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The Fifth Hour: RobbieTheMarinersFan Mail Bag! · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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  Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
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  Speaker 2: Hour with Ben 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 on a Sunday. It is the twenty eighth day
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  Speaker 1: of June, and we are about to dive into the mailbag.
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  Speaker 1: Before we do that, though, I gonna waste any time. Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: al get me in the mood, Ohio. Aw, it's in
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  Speaker 1: bag all right now. We spun the wheel on the mailbag.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of names on the wheel. Went
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  Speaker 1: round and round and round. Big money, big money, no
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  Speaker 1: waymy and who would be this week? Let's fight out
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  Speaker 1: right now? And birthday boy, Robbie the Mariner fan everybody, Hello, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday Robbie.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate it. It's always a little less important
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  Speaker 3: each time. It feels like so.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, I see, it gets less important,
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  Speaker 1: and then it gets more important if you get older.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Try to get as old as you can because then
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  Speaker 1: people say, oh man, you're old.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the middle it is odd like in life
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  Speaker 1: because when you're when you're a kid, it's always a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. Then when you get to the middle, nobody
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  Speaker 1: gives a shit, and then when you're older, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: then it's like, oh man, you're like, you know, how
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  Speaker 1: do you get that old? Like that's crazy, Like that's
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. It is your birthday weekend. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you you're having fun. Yes, yep, yep, all right, very good,
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  Speaker 1: And we spun the wall. We were either going to
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  Speaker 1: give Robbie a million dollars a new house or allow
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  Speaker 1: the mail bag, and we chose the mail bag.
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  Speaker 3: So I hope, yeah, exactly. It's better than a lifetime
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  Speaker 3: supply nothing. I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't know. If you want nothing, we
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  Speaker 1: can give you that as well. We'll throw that in
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  Speaker 1: as a parting gift like they do on all the
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  Speaker 1: a nice party gift. So Robbie, if you have for
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  Speaker 1: those of you who have been on this is your
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  Speaker 1: third appearance on the mail bag. Yes, I believe, so,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations on that. And I've had a number of people
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  Speaker 1: reach out to me Robbie that would like to do
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  Speaker 1: the mail bag. Many of them say they will do
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  Speaker 1: the mail bag, and then when it comes time to
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  Speaker 1: actually do the mail bag, where do you think they are, Robbie.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, not around. So I will say, Elon's DM machine
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  Speaker 3: is not the most reliable sometimes, so.
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  Speaker 1: I have been burned by that as well. I have
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  Speaker 1: been burned. I've sent messages out, but listen, people are
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  Speaker 1: very busy, they have a live they cannot be bothered
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  Speaker 1: by the mail bag. Yeah, you of course will stop
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  Speaker 1: whatever you're doing. God bless you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, even on your birthday. I was like, I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna message Robbie. I was like, well, it's his birthday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to bother the guy on his birthday.
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  Speaker 1: And He's like, well I might be available. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: give you like half an.
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  Speaker 3: Hour, Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, Well let's get to the mailbag right now.
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  Speaker 1: The Ohio already got us in the mood. The first
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  Speaker 1: one up is a Julio from the valley here in
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  Speaker 1: cali fordn Yah, I'm not sure which valley. I assume
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  Speaker 1: the same San Fernando Valley. There's more people live in
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  Speaker 1: the San Fernando Valley in the San Gabriel Valley. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: who cares. Julio says, ben I was impressed. You need
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  Speaker 1: a whole twenty minute monologue in the World Cup this week. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Julio, I'm glad that you were impressed. He says,
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  Speaker 1: how hard was it to talk soccer when it's clearly
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  Speaker 1: foreign to you? That's I feel like that's a backhanded
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  Speaker 1: compliment there at the end, Julio, it's it's I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's foreign to everybody. I don't think it's like
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that are into it because
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be into it the World Cup, And
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  Speaker 1: I know every time this thing pops up, the World Cup,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a big deal. And it certainly feels bigger
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  Speaker 1: this year and what's been going on now than in
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  Speaker 1: years past when we've had the World Cup, obviously because
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  Speaker 1: it's in North America's America. However, I still believe that
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  Speaker 1: most people will go back to ignoring soccer once this
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  Speaker 1: is over. However, it's it's not it's not that difficult
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  Speaker 1: to you just it's like watch and react, right, read
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  Speaker 1: and react and football, you got to read the defense.
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  Speaker 1: You got to react to what they're doing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that hard. You just watch the game and then you
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  Speaker 1: you get annoyed when they have that little momentum thing
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  Speaker 1: of a jig on the screen, and then you yell
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  Speaker 1: about that and say, but there's no a season momentium.
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  Speaker 3: I saw that the other day's letter about you. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, they've made a graphic for
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  Speaker 3: Ben's mos God.
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  Speaker 1: I ranted about it, right. I did a rant about it.
