in Vegas against the Raiders,
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  Speaker 4: so that'd be fun. But if I was to go
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  Speaker 4: see anything else, I grew up with horses. I would
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  Speaker 4: love to go see the Kentucky Derby live. That'd be fun.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be a cool one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: One of our listeners works in the stables. Guy calls
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  Speaker 3: every once in a while. Although you know, this guy
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  Speaker 3: called up and said, Hey, I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 3: some intel on Aaron Rodgers and he hangs out with
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  Speaker 3: the rich people that go to the Kentucky Derbery. Early
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  Speaker 3: because they and he never called again, I wonder what happened,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, he's supported.
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  Speaker 1: We also had a guy who.
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  Speaker 3: Lives not that I'm a huge golf guy, but near
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  Speaker 3: the Masters in Augusta, and he offered a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago me and Danny g on the podcast. He
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  Speaker 3: offered to allow us to go to like the Master,
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  Speaker 3: which is very hard to get into the Masters.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't do it, and I haven't heard from him.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I guess how many concerts have you traveled to?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Boy, a lot I've seen. I actually get this. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going up to Alaska in September to go see Twisted Sister.
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  Speaker 1: If you're away Alaska?
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  Speaker 4: Really, yes, Alaska.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's not that far for you you're in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: But how long is the flight to Alaska from Sea?
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  Speaker 4: I was stunned because I thought, oh cool, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to go drive up there, and then I looked at
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  Speaker 4: it's about forty two hours to drive, and I thought
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  Speaker 4: there's not a chance because if I drove up there,
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  Speaker 4: I'd have to leave a week ahead of time, and
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  Speaker 4: if I had any car problems whatsoever, I would miss
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  Speaker 4: the show. So it's about a five and a half
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  Speaker 4: hour flight up to Anchorage. Up to Anchorage. I was
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  Speaker 4: shocked by that myself.
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  Speaker 3: I did not realize it was that long a flight.
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  Speaker 3: That's like flying from the East coast to the West coast.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's wild.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's painful. I'm not a big flight kind of guy.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I like the airplane itself. It's all
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  Speaker 4: of the other nonsense that leads to getting into the seat.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I can do without. But yeah, so that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be fun. I've gone to probably seven or eight
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  Speaker 4: or nine concerts I've traveled to, not everything as heavy music.
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  Speaker 4: I did go see Tom Jones if you remember him.
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  Speaker 4: I saw him in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's man, talk about ladies, man, Tom Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You know. One of the funniest parts about that show
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  Speaker 4: is it happened there was the World Series was going on.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Giants were playing, and there was a
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  Speaker 4: young girl sitting a couple of seats away from us
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  Speaker 4: who was listening to the game on her on her phone,
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  Speaker 4: and she was paying no attention to Tom Jones, of course,
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  Speaker 4: because he's old and she's a teenager and everyone around
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  Speaker 4: her was just getting hacked off because she was cheering
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  Speaker 4: for the sporting event going on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, what's up? See God, who's the guy in Vegas?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: There was a guy really old. You're never going to
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  Speaker 1: get this.
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  Speaker 3: By the way off the Strip hotel there was We
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  Speaker 3: happened to be at the hotel and this guy was performing.
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  Speaker 3: Uh he's a crooner, like a love song guy. It no, no,
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  Speaker 3: it was it Barry Manilow. Is that is that the name?
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  Speaker 4: He's down there? He's been over like the old Hilton
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  Speaker 4: or the West Gate.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that's Barry Manilo.
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  Speaker 3: So we were we were at the West Gate, I
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  Speaker 3: believe it was, and we didn't obviously see him, but
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  Speaker 3: we they they had the billboard saying Barry Manilo here,
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  Speaker 3: and the crowd it was like hanging out with Dick
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  Speaker 3: and Dayton, you know.
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  Speaker 1: At the the mixture thenxter. It was.
