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The Fifth Hour: 37 Minutes of Mud! · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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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. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
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  Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
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  Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g
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  Speaker 3: Radio Happy Saturday to you. You can listen to this
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  Speaker 3: whenever you want. Is you know, it's the magic of podcasting.
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  Speaker 3: But we are united together here in the early morning
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  Speaker 3: hours on this the twelfth day of July. Reunited and
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  Speaker 3: it feels so good. Danny feels so good in the
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  Speaker 3: Magic pod Box. Not to be confused with anything else.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Magic pod Gut, an amazing place where
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  Speaker 3: audio gold takes place. And we celebrate National Simplicity Day,
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  Speaker 3: which is today National How are you celebrating National Simplicity Day.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to celebrate by yelling simple curse words at
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  Speaker 4: the Dodgers on TV today.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect. There you go. Yeah, had a nice job by
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers here. I like that. They remind me of
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  Speaker 1: an NBA team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, sometimes NBA teams right before the All Star break,
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  Speaker 3: they'll just kind of shut it down and not give
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  Speaker 3: a crap.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, let's just take the week off before the
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  Speaker 3: All Star break.
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  Speaker 4: I think Freddy Freeman's already in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts the last month are both
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  Speaker 3: hitting under two hundred.
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  Speaker 4: At least. Bets had a great game against the Giants
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  Speaker 4: last night. We had a triple well, the second to
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  Speaker 4: last time the Dodgers were up there, only trailing by one.
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  Speaker 4: After it looked like it was it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a blowout, and Betts hits a triple one out. Freeman
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  Speaker 4: comes up. All he's got to do is hit the
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  Speaker 4: ball to the outfield and it's a tie game, and
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  Speaker 4: he pops the damn ball up in the infield.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, here's my problem, Danny. First of all, I agree
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  Speaker 3: with everything you said. Secondly, I can't rip Freddy Freeman
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  Speaker 3: because he hit one of the great home runs in
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  Speaker 3: Dodger history in the World Series in Game one. Gipson
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  Speaker 3: esk and all that in game one on gibson S
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  Speaker 3: but that Grand Salami in one of the World series.
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  Speaker 4: Like that, what have you done for me lately? Though,
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  Speaker 4: big bet?
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  Speaker 3: I know, well, he's an older player and outside of
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  Speaker 3: the steroid era.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let a falling star fall on me.
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  Speaker 3: If Freddy get to that age and you start playing
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  Speaker 3: the way Freddie Freeman's playing, all of a sudden, you're like,
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  Speaker 3: what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 4: Is he done tweak this out on the FSR account?
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  Speaker 4: Ben Mallards says, trade Freddie Freeman?
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  Speaker 3: Now, no, no, I already did a monologue Danny on
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  Speaker 3: trading Freddie Freeman when they went back to Atlanta the
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  Speaker 3: first time and he got all emotional, remember that, because
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  Speaker 3: the Braves were there, was like a guy from the
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  Speaker 3: Braves I forget who maybe was in Thropolis the GM,
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  Speaker 3: but somebody from the Braves let the story out that
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  Speaker 3: they wanted Freeman back, and like his agent didn't tell him.
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  Speaker 1: You remember, I think I'm remembering that right, Well, yeah, oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember. There was a big mess with his
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  Speaker 4: agent and the offer and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like when he started crying about because
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  Speaker 3: he was so upset he would have rather stayed with
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  Speaker 3: the Braves. I was like, oh, DoD just got to
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  Speaker 3: get rid of this guy. So I already did that.
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  Speaker 3: I already, I've already done the trade. Freddie Freeman mally
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  Speaker 3: monologue prior.
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  Speaker 4: To him helping the team win the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: I tough love Danny, I inspired Freddie Freeman. I'm responsible
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  Speaker 3: for that World Series. I am wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So it was national.
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  Speaker 3: Simplicity day to day. The tag on this is look
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  Speaker 3: for the bare necessities. The simple, bare necessities. Sounds like
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  Speaker 3: a Disney song to me, is what it sounds like.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, there are let's see the numbers here.