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  Speaker 1: H during the World Cup monologue. I was ranting about
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  Speaker 1: how because people keep messaging me, you know, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to bust my balls, rob TV, you can't rip it.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, first of all, it's just
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  Speaker 1: my theory. And I said this, and I believe I
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  Speaker 1: said this in the monologue that I did this week.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the thing about the momentum graphic is it's
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  Speaker 1: admission there is not much going on fight. There are
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirty minute stretches in a soccer match where no
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  Speaker 1: shots are on goal. They're essentially doing cardio, running back
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  Speaker 1: and forth, kicking the ball to you know, bouncing off
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  Speaker 1: each team, and nobody shoots on the on net, so
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of downtime, and so this is all
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  Speaker 1: let's just fill it with a graphic to let people
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  Speaker 1: know that some team has all the momentum. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: why he drize me nuts? And it's I say, they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to engage the audience, and as you know, Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: we all need shiny things.
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  Speaker 3: That's sure.
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  Speaker 1: This is a way to keep people engaged. And it's
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  Speaker 1: like it's just like, right now, I have all the
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  Speaker 1: momentum on the fifth hour mail bag and then Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pass the batonda you now you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: all the momentum. See how that works exactly.
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  Speaker 3: No, I do think the big litmus test will be
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  Speaker 3: for people like my dad, who has shockingly gotten way
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  Speaker 3: in the World Cup to the point where he claims
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna start watching like Premier League stuff once this
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  Speaker 3: is over. He's watched probably I want to stay out
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  Speaker 3: of every ten matches, probably seven out of ten, not
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  Speaker 3: that there's that was a bad way of saying it,
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  Speaker 3: but like if there's six matches each day, he's watching
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  Speaker 3: like five of them. And I don't. It's he's never
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  Speaker 3: been into sports in journal that much and yet he's
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  Speaker 3: just found World Cup fevers. So I guess I'll report
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  Speaker 3: back he starts watching the premier leagues, then will know
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  Speaker 3: something has changed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, and a I if I end up in
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  Speaker 1: Europe someday, I would absolutely love to go to a
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  Speaker 1: premier league.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks amazing. Do I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: it on the day to day So I don't. There's
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  Speaker 1: a difference, there's a there's a point of demarcation where
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  Speaker 1: But thank you Julio for noticing. And I guess am
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  Speaker 1: I that program Robbie that when I talk about something
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  Speaker 1: that other than NFL or baseball or basketball, people lose
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  Speaker 1: their mind. They're like, what are you doing.
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  Speaker 3: When you Whenever I hear you're about to start a
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  Speaker 3: hockey mologue, I do think to myself, how is he
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  Speaker 3: going to do this one? Because those are the two
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  Speaker 3: sports where soccer and hockey. I feel like the herds.
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  Speaker 3: If they don't feel like you taking it seriously, they
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  Speaker 3: get real upset.
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  Speaker 1: So well, as I pointed out, yeah, well exactly, and
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  Speaker 1: I pointed this out, like the soccer cult I call
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  Speaker 1: it a cult soccer. These these soccer people, they'll send
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  Speaker 1: me messages during the year, Ibbie. They'll be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you should really talk about soccer. You know
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  Speaker 1: how big the MLS is, you know how big this
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  Speaker 1: thing is? This you know this friendly matchup is and
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  Speaker 1: and so then they want me to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: And then, as you said, when I talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: often the feedback I get is you listen, you're not
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  Speaker 1: a soccer guy. You don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't talk about that, you know, stick to what
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  Speaker 1: you know, that whole thing. And I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: you can't win. You cannot It's like a dating a
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  Speaker 1: woman that just you know, she wants certain things, and
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  Speaker 1: then when you do it, she complains and imre So anyway, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, obio Kevin in Tornito. I've not been to
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  Speaker 1: a filido. That's right there north northern Ohio. Anyway, Kevin says, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: what video game would you like to be part of?
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  Speaker 1: I saw that I show speed became a playable character
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  Speaker 1: in the new FIFA licensed game. Uh okay, Robbie, can
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  Speaker 1: you explain to me you're in the younger demo? Can
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  Speaker 1: you explain I show Speed to me, please.
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  Speaker 3: No, I can't. I do not understand why he's so popular.
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  Speaker 3: I he I'm listening to podcasts in the past where
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  Speaker 3: people will get in a genuine debates about who's more
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  Speaker 3: recognizable worldwide, Donald Trump or I show Speed. The younger
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  Speaker 3: demo loves this guy too, an extent that is baffling
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  Speaker 3: to me because I know very little about him, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm in my early thirties, so you think, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 3: still in their early demo. Yet people in their twenties
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  Speaker 3: treat this guy like he's a deity.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't understand. I don't know why he's famous.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he's I would assume he's fast.
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  Speaker 3: I see, that's the thing. Like, I don't see him running.
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  Speaker 3: I just see him like videos in the crowd, like
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  Speaker 3: dapping people up and like talking, like traveling. I don't
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  Speaker 3: see him running anywhere. So I don't know why to
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  Speaker 3: call myself speed. I don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, it's yeah, it's very odd
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  Speaker 1: to me, Like is this real or is this some
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  Speaker 1: kind of psyop thing? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I do wonder how much of his original popularity was
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  Speaker 3: just him boot picking the right box to boost him,
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  Speaker 3: and then it becomes an avalanche of popularity and then
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  Speaker 3: you think he's popular, but he's really knocked that popular.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's the age old thing, right, if you started.