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  Speaker 3: If you were like seventy seven, you were on the
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  Speaker 3: young side, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Like it was good for them, they're still still going
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  Speaker 1: for it. Uh crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I can recall I have something similar that happened a
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  Speaker 4: friend of mine. There's a Bible casino about five miles
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  Speaker 4: from me, and a buddy of mine who who was
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  Speaker 4: a wretched gambler, got free tickets to see Tonya and Orlando,
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  Speaker 4: but without Dawn, and we went to see this show.
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  Speaker 4: And at this time I was probably forty five, which
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  Speaker 4: was ten eleven years ago. I was probably the youngest
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  Speaker 4: person there. Everyone was eighties and nineties. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really great that you can be a musician
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  Speaker 3: and you'll have that core group the rest of your life,
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  Speaker 3: like you'll have.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Whatever, you know, whatever. It's just it's why it doesn't
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: work that way. No studenas in radio. You know what
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I can't just do a.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Monologue from like, you know, two thousand and nine and
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: still it won't work.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: It's unfortunate.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: It's just as my program director told me years ago,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: it's disposable entertainment. Reggie from Detroit writes in a regular
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: on the mail bag. He says, been what happened all
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: the female callers? I remember I used to always have
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: a few women call the show.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Not anymore.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: He says, you should do a ladies hour and see
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: if any females will call into the show. Well, Reggie,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: we've talked about this. I believe since Lorena joined the show,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: she has scared away all of the women other than
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: like three. Yeah, I don't it's some no Streetena's it's
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: some competitive thing with women.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, women hate hate each other and they hate working
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: with each other. But one of the best drops you
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: have on your show is the famous Genie in Medford
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: going I'm a doctor. I love that.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Oh she's great. Genie Jane is the greatest. I just
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: loved her to death.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe, Reggie, it's competition. Like Lorena gets so
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: much attention from all the horn dog listeners that I
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: think the other women are I think there's still listen.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, we had some ladies in Boston that were
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: there that are fans of the show.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: They don't call into the show. Most people don't call in.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: But if I'll tell you this, Reggie, if it gets
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: boring this week upcoming, maybe we'll just fus around. You know,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: if I get tired of talking to hollering James or
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: blind Scott or no Stretina's is face weed man hippie. Now,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: when I first met I should go back to the
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: first time I met you. The thing I remember. I
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: still have this. You'll be happy to know, knows Beneenas, Yes,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: you gave me this.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I have a little.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: A little case of just a few nick knacks I
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: picked up over the years, little things that are memories
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: of my career in radio. And you gave me a
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: sign that you printed up. It was a cheaply made
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: sign and he was like, no, weed man, remember, yes,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: you remember this, and you gave it to me. And
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I still have it right next to the hat that
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: we got malor man or mallar whatever it is. Twenty
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: nineteen's the date on there. But yeah, I still have
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: that thing you gave me.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can tell you the origin of why I
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: made that sign.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: I got so tired of him posting pictures of him
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: walking down the beach saying send me money on PayPal,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: and I'm working seventy hours a week to pay for
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: my daughter's college education. I'm like, go get a job,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: you bum.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: And then well, I don't know if it was before
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: that or after, but he kept begging me to get
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: him a place to live, you know, because he's living
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: on the street and then a listener who I don't
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: know these people, you know, just get callers.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I listened.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: So this guy reached out and saying, listen, I got
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: a place. It's a few months and weed Man can
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: say so. Then I contacted weed Man, so he moves
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: in with this guy and then he he I don't
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: know what happened. Next thing I know, he's accusing me
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: of having him kidnapped.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Like the whole it was wild. It was wild and crazy.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: And now even like lately, he's called up a lot
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: recently and he's getting free food from Perido. He never
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: remembers the guy's name. The guy food all the time.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: You can't remember the guy's name is It's like, what
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: are we doing here?
