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The Fifth Hour: Premium-grade gasbaggery mailbag · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kaboom!
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, 1,200 minutes a
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  Speaker 2: week was enough.
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  Speaker 1: Think again.
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  Speaker 2: He's the last remnants of the old republic, a sole
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  Speaker 2: bastion of fairness. He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter
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  Speaker 2: the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The clearinghouse of hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, the fifth hour with me, Ben Maller,
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  Speaker 1: on a Sunday mailbag kind of a day, an NFL Sunday, the,
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  Speaker 1: what is it, the 25th day of October. And before
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  Speaker 1: we get started here, Ohio Al, get me in the mood,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio Al.
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  Speaker 3: It's in the bag.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, as often on The Mailbag, we spin
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  Speaker 1: the Malheur Militia Wheel of Legends. And we want no whammy.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of you seem to think Weed Man Hippie's
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  Speaker 1: a whammy, so no whammy. Big money, big money, and stop!
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  Speaker 1: And this week on the mailbag, we welcome back a
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  Speaker 1: staple who's been away for a few weeks. Robbie, the
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  Speaker 1: Mariner fan is here. Hello, Robbie.
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  Speaker 4: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Big whammy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe not.
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  Speaker 5: Hopefully not whammy, but the big part, you probably did
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  Speaker 5: get that.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, you're making your jokes. I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: make the jokes. You're making the jokes. for the goat
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  Speaker 1: man and making his debut on the mailbag who is
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  Speaker 1: it big money big money scotty from the pike is
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  Speaker 1: here hello scotty welcome hello ben.
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  Speaker 3: Hello robbie i will try not to suck well.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's really the goal just don't suck don't don't
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  Speaker 1: suck i don't have any fcc rules so i guess
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  Speaker 1: you can curse or say whatever you want but i
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  Speaker 1: try not to because it's a bad habit and then
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  Speaker 1: yeah i'll start cursing on the air Like that guy
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  Speaker 1: that called up. Where's that guy this week?
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  Speaker 5: I forget his name.
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  Speaker 6: I clipped it because I was going to play it
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  Speaker 6: on the thing I do on the weekend in Mallertown
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  Speaker 6: because I think it got past the goalie for once.
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  Speaker 5: And, yeah, that was a wild call.
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  Speaker 1: I like to pretend it doesn't get past the goalie, Robbie.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the guy might have cursed seven times or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: He kept cursing and all that. Where was he from? Vegas?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where he was from, but this guy
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  Speaker 1: called up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Could barely understand him. I think he was in Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: He was in Vegas, and he was totally wasted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, big time, big time. All right. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to send a question in for a future mailbag, it's
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  Speaker 1: not that difficult. RealFifthHour at gmail.com. R-E-A-L-F-I-F-T-H. There's no actual
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  Speaker 1: number five. It's RealFifthHour at gmail.com. and just put your
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  Speaker 1: name and city if you want credit and we don't
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  Speaker 1: normally do sporty questions so feel free to send whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want first one is from frank in arizona it's
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  Speaker 1: a big state there's most likely he's either in phoenix
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  Speaker 1: or tucson anyways it's ben uh joy hearing your mexico
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  Speaker 1: city travel stories this weekend did you ever feel for
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  Speaker 1: your safety i've read a lot of bad things about
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  Speaker 1: the cartel in mexico my wife wants to go but
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  Speaker 1: i'm a little on the afraid side. That's from Frank
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  Speaker 1: in Arizona. Uh, no, I mean, I've read the same
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  Speaker 1: crap you read, Frank. I wasn't exactly excited to go
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  Speaker 1: to Mexico. I wasn't like, this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the greatest thing in the world, but I was invited
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  Speaker 1: and I went and I actually felt relatively safe. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the traffic was insane and driving around there was nuts.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm jerking Boston. You, where you live, Scotty, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: New York's crazy. LA, but Mexico cities, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: a higher level of, uh, But no, I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: feel unsafe. I've heard the border towns are actually worse
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  Speaker 1: than Mexico City. You're closer to the border, the U.S. border,
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  Speaker 1: like Tijuana, one of the most dangerous cities.
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  Speaker 3: In the world.
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  Speaker 1: Scotty, you ever been to Mexico? Scotty on the Pike?
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  Speaker 3: No, sir. No.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. But Robbie, any, uh.
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  Speaker 5: Never been out of the country.
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  Speaker 6: Unfortunately, I was a lot like you when I was
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  Speaker 6: listening to your podcast, it's not on my bucket list,
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  Speaker 6: but it's not someplace.
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  Speaker 5: I'd be too afraid to go. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: Like if I got, if I had a ready set invitation,
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  Speaker 6: I'd go, but it's.
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  Speaker 1: Not a, yeah, I didn't plan it or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I meant.
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  Speaker 6: Like, it's not, it's definitely not like I'm rearing to
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  Speaker 6: go to Mexico city. There's a lot of places where
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  Speaker 6: I go for it.