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  Speaker 1: I remember reading that study when I was in I
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  Speaker 1: think it was a study or a story somewhere. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to start a restaurant and get a little
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  Speaker 1: buzz going, this is before the internet. You pay people
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  Speaker 1: to go to the restaurant, and you have your friends
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  Speaker 1: and family fill the restaurant, and then other people who
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  Speaker 1: you know like, well, this place is packed, it must
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  Speaker 1: be good. Yeah, what's concept? The the greatest one is
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  Speaker 1: the buggy the grocery card. Oh yeah, you told yeah
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  Speaker 1: during the podcast that they when they started, I think
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  Speaker 1: someone in Oklahoma, it was very emasculating, and men did
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  Speaker 1: not want to do it, and women didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do it because they were like, well this is you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not and I'm not just going to be some
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  Speaker 1: housewife pushing the cart, you know whatever. So they paid
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  Speaker 1: like hot dudes and hot women to push the grocery
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  Speaker 1: carts around the store, and then the regular looking people
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  Speaker 1: were like, Okay, they're hot, I should do it, and
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  Speaker 1: then the rest is history. Now everywhere you go, you
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  Speaker 1: got the buggy. I guess you call it the buggy.
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  Speaker 1: In Canada we call it the grocery cart. Who knows, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, Kevin, I don't. As far as what video
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  Speaker 1: game would be, you know what fun. Tony Bruno, who
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  Speaker 1: used to work at our place, the great Tony Bruno
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  Speaker 1: was the voice of Madden.
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  Speaker 3: Yes he was. I think it wasn't it two thousand
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  Speaker 3: the additional with ray Lewis on I over two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and four I think was the I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't remember the year, but I remember Tony spent unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: amounts of time in recording the track for Madden. That
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  Speaker 1: would be cool, like to be Madden, the voice of
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  Speaker 1: Madden or something like that. That would be awesome. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know what other I'm like an old school
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  Speaker 1: arcade game, guys, Call of Duty. I guess it's real popular.
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  Speaker 3: Still, yeah, it's it's still popular. I would love to
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  Speaker 3: be in the Halo video game. That was like the
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  Speaker 3: first video game I ever played back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: So that'd be cool.
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  Speaker 1: That was your game there you go to Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Next up is Don from somewhere in Texas. He says, Hey, Benny,
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  Speaker 1: did you see that Nintendo gave all their employees in
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  Speaker 1: Japan a ten base salary raised this week? Why can't
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  Speaker 1: American businesses be more like that? Well? Don you know
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  Speaker 1: the answer to that. It's called Wall Street, it's called
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  Speaker 1: and it's called just people being tit wats good for Nintendo.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see that. I assume that's true. Who knows,
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you made that up, don but yeah, you should.
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  Speaker 1: You should give raises. If you're not able to give raises,
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  Speaker 1: you should maybe do something else. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think if you unless people are not doing the job.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, those I feel like most businesses in America,
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  Speaker 1: other than a handful, stop giving out raises. So it's
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  Speaker 1: always I always like smile when I see companies that
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  Speaker 1: treat employees the way they're supposed to be treated. If
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  Speaker 1: you do a good job, you get a little more,
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  Speaker 1: and so good for them. I guess boom is business
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  Speaker 1: must be booming at Nintendo. Are you a Nintendo guy?
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  Speaker 1: I used to be back, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Not Nintendo guy. But they do seem to be doing
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  Speaker 3: the best out of the three big video game giants
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  Speaker 3: of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, So that doesn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Mike from Wisconsin writes in on the mail bag.
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  Speaker 1: He says, Ben, how impressive is it to lose a
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  Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars job for a trash can? And
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  Speaker 1: he's sent me the famous photo of this very interesting
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  Speaker 1: woman here in New York. I talked about this Mike
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  Speaker 1: on the show. I guess you weren't listening to batch
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  Speaker 1: by you, but this woman, I guess, Robi, you saw this,
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  Speaker 1: you know the yes, yes, So she's she's large and
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  Speaker 1: in charge and she uh just took the trash can. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They these Nick trash cans for the parade, especially made
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  Speaker 1: because you know what's more perfect than a Nick trash can?
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  Speaker 3: To So I wonder if to use taxtare of money
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  Speaker 3: to make those trash cans.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I do I do right, sanitation. That's
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  Speaker 1: how my tax dollars at work right there exactly. So
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  Speaker 1: this woman just like emptied the trash out and she
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  Speaker 1: picked it up like she was holding up a championship
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  Speaker 1: trophy and walked or wandered away, and that was it.
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  Speaker 1: And there's I will give a credit though she lost
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  Speaker 1: her three hundred and fifty thousand dollars job at JP Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: which is rather embarrassing. However, she didn't wear a mask, Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: you would think, right, I mean in the age. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's still people six years after the pandemic, five
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  Speaker 1: years whenever it ended. There's still everywhere I go. I
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  Speaker 1: see the well. You think if you're still in a
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  Speaker 1: trash can, you'd wear a mask because you can.
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  Speaker 3: See someone who is also somewhat larger in charge. As
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  Speaker 3: they say, a mask wouldn't hide her figure. So I
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  Speaker 3: think people would have been able to figure out who
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  Speaker 3: she was even with a mask.
