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The Fifth Hour: Remember Me Guy · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  Speaker 1: Mahler and you. We are here. We have survived another Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It is now Saturday, the eighteenth day of July. There
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  Speaker 1: are one hundred and sixty six days to go, the
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth week of the year, which means we're not
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  Speaker 1: quite at that round number, that sweet spot. Everyone loves
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  Speaker 1: round numbers. It's the one hundred and ninety ninth day
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  Speaker 1: of the year today, so not quite to that magical
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  Speaker 1: two hundred which will be tomorrow when allegedly the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup finale will be played in a haze of smoke,
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  Speaker 1: or will it? We have two minutes. I gotta set
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  Speaker 1: the time here the fun facts. I've limited myself to
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  Speaker 1: two minutes of fun facts for good pod it's all
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  Speaker 1: about the good pod. So I'm now going to set
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  Speaker 1: my timer, which will take probably more than two minutes here,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're going to have two minutes of nothing
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  Speaker 1: but fun facts, nothing but fun facts on things about today,
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  Speaker 1: holidays about today. All right, on your marks, get set
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  Speaker 1: and go. It is National Caviar Today. Caviar Day today.
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  Speaker 1: Very fishy. I don't eat fish, so I have never
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  Speaker 1: had caviar. The Dictionary defines caviar as the pickled row
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  Speaker 1: of sturgeon, belugo, whales, and other large fish. And from
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  Speaker 1: what I discovered, kings and aristocrats enjoyed caviar way before
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  Speaker 1: oysters and champagne became popular back in the day. The
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  Speaker 1: vast majority of the world's caviar is produced from a
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  Speaker 1: fish caught in the Caspian Sea, So if you're a
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  Speaker 1: caviar person, it's come from their consumption of caviar dates
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to the twelve forties twelve forties,
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  Speaker 1: and supposedly it's good in terms of calcium. It is
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  Speaker 1: National Tropical Fruit Day today. Ninety five percent of tropical
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  Speaker 1: fruit grown in developing countries, and over eighty percent of
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  Speaker 1: the production is exported to develop nations. So you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about places like the tropical fruits from South America. Pineapple,
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  Speaker 1: pineapple a symbol of hospitality in South Africa. The asaie
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  Speaker 1: berries apparently very hard to harvest. They grow way up
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  Speaker 1: near the top of these sixty foot tall palm trees.
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  Speaker 1: What else do I have here? Let's see a cie,
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  Speaker 1: a native fruit to the Amazon region of Brazil. The
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  Speaker 1: flowers of dragon fruit only bloom at night. What else?
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  Speaker 1: What else? One coconut tree can produce up to one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty coconuts in a season, so it's good
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  Speaker 1: to have coconut trees. And there is a bird that
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  Speaker 1: shares the name of Kiwi. However, the Kiwi bird cannot fly.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're a bird and you cannot fly, are
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  Speaker 1: you really a bird? And the andoxidants in passion fruit
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  Speaker 1: promoting healthy skin and hair. Oh my god, we've gone
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  Speaker 1: over two minutes. A few more. We'reld listening day to day.
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  Speaker 1: That's right in my wheelhouse. You're listening to a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: There's no video feed of this podcast, even though some
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  Speaker 1: of you knuckleheads have said we need a video. We
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  Speaker 1: need to look at you to talk. Okay, you're old
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  Speaker 1: listening day. The average person here is between twenty and
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  Speaker 1: thirty thousand words a day. Twenty to thirty thousand words
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  Speaker 1: a day. Now, I'm pointing this out before most people listen,
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  Speaker 1: but don't listen like typically, you can recall about fifty
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  Speaker 1: percent of what I tell you or anyone tells you
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  Speaker 1: immediately after the conversation ends. An hour later, just an
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  Speaker 1: hour later, you can recall just twenty percent of it.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. You listen at between one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five one hundred and two hundred and fifty words per minute. However,
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  Speaker 1: you think at one thousand to three thousand words per minute.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like the whole dream thing as far
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  Speaker 1: as like the going back to the point of waking
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  Speaker 1: up and you know how, you might remember your dreams
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  Speaker 1: right away, but within a couple of minutes you forget.