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  Speaker 1: And for the guys that have emailed bitching that I
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  Speaker 1: took a couple nights off, I mean, I understand. But
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  Speaker 1: when I had the TV show, I took the– get
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  Speaker 1: the TV show back. I'll take no time off. That's
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  Speaker 1: the deal. Reggie from Detroit writes in. He says, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: there have been a few issues with the podcast this week.
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  Speaker 1: Who can we complain to? I don't know, Reggie. I don't–
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  Speaker 1: that's not my domain. I do the show, and then
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  Speaker 1: there's people– Normally, during the week, who puts the podcast up?
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  Speaker 1: I've heard people complain the last couple weeks that the
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  Speaker 1: podcast is not as long as it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not sure the stuff on that.
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  Speaker 1: I can ask some questions.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. Have you had complaints,
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  Speaker 1: Robbie the Mariner fan? Have there been any issues with the–
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  Speaker 1: I guess there was an hour missing the other day.
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  Speaker 5: That did show up a couple hours late. I love Coop.
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  Speaker 5: I consider him a friend, so I'm not going to
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  Speaker 5: say anything bad if it's Coop's fault. I'm not going to–
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But um i have nothing i literally nothing i i
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  Speaker 1: am the i'm feeding the content machine here and then.
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  Speaker 5: It must be a helpless feeling on your part ben.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well well i yeah it sucks because i wake
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  Speaker 1: up and then it's like i gotta yeah asshole there's
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  Speaker 1: no body i'm like what we only do i you
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  Speaker 1: know it's like i'll message somebody but geez yeah but
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  Speaker 1: uh anyway thank you for your concern reggie i appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that uh we will effort to not F up the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to try not to screw up the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Terry writes in, he says, hey, Ben and guests, I
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  Speaker 1: am the trucker guy that now lives in Minnesota and
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  Speaker 1: switches my routine from night driving to day driving when
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  Speaker 1: the weather gets bad. However, I did grow up in
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  Speaker 1: the old Irvine. Oh, that's my old stomping grounds. I'm
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  Speaker 1: also the I state your name guy when I took
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  Speaker 1: the oath to jog your memory. I remember that. He said,
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  Speaker 1: with that said, last week you were talking about the
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  Speaker 1: old Irvine, and it brought me back to growing up
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  Speaker 1: in a time before there were so many houses, you
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  Speaker 1: would never imagine a single tree ever existed in that town.
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  Speaker 1: He says, Ben, I'm a few years younger than you,
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  Speaker 1: but I also grew up in the Orange Groves, Avocado Groves,
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  Speaker 1: and the El Toro Marine Base. He says, I graduated
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  Speaker 1: a vaquero from Irvine High. Made my way to Saddleback.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I went. I went to Saddleback, too. Short
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  Speaker 1: stint there, and then ultimately joined the United States Navy.
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  Speaker 1: So my question is, did you reside in the best
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  Speaker 1: side and graduate a vaquero, or did you come from
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  Speaker 1: the other side of town and attend the school that
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  Speaker 1: starts with a W? Tara, I actually went to two
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  Speaker 1: high schools. I did go to your high school, Irvine
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  Speaker 1: High School, for a couple years. I had a few issues.
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  Speaker 1: So then I went across town to the other high school,
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  Speaker 1: the one that starts with a U, where Will Ferrell
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  Speaker 1: went to high school as a punter on the football team.
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  Speaker 1: So I went to a couple of those. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: great memories growing up there back in the day before
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  Speaker 1: there were houses everywhere and shopping centers and all that. But, Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: where you live, you grew up in Oregon, right, Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: where you are?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's still probably small-townish and hasn't been grown out and
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  Speaker 1: all that.
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  Speaker 5: It's... Yeah, it's a small town, but.
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  Speaker 6: The affluent part of town was forest 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 6: It reminds me of what you're talking about. It used
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  Speaker 6: to be one high school, now it's two. There is
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  Speaker 6: a divide in the city between the south end and
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  Speaker 6: the north end. the South end is super conservative and
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  Speaker 6: super kind of working class, rural kind of the, I
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  Speaker 6: would say Malibu types, you know, like the, the common
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  Speaker 6: man for the common man by the common man in
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  Speaker 6: North Albany is the, where you see every other cars
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  Speaker 6: and Mercedes or a Tesla.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, I do know a little bit, but I
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  Speaker 1: did some fill in stuff. I got offered a job
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  Speaker 1: in Portland and I was talking to the program director.
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  Speaker 1: He said like in Oregon, like, Portland is very extreme liberal,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. But outside is where... It's great.
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  Speaker 6: Oregon is such a weird state because by land mass,
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  Speaker 6: it is like 75, 80% conservative, but Portland kind of
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  Speaker 6: has so many people that it crowds out the.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Now, Scotty, you're Scotty from the Pike. Did
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  Speaker 1: you grow up in the sticks or did you grow
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  Speaker 1: up in the city? What's your story?