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean you do have very entertaining people that
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: call into your show, I will say, and I would
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: like to call in more period. Male. Well, actually occasionally.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Problem is when I'm driving around tonight, I'm floating in
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: and out of very rural areas and my phone always
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: cuts out every every night.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it. I understand. It's you know, and
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: you're listening, that's the most important thing. And you send
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: the comments. You're very active on social media. Larry writes
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: in from Parts Unknown, He says, Ben, are you gonna
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: follow in the footsteps of Ozzy Osbourne, who, apparently, I
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: guess this is a thing, is going to return as
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: an AI avatar three D hologram, will move, will speak
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: and respond to fans. I guess this is according to Larry.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: He sent me a link here. This is apparently anything
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: will I become Ozzy Osborne? Not by my choice, although
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: the way AI works, I.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Don't know if you paid attention to this.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Nostredia's like right now, I've been told on some of
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the AI platforms you could get a Malard monologue done
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: in my voice.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: In fact, we had a listener on this.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Podcast with Danny G's it's gotta be alien technology. It's
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: listening to everything I've done, my whole body of work,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: my whole archive of work.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And if it's doing it with me, it's doing it
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: with everyone. You know who am I.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I'm the Overnight guy, and so they have everything I've done,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: So they already have that.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You know, it's weird.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I watch I know you don't like basketball, but the
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: NBA on NBC, and they brought back the guy that
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: was the voice in the nineties who's been dead for years.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: They brought him back and he's the voice again via
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: AI of NBC's NBA cover.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: It's pretty wow.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: If only AI could bring back the quality of play
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: from the eighties and nineties.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: That'd be nice.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, I don't disagree, but I like to say, no studinis,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I have a talk show to do, so I have
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Kyrie and okay, see writes in says, come on, Ben,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: how are you and Coop disrespecting my Thunder? We are
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: amazing to watch defensive version of the Warriors logo is
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: amazing our colors and you this upset? He's upset, Kyrie
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: because I ripped him the other day. No studenas I
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: pointed out that the logo looks like it's like a
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: temporary logo for the Thunder and they're waiting for their
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: real logo. Anyways, says I got to show some love
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Ben as the only true Thunder fan of the Malad Militia.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Tell Coop to quit hating. He's just mad we swept
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: his whack Lakers. Anyway, I was checking in. I have
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: not been in touch lately because I got saved.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I became a Christian. Good for you, Kyrie.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I go to church a lot now and read my
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Bible daily and pray. I know you understand. As a
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: good Jewish man. Well, I'm not real religious, but I
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: appreciate people that are.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And good for you, Kyrie.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: And whatever gets you through life, man, knock it out
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: of the park, whatever whatever works for you. So I'm
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: glad you're still checked in. And I'm right about the Thunder,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: and that's it now. I do want I don't want
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the Knicks to win because New Yorkers are annoying. So
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: if the Thunder do end up beating the Spurs here,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: I will pull for them in the finals. I'm pretty
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: confident I will pull for them in the finals because
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: I don't I got a bunch of New York nick
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: apologists in my world, and you know knows Verdinis. I
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: want to have some shot in freude. I don't want
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I want to take joy out of their misery. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: don't want them to win because then I'll never hear
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: the end of it, you know what I'm saying.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: So yeah, you know I have a real problem with
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: the Thunder, and you know why.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, of course, yes, the rip off Sonics.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: That's why.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, that carpetbagger for an owner of them came up
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: here and lied to everybody. We all knew it. The
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: writing was on the wall. But so I can never
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: support them. Yeah, they're a good team. But I'll tell
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: you what. The day that Kevin Durant went and signed
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: with the Warriors, I actually had tears flowing down my
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: face of joy because he was the last Sonic that
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: we drafted really officially, because the guy that came after him,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: the West Brick, Yes he was you know, he was
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: drafted by the Sonics, but he was technically never a Sonic.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: So yeah, when Kevin Durant signed away from from Oklahoma City,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: that made my day. I was happy.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You got to bring back Frank Prokowski or something like that.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Hey, I like Frank Brokowski. He had two stints here
