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The Fifth Hour: Buckeye Benny · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
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Speaker 2: with Ben Mahller starts right now.
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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
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Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio. As I am in Vegas today,
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Speaker 1: you likely figured that out already. From Sin City we
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Speaker 1: have on this edition of the Fifth Hour Podcast Buck, I, Benny,
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Speaker 1: and the Phrase of the week. However, since I am
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Speaker 1: broadcasting on remote, I'll tell you more about why I
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Speaker 1: am in Vegas and when I am leaving thegas and
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Speaker 1: all that at another point, not right now, for reasons
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Speaker 1: I will get into later. However, in the great state
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Speaker 1: of Nevada, as we have been hanging out here for
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Speaker 1: less than twenty four hours, I figured what better way
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Speaker 1: to kick off the twenty seventh day of March edition
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Speaker 1: of the Fifth Hour Podcast After a night of overnight
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Speaker 1: talk radio, then with fun facts about Sin city. Did
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Speaker 1: you know that it would take approximately two hundred and
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Speaker 1: eighty eight years of existence to spend one night in
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Speaker 1: every hotel room in Vegas. If you said I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: spend one night in every one of these hotels that
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Speaker 1: is surrounding me, you would have to live to be
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Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty eight years old. That would also
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Speaker 1: include the time your little baby. That is not hyperbole,
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Speaker 1: that is malormath malvel about two hundred and eighty eight
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Speaker 1: years to spend one night in every one of these hotels,
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Speaker 1: some of them you would not want to spend a
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Speaker 1: single minute in. Vegas has also hosted, on average, even
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Speaker 1: though the numbers are down a little bit over forty
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Speaker 1: million visitors every year. That is more than the population
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Speaker 1: of California just annually rolling in to Sin City. You
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Speaker 1: wonder how long that's going to last with resort fees
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Speaker 1: and parking and all that. And is it true that
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Speaker 1: more than half, more than half of the world's largest
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Speaker 1: hotels are right here in Las Vegas. That the Strip,
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Speaker 1: which is not in Vegas, it's an incorporated area, but
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Speaker 1: the Strip is essentially in terms of square footage for
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Speaker 1: a hotel, it's the Olympics for hotel square footage. And
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Speaker 1: the cool thing about this, it's good about but you
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Speaker 1: stay at a hotel. I'm actually not staying at a hotel.
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Speaker 1: Tell this weekend. But you stay at a hotel and
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Speaker 1: you end up getting all of your steps just walking
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Speaker 1: from the room to the elevator. Yeah. And one last
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Speaker 1: factoid before we get into the meat of the matter.
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Speaker 1: A wild story which I have heard multiple times is
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Speaker 1: like the urban legend. I hope it's true. A Las
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Speaker 1: Vegas hospital had to suspend a bunch of their employees
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Speaker 1: why they were gambling at work? What were they betting on?
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Speaker 1: Were they betting on the Raiders? Were they betting on
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Speaker 1: the Royals or the Twins or the Red Sox. No,
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Speaker 1: a hospital had to suspend workers because they were betting
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Speaker 1: on when patients would die. Somebody would come in all
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Speaker 1: messed up. This guy's you know, this guy is gonna
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Speaker 1: die on Tuesday. Now he'll die on Thursday, maybe on Saturday. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And there was also an accusation that one of the
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Speaker 1: nurses was trying to shall we say, rig the game,
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Speaker 1: if you will, trying to speed up the process or process. Now. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: we move now to the meat of the matter, and
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Speaker 1: we're going to get in deep here. As if you've
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Speaker 1: been with me for a while, you know that we
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Speaker 1: have long, long, long talked about the possibility of a
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Speaker 1: get together, a soiree in Ohio. Now. I've also believed
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Speaker 1: that if you tease something long enough, it eventually becomes
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Speaker 1: either reality or a restraining order. Now, fortunately, I'm happy
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Speaker 1: to report for all who are involved, what I am
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Speaker 1: about to tell you appears to be the former. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it is true. After nearly a year of dangling the
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Speaker 1: sugar coated carrot, much like a late infomercial that never
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Speaker 1: quite gets to the actual price. You ever watch those
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Speaker 1: back in the day, and all right, how much is this?