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  Speaker 3: I was born in Boston or Dorchester. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And then, you know, we moved to the suburbs just
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  Speaker 4: right outside of Boston.
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  Speaker 1: How old were you when you moved to the suburbs?
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  Speaker 1: Were you like in high school or younger?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. I don't even think I was toilet trained.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. So you grew up in the suburbs.
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  Speaker 1: You had a good childhood growing up out there, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, yeah, it was fine. Typical. We were
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  Speaker 3: bored in Boston. We were right on the border with Boston.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. I got you. Let's see. This guy didn't sign
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  Speaker 1: his name. I assume... I don't know who the hell
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  Speaker 1: this is. He says, Ben, do you consider the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: cheerleaders gig a good union job?
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess they unionized.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I gave away my answer with the laugh. Sorry, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I remember doing a story years ago. The Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Bills cheerleaders unionized. and they got rid of them. Like,
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  Speaker 1: the Bills got rid of their... They were called the Jills,
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  Speaker 1: I think. They got rid of them. So, I don't...
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  Speaker 1: I mean, good for the Cowboys cheerleaders, I guess. I don't...
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  Speaker 1: Good luck. I hope that works out for them.
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  Speaker 6: It has to do with the fact that Netflix documentary
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  Speaker 6: about them was so successful. They probably got very little
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  Speaker 6: cut of that. And so they were their eye on
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  Speaker 6: that Netflix money. That would be my only rational assumption
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  Speaker 6: on why they unionized.
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  Speaker 1: What benefits do they get from that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Scotty, what do you think? What do you think their
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  Speaker 1: cowboy cheerleaders are going to get out of being part
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  Speaker 1: of a union?
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  Speaker 4: Well, not to circumcise the mosquito, but probably not a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. When I think good union job, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that cowboy cheerleader is that, but good for them. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if they think they can make more money or benefits
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Quang writes in from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
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  Speaker 1: He says guaranteed human. He's back. He says, by the
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  Speaker 1: time I listen to this podcast, he says, there will
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  Speaker 1: be exactly 5,846,400 seconds remaining until the start of 2027.
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  Speaker 1: The New Year countdown is officially in the red zone,
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: he says. On the football front, could you bring your
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  Speaker 1: listeners up to speed on the Greg Olson story and
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  Speaker 1: Tom Looney line of questioning? Well, that's a classic story.
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  Speaker 1: That is one of my favorite stories, Quentin. So we
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  Speaker 1: were doing the Blitz. Scotty, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: know this, but I used to do this round robin
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  Speaker 1: thing on Sunday. It was an NFL show where we
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  Speaker 1: just gave updates on the scores. And it was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. We had a great time. But part
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  Speaker 1: of that deal was they put on the different Fox broadcasters.
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  Speaker 1: Back then it was like Aikman, Buck. Dick Stockton, all
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  Speaker 1: these guys. And a lot of them were really cool.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them did not want to any part
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  Speaker 1: in the show. They just were forced to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And you could tell they were like complete a-holes about it.
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  Speaker 1: But we had players on too. And Greg Olson was
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  Speaker 1: still playing. I think he was with the Carolina Panthers
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Anyway, it doesn't matter where he was.
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  Speaker 1: So Olson's on. He came on. He had a big game, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: on some random site. So he came on with me
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  Speaker 1: and Looney. We were doing the interview. And Looney's trying
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  Speaker 1: to come up with this really creative question. So he
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  Speaker 1: goes on the Internet, finds Greg Olson was in some
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  Speaker 1: rap thing or whatever. He liked rap music. So Looney starts, Mr. Arrogant, like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Greg Olson, let's talk about your rap career and all this. Well,
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  Speaker 1: apparently the rap career was a little... x-rated or whatever
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  Speaker 1: he got in trouble he got in some trouble in
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  Speaker 1: college for it it was really amusing though to because
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  Speaker 1: he didn't want to talk about it obviously and looney's
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  Speaker 1: like he thought he was so proud of himself oh
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  Speaker 1: this is like the greatest thing in the world i
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  Speaker 1: came up with this like original question but he didn't
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  Speaker 1: read the fine print at the bottom he just read
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  Speaker 1: the beginning he didn't read so it was it was
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  Speaker 1: quite uh quite embarrassing Greg's doing very well for himself.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of rumors on the internet that
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  Speaker 1: he's going to go to Monday Night Football next year,
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to get rid of Aitken.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you never know because it's always one of those
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  Speaker 6: like how they get along with the play-by-play guy, but
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  Speaker 6: I don't mind him when he does games. But like
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  Speaker 6: any play-by-play color guy, I don't tune in just for him.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't know anyone that does other than like,
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  Speaker 1: if they're your friends or family.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Scotty, when you're watching the game, I usually,
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  Speaker 1: if these guys annoy me, I'll just put the mute
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  Speaker 1: button on. I'm not, I'm not anti-mute. I'm team mute.