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  Speaker 1: Are you saying I disagree, Robbie, Really, yes, there are
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  Speaker 1: you know there you might think you're in the minority
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  Speaker 1: being a large and in charge man, a robust man,
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  Speaker 1: as our friend Rob the Goatman would say. However, I
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  Speaker 1: would I've been in I was just in New York
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  Speaker 1: a couple months ago. There are plenty of people who
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  Speaker 1: wow larger size that are mixing. No, not as many, obviously, but.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. There's just something very distinct about her
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  Speaker 3: hair and everything about her.
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  Speaker 1: So she returned the trash can.
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  Speaker 3: That's even worse.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how about the fact she was making three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty thousand. That is outstanding. I know that's like
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  Speaker 1: minimum wage in New York, though you got to earn.
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  Speaker 3: Him that is one hundred grand. You're not doing well living.
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  Speaker 1: Even one hundred thousand. You're living in like a studio
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  Speaker 1: apartment if you Leo from Chicago right soon and says, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: did you see that Colonel sanders former house sold because
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  Speaker 1: KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken sweetened the deal. They offered free
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  Speaker 1: food for a year, free KFC for a year to
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  Speaker 1: get Colonel sanders old house sold. And then Leo says,
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  Speaker 1: which fast food restaurant would you like to have a
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  Speaker 1: free food for for a year? Well, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: rather obviously, raising canes would be be my answer. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what's the deal on Colonel Sanders house? Did they have
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  Speaker 1: to keep it the way? Colonel Sanders at his house
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  Speaker 1: He didn't become successful until he was in his sixties.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I believe that's what did?
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  Speaker 1: I think? That's the legend of Colonel Sanders. Not a
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  Speaker 1: real colonel by the way, fun fat not a real colonel. No,
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  Speaker 1: not a real like an honorary colonel Colonel Sanders. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's the regular dude. That came, they called them colonel
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  Speaker 1: and they just went with it. That's stolen valor Robbie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm surprised the wokes just didn't try to get
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: KFC there.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I guess they do change they call it KFC now.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: That or just you know, the mass production a chicken
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: or something you see. You think the Wokesters would go
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: after KFC, but I know what they used.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: To, Like, I feel like when I was younger, they
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: used to go after.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I feel like the whole animal, like the vegetarian thing
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: is kind of faded though. I say that. And in Oregon,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: my state, there's going to be on the voter ballot
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: because they have like ballad initiatives. You can vote to
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: ban hunting and fishing start this in this year. So
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: who knows.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, I saw that.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not a made up story. That is a
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: real thing that you can vote on in November.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: So they realized that if like there, you need to
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: have hunting otherwise we'll be overrun by like the animals
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: enjoy stooping each other, and they have kids, and then
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: those kids have kids and then it just.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: I know, and there's no there's no ride out like
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: pest companies. It's like, if you have a roach invasion,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: there's nothing you'll be able to tip.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Oh man ah, that that seems like just a wonderful idea, Robin.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: It's something out of like a crappy like B level
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: what if movie, like what if alternate history thing.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: You're a young guy. You think you'll live long enough
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: to see like people like somebody with common sense become
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a leader in Oregon. You should run, well.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, to answer the nope, probably not, I don't know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: maybe hopefully.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: The thing you worry about is how far do you
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: have to go before so boomerangs the other way like
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, No. There's always that point of demarcation where
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: people are like, okay, this is this is too much.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: We need to You.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Would think this would be too much, but you never
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: but I don't think.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, I I you know. We do the show from La.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: The mayor of l A while the city burden down,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: was in Africa.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: To see her booty off. Yes, I have to run.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: She is in position to get re elected. Idiots, like,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: what more does one have to do to not earn
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: re election? The whole freaking city burned down and she
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: was opposing for a photo op somewhere in Africa and uh,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: just completing. They didn't even have water. They had the
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: fire people there, they didn't have the water to put
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: out the fire. In the past.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: One of the wilder stories in the last one hundred years.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine, like you wrote a book, you said,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: all that satire, no one, no one could get re
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: elected after that happened. Well, she just me reelected yet.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: But that's the thing. A lot of these satire sci
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: fi movies and books from the last from like the
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: eighties and nineties are not like real life.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: It's oh well, the one everyone brings up is the
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: book nineteen eighty four, right, yeah, and that was a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: lot of the things that are happening there being from
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: SoCal and a lot of SoCal people. That day Santa
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Monica writes it. He says, hey, Ben, do you see
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: that Windy stock has skyrocketed? Did you get in on
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: this because of Reddit? Apparently people on Reddit were trading.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: They they started a bid to save Wendy's. I guess
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Wendy's is in trouble or something like that. Oh, and
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: so they this is similar to Game Stop. I remember
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the Game Stop thing. A few years ago. They made
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: a movie about that, didn't they.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did. I forget who said it, but yeah,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: that was a big movie. It was.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I know, I've not purchased.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I had Wendy stock when I was younger, as like
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: gifts my grandparents got me when I was born, which
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: is ironic on multiple levels. They pick a fast food
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: chain for me as the But yeah, no, I don't
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: have it anymore, and that is my luck, and I
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: would sell it and now it would be apparently become
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: popular because for a long time, Wendy's was just kind
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: of Yeah, of all the fast food stocks, that was
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: not the one you wanted to have.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So no, I did I have one of those apps.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I play around with the stocks, but I usually just
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: kind of set it and forget it. That's yeah. Did
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: buy some SpaceX, but that's not doing so good. They
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: just came on the market recently, so I don't going
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that that great. But you know, I just got a
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: hold on of those things because they'll they'll come up
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: with something and they'll sell it and they'll make a
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: ton of money in the stock of Skyrocket and then
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: they'll go back.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: That's called they call volatility. Right, they call that, well,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I believe they call that.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I think they call it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll keep the theme going. I'm gonna skip ahead
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: here on the fifth hour mail bag. Alexander from Florida.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: That's a big state, he says, Uh, what is your
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: favorite fast food America? There's a map? These pop up
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: once a year. There's a map of America's favorite fast
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: food restaurants by state. And I'm a sucker for these,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Robbie say, I fall for these things every freaking time.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I can't get enough. Just put a map in front
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: of me, and I feel like this is old, but
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I'll just go with it. Why not? You want to
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: pick a state, Robbie, You want to pick a well,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you're in Oregon, right, Yeah, let's do Oregon, all, Robbie. Which,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: let's see here Oregon. What do you think the favorite
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: fast food restaurant is in Oregon?