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Speaker 1: And then you're like, well, what is the upsell? Or
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Speaker 1: what are the goodies? What goodies do I get? And
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Speaker 1: they don't actually give you the price. So this is
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Speaker 1: going to happen. The first ever Ohio Malor meet and
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Speaker 1: greet is actually legitimately, allegedly happening. Plane tickets have been purchased,
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Speaker 1: hotel rooms have been booked, and yes, you are invited. No, seriously,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that you're going to be in good hands,
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Speaker 1: but you are invited to be part of this. This
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Speaker 1: is your audio invitation, so come on down, which is
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Speaker 1: either really exciting or deeply concerning, depending on how you
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Speaker 1: feel about public events and meeting people or me that
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Speaker 1: you've really only heard in the middle of the night
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Speaker 1: while likely either working or having insomnia or eating something
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Speaker 1: that shouldn't legally be called food. So the official plan,
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Speaker 1: get to the point, please, the official plan, and I
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Speaker 1: use plan the way most airlines use on time loosely.
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Speaker 1: The plan is Saturday, April twenty fifth, somewhere in the
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Dayton area. I'm leaning towards Cincinnati, a location that
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Speaker 1: is to be named later. It has not yet been procured,
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Speaker 1: so to be determined TBD. And since we don't have
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Speaker 1: a venue yet and I'm inviting you, this is like
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Speaker 1: the worst invitation ever. I'm literally inviting you to something
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Speaker 1: we don't even have a venue for. So this this
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Speaker 1: all works as a nice pop up maulard speakeasy type
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Speaker 1: vibe thing, or you can go, you know, pick your
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Speaker 1: favorite dive bar. I'm down with a dive bar, a
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Speaker 1: karaoke bar. I'm not against that. I'm not against that
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Speaker 1: at all. Tiki bar. I don't know if there's any
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Speaker 1: tiki bars in Cincinnati. My wife loves tiki bars, so listen,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna hang out. It's like a speakeasy with onion
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Speaker 1: rings and chicken fingers and some middling sports takes. So
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Speaker 1: the plan is will fly in from California. I'm not
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Speaker 1: planning on missing any shows for the Ohio trip. I
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Speaker 1: will likely miss some shows for the Boston trip because
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Speaker 1: of family family in the Northeast. This will be just
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Speaker 1: a quick trip hang out, and I am flying from
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Speaker 1: obviously California. We do the show from presumably trading palm
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Speaker 1: trees for God only knows what Ohio has to offer.
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Speaker 1: I've only been to the airport, which is in northern
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Speaker 1: Kentucky the Cincinnati airport a few times over the years.
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Speaker 1: I've never actually been to Cincinnati proper, so we'll see
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Speaker 1: what they have there in late April. I'm sure the
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Speaker 1: red carpet will be rolled out, the Chamber of Commerce
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Speaker 1: will welcome me with open arms. I'll make the local news.
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Speaker 1: This will be big. I think, based on the comps,
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Speaker 1: Ohio will offer either sunshine or a light dusting of
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Speaker 1: dread and drizzle. As some have said, I think I'm
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Speaker 1: going at the right time. I think I'm going to
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Speaker 1: the right time. April showers do bring May flowers. Now,
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Speaker 1: this Ohio Malar hooton Nanny is not to be confused
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Speaker 1: with the Boston Malor Meet and greet, which is going
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Speaker 1: to take place in early May, and I'm gonna do
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Speaker 1: a podcast likely next week, maybe the week after. I
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Speaker 1: will dedicate a far more organized that event is far
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Speaker 1: more organized. But I will go into depth on that
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Speaker 1: and we'll let you know some of the stuff's gotten
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Speaker 1: on the radio this week. That's fine, and I'll let
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Speaker 1: you know everything right here one place. But I got
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Speaker 1: to get through this Ohio thing. I will try to
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Speaker 1: do it in between, because I know some of you
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Speaker 1: guys want to plan. I get it. I understand, so
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Speaker 1: that that's the deal. And it is definitely more organized
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Speaker 1: in the Boston Worcester meet and greet, because is it
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Speaker 1: possible Boston just has several centuries to prepare for visitors
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Speaker 1: while Ohio is still deciding what Ohio is. It's the
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Speaker 1: sovereign nation of Ohio and it really is. Or possibly
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Speaker 1: just because Mike in New Hampshire and Mike the Leprechaun
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Speaker 1: are more professional, some would say even grown ups and
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Speaker 1: have this all planned out, which is great now. The
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Speaker 1: Ohio event, however, feels more grassroots, which is a polite
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Speaker 1: way of saying, we don't know how many people are coming.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea. I always do these things running blind.