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  Speaker 1: And research shows that men only use half their brain
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  Speaker 1: to listen, while women engage both lobes of the brain.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, ladies. So I guess we used
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  Speaker 1: to have more women listening to the show. Now on
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  Speaker 1: this pod, we've got remember Me Guy and how and Mantooth,
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  Speaker 1: How and Mantooth. We begin though with this the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup is winding down. The final game scheduled for Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup finale between Argentina and also the Spaniards
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  Speaker 1: of Spain. And I know I am not going to
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  Speaker 1: do a build it like Beckham commercial for home Depot
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  Speaker 1: or tell you the games on Fox one. The World
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  Speaker 1: Cup has done something that years and years of marketing meetings, consultants,
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  Speaker 1: focus groups, and other corporate weasels and buzzwords could not accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: It accidentally reunited our show with a listener I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: heard from in almost two decades. Now. Not everyone heard
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  Speaker 1: about this, so I wanted to share this story. It's
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  Speaker 1: a great story. So, as many of you know, Fox
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  Speaker 1: Sports Radio for the first time in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the network, and I've been here since the beginning, became
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  Speaker 1: the US radio home of the World Cup twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six on Sirius XM, which meant that occasionally regular programming
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  Speaker 1: got steamrolled blown to bits by ninety minutes of France
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  Speaker 1: or Argentina, England, Spain and several countries I needed Google
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  Speaker 1: Maps to locate. Now, some of you reacted exactly as expected.
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  Speaker 1: You complained, and he is complain a little bit. You
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  Speaker 1: complained loudly. We had tried to warn you. We did
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  Speaker 1: every single show. At some point, I will do a
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  Speaker 1: shameless promotion for the iHeartRadio app. I will say, listen,
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  Speaker 1: get the iHeartRadio app. Make us a P one just
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  Speaker 1: like your car precent one. You can make the Fifth
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  Speaker 1: Hour podcast to P one or two or three, the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maler Show podcast, or the live Fox Sports Radio feed.
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  Speaker 1: And I always said, listen, get iHeartRadio app and the
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio channel as your backup plan if soccer interrupts.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say specifically soccer, but I something. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: there's other stuff on the channel that interrupts what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: We share it with Fox TV. And so if you
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  Speaker 1: Evin Samnia and you're like, I can't hear the show,
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  Speaker 1: what happened? And it turns out that those announcements entered
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  Speaker 1: one year, took a scenic route through the brain, and
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  Speaker 1: exited the other year before setting up permanent residents on
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  Speaker 1: social media, which is what we just talked about a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes ago. But the whole you don't really retain
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  Speaker 1: a lot of information. So the emails arrived, got a
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  Speaker 1: few nasty messages on social media, direct messages on social media,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of complaining, a lot of bitching, belly aching, grumbling,
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  Speaker 1: all of those things, and then something unexpected happened. Line three,
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  Speaker 1: Line three, let's go to Eric in DC slash Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: Who the f is that? I don't know? That is? Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a longtime, longtime consumer of sports radio, you
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  Speaker 1: know that your fellow longtime consumers of sports talk radio
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  Speaker 1: are just a different species of caller. Now. Years ago,
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  Speaker 1: years ago, we did a podcast breakdown about the ten
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  Speaker 1: various breeds of sports radio callers. There's the addicted to
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  Speaker 1: calling guy that often has nothing to say, just wants
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  Speaker 1: to hear themselves on the show they liked the show.
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  Speaker 1: I would say two percent chance is in that category
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  Speaker 1: right now, and hollering James has been in that category
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. There's insider guy that has a
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  Speaker 1: cousin who's barbers gardeners, happens to mow the lawn of
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James and knows where Lebron's gonna go. There's the
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  Speaker 1: guy who hasn't heard the question but already has the answer. Guy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Eric in DC belongs in one of my favorite subcategories
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  Speaker 1: of caller. Remember me, guy, do you not enjoy Remember
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  Speaker 1: Me Guy as a talk showst I love Remember Me Guy.
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  Speaker 1: You know him, He's the guy that calls up and
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  Speaker 1: begins every conversation with, Hey, bed, remember me, I'm the
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  Speaker 1: guy that did blah blah blah blah blah. Now usually
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  Speaker 1: the answer is hell, no, I have no idea who
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  Speaker 1: you are. You are a stranger. I am just trying
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  Speaker 1: to get through my shift so I can get out
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  Speaker 1: of here. Not because I'm trying to be a dick
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  Speaker 1: in Dayton and not trying to be rude. It's because
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  Speaker 1: over the years I have talked to literally thousands of men,
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  Speaker 1: women and children. And if you called twice back in
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  Speaker 1: the Obama administration and and once when gas was under
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  Speaker 1: three dollars a gallon, the odds are not exactly in
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  Speaker 1: your favor that I would know who you are. So
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  Speaker 1: remember Me Guy always assumes that we share a common bond,
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  Speaker 1: this profound life experience, and I get it. Not many
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  Speaker 1: people call radio shows. It's like one percent of one
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  Speaker 1: percent of the people listening will ever call a radio
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  Speaker 1: show because of many reasons. It's annoying to stay on hold.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know when the host is gonna go to
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  Speaker 1: you it takes discipline to call into a radio show,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't know if you're gonna get your point
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  Speaker 1: across and all of this, there's many people are shy.