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Kind of basic with our fast foods, Saga, McDonald's.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: That is incorrect. Oh wow, right, this is a restaurant
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that Lorena had mentioned to me.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Oh that makes sense.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Actually, Queen, no, not there, dairy queen, but not dairy Queen.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Uh oh look at this, are you really from Oregon, Robbie,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Well, I would say I have a very low hate relationship.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I know, I understand I have the same thing with California.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: But go ahead, pick a one one more. Guess, Robbie,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: one more. The pressure is on. You're gonna get killed
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: by Justin and Cincinnati and Rob the goat man.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, who's my fat man? No?
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Rob? No? In the Fast Food Challenge quote to this
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: finger a jigg, Papa Murphy's is the most popular.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I would never associate with fast food. Is the thing?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Isn't that what? You pick it up and take it?
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: And maybe, yeah, they're everywhere in Oregon. I'll give them that,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I just you would. You could have given
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: me ten gusts and my brain wouldn't have migrated over
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: to the pizza auction.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Say, I totally hear you. I I was somewhere. I
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: think I was in Arizona. I forget where there's no
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: pop I don't. I haven't seen any Papa Murphy's here
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: in California where I am. But I was traveling some
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: when I saw one and I took a photo in
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: like Lorenz. Oh, that's my favorite restaurant.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: In a little there's one in literally almost every town
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: in Oregon. Like, if you have more in ten thousand
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: people in your town, do you have popa Murphy's.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I do not see raising Keynes as the favorite in
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: any of these states, which is a bad job by
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of cool and Uh, let's see. Alabama's most
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: popular fast food restaurant is Captain D's. I have no
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: idea what that is.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I've never heard of that.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Never heard of that.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I would have thought it'd be like Chick fil Air
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: or something.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Chick fil A is Georgia, Michigan's Little Caesars, the Pizza
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: miss Mississippi Sonic. Wow.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Wow, it's not.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is compelling or not. Texas
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is what burger? Do you ever have sense? That's a big? Oh?
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin's Culver's. Culver's is great, love culver.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I've had Pulver's once in Indianapolis. It is pretty good.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Pretty good. Yeah. Uh, Taco John's in South Dakota. I've
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: never had Taco John's yet. Taco john does not seem great. Anyway,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: there you go. Some of the Oh Nebraska I should
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: contact Danny G. Nebraska has Arby's is their favorite.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: It's the funnier underrated stories of the Fifth Hour was
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: because his love quote unquote unless it wasn't of the Army's.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the idea of Arby's is great. Although I have
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Indiana also has Arby's, I can't close the deal, Neil,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with you, dude? Any Arby's the top fast
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: food restaurant there? Uh? Yeah, Like I used to like
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Arby's back in the old days. I'd go, I stop
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: going that. The cheese steak they have is supposed to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: be pretty good, the new cheesey.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: That's what Coop said. The commercial looked good too, so.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It's hard to screw up a cheese steak, although I
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: have had restaurants screw up cheese steaks's yeah, you should
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: be able to make that, right there? What else do
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: we have? Let's see your a lot of messages this week,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: which is good. I like that. I picked through some
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Jake from Seattle says, Benny big Pants, you support the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: return of the Commodore, And then he said, I I
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: know you had a Commodore sixty four when you were
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: in You kid, what it says? Commodore has unveiled a
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Why you see this, Robbie? Why two K inspired flip phone.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: This thing has texting, maps and music, however, no social media.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: So the genius idea, Actually, yeah.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: The problem is this rock. So it's I tell you
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the problem right now, right. So it's got the text message.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: So you get your say you got a kid in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: high school or whatever, junior, I give you a phone, okay, grant,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I got a phone.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: No social media? Oh come on dad, mom was So
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: then you give them this phone and then all their
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: friends are sending them links to TikTok Instagram and they're like,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I can't see it. Oh my god.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I think there are people that would buy it just
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: because they don't want the social media. But you're right,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: people just send text links now, so even then you'll
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: just be getting text and links even if you don't
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: want it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So I yeah, and I try to stay off the socialism.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I'll go on there obviously work, I have to go
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: during the show. I just I'm more of like a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: drive by guy during the day. I'll pop up something's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: on there real quick, and then get off the social media.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Good luck. I don't know how much those phones are, Jake,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you didn't say. I'm assuming they're not that cheap Cole
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: from so Cal writes in another Soco Guy says, Ben,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: have you been to Disneyland since they reopened Pirates of
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the Caribbean. It's getting killed online. I have not cool.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I've not been to Disneyland this year. I've not been
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: in over a year and a half or something like that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I did see this. They closed Pirates
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: of the Caribbean down for a couple of months. They
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: renovated it. They changed some of the characters, and that
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: did not go over well because, as you know, Robbie,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: when they mind is set, people like things a certain way,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: like change, and the other thing is most of that, right,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's nostalgia, Like yeah, it's hey, it's
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the same way it was when I was eight years old,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: and I'm older now, so it's like, hey, that's God.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Although they did change it. They used to have the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: men chasing after the women, and then during the craziness
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: of the pandemic and all that, or I guess a
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: little bit before that, they changed it to the women
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: chasing after the men. Yes, that is the world is
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: just like with the Washington Bullets changing their name ended