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Speaker 1: Now I say that Minnesota, our friend spin Cycle Regina,
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Speaker 1: I hope she's doing all right. Spin Cycle Regina planned
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Speaker 1: that out, she had people RSVP. So with that we
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Speaker 1: had a pretty good idea. We had a solid turnout
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Speaker 1: for the Minnesota meet greet. These a few of these
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Speaker 1: in Boston. I've never done one in Ohio. I know
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Speaker 1: we have a lot of pe ones, guys that are
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Speaker 1: big fans of the show, and God bless you who
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Speaker 1: listen on a regular basis, Guys working in factories, driving trucks,
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Speaker 1: you name it. So that said, you guys have stuff
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Speaker 1: to do. You know, I'm gonna stop your life for me.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know how many people are gonna be
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Speaker 1: coming to this thing where it will be, or if
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Speaker 1: anyone will show up at all, and no one will
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Speaker 1: be there to order any appetizers. I'm doing this improv style,
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Speaker 1: which is common knowledge means fake it till you make it.
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Speaker 1: Just fake it till you make it, dingle Berry. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll fake it till I make it. Now, there is
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Speaker 1: even and I hate saying this, there is a non
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Speaker 1: zero chance that it could just me. It could just
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Speaker 1: be me and Dick from Dayton, and that's it, and
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Speaker 1: we'd just be sitting across from each other like some
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Speaker 1: old school buddy movie no one funded, but everyone would watch.
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Speaker 1: And honestly, that might very well be the main event.
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Speaker 1: Dick from Dayton, a man who has loved sports radio
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Speaker 1: longer than there's been sports radio, longer than most of
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Speaker 1: us have used oxygen on this planet. It is essentially
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Speaker 1: that he he's the guest of honor. I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: say this is less a malor meet and greet and
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Speaker 1: more of a pilgrimage, a radio reunion decades in the making.
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Speaker 1: If this were a movie, we'd call it something cheesy
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Speaker 1: like Field of Streams. If you talk it, he will come.
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Speaker 1: And so get Dick from Dayton. The plan is, get
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Speaker 1: him a banjo or a mandolin and let the man cook.
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Speaker 1: Let the man cook. There is something almost charmingly outdated
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Speaker 1: about this whole thing. My man Dick from Dayton's from
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Speaker 1: the old country. He had a new TikTok or Instagram
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Speaker 1: or only bands. No, he is pure am FM, transistor
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Speaker 1: radio guy, one of the last of the Mohegans. And
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Speaker 1: I've told the story before. Years ago. I went on
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Speaker 1: a trip driving through Pennsylvania with my my brother, went
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Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh. We went from Philadelphia all the way across
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Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh and then up to Buffalo Countrol, over that
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Speaker 1: whole region, and I was scanning the radio dial very
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Speaker 1: late at night. It was like on a Wednesday, and
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Speaker 1: I'm scanning the dial and I hear this far away
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Speaker 1: radio station from somewhere in Ohio. It wasn't Cincinnati, and
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Speaker 1: they took a call and it was Dick from Dayton,
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Speaker 1: and I said, I know that guy. And that was
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Speaker 1: seventeen years ago. Seventeen years ago, it was nine. I
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Speaker 1: was nine, and I still remember. I said, wow, I
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Speaker 1: recognize He've been calling me for several years by that point. Again,
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Speaker 1: so there's no act, there's no influencer activation, there's no
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Speaker 1: QR code for this, there's no link in the bio.