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  Speaker 3: There are three hundred thousand. That's the number of items
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  Speaker 3: in the average American home.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? Three hundred thousand items in the average
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  Speaker 1: American home? Wow?
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  Speaker 4: Damn.
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  Speaker 3: One in ten is the number of Americans who rent
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  Speaker 3: off site stores.
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  Speaker 4: They have so much crap they run. I was just
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  Speaker 4: gonna say, and I wonder it's such a huge pain
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  Speaker 4: in the ass to move.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty five percent is the percentage of people with two
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  Speaker 3: car garages who don't have room to park cars inside them.
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  Speaker 1: My hand is raised on that. Yeah, I do not
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  Speaker 1: to do that thirty two.
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  Speaker 3: Percent percentage of people with two car garages who only
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  Speaker 3: have room for one vehicle in the two car garage.
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  Speaker 3: I get all kinds of numbers because it's National Simplicity
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  Speaker 3: Day today. Let's hear the average number of toys for
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  Speaker 3: a ten year old? How many toys is.
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  Speaker 1: A ten year old? The average ten year old America
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  Speaker 1: have Diddy? What do you think? You're below ten? But
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  Speaker 1: what do you think?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I mean CoA a month away from his second birthday
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  Speaker 4: right now, and he has two thousand, five hundred and
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  Speaker 4: thirty two toys.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's way above average. He's in the top percentile.
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  Speaker 3: It's two hundred and thirty eight. Is the average number
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  Speaker 3: of toys of ten year old owns two hundred thirty eight?
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  Speaker 4: That's in one toy box. He's got like five of them.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's the Golden boy.
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  Speaker 3: And if the average number of toys and average ten
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  Speaker 3: year old actually plays with, so they have two hundred
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  Speaker 3: thirty eight, but they the average they play with is twelve.
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  Speaker 4: That yeah, that oh yeah, that makes sense. That's why
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  Speaker 4: we rotate out his toys because he'll keep going back
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  Speaker 4: to the same ones even though he's got hundreds of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's do the math on that.
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  Speaker 3: So twelve is what percent of two hundred and thirty eight?
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  Speaker 3: Just some malor math on the fly.
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  Speaker 1: Here on the pod, that is five percent. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to add up.
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  Speaker 3: This used to be a thing, you remember it with
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  Speaker 3: cable television where they say you had one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty channels, but you only watched twelve of them.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you want to hear a skill that CoA has.
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  Speaker 1: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: He'll be watching? Say we'll put Moana on Disney Plus,
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  Speaker 4: and he will run to one of his toy boxes.
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  Speaker 4: Those characters are buried underneath hundreds of other toys, and
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  Speaker 4: he knows exactly where in that mess those characters are
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  Speaker 4: for each movie he's watching, grabs them, runs back to
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  Speaker 4: the TV, and holds the characters to match the movie.
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  Speaker 1: That's a boss move, man. You gotta because that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the fully immersive experience, Danny, Man, you got to. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta be part of the whatever you watch. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you gotta do.
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  Speaker 3: The number of outfits the average American woman owns, how
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  Speaker 3: about this one thirty? I bet you that's low. It
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  Speaker 3: seems like that's low.
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  Speaker 4: That is low.
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  Speaker 3: That's all both our wives. I've only met your wife
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  Speaker 3: a few times. You've met my wife a few times.
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  Speaker 3: My wife's way over thirty. I'm sure your wife is
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  Speaker 3: also way past thirty, right, way, that's sixty at sixty
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  Speaker 3: at least, you know, probably higher that And the last
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  Speaker 3: fun fact on this what a day, simplicity day we
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  Speaker 3: celebrated every year unless we don't. How much money is
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  Speaker 3: spent by Americans annually on non essential goods non essential goods?
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  Speaker 3: That number, all right, reveal answers, reveal answers. That number
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  Speaker 3: is one point two trillion per.