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: gun violence. Ye, same concept applies, very very good there.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Now I'm not cold been to Disneyland, but good for Disney.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sure some genius said, Oh I got an idea,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: let's fix Pirates of the Caribbean. Okay, that sounds good.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Why not, Reggie from Detroit writes in he says, hey, Ben,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: enjoy the podcast every weekend. Would you be interested in
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: going to the world's most isolated airbn b? Reggie says,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and then he sent a clip here there is a
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: house you can rent. It's an Airbnb. It's in the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: middle of the Pacific Ocean between Florida and Cuba. You
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: have to take a boat there. There is nothing around it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: It is just a house and it's surrounded often by dolphins, manatees, rays,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: schools of tropical fish. It's just a small, like a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: houseboat floating out in the It's anchored, but it's out
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the ocean. Amenities include air conditioning,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a custom oak bed, hidden TV, and they say you
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: have to be careful though there are lots of sharks
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: in that part.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: So always kind of had a minor phobia of sharks
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: and being stranded in the ocean also kind of is
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: one of those terrifying night reoccurring nightmares for me. So no,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I'm good.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I like, for a couple hours,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: that would be cool, Like, hey, yeah, hang out for
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a few hours to spend the night there. What if
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: there's a storm that comes by exactly? And the other
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: thing that what if the animals, like some of those
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: jump out of the like seal or something. They're like, hey,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: let me jump out and lay in the house, like
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: what are you going to do? You know? Or manate
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think mandates can get out of the water,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: can they They're pretty they're pretty big like that. Kevin
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and Kansas rights into the mail bag, he says, Dear
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Ben and guest star, that's you, Robbie, Robbie the Great,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Robbie the Mariner fan. I went shopping this week and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: realized how much of these store brands I buy versus
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the name brand stuff. Where do you come down on
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: buying generic over name brand? I hardly ever notice the difference,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: So why not? Yeah, Kevin, I will most of the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: time go store brand, all things being equal. That's that's
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: my thing. There's some dupes. There's some YouTube guys that
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: do that explain, like certain products like Walmart are just
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: dupes of you can get Raising Canes style sauce or
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Chickla sauce, which is the store brand. And I know what,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I'm a the Costco guy, and the batteries at Costco
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I think are made by Energizer or whatever the same.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: They're the same like name brand, name brand companies. They
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: just make extra and they put it under the label.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: So that's interesting, but it isn't. It's one of those
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: interesting things about human beings. And if you study marketing
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and advertising, people think that they're getting a better deal
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: or the products better if it's a name brand. Went
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: often it's like gas is regulated in pretty much everywhere,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: so you can get you don't have to get the name.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: You can go to a generic gas station. It's the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: same gas. You're gonna get brand gas station. It's not
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: any different.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Because the one where I do name brand or store
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: brand usually is with cheese stuff. I've noticed like Kroger
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: slash fred Meyer, which is big in our state. The
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: store brand like Cheddar cheese is just super bland compared
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: to like till Mouk or some of those other brands.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, you gotta you gotta try certain things. Yeah,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I certain things, and you can play around, but I
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: do go say it's a few bucks, it's not that much,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: but over time it Yeah, it adds up. Ryan from
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Shrewsbury writes, and he says, Ben, I might have sent
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: my email last week a little late. Bad job by me.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: He says, I noticed you've been reading my email, says
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Ryan from Maine, bad job by all right, thank you,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: You're still my favorite radio guy. My question this week
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: is have you ever thought of having Coop or Lorena
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: as a guest on the podcast? Uh? There you go,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Uh listen right there too. They don't want to. They
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: don't want to do it. Uh and uh, they're busy,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: they don't have time for this. Trust me. I I
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: did try to get Loraina on, had her booked and
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: then she canceled. So I generally don't. I don't. I
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: don't go out. If people want to do it, they'll
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: let me know they want to do it. I'm not
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: going to beg people to do it. And if you
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: want to do it, I'll throw the offer out. But yeah,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I'm good, good on that, Ryan? Uh? Out back John
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and Joanna from sokel Here San Gabriel Valley says, Hey,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Big Ben and special guest, listening to your stories about
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: your dishwasher hit close to home with us. Recently, our
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: microwave malfunctioned and our fix it Felix did fix it
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: for a minute. Now our breaker keeps tripping. Well, that
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: sucks that you reheated a meal prep burrito in the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: air fryer. And I have a friend that refuses to
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: use a microwave. So our question this week is do
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: you ever use the microwave and if you do, in
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: what fashion. The only thing I've used the microwave for
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: over the last four years is to melt butter. Like
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: if I'm cooking and I need something like belt melted,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I don't. I just don't like to taste of food
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: out of the microwave. I guess I'm a diva. I
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: just don't. I don't use it. I don't make popcorn
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: in it. I don't. I don't do it. Also, he says, unfortunately,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the bloomin shrimp, which was brought up on the mailbag
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: last week by Bree, has been discontinued at his location
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: out he works. He's the head, He's like the boss
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  Speaker 1: man at the Outback. He's the godfather. Oh yeah, So, Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: if you ever need outback, if you're in SoCal, I
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  Speaker 1: know a guy John. I know an outback guy. John's
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  Speaker 1: my guy. He'll get up with the bloomin onion. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: says I love that app tier as much as as
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  Speaker 1: Breed did the do you have the I don't eat trimp?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have the blooming shrimp? Did you ever read that?