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Speaker 1: It's just me flying across the country to meet you
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Speaker 1: and the other dudes who called into the radio show,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of you never call the show. I
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Speaker 1: want to stress you don't have to be a caller.
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Speaker 1: Most of you will never call. You just don't have
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Speaker 1: to worry about that. And that's kind of the point,
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Speaker 1: right it's background noise, it's whatever you want it to be.
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Speaker 1: It's just audio. It's something more than that if you
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Speaker 1: make it something more of that. Now, I'd even floated
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Speaker 1: the idea in my head, with the voice in my
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Speaker 1: head of going to a Cincinnati Reds game. I've never
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Speaker 1: been to a Reds game in Cincinnati before in that ballpark.
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Speaker 1: Why not check it out? And then immediately I talked
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Speaker 1: myself out of it. Why did I do that? Because
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Speaker 1: it would require you to spend money, which I believe
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Speaker 1: is the possibly the first time in human history someone
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Speaker 1: has said, let's avoid baseball because it's too expensive. I
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Speaker 1: know it's much cheaper in Cincinnati. The Dodgers are actively
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Speaker 1: price gouging their fans on a daily basis in LA
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Speaker 1: and they's like, we're a premium product. We're going to
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Speaker 1: charge you premium prices. So the Reds game, I might go,
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Speaker 1: if it depends what time the meet and greet is
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Speaker 1: on that Saturday. I don't have any tickets. I haven't
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Speaker 1: bought any tickets. I'm like, maybe we can do this
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Speaker 1: in the afternoon, do the meet and greet in the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: I go to the Reds game after that. But then
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Speaker 1: I'm like, there's some restaurants I want to go to
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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati that I've heard about. I'm like, well, if
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Speaker 1: I go to the Reds game, that'll cut into my time.
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Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of time because I get
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Speaker 1: to get back on Sunday to do the radio show.
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Speaker 1: So the whole thing. So we'll see the plan. We
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Speaker 1: don't have a plan, so there really is no plan
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Speaker 1: in my head. The outline is we'll go to a
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Speaker 1: restaurant and we'll have a good time. I'll spend a
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Speaker 1: few hours together. We'll hang out, we'll talk. I will
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Speaker 1: stop being an introvert. I'll be an extrovert for a
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Speaker 1: few hours. Will schmooze. Who doesn't like schmoozing A word
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Speaker 1: that always sounds like it should require some kind of
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Speaker 1: license if you're an introvert to schmooze. We'll trade stories
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Speaker 1: and I'll learn about you, and you can say whatever
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Speaker 1: you want to me and be polite. And if you
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Speaker 1: have a mom and pop shop or you know, someone
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Speaker 1: that does. And I guess the way I would phrase this,
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Speaker 1: you are now part of the casting call. You're part
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Speaker 1: of the casting call, which means somewhere out there is
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Speaker 1: a small diner owner or dive bar owner thinking nay,
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Speaker 1: and I just want to sell some pancakes or some
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Speaker 1: whiskey or both. And now all of a sudden, I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking I should host the Mallard Militia. What is that?
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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is. Yeah, so there
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Speaker 1: are logistical challenges, of course. Southern Ohile. While I've heard
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Speaker 1: a lot about it, not exactly everyone's next door neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: And I realize it's a big ask to say, hey,
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Speaker 1: you're in Cleveland, drive all the way to the very
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Speaker 1: end of Ohio to come by. Just swing by Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: It's essentially like asking someone in Los Angeles to pop
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Speaker 1: on over to San Francisco real quick for some garlic fries. Now,
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Speaker 1: it can be done. It can be done. However, you're
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Speaker 1: likely going to age in the process, and you may
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Speaker 1: or may not have car problems. Still, there's something admirable
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Speaker 1: about the hustle, the ambition, the weekend day trip. I
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Speaker 1: looked it up, and is it true? That Indianapolis, Louisville,
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Speaker 1: and Lexington are all all two hours or less away.