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  Speaker 1: If they're really bad, I'm like, I'm out. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just watch it with the sound off. So that's
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  Speaker 1: what I do. Next up on the mail. Oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Quang also says one more from Quang Ho
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  Speaker 1: Chi Minh, Vietnam. Guaranteed human. When you watch those masked
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  Speaker 1: luchadors flying around the ring, were you evaluating their moves
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  Speaker 1: like a seasoned sports broadcaster or just hoping nobody mistook
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  Speaker 1: you for the next challenger? I was just enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: It was cool. It reminded me of when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid and I went to WWF. They used to
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  Speaker 1: call it when I was a kid. I have fond
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  Speaker 1: memories fond memories of that time in my life and
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  Speaker 1: it was it was cool i loved how into it
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  Speaker 1: the people were though like everyone's wearing masks and they're
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  Speaker 1: the people in mexico city like that's their thing and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't even like the main event or anything i
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  Speaker 1: don't think i don't know any of these wrestlers so
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  Speaker 1: they might have been famous it didn't seem like they
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  Speaker 1: were famous it was all it was an all-female card
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  Speaker 1: the uh at the arena there but the seven story
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  Speaker 1: walk-up was what killed me Yeah, I would have died.
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  Speaker 1: Altitude is.
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  Speaker 6: Denver's altitude is enough to get me going when I'm
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  Speaker 6: changing airplanes.
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  Speaker 5: I can't imagine Mexico City.
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  Speaker 1: Like a half mile higher up in the sky. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's pretty crazy. Let's see. What else? Mark in
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  Speaker 1: Reno says, Hey, Ben, I really like Robbie. I wish
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  Speaker 1: he was a regular. I don't know which is worse,
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  Speaker 1: that Weed Man's cell is so bad or that sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I can understand him.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 1: Shots fired there. Well, the good news is you, Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: and Scotty are all hooked up the proper way. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is Weed Man does not know how to use technology.
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  Speaker 1: If he knew how to use technology, it would not
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  Speaker 1: be that big a problem. That, and I guess he
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  Speaker 1: has not gotten the updated Obama phone in a while,
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  Speaker 1: which is a bit of a... So that's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's bad.
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  Speaker 4: He sounds like he's in a vacuum. Like a vacuum
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  Speaker 4: cleaner stuck in a bag.
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  Speaker 1: He might be, Scotty. He might be living in a
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  Speaker 1: vacuum cleaner.
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  Speaker 3: We know.
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  Speaker 1: I've had several people point out that one of the
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  Speaker 1: great calls we've ever had, like an actual sports radio call,
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  Speaker 1: was from Lisa when she ripped Steinbrenner. Like that was
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  Speaker 1: actually a really good call.
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  Speaker 6: No, that was legit like a call you'd hear if–
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  Speaker 6: Unlike one of those hard-o sports shows like on Sirius XM.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Like someone calls up the
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  Speaker 5: MLB Network back.
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: Well, not the MLB Network because they wouldn't probably let
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: them trash it.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: But something like that.
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: It was that was one of the better sports calls
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: you've had all year in terms of actual.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: From Lisa.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: I know it was crazy.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Next up is Mike from Parts Unknown. He says, Ben,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: are you afraid of Super El Nino? No. No. Should
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I be afraid of Super El Nino? I don't live
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: close enough to the ocean to be too afraid of
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Super El Nino. It's just a lot of rain, which
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: sucks and all that. I do enjoy all the stories
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: scaring people.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Better than snow.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: There you go, Scotty. Look at that. I love El Nino's.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: We love El Nino's up here in the Northeast.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: We can't wait.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: You want a nice Nor'easter coming through there, Scotty? Oh, yeah.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: When all the bread and milk disappears from every grocery store.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: You guys have parties, though. What are you talking about?
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: It's great. I used to be like, oh, that's terrible,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: these terrible storms.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: But I mean, we're not living in log cabins with
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: wood-fired stoves anymore.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, where does all the bread and milk go?
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: And why does everybody want cereal in the window?
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Well, how come during the pandemic,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: the toilet paper went away? People loved it. In Mexico,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I said this, I don't know if I said it
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: on the pod yesterday, but I I think I might
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: have said this on Friday's pod, but if you were
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: like Charmin or the toilet paper companies, why wouldn't you
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: just invest in infrastructure? You'd make your money back on
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: toilet paper. In in Mexico, I don't know why that
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: just popped into my head randomly. We're talking about El
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Nino and I was thinking about that. But the I
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: do enjoy the weather people scaring people, which is really cool.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, the bomb cyclones and all those things.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Remember a couple of our friends. I don't know if
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: you know, Scotty, but there's a woman that's a fan
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: of the show. And I haven't heard from her in
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: a couple of years, but she lives in Denver where
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: they the big weather people like the weather centers are
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: in Denver, I guess. And she's a fan. And she
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: she explained they renamed a lot of the terms like
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: when I think you're around my age, guys. So we
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: had this the jet stream and the onshore flow and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: things like that. They just changed the names because people
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: became numb to them. And because of social media. So
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: now they've got all these new terms to scare people
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: on social media, like bomb cyclone and all this stuff.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Yep. Polar vortex. Yeah, yeah. Polar vortex. That's the newest one. Yeah, yeah.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: But they've always said like El Nino happens every few years.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: And I love the fact that where I live, there
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: was a long period of no rain. So a drought happened.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: And they freaked everyone out. Oh, my God, we got
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: no water. It was a drought. Now there's too much rain,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: so now they're freaking people out because it's raining. So
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: whatever's going on, they're going to freak people out about,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I've determined. So that's just kind of the way it goes.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Are you in the wildfire areas?