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: with the Sonics. That was he was a good dude.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well the Sonics will be back in a
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: few years. I'll be back and Durant might still be playing.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: He'll play for the new Sonics.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: That would be something he could end his career where
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: he started. That'd be pretty really.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Frank from Vancouver writes and he says he says, good
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: monologue this week on Aaron Rodgers' return. What people somehow
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: are forgotten, Frank says, unless you're a Packer apologist like me,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: is that Rogers and McCarthy. Rogers ran McCarthy out of
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: town in Greebit. Yes, Frank, Yes, there's all this revision
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: is history going on about how Rogers and McCarthy are
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: besties and all that. Anyway, Frank says, I remember how
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: many passes went directly out of bounds right after snap
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: because Rogers didn't like the play calling. He'd shut McCarthy's
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: play down without even trying to execute it over and
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: over a game after game, he threw it out of
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: bounds and then looked at the sidelines with the venom
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: in his glare. He says, Now the two are reunited,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: and McCarthy hasn't changed his play calling schemes much and
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: has much less talent than he had in Green Bay.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Recipe for disaster, Frank says, I think Steeler fans are
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: going to be shaking their heads much like we Packer
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: fans did during the last day. Is yeah, Frank, that's
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be good for business, and so I'm happy
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: about it. Because sandpaper is good for business, and there'll
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: be some sparks. Guarantee the Steelers are gonna be mediocre
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: and likely going to fall apart, like they don't have
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Tomlin anymore. And this thing could go from They're always
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: eight eight and nine or nine and eight somewhere in
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: that area, which is still weird for me to say.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: The NFL has an odd number of games. It should
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: be eight and eight. Eventually they're going to play another
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: they'll play eighteen games, so I guess you go nine
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: to nine in a couple of years. Lucky Tony writes
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: in from the Bay Area. He says, hey, man, why
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: this is a this is a X rated I don't
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: think it's X rated, but he says he sent a joke.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Lucky ton He says, why doesn't Mark the full name
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: guy go down on a young lady?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: He says. The answer is because he's not a cannibal.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: So wow, thank you Lucky Tony, he says.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: And the oldie of the day is Ernie Freeman, Touch
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of the Blues, he said, So there you go.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: I like Lucky Tony. He didn't call this week Lucky Tony,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: but I like that guy. He calls up normally in
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: No streudenas and just he says one thing. He mentions
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: how he wants to sleep with a porn star, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: then he says something naughty and hangs up.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: So that's usually how that goes. So it's it's very
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: odd that he loves porn.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Most people have kind of moved away from porn no
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: straudenas because of you know, the Internet and all that.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: But he's he's still he's fully invested in that world.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: What do we have?
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: What else do we have? Kwang from Ho Chi Minh,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Vietnam rights into the mailbag with no sturdinis, no stridinis.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Here is with us.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: You should know that by now anyway, get up, cruise
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Pebbles exits mornings. He sent me a story here Boston's
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Hot ninety six point nine, ending thirty eight years behind
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: the mic careers started in nineteen eighty eight. He says, Ben,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: with the inevitability of Ai in radio, do you see
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: a cal Ripken Junior like radio street like this happening
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: for future radio hosts? Or is AI going to pull
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: a reverse Baltimore Orioles fake power outage and yank the
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: plug on these type of radio streaks that's from playing
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Guaranteed human.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's a great run thirty eight years obviously,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty eight wild the things that have happened in radio,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: it's were we're at a crossroads right now and it's
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: really going to be up to society to see how
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: much AI they're willing to take.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Are you fine just listening to AI radio and all that?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Are you? Are you good with that?
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Runs awful?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I agree?
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Obviously we're both biased here.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: And.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I'd like to hear an actual human being who has
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: knowledge and watches the game and understands the nuance. I
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: don't think the robot computers can really do that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Well, it's that, but it's just also the human element.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: One of the things said I believe is the key
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: to like what we do is like, there's a lot
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: of people that listen live. You're working no Stredenina sometimes
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: at night, right, you're driving around, yeah, backwoods the boondocks
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: with with big foot out and then have you seen
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: big foot?