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  Speaker 1: In reality, we exchange two minutes discussing, you know, whoever
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  Speaker 1: should draft a linebacker at the NFL Draft in oh seven. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: life happened. So Eric's story took a different turn. He
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  Speaker 1: called us after stumbling on to Serious XM while listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Fox Sports Radio World Cup coverage the soccer
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  Speaker 1: game had ended. He did what everyone does. He turned
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  Speaker 1: it off, went about his day, lived his life, got
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  Speaker 1: up early to beat the DC heat in humidity. As
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  Speaker 1: Tony Bruno used to say, it's not the heat, it's
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  Speaker 1: the stupidity anyway, or the humidity. It's a stupidity. But
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  Speaker 1: I screwed that line up. Sorry, Tony, bet job by me.
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  Speaker 1: It's an outrage anyway. So he got up early, and
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  Speaker 1: he flipped on the Serious XM radio and whila, hocus pocus,
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  Speaker 1: presto abracadabra. He heard my voice, our show, and his
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  Speaker 1: reaction is or was this guy's still on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: You're still here? And frankly I had the same reaction.
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  Speaker 1: He had drifted away from the show over the years.
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  Speaker 1: Different job, day shift, different schedule, different life, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Life happens. The World Cup in a cosmic accident dropped
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  Speaker 1: him back into our little overnight corner of the broadcast universe.
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  Speaker 1: And then something even stranger happened. I actually remembered him now,
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  Speaker 1: not immediately, because when you start out a call, when
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  Speaker 1: you start out a call, hey, I remember me, guy,
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  Speaker 1: I immediately rolled my eyes in snicker. I do, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't remember immediately, but once you started talking, it
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  Speaker 1: hit me. November twenty seventh, two thousand and seven. November
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, two thousand and seven or thereabouts, Eric was
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  Speaker 1: the listener who called up with the devastating news that
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins star safety Sean Taylor had died after
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  Speaker 1: being shot during a home invasion robbery in South Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor was twenty four years old. That's an almost twenty
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  Speaker 1: five twenty four years old, one of the best young
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  Speaker 1: safeties in the NFL, legendary crusher of all offensive players.
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  Speaker 1: It was a shocking story and it just made no sense.
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  Speaker 1: There was a home invasion, he got shot in the leg.
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  Speaker 1: He thought, well, who dies of being shot in the leg.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be okay. No, he died the next day. And
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  Speaker 1: like some, some of what we do we remember, most
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  Speaker 1: we don't like. Some calls disappear, Most disappear under the
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  Speaker 1: endless pile of overnight conversations. Others leave DNA, they leave fingerprints.
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  Speaker 1: Now that one did. It had been nearly twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: nearly twenty years since this took place, and yet somehow
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  Speaker 1: buried underneath thousands of endless malard monologues, callers, jokes, arguments,
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  Speaker 1: bad food takes, malard palooses, Benny awards, Benny versus the penny.
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  Speaker 1: The memory in the back of my mind, it was
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  Speaker 1: still sitting there collecting us, which immediately sent me tumbling
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  Speaker 1: backwards in time. I'm like, well, wait a minute, it
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  Speaker 1: was two thousand and seven. It's twenty twenty six. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going back to when Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan
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  Speaker 1: and Paris Hilton dominated the pop culture news. Back then,
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  Speaker 1: celebrity gossip qualified as national importance. Celebrities still were popular
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  Speaker 1: in seven, right, Megan Fox had her coming of age
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  Speaker 1: movie with Transformers. I believe that was in seven. You
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  Speaker 1: had big stars Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Fergie killed the Killed
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  Speaker 1: It in music. I think that's when Anna Nicole Smith died,
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  Speaker 1: the model who married the really old guy. The last
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  Speaker 1: Terry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows went
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  Speaker 1: to bookstores. People actually lined up, remember bokstores. People lined
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  Speaker 1: up around bookstores. I looked it up the movies, some
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  Speaker 1: of the movies that came out other than Transformers and
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  Speaker 1: all that you had, super Bad and Knocked Up, and
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  Speaker 1: it reminded me, as I fell down through this rabbit
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  Speaker 1: hole of nostalgia, that there was a time twenty years
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  Speaker 1: ago where Hollywood made comedies that were original, that were
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  Speaker 1: not remakes of comic book movies with budgets larger than
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  Speaker 1: several small countries, and super Bad and Knocked Up. While
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  Speaker 1: they weren't the greatest movies of all time, they were quotable.