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  Speaker 4: One trillion of that is given to Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, of course, and a lot of it this week.
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  Speaker 3: But the trillion? Like, what is what is essential? You
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  Speaker 3: need clothing, shelter, and food. Anything else is non essential
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  Speaker 3: technically right, Like listening to a podcast is not essential?
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  Speaker 1: We think it is, but it's not. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: pretty much everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a second, then, during COVID, why did they give
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  Speaker 4: us essential worker passes? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true because of the the Marshall Act. Remember that,
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  Speaker 1: the Marshall the market.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we control the eas alert system nationally. So
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  Speaker 4: we are essential.
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  Speaker 1: Very important, very important.
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  Speaker 3: So on this point we've got the Summer Special, Inferno,
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  Speaker 3: Bennie's Box Office, and the mud Pie Manifesto, but we
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  Speaker 3: begin with this Danny.
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  Speaker 1: So it is that time again. You look at the calendar,
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  Speaker 1: you say, well, that's July. What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, this is when Lebron James transforms the NBA
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  Speaker 3: off season into his own personal stage. It's his own
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  Speaker 3: soap opera. And this was all over the place yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: And now I obviously I wasn't working. I did the
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  Speaker 3: overnight show, but I was off Friday night after we
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  Speaker 3: did the I hope you enjoyed the pod with all
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  Speaker 3: the audio in it from the different coaches, But so
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  Speaker 3: so Friday, all day there's these Lebron stories. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's not happy. Here's why he's not happy with the Lakers.
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  Speaker 3: He is clutching center stage like a Broadway diva denied
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  Speaker 3: her spotlight. Right the it's the Summer Special, the Summer
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  Speaker 3: of Lebron, and it is classic, like Captain Ego himself
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  Speaker 3: making it all about him. This is the attention, horror
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  Speaker 3: of attention. Hoos, the spotlight, the spotlight, addict Danny is
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  Speaker 3: at it again.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're a Laker guy, this is your team.
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  Speaker 4: He's not long in the Purple nguld Ben, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: looking forward to this because whichever team he graces next
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  Speaker 4: is going to be the team you rant on endlessly.
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  Speaker 4: And I can't wait to pass the baton to a
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  Speaker 4: different NBA organization.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll see what happens. But using useful idiots in
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  Speaker 3: the the meaning. When I see these stories, and there
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  Speaker 3: were a bunch of them yesterday, I try to figure out.
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  Speaker 3: It's fun game.
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  Speaker 4: I like to play.
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  Speaker 3: Where did the story originate? Did it come from the Lakers,
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  Speaker 3: did it come from Lebron? Did it come from a
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  Speaker 3: third party. And it's pretty easy once you kind of
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  Speaker 3: get the lay of the land to figure out which
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  Speaker 3: stories are being planted by Lebron, which stories are being
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  Speaker 3: planted by the Lakers. And it's a pretty fun game
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  Speaker 3: to play. But Lebron's always doing the passive aggressive thing.
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  Speaker 3: He's got his buddies in the media. Rich Paul is
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  Speaker 3: the guy that's kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of the middleman on that, and it's like Lebron's doing
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  Speaker 1: this one man Shakespearean tragedy to leave the Lakers or
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  Speaker 1: not to leave the Lakers. That is the question. The
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  Speaker 1: drama begins, but it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's wild, and the chronicles will continue at least for
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  Speaker 3: another couple months.
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  Speaker 4: It seems that he's always unhappy because no matter what
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  Speaker 4: a front office does, they're not doing enough to put
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  Speaker 4: other stars in play around him to help him win.
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  Speaker 4: But then when he gets a true big time star
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  Speaker 4: like Luca, then that takes away from him being the
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  Speaker 4: top dog, and he doesn't like that either.
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  Speaker 3: So you're saying, Lebron, you're damned if you do, you're
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  Speaker 3: damned if you don't. Exactly, this one seems to be, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I was the hot girl at the at the bar.