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: By the way, have you seen any big foot out there?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: No? But oddly enough, somebody lost a load of zebras
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: outside my town last summer. They got a zebra. Zebra's
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: got loose, and they were running wild until they were
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: able to corral them all up. It was kind of
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: a big deal for a while.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. I did not hear about that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, it's a joke in this town. Now,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: that's funny.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: That's funny.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: But yeah, so I again, quang. It's just gonna depend
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: on society. Are people okay with it? I'm amazed. We've
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: talked about this in the past on social media. There
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: are influencers no Stredenas who are are AI women, you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: not real women, but they were AI and dudes are
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: sending these counts money, these horn dog dudes just sending.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: There the fake they're not even real women.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, generally, if my experience, no stooting
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: is a woman is tremendously beautiful and then flirting with
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: a guy our age that looks like you know us.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, generally probably not real, you
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: know what I mean?
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: I know. I like to use the great phrase by
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Don Rickles quite often. It's over. It's over, exactly, It's over.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Barry from South Carolina, right, Sid's still trying to get
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: out of there, he says, Yo, yo, Ma, Benny. We
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: did the Charleston meet and greet couple of years back.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Barry was a big part of making that happen.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: So we love Barry, he says.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: On average, Ben, how many times a week does Lorena
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: order in food? I don't keep tragging with Berry.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: She does not cook. She does not cook. She eats
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: out all the time.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: And as far as she'll usually pick food up on
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the way into the studio, however, I would say anywhere
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: from two to three times a week she will have food.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: This week she had curry delivered. There's nothing quite like no.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Streatenis when you're sitting in a radio studio at one
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: in the morning and.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: It's just reeks.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Oh the sense of that, Yeah, it lingers, It gets
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: into everything.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: And then and then the next she couldn't finish it
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: because she eats like a bird. And so then the
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: next day she took it out of the fridge, and
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I happened to be over near in the breakroom and
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I smelled it again, and it smelled even worse cold.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: It was so bad.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Tell her to swing by Costco and get the dollar
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: sixty five hot dog. Well, that's what it costs a
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: tax up here, but to get the hot dogs and
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: that sense much better.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, I listen, I'm big mister Costco Love Costco, Polly
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: writes in he says, what's up, big Ben, I am
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: back listening to your show after years off.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Nice that it's in a podcast now, it's always been
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: in the podcast. Paulie, how dare you?
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: When are you coming to the Northwest again? From Polly,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: I love going there and visiting. I don't know that
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: downtown Seattle I want to hang out at. But I
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: love the trees and the mountains and the weather's great.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I love that area. I'd love to come back. We
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: were just in Vancouver though, last year. Paul you could
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: have you could have gone up to Vancouver and hung
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: out with us. It's a bad job by you, but
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I'd love to get back. My wife has never been
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: to Seattle on those stredinis. You know that she's never been.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Never. Wow, I've been many times. My wife has never been,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: so we gotta.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: If you if you bring her up here, I'll give
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: me some lead time. I'll tell you where to go
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: and where not to go.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Well, the most important part is where not to go.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: That would be the most important party. It's certain. Yes,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the zombie apocalypse. We do not need to see. I've
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: seen enough of the fentanyl fold. I don't need to
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  Speaker 1: see any.
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  Speaker 3: It's I know, people get down, you know, people have
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  Speaker 3: things in life and stuff happen, like when you see
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  Speaker 3: somebody and I've driven through skid row. Now, I was
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: just in New York my brother right across the street
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  Speaker 3: from his home, there were two people doing.
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  Speaker 1: The fent andyl fold. I said, wow, this.
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  Speaker 3: Is welcome to New York. But like if you see that, like,
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  Speaker 3: why would you ever do that? You know, how would
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: you want to be that?
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. These people are like zombies.
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  Speaker 4: It's what you just see what they're doing right now.