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  Speaker 1: They were part of the culture. When's the last time
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  Speaker 1: you saw a movie that was really part of the culture.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a minute. It's been a minute. Now went back, Prince.
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  Speaker 1: I remember this because we talked about it. Prince did
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  Speaker 1: this big phallic thing for Purple Rain at the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl halftime performance and I believe it actually rained. If
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  Speaker 1: I remember like it actually rained at his performance. There
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  Speaker 1: that is production value you cannot buy, cannot buy. One
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite stories from that period of time was
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  Speaker 1: Steve Jobs introducing the first iPhone seven hundred dollars per phone.
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  Speaker 1: Now Steve Balmer practically laughed him out of the room.
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  Speaker 1: He famously declared there was quote no chance Apple would
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  Speaker 1: gain meaningful market share with the iPhone. About twenty years later,
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  Speaker 1: today Steve Balmer owns the Clippers, and everyone else and
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  Speaker 1: their mother owns an iPhone. It's rather funny how history
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  Speaker 1: enjoys humiliating certainty anytime you say something certain. The late
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  Speaker 1: Great Bob Barker of Some Great Bob Barker Stories with
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  Speaker 1: Bob Barker, I don't have time for the mere He
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  Speaker 1: handed The Prices Right to Drew Carey. Bob Barker had
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  Speaker 1: been on that show for thirty five years and over
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  Speaker 1: six thousand, almost seven thousand episodes of The Prices Right
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  Speaker 1: and make sure to have your pets spread a NEOTERRD.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Bob Barker. Yes, So that was back. So Drew
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  Speaker 1: Carries hosted that show for almost twenty years. Wow. The Sopranos.
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  Speaker 1: The Sopranos ended with one of the worst final episodes
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  Speaker 1: of all time, the famous cut to black, And at
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  Speaker 1: the time none of us realized. This is always the
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  Speaker 1: great thing about life. You don't realize at the time
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  Speaker 1: you're living through a period that would be nostalgia, at
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  Speaker 1: least for somebody else. That's always how it works. Like
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  Speaker 1: nobody announces ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the good old day. It's just like we always talk
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  Speaker 1: about the joke medieval times. The people that lived in
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  Speaker 1: medieval times didn't call it medieval times. They would just
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  Speaker 1: called it life. They were living their life. You only
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  Speaker 1: discover these things when you've left them, after they're gone,
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  Speaker 1: and other people make determinations about them. But that's why
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  Speaker 1: Eric's in DC slash Maryland. His phone call it hit
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  Speaker 1: me a little harder than I expected. Sports radio people
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  Speaker 1: sometimes forget why stations spend millions of dollars or at
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  Speaker 1: least hundreds of thousands of dollars for broadcast rights, and
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  Speaker 1: it gets easy to think you're simply filling airtime. That's it. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: there is a formula. There's a method to the madness. Madness.
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  Speaker 1: There's a method to the madness that somebody tunes in
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  Speaker 1: to listen to Argentina and somebody else stays because they
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: accidentally hear a gas bag or blow hard. They never
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: sample before thinking about like Kirkland brand products at Costco
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  Speaker 1: or just Costco samples in general. You walk in planning
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  Speaker 1: to buy some water, toilet paper, paper towels. Somebody hands
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  Speaker 1: you a tiny cup of Tazeki sauce and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I've ever had Tazeki sauce, and now you're hooked. Next
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  Speaker 1: thing you know, you've purchased patio furniture and a kayak,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't need a kayak. I don't even have
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  Speaker 1: any water near me, and I live in an apartment
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  Speaker 1: with no backyard. Why do I have patio furniture and radios?
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  Speaker 1: Always kind of work like that. Games introduced audiences personalities
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  Speaker 1: are supposed to keep them around if they're any good,
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  Speaker 1: and most people never think about it because they're too
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  Speaker 1: busy listening. And my man Eric in DC slash Maryland
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  Speaker 1: became the latest example, living proof. He wasn't looking for
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  Speaker 1: the show. He had forgotten about the show. The show
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  Speaker 1: was just a memory in the back of his head.
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  Speaker 1: He was looking for soccer. He turned on a soccer game,
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  Speaker 1: turned it off, and instead he rediscovered as he turned
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  Speaker 1: it back on a little overnight show going round the
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  Speaker 1: mountain he had forgot about, and for a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: this is like the cool stuff, right, this is the
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  Speaker 1: cool stuff. We both traveled backwards nearly twenty years and
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  Speaker 1: we both had was bigger memory for him than me.