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  Speaker 3: I got all the attention, and now there's another woman
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  Speaker 3: that's shown up and the guys are giving her all
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  Speaker 3: the attention.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron didn't like it.
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  Speaker 4: Bach This is an afternoon drive djay who was getting
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  Speaker 4: all the remote set of radio station doing all the
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  Speaker 4: live broadcasts, and the morning show was kind of lame.
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  Speaker 4: And then suddenly management brings in a big shot morning
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  Speaker 4: stud and that guy starts getting all the live broadcasts
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  Speaker 4: and takes all the attention away, and the afternoon dude
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  Speaker 4: is like, hey, wait, what about me, HOOMI, what about me?
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  Speaker 1: What about me?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not speaking from experience. That never happened to me.
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  Speaker 1: No, that would never. That does not happen in radio.
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  Speaker 3: You know everyone they just worry about their real estate, right,
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  Speaker 3: They don't worry about anyone real estate. That's the way
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  Speaker 3: that it works. So we turned the page on that.
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  Speaker 3: Now yesterday, oh, yesterday, really quick, yesterday. I need to
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  Speaker 3: address this.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. You told a great story about how Denny Green,
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  Speaker 4: the late great Denny Green, gave you his business card yep,
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  Speaker 4: and offered you three NFL tickets and you never took
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  Speaker 4: them up on it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I did not know, yrk face, you should have got
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  Speaker 4: tickets the next few years on the Viking State anywhere
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  Speaker 4: near southern California.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I screwed up. I didn't. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: And I still when my dad passed away a few
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  Speaker 3: years ago, I was going through, you know, everything I
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  Speaker 3: had as a kid. It was just still nice and
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  Speaker 3: I was going through all my stuff and I found
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  Speaker 3: Dennis Green's card that he gave me from that night
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  Speaker 3: or that afternoon at the college radio station, and it
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  Speaker 3: was pretty cool to look at it like, oh that
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  Speaker 3: was a great man.
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  Speaker 4: You messed that one up. When a dude like that
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  Speaker 4: makes that sort of offer, you take him up on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty cool. He was such a nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: It was really just a really loved music. It's really
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  Speaker 1: like you see that.
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  Speaker 3: A lot in sports dandy Like they look, that's their job,
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  Speaker 3: but they talk about other things like music or something else,
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  Speaker 3: and they're like, that's really where their passion is.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: So the Benny box officely so, I was inspired because
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  Speaker 3: my time was requested by my wife to go see
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  Speaker 3: this f one movie which is out now.
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  Speaker 4: Apple was Yeah, with Brad Pitt, did you guys do
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  Speaker 4: the full on experience at Imax?
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  Speaker 1: We didn't do Imax, but we we went to My
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  Speaker 1: wife loves going to the.
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  Speaker 3: Movie theaters that have the lazy boy chairs, like the
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  Speaker 3: really you know expensive oh yeah, And I'm like, I
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  Speaker 3: don't need this and she's like, no, no, it's a show.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're going too a show. And I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I.
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  Speaker 4: Used to go to order from your chair at this theater.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that was a whole that was a
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  Speaker 1: hole to do.
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  Speaker 3: And she she's like, no, this is the experience, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, my memories, Danny.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. You're around my age when
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  Speaker 1: we would go to the movies. The movies. The theaters
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  Speaker 1: were not bad. They were nice and cool, but there
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  Speaker 1: was bubble gum all over the place, you know, there
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  Speaker 1: was They were not like they are now the movie theaters. No.
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  Speaker 3: So we were at the movies and we saw F one.
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  Speaker 3: My wife wanted to see it. Of all, I have
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  Speaker 3: a shock because she's not really into sports, but she's like,
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  Speaker 3: I want to check it out. So I was, all right, well,
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  Speaker 3: I'll go. And then this thing was two hours and
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  Speaker 3: thirty minutes, Danny.
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  Speaker 4: It went on forever.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Shows and movies should be ninety like a Broadway show,
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  Speaker 3: a Vegas show ninety minutes. That's like forty minutes intermission
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  Speaker 3: and then like another whatever's left and then and that's it.