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Are you ever concerned about that?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, I am... Not in the foothills
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: or whatever, so I don't have to worry that much.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: But yeah, there are fires all around. And Sherman Oaks,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: where the Fox Sports Radio studios are, the hills above
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks burned a couple years ago when they had
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the Malibu fires. They were also burning up in the hills,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: which is where all the rich people live. That's where
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: all the celebrity guys live up in this neighborhood called
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Bel Air, which is like right above... But there were
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: people going around and lighting arson fires on houses that
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: were not even near the fire zone because everyone... All
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the police resources and all the fire people were busy.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So they were out having a field day. It was crazy.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: But anyway, Adam from South Carolina writes in. He says, Ben,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: do you think this Australian influencer got enough views to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: justify being banned from two airlines? He's talking about that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: viral video. I don't know if you guys saw this
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: or not this week. This influencer from Australia has been
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: banned from flying a couple of airlines because this Dingleberry thought, hey,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: let's make a viral video. He inflated the emergency lifejack
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: during the safety demonstration to get hits on his whatever
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: social media stuff so Qantas Airlines and some other local
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Australian airline have banned him I mean good for him
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Adam I don't know that's not my that's not my
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: world but good for you I hope you enjoyed it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I saw it, so it made its way to me.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: Was it better than the woman who was like, that MF-er,
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: is that real?
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Remember that one from a couple years ago?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: The woman in Dallas you're talking about?
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah. She became an influencer because of that whole fiasco,
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: which is just such a 21st century thing.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: And she made more money than the Hawk Tua girl?
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: I don't... i unfortunately know way too much about her
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: now at this point but no i she already was
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: a successful real estate person in that area like she
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: already had a texas mansion but yeah she like became
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: on cameo and everything and joined a barstool podcast for
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: a while and stuff.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Like that well she they have those mcmillian mansions right.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: And yeah that's what i meant yeah yeah.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I gotcha i gotcha All right, good. Hey, we're only
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: one video away from Scotty and the Pike. One video,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: you become infamous on the internet, man. That's all you need,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: just one video. The guy I quote all the time,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: you're not that guy, pal. You're not that guy. That's
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: from a viral video online. That was a guy at
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a grocery store in San Diego or something like that.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That was years ago. Next up on
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the mailbag, Pat from somewhere in Michigan. He does not
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: say where. It's a rather large state. He says, Ben,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: are you happy that Airbnb is banning hosts from making
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: guests do chores? And I saw this actually this week, Pat.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I'm fine. It's a weird thing, the Airbnb thing. I
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: stayed at an Airbnb in Mexico City. I often prefer
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Airbnbs to hotels for whatever reason, but I don't mind
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: taking the sheets off the bed and all that stuff.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I don't mind. I guess there have been some landlords
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that have been melting down over this, complaining and bitching
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and all that. So, yeah, I mean, I get it. Like,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: when you go to a hotel, they don't tell you
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: to take all the sheets off the bed when you
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: stay at a Marriott or do the dishes and all
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: that stuff. But it's a different setup. So, Scotty, you
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: an Airbnb guy? Scotty, I'm a Pike. We travel. You
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: go anywhere, Airbnb or hotel?
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Uh, I actually have a motor home, so we just,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: we just get that nice drive around. Nice.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: You got like a Winnebago or something like that or whatever.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: All right. Where are you?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: How far have you taken that thing?
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Uh, well, we go to Disney quite a bit.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, cool.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Down in Florida. All right.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: How many kids you got?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Uh three well they're all grown it's just me and
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: the missus now they're all out of the house.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: They were all out doing their own thing i got
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you yeah did you take them when.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: You were kids did you have it when you were
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: yeah yeah absolutely yeah it was the best babysitter in
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: the world campgrounds are like the safest place in the
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: world for kids they just they meet up with all
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: these other people and they they don't come home until
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: they're hungry and then the next time they come home
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: they're exhausted it's.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Awesome good tip that's a life hack from scotty on
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the pike Robbie Hotel or you travel a little bit
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: you usually stay at those houses though right when you're
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: family or.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Whatever yeah I usually try to yeah so I've never
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: actually stayed there BB I'm not against it just haven't
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: done it yet I'm sure at some point I will.