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  Speaker 3: Robbie, I don't know if ever been to Outback. I
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: know it's bad to say I've been to outback. No there,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there is any in my area, so
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  Speaker 3: I haven't had a chance to.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Uh anyway, here's a bad job by
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  Speaker 1: out Back for taking that item off the menu. We
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  Speaker 1: could try to remake something similar. Oh that would be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're important when the restaurant is going to
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  Speaker 1: open up a test kitchen to do some special food.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool.
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  Speaker 3: But in terms of shrimp, yes, I am a fan
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  Speaker 3: of shrimp, So there is that.
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  Speaker 1: All right? Oh but let's see here, let's skip over that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: What do we got Hank from Ohio rights? This has
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: been Why did that caller this week? Redo the riot? Act.
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  Speaker 1: It was all snotty when you were chatting about Turkey
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  Speaker 1: versus uh, well, I don't know, Hank. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the guy they got called up. He just was like
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  Speaker 1: one of those I'm a better than you guys. Yeah,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I don't like that guy, but that attitude I'm better
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  Speaker 1: than you, I know, better than you, blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: If a voice could be qualified as the punch will
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  Speaker 3: face that that call would have been at I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I know, and it's like the whole thing. I
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  Speaker 1: looked into it and like Turkey was trying to go
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  Speaker 1: with Turk internationally and the U. Yeah, I guess. The
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  Speaker 1: United Nations had accepted this in twenty twenty two, the
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  Speaker 1: US State Department in twenty twenty three, and it said
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  Speaker 1: though that both the United Nations and the State Department
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  Speaker 1: still list the nation on their websites as Turkey Turky
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  Speaker 1: even though they accepted it, and they said, the reason
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  Speaker 1: that the people in Turk want to be called Turk
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  Speaker 1: is because of Turkey being associated with a fool or
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  Speaker 1: a bird. So I'm tired of the jokes and the like,
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  Speaker 1: well that's not we don't want the jokes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I get it I understand, but.
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  Speaker 3: Still also that call in particular, he was, so he's
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  Speaker 3: got like seventy five percent of the call tragic America
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  Speaker 3: and then goes, but at least we can agree to
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  Speaker 3: rout the United States. As he ends his calls, what
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  Speaker 3: are you doing here?
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, it says. Historically, turk
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  Speaker 1: A has been the official name inside the country since
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  Speaker 1: the Republic of Turkey was founded in nineteen twenty three.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: The root Turk is obviously ancient, dates back to the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Ottoman Empire called the Turkish Empire in English. And I
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: used to work with a guy named Turk. And I
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: know in the NFL, when you get released in training camp,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: isn't it the Turk that comes and gets you and
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: says bring your place? They call that the Turk? Absolutely,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: what else do we have? Let's see here? Mark from
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Reno said he enjoys the was listening last week. JT.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: The Wingman says, you've been and guests. As I was
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: scrolling through Facebook earlier today, I saw that a friend
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: of mine was visiting one of my favorite burger restaurants
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, and it made me remember the burger I
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: loved there so much. Called the Boss. It's a local,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: farm sourced half pound beef patty top with America cheese,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: creamy peanut butter, hard wood smoked bacon, and raw red onion.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: The peanut butter on a burger is life changing. I
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: would have never thought that until I tried it. Since
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I know you love a good smash burger, I was
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: curious what your favorite toppings on your burger would be.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: The timing or this timing seems good as we approached
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the two hundred and fiftieth birthday coming up on July
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: fourth of America. That's from JT. I do love a
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: good smash burger. JT. I do make those on the
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  Speaker 1: home griddle. And my topping I love some cheese, some
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: grilled onions. I'll occasionally switch it up, go with the
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: onion ring. The sauce has changed. I'll do a thousand Island,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I'll do barbecue sauce. It just depends, like what my
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: mood is. That Teraioki sauce. Sometimes that's good. Change it
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: up a little bit garlic. I'm not doing a lot
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: of exotic stuff. I've not had peanut butter. However, you
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: do know, Robbie, the key to cooking. As I've often said,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the culinary arts are just combining the proper amount of sugar, fat,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and salt. Yep, that's it. So there's a lot of
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: sweetness in the peanut butter.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: It depends what kind of get and so yeah, I've
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: had peanut butter burgers before. One actually was at the
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: meatup we had in Seattle date that was like that bars.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: The fire fighting bar things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was okay. The one I had in West
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Lofaiette where like the birth of the peanut butter burger
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: or whatever or the birthday claim is like the first
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: one who knows what it was? That was really good.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I can vouch for the peanut butter on
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: a cheeseburger for a burger in general.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I think I have. I've done that. Maybe I haven't
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: forgot about it.