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  Speaker 1: But I remembered it. I truly did I. And that
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  Speaker 1: was back before the internet really kicked in, social media
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  Speaker 1: kicked in, and it was a local TV station, I
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  Speaker 1: believe in DC that had the story. So time has
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  Speaker 1: a very funny sense of humor. Sometimes it feels painfully
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  Speaker 1: slow as you get older. Very rarely. Other times you blink,
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  Speaker 1: like as you're doing this and you discover the kid
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  Speaker 1: who used to call you your overnight show. I get
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  Speaker 1: this every once in a while. The kids say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I listened to you when I was in junior high school.
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  Speaker 1: Now I have a wife and one kid and one
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  Speaker 1: on the way and worked in a factory or worked
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  Speaker 1: at the store, or I've done this or that or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and it is kind of cool. I do love hearing
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  Speaker 1: those stories. I do it's pretty pretty because that's what
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  Speaker 1: I was like when I was growing up. I love
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  Speaker 1: radio and listening, and you know, I became that guy,
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  Speaker 1: but I loved I loved it. Meanwhile, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just sitting behind the same microphone with the same headphones,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just talking, and I don't know who's there
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  Speaker 1: and what they're doing and if anyone's listening. And longevity
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  Speaker 1: in radio is not glamorous. You don't get paid a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money back in the day you did. Nobody
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: throws parades because you managed not to get fired. Although
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you know, hey, that has happened. There's no special gold watch.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: You get that. The company, you know, they don't even
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: really call you up and say, hey, good job by you.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: They don't. That doesn't happen. I hear other people say
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: they get that. We don't get that. We don't get
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: congratulations on surviving another eighteen years of overnight shifts. But
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: every once in a while, the universe does toss you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: a Soliday reminder that which you're actually involved in matters
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to someone. Maybe not millions, maybe not millions, maybe not
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: even thousands. Sometimes it's just one guy who happened to
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: accidentally leave his Serious XM Radio after the World Cup
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: match on and I got to tell you that was enough.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: That was a good dopamine hit and hidden under all
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the complaints and the whining, you know your show's not on.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I'm paying for Serious ex but so you know you
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: got preempted by soccer. I'm like, well, I don't run
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Serious XM. Contact them. I have nothing to do with that.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: It is a reminder there's that magic. I promote the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: magic of radio. It's still there, the theater of the mind,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and sometimes it simply takes ninety minutes of a football
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: match to prove it. It happens, all right. Now that
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: being said, we're gonna take a right turn and then
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: we're gonna go down half a block take a left turn.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour podcast, which is here every Friday and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: today obviously Saturday, and we'll have the mailbag tomorrow on Sunday,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: gives us a bit of a hall pass from the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: corporate overlords. It's where we wander down side streets, off
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the beaten path that would never survive the formatting police
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: on the radio show. We can take a detour, we
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: can tell stories, we can remember people who never scored
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a touchdown, never hit a walk off home run, or
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: demanded a trade, or viral on social media for some
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: crazy thing that happened at a waffle house at two
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Sometimes the greatest stories have nothing to
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: do with sports, and we can talk about them here
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: on the fifth hour. So randomly, in recent days, I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: learned that a couple of actors checked out of this
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: mortal coil that we all share the world that we're
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: in this week, and I wanted to offer a pair
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: of tips of the headphone mallard eulogies, tributes, whatever you
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: want to call them, because this is kind of an
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: audio archive of what we do here. And I know
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: over time we forget things, and I don't want to
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: forget these two people, not because they were megastars. They weren't,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: because really they were everywhere in my childhood. And if
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you're around my age, congratulations you're getting old. Or if
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: you're older, you're already old. We watched enough television growing up.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I grew up in the mostly the eighties, but you know, seventies, eighties,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: that period of time, and if you're listening to this pod,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: there's a very good chance you watched way too much
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: television if you grew up in that time and these
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: people were part of the furniture of my life. First up,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Hal Williams. Who the f is Hal Williams? Exactly. That's
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the point. You might not know the name, but you
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: know the game. The second you see the face, your
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: brain starts flipping through television channels like the old The
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Zenith with Rabbit ears back in the day. Oh yeah,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: that guy, that guy. Hal Williams passed away at ninety
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: one at his home in Rancho Mirage out near Palm Springs.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I had some health issues recently. They say he died
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: of natural clauses, which I believe means you got so old,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: stuff stopped working. There's no warranty on it. The warranties expired,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: can't replace it. You're cooked. Still. Ninety one is a
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: full ride. That's a great ride. I always say this,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: when you get to ninety one, you probably want ninety two.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: You probably want ninety three or ninety four, But ninety