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  Speaker 3: So but everyone out there went to the bougie theater.
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  Speaker 3: The movie was well done. Uh it's just crazy to
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  Speaker 3: me watching this how popular F one is in the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the world and nobody in America gives a
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  Speaker 3: shit about F one racing. It's it's like soccer, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's like I think soccer or football. This is
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the world calls it. That is more
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  Speaker 3: popular than America than F one racing. But I've been
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  Speaker 3: to a few NASCAR races in my radio past.
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  Speaker 1: Booging and bugging and beg and I'd never been to.
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  Speaker 3: An F one race. I really never wanted to go.
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  Speaker 3: I know they have them in Vegas. You know, they
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  Speaker 3: the Eurocentric cocktail of you know, rich people, champagne, massive egos,
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  Speaker 3: all that. And so this movie, the the theory behind
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  Speaker 3: it is rather simple.
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  Speaker 1: I was doing a little digging on this, and again,
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  Speaker 1: the movie is fine. It was good. It was kind
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  Speaker 1: of predictable.
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  Speaker 3: But the over garks in charge of F one, it's
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  Speaker 3: one of the real embarrassments for F one racing that
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  Speaker 3: they have not been able.
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  Speaker 1: To make a dent in America. They just nobody cares here.
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  Speaker 3: So the theory is they decided, the oil barons and
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  Speaker 3: the people that have put all the money in F one,
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  Speaker 3: they decided, Hey, the key to get into the hearts, minds,
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  Speaker 3: and souls of the American audience is the chisel jawline
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  Speaker 3: of Brad Pitt. That the that is the key, Danny,
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  Speaker 3: that Brad Pitt can unlock this whole world in America
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  Speaker 3: and not a pit stop, just a pit just Brad Pitt,
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  Speaker 3: you know, no pole position, all that stuff. And so
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  Speaker 3: it's all part of a marketing campaign by F one
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  Speaker 3: to try to seduce the US customer. And it makes
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  Speaker 3: a lot of sense, like these are some big time
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  Speaker 3: Hollywood people involved in this movie, and if it does well,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know the box office numbers, but if
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  Speaker 3: this thing does well, and if only let's say five
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: percent of those people that went and saw this movie,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: they're like, well, maybe I'll check out n F one
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: race now and I'll see what's going on. Well, you've
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: increased your audience by a possibly five percent.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: You know, historically no one cares that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: You know, there was there's a decent amount of drama
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: and all that stuff, and Brad Pitt's got the Gravi
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: toss and all that stuff.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: So it was a little I said, it was predictable.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: It was kind of calculated.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Some of it seemed a little forced, and I would
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: love to have been a fly in the room when
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: some some marketing weasels said, you know, here's what we
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: can do to grow the audience. You just put a
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: big movie star in there like brad Pitt, and these
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Americans they love movie stars, and that's all.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: You have to do, and then boom, you know, wam bam,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: thank you mam. Everyone's gonna come out.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: It'll be great, It'll be absolutely Now the real test,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: the real test is are we going to get to
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: the point where a caller like Dave from Sheboygan calls
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: in to sports radio says, Hey, I want to talk
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: F one. You think that Ferrari can get it done
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: this weekend in Monaco, you know, and it's like that, Yeah,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: good luck.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: There's a headline right here that says the f Ones
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: movie may be helping apple Stock?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Is that right?