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  Speaker 3: I think you'd remember.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Probably. Yeah, Now I gotta find this guy. Hold on,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I gotta find this guy's name because I did not
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: write their name down, and I know what happens, Robbie,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: if I don't use the name, I get the follow
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: up email. You know, I bothered to send the message
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: and you didn't say my name, and I hold on,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: you sing it live coverage the mail bag with Ibby
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the Mariner fan. It is his birthday this weekend. It's
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: it's birthday and birthday month for Robbie the Mariner.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Everyone knows the day now, people are doing birthday weeks
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: skin all or ridiculous to be honest.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: On the whole thing. Yeah, all about you, all about you.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: So I'm clicking the what you mightna call it, and
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get and it's very slow. I'm in
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: the fifth hour mail bag.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Digging your ways through the mail bag.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Oh this is from Alf. Why did I not put
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Alf's name? Okay, this is from Alf the alien part
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: A bad job by me? Greeting's been a special guest.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: How does one get into your coveted friend zone as
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you described from last Friday's podcast. Secondly, once in said
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: friend zone, are there any perks like possibly some of
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the Japanese cat for cotton candy asking for a friend?
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: How does one become a friend? Robbie? What does it
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: take to get into that friend.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: That's a good question.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Being around, having yeah, obvious, you have to have common
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: things in common being around, not being crazy, not being
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: a nut job. It just kind of happens organically.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does not be. It's a fine line because
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: you don't want to be a stalker, but you want
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: to be there for somebody when they need, you know.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So I'm sure there's been studies done on that.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Kwang from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam rights and he says,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Ben with the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International hot
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Dog Eating Contest coming up and Coney Island, New York
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: around the corner, which hot dog style is your go to?
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Quang says? He, by the way, says guaranteed human. He says,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: A sliced a side sliced buns. These are the standard.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: These are the standard hinged hot dog buns found in
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: most grocery stores nationwide. There's the top slice that's New
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: England style, cut vertically down the middle. These flat bottomed,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: flat bottomed buns were popularized in the nineteen forties by
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Howard Johnson's as vessels for the clam strips and lobster rolls. Okay.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: And then there's potato hot dog buns that are from
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Europe European immigrants, later adopted by American bakeries, with a
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: smashed potato or potato flour and uh, yeah, so I've
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: had all of them. I do like the potato one
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: very soft. Brioche hot dog mon is good. Yeah, that's
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: a solid, that's you know. I don't really I don't
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: really like this the regular hot dog mon I don't know.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I just I feel like if it's too it's got
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: to be soft. I'm any preference there potato.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: I'm a big Rios Buns fan in general, either burger
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: or hot dog.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, uh? Steve writes in from Arizona's Has Been Do
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: you believe that this time traveler is legit? This guy,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I guess predicted on TikTok he says he's a time
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: traveler and he predicted that the final matchup for the
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: World Cup will be let me see, let me click
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: hold on, say I go click this thing. A guy
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: claims that he has seen the future and he says
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the matchup will be Argentina versus Mexico in the World
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Cup final. He says, so, yeah, I'm sure that that
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: seems legit. Why not? Yeah, you're time traveler. You're going
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: to announce that on TikTok?
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't you if you were a time travel wouldn't you
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: place a bet in Vegas on that and not just
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: announce it to the world.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Well, you'd make you'd make a bunch of small bets
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: so no one figured out that you made. You know
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: who you were exactly that, and then you'd make somebody.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I will get out on that note, Robbie, have a
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: great rest of your birthday weekend, and thank you, thank
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: you so much. I would like to let you know
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: my schedule this week's a little different. On the radio.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: My time has been requested by the wife. She's got
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: to break up here, so she's asked me to take
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: some time. We're gonna go on a little roady, little
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: road trip. So I will be in tonight, Sunday night,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: and the Monday, Monday night and Tuesday, and then I'm
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: off for the rest of the week. However, we will
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: be back for the podcast on Friday, and then I'll
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: even do one on the fourth. Why not, because I'm
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: a glutton for punishment. And also the mail bag will
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: be back next week. So but again, just a couple
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: of days this week. It's a short week for me,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: so I'll be in tonight and tomorrow and then off
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the rest of the week. Rare and appropriate and that's
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: how the schedule goes. And Robbie, enjoy yourself and thank you, yep,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: thanks all right, as Dick and Date would say, bye
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: bye bye bye bye fulation