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: But yeah yeah change it up I have family that's
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: centrally located in America you know like the Midwest and
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: if you live in the Midwest it seems like you're
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: only a couple hours from everything so I usually just
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: kind of make a HQ.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I remember there was a old NBA coach that coached
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the Clippers and he became a broadcaster and he moved
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to Dallas. And I was like, why'd you move to Dallas?
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: He said, because it's easiest. It's a hub airport in Dallas.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Easy to get to the East coast and the West coast.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: And the flights are all like, you know, a couple
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: hours at the most. And so you're centrally located, and
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: he's like, you relocated. But that's obviously a non sequitur
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in a way. What do we have? Mailbag from Outback
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: John and Joanna in SoCal here. He says, hey, Ben,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: a special guest. Back in elementary school, my dad always
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: gave me money to buy lunch at school. Joanna's mom
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: always made her lunch to take to school, both of us.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: are envious of each other's lunches. Our questions are, what
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: did you have in elementary school, and were you jealous
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: on the other side? So my mom normally made my lunch. However,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: we did have a deal. I was able to work
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: out an agreement with my mom where we knew certain days,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: like if it was corn dog day, that was I
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: get to eat the corn dog at school.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: That was big.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: But a lot of the food they served at school,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to eat anyway. So they'd send out
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the schedule each month for what the food was going
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to be back in the Stone Age when I went
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: to school. And I loved the corn dog. So I
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: was like, all right, corn dog, I'm in. But then
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the rest of the time, I'd have my mom leave lunch.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: And I love my mom. Obviously, everyone loves their mom,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I think. My mom would sometimes make tuna fish sandwiches.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the ice pack would run out by lunchtime so I'd
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: have a warm tuna fish sandwich which was disgusting and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: so I don't even eat fish anymore mainly because of
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: that Scotty on the pike will you eat lunch in
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the cafeteria guy or take a lunch from home guy.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Well in elementary school I could walk home for lunch
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: they allowed us to go home because I lived right
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: down the street oh nice yeah the school lunches there
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: like it was every day it was the same thing
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: it was like bologna and cheese and it was like
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: one half inch slice of bologna and a yellow piece
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: of cardboard for cheese.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: I was like, no thanks.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: You know, when I got into the high school, secondary education, whatever,
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: they had a cafeteria and, you know, pizza. You get
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: the pizza, but that's usually the day I was like
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: weed man high on something.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: The pizza was, I remember, it was unique. The elementary
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: school pizza, at least where I was, very unique. I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: saw somebody put the menu or the recipe up for
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: like the area I grew up in. And I was like,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: it wasn't that good. I mean, I know nostalgia. What
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: about you, Robbie? Back in the day, you take a box,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the lunch at home.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: So elementary school and middle school, it was, uh, like
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: make it at home and then take it with me.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: And then in high school for the couple of years
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: I was there, I bounced around. Uh, I believe it
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: was hot food. Um, and I had a slice pizza
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: every day for an.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Entire year at school once.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And that, yeah, I, Yeah. Okay. I got you. Ferg
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: dog in the winter wonderland of Fullerton writes in on
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the mailbag. He says, happy spooky season, Ben and friend.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I hate to admit it, but after not having Robbie
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: on the mailbag for a few weeks, I'm really starting
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to miss him. Have him on again soon. I'll see
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: what I can do for a dog. I'm going to
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: see what I can do. Look at that. There's Robbie
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: right there.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Unbelievable.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: He says, first, thank you for the anti-momentum manifesto. I
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: have been hearing momentum this and momentum that on way
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: too many broadcasts lately. It's driving me crazy. Now, my
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: question is, as an athlete being in the zone, is
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that an actual thing or is that just the ugly
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: cousin of momentum? It is a cousin of momentum. It's
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a thing called confidence. People have confidence. They feel good.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you're going to succeed if you have confidence. Also,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: he says, FergDog, have you or today's friends of the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: show ever been to a haunted mansion besides the one
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: at Disney? Personally, I've only been to the one at Disneyland,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and that's scary enough for me. I have nightmares every
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: time I go, please. Yeah, I've been to a haunted
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: mansion before. It's fine. Some of that stuff. We have
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: this place out here called Knott's Berry Farm. They have
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: spooky stuff. where they have ghosts jumping out of you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: It's an amusement park, and they'll have ghosts jumping out
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and all that. But that's not... I'm not against it,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: but it's not really my jam for a dog. What
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: about you, Robbie? Big haunted mansion guy, like neighborhood haunted
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: house type thing? Uh.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: I went to, I've been in middle school.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: We, we went to San Antonio for like a quick
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: family vacation and they had like a Ripley's believe we're
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: not haunted house version with actors and everything. And that
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: was actually pretty spooky because if just, you didn't know
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: when a real person was going to like jump out
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: and grab you.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: So that was terrifying.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: And I did have nightmares from it, but yeah, so
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: it was the one I'm good on the haunted house stuff.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Scotty, you ever haunted house guy back in the day
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: or now?