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  Speaker 4: Up here. They're cleaning the streets all around the city
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  Speaker 4: because of the upcoming FIFA games, and so they're pushing
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  Speaker 4: on all of the riff raff to the outskirts and
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  Speaker 4: then once the all the soccer stuff ends, then they'll
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  Speaker 4: bring them all back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh of course, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well they're they're doing that in La too because the
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  Speaker 3: World Cup's coming, and then it's gonna be even crazier
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  Speaker 3: in LA because I think it's next year the Olympics
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  Speaker 3: are going to be most of the games are going
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  Speaker 3: to be in Los Angeles, and so they're going to
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  Speaker 3: clean all the homelessile. Oh, it's gonna be the greatest
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  Speaker 3: city in the world. And then just like in Seattle there,
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  Speaker 3: as soon as the Olympics are over, they're.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna bust them back in. Baby.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Sonom and Gomorrah yet again, I love the story.
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  Speaker 3: I think we talked about it. I don't know if
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: it was on this podcast or not. It was in
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: the last ten days the may the governor of California,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom not a big fan, and so he did
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: a podcast with beast Mode, your guy from the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 4: Oh we like Lynch. We don't like Gavin up here either.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so Marshawn Lynch, I guess asked.
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  Speaker 3: The story I read was he asked Gavin Newsom to
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  Speaker 3: help him out. So there was a homeless encampment right
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  Speaker 3: in front of the family. I guess he's obviously from
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Oakland or that area, beast Mode, and so he asked
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  Speaker 3: the governor to take care of it, and like they
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  Speaker 3: just cleaned out just that area, like the other for
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the people that live there, they get
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: to enjoy the homeless encampment, but they moved all the
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: homeless out right in front of like Marshaun Lynch's family's
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  Speaker 3: home and stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: So if you know people know Stredinas, you're okay.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Will from Florida writes in on the mail bag. Will says, Ben,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: are you gonna boycott the Costco chicken fingers cause they're
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: two high calories? I guess these are sixteen hundred calories
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  Speaker 3: Costco's added the chicken. Have you seen these at your Costco?
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  Speaker 3: And no, Stredious, I've not seen.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm a Costco fan, but I have not
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: seen those. It does sound delicious.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have had the Costco chicken strips in Vancouver,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: and I would like to say, as much as I
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: love Costco, this is a downgrade because if you go
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: and you're not that far from Vancouver and O, if
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: we drive up to Vancouver, the Costco has the chicken fingers,
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  Speaker 3: they also come with fries. The US version does not
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: come with the fries.
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  Speaker 1: It all comes with the chicken strips.
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  Speaker 3: Sixteen hundred calories for the chicken strips.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's you know, I'm okay. On that. I did
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: get a kick.
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  Speaker 3: When we were in Vancouver, we chatted with a few
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: of the locals and they told us they don't go to.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: The Costco in Vancouver.
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  Speaker 3: They drive down to Seattle to get alcohol and other
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: stuff because it's cheaper, apparently, so they'll drive down. I
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: guess not all the way to Seattle. There's a Costco
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: across the border right there.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, listen, if you're a professional alcoholic, the thing to
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: do if you're going between the borders is you stop
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: a duty free, but you do it going into the
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: into Canada because it's actually the duty free going into
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Canada is cheaper than the duty free coming into the US.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Oh okay, that's a pro tip there, yo.
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  Speaker 1: No Stredius knows a thing or two. You know, he
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: knows a little bit about that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Oliver from Ohio rights that he says, hey, Benny, have
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: you have you ever reported a king's death?
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: And then he sent me a story.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: This is really fun. I did see this, Oliver, by
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: the way, I don't know if you saw this.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: No Stradius.
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  Speaker 3: So this week a radio station in the UK had
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: to issue an apology after they announced that King Charles
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: had died.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Oh except he wasn't dead obviously not yet yet you
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: eventually be right.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: They cited a computer error during an emergency broadcast test
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: they were doing or something like that.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I've never Oliver. I mean, I've never done
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Like this is persons that I've mistakenly said somebody's dead
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: and they're not dead. I remember me and Eddie when
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: we were working together, there was a quarterback that had
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: a really old sounding name that was still alive, like
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: from the early days of the NFL.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: We were shocked he was he died like ten years
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: ago now, we were shocked, Like I'm beelievable.