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: one's a good ride. And He was best known as
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Officer Smitty Officer Smitty Smith on Sandford and Son, a
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: cultural icon of the nineteen seventies. Now he also played
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Lester Jenkins on a very popular show called two two
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: seven and Confession Time. I only watched a little of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Sandford and Son. I didn't watch much of it. I
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: watched considerably more of two two seven, Marla Gibbs, Jackie,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Regina King before she became Regina King. A Saturday night
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: television was I think it was on Saturday if I remember,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: it was appointment viewing back before streaming, back when you
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: could could not binge. There was no binge watching when
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: if you missed an episode, too bad, you're cooked. Better
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: luck next week, you're out. Now, how Williams had one
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of the great Hey, it's that guy faces in Hollywood.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Not a leading man, handsome, not Mattin, a idol, working man, familiar,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Hal Williams. Google him. If you're not blind, you can
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: see what I'm talking about. Hollywood survives, or it did
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: back in these days. It survived on people like this.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: The headliners, the stars get the magazine covers back when
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: those were big, and get the interviews. The character actor
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: keeps the light on at the motel. Six. I'm Tom Boddett.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Five decades. This guy worked in show business. Five decades.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Think about that. Five that's how many generated as to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: over two generations. This guy worked in Hollywood, and you
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: know how hard it is to keep one job for
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: fifty years. I've barely been able to keep this thing
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: going whatever that I've got, and half the audience thinks
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I should have been fired around the Clinton administration, even
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: though Fox Sports Radio didn't exist around the Clinton administration.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Turns out I was fired at nine during the Obama run,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and then they rehired me six months and twenty six
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: days later. Williams popped up everywhere Hal Williams, The Waltons,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Private Benjamin, The Sinbad Show, Parks and rec even the
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: New Mattlock, different generations, different audiences, same dude, reliable, comfort food.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: And when he passed away, I read a little bit
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: about him, and I love the fact that before acting,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: how Williams worked as a postal worker. He delivered packages.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: He also worked as a corrections officer. He moved to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: la in nineteen sixty eight thinking hey, I can be
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: an actor. And here's the part I love. Even after
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: he started booking TV and some serious TV roles, he
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: kept working night shifts at the post office because acting
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: checks do not always show up. You know what I'm saying.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: That was smart, that was pragmatic. That was an adult
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: move to make. Nobody writes movies about the guy who
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: keeps his government job because the mortgage doesn't care if
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the pilot gets picked up. That doesn't happen, but maybe
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: they should. So Paul Harvey used to say, you know
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: what the news is. In a minute, you're going to
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: hear the arrest of the story. Well, that's the rest
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of Hal Williams story. He had a backup plan, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I've always appreciated the backup plan. People laugh at backup
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: plans until you need a backup plan. Now here's the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: malar footnote following the Tom Looney playbook The School of Looney,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Making It all about you, so believe it or not,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the path of Hal Williams, and and this gas bag
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you're listening to did cross in fact, not just once
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: or twice, many many nights, and not in Hollywood, not
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: on a TV set or a movie set. No, no, no,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: no no. At NBA games way back when this guy
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: named Donald Sterling owned the Clippers, remember that circus. The
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: NBA eventually used what amounted to eminent domain to take
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: away his ownership of the Clippers. After those infamous recordings
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: in that big controversy TMZ story, the whole thing. However,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: before all that, Donald Sterling produced two things. He produced
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: bad basketball teams and a whack pack of celebrities, a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: very bizarre variety show. Among the regulars Penny Marshall, Billy Crystal,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Frankie Munez from Malcolm in the Middle, random celebrities, people
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you'd never expect sitting together, and Hal Williams was in
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: that group. He'd wander around before games, always friendly, always smiling,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: always schmoozing, and once you see the face, you're like, man,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I know this guy. He's like my neighbor. I know him,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and sometimes I say this with admiration. He'd somehow end
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: up in the media dining room at the Clipper games, freeloading,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: because even celebrities like to freeload, working the room, talking
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: with the different hacks in the media, the beat writers,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the radio losers like me, eating that arena chicken that
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: had probably been under a heat lamp since the Reagan administration,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: and so he fit right in. He was one of
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the boys. Media people are basically raccoons with credentials, and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: we'll all eat anything if it's free. Now most of
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the time these days, we don't get free stuff much.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: This may have sports with Coleman, who loves free stuff,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and I don't mind it either. So I had not
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: seen how in years. I don't go to the games
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: much anymore since the pandemic, and so I'm pretty much