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Back in the day and now a lot of the
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: campgrounds up here in the Northeast, they do their Halloween
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: on Columbus Day because the summers are up here about
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: 47 minutes long.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: So they do it on Columbus Day.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: And there's one that does a really good one with
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: live actors, like Robbie said.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're a lot of fun. I love them.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Kevin in Kansas writes in, he says, dear Ben and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: honored guests. I wrote a check the other day, handwritten
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: memo torn out of the checkbook. I realized that I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: write one check a month on average, which means it
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: should take me 96 more months to use up my
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: check blank checks. How often do you handwrite a check
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: these days?
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Oh my God.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time I, with all the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: cash apps and all that stuff. I can't remember the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: last time I wrote a check. It's been forever. And I,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I try to avoid all that adult stuff anyway. What
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: about you, Scotty on the Pike? You a big check
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: writing guy?
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I have no idea where my checkbook is.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Somewhere in the house.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know where it is. Same way.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: To think that, you know, we grew up in a
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: time you had to write checks. Scotty, you remember those
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: credit card reader things where you had, instead of putting
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the card in the machine, they had the.
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: they had to copy the card on the I forget
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: what it's called carbon paper thing and they would over.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: It and that was your receipt what a world Unbelievable.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Crazy. We lived up, you know, Robbie's younger. He's hip.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: You know, he's never had to deal with that book.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say it, but no, I don't. This is
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: going to be embarrassing. I'm not even sure.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: Like I could figure it out, but if you told
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: me I had to write a check right now, I'm
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: not a hundred percent sure.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I'd know how you'd have to go on Google. How
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to write it.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, I would.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: I would have to. That's so pathetic, but it's true.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: UFO Bob from Palm Springs writes in. He says, Ben,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: did you see the latest UFO dump this week? They
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: talked about aliens on Catalina Island. I know you've said
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you like to go to Catalina Island. Have you ever
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: seen the aliens? Also, how about Skinwalker Ranch, Bob says.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: He said there were werewolf-like creatures walking around in 2010
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. He said 11 witnesses reported these
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: enormous wolf-like animals walking on two legs. And they said
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: they were six or seven feet tall. So I didn't...
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I saw the headline, Bob. I did not click on
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the story. But I do know our friend... Is it J-Dot?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: He doesn't call the show anymore. Podcast J-Dot from Utah.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: He lives right on the Skinwalker Ranch area of Utah.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: So.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Wasn't that on cable a few years ago? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It was a TV show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bob
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: also says there was an interdimensional portal. Witnesses claim to
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: have seen a transparent shimmering portal approximately 30 to 40
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: feet high. There were other accounts of three-foot-tall hairy creatures.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Sounds like a Mexico City bathroom.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that Mexico bathroom thing, dude. I'm a big toilet paper.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I don't use, I have a bidet too, but I mean,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: my God. I don't know how.
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  Speaker 3: I've never used a bidet.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, once you do, let me tell you something. I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: was anti, I was very masculine anti-bidet, but I got
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to tell you, you get a little thing. You can
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: get the thing that you put on top of your toilet.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: They're expensive if you get the one actually built in,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: but you can get one put on top of the toilet.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: It's actually, you feel cleaner. I got to tell you.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: You do. What do you want me to do with that, Bob?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: UFO Bob. I'm sure. I think there's stuff out there.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's real and what's not real. And
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: maybe we'll find out. These dumps. The world's so crazy.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: You'd think, oh, we announced that we have evidence of
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: werewolf-like creatures in an interdimensional portal. The world would stop, right?
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Nobody cares.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Nobody cares.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I just got to live my life.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I don't care about that. What do you want me
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: to do? Electromagnetic signals, what am I supposed to do
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: with that? Mike from Florida writes in. It's a big state.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: He doesn't say where. He says, by the way, if
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you can email, just say the city. It's not that hard.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I've never been on a cruise ship, Ben, but how
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: is this allowed? He says there was a cruise ship,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: 5,000 people. They were leaving New Jersey, supposed to go
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to the Bahamas. And instead, they ended up being taken
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: on a Royal Caribbean cruise to Canada. Wow. This happened
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: earlier this month. Said the passengers were told half a day,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: they were given half a day's notice, and they headed
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: to Nova Scotia, Halifax. So I don't know, Mike. I've
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: never been on a cruise. I have no idea. And
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: we know that Scotty on the Pike, he's an RV guy.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: And Robbie does not do that either.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Cruises are just big Petri dishes. Yeah.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Have you been to Nova Scotia, though? Have you been
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: to Halifax? You're not that far away from there.