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  Speaker 3: Tom Looney, who I used to work with Looney Tunes,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: He's reported incorrect information multiple occasions, so that's.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: More for him, not me.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: JJ from Arizona right center the mailbag he's has been
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Is this even possible? Hooters is rebranding to be a
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: family friendly restaurant because the CEO says the chain became
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: over sexualized.
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  Speaker 4: What's the point.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, No, that's a great that's it. What's the point?
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: That's all you need to say?
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Listen, it's like in and out Burger. Their whole mantra
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: is all we're good at is cheeseburgers, fries, and that's it.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: That's what we're known for. That's what we serve. You can't.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: You can't once you're going down that road. There's no
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Hooters around me. I don't know if there's any Hooters
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: near you.
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  Speaker 4: There used to be. We used to have them up
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: here and there, and most of them are pretty good.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: It's a niche and as long as you have a
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: quality niche, you've got you've got an audience.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I used to eat it Hooters a bit. There was
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: one in Santa Monica I used to go to. I
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: told the story on the podcast. I think it was.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Was it last week or a couple of weeks ago.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: About we were out the Great Tony Bruno and a
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: couple of the radio buddies, and then my boardop already
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: went across the street. There was a Hooters in Santa Monica,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: which is not there anymore. There was an Irish pub
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: or not Irish from an English pub, and he went
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: across the street to watch football match. He ended up
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: not showing up to work the next day. He got
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: into a fight with some soccer hooligans and it was
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: I just tie that into to Hooters because it was
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: right across the street from which is gone now well,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: and there was also the Hooters Hotel in Vegas.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Remember that. Yes, now it's going to be uh well
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: it's the oil or whatever, and that's going to be
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: next to the new baseball stadium.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, keV. You have to go
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: when the Mariners play the A's, you have to go
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: down to see Kevin from Jersey Rights and he says, hey, Ben,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: you're gonna come to Philly to have some of this
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: fifty five dollars slice of pizza. Apparently in Philadelphia there's
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: a restaurant that went viral this week is selling a
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: slice of pizza for fifty five dollars which is top
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: with caviar and come served on a gold plate.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Now, I'm good. I don't know. That's disgusting. Pass that's
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: a no fly zone. I'm good.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, I think we'll get out on that
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: no Streetennas, it's been a pleasure here. Anything you would
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: like to promote, no stretenas. Any gigs coming up, you
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: want to promote your social media anything you want to promote,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: no streenas. This is your opportunity do a commercial right now,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: absolutely free commercial, go ahead.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: That's hilarious. Hey, I appreciate you having me on. I've
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: been listening to your show for any many years. Big
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: fan I was. I was even paying attention to your
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: little NBA little thing that you did many many years ago.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: You remember that your a little write ups for the NBA.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Oh did you talking about the web stuff that I was?
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, I was a fan back then, so I appreciate that.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Long time followers. So nor your show is great. Uh,
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: most of the people that call under your show are great.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: There's a few that are not. And there's a few
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: I enjoy taking potshots at, like the Boston Bozo himself
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: blind Scott, but you know he deserves it, but he's
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: a he's kind of a good sport. But nothing to
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: promote for me. I just listen and enjoy your show,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: and and you do a really good job. And I
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: appreciate Lorena and Coop and even Eddie when he was
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: there too.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we love it all right, Well, thank you know,
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Stradinas and I will be on tonight and then all week.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: I know it's a holiday weekend and all that, but
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: I have no days off this week.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I took plenty of time off when I went.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Back to Boston and New York, so I'll be on
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: all week and we'll have a lot have shows and
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: unfortunately the for no streudenas more NBA talk. Uh but
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: well we mixed in a lot of football and some
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: baseball as well. But anyway, have a great rest of
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: your day. And his Dick and Dayton would say bye
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: Bye, awesome, very good go Hawks, Bo Felatia