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Speaker 1: As the crow flies two hours or less away. We
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Speaker 1: have had one listener I'm not gonna say the name
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Speaker 1: because he can still bail out on this who's promised
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Speaker 1: to bring delicious treats from Pittsburgh. I don't think he's
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Speaker 1: going to take a boat, but he can come down
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Speaker 1: and he's rsvped. So this is not again I keep
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Speaker 1: repeating myself here, It's not a polished corporate event as
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Speaker 1: far as I know. There will be no velvet ropes.
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Speaker 1: But why are there not velvet ropes? I want velvet ropes.
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Speaker 1: I don't own velvet ropes. We're not likely going to
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Speaker 1: go to a place that has velvet ropes. There'll be
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Speaker 1: no corporate sponsor. I wouldn't be against it. This is
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Speaker 1: not through Fox Sports Radio. This is out of my
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Speaker 1: own pocket. I'm spending my own money on this, So
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Speaker 1: it's not some big corporate thing. If the affiliate in
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati wants to be part of it, I'm down with that.
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Speaker 1: Reach out to me. We're good to go. There will
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Speaker 1: be no VIP wristbands, probably should be, there won't be.
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Speaker 1: There'll be no guy named Chad with a headset on
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Speaker 1: and a black suit saying we're at capacity. We're at capacity.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we will not be at capacity. This
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Speaker 1: is the opposite of that. This is in the raw
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Speaker 1: radio in its natural habitat, slightly disorganized, just a little
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Speaker 1: bit disorganized. I just that's it, just a little bit
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Speaker 1: deeply personal and fueled by the people, for the people,
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Speaker 1: by the people, all about the people that care way
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Speaker 1: too much about the show, way more than they should.
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Speaker 1: It's just a radio show. We say that to people
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Speaker 1: that get upset. It's just a radio show. That's all
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Speaker 1: it is. And then if you like this show, well
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Speaker 1: it's obviously.
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Speaker 2: More than that.
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Speaker 1: Like anything in life. If you like apples, you take
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Speaker 1: that second bite of the apple and you're excited about that.
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Speaker 1: If you don't like apples, you take one little bite
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Speaker 1: and you're like, that's disgusting. I don't want to Who
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Speaker 1: doesn't like apples? What ever? Anyone doesn't like apples? Is
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Speaker 1: anyone allergic to apples? Is that a thing? So again,
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Speaker 1: this is going to be a very interesting event, and
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Speaker 1: you know, we'll see I am excited to see what
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Speaker 1: happens here. And you're listening to someone who absolutely would
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Speaker 1: prefer not to leave their house at all. Just that's
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Speaker 1: the way I am. I like my house. I want
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Speaker 1: to stay there, the mallor mansion. Not because it doesn't
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Speaker 1: sound fun. This sounds like it's gonna be a great time.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. It does sound a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun. However, it also sounds like effort, you know,
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Speaker 1: get to the airport. This whole tsa thing. I hope
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Speaker 1: that's done by the time this thing happens in late April.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine it's going to go on that long,
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Speaker 1: but who knows. And I've built my entire lifestyle around minimizing,
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Speaker 1: minimizing outdoor social activities, out of the house social activities.
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Speaker 1: So if there were a meet and greet via couch
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Speaker 1: on zoom, I would turn the camera off on zoom
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Speaker 1: and I'd be the first in line. I'd be the
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Speaker 1: first in line. Now, regardless, for those who go and
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Speaker 1: hopefully will be you, hopefully will be you. We have
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Speaker 1: been told there is a certain magic to this. I've
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Speaker 1: been lucky enough to do these things from Seattle to
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Speaker 1: Charleston to Appleton, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh. We did a male of
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Speaker 1: meet and Greed did one of the early ones in Syracuse.