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: embedded in the Malor mansion in the North Woods, in
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the studio. I go to these NFL games, that's about it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: These days. I don't even go to baseball since the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I've been blacklisted than Dodgers got Otani. Not that I'm
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: bitter about that, but I wondered what happened to Hell
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and I didn't even know if he was still alive.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I knew he was old back then, and now I
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: know so rest in piece Hal Williams. Television lost one
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: of its great utility players. Not an all star, solid,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: reliable player, dependable player, plug and play guy. No Hall
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of Fame speech, no giant headlines, just decades of making
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: other people's shows better and something honorable about that. But wait,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: there's more like double mctgum, double your pleasure, double your fun,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: or in this case, double your eulogies. Sadly, I was
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: informed by my reporter Alf the Alien opiner that we
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: lost Randolph Mantooth this week. Now the name Randolph Mantooth,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Now that's a name, Mantooth. What a name, mister Mantooth.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: That's a teacher. Mister Mantooth sounds like either an NFL
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: linebacker or a villain in a James Bond movie. Mantooth Man. So,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Randolph Mantooth passed away at eighty. I've been very sick
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: in recent years. He was at a hospice facility up
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: in Ventura in southern California here a little north of
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: LA and if Hal Williams was, hey, it's that guy,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Randolph Mantooth was just Johnny Gage. That's it. Period Stop
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: And you said, who the hell is Johnny Gage? I
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not like you, mallor. I don't know
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: who that is. I'm young, I'm hip, I'm cool. Let
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: me tell you, dummy, I'll tell you. He starred this
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: guy in every episode of Emergency What the hell is
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the Emergency from nineteen seventy two to nineteen seventy seven,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and for millions of kids, Johnny Gage made firefighters cool.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Actually that's not true. He made paramedics cool. There's a
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: bit of a difference. Now, emergency arrived at exactly the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: right moment. Some say the government encouraged emergency to be
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: made if you want to go down the conspiratorial route
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: or route. At that time, believe it or not, there
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: was a period of time fifty some years ago, over
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: fifty years ago, where emergency medical services were still relatively new.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that? Yeah, firefighters only put out fires.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And then they added these things called paramedics, and most
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: people didn't know what paramedics actually did. And so the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: show introduced America to this profession, adding on the drama
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: rama because that's what you do. Television very good at
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: mixing things, and in the days before the World Wide
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Web and surfing that world wide Web, it glamorized certain jobs,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: sometimes unrealistically. And for about two years, little Benny, Benny
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the Bopper, growing up, we wanted to be a firefighter. Actually,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Little Benny wanted to be everything. At one point I
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: was a firefighter. I wanted to be a Gi Joe soldier,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a police officer, broadcaster, dodger, slugger, professional eater, whatever seemed
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: fun that week. Emergency was part of that. Chips was
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: another part of it, Eric Estrada, Poncherella. Come on now,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: if you were a kid in the nineteen eighties, reruns
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: of Emergency and Chips were basically peanut butter and jelly.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: You couldn't have one without the other. Johnny Gage or
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Roy DeSoto saving lives, cooking at the station, shopping for food,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: flirting with hot nurses. Man, what a life these guys had, right,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: saving lives as heroes and eating good food and beautiful women,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: always looking impossibly calm despite somebody falling off a building,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: you know, every twenty three minutes, right, and every episode,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and the show center around station fifty one. Of course,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: here's the fun TV trivia. Station fifty one at the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: time did not actually exist. LA was big, It wasn't
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: that big, not then. So the producers filmed at the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles County Fire Station one twenty seven in Carson, California,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: because there wasn't again a real station fifty one. Now
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: how they got to station one twenty seven without getting
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: a station fifty one, I don't know. Station one twenty
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: seven Face South. I read about this at Face South.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: It had perfect lighting. And one thing TV and people
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: in Hollywood love is perfect lighting they love it. Good lighting.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: The building still looks remarkably similar after all these years. Now,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: how do I know that a couple years back I
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: drove by it. I was in that area, I drove
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: by it. One of the underrated perks of growing up
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: in southern California and becoming an adult in southern California
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: is that, for me, at my age, half of my
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: childhood TV memories exist in real life. They're things you
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: drive around Los Angeles and suddenly, hey, I remember that
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: house or that building, the emergency fire station, check chips
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I mentioned, I Love Chips, the Highway Patrol Show. The
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: headquarters of the Highway Patrol show that they used on
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the TV show are in downtown Los Angeles, underneath, literally
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: underneath the Santa Monica Freeway. The Brady Bunch House. I
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: used to take dates to the Brady Bunch House in
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the Valley. I've told stories on this podcast. When I
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: did Benny Versus the Penny, we had a studio at
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Universal Studios and I had access. It was great. We