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: That's interesting? Yeah. And by the way, it has grossed
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: two hundred and ninety three million dollars as of this
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Saturday morning.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Is now is it number one or is in the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: top It's got.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: To be one. I think Superman's probably are yeah, yeah, yeah, sure,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Superman's a bigger deal in F one there, But they're
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: trying to hold boggle an audience.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I hey, I respect the hustle.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Now that being said, Danny g seeing brad Pitt's character
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: find I'm not going to give the movie away, but
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I think you kind of know what most sports movies
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: end with.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Let's just say Brad Pitt's character found glory at.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: The end, right, you know what I'm saying. So this,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, this sparked my creative juices. I activated the
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Mather think tank. I think there's money to be made here, Danny,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: the movie we should make and just hear me out
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: on this. And I was watching the movie and I
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: kind of paused my popcorn stuffed mouth.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I stopped chewing, and I said, I got it. I
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: had an epiphany.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: You know what would be a nice refreshing change in Hollywood.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Here's my idea. They make my elevator pitch here. Okay,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna run this by Danny. You're the big mogul
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: at the studio.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, you're in charge of a major motion picture company
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in Hollywood, and I run in you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: That means my wife is blonde, and she's twenty four.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And she never goes to twenty five. She always stays
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: twenty four.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: So she has two big flotation devices.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: So here's my pitch. I and we're on the first floor.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: We're gonna go all the way to the floor sixty.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: It's a slow moving.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Elevator like the he is getting my Lamborghini right now, that's.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Right, here's my pitch.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Danny So a movie where the athlete gives it their all,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: they bust their ass and at the end of the
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: movie they lose spectacularly and they have to end up
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: working the overnight shift at a taco bell in Van Eyes.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: And that is a genuine story. It's about perseverance without payoff, right.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Not everyone has to end up.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Hosting, you know, hoisting up a trophy and kissing the
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: hot cheerleader at the end of the movie and all
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: that stuff. Somebody has to end up scrubbing a deep
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: friar at two in the morning in Van Eyes.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: And they've got a you know, a limp and uh,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Broken dreams and their life sucks and all that stuff
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: that is cinematic gold waiting to be made. Imagine this
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: and we can even you know, we can do woke.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Well like we'll we'll change up to get how about
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: we'll put a female lead stars swim her live stream
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: is a little girl to make the Olympics.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: She missed.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: This is the cut to get to the Olympics by
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: two milliseconds, not two seconds.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Two milliseconds, right.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Then you go to this montage not of her training,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: not trying to get redemption, no, no, no, but of
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: her learning to find pride in managing that taco bell
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: and van eyes and mentoring like these teenage kids who
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: hate her and would rather be on TikTok.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And you'll think she's some boomer lady with a headset.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: And all right, and and that's that is it right there?
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: And she's got some douchebag manager named Carl who's.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Kind of met her up and all that stuff.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: And the final scene of the movie poetic right instead
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: of magic touchdown game winner. No, no, no, this is
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: a real story, and you know this woman she puts
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: the cheesy Gordita crunch in there, and then she she
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: gives a whimsical quote fade to black.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: What say you, Danny? Do we make that movie? Wow?
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: I feel like I feel depressed now. Actually no, Yeah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: it's because it's too relatable for most of us. Ben Like,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: you can't get lost in a story like that. It's
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: too much like our real day to day lives.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I just think it would be kind
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: of cool.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: To be like, if you know, if she killed Carl
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: right right before the fade to black, then you have
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: a movie. Then you then I'm gonna green light it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well then and the woman's the way women kill
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: people is with poison, right, So she'd have to poison
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Carl with thea taco bell food and that's that would
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: create an inferno, Danny, and then that could be that
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: could be like a spin off movie of the original movie. Right.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: It's funny because the first time I ever experienced this
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: at the studios in Sherman Oaks, California, it was when
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: I was doing the overnight show with you two to
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: three am on the West coast and you know on
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: the East coast that's drive time.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember this, but when right
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: as our show was ending, you were about to sign
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: off and the fire alarm system went off in our building.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: You killed it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I do remember that, yes, yeah. And it's like crazy