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Speaker 1: On that trip I talked about We've done several in
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Speaker 1: Boston over the years. La Vegas try to make that
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Speaker 1: a regular thing. So we've been all over Kansas City
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Speaker 1: a couple of times. Those were a lot of fun,
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun in Kansas City. Had kind of
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Speaker 1: a one on one meet and greet with Fays in
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Speaker 1: Chicago and the bleachers at Wrigley Field. That was pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: So all of that has happened. All of that has happened,
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Speaker 1: and I've heard for some that really are p ones
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Speaker 1: of the show. This is like a big deal, right,
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Speaker 1: You're meeting a blow hard gas bag. I say this
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Speaker 1: in air quotes a personality, and I have been told
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Speaker 1: from you the feedback that I have gotten that this
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Speaker 1: is just a random name and voice that has lived
21:19
Speaker 1: in your car, as you deliver stuff in the factory,
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Speaker 1: as you listen on your headphones, or in bed while
21:27
Speaker 1: suffering from insomnia. And it is true. We exist in
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Speaker 1: the twilight zone. Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do.
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Speaker 1: That's strange place between real life and radio life. And
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Speaker 1: for a few hours when you do a Milord meet
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Speaker 1: and greet, these worlds collide, the Big Bang. And also,
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Speaker 1: let's be honest part two here, half the appeal is
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Speaker 1: seeing everyone and what they look like. Do they look like?
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Speaker 1: What you imagine? Has a long tradition since Marconi invented it,
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Speaker 1: a long tradition of people not exactly matching their voices,
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Speaker 1: which is part of its charm. And also, I gonna
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Speaker 1: lie a little unsettling from time to time, little unsettling.
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Speaker 1: And now with social media, you, if you have social media,
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Speaker 1: you'll likely know what my fat ass looks like. However,
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Speaker 1: without the filters and the gadgets and the dew hickeys
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Speaker 1: and all that, yeah, I'm gonna sound like Donald Duck.
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Speaker 3: Why don't you have that big booming voice, man, Well,
22:37
Speaker 3: really I have. I have just a regular voice. It's
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Speaker 3: just heavily filtered, and they put all these things in
22:43
Speaker 3: there to make it sound good. It's kind of like
22:46
Speaker 3: a salad doesn't need croutons and does not need salad dressing. However,
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Speaker 3: in order to get people to eat the salad, they
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Speaker 3: toss that in and some cheese.
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Speaker 1: Well just eat the lettuce. Well, no, that's not a salad.
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Speaker 1: I need I need the cheese, I need the I
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Speaker 1: need the salad, dressing, all of that, all of that,
23:05
Speaker 1: put that right on top. That's what I need. Croutons
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Speaker 1: right there. So again, it's gonna be a throwback, a
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Speaker 1: reminder that before everything became curated and filtered and monetized,
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Speaker 1: there was a time, believe it or not, it's gonna
23:23
Speaker 1: blow your mind, there was a time there were just
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Speaker 1: people talking, connecting, listening, easedropping in, showing up some characters,
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Speaker 1: others just on the sidelines watching. So yes, again, save
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Speaker 1: the date, Save the date, Save the date, not save
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Speaker 1: the world. You're not doing that. Save the date. It's Saturday,
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Speaker 1: April twenty fifth and two be determined tbd. The time
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Speaker 1: and the location. I'll do like a where's bennything? All right,
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Speaker 1: I'll just send out a comment. I'm over at the
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Speaker 1: gas station over here. Yeah, I'm at that spaghetti place
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Speaker 1: with the chili that Justin hates. I'm over here, yeah,
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Speaker 1: so likely a restaurant, and if you come on down,
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Speaker 1: will we have a room full of pea ones. Again,
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Speaker 1: it very well could be just Dick from Dayton, And
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Speaker 1: if that happens, that's fine. I need to give him
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Speaker 1: the man a handshake and a hug. Twenty plus years
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Speaker 1: of listing all the great radio he's provided us with
24:25
Speaker 1: his crazy stories and whatnot. Now we hope, we hope
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Speaker 1: that Justin and Cincinnati shows up. I'd like to meet him,
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Speaker 1: just Josh, who's sent some great songs in and all
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Speaker 1: the other characters from reasonable driving distance in that region
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Speaker 1: if you can make it, including I hope Cardiac Stanley,
24:46
Speaker 1: the man that had the heart attack on the air,
24:48
Speaker 1: like to meet Cardiac Stanley. That would be a lot
24:50
Speaker 1: of fun to meet Cardiac Stanley. He lives in Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: or that area, so hopefully he'll be there. Far out
24:56
Speaker 1: Dave Strip Club John another legend. He's in Cleveland and
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Speaker 1: Ohioil who's famous with his music on this podcast. And
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Speaker 1: I know I'm forgetting a bunch I realize I'm forgetting
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Speaker 1: a bunch of people. Our guy from Churchill downs this
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Speaker 1: is not that far away. I hopefully he can make it,
25:14
Speaker 1: so who knows. I don't know. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: places not that far away. I don't know that JT.