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  Speaker 3: No, I have not.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: The one time I went to Canada was because the
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: drinking age was 18.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: We went up to Montreal. The Bruins were playing the
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Canadians at the old Forum. And then we watched that game,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: and then we went out drinking. And the last thing
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I remember, I just threw up all over the coat check, girl.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: so blasted.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Bond memories of you. Yeah, it was. It's a great,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: great life story. I got you.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: What do we got? Do a couple more. We're going long.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: We're going long here. Leo from Chicago, a regular on
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the mailbag. He says, Ben, are you planning to go
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: to China to get your recycled McDonald's mouse? No, I'm not, Leo.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: So apparently McDonald's is selling a limited edition wireless mouse
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: made from recycled Happy Meal toys. But only in China.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to miss that one, Leo. How
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: do we know that's actually from recycled McDonald's Happy Meal toys?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: That sounds like bull crap to me. Are people specifically
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: giving back the Happy Meal toys to recycle? Come on.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: That's bull crap. What else do we have? Thomas from
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: New Jersey writes in. He says, Ben, are you jealous
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: that my state is the loudest state of them all?
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: He says, and I guess there was a study done
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that New Jersey is the loudest of the lower 48 states.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Who did this?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: It does not. I'm not seeing it here. He just
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: sent me a couple of lines. He said the Garden
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: State overall ahead of, you know, who was in number two?
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: That's your state, Scotty, on the pike. Massachusetts, number two.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Rhode Island was number three. According to this, the other
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: end of the spectrum, the states that are the quietest, Wyoming,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: which is obvious. No one lives there. West Virginia. It's
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: not a lot of people there. North Dakota and Mississippi.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: So those are the quietest states around. But congratulations, Thomas.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I'm very proud of you that you live in a
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: very large, not a large state, but a loud state.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I've been in New Jersey. Central New Jersey, Southern New Jersey,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of trees. The northern part is just
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: a continuation of New York City. That's pretty much all
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: that is.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: The armpit of America.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's a true New Englander. He's like, ah, screw them. Ah,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: that's enough. Here's one more. Tom from L.A. says, Ben,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: where do you think all those moths in Australia go?
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: So there was a story the other day. The Aussie
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: radar picked up what they thought was rain on the radar,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and it was actually an enormous swarm of moths that
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: showed up.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: On the radar.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know where they go, Tom. Where do thousands
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: of moths go? Who the hell knows? All right, Scotty.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: You've been great, Scotty. Look at you. You wanted to
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: do this. I'm so happy.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. It was a lot
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: of fun.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Anything you want to promote? Are you an influencer?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Do you want to promote your business?
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: No, I'm just a staff who works. All right. So
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: am I.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just a working stiff. Robbie, you've got the Mallertown
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: thing you're doing, right?
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah. The Eastern time zone thing always gets me. So
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: three hours where you are, Robbie.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: But Sunday into Monday, because we try to end it
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: right as your show goes live on Sunday.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: My show starts at 2 a.m. Eastern.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Okay. So then it'd be 1 a.m.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Eastern.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: And then also on Sunday at 1 p.m.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: I do that show with the Aussie guy, United States
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: of Australia.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: We're currently in a battle with a guy in Rochester,
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: and lawsuits are flying over alleged pie gate is what
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: we're calling it. So it's actually a pretty funny story.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: A lawsuit?
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Is it an actual lawsuit?
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Well, so.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Hate stories belong to New England and New England alone.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: They have this convention called the, like, Hackamanians for the
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: dabbleverse thing. And Ozzy said he was— someone wanted to pay
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: the Ozzy guy to put a pie.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: In some guy who goes there's face. And he said,
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: if you do that, I'm.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: Going to contact my lawyer. And so it just— dissolved
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: into a fiasco where there's like cease and desist and
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: he's threatening to contact the casinos of vegas not let
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: ozzy into the country so it's become a whole just
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: laughing matter so yeah.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I i had when i i don't usually get in
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: trouble for the radio show when i had my website
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: i got so many cease and desist letters when i
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: had my website back in the day they The lawyers
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: must've loved me. I got, I got so much. I
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: was very proud. I had a former NFL coaches send
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: me season. It's just a lot of, I had a
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: college basketball coaches who were in the NCAA tournament and
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: their lawyers would send me season. It was crazy.
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: It was like, what's crazy is you like, he would
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: have never done it, but now Ozzie's the type of
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: guy you tell him you can't do something.
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: Now he probably will, or at least we'll try to.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: And so, yeah, I might have to be there to
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: help be as legal representation at this point.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: All right by the way tonight i'll be back on
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the radio here sunday night into monday no days off
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: if there's a day off something probably went wrong but
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: i'll be there all week you know we'll have original
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: shows so no days off so you guys can stop
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: bitching about me taking a couple days off i'll be
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: there all week uh have a great rest of your
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: sunday thanks for supporting the fifth hour podcast don't forget
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: we have two episodes from back on friday and saturday
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: from my Trek to Mexico. You can hear about my
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: bathroom problems at a wrestling match when I had to
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: go try to avoid that. Anyway, have a great day.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: We will chat with you next time.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.