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: flashing lights. It's like something from a sci fi movie.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: They want you out of the building, Like, what are
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: we supposed to do? Though we got to be in
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the building, but everyone's got to leave the building.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: We stayed, and I mean they probably have this thing installed.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Back when Denny's was there, and you know, there was
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: like a fire in the kitchen, grease fire, and we
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: were right in the middle of that grease fire. We
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: didn't even move. We could have lost our lives. It's
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: worth it to run a national radio network.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: What we're doing, we're doing God's work. It's very horrolical.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and I'm sure they would have compensated our
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: families very nicely. Absolutely, yes, they don't with a nice speech.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: They don't compensate us standing, but our families they'll take care.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: They'll take care of the well, they would have at
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: least given our family some pizza and a nice speak.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: An expensive Mulberry Street place.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: That's yes, I remember that happening. Then now flash forward
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: to last week and we're in the afternoon drive time
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: slot with Covino and Rich right before the show starts
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: at two pm on the West Coast, Big Mic who
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: comes walking, not even walking, he comes limping down the hallway, lumbering, lumbering, lumbering.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Great word for Big Mic, who doesn't run anything.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: No, he says, guys, just want to give you a
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: heads up. There's going to be a fire drill with
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: the system. They promise us it's just going to be
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: a few minutes, and there should have been in the audio.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: It should just be the strobing lights. Okay, yeah, no big.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: So we go in Ben the guys open up the
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: show and they start to jump into the first topic. Bam,
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: the sirens go off and the loud siren the oh yeah, yeah,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: it's on in the hallway, it's on in their main studio.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: It's on in my production studio right across the glass
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: from them. It's on in the producer studio, it's on
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: in dan Byer's update studio. So with our mics on,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: the guys are like really concerned. They didn't know what
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: to do because now Dan Byer's like doing all this
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: crazy hand signals because he was worried about it sounding
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: like an eas alert alert, which we talked about at
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: the start of this podcast.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not. You can't do that. You get in
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of trouble with you.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: You get in a lot of trouble if you are
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: a radio station and they're sounds of an alert.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you could get a big fine. Well, and our
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: problem is that's per station.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: So depending on how many affiliates you have you can
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: do the math on that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: That's you're fired?
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Is what that?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Somebody's fired that?
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we had to think quick. I grabbed an interview
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: that they had done and I broke into what they
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: were doing, which wasn't hard because they were kind of
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: figuring out on the spot what to do. And I said, hey, guys,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: you know you referenced this interview you just did a
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: couple of days ago. Here's what they were talking about.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: And so I go to tape. They come in and
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: they're like, oh, thanks, we weren't sure what to do there.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: And Buyer comes running in. He's like, yeah, we can't
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: have that alarm sound coming through the speakers. This clip
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: right here is going to play for a few more minutes.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I'm sure this is going to be over. How long
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: do you think the damn alarms were going off?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Well, it's during the day. At night, they would seem
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to go on for five to ten minutes. It seemed
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: like a fair amount of time, and it seemed like
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: it was a decent amount of time.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: This alarm system went off for twenty two minutes.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Twenty two minutes, jeez see.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: We could even get out of the first segment they
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: had to beaz what was coming up with the sirens
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: blasting behind them. It was a shit show. And later
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: in the hour they were able to laugh and I think,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: you know, after the fact, it was kind of funny,
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: but during the moment it was deer in headlights, like
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: they had no idea what to do with that siren
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: sound blasting behind them.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Well, it's good to know that.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you let engineering make them aware of that
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: to make sure that doesn't go off in the studio.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Funny you mentioned that because came wandering over about twenty
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: minutes later and pops his head into talk to Iowa Sam,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: and Iowa Sam says, oh, you're here to talk about
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: the alarm system, and he's like, what do you mean.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Oh boy on twenty minutes and he's like, oh, it
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: was he had no idea, didn't even know it happened.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure they'll address that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: They'll have seventeen meetings and email chains and text chains
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: and then they'll get to the bottom of that.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Ive, Well, just another day in radio, Just another
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: day in radio. So the.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Last part of this year went out to dinner on