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: walked pretty much every week through the courtyard of Back
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: to the Future, the courthouse on the Universal lot, like
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Everything's here, Everything's here. Hollywood is basically one giant neighborhood
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: with better camera angles. And speaking of chips, I did
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: want to mention this years ago. I actually did have
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: a chance to meet Larry Wilcox, better known as Officer
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: John Baker, who was a really cool dude, huge Kings fan,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: my friend Norm, Norm Peters, who literally knew everyone. Norm
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: was an old TV guy in Madison, was consin back
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: in the day, and he'd moved to LA and he's
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the one that made the introduction. He always loved to
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: show off, Hey I know this guy, that guy. I mean,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: there were some huge people that I met because of Norm,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: because of Norm. Robert Shapiro, the OJ Simpson lawyer, a
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: friend of Norm, met him, John Begger. There are a
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: bunch of other ones. I don't have time for that now,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: but but anyway, Norm could have introduced me to Cleopatra
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: or Babe Ruth if they'd still been around. Larry Wilcox
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: thankfully still alive, So no eulogy here will wait till
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: he dies. Not yet. Man Tooth though, back to Mantooth,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: his impact stretched well beyond acting. I've read that he
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: became a very strong entertainment advocate for firefighters EMS professionals.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: He spoke at those conferences, He worked with firefighters, safety organizations,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: supported first responders. He didn't just play the role. He
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: embraced it, which is obviously admirable because we've all seen
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: actors who spend six months pretending to know something and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: then immediately move on to pretending their astronauts or cowboys
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: or lawyers or whatever. Mantooth stayed connected when you become
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the role. This is something people complain about. They don't
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: like it, Like Al Bundy became Al Bundy, right, you know,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the cast of Seinfeld became the cast of Seinfeld. They
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: couldn't get out of those characters for the most part.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: And Mantooth understood this is a big deal. He portrayed
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a paramedic. He inspired generations of paramedics. And so think
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: about that, an actor changing career choices. That's real influence.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: That's not trending for two hours, it's not going viral
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: for eight hours. It's lasting. And maybe maybe that's what
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: struck me about both Hal Williams and Randolph Mantooth. Neither
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: spent their careers chasing controversy. They didn't in the online world.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: They tried, it didn't exist back then they would have
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: if it had they tried becoming the just important people
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: in life, but not social media philosopher or anything like that.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: They simply worked year after year, decade and after decade, professional, dependable, comfortable.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: It would appear in their own skin. And that certainly
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: has become a lost art over the years, we've become
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: obsessed with celebrity, fame, followers, engagement algorithms. Now, meanwhile, the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: people who quietly showed up every day, like these guys,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: they did exceptional work and they faded into the background.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: That's what happens. You get older and then you forget
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: about it, and then they're gone, and then you really
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: forget about them. So I wanted to make this to
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: tip the headphones and the cap to these guys. You
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: realize that they were always there. I mean, like the
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: dependable diner you've driven past a thousand times. You don't
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: appreciate the diner until the lights go out and the
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: four least sign is in the window. Now, for better
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: or worse, television has changed, I would argue not for
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: the better. Streaming has opened up a whole new world.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: There are more shows now than ever. There are more
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: shows being made than ever, ironically, there are fewer faces
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: that we all recognize. There's no communal experience in Hollywood anymore.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Movies suck TV. Everyone's got their niche. That's it, and
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: we're like the if you're around my age, we're the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: last generation that grew up with fewer channels and bigger stars.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Character actors actually became part of the national family. Everyone
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: knew them, Nobody remembered their names, everybody remembered their faces,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: like Hal Williams. Now Randolph Mantooth is a little different
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: because he had a lead role in that show. The
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: show was only for a few years and he went
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: on and did other acting. Two different careers, two different paths,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: but there's one common thread. They entertained millions, millions of people.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: They left things a little better in this world. Then
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: they found them. And if somewhere beyond the Pearly Gates
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: there's a television set, I'm guessing How's already found the
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: media buffet and is in the background as a supporting
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: actor behind the Pearly Gates on the TV show and
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Johnny Gage he just answered an emergency call and told
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the people, well, the good news is I am dressed
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: like a paramedic and I am ready to be here
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: to take care of you. The bad news is I
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: am not an actual paramedic, so anyway, rest in peace, gentlemen,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the memories, appreciate that. We'll get out.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: On that note, the mail bag, mail bag, mail bag,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: mail bag, mail bag is tomorrow, Tomorrow, tomorrow. Have a
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: great rest of your Saturday, and we will chat with
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: you next time. As Dick and Dayton would say, bye bye,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: bye bye,