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Speaker 1: The Wingman is going to be there. He might not that.
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Speaker 1: There were some people that emailed me saying I needed
25:26
Speaker 1: only exact date. I'm thinking about going to both the
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Speaker 1: Ohio Meet and greet and the Boston Meet and greet,
25:31
Speaker 1: And I thought, well, that would be pretty crazy to
25:33
Speaker 1: do both. That's something JT. The Wingman would do, to
25:37
Speaker 1: do the both. And so we'll see. I'll believe it
25:39
Speaker 1: when I see it. I'll believe it when I see it.
25:42
Speaker 1: And so again, all those big names in Ohio, al whatnot,
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Speaker 1: we hope that you'll be there. And again, I know
25:51
Speaker 1: I'm missing out of a bunch of people. And if
25:53
Speaker 1: nothing else, this will answer the age old question if
25:57
Speaker 1: you promote a meet and greet for a year without
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Speaker 1: actually giving a date or a venue or anything like that,
26:02
Speaker 1: and then it finally happens and all that does that
26:06
Speaker 1: make it a success or just the world's longest pregame
26:10
Speaker 1: shows like the Super Bowl pregame show. Make it in,
26:13
Speaker 1: make it in, making it now. Either way, it does
26:17
Speaker 1: beat staying home. It gives you a license to leave
26:20
Speaker 1: your house. Not not for me. I don't really want
26:21
Speaker 1: to leave my house at all. I'm an introvert. I
26:24
Speaker 1: do I force myself to do it. I'm talking about you.
26:26
Speaker 1: You can take the wife. One of my favorite things
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Speaker 1: about the meet and greet is when the wives complain
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Speaker 1: to me. I love that, you know, I just want
26:35
Speaker 1: to sleep and my husband has your stupid voice on
26:38
Speaker 1: the radio and it really annoys me. I'm like, God,
26:41
Speaker 1: thank you. So if you want to bring the wife,
26:43
Speaker 1: that's fine. Bring the kids. They'll say, who's that old
26:47
Speaker 1: fat guy? Why are you listening to him? You know
26:49
Speaker 1: that whole thing. They'll be the yeah, No, I've met
26:52
Speaker 1: some very nice sons and daughters of fans of the
26:56
Speaker 1: show that have been great and wondering some baboushka. Occasionally
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Speaker 1: there's a babushka that will show up. That's always fun.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see. I've been promoting this now. This podcast
27:06
Speaker 1: is pretty much fully dedicated to the Ohio mallor meet
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Speaker 1: and Greet, the Buck Guy Benny meet and Greet. So
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Speaker 1: I'm excited about that and if it you know, it's
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Speaker 1: going to happen, that alone makes it a success, as
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Speaker 1: we said, And so we'll see. And for the record,
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Speaker 1: I still plan to sit around most of the year.
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Speaker 1: I got this thing. I said, we got to do
27:29
Speaker 1: more of these meet and greets, so I'll be mixing
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Speaker 1: it in. Although these are the only two that will
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Speaker 1: be outside of the West, meaning these are the two
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Speaker 1: plane trips I'm planning on making, barring the TV show
27:41
Speaker 1: Coming Back or some other TV show where I have
27:44
Speaker 1: to fly to tape stuff. Other than that, this is it.
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Speaker 1: This is all. And you know, hopefully Vegas, which is
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Speaker 1: drivable from LA, would like to do an LA one.