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Friday night. Danty last night went to a deli now
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: normally I don't talk about going out to day.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I usually cook.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: We don't go out that much anymore because restaurants are
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: ridiculously expensive. But met the in laws. My father in
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: law lives part of the year in North Carolina and
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: part of the year in California, so he was happened
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: to be in town. And it was a seemingly innocent event, right,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: and setting was just your basic deli.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: But it's one of those places. It's kind of a dark.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Red booze laminated menus from like the Clinton administration type place,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: the old deli type thing. And the servers kind of
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: they work at their own pace, you know, they don't
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: necessarily they.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Don't go into a hurry. They're just gonna la la.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: So the meal was delicious, had some pastrami, sandwich is
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: very good. Father in law gave a soliloquy while we
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: were at the table, and it was it was good.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: And so the story, though, is about a mud pie.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: So this was supposed to be just a mud pie,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: but it turned into a culinary catastrophe. So that the deli,
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: I guess we can call it the deli where time
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: stood still. So I hurried up to get to this.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: We went earlier than we were planning because I was like,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I got to get back and do some stuff.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: So we had the meal, the food came. Take a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: little while for the food to come out.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Now the restaurant was busy, but it wasn't completely the capacity,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: and the mother in law was like, hey, I would
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: like I would like the mud pie. Now I don't
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: normally order dessert. I feel like the food's so expensive,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: why do I order there? But the mother in law
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: was like, I want mudpie and I want.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: To split it with a table. So I said, okay,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I'll have some mud pie. So we ordered it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: And then it is the deli where time stood still,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: the dessert delivery system. They delivered that mud pie with
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: the urgency of Congress trying to pass legislation.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: You know, it's just like.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: It took Danny hand to God from the time we
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: finished the meal and ordered the mud pie to the
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: time the mud pie got to the table thirty seven minutes.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Thirty seven minutes. Now, to put that into context, how
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: long that is. You could fly from Los Angeles to
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Las Vegas in about thirty seven minutes, right, you could?
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: You could watch about half a baseball game. If the
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: teams are hustling trying to get the game over with.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: You guys could have ordered a pizza from your cell
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: phone and the pizza would arrive before the dessert.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: In fact, if we had ordered the mud pie You're right, Danny,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: from door Dash or from Uber Eats from Femi there
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: in Minnesota, we would have gotten it Femi and Minnesota
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: would have delivered it to La faster than this deli
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: we were at. By the time the mud pie arrived,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: our lives had changed. We had all aged, we had
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: all grown. The server arrived with the dessert, and I'm
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: not sure what they did. Maybe they hand churned the
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: ice cream in the back, they molded the fudge by candlelight.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I mean they waited for the planets to line up
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: to drizzle the chocolate sauce on top.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: It was insane. Thirty seven minutes.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: When you wait thirty seven minutes to eat mud pie,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: you get that pie and you do this full you
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: put on the microscope like why did it take so long? Right,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: there's a forensic analysis of the pie. It's insane. So
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I guess the moral.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Of the stories.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Do not order dessert at at a Delhi or at
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: least this Delhi. We tempted fate.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: We all want to know, like, was it worth the wait?
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Was it good?
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Nothing is worth thirty seven minutes away?
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: You know, the most important thing, Danny, we have in
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: our life is our time to say, someday I'll be
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: on my deathbed if I'm lucky enough, and I'll think,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: you know, if I only had another thirty seven minutes,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: where did I spend that thirty seven minutes sitting waiting
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: for mud Pie at a deli on a Friday night?
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Holy crap? Anyway, that's I just wanted to complain about that.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, my god, that mud pie had enough time
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: that you could have invented the mud pie. The Mudpie
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: was born, colonized, the liberated other you know, all of
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: mud pie Land.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: You know it was. It was insane.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll get out on that, Danny. We got
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: mail bag tomorrow and enjoy your Saturday. I don't know
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: what you're up to today, but we'll chat.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Get the questions and answers on the mail bag. That'll
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: be tomorrow. Very exciting. I'm looking forward to that and
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: we'll we'll.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Catch you then see you for the mailbag tomorrow Asta pasta.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I thought you said later, skater.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: That's tomorrow. I'll say that tomorrow. I rotate them, Okay,
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: like how you rotate nuts, I rotate nuts.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: How dare you bafulation