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Speaker 1: I know Matt Jack was upset. We were supposed to
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Speaker 1: do that at the end of twenty twenty five. And
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Speaker 1: then there's our friend Alim Dalou in the Bay Area
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Speaker 1: who's got a bar in Oakland. We'll pass out bulletproof
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Speaker 1: vest for that and then body armor. But all that said,
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what Cincinnati has to offer. Any
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Speaker 1: suggestion on what I should see. If you have any recommendations.
28:20
Speaker 1: If you said you got one day, one day only
28:24
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, you only got a couple hours, what do
28:27
Speaker 1: you what do you have to see? What is on
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Speaker 1: the bucket list? You got to check it out. Let
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Speaker 1: me know. Send me an email Real fifth Hour at
28:35
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. That's all letters, no numbers, Real fifth
28:38
Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com or Ben Malors Show at
28:41
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Just let me know. Like I've looked
28:45
Speaker 1: online as this huge Kroger. Kroger's headquarters in Cincinnati. There's
28:49
Speaker 1: supposedly this huge Kroger there. I've seen some some riverboat stuff.
28:55
Speaker 1: I think that's going to take too long. I don't
28:56
Speaker 1: think I'll have time for that based on my schedule.
28:59
Speaker 1: So we'll see. We'll see about that. I'm fired up meanwhile,
29:03
Speaker 1: you know, I'm also fired up for the phrase of
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Speaker 1: the week. The phrase of the week. Now, the phrase
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Speaker 1: this week is add salt to something or rub salt
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Speaker 1: in the wound. They're interchangeable. These are idioms idioms about salt. Again,
29:22
Speaker 1: the phrase of the week, add salt to something, or
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Speaker 1: add salt to the wound, or rub salt in the wound.
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Speaker 1: Those are all possible variations of this, which means, oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, to obviously make a bad situation worse,
29:41
Speaker 1: especially by reminding someone of their failure, pain or embarrassment.
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Speaker 1: And the implication there is this is emotional or physical.
29:52
Speaker 1: It could be either one. And it's like saying, you know,
29:56
Speaker 1: after I lost the game, my brother joked about it.
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Speaker 1: Added salt to the wound, right, added salt to the wound. Now,
30:04
Speaker 1: this comes from the literal idea that putting salt in
30:08
Speaker 1: a wound causes a sharp, stinging pain so metaphorically it
30:13
Speaker 1: means making something already painful even worse. Now, how far
30:19
Speaker 1: does this go back? What if I told you this
30:22
Speaker 1: actually goes back? The idea of putting salt in a
30:24
Speaker 1: wound or something painful is from ancient times, from like
30:30
Speaker 1: the Bronze Age. It shows up in Greek and Roman writings.
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Speaker 1: Salt was used as medicine. However, it's stung, all right,
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Speaker 1: you gotta cut, Let's put some salt in it. Well,
30:41
Speaker 1: that's not good, that's not good at all. Now, the
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Speaker 1: figurative meaning of rubb's salt in the wound or add
30:51
Speaker 1: salt to something, the meaning of that making a bad
30:54
Speaker 1: situation worse? That started appealing or appearing rather in English
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Speaker 1: in the mid eighteen hundreds. The exact phrasing rub salt
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Speaker 1: in the wound commonly traces to the eighteen sixties eighteen seventies,
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Speaker 1: and was used in literature and newspapers. So there you go.
31:16
Speaker 1: On that note, we will get out of here. I
31:18
Speaker 1: will have new podcasts for you all weekend. We'll see
31:21
Speaker 1: about Danny with the Mailbag on Sunday as I travel
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Speaker 1: around Lost Wages, Nevada and see what Vegas has to offer.
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Speaker 1: Here not staying at a hotel, though at a secret
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Speaker 1: location far far away from the strip. Have a wonderful
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Speaker 1: rest of your Friday, and we will talk to you
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Speaker 1: next time. Aloha, Asta pasta, what kind of pasta?
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Speaker 2: Though you killed it with the knife, got a murder.
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Speaker 1: I gotta go.